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THE ]\ T OETHEEISr STAR. SATURDAY, MARCH 20. 1841.
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POVERTY AND ROYALTY . Look on this Picture . And also look on this . On examining the room Her Majesty has been I femnd nothing in it but graciously pleased to proa broken bedstead , * few old Bent £ 5 to the person who rags , and a broken cup and Bent her a very hand * tavoer , for the whole of 8 ome ) y carved spoon , for which I would not give six the nse of the infant PrinshiUings . * * * * c « bs Royal . Since Michaelmas he bad It is the jntentfoff ot not , on an average , had her Majesty the Queen more thsn two pair of Dowager to give a series shoes a-woek to make , of dinners ai Marlboronghwhich produced him . only house . 2 s . 8 cL Mr . John Co ward , It has now been finally surgeon , deposed to mak- decided by the Commia-
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ANSWEB TO ENIGMA . 5 please to insert an answer to an Enigma jiffoarj 20 th , signed W . a j > - the Star from the North , friend W . G , Toot enigma afforded amusement to me ; Indeed , I psrns'd it with infinite pleasure , And give the solution now I ' m at leisure . In temples high is heard the wand , In cells and eaverns under ground , Where captives groan—the hoarse Echo Responds onto tha wail of woe . prom rocks and hills , in the noon of night , ¦ vfad Echo takes a hasty flight , ¦ R-feen mortal tongues -with gladness sing for joy . ud mite ttie forest ring ; qi cheers from Chartists thoownds rise , Sis * oa tbe "blast—and Echo die * . \ fift febled nymphs once Echo Tied , On heathen plains witi heathea pride ; ¦ jfjjgn pleas'd would sing , and gxQy smUe jjte maidens of onr native isle . But mark her fate , ye British fair , . And your companion let her share ; Yield not your hearts to loTe a prey , And liie poor Echo die away . . Basford , March 5 th , 1841 .
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OUR PROSPECTS . So we head this article , borrowing the title from our talented aud generally well-received contemporary the Dublin World , of Feb . 13 th , 1841 , in which appeared a leader , under the above designation , containing some sentiments which require a few remarks from us . We have , at all times , stated it as our deliberate conviction , that the World was by far the best of the Irish press ; and even in this article we have evidence that our
estimation of it has not been without reason ; though we have also evidenoe of the condition of unhappy Ireland , in which even a honest patriot , writing for his country , finds it hazirdoua to let loose the full tide of principle , and is fain to embank himself behind such ramparts of expediency as may be dictated by the great master tradesman , who makes merchandize out of misery , and lives and thrives upon corruption , by the constant turning of it orer and altering of its name .
In h . 13 pleasing and joyous anticipations for the future , and to realise which , we may observe by the way , requires something much more efficient than merely talking or writing about them , the Editor has gone somewhat out of his way to abuso the Northern Star , and to advocate that mischievous and nondescript thing , H-o-u-s-e-hold Suffrage ; and all this , too , under the fairest and most unmistakeable professions of sincere attachment to the principles and- objects of the People ' s Charter .
Iso doubt all this may be perfectly reconcileable to the enlightened vision of our contemporary , With strict consistency , < uid an unflinching adherence to principle ; but , to our ordinary comprehension , it looks marvellously like inconsistency aud "blarney . " Our friend , however , shall speak for himself , as we would not , " for the world , misrepresent " The World " on such a subject . " The principles of Chartism , in our opinion , and we would be glad to find any good authority which could dispute it , are recognizad by every constitutional writer . The individual who is governed by laws of which he exercises no influence in the making can be viewed
in no other light than a slave . He may be fed , clothed , and permitted to walk about , but he is as much the creature of the tyrant who rules over him as his horse or dog . "We , therefore , are the advocates of Universal Suffrage , because we feel that it is based upon truth and justice , and moreover , that it has been higfaiy beneficial to those countries which have made it the bulwark of popular privilege * . Far be it , however , from us not to receive with delight such an instalment as Household Suffrage , not partially as suffered to exist in boroughmongering days when it was productive of bribery and corruption , but upon an extensive scale , which would afford both friends and foes a (
oretaste of what might be expected from the people if a more universal enfranchisement took place . The Sorthern Star blusters away at a sad rate against Household Suffrage , and has a comfortable way of its own of condemning every person who recommends it , without ever devising a plan , at least that we can comprehend , for the procuring of its Universal Suffrage scheme . Storming towns at night ; getting shot , transported , and incarcerated ; swarming upon moors ; and drawing money almost hourly from the wretched working-men , is not the way to carry the charter . Indeed , could Universal Suffrage have been carried when the Convention sat in Boit-court . which would have
transferred the members of that august body to the House of Commons , we rather think that the Northern Star , in its present mind , would be inclined to regard the boon as a very equivocal blessing . " Let our readers mark every part of this quotation well . " The principles of Chartism , in our opinion , are recognised by every constitutional writer . ' Very well 1 Then we are not anarchists , revolutionists , or any other ists , that may cause alarm to any human heart . We are only contending for what every constitutional writer declares to be oar rights . But we have not merely constitutional law in our fawe have that also which is of infinitely more
importance , —the law of natural rifcht and equity . Thus proceeds our friend across the water : — " Tho individual who is governed by laws of which he exercises no influence in the making , can be viewed in no other light than as a slave . " Now we do not think any argument can . be more sound than this , or demonstrate , in fewer words , the abstract and undeniable justice of tho principles for which we are contending . If for an individual to have no voice in the enactment of those laws by which hi 3 life and property are protected , constitute fcim a slave , then it appears to us to be as clear as day , that in order to remove the slave mark it is absolutely necessary to
give to all the franchise , and thus enable them to exercise their proper influence in the making of the laws . This , we should have thought , must be the conclusion to which all must have come , who were at all capable of drawing conclusions from admitted premises . But , alas , for our weak judgment , the World i 3 against us . " It , " says our friend , meaning Universal Suffrage , " is based upon truth and justice ; and , moreover , has been highly beneficial in those countries which have made it the bulwark of popular privileges . " This , we suppose , must be taken as an Hibernian prophecy ; for , up to this hour , no such country has existed in the memoj y of recorded history . To the next words we begesp ecial
attention . " Far belt , however , from us , not to r eceive with delight such an instalment as Househo' Id Suffrage , upon an extensive scale , which woul' 1 afford both friends and foe 3 a foretaste of what might be expected from the people , if a more un . ' . vetsal enfranchisement took place . " It would be impossible , we think , for any man in the world to c , ram into the same space a greater quantity of false reasoning and blundering logic , then is exhibited b y the forty-five words we have just quoted . First t , omes the fallacy thai Household Suffrage is to be , considered as an instalment . This humbug won't do now ; it gained the Reform Bill ; but eight ye- ars of Reform misgovernment have taught us * lesson , which , the World may rely upon it , the pf , ople will not forget .
We were told , then , by V fle patriots of the day , that the Reform Bill was an instalment ; and we , good souls , took it , because Ghey , Brougham , and Co ., assured us , npon their " honour , " that it was all thejj by peaceable means , were able
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to get , then , bat that , having got a part , it woaW lead to the securing of the whole . Now , this was fair Bpoken ^ t&t the people confided . We are not disposed to blame them for their confidence , but we do tell them not to be caught in another trap ; and on « , too , that is not baited half so plausibly as the last om . We have got , as yet , no offer of Household Suffrage from the middle classes , though it is plain that , were they so disposed , they could give us that , or any other measure , to-morrow .
But , suppose we had the offer , would they offer it as an instalment ? The World knowe , as well as we do , that if conceded at all , it would not be even offered as aright , but as a boon , for which every one of th « "Establishment" would tell us we ought to be most humbly thankful . But this said doctrine of instalments is itself based upon a false and mischievous view of the Bubjeot . At the utmost , it only considers the political and social rights of the masses as a debt due to them from the privileged orders . Now , we contend that the deprivation of those rights was a bold and shameless robbery , perpetrated according to
" The good old plan , When he shall take who hath the power , And he shall keep who can ;•• And , we ask , who ever heard of stolen property being repaid by instalments ! The only favour the robber can expect , even from mercy and forbearance itselft is to bo allowed to go away scathless upon the restoration of his plunder to the rightful owner . But we offer mora than this ; we offer a full participation in all the good we seek to obtain , even to
those who have reviled and maltreated us ; and yet , so much are some , of our friends of "this world , " attracted by the fine appearance and plausible manners of the rascals who have reduced us almost to ruin , that they wish to make them the judges in their own cause , and talk of receiving what of oarrighta th « y please to offer us as an instalment ; and this , too , before their middle class pets have condescended even to intimate an intention of offering anything at all !
Then , again , tho World shrinks with horror at the idea of refusing such an instalment as Household Suffrage . We should shrink with loathing and abhorrence from any such rascally scheme as Household Suffrage involves . W © claim the right of the Suffrage for man , because he is man , and not because he lives in a house of a certain value . If the value of the house , or the property , is the test of fitnes ? , then , to be consistent , if £ \ % qualifies for a vote , £ 11 should qualify for a vote and one-tenth ; that is , every ten £ 11 houses should have eleven votes , inasmuch as they have got an extra
qualification among them . And so for all houses of greater value—the £ 20 man having a double vote . To us , however , it appears that the houseless wanderer has quite as good , or even a belter , title to a vote , than the most opulent householder ; because it is plain that some morbid arrangement of society , ( except in case 3 of personal criminality , ) has deprived him of the shelter to which , by virtue of his being a man , he had an undoubtable claim ; and , consequently , ho has a right to the elective franchise , to enable him , by his representative , to change an order of things so unnatural and destructive .
But the crowning absurdity of this strange sentence is , that this instalment is a tale put forth as a feeler , as to how the people might be expected to act if they should recover the whole of their just rights . This is just like saying to a thief , when the hue and cry is out against him , " get away , and send the better portion of the stolen money back , to see if it will be employed in feeing an attorney to drag you to the gallow 3 . " Suppose this boasted "instalment" offered and accepted , what
might be " reasonably expected' to be the conduct of all those who had no choice in it , but who were told , " wait patiently till wo see how the measure works , and if it works well , you will have no cause to grumble ; and if it does not , you can then demand further concessions . " Yes , and have all the additional influence of the nowly enfranchised to contend against I ! Thank you , good World , for this sage piece of advice ; but it won't do . We listened to such logic as this in 1831 , and we are now reaping the fruits of our folly .
Believe us , those fruits are too bitter to tempt us to sow another time , with the certain prospect of a similar and equally inefficient crop . Our right good friend goes on to rate the Northern Star for what he calls our " sad rate of blustering away against Household Suffrage , " and says that we never propose a plan that he can comprehend for the attainment of our Universal Suffrage scheme ! We beg to tell him that Universal Suffrage is no
scheme of ours ; it emanated long before before wo came , either naturally or politically , into existence , and it would survive and flourish if we should become defunct to-morrow ; being based upon the rock of universal truth and justice . But , heaven help us ! if we are to be held accountable for the dullness of comprehension of our worthy contemporary . We do our best to be plain aud intelligent , but we never pretended to supply brains as well as
newspapers . We agree with the World , that " storming towns at night ; getting shot , transported , and incarcerated ; swarming upon moors , and drawing money almost hourly from the wretched working men , is not the way tocarry the Charter ; " but , we ask , when did we ever say they were ; or when did we advise " storming towns at night , " or any other plan of physical or forcible outbreak ! We always saw and proclaimed the madness and folly of
such things ; but we did not , therefore , feel justified in deserting those who had allowed their simple honesty to be overreached by spies and traitors ; and we did , therefore , call , aud the tyranny of the Government , and of middle-class magistrates , Juries , and money-mongers , has compelled us to do so much more frequently than we would have desired , upon the working men to collect their peace together , to oppose those who , from their hard earnings , were constantly extracting pounds .
To the remark about the Conveatkm we have only one observation to make . We should , indeed , deem any suffrage not only a very equivocal blessing , but a positive curse , which should transfer either the members of the Convention , orany other parties , to the benches of the House of Commons , unless chosen by a majority of tho unbiassed votes of the people . But we have not yet done . Let vox readers read and mark the following tit-bit of blarney and botheration : —
" The Chartists would not Mss down Mr . O'ConnslI , or offer him personal indignity , because on some occasions he spoke rather severely of them , neither will they , -we are sure , distrust Joseph Hume , the unplaced , un pensioned champion of the working clataes— -indeed , of the injured of every class and clime—because , in doing so , they are aware that they would not be serving Mr . Feargus O'Connor , while they would be laying themselves open to tha charges which are preferred against them by their enemies of being brutal and unthinking . "
The Chartists would not hiss Mr . O'Connell at the Leeds meeting ; Mr . O'Connell was so well convinced of this 4 hat he took espeoial care not to furnish them with the opportunity . He was not there ; for he dare not meet the honest hearts and blistered hands of the working men of Yorkshire . He knew that the blood-money for which he sold the children of Manchester , and the slanders which hia foul tongue had uttered against the women of England , would neither be forgiven nor forgotten , and , like a bullying coward , a dunghill cock as ho is , he sneaked into a snug seat at the 7 s . 6 d . dinner , at wbieh he was not likely to meet with any of those , at the very thoughts of whom his heart trembled and quaked with fear .
So much for the Chartists not hissing Dan . Let us now have a word or tw « about " brown-bread Joseph . " " Neither will they , ( the Chartists , ) we are sure , distrust Jcseph Hume , the unplaced , unpensioned champion of the worklr . g
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classes . " We admit thai Joey is unplaced , and unpensioned , but we should like to know whether either place or pension was ever placed within his rt ach , or offered to his acceptance . We think little of tha , ' virtue whioh stands , having never been enforced by temptation to a fall . His championship of the working classes is , to our minds , of a very questionable character . He thought Bach a luxury as white bread quiM unnecessary for the hand-loom weavers ; he has been an out-and-out supporter , —champion , if the World in' < es it better , —of the the Devil-kin ^ ? astile law ; and we have now in our office a well and respectfully written petition , from a Scotoh working man , in favour of the Charter , wh \ ich was sent to him for presentation , and which he refused to present , because it was the petition o % an individual .
Mr . Feabgus O'Connor do es not want his friends , the Chartists , to serve him ; Jie has laboured for them in a manner which has enshrined him in their hearts , and we know that t £ ie only return he looks for is their steady adherence to principle , and their ceaseless perseverance , till the glorious cause for which he and hundreds are suffering , be achieved and perfected . " It is anice point , " says the World , " how far advisable it might be for them to abandon the advancement of theirown cause for a 6 eason to procure privileges for others . " We believe so ; yea , a point so nice that the World will never be able to settle it between this and its doomsday ; though there is not a
poor operative Chartist in all Englandor Scotland who would not settle it in three seconds . " If an administration make Household Suffrage a Cabinet question , there would be no alternative left for all classes of Reformers , but to support the measure in the same way as the Bill of Earl Grey was sustained by the country . " Not so fast . Wear « wide awake now ; we have seen the result of Earl Grey ' s Bill , m accumulated misery and wretchedness , and we shall not allow that farce Jo be acted over again . We promise the World that while we live , Household Suffrage shall never pass into a law because of the support ministered to it , by " all classes of Reformers . "
So much for the World ' s principle . Now turn we to the pot and kettle , under the cover of which we find the following bit upon our fiscal arrangements . The World says , after speaking of shooting , transporting , and meeting on moors , always forgetting Rathcormac , Walstown , die , " and drawing money almost hourly from the wretched icorking men . " Now as there is nothing like fair-play , we beg to give the quid pro quo of Irish agitation—here then is the quid : —
" Dublin , March 10 . —The Repeal movement , under the direction of Tom Reynolds , the Inspector-General of Repeal Wardens , progresses apace in the provinces . On Sunday next there is to be a great gathering of the Anti-Unionists on the Curraghof Kildare , at which Mr . O'Connell—who will reacU town on Friday next , on his way to Gal way , where he is specially retained in an important record case—will attend . In Waterford , Kilkenny , Carlow . and Kildare , the organization for the collection of the Repeal rent is almost completed . Tom Reynolds has appointed collectors IN every PARISH , TOWN . VILLAGE , AND HAMLET IN THOSE COUNTIES , AND WHEN THE MACH 1 . VEHY 13 PUT TO I'L'LL WORK , IT IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE FROM £ 500 TO £ 1 , 000 PER WEEK . "
" From the World , 13 th March . " The Secretary having read a letter received from Mr . T . Reynolds , announced the amount of the Repeal Rent for the week to be £ 07 las . 3 d . " Now for the pro quo from the columns of the World . — " Every one must ba as tired as we are ourselves of the mere party fight about the Registration Bill . The great difference between the Tories and the Whigs is that the former are most anxious for the success of Lord Stanley ' s Bill , while the latter -would do anything hut abandon Dawning-street sooner than see their own project carried . Let any impartial person peruse the debute and then say if he can give the Ministers
credit for sincerity in introducing the measure . The fact of the case is that some clap-trap- was required to enable the Whigs to cling for a season to office , and nothing better could be hit upon than this hastily concocted Registration scheme . Here was a decoy-duck to answer tbe purposes of those who were destitute of principle , and at the same time procure for them a temporary supply of popular support Had Ministers boldly recommended Household Suffrage they eould not have surrendered the measure at their convenience , but in this instance no such difficulty stands in their way , and they will be able to propitiate the Conserva tives , if requisite , by abandoning their £ 5 daase , the only popular feature in the bill . We may be disposed much but should
to view matters with too severity , we be willing to wake a tolerable waiter that , after all the fuss raised , something very like tbe Bill of Lord Stanley will be accepted . Why , it would be preposterous to think otherwise ; for did not Lord Howick , now a candidate for place , prove that the Ministry had not long ago proposed a measure & ) r the registration of Irish voters , in no material' point of a dib » imil » description ? The discussion , if in no other way useful , hss had the effect of bringing clearly before the public the true cause of contention between the rival jarties , and shuwiDg how far- those at the helm of affairs can be induced to go when they feel that the pvople can no longer be cajolad by idle professions .
The unpopularity of the Melbourne Cabinet hao- been long increasing , but it recently arrived at that pitch when it was discovered no eaortion would be wado longer to sustain it . Now it was that the Conservative party pressed npon the drooping phalanx of WhiggeTy , and , gaining one election after another , carried the war into the bosom of St . Stephen ' s . Terror , like lightning , fiiishod through every public office ; and there was trembling aniong the tribe of well-paiii placemen , who saw that if a > tub of some aort were not thrown out to the whale , they must prepare to perish . This led to the bringing forward- of the Registration Bill of Lord Morpeth , and if : a more decided tone were adopted , aad a determination to-looli
for measures of generel good * instead of being . satisfLed with beholding the promotion of a few- intriguing individuals ) we might soon , hope to see them carried . The country , however , he * not acted upon thi& wjm plan , but seemed quite overjoyed as one political cbaalatan after another took , his seat upon tbe- Ttea&iay benches i and it is , therefore , not wonderful that those in " high places" should , at length begin to considerthat this . wa 3 all which , was necessary for the vwllbeing of the comtuun \ ty > . To give & cfrdraint demagogue an office worth some couple of thousands a-yaar , or te confer some maxtt . of distinction upon a KSTui g Peer , who allowed hhasel ! to be described as a- Liitw 1 , was deatned more tbaa sufficient to secompena * . '
the actual raisgoverameui of millions- The But , we have before stated , will not at present * , oasa , aar in . deed for a length of time , if its fiawers oaa ' help it ; bat it will be instrumental in giving scQaaj and patronage to theae ia effieo fur another » 33 ion . The interest of this debate has ; beeu wr , dered palatable by the strong spice of pesaonalitya * i recriluination inttodu « s < i lato it Sir Jaiues Grafla ; n , hiuir self a very degraded specimen of a goliticaJi * negade , br&ught the ineensistencies of Lo * d . > John , Ba sseil into bold relief , and aseeiwd well-merited pania&ar aent from Richard Lalor Shiel , who , in Ijis , tura , ' ,, dread-Sully peppered * y Sir Robert Peal . Tfa */ lesertion of been of
principle haa of late years so tensive and glaring , that 3 » -required no great . iageaaJ ij to sonvict honourable g « otdemen upon eitb ^ p side at the House of this delinquency . ' You were , th » * d locates of the Ballot , ' saxa tfae Treasury retaiaer to t > ie apostate oppositionist . 'Aye , but , " quoth anothf r > by way © f rejoinder , ' yau , who are now ss&tous ttf t the extension pf the franchise when it can maintain 1 linisters in place , formerly exerted yourself to dimiul sh it , by depriving the Irish forty-shilling freehold * of their rights . ' This i& bitter repartee , but still i ' ., gives us not a very exalted notion of the poli&sal in * . egrity of either Whig or Tory . " " Fsom thf , World . 13 th March .
"We would be far tudeetf from insinuating that Mr . O'Connell , in agitating the question of Repeal , aims at nothing more ; ttiaa keeping the present anii-Repeal adtmnistratioa ia power ; but it is impossible to peruse the address "wb jca he has just transmitted to the Loyal Association st the Cern Exchange , to be circulated through Ire )/ . ad , without arriving at aome such conclusion . "' Ul From the World , 13 th March . "We regret that we have lately been compelled to
speak so discourse , ingly concerning the prospects of Repeal— -bnt our duty was obvious—and we had no alternative but tr deal with facts as we found them . In Almost evwy p » rt of the kingdom the people are ready to make iuimw 09 sacrifices to achieve a measure which they ara cons ' , ious can alone ben # flfc their conn try , and raise it from its present abject state . Bnt a doubt preyaita that the agitation is not carried on with siaeerity—Wjicn is highly injurious to the progress of theoauBf .. "
Let the World dispassionately look on botb picture ? . In the one , we find that from £ 500 to . £ l , 000 wee kly is now sought for , and expects , to put the fool's cap npon the head of the Worlfs Irish folly " Wo find a single week ' s " rent " estimated at more by £ 7 than is required by the English Chartists for a great national work .
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Since 1832 , we have had nine session * of Parliament , the present delightful and promising one inclusive , during which time Ireland has had from forty to fifty "liberal members , " whose elections , together with beggar ' s rent , Association rent , and humbag rent , has cost the "wretched working men" getting sixpence a day , above three hundred thousand pounds ; to which , add the millions voted recklessly by the eaid "liberal"Irish members , and paid by the " wretched working men ' of England , and the swarms of h ' ce placed for life upon the back of the Irish beetle , and then see the World ' s own acknowledgment of services rendered , and say
whether or not the Irish quo is equivalent to the Irish quid . While , in the same period , England has had a Convention of between forty and fifty men sitting in London for six months , a Specia l Commission that cost above £ 1 , 200 ; four hundred prisoners defended by able counsel , their families supported for twelve months , and all at an expence short of five thousand pounds , or four months' interest , at five per cent ., of the enormous sum swallowed Hp by Irish patriots ; while Ireland is still in the position complained of by the World , indeed by the whole world , while England id atte to beat her united factions .
N . B . Of tbe £ 300 , 000 the Liberator has had * nearly one half to his own cheek ; enough to give any one but an Irish * patriot , a lock-jaw , and it only make 3 the Liberator gape the wider . Let it be always Wne in mind , that the £ 300 , 000 was to keep the Whigs , ( of whom the World ia tired , ) in Downing-street .
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¦ ¦ ¦ » mi ' n *^^^^^^— H , i >>^ i THE PETITION AND CHARTER CONVENTION . Universal approbation seems to wait upon the plan propounded by O'Cowtor in our last . We are inundated with letters , the publishing of which is quite impossible ; and , therefore , that we may ruu no hazard of making inviduous distinctions , we shall publish none ,- but acknowledge thus en masse the general approval . ? ilonies are c » ming to us from many quarters , which are duly aeksowledged elsewhere . We learn also that several sums have been lodged in the bank , according to the instructions of O'Connor ' letter 1
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The following notices should have appeared in our last , but were omitted for want of room : — Communications received too itfts for notice last week . —John Heath ' s notice of Mr . Candy's lecture , and the intended sermons of Mr . Taylor , at Jiromsgrove . —Thomas ltogers'a ao ~ count of the O'Connell meeting , at Glasgow . — Mr . Leech ' s tour of agitation for the present week . — 'W . Y . Sowter's reporPofthg Westminster Chartist Association .- ^ The . notice » f Mr . Taylor ' s lecture at Rugby . — Y . Mark's letter to tht Executive . —Tlionias Habersfield's letter , for the insertion of which we have not wom . —D . W . Turner , who-desires to know whether there will be funeral sermons preached in London on the 14 / A oj March , for pom" Clayton . We cannot tell him , not . having heard of any . such engagements . —G . N . Newell ' s Redditch report . —Va . vid Hopkin ' s notice of Mr . Black ' s lecture at Cardiff .
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Teetotal Chartists . —The following persons desire their names to the Temperance Addreis : — Joseph Aiderson , Minuter of the Christian Chartist Church , and President of the Teetotal Chartist Society ; John Whitehum , Treasurer to the Teetotal Chartist'Society ; George E ! li . « Secretary to the same , and a teetotaller of seven * years standing ; and David Whitehead and James Croft , Members of the- Committee of the same Society , tUt of Manninyham , near Bradford . —Elijah Broadbent , a teetotaller of fifteen months standing ; and Alfred Barber , a teetotaller of twelve month * standing , both of Ashton-imder-Lyne . — Mr . KUchin > : » Councilman ; Mr . StaveJey , Secretary ; and JV / es » rs ; Thomas and Joseph Mercer , Committee-men of : Daisy-hill , near Bradford . — Mr . Richard Haslain , reed-maker ; and Mr . Leonard Heslop , halter , of Oldham .
Tricks of the Tiiaoe ;— We thank the friends who last week sent us a local paper in which the Star is denounced at an enemy to Universal Suffrage , directing our attention to the silly oalumny . Our friends don't knou * these creatures' so welt as we do . To notice the effusion oft the wretched scrawler woulii b& jiist what hetaants—an advertisement for his slinking rag ,. We skill disappoint him . W . Y . iS .-iVo . Mr . Francis Meiloni—7 % ere appeared m the Star of December 5 ,, l& 10 , a letter from one of th ¦ most ardent find persevering of our political pioneers in Ireland , datedfremiAntrim , November , ; 25 , 1840 . In this letter the writer , Francis
Mellon , after stating the progress which the principles of the Charter were making ut Antrim , alludes to the opposition and / persecution which he , had metfvmtL . the opponents .- of political equality , and slates , that these mean and enntemptible shadows of men , not being , abU to suppress his ardency and enthusiasm Jor the cause , had basely and cowardly turned ; their sahs-mes on his mother , a widow of nean s £ verUy , ytars of age . They succeeded . His father , in . the year 1828 , lost his life at Antrim Castle ,, by an , accident , and since that time , Lord Ferrard , tfo owner of the castle , allowed her two- shillings , per week as a compensation for her loss . These mean scoundrels applied tp Lord Ferrard , and succeeded in causing her . weekly , trijit to be-taken from her . A correspondent would suggest t& the Committee jfthe Victim Fund , tltc propriety , of placing Mrs . Mel / on on . the list : oj receivers from the Victim Fund , addin ' g , that , respecting the justice and the absolute necessity / for this act there can be nt > doubt , for , by the praiseworthy exertions of a young but untiring advesate of Chartism , an aged ' asid widowed mothet has been deprived of the liitle pittance-doled out to her to asssisi her in her short pilgrimage through life . Our sorretponclent states that he has known Mr . Mellon aboxt eighteen months , and ever found him , in puWte or vrivaltas the first and viarimsi
advo-, cate of equality ; that the cause is indebted to his wwtasing labours for much of the prosvessit has n&de in Liverpool . We have received a somewhat lengthy article from Carlisle , on the working of the Municipal Corporation Act , for which we have not room . Our correspondent may be assured that the Reforms projected by our Liberal Government are all of the like nature ; and disappointment is sure to be the lot of those of the working class who imagine any reat good isintended for them . Joseph Rycroft . — We ain't make anything out of his communication . He has left out the name of the order , otherwise it wo ^ ld have been inserted .
J . Clat , Stoke-upon-Tbent . —We gave the substance of the matter sent : we cannot insert , verbatim , all the matter sent vs . We must do justice to all as far as our space will allow . A Constant Rkadeb , Bradford —His communication would be chargeable with the advertisement duty . A Constant Reader , Bradford Moor . —i / is letter is an advertisement . Legal Questions . —We have again and again stated that we don ' t answer legal questions . O'Connor ;'« a lawyer , but he is locked up . We don't pretend to understand the law ; and were we to advise we might mislead . A Middle-class- Reformer ; an Advocate of the Charter ; J ; ames Moobfield ; am © a Chartist are declined .
Thb Poetry of J . R ., Cashell ; A CHABTIST Shoemaker , Banbubt ; Joseph Orm Scott w declined . Gracchus must have mistaken us ; we certainly did not intend to charge him with drunkenness , nor do we know that anybody else has done so . Levi Lion . —We suspect he has misspelt the latter name ; jt doubtless should have been Liar . Sonnet on thk Charter , and Dkath op mt Mother , are received . A . M ., Edinburgh , and O'Brien ' s Letter , nest
week . The Charter Hymn shall appear . Charles Broker . — We have not room for his letter from the Brighton Herald . A Young Chartist need not be alarmed for Mr . Sydney Smith . - he has no power of doing harm where there are any Chartists . Richard Mabsden . — We regret being obliged to r * serve his communication for want of space . 3 . B . Thohpsok . —The crowded state of our columns shuts Old his communication on coal mine * as present . It may appeur hereafter . Thb Exile's Farewell shall appear when toe hoot
room . ' :. - .. The Bank Screw shall appear when nee nave room . Henrt Griffiths . —We have lately been so overpowered with communications , that we have really not known what to do . We would gladly haveinserted several of his favors , but could not find room . Robert Gray . —The extract from CBrien shall appear a * soon as possible .
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S . Xsw4l Iy\Jfli ^*^Llvv&9 To Readers And Correspondents.
s . Xsw 4 l iy \ Jfli ^*^ llvv& 9 TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS .
General Harrisos Was Sixty-Eight Years Of Age -, The 5:H Instani.
General Harrisos was sixty-eight years of age -, the 5 : h instani .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 20, 1841, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct371/page/3/
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