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THE LEEDS CHARTIST DEMONSTRATION.
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CHARTISM ! THE INHABITANTS OF LEEDS AND ITS VICINITY ARE RESPECTFULLY APPRIZED THAT A GRAND CHAETIST DEMONSTRATION , IN HO NO U R AND S UP P O R T O F T H E E Q UITABLE AND JUST PRINCIPLES OF THE PEOPLE ' S CHARTER , Will be made in the MUSIC HALL , ALBION STREET , on MONDAY , the 19 th of DECEMBER . 1812 , when a SO IEEE WILL BE GIVEN TO T . S . DUNCOMBE , ESQ . M . P . The Presenter of the National Petition , signed by 3 , 500 , 000 British subjects , to the House of Commons and which will also bo attended . by ' FEARGUS O'CONNOR , ESQ , CHARTIST ADVOCATE . The following Gentlemen have also been invited , and are expected to be present : — J . T . LEADER , ESQ ., M . P , JOHN GULLY , EbQ ,, Ackworth Park . ¦ ¦ ' CAPTAIN WOOD , of Sandal . . MR . JAMES LEACH . Manchester . MR . J . R . BAIRSTOW , Leicester . MR . WILLIAM JONES , Liverpool . A Party of Glee Singers will be in attendance , and take their part in the proceedings of the Evening . Doors open at half-past Five ; Tea on the Table at half-past Six . . Tickets , Is . 3 d . each , may bo had at the undermentioned placeB : —The Star Office ; Mr Brook ' s Kirkgate , Corner of Vicar-lane ; Mx . John Cook . News Agent , Dewsbury-road end ; Mr . Robert Entwidtle . News Agent , Sweet-street , Brewery-field ; Mr Simuel Dunn , Temperance Hotel , Kirkgata ; Mr . FisherT News Agent , West-street ; Mr . * . Phillipa , Hair Dresser , Kirkstall-road ; Mr . William Scott , No . 2 ! Soott-street , Woodhouse ; . Mr . Henry Riuder , Seven Stara , Dock-street ; Mr . William Masen ; Grantham Arms , Dyer-Btreet ; Mr . Edward Farrar , Ordnance Arms , North-street and at the Times Office
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THE SPINAL COMPLAINT . THERE is hardly a single complaint amongst tho Hundreds to which ihe Human Frame is liable so distressing and so prostrating as Affection of the Spme ; and there is hardly another complaint bo difficult of cure . The discoverer of an almost unfailing Remedy may therefore safely be said to confer a boon upon his species ; and this Remedial Boon is proved by extensive experience to have been discovered by the Proprietor of HAIGH'S SPINAL OINTMENT . _ Some of the Cases of Care effected by it are beyond belief ; and , were not the parties living , and periectly willing , Day , anxiously ready to be referred to , and to testify to the wonderful benefits they have received , the Proprietor of the Ointment dare not mention them for fear of being charged with an attempt to practise upon the credulity of the public . Ihe parties , however , are living ; they can be referred to ; and their testimony is of the highest importance to all affl . cted with Spinal affection . The efficacy of this invaluable Restorative has been again most abundantly demonstrated in the followingtwo cases of cures effected within the test month . The names and addresses of the parties are given ; and to the parties themselves are the sceptical referred . BECENT CASES . 1 . William Moss , son of Thomas Moss , Tailor , Northgate , Huddersfield , has beenafflioted with the spinal complaint for nearly two years ; and during that time has been under the medical treatment of several of the Medical Profession in the neighbourhood , but received no relief . His back was quite orooked and deformed . After using the Spinal Ointment a short time , he was complexly recovered , and is now strong and healthy . 2 . Mary Ann Hutohinson , daughter of Mr . Hutcainson , Clock and Watohmaker , 32 , Kingstreet , Huddersfield , was seTerely afflicted with the Spinal Complaint for a long period , so much so as to walkwth great difficulty . Her Spine was much distorted . She had been under the treatment of the faculty for some time , without experiencing any relief . After applying a few boxes of the Spinal Ointment , she was completely restored , and is noir enjoying good health . In addition to the above , the following CASES OF CUBE are also given , and reference made to the parties , who , by means of this invaluable boon , have beeu restored to live a life of health and usefulness . A . —Joseph Parkin , slubber , Milnes Bridge , near Huddersfield . This was a case ot two Years * standing . The Patient had had the benefit of the bets medical advice that could be procured , but withoa effect . His finger nails were putrifying , when h « began to appl y the S pinal Ointment ; aad in tfc * oourae of ten weeks he was perfectly coied . He is nowr iua state of perfect health . - 2 . —Mrs . JameB Newton , of Aohtonruader-Ljiie . A case of very long standing . She had experienced all kinds of treatment , visited spas . &c , without relief ; was cured with the Spinal Ointment in about seven months . _ 3 . — - — - Senior , son of Jame 3 Senior , slubber , Dewsbury , aged five years . Had never walked from his birth , Was oured in about four months ; and enabled to . walk as well aa any one . To accommodate the distressed from this terrible affliction , the Ointment is made up in tin boxes , and sold at 2 s . 9 d . each box , stamp included . Mr » J . Hobson , Northern Star Office , Leeds , is solb agent lor its sale . The Spinal Ointment is of two kinds , and numbered 1 and 3 . No . 1 is the strongest kind , and is to be need iti the morning only , for children and for weak adults . Strong adults must use No . I continuously . No . 2 is to be used according to the instructio given with each box , in the middle of the day , and at night . For children and for weak adults it will therefore be necessary to procure two boxes of No . 2 to one of No . 1 . A letter addressed ( post-paid , and Inclosing a postage stamp ) to Mr . Hobson , or to the Proprietor , Mr . George Haigh , Crossland ' s-buildinge , Paddock , near Huddersfield , will receive an answer pointing out the readiest mode of conveyance of the Ointment , and the cost . Parties writing had better communicate all the particulars of their respective cases ; how long afflicted ; from what cause , natural , or hurt ; and the course of treatment undergone . The Ointment is in Boxes , at 2 s . 5 d . each , stamp inoluded . Sold only by Mr . Joshua Hobson , the Northern Star publisher ; and by the Proprietor .
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#$ & and parts of the adjoining connties , pissed gtrong resolutions on the snbjec : ; that these resolutions were pnblished in the Northern Star it the-time ; and thai the Executive thought proper to reply to them in a high tone of mock dignity , demurring to the right of the delegates to investigate the correctness of the Balance Saeet , and refusing to afford & angle word of explanation to them , We could not admire the conduct of the Executive on that occasion ; and yet we regretted the coarse taken by the Leicester Delegate Meeting . We thought that a eonrteous , private communication ^^^^^ g *
might possibly hare induced those explanations which were refused when publicly demanded . Our readers will perceive from this day's pzper , that we did not entertain these op inions si n g ly ; they will aeethit they were holdea by the Councillors of Hall , and very probably by those of many other places . We request that they will read carefully the correspondence of the Hull Councillors elsewhere recorded We refer them especially to the first letter of the Councillors to the Secretary , dated July 13 : h . They inil find that letter just wha : we think the circumstances of the case required . ; courteous in its
expression , kindly in its jtone , neither containing , nor eren insinuating an offensive charge of any description ; bat simply asking jot information respecting some points of the Balance Sheet , and offering , in the most respectfnl terms , certain suggestion ! for ths consideration of t ' ae Executive . It saems that the reply of Mr . Campbell to this most mild and courteous letter was not entered by the then sub-Secretary in the minute book of the Association , but was preserved as a substantive document for after reference when needed . Mr .
GaASSBr , the the then snb-S ? cretary , being one of the ** proscribed , " made himself scarce , and his wife destroyed all his papers , from a rerj natural ^ o maiush fear that Boms of them mi ^ h : be sei zed , and used against him , this letter being amongst them . We have , however , a perfect recollection of the letter , and of its contends . As a member of the General C ^ anoil , it was seen and read by the Editor of this ps ? 2 r , and its tone was certainly mot that which a public functionary ought to have adopted towards his constituents under such circumstances .
While it afforded explanation of Bome , of the matters enquired about , and excases for others , it was simply waspish and insolent . This , however , did not drive the Hull Councillors to the course , which they might very properly have adopted ^ of publishing their letter , and Mr . Campbe ll ' s rep ' y , of fairly axializing the balance-sheet by a comparison of all its items with the rnlea of the organization "• and of leaving the Executivs , in the pretiy figure which it must then have cut , to bs dealt wiih as the members thought fit . They might have done this , and had a right to do it ; but they
considered not what they had a right to do , but what might besi serve the canse . They knew that some members of the Executive had been eminently useful in their personal services to the cause ; they were fearful lest any public notice of the matter might be detrimental to the cause , either by causing them to ¦ withhold these services hereafter , or by causing the people to appreciate them less highly , or by furnishing a handle to the enemy in such an exposure of the mismanagement of our funds and the
misconduct of our public officers . For all these ] reasons , the uncalled for ill-manners , and ill-temper of the Secretary ' s letter were passed by , and they BtiU confined themselves to ths private and kindly admonition of their second letter , dated July 17 A . To th . 13 letter , the Executive , ; as a body , never condescended any reply . In this unsatisfactory state stood the matters of the Executive and their accounts until the National Conference on the 17 th of August . That Conference waa , as we always understood
called for the very purpose of entering into a full investigation of the whole conduct of the Executive . Circumstances to which we will not further now allude , prevented the business of the Conference from being even entered upon , and the Executive had for that time an escape . There being , however , a delegate from Hull present at the Conference , and also a Holl CouDciUor delegated from another p ] aee , Dr . M'DotMXX . took the opportunity of publicly stating that the matter of which the Hall Councillors had complained had received the attention of the Executive , and should be remedied . This was understood , we
believe , not only by the Hull Councillor then present , but also by Councillors from various other places , to be a distinct pledge , for himself and his coadjutors , that thereafter the plan of Organization should be adhered to . It w&b believed to be given in good faith , and it was therefore naturally expected that when the next Balanee Sheet of the Executive should appear it would be a clear distinct statedfcnt of accounts , showing to what purposes the hard-earned pennies of the people had been applied , in strict accordance with the Organisation , -which , we repeat , is the one duty of the Executive to enforce and carry oat .
It is impossible , therefore , to make any excuse for them bow . They have not been taken by surprise . They have had warning and remonstrance enough in all conscience , and the plain duty of the people now is , not to make the matter a subject of noisy altercation—^ iot to suffer any considerations other than those which arise out of the plain printed rules of the Organization to influence them—and to show by their votes upon the next election of Executive C 3 mttittee , their opinion of the manner in which their dearly and hardly-earned pence have been appropriated , in defiance of their clearly denned dnty , and the printed rules of the Organization by these
men-There is no concealing the fact that these men have set aside the Organization—that they have acted in . open defiance of their own . principles as Chartists—that they have erected themselves into an oligarchy of the very worst kindand that under the name and pretensions of democracy they have been long practicing pure despotism ; that they have done this knowingly and wilfully , and have persisted , after being repeatedly admonished and ^ tminded of their principles . It is for the people , after all this , to say whether these
men be at all fit for the office they hold , and which we think they disgrace , and have—some of them at least—long done so . As a portion of the people , we have a right both to hold , and to express , an opinion on the subject ; and our opinion is , that if ihe people again elect these men without , at al ] events , requiring from them a distinct public and individual acknowledgement of their past errors ^ and a pledge for their future conduct , they will deeerre to be robbed ad libitum .
"We cannot leave the subject without again adverting to Mr . Campbell ' s lame letter of last week In endeavouring to account for the enormous sum of eighteen shillings a week put down as postage and stationery , he complains of receiving many letters unpre-paid . We do not believe it . We think it probable that the correspondence of this office will be quite as extensive as that of the Executive , and we do not receive , on an average , three letten in a week that are nnpre-paid . The talk about prepaying cards by post is absurd . If it be done to any tuch extent as to form a Berious item in the Ehape of postage , it only proves that Mr . Campbell is utterly unqualified for the very simplest duties of Ms ofnee while ihe effort to eke out tlie item by
referring to heavy correspondence at the period of their accepting office ( that Iperiod being bejend the date of the balanee sheet ) would bs really laughable , if it were not that the fan of it is spoiled by the recollection that the money in question has been literally lifted from the half filled dinner plates of starving men . We tell Mr . Campbell fairly , that we suppose the greater part of the poor fellows who contributed this sum of money will regard this item as of itself , ia the absence of much more explanation than he kas yet given , sufficient evidence of gross and plain "jobbin g , " such as ought not to nave been practiced by the Secretary of a Chartist Association . We n&agiae that not a man in the whole country will beheve that that sum has been expended fairly in
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the postage and stationery of tin Association . We regret mnch , for his own sake , that Mr . Campbell , after the many warnings he had , did not think preper so to keep his books as to be able to satisfy the coaatrj of the accuracy of his scoounts , eren in so trivial a matter a 3 postage and stationery . His appeal to the other members of the Executivo to explain their own share of the expenees is still ... ¦
further evidence of the utter slovenly and unbusinesslike way in which the affairs of the Association have been managed . It seems from his letter that Mr . Campbell has constituted himself Treasurer as well as Secretary to the Executive ; and it was his duty not to pay any money to any body without knowing how tni why , and for what it was dae , and being full y satisfied that he was warranted by the rules of the organization in paying it .
Mr . Cambelll ' s mode of explaining his own personal expences is amusing . He singles out one item , and says respecting it : — " I must now allude to one item in my own tra-Telling expences , tjz . 10 s . from Manchester to Loiidoa , for railway fare . The country can satisfactorily judge why the extra 10 s . was charged" J Why ths question is not about the extra 103 ., but about the whole sum of £ 2 10 s . Od . Mr . Campbell forgets to show why the country should pay any part of this , or what right he had to charge it at all-He does not show that he was going to London at that time on Chartist business at all ; or that he was not going on his own private affairs . It is Mr .
Campbell's duty , as secretary of the Executive , to be in Manchester . Manchester i 3 the appointed place of sitting—settled , aa Mr . Campbell very well knows , at the National Delegate Meeting , which amended the Organization ; and is it not monstrous that because Mr . Campbell chooses for his own convenience to live iu London , that he may keep a bookseller ' s shop , and because Mr . Lbach remains in Manchester , as he ought to do , that therefore every time these gentlemen wish to consult with each other the country should be charged with railway travelling from Manchester to London !! And then the whole face of the accounts displays a laxity and ( vagueness , which if it had been intended to cover fraud could
not have been more adroitly managed . The only items in the whole list to which a distinctive character appears are those of wages and cards printing ; all the rest are left floating in a mist . The Organization givea no authority to any member of the Executive to charge a single farthing for travelling expenses , save when employed as missionaries , and then only under statsdjand restricted circumstances . The organization contemplates the Executive as a fixed body ,
sitting for a fixed purpose , in a fixed place : it does not contemplate that they shall live one at Manchester and another at London , and another somewhere * eise , and saddle the country with their travelling charges every tima they come together . The country would bB much better without such an Executive than with it ; for its only use would . csmtobeto waste the poor people ' s pence . The more we look at the whole thing the more completely are we sickened with it .
We must , however , pay some attention to Mr . Baiestow's explanation , which we are 6 orry to find very little more satisfactory than Mr . Campbell ' s . He says , in reference to his receipt of wages while lecturing : — , " I deem , of course , that employed in the We 3 t of England , where the defection of the ' Sturgites' from our movement left a wide gap in the agitation , none will object to weekly receipt of £ 1 10 s . for wages . "
This is rather a cavalier mode of dismising the matter ; it is news indeed to us to hear of the West of England being classed among the : new districts of Chartism ; either the Chartists of Bath , Bristol , Cheltenham , and Wiltshire did pay Mr . Baibstow for his lecturing services among them , or they did not . If they did , he has no right to charge his wages to the general fund ; if they did not , it is a shame that these old and able localities should have a lecturer provided by the country , while such districts as Dohc&ster , and the East and North Riding of Yorkshire , North Lancashire , andfLeicestershire , where the people are mnch poorer , not only pay their own lecturers , but are also , it seems , to pay the lecturer for the West of England . This \ 3 too bad .
Mr . Baibstow ' s explanation of the £ 2 163 . 6 d ., charged for travelling from ; Manchester to Bristol , is a ' little" curious ; it seem 3 he went over to Loughborough to see his sick wife , and thence to Bristol . Now , we are sure that there is no good Chartist who will not give Mr . Bairstow credit for the manly feeling wh ch took him home by the first conveyance ; under such circumstances , but we cannot for the life of us discover how Mr . Bairstow makes out that he has any more right than any other man to charge the country with the expenses of Bnch a journey Upon this principle every CharliaL who being from home receives intelligence that hi 3 wife is sick should hasten to her by railway , and send in his bill for . travelling to the Executive . Mr . Baibstow says ,
" The first journey , after my election on the Executive wa ? from Bristol via Gloucester and Birmingham , to Manchester , to our first sitting , and was performed on Sunday evening and Monday morning ; the sum stated wa 3 expended in bare coach hire and railway fares . ' We fancy there is some small mistake here . We believe that that journey was not exactly to a sitting of the Executive , but to the Manchester Conference , where we recollect that Mr . Bairstow stated himself to be the representative of two hundred thousand Chartists , and we think it a little too bad that those two hundred thousand Chartists should saddle the cost of their delegate upon the various other localities who sent and paid their nwn delegates . We like to see fair-play in all things , but we see none in this .
. The fourth section of Mr . Baibstow ' s letter descr ibes certain journeyings to and from ; but for what purpose , and what business , he does not say . One thing however ib , in our opinion , perfectly clear respecting them ; and that is , that they are unanthorised by any rule of the Organization , and that Mr . Baibstow has no right , therefore , to charge them to the country . The plea of his being a fugitive is no plea at all ; upon that principle every other fugitive should also send in bis bill for travelling to the Executive , and have it paid . Mr . Baibstow says , in this same article : —
" The ' agitating expences , ' Sept . 3 d , were paid me as a one-half of my incidental expences for the pre vioos two months , the localities in which I laboured having always paid me the other half . " The 18 : h rule of the Organization clearly deoides this to be an illegal charge ; as he acknowledges that the localities had always paid him all that by the rule he is entitled to . His explanation on the last £ 1 5 s . is equally unfortunate , for the same rnle shows that if paid at all , it should have been paid by the localities , and not by the general fund . The whole result of the whole matter is that the
more the whole thing is looked at the more glaring it appears , and the more the explanations given are examined and the more perfect is the certainty that the Executive have calculated opon their influence with the people to govern without regard to law ; to do whatever they pleased , without either rebuke or inquiry ; of whioh we can have no better evidence of than the statement of Mr . John Campbell , that they expected , so far from any objection being made to it , that the whole country would be delighted with the naked , open , robbery perpetrated in the matter of M'Douall ' i
wages . ! The people may be delighted with it if they please j bnt we shall , at least , seeing that all other means . have failed , do onr duty in giving it its own name , a more wanton and more flagrant system of jobbing and living out of the people than has been practised by these men we never saw ; if the people like it , and choose to permit its continuance , they have a perfect right to do so ; but if they do , they have no right ever again to complain of the despotism and spoliation of oligarchic rule . We ought not to conclude , without doing justice to Mr . Morgan Williams , who seemB to have had little or no personal part in these transactions at all . Hi 3 situation
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oblitiis ; him to remain principally at home , where doubtless his evening ? and leisure houra have been devoted as well as those of other parties , to agitation in the good cause , he has not chosen to smite the country for wages while attending to his own affairs and living by his own business , though we can see no rule by which he had not as great a right to do so as any body else .
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It will be seen by the advertisement in another column , that the Soiree to T . S . Duncombb , E ? q ., will " come off" on Monday , the 19 th ot December . The Committee are actively at work to make the affair that which it should be , an honour to the judgment and taste of the working men of Leeds , and to the cause of Chartism which they havo so universally espoused . The tickets are now issued . We advise an early application . The room is but small compared with the recent place of meeting in Manchester ; and there hundreds had to depart from the doors for want of accommodation .
The limited number of tickets the Committee have issued , will , uo doubt , soon be disposed of : and fortunate will be those who obtain them . The proceedings of the evening will be important . The men of Leeds will have amongst them for tha first time another member ef tha aristocracy , who has preferred the advocacy of the cause of the poor to the honours and blandishments of his own circle . To honour that man for his honourable conduct is the Soiree given ; and this is a proceeding of no ordinary interest . By the advertisement it will also ba seen that other geu ? tlemen are invited ; several of whom are confidently expected to be present . Their letters in answer to the invitations have not yet come to hand ; or the
fact of their acceptance or non-accoptance should be stated . In addition to the gentlemen named in the advertisement , the committee addressed a letter of invitation to Charles Waterton , Efq . of Walton Hall ; a gentleman who proved his devotion to the Chartist cause by traveling from Walton Hall to Leeds , for the express purpose of signing the National Petition . His letter , in answer to that invitation -we subjoin ; and regret , along with the writer , that ill-health will prevent us from Laving tho pleasure of his company . The working men , who are bearing the heat and burden of the day , will be cheered by his expression of sympathy with their labours . Here is Mr . Watertok ' s letter .:
—Walton ball , Nov . 18 , 1842 . Sir , —I request you will make my best respects to your committee , and say how much I feel honoured by their kind invitation . I regret that I shall not be able to avail myself of it I have had three very severe attacks of dysentry within the year . No trifle . You may naturally suppose that a fourth attack would be productive cf considerabla alarm . In order to avoid this , I am ordered by my medical adviser to keep very quiet , and to avoid crowded rooms , lest I may catch cold . Thus you see it will be impossible for me to attend the public tea which is about to be given to Mr . Buncombe . I remain , sir , very respectfully , Your most obedient servant , Charles Watkrton .
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The Executive ' s Defence . —At the very last moment before going to press , we received a long document signed James Leach and John Campbell . It is impossible to give it this week ; but in js&tice to the writers and the people , we set forth its purport . It Bays not one werd of the " Agitating Expences . " It says not one word of the " Travelling Expenees . " It says that in reference to Postage and Stationery they have no more to say than Mr . Campbell has said . It seems to express great astonishment that anybody should grumble at M'Douall ' u extra ten shillings a-week
but offers no justification for it beyond the opinion of the Executive . It occupies several pages in asserting what nobody has denied—that the Secretary is a permanent officer , and ought to have permanent wages . It occupies s me pages in abusing Mr . Hill personally , b e c ausa Borne twelve months ego , a resolution from Mertbyr Ty civil , dissenting from the policy of the Executive , appeared in the Star , under the head , " Executive Sop . " It eulogises Dr . M'Douall ' s patriotism , and Mr . Leach ' s eloquence ; and affirms that the attack
of Mr . Bui on the Executive is in malicious revenge because they defended Mr . Philp . Of course we shall give the document next week , wben our readers will see that these are the only points it touches . We should have been happy to have bad time to gire it tnie , week ; for we think the sooner the better toe wbole natter is settled by the people : but It was received here at half-past three o ' clock In the afternoon , and cur time for being at press is four . The machine is now standing tot this short notice .
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Mkbthvr Ttdvil Chartists . —Their resolution is somewhat singular : it views with regret our remarks upon a subject upon which we have made no remarks . We have not said a single word about the £ 10 to M'Douall to fly with ; though we think evert / other man who has been obliged to fly for the same business has just as great a claim , and some perhaps a much belter claim . Ocseburn Chartists . —Their second resolution is altogether outside the mark : the eighteenth rule of the organixation does not say a word upon the subject ; but the seventeenth does sap , " The General Secretary shall be paid for his se vices £ 2 per week ; and each other member of the Executive £ \ 10 s . per week , during the period of their sittings . " J . K . — We have no room this week . R . Humcin and Mtsticcs Sechetus must take the
same answer . A Constant Readeb must stand over for the present . J . Alexander writes us a long letter on the Bi lancesheet , containing many excellent remarks . We have not room for its insertion . The hand-book is much wanted , and shall be published immedtately . G . Bell , Norwich . —No . S . Biggs , Watford—We are sorry to trouble him ; but we cannot decipher the names of the gentlem ? n he has sent us as comprising the General Council : he has also omitted their addresses . J . Bishop , Campsie . —His " acrostic ' is declined . W . SiRLE . —His letter shall appear . JOHN NuttaLL —On newspapers to the United States of America jt postage of twopence is charged . They go free * to the following places if posted before eight days old : —
Antigua Denmark Mon * "orr&t Bahamas Dominica Nevis Barbadoes France New Brunswick Berbice Gibraltar Newfoundland Bermuda Grenada Nova Scotia Brazil Greece Peru Bremen Halifax , N . S . Quetco Bogota Hamburgh Spain Buenos Ayres Hayti St . Domingo Canada Heligoland St . Kitts Csraccas Honduras St . Lucia Colombia Ionian Islands St . Vincent Corfu Jamaica Tobago Cuxhaven La Gusyra Tortola Damerara Malta Trinidad .
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J . Stiten , France . —The parcel Las been sent to London as directed . T . S ., Sowerby . —Refer to the Star : it wouldjbe entered as sent A . Nicol , Tillicoultrt . —The parcel of Plates was enclosed in Paton and Lovo'd parcel , which left here on the 12 th , as did the parcels for Edinburgh and Donfermline . Parcels for Newcastle , Sunderland , Halifax Sheffield , Barnsley , liuddersfleld , and Nottingham ltf t on the 14 th .
FOR THE NATIONAL DEFENCE FUND . £ . b . d From the Masons of Orlingslury , per J . Roddis 0 5 0 „ a few friends at Chard 0 4 0 _ the first division of City Women ' s Men , meeting at the Grapes , to which the Red Horse has contributed nothing ... ... ... 0 3 4 „ a few friends at Gosport , Hants ... 0 10 0 .. a poor woman 0 0 1 „ the Chartists of Leeds , per B . Q . „ . 0 1 0 „ a few friends at Heckmondwike , per Mr . Penny 0 3 3 _ John Horaefleld , spinner ... . a 0 1 0 « , a friend , Hunslet , per Longbottom ... 0 2 0 -. Daniel Whitaker , Worttey Lane End 0 2 6 „ the Chartist Shoemaken of Sheffield 0 12 9 „ John Lowery , County Mayo 0 0 6 FOB MR . ELLIS . From a friend , Keighley 0 10 0 ~ the Chartists of Holme Lane , Tong ... & * 0 The bumble offering of a Brewood student , schoolfellow of several of tho "Staffordshire Grand Inquest" at the late Special Commission , who viewa with admiration the stand made bj an aristocrat in blecxj , and a noble by nature , on behalf of the poor , — oppressed by an upstart bod of a mechanic , and grandson of a pedlar ... 0 1 «
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VOVL MR . HASON . Fromafriend , Keighley ... ... ... 0 6 0 FOB THE DEFENCE OF GEOBGE WHITE . From a friend , Keighley ... ... ... 0 2 6
X'^Ps'~; 0 ^ E ≪*Ay 'Sat. A Young Lad, Named Samuel Davy, Of Armloy, Was Charged With Having Orr Saturday Night, Broken Into The Dwelling-
X' ^ PS '~; ^ e <* ay 'sat . a young lad , named Samuel Davy , of Armloy , was charged with having orr Saturday night , broken into the dwelling-
• * * \ ¦ £ >' that viUafie . and stolen a quantity of children a wearing apparel . The property was seen safe on Saturday night , and on Sunday morning the kitchen window was found to have been broken open , and it was Rone . Tho prisoner was suspected , and the stolan property was found in a well in his fathers house . He was committed for trial . Stealing HoBSEHAiR .-On Monday last , two lads , named Wm . Wise and Wm . Riley , who had been for about three years in the service of Messre . BenUey aud Sons , in Water-lane , were charged before the sitting magistrates at the Court House , with stolen
having a quantity of horse hair the property of MeBsra . Bentley . Mr . Bentley was in attendance , and said in taking stock they had missed about sixty stones of hair ; he had no reason to suspect the prisoners before Saturday , when having missed some hair after they had gone out , he charged Wiso with the offence , and held out a promise not to send for the police if he would confess ; this he did and implicated Riley , on which they were both given into custody , apd three or four pounds of hair was found to have been sold by them at Mr . Peter Gaily s , in Kirkgate . Inconsequence of-the promise which had been the moans of the confession , the magistrates decided they had no evidence on which to ensure a conviction , aud discharged the prisoners with a reprimand .
SundaV Evening Robbery . —On Sunday evening last , the house of Mrs . Lupton , in Rock-street , Burmantofts , was entered by means of skeleton keys , during the time Mrs . Lupton and her family were at chapel . One of Mrs . Lupton's sons returned home about half-past seven , and found the street door wide open and the house in confusion . On examining the premises , the following amongst other property was found to have been stolen : —A silver -. pint maTked I . M . L ., six silver teaspoons marked I . A . L ., a pair of silver sugar tongs marked I . A . L ., two silver salt spoons marked E . i \ , one silver teaspoon marked I . H ., four silver tablo spoons marked O ., and sixteen silver teaspoons not marked ; a quantity of table and bed linen , marked I . £ . L ., two crimson leather pocket books , and a half-sovereign . We are sorry to say that hitherto the thieves have remained undiscovered .
Robbery . —On Friday , a young man named Frederick Gilberlson , was committed , at the Leeds Court House , to take his trial at the next sessions , charged ( with stealing on Wednesday night week , two parcels belonging to Mr . John Cooper , carrier between Leeds and Bradford . It appeared that Cooper , on the day in question , had received the parcels from Messrs . Cattanea and Co ., of Leeds , to convey to Mr . Simpson , of Bradford . Having placed them along with other things in his cart , he proceeded on his journey , and having reached his destination at Bradford , when he came to examine his goods he found the two parcels missing . Cooper hai , however , not left this town above half an hour , before the criminal party was in the custody of the Leeds police with the parcels in his possession , the one containing a gross of small embossed tin plates , and the other two dozen brass snuffers .
Stealing from an Employes . —On Monday last a man named iBenjamin Atha , who has been iu the employ of Mr . Eastwood , auctioneer , was brought up at the Court House , on a charge of stealing money and other property belonging to Mr . Eastwood . The prosecutor has a shop in Briggate , in which he is disposing of a miscellaneous stock of hardware , glass , < fec , by auction ; and the prisoner was observed by a person who was attending the sale , to take an opportunity , whilst giving change to purchasers , of secreting money in his baud , which he at ' tewards
conveyed to his coat pocket . Information of this was given to Mr . Eastwood , and the prisoner was given iuto custody . On searching him , about 28 s were found , and on proceeding to hia house , in Hoibetl £ , a large quantity of glasses , knives and forks , ohimnoy ornaments , &c , were found , and amongst them , a cruet-stand without a handle , which Mr . Eastwood was able to identify ; but though ho had no doubt of the other property being his , he could not swear to it . The prisoner was therefore committed for trial for stealing the cruet-stand .
Suicide . —On Sunday last , an inquest was holden at the Woodman Inn , Sweet-street , Holbeck , before John Blackburn , Esq ., on the body of Rachel Foxcroft , 44 years of age , who terminated her existence the same morning by strangling herself . It appeared from the evidence of Mary Hardy , that the deceased had for the last month resided with four children in a cellar dwelling in MoOre-stroetJand that she had beeu labouring under severe indisposition , mental as well as bodily . The witness had been attending on her , and sat up with her until a little after four o ' clock on Saturday morning , when deceased persuaded her to lie down ( on a bed in the same room ) and get some sleep , saying she herself felt comfortable , aud could probably rent when the house was still . Mrs . Hardy fell asleep , and on awakening again , buibre five o ' clock , found that her patient had tied the ends of a silk handkerchief together round the bed post , and was laid with her
ntok in the handkerchief , her feet on tho bed , and all her weight thrown on the handkeichief , with her face downwards and quite dead . She immediately alarmed some neighbours , and a man came and cut her down . The Jury returned a verdict of "Temporary Insanity . " It was stated in the room that tho deceased had not heard anything of her husband for nine years , it being that time since he leit her : that she had been for some time without anything to do , except sewing a few sacks , and that she was dependant on the earnings of two of her children , who , when they were fully employed , got about 9 a . 6 d . per week , but that latterly they had been on short time , and had not earned so much . She had no relief from the parish , and had herself and children to keep out of this soanty pittance . She was described as a careful managing woman , and it was thought that want had preyed upon her spirits , and induced the malady under which she laboured .
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The daughter of Mr . George White , born whilst he was in Warwick county Gaol » haa been registered Jane Holberry White . Bnrn on the 13 th of March , and duly registered on the 20 th , Feargus O'Connor Hall , son of John Hall-Taylor Hill , Huddersfield . Lately , the infant son of John and Isabella White , of Leeds , was duly registered in the name of John O'Connor White . Registered at Glasgow , the infant son of Peter M'Inna , Parliament-road , by the name of James Moir . Christened at the Primitive Methodist Chapel , Chapel-row , hear Bishop Aukland , on Wednesday , November 2 nd , John Feargus O'Connor Thompson , the son of Daniel and Isabella Thompson . Christened at Shoreditch Churoh , Nov . 13 th , l > y the name of Thomas Slingsby Duncombe , the son of John and FraHcesTasrg .
On Sunday , the , 13 th inst ., at St . Mary ' s Church , Oldham , the son of David and John Charlesworth was baptised John Francis O'Connor , by the Rev . Edward Hogan , Catholic Priest , of the above church .
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DEATHS . On Friday week , at New Malton , aged 38 , Sank , the wife of Mr . Daniel Brown , jun ., of that plajw . Od the 21 st iast ., Ellen , the wife of Mr . William Bell , painter , of Spring-atreet . in this town . On Monday , ths 21 st ., Mr . Thomas Sellers , of East Moor , Wakefield , innkeeper . On Sunday , at Ripon , much respected , aged 82 years , Colonel Johnson , of Borrage Temoe , at town , v Same day , aged 81 years , Mr . Bttyjamin Brown * letter carrier , Barley , near Otley , ] On Friday , the 18 th inst ., at the QOUSeof Mr Thomas Sellor , Heslington , Mra , ( Margaret Lalria in the 94 th year of her ajfe , Same day , Mr . Thooiu Ifyrmin , buU&t ? Wtfo lane , Leeds .
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On Wednesday ; , the 23 d inst ., at St . Mary ' s oharcb , Bishophill Senior , York , Mr . George Carbutt , engineer , to Miss Elizabeth Young . On Tuesday , the 22 nd inst ., at St . Michael ' s church , New Malton , Mr . William Ellett , cattle drover , of that place , to Jane , eldest daughter of the late Mr . William Bielbjr , iof the Marishes , farmer . On Monday , the 21 st inst ., in York , Mr . Georg * Morley , farmer , Acomb , t » Miss Eliza Morley , of BramhaiBk . On Sunday , at Sculcoates church , Holl , by the Rev . W . H . Wawne , Mr . George MiddlebroHgh , joiner , second son of Mr . Edward Middlebrough , corn metor , of H ull , t » Miss Martha Caxnell , formerly of Sheffield .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 26, 1842, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct626/page/5/
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