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UNITED STATES . Th ^ re is little of int e res t in any of tbe jonraals from North America , except the further ascoucts xeepecuog the differences between the British and United States Governments . The unp leasant case « f Mr . M'Lsod , who is still in prison , has not improved in its aspect . And suw . het case , not very SiBEiEilar to it , only of a less formioable appearance , las arisen : a civil action for trespass had been hrooght against a Mr . Jackson , the jtfize-master of % vessel seiied by a British war-brig oa the coast of Atric * , the seizure having been pronounced ilie-* % L br the American courts : Mr . Jackson pleaded
2 » orders cf hiB superiors , but he was held to ban to answer the charge . The rancour ' excited by the VLeoi controversy seems to have given a new impulse to the dispute about the boundary . Some of Vie States had tendered their assistance 10 the Federal Government in support of the national ¦ koooar . " This quarrel also appears to be redupiittted in an attempt to assert the rights of the Union ovar another disputed territory . Sniail border collisions contributed to foment the bad JfeelLB £ which prevailed . If the two Governments do not settle the quarrel soon , mischief may occur which they will bequeath to posterity to repair , if it can .
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Tele export that Captain Harvey Tuckctt had gone abroad is without foundation .. Captain H . TockeU is at present in London . Thb Coxtox Cro p of the Uxitld States . —The seeonsiis received from the United States , by all the recent arrivals , concur in representing the crop of cotton as smaller than had been previously caldlAtt-i upon ; the current estimates being from ljSQO . OQO to 1 . 650 , 000 bales , - whilst some of the letters r-duce the amount as low as thirteen or fourteen hundred thousand bales . The Wheat Chop . —As some apprehension is felt repeating tut effect of the lats intense " frost on the wheat plant , we have taken considerable pains to
eoSec ; us much information on this subject as possi- [ ble , and feel great pleasure in statin ? :, ii : at the ma-1 jority vf the reports are decidedly favourable , the j oiade belaj ; genera ' . ' y described as wearing a healthy j ajjpearaace on emerging from its covering 01 snow . —Mark Lane Erprets . Paeis and Rocex Railwat . — "We hear that Mr . £ r&s&ey , the great railway contractor , hao taken the I oontrac . for the whole Lne at £ 1 , 000 , 000 sterling , j cd that he has given the planting and lir . io , x of the j hedges » nd slopes to our townsman , Mr . Rogers . — ' Senih * ju . pton . Independent . - j
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Skvep . 4 . 1 . PI 3 S 3 X 5 have been recently apprehendee-• e scspie : on of having stolen the jewellery , to ; he mkkiu : of £ 10 , taken from the premises of Jlr . Howard , jrweiler , Manchester . Tsspuuscs Societies is Londos . —The ea-us * e of ' iemperauce is progressing here at railway speed , sad th « socierie .- ihsz C 3 re besa , and are being formed , both in arid aiound London , are almost ; beyond calculation ; mde-d , to such a pitch of enth . asia . -Di have the majority of its members been wrougfc ' -, that tL = y even hold meetings in taeir pri-T * te huiises to confer on the best mean 3 of extending their principles still further . Societies are-about to be formed in Hampitead , Highgate , Kubaxn , Kea-, BaH-gre » n , iX ; . There are differenteortsof teetotaiists , ' And
» 11 aver . ^ o eaca other ! this , pernaps , destroys the harmony of ii more rhan anything which its worst enemies could effar , by destroying thatbond of union which should ever hold such societies together . First , they are dividtd upon religion . The bV ' - itted Protestants cannot agree with the Cafhftlicr-, though the Carbolics would willingly agree with the Protestants ; thus , we have Catholic and PioUjftani societies . Then come the Law-church Protesa : ts ( Tories . ) and the Dissenters ( Wh ; ^ , &c . ) They cannot agree ! so here we h 3 ve two societiesto say LOthing of ilethodists , Caivinists , and the like . T .-is , however , is concerning religion only ; there i- not so much cat and do > play , as regarcs politics ! principles ; many of the Waigs and Tories , are ail hail fellow well met'" a . ihrir rceetings , and 80 indeed might be the Chartist ; , i < they coula but submit ' jo be gagged—that is , not to avow their
principles , or contradict any lies they may hear upon "WM ? economy ; if they do , immediate . expulsion is the coas- ^ qaence . The teeiotahsts , taken as a whole , though v .-vie early a beneficial sociciy . izll sal lies ; they would persuade you , tLat by absiainirj ? , yc-2 will be a ri ? h man at the cad of the year , although to everv well-thinking mind , i : is evident that tne additional taxes , upon tea and sugar , bread , < kc , mdeed , evci-v thing els ? , would swallow up , ali tlieir ¦ avin £ <; and if a Chartist attempts to show this , bang be goes off the platform ; immediately the police-Fpies are caiied in , and be is accused of ere-* tmg a ai ? turbaaoe , witn . an attempt co break the peace . The formation of Chartist ve-. iotal societies of late , has . however , in a ^ reat m ? a ? ure , rc-m ^ -died this evil . Tne Ciiartists have now axsocnuoas of their owa , and can express their sentiaituts as thay ^ eas « , withouj giving c £ ccce to the . fanatics who impose them .
Thb Youths' TzMpniiNCE Associa-: ioxs . —Time WSB , wren onr forefathers paid Ueirly , and -vrith their lift ' s bloodj lor asstrrnng thtrir ri <_ at to meet ; and bai for the manly dej ^ rmina : ; on ihdy-evinced , that ri ^ -ht would have been for ever abrogated . 'Tis tarns th it many an attempt has been made upon it St the present day ; but right and ra-ghz , on the part
of tlie people , has at length ^ ett > . a the question , sad if we except Am . rica . & .-., t ' i : s is the only eontitry iu Europe that ecjov ^ trw right of meeting to its luliest possible ex * ent . This brings me to the Slain ysiM of this article . The courage displayed by the I'dGers of the present political , -social , and temperiuee noveire 2 t ; s : ein- to have a ^ iiDited their MHis to emulate them ; and meetings which our aoesvors would have thoti ^ ht wonii erfal , -are now got up by bars—n ; v , mon .-, they have or *; anised
Aasoc *' . . oas which tli-ir ^ rai . cfcthers , in -thy palmy days of Sidmouth and CastUrea&h , would have toanbl-. d to have bad a hand in . And wuy ? Beeaase they licked moral courage , and bad % i < o ^ reui aiesppct for bad lavrs , Wales has h 3 d its Yo ^ cbs ' CSariist Associations , whilst Lvndon abounds with Youths' Temperance Associations , the yoDthi ' ul » embers of wiiich evince a spirit and de : ermi ^ a : iou io go forward in spite of every opposition and per-• ecntion , that is truly laudable . Let us shew out reader ^ how these Societies are formed . We have It on the authority of the members them ^ lve ? , anu can , tb . refore , vouch for its autheiiticity ; at the Woe time , we cannot let the present opportunity eeeape , without t-endering them <_ ur m .-ed of praise for their noble endeavour to emancipate ih . yinse . ves
from that worst of allslsTery—wjU'kbi which cone other can exist—mental slavery . And low for the As » ciatioii 5 . A few youths , playmates of course , tiagaBi&l , its they ara in many mstat-ces , with the drunken vices of their parents , their friends around them , & . C ., and in others amEaied by what their fathers have done in the £ tH > d cause , confer together ; and after esreral resolutions oa the part of the Urjoritj to go on , the boidt ^ t of them is appointee Secretary , and the honestest Treas-orer . Taey then oil ft pablis meeting by prinred placards , suzae on trust , aad others by subscription , amongst them-B&lres ; and none but those who have attended their HwetifigB cm tell what ( if we except the awful KHftber of orators ) a well-conducted affair it is . Enthusiasm is of © onrse not wanted , and many of
then , though mere youths , and those of the indusinoas cLiss , deliver speeches ( of the mum « at , not set toes ) which , for talent and classical reference , prove tim not only to be deep-tbiakiax youth ' , but shew % deep research , aad a desire to do good , which we look in vain for from " our rulers . " . Let them go on ctedfa&ly in their career . Temperance is . the foundation of liberty , and ws are happy to find . that they b * ve so many snpporters , not oaly amongst their wb cla ^ i , but atnong the midi . e classes , many of whom attend their meetings , aad contribute hberally . We are gla i of this , not because we value tne Kiddle « L& 3 s more than the industrious , but because we art desirous that the ^ od of all classes shoalu be suited iq oae coniEoa cause , and that for the social benefit and happiness of all ; and this , we think , tcaapetaitce , aa a firtt ratioiAl step , will fcSect .
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° THERE IS NOT ONE LAW FOR THE RICH AND ANOTHER FOR THE POOR ! !"
THE ILLrSTSATI 05 . In the month of September last , Thomas , Earl of Cardigan , went out vrith 5 pistol loaded with bal ? , and , standing opposite to a person named Habtst TccKErr , deliberately shot the ball iato his body , seriously and grievously wounding him . For this shooting of Haktbt Tuckktt , an indictment was fonnd by tie Grand Jury of the Central Criminal Court in the following words : —
" The jurors of our Lady the Queen , upon their oath , present , tbat the Right Hon . Jaiues Thomas Bradenell , Earl of Cardigan , Jate of th ) parish of Wandsworth , in thfi county of Surrey , » n the 12 th day of September , in the 4 th y ^ ar of the reign of our Sovereign Lviy Victoria , with force and arms at the parish aforesaid , in the county aforesaid , and within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court . M-ith a eertain pistol tbt > n
and there loaded with sainpowder and a leaden bullet , at and against one Harvey Garnett Pnipps Tuckttt , then and thrre beicg , then and there feloniously and unlawfully did shoo :, with intent thereby , then and thfctt : feloniously , ¦ wilfully , and of his malice aforethought , the said Harvey Garaett Plr ' pps Tnckett to kill and murJer , against the form of ihe statute in that case made and provided , an < l against the peace of our said Lady the Queen , her Crown and dignity . "
On Tuesday last the culprit took his "trial " at the Bar of the House of Lords , for this offence . Witnesses were examined , who proved that his Lordship shot the man Harvet Tuckett ; that they saw him do it—that they saw him fire the pistolthat they saw Harvey TccKErrfall to the ground wounded , the ball being lodged in bis body . Notwithstanding this direct and conclcsite evidence , that the Earl of Cardigan did shoot and wound Cspt . Harvet Tcckett , their Lordships unanimously declared him . to be " NOT GUILTY . "
THE X . CHD WAS SET AT UBEETY ! ins co . vtkast . In the year 1830 , one Hewhy Cook , a labouring man , of M'ehelut'ver , in Hampshire , was in the streets during a disturbance arising out of the introduction of thrashing machines , by the farmers . On » Bingham Babikg wa 3 also there , employed in what he called " quelling the disturbance . " Cook and he came in contaot . Coos , having in his hand a large hammer , struck at Bingham Babzsg , but did not Juirm him ; for the said Bi > gham Baling was seen actively employed in the streets the same evening .
i For this " striking at" Bixgham Baring , Henry , Cook was indicted and " tried" before in * Special Commission sent out by Earl Gasr , to try" the | Agricultural labourers accused of rioting . I The Jnry—( not the House of Peers)—prononnced Cook"GU 1 LTY" !!! The Jud ^ e sentenced him " to be hanged by the nerk till he was dead ! dead ! ! dead !! !" ! ; ; ! ! '
THE ZiAEOTJSSR WAS HANGED !! THE RESULT . No more hanging of labouring men for " striking at" reiatior . s of : he Chancellor of the Exchequer . ' If Thomas , Earl of Cakdican , beat liberty to shoot a man " with intent to kill , or do him some grievous bodi ' y harm , " and not to be hanged , —no more labouring men snail be tucked up " by the neck until they are dead : J for " striking at , "—not SHOOTING ,
miiid , —a rich man 1 11 We are told " there is not one law for the rich , and another for the poor ; " ' there shall sot bb such a measuro of " justice " again meted out to the pocr , —after this case of Cardigan ' s , —aa icas meted out in the case of Cook ! ! No ! No { The rich must not again make war upon the poor , by hanging a man for ' striking at" one of their order ; if they do , — THE POOB SHALL MAKE WiB UPON THE RICH ! ! !
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SPIRIT OF THE WORKING CLASSES . THE WORTH OF AN ALLIANCE WITH THE MIDDLE CLASSES . Oxe of cur ablest historians has truly said , that" the people are very seldom wrong , aud never very long wrong . " Incrta-iing knowledge , and a wise direction of it is , day by day , lessening the frequency of popular error . It Las been a fashionable device to cover the deeds of treacherous public men , by proclaiming
tiie in ^ -ratituie , iionsiaEcy , or inconsistency of the people . This is mere cant ; a perversion of terms ; a mistaking of the cause for the effect . Never was there a more lenient censor , or a more forgiving tribunal than that of public opinion ; in fact , its very vinue ^—too much forbearance—becomes its greatest vice . Never has there been one single instance of the people deserting a public man until that man had deserted every principle upon which his ju 3 t pretension to popularity was based .
If we required proof taore immediately confirmatory of out assertion , we have it now before us in the full and ample records of public opinion from numerous towns and villages , wherein we find a spirit which not oniy justifies our encomium , but more than rewards U 3 for all our trouble , anxiety , and watching , for the people ' s cause . These document bespeak a foregone conclusion , said hold out a warning to all who shall
. gta ^ ger , even by a hair ' s breadth , from the centre of the Charter road . One writer says—"' Nay , it O'Coxnob himself , or an angel from Heaven , were to propose a desertion of the Charter , and a resolution of any d-.-fir . uion of Household Suffrage , or even Universal Suffrage , with other restrictions than those c-ntained in the People ' s Charter , a Scotch moral-force audience would so far lose patience ,
as to groan at Lisa , and declare him a traitor . In speaking , then , of an alliance with the middle classes , we must presume that it h proposed as a means to an end . The question which next presents itself is , what is that end 1 As a matter of course , a ic : ddle-clas 3 Government ; that is , middle class ascendancy—a plaaing of the whip in the hands of the gentleman ' s gentleman , for the gentleman himself—instead of wrenching it out of the hands of both . This is bringing oppression nearer to the slave , and making his tyrant ' s heart his only court of appeal .
What doe 3 our present system lack of a middle class ascendancy in all administrative matters Let U 3 suppose the great manufacturing counties of York and Lancaster ; are they not wholly , entirely , and exclusively , under the tender mercies of middle-cl&sB rulers ! Are not our magistrates , the very fountains of justice , of the middle classes ? Are not the manufacturer , overseers , aDd all that race , of the middle-classes ! and do they , in either capacity , famish strong reasons for love of middle-class rule f Are the laws in their hands more mildly administered than they would be in the hands of those a degree above them in rank ; or in the hands of those below them in station \
What i 9 the great grievance of the Reform Act , as stated by all the popular advocates of labour since the enactment of that measure ? Is it not that it has been a purely middle-class measure ! and are not its fruits daily , cay honrly , felt in the increased , and still increasing , poverty and despondency of the producing multitude ? "But , Trhy / 'says a blistered hand , from Barasley , ** have we been so often dnped ! " and he answers tbiii : — " Because we had uo trial of them , in the first place , and ignorant of our own strength , and of our own neighbour's feelings , we became an easy
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prey , in the second place . " Now , thi 3 is goq $ sound sense . But , he proceeds : —** Now we have an organ which ; God bless it , threatens to desert oa if we desert ourselves ; this is reversing the old order of things , aad making men honest whether they will or no . " With these and many such assurances of public estimation , we feel encouraged the more fearlessly
to bold on the direct tenor of our course for the full recognition of the whole principle of " UaiTereii Suffrage and no surrender . " Not that other circuxnsta&ees would at all alter our determination . It vr&s the saying of an ancient philosopher , that he would be rirtuouB for his own sake , though no one should know it ; as he would be clean for his own sake , though no one should see it . " So we would be honest for our own sake , though no one should approve it .
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? —~ THE WHIG PIG AND TORY BACON . Some of our cotemporaries are just beginning to Bnd out what we told them' three years ago ; that the present Government wae the most perfect Tory Government ever yet in office . A Tory Government , with all the sweets of Tory prinoiple preservation , without any of the bitters of responsibility . But our friends judge too much from mere ski& irruptions , and fail to look into the patient ' s general state of health ; many appear to think , that , because Peel ib satisfied with things as they are , that' ergo , ' there will be no change for yet a little .
In this narrow view , they lose sight of the lice upon the beetle ' s back in the all-absorbing thought of the beetle ' s self . They appear to forget that Kwatchbull , GoxTLBURN , Hardinge , Tennent , and now the two Gladstones , together with a whole host of locusts , are not as well able to be satisfied with things as they are bo the wealthy Baronet is . Sir Robert has property to protect , and the lico have property to get—a very Btriking difference . Peel also knows full well that the thick blood of the heir of the house of Derby is boiling in a rival ' s Teins . and that the hollow voice of hunger cries " on , Stanley , on , " from a million helpless dependants .
Is any man so demented , or so bad a judge of human nature , as sot to know that the very thought of Stanley haunts every slumber of the cautious Sir RoBtoT . O , for the house of Derby to play second fiddle to a bloodless leader ! No , no ; it is too much for human nature , and far too much for inhuman nature . Stanley will force Pbel , and that ere long , into the very lap of Whiggcry . Did not our wishing-cap inspire us , even before the
recent tilt upon French alliance , foreign policy , and Irish Registration , and tell us that Peel sincerely wished the Earl of Derby in heaven , in order that his hopeful son , Stanley , may fill his place ia th « Upper Honse . In four , nay , three , two years , Stanley will be the brigand chief , and a better his followers could not desire ; he will stuff them with Protestant churches , and wash them down with Papist blood .
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POOR CLAYTON . We now learn that the deceased Chartist laboured under a concatenation of disorders , from the very commencement of his imprisonment . He was fiftyfive years of age , and was afflicted with asthma , rheumatism , and gravel . Now , ono word upon this . The Sheriffs of London , not " ignorant" or " misguided" men , are confined for a contempt of the High Court of Parliament . They receive cuurtly visitors , and hold levees every day .
Th .-y have superb apartments , and enchanting exercise-ground . From luxurious living , they become afflicted with ennui , latitude , nervousness , and repletion . Ah apothecary tells the House that he thinks exercise is necessary for digestion , and for the better regulation of the liver and tho biliary organs , and they are liberated . Clayton has gravel , asthma , and rheumatism ; and he dies in prison at tho a- ^ e of fifty-five . What is the reason of thib One was a rich oppressor , and the other a poor oppressed .
It is every day ' s practice to release prisoners in ill health from confinement , although our officials allowed poor Clayton to die , and actually forced O'Comaob from a sick bed to a felon's dungeon , in the very teeth , not of certificates , but of the oaths of two of the most eminent practitioners , and a certificate from their own surgeon of the Queen ' s Bench .
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ECONOMY AND RETRENCHMENT . Of the iniquity of the Keane pension " job , " we shall just here observe , that such things , in the teeth of unexampled national poverty , will lead to a demand for a Republic , which it will be found impossible to resist . Voting for this infamous "job , " we find almoBt the entire " tail "—Messrs . M . O'CON . VELL , M . J . O'CONNELL , J . O'CoNNELL , W . S . O'Brien , and Mokk OTekrall , all in a lump ; while among the forty-three who opposed it , not one Irish member appears . In the majority ,
we not only find Peel , Stanley , Col . Perceval , and all the O'Connell ' s , but we fiud also the redoubtable Mr . E . Protheroe , M . P . for Halifax ; and for this , ( if there were no other cause of complaint against the nominee of Mr . Coroner Attorney Brewer Stocks ) we call upon the honest men of Halifax to " serve him out . " Here is a mighty pretty "Radical" (!) voting for the robbing of the people to pay £ 2 , 0 ^ 0 for throe generations , to a fellow who has been already more than ten times paid for Upholding tyranny by physical force .
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MR . BLAKEY AND LORD NORMANBY . !>¦ the Tyne Mercury we find the following precious sample of Whig liberal tactics : — " Tue Prosecution agaikst Me . Blakey for Libel . —We are enabled to t . tatetuat the Marquis of Xorraanhy , her Majesty ' s Sfsretary of Stato for the Home Department , has recommended th « magistrates of Newcastle either altogether to withdraw t ! ie prosecution against Mr Robert Blakey . for a libel published ia the northern Liberutor , or to allow him to plead guilty ,
on an understanding that he will not be brought up fur judgment . Mr . Blakey and his friends had applied i- > Lord Xormanby to make this application to th « uuthorities cf Newcastle . The principal grounds stv . ed by his Lordship are , that the appearance * of the tiu . es ginee the publication of the libel have materially changed , audthat the Northern Liberator has cta .-td to txist We are not aware , as yet , ¦ w hetlser tho authorities have come to any determination about the matter . "
Our objectm inserting the above , t 3 not to show that Mr , Blakey has received the least favour and lenity at the hands of the prosecuting Whi ^ s , for in fact there can be no great thanks due to a tyrannical persecutor , for capriciously abandoning his victim , after he has ruined him . From this notioe , however , we learn the lengths to which a Whig Reformed Government will go , to subdue the Bpirit of the press . Here we are distinctly aud uublushingly told , that Lord Normandy himself , has become the intercessor with the Newcastle magistrates on behalf of Mr . BLAKEr , and two reasons a ; e assigned . The first , that the times have materially changed ; the second , that they have succeeded in destroying the Liberator . Now , if the first be a sufficient reason for
abandoning a prosecution which never should have been instituted , and , if Mr . Blakey admits guilt by pleading guilty , and , if tho material change in the times warrants compromise , does not such a change also warrant the extension of a similar indulgence to , at all events , every poor Chartist prisoner ! But what compensation will poor John Bell , the printer of the Liberator , receive for his eix months' imprisonment for the same libel ? Why , he has been paid before hand , by the loss of his situaticn . Thus , in every instance , it matters not how minute , there is one law for the rich and auother for tho poor . "Wh y was aotpoorBELLcounsslled to plead guilty , and thereby save the punishment , aud keep his place .
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tor & a ; grc » ter bpnefit tothe Whigs than any they eoulipossibly hope to reap from . the incarceration of Mn BtAKET , whoi in our © onscieriott , webelievd i bad'ifotiunk ' W-feafr-firpm an honest Newcastle'Jury who have shown themselves jast , honest , and impartial , upon all Chartist triala .
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ROCHDALE EJECTION . Let the electors of Rochdale look alive . We g » v « them a hint , Borne time ago , that Da « and the Whiga would rather see the Devil and his tail walk ing into tke House than see Shakman Cbawfobd . We now tell them that intrigues are going on to prevent it at any sacrifice . We can do no more than sound the alarm : let the troops look out I
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O'CONNOR IN THE HANDS OF
INQUISITORS . Thb following statement haa been sent to this office . We give it as received : — M , who write this article , are ready to make oath of its correctness to the letter . On Saturday last , the 13 th / in » t ., we called upon Mr . O'Connor , at an expence of nearly a pound , for the purpose of transacting some business with him . We were attended , during our interview by the Under-Goyernor , who , after two or three minutoa' atay , showed symptoms of impatience ; and , when we had remained about five or six minutes , ordered us to depart . " M What ' s the hurry V said Mr , O'Connor , i •*• We ' ll . " said the Under-Governor , " the Governor ' s at Wakefield with debtors , and I am obliged to attend to his business . "
"Well ; " replied Mr . O'Connor , "and do I owe any of you so much compliment as to allow my poor privileges to be further abridged for your convenience ! What . are your orders ! I must see them . And if you are so busy , why not eeud one of your turnkeys in the Governor ' s absence ?" The Under-Qovernor answered that the magistrates'orders were that Messrs . Hill , Hobson , and Ardill , should have each half an hour at a visit allowed . and all other visitors from five to ten minutes ; that the turnkeys did not like to come ; in fact , that they refuse to come on account of the tuinner in which they are ; put upon and crosa-qufstioned by the magistrates , about every word which passes between Mr . O'Connor and his visitors . " ** Bear witness to that ; two Englishmen ! " said Mr . O'Connor .
* ' Well ; sothey may ; " replied the UnderrGovernor , "It ' s true . " Is this to be borne ; is this to be tolerated in a Christian country , and in the ninth year of Reform ?! That a man , for libel , shall be sentenced to seventyeight weeks of solitary cenfinement , in a condemned cell , over the hospital and the murderer ' s burying'ground of a felon ' s prisejjrf ; and yet subjected to the further indignity of being not only watched , Tjut his every word repeated by hired spies ; and no doubt arranged to suit the taste of those who thus become parties to and lend themselves to thii refinement upon meanness t O ' Connor ia not . the law ' s prisoner : he is tke victim of revenge—an
offering at the shrine of the pettiest personal animosity . Ho has now endured 40 weeks of unmitigated persecution and ungentlemanlike insult . It is now high time that it should cease . At all events , it is high time for every working man in England to tell the House of Commons go ; lest our representatives (!) may suppose that the people are indifferent to his suffering , and may hereafter cite his case as a precedent for like unopposed barbarities . Let petitions be instantly poured in like grapeshot from every town , village , hamlet , house , and workshop in tho kingdom . To it in good earnest . None can surely refuse this trouble for one who has never thought any trouble too much for the redress of the wrongs of the oppressed .
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A TRUE Cuartist . —Thanks . Fbacinus . —Certainly not without your wife ' s content . You ought tiot , in fact , to think of it . If your wife have been a dad one , you stwuld be thankful to he rid of her on such easy terms ; if otherwise , you are a wretch to wixh it . Gainsmio' . " — The Chartists here complain that the booksellers neglect their orders for the Northern 1 Star , and wish an agent appointed . Let them fix upon some eligible person , and recommend him to the office—he shall have the paper son the same terms us all other agents . T . W . — We perfectly agree with hvr ., that it is both " perfectly ridiculous" and " savours much of despotism , " uhtn men , prof rating to advocate
equality , expect to be themst . lues always the fore horse ; and u-tueangry if " i . ' icir every word be not plainly laid before the public , or the name oj other individuals meet the reader ' s eye before their own . " S . P ., Kidderminster . — We cannot find room for his addrc * $ . Thomas Heer recommends deluging the "Home " with individual , fattiiiy , and trade petitions , at the rate of 5 , 000 a tc / ck , as a plan , simple in itsrJf , but truly constitutional , and , above all , effectual ; if not in en frying the People ' s Cliarte . r , in putting a stvp tu the many notices of motions that are entered night after night , whilst their doors are closed to the voice of the people .
" Pakody on the Bonnkts ov Bluk" will not suit for publication . An Oastlkiute thinks Easter Tuesday would be the best day for the Oastter tea parties . Washington . — We < io not know enough of the circumstances to ¦ ¦¦ nswer his question . The individunl preve ? ittd from delivering his political sermon might •'>< : a competent or a very incompetent person to do so . We certainly do not think it cither prudent or right in any associated body of Chartists to pivhibit the preaching of political sermons as a general rule . A Lkeds CuAiiTibi ' . —The subject has been taken up
by Mr . Collins himself . Jamh ' b M'Phkuson , referring to the Birmingham obsequies in honour of pvor Clayton , who was there denominated " the first Chartist victim , " remit ) t !< ihe people that this is not the fact : he claims that honour for poor Shell , who was butc / trred at Newport . J . G . KiLiKEii . —The persons who framed the resolutions which he sent to us must wait our tiwe . At a fitting lime we may tell them all about it : at present u : e do not see it necesaary . "Tut ; Transportation of John . Fkost" in our next .
Amount kaiskd fok Peddies AxxoaNEY s Bill . — Money received by John Craig for the payment of I'eddie ' s Attorney ' s Dill , and paid to Mr . Jackson , of York , by Mr . John Ardill , of the btar Office : — £ s . d . Raised by Subscriptions at Leeds ... 0 8 6 Received from Mr . Hattiold , Dewsbury 0 6 0 Received from Mr . Burnett , Bradford 10 0 Received from Mr . Steele , Pudaey ... 0 16 0 Received ' . rom iMrs . Pediiie a Postoflicu Order for ... ... ... 2 0 0 Received t ' rmi Mts . PeddiennOrder on the Star Oflioe , for money sent to her , to the amount of- 2 6 6 Received irom Hortou ... ... 0 5 0
£ 7 2 0 for which sum a full receipt was granted , the amount claimed being £ 9 10 s . Mr . James Jbbetson . — We received a letter from this gentleman , too lute J ' or notice in our last , emphnlicully denying the charge which has been made against him of ' refusing to sell tickets for the G'ocwb Show totlie Chartists of his neighbourhood . He hud no tickets but half crown , ei ^ hteenpenny , and five shilling ones ; and these he sold indiscriminately to every person who applied i for them . Address to the Commons House of Corruption
m our next , J . Jones . —The Fleet Papers arc published by John Parry , 47 , Holywell-street , Slrarid . They are not stamped ; but can be sent through the post for a penny . Joseph Hawksly , file-cutter ; Henry Taylor and Henry Satterthwaite , comb-makers ; William Spencer , ' leather-dresser ,- John Moarftausei , awlbiade-maker , all of Sheffield , desire to have their names appended to the Total Abstinence Pledge . John A . Lawson , Sheffield , wishes his name to be appended to the Total Abstinence Pledge . The following Persons desire to have tlieir names attached to the article which lately appearedin
the Star , on the questions of Chartism and Total Abstinence , signed by Henry Vincent , < J c .. — Williaw WprsdeUiSubtreasurer ; Samuel healey , sub-secretary : Wtfdam Padget aud Roger -Pintier , councillors ; Joseph Scholey , Cornelius Toy , Launcelot Toy , James Eitdnck , George Gray , William Gray , and William Webs' . er , members of the Hull National Charter Association , all of whom arc zealous advocates for the Charier , and four of whom are distinguished members and advocates , also , of the Hull Temperance Society , and alt of whom are members , and form the Committee , of the Hull a > id East Riding Chartist Total Abstinence AnaciatioH *
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Mr . Henbt Vvw ^ gradford , SegmQjf the ¦ Council of the National . Chaper Assonatwn , ' desires His ' n $ tne ' t ^ b £ itfrp ^ i 4 , io the Te ' mpe-^ taiice Attires * of WK rtyfWhffi' - •; < ' s , KBiOHLEY . — : We Mve riot ' rtpm fftTuthe Jonathan ' - 'Wild paragraji ^ this teeek : it wil ^ heep . 0 . Thompson . —2 MA f A * cases hdvti appeared m the John Kerb and JoHifBccHANAM ^ TT * think it ' cm / not to jiublish , their letter .: «» « . ¦ hate no irish to injure any one— -not eventhe tingratefuL SamueL Qtpupoti . —We tee not what we can . do in . ' his case . ¦¦¦ ' ¦ " ¦ ' ¦ . ¦ ¦ .: ' ' .. . - , - : -. Joseph Hatfield . —Hit letter it excluded for laek of
room . . , . .- . .. _ . ,, * Tjempmunce' * amd "Thb Dbwkabd ' s ; Grave thall appear . ' \ ' .., ' . " 7-Portsba . — We . shall have ' tmeihing to say onto iaffdir ; but not this week * . ' ,. /¦ ; , . SvEcrAtbB . — We have ho room » . ' , ' J . B . GiUMSHAV and TiipiiAtf BaoWN . —We cannot atttwer . either oftHeif qtie ' tti < pis i none Of the tnon $ y catne' Jiere . ¦ ¦ ... G . yf . ^ We havenotrooin aipreient . Wiltshirh 'Council . —Their addrest next week * "SbNNKT on Bponapahib" is nQt bad ; but if teill hot suit our columns . ' . Wuxum ThomaA ' ' and Morgan , > Vjlliahs . —We " '' received their letter ' affirming that the paragraph , t' about which they had previous !!/ complained , ' certainly did not appear in those copies of the ' Northern Star of February 6 th , which they
received , and enclosing similar testimony from several persons . We can only account for it on the supposition that the second or third editions of the paper must have Seen , in that week , sent to MerthyrTydvilf instead of the firjt . Paragraphs of mere local interest are often , taken out of the first edition to make room fax later matter . To convince them that the report was ' inserted , we have posted a paper of thtit daie to Morgan Williams , in which he will find it . Since writing the above , our Clerk has informed us that , on that occasion , the papers for the agents named in the letter of W . % andM . W . were not posted until after the first edition had been alt sent off , cash not arriving for them tili Friday evening , instead of Wednesday . This explains the whble matter . Andrmy Kennedt . — We shall have a word to say upon the matter of his letter . . .
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J . A&aiivr Carlisle . —The Wigton parcel leaves at the same time «* the one for Carlisle . John Morgan , Brecon . — We have not one copy of the Star / or January 9 , 1841 . A . Neale , Debby . —Send the dates of the papers wanted . W . Tippin , Binglet . —Papers can be posted for Irelandfree at any time , same as for any part of Enolahd . . . John Clay . —The order to stop Colclough's papers cam * too late . . M'DoOGALt AND MESSRS . JACK AND CtrRRIE ,
GLASGOW , — Their letters came too late for the papers to be posted at the usual time . - Alkxandbr Finlay . —Send the particular address , and the plates will be sent . W . D . £ ., London . —Vet . J . Vfxss .-res . J . HoRSFall , Honlby . —jT&c delay complained of ts with the Pott-office : the papers wete posted in time . Wm . Foikv , Cork , has not sent his address with the money . '" ¦ ' ¦ * F . ANDa * W 8 . —rAe paper was posted . ' FOB THS COMMITTEE FOR SUPERINTENDING DAN . ' s
CHARTIST WELCOME TO LEEDS . £ * . rf * From W . Young , Wltney , Oxford ... 0 3 6 ^ H . Griffiths , London ... ... 0 0 6 ' „ Lepton , per J . Shaw ... ... 0 2 6 _ a few friends at Honley ... 0 5 0 „ ' Halifax , par Mr . CrossJand ... 0 5 0 „ A middle > clO 88 roan , at Bradford , once an admirer , now a hat 6 r , of Daniel O'Connell ' a policy ... ... 0 10 \ . a few friends at Motley ... 0 S 0 FOR THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OF THS INCARCERATED CHARTISTS . From the Torryburn Chartist Association ... .... ... 0 10 0 „ Mrs . Spence , Dundee ... 0 5 . 0 From the National Charter Association . Derby ... ... 0 6 4
FOB MRS . FIIO 3 T . From the Members of Dawgreen National Charter Association ... ... ... 0 5 o „ Thomas Barker , Chesterfield 0 0 7 FOR HRS . HOLBEBRY . ' From the Charter Association , Dawgreen 0 5 0 FOR CEAYTON ' S FUNERAL . From the members of the National Charter Association , Barnsley ... ... ... " ... 0 10 6 „ Jamesiiotterell , Preston , near Brighton ... 6 2 0 ^ Daniel Friend , do . ... 0 2 6 „ H . Griffiths , London 0 2 0 „ Lepton , per J . Shaw 0 2 6 „ Dawgreen , by the Charter Association ... ... ... 0 6 0 ^ . Campsie , near Glasgow ... 0 7 0 FOB THE SUFFERERS BV THE ACCIDENT AT CASTLE DOUGLAS . From the National Charter Association , Dawgreen , nearDewsbury ... 0 5 0
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" Pray that the right may thrive ! Jf ever 1 return to you again , I'll bring you comfort . " Shakspeare . Passing through York on a journey to London , I paid a second visit to the chief of the Chartists , in his Castle , or fortress of freedom . The Under-Governor , in unswer to my application to see Mr . O'Connor , asked me if I had any business with him . I told him my business was to pay my respects to him . After a little demur , he led the way , and we followed him into a . loiig , narrow , and lofty stone passage , which is furnished with a wooden shelf , extending , breast high , along one side . On my tirst visit , this shelf held a number of black pots , filled with a kind of slime , and ranged in a row , -with a piece of bread beside each , Intended for the dinner of the felona , who stand while
partaking of it A man w ; is walking from the further end of this passage . ' I did not particularly notice him at first , ' but , on meeting him , we mutually recognised each other , and my hand was cordialiy grasped by Mr . O'Connor . Ha imuiydiatoly led the way up several flights of stonts stairs , until wo cinie Into a dark passage , in a corner of which ho opened a door , and we stood inside of his cell . He pointed to a pan upon tlie fire , and said , " There's my ¦ dinner i" Our host did the honours of his prison-house like a gentleman as he is , and , after he had closed the window , which had been opened for the admission of free air , we all sat down , except the turnkey , who stood in an angl ^ where ho could see and hear every look and word that passed There were several bird-cages in the room , but the songsters were mute . Not so , Mr . O Connor— " he sings his bondage freely . " The solitary system has not silenced him .
I wish that those who are the moat bitterly prejudiced agaiast Mr . O'Connor could have half an hour ' s conversation with him ; it would go . far to remove their prqndices . I own myself somewhat of a physiognomist , and I never saw a countenance in which , goed sense , good nature , and hunesty are more pleasingly marked . Mr . O'Connor entertained us with joking upon the pitiful indignities to wbkh he is subjected . He in not allowed the company < ff tha vilest felona , lest he should contaminate tiiem , I suppose : tkey are more favoured than he . He is compelled to take turns with them when he takes exercise , like " ride and tie , " as ho humorously obsn-ved . Nay , he must even wait and watch for the uso of that closet wherein devotions are waid to the goddess Cloacina .
Now , it is not the under Governor , nor the upper Governor , but the Governor of all , Lord Normauby , whom we must despise aud detest fer this abominable treatment of a man as much superior to him aa virtue is to vice . When the Court paramour , Mortimer , imprisoned King Edward II ., be employed two villains to break hia heart , or turn his brain ; but all their efforts proved fruitless . More wearied with pet- ^ secuting , than their victim with being persecuted , they at length put a period to his existence by the most barbarona mnrdeiyon record . O'Connor ' s tormentors have bean equally zaatous to degrade him , and have been equally unsuccessful . Who does not see that they would murder him In an equally barbarous manner , if they did not dread the retribution whick soon overtook Mortimer and his tools , Maltravera and Gournay ?
Changing the subject of his insulting usage , which 7 had listened to with a head drooping with indignant shame and sorrow , the true , though . uutitled nobleman before me , reverted to the cheering prospects of Cbartism , which evidently console him for all he suffers . I mentioned the idea which some entertained of a junction withtbe middle classes . This he demonstrated to be impracticable and impossible . The middle classes are now the mob , and were they suffered to lead , they would lead u * backward ^ instead of forward . Seeing that the-people will be victorious , they will follow like vultures , for the sake of prey , or , like the fox that stole the prize from toe exhausted lion . Lik& Judas , they would come with a kiss to betray us ; but we must bid them get behind us , for they savour not tha Charter .
" Shall we , who struck the lion down—shall we Pay the wolf homage ; - ^ -proffering lowly gaze Ar . d servile knees so thrones ? No I—prow before you praisa , " We had not sat aboie a quar ' . or of an hour when the under Governor saitl , " Come , gentlemen ' " ' . ' O'Connor accompanied us as * fan as Iris rii-isau chain would permit
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I was taking ^ wrong . tnra ^ jn the intricate Ht ^ n ^ he put me right , agcPaiftHftijIy said that he was w * acquainted with the placotbanl . I asked him jjfj * had a : ; y commands for London , aiid he told me ? make use of ms hfctne to ' SaokeyJ ' whom , I atm ^ r say , is very unweU ab P ? e ^ nt , He ; » id , rt . *^ .. that ten , months . were over ; , > and . I heartily « M m that the nextheight w « r » so too , / or I f ^ ft ^? grief in being obliged , to leave such a man u gJT place . ' ' ¦ ' The under Goterhof had Inquired my name 0 # « friend who awompanled me , sad on Ddag toldttJa was Mr . W * 0 dns , ftom Ai « laby- ^" Ah r wl * •« that is th «« h * p thafcwrdte in the iTorM ^ n , ^ 3 I was a spy ; Tre a . good mlad to give ^ » - ] fajV upfor-JV . ¦ ' ( . < , . ' ; ., ' *• , = .. ^^^^^
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MRiLOWERY . ' tO THB Kl » IT 0 a « P THB NOVTKKIW STAX Sir , —In answer U * TOtir ' -remarte- in JOnr lu » ta to my having , in aoujtraetion with Mr . J . Rath *) . of Newcastle , contracted * debt of X 40 witiS Star office , I beg distinctly to state that , whunw Mr . Rncastle said tat you I know not ; bui , a < 3 assuredly , I neTerw a * a partner with him iajW new * agency , or shop , in Grainger-street , Ne »< a « 2 ' that ! never authorised him ' t ? say , to you'll one else , that I wo * s 6 1 thatfihe 'Northern , & £ office and all other pl ** e 9 -tkftt supplied thit \ Z with goods , supplied them to him and in hia mm ? and that if he said that I was his partner , he to 2 a lie ¦ . . ..... -: ¦ - ¦¦ ' , ¦'¦ ¦ ¦
. . . ., That I never had any interest in that shop w was it o , ver agreed that I should have any isie ** but that of my wages as a hired servant to m ^ that shop ; that of the time it was open I oalr | 2 , in it four months as a servant , and did not get half the money duet © me for my wages of service ; amitlm after I bad left , Mr . Wm . Thomason was hjfedjn my stead , and continued in it until it closed ; m confirmation ' of-which ' , I can show any one theeow of receipts and expenditure which 1 took fronta shop book when , I left . That all monies r eceived in that shop wore taken by him , kept and dikbarsed by him i J , Rubastlei That no creditor ever deemed , I waa a partner ; in proof of which , not out , doJ even the Northerns tar ever sent me a bill , or notice or said they had a > olaim on me . '
Tiiat as soon as ever I found that J . Rucast ! j * u in your debt , and that of others , and had otheiwig used the monies that shquld hare paid yonjlfta left the shop , and ,-WTdte io"Mi . Blakey the stated its affairs , declining to continue in it ; and then learned that I had been imposed on by Mr . Raeu . tie , when he told -me that Mr . B . was going u a partner with him in it , and that Mr , B . nererhid had any thing to do with it than as a well-wister . That the advertisement in the Liberator of Qg being the seller in '; that shop , which I allowed for the purpose of benefitting its retail custom , wo ]
not be imputed to me as desiring to lead anj aedi . tor wrong , for-ft ' . iteYer was-concealed tb . Mtn » not a partner ; and when I wrote them 4 it wufot him , and by his orders , and tjiey allfcne ^ Iwtt art so . I even did not contradict that advertisement after I left , and Mr , Wm . Thbmasoh waa theBdlo and Mr . R . and I were not oh speaJrabk tenu , lest it might he thought & spiteful attempt of me to spoil the trade of the shop by withdrawing mj friends from it ; and the advertisement ww continued even after I had opened and advertised t shop of my own . Yours , , Robt . Lowm .
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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE OMITTED LAST WEEK FOR WANT OF ROOM : Hbddeksfikld . —Middle- Class Mrbcies , -Apom man named Robinson who has a wife and six ohildrei dependant upon him , who has had no wotfcofinj consequence for the last . three or four moDft > , aaj whose family is at this moment pining for the eonraon neoeasariea of life , had , on Monday last ; hii house entered by the harlequin deputy cotBttileof Elland , and another nondescript of the ome oa from Greetland with 'hi . m « -who seized the eToek , t fiddle , a chair , and four historical pictures , foi th » enormous sum of five shillings and three-pence poor rates , due I suppose to the triune Devil King .. Om of the monsters who seized-the goods ; watMi U take the child ' s cradle , though he saw liwbib < sleeping on the lap of its mother .
Meeting of thb Goabdians . —The Goariiuu made a poor muster on ; Friday ; they are so tirei of their accursed work that they would gladly grre ii up , but for party feeling ; itisr withal , soespesm an affair . Theoold hand of charity doled outtfew paltry pittances to many who had travelled pal distances ; some from Leeds , and others * hid k return , unrelieved , to cold cots and empty cupbouds Many are compelled to have recourse to begpry which is becoming practised more and more every day , as the poor wretches are verging npoa ik appearance and wretched condition of the Ixisk peasantry . There cannot bo a doubt but that it wi \\ increase until we become little better thin ani&aof
beggars and swindlers . A discussion took pace between Mr ; Anderson ( who proposed an addition of £ 20 to the collector ' s salary ) and Mr . Pitkrtfelj The salary had been formerly £ 120 , but had tea reduced in June last to £ 100 . Although there *!! a determination to vote for the £ 20 increase , amnigsi a considerable portion of tha Guardians , it was full / determined that it would be impolitic , as they wen so near the end of the year , to put on that which they had knocked off . So the unfortuiute « ollector is left at starvation point , to get throngi the winter as well as he can . A spirited discussion followed upon the subject of the payment of tfa . e Huddersfield workhouse bills , in which Mr .
PiJkethly strongly denounced the conduct of Denl . who was the person who had been the offender , and who had advised Messrs . Brunton and Poppletoa to keep possession of the house . A division took pis * ) when there were against paying the account 11 , for paying it . 7 ; and one neutral ; but they have paw a portion of those same accounts , and doriagwe time they were being contracted , above thirty persona were sent into the house , principally from ojher towns , 'f ttua , as is very general in other ' cases * ra « ratepayers of Huddersfield are to be taxed with the good lodging and washing , for all those , anitae townships to which they belong are to go scotnee . This had bsen the intention of those MaltbosansJ they thought Huddersfield was in too . great prosperity , and that they could put a clog to it ; *
the law has givea great power , for inasace , Huddersfield has five Guardians , who represaU a population of upwards of 20 /) 00 ; and of -i&g 2 , 067 ; and the average or call of £ 1 , 158 Us . S ?« i a , ud that paid up when the last yearly abswet was published , and overpaid £ 207 18 s . fid . ' Jp each of the five represents above £ M ° f rates , while the Chairman ( the Reverend «* Maxfie ) d ) representsan average of only £ 30 Vk . ny being £ 2 uO less than the Huddersfield Guardiansdo individually , aadthat township owed more tn » a «* amount of ihe& , vail . They owed the Union *»» thus these little trifling corners sent men to bw » b ? us , ana they also prey upon Huddersfield . At *™ same time , Golcar ( Bull Briggs ) owed £ ' 237 t an * ™ whole call them is only £ 169 14 b 3 ^ d . : WW
upon . owed £ 312 3 a . 3-id ^ and their call was £ 2- ' -i-1 »««• Linthwaitft owed £ 19 G , and their call a * ' «• Meltham owed £ 282 , their call is £ 138 . Wool ^» owed £ 143 ; South Crossland owed £ 114 ; SI * * ' waite owed £ 156 ; Lindley owed £ lb'i \ W owed £ 102 ; and many others in asimilar con aiu'ia . If HuddersSeld would hold her hand , and WfO « J position of others , and owe more than her aTersg ^ all the Bastile Guardians , CommiHsioners , ¦ »» Assistant Commissioners , with Neddy Bainea > w Finality , and the master , penny-a-line cB aaW *^ together , could not keep this Union together < £ month ; it would at once crumble mM > «» . The following notice was placed upon the coo * * . next meetins . bv Mr . Pitkethiy :- To ,- « flW * ffi
Mrs . Aiusworth , and the Master and MtfwnWv *? Huddersfield Workhouse , be called before ihe M ^ and examined as to whether she has been guutj v has been charged ) of . sending' George . Wwdcoc ** child aged seven years , weighing 41 pounds , anfl ® euring 41 | inches in height , to Thoruhili * Booa jjj engagement with a collier , to labour , in uie _ mines , without the knowledge : of the ? Tf * rVi ( guardians , or any one in iuihority ; in ^ ^ L ibund correct , she may for such inhumai 4 * y , . * J unprotected child , he reprimauded , . and torto *" discharged frpm her office . " : Wigan .-Ou Sunday , the 7 th inst ., taetergewj of the Commercial Hall was nearly ^^ J * ^ , persons who were present to hear Me . - ^ "f ^ jjie of Bolton , preaeh a sermon . Many of tJje- ^ classes were present . In the evening , ^ - ^ L . delivered another sermon , which P ""? ^ , * good effect on a , numerous asaembiy . —On ^ ' gwu cutui . vu tt'UUUiaiuua aooomv » j . ~ - <
^ evening , the 8 th inst ., Mr . Bai « tow deu ^ able and argumentative . address , which la $ * o aeariy two hours and a half ; Mr . Hyslop , dr »^ was in the chair . At the conclusion , thwuB * _ given to the Chairman and Lwturer , , * nfl ' , ia cheers each , for O'Connor , Frost , WiU ) affi ^" Jones , and the People ' s Charter .-Qo th « i-wsw evening ^ Mr . Leeeh addressed a . vory " um ro ^ ijr sembly ,. at ,-great length , aad was enthusiasw ^ caeeted thrwighttat . Mr ^ JJixon also 6 P ° % ^ Qii # usual elequent : manner , and moved the ; iw 0 " ^ resolution : — " Thai this meeting is of ° P """ ° 3 ajn . tire conduct of the Government to that n V n ^ i , pion of the people , Fea-rgus O'Couaor , is- W « illegal , aud cruel in the extreme , and will wu »» Government to become much more unpopuiar » ^ it is at' present ; and' wo pledge ourselves J a . every legal means iu our power to cauae an a « tjon to take place forthwith . "
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TnE latk Fire at liANcaESTEB .- Several p «»^ were charged , with j-tfcalwg various pieces 0 I * ^ ar / the late lire iii Maaohester . One P ^^^ re 170 pieces in her house . Two of the numoer ^ committed for trial , and the remainder were charged , ' ., ; ., . -. -. ? .. •; . :
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Cavtio * to BE ^• EFr ^ Societies . —In a recent case brought before the Cuurt of Requests , Manchester , . iie efficrrsof a Sick aud Benefit Society , were made to refund £ 5 , the full sum being £ 8 to a widow , whom thpy attempted to trick out of the burial allowance for her husband . The Chairman advised the officers to get their society , enrolled , as there was no security to any party as it at present stood , for in all cases the money paid is might be recovered in that court .
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CANADA . —Private letters hare been received from Canada which communicate a fact of greit i importance . Sir James Stuart , tho"Chief Justice of Quebec , is said u > have ro 3 i < aed hi 3 seat in the Special Council of Lower Canada , of which he wa * ' the president . At all events , he is no longer Lord i Sydeabasc ' s chief adviser , but has openly disagreed ] ¦ with the Governor-General , and gained Montreal forQiobec . The particulars t > V tne difference are ' not yet before us ; but we should not have mentioned the circani 5 tance 3 unless assured of the perfect accuracy of the aboTe statement . — Colonial Gazcite .
HEW ZEA 3 LAN 33 . —The intelligence from New Z ^ land is deeply interesting . CaJonel Wake- ; field riad rerorned : o Port Nicholson , after having , eetabh-jhed lbs mosi fnsndJy xeiaJions with the I Govtruur ; a task of delicacy which the Colonel I appears w have executed wiih his nsual bu < iuess- j like i * c » . On his return to the South , however , he I found ihe settlers in a siate of the utmost excitement , about the arbitrary proceedings of the New South Walfcj ( Jovemment ia relation "to land-titles in Jsew Zealand . They felt tha ; tlieir property and all the fruits of their exertions were threatened ; and , full cf aiim and indigcavion , they were preparing to Tasort to 5 oe * extrtics measure , sach as abandoning the colony , and escape ; : from persecution br re- i noval to some region independent of Ec ^ iand . Colonel Wakefield succeeded in al . aying thesa extraTa ^ raccc-s , and in direcung the acurity of fLe ' Colonies to the more practical object of counter- ' » ofeiS ihe effects cf ignorance and the land-shark interes ; in Sydney , by rational but forcible Tepre- ' KnlxtioiLS . '
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 20, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct537/page/4/
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