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, QTo 23eaDers3 atUr CorrcjSpontumte
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TO JOSEPH STDRGE, ESQ., BIRMINGHAM.
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1)EATH FROM A PISTOL-SHOT, IN LEEDS.
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CHARTIST HYMN BOOK.
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• : ¦ PUBLISHED BY MR T . COOP £ B , OF LEICESTER I S NOW READY , and may be had of all Chartist News Agents in the Kingdom . —Price Threepence . N . B . —Agents are requested to remit cash with the Orders .
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VOLTAIRE ' S PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY . COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME . nPHIS CELEBRATED WORK is now publish-Jl ing , in Penny Numbers , and Fourpenny Parts , and will comprise the whole of the Six Volumes , without mutilation or abridgement . It is printed in Crown 8 vo . double Columns , with new Type , small , but very plain , and will make a handsome Yolurae , fit for any Collection . May be had of all Booksellers and Vendors of popular Periodicals . Voltaire ' s Dictionary is also published weekly , ih the Penny Sunday Chronicle , each Number of which will contain as much as Three of the Penny No . < 3 . in addition to fourteen other columns of inceresting matter , original tales , one or two engravings , &c , &c . Those , therefore , who wish to read Voltaire at a small expence , will purohase the Penny Sunday Chronicle .
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KING CHARLES'S CROFT , OR ROYAL WEST-END MARKET . Accommodation for Carts in a most cmvenieni Situation , between Briggate and Albion'street % Leeds . ELKANAH OATES , Broker , &c . No . 3 , King Charles-street , begs to inform the Publio that he has taken the above Croft , and from a general opinion expressed by the inhabitants in its favour as the most eligible situation for a VEGETABLE MARKET , he has tbe satisfaction to announce that it is intended to erect for the purpose a suitable Building , to cover upwards of One Thousand Square Yards of Ground , still leaving some Thousands of Square Yards open , to accommodate Carts from the Country , for unloading and loading , or standing , at Twopence each per Day .
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CONVEYANCE OF GOODS TO AND FROM LONDON BT RAILWAY . TOHN KEN WORTHY and Co . beg to inform I their Friends and the Publio that , on the First of September next , they intend to commence Carrying by RAILWAY to and from LONDON , and LEEDS , BRADFORD . HALIFAX . HUDDERSFIELD , DEWSBURY , &c , and hope to merit a share of that support so many years conferred on them as Carriers by Canal . Warehouses . —Axe Inn , Aldermanbury , ah » Railway Station , Camden Town , London . Railway Trains to Liverpool , Manchester , Roch ' dale , &c , every Day .
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THE NEW YORK LINE OF PACKETS . Sail pntictually on their regular days from , LIVERPOOL—As followB , viz . SHEFFIELD , Allen ,. . ' .... 609 tone . 1 st Sept . N 1 CH . BIDDLE , Trneman ... 778 tons , 5 lh Sept . ROSCIUS , Collins ....... 1150 tOBS , 13 th Sept . For NEW ORLEANS . GOODWIN , Davis 700 tons , 3 « ft ^ t ^ . LORD SEATON , Fitzsimmons , 730 tons . 1 th Sept . For PHILADELPHIA , The Packet of the 8 th September , SUSQUEHAKNA , Miercken , 8 th Sept
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MARRIAGE . On Sunday , the 17 th ult ., at Vienna , by the Pastor to the English Ambassador * Mr . Wm . Walker , of Leeds , to Miss Elizabeth Green , of Settle .
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DEATHS . Taesday last , aged 50 , Mr . William Marriott , oompositor .. He had been engaged in the Intelligencer-office for the long period of fourteen years during which time he was ever distinguished for zeal and punctuality . In , life he maintained , the character of a sincere friend and affectionate ' bus * band . On Sunday , August 21 st , Edward Kitson , aged thirteen months , of Leeds . ; '~ On the 27 th ult ., after two days illness of typhus fever , John Nichols , aged 21 , who waa a member of the Tavistock Charter Association , and one of the Council . ,
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aW own officers to disguise themselves ; to zLm themselves into the confidence of the -jjn or men upon whom they are set ; to deeeire them into a belief that they are bosom fnenis , and may be entrusted with their every tbcnght ; and that , as tbeSe tools , by such insidious and treacherous means , pump out of the party their innermost thoughts , they relate them , with their own colourings and additions , to the cowardly daskrds who ^ ave enJP * 0 Jet * t ^ em ' Remember that it is English governors ; the administrators of English laws' the protectors and guardians of the ,
liTes and liberties ( 0 of Englishmen , who thus jci ! Aye , and remember , too , that a portion of the public press ; a portion of that press which has been long known aa the most base , sordid , mercenary , treacherous , and truckling , that ever disgraced the earth : remember that a portion of this press his been base enough to publicly justify this most hellish system , even when enacted in England , and 2 > v Eng lishmen ! Ths Times , in relation to this r ' erj exposure made by Wbitb , defends the
employment of the wretch to deceive and betray White , by the no Ies 3 wretches who paid the thing jo compass the destruction ef an honest , bold , npright , fearless , trnth-speaking citizen ! This practice the Times defends and justifies : arguing that oar blessed , and paternal , and much-loved Government coald not long exist , unless it resorted to such mean 3 to learn the opinions and counteract the intended actions of the governed . ' A rare commentary on the degeneracy of the times ; and of the nature of the now English Government !
Whits and Cooper are to be made " examples " of ! They are to be sacrificed ! They are to be offered up on the altar of class prejudice ! They are to be victimised , to satisfy the cravings of a depraved and debased appetite for vengeance ! The note of preparation to the jurors who have to try each of them ias been sounded ! The Morning Chronicle his taken it in hand to procure the quietus of Cooper ; and Old Bloody has been Bet upon "White !
Let a jury dare to acquit either of them ; and they will be denounced by these mercenary hirelings as traitors to their country ! To appease the longings of" ocb Patebkax" these men must be offered up victimised J The cue has been given to the bloodhounds , who havs started on the scent , and will hunt iheir victims down ! The juries alone have now to do their portion of the work . It is now well known what that work isi They never fail in it , when prejudice is excited and class-fears appealed to l
Next turn to Leech ' s case . Read over the whole examination well . Endeavour to draw out of the whole mas 3 of jumblety stuff anything that would seem to sanction the conduct of the magistrates , in * committing him for trial , " and in demanding &nch heavy land for a working man ) excessive bail Iry to do this ; and a job presents itself not easy of accomplishment ! There is one thing in connection with Leach ' s case
that must not be suffered to drop out of sight . Indeed it must be instantly taken up by the whole country , and aa " example ' must be made ! The Chartist leaders are to be made an u example" of ; and the faet 3 we are about to narrate will show , in some sort , the means used to accomplish this object . Most heartily do we thank God that the mean 3 exist to make the wicked be caught in his own snare . ' and to cause him to fall into the pit he digged for others !
By the report of the examination of Leach , it will be seen that a John M'Kenna swears , point blank , that Leach attended a meeting at the Carpenter ' s Hall , on the Saturday after the riots commenced ; that he knew Leach , and that he saw him there ; that he saw Mm come upon the platform after another man had done speaking ; that he heard Leach speak ; that he remembered him saysaying that if they did not link together as one man , it would throw the ^ eause back fifty years . He advised them to keep the peace ; and not to starve . "
By a reference to the report it will be seen that this M' £ s 5 xjl , who describes himself aa a schoolmaster , deposes , on oath ; sweaks , point blank , to all of these things . In so doing , be has committed PERJURY ! He is a black-hearted perjured villain ! Lxich was never near the meeting in question ! On " the Saturday after the riots commenced" he never dirkened the doors of the Carpenter ' s Hall !!! He was at home , in hh own shop , minding hi 3 own business all the time the meeting was being held ! This is known to scores and hundreds of witnesses It ean be proved beyond the possibility of doubt .
And yet , upon the evidence of this lying perjured rnfian was Leach committed for trial ! Upon the evidence of this wretch , who risked transportation rather than let the wished-for victim escape , were heavy and excessive bonds required 1 And upon the testimony of suborned rascals like this , were scores of Chartists convicted and sentenced to long periods of imprisonments in the per secuting period of 1839 . Now , this case must be met ! The perjured
villain must he made to receive the punishment accorded by the law to perjurers . The people ' s friends are w be made " examples" of : let the people make an " example of this hired perjured scoundrel . ' Let ihe people teach him and all such like , that the liberties of their leaders are too valuable to be lyingly sworn away by mercenary scamps , who are but too ready to do the dirty work of their diny employers . Let the perjurer have the full benefit of his perjury !
We advise that he be indicted , the first opportunity , for swearing to false and lying statements . We advise that the people enter into a subscription to defray the cost of the prosecution . We advise that a spirited and honest-hh . lawyer be set to work to get up the case against him . We advise that the ruSan , whs so glibly swallowed the oath , and then lied to get an honest man laid by the heels , shall be made a public " example" of , at the public expence .
Sow this must be done instanter . 2 no time must be lost . A H vigorous" and " strong" prosecution in this clear and undeniable case , will have a wonderful effect upon others of the same stamp , who may be contemplating a similar victimisation . Let them but be once shown that the law awards transportation for the crime of perjury , and we shall not have them quite so ready to swear lies into truth , and thu 3 procure the incarceration of &e people ' s advocates and friends . Too many
iare had to suffer from tnis causa already ! Here is a case that can be laid hold of , and handled . It is tangible and clear . No doubt can possibly exist respecting it . All that the wretch detailed about Leach being at the Carpenter ' s Hall meeting ; his coming upon the platform ; his gpsaking ; and the words he spoke ; all that the ruffian thus so minutely detailed , on oath , wa 3 SHEER INVENTION , —LIES . ' Let him receive the fruits of Ms lying ! We charge the people to see to it !
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H authorities" lore this " playing at despotism" bo well that they are determined to keep up the game a bit longer . All law is therefore plaoed in abeyance —the liberty of the subject is laughed at , and' the right of expressing the opinions of honest Englishmen , in the way prescribed and provided for by . the constitution , abrogated . The people must not meet , to discuss grievances or to express opinions , because the authorities proclaim all meetings of the people illegal . So at least it is at Leeds and in many other places . A requisition was here presented to the Mayor , signed by a considerable number of influential and " respectable " men , as well as by a number of honest and useful
working men , praying him to call a meeting of the inhabitants af the borough for the purpose of electing delegates for the approaching Conference . That functionary not merely refused to call the meeting , but insolently threatened that if the meeting were called by the requisitors it should be dispersed . In consequence of this and of commwiica . tions from various other places , informing us that public meetings could not be hoi den , we addressed a letter to Mr . Stubge , requesting him to postpone the sitting of the Conference for one month , to give time for the restoration of something like order and peace in the country , when the right of public meeting miy be again recognised , and the people may be able to elect their representatives fairly and freely .
Of course , we know not what Mr . Stuege and his friends will do . Whether they will postpone the Conference , or go on with it . It is therefore necessary that the people Ehould go on with their preparations , and be ready for either contingency . Let the requisitions in every place be prepared and presented . Wherever meetings are allowed , let delegates be chosen . Wherever the Dogberries
prevent the meetings from being holden , let a letter , stating the facts , without any angry comment on them , be Beat to the Chairman of tha Conference , * that Mr . Sxubge and his friends may know exactly the position which the Conference does hold , and the amount of influence to which it is entitled . Let this by no means be omitted in any one case ; let the people do their own work well , that their friends may liave heart in working for them .
ABA ? rtWlIENT OF THE CONFERENCE BT MR STURGE . Since writing the above , and after posting our letter to Mr . Stukgb , a copy of which we now publish elsewhere , we have received by the post this ( Thursday ) morning , the following : — " ( important . ) " national complete suffrage i'sios . " At a meeting ; of the Council , held in the Office of the Union , Waterloo-street , Birmingham , August SOth , 1842 , the Chairman having read a resolution , adopted by the Committee of the Birmingham Town Hal ] , refusing the use of that building for a public meeting to appoint delegates to the Conference , and the Secretary having read leVUis , by which it appeared that similar meetings would be prohibited in other places : —
" Resolved , —That instead of holding a Conference on the 7 th of September , a special extraordinary meeting of the Council shall be held on the 12 th of September , at three o ' clock , p . m ., in the room belonging to the Union , itormerly the Mechanics' Instifcatloa , Newh&lU street , ) BirminghAm ; and that the friends of the cause , throughout the country , be invited to communicate to that meeting , by letter addressed to the chairman , such recommendations and advice for the consideration of the Council , as they may deem called for by the peculiar position in which the country is placed . " Joseph Sturge , President "
The people will see , therefore , that the Conference is not postponed but given up ; the Council having doubtless found that it was unlikely to become , under present circumstances , anything like what it was desirable it should be . We regret , certainly , the resolution to abandon the Conference ; and hope that it will be reconsidered . We did think the period of its session to be ill chosen , and the event proves that we were right in so thinking ; but we are still of opinion that such a Conference , well and honestly got up , could not fail to be productive of great good . We
should be-sorry to suppose that the abandonment of the Conference has arisen from any fear , lest our call upon the people to make it a really " natioual " one should be responded to . As we were willing to believe that the ostensible was the real object of the conveners of this Conference , so we are willing to . believe that the reason assigned for its abandonment is the real reason why it is abandoned ; that it is not £ iven up from any fear that so many delegates should be sent to it , not merely from the
Complete Suffrage Union but from the people generally , as would make it unmanageable for party purposes . We are quite willing to believe that the object of Mr . Stcrge and of those who act with him , was upon this occasion to give fair play trt the expression of the public voice , to consult freely with the people through the medium of their friends , by themselves fairly elected , upon the best means of enhancing their interests and securing their rights .
We repeat oar conviction that this would be a proceeding franghi with good ; and our expression of regret that thiB Conference of the people ' s friends , summoned , as we think , hastily and without due consideration , has been yet more hastily and inconsiderately abandoned . We would respectfully urge on those by whom it was projected the probability that a few weeks will suffice to restore the authorities from their fainting fits—to tire the children of their new toy—and to restore a state of things in which the Conference so desirable might be safely and usefully holden .
We hope the projectors of the Conference will take these hints as they are meant , in all honest kindness . Tne idea of the Conference having been first promulgated by them , we think that the honour and the management of it should in justice be accorded to them , notwithstanding even their present abandonment of the design . We think , however , that the design is too good to be lost sight of , and that if the Sxurge friends persist in their refusal to go on with it , it should then be taken np by the people themselves ; who should , as soon as circumstances will permit , carry ont , in its sffleiency , the avowed purport of this intended Conference ; soliciting the co-operation of Mr . Stubge and all other good men . . ^
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Sib , —Assuming that in you I address one whose avowed anxiety to support the establishment of political right , and the enfranchisement of the people , generally , is honest and sincere , I make no apology for intruding on your attention the notice of what I take to be most important considerations . The state of the country at this moment is fraught with fearful interest to every true philanthropist . Every good man must of necessity desire to see the general adoption of some measures whereby the fermentation of popular discontent may be , in some degree , allayed , the differences of opinion among good men
accommodated , the breaches in the ranks of patriotism closed np , and the intelligence , spirit , and energy of the people so guided and directed as that by peaceful and certain advances , the goal of righteousness may be attained , in the patting of the people into possession of those legislative powers which have been often proved by the clearest induction , to appertain to them ; and their natural right to which is , indeed , self-evident I rejoice , therefore , most sincerely , in your proposal to gather into one focus the wisdom , and intelligence of all those classes of the people amongst whom it is important to the general well-being that a good understanding should prevail . The assembling together
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of a National Conference of Delegates , fairly and freely chosen , so as fully to represent the whole people , iu the manner intimated by your late proposition ; to confer with each other ; to compare their ideas ; to olub their inteligence ; and to determine by amicable and friendly discussion upon the beat mode of general conduct to be , under present circumstances , recommended to and adopted by the people , can scarcely fail , if not mismanaged , to eventuate in something really good . But in order to this it is first of all necessary to take care that the Conference be of this character ; that it do fully , fairly , and freely represent the opinions , wishes , and sentiments of the people , in all those places from which delegates may be sent to it ; and that all
places , feeling an interest in its discussions , shall have free scope to be fairly represented in it ; and I question , much and seriously , whether the circumstances be now in existence to make this possible . Great subjects of investigation must come before such an assembly ; subjects on which it is necessary that the people should have consulted together , and should have , to some extent at least , so formed public opinion as to be able to give instructions to their delegates . For this , it does not seem to me that the period between the issuing of your announcement aad the time when these delegates must of necessity be elected , in order to their sitting on the 7 th inst . is by any means sufficient . This I saw to be matter of serious regret
at the first issuing of the announcement , signed by yourself , summoning this Conference . And I saw also that its hasty meeting would , of necessity , entail another Berious inconvenience on the people , for the advancement of whose interests its session is projected : it would allow them less time than is desirable for selecting fit men aa their representatives . My kuowledge , however , of the energy , and , to a great extent , of the shrewdness and prudence , of which the unenfranchised people of this country are possessed , and wnich they can bring into exercise , when spirited thereto on extraordiaary occasions , induced me to trust to those qualities for the avoidance ef any harm to the beneficial character of this Conference , from the somewhat hasty manner
of its convenement . And , therefore , participating cordially iu the desire that at the present crisis some specific course of conduct ahould be , if possible , unanimously agreed upon and pursued by the friends of the people generally , I waived these objections , though I did not overlook them , and brought whatever small amount of influence I may happen to possess , most heartily into the support of those , by whom , as " friends of the people , " this intended Conference has been summoned . I recommended the people , in last week's Northern Star , in the strongest terms I was able to use , to make this Conference efficient for its avowed and benovolent purpose ; and I can have no doubt that they would have doneEO , had we lived in ordinary times
or under ordinary circumstances . The fact , however , of the recent excitement in the manufacturing districts , has furnished to those whose purpose it is to uphold faction and to keep down the people a pretext , which they are not slack to lay hold of , for the establishment of Buch a state of things as renders it almost impossible that any such Conference aa I presume you contemplate can be holden at the time specified . You , I am quite sue , would be sorry to see delegates meet together on such an occasion and for such a purpose , otherwise than in such numbers as to form a pretty " full" assemblage of the people ' s frionds , "fairly"and legally chosen » s their representatives . You know that no delegate can be legally chosen otherwise
than at a publio meeting ; nor can he indeed in any other way be" fairly" and " freely" chosen ; because there could otherwise be no means of testing public opinion as to his merits and qualifications : and my position has enabled me to learn enough already of the state of things in very many of those districts of the country most deeply interested in the discussions of this Conference , to know that publio meetings for the election of delegates thereto will not be , just now , permitted by the authorities to be holden . In the borough of Leeds , for instance , a most respectfully and numerously signed requisition , bearing the names of most of the influential members of the National Complete Suffrage Union , as well as those of several members of the National Charter Association , has been presented to the
Mayor , praying him to call a meeting for the purpose ; but that functionary cot only refused to call the meeting , but informed the parties who presented the requisition , that should they call the meeting on their own responsibility , it would be considered by the authorities as an illegal meeting , and would certainly be dispersed ! The effect of this expression of the purpose of the Mayor has been the withdrawal of their names from the requisition , by all the members of the National Complete Suffrage Union , who had signed it , and their refusal either to call the meeting on their own responsibility or to co-operate in any way with those of the requisitors who were desirous to call the meeting . Like intelligence has reached me frcm so many places as to induce a fear on my part that nothing like a national delegate meeting can be held so early as the 7 th instant .
It is of great importance that the avowed and benevolent object of this Conference should not be frustrated ; and yet that object must , in all propability , be frustrated unless the Conference itself be so constituted , that as many of the people as may be wishful can be fairly represented in it . Without at all recognising as just and right what I believe you will agree with me in deeming to be a tyrannical and unconstitutional suppression of the right of public meeting , I yet take the liberty of suggesting to you that the people ' s friends would display , most efficaciously , their prudence and sincerity by bending in some little to the storm they cannot stem . The excitement of the " disturbed districts" is fast subsiding , and things are settling gradually down into
something like the usual appearances of society ; we may reasonably conclude , therefore , that the absurd fears of the nestling authorities will proportionately subside ; that the regard for right and fair-play of the well-di 6 posed among them will resume its operation ; and that the right of publio meeting will be again recognised in a few weeks . It would then become possible—and certainly is most desirablethat a public and open Conference of the p 3 ople ' s friends , freely and fairly chosen by the people , should meet together to agree aad determine upon same specific course of conduct by which th& cause of right may be upholden , the people's grievances redressed , and these feariul convulsions of society totally avoided for the future .
I am exceedingly desirous , as must be every good man , that tljb intended Conference should effect this purpose , but I much fear that if called now together , it will not be able to do so , however wise and patriotic may be the individuals of whom it is composed ; because I tear it caunot be made sufficiently national in character to command national respect and confidence ; without which its recommendations would be powerless and its labours useless . My object , therefore , in thus troubling you , is to pray that you and the gentlemen with whom you act , will take seriously into consideration all the circumstances of the whole matter , and , in consideration of the interests of many thousands , —perhaps some millions—of our fellow-countrymen , for whose interests , aa friends of the people , we are bound to care , and who are likely , under present circumstances , to have no voice in this Conference at all , to postpone its
session until such time as a reasonable expec tation can be fairly entertained of its being able to effect the object for which it is convened . It is perhaps difficult to say how long it may be before the magnates of faction may so far recover their senses as to recognise again the right of public meeting ; but I should hope that , at all events , a month may suffice for the playing of their present daring and dangerous game of recklessness . I take leave , therefore , to suggest to yon the propriety of postponing the session of the Conference for one month !; that the people may have time and opportunity to make it efficient 10 its purpose—of devising such a speciSc course of action as may command the general assent and approbation of the people ' s friends , and its consequent general recommendation to , and adoption by , the people themselves , tor the safe , certain , and speedy acquisition of the people ' s right ? .
With every disposition to hail you as a fellowlabourer in the cause of right , and to co-operate with you and every other sincere friend of the people lor its advancement , and praying that the smile of Providence may accompany that of an approving conscience on our several and collective efforts for its establishment , I am , Sir , Respectfully and faithfully yours , Wa . Hill , Editor of the Northern Star . Leeds , September 11842 .
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Chartist Prisoners . —Mr . Wm . Lacy , hair cutter , CUckheaton , toili gladly receive and forward any monies intrusted to him for tke defence of the Chartist prisoners from that district . A sincere Chabtist , Peter Rigby , James Atkinson , J ., andseverai other correspondents will accept our thanks , and excuse us ; as toe think they will see that we have quite as much of Mr . James O'Brien and the Old Chartist as it is at all desirable . JoHir Campbell , Leilh , recommends that all who may be in employment , will , to a man , subscribe weekly , as God shall prosper them—and let the cash so gathered be paid over to the coal miners , as subsistence for them and their families , thereby deterring them from again resuming their labour , until the People ' s Charter become the law of the land .
Mx . John Wilcox has received from Mr . George Ashwell , of Daventry , ten shillings for Mr . Candy . Mjstjcus Secbxiv ? . —Never mind Ihe rascal , let him lie away .
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Samuel Knight , Coventry . —We have tugged for an hour at his letter , but cannot read it . \ Mr . D . Ro ? s has removed to No . 2 , Camden-place , near Bradshaw-street , Hulme , Manchester . C . H ., Northampton . —We do not know what arrangements have been made . The lest way would be to write first and make the enquiry of Mrs . Cooke . M . H ., Birmingham , has our thanks for his present favour and for his promise of future ones . W . W ., Ashton-under-Lyne . —Thanks . Da . M'Douall ' s long letter was received by Thursdays post . —
C . G , Cirencestbr . —His communication , written on both sides , was received on Thursday . It will appear in our next , T . Salmon must write to Mr . Saunders privately . Address op the London Delegates to the Females of the Metropolis , next week . A Host of Correspondents must excuse us ; we have as much matter , Chartist news , State of the Country , articles of communication , and other important maters as would fill three papers now lying upon our table ; not one word of whioh can be even read before our present Star goes to press . We ban but do what we ean ; our utmost energies are tasked to get all iu , but the paper will hold only a certain , quantity . Many of our correspondents might ease us much if they would be less prolix , and give us facts instead of speeches , comments , and opinions . We have very often to wade through four or five pages of manuscript to get out ol them the fact of some meeting having been held , or some man ' s having lectured , which we chromoJein tfro liaee . We wish that some of those who think themselves negleoted , would take a single day'a spell at reading our correspondence . We should like to refer a good many of our favours to the Evening Star , which , though though smaller than the Northern Star , has more room , because it comes out daily , and would probably feel , as a relief , a little of that which overburdens us .
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S . Mann , Ashburton . —The Plates cannot be sent off till we receive them—they are yet in the htfndfl of the printer . To Agents—All Agents are requested to send word , during the next week , how their Plate * are to be forwarded , and how many of eaea . Some Agents at a distance , who find it difficult to obtain parcels , can have both Plates in one parcel by having them two or three weeks later . Any Agent having orders for the other Plates given with the " Star" had better forward them , and they can be enclosed in the same parcels . J . JEFFBIB 3 , Axbridge Apply to the Agent who Bends the Paper . T . Fright . —Mr . Cleave is agent . FOB THE POLITICAL VICTIMS , THEIR WIVES AND FAMILIES . £ 8 . d . From Knightsbridge , being proceeds of a ball on July 25 th ... ... 2 14 0 FOR THE CHARTIST PRISONERS' DEFENCE FUND . From W . Lacy , hair-cutter , Cleckheaton ... ... 0 1 0 FOR THE EXECUTIVE . ' From the Chartists of Walworth locality ... ... ... ... 0 10 0 ; I FOR MRS- HOLBERKY . Fiomja Mend'at Colchester ... ... 0 2 6 } FOR MR . PEDDIE . J Fromland old ! Radical , Edinburgh ... 0 0 6
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On Tuesday , great excitement was caused in Park-lane from the circumstance of a young man , beinji shot , who was in the service of Mr . Wharton , of the Victoria , Hotel , as brewer . The name of the unfortunate deceased is John Dun well ; and he , it appears , was going into the gateway of bis master's yard , on Tuesday forenoon , when he was met by a young man , named Joseph Henry Bennett , a pnpil with Mr . John Ingham Ikin , surgeon , of Cookridgestreet , whose surgery is iu Alexander-street , nearly directly opposite the stable yard of Mr . Wharton .
Bennett , it seems , had a pistol in his hand , which he pointed at Dunwoll , and pulled the trigger ; the pistol missed fire , and the parties stood for a minute , when Bennett again pointed the pistol , and discharged it at Dunwoll , who fell , and died in a very few minutes . The unfortunate deceased was twenty-six years of age , bad been for about ten years with Mr . Wharton , and was greatly respected in his situation . Bennett is nineteen yoars of age , and is described as being of au absent disposition . His family is highly respectable , and reside at Wakefield , where his father is a physician in extensive practice . The young man , it seems , also , had been sworn in a special constable , without Mr . Ikin ' s knowledge or consent , and during the excitement consequent upon the late riots had officiated both by day and night ; the pistol , too , he had only recently purchased , professedly to " shoot the Chartists , " but really , we Bhould
suppose , for no other purpose than , like many others , to amuse himself . The following evidence was adduced at the inquest held on Wednesday morning , before John Blackburn , Esq ., coroner , and a respeotable jury , at Wharton ' s Hotel : — Mr . Wm . Price , surgeon , examined—I was called in to examine the deceased a few minutes after his death , and have made a post mortem examination of the body . The wound is on the loft breast bone ; the wound has been made by a ball , which splintered the breast bone ; it had then taken a direction rather down and across the breast , passing over the largo vessels of the heart , injuring the pultnonory artery , passing through the lobo of the right Jang , through the fifth rib on the right side , and was found lodged in the hollow of the scapula of the shoulder blade . The immediate cause of death most probably waa the severe injury to the nerves of the base of the heart , occasioned no doubt by the gunshot wound . The passage of the ball through so vital a part would cause certain death .
George Gibbs , of Stayeley—I am thirteen years of age , and am acquainted with Joseph Henry Bennett , pupil to Mr . Ikin ; I was on a visit to Mr . Ikin ' s , and was with Bsnnett yesterday morning in the field behind Alexander-place , about nine o ' clock ; he wanted to fire off a pistol , and asked me to go with him ; He had a small pistol with him . [ The pistol was produced by policeman Hirst , and identified by the witness . ] Bennett fired a pistol at a pieoe of pot ; the pistol missed fire the first time—the second time it went off . This was the only time he fired . Bennett told me he had got the pistol to shoot the Chartists with . I left Bennett at Mr . Ikin ' s about ten o'clock ; I saw no more of him dating the day .
Stephen Redgwell—I . am a labouring man , and reside at Holbeck . I saw the deceased near this bouse yesterday , about eleven o'clock . I saw a young gentleman come out of a passage on the opposite side of the street , with a pistol in his hand . [ The witness ideatified Bennett as the person . ] I passed by him , as he came out of the passage ; the deceased was then nailing a piece of wood on each side of Mr . Wharton ' s door ; he left the door , and sioodfora moment-talking with a carrier in the street . Mr . Bennett walked across the street , and went into agatoway leading into Mr . Wharton ' s yard . Dunwell also went into the same gateway , and I immediately heard a report of fire-arms . I turned round , and saw the deceased staggering
towards a cart , which was by the side of the causeway ; he fell on the cart shafts , and I saw Wood issuing from his breast . I turned him over ; he groaned , but did not speak . He was taken into Mr . Wharton ' d house . When I was turning the deceased over , Bennett waa close by , and said , " He is shot—I have shot him—I'll go for a doctor . I did'nt know the pistol was loaded . " Ho then went into the passage out of which I had seen him come . I did not see anything more . Before the firing took place I bad not heard anything said , either by Ben . nett or Dunwell . Bennett appeared alarmed and excited . I did not see the pistol fired ; both parties were in the passage ; I was three or four yards off .
Jonathan Marshall —I live at Farsley , I am a clothier ; I am iu the habit of comipg to this house on Market days . I knew the deceased . I was iu Mr . Wharton s yard yesterday morning , sat right opposite the gate-way ; it might be half-past eleven o clock ; I saw Bennett enter the gate-way ; Dunwell entered immediately after—in fact they seemed to meet in the gate-way ; I saw Bennett present a pistol at Dunwell ; it snapped , but did not go off . Dunwell held up his right hand and exclaimed " Ah I" aB if in joke . I saw Bennett do something at the pistol , during which Dunwell stood still , not seeming the least apprehensive of danger , and Bennett then snapped the pistol again and it went off ; he pointed the pistol deliberately at him—seemed as if he took aim . I did not hear Bennett say anything . I saw Dunwell stagger away , and on following him found him laid down in the street . I Bhould think the parties were within two yards when the
shot was fired . I had not the least apprehension of danger when 1 saw the pistol pointed ; I thought it had only a cap on , and was not charged . When I saw Bennett again he was coming out of Mr . Ikin ' s passage ; a gentleman Eaid to him " Did you shoot the man ! " to which he replied ** I did . " In answer to questions by the jury , the witness said he was sure the pistol was pointed the first time after Dun well got into the passage : the second time he held it as if taking aim . Wm . Wriggles worth—I am nine years of age . I live in St . John ' s Square . I was coming along Alexander-street yester d ay morning , and I saw a young man pointing a pistol in Mr . Wharton ' s gateway ; be snappeds it off , and it missed ; I think ( pointing to Bennett ) that is the young man ; I saw him when the pistol missed take a cap out of his pocket , and put it on the pistol ; he then snapped the pistol again , and it went off , and shot a man ; they were both standing just within the gateway .
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Joseph Bates—I am a wool merohantin Leeds ; I was in Park-lane yesterday , and heard the report of a pistol ; I turned into Aiexauder-street quickly , and saw the deceased laid across a cart shaft , and blood running out of his waistcoat . I saw Mr . Bennett running into the passage lending to Mr . Ikin's house . I followed him , and he came out of Mr . Ikin ' s house , Mr . Ikin following him . I said to him , " Are you the person who has shot this young man ? " Bennett answered Yes , I have shot him . " I asked him his motive , when he said , " I had forgot
the pistol was loaded ; I had been out firing it in the morning , and had forgot that 1 had loaded it again . " I then said , Dtd you eay anything to deceased before you fired i" He replied , " I said I would shoot him ; and I snapped too pistol at him , as I had previously done at Mr . Ikin s ostler , and at others . The pistol went off , and then I remembered that I had loaded it . " He said further that he knew the deceased was shot , and ran in for Mr . Ikin . Bennett seemed in . great distress , and was much excited . ,
James Matthews—I am groom to Mr . Ikin , I knew Bennett , and I knew Dunwell ; the pistol ( produced ) belongs to Mr , Bennett ; I saw it in his possession one day last week ; hetold me he had bought it , but did not 6 ay what for ; I have seen him fire it off once or twice , with nothing but powder in . I was standing in our stable door-stead yesterday morning ; I saw Bennett and Dunwell in the gateway of Mr . Wharton ' s yard ; I saw the pistol « o off , but did not see how it was pointed . Bennett and the deceased were on go' d terms together . The pistol was utterly under Bennett's charge ; I never saw it laid about . He had pointed the pistol at me , but had not snapped it ; he pointed it at me yesterday morning ; I told him to give over , as it might go off- He had told me in the morning that it was loaded when he pointed it at me , but said afterwards that he had fired it off . This being the whole of the evidence ,
The Coroner summed up the case , and explained the law upon the subject ; the Jury then retired , and after an absence of three quarters of an hour , returned a verdict of MANSLAUGHTER against Joseph Henry Bennett , who was committed to York to take his trial at the present assizes , the Grand Jury not being discharged .
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AMERICA . We received on Sunday , by the British and North American mail-steamer Columbia , commanded by Captaiu Judkins , Boston paperb to the 16 th instant * , her day of sailing , and New York and Philadelphia to the 15 th inclusive . The Columbia has made an excellent , voyage of nine days sixteen hours only from Boston , and eleven days fourteen hours from Halifax . She has brought twenty-six passengers , a smaller number than usual .
The ratification of the Treaty on the Boundary Line had not been brought by this steamer as was expec ed ; it was under deliberation , and no doubt existed that it would be completed in two or three cays . Lord Ashburton was expeoted in New York on the 17 ch , where a fete was in preparation for him by the British residents , conjointly with tha American citizens and corporate authorities . He will afterwards , it is said , go to Niagara Falls , visit Sir C . and Lady Bagot , and return to New York to embark in the Warspite .
Lord Worpeth is away out on Lake Superior , fi ^ hing ^ shooting , sleepiug with the Indians in their wigwams , writing pottry to the pretty squaws , aud passing his time very pleasantly . Mr . Van Burea is as busy as a bee in a tar barrel cutting his cabbages , and cutting out plans for districting the State , so that the looofocos will have nearly all the members of Congress . Mr . Webster , Secretary of State , has gone to Piny Point , to enjoy the luxury of salt water bathing , and feasting on soft crabs and oysters , and the charms of the beautiful girls there . He returns to Washington to-day , to resume his duties at the State Department , receive the treaty ratified from the Senate , communicate the same to Lord Ashburton , and then take leave of him till he sees him at the fete in New York .
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HuDMKSFiELD . — Mr . T . B . Smith will Triait the friends at Huddereneld ( according to their request ) on Sunday ( to-morrow . ) He will arrive this evening . The South Lancashire delegate meeting will be held in the Brown-street Chartist Rooms , near St . Andrew ' s Church , Travis-street , Manchester , on Sunday , September , 11 th , at eleven o ' clock precisely , when very important business will be brought before the delegates . Each locality is particularly requested to either send a delegate or communicate with the secretary previous .
Mr . Cook intends lecturing in the following places during the ensuing week : —Canterbury , on Monday ; Tonbridge , on Tuesday ; Tonbridge Wells , on Wednesday ; Brighton , on Thursday ; Lewes , on Saturday . Hebden Bbidge . —B . Rnshton will preach two sermons in the Association room , on Sunday ( tomorrow , ) at two o ' clock , in the afternoon , and at six in the evening . The Committee for the assistance of Mrs . Sadler ,
meet at the Crown and Anchor , Cheshire-street , Waterloo Town , on Wednesday evening , at eight o ' clock . A full attendance Isreqaested . Mr . P . M . Bbopht will lecture at Littleborough , on Monday , the 5 th of September ; Colne , on Tuesday , the 6 th ; Bacup , on Wednesday , the 7 th ; Todmorden , on Thursday , the 8 th , and Friday , the 9 ih ; Halifax , on Saturday and Sunday , the 10 th and 11 th ; and Hudderafield , on Monday and Tuesday , the 12 th and 13 th instant . Holbkck . —On Sunday ( to-morrow ) evening , a sermon will be preached here by Mr . Russell , of Nottingham . To commence at half-past six o ' clock .
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Sheffield . —A meeting will bi w ^ at Sky Edge on Sunday afternoon , ( to-moixow , ) at haw t ^ o ' clock . A Meeting will be held in the Fig-tree-lane room , on Snuday evening , ( to-morrow . ) at seven o ' clock . Mr . W . Bell , Chartist Lecturer , wiU deliver two lectures in the room Fig-tree-lane , on Monday and Tuesday Evenings , September the 5 th and 6 th . Admission , One Penny . The lecture to commence each evening at eight o ' clock precisely . ^ r F sabgus O'Connor's Daily Paper , the Eoening Star , publicly read in the Fig-tree-lane room , every evening , Doors open at six o ' clock . Admission free . Mr . Dean Taylor will visit the following places daring next week : —Monday and Tuesday at Scarborough ; Thursday and Friday , at York ; Saturday , at Howden ; Sunday , at Holme ; and Monday , the l 2 tb , atHull .
Stockport . —Mr . James Mitchell will lecture on Sunday evening next . Royton . —Mr . Thomas Clark , of Stockport , will lecture here , on Suaday next , at sis o ' clock in the evening . , London—Mr . Brown lectures at China Walk , Lambeth , to-morrow evening , at eight o ' clock . Mile End . —Mr . Campbell will lecture on the Corn Laws , in-the Chartist Assembly , rooms Mile End-road . Discussion invited . London . — : A . lecture will be delivered on Sunday evening , at the New Chartist Room , 29 J Mile End Road , near the Red Cow . Chair to be taken at eevon o ' olook . Mb . Dickenson , the Manchester packer , will lecture on Sunday evening , at the New Chartist Room , 2 . 0 J , Miie End Road , near the Red Cow .
The members' of the late Provisional Committee are requested to attend at 55 ; Old Bailey , on Sunday afternoon , at two o ' olook precisely , that a balance sheet may be published , and the affair brought to a final close . Mexbro . ' —A delegate meeting will be held tomorrow ( Sunday ) , Sept . 4 th , at half-past ten o ' clock in the morning , at the Masons' Arms Inn , New Mexbro ' .
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Gsrnva rid of a Monster . —Mr . Wm . Thwaite , farmer , of Sheepridge , near Huddersfield , on Sunday morning , the 24 th July , voided one of those dangerous species of worms , " taenia , " or tape-worm , of the amazing length of sixty-six yards , and containing 3300 joints , and weighing two pounds thirteen ounces . —Halifax Guardian . This para-§ raph has gone the round of the press ; but no paper as yet told the fact that the cause of this voidance waB the taking of Dr . Wallace ' s celebrated spice nuts . Dr . Wallace is well known in all parts ot Yorkshire as the first worm-doctor of the day .
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THE BIRMINGHAM CONFERENCE . Little minds and ignorant people are always very unwilling to part with any " little brief authority" wi ; h which they may have been invested . Tkej like " To strut and fume their hour upon the stage / 1 and " Shew their tmaelTd bravery . " The " risings , " and the " riotings , " the boiler
tappings , of the poor dnpea to the League have afforded many of the same League , in their capacity of Justices , an opportunity , such as they never had before , of being " great men" for the nonce . It is * Tery gratifying thing to be able to command niili-** ry ! and specials , and blue bludgeon men ; to parade &ennip and down the streets of a town , and to " shew 2 * ° pTe who axe their masters . " The League men of ill degrees , justices , specials , « yeoB , " and rt blues " fi » Te Lad rare fun of this sort . Their excellent
com-P *« B , the Tory mags—to whom the late "breeze " ' 9 ne' like raw meat thrown to a famished wolf—have not enjoyed the sport less heartily ; and neither of & « a seem at all disposed to quit the gams . It is tot enough that the prisons are full and that the &rike is over , or nearly so , and that the people never * ere more peaceful than they now are , and indeed « ave been through the whole time , save when they we been driven into violence by the authorities " themselves—a task not very easy , but yet just * Possible achievement ; it is not enough that * " decent Bhow and pretext of necessity «* extriordinary measures has gone fairly by ; the
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THE PATRIOT VICTIM COOPER . Elsewhere we give two letters from Mr . CeoPER , written from bis prison house . One of them , intended as a private letter , may show something of the mind and feeling 3 of the man . We entreat the attention of our readers to those letters . We beg that they may be read carefully ; and that those who read them will remember that they are the letters of " the bcxlt . " Yes ! the . writer of those letters is the man whom Jjliizr
O'Bhien , the " Schoolmaster" ; the chaste aud mealy-mouthed middle-class man ; the " educated " member of a Imrned profesfion : the writer of those letters is the man whom Jaues O'Brien denominates " a bully" 1 whom he , in bis last Statesman * classes aloag with O'Conkor , the " coward and traitor" ; . hounds on the dogs of Government upon the trail of both of them ; aud upbraids the Government for not having sooner laid them by the heel 3 ! ! I
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To Joseph Stdrge, Esq., Birmingham.
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1 ) EATH FROM A PISTOL-SHOT , IN LEEDS .
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THE PATRIOriC COOPER . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAB . Sir , —Since the arrest ef Mr . Cooper , the Chartists of Leicester have been moat anxious to adopt the most efficient weans to Bare the man ot their choice from the fangs of the la m And to do this they have elected a committee of five , with power to add to their number , to be called a " Defence Fund Committee , " to raise funds to defend Mr . Cooper at his forthcoming trial at Stafford . Tbe Committee desire , through the medium of your journal , to make an appeal to the Chartists of Great Britain to assist them , as far as they are able , as be ia likely to be tried in a few days . They sincerely hope that their appeal will not be made in vain . Any sum will be thankfully received by the Committee of Mr . Cooper's defence fond . I remain , Brother Chartists ,
Yours , in the good cause of right against might , Thomas Winjer . P . S . Any person or association wishing to contribute to the above object , can direct to Mr . Cron , 81 , Belgrave-gate , treasurer ; ortoMr . Johnson , 37 , Bedfordstreet , secretary to the defence fund committee . T . W . Leicester , 11 , Churchgate , Aug . 31 , 1842 .
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CHARTIST HYMN BOOK .
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ExrRAORDINARY POISONING OF THREE CHILDREN . —On Friday last , Mrs . Jameson , the wife of a gardener , residing at No . 4 , Jonos ' s-gardens , Bethnalgreen , attended at the London Hospital , in the Mile End-road , with her three son 9—namelv , Thomas Jameson , aged tea ; Malcolm , aged five ; and Lindsay , aged three—the former being an out-patient of that institution . While waiting in the hall the three boys strayed into the grounds belonging to the building , and which are beautified by various shrubs . After traversing through the grounds for some distance , they came to a plant called dog-bean , a
species of deadly night shade , upon which there were a number of ripe berries , and not knowing their pernicious qualities , the poor children plucked off all they could find ripe and ate them , and then returned to their parent . Their poisonouB effect was not perceptible until twelve o ' clock on the same night , when all were seized in the same way , and they were removed without loss of time to the Lon ' don Hospital , when the cause was quite perceptible . During the whole of Saturday the three sufferers were closely attended by Dr . Gordon and other medical officers of the hospital , but so serious are the effects of the poison that but little hope was eutertained of their recovery . — Observer .
An Aristocrat . —On Saturday , at the Insolvent Debtors' Court , Lord George Loftus ( son of the Marquis of Ely ) filed his sohedule , previous to obtaining a hearing for December next . In hiB affidavit he stated that his father refused to pay hia debta . His Lordship has been in the FJeet Prison since February last , and has had an allowance during that time of < £ 6 per week from his father , the same allowance which has been paid him a . great many years . The debts , in the aggregate , are set forth at £ 15 . 254 , of which £ 9 , 151 are without consideration . In the year 1838 , the Marquis of Ely paid debts for the insolvent to the extent of £ 3 , 000 . The insolvent stated that many
of his do Ins arose from having become party to various bills of exchange for Captain the Hon . FW . Byng , for which he never received any consideration , and on three of which he was in custody . Tha insolvent was formerly an enaign in the Grenadier Guards , which commission he sold seme time ago . Amongst the items in the schedule , two are extracted , as extending from 1836 to tho present year : — " Paid for Admission to placeB of amusement , libraries , &c , £ 1 , 200 . " " Lost by play and betting during this time , but of which I can give no particular account , about £ 10 , 000 . " There does not appear in the schedule any property for the creditors , who are principally composed of personB who figure in . " bill transactions . "
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 3, 1842, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct446/page/5/
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