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    • THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1842.
    • TO THE CHARTISTS OF SCOTLAND.
    • THE SCOTTISH CONVENTION VOTE.
    • Co Mea&€t& m\tf Covregaontitttfg*
    • ^- — -"-- TO THE CHARTISTS OF KORTH LANCASHIRE.
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      Brother Chartists . — We , the delegates of North- j Xaacashire , address ourselves to you at this most critical i saoment , with a full confidence that you will at this i time give us yonr undivided support in carrying out the plans we have adcpted for forwarding the eause of Universal liberty . It is quite time that the working el&isea should bef , in to act in onion together , they have too long been led away by the subtle and cunning eehemes of the designing ko&Tes who have robbed them of their hard-earned money , to squander it away upon -t&emselvex . theii boos , daughters , and dependents , in useless pensions , abosuaable sinecmres , and unjust ¦ wars . "We hare too long obeyed them and suffered them t » sow discord amongst us by keeping up religious

      feuds , and national antipathies , 88 that thty may be able with more ease to crush any s-ovement calculated to gire the people tbeir rights . But , thank God , the people have opened their eyes- ; they have examined from whence has arisen their present distress . They i » Te have studied political science , and have found 'that the cause of aH their grierasces springs from class legislation . The people of England can no longer be ¦ persuaded to look with contempt and indifference upon the people of Ireland i they no longer regard them &s ¦ liens , but pity tfeeir sufferings brought upon them by the cruel deeds of their and our oppressors ; they solicit them to jeia is an agitation for a fall measure of justice , one not only calculated for repealing the union , and the Com Lkvs , but for the repealing every r ther-bad

      law ; we deplore the many divisions that have taken place on former occasions , « nd hope for the future ail bickerings and jealousies may be done away with ; we , are glad to £ nd that a spirit of perseverance has l 3 gun to be manifested inSorth Lancashire , unequalled on any former agitation , and amidst all the persecution » e have to conte&d against from both Whig and Tory , ' we are increasing the members of our association with stoniEhing rapidity . We particularly advise the working classes to keep aloof from every agitation , Bave that ¦ whi ch will give to them political power , and not to lend their mighty power to accomplish any object but Hot of the People ' s Charter . A mighty move is now « deavoured to be got up by th . e Corn Law repealers , in order to divert the working classes from the agitation

      they are so nobly engaged in . The Com Law repealers are no friends to the people , they are a money-grubbing Bet of individuals , who are determined to enrich themselves at the expenee ef all whom they bring under theii tyrannical sway , however loud they may boast of ibeirfeelingsfor the poor . Theiractions speak louder than words , which proves that they are the greatest en ' emies to the working classes . They persecute tiiem in every way they possibly can , only by meeting in fair and open discussion ; this they nfrrinfr from , knowing that fee principles of the Charter are based upon the eternal wet of truth that cannot be undermined by flimsy argu-J&ents brought by such a crew of political hypocrites . They deprive us of places to meet in j they discharge all whom they may employ who bave the honesty to

      express their opinions , if they differ from their own ; and yet they would persuade us that they were Chartists . ' and if the ¦ working classes will only assist them to obtain a repeal of the Corn Laws , they will then go for the Charter ! Beware of wolves in sheep ' s clothing . They intend net what they promise ; they want to make a second reform agitation to accomplish their own ends , and then turn round and laugh at the credulity of working men . We warn tie Chartists of the folly , of agitating for a repeal of the Corn Laws , even if a repeal would benefit the country . Whilst the arisweracy have nnder tb / . ir command a standing army of butchers , and a base and dissolute priesthood , t here is no prospect of the Corn LawB being repealed ; for the landowners , for whose benefit they are kept on , ha v e

      iTed up to the extent , and even exceeded their ineotoes , they , consequently , have been compelled to mortgage their estates to pay the interest of the mort-£ ?? & > and if a repeal of the Corn Laws do take place , and the price of land be lowered , the rents of the farmer would be reduced , and those landowners , whose estates are mortgaged as a majority of them are , ( some of the landowners paying as much as three-fourths of the rent they receive in the shape of interest upon mortgages , } would be entirely ruined , left deep in debt , and nothing to pay with ; whilst tbe money-monger , who lent the money , would be benefitted ; and yet the landowners before the Com Laws can be repealed , must give their consent by passing tbe bill through the House of Lords . And what power has the Commons left to enforce them

      to pass it , even if & majority could be obtained to pass ii through the House of Commons ? Just none ; for if they stop the supplies , the Corn Law repealers would he tbe greatest lowers ; the trade cf the country being dried on by paper money and nctiuous capital , the money system would be entirely destroyed , anarchy and ¦ eonfusion become the order of the day . The landowners having the army to assist them , their sou being the officers would serve them , sooner than see the estate Of iheir father , the baronial castles of their ancestors going to the hands , of the money speculators , would cast down all who opposed them , like , the mower cutting down the ripe grass . Tea , we assure you , that so measure eon be obtained for tie relief of the people until t&eybave a control over their , representatives

      Give us , then , werking men , your support . TJnite , mite , for the purpose of obtaining political freedom . 8 irpport the forthcoming Convention with ill your might . Give your assistance at this time , Before your delegate can take his seat in the Convention , the' Bum of £ 18 must be raised . This sum your delegates have agreed to have in the hands of the treasurer , Mr . Smith , on the 23 th of February , at the latest No time most ha lost ; all hands must be at work . There must bs bo k * ng-: ng lack at this time . Let all the signatures be obtained to the Petition that poaiibly « "in be got , but let them be the signatures of all entitled * to

      the franchise . ^ Follow not the example of the Corn X-. w repealers , who , in . order to obtain as many signatures as tbe Chartists , are taking down the names of little children , and are even boasting at obtaining the signatures of children two and three times over . Aet honestly but determinedly , and nothing can stop you from obtaining your political rights as freemen . We fJl upon you to supply the required suin for the Con-Vfcntion without delay ; and that union and brotherly love may still increase amongst ub , and that "Universal Suffrage , and no surrender , may for ever be the metto of working men . W . Beeslet , District Secretary .

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      TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL CHASTER ASSOCIATION . My Dear Friends , —I have no donbt you will feel anxious to learn what I have been doing for some timo past , and I shall feel it my duty to give you a short aketeh ofmy labours in tbe cause during my tour in the "Wriou 3 parts of tbe country . In the course of my agitation since I arrived in th « metropolis for the purpose of meeting the numbers of the Executive , I have visited Ipswich and Norwich , in

      both of which places I addressed meetings , and procured an addition to the numbers of the Assocu . t : on . I would likewise have visited Chatham , but tie fog in the river prevented me from reaching that place in time , and consequently the peopJe had dispersed long before 1 reached Gravesend in the Ipswich steam boat . A second tiisappointme&t arose from an announcement in theSfar , to wiich I never gave my consent ; and I trust parties , in future , who advertise me to be at places at certain fetes , will , in the first place , ask me the eueslicn whether I can go or not

      I visited Canterbury , and lecturei in the Town-Hall to an audience who never heard of the Charter except from prejudiced sources . The impression was good , and an association was formed in the priest-ridden city , to whom I disposed of 50 cards , which , with 54 1 left at Ipevrich , strengthened the association In that part of the country tmbraced in the tonr by 104 new members . I then proceeded to Daventry , in Northamptonshire , where I addressed a respectable company of mj old friends , and caused an increase of members . I moved on , or rather marched , with a company of friends to Long B-eklty , where I addressed a very good paying audit acs in a barn , formed an association , and disposed of fifty cards .

      I aext marched , escorted as usual , through the snow to Pitchfarl , and was received by a joyful ptn ] of bells rung for the occasion . I lectured in a barn where there were two pi ^ s outside and two policemen inside . The pigs jfnwted , the police grumbled , and the people wer « gratified . The police were Bent for by an old l&dy , who either imagined we were going to storm' her house , or steal the pigs . The piga remained unmolested to digest the first Chartist lecture ever addressed to the swinish multitude , and the police , like all watch / al guardians on a frosty night , repaired to the nearest public house , for the purpose of drinking the old iady s health , at her especial expence . On the following evening I lectured in the Town Hall , -which wa 3 filled to oveifiowing -ly my constituents , and who were , by all accounts , sati&Sed that free trade was got > d enough abstractly , but likely to be ruinous , under present circumstances , if practically enforced , without the People ' s Charter .

      I proceeded to Wellingborongh , where-1 delivered two lectures , in & coach-maker ' s shop , and enrolled twenty-five new members , which fact is the best illustration of the effect < . f the lecture . At Ketttring I lectured twice , and attended a very large t ^ a-party , given by the ladies . Thirty cards were taken bt Ksttering , which , I cm happy to say , is Tery likely to take a leading part in the movement . I proceeded onwards to Weldon-in-the-Woods , w here I found bat few Chartists to begin with ; they were , however , cf the right sort , and the agricultural lapourers were very attentive .

      _ Oundle was the last place la Northampton which I ¦ nsited , and I had much pleasure in meeting with a Tenerable and respected old gentleman , of the name of H&mes , who has dutributed an immense number of tiaetsofsU kinds , who contributed Largely to the old Convention , and who provided a place of meeting . Chartism is much indebted to Sir . Hames , and he has my thanks , as one of the party , for his unequalled exertions in the cause , surrounded as he is "by prejudice and hostile interests . I am , ruy dear Friends , Y gut ' s , in the cause , P . M . M'JDorALL . My address is 1 , Shoe-lane , London . " Wlabeach , Cambridgeshire , Jan . 17 th , 18 i 2 .

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      TO XHE MEMBERS , SUB-SECRETARIES , AND CfENERAL COUNCILLORS OF THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Bb . ot . heb . Dexocrats , — Nothing can arrest the rapid progress of our principles except our own divisions or apathy . Divisions ever have been the bane of the progress of the cause of justice and humanity ; observe how the Whigs and Tories cover every fault they possibly can in the parties in their ranks .. I have I invariably found that the best way to forward our great a n d sa cred cause is , to avoid jealousy ; every good democrat will be appreciated according to his deserts I wish that parties writing to me would pre-pay their letters , I have had lately to pay for ssveral letters twopence each , whereas if they were pre-paid they would come free to me , and only cost the senders one penny each . Such places as have not had cards < san have them by applying to me . I would feel obliged to the gentleman whs remitted tsn shillings from Bedrutb , in Cornwall , for cards , if he would write to me again ; when he «> n > H have done so , I will transmit cards to

      him . I also wish te know if Mr . Martin , of Brampton , has receited the cards I sent him . I received a letter from Boston , yesterday , stating that cards were wanting , they remitted me £ l-0 s ,-6 d . for the cards ; this is the fourth town in Lincolnshire enrolled in the National Charter Association . The association n » w exists in every town of note in England ; it has a strong and firm footiEg in London , t he m e t ropolis of Europe ; in Manchester , the great commercial mart ; in Liverpool , in Birmingham , Newcastle , Carlisle , Leeds , York , Hull , Barnsley , Bradford , Dawsbury . Huddersfield , Halifax , Oldham , Ashton , Rochdale , Bulton , Stockport , Chester , Macclesfleld , D < srby , Lonehborough , No tt i n gham , Leicester , the Potteries , Stafford , Coventry , Warwick , W orces t er , Merthyr Tydvil , Brighton , Bath , BriBtol , NoTwich , Ipswich , Canterbury , Durham , Sunderland , Chatham , Portsmouth , Isle ef Wight , Oxford , Cambridge , and hundreds of other places .

      Ton see we have penetrated into the seats of State Church intolerance , viz ., Canterbury , Durha m , Chester , and Norwich ; into the great sea ports , into villages , hi almost every county in England and Wales ; into the University towns of Oxford and Cambridge . I now ask when were our principles bo rapidly extended before in so Bhort a space of time , with such little means ? I am particularly anxious that the following places should authorise the sub-Secretaries to write to me , viz . : — Wandswoith Deptford Heywood Selby Queensbead Churchwell Beverley Newcastle-nnder-Lyne Walsall Birmingham , Swallow-street Coventry Stapleford % Ruddington Dalston New Mill 3 Glessop Blackwood Yarm Percy Main Hartlepool Milford Seghill Cramlington Hazlegrove Wilsden Stanningley Kingswood-hill Ripon Boroughbridgs Eridlington Chelsea Wolverton Biratal Cleckheaton Dodworth Woolwich Lepton Chatham Hollingwood Winslow Northwich Bridport Royton Exeter Tonhridge Birkeahead Welksham Silsden Camborne . Com- Driffield wall Wednesbury Sunderland Nuneaton Croydon Idle I sincerely hope that the sub-Secretaries of the above will immediately correspond with ' me . I return my most sincere thanks to Messrs . Bairstow and Taylor for sending me the names of the sub-Secretaries wherever they establish the Association . Years in the cause , John Campbell , Sec .

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      THE NEW " NEW MOVE- " MR . BIGGS AND HIS MIDLAND COUNTIES ' CHARTER . The position of the people and the w liberal " middle-classes of this country affords an illustration of the old fable of Mohs > mmed and the moQnt » in which but for the consequences involved in and tie circumstances which have led to it might bis amuging . Most heartily , however , do we rejoice to see that the well-schooled people understand their lesson and are resolved to perfectly play out their part . Whatever of bnllying and Mastering and kicking and vapouring and coaxing and wheedling ma ; be resorted to , tbe mountain will not badge ; and Mohahmed , if he purpose to effect ft janction must positively advance , not merely halfway , bnt the wkole distance . The Whig middle classes succeeded , ten years ago , in persuading the people to win power for them , with the distinct bargain that it should be used for the protection of the people and shared with them ; they used that power for purposes of oppression , robbery , and spoliation under the name and forms of law ; they were reminded of their compact by the abused

      and deceived people ; they replied by proclamations , police-bludgeons , military pageant 3 , unjust arrests , mock trials , murderous pre-determined sentences , d-ongeons , and tortures ; the Bpirit of the people was aroused ; they were hurled from the seats they had denied ; and the sceptre was wrested from their grasp . They are now beginning to find that the prosperity of tho wicked is not for ever ; that a reaction must eome , and does come . They are beginning to feel how very powerless they are without the aid of the abused and vilified and insulted people . Seeing this , their first thought was to neutralise the power they had called into activity by d ividing its forces j hence the many attempts by corrupting or cajoling venal or weak-minded leaders to split up the people into sections ; to convert the sections into factions , and so to occupy them in destroying each other : hence the " new move , " the Brewster factios , and tbe other efforts that have been made and are yes making to destroy that unity of -action which is the anchor of the people ' s hope . Thb game has been tried to surfeiting , but ineffectuall y : t h e peop le do butlangh in the face 3 of their tools , and drum them oat of the ranks .

      Unable to destroy the people ' s energies , they perceive their only chance of maintaining their own position and of regaining power to lie in the devising of some means whereby it Bhould be again purchased to their use ; and they are very anxious therefore to close up the wounds they have to rudely opened and to knit the people again to them Hence the Corn Law Repeal clap-irap which has S 3 signally failed as to have become a bye word of contempt ; and hence too the more recent and more wily move of " complete suffrage" to which the aid and . countenance of Mr . Sictbge has been obtained ; in which the vague principle of Universal Suffrage is recognised , hat with a careful exclusion of all those necessary fences of detail which are alike

      important for the obtaining , guiding , and retaining of it All these are alike unavailing ; the time for cajoling the people has gone by ; they have long since settled in iheir minds the principle of Uki ^ ebsal Scffkage ; they have prepared and laid down a plan for the useful working of that principle ; and they don't choose to begin their work again , because the middle classes find it only now convenient to acknowledge their ignorance . Hence , to resume our simiie , tbe people like the mountain have remained firm ; while the middle classes , like Mohammed , have been mouthing and mouthing , and coaxing and coaxing , and are now beginning to think seriously of coming to the moon tain .

      As a last coaxing effort , Mr . Wm . Biggs , of Leicester , has thrown Mb delicately-formed tub to the great whale . He gives a flourish of trumpets preparatory , which is echoed by several Liberal " papers of an amended Charier , which was to remote from the People's Charter all that was unjost or offensive , and cause it to be adopted by the middle classes ; he is permitted to occupy b ' ix mortal colomns of a large folio newspaper , with the fall-length bantling at its birth ; and what is the result ! Why an abortion , so perfect , that it is alike spurned by aUparties ! Poor Mr . Biggs . ' What an ill-used man How shameful . ' that the naughty people , and the still more uangbty middle classes , for whose service it-was specially adapted , won't touch his amended Charter ! We have waited to see the answer of the Dissenting Ministers and Midland Counties' Reformers" to

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      the very modest " devolving" of Mr . Biggs' bantling upen them , before we said anything About it . That reply Mr . Biggs furnishes ia the following letter to the Editor of the paper which inserted his u amended Charter" : — ?• Leicester , Jan . 6 , 1842 . " Sir , —In your last week ' s paper , you were kind enough to insert a letter of mine , i n th e c o ur se of which I intimated my intention ' of devolving the success or

      failure of tbe Amended Charter upon the dissenting ministers of the midland counties . ' I bave , since that time , had tbe pleasure of seeing many of those gentlemen , and I and that though they generally agree in the principles of the Amended Charter , and will have no objection u citizens and friends of civil and religious liberty , at fitting times and seasons , to give to it , in as far as they approve it , their support , yet that , as disseating ministers , they are disinclined to be so intimately identified with it as I proposed .

      "I regret further to Bay , that the result of my correspondence , with the Whig Radical Reformers , and dissenting ministers of Nottingham , Derby , and Loughborough , as to the proposed Political Convention , Is not encouraging or satisfactory . " Under these circamatances , the plan must be left to the calm consideration and reflection of Reformers generally . So far as I am individually concerned , i t is enough that I have redeemed my promise of introducing it to the public . I believe firmly that the working classes will consult their real interest by adopting it

      I believe further , that the middle classes may support it with perfect security ; but of this both classes must constitute themselves the judges : it is a subject on which it would be gratuitous on all sides to be precipitate . Having no greater personal interest in the progress of public liberty than the poorest man in tbe empire , I can be well content that some other more feasible proje ct m ay be laun c hed , which may hare a greater prospect of immediate or ultimate success . " I remain , Sir , " Your obedient servant ,

      . ¦ " William Biggs . " So that Mr . Biggs now figures something like a Chinese mandarin , without his button . His " amended Charter" , instead of being " the Midland Counties ' Charter , " is poor Mr . Biggs' lame bantling ; kicked out by the Dissenting Ministers , disowned by the Whig-Radicals , and cuffed equally by the Nonconformist , and the good Chartist Parson , Humphrey Price ! Well ; well ! these things will happen . The best of projects are sometimes frustrated j and as heavy a fall as this has ere now overtaken as great a man as Mr . Biggs .

      We have a spice of that indiscriminate charity in our disposition which would induce us , had we the means , to keep an open refuge for the destitute ; and in the true spirit of this disposition , as Mr . Biggs' friends "bowed him out" we proceed to " take him in , " and to introduce him to the notice of our readers . We have read this " Midland Counties' Charier" ' mo 3 t carefully ; and find dishonesty in every lineament . He sets out with a flaming enlogium on the principles ot the People ' s Charter . He says , speaking in the character of " ( he undersigned Ministers of Religion , members of Reform Societies , &c . " : —

      " We hold that the general principles of the Charter are correct and Indisputable ; that they lie at the foundation of all democratic governments ; that they are old as time , Immutable as fate , eternal as the hills , and are at once the pride and birthright of the human race . " He proceeds to assert that the design of the original framers of the Charter " to cause the Radicals of the United Kingdom to form , if possible , a concentration of their principles ia a practical form , upon which they could be brought to unite , and to

      which they might point , as a Charter they are determined to obtain" ; in other words , to induce a union of all reformers in the empire , for the purpose of effecting a grand national organic change in the Parliamentary representation , based upon the principles of the "Equal Rights of Man , " has signally failed ; and that though the Charter has been now three years before the public , it is as far from effecting the object designed , as it was when it was first launched into political existence .

      These are his reasons for Bitting down to remodel and to purge of its impurities the Charter ; of whose p , xnciples he has spoken so highly : and after labouring , as we have said , through six long columns , the " amendments" he proposes are to give the vote to all persons of twenty-five years instead of twentyone , —to make the residence qualification twelve months instead of six , —and to fix the duration of Parliaments at three years instead of one . With these alterations he regards the Charter as : — " A practical scheme of political reform , which , whilu it Ls based upon first principles , may in our honest and conscientious conviction , come into immediate operation to morrow , withont the slightest insecurity to life , liberty , or property . "

      Now , the first natural feeling of a honest man at sight of this statement is , Why then make a fuss about such trifling matters of difference as these 1 Why not at once , seeing that the Charter has been three years before the public , and has therefore many admirers and honest advocates , merge these slight and inconsiderable masters of difference on detail for the attainment of the great end sought ; a cordial agreement on the principles ' }" This we say is the first thing that strikes & honest mind . The end avowedly sought is an union of the middle classes with the Chartists , for the purpose of honestly promoting the great principles of the Charter ; and if this end were really sought , and if the Charter was so near to Mr . Biggs' mind as to need

      tnly these alterations , and if the middle classes were very anxious about the union for the purpose avowed , there can be no manner of doubt that they would sacrifice their own predilections on these points , rather than hazard the continuance of that disagreement which they affect to deplore . This is the clear-sightsd view of jthe matter , taken by the Rev . Mr . Price , who , in a letter to the Leieester Chronicle , says : — " If Mr . Biggs can win over the middle classes to the Charter cause , without compromising a particle of true liberty , I for one will gratefully honour him as one of the noblest friends of the working man , and of the united empire . Let Mr . Biggs proceed in his design , but in snch a way as not to stop others . The first ,

      which may now be called the old Charter , is moat probably , rooted in the very souls of hundreds of thousands under five and twenty years of age . Such ardent spirits , downright in earnest , might possibly be brought to contemplate , their liberty held five or six years before their eyes , in abeyance ; and thus , after having finished one five or seven years' apprenticeship , to look forward to another . But this will cow become a severe trial . Mr . Biggs should have come forth somewhat earlier with his a mend m ents , and I am not prepared to Bay that they are not amendments . * * Though myself one of t h e m iddle classes , and approving of Mr . Biggs's amendments , I for the present adhere to the old Charter for two reasons : first , because my main trust , under God , is in the working men ; and next , because the old Charter is rooted in their hearts . *'

      In the same spirit of manly sincerity , the Nonconformist , after stating his objections to the laying down of details at all , for which he thinks the minds of the middle classes yet unprepared , exclaims : — " Nor do we see anything so much more valuable in a twelvemonth ' s residence , and twenty-five years of age , regarded as pre-requisites of the franchise over six months' residence and twenty-one years of age , as to render an entire change of the principles upon which complete suffrage is based , either necessary or justifiable . Were the whole matter talked over now for the first time , we will not aver that Mr .

      Biggs Might not adduce ttTong arguments why the one set of checks upon the suffrage were to be preferred to the other . But why , when the other plan has been some years before the world , when it is based npon intelligible principles , and when it affords a guarantee for the fit exercise of the franchise , but an inconsiderable fraction less trustworthy than that proposed by Mr . Biggs—why now , at the commencement of an important movement , the suspicions of Working men are to be excited by provisions which , after all , will not allay the fears of the middle classes , is to our minds , we confess , a question to which we can furnish no satisfactory reply . "

      We confess that had not Mr . Biggs himself farnisbed it , we should have been as much at a loss for a reply as oar contemporary . Mr . Biggs has , however , taken great pains not to be mistaken . He hasj as we before said , stamped dishonesty upon every lineament of his new Charter . His professed object is to produce union with the Chartists . We have already seen enough to shew that that is not his purpose ; and lest we should , by any possibility , mistake him , he begins this crusade for union with a volley © f senseless and scurrilous invective against the Chartist leaders . " The conduct of some of the Chartist leaders has been strangely inconsistent : —with " equal

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      rights" npbn their lips , they have bee * practically intolerant to all who differed from them ; with a professed sympathy for the millions , they have perpetuated their distresses ; with an avowed hatred of Toryism . they have ooalesqed tvith and supported Tories ; with a claim to superior patriotism , they have been practically the vrorat enemies of civil liberty this country ever saw ; they have thus alarmed , abased , and vilified those whose assistance was indispensable to their success , and without whose

      concurrence they had not the slightest shadow of a chance ; they have alienated friends , strengthened enemies , obstructed practical measures of relief , and have aided to restore that party to the Government , from which they have not the smallest chance of dislodging it;—and yet , with all these merits and performances "full blown , and fresh as May , " affect now to wonder there can be no uhioa between them and the middle classes , when they themselves are the guilty authors of the separation !"

      This is the mUd and conciliatory language of & middle-class writer who seeks an union with the Chartists ! We don't wonder that the Dissenting Ministers are ashamed of their connection with such a man as this ; bo nry bungling a workman in cloakmakirig ! ;« Not less Bingularly unfortunate is Mr , Biggs in the consistency of his animadversions on and proposed alterations in the Charter with his professions of respect and veneration for its principles . He holds : —

      " That the general principles of the Charter are correct and indisputable ; that they lie at the foundation of all democratic governments ; that they are old as time , immutable as fate , eternal as the hills , and are at once the pride and birthright of the human race " ¦• . ¦ ¦ : . -. " \ . ¦ ., " .. - . . ¦ ¦ ' ' ,. . " ¦ . And yet two out of the three of his proposed alterations are in the very teeth of those principles , and { 0 a third he accords but a very grumbling kind of assent I The first great principle of the Charter i Universal Suffrage , and Mr . Biggs affirms his cordial belief in this great cardinal principle by proposing an alteration which would disfranchise a very large portion of those who now have the suffrage !

      Another great principle of the Charter is Annual or Sessional Parliaments—and this principle Mr . Biggs labours , through a full third of his document , to upset and . quotes numerous authorities to show its mischievous tendency ! Another great principle is the negation of Property qualification . Upon this principle Mn Biggs says : —• " We doi not as practical men entirely agree as to the expediency of this proposition , yet . acting upon

      the principle with which we set out , of agreeing in all cases where we can without a compromise of our integrity , or honest convictions , we shall not insist upon any particular property qualification as a sine qua non . * * But as we apprehend that . * . in this old European world of ours , ' and particularly in our day and generation , ( other considerations being equal ) men of property \ vould always be prefemd , we leave this clause of the Charter untouched . "

      This is Mr . Biggs ' mode of holding that "the general principles of the Charter are correct and indisputable ; that they lie at the foundation of all democratic governments ; that they are old as time , immutable as fate , eternal as the hills , and are at once'the pride and birthright of the human race" ! ; - .. . . _ ' ¦ _ ¦ " : ' . . .. . . ¦ ¦/ ' . ; " . Really , the thing , after all , is a good joke to laugh at ! And then the "indispensable importance of the middle classes to the Chartists" 2 Without

      them the Chartists have no manner of chance 1 The Charter agitation "has signally failed "! It has been " three years before the public , and is yet no nearer the attainment of its objeot than at first ! " Good , simple Mr . Biggs whence came this" ainended Charter" of your ' s ? How long must we have waited for it , if your friends , the Whigs , had yet been on the sunny-side of Downing Street , and if the Charter agitation had never risen ? Answer that ; Schoolmaster 1 The Nonconformist is not quite bo astute . He Bays that the appearance of this "Amended Charter "

      " Indicates , that the accession of the Tories to power has given : a mighty impulse to the cause of tbe people , and that the removal of the Whigs has restored to more than its wonted elasticity the reforming spirit of the present day . Leading men of the middle class are beginning to shake off the lethargy with which the opiate of Whig professions had fairly overcome them ; and as , one by one , they are brought round to consciousness by

      the cold water of Tory rule , they discern the amazing difference there is between the airy dreaois of stimulated fancy , and the obstinate realities of actual and waking life . We hail their restoraHon to the ranks w hich , for a brief period , and under a temporary hallucination , they quitted—and we trust the time is not far distant , when the reformers of every class will b « again animated with one soul , and march down in one compact and irresistible phalanx upon the common foe " ' ¦"¦¦ ¦ . - ' ' : , - ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ - . ¦ ¦ ¦ ' - . ¦ . ' " ¦

      This is just what we have always said . We always told the people , maugre all the grumbling of some good Cnartists at our " protpry" policy , that a bleak view ; of Downing-Btreet , was the only thing for bringing round the Whigs and making Chartists of them . See how the thing works J Let this Charter' of Mr . Biggs , answer . Let the people but keep true to themselves and their own Charter , as they have hitherto done , and we stake our lives on it that when NLohammed is fairly satisfied that the mountain won't move ; he will soon come to the mountain 1

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      Mr pear Friends , —You invited me , after my incarceration , to visit your country for the purpose , as your letters stated , of proving that your affection towards me bad hot abated . In compliance with your wishes , I went to Scotland before I had visited any district of England , and after attending nearly fifty large meetings I had the heartfelt consolation to find that you were a people worth suffering for , while nothing more increased my affection towards you than the hearty response with which my appeals on behalf of my native land were met .

      For seven years I have laboured in England and Scotland in the cause of national liberty ; and although almost exiled from the loved land for which my family have suffered an unprecedented martyr- , dom , yet have I at all times , out of season and in season , brought the woes of Ireland before you . When I went amongst you in 1 J 836 I found you distracted between , the undefined tests of O'Cbnnell and Durham , as they were called ; and then , for the first time , did I , in person , unite the whole of the working classes in one great national union . My subsequent visits to Scotland have been numerous and expensive ; and it was my delight to hold yon up in all my speeches and writings as the stronghold of democracy .

      In October and November last , I say , I attended nearly fifty large publio meetings , at each and all of which the National Petition was unanimously adopted , while a distinct pledge to assist Ireland in her struggle for redemption was also carried . Daring my sojourn , a National Convention of Scottish delegates was spoken of , and , "Without my knowledge , tho good men of Eldersey , the birth place of the immortal Wallace , did me the honour to elect me

      as their delegate . Rutherglen followed the example of Eldersley , and by its election strengthened my hands by the increased confidence . While I was in Scotland no opposition , not any , was offered to the National Petition . No amendment was moved to its adoption—all was unanimous , till those , whose duty it was to preserre union , met in . Convention oh the third day of January ; and to the proceedings of that body I shall now apply myself .

      I should have ymtieu to you on the subject in last week ' s Star- i but I preferred waiting till you had the whole of the proceedings before you ; and even now , jn . consequence of the neglect of ; my reporter , you are in but very imperfect possession of the faots . Nay , I cannot make head or tail of his infernal trash myself , although I was present . I must now relieve the proceedings from the obscurity in which neglect and treachery have enveloped them .

      On Monday , the 3 rd , the delegates met . I was not present upon that day , and I have no reason to regret my absence , as I learn that Brewster , the old torment , occupied the whole day in an attempt to sow discord and confusion : he was baffled , however , by the good sense of the delegates . Nothing of mora importance than putting down this firebrand occurred on Monday , beyond the very discre-

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      ditable manner in which one of the synod of Glasgow procured : his election . Brewster said that any four or five persons might elect a delegate ; and on . the instant off ran Mr . Charles M'Ewin to a few houses called Gavan , tapped at a few doors , whioii were opened , and oa Tuesday , their pious representative , presented his credentials and was && mitted ; thus leaving Gatton and Old Sarum in the shade . ¦• '¦ ¦¦ . ¦ : - ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' ; ¦ •¦ . ' ¦ : ; ' . ¦ ¦ " ¦ - \ : . \ - V

      Yoii shall now hear how the principle of equal representation was practically carried out by the Church-Chartist Synod of Glasgow ; Fifty-four delegates was the greatest number that voted , and of these fifty-four Glasgow alone returned seventeen Aye , seventeen ! and of those seventeen the following were Wbigs : —rank ; Whigs , and compose the Chartist presbytery of Glasgow . M'Farlane , he was said to be elected for Montrose , Malcolm , ( for some country district ) , ^ Pattesori , Currie , Jack ; M'Ewin , Dixon , Cassels , Rodgers , and some other whose name I do not recollect . Now , all these ran about 2 ike rats , endeavouring to get a constituency ; and I

      am bold to assert that altogether they did not represent SOOof the working classes of any part of the world . Added to theae we had Brewster , and three of his tools chosen by the shopkeepers of Paisley , and a person of the name of Mitchell , elected at a twopenny ticket meeting at Aberdeen , one of the Calton Hill bucks , and subsequently one of the ' new move" gentry . Now , Proudfoot , Ross , Colquhoun , and Meyers , ( the treasurer of the Chartist Church ) , as fine a fellow as lives , and myself were also elected for parts of Glasgow , Messrs . Proudfoot and Ross being bound down by the instructions of their constituents .

      Thus ,- there were ten Glasgow preachers , all Whigs—not a drop of Chartist blood in their veinsfour Brewsterites and Mitchell , making a total of fifteen ; and will any man in Scotland tell me thatthe set represent 500 working men 1 and yet we had to contend against them . In consequence of M'Douall ' s very excellent letter in last week ' s Star , I shall be explicit . That letter was written under a misapprehension . It was written under the impression that the vote of the Synod , by which we were to have had two petitions , remained undisturbed , while , thanks to Lowery , for a very excellent amendment which rescinded the one of the Synod , we were spared the disgrace of a double petition .

      I shall now lay before you all that happened of importance during Tuesday and Wednesday . On Tuesday Jack moved the rejection of the petition and the adoption of a new petition for Scotland . One of the saints , of course , seconded it , and that firm and noble fellow , John Wallace M'Crea , moved an amendment for the adoption of the petition as it stood . To this Lowery moved another amendment , to the effect that all places where the National Petition had been adopted should go on procuring signatures ; and that in future , to prevent disunion , all extraneous matter should ba omitted from a National Petition . The

      vote was first taken upon the amendments , when M'Crea ' s was carried by a large majority . M'Crea ' s amendment and Jack ' s resolution were then put when the numbers were equial , 27 and 2 T ; the Chairman having voted , and Rodger who was pledged by his constituents to support the Petition , having refused to vote . In this dilemma the Chairman was called upon to give his casting vote . I , with others protested against this , as he had voted before ; however , he requested five minutes reflection in the vestry room , and at the end of that period , he gave the casting vote against the National Petition .

      Emboldened by their temporary triumph , Patteson , another of the Synod , moved a resolution deprecating all interference with meetings which bad for their objeot the removal of what he termed '' infamous monopolies" —a most rascally resolution—one calculated to hand us over , bound neck and heels , to the League ; the Synod to a man , with Brewster and his tools and a few who were looking to thePresbytary for preferment , voted for this ; but we carried an amendment of Lowery ' s , recommending the old course of explaining our principles and taking tbe vote at all meetings , by a sweeping majority .

      On Wednesday morning the committee brought in a new petition for Scotland , and Brewster , who objected to auy details , even the mention of Repeal and the Poor Law Amendment Act , opposed it ^ because there was no mention made of Paisley I Now , Scotchmen j what think you of that man ' s brain 1 Did I not always tell you that he was "daft" However to this petition there was some objection , but it passed . ( Continued nejt week . )

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      TO THE EDITOR OP TUB NORTHERN STAR . Sir—In justice to those delegates , who , in the late Char . tiat Convention , supported and yoted in favour of the National Petition , i think their names and votes ought to have been recorded in the reports sent you by your Glasgow correspondent I much regret that this has not been done , as I perceive from Dr . M'Douall ' s letter , published in last Saturday ' s Star , some delegates are accused ( and I have good reason to believe justly ) of not voting , who ; had instructions from their constituents to vote for the Petition .

      Now , as the names of thoae who acted thus treacherously to their constituents , and , in fact , to their country , are not mentioned , and lest I may be reckoned among those who objected to the Petition , I beg leave to state , for the satisfaction of my English friends , that I supported it to the utmost of my ability ; and on its being rejected by the casting vote sf the chairman , he having voted against it previously , I supported and voted for Mr . Xowery ' a amendment . By inserting the above in the Star ot next Saturday , ydu will confer a special favour on , Yours very respectfully , Duncan Robertson . Motherwell , Jan . 16 , 1842 ,

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      Brief Rules for the Government of all whs write for Newspapers . —Write legibly . Make as few erasures and interlineations as possible In writing names of ' personsand ^ places be more particular thanusualto make every letter distinct and clear—also in using words not English-Write only on one side of the paper . Employ no abbreviations whatever , but write out every word in . full . Address communications -not to any particular person , but to ' ^ The Ed itor . " Finally , when you sit down to write , don't be in a hurryi Consider that hurried writing makes slow printing . HoRTON Reform Association . — We have no room for the address ; at all events not this week . Belfast Chartists . —We are compelled to reserve their report till next week . T . S . —The Sheffield Political Institute is an isolated

      body , altogether dtsttnet from the Charter AssO ' ciation ; bjit professing to advocate the same principles and to seek the accomplishment of the sameobject . ;; H . Johnson , Portsea , is not the H . Johnson whom we lately designated "a fool , and something more . " W . Cordeux —The reports of the York Chartists ¦ will be always subjected to precisely the same discretionary process as fill other reports sent to this office . We have further to request , that in future they will confine their resolutions to such matters of local or general policy as eome properlywithin their scope , and leave the business affairs of this office to those who have its manage ' ment . - ¦'¦ . . : ¦ ' ' : '' '• .

      J ) Ehra . —TheSaddlew 6 rth Chartists wish to ask Mr . O'Connor , through the medium ofthe Star , if'he can pay them a visit some time s 6 qn , on his way to or from Leeds . Saddleworth is in as cor ? rupt a state as London : hundreds of working men would gladly come forward but for the tyrariny oftheirmasters , shopkeepers , andparsons , They return their thanks to the Editor of the Star for Ms able qdvoeacy of the rights of labour , and to Mr . Penny , ofMilk [ Bridge , forhisletters te Mr . Stdnsfield . Arthur O'ISeil ; sub Secretary to the Redfedrnstreet Chartists , wishes that ail communications intended for aim be addressed , for the future , to the pare of Mr . James Wheeler , 9 , Whittle-street

      Manchester . : i Bolton . —All letters and communications to be sent to William Baird , No . 7 i Flash-street , Bolton , Lancashire . Persons holding Petition Sheets are requested to bring them in as soon as possible to the rooms in Howell-croft . H . A . DoNALDSpN .--r « cet « eof . The Chartists of'Spittte-gate , Granthdm , willpIease to write to Mr . J . Sweet , Goose-gate , Nottingham , and state if they can aid their brethren in supporting the Convention . Joseph Andrews . —The statements of shoemakers ' wages by all means ; but mind and be correctsend not \' a word which can be disputed . We cannot answer his question , „

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      Patt H'Twoultbr is a sad simpleton . He had evidently , as he says , but l&te \ y seen the Northern " ¦ ¦ ¦ '¦ . " ! " ¦ ¦ ¦ Star , or he would have known that all his object iions about Corn Law Repeal have been met and replied to in it again and again . Kettering Chartists will see that Dr . M'DouaU's - letter ^ has rendered their report unnecessary . General Secretary ' s Address . —rAfr . John Campbell , 18 , Adderley-street i Shaw's Brow , Maw Chester . ¦ ^ V ; V' ¦¦ . /¦; : ) ' ¦¦ , . ' ' ¦ ¦ . ¦' .., ¦ v ' v-Hanley Chartists complain of their brief reports being curtailed . We can assure them that we do it with reluctance , but have no alternative . We areobligedto > curtail ' all . reportsasimuch aspos sible . I ) out ffanlet )' friendsi werehere to see the amount of labour this causes , they would . readily believe thatic 0 would gladly excuse a por-: tion of it if possible , : Hanley Females . —Their address next week .

      Mr . T . Falvjsy an © our Manchester Reportbb — -We have received a letter from our Manchester Correspondent in reference to the letter of . Mr * Falvey noticed in our last , defending the - accuracy of his report . As we denied insertion to Mr * Falvey's letter , we do not think it would be fair to hisert this . Enoiigh that our reporter affirms his report lobe true in every particular , and appeals to the audience and the local press for corroboration . tie has also enclosed exlraets from the Manchester and- Corn Law press , which bear out the statements of his letter . Mr . Campbell wishes that some person , would forward to him a Northern Star of the 5 th of Octo-¦ ' - ier- , 1839 . ¦ ¦; ¦ . : ¦ .. ; : . ' _ All Letters to be addressed as usual to Mr . Campbell , Salford , until a further notice appears in the ., " ' ¦ Star . /¦ ' . ¦ ' r ¦ ¦¦¦¦ : f . -: : ¦ ' - ' . ¦ r ' ] ' . ;¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ :.. ¦ .: ¦ ' ; " Support for the Executive . —William Fairburn

      ¦ ¦¦ writes ;— ¦' : ¦ .-:. ¦ ¦ ' ¦; . v : . / ' . ¦' .. " "¦ .. . ' .. -. ' ; - ¦• " If you will allow me , I will point put a plan to the Chartists of England whereby they may raise a fund not only for the Executive , but also for the Executive to be able to employ something lite fifty able lecturers for this country , namely : There is 300 Chartist Associations , and by each Association getting up a tea party and ball once in six months , the proceeds , after paying the expences , to go to the fund , and , with g

      week . By so doing , it would be the means of spreading bur principles in placas wkere toey ara unknown . Then there would be the additional members which would be got , and the cards of : membership , being paid for regularly every month , would enable the Executive to go on with their good work ; which woold . Btrike terror to the oppressors of the working millions . —The Char" tists of Wednesbuiy intend to get up a tea party and ball shortly , fofrthe benefit of the Executive ; and they hope thatT the above plan will be acted * upon by all the Chartists of England . " Plan for the support of the Executive , and the Cause generally . —A Factory Youth propasesthe following plan : — * Let the Association

      rooms be opened two nights , per : week , or on Sundays if more convenient , for the purpose of teaching reading , writing , accountsj < £ c ., and let two , or more , competent persons be appointed by the Association to each room as teachers , who may be changed quarterly , or otherwise , and whosei : service ! must be performed gratis—each pupil to pay one penny per night . There , are thousands of yiung persons who , like myself , are confined in the factories during the day , that would be glad to ] see such a plan established for their moral arid intellectual improvement . I would strongly recommend the above to the consideration of those who are in the habit of meetin at the public-houses . Let them immediately

      take rooms , and commence supporting the Executive and the cause generally according to the above plan , which will at the same time be the means of spreading sound information amongst the rising generation—a subject which ought to be kept in viewby every real philanthropic mind . But , setting asidejhe moral and intellectual vievo of the effect which such apian is calculated to produce , let us see what uiould be the effect of it in another point of view , if only partially carried out . Suppose that out 6 f the 300 towns which at present compose the Association , only 150 could be induced to put the plan into operation , and the attendance of pupils was , upon an average , thirty-six , at each room ; then thirty-six

      , at one penny each nighty would raise 6 s * for the two nights per week , and that multiplied by 150 would [ produce a weekly sum of £ 45 , which is equal to the weekly contributions of 10 , 800 members ! and that carried forward would i in a year ' s time , produce the sum of £ 2 , 340 !! With : swh a sum at the disposal of the Chartist body , could nothing lie done ? Unhappy Ireland might have missionaries sent over to her , and her long-deluded sons might lie made to see their true interests ; in short , a steady fire might be kept up on the citadel' oj ' corruption , which would speedily compel its factious occupants to surrender . " ' Chartist Tokens of Honour . — . 4 Correponden writes thus : — : :

      " Some time ago I observed in the valuable paper of which you are the Editor a few lines onthe subject of presenting every Chartist who waa suffering in prison at that time , for his advocacy of the good cause , with a Medal , inscribed with his name , the date of his arrests , sentence , name of the Judge , &c , to serve as a token of gratitude to himself , as well aa to be worn on public eccaaiona , and be an heirloom to bis familyi "Now , Sir , I know not how this agreeable proposition fell to the ground ; but it appears it is forgotten > and perhaps it was laid aside for lack of funds to carry it out : ¦ ¦ ¦" ; - ' '• . ¦ _ ¦'' ; ; . ' ¦ ' ¦ . / . ' . ' , ' ¦ : . ' ' ¦ . ¦ . ¦ ' ¦ . ; . " .- : : ;¦ " But juat at this time i when the Executive is sadly in want of the means of pursuing their object , I think

      a goodly sum might be raised by having 500 medals of the ' above description ^ and eaeh individual to ] pay for his own . Then there might , be some use for the tricolour of the ' Woolwich CJadefc , ' as they would surely pay for their own , as well as Feargas ' s ; and if any profit remained , let it gq to the Executive . : ¦ ¦¦' : ¦ . ; . ¦¦' ' . _ '¦¦ ' ¦ ¦ >¦ : ¦' .., - . '" . ' ¦ -. - . : - ; ; > "•;¦"¦ '' Surely the high-minded and intelligent individnab who ; . ; . wer 8 incarcerated would > e proud to / wr petuate their names amongst their progeny , and t&e cause of which they were the advocates : and I fe » l Batisfied tho heroic Feargus would endeavour to see the objeet carried oh $ on a scale worthy its importance , particularly as he has lived to see bis

      own in circulation , and coveted by every lover of liberty . I would respectfully suggest , then , tha t stfips' be taken to carry ont this desirable objecfc , by the appointment of a Committee , o r some othe r expeditious method , if only to aid the Executive . " Hoping this proposal may meet your approbation and the , public eye , as well as the proposition of out intelligent friend at iGhichester , , I ' .- - ' . - "I remain , Sir , . ¦¦ " A lover of equality , and "One of the Sufferers . " " P . S . There would be no need for a head on the medal , an emblem of Freedom would answer quite as well . ¦¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦¦ "' . ' ¦ - ¦ . " ¦ ; . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦" - . ' " -

      BlSLEY . —PlSTRIBUTION OF THE FtfNDS OF THE MANUFACTURERS' Relief Committee . — -A correspondent , who sighs "Abel D . Cook" and who stales himself ready to prove his assertions on oath , writes xisi that the portion of the funds of the Manufacturers' Relief Committee sent to Bisley , is being shamefully misapplied ; that a system of favouritism and exclusion is carried on in its distribution , which , if true , is abomincf ble . He says . •— , ' . ;' .. ; / . •'¦' . "¦'¦ ::-- ^" - : - "On Thursday , December 30 , 18 il , a person who has been left destitute by the death , of an only parent , applied for some relief from this fund , but was refused ; the alleged reason being that she kept a Chartist lodger in her bouse , and that as long as she kept him she should have no relief ; though the parties knew that she had no other dependence Another person was refused , because he had made

      and mended shoes for the said Chartist ; and permitted him to frequent his house : this being given as the only reason for refusing relief . Other persons , who are actually , starving for want of the common necessarm of life , have been refused relief upou equally frivolous grounds : some because they bad parish relief , to the extraordinary amount of one shilling per week—although their order is to distribute this money without regard to the parish : others because they went to chapel , &c . j < Ste . ; while some persons who are " well to do in the worid " have received reli 9 f . One person who haa a large sum of money deposited in tbe bank , and an extensive business , has been relieved with a quantity of coal .: Another person , who has constant employ , earning on the average : 30 s . per week , hadyeome coal given him . And another person , with constant employ , and property enough to keep him , ha * also received part of ttiis charity . "

      Of course we Cannot know whether the facts be as here stated : we only know that if they be it is abominable . ' ¦ ¦ ' .: ' .- ' Skipt on ^ Cohn ^ Law MEETiNQ ,--ilfr . Knowles , of Keighley , sends us an account of a moral-force anti-Corn Law meeting at Skipton , at which Messrs . Dr . Smites and Councillor Moore were the "Hans" and where the writer , wishing to discuss the question , was seized by the throat , thrown frcmi the ' . platform intir thebody of the meeting , and ultimately pitched down stairs , and

      taken away insensible ; but he does not say when the meeting was held . ; ' ¦ A . C—The proprietor of the Weekly Dispatch is Alderman Harmer . :. : Legal Questions . —Several of these have come to us lately . We c « n do nothing with them . Mr . O'C , is not here : and if ice , who have not professionally j studied the lawi should advise , tee might do more mischief than we could repair , . e ., if our advice were acted on . JflHN Kels ' ey . —The list was inserted just as we re ceived it . ¦

      The Northern Star. Saturday, January 22, 1842.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JANUARY 22 , 1842 .

      To The Chartists Of Scotland.

      TO THE CHARTISTS OF SCOTLAND .

      The Scottish Convention Vote.

      THE SCOTTISH CONVENTION VOTE .

      Co Mea&€T& M\Tf Covregaontitttfg*

      Co Mea& € t& m \ tf Covregaontitttfg *

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      4 THE NORTHERN STAR . — — —

      ^- — -"-- To The Chartists Of Korth Lancashire.

      ^ - — - " -- TO THE CHARTISTS OF KORTH LANCASHIRE .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 22, 1842, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct414/page/4/