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TO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE WATKINS ' TESTIMONIAL FUND . " The cause of Chartism , is too purs and too holy to be be triSed with—its escutcheon muit be kept free from biota ; no rust must be permitted to eat into its unbstacce ; and if mire be cast upon its surface it must be instantly cleansed . " Editor of the ' Northern Star . It is due to yon , my London friends , and to the few food London Chartists , that I should lay before you a memorial of my Chartist experience during a year ' s trial in the metropolis . =
My Turt . to London was occasioned by the death of a talented friend , whose affairs I had been requested to * rr&Ece for the benefit of his widow and orphans . In the meaa time time , I took every opportunity of becoming acquainted with town Chartism , which truth obliges tna to say I found to be a hot-bed plant , more like a wsed than a flower , and as perfectly in contras t with the healthy , hardy Chartism of the country as a British oak is to the ivy that clasps round it , to suck its heart out At first I had been led by showy appearances to think that the men were far Vehind the leaders ; bat further insight enabled me to form a truer Aftimate .
The nnadulteratfcd Chartism of the country was fllrelished by the sophist cated palates of specious and ipurions Coekney Chartism : they manifested a dislike or dread of it , and a jealousy of its advocates . This vitiated taste of theirs was the mainspring of the New Move , which indeed was nothing more than a recoil baek to the old move of Wbis-Radicalism . The political Jews of the Globe in Shoe-lane were to be reinstated as the leaders of the people , in order that they » ig ! t hang like drawbacks upon the cause—the star of Chartian was to nuke a retrogade motion . But nevtr irill sound principle rise to the ascendant in London ; never will it truly progress until these old things are done away , and all things become new .
Compelled to be my own publisher and my own bookseller { for my drama of " John Frost ' was ttot only rejected by those who call themselves Chartist booksellers but was also denounced by them ) , I was called Upon by oertain men of London to oppose the usurping , monopol : " s ? Dg , and tyrannical trade-league , vboss members , though known to be mere traffickers in politics , had bfrtn ungmdgingiy supported until they shewed themselves to be traitors also . God Almighty never intended me t « be a bookseller , and God knows I never intended it myself . Feargus O Conner told me truly that I was not fit for a shopkeeper ; but I was ready to Aerifies my feelings and to make a large pecuniary sacrifice . I was willing to humble myself and to suffer whatever might serve the cause for the cause sake .
There was no ether method than the one I took to exterminate the "London ruffians , " as O'Brien truly termed them , and I have every reason to believe that it would have proved successful had I been backed by the press ; but the light of its countenance was unexpectedly withheld from me ; it unexpectedly shone on ¦ fee League , and I was left to the mercy of the rude foes whose wrath was of that cruel kind which Eprisgs from fear . Tne only resource available to me , whether for attack cr defence , was to lecture at the localities . Accordingly I preached to the City of London Chartists and to the men of Marylebone , the sermon from the text , " In perils among falss brethren , " which was received with votes of tfeanks and a request for its publication . I was by several challenged to discussion , and although every attempt had been
made to prejudge tbe question , and to prejudice the minds of fcbe people , a very large majority declared that all the charges in the sermons were troths—that all kad been proved . Thus does an appeal to the people in publk ever decide a case in favour of honesty against private intrigue and corruption . Baffled in every subsequent repeated public effort to discredit the sermon , or its author , the detected and exasperated league next resorted to private means ( and in these they were more successful ) to destroy tbe little business 1 had , to ruin my reputation if possible , to blast my character , and to drive me back to the country > Every vile artifice was employed to accomplish this , and here my assailants had a decided advantage over me , because their mode of warfare was of a nature too disgusting for me to retaliate . In reference to this part of my subject , I may say with
Byron" From mighty wrongs to paltry perfidy , Have I not seen what human things could do ? From the loud roar of foaming calumny , To the small whisper of the paltry few , And subtler venom of the reptile crew , The Jiem glxnce of whose significant eye , Learning to lie with silence would seem trne , And without utterance save the Bhrug or sigh , Deal round to happy fools its speechless obloquy . Mealy-mouthed spies were sent into my shop to entrap me , and multifaced emissaries into tbe localities
favourable to me to warp them . Tbe most insidious enemy of the working-men was induced to dispatch me in two successive numbers of his weekly paper ; but chicked by some remains of conscience , or of compunction , he could sot do it without paying me the greatest compliment ever yet paid to man , if we consider that , at the very time ha was paying me this compliment , he bad bees employed to abuse me . My name was placarded on the walls of London as tbe " dagger and halter Chartist "— and in Scotland an ill-brewed wind blew it about tiat I was a " second Robespierre .
Confiaing strictly within honourable bounds my opposition to tie rogues and fools who environed mewho vilified me for virtne and cated me for honestyncKippcrted save by my own oonvictions ef riifathiving no weapon bst truth—no armour but justiceno shield but patience—no ally but hope—fighting for the cause , not for myself—mbnnderstood and misrepresented , it could not be that I could hold out long—Jet I retired , rather than retreated and msy boast with
Coriolanua" I : you have wnt your nn-nnii ; true , 'tis there That like an eagle in a dovecot , Fiutter'd your cockneys in their capital : Alone I did it " But a hard winter was approaching ( 1841 ) , and my day and night labours in the cause had greatly impaired my health . Tie same cause which had led to my exile from Aislsby Hall" Where I had known the sweets of luscious plenty Bad slept with sweet content about my head , And never waked but to a juyful morning , " tbat same cause , namely my strict adherence to principle , low doomed me to the destitution of tbe poet Savage in London , such as few , "having been otherwise , " ever endured : — " I to bear this , TVfco never knew but better was some burthen , "
Yet it will rot be Ktid that my tongue or mj pen , my voice or mj- hand was ev&r wanting to tbe cause which I still cherished as the bird i i my bosom—to that dartiem widen is dearer than his heart ' s blood to every true Briton . A gentrcus foe will not pursue vengeance farther than ruin if so far ; tnt the unglutted and gloating malice of my Eletk and fat dtfatners and destr&jers pursued me like s slcath-h ^ urd , and not content -with my ruin—not satiated -wiiii tbe wretchedness that followed it , they viDrlictiveiy strove to prevent me from finding a hovel to house n : y hea-i in , a place to rest my foot on . Yea , their remorsekjs spite pursued me in sickness to the very verge of the grave , and had I died a martyr ' s death ny tosib wocld net have been sacred from their slaadtrcus bile . But thn . nk God ! not the sufferings of mystif , nor of these dearer to me than sell and entirely dependant upon me—and here 1 would atk , what had thej done?—nay , vrhat bad I done?—what bc / rrihle crime had I committed ? Thank God , I say ,
not oirapcintmti-t , nor d > &'ulty , nor distress , nor disgrace ; ( which is to me the worst distress ; nor death its' -J—thocgh I , my wife , and little child were severally threatened by it Not all , not anything has been , or CTtr sLail be able to stifle my voluntary love for the ¦< s . « e—for the Charter , wfeico is my amulet , ray crucifix . Tree it Ib that far less persecution than I have eudnred ; a £ d mark ! th ; 8 persecution came not from Whigs or lories , but from professing Chartists ) far less provocation bis Evffised to turn the hearts of many Chartistshas made many renounce even Chartism itself ; for can " * t corEirttEtiy foster in our own body those wrongs £ xd grievances whicn we wish to eradicate from the community at law ? But I know that this lamentable state of things is owing to the influence of the cursed system which has crtpt even into our cause , and which nothing but the pr&ctfcal operation of our cause can cure ; therefore , I cling all the closer to Ch&rtJtm resolved like the true patriarch to 'wrestle with the aagtl till it bleu me .
why am I a CSartiBt ? Not merely because I am [ a Elave struggling for freedom , but because the present I system makes kusv&s and fools of rich , the arbiters *< f 1 the honest and talented if poor—because those who ' have no strength ebq skill of their own caa make a ; profit of the strength and iiill of others—because book- ; B-: 13 ers have BtJll tbe power , as formerly , to starve an j Oiws-y , a Chattciton , or a G-oldEn . Hh , while all the wL-ie they are mBkicg & fortune by the s ^ le of iUelx pilfered and pirated works—and if a man of genins be too independent to cringe to them , or too honest to become the servile tool of their vtnality , these wcithleEB wxeichfcs can combine and cruEh him—they t £ n shut out every chance of obtaining a livelihood from him , and then speak of his sordid woes with meerine pity , or with scornful exultation . Alas ! What Bpurne must " patient merit of the unworthy take . " "Howlonf , Oh Lom ! how long" !
I have spoken of my sufferings in the cause , but what have I suffered in comparison with a Hoiberry , Who had no fiiecds but felons—no one to close his * 7 ing eyes but inhuman turnkeys—who pined like a woodland dove in his cell , loathing tbe food which he could cot eat in freedom—whe went delirious btfore he died I—and -what is Frost now Buffering ?—torments ttfct should not so much as be known are his portion 1 —* hat is cot Peddie suffering ?—alas . ' the most sincere , the most in earnest are made to suflfer most , while to * grubs that c&fcker the blossoms , the caterpillars that feat the green leaves of Freedom ' s tree as fist as they put forth , these are praised , supported , eneenn ged—ifcese are fat by the very villany that starv es the honest . There is too much of tbe vile system in nil this—too mnch of worldly-minded Charosn— ^ Q j ^ }> pojicjcpby in him , who knows MythSrg aicnt causes ncd effects must know that til ttu niatbe aite Wd , 1 ! mst be correcte £ ed , before s py * ood cm be done .
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1 cordially respond to those sentiments of Mr . Hill , which I have placed as a motto at the head of this paper , and I would call upon all Chartists to make them the substance of a resolution to be passed in every locality of our association . Let not impartial posterity when reviewing tbe history of our cause , have to say of us that we were made the dupes of the designing—that hoary-headed knaves , grown grey with iniquity—the mean , the mercenary—dirty traffickers in politics , filthy lovers of lacr»—men who would at any time desert the cause , betray it and join our enemies for a penny more advantage—let it not be said that we countenanced such scoundrels as these and suffered them to prejudice us against the upright who were pining in neglect and
obscurity , grieving not so mnch for themselves as foi the cause in the hands of such harpies—alas ! how undiscriminating we Have been—how unjust to the noble minds who are suffering for us in exile and in prison , and at a time too when thousands of cur feliow-eonntrymea wen impelled bydespalr to present their naked breasts to the bayonets of infantry—their defenceless headitothe swords of cavalry—without arms and without shields , and with no sounds to inspire them but the shrieks of their wives and children to rush on well-armed and well-trained bands frantic ! 1 b this a time to suffer buyers and sel ers , and money-changers to set up their trafficking table * In the verf temple of oar most holy causa ? Shall we not make a whip of small cords , a whip of words , and scourge them all out
I envy not tbe prosperity of ibe wicked , who flourish like green bay trees . No ; welcome , thrice welcome poverty to the very lips , privation to the very skin , only let me keep what no misery can take
away" the grace of life , Its comeliness of look that virtue gives , Its port erect with consciousness of truth , Its rich attire of honourable deeds , Its fair respect that's rife on good men ' s tongues . " Yes , keep far from me that prosperity which is the reward of double-dealing lies and deceit , and let me , whatever I lose , whatever I suffer , " hold fast my integrity , " and my mind shall repose like a lake in a calm summu ' a eve refl ^ ctieg the heavens , and unruffled for a moment by tbe midges tnat Sit a til wart its gentle SUifaca . " Truth hath a quiet breut . " JOHN WATKINS . ( To be concluded in our next . )
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—¦ ^^^—ONTINCATION OF AN ESSAY ON THE PRESENT SYSTEM BEING INTENDED AS A COMPANION TO DR . CHANNING'S ESSAY , ENTITLED " THE PRESENT AGE . " "We need not enter far in the question of our selfacting and counteracting legislature , which , like Cerberus the dog of hell , has three beads , all turned against the people—an hereditary house of Lords supporting an hereditary monarchy , and a House of Commons , the members of which expecting to become lords , supporting both . All look up to the Crown with hope—down on the people with contempt Sufficient it is for the people to know that there is no legislature for themthat in fact there is no legislature at all , for our legislature la a mere confederacy against all good government
An able French writer says , —where a despotic governarch reigns there is bat one criminal—the tyrant on the throne . '—yet do we not lift voice or hand against the Queen—no , we forgive her for she knows n » t what she docs—but ^ be oligarchy that tyrannise in her name , that trill not allow us a -trill , a word of our own , that force as to obey in spita of reason and humanity—they know what they are doing , on them sb-ould our indignation be pourtd ! nay not even them—it is the system—we must alter the system—we canaot expect an evil tree to bring forth good fruit , nor a corrupt carcase to breed onght but maggots . It is the abominable , the accursed system—& system that has gone on oppressing the people till now it owns it can oppress them no further—yes , it has reached ita height , its cup is full ,
it is rotten ripe—it owns that nettling more can be wrung from tbe working classes but tears or bloodand the oppressors are now compelled to confine their addit . onal taxation to the middle classes , and when they have drained them as dry as they have drained * tbe working classes , they will ntxt tax themselves , Bud do it to the uttermost farthing ; yea , to the half-farthing ( for now we are a half-farthing people by reyal proclamation : we were before a farthing people ) , they will sapport the system to the last , for it supports them . Yes , they know that for every shilling wbick they pay in taxes , they receive pounds back in salaries and sineenres ; for , ia there a lucrative office in ebnrch or state , in the army , the navy , or the law , that ia not held by the aristocracy or their
minions- ?—nay , are not many offiees created purposely , as a pretence for extortions , exactions , and pompous privileges . They say what matters it , so long as tbe money is spent in the country ? But it is not spent in the country ; a great portion of it is spent in other countries , in France , Italy , and elsewhere ; and if it were all spent in the country , still it matters , and matters yerj greatly , by whom it is spent ; who has a better right to spend it than the laboursr who earns it ? and if he spend it , he would spend it not in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world , not in prisons and police , not in naval armaments ; but in promoting our borne trade and manufactures , in buying tbe necessaries of life , and in furnishing his home with comfort and respectability , bo that the working man might
keep bis dearest wish at home with him—tbe welfare and happiness of his family ! bat the aristocracy spend it to the dishonour of the country , to tbe disgrace of themselves , and to the destruction of all virtue , public r and private , most frivolously , most flagitiously they spend it Who prefer foreigners to their own countrymen—who are the p 3 trou 8 tf singers , fcoxers , poefcnghters , gamblers , horse jockeys , and all other peats of society—who but the aristocracy , who are themselves the greatest peats of society , and yet they arrogate an exclusive circle as if they alone were the excellent of the earth—they will feast ' on nothing that is common or unclean—nothing that the people can obtain—if ary high-priced luxury becomes cheap , they immediately lose all relish for
itit becomes vulgar in their eyes . Their chief pride is to draw the Hue of demarcation as widely as possible be . tween themselves and tae plebians—they delight in strong contrasts in those outward distinctions which fortune and adventitious circumstances give them—not in inwara ¦ worth or real nobility , the nobles of natoreare far their superiors in that—but the system sets hollowhearted knavery above honest worth . Oh , it is a giorious sjstem I—it works well for them!—an admirabla system ! What wonder that tbe aristocracy should extol it!—that like pawnbrokers they thould say the very iistr&sses of tbe people are an evidence of their prosperity ( of their own they mean ! ; that the more the national debt increases the more the c ^ u try is enriched— ( themselves they me ? n . ) What wo :. der that
in accordance with these opinions they should pluage the broken-hearted people into deep&r distress , and lay heavier loads on tbe broken-backed country—what wonder that they should charge all those whe murmur at this state of things , who are discontented with , or disaffected to , the present system , that they should brard all £ atriots snd philanthropists , all tine noblemen as seditious , rebellious , and treasonable , ss men instigated by the dtvil—what wom . ier that they shon'd take pains , that they shouJd go to some ex ^ ency—that they should subscribe to have these doctrines taught at schools , in churcbtB , in theatres— that magistrates , that jndg * s , ' that peers in Parliament should enforce them , and that the weekly and daily press should be bribed to reprint and impress them on our minds , till uuptd , deluded , enslaved , we become the re&uy tools ,
the unwitting victims of tbe avarice and ambition of cur rulers , who , when they have stripped us of all that is necessary for the well-being of soul and body—when the | have maddened , us by mi&ery—Bend their police men to butcher us , while all the while they themselves are parading tbe wealth which they have wrung frora us , displaying their spoil , are most insolently , most impudently , making an exhibition of their pride , and hsrdneartedn ^ ss , their very exultation , like Nero , who could find no time so appropriate for fiddling as when the people of Home were perishing In the flsraes , which he had kindled , though be charged it on them , just as our aristocracy say that tbe famine in the land is caused by the discontent of the people , and as b judgment from Heaven upon them . But let us enter further into the sjstem . ( To be continued J
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TALES WRITTEN EXPRESSLY FOR THE " NORTHERN STAR . " BY CHARTtVS . KO . ' IV . —A TALE OF SEDUCTION . " Trust not a man ; we are by nature false , dissembling , subtle , cruel , and inconstant Wbtn a man talks of love with caution , trust him ; but if he swears , he'll certainly deceive tbee . " OlWAT . There is a seqaestered hamlst romantically situated
in a hollow formed by several surrounding hills . A breok winds round the bases of those hills . The place attracts visitors from a neighbouring town . Some take | up thfcir abode there during tbe Bummer months to j rejoice along with rejoicing nature , or to angle for } trout Shooting parties , holiday parties , wedding par- j ties , have all sojourned here , free frcm the cares and j vices of tbe world , like those who entered the gardens , of Florence to escape tbe plague . But , alas , what part , of the country , however remote , ia unspotted by the [ manners of the town ! t
The zynoMire of this lovely spot was a labourer ' s damghter , named Rachel . She seemed to have sprang . ; up like a garden rose on a common . But we will not , attempt a description of her beauty , the theme is 88 hackneyed ; and besides she will gein more praise from ) tbe fancy of the reader , if a youth , than we can bestov . cpon her . Pass we over , then , her childhood , when she plr . yed with innocence tmovg tbe floweis ; pass we ovp her girlhood when she innocently comforted her parents in their cottage of content ; and come we to her womanhood when she lost that innocence . It is painful to think that such things are . But we must proceed .
A neighbouring youth , the bob ot a farmer , had observed that Rachel was prettier tbrji the ether girls in the village—nay he thought her Jne prettiest girl be bad ever seen . Ceremonious refinements are seldom practiced jb the counfry ; gU ars acquainted with each
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other , all are familiar , all are free . It was no d fficult matter for Richard to get to speak to Rachel , nor was it more difficult for him to maka her believe that he loved her . How reidy the young heait is to deceive itself . ' No wonder it should so easily be deceived by another ! Innocence credits all that love says—it ia tax too credulous . All the time that Richard conld spare he spent with Rachel , for his time passed most pleasantly when passed with her ; be enjoyed himself most when in her company . He walked wi th her the woodland walks ; be danced with her in the booths at the fair ; and he sat np with her at home , according to that most dangerous custom of the country . She seemed tho dearest thing on earth to him , and he was really so to her . One would havie thought that he would have laid down his life to save a hair of her head and yet—he did not murder her , but he did sombtbins worse .
Has had her father ' s sanction to walk openly with him but not to see him in secret Richard said to her , you cannot love me as I love you , unless you break this hard command . She did break it , and with it her father ' s heart Her mother had often warned her to take care ; but when did prudence and love go together ? In ahert , Richard was too kind to Rachel , as the phrase goesthat ia , he ruined her . Richard ' s crime soon became visible in Rachal ' s misfortune . The sight terrified him ; so much so that ; whereas formerly nothing could keep him from her , now nothing could induce him to go near her . She could not thus fly from herself—in lonely woe she must bear tbe burthen of their mutual guilt It was strong —he had made her such promises , such p oteatationsif he could prove lalse , then never man was true!—he longed so mnch to marry her , anil now , when no excuse Bhould have served to put it off , any little excuse sufficed—it would not suit bis circumstances , bis
father would be angry—be wished be could , but it was impossible . ' She blamed herself more than him . She thought if she had kept her innocence she might have kept him , for it was after she had lost that , that she lest him . In losing that , she had lost all her wealth , all her marriage-dowry—she had lost all her charmatoo , for now ha was no longer attracted by her . She bed lost all , but had lest it to him , and therefore he ought to have forgiven her . But he did not , and she could not forgive herself . If he thought so ill of her what must others think ? what must she herself think ? and
above all , for that now pressed most painfully upon her mind , what would her poor parents think ? What she hetssjf thought was this—she thought of hiding her disgrace , of ending her misery in the brook . But could she hide it from God ? No , and she durst not thus plunge Into his presence . She let the consequences which she conld not arrest , take place . We will not d ^ e ll upon the domestic affliction caused to her parents by the child of their joy , now taking her baby in her arms , and wanderiDg over the wide world in quest of charity . Her father threatened , and the poor broken-spirited creature swore the oaths .
The oversesrs laid a weekly rate of Is . 6 > 1 . upon Richard for the support of bis unfortunate offspring . No more was thought of the matter—Richard had but done what many others do , and by his boasting of it , it shewed that what he had done was a recommendation of him to the world . But he was not altogether satisfied—I do not mean to say that he was dissatisfied with the part which he had played , but he did not like being made to pa ; for it-He shewed the order of payment to a friend of his , an attorney , a very rich man , indeed quite a { gentleman . Now it so happened that this attorney entertained a violent pique against the overseers , beeause they had done him the very sensible injury of preferring the professional services of another attorney whose superior
success in their causes bad warranted this preference . He , therefore , not caring though the poor girl Bhould be deprived of her small allowance so he could plague the parish , opposed the order which the overseers had served upsn Richard—opposed it at the next quarter session—opposed it on the ground that it was informal —not npon the gronnd that Richard was not the father , for Richard had never denied that—but upon more legal grounds—he had found ground whereon to found a quibble , and a quibble is a great point in law . Tbe parishioners , as usual , employed their own lawyer whs as usual , was successful in their behalf . Their preference was thus again fairly justified ; but it was not likely that Richard ' s lawyer would be pleased at this . Defeat rendered the law-gambler desperate ; he resolved to move the cause to a higher and more expensive
tribunal , for the deeper his revenge the sweeter it would be . That revenge he was not destined to tanie . Once more worsted by bis able antagonist , he must pay hie own sosts , for his client was too poor to pay him , and console himself with the idea that he had at least given fc .- pariah a good deal of trouble and put the » i to a good deal of expeuce . In the meantime what became of Rachel ? She thought that Richard ' s love for her had no pity in it ; that there was no justice in tbe law ; that a lawyer must be an awful man ; and bick of a world in which she saw nothing for her but injury and injustice —sick of her own deserted , miserable self , she sought heaven and &he found it She died and left her persecutors to live to their own condemnation . She had been their victim , but they were worse victims of their own evil nature . Here ends the story of Richard and RacheL
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TO THE PEOPLE OF MANCHESTER . 180 , Holborn , Nov . I . Inhabitants of Manchester , —I should not now address you , but that I consider the subject which I lay before you to bo of the most vital importance . That subject is the efforts that are now being made by tne Anti-Corn Law League to get np an agitation in favour of their free-trade SCHEHES . Mark ! they intend to raise £ 50 . 000 by the beginning of January , 1 S 43 , having , accurding to their own acknowledgment , already expended £ 100 000 on the agitation . I tell the Anti-Corn-Law League , thst if they will collect £ 5 , 900 , 006 instead ef £ 50 000 , it will not avail them in dragging tbe mas&ea after them . * Tis true they may compel working men in their employ to take
tickets ef the Anti-Curn-Iaw Association , but even these men will attend public meetings , and vote against their detestable tyrants . Men of Manchester ! if the Corn Lvw repealers dare attempt to convene a public meeting in your town in Janury next , when they intend having scores of M . P ' s and hundreds of parsons attend in your overwhelming might , and let them know you are more powerful than ever . Yon have two gentlemen ar . iongst you who know well how to lay bare the doctrine of the free-traders . These two are Messrs . Leach and Doyle , either of them capable of denudiDg the Anti-Cora Law party of their cloak of hypocrisy . Insist upon fair play for your speakers , and ifviultnce shali be resorted toby the repealers , then is your time for resistance . Dj not suffer your 1 'tads to ba
broken quietly . let your answer be to their cant and mock charity , Where is M'Cormack ?* Where is Kaowles ?* Where are the Havdraans ?• Where is Bell ?* Where is Afihiey ? Where arc the hundreds who have been transported and imprisoned ? Ask them do they intend prosecuting O'Connor , Hill , Lwich , Doyl « , M'Cartney , Brookes , Allinson , Harnej-, Ottny , R . ; ylton , auU others , who have taken an aelive pare in opposing their / alJacies ? Let your answers bo similar to what thu Birmingham men told tbe Com-Law Repealers at tbe Town-bali the other day ; fight them inch by inch ; nse fair argument ; do not allow them to gain any footing aniengst you ; they have immense wealth in their hands ; the town-halla at their disposal ; local authorities to lend their assistance , and first rate
talent to preach up their nostrums . What have we on our bide ? We baV 9 honest poverty ; naked , undisguised tiuth ; and , I can proudly boast , first-rate Went too , — certainly not so well paW . There is no nun amongst us receives £ 10 per week and all travelling expenses paid into the bargain . Who ever heard of Leach , or Doyle , or West , or Betsley , or . Clarke , keeping horses and gigs ? Yet , with all their ¦ wealth , they cannot draw the people into their meBhes . If they are honest , why do not they allow fair and frte discussion at their meetings ? I am sure that Leach , or West , or Duyle will be most happy in meeting their picked men , and discussing the question with them . Now , mark , I am a Corn-law Repealer , in the strictest sense of the word , but I wish to have a voice in its repeal . I will not lend myself to assist one gang of spoliators , merely to transfer the power of plundering
tbe people from another gang to themselves . I now tell the couutil of the Anii-Corn-Law League , if they are sincere in theit efforts to obtain redreBS for the people , they will employ their £ 50 , 000 to propogate Chartism . They ran find eloquent and talented advocates at £ 3 ptr vrcek each ; they could thus employ 300 talented propagators of the truths of democracy , aud in twelve mouths such a powerful public opinion would be raised against Toryism and Whiggism , and in favour of Chartism , that our principles should become law ; and I would venture to lay tny head on the block thut a Parliament , elected by tbe whole people , would soon corapletely carry out Jona > frfe free trade principles . The League will stretch every sinew to extend their views , and to thwart their designs . I would wish tbe Chartist body—and particularly our young speakersto make themselves acquainted with tbe Corn Law question , and furnish themselves with sound arguments en that b / . ad . I remain , Your brother Democrat , John Campbell .
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The beceutly discovered process of making oil from lard , appears to be not only successful , but to promise a new field for enterprise and profit , 'lno establishment of Messrs . Lee and Co ., of Cincinnati , is said to manufacture sixteen barrels every day , which , as it takes five hogs to a barrel , requires eighty hogs . This will use up 58 , 400 a-year .
Death of the Rev . Solomon Herschell . —Died on Monday morning , in the 82 nd year of his ago , the Rev . Solomon Herecbell , forty years chief rabbi and during that loDg period beloved and respected by all classes of persons , without reference to religious opinion .
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Mr . Beesley ' s ( not B . iensey ) challenge to a discussion 9 ii tha Cora Lows ; and toetate to yon in reply , that wJjcm Mr . Beesley ' s challenge was accepted by you , their hop ^ - wa « , that it had bet » n done in good faith , and that your purpose , like onra , was to try fiirly the merits of the question by » discussion upon fair and equal terms . They did not anticipate , from your tone and bearing , that covert shrinking from the contest which they regret to rind manifested in your letter . " Sir , the purpose of the Hull Chartists is fair and honourable . Their doctrine upon the subject of a repeal of the Corn Laws baa been so often and so fully stated , that they cannot ( suppose a person whose conversance with these and other matters of public debate
and notoriety may have qualified for the post of ' Corresponding Secretary of the Hnll Anti-Monopoly Asso ciation , " to be unacquainted with it . And as you undertook to controvert that doctrine , they were not prepared to find you attempting to substitute for it , as in this letter , an altogether different matter of dispute . They do not think the propositions , watch you have been pleased to oall the ' Conditions of Debate , ' to be either 'just * or 'Impartial ; ' and the 7 cannot withhold tbe expression of their surprise , that you should have thought bo meanly of their judgment as to sarp > se them incapable ot perceiving the evident attempt to ' get away'from the question , which is contained in these Conditions of Debate . '
" Sir , tbe Hnll Cbartisto are not children , nor are they to bo treated as such . They , at least , know their own position ; and however much they might bo disposed to oblige the ¦ ' Corresponding Secretary of the Hull Anti-Monopoly Association , ' yet they cannot consent , at his bidding , to abandon that position . and take up such an one as he may be pleased to provide for them . " I have already stated that they consider your ' Conditions of Debate' neither 'just nor 'impartial , ' and I proceed now to assign their reasons for this opinion ; and in doing so shall refer to your Conditions of Debate , ' not perhaps seriatim , but in such order as they
seem to be connected with each other . I atop not to comment upon tho apparent inconsistency of a gentleatnu ' a claiming that tbe wbole responsibility of this matter should reat exclusively upon himself , while he yet writes in his official character of 'Corresponding Secretary' of a public body , This may be considered a matter of taste ; . and I trust that I and my brother Chartists shall always have higher objects of attention . "To your 'CunJitiona of Debate , ' therefore , I address myself ; minding little whether they be simply those of Mr . Robert Ifirth , or of the Corresponding Secretary of the Hull Anil-Monopoly Association ; " merely observing that I reply not individually , but for myself and my brother councillors by whom I am instructed .
" To the 4 th , 5 tb , 6 th , and 8 th , of your 'Conditions of Debate' we offer no demur . Tbe 2 nd we consider so worded as to admit of much altercation . This we arc anxious to avoid . Our desire is that the preliminaries should be short , clear , and simple , that we may com j to the work at once . While , therefore , we agree with you that each party should have its own chairman , yet seeing that the mutual agreement upon an umpire might be difficult , if not impossible , we think it would be more 'just' and more 'impartial' to leave the election of umpire to the meeting—letting him be chosen at the meeting , from tbe meeting , and by the meeting , without any interference from either of the disputants , thoir chairmen , or their committees .
"To your 7 th ' Condition of Debate' we have a strong objection . The matter is one of great public interest and concernment . We are to presume that your object in seeking this debate is , like our own , simply benevolent —seeking to elicit Truth that it may be useful , and aid the uninformed in the formation of opinion ; so that when Truth sball be discovered anu established its votaries may be so numerous and ardent as to ensure its speedy triuinph . And inasmuch as we think it probable that those who may most need enlightenment are the least able to pay for it , we entertain a strong objection to the money charged for admission , by which some might he excluded . We are anxious that the public should be RIGHTLY informed—that they should ba misled neither by us nor others , and , therefore , we desire that all , T » ho may fe « l interested should have full opportunity of bearing the discussion and judging of its merits .
" We at once obviate yonr objection abont expenses by undertaking to defray the whole . The discussion sball not cost you one farthing ! and , this piint settled , we can see no earthly reason for the £ 5 ilepasit talked of in your firat condition of debate . ' In negoclsting with yourself , whether we regard you personally or officially , we are desirous to suppose that we are dealing with a gentleman—a man of principle and probity —who will hold himself bound sufficiently by his engagements . While , therefore , we give all due credit to the delicacy of the feeling which might prompt it , we cannot permit you to flace yourself in a position which must imply that we thought your engagement not to be a sufficient guarantee . If the discussion should be ultimately , determined on , we f ? el quite satisfied that your own senao of honour will impel you to go through it ; and whilst we thus treat you with all fair and gentlemanly courtesy , we are in nowise disposed to be treated otherwise .
" Thus far we hare proceeded on the supposition that discussion was yonr purpose ; but a perusal of your third ' condition of debate' engenders serious doubt on our minds that you have any purpose of discussion ; or that your letter to us was written for any other purpose than that of * getting oat of the concern' with as little scalh as might be . You propose that the question for discussion shall be— ' Would a Repeal of the Corn Laws be beneficial to the operative classes ? ' and that Mr . Beesley shall , on our part , maintain the negative of this bold naked question , without any reference to collateral subjects .
• • Sir , we will not insult you by Directing to suppose you ignorant of the fact , that the question , thus put . is one about which the Chartists , aa a body , never made any question . That the repeal of every law tending to restrict trade , or fetter commerce , -would , under a proper system of national government , be beneficial to the operative classes , few Chartists deny , or even dispute ; nor do we find many persons in connection with the Anti-Corn Law League , or the various antl-raonopoly societies , so hardy in their exhibition of ignorance , or dishonesty , as thus to take for granted their denial of it " Sir , we are not to be thus choused ! if you have any stomach for the fight , come to it fairly I Let tbo question at issue be correctly designated , and the preliminaries such as to secure to us what we promise you , a fair field , but no favour . ' ,
We beg that , if you entertain seriously the purpose of discussion , you will peiase the following propositions , or , in your own phrase , " Conditions of Debate . " " 1 . That Mr . Beasley . or Uiaparty , do defray-the whole expenses of this discussion . " 2 . That each party appoint its own cha ' rmaa—the umpire to be elected by the meeting . " 3 . That the question for discussion be— " Is there a probability that the repeal of the Corn Laws -would be beneficial to the whole community , whilst any portion of the comni unity ia ¦ antepresriited in Parliament . " Mr . Firth to maintain the affirmative , and Mr . Beealey the negative . The discussion to be restricted to this subject— the chairmen to ba judges , and in case these cannot agree , ' the decision of the umpire to ba binding on the disputants .
5 . VSama as previous similar numbeiB . G . j 7 . That free admission be given to all wishins to bo present at the discussion , in order that nou « may b ~ i prevented from hearing the arguments ofthe- disputants on ^ . bis important soVject . 8 . Same as the other 8 . You will parcelve , Sir , the 4 tU , Gtb ,. . 6 th , ¦ awl 8 th of those are your own ; ar . d if the others suit you not . we request from you only the justice we have dono to y 0- !—tba reasons upon -which your objections to them may be founded . Your objections thus supported , eball have our deliberate attention . No needless bar Rhill by us be offered to the " cosaing off" of the discussion . I have the honour id b ? , On behalf of the Hull Chartist Council , Your ' s , respscfcfully , W . J . EsiUHDAY , Secretary . To Mr . Robert Firth , &c .
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TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN . Brethren in Democracy , —You aie aware tbat I have been for tbe last four mouths alternately demanding a little Star- light , aud rtqaeating 4 hat those who would respond to . iny demand would ssnd nie their addresses , which in abaolu te \ j ¦ nectssass . because I cannot know whether yon send or not , without you acquaint me with ifc , as there are as man retained or mislaid as come to lund . In the Star of the 8 th instant , I revested what I request to day , and what do you think was tho ultimatum ? why , that I received three letters ; one from a Londoner , eas ing tbat that was th& first time ho had
Been my naiae , and that be would send me the Evening Star alternately ; another from a friend in Sunderlam ) , stating tbat — — Bent me the Northern Slap now and again for some time b ack ; aaad another from a& old friend that was missing this good time . Now the Chartist publio can estimate their inexorable pertinacity , such pertinacity aa I have never -witnessed . I hope it will not bo long thus ; that at least I will have half-a-dozen of permanent friends who will not lag after a week or eo , aad then / desert me , as has been the case since the commencement . I expect the person In Abergavenoy who did send me the Star in the beginning will twite to me , as also the Hudderefleld gen . tleinan .
I -would be obliged to any Londoner , or any person who would eend the Evening Star in good tiiae , as those soul-stirring leaders whioh appear therein are universally appreciated . Yours , A sterling Democrat , J . C . GEADT , Near Fientlipatk , County RoscananoB , Ireland , Oct . Slat .
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I - ¦ - — - HIJ THE TIC ilM ELLIS . TO THE EDITOR . 6 P THB * ORTHEBN STAR . . DS . 4 A Sir—Allowme , through tba medium of you * ' j «« rly wii * ly circulated journal , to maka a few ob 3 eivatlons en . < bebaif of that persecuted , ffiuch injured , tkougb iuni cent man , Mr . Win . Eilis . ¦ ^| j EbglisfcHH a » le&M npon you by all the endearing ties tbatrbind aiu ' t to man ; yon , whose fathers have fought , bled ; and diet I for liberty ; and yon , sons of Cambria , whcee tnaefal i * mrp was always strung in favour of the oppressed ; aid , vou sons of Scotia , descendants of the heroes ef Bannoc tburn ; and yon , sons of the
" First frowsy o f the earth and first gem of the sea , " inhabitants of the Sorely , though degraded and insulted Emerald Iaie M to r . tlly round this innocent man , for by your united voices a lone can he be ssvtd . IJci ! 2 upon you to petition for hvs pardon , for by heaven , I again say he ia lunoesat ; hi s friend * are in possession of facts that wiJl shoBtly be published , which will clearly prova even to tba mest . sceptical tbat be ia ianccent , but let us look upon what evidence he has been convwted , out ot ttw whole host ol witnesses against him , only one man swears to him being at the fees , a ;;« tbat man says ¦ >• he had only a side v 4 ew of fcia fece , and could not swe a * whether he hart a hat en or not . " There , fellow slaves I upon that evidence aitneia Ellifl convicted .
I will make no comment upon the above feet ; but simply ask you , if you think it riyht a man should be triinBpostsd for twenty-one years upon such evidence . I . now , for the present , leave the case with you , fibr yott to make your own reflections upon it v but , in- the mean time , I must tell you , tbat the case will be argued before the fifteen Judges in a short time , and that the " sinews of war" are wanting , therefore- send in your " niitea" Immediately to O'Connor , w&o will properly apply them . Do not , for God ' s sake , for the sate of your children , but , above all , for the sake of Ellis'a wife azsd cniiaren , " do not let ' him be sacrificed to : the want ot / unas . From yours , Truly in tho cause of Democracy , J . B , Mart . Boothen Tills , Stoke-upon-Trent , October , 30 , 1842 .
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., THE EXECUTIVE . 10 THE EDITOR OF HIE MOUTHERS SlAB . London , Nov . 1 st , 1842 . Sib , —By an oversight of tee Star of the 22 nd inat ., I was notawaTe of my nomination for tlm Executive by the Chartists ot Brighton , until my attention was called thereto by the Executive pro tern , in the Star of the 29 lh , else you should have hear 4 from mo before this time . -1 am not eligible to act in that capacity , not being on the General Council , and if I were , I would not feel myself justified , under present circumstnnses , in doiirg so . tny opinion beinj ? that the election of a now Executive is ' a Very unnecessary , arid to &ay tha least of it , unbecoming proceeding , anil that it rtoes notrifl-ct
credit on either the judgment or foresight of its originators ; indeed , I am sure the country generally la not in favour 6 f the scheme , as I perceive thvre is no nomination for Lancashire , or many other places . I beiieve it altogether to bs a triek of some enemy . Would in not be much more prudent to wait tha el-jotioa tiil Maroa , its proper time ? It is really too bad that our whole body must bs put in motion to please tho whim of auy one who choose to send a line or t » vo to the Star . This is . tbe point tbe enemy seems to attack , and therefore we should be on the alert of him , and not allow ourselves to become bis tools to carry out b . is objects . I would object to a new Executive on the following grounds : —
Because the powers which we bad given the Executive in 1841 , have not been taken from them , and are we now going to be toolb in the enemy ' s bands to disarm them T Campbell , Leach , and Williams are still at their post ; M'Douall and Biirstow are jet at large ; and I see no good reason . for the step that is about to ba taken . However , if we have gone top fir to recede , I have sent my vote to Brighton , to be recorded for me . ... I am . Sir . Your obedient Ssrvint , L T . Clakcy .
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TO THE CHARTISTS OF SCOTLAND . Fui . tow-couNTRYMEN . r-By the time this reaches yott every locality in Scotland where there is a Chartist association WiU have received tho address recommended by the late ' delegate meeting at Eiiinbur ^ li , to lie issued to the country . No tinie is to be lost -BlierBver thpre is an association , " a committee , or but a score of Gnaitist 3 in any village—they should meet and decide instantly whether they will aupport tho plan or sot . If decided in favour of tho plau a provision for carrying it out must be made by every place . First . For the salary of the secretary , and subscribers for the publication afterwards , for lectures and -whatever r . > eap 3 of general agitation may be adopted . It was suggested by
the delegates tbat if there weie sixty associated localities an average of sixpence each , weekly , would furnish tbe salary of the secretary—if some could not give that others would give twice as much with ease ; it only requires every place where there is say number of Chartists , to decide what they can do , and estimate rather beiow than above , - and take steps to scad one quarter of a year ' s contribution , whatever it be—3 s . 65 . 12 * or 24 s . —and to commence instantly taking names of subscribers for the ScottUh Chartist Pioneer , and send tbe list into the committee , reiutiuberiug tbat if the monthly publication is supported , tbe profits of it -will pay tbe Secretary , who has to be Editor of it , and help the EeEer ; il cause .
These points settled , it will be the duty of each place to Bond in their opinion aa to the general card of msraber&hip ; if there arc but six Chartists ia n village , they can still have cards sent them , and thus give assistance to the cause . It is , therefore , . respectfully requested that every place will send in an account how they have dtcided on those subjects ; and , if they have not riecii ' . ud , instantly proceed to do so , in fairness to ihe rest of their brethren , who- are anxiously waiting the result . Ail communications to be ad \ Ue 3 * pd ¦ ' . ¦¦ UOBERI LOWEBY , . 46 , Nitiholaon-fjtreet , Edinburgh .
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Lamentable Cccujirbace at Plymouth . —At half-past two o ' clock on Saturday , the following lamentable accident occurred at a place called Mill Bay , near Piymou'h . It appears a man by tho name of Jyhn Spiaeyj about thirty years of a ^ e , a lime burner , in the employ of Mr . T . Gill , M . P , in whose employ he has been for tho last seven year * , went into a beer shop , called the Prospect Inn , and kept by a pertos of" the name of- Graca Sar ^ cut . He called tor a- pint of beer , npoa which she told him to pay her what he owed her , and she never wanted to see him ' again . Words ensued ; frnm woi- 'is t !* . ey came to blow ? , ehe offering to strike him with a
mtat-hook . ' she held in her hand ; he gavoherapush from him * and , shocking to tell , she catim down ¦ with . her head in contact with a wooden tx ?» ch or Ptool , and nev « r spoke again , being lauched . into eternity without a moment ' s thought oi suet > ae&jisnmmation . The raaa was placed in oustody , cfikriKs ; no rc ~ Ananoe . An inquest has been held upon iiho be . ' . v , and a verdisfc of Manslaughter returned . The uutbrtunate wsman . was upwards of fifty , and tho much-tobe-pitk d prisoner leaves to Eoiro . v , ao doubt for a long period , a . wife and-child to mourn over this unlooked-for event .
Something ijke iN Invention— The Steam-E . \ -3 ij * e RuPERst . PEDi—A German is iiuw in Liverpool , endeavouring t » induct ) the merchants ^ mi r-hipowiiers of that enterprising tovm to patroiiiso an iawBtion . which , -if successful ,-wiii bshkely tobupersudd Iho eteam-eiigine . It is . tb . iw d ^ enb-.-d in an extract of a letter with which ' a friend has favoured UH : — "This machine can be cinpl-o . -ed h .- ^ u- ad of tha steam-engine , without fuel of any kind , and without a boiler ; it needs very littls r < -paiiv , and can be worked withoui danger ; any power can be employed .
from one to on © thousand hors = ; s or more ; i r . may be made of . brass , wr iron , and the power of ijie machine exists withia itself , and doeenot diminish , but remains alwaj 9 the same . It may bo employed oa railroads , ia shipa , tu \ d mauufactovit :-, w s . [\ tho same effect aa tk& ste- ^ rn-engine , ard d- ' -e-s ! :- ; t create ai . y noiee , ani does not require more aiti-niJance than the steam-engine , and th » _ - iu > t . cost list us ore than half , and may be made with or without wf-edt ? . It may also be ' remarked that , as do knid of fuel need be employed , it would bev *« H ndapted for veisels making long voyage . ? . —Mining Journal .
Efi-ypr . —There bav . g been some very severe losses in the Delta , caused by tho ' breakmy ' of dikes which had" been raised to keep in the waters ; in oue place , upwards of fifty TJillages were entirely inundated , and tha inhabitants reduced in consequence to hopeless misery . Tho mortality amount ox <; n does not seem to bub 3 ido in-the kast "; in many places , where no animal 3 whatever can be obtained , women and boys aro m ^ de to turn the water-wheels m their stead . Owiu ? to the repeated applications of Mes-rs . brings and Co ., tho Government ha 3 finally promised to begin at once to olear aud level the road in thedesort between Suea and Cairo . By this the journey will be rendered much less fatigmr . tf , and the distance-also will be shortened . Some people say that a coal mioe has been diecovered in tbe this be trueand tho vein
vicinity of Suez ; should , be of good quality , it will prove a most iortuija-ce »» a valuable acquisition for the Peninsular an' Or : tnlal Steam Navigation Company . -The iiwure of the Arabian &oil , however , precludes all nope ot tne mine being either a good or exunsive one . ine plaiiueseema ' to have determined upon RiviiiM uk a little respite this year , and up to to-day no cases have been mentioned for the last two months . The Pasha , has be . gun to erect a line of telegraphs on the desert i-oad between Suez asd Coiro , eo that \ a two or three months time . the . arrival of tse Bombay bteani&r at Suez will be known at Alexandria a few hours after it takes place . The . Pasha comimses to sell his produce by public auction . Whi at , is still at 153 . 6 d . per imperial quarter , and Beans at Ite . 3 i » free on board here . —Correspondent of the Times *
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* M'C- jrmlck waa a shopmate of mine , and received seven y ears transportation . KnowleB is Mr . Weafa brother -in-law ; he received seven y ears' transportation . Bell received six months * imprisonment ; he has a ¦ w ' Je and three children , in Heywood , in great distre- « 8 . Tbe two Hardmana were ahopmates of mine .
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Such was the precious document forwarded to tho Hull Counr . U for acceptance , and to which Mr . Firth expected an answer in writing . He has got it f Here itia :- «• Hull , October 31 st , 1812 . " Sir , —I am instructed by my brother Chartist Councillors to acknowledge the receipt of youra , of the 27 th \ instant oa tbe 29 th , wMWe to yout acceptance ot MXi
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TO TUB EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Hull , Nov . 1 st . 1842 . Sir . —Knowing tho Interest which you take Jb all our proceedings , I forward you a copy of the correspondence which has passed between us and tbe " Corresponding Secretary of the Hull Anti-Monopoly Association , " to shew you , and if you think proper , to shew to the public , through the columns of tba people ' s organ , tbe Star , that the councillors here do not slumber on their post , but manfully throw down the gauntlet te every assailant ef our hallowed principles . Tou will observe a report of the meeting which ed to the correspondence in the Evening Star , of Thursday , the 2 Gth November . I am , sir , Yours faithfully . W . J . H .
Copy of Correspondence between the Hull Chartist Council , and Mr . Robl . Firth , Corresponding Secretary to the Hu ' . l Anti-Monopoly Association ;—" October 27 = h , 1842 . English-street , Hull . Gentlemen—As . the acceptance of the challenge , given by Mr . Beensey , was in my individual capacity , I have on c onsideration , deemed it piudtnt to let the responsibly rest exclusively on myself ; I have , therefore without coneultiug the committee of the
Anti-Monopoly Association in this town , taken the liberty to subur . t to you the following conditions c . f debate , in accordance with the limitation I fixed in the Lodge on Monday evening , Oct . 24 th . I trust you will find theae conditions just and impartial ^ Waiting your answer in writing , I am , gentlemen , Yours respectfully , KOIiERT FIKTH . To the Chartist council , Hull .
" Conditions of debate between Mr . Beensey , Chartist lecturer , and Mr . Firth , corresponding Secretary of the Hull Anti-Monopoly Association * " 1 . That each psrty lodge £ 5 in the bands of a person mutually agreed oa , to meet any deficiency of expences incurred in making the necesairy preparations , and that , in cose either party shrinks from the debate , after the conditions have been fixed and signed , the said party forfeit the money so advanced . " 2 . Tint each party appoint its own chairman , and the nmpire be mutually agreed on .
" 3 . That the question fordisenssion be , " W » nld a repeal of the Corn Laws be beneficial to tbe operative classes ? " tbat Mr . Beensey maintain the negative and Mr . Firth the affirmative , under the following restrictions , namely , thai neither ihe Charter nor any other scheme be introduced , but that the discussion be rigidly confined to Ihe Bubject , of enquiry—the chairmen to be judges ; and , in casa they cannot agree , the decision of the umpire to be binding on the dlBputaata . " 4 . That each disputant be allowed half an hour in his opening address , and a quarter of an hour after * wards . > " 5 . That as Mr . Beensey gave the challenge , he open , and Mr . Firih close the debate , tho debate to commence at half-past seven , and close at half-past ten o ' clock .
" 6 . That at the close of the debate each chairman shall obtain for his side of the question at issue , the sense of the meeting , by asking for a shew of both hands , the umpire to decide on the majority . " 7 . Tbat there be one peo ' ay for admittance to the debate , to defray the ezpeaCis ; and should any surplus remain , that it be equally divided between the Chartist Council and Mr . Firth , to be appropriated to soy benevolent object they may respectively deem proper . " 8 . That these conditions be printed on the bill convening the meeting . " Other little natters will have to be attended to , but which involve no difference of opinion . "
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE N 0 R 1 HEBN STAB . The committee of Mr . Cooper ' s Defence Fund , beg to SS ° ' ! f' ! . following sums received by them up ¦* ™ * J s * of Oct . and to lay before the public their expenditure np to the same day . The committee IS * i ! fchanfca to those persons who have eontri-Dutea to the above fund , aad trust that all lovers of £ » a * ^ . e 3 terfc themselves by ubscribing their mite i ^ n ^ defining the deb t which has already been incurred ; to meet other heavy charges whlefa ere long wUl be brought against them for traversing , and other lawexpences : —
EECE 1 VED BY SUBSCRIPTIONS , Collected In the ? " * * : Mr . B ] meoU t £ * ' d DiS ? ?;; " 0 U H Bristol ... 0 10 0 Ditto ditto 2 1 0 Mrs . Rolestone 0 3 , 0 DUta ditto 0 14 3 A Young Chart-22 ? w ist , Derby ... 0 10 Shaksperean Gainsbro' per UTH 8 0 10 6 Mr . Partridge 3 0 4 ? nV 5 % ^ .- ° 2 6 Mt - Winters ... 0 3 0 An Old Radial 0 1 0 Mr . W . Smith 0 10 mJp S ^ ° Mn 'Anderaon- 0 5 0 Old Badford 0 3 5 Mr . Hollick ... 0 6 0 Mr . J . © rant , r . Sketchley , Countta thorp 0 15 H Hinokley ... 0 4 5 Mr . RSnntb ... 0 6 0 Mr . H . Jbffs ... 0 2 6 Mr . P * ck ... 0 2 0 A few friends 0 111
m w m - ° 2 6 Mr * J - Nixon 0 0 6 Mr . W . Tyrrel 0 16 Mr . Verney ... 0 0 6 A friend ... o 0 6 Mr . Garp ... o 0 6 Ann WigBeld 0 0 3 FROM SHEFFIELD . Mr . W . Cook ... 0 0 6 Mr . J . Moulds 0 0 6 Mr . P . Ch * pmaa 0 0 6 Mr . J . Summer-Mr . J . Sheffield o 1 0 ' field ... 0 0 6 Mr . T . Philli ps 0 0 6 Mr . Cook ... o 10 Mr . Morris . U o 0 6 Mrs . Clarke ... 0 0 3 Mr . H . Holyoak 0 0 6
MONIES RECEIVED BY CARDS , Mr . J . Smith 0 19 7 Mra . Trickey ... 0 5 10 Mr . T . Toone ... 0 9 2 Mr . Sparks ... 0 5 0 Mr . M . Taylor 8 12 3 $ Mr W . Steven-Mr . CBurbldge 0 12 8 son . 057 Mr . W . Johnson 0 12 0 Mrs . Worthy 0 5 4 Per Mr . Beard- Mrs . Johnstone 0 5 2 more from Mr . W . Garner 0 5 1 Chapman ' s Mr . B . Jackson 0 5 2 shop ... ... oil 9 £ Mr . Cbaniber-Mr . Adams ... 0 9 4 lain , Kib-Mr . J . H . Bram- worth ... 0 5 0 which ... 0 8 4 Mr . W . Stanley 0 » 6 Mr . J . Pollard , Mr . Cooper , Ansty ... 0 9 2 Wigstou ... 0 4 6 Mr . T . Roberto 0 8 10 Mr . — Reed , Mr . R . Rooms 0 7 9 $ Thurraaston 0 4 7
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THE NORTHERN STAR . 7
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 5, 1842, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct623/page/7/
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