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    • THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1844.
    • LEEDS ADJOURNED TOWN COUNCIL MEETING.
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      THE TEN BOUBS' BILL . ' j ^ Je etikg of Obligates at MureiiSTEB , —Oa Sunday l » 8 t a numerous meeting of delegates" was heM » t the rooms of the Lancashire Central Short ! f ^ jne Committee , for the pnrpose of devising the : best means to be adopted te secure the fntnre success ' of the measHre ; alsato ascertain how far theoper- ] atives were prepared to carry out the regulation : ¦ without the aid of Parliament . It -was agreed that ] as a first step the-operatiTes should make a respeot ~ j fnl application to their employers requesting them to allow the factory day to commtnce at six o'clock in the morning and elose at six o ' clock at night . The opinion of seaeof the best friends of the cause had been taken upon the propriety of such a step , and it seemed to meet frith general approbation . In the course trftte proceedings the following letter from Lord Aibley on this point -was read to the delegates ; and affioojfst others the subjoined resolutions were -n&ankaously adopted : —

      " Jioaaoa , Jaly 18 , lZU . n StS , —Yon hare done me the honour , in conjunction -with the oilier members cf the Short Time Committee , to request my advice respecting the coarse you should now adopt in pursuit of a bill Tor the further limitation of the hours of labour . "In the firat place , I most heartily applaud your 'Seal and determination never to relax yow efforts until -you shall have obtained ftte just and "worthy result of bo man j years or anxiety and toll , So la * as ay Mortices are of any avifl , they shall be unceasingly at your command , though it may be treated as a serious question at your meeting , irbeiber yon © ogbt not to find some other member less obnoxious than myself , and ¦ whose same is not associated with constant dtfeat .

      " In the second place , I "wovld counsel you to begin "by an address to yon employers : ; by an appeal from the workpeople of eseh fcaitt to the proprietor of it , and earnestly , though respeclfelly , to entreat their sympathy and co-operation towards the abatement of your excessive labour . It is a matter of the highest importance that this great end should be attained , if possible , in unison with the feelings of your employers , 2 nd not in despite of them . I cannot too strongly urge the expediency , nay , the necessity , with a -view to the speedy and happy adjustment of the question , of a good understanding between-master and man . You "will most certainly , © y such a line of action , win the approval and sympathy of the country . Should yon be successful , you wQI dstb attained , all that yon desire ;

      and should you fail , you will bare , at least , the satisfaction of baring made every reasonable and becoming effort , and of proving , to the world , that amendment is altogether hopeless without the aid of the legislature . " I ftti deeply thankful tea the « n «*»«»» of the Factory "BUI , ~ wblcb has just become law . My great difficulty W £ B- to combine the safety of thai measure with the constant assertisn -of -001 ten hours * principle . I was sure , eTen on the night of the first majority , that complete success was beyond cur reach in the present session ; I bent , therefore , all my tffjrts to secure this enactment , intl yet lose no proper opportunity of demanding more . W-e were in constant peril ; but , by Ged ' s blessing , we saved the Bill ; and I venture to anticipate , from it , very great and lasting benefits .

      • • With many and fervent prayers for your public and-private welfare , " Believe me , " Tour very sincere Friend and Servant , " Ashlet . To the Cbainzi&D of the Lancashire Central Short Time Committee , Manchester . ' "

      SES 0 LTT 103 S . X . —That tfee Lancashire Central Short Committee be empowered to print and circulate Lord Ashley ' s letter , together frith an address to the operatives ; and that each district be requested to pay a proportionate share of the expeoce . S—That in the opinion of this meeting , it is desirable to establish the system of publishing and circulating tracts , explaining the merits and objects of the Ten Boors' Bill ; and that the Lancashire Centra ] Short Time Committee be empowered and directed to commence the publication of such tracts as soon as convenient .

      3—That immediate steps be tafcen to mate application to the cotton manufacturers in every district in . England , Ssotland , and Ireland , requesting them to adopt the regulation of commencing wock at six o ' clock in the morning and leaving offal six at tight , including the necessary time for meals , in accordance with the declaration of the House of Commons , that the factory day aha . ll commence at six o ' clock in the morning and finite at six o'clock in the evening . i—That as a first Btep , each delegate on his return , form a society and establish committees in each district , to co-operate with the Lancashire Central Short Time Committee and t ill other Short Time Committees in the United Kujcdom .

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      ElXTES TESSELS WBECKED—MELANCHOLT LOSS of life . —Lloyd ' s , Fbiday Etemsg—The intelligence received from various quarters during the week , has been of a melancholy description , the losses being considerable , and attended with serious loss of life . The subjoined is the list of the thipa lost : — Total . Loss of tbe Ship Cscs-adeb ., with all O 3 Boabb . —The fears recently ^ ntertained respecting the fate of this vessel , belonging te London , are , tre regret to say , by the arrivals from Halifax , teo truly confirmed , the Acadia steamer bringing accounts of her tetal wreck , and the dreadful loss of the entire of her crew . The letter ? received state that the vessel , which was the sole property of the Commander , Capt

      " woeitly , sailed from Halifax for the port of London , with b general cargo on the morning of the 4 th ol November Jast Jfothing was heard of her until the 28 th of May last , when Mr . Edmund Hamel arrived at TfoUfn-r , fxajn q ^ q coast of Labrador , and reported that the vessel was cast away about the 12 th of December , on the island of Caps "Wapitougme , and that he tad not the least doubt but all the crew and officers perished . Three dead bodies were found washed upon the beach of the island- _ nesr the spot were the wreck was lying . A boat was observed with fire persons in it by the satires , a few hoora after she struck , but it was impossible to render them any assistance , on account of the dreadful state of the -weather ; otherwise they would have been saved , the natives being very friendly indeed , and it is much to be regretted that ibis fact iB not generally known , for several instances have recently been recorded where crews of

      wrecked vessels , fearing violence from those on shore , have gone to se 3 and perished . Oa the 2 iih of June , the schooner Adelaide , Captain Fortes , arrived at Qaefcec , with part of the material of ibr > wrt-ck , and sevtjateen barrels of potatoes . Captain Fortes reported that th ? wreck was visited by a fishing Echooaer about the ISth of December , the crew of which stole everything that was valuable from the vessel . Before Captain Fortes quitted the spot , the hull " was set fire to . ana -isras totally consnined . Oae of the bodies fyaod ifi Sup . pesed to be the capzain , from the superiority of b ' u linen and clothes . The ship muss have gone ashore in a dreadful gale of T » ind , as all her sails were closely reefed . She was -2 S 0 tons harden , and Was ten years old , hiving been launched at South Shields . in 1834 The number perished is reported to be between twentyfive and thirty . Most of them were married men , and their families reside at the east of the metropolis . -

      TheEehooer Asbantee , 1 C 2 tons burthen , while on her first voyage from Bristol to the eoast of Africa , was caps i zed in a gale of wind en the 2 nd ef April , at eight o'clock in thB morning , neur Asj , urib , on the African coast Toe crew succeeded in saving themstlvts-in one of tbe ship ' s boats , but lost etery thing they had on board . The ship . was insnred . Another fine vessel , a schooner , I ana , Captain Paul , is supposed to have been totally lost while on her passage from "Venice to Falmontb , and all on board drowned . She ltf t Yenice in the month of February last , with a valuable cargo , and has never been ssen or beard of since . She was Beven year * old , and 1 S 5 tons register .

      Oa Sunday last , off Dangentss , during a gale of-wind , a brig called the Singapore , was wrecked ia ibe Inner B 37 ) tbe crew being saved by a fishing smack called the British Hover , and landed at 2 few RoaiEey . The vessel belonged te South Shields , and was from Quebec , laden ¦ with deaU . Part of the cargo has since been saved . During the same gale an Indiaman , called the Spence , SlKiS T ° *> ^ ^ cked on the rocks , near Msiin Head , a fe-w miles from Londonderry . The ship S ^ &T ** ^ ^^^ - ^ nderry , and had a valuable cargo of sogar on board . A steamer has beea dispatched to tbe spot in order to save wWhof the-cargo as possible She -was 323 tons renter and ws » built atBreenock in the yen } 82 S . ste ii paio , as weK as the cargo , insured in london .

      Tha bargus 0 ! eaaer , 337 tons burthen , -ras destroyed by icebergs , on tbe morning of the 2 « th of last mouth in the Atlantic . The master , Captain Delawell and erfcW . Jonrteen in number , report that the ship , when she street , was in 1 st IS 20 , long , ts 5 « . it was very ' foggy &t the time , and at one . crash the ice stove the bows coEipleteiy In , and carried away the whole of bei three masts . She immediately filled , but having a full cargo of deals on board it kept her afloat , otherwise she would have sunk , and they must have been all drowned , dey remained on the wreck for two days , and were theo taken off by the barque Try Again , from Quebec , whicb hds since landed them in safety at Cork , Tbe vess » l wai bound lo Londoa , she is fully covered by insarances . - The brig Monster lass , laden with guano , and belosflng to Ipswiea , was lost on the 15 ih of Jnne , on the racks below Long Bay , and the erew saved them-Belves by getting along the bowsprit on to tf » XOCKS .

      ThereBalntogiosseB consist entirely of British Tes-S « ' ^ Z ? £ 7 J £ a T ? rf tbem ^^ ^« cked on &e wast of Kewfoundland . Their names are reported to be : —the gpnnsflo- » er , 525 tons register , belOBgint to Sunderland , the Success . 180 taSf ^^ Stfe 2 ? l ^ ° i ^ . C 0 MbUlt ' 200 register , fplace not atatad }; the Aaatan , 644 tons burthen , ( place not state *); and the Je&n Hastre , ggo tons burthen , ( place sot ststed ) . The circumstances of their respective losses have sot yet imz received .

      Yi-TBtUh AOCIDBKT . —A TerjBfiriouB accident oecurrsd to tie Hijjh Sbflriff of Carlow county , Sir Hobert * T . Paul , on Monday , by which it was considered for * time that ii 3 life was placed in imjameflt danger . He went to ahoot rabbits » t Bwrrsfciii ll , when is iras ox » Tfeit ; and after

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      BOBte time spent is this amusement with a doublebarreled gun , he waa Te-loadiBg one of tbe barrels , vrhen the other , which was loaded , exploded , and lodged the contents in his right hand , dreadfully shattering two ef his fingers . Dr . K&wson , of Carlow , was in attendance a short time after , aud removed a joint off the thumb , and the entire Corefinger . He sustained some injury in the cheok , but is entirely oat of danger , and going on well . Thb Cokyict Dalhas . —Nothing certaira is known with respect to the ultimate fate of this convict . It

      is true tkat , by order of the Home Secretary , Dalmas was removed from Horsemoager-lane . gaol on Monday last to the Millbank Penitentiary , and instructions were forwarded to the governor to keep the convict for one month , and allow medical men to attend him during that period . On the result of a month ' s inquiry and examination will depend whether Balmaa iB Bent to Bothlem , as an insane prisoner , or transported to oue of the penal Bettlementa for life . No order has been issued for his transportation . —Standard , .

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      , i 11 1 ¦< ^^^^ * 1 1 j-j- - i MOKIKS REGEIVKD BY MR . O'CONNOB . VICTIM FUND . £ . B . d . From Royton , per Samuel Taylor 0 5 0

      RECEIPTS BY GENERAL 6 EGBBTARY . STTBSCBIPXIONS . £ S . d . £ s . d . Lamberhead Bilstou ......... 0 3 4 Green 0 5 0 Warrington 0 5 0 Weavers' Arms 0 10 Stockport 0 10 0 cards . Loekwood O 10 6 Kuightsbridge ... 0 3 0 Halifax — . 0 4 0 Wigton 0 19 Sowerby Long- ] Carlisle ....... 0 0 6 royd 0 3 8 Sheffield ......... 0 12 6 Sowerby Helm- 0 3 4 ] Mancheiter ...... 150 Lower Warley 0 1 10 Da , per Doyle ... 0 13 3 Siddal ............ 0 14 Lvuberhead Prescot ........ 0 6 0 Green 0 0 9 MISSIONARY PDSD . Females , Mill-street Boom . Rochdale ... 080

      VICTIM PUND . Stockport 0 4 0 EOHTHTJHBKRlAND AND DDBHAM M 1 NEBS . Chartists ^ Cap of Libeit ?/ Brighton , per W . Flower , 1 st subscription 0 10 0 Ail parties being In arrears for subscriptions , cards , < fec-, are requested to settle the same , as the quarterly balance-sheet will speedily be published . The Executive having incurred very considerable expense in procuring proper account and enrolment books , request that the localities frill immediately send orders and cash ( 4 s . ) for the same . T . M . Wheeler , Secretary .

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      JUSTICE TO IRELAND . THE NOTORIOUS O'DRISCOLL . The doings of the above notorious Irish Magistrate are doubtless fresh in the recollection of our readers , while we presume the poor Irish suitors who come under his lash ** or under his judgment are favoured with daily refreshers of his power and authority .

      It appears that the Ibish Chakcellob dismissed O'DBucoLLfrom the Magistracy , not in consequence of ill-health or of irritability of temper consequent npon ill-health , as now stated by Lord Eliot and his backere ; but in consequence of his tyranny , —his disregard of law , of justice , and of the common decencies pertaining to his office . He wa 3 thus dismissed , as stated at the time , after the Chancellor had perused the memorial of the complainant and Mr . O'Dbiscoll ' s reply , and in which neither the plea of ill health nor insanity

      was offered In justification of his conduct . In short his transgressions against law and morality followed in such quick succession , commencing with the brutal flagellation of a little boy , followed not by a feeble and unhealthy , but by a coarse and vigorous bullying of his brother justices , and ending with the distraining of & tenant , whoBe rent was in O'Dbiscoll ' s pocket at the time of the distress , and who added the dishonesty of purchasing the poor man ' s potatoes at one-fourth of their price to the crime of distraining for rent that had been paid ;

      his conduct was such , that the Ibish Chancellor , after long deliberation , saw no alternative but the dismissal of the man who had proved his unfitness for office , and whose restoration has been effected through the recommendation of some hundreds of zealous partizins , numbering no doubt amongst them a few kiDdred B com-rogues . " At any period and under any circumstances , the restoration to office of such a mvn would be matter for grave consideration ; but at the present time when tbe magistracy has been bo unscrupulously dealt with by a political Lord Chancellor , the question is oae of more th&n usual importance . As to the

      memorialists upon whose recommendation this " choleric" justice has been restored , we attach bnt little importance to them : being well convinced that tse greater his transgressions and disregard 0 ! popular feeling , the greater would be the sympathy of his class . Perhaps the Lord Cbakcellob in the hasty re-vision of his former deliberate judgment , had lost all recollection of the action against O'DbiScoll for the illegal distress upon his tenant ; and the withering censnre bestowed npon his condnet by the assistant Barrister who tried the case , and who asserted that it was the most heartless and disgrace * ful ever submitted to a Court of Justice .

      H Like case , like rale" ia a favourite maxim with lawyers : and if the restoration of O'Dbiscoll has been procured npon the recommendation of a few hot-headed partizans , how , we would ask , does it happen that the recommendations , the appeals , and prayers of millions of the working classes are disdainfully rejected in behalf of many who have erred from a like irritability of temper , arising from sickness or perhaps from hunger . We doubt much that the plea of irritability arising from sickness or even

      starvation would be successful if pleaded on behalf of the " rick burner , " whose forlorn condition and liability to temptation has been so terrifically illustrated by the ablest of our contemporaries ( Punch j . But the case of O'Dbiscoll materially differs from that of the wretch who is goaded into crime , and then tortured for its commission . He is a fitting instrument in the hands of licensed criminality , He is an appropriate tool for the high minded and chivalrous and justice-loving , Graham .

      O'Dniscou . is not only a man for his work , bat he is of all others the man . EBBiKGroN tried the system of political proselytifim ; but there is a double value in the hero of our tale . He is not only a staunch anti-Repealer , bnt he rejoices in that distinction , the most odious of all others to the oppressed Catholic people of Ireland : he is what is significantly termed an " ORANGE PAPIST "—a kind

      of mongrel thing who , like Alp , the renegade , and all other renegades , would jastify his conversion by the persecution of those whose ranks he had deserted . If , then , confidence in the administration of justice —if respect for the laws , and regard for their ad . ministrators are indispensable to the ends of justice , the Lord Chancellor , by Mr . O'Dbiscoll ' s restoration , has gone far to destroy the confidence , the respect , and regard for law and justice .

      j ' ' j ' j ! 1 j Independently of Mr . O'Dbiscoll ' s disqnalifying temperament , he , of all others , is the most unfit person t to hold the commission of the peace . His conver-; sion to Toryism , and to the theory of Protestantism , ¦ arises from the fact of his being an " impropriator " ) of lay tithes ; while he is rendered dear to some few I landed proprietors as a middle-man , who ventures upon experiments that some would shudder at , but . which , nevertheless , if successful , are quoted by all , I and stand as precedents in like cases . The wild district in which this wild convert exercises his magisterial functions , is exclusively populated by a th

      Cataplio ^ peasantry . They are e parties most interested in the just and temperate administra tion of the laws ; they are the parties who should have been consulted npon Mr . O'Dbiscoll ' s case ; and yet we much donbt that amongst the memorialists who sat in consultation npon Mr . O'Dbiscoll ' s state of mind and body , one single man's same wQI be found who is likely to be a guitor In the court where this maniao presides . ! A great on : cry has been recently raised against [ the manner in which deliberate murders have been [ set down to the account of insanity : and we have

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      httl ' d doubt that the cold-blooded murderer , Dalhis , ovea his escape to the necessity of establishing a precedent whereon to ground tbe justice of O'Dbiscoll ' s restoration . At the commencement of the present session , Ireland was filled with hope from the plausible promises contained in the Royal speech . Her constituency was to be extended , and even-handed : justice was to be dealt out to her people . The boons , however , have been ignominously rejected : while the promises of justice have boon superseded by the perversion of law , and the coercion of public opinion : and last , not least , of

      violent insult even to the magisterial reserve , a kind of Bpecial xo&glsir&cy , Btxuck by tne Lord Chancellor , upon whose subserviency his masters can safely calculate , and for whom the Orange Papist , Catholie tithe owner , middleman , choleric , dispeptio , Biokly , irritable , INJURED , Mr . O'Dbiscoll is a fit and worthy associate . And thus bas the Royal promise been right royally redeemed ; and thus will the Irish people recognise their full measure of justice in the restoration of Alexandbb O'Dbiecoll . Esq ., irritable Justice of the Peace ; Catholic owner of Protestant Tithes ; Retailer of Lauds ; and Anti-Repealer 1

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      ! countrymen ; weasker ^ o In such case , were he to stand as one coerced , would the Irish people become parties to the ne- > tactics f These are questions whioh the present leaden will , whether agreeable to them ci not , do well to ask themselves , while t > , ey must take the response from others .: The English people have heartily joined their . Irish brethren for a dissolution of the UtTion ; but we think we are justified in saying that 1 Vney never will acquiesce in the establishment of an ? " imperium in imperio . ' * All Irish agitation has

      hitherto resulted in the jobbery , peculation , and plunder of the Protestant landlord class of Ireland ; and Federalism means nothing more nor less than the transfer of the same abuses to the bands of the middle class ; while the people would be equally burdened , or perhaps doubly burdened , having to bear the exactions of both . The Repeal movement is virtually a working class movement ; and with the assistance of the working classes themselves , it can be made aotually so . Recent events shew that it more than ever becomes our duty to Warn them , and their doty to be watchful .

      With England at their back , and for an honest cause , the triumph of the Repealers is secure . Without English co-operation , thej may achieve the horrors of Federalism ; and hence we have fearful misgivings as to the silence of the Irish Repeal press npon the subject of English co-operation .

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      ensued the conflict between the exasperated turnouts and the miserable "black sheep , " whioh has been already narrated in our columns . We repeat we do not defend ! the attack on the latter ; but we ask had not the ] former had bitter provocation ? And , in these oiroumstances , can the severe sentence , passed by Justice Cbksswbll , be justified ! But it is evident , from the address of the Judge , that it is not bo much for the assault on the " knobsticks , *' that these poor fellows are transported , as because they belong to the Union : —

      "I think it absolutely necessary to hold you up as an example to the | other members of that fbabetjl combination of which you form part- The sentence of the Court , therefore is , that you be transported beyond the seas for the term of fifteen years . " There is no mistaking this language ; and it augurs , we fear , badly for the poor fellows in Durham and Northumberland , who have been trapped into the meshes of the law , and will be tried before this merciful (!) Judge . Turn we now to another offender , —a member of another "FEARFUL COMBINATION" -the notorious brother of that

      " Intellectual eunnch—Castlereagb , " whose third " Hkase" we now present to our readers . Let them " read ; mark , learn , and inwardly digest it : — , I '• ¦ " NOTICE . ] " July 20 th , 1844 . "The MarquiB of Londonderry bas given orders that no pereoD , pitman or workman , is to be permitted to come in his carriages , or any of tbeir families , to Seabam Harbour , ] for the purposes of marketing or busing goods , who ! are not bona Me at his Work , and employed in his collieries .

      " Lord Londonderry again warns all the shopkeepers and tradesmen in his town of Seabam , that if they still give credit to pitmen who hold off work , and continue iu the Union ; each men will be marked by bis agents and overmen , and will never be employed iu his collieries again ; aud the shopkeepers may be assured thai they will never have any custom or dealings with them from Lord Londonderry's large concerns , that he can in any manner prevent

      " Zrord Iiondpnderry farther informs the traders and shopkeepers , that ; having by his measures increased very largely the laat year ' s trade to Seanam , and if credit is so improperly , and so fatally given to his unreasonable pitmen , thereby prolonging the injurious strike ; it is his firm determination to carry back all the outlay of his concerns , even to Newcastle . " Because it is neither fair , jast , or equitable that the resident traders in his own towa should combine , and assist the infatuated workmen , and pitmen , in prolonging their own miseries by continuing an insane strike , and an unjust and senseless warfare against their proprietors and masters . " Vane Lohdondebby . "

      Mr . Justice Cress well lectures the Sheffield Miners on the heinousness of their " presuming to dictate to others what wages they should pay . " The Judge addsf- " You went further ; you dictated to others that they should not work . * * You presumed to j exercise a piece of great tyranny over your fellow-men . * * It is not to be endured that a body of men should enter into a combination for jsuch purposes . " Vane Londondebry is also a member of a " combination . " He belong to the Coal-Masters' Union . He " dictates to others" what wages they shall work for . He

      enters into a " combination" with the rest of tbe " long purses" to starve the " hungry guts" into submission . Not [ content with this , he presumes to "dictate" to the Shopkeepers and Tradesmen , in "his town of Seaham , " that they shall refuse all sympathy , aid , or credit , to pitmen , " who hold off work , and continue in the Union . " All disobeying this " ukase" are to " be marked by his agents and overmen" ! " M ; AUK" that , Mr . Justice Cresswell ! Is " tyranny" like this "to be endured" ? Wo ask whether this " intisiida . iion , " these " THBEAT 3 . " if j exeroised by a pitman ,

      instead of a Lord \; would they not ensure at your Judgeship ' s hands tbe severest punishment the law would albw you ito icfltct ? We ask whether this lordly iutimidator is to be countenanced in his illegal and " tyrannical" doings ? Were equal justice done , "his Lordship" would take his place in the dock at Durham ; instead of whicb , we dare venture to predict that he will be found on the bencb , side by side with the judicial hater of all " fearful combinations . " Mr . Justice Cresswell has the assurance to talk about the ; j" right" of every man " to sell his own labour for what he pleases . " What a farce that right becomes , when tyrants like Vane

      Londonderry are permitted , with impuuity , to decree death to ail who shall lend their aid to men struggling to sell their labour for a fair remuneration I The poor Sheffield men are transported for an attack and assault upon parties , who certainly , in the estimation of all true men , must be hold to be without the pale of humanity j but here we find a Noble Peerher Majesty's Lfl > rd Lieutenant , THREATENING the shopkeepers of his town with death , not for the doing of any unworthy—any " knobsticking" act , but an act which redounds to their honour , and wins for them the gratitude of the universal working class . We say death is the decree of the Seaham Autocrat ;

      for" You take my house , when you do take tbe prop That doth sustain my house : you take my life , When you do take the means whereby I live . " God be praised the shopkeepers of Seaham are not likely , despite these threats , to obey tbe behests of the vain glorious oppressor ! Wo may here mention that & Correspondent al Cumnock , Ayrshire , has written to us stating that some vile emissary , employed by the Marquis of

      Bute , is now engaged iu the neighbourhood of Cumnock , collecting a number of serfs to take the places of the ( brave fellows on strike at " his . Lordship ' s Collieries , " which lie somewhere in the neighbourhood of Newcastle . All our readers have heard of the approaching national fete in honour of the poet Burns : This same Marquis of Bote is one of the patrons of the festival . Did he ever read , tve wonder , ] Bdrns' indignant denunciation ol lordly oppressors like unto himself ?

      " If I am doom'd yon lordling ' s slave , By nature's law designed , Why was an ; independent wish E ' er planted iu my mind ? If not why am I subject to His cruelty and scorn ? Or why bas man the wilt and power To make his fellow mourn ? Chew the cud of that , " my Lard ; " and then go pay your hypocritical homage at the shrine of Labour ' s glorious b&rd " with what appetite you may . " \

      We congratulate ourselves that our appeal to Irishmen to discountenance tbe tyranny of Vane Londonderry has not been altogether in vain . Last week we saw the London Repealers indignantly denouncing the insult paid to their countrymen as '' foreigners , " by the Durham Autocrat . This week our readers will see that in the Conciliation Hall itself , the Rev . Mr . Hearne , of Manchester , has lifted up his voice against the swamping of the English labour market with Londonderry ' s Irish serfs , and has appealed to his countrymen to prevent it . All honour to Mr . Hearne for raising the warning note , and to all who will act on it !

      We have not done yet with the Durham Autocrat , . ' " That long spout Of blood and water , leaden Castlereaoh . " We shall return to "his Lordship" again , and as soon as we can afford room , will redeem the pledge given in a former article , when in addition to " his houses , * " his collieries , " &c , we shall not forget " his Town of Seaham . " We will do him full justice , and all the rest of the " Proprietors and Masters . "

      Men of England , ! Wales , and Scotland once more to the rescue ! - The crisis of the struggle has arrived . If only in Scotland ] and Wales the friends of justice do their duty , by enlightening the Miners as to the true merits of the contest now raging in the North of England , all will yet be well , and the brave men of the Tyne and Wear will be yet victorious ! They are as determined as ever ! Through all suffering and misery they are steadfast and unwavering . Lot them but be protected from the treachery of their own order , and viotory is certain . Again we point

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      to the glorious deeds of the Trades of Sheffield , Immortal honour to them . Up then Trades of England ! Imitate the example of your Sheffield brethren . Up to the rescue of the man of the North , and LABOUR will be triumphant !

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      Erratum . —In Mr . O'Connor ' s letter in the Star of last week , for In Scotland we might follow the same policy , and if we could procure one member for each of the thirty English counties , " read thus : "In Scotland we might follow the same policy , and if we could procure one member tor each of thirty of the English counties . " W . H ., Oldham , —We cannot answer his qneation . W . B . N ., Littleborough . —No doubt tho matter complained of was a trespass ; and the owner is liable to make good the damage . TBE Poets . —Sonnets by S . R . Q , and " Lines to the Northern Star , " inadmissible . Isaac Holt , BoLTON . —There is nothing objectionable in the address bat its length . It is too lengthy toe our columns under present circumstances . T . DICKINSON , SUNDEBLAND . —W « &W 80 irj W 6 O&V 6

      no room . MRS . Ellis 8 COMMITTEE—Their Report and Balance Sheet is in type , bnt reserved over till next week , when we stall give a most interesting letter from . Ellis himself . Tub Winqate Wire Rope case comes on for trial oa Saturday ( to-day ) . Arrangements have been made to famish us with a report of the important proceedings , which will be inserted In thejSfczr of next week . Squire Autt—Next week . The Subscriptions for the Miners . —We have been obliged to withhold , till next week , many lists of subscriptions received for the Miners on strike , several of which are in type .

      Caution to the Welch Miners . —William Taylor , one of tbe lecturers of tha Miners' Association , writes to us from Mertbyr Tydvil as follows : — " I nnderstand that some of the coal kings are sending their emissaries through the iron-works of South Wales , some of whom are at this time at Tredegar , Monmouthshire , for the purpose of deluding workmen from their homes , by promises of good wages , with houses and gardens free of rent in the North , that so they may fill the collieries at Newcastle , and thus eat tbe throats of the brave men . Bnt tbey shall not have it all in their own way , as I am about to start to meet them , that the people may have both aides of the picture laid before them ; when I doubt not that they will spurn the bait held

      out to them by these vile agents of still viler despots . " Caution . —Benevolent individuals who have been so kind as to take books from the miners' delegates to collect subscriptions for the coal miners of Northumberland and Durham , are cautioned against a few unprincipled men who have left the mining districts , and are collecting money in the name of tbe coal miners and applying them to themselves . Parties having collection books are requested to pay tha sums only to the Metropolitan Delegate Council , Turnagain-lane ; to Mr . Hetherington . Holy well-street , Strand ; Mr . Cleave , Shoe-lane ; Mr . Dooley , Ball , Old Bailey ; Mr Drake , Standard of Liberty , Brick , lane , or to be authorised Miners' Delegates at £ 3 , Lower Thames-street—Wilson BlTSON , Secretary .

      W . Obe , Horn castle . —Of course , if there is any reason to suppose that property has been left as h& describes , it Is worth looking after ; and the first step is a search for the wilL H . L ., Barnsley . —A reference to Walker ' s rules for the pronunciation of Greek and . Litin proper names , wfll show that the name he mentions is pronounced Hec ' -u-ba . James Rigo , Maninghau . —We know nothing of the-North America Land Agency other than is set forth in the advertisement inserted in oar columns : but no donbt every information will be afforded by Mr . Norman , tbe agent , on application made to him . His address is given in the advertisement W . Aitkin , Ashton . —We would recommend the . parties he names to get together the rules of several Co-operative Societies , the rules of the Rational Society , and the Plan of Organizition agreed to by the

      Birmingham Conference , and from them to draw up a code that will suit their particular case , and get them enrolled . If they confine the rules to Benefit Society purposes alone , there will be no trouble about tbe enrolment ; and with such enrolment , they can go to work safely . This answer will also apply to-Mr . Robert Wild , of Mottram . William Dawson , Holbrook— The Children Hundreds are some property in the neigbbourhoood of Dover , belonging to tbe Government , and tha stewardship of which , ( a merely nominal office ) is in the gift of the Crown . When a member of the House of Commons wishes to retire , he applies to be appointed steward to the Chiltren Hundreds , and hi » application is almost always , as a matter of course , granted . Holding an office under the Crown disqualifies a member from sitting ia the House , without re-election .

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      The Town Council of this Borough assembled ,, according to adjournment , on Monday last , the members present being Aldermen Oates , Shaw , Hebden , Gaunt , Maclea , Bafceson , Goodman , Pavrson , Pease , Lupton , Lucoook , and Jackson , - Councillors Birchall , Smith , Moorhouse , Watson , Craven , Jackson , Carbutt , White , Brumfitt , M . Cawood , Weddill , Barrett , Barlow , Yewdall , France , Broadhead , Bower , Arthmgton , Cliff , Hobson , Lister , Wilson , Strother , and Prince . The number of members absent was twenty-seven , including Mr . John Oddy , of Bramiey , who ia dead .

      The Mayor presided , and took his eeat shortly after eleven o ' clock , when the minutes of the last meeting were read , and a memorial from certain inhabitants residing in Potternewton , against the " Draining" notico which had been placed on the paper by the Streets Committee .

      THB LESSEE OF THE VICAR ' S CROFT . Mr . Hobson rose to bring forward the first notice on the paper . He said that his object in mooting the question was to bring before the Council the flagrant abuses existing in the Kirkgate market . He bad prefaced the motion which he intended to move , by notice of a question whioh he should first like to ask , if he was in order in doing so . If he was correct in that course , bis motion would then bring the whole of the fact 3 before the Council . Perhaps the Mayor would state whether he waa in order or not . The Mayor thought the question was perfectly in order . Mr . Cawood was the Chairman of the Market Committee ; in his absence , Mr , Alderman Luccock would probably be able to . answer Mr . Hobson . Mr . Hobson

      Then pat a question to the Chairman , ( or other Member ) , of the Market Committee , to ascertain whether it was known to that Committee that it is a constant practice with the lessee of the Kirtgate Market Tolls to exact toll from those who , under his sanction , make use of tbe Public Highways on which to stand their carts , erect stalls , and expose cattle for sale , to thegreat obstruction and damage of such Highways : and further to ascertain , that if such illegal exaction be known to such Committee , whether steps have been taken , either by remonstrance , representation , or otherwise , with tbe Lessee , to pat a stop to such illegal practice , and protect the pockets of a portion of tbe public from downright robbery .

      Mr . Alderman Lcccock said the practice alluded to had not come officially before the Market Committee ; but it was known to them that the lessee did collect from parties standing in the streets . The Council had leased all the toils of all the markets the Council had , and it bad been the practice to col * lect from every body who had stalls in the adjoining streets . The Market Committee had not interfered with that practice , because there was a legal difficulty in tbe way ; for some parties thought that the Ie 3 see had the cower to exact those tolls .

      Mr . Hob ; on thought there could scarcely be any doubt on the question that the lessee had no right to collect tolls except in the Kirkgate Market , for whioh the Improvement Act made special provisions the Briggate Market remaining in the same state in which it was before that Act was paBaed . Having , however , had the answer of Mr . Alderman Luccock to hia question , he would , with the permission 01 the Council , proceed to move tne third notice ou tke paper , which was as fo ! loW 8 : — That the attention of the Council having been directed to the grossly illegal practice pursued by the Lessee of the Kirkgate Market Tolls , in exacting Toll in the public Highways , it be an instruction to tba Market Committee to take , immediately , such step * » will tffcctually put a stop to the practice , and thus prevent robbery and imposition , and maintain the dtfj racter and dignity of this Council , under whose assume * sanction the illegal exaction 1 b now made .

      He then proceeded to state , that there was no dispute as to the fact that the lessee did exact toW in the public streets . Mr . Luccook had admitted- ; and there could therefore be no dispute about tnaf matter . The lessee had gone into different streetsinto Crown-street , into Call-lane , into Vicar-lane , into George-street , and into other streets , where ne constantly demanded and received toll * even frpiB parties who , in passing along the Btreeta , happened h > leave their carts for a few minutes only , while they went to make their purchases ; and instances were known where parties who had thus , purchased

      produce in the Croft being followed by the lessee , wn » not only used threats , but in Bome cases took the property out of the carts because the toll was refused . A case ' of that nature occurred in Kirkgate , wfle " ? , * party had left a ear * only for a few urinak »» www he made a purchase iu the Croft . The collector haa two policemen with him , by one of whom the purchaser was seized , while the other held the P . ? , * bead , and the lessee ( . or hia agent , which was tna same thing , as the lessee was liable for the ¦¦» » $£ . his servants , which were in fact bis ) ¦ S « z < x j property oat of the cart , because the man oaa

      The Northern Star. Saturday, July 27, 1844.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JULY 27 , 1844 .

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      THE LABOUR STRUGGLE . ' Plate sin with gold , And tbe strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Clothe it with rags , a pigmy's straw doth pierce it " Under the head of " Assize Intelligence" will be found a brief account of the trial at York of three men engaged in the " riots" at Sheffield , reported in our paper of the 13 th inst . It will be seen that these three men have each been sentenced to be transported for fifteen years ! Of course we can offer no defence for the assailing and wounding of the " knobsticks . " We regret much that men should be so

      indiscreet as to allow of their better feelings overcoming their better judgment , and thus leading them into the commission of outrages of this character . Still no honest man will deny that they had great provocation . In return for their labour they demand what they conceive to be something like a fair remuneration . This is denied them . They cease work . The public voice supports their cause , and public sympathy flaw 3 in to their assistance . The Coal Kings , resolutely bent on prostrating the workmen to the lowest state of serfage , not only refuse the advance of wages demanded by the men , bat also insist upon the total abandonment of the Union , as the terms on whioh alone they will consent to the men resuming labour .

      To make these conditions still more galling , the individual who puts himself forth as the representative of the " company" is a notorious professing "poor man ' s friend , " recently elected one of tbe Aldermen of Sheffield , for his * liberality . " Many a time have these same Miners heard this Alderman Dunn on the steps of Paradise-square , hold forth in the most oily strains against the crimes of the " monopolists , " and the blessings which would flow from Free Trade , in the -shape of " cheap bread , plenty to do , and high wages . " The men indignantly refused the slave-terms proffered by Alderman Dunn , and Co . The next step was to bring in a number of "knobsticka" from Derbyshire to take the places of the men who were on strike . Then

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      THE MAD MARQUIS AGAIN . Vain Londonderry has issued another fraternal bulletin to his Colliers , and still boasts of tbe power of the law and the military to enforce their subjection . Engaged as we now are in creating a kindly feeling between the English and tho Irish working classes , we must caution the English against draw * ing any unfair conclusion from the assumption of their work by Irishmen . We at onoe admit the power of Castlereaoh ' s brother to import four hundred V foreigners" from his Irish estate ; but even from that circumstance the Colliers are not to

      draw unfavourable oonoluBiona . Up to the hour of embarkation not one of the four hundred , should they come , will have ever heard of the Miners ' strike . Should they be seduced from the land of their birth , it will be upon the assurance of Londonderry ' s agents that a new channel of work has been opened for them , and the question of competition will be altogether kept oat of sight . For these reasons then , it is by no means improbable , or unlikely , that the promised importation of * ' foreigners " may arrive , while tbe fact of mere arrival should not lead to any unfavourable feeling towards the Irish volunteers .

      The Miners require but to instruct the Irish as to the causes which rendered their importation necessary : and so instructed we have no hesitation in saying that they will abandon the " forlorn hope" of the military Lord Lieutenant ; and should they remain , will testify their love of order by joining the ranks of the Union . It is not at all wonderful , indeed , that ; men who are starving should be captivated by the following fabrication , whioh appeared in the Durham Chronicle of last week : — At Braneepeth Colliery , the eight persons below enumerated , from tho 30 th June to the I 3 ih July , received these wages : —

      Allan Love £ 6 14 3 Wm . ForBter ... ... ... 4 19 6 James Wright 4 4 3 John Halliday . » . 3 6 0 D-ivId Halliday 3 3 0 John Charlton ... 3 6 6 Benjamin Howard ... ... 3 7 9 Thomas Chapman 3 2 6 , With the above and many other such fascinating puffs , no doubt sedulously and extensively circulated by Londonderry and his fraternity , it is only wonderful that Northumberland and Durham have not become wholesale Blave marts , with a strong competition for £ 6 14 a 3 d per fortnight , with very easy work and a house rent free , together with

      the many seductive privileges so generously granted by the tender-hearted " Coal Kings . " Now the very fact of such fascinating baits being weekly accompanied with a kind of begging for men , proves that tbe working classes know how to attach the real value to the delusion . Our veraoious ootcmperary has been alarming ua with accounts of an increase of their dupes as well as the number who have deserted the Union ; aud in truth if we attached much or any importance to tbe lucubrations of our sapient ootemporary , we should bavd supposed that Mr . Roberts bad been annihilated , the Union shivered to atoms , and the pits filled three deep . In the last number of tbe Durham Chronicle , under the head ,

      " Mr . Roberts last Squeak , the Editor says , " we have already stated Mr . Rosebts to be on 'th « downward road . '" We have heard of dogs being choked with butter . We have heard of men being ruined by their good fortune ; but it has remained for our Durham logician to convinoe us that promotion from the rank of Sectional Adviser to National Advocate is a step in the " downward road . "

      Perhaps our friend , who never has time to comment on passing events , was not aware at the time of penning the above that Mr . Roberts had been duly elected Attorney General for the Miners of England , Soot laud , and Wales . In truth , tbe Durham Chrenicle has so overpainted the virtues of its masters and so blackened the characters of the men , that henceforth its interference will be repudiated by both parties . The pledge to justify and

      whitewash the innocent Coal Kings is yet unredeemed ; while notwithstanding the assurances of contrite repentance and an early resumption of labour , the strike goes gaily on ; and notwithstanding the denial of all public sympathy , that indispensable element of success is becoming daily increased . We have given the Woar-sider" so many broadsides , and the " Pitman ' s Friend" bo many chokers , as to compel both to act upon the defensive , in which character they will find ample to do .

      Leeds Adjourned Town Council Meeting.

      LEEDS ADJOURNED TOWN COUNCIL MEETING .

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      THE REPEAL OF THE UNION . If there is one error moro than another against which we have found occasion to caution the public it is that of conferring an undue and dangerous charm upon ; martyrdom . It is , we presume , a following up of the practice of quoting the most insane Eayings and doings of dead men as precedents by ' which the living should be governed . Burke while living was marked as a renegade ; Castlereagh as a tyrant ; Htjskisson as an experimentalist ; and Canning as an adventurer . And their several acts of inconsistency were freely quoted while they lived :

      bat now that they are dead , statesmen use their opinions as words of wisdom , and rake their follies from the grave as precedents by whicb the living should be governed . Many of our own patriots who have suffered in tbe caase of Chartism have experimentalized extensively upon this public weakness : some have tried one course , and others another course ; and all have discovered that however the mild sufferance of pitying opinion may appear to tolerate the digression for a moment , yet has it never failed to overtake the criminal and teach him the folly of his ways .

      Daring the hottest of the Repeal agitation , feelers were thrown out as to the probable euccbss that would attend the conversion of the Repeal Movement into a Federal Association , and so disheartning was tbe reception of the proposal that Mr . O'Connell himself was compelled to throw the oil of " No Surrender" upon the troubled waters . His words were : WHO NOW DARES TO TALK OF COMPROMISE . " and the chorus of Irish voices responded "Never . " From this position Mr . O'Connell had not swerved up to the moment of his incarceration : and now that his voice is stifled ,

      we , as Repealers , have a right to be watctiTul , and are resolved to watch over the proceedings of those who profess to represent him while absent . The glowing enthusiasm manifested ia the continuous weekly subscriptions ; the weekly assurances communicated by Mr . O'Connell ' s youngest son of his father ' s firm resolve to go for the Repeal and nothing else ; the faction-killing tranquillity of Ireland ; her submission to her leaders' will ; her tame endurance of onparrelled sufferings : all give evidence of her people ' s attachment to that measure for the advocacy of which they and their leaders have suffered .

      Amid this growing greatness of popular mind , we are to look for a concurrent confirmation of its directors * consistency . The enthusiasm of the people thus strikingly developed , cannot be subdued , and cannot be contravened by the retrogression or desertion of the leaders . Our remonstrance is with those who , filling Mr . O'CoWELt ' a office , during his absence , will hereafter have to render to him and tbe Irish people an account of their stewardship .- We were aware of the heavy responsibility incurred by men unpractised in the art of agitation , and nninstructed in the use of the complicated machinery by which the inventor had

      so adroitly and successfully collated all the different fibres of public opinion into one great web of national thought . We did not expect too much from them in the way of novelty . We did not expect any great advance during the absence of their general ; but we did expect that he should find his battle undamaged , his corps unshaken , and his position unchanged . Having said so much , we now ask if the following be a correct report of tho speech of Mr . Blake , M . P ., delivered at the Conciliation Hall on Monday last ? We ask whether , as stated , his announcement was received with loud cheers , and why it waa that the delusion was not instantlv dispelled \

      Sir V . Blake , M . P ., read a letter from the editor of the Galway Findicator , tendering bis resignation as a member cf the Association ; and proceeded to address the met ting on tbe subject of a Kepeal . He avowed himself an ardent Repealer—the advocate of an independent and unrestricted Parliament in College-Gheen for the management of Irish affairs—( cheers ); but if it could be shown , as be thought it could , that they were entitled to something more than this federal Parliament , and that they could obtain something mote , he felt assured that ho member of that Association would Object to join In sn effort to procure all the advantages whicb

      be thought they had a right to claim . In his opinion tbey could obtain not onlj a federal independent Parliament , but also the right to send 105 delegates to the British Parliament , to legislate on imperial matters , and prevent injurious interference withlrlsh affairs— ( cheers ) . The Irish Parliament weuid be selected from that Association , and tke delegates to the English Legislature wonld be taken from the body so elected . Now , there was no doubt that these gentlemen wonld comprise a vast deal of the brains of the Irish Parliament , and be firmly believed the result would be , that they would be able to guide and govern the British Parliament when they obtained admission to it—( luud cheers ) .

      The reasoning of the Honourable Gentleman is strained and childish , while the result which ho intends to produce , should he succeed , would be treason against the Irish nation . Mark the folly of one fascinating assumption . Mr . Blake says , ia the event of a Federal Union , that that Association Would doubtless elect the 105 emissaries who were to awe the English Parliament . Wo would ask Mr . Blake , even admitting his premises , what better guarantee the Irish people would have , under the present franchise , of returning the 105 Irish Members than they have now 1 This wild visionary , in his enthusiastic anticipations , embraces the Protestant college , as well as the representation of all

      the Protestant land of the country . We have over and over again characterised this scheme of Federalism as a back-door to Repeal ; while we assert that its accomplishment would entail a double infliction npon the Irish people . It is exclusively a mid die-class move , got up as the extinguisher of popular opinion , and would inevitably result in a system of tracking , jobbing , bribing , and buying , not surpassed by the Volunteers of 1782 , who maddened Ireland to insure the Ministerial purchase of their own privileges , and with the sale of which ended the cry of "Parliamentary Reform ? ' nor would it fall short of the not less reckless prostitution o . f the herota of the Union .

      Federalism means no thing more nor lees than an agency commission , un \ 4 ertaken by middle-class demagogues for the collection and sale of public opinion to the Minister of the day . Chablbmont and his gang sold Irish enthusiasm when they had increased their own Parliamentary property , and had rendered their snbBervieno . v an indispensable appendage to Ministerial profligacy . Shonld tbe mind of Ireland , having been roused to a greater '

      pitch , be let down to the same bvmiliatuig point , those who have sanctioned the declension will have an awful account to settle with the Irish people . Let us preBUHe for a moment that thv *» uninitiated leaders , who have undertaken the helm daring the absence of the pilot , should be able , as a portion of tbeir policy , to convert publio opinion irto the Federal channel ; and suppose upon his liberation that Mr . O'Connbll should declare the justice and propriety of yielding to the altered thought of his

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      * . THE NORTHERN STAR . July 27 . 1844 .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 27, 1844, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1273/page/4/