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    • THE ISOETHERN STAE. SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1843.
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      MB ^ CO OPER'S PLA 2 ? OKGA 2 ? IZATIO >\ To Vie Editor of ihe Evening Star . Sib , —I have now included in my proposed " Plan , " ill the emendations "which seem to . me desirable , after having the advantage of lay Dretifirsa ' B opinions of this mporiantinatter . Among the delegates "who surveyed my wbeme last Satara * y morning , 'were comprised some of the soundest heads and most energetic minds in the movement ; and ia addition to the authority "which Ifceir names affords me , I mighty once more , add , tfcat in private -conrersation I have , long ago , received lor my proposed scheme , or loi the major ^ ait el it , approvals on the part of Mr . O'Connor , Br . M'DouaU , Mr . Hill , my friends Bairstow and Barney , and many other wen-known adTocates of our

      On the adroeof my broBier delegates , and to avoid « nfire ] y the legal difficulty of a & >* 'rf 9 S on . } f * * g * £ ExecnfiTB behind it-tte wotS " Executive " f entirely left ont of the Plan . The five chief officers of the Anamal CoBvenSon . it ; will be seen , . exercise * H the *««* anyfencBonBof jm Executive "body-tot do notUe tmderthe illegality of being * ^ ** £ ? % ? . £ ' sach a purpose when the Convention ; hreafcB up-the to ^ , ? sTe « h member of the Ann ^ l Convenbo * officers Included , reaain in them thronghont ihe yearso that they « m fill up vacancies , ic ., or give other ^ xmnBel foithe -welfare of the general body . llrayWniy brethren to tafcenp thesubjeet earnestly , « ad instantly , i I snbscribe myself , Sir , Tours respeetfuBy , Thohas COOPEE .

      lacester , January 2 nd , 1 S 43 . MI 5 TJTXS OT A MEETING OP CHABTIST DELEGATES , BIXD 15 B 1 RM 1 KGHAM , OS IHE LAST CAT OF XHE TEAS , 1842 . " 1 . Resolved , that the Plan of Organization , submitted to this meeting , by Mr . Cooper , of lidcester , be commended to the consideration of the members of the Uaaonal Charter Association throughout the localities , and that Mr . G . be xeqnestod to send a copy of bis plan for insertion in the Evening Star , Ifortherp Star , and Chartist Circular . " 2 . Resolved , that Mr . Cooper be employe * to make any emendations -which have suggested themselves to fnm ag desirable ^ during this dificussioD .

      «• 3 . Resolved , that the members , in their localities , te Cleared to come to a decision on this subject as soen as jwssable , and that the eonntry be recommended to prepare for electing representatives to Berve on the t Hist Annual Convention / to be held in London in the - piftnt'h of April next . 4 . Resolved , that the country be recommended to elect their delegates to the said Convention on the same plan , and in the same proportions to the localities , practiced in electing delegates to the Convention , held in . Xondonin the month of April , 1842 . " 5 . Resolved , the country be recommroded to empower the delegates to the First Annual Convention , "to take the -whole Plan of Organization , again into consideration , and to jive it the stamp of full representative authority- " jSgned ) James I < each , of Manchester . George White , of Birmingham . John "West , of 3 > erby . "William Jones , of Liverpool John Mason , of Birmingham . Christopher Doyle , of Manchester . Thomas Clarke , of Stockport James Tickers , oi Belper ? 32 P . Mead , of Birmingham . Bdward Clayton , ef Huddersfleld . Samuel Paries , « f ShfcSeld . Benjamin Rushton , of Halifax '_ - Thomas Railton , of Manchester . Peter Hoey , of Coventry . Moses Simpssn , of Hanley ( Potteries . ) Jjuke Thoa . Clancy , of Brighton . ~ Bdward Barley , of York . James Green , = of Xorfbwich . ^ nTnTirf Cowan , of IaverpooL Wm N . MflMwn , of Cheltenham . . Joseph ^ tarmey , of Stourbridge . ¦¦ " Charles Thorpe , of Birmingham . Bernard Bromgoole , of Warrington . "Wm . Talbert , of Birmingham . Alfred Anthony , of Arnold ( Notts . ) John "Wilmofc , of Bettering . William Feast , of Brighton . < Ge& Richardson , of Birmingham . Charles Gwilliams , of Liverpool . Divid Pott , of Birmingham . John Chance , of StoBfbridge . ¦ James Sanders , of Birmingham . John AHinscn , of Stockport . MelKn Moore , of Blackburn . Thomas Welsford , of Birmingham ; .. "Wil . Watkixs Wiss , of Hammersmith , iCfiairman . ) ThokaS COOPER , of Leicester , ( Secretary . ) PLAN OP ORGANIZATION OF THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN , ( Recommotded for Ihe consideraiion '^ f the Peop e by a body of Delegates , assembled < U Birmingham on ihe iasi &a . y of the year 1 S 42 . ) OBJECT O ? THE ASSOCIATION . 1 . The ob } ect of the National Charter Association of Great Britain shall be the obtaining , by lawful and peacefnl meanx , » H those political rtgti ^ a set forth in the document called " The People's Gharter . "

      XEMBKBSHl ? . 2 . Each member et the Association shall avow an entire approval of the principles of the People ' s Charter ; shall have his or her name enrolled in one of the yearly registers or the Association , ' by one of its sub-Secretaries ; shall receive a yearly card of " The National Charter Association , paying for it one penny ; and doll contribute , if able , one penny per raiftnrtar month | to the General Fond of the Association .

      GEXEE . AL GOVBBIOIEST . ' . 3 . The general government of ihe Association shall be Tested in an Annual ConvenEon—to be assembled in London , in the month of April of each year , and to close its sittings at the end of three weeks , or earlier , if convenient . i . The said Annual Convention shall be composed of delegates from Chartist districts ; the delegates to be elected by the people hi public meeting assembled ; the districts , and the number of representatives from each to be arranged by the first ATrnnnl Convention , and re-arranged by succeeding < . -mm « j Conventions , as need may arise .

      5 . The first business of « &ch Annual ConvenUon shall be file election of a President , Yiee-President , Treasurer , Secretary , and Vice-Secretary ; the powers -of each of these officers , and also the powers of each member of the Annnil Convention shall be resident in them for one conventional year . 8 . The President of Convention shall hold Presiden tial sittings , at the several periods of three months , six months , and nine months , succeeding each A "n"frl Convention : that is to say , hi Manchester , for one ' week , in the month of July ; in Birmingham , for one » eek , in the month of October ; and in Bristol , for one Week , hi the month of January . At the said Presidential Sittings , the Tice-President of Convention , the Treasurer of Convention , the Secretary of Convenfion , and the Yice-Seeretery of Convention , shall attend snd assist the President in the discharge of bis duties to the Association .

      7 . The Sesretary of Convention « haH be the only ^• "TTnal officer occupying his entire time-with the general Easiness of the Association ; all questions relative to file government of the Association , arising hi the periods intervening between the several Presidential Sittings , or between any one of those sittings and the sitting of Convention , shall be referred , by the localities , to the aaid ^ Secretary of Convention . 8 . -Appeals , on questions of government , shall if ihonght necessary by the localities , be made from the Secretary of Convention to the next turning Presidential Sitting ; and a final appeal , on such questions , shall , if thought necessary by the localities , be made from flxe Presidental Sitting to the next ensuing Annual Convention ,

      LOCAL G 0 TEB 3 . MJEST . 9 . The local government of the Association shall be vested ia a body or General Councillors of the Association , ehossn on the fort Monjday of I > scembei , in « Kk year , in their respective localities , in such numoers , and after such mode , as the resident members may judge fit ; and the said General CsancflJors shall theb electi ^ 16 ° D ^ ^ ^ ° f Jantt y lowing «^ ° * ^^ ^ y and sub-treasurer of the Assoda-^ membersrfthe General Council and se&cUai from B . XGISIUAT 10 B .

      li Bach snb-Secretary shall be furnished by the Secretary of Convention with a yearly register * nd with monthly das-papers , arranged ona 3 rm ' p £ ? from fame to fame , at the October Presidential Sittings ! In the yearly registers the sub-Secretaries shall enter tts aames , residences , taules , age , franchise , and amount oT faaily of the members in fheir jWpec tore localities , asd the amount or -pecuniary payments by each member . The monthly- class-papers ahall be formed to receive from twelve to twenty names ynm columns far pecuniary payments . 12 . The Secretary of Convention shall receive from each fiub-Secretary a monthly dassined account of the number of members in his locality , and shall publish the same for the information of the Association at large iasucha mode , and at men periods , as shau be -deter ^ joined on , from time to time , by the JSTurnai Conven-Hons , and the Presidential Sitting . '

      GESKBAX TXTSD . 13 . The General Fund of the NsfioEal Charter Association shall be formed by the collection of one penny , on the fiist Jlonday of each calendar mouth , from each meffiber of the Association vho can afford the same j by tte ciaige of one pency for each card of

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      membership , renawea on the first of January in each yea ; by the payment , on the part of the localities , of such sums for the yearly registers andmonthy d * s » - bodka as BhaU be agreed upon ^ from time to time , by the Annual Conventions , or the Presidential Sitting ; and hf such ether voluntary contributions on the part of the members of the Association as may be devised and agreed to by their general good-wUl In case of ^ l * *? Rom the said General Fund ahall be defrayed the travelling expenses from and to their localities , of the representatives to the Awraal ConyenUons , together with the allowances , during the period of Conventional sitting , of sixty shillings per week to the Secretary , fifty shillings per week to the President , Vice-President , Treasurer and Vice-Secretary respectivelyandforty Bhiltings per week to eachlotber member

      , ef the Annual Convention . Prom the said General Fund shall also be defrayed the travelling expenses , from and to their localities , of each officer of the Convention attending the Presidential Sittings mentioned in Rule 6 , together with the allowances during the said sittings , of fifty shillings per we « k to the Secretary , and forty shillings per week to the President , lTice-President , Treasurer , and Vice-Secretary respectively—provided each of those officers attend the Presidential Sitting . From the said General Fend shall alBo be defrayed the weekly salary " of forty shillings which the Secretary of Convention shall receive throughout the remainder of his year of office . And , from the said General Fund shall be defrayed all other contingent expenses of the Annual Conventions , Presidential Sittings , printing of registers , cards , and , in brief , all the general expenses of the National Charter Association .

      15 . The Treasurer of Convention shall receive from each Sub-Treasurer a monthly remittance of the pecuniary payments made in his locality for the purposes of the General Fund , —and shall publish an account of the same , as well as of his current dUburseHents , tor the information of the Association at large , in such mode , and at such periods , as shall be determined on , from time to time , by the Armim ! Conventions , and the Presidential Sittings .

      LOCAL FCSDS . 26 . The local funds of the Association shall be raised by the collection of one « penry on the remaining Mondays of each calendar month , from Bach member of the Association who can afford the same , and by jmcb other means , and after such mode , as the members of the General Council resident in each locality may devise . GEXEBAL tECTDSEHS . 17 . The Annual Conventions and Presidential Sittings shall have the power of employing general lecturers , either for breaking up new districts , or for the performance of agitating service for specific purposes in districts already organized : the number of such general lecturers , the periods of their engagement , £ asd the amount of their remuneration , to be determined by the state of the general fund and the necessities of the Association .

      PENALTIES . 18 . Any general or local officer of the National Charter Association found advocating a compromise of Chartist principles , joining any soeiety having for its professed object a less measure of political justice than that contained in the People's Charter , or signing any document testifying his willingness to receive a less measure of political justice than that contained in the People'B Charter , shall be forthwith deprived of office by the body of members in general meeting assembled , in or throughout their localities . 19 . The general and local officers of the Association shall each and all be liable to deprivation of office by the body of members hi general meeting assembled , in and througnout the localities , for defalcation in accounts , misappropriation of the Association ' s funds , or gross and wilful neglect of duty . SCPPLT OF VaCASCIES .

      20 . In ewe of the death , retirement , removal , or dismissal of the President , Vice-President , Treasurer , Secretary , or Vice-Secretary of Ganvention , or any or all of them , before the expiring of the Conventional year , their office shall be filled by those members of the Convention respectively , who had the next highest number of votes for either of the said offices , and in case of the death , retirement , or disqualification of any of the said members of Convention who had the next highest number ef votes for either of the beforementioned offices , the members of the Annual Convention shall address public letters from their residences , respectively , to the members of the National Charter Association , declaring for-what member of the Convention they vote to fill the vacant office ; and the vacant office shall be filled by the individual named in the majority of such declarations .

      21 . AH vacancies occasioned by the death , retirement , removal , or dismissal of sub-Secretaries , sub-Treasurers , or General Councillors of the Association , shall be filled up by the body of membera resident in their respective localities , hi general meeting assembled , within one fortnight of the occurrence of such vacancies . XEAKS FOB THE ATT . &IXKENT OF THE GREAT END . 22 . The members of the National Charter Association shall actively promote the Parliamentary election of candidates espousing the principles of the People ' s Charter , preferring such Chartist candidates as are legally qualified to sit hi Parliament .

      23 . The members of the National Charter Association shall sIbo attend all public political meetings , and there , either by moving amendment * , or by other legal and peaceful means , enfoice a discussion of the People ' B rights and claims—so that none may remain in ignorance of what Chartists seek , nor my bare the opportunity of propagating or perpetuating political ignorance or delusion . 24 . The members of the National Charter Association shall earnestly recommend each other , by precept and example , to the practice of temperance and

      uprightness;—to cultivate the intellect and moral feel ings }—to fulfil the golden Tr )» TiTn— " Bo unto others as ye would they should do nnto you ;"—to trade with each other , and assist each other in case of sickness or distress , and in finding employment;—assured that the growth of each and all in intelligence and virtue will be the best and surest guarantee for success in the pursuance of their great and grand object—the establishment of liberty a&d happiness for the millions , by thepassing of " The People ' s Charter" into the law of the land .

      The Isoethern Stae. Saturday, January 7, 1843.

      THE ISOETHERN STAE . SATURDAY , JANUARY 7 , 1843 .

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      We presume that , by this time at all events , the mind of the people will be pretty well settled npon the fact that our worst suspicions of the Stuhge men have been more than realised ; and that our often expressed opinion of their policy was the result of a pretty clear perception of their true character . The Conference being over , and the excitement it was calculated to produce having had some little time to subside j it will naturally be expected that it should occupy some portion of our attention and remark , as a ^ passing circnnifitance a historical record of the day .

      We proceed therefore to point the attention of our readers to the facts of this Conference , as they successively occurred , in proof and corroboration of what we have always thought and Baid of the motives and pnrposeB of the parties by whom it was projected . We always saBpected the sincerity of those parties ; we never supposed that they had any such purpose as that about which they affected to seem anxious—a union with the working classes , for the objeet of "fnil , fair , and free" representation . We believed them always to be enemies ia their hearts to the principlea they pretended to

      espouse ; we believed always that their purpose was , under the pretence of seeking Union , to make and perpetuate division in the Universal Suffrage ranks . We never concealed our suspicions from the people ; bat we did not magnify those suspicions into facts : we left that for the Complete Suffrage men themselves to do . We advised the people not to trust them ; but we ako advised them not to interrupt or denounce them . We advised the people always to deal with them cautiously , but yet kindly , and with friendliness ; that if our suspicions should be "wrong

      and if they should tnra oat , after all , to fce honest , no obstacle might be thrown in the way of their achieving the beneficial purposes which they avowed . Our tone npon the matter lias bean sorely annoying to them . They have Been the probability of ita frustrating their wily projects , and they have been Terj restless under the apprehension . Hence" the incessant efforts of their Becret emissaries , u well as of their avowed advocates , to break down bj anr means ,

      no matter how vile , the plaguy " watch tower . " We have been also mneh carped at for our " illiberal jealousies' * and " unworthy saspicions" by a few honest and good aatured , but Terj shortsighted persons in on own ranks . We . doabt not that the events of this Conference will have folly shown these latter parties " who ' s who , " jmd "what's what " ,- while they justify the derisire smile with which we have regarded the exertions of the former gentry . The whole facts of the Conference , and the whole bearing of its authors , Xjom its Terr &st

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      opening , afford evidence i ' nat no design for unionjin pursuit of a common ob jeot was entertained by any but the Chartists w . ho had gone there;—that Storgb and his who \ e clique of movers , so far from wishing union , wejre , from the first moment , determined not to uni '^ e . Their planB were well laid , and their operations , craftily conducted , for moulding the Conference to their own ends ox destroying its

      efficiency ; for successfully cajoling or defying that publio opinion of which , they had courted the expression . And in case of their being unable to do tnis , their dernier ressort , the leaving of the Conference en masse , was determined upon before ever they came to it . We prove this ont of the mouth , of Stubge himself , whose opening speech anticipated and contemplated a retirement from the chair .

      The first move of the Sturge men was to defy public opinion ; and impudently to block out by wholesale Euch delegates as they despaired of making tools of . This had been craftily provided for in the circular convening the Conference , whioh made it imperative that the credentials of each delegate should be sent to the Council some days before the Conference . This move did not escape our notice at the time . We suspected its purpose and watched the result . The result was just what we anticipated . The Council , finding a large number 'of the delegates returned to be men with whom it was

      hopeless to tamper , resolved on the bold step of refusing to them tickets of admission ; and score after score of Chartist delegates were told as they arrived , that tbsir elections were disputed and that the Council could not give them tickets . The ferment which this produced showed the Council that " it would not do "; that it displayed the cloven-foot too nakedly , and that it was consequently sure , to defeat its own purpose . After many meetings , therefore , and much consultation , another " dodge ' was had recourse to , the " list" system waa invented ; " listnumber one" was manufactured as "the

      Conference , " to whom and to whose sense of right , the admission or rejection of all the other delegates should be committed . Tickets were therefore given to the objected Chartists ; but they were to Bit conditionally on the vote of the seleoted " list , " w ^ o were to have power , if they thought proper , to reject them all at once and in a ma « s , without further inquiry or ceremony , by a single peremptory vote . True , the Council made the shew of liberality in recommending that a portion of them should be admitted by vote ; but we are wicked enough to suspect that ikey calculated pretty strongly that the

      prepossessions of their friends would be too powerful for the " recommendation " , or that their shrewdness would see through the dodge , " and that therefore despite the " recommendation , " they would be rejected . We are by no means sure that secre ^ instructions to this effect were not circulated among the Complete Suffrage delegates . In any case , never was propositionjmore insulting to a deliberate body made than that of the Complete Suffrage Council , thus to constitute the Conference of their own picked men , many of whom , had no right , by their

      own rules even , to sit there' at all , and to recommend that these parties should admit the rightful representatives of the people by a vote ! It was certainly as finished a piece of impudence as we have lately seen . It was met , however , as it should be , by the Conference ; and the " artful dodgers" were shown that "the trick would not take "; that the Chartists whom they had invited , having too much spirit to be impudently shut out , had also too much sense to be thus insolently and degradingly "let in " .

      It is quite clear , as we have already intimated from the opening speech of Stubge , that all this had been anticipated in their " councils" , and that they had made up their minds to the course of action which they afterwards adopted , m case of " the worst coming to the worst " . That fact might , so far as they are concerned , excuse our further notice of the matter ; but we hold that every circumstance rightly used , is fraught with valuable information to the people . We shall proceed , therefore , to analize the doings and sayings of the Conference with a view to public benefit . We proceed to tell the

      people what we think of it ; what we think of the acts done by it ; what we think of the several actors concerned in it ; and what we think of the results of it as a whole . We shall do this honestly and candidly ; dealing unfairly by no one ; having no purpose to " denounce" any one , but without any ' regard to the " denunciation ' howl . For the proceed ^ - ings of the minority Conference , and generally of the Complete Suffrage parties , we shall , as we did before , take their own organ , the Nonconformist , as our text book .

      The next poipt of note after the constitution and opening of the Conference was the appointment of a tribunal before which all contested and disputed claims should be tried ; . and here again the "dodgers " showed themselves " wide awake " . The "Complete list" of the Rev . Mr . Brewstkk was to be sure a " little too bad ; " it was seen at onoe to be beside the mark , and was scouted by his whole party . Poor Brewsteb is a sad mar-all ; wherever he appears , he is sure to ** put his foot in it "; and , Bimply because he ia too honeBt for the party with whom he works . He carries his whole character

      engraven , on his front ; and tells people at once what he intends . This policy fits ill with the wily amalgamation of hypocrisy and cunning which constitutes the basis of the Sturgemen ' s operations . His straightforward proposition to appoint at ' once a committee of friends was seen to be no go , be . cause it was sure to do the very thing it did doprovoke a counter list ; and the Council well knew that if " Greek must meet Greek " , they woHld find themselves behind . Designing men always prefer stratagem to struggles The Sturgemen saw that another " dodge" could be

      played here . The functions of this committee were all-important ; they might yet decide the game . And hence the cunning motion of the Suffrage men , " that the nine names first drawn out of the hat should be the Committee . " Twenty-six nominations had been made—only nine were wanted . A little dexterous shuffling might manage to secure them by this process the whole , or nearly so , of the Committee ; at all events they had chance luck in their favour ; while a vote ' of the Conference upon the merits of each man was almost sure to constitute the Committee of men who would do right . We

      saw a few of those who are called Chartists , voting on this motion with the " artful dodgers , " among which were three of the delegates from Leeds ,, and two of those from Hull . We understand the excuse made to be , that it was a matter of minor consequence ; and that the time of the Conference would have been saved by the bap-hazard mode . The constituents of these parties will , of course , give to this excuse what weight they please . Tous it is only , in the mildest view of it , an evidence of gullibility , that should make the people very careful how they again trust the judgment of parties who have shown that they can be so easily imposed on . Fortunately , however ,

      the majority of the Conference thought differently , and a Committee was appointed in whom that majority had confidence that the matters to be brought before them would be honestly decided ; and judging the character of the Complete Suffrage men from the conduct of their body as a whole , we might probably conclude that that vote saved the Conference . This was evidently Mr . Bbewsteb ' s opinion , who in his ravings of disappointment at the rejection of his " Complete list , " warned bis " Sucking Pig" friends most bitterly that they would find enough of room and place for repentance of the course they « -ere pursuing ; and who , as the next best thing to his own list , " supported the " hap-haeard" motion of his more subtle friends

      We come now to the grand struggle of the Conference upon the resolutions of Mr . Beggs and upon Mr . Lovkit ' s motion . Upon ' this we shall have so much to £ ay illustrative of the real animus and character of the " Sucking Pi ^ " party ; so JBjBi'b to gay of the many ingenious pitfalls dug Jw

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      faction for the advocates of principle ; bo much to say of the clear developements of middle class character ; and so much to say of the oily faces and yet treacherous heartB of some Beeming and pretended Chartists , that we apprehend it might protract this article to a length greatly beyond what our readers would desire . We therefore , for the present , break off , and shall resume at this point , next week .

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      THE EXECUTIVE . —MR . COOPER'S PLAN OF ORGANIZATION .

      Wb had purposed to have no more of the Executive matter ; save what might appertain to the fulfilment of their challenge , if they ever do fulfil it . But it Beems that " there is no pleasing them . " The opening of the Star to an exposure of their conduct was a mighty offence , of which they and their friends complained loudly ; the closing of its columns to the controversy seems to have Buited them still worse ; aud , as will be seen , they requiredthat the report of this , their own meeting , called by themselves , should be inserted . Now we have shut out very many columns of wholesome strictures on their conduct from nearly all parts of tho kingdom , simply because of the cry of " unfairness" set up about the using of

      the Star against them , notwithstanding that it Was at the same time open to their replies . However , w « will please them if We can . We have great pleasure , therefore , at the especial request of Mr . James Leach and his colleagues , in agaiu opening our columns for the insertion of this report . The report , reached us only to-day ( Thursday ); we have , therefore , no opportunity to comment on it this week ; but reserve our right to do so , if necessary , at a future opportunity . We are given to understand that it is deficient in many statements of fact , and that some of its statements are inaccurate , at which we do not at all wonder , considering the character of , the meeting , which the Secretary ( Mr . Cooper ) describes as a " Bear Garden " .

      The last Balance Sheet is also published elsewhere in our present paper . We have not yet read it . With respect to Mr . Cooper ' s Plan of Organization , whioh our readers will perceive is recommended by some of the individuals who were present at the Conference , we can only at present refer to it , and request that its provisions may be carefully read . We can give no opinion on them now ; but may probably do so in our next . The matter is one in which the people should not act hastily . They should mind what they are about ; as a false step generally taken might entail fatal consequences .

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      Errata . —In the report of the Conference proceedings , in our sixth page , 4 th column , 3 rd paragrapfr from the bottom , for " Mr . Lowery should „ oppose the motion , " read , Mr . W £ ST should op-<* pose the motion .

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      2 THE Secretaries of the Shoemakers Societies held in Sunderland , Greenock , and Newcastle-on-Tyne , will oblige by immediately communicating with S . Clark , Pied Horse , Chiswellbtreet , Finxbury , and state their address . Mr . Peter Foden , of Sheffield , would be glad to know the address of Mr . Peter Shorrocks . Will Caroline Maria . Williams send her address Co Susannah Inge , 23 , Great Warner-street , Clerkenwclt , London , as she wishes to communicate with her ? A Political Martyr . —His second communication has been received . John Moonby , Coi ; ne . —We have already stated thai

      we cannot insert lists of Council received at this office after Wednesday moiling . He will find the list he sent on Thursday in the Star of this week . With respect to his other report , we can only " cut our coat according to our clolh , '' and curtail long reports when we have not room for them , nor time to set them up . Correspondents must remember that we have only a given amount of space and time for everything . Falrirk Chartists . — We do not preserve copies of communications when not inserted . We do not remember the one they allude to . B . Butterley , Halifax . — We only received the report of the Halifax election after the delegates had gone to Birmingham , It was then of no

      use . Thomas Stanford , Nottingham . —The heading was ours : it had reference to the money actually paid by the Chartists of Nottingham to the scamp in question . D . M , Millar , Glasgow , —The letter of Daniel O'Connell to which he refers was in our second Edition ; it was only omitted from the first by being accidentally left out of his pared by our Reporter and eonneguenttp not recieved soon enough , R . and J . —We have no room .

      J . C . Grady must stand over till our next . " A Chartist" must consult an attorney . 0 . P . ( J . — We have no recollection of the matter . H . B . Marlky . — We decline answering ; not conceiving the question to be a fair one . We have already given Mr . Farra ' s statement , and think that ought to satisfy Mr . Marley . A Subscriber , Ashley Wolds . —Yes . Send cash for what you want to J . Hobson , Northern Star Office . Is " The Feast op Kings" original ? We rather doubt . *

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      J . Brewer . —Send the money to Mr . John Cleave , 1 , Snoe-lane , London : be ia treasurer . T . Mills . —Call again about the 10 th : they will be sent by first parcel . Thomas Holbrook . —Six weeka for each . To Agents . —Those Agents who have received theii Accounts are requested ^ to send the amounts due 1 immediately . FOR THE NATIONAL DEFENCE FUND . £ ¦ 8 . d , From Inverness , collected by a few friends during the Christmas Holidays ... 0 18 0 „ Sunderiand , per G . Ksplin 0 18 < S „ Quick Stavers in Soworby ... « 0 U 0 ~ the Chartists of Hoibeck , by John Daviea ... .. 050

      • > FOR MR . ELLIS ' S DEFENCE . From Henry Shann , Wortley 0 3 0 FOR MRS . ELLIS . From an aged Female Teetotaller , Tavistock 0 10 FOR THE CHARTIST DELEGATES TO THE BIRMINGHAM CONFERENCE . From C . T ., Britons do your duty 0 16 ^ Fish , Witham 0 10

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      STOCKPORT COURT OF REQUESTS . —EM BEZ-8 LEMENT BY A SUB-TREASURER OF THE , NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . On Tuteday morning last , William Conway , shoemaker , Windmiil-stredt , appeared to answer a summons to show cause why he did not pay the sum of £ 4 8 s . 2 d ., due by him to the members of the National Charter Association resident in Stockport . Mr . James Mitchell , a member of the Association , stated the case . The sum of £ 4 8 s . 2 d ., was made up from the pence of starving weavers . It was entrusted to his ( Conway s ) care as treasurer . He had already paid 23 ,, as part payment . The body had waited with groat patience , expecting Conway would see the propriety of refunding the money , but all to no purpose ; and , as a last resource , they were compelled to bring him thus publicly , and try if he would brave the law , as he had done the Assooition .

      By a Commissioner—Do you owe the money ! Copway—I do Hot owe Mitchell a farthing . Commissioner—Do you owe the money to the Association ? Conway—I never contracted a debt with Mr . Mitohell in my life . Mr . Mitchell—Did you not receive the money from the Association . Conway—I don't owe you anything . Commissioner—Answer the question—do you owe the money to the Association t Coaway . —I Beyer did owe Mr . Mitchell anything . Mr . Mitchell—Did you not pay Mr . Johnstone two shillings as part payment of the debt , at the same time promising to pay the rest weekly ! Cpnw _ ay . —No ! -I never paid Johnston or any one else a single farthing .

      HeTe Mr . Coppock interposed , aud stated that Mr . Mitohell could not recover the debt , as Conway was a partner ; but that each individual member must summons him for their separate shares . Thus the matter ended . As Conway was a paying member at the time he committed the fraud , the debjj could not be ^ recovered excepting by e ach mem - ber appearing against him for his share , which would coat more money and trouble than the wretch is worth . Note . —The two shillings were paid by Conway , and entered in the books of the Association , but the system of proscription is so rigidly carried out against all that are known to be Chartists , that the individual who became treasurer subsequent to the robbery being committed , dueet not appear in court against Ccmway , fearing ( hat immediate dismissal from his employment would , i > e the result .

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      to the members of the national chXrter association . Friends and Fellow-labourers in the . cause of injured humanity , —In taking the liberty of addressing you on a subject in which I feel ! as much interested as though I was one of your members , and with which men are connected , on both sides , for whom I entertain the highest respect ; my object is not to take any particular side in the matter , but to point out tojyou what I told many of your friends at Birmingham , what I consider your duty to be , not only to yourselves , but to all concerned , and the only means by which the matter can be set at rest .

      While at Birmingham last week , attendisgl the Conference , I ' observed with painful feelings the spirit created by the disputes between the Executive and ot . her parties . This spirit , I am sorry to find , is not confined to the Executive on the one hand , and an individual or two on the other ; bat on the one hand are-j found large numbers complaining against tne Executive , and , on the other , as ) may naturally be supposed , others complaining of what they consider unjust attacks on the Executive . While there , ] l attended two meetings of delegates , ( that is delegates who are members of the National Charter Association ) met to consider the dispute between Mr . Hill and the Executive , and , after what appeared ] to me to be irrelevant discussion for two nights , I the matter was left no better than they found it , but rather worse .

      The Executive and their friends complained of Mr . Hill ' s conduct ; others justified his position ; 'While a third party preferred grave and serious charges against certain members of the Executive . As to the disputes said to exist between Mr . Hill and the Executive , that is | a matter between those parties , in their individual capaoity . The Executive insinuate , or threaten , ; serious charges against Mr . Hill . With these things , aa an Association , it appears to me you have nothing to do . Regarding the charges against the Executive , it ia not only your right , but it is your imperative duty to make the most searching inquiry ; therefore I would earnestly impress upon you the necessity of appointing a committee to audit the books , with positive instructions to require

      the Secretary to show vouchers for all monies paid on account of the Executive , such vouchers to Bhow in detail , to the last shilling , as well as entries ia the books , in detail , of all monies received by the Executive . Byj these means alone can you see whether your funds have been properly expended , and give each locality an opportunity of knowing whether their payments arc duly accounted for ; and , above all , by these means alone can you do justice to the character of the Executive . The Executive , in order to have themselves set ¦ right with the country , were in duty bound to have demanded this ordeal . I pressed it on some of them with whom I met at Birmingham . I also urged it

      on a number of l the delegates . I told both that without this the country would never be satisfiedthat no resolutions , however favourably expressed , or wherever passe ' d , would , in the absence of the most searching inquiry into the Executive ' s books , satisfy the country . I was told thai John Campbell had said that the Association owe him a balance of wages , acd that he will not give j up the books till that balance is paid him . I hopie this is not true . Mr . Campbell would , in adopting this course , injure his owa case , and shew himself grievously ignorant of his position . Ha cannot hold the books . Without this enguiry who can tell whether wages are due to him or not ? The oausc in which we are engaged demands tbi 3 , the . chaxac . er of your servants demands it . When

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      this is done , then , and not till then , does it become the Executive to put Mr . Hill on his trial . If ft can be shewn that Mr . Hill is guilty of whatig insinuated against him , let it be done in due coursebut do not mix up that with the charges against your servants . Let Mr . Hill be as base aa he is represented , that is no reason why you , a * an Association should not look strictly alter your own servants , Mr . Hill is not the only one who charges them ' wUh not having- done their duty ; the matter is not between them and Mr . Hill , it is between you and them . You have erred in leaving the matter to be discussed between your servants and any other party ; but though you may have done wrong in hot putting the matter to right earlier , that is no reason

      yoa should continue in the wrong now . I tender yon the same advice I did tothem . I told Leach be was injuring himself ; that he ought to demand a committee to audit nheir books . I hope James Leach is possessed of too much good sense to overlook this . Let that committee be now appointed . Let it be a committee of clear headed , business mea * men who will place the matter in a clear and indi £ « putable light before the country . Let the Secretary supply that committee with a journal of the Execu tive ' s tours during the last season , shewing the name of every locality visited ; where their expense was paid , either in part or is whole * also the amount of cash paid them over and above their expenses . Lot every locality be corresponded

      with by some responsible party , requringa statement of all transactions with the Executive . Let these be compared , and see whether they will correspond with the statement produced by the Executive ; and Jet the result be published . Any attempt short of this to establish the innocence of the Executive must and will prove abortive . Let the conduct of Mr . Hill be subjected to an equally searching in . quiry ; and should the offences with which some charge him be established , the country will judge him accordingly . A public meeting may bo a fitting tribunal in Mr , HiU ' a

      case , but the man who would attempt to bring the case of the Executive before a public meeting , or as some epoke of , a meeting of delegates , betrays ignorance of law . Money ma ' ters axe to be settled—it is not the mere politician that is to be consulted in these matters , it is the dry-matter-of-fact-businessman that must be brought to play . Speeches will not make up figures , nor will opinion , however high it may run , supply or prevent the means of striking a balance ; facts alone can be found to suit the pains-taking book-keeper , while patty spmt ; aud prejudice may supply the necesssay means to suil the purposes of the wily politician .

      Trusting these facts will be taken as they are given , in friendship , I subscribe myself , Yourbrother labourer , In the cause of suffering humanity John Colquhoun . Glasgow , Jan . 2 , 1843 .

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      TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sir—On Sunday last , one of those autheritea denominuted a constable , made his appearance in oor Association Room , for the fourth time , he being , aa is always the case , drunk , which to us is a source of great annoyance ; immediately be began with kis usual blackguard language , and threatening what be would do . He brongb . 6 four other constables with him , bat they were sober and gave no annoyance whatever . The drunken constable demanded our books , which are oui individual property , we having formed a library for on * mutual instruction . He alas demanded , bur license , which wo on a former occasion produced , when he demanded to see it . He has also intimated a threat of setting fire to our meeting place , It being in a lonely situation . We desire that you would point out the line of coRduct we should pursue , and give it in the forth * coming Star . By so doing you will oblige the membeu of the Association of Siddall . _ j » seph Denton , sub-Secretary .

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      TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sir , —Seeing iu your Star a letter signed Thomas Rail ton , imputing to me something of a very serious nature , my character being at stake , necessarily compels me to this explanation , and I do it with do unfriendly feelings to the writer , or any one else . The writer ' s first charge is , that the Star of the 10 th of December , stated that i received my eredentials from the delegate meeting , and the certificate , &c . My reply is , that my certificate and credentials were given me by " order" of the aforesaid meeting , and if I have stated that I got them from the delegate meeting and the Council , I am not far wron ^—the act of the one was by the order © the other .

      The writer says , I pleaded guilty" to some charges brought against me . and by using the words " pleaded guilty , " he would have your readers to infer that I had done something of such a dark dye , that it came under the denomination of guilt , and therefore I ** pleaded" poverty . Now , Sir , allow me to say , I did not plead , I merely made a plain statement of my inability to pay debts that I had brought on myself through , my voluntary and disinterested exertion , iu the sacred cause in which I h ? . ve been engaged . No one at that meeting charged me with any guilt but this , and I think no one doubted che purity of my motives and the goodness of my intentions , but the person that was destitute both of "honesty or courage ; " aye ; that person who was not summoned , I could prove that that person 4 s the cause of my having to

      come sixty miles to answer to that which 1 should not have had to answer , but for the foolish report he had fiet abroad to damn me , at my first coming out ; and under his calumnies I have suffered this seven months , and which is an old grudge of these thirteen years' standing , 1329 or 30 , and through the B&me persons' influence the infamous Griffin wrote to Halifax condemning me as a spy . Now I gave notice through the Star of my intention to be at the delegate meeting a " month previous Why did not that person meet me 1 I came from Yorkshire , and he had not to come ten yaids , as he lives close at hand . Now although that person did not appear at the meetings of the delegates or the council , both the delegates and the council were made acquainted with what that gentleman bad to bring forward , and the council at last heard mj

      answer . Sir , the only charge that can be made against me is , that in my zeal to Berve the e ^ ause , I have got into some small difficulties that I cannot meet ; I beliere altogether they will not amount to forty shillings , and at the time this matter first began were not twenty . There lies my guilt , and I have had it hanging on my mind until it has made my life miserable , it shall spread no further . I return my credentials ; and although I have done that against the Repealers and Manufacturers that has shut me out , from getting employment , I cannet bear the anxiety of mind that I have suffered any longer . I shall fulfil my present engagements and retire from political agitation , and likewise give notice that I shall appear before the council of Manchester next week , and am willing to explain and answer any thing required .

      I beg leave to thank the various localities that I hare served , for their kindness to me , and I wish them success in the glorious cause they are struggling for . Any one wishing to correspond with me , maj direct to Mr . Brown ' s Coffee House , New-cross , Manchester . Yours till death , Thomas Dickinson , The Manchester Packer ,

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      Turkish Fashion on Making Coffee . —People of all classes in Constantinople use these drinks . A good cup of strong coffee may be had for a ( arching , and a glass of sherbet for a little more . Their coffee is made in a simple , easy manner , and most expeditiously . When a siagle cup is called for , the attendant iu the coffee-house puts hot water into a little copper pan , or rather pot ; puts it over a charcoal fire for an instant to make it boil , then adds a proportioa of well- {/ round or pounded coff-e , either alone or mixed wich sugar , returns it again to the fire to boil far an instant , and the coffee is made . It is poured , boiling hot , into a smalt porcelain cap , and handed to the customer ; the coarser grounds quickly subside in a few seconds , whilst cooling down to the drinking point . Disagreeable at first , a taste for this strong unolarified coffee is sooa acquired . It is an excellent and safe substitute for ft dram . —Dr . Data's Notes and Observations . ¦ ¦ ¦ & £ :: ¦

      The Han ^ teu , Pauper Lunatic Asylum . — Five years ago , that benevolenoe which prompts to bo 1 * deeds induced the present matron of the Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell ( Mrs , Bowden ) to make au attempt to infuse some of the joyousness of the great Christian festival amongst a selection of the demented inmates of that institution . Front thirty to forty of the female patients were then enter * taind for the first time in the bazaar ward , which Was decked with evergreens for the occasion , with music , tea , and other . suitable refreshments . Tb « party separated at an early hour , and was closed by the sinking of the Evening Hymn . Nearly three hundred of the female patients , for the most part the incurably insane , were assembled together ott

      the eve of the presant New Year , ( Saturday last ) . A small room adjoining the gallery was decorated and fitted up as a refreshment-room for the Visiting Magistrates and other visitors . After the patient * had partaken of tea and cake , they mingled in the dance with the attendants , to the music of a piano * forte . There were present to Witness this interesting spectacle , besides the superintending physiciani Dr . Conolly , the ofiScers and their families , two of the Visiting Justices—Messrs . H . Powaall , and 3 . Bailey . Among the visitors was the celebrated Mainzer , who also kindly lent hi 3 aid for the . gratification of the party , and sang two or three p leasing melodies on the occasion . These entertainments to the insane , simple as they are iu theaaselvtw , a 18 fouad to have parauaeuUy beneficial effects .

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      BALANCE SHEET * F THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . ENDING DEC . * 1 st .

      1842 i BECEIPTS , j Cards . £ s d Almondbury ... ... — 0 10 Birmingham , Aahton-streefc — Q 10 4 j Steelhouse-iane — 110 Barnstaple ... ... ... 50 0 0 0 Bristol , Youths ... ... — : 0 6 % Broomsgrove ... ... SO- 0 0 0 Bristol , j . N . and J . George — ' 0 2 0 Belper j ... ... ... 100 0 0 0 Barnoldswick ... ... 70 0 0 0 Bilston , Mr . Linney ... ... 209 0 0 0 Bingley i ... ... ... — 0 3 4 Bath ' ... ... ... — 0-4 6 Burnley I ... ... ... $ 0 0 8 4

      Bri ^ htoni Mr . Moriing ... SO 1 2 10 Mr . Flowers ... 50 0 8 4 Basford ! id' 0 » 14 6 Clithero j ... ... ... 50 0 0 0 Cheltenham ... . ... — 0 13 4 Cockermouth ... " ... 60 0 0 0 Coalbrook Dale TOG Oil 1 Crow and Tyrrell ' s Beverage ... — 3 0 0 Crockford ' s ditto ... ... — 0 5 0 Carlisle i 200 1 0 0 Chelmsford — 0 2 6 Carrington ... ... ... — . 0 4 0 Cullingworth — 0 8 0 Chatteris j ... ... ... 1 . 0 2 0 Dalton i — .-018 Denholme ... ... ... — 0 2 0

      Depttbrd i — 0 12 0 Exeter | 25 0 0 0 Friend , Sussex — 0 2 6 Mole i — 0 0 8 Uanley and Shelton , Mr . Simpson 50 0 0 0 Upper Hanley , Mr . Richards 30 . 0 0 0 0 Honley j — 0 2 6 Haslingden 50 0 0 0 Hawonh ! ... ... ... — - 010 Idle i ... ... ... — 0 1 8

      Kirkheaton ... ... ... — 0 4 8 Kettenng i ... ... ... — 10 0 Keighley ! — 0 4 2 Kingston , } .. — 0 2 6 London , Wheeler , 110 0 18 4 ^ Simpson , ... ... 84 0 14 6 Islington , ... ... — 0 2 0 Tower Hamlets , Females , — ' 0 5 0 Westminster , Southie , — 0 2 9 Clerkenwell , 36 0 6 0 Marylebone , 100 0 8 4 Bermondsey 25 . 050 Cleave , 100 0 0 0 Bootmakers , BrittainniaCoffeehouse , ... ... — 0 2 0 Stuff Hatters ... ... 6 0 11 0 Brompton & Knightsbridge , 0 10 9 £ Rock Locality , Carpenters , 0 21 Sh ' oreditch , ... ... — 0 3 0 Milend , Shaw , ed . ods . 4 0 2 0 Lambeth , Youths ... 12 0 2 0 Gold Beater ' s Arms ... — 0 2 0

      Camberwell ... ... — 0 2 6 To ' wer Hamlets ... — 0 2 6 Star Coffee-house , Goldenlane ... ... — 0 17 5 Blbomsbury ... ... 12 0 7 0 Three Doves , Tailors ... — 0 2 0 Mdrylebone ... ... — 0 3 0 King and Queen , Foley-st . — 0 8 0 S& . jPancras ... ... 25 0 4 2 Hammersmith ... — O 9 0 Fiasbury ... ... — 1 ) 4 0 Carvers and Gilders ... 18 0 5 0 Clockhouse ... ... 36 0 6 0 Leicester , Cooper ... 540 0 0 0 Leeds ... ... 200 2 0 0 Liverpool , 12 ed . cds . and ... 80 0 0 0 Loughboro ... ... ... 300 0 0 0 Longton ¦ ... ... ... 120 " 0 0 0 Lewes ... ... ... — 0 3 0

      Llanledoes j ... ... ... 20 0 0 0 Manchester { Youths , ed . cds . ... 6 0 0 0 Manchester [ Fustian Cutters ... 80 0 0 0 Manchester Mechanics ... 52 0-0 0 Manchester Smiths ... ... 50 0 " 0 0 Manchester / Painters ... ... — 0 11 0 Manchester Shoemakers ... — 0 8 0 Nottingham I Democratic Chapel — 0 10 0 | Nag * sHead ... — O 10 0 ] Rancliffe Arms ... — e 10 o ' Robin Hood ... — 13 0 Norwich ... ... ... — 0 10 0 Preston ... ... ... 35 000 Rotherham ... ... ... 100 0 0 0 Ross ... ... ... ... 100 000 Richmond ... ... ... — 0 5 0

      Salisbury ... ... ... — 042 Sowerby ... ... ... — 0 5 5 Stafford — 0 5 0 Star Coffee-house ... — 2 12 0 ^ Sheffield { ... ed . cds . 12 448 0 0 0 Political Institute ( Harney ) 300 0 0 0 Sunnyside ; ... ' ... ... 90 0 0 0 Sheerness i ... ... ... — 0 2 0 St . Albans ... ... 16 3 0 0 0 Shipley ... ... ... — 0 0 8 Todmorden ... ... ... — 10 0 Tavistock ... ... ... 18 0 10 2 Worcester .. — - 64 0 0 0 Wilton ... ' ... ... — 0 3 0 WiJsden ... ... ... — 0 13 Yew Green ... ... ... — 0 3 2 Yeovil ... ... ... — 0 6 0

      : Total Income ... £ 34 16 0 EXPENCES . To 5 , 000 Cards printing 5 10 0 To 13 weeks' wages for Leach ... 0 0 0 Ditto , i ditto M'Douall ... 6 0 0 Ditto , 1 ditto Bairstow ... 7 12 0 To Postage for 12 weeks ... ... 2 17 2 To Stationer , ditto ... ... ... 0 X 72 To Newspapers ... ... ... 0 8 6 ' Secretary travelling from Liverpool to . - London ... ... ... 2 2 0 Error in Tavietock account ... ... OHO Due to Treasurer last Balance-sheet ... 113 3 ^ Secretary ' s wages for 15 weeks ... 7 4 2 . Total Expencea £ U 16 0

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 7, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct463/page/4/