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THE LEEDS CHARTIST DEMONSTRATION.
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THE INHABITANTS OF LEEDS AND ITS VICINITV ARE RESPECTFULLY APPRIZED THAT A GRAND CHARTIST DEMOIfSTilATIOIf , IN HONOUR AND SUPPORT OF THE EQUITABLE AND JUST PfilNCIPIiES OP THE PEOPLE'S CHARTiB , Will be made in the MUSIC HALL , ALBION STREET , on MONDAY , the 19 th of DECEMBER , 1842 , when a SO I R El WILL BE GIVEN TO T . S . DUNCOMBE , ESQ . M . P . The Presenter of the National ^^ & ^^ ff + to the Hou * of Commas ; FEARGUS O'CONNOR , ESQ , CHARTIST ADVOCATE . The following Gentlemen have also been invited , and are expected to be present : — J . T . LEADER , ESQ ., M . P , JOHN GULLY , ESQ , Ackworth Park . CAPTAIN WOOD , of Sandal . MR . JAMES LEACH . Manchester . MR . J . R . BAIRSTOW , Leicester . MR . WILLIAM JONES , Liverpool . A Party of Glee Singers will be in attendance , and take their part in the proceedings of the Evening . Doors open at half-past Five ; Tea on the Table at half-past Six . Tickets , Is . 3 d . each , may be had at the undermentioned places : —The Star Office ; Mr Brook ' s Kirk-« ate , Cornerof Vicar-lane ; Mr . John Cook , News Agent , Dawsbury-road end ; Mr . Robert Entwiatle , News Agent , Sweet-street , Brawery-field ; Mr . Samuel Dunn , Temperance Hotel , Kirkgate : Mr . Fisher ! News Agent , West-stret ; Mr F . Phillips , Hair Dresser , Kirkstall-road ; Mr ' . William Scon , N * S Scott-street , Woodhouae ;_ Mr .- Henry Render , beven Stars , Dock-street ; Mr . William Masen . Grantham Arms , Dyer-street ; Mr . Edward Farrar , Ordnance Arms , North-street ; aud at the Times Office
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THE SPINAL COMPLAINT . rpHERE is hardlv a single complaint amongst the X Hundreds to which the Human Frame is liable so distressing and so prostrating as Affection of the bpme ; ana there is hardly another complaint so difficult of cure . The discoverer of an almost unfailing Remedy may therefore safely be said to confer a boon upon his species ; and this Remedial Boon is proved by extensive experience to have been discovered by the Proprietor of HAIGH'S SPINAL OINTMENT . Some of the Cases of Care effected by it are beyond belief ; and , were not the parties living , and perfectly willing , nay , anxiously ready to be referred to , and to testify to the wonderful benefits they have received , the Proprietor of the Ointment dare not mention them for fear of being charged with aa attompt to practise upon the eredah'tr ot thepaWic . Theparties , however , are living ; they can be referred to ; and their testimony is of the highest importance to all afflicted with Spinal affection . The efficacy of this invaluable Restorative has been again most abundantly demonstrated in the following two oases of cures effected within the last mouth . The names and addresses of the partie are given ; and to the parties themselves are th * sceptical referred . ¦ RECENT CASES . . 1 . William Moss , son of Thomas Moss , Tailor , Northgate , Huddersfield , has been afflicted with the spinal complaint for nearly two years ; and during that time has been under the medical treatment of several of the Medical Profession in the neighbourhood , but received no relief . His back was quite crooked and deformed . After using the Spinal Ointment a short time , he was completely recovered , and is now strong and healthy . 2 .. Mary Ann Hutchinson , daughter of Mr . Hutchinson , Clock and Watchmaker , 32 , King-Btreet , Huddersfield , was severely afflicted with th » Spinal Complaint for a long period , so much so as to walk with great difficulty . Her Spine was much distorted . She had been under the treatment of the Faculty for some time , without experiencing RUT relief . After applying a few boxes of the Spinal Ointment , she was completely restored , and ib now enjoying good health . In addition to the above , the following •* . ¦ ¦¦ ¦ CASES OF CUHH are also given , and reference made io the parties , who , by means of this invaluahin hrwtn . fcave boon rootored to live a life of health and usefulness . 1 . —Joseph Parkin , slubber , Milnes Bridge , near Huddersfield . This was a case of two Years' standin g ^ The Patient had had the benefit of the best medical advice that could be procured , but withoa effect . His finger nails were puwifying , when he began to apply the Spinal Ointment ; and in the course of ten weeks he was perfectly cured . Heia now in a state of perfect health . 2 . —Mrs . James Newton , of Ashton-under-Lyne . A case of very long standing . She had experienced all kinds of treatment , visited spas . &c , without relief ; was cared with the SpinaLOintment in about eeren months , 3 .- — — Senior , son of Jame 3 Senior , slubb Dewsbury , aged five years . Had never walked from his birth . Was cured in about four months ; and enabled to walk as well as anyone . To accommodate the distressed from this terrible affliction , the Ointment is made up in tin boxes , and sold at 2 s . 9 d . each box , stamp included . Mr . J . Hobson , Northern Star Office , Leeds , is solb agent tor its sale . The Spinal Ointment 13 of two kinds , and numbered 1 and 2 . No . 1 is the strongest kind , and is to be used in the morning only , tor children and for weak adults . Sthono adults must use No . 1 continuously . No . 2 is to be used according to the instructio given with each box , in the middle of the day . and at night . For children and for weak adults it will therefore be necessary to procure two boxes of No . 2 to one ofNo ; 1 . A letter addressed ( post-paid , and inclosing a postage stamp ) to Mr . Hobson , or to the Proprietor , Mr . George Haigh , Crossland ' s-buildings , Paddock , near Huddersfield , will receive an answer pointing out the readiest mode of conveyance ot the Ointment , and the cost . Parties writing had better communicate all the particulars of their respective cases ; how long afflicted ; from what cause , natural , or hurt ; and the coarse of treatment undergone . The Ointment is in Boxes , at 2 s . 9 d . each , stamp included . Sold only by Mr . Joshua Hobson , the Northern Star publisher ; and by the Proprietor .
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ibfti and parts of the adjoining counties , passed strong resolutions on the subject ; that these resolutions were published in the Northern Star at the tine : and that the Executive thought proper to reply to them in a high tone of mock dignity , demurring to the right of the delegates to investigate the correctness of the Balance Sheet , aadwfnsing to afford a singJe word ot explanation to them . We eoold not admire the conduct of the
Executive on that occasion ; and yet we regretted the course taken by the Leicester Delegate Meeting . We tooagat thai a courteous , private communication might possibly hare induced those explanations wiuofa ware refused when publicly demanded . Our readers will perceive from this day ' s paper , that we did not entertain these opinions singly ; they will see that they were hold en by the Councillors ot Hall , and very probably by those of many other places . We request that they will read earefully the correspondence of the Hall CounciUors elsewhere recorded . We refer them especially to the first letter of the
Councillors to the Secretary , dated July 13 ih- They will find that letter jost what we think the circumstance * of the case required ; courteous in its expression , kindly in its tone , neither containing , nor even insinuating an offensive charge of any description ; bat simpfy asking fot information respecting some points of the Balance Sheet , and offering , in the most respectful terms , certain suggestions for the consideration of the Exeoutire . It seems that the reply of Mr . Campbell to this most mild and courteous letter was not entered by the then sub-Secretary in the minute book of the
Association , but was preserved as a substantive do-• cament for after reference when needed . Mr . ( ziussBr , the the then sab-Secretary , being one of the " proscribed , " made himself scarce , and his wife destroyed all his papers , from a very natural womanish fear that some of them might be sslzsd , » nd used against him , this letter being amongst them . We have , however , a perfect recollection of the letter , and of its contents . As a member of the General Council , it was seen and read by the Editor ol this paper , and its tone was cartainJy mot that which a publis functionary ought to hare adopted -towards his constituents under such ci umstances .
While it afforded explanation of some of the matters enquired about and excuses for others , it was simply waspish and insolent . TSus , however , did not drive the Hull Councillors to the coarse , which they might very properly Tiave adopted , of publishing their letter , and Mr . Caxpxsll'sreply ; of fairly aoalizing the balance-sheet by % comparison of all its items with the rules of the organization ; and of leaving the Executive , in the pretty figure which it must then have cut , to be dealt with as the members thought fit . They might have done this , and had a right to do it ; but they
considered not what they had a right to do , but what night beet serve the cause . They knew that some members of the Executive had been , eminently useful in their personal services to the eiuse ; they were fearful lest any public notice of the matter might be detrimental to the cause , either by causing thaij ^ o -withhold these services hereafter , or by oaasiigfihe people to appreciate them less highly , or by furnishing a handle to the enemy , n such an exposure of the mismanagement of our funds and the misconduct of our public officers . For all these reasons , the uncalled for ill-manners , and ill-temper of the
Secretary ' s letter were passed by , and they still confined themselves to the private and kindly admonition of their second letter , dated July 17 th . To this letter , the Executive , as a body , never condescended any reply . In this unsatisfactory ttate stood ike matters of the Executive and their accounts until the National Conference on the 17 th of August . That Conference was , as we always understood , called for the very purpose of entering into a full investigation of the whole conduct of the Executive . -Circumstances to which we will not further now allude , prevented the business of the Conference from
being even entered upon , and the Executive had for that time an escape . There being , however , a dele-. gatefrom Boll present at the Conference , and also a Hail Councillor delegated from another place , Dr . M'Douall took the opportunity ot publicly stating jW the matter of which the Hnll Councillors had complained had received the attention of the Executive , and should be remedied . This was understood , we laelieve , not only , bj the Hall Councillor s then prelent , bni also by Canneillaw from various other
places , to be a distinct pledge , for himself and his coadjutors , that thereafter the plan of Organization should be adhered to . It was believed to be given in good faith , and it was therefore naturally expected that when the next Balance Sheet of the Executive should appear it would be a elear distinct statement of accounts , showing to what purposes the hard-earned pennies of the people had been applied , in strict accordance with the Organization , which , we repeat , is the one duty of the Executive to enforce and carry out .
It is impossible , therefore , to make any excuse for them now . They have not been taken by surprise . They have had warning and remonstrance enough in all conscience ; and the plain duty of the people now is , not to make the matter a subject of noisy altercation—not to suffer any considerations other than those which arise out of the plain printed rnles of the Organisation to influence them—asd to show by their votes upon the next election of Executive Committee , their opinion of the manner in which their dearly and hardly-earned pence have been appropriated , in defiance of their clearly defined duty and the printed rules of the Organization , by these men .
There is no concealing the fact that these men have set aside the Organization—that they have acted in open defiance of their own principles as Chartists—that they have erected themselves into an oligarchy of the very worst kindand that under the name and pretensions of democracy they have been long practicing pure despotism ; that they have done thiB knowingly and wilfully , and have persisted , after being repeatedly admonished and ; tminded of their principles . It is
for the people , after all this , to say whether these men be at all fit for the office they hold , and which we think they disgrace , and have—some of them , at least—long done so . As a portion of the people , we have a right both to hold , and to express , ah opinion on the subject ; and onr opinion is , that if the people again elect these men without , at all events , requiring from them a distinct public and individual acknowledgement of their past errors , and a pledge for their future conduct , they will deserve to be robbed ad libitum .
We cannot leave the Bubject without again adverting to Mr . Cahpbell ' s lame letter of last week-In endeavouring to account for the enormous sum of eighteen shillings a week put down as postage and stationery , he complains of receiving many letters unpre-paid . We do not believe it . We think it probable that the correspondence of thi 3 office will be quite as extensive as that of the Executive , and we do not receive , on an average , three letters in a week that are uBpre-paid . The ; talk about
prepaying cards by post is absurd . If it be done to any tuch extent as to form a serious item in the Ehape of postage , it only proves that Mr . Campbell is uuerl j un qualified for the very simplest duties of his office ; while Oie effort to eke out the item , by referring to heavy correspondence at the period of their accepting office ( that period being fcejond the date of the balance Eheet ) would be really laughable , if it were not that the fan of it is spoiled by the recollection that the
awey in question has been literally lifted from the half filled dinner plates of starving men . We tell Mr . Campbell fairly , that we suppose the greuer part of the poor mows who contributed this sum of money will regard this item as of itself , in the absence of much more explanation than he has yet given , sufficient evidence of gross and plain 14 jobbing" such as ought not to have been practiced by tixe Secretary of a Chartist Association . We imagine that not a man in the whole country will believa that that sum has been expended fairly in
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the postage and stationery of the Association . We regret much , for his own sake , that Mr . Campbell , after the many warnings he had , did not think proper so to keep his bx > k 3 as to be able to satisfy the country of the aocuracy of his accounts , even in so trivial a matter as postage and stationery . His appeal to the other members of the Executive to explain their own share of the expences is still
farther evidence of the utter slovenly and unbusinesslike nay in which the affairs of the Association have been managed . It seems from bis letter that Mr . Campbell has constituted himself Treasurer as well as Secretary to the Executive ; and it was his duty not to pay any money to any body without knowing how nxd why , and for what it ww due , and being fully satisfied that he was warranted by the rules of the organization in paying it .
Mr . Cambhlll ' s mode of explaining his own personal expences is amusing . He singles out one item , and says respecting it : — " I must now-allude to one item in my own travelling expences , viz . £ 2 103 . from Manchester to London , for railway fare . The country can satisfactorily judge why the extra 10 s . was charged" ! Why th » question is not about the extra 10 s ., but about the whole sum of £ 210 s . Od . I Mr . Campbell forgets to show why the country should pay any part of this , or what right he had to charge it at all . He . does not show that he was going to London at that time on Chartist business at all ; or that he was not going on his own private affairs . It is Mr . Campbell ' s duty , as secretary of the Executive , to be in
Manchester . Manchester is the appointed place of sitting—settled , as Mr . Campbell very well knows , at-the National Delegate Meeting , which amended the Organization ; and is it not monstrous that because Mr . Campbell chooses for his own convenience to live in London , that he may keep a bookseller ' s shop , and because Mr . Leach remains in Manchester , as be ought to do , that therefore every time these gentlemen wish to consult with each other the country should be charged with railway travelling from Manchester to London !! And then the whole face of the accounts displays a laxity and vagueness , which if it had been intended to eover fraud could not have been more adroitly managed . The only items in the whole list to which a distinctive
character appears are those of wages and cards printing ; all the rest are left floating in a mist . The Organization givea no authority to any member of the Executive to charge a single farthing for travelling expenses , save when employed as missionaries , and then only nnder statedjaud restricted circumstances . The organization contemplates the Executive as a fixed body , sitting for a fixed purpose , in a fixed place : it does
not contemplate that they shall live one at Manchester and another at London , and another somewhere else , and saddle the country with their travelling charges every tima they come together . The country would be much batter without such an fixecutive than with it ; for its only U 90 would seem to be to waste the poor people ' s pence . The more we look at the whole thing the more completely are we sickened with it .
We must , however , pay some attention to Mr . Bajrstow ' s explanation , which we are sorry to find very little more satisfactory than . Mr . Campbell ' s . He says , in reference to his receipt of wages while lecturing : — " I deem , of course , that employed in the West of England , where the defection of the 1 Sturgites' from our movement left a wide gap in the agitation , none will object to weekly receipt of £ \ 10 s . for wages . "
This 13 rather a cavalier mode of dismifl * ing the matter . It ia new 3 indeed to as to "hear of the West of England being classed among the new districts of f Chartism . Either the Chartists of Bath , Bristol , Cheltenham , and Wiltshire did pay Mr . Baihstow for his lecturing services among them , or they did not . If they did , he has no right to charge his wages to the general fund ; if they did not , it is a Bhame that these old and able localities should have » lecturer provided by the country , while such districts as Doncaster , and the East and North Riding of Yorkshire , North Lancashire , and Leicestershire , where the people are much poorer , not only pay their own lecturers , but are also , it seems , to pay the lecturer for " the West of England . This is too bad .
Mr . Baibstow ' s explanation of the £ 2 16 s . 6 d ., charged for traveiling from Manchester to Bristol , iaa little carious j it seems he went over to Loughborough to see his sick wife , and thence to Bristol . Now , . we are sure that there is no good Chartist who will not give Mr . Baibstow credit for the manly fseling which took him home by the first conveyance , under such circumstances ; but we cannot for the life of us discover how Mr . Baibstow makes out that he has any more right than any other man to charge the country with the expenses of such a journey Upon this principle every Chartist who being from home receives intelligence that bis wife is sick should hasten io her by railway , and send in his bill for travellisg to the Executive . Mr . Baibstow says ,
u The first journey , after my election on the Executive was from Bristol via Gloucester and Birmingham , to Manchester , to our first sitting , and was performed on Sunday evening and Monday morsing ; the sum stated was expended in bare coach hire and railway fares . " We fancy there is some small mistake here . We believe that that journey was not exactly to a sitting of the Executive , bnt to the Manchester Conference , where we recollect that Mr . Baihstow stated himself to be the representative of two hundred thousand Chartists , and we think it a little too bad that those two hundred thousand Chartists should saddle the cost of their delegate upon the various other localities who sent and paid their own delegates . We like to see fair-play in all things , but we see none in this .
The fourth section of Mr . Baibstow ' s letter describes cer tain journeyings to and from ; but for what purpose , and what business , he does not say . One thing however is , in our opinion , perfectly clear respecting them ; and that is , that they are unauthorised by any rule of the Organization , and that Mr . Baibstow has no right , therefore , to charge them to the country . The plea of his being a fugitive is no plea at all ; upon that principle every other fugitive should also send in his bill for travelling to the Exeeutive , and have it paid . Mr . Baibstow says , in thiB same article : —
" The' agitating expenoeSf' Sept . 3 d , were paid me as aone-half of my incidental expences for the previous two months , the localities in which I laboured having always paid me the other half . " The 18 th rule of the Organization clearly decides tnis to be an illegal cnaTge ; as he acknowledges that the localities had always paid him all that by the rule he is entitled to . His explanation on the last £ 1 03 . is equally unfortunate , for the same rnle shows that if paid at all , it should have been
paid by the localities , and not by the general fund . The whole result of the whole matter is that the more the whole thing is looked at the more glaring it appears , and the more the explanations given are examined and the more perfect is the certainty that the Executive have calculated upon their influence with the people to govern without regard to law j to do whatever they pleased , without either rebuke or inquiry ; of which we can have no better evidence of than the statement of Mr . John
Campbell , that they expected , so far from any objection being made to it , that the whole country would be delighted with the naked , open , robbery perpetrated in the matter ol M'Dol ' alx ' * wages ! The people may be delighted with it if they please ; but we shall , at least , seeing that all other means have failed , do our duty in giving it its own name , a more wanton and more flagrant system of
jobbing and living out of the people than has been practised by these men we never saw ; if the people like it , and choose to permit its continuance , they have a perfect right to do bo ; but if they do , they have no right ever again to complain of the despotism and spoliation of oligarchic rule . We ought not to conclude , without doing justice to Mr . MoaoAS Williams , who seems to have had little or no personal part in these transactions at all , His , situation .
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obliging him to remain principally at home , where doubtless bis evenings and leisure hours have been devoted as well aa those of other parties , to agitation in the good cause , he has not ohosen to smite the country for wages while attending to his own affairs and living by his own business , though we can see no rnle by whioh he had not as great a right to do so as any body else .
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It will be seen by the advertisement in another column , that the Soiree to T . S . Duncombb , Esq ., will •* come off" on Monday , the 1 Jth 01 December . The Committee are actively at work to make the affair that which it should be , an honour to the judgment and taste of the working men of Leeds , and to the cause of Chartism which they have so universally espoused . The tiokets are now issued . We advise an early application . The room is but small compared with the recent place of meeting in Manchester ; and there hundreds had to depart from the doors for want of accommodation .
The limited Dumber of tickets the Committee have issued , will , no doubt , soon be disposed of : and fortunate will be those who obtain them . The proceedings of the evening will bo important . The men of Leeds will have among ? t them for the first time another member ef the aristocracy , who has preferred the advocacy of the cause of the poor to the honours and blandishments of his own oircle . To honour that man for his honourable conduct is tho Soiree given ; and this is a proceeding of no ordinary interest . By the advertisement it will also be seen that other gentlemen are invited ; several of whom are confidently expected to be present . Their letters in answer to the invitations have not yet come to hand : or the
fact of their acceptance or non-acceptance should be stated . In addition to the gentlemen named in the advertisement , the committee addressed a letter of invitation to Charles Watsrtow , Esq . of Walton Hall ; a gentleman who proved his devotion to the Chartist cause by traveling from Walton Hall to Leeds , for the express purpose of signing the National Petition . His letter , in answer to that invitation we subjoin ; and regret , along with the writer , that ill-health will prevent ub From having the pleasure of hiB company . The working mon , who are bearing the heat and burden of the day , will be cheered by his expression of sympathy with their labours . Here ia Mr . Waterto . i ' s letter : —
Walton hall , Nev . 1 « , 1842 . Sir , —I request 70 a will make my best respeoU to your committee , and aay how much I feel honoured by their kfed isvita'don . 1 regret that I shall not be able to avail myself of it I have had three very severe attaoks of dysentry within the year . No trifle . You may naturally suppose that a fourth attack would be productive of considerable alarm . In order to avoid this , I am ordered by my medical adviser to keep very quiet , and to avoid crowded rooms , lest I may catch cold . Thus you see it will be impossible for me to attend the public tea which ia about to be given to Mr . Dun combe . I remain , sir , very respectfully , Your most obedient servant , Chakles Waterton .
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The Executive ' s Defence . —At the very last moment before going to press , we reoelved a long document signed James Leach and John Campbell . It is impossible to give it this week ; but in justice to the -writers and the people , we set forth its purport . It says not one word of the " Agitating Expences . " It says not one word of the " Travelling Expenees . " It says tbat in reference to Postage and Stationery they have no more to say than Mr . Campbell has said . It seems to express great astonishment that anybody should grumble at M'DoualTa extra ten shillings a-week ;
but offers no justification for it beyond the opinion of the Executive . It occupies several pagei in asserting what nobody has denied—that the Secretary is a permanent officer , and ought to have permanent wages . It occupies B'Hie pages in abusing Mr . Hill personally , because Borne twelve months ago , a resolution from Merthyr Tydvil , dissenting from the policy of the Executive , appeared in the Star , under the head , " Executive Sop . " It eulogises Dr . M'DouaU ' i patriotism , and Mr . Leach ' s eloquence : and affirms that the attack
of Mr . Hill on the Executive is in malicious revenge because they defended Mr . Philp . Of course we shall give the document next week , when oar readers will see that these are the only points it touches . We should have been happy to have had it in time to give it this week ; for we tblok the sooner the whole matter is settled by the peeple the better : but it was received here at half-past three o ' clock in the afternoon , and our time for being at press is four . The machine is now standlog for this short notice .
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Mebthtr Tydvil Chabtists . —Their resolution is somewhat singular : it views with regret our remarks upon a subject upon which toe have made no remarks . We have not said a single word about the £ 10 io APDouall to fly with ; though we think every other man who has been obliged to fly for the same business has just as great a claim , and some perhaps a much better claim . Ouseburn Chartists . —Their second resolution is altogether outside the mark : the eighteenth rule of the Organisation does not say a word upon the subject ; but the seventeenth does say , "The General Secretary shall be paid for his services £ 2 per week ; and each other member of the Executive £ 1 10 s . per week , during the period of their sittings . " J . K . —We have no room this week . R . Hunkin and Mysticus Secretub must take the
same answer . A Constant Reader must stand over for the present . J . Alexander writes us a long letter on the B dancesheet , containing many excellent remarks . We have not room for its insertion . The hand-book is much wanted , and shall be published immediately . G . Bell , Norwich . —No . S . Biggs , Waiford—We are sorry to trouble him ; but we cannot decipher the names of the gentleman he has sent us as comprising ( he General Council : he has also omitted their addresses . J . Bishop , Campsie . —/ fts " acrostic" is declined . W . SiRLE . —His letter shall appear . John Nuttall —On newspapers to the United States of America a postage of twopence is charged . They go free to the following placet if posted before eight day * old : —
Antigua Denmark Montserrat Bahamas Dominica Nevis Barbadoes France few Brunswick Berbice Gibraltar Newfoundland Bermuda Grenada Nova Scotia Brazil Greece Peru Bremen Halifax , N . S . Quebec Bogota Hamburgh Spain Buenos Ayres Hayti St . Domingo Canada Heligoland St . Kitts Caraccas Honduras St Lucia Columbia Ionian Islands St Vincent Corfu Jamaica Tobago Cuxhaven La Gu&yra Tortola Demerara Slaita Trinidad .
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J . Stives , Fka > xe . —The parcel has been sent to London as directed . T . S ., Sowerby . —Refer to the Star : it would . be entered as seat A . UlCOL . TlLLlCOULTBX . —The parcel of Plates was enclosed in Paton and Love ' rf parcel , which left here on the 12 th , as did the parcels for Edinburgh and Dunfermline . Parcels for Newcastle , Sanderland . Halifax Sheffield , Bamsley , Huddersfleld , and Nottingham hit on the 14 th .
FOR THE NATIONAL DEFENCE FPND . £ . B . d From the Masons of Orlingslury , per J . Boddis ... ° 5 ° .. a few friends at Chard ° * 6 „ the first division of City Women ' s Men , meeting at the Grapes , to which the Red Horse has contributed nothing 0 3 4 _ a few friends at Gosport , Hants ... 0 10 0 . » a poor woman ... ... 0 0 1 „ the Chartists of Leeds , per B . G . ... 0 10 _ a few friends at Hectmondwike , per Mi . Penny ... ... ... - ¦• * » _ JohnHorsefleld . spbner » J * _ a friend , Hnnslet , per Longbottom ... 0 2 0 ^ Daniel Whltaker , Worttey Lane End 0 2 « „ the Chartist Shoemakers of Sheffield 0 12 9 ~ John Lowery , Caunty Mayo 0 « FOR MR . ELLIS . From a friend , Keighley •» ° $ .. the Chartists of Holme Lane , Tong ... 6 4 0 The humble offering of a Brewood student , schoolfellow of several of the "Staffordshire Grand Inquest" at the late Special Commission , who views with admiration the Btand made by an aristocrat in blood , and a noble by nature , on behalf of tbe poor , — oppressed by an npstart son of a mechanic , and grandson of a pedlar .. 036
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FOR MR . MASON . From a friend , Keighley ... ... ... 0 5 0 FOB THE DEFENCE OP GEORGE WHITE . From&friena . Keighley ... ... ... 0 3 «
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! EEDS . _ D . COFFin .- ^ Thia gentleman , who has reeentlv taken up bis residence in Leeds , has during the last few weeks delivered a course of leoton » at ArmUy and Wortley , upon the diseases incident to rmmanity , and the remedies best adapted to their cure . The lectures are the same in substance as those which he delivered in this town twice during the last summer . The people of Armley have been bo much gratified by the knowledge thev havn dAi-ivAd
by Dr . Coffin s lectures arid the benefit some of them have reopived by his advioe and medicine , tha * at the close ^ of the lecture on Friday evening , the 18 th mst ., they presented to him , through the medium of tbe gentleman who presided on the occasion , a beautifnl gold nug , as a token of their respeot and gratitude . And in order that the ocoasion might not lack eclat , the Armley teetotal band volunteered their services on the occasion , and escorted the Doctor from and to Providence Chapel , where the lectures were delivered .
VEES > B .-0 n Tuesday last , a young lad , named Samuel Davy , of Armley , was charged With having on Saturday night , broken into the dwellinghouse of Mr . Oates , of that village , and stolen a quantity Of ODlldren ' 8 wearing apparel . The property was seen safe on Saturday night , and on Sunday morning the kitchen window was found to have been broken open , and it was gone . The prisoner was suspeoted , and the stolen property was found in a well in his rather s house . He was committed for trial . Stkalino Horse Hair . —On Monday last , two lads , named Wm . Wise and Wm . Riley , who had been for about three years in the Bervice of Messrs . Bentloy aud Sons , in Water-lane , were charged belore the sitting magistrates at the Court House , with
having stolen a quantity of horse hair the property of Messrs . Bemley . Mr . Bentley was in attendance , and said in taking stock they had missed about sixty stones of hair ; he had no reason to suspeot tbe prisoners before Saturday , when having missed some hair after they had gone out , he charged Wise with the offence , and held out a promise not to send for the police if he would confess ; this he did and implicated Riley , on which they were both given into caatody . and three or foui- pounds at hair was found to have been sold by them at Mr . Peter Gally ' s , in Kirkgate . In consequence of the promiso which had been the means of the confession , the magistrates decided they had no evidence on whioh to ensure a oonyiction , and discharged the prisoners with a reprimand .
Sunday Evening Robbery . —On Sunday evening last , the house of Mrs . Lupton , in Rock-street , Burmantofts , waB entered by means of skeleton keys , during the time Mrs . Lupton and her family were at chapel . One of Mrs . Lupton's eons returned home about half-past soven , and found the street door wide open and the house in confusion . On examining the premises , the following amongst other property was found to have been stolon : —A silver pint marked I . M . L , six silver teaspoons marked I . A . L ., a pair of silver sugar tongs marked I . A . L ., two silver salt spoons marked E . F ., one silver teaspoon marked I . H ., four silver table spoons marked 0 ., and sixteen silver teaspoons not marked ; a quantity of table and bed linen , marked I . JE . L ., two crimson leather pocket books , and a half-BOvereign . We are sorry to say that hitherto the thieves have remained undiscovered .
Bobbery . —On Friday , a young man named Frederick Gilbert son , was committed , at the Leeds Court House , to take his trial at the next sessions , charged ( with stealing on Wednesday night week , two parceh belonging to Mr ; John Cooper , carrier between Leeds and Bradford . It appeared that Cooper , on the day in question , had received the parcels from Messrs . Cattanea and Co ., of Leeds , to convey to Mr . Simpson , of Bradford . Having placed them along with other thing 9 in his cart , he proceeded on his journey , and having reached his destination at Bradford , when he came to examine his goods he found the two parcels missing . Cooper had , however , not left this town above half an hour , before the criminal party was in the custody of the Leeds police with the parcels in his possession , the one containing & gross of small embossed tin plates , and tho other two dozen brass snuffers .
Stealing from an Employer—On Monday last a man named Benjamin Atha , who has been in the employ of Mr . Eastwood , auctioneer , was brought up at the Court House , on a charge of Rtoaling money and other property belonging to Mr . Eastwood . The prosecutor has a shop in Briggate , in which he is disposing of a miscellaneous ) stock of hardware , glass , < fec , by auction ; and the prisoner was observed by a person who was attending the Bale , to take an opportunity , whilst giving change to purchasers , of secreting money ia his hand , whioh he aftewarda
conveyed to his coat pocket . Information of this was given to Mr . Eastwood , and the prisoner was given into custody . On searching him , about 28 s were found , and on proceeding to his house , in Holbeck , a large quantity of glasses , knives and forks , chimney ornaments , &c , were found , and amongst them , a cruet-stand without a handle , which Mr . Eastwood was able to identify ; but though he had no doubt of the other property being his , he could not swear to it . The prisoner was therefore committed for trial for stealing the cruet-stand .
Suicide . —On Sunday last , an inquest was holden at the Woodman Inn , Sweet-street , Hoibcck , before John Blackburn , Esq ., on the body of Rachel Foxcroft , 44 years of age , who terminated her existence the same morning by strangling herself . It appeared from the evidence of Mary Hardy , that the deceased had for the last month resided with four children in a cellar dwelling in Moore-street , $ and that she had been labouring under severe indisposition , mental as well as bodily ] The witness had been attending on her , and sat up with her until a little after four o ' clock on Saturday morning , when deceased persuaded her to lie down ( on a bed in the same room ) and get some sleep , saying she herself felt comfortable , and could probably rest when the house was still . Mrs . Hardy fell asleep , and on awakening again , before five o ' clock , found that her patient had tied the ends of a silk handkerchief together round the bed post , and was laid with her
neck in the handkerchief , her feet on the bed , aud all her weight thrown on the handkerchief , with her face downwards and quite dead . She immediately alarmed some neighbours , and a man came and cut her down . The Jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity . " It was stated in the room that the deceased had not heard anything of her husband for nine years , it being that time since he left her : that she had been for some time without anything to do , except sewing a few sacks , and that 6 he was dependant on the earnings of two of her children , who , when they were fully employed , got about 9 s . 61 . per week , but that latterly they had been on short time , and had not earned so much . She had no relief from the parish , and had herself and children to keep out of this scanty pittance . She was described as a careful managing woman , and it waa thought that want had preyed upon her spirits , and induced the malady under which she laboured .
DEWflBUIW . —Mbat Burning . —On Monday last , tea sheep were burnt in the Market-place , belonging to a Gainsbro' butcher , which had been seized by the constables as unfit for human food . BIRRIIN-GHAIVI .-Statk of Tradb . —The working population of this town were never in a more distressed condition than at present . Hundreds who were comfortably situated this tiine last year , are now enduring all the horrors of absolijte starvation , and what is worse , there seems to be no prospect of amendment .
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Forgeries and Embezzlement of Savings Bank Funds , by a Militia Officer , at Richhond , ScrRREr . —During the laBt four or five days , a strong feeling of excitement has prevailed throughout the neighbourhood of Richmond , Surrey , ia consequence of the discovery of moBt extensive embezzlements , and several acts of forgery having been committed in the management of the funds deposited in the Richmond Savings Bauk . It appears from the inquiries which have been instituted into the matter , that the delinquent is a Captain Belstead , the Secretary of the Institution , a gentleman highly connected , who , besides holding other appointments , is a Captain ia the Surrey Militia , and who has hitherto maintained the highest character for probity and
gentlemanly conduct . On the fact being correctly ascertained , a warrant was issued fer Captain Belstead's apprehension , and during Friday and Saturday last , the local magistrates were each day engaged in investigating the charges against the accused . Two cases of embezzlement and one of forgery were only gone into , upon each of whioh Captain Belstead was fully committed for trial at the next Surrey sessions ,, and shortly afterwards was conveyed in a chaise to Horsemonger-lane gaol . In order to allay the excitement occasioned by the defalcations , the trustees of the sayings bank have issued a number of plaoards , assuring the depositors that their demands will be met with promptness , and pledging themselves to stake good the various Bums abstracted by the secretary .
Remarkable Tenacity of Life . —Oa WedneBday morning as the workmen were digging up the rubbish caused by the late fire on tne premises occupied by Messrs . W . S . Ramsey and Co ., 154 , Upper Thames-street , they heard the mewing of a cat underneath some portions of a cask , whioh had fallen across her body , and rested against the wall On removing these , poor Grimalkin issued from her hiding place , having been incarcerated for nineteen days , during which period Bhe could not by aoy possibility have tasted food . She was immediately supplied with milk , and , though tbin , appeals liktlj to recover .
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Mysterious Case at Duckmanton . —On Friday , the adjoun ed inquest , with regard to the poisoning of tbe family of Coopers , at Duckmanton , took place before Mr . Hutchinson , at the Wbite Swan . The body of the elder Cooper having been exhumed , the surgeons proceeded to analyse the contents of the stomach , and much interest has been felt to learn the result . The facts of the ease are these;—The mother sent a girl , of eleven years of age , for a stone of flour . No one toaobed the flour which she had in her bag , and the mother makes that same flour into paste on the following day , She makes a dumpling , and the three individuals who partook of it were immediately taken ill . She then madesonehot cakes , and the three men who partook of them were suddenly taken ill , but some of the cakes left wereeaten by some of the attendants of the suffererers , who sat up with
them , aud no bad effects were produced on them . The old man died , but the other sufferers got rather better , and two of them , during the illness of the father , went to Mr . Thorp ' s , a diBtanoe of two miles , for medicine and advioe . They were again seriously attacked . The son , who is worse at present , was enabled to walk abomt for a fortnight , and looked like a person who had had a long illness , and again grows suddenly ill . The family Btill labour under the effects of the disease , although it is now nine weeks since this occurrence took place . After hearing the evidence of Mr . Thorpe , of Staveley , and Mrs . Mary CoopeT , the jury returned a verdict that " From the evidence before them the deceased had died by poison , but they cannot tell by whom the poison was administered . " —Derbyshire Chronicle .
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The daughter of Mr . George White , born whilst he was in Warwick county Gaol , has been registered Jane Holoerry White . Born on the 13 th of March , and duly registered oa the 20 th , Feargus O'Connor Hall , son of John HalL Taylor Hill , Hudderefield . Lately , the infant son of John and Isabella White , of Leeds , was duly registered in the name of John O'Connor White . Registered at Glasgow , the infant son of Peter M'Inni , Parliament-road , by the name of James Moir . Christened at the Primitive Methodist Chapel , Chapel-row , near Bishop Aukland , on Wednesday , November 2 nd , John FeargUB O'Connor Thompson , the son of Daniel and Isabella Thompson . Christened at Shoreditch Church , Nov . 13 th , by the name of Thomas Slingsby Duncombe , the son of John and Frances Tagg .
On Sunday , the 13 th inst ., at St . Mary ' s Church , Oldbam , the son of David and John Charlesworth was baptised John Francis O'Connor , by tho Rev . Edward Hogan , Catholic Priest , of the abovo church .
The Leeds Chartist Demonstration.
THE LEEDS CHARTIST DEMONSTRATION .
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DEATHS . On Friday week , at New Maltoo , aged 38 , Sarah , the wife of Mr . Daniel Brown , jun ., of that place . On the 21 st inst ., Ellen , the wife of Mr . William Belli painter , of Spring-street , in this town . On Monday , tha 21 st ., Mr . Thomas Sellers , of East Moor , Wakefield , innkeeper . . Oa Sunday , at Ripon , much respected , aged 82 years , Colonel Johnson , of BorrageJBMMNfejtt this town . jtfv ^ » V ^* ^^ 3 ^ . i Same day , aged 81 years , 9 ^ ft ^ tt&Jtfbvfn , letter carrier , Barley , near QpB |^^ " ^| ^ « J * On Friday , the 18 th inst . i OTW ^ SEnfeotfifa ) £ Thomas Sellor , Heslington , M&SBtfSttttfcX in the 94 th year of her V * ' jnZ r- * k £ & ^ & ^ Same day , Mr . ITiomas N ^ rnSb ^ &JpB ^
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MARRIAGES . On Wednesday , the 23 d inBt ., at St . Mary ' s church , Bishophill Senior , York , Mr . George Carbutt , engineer , to Miss Elizabeth Young . On Tuesday , the 22 nd inst ., at St . Miohael's church , New Malton , Mr . William Ellett , cattle drover , of that place , to Jane , eldest daughter of the late Mr . William Bielby , of tho Marishes , fanner . On Monday , the 21 st inst ., in York , Mr . Georga Morley , farmer , Acomb , to Miss Eliza Morley , of Bramham . On Snaday , at Senleoatea church , Hall , by the Rev . W . H . Wawne , Mr . George Middlebrongb , joiner , second son of Mr . Edward Middlebrough , corn metor , of Hull , to Miss Martha Carnell , formerly of Sheffield .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 26, 1842, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1188/page/5/
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