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TB13JMPHANT MEETING OF THE WORKING CLASSES, AND DEFEAT OF THE UNITED
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LEEDS BOROUGH SESSIONS.
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WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , that the next General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the Borough of Leeds-, in the County of York , will be holden before Thomas Flowks Ellis the Younger , Esquire , Recorder of the said Borough , at the Court House , in Leeds , on Tuesday , the 28 th Day of February instant , at Two o'clock in the Afternoon , at which Time and Place all Jurors , Constables , Police Officers , Prosecutors , Witnesses , Persons bound by Recognizance , and Others having business at the said Sessions , are requested to attend . And Notice is hereby further Given , That all Appeals , Applications , and Proceedings under the Highway Acts " ( not previously disposed of ) will be heard and taken at the Sitting of the Court on Thursday Morning , at Nine o'clock , unless any Fdlonies or Misdemeanours shall then remain undisposed of , in which ease all such Appeals , Applications , and proceedings will be heard and taken as soon after Thursday Morning , at Nineo'Clook , aa the whole of the Felonies and Misdemeanours shall have been disposed of . JAMES RICHARDSON , Clerk of Che Peace for the said Borough . Leeds , February 3 rd , 1843 .
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Juat Published , Price 2 d , No . 2 , for February , of TBE MODEL REPUBLIC , Edited by James Napier Bailey . And Published by the Society for the encouragement of Sooialist and Democratic Literature . " Contents . '—Fanaticism—Lelia , a Tale , by George Sand—The Magna Charta of the People : an appeal on behalf of Union—Ex'ract from an Unpublished Work of Percy Bjsshe Shelley . J . Watson , 5 , Paul ' s Alley , Paternoster Bow ; and all Booksellers .
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CLASS-MADE LAWS HAVE MADE THEIR VICTIMS : LET US ENDEAVUUft TO RELEASE THEM . Fellow Working Men , — WHEN I sent the Advertisement to be Published , which has appeared for the last few weeks , and which states tbat I am willing to give four shillings to the Executive and one shilling to the Victim Fund out of every one hundred pounds weight of beverage , 1 say , my friends , at that time it struck me very forcibly that the Victim Fund stood much need of augmenting , and I think so-still , as you may see by their letter ; and I also think , if I may jud ^ e from appearance , that the country evinces but , little disposition to support the cause of Chartism through the Executive , inasmuch aa neither myself nor Messrs . Crow and Tyrrel have had much to add to their funds for Borne weeks past . I therefore propose that the whole of the fire shillings per hundred pounds be given to the Victims' Defence Fund , and it shall appear as before in Mr . Cleave ' s Subscription List weekly , until the assizes are over , when we can make fresh arrangements as the times may require . Now , my friends , it remains with the people , whether those men who have been made victims for no other crime than that of demanding justice at the bands of our oppressors be left to the clemency of a meroilesB judge and a time-serving jury , or whether they shall kave funds sufficiently supplied which will secure to them justice ; and we must remember that there ia only a few weeks to raise the money in , and we should also remember that we that are at liberty are only so because tbe law has not got hold of ua , but that we perhaps may have said and doue more towards the downS ' all of tyrants than those whom it is- our duty to support . I now leave the matter ia your hands , and only have to say , that I pledged myself in 1819 never to rest uuttl we wore free—I never ha » e nor ever WilL ' ROGEB PliNDER , Hull .
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-SB BHTOB OF THE "KOBTHEBN STAR" TO " ^ SIS BBA 3 XER&
vy Pbiesds—On the first page of tbe present num-. jjaS kj ^ yoa have * letter from Hi . O'Connor , a matter'which I am Trilling to believe must haTe 2 ^ ^ ffioenOy distasteful to yon . ^^ O'Connor ray properly Beeks to * rt himself •» ht He is anxious not to be misunderstood ; not to SJudB to occupy a false yoaifien . Heiaright . lam ** ^ Trrioni tbat , BolaraaIcanheIp it , neither be ZpSBj oXbEt man Bbtrald occupy » false position , or a & is not entitled tbJBrelore
^ gm to ¦»« & be . I "very ^ -aiitfly corroborate Hr . O'Connor ' s statement , that juj been no party to any syllable that I hare -ften i > pon the conduct of the Executive ; on the i jjrr , he has always in bis private conversations *^ iu ^ bdd a similar tone to that of his letter ¦ ait while 3 cheerfnQj do this jnsSce to Mi . O'Connor , -jjjt aso regnire justice for myself ; both boa . him . from you . I cMm the right of an opinion npon all flrtea of public interest ; a right which I concede to £ TS 37 mm and -srill yield to no man . in in that
t HBsi Mr- 0 Connor error , snppoang my -ftatgM npon She proposed appointment of a new —nBjliecretary were calculated to place him at all in toBgbJ in "which he seems to thint they might place vnn- eertainly they "were not so intended . Mi . O Con' sjetaDd teiai "with Mr- Leach at a public meeting , ITsn opponent of the Anti-Coin Law League ; and he nfimenled 2 iim upon bis talent and his honesty . I Btf awre that cither the talent or the honesty of Laach . M sn opponent of the AntS-Com Law ^ ^ pjg , jjsseTej'bsen disputed . But both the talent » jia honaty of the Executive , in their capacity
. jjj £ xecntiT 8 , hare been disputed ; and ttey wjjbsen by * yerS ^ ar ? e portion of their constituents -ijja upon to resign : but , though the gross charges __ ££ them have never been met , two ef them , /^ aapt of these charges , and in defiance of ^ j ^ jl then constituents to Teaign , BtiH retain ^ j , ihu I bold to be nttezJy incompatible with { Wjaprinopte ; ^ ** " | rsa in reference to this that I _ m _ bo isod man conld be expected to associate himself ^ ththriD on tte Executive , until they had firstcleargd gjajtosaeUa . Isaysostffl . But Mr . Leach may be ^ en BOSBEt ana very talented as an opponent of the and
Anti-Cora L 3 ? 11 ^ yet Tery dishonest and Tsrj inwmtpete 2 ' as a member-of the people's ExecuiiTB . Jn ^ { onner wP ^ ityj I h " never said a TOri to K * disparagement ; in the latter capacity 1 i , T 6 bwngbt no charge against him , individually ; I ¦ foTemeTdJ impeached him as a party to the acts of a » ExecaSre as a irhole "body . Mr . Leach has never gjcjjijned any of the acts of the Sxecntive as a body ; I sm bosmd therefore to suppose that he eonaenjeS to them all ; and I bold every man responsible f « eTeiy act to which ho consents . I am made jo inow , to my cost , that the law holds a man
jgmoBBble far acts to which he did not consent : bat I aonotappljthat doctrine toMr . Leach ; I charge npon jjjn Dalj the things to which he did consent Of the miaSe icts sad conduct of the Executive , I have not a Ei $ a word to retract of all that I have uii 3 have said nothing withont due thought -B 3 Kffljidera&Hi . 3 have said nothing lor ¦ jfcshlhive not given proofs as I have gone along . Have aid nothing which I am not prepared to subitaSita before a public meeting , though I deny the mM cl any psrty to require me to do bo . I have no gishlo interfere with Mi- O'Connor ' s judgment : he baa B BD&a right to bisopinion as 3 have tomine . To his ajScsn on my mode of expressing my opinion of the Twestrre , 3 bvro no reply to male : 3 am a plain
jam indcsD a spade a spade . But though 3 respect Mr O'Connor as much as any man onght to respect him , 3 raped job and the cause of Chartism still more ; and ismsJ begthai m this matter , which is most essential Hdinfportant to yonr interests , yon will not permit yoar personal regard for him to blind you to the merits of the ase ; thatyon -sriHformyourownjudgnientbythefacts sod ij the evidence and not by the opinion of any man . Ibsve nerer asted you to takB my opinion npon any subset , furQier tiaa 3 sapported my opinion by proofs . " 3 t 5 o not asi yon to io so now . 3 ask you , as 3 always hare ioiie , to {< nm your own judgment of the case upon fe vwnmEii&jinQEpeiulent -of any other consideration whatever ; and ITJlsma joa far not having , long since , deSvered 1 fcat jndgment so generally and so conclusively is to preclude further hickerinz .
TbsreitiBBch inilr . O'Connor ' s letter to which it vun 3 « be very sisr for me to reply ; but I have bo deistoxeepitpthe jar . 1 have never had any such 4-eh . If theehargts igaansttke Executive had been KSi £ nt by fate argument , simple explanation , or s ^ kksowledgment , instead of personal abuse and ixEsiij false counter accusations , there would never ten fees my j » at all ; the whole matter would have fan keen settled very speedily » nd very quietly .
ut tame of its not having been so , belongs not to me , iel to &QK vbo foand it xoore conTenient to keep up SKtcnsal by attacking others , than to settle it by frfrpfoig themselvas . Justies , however , compel aetoej thatl think Mr . O Connor's strictures on Mi . J ^ m Watkin ' s letter much more unnecessarily snot Qua anything that Mr . WatMn * s has written » JiiMlQie 3 ixecntive . Mr . Watkins ia aman who has isat isssh servica , " ^ endured much suffering in thn
as * , j know no man in the whole movement who tsi | ivEBinore decided evidence ef his thorough de-T&dnea to Chartism thyi John Watkins . 3 know no so in the whole movement more fully entitled to the PWpls ' igood opinion and their thanTrn . I know bo am in a » whole movement who has preserved fi ^ rcgnont his whole career a more stern honesty , » 3 imore ^ rict and honourable adherence to principle * ad eonssteney than John Watkins . 3 do not say that knopniionj are , there ! ere , entitled to any other weight 2 an ttit which they may have from the nasoiis ¦ sjxa wMca ftjey sxe founded ; bet 3 do say that usa ttings enght to induce ns to examine those rea-) £ E' fiR before we © ensure Trim either for the holding * fl » apressiBn of bis opinions .
3 sat-a fired of seeing the discussion in the Star as St O'Connor or you can be . 3 bad closed the columns "rf JSttSfcp- against ia farther continuance some weeks » fA Ibis did not suit the 32 xtcudv& Their friends ^ BMdmsfor . £ ^ g ^ shemBelves procured them to Knopeaed ior it , by applying t # Mr . O'Connor ana ^ aisinjiis pledge to tbat effect , at Birmingham . 3 fc art Husk that Mr . O'Connor acted wisely , or rlghUy " a pfmg that pledge ; but when informed by himself * k * ne tad acme so , I did not choose to give cause f « r as * thought obstinate or factious . 3 am now anxious ., *» 3 always hsTe been , to have done with it . 3 bave t
» ^ — — — — ^ _ - ^ w ^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^— ^ tea ny iufy in jt ; and 3 have dose no more ft ""» my ** v- one finty was a most unpleasant and a painful ^ bat it wa » a ^ uty , and 1 have done it 3 cordially 5 Bt 8 rin Ite opinion of Mr , O'Connor , thatitis time for ^ fettiely exduded from the Star , and I therefore _ ' ¦ ai repress the publication of several eomnmni-/ T ^ V—one of them a most important and argmnen ^« istter , which 3 have had by me some weeks , and J «» Jh « rfTriiiciii 1 Mirrittratomet jiree times , re-5 aa « i ? itspablKation . I will not publish anything
^*** I > tffl thematter from any jsartieswhatever . The f—* of the Northern Siar may perf ectiy rely npon = rprca 5 se ihit ** tolnmns shall be no farther occnr ~ / *^ i Qns snijeet ; and my chief reason for this j—^ &a is tbat ^ w confinance of the controversy laiT *? ** ""* ms good ^^ ean ** deDe by Jt to ih ? Th 8 P «* W * ^ i 0 ^ fc ^ e ^ eeo Erected u * tMfts ; sad they will -use then infox ^* * a thar future guidance . Thus , the j ^ V * ol the mischief may 1 » prerented ; and » aa that 3 wish for .
¦^ ^ I 8 ^ bTKHnewithhaving beenacteatedin this ^ ag ^^^ asaonsby personaUnotivea . 3 declare ^^^^ 3 have nofe thattheroiwrer baa been a man bUe ^^^ barest movement against whom 3 ever te ja ^** 3112 ^ of perrons ! Ill feeling ; and that , * im jto ^** 1 ^ SEre ^* Te beennomore thanihree men t » Mta ^^?^ " ** movement , whom I b » ve ever ^ iw *^^* *! palitieally . One « £ these tinee ** ° s *> A Qy ^ ' * ^^ moTen ient » SD ^ ^^ * ller ^/ jeacBm ^^^*? 6 i > eea eTer ™ 3 ce ^ * n 8 ir ^ 2 em > t 7 b ^ , ^^''^ ~ waii ' therefore , no pos » ibili ! B ^ Btt ** & ^^^ ^ i wrsonal motives , even 2 my ^ laij , ^ / ** apable of it , which 3 hope it is not . ^ ¦ sjj cg , j ^*? Um present or ' tte past Execu ^ ^ a&aiV ^ ° ^ rd M a brother , and whom 3 fe fife i ^^? " ^ ^ eTer 7 opportunity of * erring b 6 ^ 7 T ™ * rf my i ^ flaence , nnta my regard iO
*** vtb *^ "v a cause cnea " Halt" This ^ ai *" " * nd 3 trustit ever will be . ^^ fhxZZj * tasT 7 f ^ eling ; thongh 3 cannot htls m £ * l ^ strtm S opinion . Thea own conduct «»• ° 3 » Mon irpoa me , irithout any consent
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on my part ; for 3 would much rather have been able to think differently . However , as I have often said b « fore , I now say again ; the chief thing Hie people "have to do is to let the past bes . beacon for the future , and to watch better hereafter , those whom they install in office , that this disagreeable dutymay not again devolve on ma And now , fcefore taking leave of the subject , a word or two aVeut the " counter accusations . " There has been a great deal said about " plots and conspiracies " against the Executive ; a great deal about some letter oi letters from 3 * eds , sometime about the time of Cooper ' s being here , last snmmer ; about a letter from
Hull , affirming that the Hull Chartists were about to pass the Balance Sheet , when 3 came into the room and put a stop to it ; and about an extract of a letter from Cooper to Mead , written in July last , which was stolen from Mead , the week before Christ mas , at Hull , by s man named Fraser , and which has been since printed and eircu 3 ated all over the country as proof of my being concerned in the alleged " conspiracy . " Kow , first , as to Cwpert letter to Mead . Leach and others are now most industriously affirming this to be one of the letters to which he
he alluded at the South Lancashire delegate meeting Now , in the first place , neither Leach nor any other member of the Executive knew of the existence of that letter , any more than 1 did , until the week before Christmas . 3 t was a private letter from Cooper to Mead ; it was shown by Mead , while at Hull , to 3 3 ! raser , who seeing a paragraph of which he thought a villanous use could be made , contrived to steal it ; it was directly after printed , and has made no small stir in a little way ever since . Here is Mead ' s own explanation of the manner in which it was obtained , —sent to ma for publication : —
" The paragraph which Mr . Fraser in such a very unhandsome man Tier extracted from a private , letter without leave or licence , cannot implicate me in any conspiracy ; and being written so long back as July last , could not , 3 conceive , implicate Mr . Cooper in the present affair of defalcation , because at that time a knowledge of it did not exist Mr . leaser came to me as a brother , and as such I received him ; and with my Chartist brethren 3 am above suspicion of any
mean or sinister designs ; 3 did not then know that be belonged to the discontented clique in HnlL i scarcely knew , there was sny dispnre between Mr . Hill and Messrs . Padget and Co . 1 prized Cooper ' s letters , and those of Oastler , as so many portraits of the minds of their respective writers , and as such 1 showed them to Mr . Fraser , and so little did 1 notice the meanly extracted paragraph , even when 3 received tbe letter , that 3 never even mentioned it at Nottingham at elsewhere . "
You see , therefore , that this could not have been one of-the letters alluded to by Mr . I / each , at the South Lancashire delegate meeting in November ; because Mi- Leaeh could not then have known of its existence . But supposing it had been one of them , bow does it affect me ? Tbe extracl ia as follows : — '" Ton will see bow we have spoken out about the humbug Executive . George and Jvlian ^ with the Editor at Leeds , and our Gtneralistimo , ali go with me , 1 give yon the h ^ nt . Johnny Campbell is O'B rienizing , he must be stopped , or we shall all strike on tbe breakers together ; get your Notts chaps to approve of the reso lutions of our delegate meeting . "
Now the only part of this which can affect me Lj that which is printed in italics ; and the question is is what did 3 " go with" Mr . Cooper ? Now 3 have before stated tbat when Mr . Cooper was at Leeds he named to me his scheme of as Annual Convention ; and that 3 approved the idea , thongh 3 doubted its practicability under existing laws . If Mr . Cooper had meant anything more , or anything other , than simply this , when be spoke of my " going with" him , be would have been guilty of gross falsehood in asserting it As far as this goes , J di ( i " go with" him , but in no other way So far from plotting with Mm against tbe Executive , I earnestly urged him to use hia influence with tbe
3 * eicestersbire delegates not to make any public attack upon the Executive , but to write to them privately , as we bad done at HulL After tbe factious publication of this extract , 3 wrote to Mr . Cooper , informing him of tbe use tbat was being made of it , and requesting him , as an act of justice both to himself and me , to write a letter for tbe Star , stating truly and exactly what it did refer to . For some reason best known to himself , Mr . Cooper did not think proper to do thif However , when plainly asked tbe question by Mr . O'Connor at Birmingham , be did give bis testimony to the truth , ss appears by tbe following paragraph in tie report of the meeting called by the Executive : —
" , said Mr . O'Connor , that is just the thing . A more dastardly production never appeared . Here stands Mr . Cooper and here am 3 , and now 3 ask him if my acquiescence or if tbe acquiescence of " the Editor at Leeds' * or of the other parties , in bis suggestion amounted to more than this : —Mr . Cooper suggested tbe propriety of selecting five business men from an annual convention , who should act as an Executive ; be said be did so because not oae half of those who voted knew
anything about the business habits of the men put in nomina taor , whereas , all elected aa delegates , would have the confidence of the country , while the CnvenUon would be tbe best judges of their business habits , and could suggest the names of such men to the people—{ bear , bear , and cheers . Now -will Mr . Coaper say that my agreement or th&t of the Editor with him west fnrther than thi » ? " Mr . Cooper . —Certainly not" —( cheers , )
3 have a letter from Mr . Cooper now by me confirm * ing the truth of this statement . So mnch , then , for the proof which this extract affards of the " plotting and conspiracy" charges against me ; and of the veracity of tbosa who make them . ' Now for the letter or letters bom Leeds . Of these 3 know nothing . 3 do not say that there may not have been letters sent from Leeds 1 do not say that these letters may not have alluded to some plot or conspiracy against the Executive . 1 do not < 2 eny this , because 3 know nothing abont it It may or may not have been so . 3 am no way concerned in it . But here are the words which concern me : —
** The Executive received letters from various parts , informing us that a conspiracy was being formed against them , and particularly a letter from Leeds , which stated that Mr . Hill and others agreed there in a certain house , to pursue a certain course of conduct aeainst the Execntive , tbe basis of which was—thai the diaracler of the Executive teas to be tufficietdly shaken in private , ansL then by a simvUaneous public assaidi J . ' " * ? Here , then , is tbe direct charge against me ; and this has been repeated and reiterated again , and again , and again . It is , in fact , tbe constant theme of invective . 3 t is tbe Executive ' s defence . Now I do say that if
the Executive have received any letter containing this statement , the writer of that letter is a liar . 3 have not ceased to call for tbe publication of this letter , and cf tbe writer ' s name , ever since the statement was first published . And 1 have a right to demand that after my solemn denial tbe people &hall refuse to bear this charge repeated in my absence until it shall have been sustained by the publication of the letter , with the writer ' s name . Then with respect to tbe letter said to have been received from Hull ; 3 most again bring to your recollection the resolutions both cf the Council and of tbe body of tbe Hull Cbartiste . The resolution of the Councillors contains these words : —
" Tbat the General Councillors resident in HulL having seen a statement in tbe Star attributed to Mr-James Leach , of Manchester , that * in the month of Jo < y last , the Hnll Chartists were abont to pass the Balance Sheet , when Mr . Hill entered the room and put a stop to it ; and a friend that was present at that meeting wrote 10 Campbell , stating that there was a plot batching against tbe Executive / do most nnequlvocally and unqualifiedly affirm this statement to be false : that there never was any such thing as far ss we know , as any body of Chartists being at tbat time about to pass tbe Balance Sheet and being stopped by Mr HOI on bis coming into the room ; tbat Mr . Hill was not by any
meanstbe first cf the Hull Councillors to start objections to that Balance Sheet ; that the first council meeting to consider that Balaace Sheet was specially convened by Mr . Robert Jackson , at tbe suggestion of several other councillors , and every councillor was present save one : that , notwithstanding onr jnst dissatis faction , there was not unongrt ne soy ' plot hatching against tbe Executive , ' and tbat consegaently no person could have truly sent to the Execntive any letter to tbat effeet ; tbat we , the councillors of HnlL are not in tbe habit of * batobing plots / bnt of speaking our minds freely upon such subjects as we have a right to take
cognisance of ; that we are not in the habit of being led by any individual , whettier Mi . Hill or Mt Leaeh , in tbe formation of our opinions , but that we endeavour to use our own judgment ; and , farther , that we demand from Mr . Leacb or Mr . Campbell tb » publication of tbe letter which Mr . . Leach says was received from a friend , -who was present at tbe meeting when the Hull Chartists were stopped from passing ths Balance Sheet by Mr . Hill , together with tbe writer ' s name ; and that if this our demand be not complied with , we shall believe this statement of Mr . Leach ' s to have been invented either by bin or Campbell /'
This was published in the Northern Star oT 3 > eeember 10 th , and the Star of 33 ecembeT 24 th , contained a lesobrtiso » I the whole body of the Chartista of Hull , of which & £ following is part : —
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" Tbat we , the Hall Chartists , in general meeting of members assembled , have heard with surprise , a statement reaa from a late number of Jhe Star , purporting to have emanated from Mr . Leach , at a meeting of South Lancashire delegates , that ' Tbe Hall Chartists were abont to pass the Balance Sheet , w&en Mr . Hill entered tbe room , and put a stop to it ? and we hereby declare that that Balance Sheet was never submitted to the Hull Chartista , except individually , through the columns of the Northern Star . "
I suppose it needles * for me to add anything in refutation of this charge . At tbe same meeting at which be made these " plotting and conspiracy" statements , Mr . Leach gave a grossly false version of a private conversation between him andme , in Mr . Hobson ' s kitchen ; manifestly for no other purpose than wantonly to injure me in the estimation of those to whom he spofee , as & means of lessening the force of my charges against himself and colleagues . I have publicly charged this wickedness upon Mr . Leach many times , and be has not ventured even to deoy it I am sorry that such
practices have been resorted to . They compel me to a course which 3 would willingly have been excused adopting . But however others may affect to despise calumny , 3 cannot afford to do so . 3 calumniate no man . 3 never in mj whole life made a charge of any kind against sny man without adducing my proofs at the same time . And 3 would despise myself as the veriest wretch alive , if 1 could bring a Berious accusation against any man and refuse to give my authority for it when called for but yet go on repeating the accusation . *
3 refer to these matters now because I know tbat this is the regulai practice wherever the people will tolerate it 1 have a letter from Mr . Leach , received this week , in which he states his intention to bring np these and other such matters at every public melting he may hereqfler attend . Now this can never hurt me , otherwise than as it seriously hurts , tbe cause by disgusting and nauseating all decent men . 3 therefore remind the people—more for their own sakes than for mine , "that fair play is a jawel " , and that 3 have as much right to it as any other man . 3 ask themnot to pay me any deference or to give me any
advantage—but to do justice ; and not to permit me to be wantonly calumniated in my absence . In what 3 have written upon the conduct of the Executive , 3 have not used the language of invective , but of argument 3 have given proofs for every woid . I gave fair ana ample scope for reply . 3 permitted them to say what they pleased in reply , however offensive and whether at all connected with the subject or not 3 answered their call tot public discussion by a fair offar to meet them in their own town of Manchester and prove every
syllable 3 have charged against them . They have not accepted my offer . 3 challenged them to meet me before the public and prove their charges against me They have not accepted my challenge . 3 now repeat that 3 am ready at any time ( as soon as tbe necessary arrangements can be made , as stated in my former letters , ) to meet any man in England , and prove my charges . 3 am ready , at any time , to meet any man in England who has any political charge to prefer against me ; let him but give me fair notice of bis purpose , and tell me beforehand what 3 have to meet
3 have now been before the public neatly fourteen years . During that time 3 have preserved , unbroken , my consistency , 3 have never yet found it necessary to eat my own words , to shrink from my awn statements , or to fly from the consequences of my own acts . 3 never yet found it necessary to deny , retract , or explain away , any single word ttwt 3 ever said , or any single line that 3 ever wrote . 3 was never even required to retract an assertion tbat 3 had made . 3 hope always to preserve the same consistency . 3 ask the people to give me fair play . 3 aak no more
and 3 ask that—not so much for my own sake as for theirs . 3 am tied here at tbe desk ; 3 cant run all over the country to meetings . 3 have no other means of serving tbe people than through the columns of tbe Star . 3 have no other means of defending myself when unjustly attacked . It is not too much , therefore , if when 3 tell the people that 1 will not hereafter employ these columns , even for my own defence , upon this subject 1 at the same time require them to see that that circumstance be not taken an unfair advantage of .
In order that tbe people may have tbe whole merits of the whole question of this Executive business fairly before them at one view , 3 shall shortly publish tbe whole discussion in a pamphlet 3 n tbat pamphlet 3 will deal fairly . It shall not be a one-sided thing ; 3 will not publish my own comments alone , but 3 vrill also give all tbe letters , statements , and explanations of the several members of the Executive that have been
published ; so that the whole thing may be seen fairly . My ohject and my wish is that the men should receive no injustice ; that they should be fairly known and fully understood , and fairly dealt with , by the people . I have so anger against any of them ; but I have a fall determination , while 3 have any icflaence with the people , to use it not only for tbe advancement of our principles among those who do not recegnise them , but for their enforcement among those who do .
One more word and 3 have dona Mr . O'Connor says that if the letters of tbe Hull Councillors had been written for publication , the Executive should have been warned of it They were not written for publication : had they been bo , they would have been published at the time . Their very style and tone tells that they were Intended only as private remonstrances : had they bees heeded as such , all this " hubbub" would have been spared . It was the subsequent conduct of tbe Executive which rendered their publication necessary . And now , my friends , 3 have done with this subject The whole thing is in your hands , and you will deal with it as you please . I am , as 1 have ever been , Tour faithfnl friend and servant , William Hill . "Northern Star" Omce , Leeds , February 1 , 18 * 3 .
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Mb . Sykes , Almokdbubv . —The letter received , dated January 31 st , and posted at Hudderafleld , February 1 st , was not prepaid . Mr . N . GrbaieJ * . —Both the last remittances have been bnt 5 s . each . JIB . Kowe , Noethwich . —The Petition Plates are at Mr . Heywood ' s . Ma . Fletcher . —The 10 s . from Colchester should have been Brightlingsea , near Colchester . E . Spencer , Mklksham . —3 f the 5 s . has not been noticed , it has not been received at this office . Thomas Holbrook . —Yes . DPNyEB . MLii * E . —The persons writing from this place can have the Plates by sending IDs ., and saying who the the parcel is to be addressed to .
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TB 13 JMPHANT MEETING OF THE WORKING CLASSES , AND DEFEAT OF THE UNITED
FORCES 03 ? THE LEAGUE UNDI « iSUBU"J , AND LBAQ 3 JH D 3 SG 3 J 3 SED . BRADFORD . { From the Evening Star . ) Bradford having responded to tbe general call to send delegates to tbe Conference lately held at Birmingham , and further having resisted tbe insidious schemes of some of those Chartists into whose ayes a portion of the League gold-dust had been thrown , by refusing to elect a whole hog , " and two " Bucking pig" Chartists , Mr . O'Connor visited the town on Friday last , for the purpose of reimbursing tbe fund oat of which the expenses of sending those delegates bad- been taken . The working men having beard of Mr . O'Sonaor ' s intended visit , issued circulars challenging the League to discussion .
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At eight o'clock , the time at which business was to W lM enC . \ £ , 8 ociM ^ MtaWon , an Immense Hall , capable ! holding Com 2 . 000 to 3 , 000 persons , was not only wedged in every part , but the stairs , staircases , and every avenuewas literally blockedup , so tbat when Mr . O'Connor arrived at the entrance , it was with difficulty he could be forced through the dense mass . ?*? nT 6 presiu ? , tt * t . « wa our short-sighted friend of the Observer will admit ; that so crowded a meeting never has been seen in this town . After Mr . O'Connor had concludedI ao address , under the several heads set forth io the bill calling the meeting , and hawing laid bis views npon the suhjecfi of free trade and the land clearly befere the meeting ; and when the resolution passed at Manchester , Rochdale , Ashfcon , StaJybridge andBoIton was proposed and seconded , and withont any previous notice whatever to Mr . O'Connor or the Chartists , a '
Mr . SMEDHDR 8 T got up , and after attempting for three qnartws of an hour to grapple with tbe argnmenta of Mr . O Connor , he proposed , as an amendment to the resolution , " That a repeal of the Corn Laws Would be a positive benefit to th « Bhopkeeplng and working classes . " Preserving the latter part , which went to pledge the meeting not to join in any agitation for a repeal of the Income Tax . Mr . C . Wilson seconded the amendment Mr . Hodgson , one of the four delegates to the first Birmingham Conference , moved , and Mr . Fleigher seconded , another amendment , " That that meeting send no resolutions to Parliament , for er against the repeal of the Corn Lswb .
3 a the course of his speech Mr . Hodgson read an artiele from the Evening Star of the 17 th of Oct , which he declared was In favour of a repeal of the Corn Laws , and , as Mr . O'Connor was the editor , of course he was the writer . Mr . Hobgsok and Mr . Ft etcher were received by their brother working men with universal and almost continuous disapprobation from the beginning to the end of their appeals . Mr . H . stated , that Mr . O Connor would nob dare to suggest a petition to tb ¦ meeting founded upon the resalutiona , and why stop the resolutions , and contended tbat the peop ' e should go on for tbe Charter , without reference to tbe agitation for the League .
Mr . O ' Connor very brisfiy replied to all the arguments of both parties . In answer to the charge of having advocated the repeal of the Corn Laws , in tbe Evening Stmr , or any other paper , be defied any man to show a line having that tendency . " Facts were cb , iels that winna ding , " as Burns said , and so were dates . With respect to the article in the Evening Star of tbe 17 th of October , and referred to by Mr . Hodgfion , the date was a fact that" winna ding . " On the 17 th of October , Mr . O'Connor was in his bed , and bis doctor was in Liverpool ready to swear to bis incapacity from illness to move ; but that should not be bis only answer , he would pledge himself to place the assurance of the Proprietor in the bands of their Secretary , tbat he ( Mr . O'Connor ) neither saw , wrote , nor beard of the article referred to—( loDg-ooDtiuned cheering followed this announcement ) Mr . O'Connor then referred , ia no measured
terms , to the part acted by aomo Chartists who had become freetraders foia job ; and now , said he , let us just inquire into the whys and the wherefores of this said resolution : all would admit that tbe Chartist cause must be kept alive , and before the public All would admit that it was not practicable to get up a petition this session , declaring our strength and determination . In this state Acland and Cobden for the League bad gone through the country , declaring tbat tbe Chartists were down , and had joined the League—( hear , hear ) . Tbe press re-echoed this , and the cause was likely to be damaged should tbe Chartists or tha House of Commons believe the assertion . Here , then , was the only mode of giving a flat contradiction to the falsehood—( loud cheers ) , —here was the cheapest way of keeping Chartism alive and unsullied , and of defending the people from the charges tbat would otherwise be unquestionably made in tbe House by CobJen and Co —( renewed cheers ) .
After the close of Mr . O'Connor ' s address , the several resolutions and amendments were severally put by the Chairman , when about twenty bands were held up for that of Mr . Smedhurst , and a forest against it . The amendment of Mr . Hodgson received precisely a similar fate ; and upon the original resolution being put , the whole meeting , with tbe exception of about thirty , held up their hands , and it was declared carried , amid thunders of applause ; and thus were the machinations of the repealers' undisguised and the repealers disguised frustrated in Bradford . The resolution that the foregoing be transmitted to Mr . Dancombe , signed by the Chairman , as the resolution of the meeting , and to be presented by him to tbe House of Commons , waa then put and carried ; and tbat pledging tbe people to support tbe Evening Star was carried without a single dissentient .
A unanimous vote of confidence in , and thanks to , Feargua O'Connor , was then carried by acclamation ; and after a few words from tbat gentleman , the meeting separated , and at twelve o ' clock Mr . O'Connor started for L « eds .
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^ , BUDOEASFZ 5 LD . RECEPTION OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR . On Saturday night last we bad a visit from . Mr . O'Connor , when the Philosophical Hail , the largest building io the town , was procured for the occasion . At oUht o ' clock , Mr . o Connor accompanied by bis friends , and preceded by a splendid band , left the Swan Hotel , and proceeded to the place of meeting . Tbe gentleman , upon ascending tbe platform , was most vociferously cheered , and shortly after that uncompromising veteran , Mr . Vevers , waa unanimously culled to the chair ; who after a soul-stirring appeal to his audience on behalf of tbelr rights and liberties , introduced Mr . O'Connor to tbe meeting .
Mr . O'Connor spoke for two hours and forty minutes , replying to the f illaciea of the Anti-Corn Law lecturers . He introduced the question now ao prominently relied upon by the League to shelter themselves , namely , the immensely increased value given to agricultural and landed property by tbe spread of manufactures . This position , said be , I am not going to deny , but 3 am going to combat and to expose the League deductions , namely , that they , tbe landlords , have received this accession of wealth from profits unjustly withheld from capitalists—( bear , hear ;) I am going to admit tbe fact , that landed property has received great augmentation from the increase of manufactures ; but 3 undertake to prove that the increase has come from the pockets of the people .
and not from those of their masters—( loud cheers . Now the great augmentation to landed property consists not in tbe increased value of farming land—( hear , hear ); tbe great increase has been derived from groundrents , where new towns have been built ; and liouserent in towns which have been augmented in the number of inhabitants by tbe rapid increase of manufactures . Could I select a better spot wherein to illustrate my argument than just where 1 now stand ? This town belongs to Sir John Ramadan . Before you were drafted here , some ground" for which now a large priceia paid by tbe yard , was then let fora mere trifle by tbe acre —( hear , hear , and loud cheers . ) Now , then , who pays tbe ground-rent , and the house rent , of every warehouse , mill and shop , and residence bere ?—I We
do . ) Of course you do , and for the gas and oil—( cheers . ) Suppose there are four thousand or five thousand , or any number of operatives' cottages let fer ten pounds a-year , and worth but six pounds , who pays tbe whole , Firstly upon the six pounds , or Official value —( laughter . ) Sir Jobn baa bis profit of ground rent ; and then upon tbe house-rent the master has his profit of fourteen pounds a-year ; and thus I am ready to contend ana to prove , that while I admit tbe fuct that Sir Jobn Katnsden ' s property within fifty years has bad an increase from the operation of manufactures by at least £ 70 , 000 a year , 3 will also contend , tbat on this increase the masters have had an increase on this article alone of three times that amount ( Cheers , and ' * To be sure they have . " ) This is a branch of the
whole question of free trade much relied npon by tbe League , who wonld blind us to their own activp enormities by directing attention to tbe passive process by which landed property has been increased in value ; tbe fact being , that so long as you conld bear ( he burden of both they never complained , bat now that one or other must be taken from your shoulders , they say , "Ob , take the land-sharks by all means "—( eheers . ) Mr . O'Connor then went into tbe question of small masters , and showed tbe injury done to society by the ruin of men whose interests were more nearly identified with those of their men , than those of the leviathan machine owner * could possibly be . Twenty years ago , said he , there were 28 small masters in Paddock , an adjoining village ; they made from fi ? e to eight pieces
of coarse kerseys a man , a-week . and they employed from nine to twenty-five bands . Now , where are they ? —{•• aye , indeed , " and cheers . ) I will tell you : three out of tbe twenty-eight are still struggling against smoke ; and tbe remnant of the capital of the remaining twenty-five , driven from the market , has been , for want of protection to them , transferred into joint-stock bank shares to consolidate a fund for the very men who broke them to gamble upon—( cheers ) Jossy Crosaland has swallowed up the whole twenty-five , and now with less than half the hands makes more in a week than all tbe others made twenty years ago—( loud cheers ) . Why , than , do the shopkeepers of Paddock wonder at their impoverishment , which must continue till Mr . Crosslandis moles and jennies and spindles are seen going on Saturday night into their shops for bread and cheese , and bacon , and bonnets , and maftY and boas ,
and tippets and caps , and shoes and beds , and coats , and gloves , and watches—( laughter and cheers ) . Now , said Mr . O'Connor , will you hear the plain and simple fact from me ? England is at the present moment like a large hotel in a watering-plaoe or in a race town . It is built for the accommodation of tbe casual visitors only , and is empty during the recess . Tbe sudden and anomalous progress of manufactures produced as sudden and anomalous an increase in all those departments in trade and commerce , and from wbieb the increased luxuries were to be supplied . Tbe new commercial society was an artifieial society , and , in fact , like the manufacturing department , become , from eudden demand , competitive in its transactions . The great improvement * in machinery , by degrees enabled the largest capitalists to drive the smaller ones from the market ; and with every comraeroial failnre , there came a corresponding sectional failure of that class employed
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i * producing or vending luxuries or necessaries—( cheers The failure of a bank or of a large manufacturing concern at first bat presents the single misfortune to you , whereas , taken in all its bearings , it should present to you tbe failure of a corresponding portion of that society established for the production and vending of those luxuries and necessities—( cheers ) . Thus like the large hotel it is meny fora moment and doll for an hour . When times are said to mend ; by the receipt of fresh orders from abroad , instead of thosejordera giving a yearly impetus to trade , er requiring more bands , they
are perfected , aa if by magic , and the hotel is again closed —( cheers ) . See how this shakes ] confidence ; at present the sum of 3 d . is demaaded in Huddersfield for a Leeds £ 5 note before you get change fot it , ( aye , 6 d . ); well , say 3 d ., ! and so of a Huddersfield nate in 3 < eeds— ( hear , hear , hear . ) Well , then , why 1 simply because gambling bas rendered everything precarious and uncertain ; until , for the first time in this great nation , machinery has compelled the monarch to submit to a tax upon her income . ( Cheers . ; Now , do you understand nie ? ( "Aye , every word of it , " and cheers . ) I
After a vote of thanka to Mr . O'Connor , and tbe veteran Chairman , the meeting broke up ; and at twelve o'clock Mr . O'Connor departed for Normanton Station , seventeen miles , having spent the remainder of the evening in company witb Mr . PHketbly and hia friends . ¦
SABBATH MEETING . On Monday night last , a public meeting was convened by the Rev . F . Bateman , vicar , for the purpose of taking into consideration , the best means of promoting a due observance of the Lord ' s Day . | The bills calling the meeting stated that be ( . the Vicar , ) would take the chair at half-past six , and that the meeting would be addressed by Mr . Wilson , Honorary Secretary , and tbe Rav . Mr . Bailey , Clerical Secretary , a deputation from the Parent Society . The people of this town had , on seeing the above
announcement , a moat vivid recollection of a similar meeting when an effort was made by the Church party so to arrange matters as to compel , if possible , by any means , however unjust , the concurrence of all in their mode of understanding and applying the term " Sabbath Observance . " This recollection excited ia many a desire to attend , as the objects of tbe meeting appeared very similar ; and at the appointed time , many were present and others continued to come until the Philosophical Hall wan completely filled , not less than twelve hundred being present . i
The Vicar took the chair , and on the platform , was seen the Reverends Messrs . Alderson , Manning , Topham , Metcalfe , Hessey , and a few other clergymen ; T . Starkey . Esq ., magistrate , t . C . Laycock , Esq ., attorney ; Mr . J . Hobaon , stationer ; Mr . J . Smith ; Mr . B . Clayton ; Mr . J . Gledhill ; Mr . T . Lister , and Mr . Pitkethly , junior . \ The meeting was opened with prayer , after which the Vicar addressed them at some length , in a very calm and guarded manner , stating the object of the society to be of e « eh a nature , as when once understood and appreciated , would prove of incalculable
benefit to all , but to che working classes in particular . He had no doubt that tbe deputation would satisfy them wben they spoka He waa quite sure they were not sent down to scold them , but to lay before tfeem the true objects of the society . He said be must confess that often as he bad paced the streets of Huddersfield on the Sunday , he had never witnessed any shop open for traffic of any kind ; neither was he aware of one solitary instance ever occurring ; yet he did not know that each and every of his parishioners ; conducted themselves with that degree of propriety , ) which ia necessary far a due observance of the sabbath . —( A voice " who rides to churck in their carriage ?")
The Vicar then called upon the Rev . Mr . Alderson to open the business of the meeting . Mr . A . rose and said in a very low tone , that he had come from a neighbouring parish for tbe purpose of hearing the nature and object of the society ; he would , therefore , not longer detain them , bat make way for Mr . Wilson , one of the deputation . j Mr . Wilson came forward and stated that the society , of which he was honorary secretary , had for its object the increased happiness of the working classes ; this he endeavonred to prove by stating that many warn obliged , in direct opposition to the dictates of his own conscience , to labour on the Lord's day , by which practice they neglected their religious duties ; nay , more , from this baneful practice they were precluded from learning what those duties were , and so were lost to all eternity . He instanced the men employed i npon the
canals , and those in the iron mines ; also the breadbakers of London , who , he said , had requested the society to obtain an enactment for the purpose of sup - pressing all such immoral and irreligious proceedings—( a voice from tbe gallery , " We haven't wark fort wark days ") , [ ft is impossible to convey to the mind of tbe reader the effect produced in the meeting by the cries and ejaculations of the persons composing it Indeed , it was nearly one continued scenceof mirth horn beginning to end ; and in tbe loud peals of laughter tbat' followed some of these sayings , even the clergy themselves could not refrain from joining , though they tried to preserve unbroken gravity . The question , " Who ! rides to church in their carriages ? " was fell tbronghout tbe whole meeting : for it is a well known fact that tbe Vicar ' s own carriage goes to church and back every ¦ Sunday ; and that the only magistrate on the j platform . Mr . Starkeyregularly uses histo convey him to duly
, , observe the Sabbath ! The hit waa duly appreciated by tbe entire meeting ] The Vicar next rose and said , b « wonld jnst advert to a case tbat bad recently happened in ibis town shewing tbe deadly influence Sabbath-breaking bad upon its victims . Oue of bis curates bad waited upon a poor man who was about to die , and who lived In a dark and damp cellar ; and what do you think was tbe first words that struck bis ear ?—( a voice from the gallery " has he paid bis Easter dues ? " The Vicar had rendered himself obnoxious by summonsing for Easter Dues , those wbo were unable to pay tthem . ) " I am lost—my soul is lost for ever . " The Curate inquired the nature of his fears ; when the poor man answered , " I have laboured on the Sabbath for a many years , and there is no hope for me . " The Vicar then called upon Mr . Madden .
Mr . Madden came forward and observed , ] he was extremely sorry that persons should be found ; in that vast assembly , met for so desirable an object , that would , by the expressions he had heard , endeavour to interrupt tbe speakers . It is quite evident the body of the meeting do not engage in this ; they take no part in tbt > interruption ; and the only surprise I have is , that so vast an assembly will allow two or three individuals to annoy them He then said tbat he had been in tbe army for many years , and during some of his engagements he bad fought on th $ Sunday —( a voice , " The Lord warn't wi yon then ") — and as such be could bear testimony to the deadly influence of Sabbath breaking . He bad been engaged in this manner for twenty-six years previoas to taking holy orders , —( a voice , " Which side gave you best pay ? " )—and bis experience taught him to know tbe value of a due observance of the Sabbath . He concluded by calling upon Mr . Biyley , the Clerical Secretary .
Mr . Bayx&y said he had no doubt a misapprehension as to the nature and object of the society existed in the minds of many , yet he deubted not the co-operation of all good men wben they heard and understood the true nature of that society . It had been said tbat the gentry rode to church in their carriages . This he declared was not countenanced ; neither did they fear the rich because of tbelr superior station , but that he should declare openly aud freely bis opinion npon whatever be considered tended to desecrate the Sabbath , regardless of auy man ' s contumely . He then waded through tbe same track as did bis colleague , but in a more dignified and impressive style . The whole was listened to with great attention . *
The V ica r next rose to conclude the meeting ; the said that in consequence of the little disorder be had heard be feared very much whether he could , prudently , in future call a public meeting , even for a benevolent purpose . He , living amongst them conld readily bear it ; but when " foreigners" tame amongst them , they expected to be treated as gentlemen . He bad taken that room , be had paid for tbe room , with hia own money—( a voice , " That ' s a lie ; Easter dues helped thee to do that ')—and be could not , therefore , think of the deputation being sent empty away ; he bad arranged for a person to be at the door to receive whatever they choose to give ; aud those who choose to sit still ] would be waited upon for their contributions . The Vicar then requested them to join him in singing the Doxohgy .
At this moment Mr . J . Hobson stepped forward , and observed he did not think it right tbe meeting should conclude so abruptly . Alarm immediately took possession of the whole of the clergy . The Vicar inquired of Mr . H ., in a low fcoue , was he "A friend V Answer" | Yes . " " Who are you ? " Answer— " A Friend . " The vicar showed great trepidation and fear , but allowed Mr . H . to proceed , when he said that to the objects of the meeting all present must be friendly ; for to promote a dub observance of tbe Sabbath ] every right constituted mind would lend its help and aid . "I think , Sir , " said Mr . H ., addressing the ] vicar , " that as you have taken the trouble to call us , the lay members of your flock , together , to lay before us your objects and purposes , it would be a great dereliction of duty in us to depart without informing you .
by open vote , how far we are disposed to aid you in carrying oat your praiseworthy and j laudable object—securing a due observance of the Sabbath . " Some one here whispered into the vicar ' s ear that the speaker ' s name was Hobson . This was sufficient The vicar turned to tbe audience , declared the meeting dissolved , and requested his friends to retire ; which they precipitately did through the back door . At this moment tbe scene was the most ludicrous we ever saw . The confusion of the clergy , the throwing their coats upon their backs , the cocking « f their hats , and the general ran from the platform , amidst the cries of " Hear both sides , * ' which ended in one unanimous burst of indignation , manifested by yells and hootrags , was truly farcical . It will not soon be forgot by those who witnessed it ft ) r . Hobaon still maintained bia
position ,- and Mr . Madden kindly stroked him on the back , and earnestly begged of him to desist—In this request Mr . Madden was joined by several of his brother clergymen , and by Mr . Kemp , the ^ bookseller , Mr . Sftaw , the overseer , and several other influential parties . All entreaty , however , availed not . Mr . Hobaon said ho waa not to be driven or persuaded from his course ; and both the Vicar and hia friends would find , in the long run , that the ; had greatly mistaken their coarse by tunning away . When \ they
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heard his resolution , they would find that he ( Mr . Hobson ) wn their best friend . Entreaty thus failing , stronger means were resorted to . Mr . Kemp again accosting Mr . H ., demanded from him a guarantee fot one pound , the rent of the loom , and also a guarantee for the payment for the gas consumed . Mr . H . replied that he understood the Vicar had paid fot both : at least , bo he had said : however the communication should be communicated to the meeting ; and tbe meeting might give what guarantee it pleased . Mr . T . G Lancashire hereupon interfered ; and Mr . Hobson . good-humouredly turned to the meeting and said , "My friends ; there is an old adage which says that ' two of a trade can never agree ' : it seeme we are to have a practical
explification of its troths . " [ Mr Hobaon , Mr . Kemp , and Mr . T . G Lancashire , are all Booksellers and Printers in the Town . ] A loud roar of laughter followed this sally ; and Mr . Kemp had the good sense to retire . Not so Mr . T . G- He BeizMl hold of Mr . Hobson by the arm ; and said that as he ( Mr . T . G . ) was tbe person entrusted with the care of the Hall , he would prevent his ( Mr . Hobson ' s ) speaking in it Mr . H . coolly bid him to " Hands off . " This but enraged him tbe mote ; and he twiched a little harder , saying " I will , I will , " and attempted to drag Mr . H from his position in front of the platform . Mr . H . turned round to him and said . " If you do not instantly leave off , I will throw you over the railing into the body af the meeting . " He left go instantly : and than
Mr . Thos . Vevers was proposed as chairman ; and on asoeuding tbe platform , and abont to take the chair , the Raverend ( I ) Mr Hesley , principal at the Collegiate School , deliberately drew the chair away I The old man did not fall , but he might have done and sustained serious injury , and Mr . Hobson remonstrated with the Rsverend Geatleman for so low and mean an act , yet he would not replace it After silence waa obtained , Mr . Hobsou observed that it was with extreme regret he saw tbe clergy leave tbe meeting in that unhandsome , nay insulting manner he thought it was but right that as the Vicar bad called his parishioners together to heat their opinions , they onght also to allow the lay members
to express their opinion , in order tbat they might thereby understand each other , and co-operate , as fat as possible , for the purpose of obtaining a just and due observance of the Sabbath . With that oVject , and with many of the reasons that bad been adduced by the deputation , he entirely concurred ; particularly with thoBe which affected tbe physical condition of the working millions . He , for one , should much regret to see the time when every moment of the week should be devoted to work * , . knowing , as he did , that this , and this only , waa now needed to thoroughly debase and enslave the people . After some other observations of a similar import , be concluded by moving the following resolution : —
" That this meeting , duly alive to the necessity , policy , and wisdom of tbe icstftuted Sabbath , or day of rest , pledges itself to promote , by every means in its power , whatever can conduce to its due observance ; but while it will resist , by all legitimate means , whatever may lead to undermine and uproot that institution , and thus take from the toiling millions the only chance now left them to rest and recruit exhausted nature , it will resist , in no less degree , the setting up of any standard or mode of observance by any peculiar sect to which all others may he required to bow-, inasmuch as tbe acknowledgement of such a principle might lead to the enthronement of fanaticism and bigotry , should these
from any cause , acquire tbe wielding of power . The Protestant Roforantion established ' the right of private judgment' not less respecting the u * 9 and utility of forms and ceremonies , than of modes of faith and truthfulness of creese ; and the recognizer of that principle will see an equal due observance of tbe Sabbath by tbe man who worships tbe Author of all Being in the Natural Temple of the Universe , communing with Nature and her wondrous works , and looking ' through Nature up to Nature ' s God , ' as by the man who worships in tbe temple made with hands , and uses all the forms and ceremonies he deems most acceptable to the object of his worship . "
The above was seconded by Mr . J . Smith , and carried with only three dissentients . A vote ef thanks was given to the Chairman , and the meeting separated peaceably .
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Wfisr Riding Sessions . —The Intermediate Sessions for the West Riding will be h < Id at Sheffield , on Monday , the 27 th February ; and at Wakefield , on Thursday , the 2 nd of March , for tbe trial of felons and misdemeanants . Trial op M ^ Naughten . —The trial of Daniel M'Naaghten , for shooting Mr . Edward Drummond , has been postponed until the next session of the Central Criminal Coarfc . On Wednesday , the jury returned a true bill for wilful murder against him . Paine'b Birthday . —This event was celebrated ia the usual manner at several places on Monday or ... ing last . We have received long accounts of the festivities , for none of whiob have we space , our columns having been pretty well occupied evea before their receipt .
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BOZiTON . —Ia a part of our impression last week , we inserted a paragraph , alluding to the supposed murder at Bolton ' of Mr . Ziaetti , of Manchester . Since then an inquest has been held on Mr . Zinetti ' s remains ; and , from the evidence then adduced , it appears pretty clear that there was no murder io the case , Mr . Z having , in the darkness of tbe night , lost his way , and fallen into the river , where he was drowned . By falling against some stones , his face was much disfigured , which gave rise to the rumour in Bulton that he had been murdered .
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Friday , February , 3—Tho supply of Wheat being only small to day , an advance of la . per quarter has been obtained for finest samples , but ia other sorts not much business passing at last week's rates . Barley is not brisk sale , but fully supports its value . Beans are more in request than for some time past , at rathor improved prices . In other articles no material alteration .
Leeds Borough Sessions.
LEEDS BOROUGH SESSIONS .
Wakefield Corn Market.
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET .
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FOB TBS NAH 0 NAX DEFENCE FUND . £ 8 . d . From Robert Hntchin , fiizdreraer , America 0 4 0 „ tbe female eperatms at the Fabric , Boulogne-sur-Mer , Franco ... 0 14 4 ^ „ the ChartMa of We » t Kilbride , proceeds of a raffla for the Petition Plate — © * * l „ T . B . Hylton , per J . Williams ... 0 1 6 „ a few friends at Eaaington-lane , per J . Hunter 0 6 10 i „ J . Williams ( donation ) 0 1 7 £ ^ James Norman , Leeds 0 0 6
? OB MRS . ELLIS . From the Chartists of Newport , Isle of Wigbt ... ~ ... — 1 » 0 „ tbe Chartists of Xeeds ... 0 11 1 ,. a female friend at Bampton , per Mr . Spencer 0 10 FOR KRS . ROBERTS . From the Chartists of Newport , Isle of Wight ... „ the Chartists of Hudxleisfleld , per J . Chapman ... ... ... ... 0 5 S
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THE NORTHERN ST A R .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 4, 1843, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct636/page/5/
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