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r American ships , or large Tonnage , » r tbe following Ports , viz . — . NEW YORK . wfc £ ! S BOSTON . PHILADELPHIA . | 5 | SOLr * »»> BALTIMORE . J £ EttMilbNEW ORLEANS . And which are intended to Sail punctually on- their appointed Days ; they are fitted up expressly for the comfort and convenience of Cabin , Second Cabin and Steerage Passengers , who may save themselves the expenco and delay of waiting in Liverpool , by writing a letter addressed as above , whioh will be immediately answered ; the lowest price for passage and provisions told them ; and they will be enabled to go direot on board the Ship immediately on their arrival in Liverpool , thus saving the erponce of lodgings , and should . F . W . and Co . detain the Ship after the appointed time , passengers will bo paid for detention . ¦ •' THE FOLLOWING SHIPS ARE NOW ON THE BERTH :-. For NEW YORK , ADIRONDACK , Cap . Haokstafp , to sail , Oct . 8 th NEW ORLEANS , GEORGE , Cap . Thompson * ... ... ... Oct . 8 th : boston . SEVERN , Cap . Chkevsr , . ^ Oct 12 th Emigrants by these vessels will be provided by the Ship with tho full quantities of Biscuit , Fiour , Rioe , and Potatoes , according to Aot of Parliament .
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jgj pob » ait of - T . DuRcexBS will be given to all oar . SotoBrlben on November litb . They will be in tl » htodi of aUtbe Axents by November 16 th ; . " aad by abtmt September 24 th , ire shall hare traffident of Duneombe * printed to supply tboee Agent * who desire to bm both Plates in one parcel . The charge for the Star on the day the Portrait of Buncombe is distributed -will be the aaiB&s the charge tat it en the day the Petition Plate is delivered . £ HB PETinoif Plates are not yet ready for oar L ancashire Subscribers ; but s > soon as received they « ill be forwarded , fhose for all the other ^ v ^ jk « % mm a . as ^* - TfclTIBPOVPV vrf ll _ nlk trfsA ** fry * aTl
Agents haTB been forwarded . The price of the Star when each Subscriber recetTes bis Plate is 1 * -. and no more . The Agents aze allowed a per ceatage upon beth the Paper and the Plate , to carts carriage expeneea : they can , therefore , net 6 stb any excase for charging ajora ijx agksts who have receiTed their accounts are requested to send the amount due by return of post pATK , paiiham . — Fire SbUlingi . Chalhebs , Lkiih . —Call at Drammand ' g for PUtes . J 0 H 5 PHILP- — Call at same place . B ailey and Son , Cockerhouth . —Enclosed to Arthnr . Carlisle .
1 HorBXOOK , A 3 ERGA . rsxST .-We cannot take post stamps for such sums ; if he wishes to do without post-office order , send half a sovereign . The plates are forwarded to Monmouth . jy Tv n . Ki > "so ? f . South Shields . —Send them by ' port to this cffiee . FOE IHE KAIIOKAX DEFENCE FUND . £ a . d . From a few friends at Wellington Fonndry ... 0 15 a Radical , Leeds 0 * 6 " the Chartists of Leeds 1 10 0 * the Char tists of Birstal ( light halfsovereign ) 0 9 8 a H-, Leeds 0 0 6 D . Fryer , Halton 0 10 " * the Chartists of Holme Lane , Tong ... 0 4 0 ** a few friends at » mill in
Heckmondwike 0 1 9 Littletown 0 5 0 the ChartfsU of Hundet 0 10 0 " the men of ElUnd , pa E . Clayton ... OS 0 ** the Chartists of Tew Green 0 5 0 CoSected at Xockwood , by D . CHedhill ... 0 . 6 0 From three friends , Hudderafield 0 0 10 „ the Bristol Youths . 050 ~ F . Gibson , Bristol 0 10 ~ Stockton , collected by J . Umpleby ... 115 3 " * a few working men at Burton Mills ... 020 Z Kettering 0 9 0 „ a few friends , Dunlermline ... ... 0 10 Z a few friends of democracy , Torquay ... 0 6 6 Z the Chartists of Belton * ... 0 10 9 " Chepstow friends „ 0 4 0 "" a few Chartists , Tollbridge Wells ... 0 10 0
TOE THS EXECUTIVE . From Mr . Colinson , Castle-street , Hull ... 0 I 0 _ Chepstew friends 0 4 0 FOE COOPER ' S DEFENCE . From John Marsland 0 6 6 FOS THE DEFENCE OF GEOEGE WHITE , Frem Robert Newhall , jun ,, Hawick , a deaf and dumb boy , edncated at Edinburgh , —a regular subscriber to the Sorihern Star , and a gnat admirer of its Proprietor and Editor . ... 0 1 6
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supply the town . One part of the population have had their billet doux for three weeks , while another part haTe not jet received these soft expressions of the Premier ' s regard ; and what is more amusing , the number of applications for forms , declaring that their income is below £ 150 per annnm , is so great that any supply of papers hitherto received is wholly inadequate to the demand . We hare heard several parties state , that with their best desires to fill np the returns consistently , they really cannot understand them . Both Whigs and Tories are altogether out of humour with this dose of the Bt&te physician . —Kendal Mercury .
A Lettee from Cologne , 21 st inst ., says : — " The lown of Rhembach , which forms part of our district , was , two days ago , the theatre of a great calamity . A fire broke out in the morning , and , owing to £ deficiency of water , it soon raged with such fury , ihat before the evening half the town was in ashes . Fortunately a heavy shower of rain fell at about four o ' clock in the afternoon , and arrested the pro-. greFB of the flames . More than one hundred families are without an asylum . "
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THE C U STOMS DEPARTME N T . —ENORMOUS FRAUDS UPON THE REVENUE . When it is remembered how well the country remunerates the chief officers of those departments of the Btste to whom is delegated the collection of duties , and more especially those appertaining to the receipts of imposts upon foreign and colonial produce and rcanntae tores , the public are entitled to have as their servants the most intelligent and most attentive , arid , without prejudice to any one , the moat honest individuals . It will be for the public to express , an opinion if , when we thall hare brought before its notiee the many laxities , the frauds , the instances of favouritism , the attempt to screen really guilty parties , and the immolation of their dupes , the functions of the Commis-Bieners of her Majesty ' s Customs at the head
department have or have not been fully and satisfactorily administered . The enormous frauds now in daily progress of investigation are not , in the aggregate , confined to tens of thousands , but hundreds of thousands of pounds . Indeed , it is said in some quarters that the revenue has suffered to the enormous extent of nearly a million sterling . From the series of notices it may be necessary to devote to this important subject , names of parties' high in commercial circles must be deemed requisite to be given . The names of firms which are known * to have connived at these frauds with the landing waiters are in our possession , with all the leading facts and line of era mi nation in support of participation , as given in evidence before the Court of Inquiry , now sitting upon this subject . Bnt , independently of the non-performance of their duties by the officials at the Custom Hoase , in protecting , by dee diligence and ample
control the revenues of the kingdom , there is another consideration , arising out of the long-continued practice of fraud , which involves the interest and prosperity of the re&lly honest merchant and trader . It must be -clearly apparent that if four traders are carrying on business in the same line , three of them paying their duties honestly and openly on foreign goods imported , while the fourth , by a connivance with any officer of ¦ Customs , gets his pieced in warehouse Vithout the ontlay of the duty , or by paying irfinite ' y lees through the medium of false entries ( hereafter to be fully illustrated ) , it must be apparent that the former cannot compete with the latter , and though they struggle ever so hard to maintain their position , though they make sacrifices to effect sales , in order to keep their customers together tor a time , stiH , in the Jong run , wholesale losses must be entailed upon them by the ¦ ruinous and fruitless competition induced .
It is pretty well known , that as respects the frauds \ now the subject of investigation , many of the landing ! waiters have been implicated in them . The duties of i the landing waiters are but little known to parties un-: connected with trade , commerce , and waterside busi- j ness . It is , therefore , proposed to-illustrate the facts and circumstances hereafter to be laid before the public , ;' by giving a description of their duties , their emolu- j ments , 4 c . The principal business of this functionary j is personally to attend the landing of goods at the docks f and legal qnays . For this pnrpose he is furnished with i a " landiDg-book , " denominated under its respective ' : class , " rea or blue , " the issues of which take place from the registrar ' s cffiee , and contains' certain copies j of entries previously passed of imports for merchandise I about to be warehoused or at once delivered . These entries are of three classes , 1 st , the " warehousing entry , " for goods intended to remain ia bond ; 2 d , the j
" prime entry , " which stipulates for the immediate : delivery of goods , the duty having been paid ; and , ¦ 3 d , the " sight entry , " the object of which is to assist \ the merchant in cases where goods arrive consigned ¦ to him without previous advice , when he is permitted j to have the packages upon the declaration that their contents are " unknown . " It may be here necessary , with the view to carry the case out in all its bearings , ] to observe the opportunity these two descriptions of eatrj afford to these officers , if they are not persons of strict and unimpeachable integrity , to deceive and tiialj the returns which , as employes of -the customs , they are appointed to make of the weight of and duty on merchandise landed at their respective stations ; the interference of the landing surveyor , their superior , being required only in the settlement of taxes , or in the approval or otherwise of the value put upon goods paying at the ad valorem rate .
Having now mainly stated the duty of a landing gaiter , i ; is necessary to add that the body is divided into &ix classes , with proportionate salaries . The first class numbers 20 persons , with £ 400 per annum each ; the 2 d class 20 persons , with £ 350 per ¦^ Tinm each-, the 3 d elan SO persons , with £ 300 per annum each ; the 4 th class 30 persons , with £ 250 per annum each ; the 5 th class SO persons , with £ 200 per nnrnim each ; and the 6 th class SO persons , with £ 160 per annum each . As in the cenrse of the Investigation into these frauds it has appeared that more than one of the landing
waiters implicated have also filled the office of " searcher , " the duty appertaining to that department must also be illustrated . The " searcher , " to use the technicality of the department , " makes shipped , " the packages destined for shipment at his station ; it is a part of his duty personally to examine the packages , noting their correspondence with the original description in the cfficisA papers , and should suspicions arise of say exchange or fraud connected with the shipment , they have the power of seizure and of bringing the matter before the board for irquiry and investigation . The separate duties of these , officers being , as is trusted , dearly defined , the mode in which the irre-
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tular and falsified entries hare been concocted , involving such loss to the revenue , will no doubt be understood in the case * of fraud hereafter to be brought to the notiee of the public . The first illustration we offer to the notiee of the public is in respect to the importation of silk already under tile notiee of the Board of Inquiry , bat the charges of participation in tend alleged against the several parties are so numerous , that it would be difficult to define them in distinct order in the present notice . It is , however , sufficient to say that that the one above alluded to will dearly prove to the public how easily and successfully they have been carried on for a period said to extend over a series of eight or nine years . * > * -i _ i » a a t * «_ * * * «
The mode which is alleged to have been adopted in the wholesale smuggling of silks , was for the parties connected to send to the legal quays a case of toys , books , or any other French import of low value marked and numbered , say f A 3 No . 1 , for shipment coastwise , which , however , instead of forthwith being put on board , it was understood should be allowed to remain on the quay . When the French packets arrived , a " sight entry" was taken out for cases , marked and numbered precisely the same as those prepared as before stated , the contents being declared to be " unknown . " The packages were then landed at the same quay , for examination by the Unai ng officer . Immediately this was the east the former package was recalled , by an order to re-deliver , when the cases by the French packets , which really contained silk were substituted to the parties applying , and the packages of books , && , examined and returned for , duty in lieu of the cases of silk , the ship ' s manifest merely describing the case brought over as merchandize , and thereby being ne check upon the fraud .
The investigation into these irregularities in the Customs Departments bare already occupied many weeks . The results , we believe , will fully bear ont the correctness of our introductory remarks , and in our next report facta and names will be stated in corrobc rat ion . —Evening Star .
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ROCHDALE . POLICE OFFICE , FLYING HORSE . ( Before William Chadwick and Henry Kehall , Esquires . J ] James Ashley , a Chartist speaker , was charged with using seditious language at the meetings daring tho turn out in this town , and exciting the people to riot Ashley said , your worships , I should request before the proceedings of the Conrt commence , that the witnesses retire , and come in one it a time when called upon ; second , that I should be supplied with pens and paper , to take notes of this case . They were granted , and a seat at the table .
Howarth Baby deposed—I live at Facit , by trade a mechanic . I remember the 12 th of August ; it was on Friday ; I work for George Hardman , cotton-spinner , at Facit ; the mill is within a hundred yards of the turnpike road . A Mr . Whitworth ' s cotton-mill is on the right side of the road , near to Bacup ; it is within sixty yards of our mill . I stood at the road leading to our mill Betwixt seven and eight o'clock that morning I saw a body of people come from Bochdale ; there were about 6 , 000 as near as I can tell . [ The witness was asked to point out the prisoner . I think it is this man that sits here . ] A part of the main body turned into our road . Ashley was not there . He was in the turnpike-road , betwixt the mills . I said they did not need to go ; there was no one working . They turned back to Whitworth , a small village . I st * od at the top of the lane ; a second body came from the body of the people ; they were about five minutes betwixt They went dewn to our mills , and drew the
plugs . I did not go down , nor did I see them draw them . The crowd was standing still in the turnpikeroad . I saw the people come back from our mill , and join the crowd ; the main body had started . I saw a number of the people go into Mr . Whitworth ' s mill ; my master told me to go and see if I could tell any of them again , and I followed them to Bacup . [ Here one of the witnesses came into couit , and was quickly found out ; the Bench ordered him to be taken out of the room . ] I did not Bee any that was at our place > When I got to Bacup , the people were assembling together at a meeting at the bottom of Union Square . I saw Ashley there , in the cart where they spoke from . I did not get near to hear alL He said he wanted nothing but a fair day's wage for a fair day's labour . I heard it said from the cart that they were to go to Newchurch and to Todmorden ; it was not Ashley that said so . I did not see Ashley when the people went away . The people had sticks with them .
Ashley cross-examined this witness—He said , 1 did not hear you say any thing bad ; I thought it was a goed speech ; I was not alarmed . Ely Greenwood—I am an engineer and steam tenter for George Hardman and Company , at Facit I remember the 12 th of August I was at the factory that morning ; I remember some people coming down betwixt seven and eight o ' clock ; cannot tell how many came , I was standing at the fire-hole place ; the people came up to me , they came from the turnpike road ; two or three rushed past me and knocked thj plugs out of the boilers ; they went back to the people in the road , and joined them ; there were 6 or 700 ef them ; they were going quietly away towards Bacup . I did not see Ashley there .
John Stott—I live at Mount Pleasant , Proctor-street , by trade a wheelwright ; I rememer Thursday , when the mob came to this town , but not the day of the month . The mills were stopped on that day . I went twice that day to a meeting at donkey Shaw . At night , between six and stven o ' clock , there were upwards of 3 , 000 people present . Ther $ was a meeting , and speakers in a cart The prisoner , Ashley , was there . I heard him speak that night I do not remember what he said . He said something about his fellow-brethren , that they kad been stopped from work by the people of Ashton and Oldham , and they must adopt some plan . I saw him take a show of hands . Ha talked about the distress
of the country ; and he would show them whether the Repeal of the Corn Laws , or the Charter , would , benefit the lower classes the best A motion was put , and carried unanimously for the Charter . He spoke of meeting at five o ' clock next morning , on the same place , to adopt some plan . A motion was put and carried to that effect I went to a meeting on Saturday , on the same place- It was held at nine o'clock in the morning . Ashley was there . He said , if all manufacturers had behaved as well as they had done to them at Bacup , they should have had no occasion to turn out He mentioned a Mr . Mnnn , who had showed him his books ; and he found they paid the same wages they did six years ago . I did net stay till the conclusion of the meeting , I went up at night to a meeting . I did net stay many minutes ; I cannot say that Ashley was there—( the witness stood thinking ); I think he was there , and spoke and commented on the wages question ; that night it was mentioned that they should meet next day ( Sunday ) , on the same spot and hold the
same service . Ashley—Did yeu hear me Bay anything against the masters ? Stott—No ; you said it was time that something should be done fer the people . Ashley—Will you swear that I put a motion from the cart ? Stott—Tes ; the sense of the meeting was taken by you whether they should stop for the repeal of Corn Laws or the Charter . Ashley—Were my speeches exciting and alarming to the minds of the people ? Stott—No ; I did not hear you say anything to disturb the minds of the people ; bnt to the contrary , you advised the people not to injure any person , nor do any harm to life or property , and to respect the laws .
Committed to Kirkdale , on a charge of misdemeanor ; Bail was allowed him ; himself in £ 100 and two sureties in £ 50 each .
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DISCOVERT OF A SPY . Towee Hamlets . —Amos Treadwell , alias Jones , a member of the National Charter Association , and a member of the General Council , having been openly denounced by a shopmate as a spy on the movements of the London Chartists , a Special Council meeting was held on Monday evening , the 12 th instant , and continued by adjournment on the Wednesday following , for the purpose of instituting a rigid inquiry as to the truth of the soul-degrading imputation , and likewise to give the accused a fair opportunity of exonerating his character from odium if innocent Treadwell was present during the investigation on Monday evening , but failed to make his appearance on Wednesday . When asked why he was absent he replied matters were so black against him , that all be could say or do would not prove his innocence . These meetings resulted in
the TiTimmV ^ g of as Tile a wretch as ever figured in the annals of espionage . A starred viper that lurks in the grass awaiting an opportunity to inflict the envenomed wound—a base sordid thing , that for filthy lucre barters the moral dignity ef man for the degradation of the spy ; a perfidious villain who , under the guise of friendship , worms himself into men ' s favour and confidence , and then attempts to sacrifice them on the sanguinary altars of Tory fury—a wretch who , in the language of Curran , would not hesitate to dip the Evangelists in blood in order to secure the reward of his infamy . Such is the light in which the Chartists of the Tower Hamlets now view the heretofore apparently active , persevering , and zealous Amos Treadwell . The following were the charges against Treadwell , which were borne out by evidence so conclusive as not to leave the shadow of a doubt on the mind of any one
present Firstly , that be went to an Inspector of Police , whose name , for : prudence , we must withhold from print and gave him a mass of information ( false no doubV , ) respecting the Chartist movement in London . Secondly—That he has been conTeyed by the said Inspector to Scotland-yard , where be remained for several hours . Thirdly—In consequence of Treadwell ' s information , warrants have been made out against seven individuals . The Inspector has promised to obtain for Treadwell a large reward , saying at the same time , that if they had half a dozen such men as Treadwell they would soon extirpate ChartiEm from the metropolis . Another charge made against this miscreant waa that he had concocted , and endeavoured to put into execution , a plot to deliver 2 > r . M'Douall into the hands of Govexn-S ment , and thereby obtain the hundred pounds , the
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the price despotism has set upon his head . This charge came like a thunder-dap on the degraded tool of tyranny . His embarrassment , prevarication , and insolent replies , dearly showed the workings of a guilty conscience . The evidence adduced in substantiation of this charge was circumstantial , bat so powerful as to furnish the strongest presumptive testimony of the nefarious design of the villain . Treadwell writes a letter to Dr . M'Douall , which he takes to Mr . Campbell , requesting that be would forward it Mi . Campbell ' s suspicions being awakened , opened the letter , and finds that Treadwell earnestly requests an interview with the Djctor , or that he would communicate with him by a letter , as he is the depository of information which would be of the highest importance to the Doctor under present cir-_ _
cumstances . He likewise informs him , that he has a sum of money to pay over to him , which at the present moment may be very acceptable . Now , on being asked what was the important information he had to com * munlcate ? be said that , retnrning late one nigbt from a Chartist meeting , he waa accosted by a stranger , who told him that he came from Manchester , and that those persons who bad Dr . M'Douall ' s entire cenfidenee ia Manchester were about to sell him . On being asked how he could promise to pay Dr . M'Douall the 19 s . 6 d . he owed him , being out of employ the last five weeks , and borrowing money from all his acquaintances , be said he had written to his friends in Bristol for money , which would enable him to pay the
D * ctor . He underwent a severe examination by the different members of the council , but every answer tended only to make his criminality more glaring . The following resolution was then proposed , and unanimously carried : — " That this meeting having carefully considered the charges alleged against Amos Treadwell , and the evidence brought forward in support of them , are decidedly of opinion that he is a base and fligltious spy , and therefore deserves to be scented with execration from the society of all honest men . The said Ames Treadwell , alias Janes , is a native of Bristol , a spare thin person , clockmaker by trade , stands about five feet four inches in height , age twenty-two , fair complexion , slightly pockmarked . ' — Evenitig Sl * r .
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAP „ Sib , —In your "Notices to Correspondents" in the Star of last week , appeared a letaer from r , George Clarkson , a member of the Political Institute , complaining of a paragraph sent by me , whir \ & appeared in the Star of Sept 17 th . I have only te say that the report of Mr . Gill ' s announcement w as taken from the Shdfeld I ' is of Sept 13 th , ano confirmed by several persons who incidentally mentioned the circumstance to me . I cannot sea ? " nat right Messrs Clarkson and Co . have to find faitt' * ith me , ia copying the " report" of the Iris , fa ? I " suppose they believe that what " report says" mast be true ; at any rate these sensitive gentlemen , so nice about their own honour , but not over acrnpaltr n « about other people ' s ,
might haTe first corrected their Complete Suffrage friend the Iris , before bilir ^ foul of the Northern Star —a paper not often hoir oured with their correspondence . With respect to tfce remarks appended to the above letter , permit me , sir , to reply , that , vhen I am convinced that the Political Institute g entry art Chartists , I shall > je happy to alter my tone towards them . In the lr . eantime I shall pursue my own course , exposing hum > , Bg of every description , and setting at defiance thorj whom I have before denounced , as " the real' foes of democracy , and the deadly enemies of all who honestly advocate the cause of the people . " Your obedient Servant , GE 0 R 6 B Julian Harset . Sheffield , Sept 27 , 1842 .
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The old parsonage , whi / jh I rebuilt wden I came to the living , I found inhabited by four pauper families . There wer e also , a short tJme previously , five pauper families in two farm-house . ^ , now occupied again by tatrmen- The want of room , therefore , has created the greatest difficulties to the overseers , and has rendered their office peculiarly painful . For several weeks they have been compelled to quarter a poor family at the publio-houss , two of the young men being under the necessity of sleeping in a barn . In Bomo of the cottages the poor are so huddled together that the sight is mest distressing , and the effect , of course , very demoralising . The following ia a specimen : — -
N » . Families . Person * . Accommodation . 1 ...... 2 ...... 10 ...... 1 ground floor , 2 bed rooma 2 2 ....... 8 ...... 1 room only , 12 foet square 3 2 ...... 7 Z room ground floor , 12 . ] feet square . Two girls obliged to sleep on the ground floor . 4 ...... 1 ...... 9 l room ground floor , 1 bed room 5 1 7 1 room only , 12 feet square 6 ...... I ...... 11 1 room gronnd floor , 2 feed '¦ ¦ ¦; ' rooms 7 0 11 ...... Different individuals , all females , except a youth of eighteen , and a youug boy . 1 room ground floor ; 1 bed
room . 8 ...... 0 9 Different Individuals . ' He goes on to say , Most of these cottages are in a sad state of repair ; and all , with the exception of the two last , which are parish houses , belong to the loid of the monor . " He says that he made application to the nonresident proprietor ( to whose intentional benevolence , however , he bears testimony ) , and to his agent , but could obtain no redre ss of this grievous state of things ; as the latter bad come to the determination ( a very usual one ) that not an additional cottage Bhould be built—of course giving the orthodox reason for the refusal . " The consequences of thiB neglect , and the buddling of human beings together , is drawn by Mr . Sadler in the following forcible and eloquent language : —
" Not only early and general depravity , but crimes of the most fearful nature are thus generated . ( Here the Honourable Member related a case of the most appalling kind , which he hoped would not be communicated through the usual channels of information . ) Bat notte dwell on this horrid subject , what , I ask , must be the usual consequences , when different families are thus thrust into the same hole as a sleeping apartment ; and , immorality out of the question , how can decency be preaerved , especially under certain circumstances , in the family , in such cases f But , Sir , I will pursue these revolting descriptions no further . Harried away by my indignation at this cruel and indecent usage of the poor peasantry , I had almost forgot one revolting feature of the system of oppression to which they are now subjected . For these accommodations , wretched as they ore , the most exorbitant rents—exorbitant in
reference to what they are worth ( that is often , literally speaking , nothing ) or for the little patch of garden ground , when they have any , are exacted ; a fact which has been fully verified , both by agricultural reports and surveys , and by witnesses before your own Committees , and ia fully known and undisputed . Indeed , it has necessarily happened that the more the cottages have been diminished in number , the more have their rents been increased ( a consequence which the economists themselves will allow to have been inevitable ) , till they have at length , compared with every other species of property , become exorbitant , compelling the wretched tenant to resort to the parish for the means of paying them ; leaving him , therefore , the disgrace of being a pauper , but depriving him , at the same time , of the relief he should receive as such .
" I now come to another principal branch of tha subject , namely , that which concerned the wages and employment of the poor . But on this point , important as it plainly ia , time will compel me to be sort . When the improvements , as they have been called , ( and might have been rendered ) in the agricultural system , took place , and the labouring classes were deprived of their little holdings , their commonage , and often their good gardens , they were told that the demand for their labour would be so gieafy increased , and its wages consequently so much advanced , that they weald be infinitely better off under the new plan . But it admits no longer of a dispute , that while they have thus been deprived of their independent labour , that which they yield to others is rendered as far as possible less necessary and worse remunerated . In Bumnier or harvest , as I have before shown , their work ia indeed demanded ; but it is to the winter , the trying season te the poor , that I am now about to advert : —
" First , the altered practice of hiring servants by the week , instead of , aa was formerly the case , by the year , has had a pernicious effect on the winter employment of the poor . The report I have ao eften alluded to , when referring to the Northern counties , as those in which the condition of the poor is still compartatively comfortable , should have stated , ( had the committee known it , ) that this practice still prevails iu the border counties of England , to the equal comfort and advantage of all potties . Secondly , the thrashing machine has , as far as possible dispensed with a great part of the winter employment of the labourers , and all the incidental expences duly considered , without , as far aa I have been able to calculate , any advantage whatever to the farmer , or to the public . I speak not thua as an apologist for the attacks that have been made upon this description of property , far otherwise ; but with the hope of inducing the ncriculturists to count well the costs before they sanction , ( where it is unnecessary , ) that which will inevitably distress and pauperise the poor .
" Lastly , and to this particular I would draw the attention of the House , as of infinite importance in any view of the causes of the distress of our rural poorthe improvements of the machinery of this country , and the consequent transference of the simplest processes of manufacture to the large towns of England , have bod the inevitable result of depriving the female part of the cottager ' s family of that profitable employment which presented itself , indeed , at every vacant hour throughout the year , but which secured to them a constant occupation in the winter season . A late Flemish writer exults in the
circumstance of the winter cottage labour in tbatcountry being still preserved in a great measure ; and he attributes to that faot the comfort of their rural population . That is no longer the case in England , nor perhaps can ever be again . Let us , then , be the more anxious to consider how we may compensate this great and necessary class of the community , far this connected series of deprivations and misfortunes which have occasioned the misery which now overwhelms them . Thus , then , have our rural poor been successively deprived of every advantage which they formerly possessed , and of every chance of improvement ¦ which they once were so eager to avail themselves of . "
All acquainted with agricultural pursuits and disposed to a fair consideration of the subject / will at once agree with Sadler , at leaat respecting the proximate causes of the distress stated—viz . the large farm system , the enclosure of wastes and commons— -the introduction of the thrashing machine , and the annihilation of domestic manufactories by the " cheap" system of large factories and steam . Respecting the wages paid for agricultural labour-, Mr . Porter , in hia " Progress of the Nation , " p . 122 ; states the following interesting particulars : — " Among the questions sent to the Varions parishes . in England , during the inquiry into the administration and practical operation of the Poor Laws , it was ns&ad What on the whele might an average labourer ,
obtaining an average amount of employment , both in . daywork and piece-work , expect to earn in the yeaa % including harvest work end the value of ail his-other advantages and means of living , except parish relief ? And what on the whole might a labourer ' s wife and four children , aged fourteen , eleven , eight , ond ^ fi-vs , respectively , ( the eldest a boy , ) expect to earn in , the year , obtaining as in the former case , an average amount of employment ?' £ ¦ b . a . " The answer to these queries from 85 C ' , give , for the annual earning of the man , an average of ... ... ... .. .. 27 17 10 And the answers from 668 parishes , give as the annual earnings of the wif& and children an average of ... ... ... 13 19 10
Annual income of the family . » . ... £ 4117 8 " To the further question , ' Could such a family subsist on the aggregate earninga of the father , mother , and children ; and , if so , on what food ? ' Answers were returned from 899 to the following effect : —71 \ said simply No ; ' 212 , ' Yes ; 12 , ' Barely , and with { out meat ; ' 491 , Without meat"' This account of the rate of -wages paid for your ] labour may be considered a very favourable one ; £ o « it is to be observed , that it is not what you really do . earn , but what you might earn with an overage amowit OtuUj UUW YfJLUab JUU UllgUM vuu ntuu uu ta « w » u £ u uu > v > v
of employment , supposing yon all employed . Other i accounts state the income of agricultural labourers , ! particularizing Gloucestershire , Somersetshire , Wor ^ j cestershire , and Wilts , at an average of £ 22 ?* . , o *' 8 s . 6 d . per week . A correspondent of the itemix / Chronicle says , that few earn more than 8 s . per wee * ., aud that this , allowing 9 d . per week for rent , Js . fj a , for fuel , 9 d . for soap , candles , &z ., leaves 5 & for fo od , which , for a man and wife , and four children , is just lOd . a week for each : or , allowing tneto , food ' Jiree times a-day , it will give something less than oar , halfpenny a meal .
The above rate of wages of each class , »• it observed , is calculated upo n the supposition that year erder have constant employment , which Ja rot ? 'seldom the case . From the quantity of facts yet at oat -disposal , for the illustration of this important subject , v re must defer the conclusion of the article until oar ntxt number . The series of articles on tbe Wrongs of Ireland will then also be commenced . —Campbell's ^ IPenny Democrat .
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Marriages .
MARRIAGES .
. * u » "day morning , at St . Ann ' s Catholic cnuTQft ,, J , eeds , Mr . John Pindcr , of York , to Miss Webster , of Leeds . 0 a 7 hursday , the 22 nd instant , at Kirby Hill , neap / ; ichmond , by the Rev . Thomas Holme , Mr . Bow * rd Parnaby , of Ebor House , near Leeds , to Misa Anna Arrowsmith , of Kewsbam Hall , second da * # hter of Mr . James- Arrowsmith , of Aisktw . Sr tQe day , at the parish church , Lambeth , by * a » Rev . G . Brandling , James Grasse , E ? q ., to Ellen , t * f , third daughter of Mr . Clay , manufacturer , ? / akefield . Same day , at Kirkheaton , Mr . Wm . Milner , of Quincey , lllonoie , North America , to Elizabeth , youngest daughter of Mr . Joseph Milner , of Raw-, thorp , near Huddersfield .
Same day , at the parish church , Otley , by the Rev . J . Hart , vicar , Mr . Jeremiah Walker , of tho Queen ' s Head , to Margaret , youngest daughter of Mrs . Jennings , of the Malt Shovel Inn , all of Bur ley , near Otley .
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MID AND EAST LOTHIANS COLLIERS ' STRIKE . A POLICEMAN KILLED MILITARY CALLED OUT . Saturday , Sept . 24 th , 4 ph . Tbe colliers strike begins to assume a serious aspect I have just been informed by those on whom I can place tbe most implicit relianee that a policeman has been killed by the colliers , and tbe military sent for ' from Jock ' s Lodge . Tbe particulars , as far aa I am yet able to ascertain , are as follows : — It appears that a number of colliers was met by a policeman at Edgehead , near Dalkeith , the colliers carrying a sack containing potatoes , they were stopped by the policeman , who insisted to know from whence they obtained the potatoes . They refused to tell him ; from words they cime to blows . A dreadful scuffle easaed , which ended by the policeman being left for dead . Tbe whole of the police in the district were soon
on the alert , who succeeded in apprehending one man at his house , whom they placed iu irons , and were about to convey him to prison , when lo 1 tbe news had spread , they were surrounded by colliers , the policemen beaten off , and the man carried off in triumph , chains and all . To those who have watched the progress of late events , this will not be at all surprising ; tbe men on strike have been taunted and grossly insulted both by the coal-masters and magistrates . The following proclamation will shew the readers of the Star the way iu which the brave bnt much-injured colliers have been treated , and I ask if a greater insult was ever given to working men ? A few potatoes are stolen , ( which is the case every year , when there are no strikes , ) and the colliers are charged with stealing them ; it is then I repeat no wonder that the exasperated men , and tbe police should come into deadly conflict
The fallowing is the precious official document above referred to : — Proclamation by the Sheriff" of the County of Edinburgh . Whereas , extensive depredations have been recently committed upon potatoe and other crops , now upon the ground , in certain parts of the county of Edinburgh ; and whereas there is every reason to believe that those depredations were committed by those misguided persons , who , choosing to abstain from their ordinary calling , illegally endeavour to support themselves without working by plundering tbe fruits of the skill and industry of others , who < 1 o choose to labour for their bread , contrary to law , and to the great injury of individuals and the public . Notice is hereby given , that arrangements have been made by the Sheriff and by those exposed to such depredations for tbe detection aud punishment of any persona who may be guilty of such offences in future . Graham Speirs , Sheriff .
There ' s for you t what think you of that ? I make no comment—it will tell its own tale . Add to this : a placard comes out during the week from tbe coal masters , in which it ia stated that " sober and industrious" men could earn from 3 s . 6 d . to 4 s . per day I A greater or a more wilful lie was never told . Yoar correspondent has not the least connexion with colliers ; but I have it from most respectable individuals , who have every means of ascertainig the truth , that the average wages of these injured men does not exceed 10 s . per week ! Further down this Bime placard , the men are called " idlers" and " unsteady workers" ! This is an old worn-out tale used by tyrannical masters , to prevent their men trota receiving the sympathy and support of the pnblic . Pharaoh , of old , said the same of the children of Israel I
It would appear , however , that the black-hearted coal tyrants have been but too successful in preventing the men from receiving the support of the public A great part of the shopkeepers of Dalkeith depend upon the colliers' wages : a deputation from tbe men went round to collect what they could from those inclined to give , and hew much do the readers of the Star think they collected ? Why , the extraordinary sum of 15 s . from the whole of the shopkeepers of Dalkeith , whose incomes are derived from the hard-earned wages of these celliers , while the poor Chartists of the district collected them upwards of £ 3 at a social meeting ! This will teach them wha are their friends , and who are their foes ; and , I think , should Bhew them the necessity of starting Co-operative Stores , when they get again into wort .
If any farther facts come out on Monday , I will transmit them to you . MONDAY HOBNING . The policeman is not dead , but it ia « aid cannot live . Another policeman iB badly beat Horse and foot soldiers continue to arrive ; all ia confusion—the poor colliers who live in tbe master's houses are this day to be turned out by the soldiers , their month ' s notice having expired . The horse soldiers galloped at that furious rate from Jock ' s Lodge , that one was thrown from his horse , and seriously hurt ; it is said his shoulder is dislocated , and one of his arms broken . —Correspondent .
THE CHARTISTS OP HUNSLET TO THEIR BRETHREN THROUGHOUT THE EMPIRE . Brother Democrats , —Aa fellew-workers with us in the cause of right , we call upon you to do all that lies in your power to promote the formation of such a defence fund as shall assure our champions that we appreciate their noble services ; and that by a proper display of our moral and united energies we are resolved to make the tyrants who oppress us tremble , and eel their utter insignificance when opposed to a patriotic and united people . Hundreds of good men have been dragged from their homes and immured in prisons by the operation of bad laws , and at the dictum of class-made minions of power , and it the dnty of all who wish well to their country , to see that these innocent victims of the hellish system under which we groan , be not delivered over like sheep into the taions of the wolves who are thirsting for their blood .
We are doing all we can in furtherance of the good cause ; and have , with this address , transmitted 10 s . to the Treasurer of the Defence Fund . Nor is this all we intend to da We , like the rest of our brethren , are poor ; but we still keep our subscription books open , and take what the lovers of justice find themselves able to give . We believe that , under the blessings of the Gad of Justice , tbe pence of the poor will yet triumph over the despotism of the rich oppressor . We are resolved to do all we can ; and we expect jou to go and do
like-- Signed , on behalf of tbe Chartists gf Huuslet , T . B . SMITH
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TO THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM . In beginning a wmplete exposition of the present system of legal spoliation and plunder , we address you , as not only the most numerous portion of the working population , but also that portion the most useful to society . The first great necessary of life is food , and without your daily and ever-recurring aid , sbciety , from the want of thta important article of existence , would soon cease to be . In proportion , therefore , to the value and importance of your calling , as well as from your great numbera , are you entitled to the first consideration in this attempt to aualizs the wrongs of society , towaida the application of an efficient remedy for its evito . - . ... .
Agricultural labourers , you have suffered much from the present system of class-interest and class-legislation ; none mote bo . Step by step have your comforts been abridged—your privileges abrogated—your old constitutional landmarks removed ; and yet you have hitherto paid but little attention to the causes whence these growing evils have arisen . You have not been politicians , but the too-willing tools of rapacious landlords , in their crusades against your more active * nd thinking fellow-countrymen , until , not only their liberties have been sacrificed , but your own ancient and constitutional rights have been swept away , and you now begin to see as through a glass darkly , tae origin of your downfall , with that of your suffering fellowcountrymen . You are awakening to a true perception «« 'i ^ ° n ^ ltion of England question , " especially the political bearing of this great subject So , to assist you in your deliberations , to fortify your judgments , strengthen your resolution , and encourage you onward in the path of political inquiry , do we address you at the present time .
It is said that men pay most attention to those questions that are connected with their social interests ar . d weekly subsistence . As all cannot comprehend the true value of abstract principle , the tangible and matter of fact mast be therefore connected and contained , that the latter may be shewn to depend intimately on the former—in which case conviction respecting tbe real value of that whica otherwise might be looked upon as a mere baseless speculation ia aure to follow . Upon this plan do we intend to proceed . Our motto is—Univebsal Suffrage , and No Sutrbender—the entire People s Charter , And , aa at present , misery and privation axe tbe lot of toiling industry , and wealth and luxury the reward ef idleness , while under upright institutions industry and comfort would be synonymous , and privation only wait upon the profligate and idle , we intend te anew the intimate connection of these two states of social being with the present system of claed legislation on the one hand , and the adoption of the People ' s Charter on the other .
Agricultural labourers , your own history furnishes an admirable commentary on our text . You have been the victims of this remorseless spirit of class-interests aud party . And to show how thia process has been going forward , how the small comfortable farms of your forefathers have been heaped together tor tbe modern bull-frog farmer , the " manufacturer of corn , " your cottage pulled down , your commons and wastes enclosed and rendered the private property of aristocratic burglar * , your tight to subsistence on the soil denied , with the other manifold evils under which you groan at present—to show these in as clear and concise a manner as possible , and their intimate connection with the great question of Universal Suffrage , is the task we have undertaken in the present address .
Your true condition has been well indicated in the following extract from a speech of an old and departed friend ; one , who though attached to a somewhat obsolete and bigoted political creed , had yet a heart to feel for your wrongs , and an eloquent and willing tongue to plead your cause . Michael Thomas Sadler , in a speech on agricultural distress , delivered in the House of Commons , October 11 , 1831 , says , " The system of demolition and monopoly , which has , in the emphatic language of the inspired volume , ' laid house to house , and field to field , that they may stand alone in the earth , ' has left no place for the poor ; none for the little cultivator ; none for the peasant ' s cow ; no not enough in one case in ten for a garden . The best of the cottages have been
demolished—* spurned indignant from , the green , aa the loveliest of the poets of poverty , Goldsmith , sings . The lonely and naked hut into which they ara now thrust , for which is exacted an exorbitant rent , is destitute , both without and within , of all that formerly distinguished their humble abodea , 1 b often unfit to stable even quadiupeds , and frequently ao crowded by different families , as to set not comfort merely bat decency at defiance , and render morality itself ah impossible virtue . Thither , then , the unhappy father , when employed , carries his wages , which , with the exception of a few short weeks in the year , are utterly inadequate to supply the necessities of a craving family . Wages did I say ? Pariah pay ! He ia , perhaps , sold by aution , as is the case in certain parishes , and therefore reduced to the condition of a slave , or driven to tbe workhouse , where be is
often treated worse than a felon . Labour , meant to degrade and insult him , is often prescribed to him ; or , wholly unemployed , he sits brooding over his miserable fate ; winter labour , whether foi himself or bis wife and . children , having been long since taken away . Perpetually insulted by false and heartless accusations , for being a pauper , when his accusers have compelled him to become such ; for being idle , when his work has been taken from him ; for improvidence , when he can hardly exist , he feels these insults barbed by past recollection . " The very sympathies of bis nature become reversed ; those who would once have constituted bia comforts and pleasures , hia ragged and half-starved offspring , ( who cannot stray a pace from his hovel without becoming trespassers and being , severely treated as such , ) and their wretched mother , increase bis misery .
He escapes , perhaps , from the scene of his distress , and attempts to lose the recollection of it and of himself , in dissolute and dangerous courses . Meantime , had some peculiar calamity , some inscrutable visitation of Providence reduced him to this condition , perhaps he might have sustained it with composure of spirit But he knows otherwise . He can trace his sufferings and degradation to their true source . He knows by whom they have been inflicted upon him , and he feels what would be their cure , and can calculate bow little it would cost others , to make him and his supremely happy . Meantime , the authors of his sufferings are tbose that insult him with demanding
that he should be quiet and grateful , that he should be contented and cheerful under them 1 ' They that have wasted him , require mirth I' Not only are the falsest accusations levelled at him , but even the ( feelings common to nature are Imputed to him as an offence ; his marriage was a crime ; bis children are so many living nuisances ; himself ia pronounced redundant ; and after having been despoiled of every advantage he once possessed , hia is kindly recommended aa hia best , and indeed only coarse , to transport himself for life , —for the good of his oppressors , and to die unpitied and unknown in some distant wilderness . And this , sir , is tbe condition , at the present moment , of thousands—of tens of thousands—of the labouring
poor . " . This is no overcharged picture , but much under the mark , and adapted to the tastes of the assembly he was addressing—parties always exceedingly fastidious , and unprone to overcolour anything connected with industrial distress . As the results of the " enclosure" and large farming systems , and of the downward progress of your condition , we need only refer to the state of . a few of the agricultural counties , Which may be taken as a sample of the whole . The report of a committee on inciosures , in 1808 , stated , that the results which were the subject of examination in a tour of sixteen hundred miles , made for that purpose , proved that they bad been clearly injurioua to the poor . An intelligent witness informed
another committee , namely , that on tbe high price of provisions , that be bad himself been a Commiaioner under twenty inclosure acts , and stated his opinion as to their general effect on tbe poor , lamenting that he had been thereby , accessary to injuring two thousand people , at the tato of twenty families per parish . The reply of a poor fellow to Arthur Young , the great advocate of incJoBures , ( though under regulations which would indt > ed have rendered them a benefit to all parties , ) recorded in one of bis agricultual surveys , ia true , to a more or less degree , of every industrious labourer in Eagl and , wherever these improvements have taken place . To his query as to whether the inclosure bad injur ed him , he replied , "Sir , before the inclosure I had a good garden , kept two cows , and was getting on ; now I cannot keep so much as a g « OBe , and am
P oor and wretched , and cannot help myself ; and still yeu ask me if the inclosure baa hurt me I " Another , and a still deeper injury which it has also perpetrated , still remains to be noticed . Net only has tbe little farm been monopolised , the common right destroyed , the garden in many instances seized , but the cottage itself demolished ; and the ploughshare now drives over many a little plot where once stood the bower of contented labour . Suffolk , bas , in the course of one hundred and twenty years , increased in population , including the great increase of some of its towns , as much as eighty per cent ., and rather more . What baa been the inciease in the accommodation for tbe poorer part of the population ? Why , in 1690 , there were forty-seven - thousand five hundred and
thirtyseven houses in that county ; in 1821 , then , there onght to have been at least ninety thousand houses . But there were in the latter year only forty-two thousand seven hundred and seventy-three inhabited bouses , the absolute number being eleven per cent fewer than one hundred and thirty yean before . The whole of six count ies ao selected , exhibited a result , in this respect , not quite so appalling , but sufficiently distressing , however regarded . Their population had , from 1701 to to 1821 , advanced upwards of seventy-five per cent , but the houses for its accommodation less than twentyfive . It la unnecessary to remark on what class the misery of such a state of things would be made to rest Even in counties supposed by the Committee free from Una state of things ,. " th'infection works . "
In a letter referred to by Mr . Sadler , in the speech already quoted , a . Vicar in one of these counties gives the following picture of rural felicity in bia parish : — " ' Dozing the last forty years , ' says the reverend gentleman , ' four cottages only have been bnilt by * • * , and even these in lieu of the same number taken or fallen down . Tbe accommodation for tbe poor ia far more confined than it was some year » past
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Danger of Inconsiderate Offers . —A gentleman in this county , who wos mnch annoyed by wasps , rather thoughtlessly offered a shilling for every wasp ' s neat which or uld be brought to him . All hands in tha neighbouvhood immediately set to work , and the unlucky gentleman bad to pay about £ 40 , there being neariv 800 nests brought to him . — Derby Merciiry .
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DEATHS , g On the 21 st uH ., at Aislaby Hall , near Whitby . in his 68 th year , — - Watkins , Esq ., father of Mr , John Watkins , of BatterBea . On Thursday , in the 84 ih year of his age , Mr . Jonathan Bland , of Clayton , near Bradford . On Friday last , at Moor Grange , near Headingley , after a Ion * illness , Eliza , the only surviving , daughter of the late Thomas Wilson , Esq ., of Islington Green , near London . Same day , aged 91 , Mrs . Elizabeth Rhodes , of Yeadon , near Leeds . Same day , at Woodhouse Carr , aged 57 , Bathia , wife of Mr . James Brayshaw , and daughter of the late Mr . John KiohoJp , stationer , of Leeds . On Thursday , tha 22 ad ult , Maria , wife of Mr . F . Ledyard , of Mirfield , solicitor , and second daughter or Samuel Brook , Esq . » oi' West Milla Mirfield .
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Parliament has been prorogued from the 6 th of October t » the 10 th of November next . What is Sedition J—This is a question which every public-nan will sooner or later have to ask himself , if tfie present systematic efforts to put down the free expression of opinion continue . Sir Robert Peel ' s powerful position- in the House of Commons has stimulated the magistracy to the most odious exercise of their functions ; and they seem to be fully conscious that neither from him nor his colleagues need they fear the least interruption to their barofaoed proceedings . Althoajjb all excitement has long since ceased upon the- part of the operatives , yet every- where * the police are ordered to put down or take up publfe speakers , A Chartist lecturer hag penetrated to the forest ef Dean , in Gloucestershire , and addressing the rustic inhabitants of that spot , haa- been proved to say , " that it was a great shame the Queen-aid not maintain her
own mother , as your poor foresters are obliged to do / The magistrates have Been so horrified by this language , " and so convinced of its seditions ten * deney , that they have compelled the speaker to give bail , himself in £ 100 , and four sureties of £ 25 each , to- answer any ' indiotiaent that maybe preferred against him . . And should he be iudicted , and sach asiaine boobies as these-magistrates on tbe jury , he will , without fail , be convicted and BenteHceo to imprisonment . ' ' Law will not assist him , nor others in a like predicament . ISbthing butt the streog voice of an enlightened public opinion will impresr . the magisterial authorities with the p » aderiCd of not putting popular patience to too great ay trial . It is muoh to be desired that public opinion were more active upon thia subject than * it has been Whenever the people become indifferent to their rights , they stand a very fair chance of losing them . —Evening Star .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 1, 1842, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1181/page/5/
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