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TEE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1842.
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SPLENDID AND COSTLY PRESENT TO THE READERS OF THE " NORTHERN STAR . " Determined to commemorate every great national event connected with the present " movement , " Mr . O Co > 7 fOR has entered into arrangements for presenting the Subscribers to the Star with a large and splendid Engraving of the Present a t ion of
THE GREAT NATIONAL PETITION io the Honse of Commons . This Plate will be as cm ch superior to the EngraviDgs already given with the Slar , as they -were to any ever given with any other newspaper . It will "be divided , as it were , into three main compartments . The" first will represent the DelepATEsinCo > -vEmoxASSEMBLED , previon 3 tostarting with the Petition to the House of Commons , The centre and largest compartment will represent the Peocession accompanying the Petition to the House , the Petition itself , the Bearers of it , and the People , when passing Whitehall , and approaching Palace Yard . The third compartment will represent the Petition . IN THE HOUSE , when laid on the table ; " being a general view of the Interior of the House of Commons , the Bar and the Speaker ' s Chair being promiBent features .
In addition to these main compartments the tipper and lower edges of the plate will be divided into sixteen other smaller compartments , e ach one of which will contain an accurate representation of some great Public Building passed in the route from the Convention Rooms to the Parliament House . Views will thus be given of Temple Bar , St . Clement Dane ' s Churoh , Somerset House , Exeter Hall , St . Mary-le-Strand , Trafalgar Square , Northumberland House , Whitehall . Richmond Terrace , The Admiralty , The Horse Guards , Westminster "Bridge , The Treasury , "Westminster Abbey and St . Margaret ' s Church , Westminster Hall , and the Exterior of the House of Common .
There will thus be given , upon one very large sheet . Nineteen Splendid Pictcbes , all harmoniously combined to make ^ he whole an effective and worthy representation of the most important movement ever made by the English people in favour of liberty . The terms upon which the Plate will b 9 issued-are as follow : — Every Subscriber to the Star for Four Months , from the date of entering his name with his newsagent , will be entitled to a Plate . We do Tiot promise to have it ready at any particular time , for the work will be one of such a character , and will need such careful attention on the part of the Engraver , as to defy any one to fix an exact time . This , heaver , we * do promise . Every subscriber is
at liberty to cease his subscription at the end of four months , holding his ticker , and receiving his plate and paper from the Agent he has subscribed with , the day it is presented , just as if he had continued to subscribe . " The Price of the Paper the week the Plate is presented will be One Shilling . We will try to make snch arrangements as will make this the only charge the Subscribers will have to pay . Agents , therefore , will Dlease to open subscription lists , and in all cases furnish the subscriber with a ticket , which ticket will entitle him to the Plate whenever it i = given for subscribing for the Star for four months . As soon as possible , specimens shall be placed in the hands of the Agents .
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[ We have seen the pamphlet to which this letter refers and lament its publication , becanse we fear that to som 8 extent ihfc people's cause will suffer by it We are also sorry for Mr . O'Brien , ¦ who has by this most imprudent step made himself justly liable to black and deep suspicions , -which he will probably find it much more easy to excite thanto allay . One thing is perfectly clear ; that the pamphlet is entirely harmless as far as we are concerned- The only parties who can suffer from it are its author and the Chir&st budy . There are only two classes of persons ys-ho can read the pamphlet : honest men and knaves . These will again consist of sush a 3 have read the Northern Star and such as have not read it
Those of the honest men -who , like Mr . Allen , have read the Star , know perfectly , that of all men living Mr . O'Brien ought te regard ths Editor of that paper ¦ with gratitude instead of mrdice . They know that during the whole torn of its existence the Noiihern Star has permitted no opportunity of enhancing Mr . O'Brien ' s interests and of asserting his merits to pass unimproved ; lhay know that for the means of publishing this very pamphlet—all shameless as it isilr . OTSrienis indebted to the exertions of the Northern Star , in gratuitously advertising , for weeks and mouths together , and continually calling attention to , and enforcing upon the notice of its readers , the subscription lists through which he has become provided with these meana ; they know perfectly that whenever on
public matters , the Editor has disagreed with Mr . O'Brien , that disagreement of opinion has been-by him expressed in the most respectful and gentlemanly terms ; they know that the Editor of the Northern Star has occupied many columns in defending Mr . O'Brien against the attacks of other parties ; they know all this ; though they do not know half so much as Mr . O'Brien himself knows of the trouble that has been t ***"' and the inconvenience that has been sustained by the Editor of the Northern Star , to uphold Mr . O'Brien ' s interests ; those honest men , therefore , vrho ha v e read t he Northern Star , and who know the whole history of the -whole matter , -will see Mr . O'Brien ' s pamphlet in ita true light , in the light in which Mr . Allen sees it They know that its abase and ribaldry is iyUft »* due nor applicable to us ; they know that its recklessness of assertion is made up of outrageous misrepresentations and wilful , deliberate
falsehoods , sod -we « h « n , therefore , not suffer in their estimation because of the extraordinary pranks of Mr . James WBrien . Honest men who have not read the Star -will see at once that the ribald trash of this pamphlet must of necessity exclude it from every decent newspaper . They "will perceive that Mr . O'Brien ceuld not either have expected or intended that the blackguard letter which is its chief feature Ehonld appear in the paper to -which he had the insolence to address it ; and therefore ,-without , entering at all into the question of whether Mr . OBrfen might or might not have some cause of effence , they trill see enough , from the pamphlet to satisfy them that the only disgrace it reflects is upon its author ; In aid of whose testimony they ¦ will require better evidence than this elegant moreen * . In the judgment and estimation of all fconesfc men , therefore , -whether they may ever have seen the Star or not , the only sufferer from this pam-
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phlet will be Mr . O'Brien himself ; while knaves of all grades -will lay gladly hold of it as a means of injuring the people ' s cause . Pretended Chartists , and traitors in our own camp , if there be any , will use it as a means of exciting and fomenting ill feeling and division ; open enemies will point exultlngly to it as a specimen of the style and spirit of the - elite of Chartism . They will ask , -with Borne degree of plausibility , -whether the fact that popularity is accorded by the working men to such parties as Mr . O'Brien describes the Editor tf the Noiihern Star to be , and by his own pamphlet proves himself to be , is not sufficient to justify them in their opposition to the Charter , on the ground that to grant it would be to place the interests and destinies
of the whole people in the handi of a few reckless and unprincipled men— -alike destitute of the virtues and the decencies of ordinary society ? This is the only effect which Mr . O'Brien ' s pamphlet is calculated to produce ; this is the only effect it ¦ will produce . Mr . O'Brien knew that before he published it ; he could not help knowing it ; and hence the honest and tmth-loving Chartists begin , Jike Mr . Allen , "to suspect that aU is not rtght . " We regret that these suspicions should get abroad ; because we think the matter may be accounted for on different principles from that to which some parties seem disposed to refer it . We do not think that Mr . O'Brien has been bought or bribed by the enemy
to do Mb little best for the destruction of the Chartist movement ; though if he had been bo , he could scarcely have served his employers better . We believe his present vagaries to be merely the result of morbid excitement , arising chiefly from that contemptible littleness of mind , the compound of vanity and disappointment , which has been happily termed " thinskinnedness . " It is lamentable that a man who has formerly done service t » the good cause Bhould be capable of making such an exhibition of himself ; but we can enly lament the fact ; we cannot help it We grieve to see Mr . O'Brien in the position be has chosen to take ; but , inasmuch as he has chosen it , we have no alternative but to leave him in itl—Ed . N . S .
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MR . ROEBUCK AND THE NATIONAL PETITION . Why was Mr . Roebuck , of all other men in the world , selected by the factions to damn the National Petition when it was presented to "the House" by Mr . Dc . ncombe ? is a qaery that presents itsel f to the mind of every labouring man who calls to mind the flowing professions of ultra democracy which Mr . Roebuck has unceasingly made ; and the question is not very easy of solution , unless one looks some little below the surface , and examines in detail " the wheels within wheels" of Parliamentary machinery .
Ever since the existence of the two fattions whose baneful power has produced such woe and want in this once happy la n d , there has also existed a SHAM OPPOSITION to them and their doings The object of these " Oppositionists" has always been , by loud and extensive professions , to gain the confidence of the oppressed people ; and then to treacherously sell and barter the confidence so obtained to the Minister of the day ! In later timo 3 ,
from Fox downwards , the House of Commons has been the continued scene of operations like these Not a single Parliament has there been holden , that has not had , as one of its componont parts , a SHAM OPPOSITION . As one man has been sopped off , another has taken his place ! The game has been kept up . The displacement of one SHOYHOY , as CoBBfirr appropriately named them , has been followed by the substitution of another .
These SHOY-HOYS are a portion , and a main portion too , of the system . To have attempted to carry the measures that have been carried ; and to have imposed the burthens that have been imposed , without "AN OPPOSITION , " would have been certain ruin to any minister that should have so attempted . The " OPPOSITIONIST" amuses the people , while the Minister picks the pocket and fastens ihe padlock ! The " OPPOSITIONIST "
also serves another useful parpose : he serves as a safety-valve for the murmurs and complaints of the choused and cheated ; and he lets doicn , gently , but effectually , any and every attempt that the people may make to recover lost ground , or to better their former position . The Parliamentary S HOY- HOY is a 3 much interested in the continuance of the system as the placeman or sinecurist himself ; and he labours as hard , in his way , as either , to preserve it inviolate and complete .
Fox ; " the great immortal English patriot , " Fox , is the first SHOY HOY , in order of time , that we shall here notice . We single him out , because it was during his " opposition" that that war , which added so much to the Debt , and which entailed upon this cheated people the enormous "dead wei ght" they now have to bear ; it was during the " opposition" of Fox that that "just and necessary war" wa 3 undertaken and carried on . Fox was a party in reality , though not in appearance , to the commencement and continuance of that war . The object of the aristocracy in commencing it was to
prevent the carrying of Parliamentary Reform Thi 3 object was equally dear to both portions of the aristocracy ; the Whig and the Tory . Put wa 3 the mouthpiece of the latter paTty ; and Fox was the champion of the Whigs . Pitt was the son of a Whig pensioner , a nd bega n h is caree r , n ot only a s a Whig , but as a Parliamentary Reformer ; and Fox was not only bred a Tory , and began his career as a Tory , but he had , and h e l d to t he da y of h is de a t h , tiro sinecure offices 11 . ' These men were the two men of the whole collection who could talk the
loudest , longest , and most fluently ; and who were therefore picked out by their respective parties to l ead i n carrying on t h ose " Debates , " as ihsy are called , which have been one of the great meass of amusing , and deluding , and enslaving the nation 1 Every effjrt was made by the respective parties to exalt their champions in public estimation . They were represented as the two most wonderful men that the world bad ever seen ! The people , carried away by Eueh jugglery , ranked themselves under one or the other of these paragons , and took their respective names as marks of honourable distinction : and
thus , for thirty long years , were the industrious and sincere and public-spirited people of this country divided into Pittites and Foxites ; thus wow they for those thirty years the sport of the aristocracy who employed these political impostors ; while every year of the thirty saw an addition to their burdens and a diminution of their liberties ! . ' / In this state stood the factions in 1793 , when came the question of tear against the Republic of France . Pitt was , personally , decidedly opposed to war . He had become Tory Minister . As such , he had established a Siskisg Fund , and had adopted other measures for the reduction of the Debt , then amounting to two hundred millions . War was
incompatible with Pitt's schemes of reduction . He was wholly opposed to it . But that portion of the aristocracy that supported him were for war ; for in the continuance and saccess of the French Republio they saw Parliamentary Reform ! and aa end of their blessed system , of rule 1 . ! The Foxite portion of the aristocracy , too , Baw the common danger , and were as eager for -war &s the TorieB . Understanding the grounds of Pitt ' s opposition to war , they went over , and joined the Pittite party ; forcing , absolutely forcing Pitt into war ; while they left Fox with a small party about him to carry on that " constitutional opposition" necessary to amuse and deceive the people !
And thus the people of that day were amused and cheated ! The SHOY-HOY was there , to engage their attention , while " loans" were being made ; taxes laid on ; subsidies employed in purchasing victories ; and the " dead -weight" placed upon the nation ' s back . Fox performed his part ; and performed it well too . He was accounted a ,
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patriot ; a great statesman ; " the greatest , the most enlightened , aad the most disinterested friend of the people that ever existed in this country" and it is common now to speak of him as " the most illnstrions statesman "; while the moat illustrious statesman" never did any thing for the country but take its money from it ! He was , as was said before , a sinecure placemanall his life and he left a wife and two children pensioned on the country for their lives I He himself brought in a bill to enable Lord Grenviixe , when First Lord of the Treasury , to hold his sinecure office of £ 4 , 000 a-year , as Auditor of the Exchequer ; thus making him auditor of his own accounts . ' I He was one of those who gave foreigners pensions under the crown , in violation of the Act of
Settlement ; one of those who brought German troops , and stationed them all over tke country ; one of those who greatly augmented all the salaries and allowances of the royal family ; one of those who made an attempt to get a law passed , which law would have brought the exciseman into private houses ; one of those , who , when they were driven from place and power , left behind them , as a legacy to the nation , ready drawn vp , the first of those ActB by which the people of England were shut up in , their houses from sun-set io sun-rise ! and in virtue of which Acts , so many Irishmen were , for being out of their houses more than fifteen minutes at a time , transported for seven years ! and that , too , by MARTIAL AUTHORITY , —without Trial by Jury !
Such was the " patriotism' and " illustrious statesmanship" of SHOY-HOY Fox ! Turn we next to contemplate some paits of the conduct of a not Ies 3 humbug in his day , Henry ( now Lord ) Brougham . We seize upon Brougham as an illustration of the mode in which the SHAM OPPOSITIONIST works , because the part Brougham played , in 1817 , when Lord Cochrane presented petitions from one-aud-a > half millions of people , praying for Universal Suffrage , Annual Parliaments , and the Ballot , as a means of effecting fiscal , economical , and social reforms , was analagous to that played by Roebuck , when three-and-a-half millions asked for the
establishment of the self-same principles for the selfsa m e objec t , in 1842 ! Roebuck was selected to be the sueerer at , and damnifier , of the NATIONAL PETITION in May , 1 842 , to serve the purposes of faction , and to disappoint the hopes of a patient and sufidring people ! Brougham performed the like kind of service for the factions in 1817 ! Like Roebuck , Brougham had pretended to identify himself with the cause of the people . He had avowed himself " a democrat . " He had tickled " the ears of the groundlings ; " he had acquired for himself the character of the people's friend ; and he used the power thus obtained to frustrate their efforts for justice and right !
It is not generally known that Brougham , at one time , publicly appeared as the advocate of Universal Sufrage and Annual Elections . Yet the fact is so . In tbe month of June , 1814 , Lord Cochrane wa 3 expected to be expelled from the House of Commons . He was member for Westminster . His expulsion , of course , would cause a vacancy for that ( hen celebrated city . To obtain Cochrank ' s Beat , was a point of ambition with Brougham : but he was distinctly given to understand that unless he declared explicitly for Universal Suffrage and
Annual Parliaments he would not have a shadow of a chance . To gain his seat Brougham made the declaration !! He had , some short time previousl y , in a paper which was printed , declared himself hostile to Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage ; but now ; now that the seat for Westminster was to be be gained ; now , that power as an " OPPOSITIONIST" was to be acquired ; now , Brougham swallowed his former " hostility ? and declared in favour of Annual Elections ; and contended that the Elective Franchise should be
EXTENDED TO ALL WHO PAID TAXES ! I When this vacancy for Westminster was expected , a meeting was called of the Livery of London , to which Brougham was invited . This meeting was for the purpose of getting Brougham afloat . At that meeting he made a ppuech \ in which he identified himself with the Radical Reformers and their principles . His dodge was seen through by some of the Radicals who remembered his former sayings . To fix him , if possible , they waited upon him with a report of his speech , desiring him to correct it , if it needed correction ; as they were anxious his real opinions should be known . Brougham said that it would be as easy to write the speech fully out . They asked him " would he do ho V He engaged to do
it ; and he WROTE IT OUT WITH HIS OWN HAND ! This speech , so written out in his own hand , was kept by some persons of the Westminster Committee , as the pledge of Brougham's principles . Thi 3 speech , so writtten , was in the following words : — " Mr . Brougham returned thanks , and said that the last time he had met tha livery , two years ago , he had declined making professions or promises , because he saw them so eftcn broken : but had desired the livery ,
if it were wor th their attention , to mark his conduct , and if he betrayed his declaration , to punish him next time they met , by drinking to the memory of his departed principles : —that time vris now come , and he met them without any consciousness of having forfeited their favour . These two years had been pregnant with important events , and infinitely various as thase were they all agreed in this , thatthey had mightily redounded te the honour of the cause , and the confirmation of our principles . The fundamental mnxiras of liberty had been solemnly recognized in the face of the world ,
THAT ALL POWEK IS FROM THE PEOPLE ; and that they have a RIGHT TO CHOOSE THEIR GOVERNMENT . AND DISMISS THEIR RULERS FOR MISCONDUCT . They had done so in France , and it was a lesson that could not be forgotten in the rest of Europe . The Eayini ? that laws are silent in the midst of arms , " had failed for once ; and this fundamental principle had triumphed over the triumphs of the allied armies . So much for the honour of the cause . But the principles of reform had been assisted also in their progress . Where is now the yap , with which out mouths had , for five and twenty years , been stopped , as often as WE have required that PARLIAMENTS SHOULD BE CHOSEN YEARLY , and that tbe
ELECTIVE FRANCHISE SHOULD BE EXTENDED TO ALL WHO PAY TAXES ? We havo bsen desired to wait , for the enemy was at the gate , and ready to avail himself of the discords attending our political contests , in order to undermine our national independence . This argument is gone and our adversaries mast now look far another . He had mentioned the two RADICAL doctrines of YEARLY ELECTIONS , and tbe franchise eDJoyed BY ALL PAYING TAXES ; but it would be superfluous to reason in favour of them here , -where ALL wcrt agreed upon the subject . However , as els « where they may speedily be difcussed , he should take leave to suggest a fact , fur
the use of such aB might have occasion to defend their principle ? - . It was one for the truth of which he might appeal to his honourable friend , the Member for Middlesex ( Mr . Byng ) who knew aa well aa he did , that there was a great improvement always observable in the conduct of tha House of Commons , towards the last year of a Parliament : insomuch that he had observed that more good teas done in that year , than in all the other Jive or sU .- The reason for all this he should not presume to state ; but some persons -were of so suspicious a nature , as to insinuate , that it might be the knowledge of members , that at the end of that session they must meet their constituents , such of them as had any , and give an
account of their trust . He avowed that this fact had been one of the chief grounds of Mb conviction of the expediency of YEARLY ELECTIONS ; and if any one thought this unsafe , he should answer , that such frequent recurrence , and such extension of the franchise as should accompany it , is the best check upon public expence . If any other check was wanting , it might be provided also . He had talked of such members as had constituents , being reminded of it by the manner in whick the teast had been given out by mistake—he hoped not an ominous
one . It had been said , * a full , fair , and free representation in Parliament , ' leaving out' the people . ' Now , this is jnat what is done elsewhere . There is ' a full , fair , and free representation in Parliament , ' we need uot drink to that . There is a full representation of the Aristocracy—a fair representation of the landed interest —a free representation—a free ingresa of the Court— -but not much of the people—they are left out , as t he y w ere to-day . It most , however , be otherwise soon . While they BEAR THE BURDENS of the State , they must , as of right , share in its government ; and to effect this Reform , all good men must unite . "
There ! That is pretty good for a SHO Y-HOY See how glibly the " patriot" talks of the " WE have required that Parliaments should be chosen freely , and that the elective franchise should be extended to all who pay taxes" ! And yet the very
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man ( if he be worthy the name of man ) who put this down in his own handwriting , after having spoken it at the London Tavern—who . put it into the hands of the people of Westminster a 9 his political creed ; this SHOY-HOY , when he found that he could not get the seat for Westminster , turned short round upon the people ; and , in the year 1817 , about two years and a half after speaking and writing the above speech , he abused all the leaders of the Reformers ; he represented them as wretches that deserved chastisement of the severest kind ,
because they were for what he called the mad soheme of Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage When Lord Cochrane offered to present to the House of Commons petitions signed by a million and a half of Englishmen , praying for a Radical Reform of the people's House , Brougham , the SHOY-HOY , almost led the way in having the petitions kicked out of the House ! He sneered at the petitioners j represented Universal Suffrage and Annual Parliaments ( the very principles with which he had identified himself ) as " BIG
NOSTRUMS for LITTLE BLUNDERS" ! He acted a part the most foul towards the Reformers . Ho affeoted to censure the Power-of-Imprisonment Bill , and the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act ; he spoke against the measures ; he voted against the measures ; but he took care that his" opposition '' should pass for nothing ! for ninetenths of his speeches were either riiicule or abuse of the Reformers and their Leaders ! His trick consisted in representing the scheme of Reform prayed
for chimerical ; and to point out the Leaders as being most desperately wicked , and as deserving of any degree of punishment ! The slanderer " opposed " the cruel and tyrannical measures of Castlereagh and Sidmouth in words ; but he had another parcel of words which tended to encourage the Government to pass and persevere in the measures ; and to induce all the rich , timid , and selfish part of the nation ; all the base , frivolous , and worthless men and women to applaud the very measures he affected to oppose !
Precisoly such a SHOY-HOY is John Arthur Robbuck , as far as ho has the ability ! Precisely such part did he play on the presentation of the National Petition , signed by three-and-a-half millions of people ! " That extremely unwise ;"" that extremely foolish petition" ! " The trashy doctrine contained in the petition . " "Let it not he supp oskd that HE agreed with ONE HUNDREDTH PART of the doctrines of the petition" ! Such was the mode adopted by this SHOY-HOY ; this SHAM FRIEND , to let down the people and their cause . Surely there was reason why Sir
Robert Peel and the Tories , and Lord J . Russell , and the Whigs , should reject the petition , when the flaming Radical , the out-and-out Chartist , the ultra ' Demoorat , Mr . Roebuck , could thus speak of it ! If its claims were such that he could not agree with a one hundredth part of them , surely they must be foolish and extravagant indeed ! Thus the SHOY-HOY opened the door for Lord J . Russell and Sir Robert Peel to thrust the claims of the people out of the Houao , and throw them slap bang again into the faces of the petitioners j as absurd and unreasonable in the extreme ! and thus Roebuck acted as all SHOY-HOYS have ever done '
Roebuck is a " national faith" man . Roebuck , maugre all his " ultra" notions , is for wringing from , the labour of the people £ 60 , 000 , 000 a-year , to pay the Interest of the Debt aad the expences consequent on that Interest and Debt . Roebuck knows that the moment Universal Suffrage is established , that £ 60 , 000 , 000 will cease to be paid . Hecce he is as fearful of Universal Suffrage as any Whig or Tory in the House ! and this is the case with every mother ' s son of the Malthusian Opposition ! They amuse the people by pretending to advocate their cause ; but they , one and all , take care to assist in the enactment of all measures
intended to rivet the chains of Capital round the neck of Labour ; and in prostrating the energies of the people at the feet of " National Faith" ! Universal Suffrage would loose those chains , and set Labour free : hence Universal Suffrage is dreaded by the Malthusians as the greatest calamity that could befal them ! This explains many portions of their conduct , otherwise inexplicabJe ! The labourer will now see why they traduce , and -vilify , and abuse , and DENOUNCE those leaders of the people that will not do SHOY-HOY work ! Theycahnot do with those who work in earnest ! None but SHAMS find favour in their sight : and these they cherish as the apple of their eye !!
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best judgmeiit , © f the success of the great aud good cause ; and our second , the distribution of our time and space so as to give least cause of complaint ; that we are alike bound to this course of ac : ion by incli n a t io n , interest , and duty ; and that , therefore , it is useless and senseless for individuals to fume and fret , and think themselves ill used because their communications may not always be inserted , or for societies to trouble their heads and waite'their time in passing votes of censure upon us for devoting too much space to this , or too little to that , or for inserting this thing which , they think should have been omitted , or . for omitting the other thing which they think should have appeared : Ail these are matters for our consideration , and for the
exercise of our discretion and judgment , w hich , we assure all parties , shall be always used , so fax as we are able to perceive , honestly fot the public , without fear or favour to any one , and without being allowed to be turned for one instant from its course by ill-natured snarls or bickerings . Chartist Addresses . —The General Secretary— % John Campbell , 18 , Adderiey-street , Shaw ' s Brow ; Manchester . Chartist Blacking Manufacturer ^ Mr . Roger Pinder , Edward's-square , Edward ' splace , Pottery , Hull . Secretary to the Frost , Williams , and Jones Restoration Committee—J . Wilkinson , 5 , Cregoe Terrace , Bell ' s Barn Road , Birmingbam .- —J . T . Smith , Chartist Blacking Maker , Tavistock-street , Plymouth .
Irish Universal Suffrage Association . — W e are requested by the President of this Association to state that E . F . Dempsey is not Seoretary to the Irish Universal Suffrage Association , nor was he ever elected ui . the room of Mr . p . M . Birophy . Mr . W . H . Dyott , printer , bookseller , and stationer , No . . , North King-street , Dublin , is the Secretary to the Irish Universal Suffrage Association , to whom all Papers ; and Communications should be addressed , •'¦ . ' .- . ' . "' ¦ ' . - ¦' / . ' . ¦ ;¦ ; ¦ -. ;;; . ' .- ... . ; ' : ¦ Money Ordebs to this Office . —Our Cacbier s frequently made to endure an amount of inconvenience , utterly iuconceivable by those who have not multifarious transactions like bis to attend to , by the negligence of parties not attending to the plain instructions so often given , to make all money orders sent here payable to Mr . John Ardiit ,
Some orders ate made payable to Mr . O'Oonnbr ^ - some to Mr . Hobaon—some to Mr . Hill—some to S / ar-dffice : all these require the signature ef the person in whose favour they are drawn before the money can be obtained . This causes au attendance at the post-office of , sometimes , several hours , when a few minutes might Bufflce if all were rigfitly given—not to -.. mention the most vexatious delays of payment sometimes caused by it Several old Agents—who certainly ought to know better—have often thus 'needlessly' incoveoienced us ; we therefore beg that all parties having money to send to the Mar-office for Papers , by order , will make their orders payable to Mr . John Ardill . If they neglect this , we shall'hot : hold ourselves boun d to attend to them : if , therefore , they find their neglect to produce inconvenience to themselves let them not blame uh .
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Derby . —The friends of this neighbourhood hawing communications for tbe Star , or otherwise affecting tbe Chartist movement , are requested to send te me to Mr . Thomas Briggs , care of Mr . John Mosir , shoe m aker , Plumtree-sqnare , Darley-lane , Derby . Correspondents of the Northern Star . - — ZoKdoB—T . M . Wheeler , 7 , Mills Buildings , Knightsbridge . Birmingham— George White , 129 , Brom 8 grove-street Newcastle—Mr . J . Sinclair , Gateahead . Svnderland—Mr . J . Williams , Messrs Williams and Binns , booksellers , Sheffield—Mr . G . J . Harney , news agent , 33 , Campo-lane . Bath —Mr . G . M . Bartlett , 19 , ' Gloucester Road Buildings , Swanswick , Bath . ;
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Wm . Russell ( late of Nottingham ) . —We have received his letter ; and , so far as we at present know of the matter , certainly coincide with him in the opinion that his friend has been ill used : we think ; however , that Us publication would do more harm than good , especially as the public resolution * of last week will do much to neutralie , the poison of private slander . These , of course , Mr . Russell did not know of when he y > role Will Mr . Russell give us his precise address ? J . W . —A householder whose landlord pays the rates may claim to be entered on the rate book , as though he paid the rates himself . He will then be entitled to his vote ; but any composition on the part of the landlord for less than the full
amount of rale would disfranchise him . Thomas Briggs . — -We never received any letter con . taining an announcement , of the Derby tea meeting and OConnofs lecture . To his " rcmonslrance" we can only answer ^ that in these cases we must remember that we have all England , Scotland , Wales , and Ireland to deal with and ¦ for . -. ' ¦ ' . ' " ' ' '' " ' .- ' -.: ¦ ' _ " ¦ ¦ : ' : . - ¦ . . ' " ¦ . '' ' . ' ¦ ' . ' H . Bi ' . Mabley . —On reading the" remonstrance" to which he refers , we find it would occupy mgre space than we can spare : it is besides unnecessary , as the National Remonstrance adopted and recommended by the late Convention—has appearedin the ^ Northern Star . John Skevington , of Loughborough , writes : —
" Allow me to correct an error that appeared in the . balance-sheet of the Convention . It is there stated that 5 s . Sd . was sent from Loughborough . I Bent it , and at the same time stated that 3 a . of it was from Mountsorrel , 2 s . 6 d . from Eastlake , and 6 d . from a friend , w hich , deducting 4 d . foi order and pos t age , left S 3 . 8 d . I wish this to appear for the satisfaction of those who have paid tbe money , and for my justification ; as it desirable ' -teat avery man that has to do with public money should stand clear with those he has to do with . " We must really request that those who have the preparing of balance-sheets to send here will be careful to have them correct , and iwt let it be necessary for our space to be thus occupied , week after week , with corrections of public documents . . .- .-. ' ¦ . ¦ . " John Skevington writes : —
" In reference to the election of the Executive , while I would wish not to give offence te any one , yet I thick the election should have taken place at the time fixed in the plan of organisation ; or else a meeting of delegates called to alter the time . ; For , as cne of the delegates present at the remodelling of the plan , I was aware , when the time was fixed , that the first Executive would not have to sit for a whole year ; and I think if we cannot . keep our own rules , we are not qualified to legislate for the country . "
We think Mr . Skevington perfectly right . London Delegate Council . —We cannot publish their address without the Christian names of all the delegates in full . We hate returned it to our correspondent to have that deficiency supplied . Robert Garbutt . —We have no room * James Scruton , York . —His communication [ is an advertisement . Thomas Kekslake . —We cannot interfere . Sutton-in Ashfield . — We have received notices of public meetings of the Chartists and the female Chartists of this place , to be ; holden at some time , of which the name is not given . John Hope . —Because he assented to the bill for
their disfrdnchisemenU ^ , John Watkins , intending to take a tour for -the benefit of his health , and wishful , at the same time , to do what service he can to \ the' cause requests that those loealities which may desire a visit from him will write to him immediately , thai he may \ make arrangements accordingly . Address , Baiter sea , Surrey . John Cockcroft . —Poor Law Guardians are elected by the ratepayers . The qualification to vote for the other town ' s officers mentioned in his note varies in different places : generally the elective power is iri the ratepayers . A householder whose rates are paid by the landlord would be eligible if he claimed to have his name on the rate-book
—not else . If a composition on the rate be paid it disqualifies him . ' ¦;¦ ; ..- ¦ '¦ Saddleworth ^— -We have several letters asking our opinion of the best steps to be taken in reference to a petty blackguard of a constable here , who tears the Chartist lecture bills from the walls We know no better way than to summonhim before the magistrates , taking care to have good proof . If the magistrates refuse , in the face of clear evidencd to convict , indict him at the Quarter Sessions , if the means to do so can be raised i if not , set the women to watch him and let them catch him , and they will doubtless hit upon some mode of summery justice that may be useful . ' ¦¦ . ¦ ¦ . - . ¦ - : ¦ ' " ¦ ¦ ., ¦ ' ¦' . ' : '¦¦ ' ¦•¦ ;; ' - , - ' ¦ . : -,
Mr . Enoch Ramsbottom , at Mr . Findlow ' s , Wesl Orchard , Coventry , will be glad to receive from Messrs . Ckow and Tyrrell their terms of agency .-John Jones willbe ' thankful 116 > any person who can inform him whether the memoirs of Henry Hunt , Esq ., were ever finished publishing ; and , if so , where he must apply to complete his set . Mr . O'Connor desires us to say , that he cannot on any account leave Nottingham at present ' . those placss , tlierefore , which might have been expecting him will wait their turns . Jonathan Barber . — We fear that by inserting his letter we should injure the party whom he wishes to serve . ¦ ••• ' '
T . W ., Sheffield , suggests : — " First : That the Executive be requested to draw up a new petition , simply stating the humble but sincere and earnest wish of the petitioners to have the whole Charter made forthwith the law of the land . Second : That each and every Chartist be advised to increase twofold his energies and exertions * and so place on the sheets that shall be presented fa the next Sessions of Parliament double the number of signatures that were appended . Third-. . That duplicates be kept ef each and every signature ; and that the Chartists everywhere threaten tbe shopkeepers with the loss of their custom if they refuse to subscribe their pence or shillings towards the expence of the extra quantity of paper . "
E . M . Old-street , St . Lukes . —Transfer the 35 . for Mis . Roberts , to Mr . Guest , bookseller , of Birmingham , who will forward it to its destination . Convention Funds . —The Tayistock Chartists write thus— " Having seen amis-statement in the Star concerning our money that was sent to our delegate , we wish you t& correct it We have sent £ 2 to him ,-arid there is only £ 1 acknowledged , £ \ was sent to Mr . Cleave and the other was sent to Mr . Powell ; we think Mr . Powell ought tohavereported it totheConvention *' Mr . Candy , the Lecturer . —J . Leech of Huddersfield , desires ns to note in this manner , that the time fixed by Candy is fully expired ; and that he expects to hear from him without delay . T . P . Green . — We object to it altogether . The man isdead ; let him alone . John Richards , Hanley Potteries . —We do not see what we can do in the matter . The men were clearly wrong to be in the fray at all .
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WillJ . Johnston say which Post-office the papers are to be left at , Liverpool or Detroit ; and if he wants one weekly or all oh one week ; - George Jones H ale— The Post Master General has been written to about the detaining of the ncut papers . B . Me Cartney . —Yes . Geobge Lee . —Fes . FOR C . WOOD OF HONLEY . ¦ ¦ ¦ : ) ¦ ¦ V . " . - ¦ ¦ ¦ '¦ ¦ '¦ ¦ - '¦ . ¦ - ¦ - ¦¦ s / dY From the N . C . A . Mansfield , per J . G . Hibbard 26 FOR HR . BROOK , NOW IN NORTHaLLERTON . From the N . C . A . Manafield , per S . G . Hibbard 2 6 FOR THE EXECUTIVE / From the N . C . A . Swansea tt . .. 14 0
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DUNDEE . —The unemployed have been streng thened in numbers , but weakened in means during tho past week . One mill stopped on Thursday ; the hands of another are on a minute ' s warniag , . And a third is to stop on Friday . The flax-dressers are already discharged from the two latter works ; the number cannot be less than forty . The male And female mill workers , who will thus be thrown idle during the present week , wIU number several hundreds ; If our trade continues to decline for but a short time longer , at the rate it has done for this some months past , the sufferings of our fellow-townsmen will cast the miseries of the Paisley operatives in the shade . :
LONDON . —A public meeting of the Twopenny Postmen took place on Tuesday evening at the Hole in the Wall , Chancery-lane , Holborn . Several excellent speeches were made by Messrs . Thurliagf Webb , Smith , Puddicomb , Sherman and others , and a motion was carried by acblamation to petition the Lords of the Treasury for an advance ot wages in consequence of the increase of labour produced by the Penny Postage .
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MR . O'BRIEN AKD HIS " VINDICATION . " TO THE EDIT 8 R OP THE NORTHERS STAK . Deab Sir , —Having lately had the distinguished honour of proposing that noble advocate of the people ' s righi 3 , Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., as a fit and proper person to represent this borough in Parliament ; feeling great attachment to that gentleman for his services as well as to yourself , the Northern Star , and our organization , 1 do not know when I fell more hurt or angry than on reading one of the most uncalled-for , insulting , and villanous attacks Hpon yourself and Sir . O'Connor that ever 1 read ; in a pamphlet , entitled ' Mr . O'Brien's Vindication
of hi 3 Conduct at the late Birmingham Conference ; I must say that I think this is one of the most scan dalous attacks ; especially after the resolution passed , and the understanding between all parties in the late Convention J If Mr . O'Brien ' s object be either to cause divisions , or to damn himself in the estimation of the people , he could not more effectually accomplish it by any other means than those he employs . There i 3 no man feels more sincere regard for Mr . O'Brien than myself ; but such conduct I nrnsi and will protest against and condemn . I nave Tead everv article in the Star in reference to
the dispute , and while I have seen nothing but what was absolutely necessary for the information of the p eople , I have seen plenty of cause io dispu ; e , if not the sincerity at any rate the wisdom , of lae-policy pursued by O'Brien . When I find O'Connell , Lovett , and O'Brien , all acting together ; not only in respec t io the SluTge ' s moFe , bat in opposition' to O'Connor , yourself , and our paper ; wbea I hear O'Connor telling O'Brien to bis face befora the whole Convention , thai he has been slandering him behind his back , and writing private letters to try to raise a feeling against him and yourself ; " and when I find Mr . O'Brien , after the resolution proposed by himself , now priming this pamphlet of abuse ; I say that when we find men thus
striving to raise prejudice against our" best friends and sowing discord in our ranis , there is cause to suspect that all is not quite right . If Mr . O'Brien desires to retain either the respect or confidence of the people , he must " act consistently ; he must keep himself above suspicion . I can assure Mm that some of his very best friends in thi 3 town have been exceedingly hurt at his conduct ; and hi 3 abuse of O'Connor will not serve his cause . I believe the situation you fill as editor is attended with great difficulty to please all parties ; and that it is the dnty of every lover of freedom to rally aronnd , and giv 9 every possible support , not only to our glorious Star , but to every man who is Btriving to free his country from t ' tiat awful oppression under which the people suffer .
Sincerely hoping you will still persevere jn the course you have taken , and thai O'Brien will see the folly of his proceedings , and regain the confidence of the people , I remain jour ' s , one of the fcrse supporters of the Star , until I see cause to condemn , John Allen , . 54 . Upper Garden stTeet , Brighton , - Member of the " General Council of the National Charter Association . Brighton , May , 29 , 1841 .
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" , near piottinghaji , on tuesday next , the Seventh i > stant , at Six o ' clock in the evening . The Chair must be taken precisely AT THAT HOCK , AS AIR . O'CONNOR IS ENGAGED TO ADDRESS THE PEOPLE OF NOTTINGHAM , AT BCNKERS-HILL , AT ElGHT O ' CLOCK , ON THE SAME EVENING .
Tee Northern Star. Saturday, June 4, 1842.
TEE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JUNE 4 , 1842 .
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THE STARVING POOR AND THEIR COMPLAINTS . Elsewhere we give a report of a meeting holden at ClHhero , to which we beg to direot the earnest attention of every one who sees thia Paper . That report we give just as we received it . We do so , because we think it is important that the authorities and all concerned should have an opportunity of learning the feelings which actuate the minds of the starving labourers at
the manifold oppressions and privations they are compelled to endure . We implore attention to the document agreed upon by these twenty thousand starving operatives ! It is all-important . They speak warmly and bitterly : but a wise statesman will look below that , and seek out for , and remove the cause ! O ! that the earnest pleadings of suffering poverty with dominant weal t h m i ght have their desired effect \ O ' l that tho ear of natural feeling was not closed by heaps of qold !
Let us not be mistaken . We do not agree with the whole of the proceedings of this important meeting ; Judging from the report as sent to us , some speeches have been made and someexpressions used that are calculated to damage the cause of those who made and used them . This is to be regretted . We can make all due allowance . We know , to somo extent , the sufferings the poor have to endure . We , do not expect a starving man io measure his every wor £ , as if he were spinning silk ; But there is a point which common ordinary prudence
says cannot be passed without inflicting defeat on one ' s own object ! That point we would implore the poor not to pass ! Do not put yourselves into the hands of your enemies . You are justified in speaking out loudly and BOLDLV ; but empty threats do no good ! Make thoso who maintain the present system to hear your complaints ; but do not run your necks into the halters they hold ready opened for you ! Prudence is necessary , if patience be scouted . Look
at the mischief done to our cause some eighteen months ago , by the empty vapouring and bombastic threats of noisy brawlers , who were found wanting when the time fixed by themselves for action came round ! Threatening is no sign of strength or courage . It is ¦ rather an evidence of weakness and cowardice . Pym , Hampden , and Sidney did not threaten ; but they acted . Tell did not threaten ; but he acted . Threatening does no good ; and the man who uses it is generally found in the back ground when his threats should be enforced !
Let us implore of the working people to reflect upon these things . We do not prescribe that sort of patience to them which would bid them fay down and die ! But while we &omt prescribethat sort of patience ; we do reooihmend prudence ; and more especially prudence ill talk t ?' Selfpreservation is the first law of nature : '' but that law of nature does not « xhbiit itself in unmeaning words . Scout from you the BIG talkers ;! . Drag your suffering and enduririgs before the world ; compel the attention of the oppressor to your complaints ; usealland every prudent means to get relief and redress ; but do not countenance BIG talk or empty threats !
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THE QUEEN SHOOTING . Another opportunity has been afforded for the exuberant loyalty of the supremely "loyal" to . boil over . Gad ! and they have laidit onthick ! A young man , from some motive or other , draws a pistol from his pocket , and points at the Queen ; but whether he fires it or no , is rather problematical ; and whether , if he did fire , ihe weapon was loaded with more than powder and wadding , none can aB yet tell ; yet ; ' forthwith , a ' complete sensation" is produced ! and the minds of the members of "the two Houses" are so affected ' at the atrocity , that they cannot even pass that Tariff which is "to lower the price of provisions for the people ; " but they forthwith adjourn to allow
themse'h ' es time to cool !! Admirable and delicate sensibility ! " The two Houses" did not adjourn when the middle-class-miscreants rode down , and , with their newly ground sabres , slaughtered scores of women and children on ^ the field of Peterloo ! Nor did they adjourn when Widow Ryan ' s son was sent "to meet his account" by Archdeacon Rider and his bloody man-butchers ! In these oases , the weapons were more than pointed at the victims that suffered : yet " the house" in one case thanked the MURDERERS !! ! and in the other refused all redress ! 1 But their feelings were so acted upon , because a foolish boy pointed a pistol at the Queen , ( and , as some say , fired it ) they must needs adjourn to recover from the fright !! O ! what sensibility " loyaltly" can make us affect ! : '
The pistol , however , has been pointed at the Queen ; and the perpetrator of the act is committed to Newgate on a charge of High-Treason . We wonder whether the factions will make him out to be a " rascally Chartist , " or not ! We have watched the " Establishment ' pretty anxiously- to see what tone it took as to this point . So far , it has not attempted to connect the fooJish youth , with any political party . His lodgings and his boxes have been searched ; bat no papers or documents of a political character have , as yet , been found no , not even the Northern Star ! This is
consolatory ! Now-a-days it is the fashion to refer all tne political mischief that is done throughout the country to the " inflammatory and ihoendiary Northern Star' V and we were riot quite sure , when we first heard of the foolish act of this very foolish boy , that some portion of the blame would not-have been attempted to be laid at our door ; and , through us , at the door of the Chartists generally ! A charge of treason is no joke ! For pointing a pistol at the Queen , this young haram-scarum h&s got himself in for it pretty considerably . He is
committed for high treason ; and if found guilty , will be adjudged to be hanged by the neck till he be dead ; then to be beheaded ; and his body cut in four quarters , and disposed of , as the Queen shall direot ! It would have been a serious matter for us to have had to join him in his tribulation , had he turned out to have been a reader of the Northern Star ! By all that is sacred , we implore of all who read the Star never to think of pointing a pistol at the Queen ; or indeed at any one else , except in case of self-defence !
Seriously , however ; what is the meaning of these attempted shootings ! Are we to have one a-year 1 Is the ball to be kept going , both in France aud England ? If there be many more of them , they will lose their effect . People will begin to think that shooters at Kings aud Queens are bad marksmen ; or that Royal' personages live a charmed life One or tyro failures might do ; but for so manypeople will begin to think—it ' s all a hum . ' ! Should that feeling possess folks , their ¦ " loyally" will be damped ! We would strongly advise all concerned both in France in England , to have no more of these royal-personage shootings .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 4, 1842, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1164/page/4/
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