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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11. 1841.
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HUDDEBSFIELD . O'CONNOR DEMONSTRATION . On Saturday morning , all was bustle and haste in the expectation of the distinguished patriot . At half-past ten , a carriage and four greys started for Cooper Bridge , to meet Mr . O'Connor , who started en route to New Mill , where he was met by the men of Holmfirtb . The people here formed into procession , accompanied by a band of music and numerous banners floating in the breeze , and as the procession crossed the English Alps , from New Mill to Holmfirth , the Bight from Holdfirth and the Talley was
most magniiieent , indeed the psople merging as it were from the clouds , and then the splendid banners in rapid succession , all served to heighten the scene . Mr . O'Connor on his arrival at Holmfirth was greeted by the assembled thousands with a real old English cheer . He addressed the people in the large room of the Eose and Crown , bat not a tithe cvuTd gain admittance , and although tke rain poured down IB . torrents , the assembled mas 3 stood firmly waiting to catch a glimpse of the noble advocate of the labouring classes . The room was crowded to suffocation .
Mr . O'Connor spoke for half an honr amidst the most raptnrons applause . Such was the crowded state of the room that it wss afterwards ascertained that the main be&m had sprang and broke into splinters , and it is a wonder that the whole of the vast assembly were not "let through" to the bottom , hat xil passed off safe . Started for Honley at four o ' clock ; me . the procession at the Banks ; marched toHonley . Started from Honley at five o'clock to meet the men of Huddersfield at Lockwood . From HonJ ; y the fight was
most beatiful , the music playing , and the transparent Iamp 3 with which the procession was pro-Tided were truly ^ rand ; bui Euch was the inclemency of the weather , that only a very few weathered the storm , aad out of three score only four reached Huddersfield . J-. i Loekwood , the procession was met by the men of Hudderefidd , Almondbury , Lepton , Dal ton , Lindley , Paddock , &C On entering the town the procession moved in the following order : — Foar Marshals on horseback . Almondbury band .
A large aud splendid banner . A full likeness of Mr . O'Connor . Reverse—England , home , and liberty . Operatives twelve abreast . A beautiful green gilt ; banner—Golden letters . Motto—Universal Suffrage , Annual PariiameniSj Vote bv Ballot , Payment of Members , No Property Qualification , Equal Representation . A beautiful tri-colour . Kirkheaton flag . We demand Universal Suffrage . Operatives twelve a-breaet . Lindley band . A splendid green « ilfr banner , with a correct
Likeness of Justice holding the Scales of Equal Rights in one hand , aud the People' Charter in the other . Reverse . The day of freedom dawns—tb ' e time is near "When freedom , oar united efibrt 3 crown , On , on , Briton ' s , our cause is clear , And labour shall no master , but the labourer own God Save the people . Operatives twelve a-breast . Tri-colour .
Motto—Holmfirih National Charter Association . Reverse—The Charter our right . He that will not ask is not worthy the blessings of freedom . White banner—Honley . Motto—Equality of all before the law . Reverse—Taxation withont representation is tyranny , and ought to be resisted . A cap of liberty carried on a long pole . Operatives twelve a-breasi . Green silk banner . Motto—The right of every man to liberty is from God , from nature , from birth , and from reason . Reverse—The whole of the principles contained in the People ' s Charter , we demand , for nothing less will we ever a . k or take . Tri-eolour ; Motto—" God save the Qa : en for we fear no one else will "
Reverse—** The glorious Repnblic of America , and soon may England imitate that country ; its people happy &eu contented . " Golcar band . A splendid oil painting of the coat © f arms of the National Cktrt-er Association . " 16 feet by 10 ditto . A tri-coloured flag ; Motto— " England experts every man to do his duty . " Reverse— " God help 3 those who help themselves . " White flajr ; Motto- ; - The land , the land !—the right of every living imn . " Reverse— " The rights of labour , soon may they be acknowledged by
all the world . " Green silk banner ; Motto— " Every man bis ottc landlord . " Reverse— Down with the ascursed factory system , the school of immorality , profaneness , wickedness , and vice of every description . " Operatives , sixteen ab " -east . Colne-bridge band . Cap of liberty . Tri-colouxed flag . Large white banner :
Motto- "England , home , « nd liberty . " Reverse— "No bastiles . 1-e right of every mi . n to live upon his native land . Operatives , sixteen abreast . Green silk flag ; Motto— " Equal representation , " wish the eSp of liberty . Reverse— " No distinction before the law . " Green silk flag , with silver letters"Honesty is the best policy ; lo humbug ; no Corn L&w fallacies ; the full rights
of all we ask , no more we demand ; this we -will have . " Reverse— - " God gare the earth for man ' s inheritance ; a faction have taken it to themsehes . Justice , justice , justice ! ' ' Honley band . Tri-coloured flag ; Motto— " Universal Suffrage . " Operatives , sixteen abreast . the carriage drawn by four srejs-, postilionB , scarlet jackets , black velvet caps , and silver tassels ,
containing the people ' s champion , FEARGUS O'CONNOR , ES ^ along with Messrs . Edsvard Clayton , Robt . Peel , and other friends . Transparent lamps on eaca side . Green silk flags on each side oT the carriage . Operatives , sixteen abreast . In thiB manner the procession moved along Buxton-road , on New-street , Market-place , up Westfile , Market-street , down Cioth-nail-street . Kingstreet , on Qneen-street , up Ramsden-street , to the Philosophical-halL
When the procession arrived at the ball , it was crowded to excess ; it was now after six o ' clock , and , in consequence of Mr . O'Connor having received letters from London , requiring his . immediate presence there on orgeat business , it was arrarged that , bo soon as he arrived , he should at once address the people . Mr . Yeevers , therefore , having been calk J to the chair , introduced Mr . V OoRnor , who was received with tremendous cheering . He made a most exeellentspeeeh , concluding at half-past seven o ' clock , leaving just time for him to be conveyed to the railway Station to meet ikz train . ' The people deeply regretted the urgency of his departure , out were consoled bj a promise of another visit at some future time . After Mr . O'Connor ' s deparinre , Mr . Mowitt , after % few observations , replete with sound argument , moved the following resolution : — '¦
a That this meeting pledges itself to agitate for no reform short of the People's Charter , the whole of which we consider as a perfect' measure ; but if robbed ef one © f its principles , the whole would be involved : we , therefore , pledge ourselves never to agitate for , nor counter , ance , any measure or measures less than the whole of the principles contained in the People ' s Charter , and that wejook upon the rib who would endeavour to lead the people for any think less , to be an enemy to the liberties of mantad /* Mr . E . Clayton seconded the resolution in an effective speech , in which be exposed the present move on the -part of the Anti-oora Law League , in coming oat for the franchise ; he warned the people against the ruts which was in eoftteaiplaiion . He referred to the history of the Roman Rvpublic in the time oi Tiberias Gracchus and Caius Gracchus , shewing to what means the aristocracy will &ioop to over-reach the people—by threats , intimidation , and , flnally , by over-liberality—to destroy the power of , and lead the people by , a false light He resumed his seat amidst * W ttt ~ ffUJMI Jllf *
Tfc » resolution was carried ur animously , and th-ee cheers having been given for the Charter , three for Frost , Williams , and Joae * , and three for O'Connor and other patriots , the meeting broke up after a hearty vote of thanks to the chairman .
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TO THK EPITOB OF THE NOETHKRS STAR . Dbab Sib ., —The enclosed letter is , as job may perceive , from one of those whom the veracious O'Connell has repeatedly described as an enemy , a biit 3 r , unrelenting foe to Ireland . 1 do assure you Sir , it has often puzzled me to discover whet can be the objtct , or what is to be gained , by the continuous practice of bearing false witness against the great bulk of the people of Great Britain . He knows , as well as I do , that every Chartist in England , Scotland , and Wales , concurs with Mi . Watson in his good wishes t ^ wtruB Ireland and the Irish . Yet this man , who vilifies a whole people , is angry because the late Doctor Doyle , Bishep of Kildare , said he was a knave in politics and a hypocrite in religion . Patrick Q'Higgins , Dublin , December 2 nd , 1841 .
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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , DECEMBER 11 . 1841 .
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EMIGRATION . The tricks and contrivances of faction to g % in and retain possession of power and profit might provoke ones merriment were not the subjects in reference to which these tricks are practised , matters of such vast importance and commanding interest . The late Whig Government had , by innumerable sins of omission and of commission rendered themselves alike detestable and contemptible in the eyes of all reasonable men .
Unwilling to throw themselves upon popular Bupport , and by substantial reform earn a title to the nation ' s confidence , they pandered continually to the sworn foes of freedom , till the people , in their righteous indignation , hurled them from the position they disgraced , and their mighty promises of cheap com , sugar , and timber failed in keeping the old fculk of Whiggerj » floa * . The cmy craft went down amid the yells and execrations of deluded millions .
Then came the pious and constitutional Tories ; mad enough to suppose that , because Whiggery had become the abhorrence , Toryism must ef necessity become the cherished idol of the popular will . These dupes of their own folly and wickedness declared that no distress existed in the country . According to their speeches in and out of Parliament , England was a paradise ; so at least said his Grace of Wet . usgton ; and , considering that Engl&nd in his Grace ' s mind comprised only
Windsor Castle , Buckingham Palace , Apsley House , Almack ' s , and the clubs , no doubt he was correct . There , thanks to John Bull's folly and ar istocratic rascality , distress does not dare to show its ugly and nnwelcome front . It seems , however ^ that eveu his Grace of Wellington may be occasionally 'wrong ; and facts may proclaim , even to the conviction of a Tory Government , that distress does exist , with which they must grapple ; or retire from the mess , to which with hungry bellies they so recently returned .
Well , then ; the existence of distress is admitted : and how is it proposed that such distress shall be relieved , and its recurrence prevented ! Of course we are tot in the secrets of Downing-Btreet , and can only speak from hearsay and report . Yet , it is said that " Coming events cast their shadows before , ' and some of our London contemporaries , who may probably be employed on the secret service , and act as pioneers for the ministry to discover the bearings of public opinion , have stated it to be an understood thing that early in the next Session of
Parliament , Government will propose a scheme to promote what the scribblers please to call "National Emigraaon , " by which we Buppose they mean the transportation of some millions of our industrious countrymen , whose presence presses rather hardly upon those immensely important classes who have taken a fanoy to consi der their fellow creatures as so many machines , to be sent anywhere and applied to any purpose , which may enable their tyrant task-masters to enjoy the largest amount of luxury , vice , and
idleness . This wotud be one way , to be sure , of getting rid of those whom it is inconvenient to keep ; besides which , it has the merit of consistency , a thing which the late Government never troubled their brains even to think of . It is simple , and in strict accordance with the good old practice of the party ; neither more cor less than a proposition to tax one portion of the people for the purpose of transport ing the other . ' Still , though it is consistent with the uniform practice of Toryism , wo are by no means disposed to admit its being in accordance with the requirements of justice , honesty , humanity , and common sense . On the contrary , we are prepared to prove that it is in perfect discordance with each of those particulars .
First , we say that any scheme of extensive , or " national" emigration , such as that hinted at by our contemporaries , is unjust ; and that , for two reasons ; it is a one-sided bargain , and it is altogether unnecessary , It is a one-sided bar * gain , because , through the operation of the New Poor Law on the one hand and the grinding oppression of the capitalist on the other , all who are deemed " surplus population" may be compelled
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to submit to it on paw of starvation . There is no necessity for an Act of Parliament to say expressly « the people shall emigrate or starve . " Would to God . oar rulers were honest enough thus to blazea forth their villany in open day ! This , however , they will not do ; they will be cunning as serpents , however little of the harmlessness of the dove they may possess . Yet , let any man of common sense reflect for a moment on the position in which the Poor Law and the constantly increasing power of machinery has placed the working man ; aud he will at once perceive that should a plan of
emigration bs adopted ] by the legislature in order to relieve the distresses of the country , the industrious artisan would have no choice , but would be compelled to submit to any terms which the interest or caprice of the tyrants might induce them to propose . It is also totally nuneeessary . We have no surplus population in reality . That we have such a population in appearance , we readily grant ; bat the cause is not a redundancy of mouths , but a bad arrangement of society which prevents the fair remuneration of active industry . What is called the cultivated land of the United Kingdom would produce ,
if its capabilities were fully developed , food for , at least , one hundred millions of human beings . Leaving this , however , to be managed or mismanaged as to the landlords and their tenants may be most convenient , we beg to remind those who appear bo anxious to send Englishmen , Irishmen , and Scotchmen to cultivate lands at the opposite side of the globe , that we have such a thing as land which would give an ample return for the labour of cultivation at home . We have some thirty millions of waste lands which
are at present of no use to anybody : one-half of these lands , with skill and industry , and with a moderate outlay of capital , would yield a profitable , and , after a few years , an ample return . Let these lands , at all events , be made productive , and let the cultivated lands have theircapabilities fully developed ; let the demand of an extensive home market for home productions be fully answered , and then it will be time enough to talk of banishing our surplus population from their native land .
This system of wholesale banishment is as dishonest as it is uojnst . Who are to be expatriated ? not the old , for they would be beyond the ability to work ; not the young , for they would be incapable of providing for , or taking care of , themselves . The emigrants , then , would be the strong , healthy , and active portion of the working classes , among whom preference would be given to those who had no families , or whose children were of such an age as to
be employed in useful labour on arriving at their destination . Now who is to pay for the transportation of two or three millions of these destitute human beings to our distant colonies ? Let us suppose that in Great Britain and Ireland there are three millions of the people unable to find a sufficiency of food , and that , according to the new prosperity scheme , they are to be exported to New Zealand , New South Wales , or Canada .
And let us inquire who is to pay the expence of this new plan for relieving national distress . The expence must be paid by the nation , aud the nation that pays is the working people . Tho working people have to pay the expences of the Government , national and local , the interest of the debt , and the rates for the relief of the poor , &c . &o . ; for , whoever appears to pay , the whole of this enormous burden is actually borne by the industry of the country . Yet our sage rulers propose , because the country cannot sustain the burdens under
which it groans , to increase those burdens by many millions of pounds , in order to send away a large and important portion of our most able and industrious citizens , leaving the increased taxation to be sustained by those who remain ; in addition to which they will have to maintain all the old , who are not worth transporting , and all the young , who are of too tender an age to be transported . If the Tories are disposed to make England one huge poor house , we advise them to adopt tnis plan , for most assuredly the Devil could not have contrived a more effectual contrivance .
But let us look a little at the expence . " To take an individual to Canada , how much will it cost 1 For transportation , food , and fit clothing , with means of living for at leaBt a few days after his arrival there , the sum of £ 8 a-head—a small average cost , even if sure of employment the instant they touch the land , bis for one and a half millions amounts to twelve millions of pounds : send the remaining one and a half million to New Zealand or New South Wales , at a cost of £ 20 a-head , and we have a total of forty-two millions of pounds I Even granting this calculation to be too high :
supposing that only half this expence is to be incurred , are the people prepared to give twenty * uue millions to carry the project into execution V * If they are , they arc much greater fools than we take them to be . " But suppose the money to be just now in Mr . Godlbubn ' s breeches pocket rody to carry the scheme into practice ; to be effectual it must be prompt , or the vacancies will be rapidly filling upyouug' superabundant will be dropping in as there is more room ; so let the exiles be shipped as soon as
possible . To carry off one million of human beings , you will require four thousand ships , allowing 250 of the animals to be crammed into each . If you send off three millions , the ship-builders ought to be at once set to work , for there may be some difficulty in finding vessels . —Ser iously , the more we think on the proposal , the more ridiculous it appears , and we would be half inclined to set it down as a hoax , if we did not find it advocated seriously in some of the London Papers . "
This we fanoy will be deemed a pretty Bpecimen of Tory houesty , aud a pretty way of relieving distress . It is evident that the only design entertained is to thin the population by a system of deliberate murder under the name of emigration . If sent to the Colonies , the land there is already appropriated , tho proprietors could not , Of course , at once find capital to employ all , or nearly all thi 3 sudden influx of labour , the emigrant has not
means to purchase any portion of the land from those in possession , and his only resource is to lie down and . die . This at least would be the cose in Canada , and should he be sent to other remote colonies nearly the same objections would apply . A vast sum must be laid out on agricultural implements , &C , and an immediate ) aud ready supply of food mast be furnished , if , indeed , they are not to be sent there merely to periBh in the desert .
This shows not only the dishonesty but the inhumanity of the scheme . Half the money necessary to be expended in murdering them abroad , would , by placing them upon the waste l ands and opening new channels for the beneficial e mployment of their skill and industry , render them comfortable and happy at home . But this is not the only point in whioh the inhumanity of the scheme is glaringly apparent . To say nothing of the perils of the voyage and of
the hardships to which the eiile must be exposed in his colonial home , let it be remembered that human beings are neither stocks nor stones . Is it nothing to be torn from our kindred and connections—from the solace of friendshi p , and the loved scenes of our childhood ! Is it nothing to have new friends to seek—new scenes to try and new habits to form , in the distant wilderness ? And all thiB for what ! Ju&t to Bustain bad and wicked arrangements of society , and to gratify the greedy grasping of a monopolising faction . '
There has been a meeting recently held in London on this subject , at which one Mr . Montgomery Martin took the chair , and at which a Mr . Crawfobd , of Paisley , and other gents , amused themselves , aud tried to gull the publio , by talking nonsense . We do not blame them for this , nor shall we blame the Government for pursuing a like course for , in truth , no man can possibly talk common sense on such a senseless project . Mr . Montgomery Maetin talks greatly in his little way about the resources of the colonies , of the amount of revenue they poor into the mother country , of the strength they add to our military force ; but he forgets to
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tell us that neither the toiling millions of this country nor of the ill-governed colonies reap any advantage from all these fine things , the whole profit being absorbed by Ithe aristocratic knaves and fools ; who are cursing by their misrule those interesting and important portions of the globe . One statement he made deserves apassing notice . H Every colony " , he says " that was founded , supplied us with a market beyond the control of foreigners . The Coloni st , who while he continued an inhabitant of the mother country , consumed only five pounds worth of
British manufactures yearly , required twenty pounds worth in bis new home . " We have no doubt he requires it . The question is , will he find the means of getting it ? If Mr . Martin's logic prove anything , it proves too much , for if the prosperity of every Colonist be such as to enable him to expend three hundred per cent , more than the British resident , of the same class at borne , then it is plain the whole nation bad better emigrate at once , especially as such a manoeuvre would save to our manufacturers the cost of transit .
The fact is , that Mr . Martin was dreaming all the while about pounds , shillings and pence , and could only think of men as machines for making them . Hence he talks of every colony supplying us with a market spite of foreigners . What may beoome of the thousands who will be compelled to steal or starve , while the said market is in process of creation , he and his class neither know n * r oare . We shall keep our eye upon this move of the Tories and the middle men , and if they venture to launch their emigration ship , we promise them a broadside that shall effectually sink both it and them .
In the meantime , let the people remain true to themselves , let them continue to go for the whole Charter and nothing less , and that once obtained , the regeneration of our country will be easily effected , and Englishmen will learn to live well at home , instead of going abroad to a worse , because more hopeless , condition of slavery than that which they now endure .
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the SuDscribers in and around London will receive the O'Connor Liberation Medals with their papers on Saturday next . The Plate of Monmouth Comt Houae will be distributed to them , and to the Subscribers in and around Birmingham on Saturday fortnight , the Ifit of Day of January , 1842 . It is particularly desired that every Agent who receives either Medals or Portraits , will not distribute them before the day named in the Star . It is for their convenience that the Plates &c . ara entrusted to them before the time ; and we expect that no one in any locality will so far abuse the confidence reposed in him , as to distribute them before the proper time , when all shall have bad their supply .
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THE SMALL PORTRAITS . To meet the wishes of many who desire to have the Small Portraits formerly issued with the Star , and who say that 4 ^ d . is an awkwaid price to remit , we have determined to offer them at 4 d . each . The list comprises Portraits of—F . O'Connor , H . Hunt , R . Oastler , Andrew Marvel , J . R . Stephens , Arthur O'Connor , Sir W . Moleswortb Thos . Attwood , and Win . Cobbett , Bronterre O'Brien . All these will be allowed to the Agentaand Booksellers , so as to retail at 4 d . each . Any one experiencing difficulty in procuring them has but to inclose six Postage Stamps , either te the office , or to our principal agents , Mr . Cleave , of I ^ ndon , Mr . Guest , of Birmingham , and Mr . Heywood , of Manchester , and he can have any one on the Us returned to him by the next post .
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RE-ISSUE OF THE LARGE PORTRAITS . We are constantly receiving applications from new subscribers , or from friends , wishing to know upon what terms they can be supplied with the LARGE Portraits that have been , at different times , issued to the subscribers to the Star ; to these applications oar invariable answer has hitherto been , " not at any price . " The calls upon us , bow-1 ever , bare now become so numerous and so argent , that we have determined to U * u « them again on the following terms : — A person wishing to subscribe for any one of the larqe Plates , muBt enter his name with his News-agent , and Subscribe regularly for the paper for six weeks , specifying at the time he enters his name the Plate he wants .
At the end of his six weeks' subscription be will receive the Plate along with his Paper for that week , for both of which be will be charged Is . by the Agent , and no more . The Agent will be charged for Paper and Plate for that week 9 d . ; so that be will bare 25 per cent , profit for bis trouble . The Papers will cost him nothing for carriage , as they go by post ; and we will contrive to get the Plates to him for as little cost as possible . Any subscriber who receives his paper direct from the offise , can hate the plates , on the same terms as from an agent . Here , then , is an easy manner by which all who desire can have any of the under-mentioned plates : —
The Convention . John Collins . John Frost Dr . M'Douall . J . R Stephens . K . Emmett , and Richard Oastler . F . O'Connor . The agents had better open their subscription lists immediately , and apprise us of the number they will require of each .
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TO COKHESPONDHNTS . AND AGENT 3 . —Christmas Day falling on a Saturday this year , toe shall , for that week , publish on the Friday . Correspondents will , therefore , note this , and see to their respective communications being sent a day sooner . The Agents must also take care to have their orders here in time . The National Petition . —Our publisher , Mr . Hobson , has printed the National Petition for 1842 , on a neat sheet , for the purpose of being extensively distributed amongst those from whom
signatures are asked , that ( hey may know for what they are signing . He is ready to supply them to the Associations and lo individuals at the following charges . —100 copies for 2 s ; 1 , 000 for 15 * . Petition sheets , of good strong paper , ruled in four columns , and holding two hundred names when filled , may also be had , price 2 d . each . The Petition and sheets may also be had from Mr . Cleave , London : and Mr . Heywood , Manchester . But in all cases the money must be sent in advance—the price being so low as to preclude credit .
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Several Unpaid Letters , including a large packet bearing the Liverpool post mark , have been returned to the Post Office . NAtHANiEL Mobling , Brighton , states that he has not yet received the letter which Mr . Martin says he posted for him on the 2 lst of November . The Chartists of Baohyabd , Herefordshire , are requested to communicate with Mr . John Pa rsons , No . 6 , Bcaufort-place , Stapleton-road , Bristol . Chaktist Blacking . —Having received letters wm * plaining of money letters being sent , which have not been receivedfrom the post , R . Pinder desires
that , for the future , no person will send him any remittance except by post-office order . The Convention— Mr . Henry Vincent desires us to state , in answer to numerous applications he has received , that he declines being put in nomination for the coming Convention . His reason is , that Mr . R . K , Phitp , his partner in business , is already nominated ; and it would be impossible for both to be absent from Bath , engaged m political duties , at the same moment . Mr . V . will be actively engaged in spreading Chartism in his locality , and wilt do his utmost to aid the Petition , and the pwposeg for which the Convention will assemble .
Thb Irish Universal Suffrage Association return their most sincere thtnks to those friends who have favoured them with Stars , Chartist tracts , arid other communications , and particularly to Mr . Wood , ofChorlet / . Stars to Ireland . —Thady Cafferty informs us , that out of twenty-two Stars , which he is apprised have been sent to him by a friend it Northampton , he has only received fifteen . The three Si&vafrom W . B ., Darlina ' on , were received .
Mb . Skevikoton , Loughborough , wishes to decline standing as a candidate for the forthcoming Convention for the town of Loughborough . He is thankful for the honour intended him ; but , as the District . Meeting at Nottingham have agreed upon two persons for the district , Mr . S . will 1 withdraw . James Sinclair , Newcastle ^ and various other Correspon < ierits . —We must again request that the copy furnished to us for the Star be written on one side of the paper only .
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Mb . Julian Habkby acknowledges the receipt of Is . from Mr . Henry Frost Coalman , Portlamd-plaee , London , for Elizabeth Taylor . The money has been handed toMrs . T . ' . . . "¦ J . T . Whitbhbad , Cheltenham , trill oblige byvmtvM on one side of his paper only for the future . We had as much news came on Thursday mormng as would have filled the Star : we were obliged to cut down his report in the same way as a great many others . ' . Rochdale . —TPiW the Rochdale sub-Secretaryt that sent 10 s . to Mr . John Campbell , give htm Aw address again ; and also the Trurofriend who sent 6 $ . ? , John Campbell would be thankful to all " parties
who have had his pamphlets to send him either cash , or the pamplets back again . Charles Westebton . —The letter to Mr . O'Connor was delivered to him . John Weaver , ofRyde * umtesus to deny the authorship of the paragraph which appeared in the Chartist Intelligence cf our last , with his name ' attached . We gave the paragraph as it reached us ; and we gave the signature because we knew nothing of the writer . Thb London O'Brien Press Fund . —The long address of the Committee , received only on Thursday morning , cannot possibly appear this week . The Balance-sheet of the Executive was hot received till Thursday . It cannot , consequently
appear in our present number . John Moore . —We really can give him no answer . We have received at this office , within the time mentioned by him , scores of letters for Mr . O'Connor , all of which have been dulyforwarded : whether his may have been among them we of of course cannot tell . Not fewer than fifty letters have been received at this office , within the month , from different parts , addres $ ed to Mr . O'Connor , on nearly all subjects , but mainly containing invitations / or a visit to the several towns and places from where the letters have come . The parties sending seem to expect that Mr . O'Connor would answer them each and every one .
This expectation is unreasonable . Look at the labour Mr . O'Connor has performed during the last month ; and then say whether , in conscience , he has not had enough to do ! We may state generally , that all these letters have been seen by Mr . O'Connor , up to the time of his leaving last for London ; and that he will , after a time , state in the Star the places he will next visit , and the time . A Bebmonds ey Chabtist , in Cambridge , seems to have imbibed a common and most mischeivous misconception . The National Charter Association has no " branches . " It is one society ; and consequently , ell its members and officers may legally communicate with each other .
Y . Z . —Address Mr . Baker , Factory Superintendent , Leeds . A Constant Reader . —We have never measured him . John Wilkinson , Birminham . —We have written him , care of Mr . White . H . Cronin . —Fifty such letters , and more , have been received and forwarded . W . Thoblby . —Any communication for Mr . O'Connor may be sent here . The Liverpool case shall be attended to : we purpose writing on the subject . _ ... .
Derby Chartists . —We did not receive the report of their meeting for the National Petition . Duncan Nicholson . —The letter from Mr . O'Brien next week . Stabs to Ibeland . —Mr . Murray , Donegal , will be thankful for a little Starlight . The Poets have been bountiful , as usual . We have - received six times more than we have read . The Worcester Chartists send us an address of congratulation to and confidence in the Executive . We have not room for its insertion . Mb . R . Ridley , having completed his lour in Suffolk and Essex , is open to an engagement . Address
—19 , D'Oyley-street , Sloane-street , Chelsea . Military Flogging . —A Correspondent asks" Whether it is true that two men have been severely flogged at the Leeds Barracks within the last fortnight or ten days , and that one of them is now in the Hospital in consequence of the punish ' ment ? " We do not know . Wm . stubbings , James Crawford , A mere Man , Joseph Ginder , L . P . Cookle , and a great many others , must excuse , u * : tee have no room . David Da vies , smith , George Town , Merthyb . —The parcel he inquires about was sent from the
office on Oct . 30 th , according to the address given in his letter . It was entrusted to Pick / ord ' s , the carriers . A letter too , has been sent to him since , to the same address , in answer to his queries ; and on the 8 lfy inst ., a second letter was dispatched , addressed to the care of Mr . Morgan Williams . Let him inquire at the carriers at Merthyr . Mr . Hitchin , Kidderminster , —The pared he writes about was inclosed in one sent to Mr . George White , of Birmingham , on Nov . 30 th . Perhaps Mr . White has not had an opportunity of forward ing it .
W . H . Clifton . —His letter to the Lord Mayor of Dublin next week . Thb Bristol Chartists are most anxiously looking for a visit from O'Connor . Their letter in reference to the correspondent is received . Their correspondence shall always have our best attention . In reference lo the notice , in our last , of this matter , we have received the following letter , to which we call the attention of our Bristol friends :- ^
THE BRISTOL CHARTISTS AND THE STAR . Mr . Editor , —Observing your answer to the Bristol Chartists , complaint of non-reports in the Star , I conceived that the testimony of one who , for some time , sent you reports of Chartist meetings here , 'was due to you , and would not be altogether unavailing to the Chartists . I beg to state that , during my connection with the Chartists , as an enrolled member of the National Charter Association , I continued to report the Bristol Chartist meetings , from the one entitled the Germansend and the Tories , down to the Chartist meeting for the release of Frost ; also the ball and soiree : when I
resigned office , and withdrew from the body . I have since reported many meetings , some important ones , down to the Anti-Corn Lecture of Brown , each inclusive , and bave ever found the Editor readily insert the reports in the Star . I have from the commencement of the movement here , found auchcompUints &b those you answer , rife ; but whilst numbered with the speakers , I did not trouble myself to take reports , or inquire wherefore we were not reported ; but from your punctuality and attention during the short time I filled that office unappointed , I must bear testimony that the fault has been with those wh » reported , or Bald they reported . J .
P . 8 . —Upon my report of the Brown anti-Corn Law meeting , I have to add , 1 hopa the- early arrival thereof did not exoludu a better from j our cwiumns ; and lest friends should think orherwise , I a ' . bta I do not seek appointment . I have ever staved in ttiis office , gratuitously , unappoiotad , and unthanked . J . Upon this we have only to say , that our worthy friend mistakes greatly m supposing that he has been " unlhanked" for his favours . A large heap of thanks have been accumulating , which we now beg him to accept all at once-A . B . C . suggests the propriety of furnishing every Member of the House of Commons with a copy of the Charter , which being in the English Chartist Circular , at one halfpem , y , might be done at a very trifling expense , and would prevent their pleading ignorance of what they are asked to make law ; and , as every body s work is nobody ' s work , he suggests that every sub-secretary furnish the Member , or Members , who represents the city or borough in which he
resides . Mr . George Black . — We have received a letter from Cardiff , stating though it may sometimes be policy to re / rain jrom expressing as much , yet a burst of honest indignation should not lessen a man in our esteem ; they consider Mr . George Black entitled to full confidence from the Chartist body . We have also received a similar letter from Newport , Monmoutfyshire . James Ahdrews , Ba&nstaple . —All the Plates due to the Subscribers will be shortly forwarded to Mr . Avery . Mb Penny—The letter to Hamer Stanafeid in our next
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Mr . Lnnes , County Durham . —Mr . Baxter's address is No . 3 , Bridgeman ' s place , near Cockerillspring , Bolton , Wm . Scott . —His letter was sent to Mr . Cleave , but being without name it would perhaps not be noticed . W . H . Lawneb , John Goldsmith , Henry Gray , and several others , are referred to the notice about the Portraits , both large and small .
Notice . —The HuddersBeld Shareholders in the Northirn Star will receive their interest by presenting their checks to Mr . John Leech , Buxton Road , Huddereneld ; Ashton , to Mr . Edward Hebson ; Bradford , to Mr . J . Clarkson ; Halifax , to Mr . R . Wilkinson ; and Rochdale , to Mr . Robert Holt „ Lists of Shareholders ark wanted from the foU lowing places , on receipt of which , orders for pay ment will be tent from the office : —Barns [ ey , EUand Hull , and Oldhum . '
TOR THB O'BRIEN PRESS FUKD . £ B . 4 From Brighton , per Mr . Flower , treasurer to the Committeeat Brighton 10 0 0 „ the Glasgow Northern Star Readiug society , per W . Anderson 0 14 o FOR P . M . M'DOUAXL . From the Glasgow Northern Star Reading Society , per W . Anderson 0 14 o FOR THE EXECUTIVE . From a friend , West End , Leeds ... 0 o e ~ W-B .,. 0 o fi
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FOR MR . JAMES VERNOH , SOCTHKOLTOK . From Ur . H . Griffith * , Edgewan Road , London ... ... ... 9 1 f FOB THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OF THE INCifc , CBRATBD CHARTISTS . The 7 s . from Daventry and Whilton , noticed for R . j t Richardson , on the 13 th of November , should nati been for the Wives and Families . The £ 1 ftosi Alva , of the same date , is counter-ordered by W « . Bishop , Secretary to the Chartist Association . FOE THE EXECUTIVE , FROM THK SALE OF ROGEg PINDER ' S BLACKING . S . d . W . Wright , Stoekport o 10
Richard Haslem , Oldhtm o 10 Robert Brook , Todmordan l 8 Thomas Hartley , BumUy ... ... i 8 Charles Winsper , Stockton i 8 We Brook , Leeds 2 6 £ e » 2 O ' BRIEN PRESS FUND , LEEDS—RECEIVED BY TH | COMMITTEE . From the Press Committee , Liverpool ... 20 0 0 _ Andrew Dick 0 5 0 W . Brook , Sec .
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" I should e ' en weep with pity To see another thus . "— King Lear . Chartist Friends , —I have never yet solicited your assistance to an individual ; and if I do so now , I hope it will not be ineffectual Reeve , news agent , who suffered , from time to time , about three years' rigorooi imprisonment during the battle of the unstamped , taA contributed greatly to the victory , is at present undet pinching difficulties and priva'ions . Like the fond ally who " fights for all but ever fights in Tain , " q the soldier , who wins the battJy for the general mon
than for himself , Reeve , though , as I bave been told , he was more daring than any one in defying the litUo brief authority of the petty myrmidons of tyranny , hu been neglected , nay , worse , those who gained by the victory have been suffered to prejudice the minds of individuals otherwise favourably disposed towards tkii poor fellow , and he now lies , without food , without t bed , or the means of getting one day over another . H . J is under the doctor ' s hands for a wound in his leg , which prevents him from going about to vend Chartist publications , by the sale of which he used to earn a precarious pittance .
The approaching Christmas ^ however merry to some , ) must be a sad one to Mm ; but if he could get it over , be hopes for happ * times in the ne v year . He is honest , though starving , and bis zsal to do good to the cause rises above all bis distresses . Should any who reads this be in a condition to spare him a mite , he will thank them again and again ; tot rent day is approaching , and what will become of him then , God only know 3—probably the streets , or the bastile , with his young family . Contributions sent io John Watkins , Wo . 20 , Upper Marsh , Marsh Gate , Lambeth , will be punctually paid to him and duly acknowledged . J . W .
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BRADFORD . —A ; t Example worth Imitating—The members r . f an Odd Fellows Lodge held at the house of Mr . Henry Miles , Manchester-road , have agreed to withdraw their money from the bank , and are about to commence keeping a shop with it , thus scouring to themselves the profit of their , own consumption . If all benefit societies would adopt the same plan it would bring the shopkeepers to their senses , an d teach them their duty to the working classes . Pett yTyranny . —Since the demonstration , the two factions , Whig and Tory , scarcely know what to do with themselves , they are spitting their venom against all they can find out , who took an active part in doing honour to him , whom the people delight to honour . A &ria not a hundred miles froa the old church , has discharged a number of female
power-loom weavers for losing about two hours work to attend the soiree and tea party . Several other manufacturers and spinners have done the same . A great many squeamish gentlemen ( alias old women ) who come round to the houses of the poor people to ask them to send their children to their Sunday schools , t « U us there is no tyranny , no oppression , nor any misery , but what the people bring upon themselves by their dissolute habits , and blame us much for calling such men as the above tyrants and oppressors . I met with one of thoBe gentlemen last week , when I offered to prove to him , and to open to his view , such a scene of misery and distress as would melt his flinty heart , if he would accompany me two days to the wretched hovels of the pool hand-loom weavers and woolcombers , bat he deolia * ed doing 60 . —Correspondent .
Death from Starvation . —An old man , named Benjn . Hay , was found dead on Saturday morning last , at the door of Mr . Parkinson , his nephew , ( who reside ;; on Primrose Hill , Great Hortou-lane . ) He was removed to the Fleece Inn in a cart to await the Coroner's inquest , whioh was held on Sunday ast , at the Inn to which he was taken . After hearing the evidence , the Jury came to the verdict of " Died from starvation . " The old man it appears has latterly resided in Leeds , and came to Horton to ene his relations . He has a brother residing at Pan * di . se Green , Horton , worth considerable property and his nephew , at whose door he died , is also pos sessed of property , jet ho was suffered to die from want .
KE 1 GHLEY . —On Saturday evening last . aboot seven o ' clock , a lamentable accident happened at Grove ' s Mill , about a mile from Keigbley . Ayoitnf woman , named Hannah Hartley , about sixteen years of age , went an errand to Ingrow , a place at a short distance , accompanied by other two , a young man and a young woman , about the same age , Close by her own residence , and betwixt that and Ingrow is a water ( commonly called a beck ) of considerable magnitude , over which is a narrow wooden bridge , for the convenience of the work people liviBg on the opposite side . In consequenoe of the bridge being usually secured by a gate to prevent strangers from passing through Mr . Clough ' i mill-yard , and as this sate is always looked at nights
the young woman and her companions went round by the cart road , a distance considerably further After performing her errand , the party were advised to return home again by the road they came , as the darkness of the uiitht , together with the rise of tht water and the violence of the wind , would make any attempt to climb over the door of the bridge extremely dangerous . This reasonable advice wa * however , disregarded ; the young woman declaring her determination to return that way at all hazards Owing to thia fatal resolution , they all went by the bridge , and commenced climbing over the small gate fixed as a barrier . Two of the party sueceeded in getting overbut while Hartley was
, making the attempt , she lost her hold and fell a distance of four or fire yards into tM flood below . An immediate alarm was girofe and the neighbours rushed out with lanterns , bat the darkness and height of the water prevented w possibility of rescue . A searoh for the body w « commenced an Suuday morning , and continued till Tuesday noon , when the body was found at the bottom of Mr . Marriner ' s dam stones , held fast bj a portion of her dress to a piece of iron , abort three quarters of a mile from the place where she fell in . She has left a poor widowed mother incon solable for her loss .
Suicide . —Mr . Jno . Greenwood , of the Black Swtt Tna , was found in bed last Sunday morning , with his throat out . KAHCHESTEIl . —At a general meeting of the biuer-makers , held in Manchester , it was resolved that sixpence each member per week , should be levied for the support of the London masons now on strike , such levy to . be paid so long as the strike continues . They have received their first donation of £ 3 lls .. 6 d ; from the dressers and dyers , £ K > > and also from the cottoa-spinners of Manchester the sum of £ 5 .
STOCKPOBT . —Thb Unekploted . — -The benevolent are cautioned against parties who are going about begging for the turn out spinners ; no one has been authorised to beg yet . Any contributions will be thankfully received by Mr . Williiffl Rothwell , care of Mr . Roger RiJey , news- agent , Chestergate . The Committee are about to send proper persons in the different districts to collect . Contributors are requested to take notice of the date ^ the address and the name of the printer , and to insert the amount of their subscription in the boo with ink .
B . OCHDAXE . —Police . —On Monday last , M * Chadwiok again attended the Petty Sessions , aw stated that he had taken the opinion of Mr . Startae on the decision given by that bench on the pterioM Monday , as to the right of the police to break into persons houses without the authority of a mag istrate That opinion was that they have decided contrary to the law , in giving the decision in favour of » W police . So we are to have our houses broken open at the will of an hired bludgeonman , and then w have the satisfaction of knowing that he did not know his duty . On Tuesdav last , after twenty-foa '
or twenty-six policemen had been patrolling tW streets of this borough , all night and day , they naa the honour of apprehending a poor half-st » rr creature , whose emaciated appearance would ha *« impressed any one but a tyrant with compwsioBj whose only crime was that he had not t * ^ foo « for upwards of thirty hours , and theturnkev of we prison stated , that the man when he came to Uw prison , devoured his scanty meal in such a manner j that he thought he had not tasted food for a montt . the bench dismissed the case , by ordering him o » of the town immediately .
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TO MR . PATRICK O ' HIGGIKS . Dear Sib , —Along with this letter you will receive a Northern Star . I have sent the Star and Scottish Patriot on several occasions of late , and shall continue to do so . I rejoice in common with every friend of liberty at the spreading of true political principles in your beautiful , but oppressed country ; and I look forward with confidence to the period when the millions of Ireland ' s generous and fervid sens will unite as one man with their British brethren to overthrow the monster , class-legislation , and the thousand evils that proceed from it .
I love the Irish people ; I have been a stranger in their land ; but I was no stranger to their hospitality ; and " may my right hand forget its cunning" when I fotgtt the debt I owe them . Believe m « . also , when I say , I am not a stranger t * Ireland's history , to her numerous civil wars fomented by knaves for the purpose of getting poE&e&don of the forfeited estates , to the disabilities interposed in marriages between Catholic and Protestant , or to the infamous means adopted by Pitt , Castlereagh , and Co . to rob yen of your national legislature . Bat I turn with joy from the contemplation of the dark picture of your wrongs to what you will be ¦ wLen your capabilities are brought to light ; when the intxhaustible resources of your soil and your mines have been breught into actien by your industrious , talented , and educated people .
In the star -which I send -with this , your talented countryman , Mr . OBrier , justly observes that if a capital of £ 130 , 000 , 000 sterling were required for the discovery and disentombing of Noah ' s Aik , it would be immediately subscribed for—only guarantee the speculators ten per cent . To bring your ill-used country into the seme rt&t « cf cultivation as England and the lo-w part 3 of Scotland would require an outlay at £ 32 , 090 , 000 , but will thi » ever bo expended upon it , while a miserable few are suffered quietly to speculate ob the fruits of your labour ? Never ! and their power to do evil springs from your disunion , and from ours . It astonishes me when I read of your cheap provisions ¦ , your be « f , mutton , park , geese , turkeys , fowls , eora , and poU t nes . Bat when I see what Ingiis and others say of the state of wages , and add my own scanty knowledge to their bitter opportunities of information , I may then come near the truth .
Persevere , Sir , in your honest efforts for the real emancipation of your noble country—a country well entitled to the eaiogium of Counsellor Phillips — a country which I firmly believe that the Romans , in the plenitude of their power , dared not to invade—a country where the praises of the true God were sung on the harp , in the halls of Tara , long before the Redeemer cf mankind began his earthly career , and took upon himself our nature—a country where the arts and sciences were preserved when the rest of the world was involved in darkness . Iceland , the Ultima Thole , and the most northern point of civilization , even u . e human race , to this day , owe to Ireland a deep debt of gratitude .
Do me the honour , Sir , to propose me as an honorary member of your Association , and add the names cf William Thomson and Robert Fletcher , of Leith , to your list of subscribers . "We will take care to keep up our title of membership by regularly Bending the Star , or any other Radical papers we miy get ; and you ms . j rely on it that we will do oar best to get other * to follow oai example . There are Irish hearta here beating in Scottish besoms , and i hope , in a short time , to shew them what they really owe to Ireland , and I know they will act accordingly . Dear Sir , Believe me yours , And God bless the cause , Robert Watson . Leith , November 24 th , 1841 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 11, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct577/page/4/
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