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      n > CO > " > "OR ^? THE SUXDERLAND RESOLUTIONS .

      TO THE PEOPLE . ft FEIB 5 DS , —I quite agree with Mr . Lowery that jw columns of th « < S * w would be more benendaliy geeaptei in . reporting those siatten interesting to the -pooled « u « , than in inserting matters of a ' mew per-^ ad Mtore . However , tint ground * : f « dejart&re jjgoi Uiii role nay justify an opposite coarse , and that pgKsal feelings alone m & > jndgeof those grounds , ^ L » irerT ' a « wn letter 0 cUblftb . es a nrecedent . I ahtll be M brief a * the nature of the cue win j . jjnit 22 aTiriywny the nafcnre « t the three distinct gugei made againit fiie . Stor , and reported foi l ; i n *» t p * per of larfweel .

      ^ jid fi » W ^ P ° ° * importance , comes the resolngoja passed at Simdexland , eondeinnatory of the contact of the Editor towards Mr . Deegsn , I aVway * bow with respect to the decision of working jaen ; tart from the Tery resolution * themsetres , let me jpe -wfertber or not the fact of Mr . Deegan having impugned the Editor is not fully borne out iij . Slxi . ex , who moved the first resolution , said , in jBpporting it , that-what Mr . Deegan did say respecting toe Star being promised a report from the Times , was very different from the colouring given to it in the Star Be ( Mr . K , > further asserts , that what Mr . Deegan did ag was , that the Star should hay * had a reporter tbere . -Now , as this inrohnes the character of the -Stor , v& 7 did not s ° y on * bear in mind that the Leeds Times mu axe Maxxry were dependant upon the Star for a

      report of the meeting held by the Chartists on the Moor on Thursday , and for a report of the soiree held in the Music Saloon on Wednesday , the two meetings of most importance to the people ? and why were not tte people told that the Star alone had reports of those two meetings to get ready for its first edition , and Ifcat two reporters and several writers were engaged in getting the report up ic time ? Does not every one know that such a pies of reporting matter is invariably arranged by Editors of all local papers for their mutual ¦ mTeniesee ?

      Bat what contw * the spirit of a public meeting ? 1 should say thi resolution ! and address of all , rather tfcanihe speeches of any ; and why did it never strike soy one at the Sunderland meeting that the Star alone published th » address and resolutions , which , although ¦ applied to the Times , were not published T The Star published all the meetings and the address of the dele " gates ; so other paper did . If the Editor had got the l / tdi Times report of Mr . Deegan ' s speech , Mr . Deegan ' s ipeech would hare been published without any curtailment , if there had been room and the Editor thought ft desirable .

      Hi- K- further asserts that Mr . Deegas did not darge the E 4 itor with having placed his name at the bottom of the list ; he only said that his name , together with those of Messrs . Mason and Lowery tsrt there , but did not say by whom placed there . >* ow , was there a tnun in Sunderland so silly as not to k&ow that no ene but the Editor could have placed Stsn there in the course of arranging the matter for fee japes ? Who , then , bet the Editor tould have feeo meant ? Xi . Deegan , he says , did say that it was not doing Ha md his constituents justice not to insert his speech more fully , especially as it was -fully reportecf in the Tista .

      Well , what must others feel whose speeches it did Ml reit the Tim * to report eo fuDy ? so that , in the eras of the Star havipg got , and inserted , the Times ' report , if Mr . Deegan had had more justice , greater ufntp rf complaint would have been given to others . Hi . "Williams said , that it was strange tkat no perhq tx& the writer of the letter could remember the Ucgsags of Hi . Deeganj whereupon a disinterested viatessstKted up , and said that he would take an oath tot Mr Deegan contradicted the assertion of the Editor 0 ! the Star as to the promise of a report

      Xo-w I think that any impartial judge will at once afoot thai this is the weight of the charge ; the one ft *™; persatd , -which Mr . WXQiams says , even admiting ii to be trns , did not justify the conclusion that Mr . Deegan held up the Editor to reprobation . So then I it if no actuation to call a gentleman , who is not present to defend himself , a lisr > and it does not at all detract ircm the tsefalnesa of a journal that all those for whose interest it is conducted should be impressed w 8 i a convietian that the conductor is unworthy of cedii ! Can there be a word implying greater scorn 01 r *^ K gi ? p titan " liar ? " and fv contradiction be more fa * thaa that which Mr . WiUiams free ]/ admits Mr . Deegsn to lave given to a plain assertion of the E 5 &c »'

      3 £ fi first resolution is matter wholly between Mr . Deeps aad Mr . Badley . The second resolution was noTfd by Mr . Williams , aad seconded by Mr . Austin , ¦ id a as follows : — " That this meeting expresses its surprise , regret , sad aiapprobatan of the conduct of the Editor of the lorfters Star , is inserting & letter containing such totmeabt , from an individual of whose capacity or

      < FBrt ? Wtity he knew nothing , and founding thereon a KTere and unjust attack upon the general and private dsBtdez of Mr . Daegan , introducing also charges and SiSxamts with which the yublic have nothing to do ; Hid the pubiieation of which was not only uncalled for , be safetiing , and aaViaa , and most seriouaiy calculi to irjnre the Chartist eanse , without in the least jwnwsng the private or public interest of its proprietor sad conductor . "

      niti respect to this resolution , I have only to ask » gaffl , if it would have been wise or fteling to have passed oTei the part admitted by Mr . Williams to be troe ? But the principal feature was a remark of Mr . ^ "SKsms fi the following import : — "That the Star lad fisplared a spirit , which , if submitted to , would sah all independence of soul in the leaders of the P » pk ; that it might one daybecome a vile heresy to & » & its infallibflitT , or to differ in the slightest < , from the manser in which , upon any occasion , 2 » u conducted . "

      MtW . proceedJ to say , —in a mild spirit of course , — iki ha considers that Mr . Deegsn had had less justice Sao was even swarded to him upon his trial , when Bs * were fun reporters' notes produced against him . Sew , upon this subject , 1 most on ? y say that the Star has Uaowa og all that mystery with which other papers ** & the very name cf proprietor , editor , and all in WMfe ! i with it ; that its columns , as I shall pre-^^ ly show , haTe been open as well to all charges * 6 » ast the proprietor ox the Editor as against B * bitterest _ enemy of either of them ; and if * O 6 is any fear of the Star becoming a dan-S = * s * instrument , it will be when the people

      * " * just nzson for doubting the veracity of him "T Them ii U c * ndacted . The Star has not , like other 5 » Pes , made use of " its terrific powers " to prepare in * e arms of the advertising community , or even in the *** 3 on of a good report of the most comfortable of w working classes , any retreat from the poorest of *• P «* . And , as to the standard of justice meted ** toMr . D-.-egan , as compared to test measured by " ^ 5 oppressors to Mr . Williams , he has made the ** * Bgh : cml-sion of the fact , that the Editor of the ~» was furnished with no direct ehaxge , bat wbjj fur-*« denounced far laying the only one wi& which be •^ se rved , not in coto , but in full , before the public , 2 accompanying it with Ms own defence .

      1 must confess that I do not think Mr . Williams has *** Tery happy in his case of the of the reporter and _^**» - Let me see if I cannot furnish Mm with one *»* m point—suppose then a resolution to the folw ? purport .- — iffOBriSr /^ ^* ^ ^« ander 8 tandingthatthe SSL 1 *** 6 rih * T * Siar has , in complice with for SeWtfi a workia « ^ a ** - ^ pointed a reporter *» o * 0 e aad dirtrict . and Sunderland and district , ^ aanae ^ ^ , 52 ^ &nnam ' for &e P nn > ose of cSTfaJzL" * « a »« . rep « tiafaUCta » tt at and botoA ^ T ^ f B v ' " ° P » ion that it was the siwl ^ . thes ^ d reporter to have attended *** * £ TrSL m qae * tion ' « « nnavoidably absent , to ijj ^ r be had perfect confidence ; and this meet * rf iv ^ Tr *"* ** fineii aa oaiiaaion >»« left- + *« . *^ itr * .

      , * e tiS *!^ T * * " ^ f ood-natared person *** SS ^^ T ****** « «« bl « iwport ^ C'Jorf- - WWta »«« 4 tkat rotation with-^ PoSfliT- ^ ne ^ Siexealwftn which he Ww ^ Cenatte upon ae **»"• "I tMnk T ^ adon Jl mia » i ™« ms } y adopted ; because ex-Wna ^ j ^ "T ^ qnired , and I -am « tonisfae'J that Mr . * W « mL ^^ ** ^ * dmit thit Mr - Dee « ^^ SiS oiTf ^ ** at : sert ! o « ° f the Editor , never ttqiUnD ^» Hr , Dec- ^ ngot bi . informa-

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      tion from the Editor of the Leeds Times ; so that the whole appears to be a playing off of the veracity of the Editor of the Star , against the unsupported allegations of an interested party . But as to airy ianger to be &pprekended , " Mj . ^ WilDamB may rest politically satisfled that no " false doctrine , h « resy , or schism" in the Star , can do much damage , while it insert * such resolutions , and pays £ 52 a-year for reporting them , There is not another paper in England that would have published those resolutions .

      Bat let os sow see if this be the first charge of a similar nature against both proprietor and Editor , and from the same quarter , and for the aame cause , of not reporting Mr . Deegan ; and whether , in giving insertion to the fwol&tiona of the Durham Delegate Meeting , in December last , the Editor , when censured by a resolution of a delegate meeting , evinced any Tery . great pugna city of disposition . The foil * wing la tte resolution to which i refer : — *• The meeting expressed their disapprobation of the non-insertion by the editor of the Xortbtrn Star of the report of the public tea given at Sunderland to Messrs

      Byrne , Owen , and Deegan , and of the explanatory remarks furnished by Mr . Deegan respecting the foreign policy meeting at the same place ; and also ' of the appointment of missionaries by Mr . O'Connor , or any other irresponsible party , the meeting being of opinion that an such appointments ought to be made by the people themselves , or l > y the Executive Council at Manchester , who aro the responsible servants of the Chartist body ; and that , if Mr . O'Gonnor be inclined t « contribute to the support of missionaries , to kand his contributions over to the JSxeentive Council , to b * applied by that body for that pirpne . "

      Now here is a vote of oensore in the strongest language , Mr . Deeg&n being one of the delegate ! , for the noB-insertion ot matter wiu « h the parties never even took the trouble of enquiring whether or 00 it had been received , or whether it had been displaced for more important matter ; and because the Editor did not insert Mr . Deegan's explanation , upon a subject upon which the Star and the Liberator were bestowing much attention . At the same meeting , a rate of censure was passed upon me for giving my ewn money towards the support f tried men , who were recently enlarged from prison , subject to the approval and application of the voice of

      the people of any district , which may require their services : and how am I treated T Why , I am told to send my money to the Executive , in order that they might dispose ot it . Soir , I might have asked if the Executive appointed Mr . Deegan , Mr . Mason , Mr . Bairstow , or any of those whose lectures appear to have given unmixed satisfaction . Here , then , was a vote of oensora upon the Editor for not reporting Mr . Deegan's explanation , and upon the Proprietor for offering £ 4 a week out of his own pocket , subject to the people ' s- approval as to those to whom it should be expended upon , and not even the short hand notes cent to * toe partie * charged , who Jeans it teem the oohnnns of another paper .

      May I not , in passing , ask whether the nicety of appointment and payment was as critically scanned in the instance of a whole horde of gentlemen receiving immense salaries from Mr . Urqobsrt , and appointed by him ? No ; but I am censured for giving my own money , while the Editor is censured for not publishing a justification for Mr . Urquhart ' s delegates ; this , indeed , is novel justice . I must now refer to s > matter connected closely with the foregoing . 1 give the following transcript from the letter 0 ? a person upon whose veracity I have the most implicit reliance . It bears date , Newcastle , February 10 th , and , after setting forth the conspiracy which has been long hatching against the Star in that quarter , it states as follows .-

      —"This party , through Mr . , called upon the Council of the working men to pass a vote of censure upon the Star , at the meeting on Tuesday night ; but , to their disappointment , they found the Council nnwilling to become their tools , and their demand was indignantly spurned , to the great chagrin of Mr . , who used many arguments to induce them to pass the resolution . Among the many petty charges against the Star is the following : — ' That Mr . O'Connor refused to lend £ 1000 to certain parties , without security , to commence a newspaper ; ' this , and expecting Messrs . Lowery , Deegan , < k& , to pay for Stars regularly , they represented as being mean . '"

      Now , let me state what my meanness and anxiety about my £ 1 , 000 amounted to . It appears that I required security ; well , who would not J What was the security , and what the interest that 7 required » Why . naturalFy to be paid back my principal with ten per cent , which I am paying for the Star shares . Now would this be unfair ? I say oot ; but what was my proposal ? Why to give—not lend—my thousand pounds , and never to see it again ; requiring that I should be insured against any greater loss , in order to try the experiment for two years , satisfied to lose tea pounds a week , for that period .

      Now , L was not applied to ; it was a voluntary offer , made in a-private letter to Mr . Williams , upon bearing his intention from himself of establishing a papar in- the plase of the Northern Liberator . He has that letter ; let every word of it be published . So mnch for what i * expected from me ; and now for the rule which is observed towards me in a precisely similar cast . I was encouraged to establish a paper upon a premise of £$ 00 being raised , to which I was to add £ 400-Little more taaa £ 500 of the . SSOO was raised . * ad a

      large portion of tn » t has been paid off . Two lawyers opinion * wera taken on the matter ; a stamped deed was executed , and one rerj ignorant attorney , at Halifax , told the shareholders that they would be liable for all the debts # f the paper ; for all paper and stamps ,- for all libels of every description , and so forth . Well , in this deed , I am bound to pay ten per cent ., and am made personally liable , by my own desire , and against the trish of the shareholders , for the principal , ¦ whatever becomes of the Star , which was to have been a joint speculation .

      Now , I ask Englishmen if this is English fair-play That a gentleman is first to be frowned upon by every onepof his class , persecuted , and locked up in solitary confinement , and thaa pelted with his own acts of generosity . It is very well to make the insertion or non-insertion of matter the ostensible canse of complaint ; but I think I shall be able to put this question upon its right legs , and to trace it to its origin . This conspiracy , then , has its origin in the discom fiture --of the Russo Chartists , who first nestled in the neighbourhood of Newcastle and district , in consequence of Mr . A ttwood ' s local patronage and alliance

      with the party . The Star , most properly , checked the . gasconading . of a set of paid parrots , receiving enormous salaries for repeating some very exciting stuff that they had learned by rote about Russia , Constantinople , Circassia , the Ottoman Empire , France , and Grod only kn « ws what ; and ot which they knew just as much as a pig does of geometry . They were all Chartists , and something more . Well , they threw out their -feelers , for the support of the Star , in the greatest piece of political trickery ever attempted to be practised ; the Star would not bite , but exposed the whole

      affair . The consequence of which was , that they had the address to persuade the Sorthem Liberator , a paper ¦ with -which the Star had been in strict alliance for three years , that they were strong enough to give strength to a journal . They assumed all the mock pageant of a mimic court , and even sent ambassadors to France . Well , the Liberator , not knowing -how to discriminate between the adopted conclusions of a hired party and public opinion , took the bait , and immediately opened a fire upon the Star , by an attempt to make the question at issue one of saere Whig or Tory hatred .

      The Liberator said that the Wbiga would be mightily pleased with an article in the Star , . supposing that popular hatred of Whigsery was greater than hatred of Toryism . Now , this was the real test npon which the Liberator relied for sucoess . Well , the Star and the Liberator fought it out like gentlemen , till the Liberator , who commenced the battle , surrendered ; aad what was the result ? Why , that the attack upon the Star , which was to have re-animated the Liberator ,

      produced its sudden death ; and so we lost the aid of that excellent paper , in consequence of it * belief in the strength of a party , which was not even a good faction . TT «/ J the Sfer prostituted its columns to the support of tbe Russian missionaries , it would have had a good puffer in each well-paid agent , and , instead of votes of censure , we should have heard of nothing but "O ! read the Star ! read the Star ! " But peri » h the Star before it shall ever become the tool of faction , or the

      prop of deceit . Now ,, it is all very fine to talk about injuring the cause , and the Star not being denounced by public speakers at meetings of working men . This it not tbe

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      game . The real cause of th 4 cqniplaint . frem"tb . at ^ uarteii is , that the actors were not sufficiently perfect in " all their parts to ensure a good performance , before the working men themselves began to smell a rat ; and , having learned a lesson in diplomacy , from the Rosso ministers , they , thanks to their honest hearts , met plot by counter-plot , and communicated truly , honestly , and punctually , every jump the cat took , and thus enabled the Star to nip the thing in the bud . Lord Barrymore ha * truly said , that " ene enemy can do 700 more harm than a' thousand' friends can do good ; " and the Star wss not likely to escape the wrath of highly-paid missionaries , who had undertaken so distinguished a calling ; it ii not natural to expect it .

      Neither Mr . Williams , nor Mr . Deegan , are even hinted at in these remarks ; they apply exclusively to a set of my friends in Northumberland and Durham , who have felt sore at a kick being put in their gallop , and hare met , like sneaking rascals , eaves-droppers , as they are , and done all that in their petty wrath they could do , to undermine the Star , and its Proprietor , and Editor ; but I hurl defiance at them ; I dare them to come out of their hiding-hole , and face a noa-paying meeting of real working men , and there denounce the

      And now they cry out , "Ah ! what a shame not to allow us to have gone on nicely and quietly in our own way , to tender the Star a truly subservient organ . " In fact , it would appear as if the Star had no character to support , and that ita editor was to receive censure with cap In hand ; while any defence was to be met with , " O ! take care , you'U damage the cause" The Star , since its birth , has had but one Proprietor ,

      one Editor , one Publisher , and one Clerk ; and show me the man in the kingdom who has beea mixed up with the same conflicting parties , measures , men and opinions , as the Editor of the Northern Star , and who has more studiously avoided giving personal offence to the honest or the poor , while his proposed reward for six days of unremitting toil , endeavouring to do the best for all , is to reflect , on the seventh , upon the number of votes of censure to which his labours have

      entitled him . If the Editor was capable of being overawed by votes of censure for the proper use of a power , of the application of which he must be the best judge , and for which he is responsible to the people , but not to a faction , what must be the result , I ask , if auch a precedent was once established ? Why that , after all , he could give but one Slar , while six would be too few to contain the votes of censure for the omission of speeches , explanations , and letters ; and this would be freedom of the press i

      Let me now show that I have , at all events , been consistent upon the subject of expensive national agitation , and that the Star was not governed by any whim , caprice , or personal feeling , in its opposition to the Rosso humbug . In August , 1838 , I declared in the presence of Messrs . Attwood , Muntz , Douglas , Moir , Purdie , Lovett , Vincent , Salt , Hetherington and others , at the house of Mr . Muntz , that the National Rent scheme would have precisely the same result which a similar system had produced in Ireland , and which rendered that country the laughing stock of nations , the scoff of honest men , and a prey to political charlaUns .

      Now attend to this evidence , direct and circumstantial . I am ready to prove that one of my most constant personal friends ; one of the people ' s most zealous and unflinching leaders ; was offered to name his own terms far writing me down , upon his liberation from prison . I give , not the substance , but his very words . I am prepar » d to prove that many provincial agitators of influence , have received letters from head-quarters , containing advice upon many subjects , and concluding with the declaration that " above all O'Connor and the Star must be put down . "

      Now , couple this direct testimony with the following circumstantial evidence . Mr . O'Conaell , iu bis letter to the Leeds Reform Association , insists , above all , upon the paramount necessity of what the " lying " Editor of the Star truly designates as a " knowledge depot , " the members to be elected upon the principles of the Association ; and he says that the Irish of Manchester or LLvkipool will elect him . God help hi » foolish head . Mr . Hume says that " tbe leaden of the working classes , generally , have agreed to join in an agitation for his definition of Household Suffrage ;" Mr . Roebuck says that" an Association , ready to act in

      concert with the Leeds Association , is being hatched in London , " and is almost ready to leave the shell . Now , then , couple the direct evidence with the circumstantial , and can any man in hia senses for a moment doubt that we were to be sold , neck and crop , and purchased with our own money ? What was to have been the process ? Why , first , " O , there's no difference between us and the Chartists ; we ' re all Chartistsbut we are practical men , and we dont wish to frighten the timid ; but just let us get strength enough once , and then see how we will make ministers step out . " Well , O'Connell says , you would get immense funds ;

      now it matters not a farthing whether you did or not ; for such an association the treasury would bleed most freely . The favourites of your order would get their own price , as missionaries ; they would be paid out of the secret service fund , with your money ; and when the pressure from within aad so far operated upon the pressure from without , as to get a large majority ef men , all agreed upon the principle , you wonld have seven years of the moat corrupt parliament , even worse than the present ; and then the few stage mountebanks ,

      having made their party sufficiently independent of a few votes , would now and then make a grand annual splutter ; w » uld denounce ministers ; bring forward extreme questions ; divide pretty strong , but always join to keep the Tories out . This " depot" was to have been the maia-spring of pressure ¦ without , -while a set of mountebanks , were to form the nucleus of the pressure within—the one , the only , object beiDg to keep the iron hoof of Toryism off your uecks to leave more To » m tot the iron hoof of Whiggery .

      Well , the poor Star cannot be very popular with the swell classes—the top-sawyers— " the working men , wot dont wort , " to have snapped such a mor » el from them . If the Leeds attempt had succeeded , a good deal oJ the machinery was arranged , and , I hear , some of my friends won't forgive the disarrangement . However , I started with the poorest , and with them I am fully resolved , come what will , to die or conquer .

      In justice to some of the very best of men , I deny Mr . Hume's assertion , that the leaders of the working classes , generally , had agreed to join for his definition . I assert , upon behalf of two of the most leading men in London , that an appeal was made to them , and that they unhesitatingly , unequivocally , and indignantly refused to join in any agitatien which had for its object , directiy or impliedly , the establishment of any other principle than that centained in the People ' s Charter . Now , I state this upon authority , and they were two "who drew up the Charter !

      Great merit is made of not openly denouncing the Slar ; but to whom is tbe merit due ? whether to those who are obliged to abstain for want of cause , or to the Star , -which furnishes not even a pretext . O ! if the Slar gave but a hantlle , what a hue and cry my friends would set up . Here is the plan of nibbling at the Slar , and praising the speaker : — Mr . Chairman , — " I believe every man in this meeting will at once admit that I am the very last man in England who would wish to injure the Star , and that I have made as large personal sacrifices hb any man of my class in pusiu . ng that paper . ( Hem , hem . )

      But , then , it ib our dnty to point out ita errors in a mild and forbearing spirit , as the best means of preserving its usefulness to the people ; and I think we cannot do so in a more friendly manner than commencing by telling the editor that he ' s a liar , and the proprietor that he ' s a mean and spiritless fellow for having limited his losses , in the establishment of a paper , to the paltry sum of £ 1 , 000 , and in daring to give £ 24 for six weeks' pay to two missionaries , if the people wished for their services . Such acts , Si » , we eminently calculated to sow dissension in the Radical ranks—to in j ure the character of our tried friends , —and , finally , to destroy the ever-glorious cause of democratic liberty . "

      Now , what is tbe real feeling in the mind of every man , calling himself Chartist , who denounces the Star 1 Just this— " D n that Star ; bnt for it , I could do a bit of fancy work in the trade , but that devil keeps me in the old road , like a horse in a mill ; aad if I step only an inch aside , it bellows out , come back here , Mr . —— , I say come back , you're on the wraag rmd ;

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      ! th ^ ' $ ^ gr ^ t ^ . --ij . Parliamentary H-o-u-s-ebuilt across that road . " There never was a paper which « o simpli , fied the cause of tbe people : as the Star , and those whpjipw fight with it . » nd whom it ha » kept in the straight wad , will , ; ere long , bJess it , and pray for it , when they , in the natural course ef events , shall be called upon , which they , ' will , Tery speedily , to take a share in U » administration , of the State ' s aflWra . Then will they say , " Bleat the Star , that sustained me in the days of my pilgrimage , I etui now undertake my office , pure and spotless , and without the heavy chain of apostacy hanging round my neck " -

      The ChartiaU are nearer power tkau they imagine , and no man , ulong as I live , shall protract tbe period by steppfngone inch out of the old Charter road , without being called ) after by name , and warned of hi * danger . I was sent here a * a cock-shot for every blackguard who wiahedto pelt me , from Fox MauJe to the very lowest ; and therefore it la not likely that the opportunity should be thrown , away . There cannot be a better mask than tilting the Star first , a * that i » my foundation ; and that being gone * my head would come in for the next blow . But I hurl defiance at open foe and candic frikkd . j | av 0 ieft tround my name a shield of poor man ' s love ; a barrier of the paupei ' B rich affection , which neither open villany nor secret plot can break through .

      Yob Russian rump r yon set of vipers ! whenever you have anything to say , give notice like men . Call my friends together , after their day ' a work , and thsncharge , and charge , and charge away , till you are black in the face , and I defy you . I am not the only mania this kingdom In solitaiy confinement for nothing . No , no , my hands were not tied and mjr tongue gagged for nothing ; and I am not to be choked with butter . No man ever cries " stinking fish , " or offers a bad home for sale ; and , of course , no one could do such a thing as abuse , for abusing sake . No , no , Its all for love . It appears very odd that every such attempt has the effect of enhancing the people's love r but so it is .

      I am , Your faithful friend , Feargus O'Connor . P . S . If very many inaccuracies occur in tola letter , I beg to state , that although I have thought it an imperative duty to write It , I have done so against the express order ot the surgeon , who , in consequence of my sight being much impaired , has ordered me not to read or write at all ; I have thought it my duty , however , and for this reason : —Lord Coke has said that , " be who undertakes to plead bis own cause , has a fool for a client ; " had the cause been my own , I should have left it to my friend , Mr . Hill , to defend me ; but knowing that his time will be sufficiently occupied , in

      his duties to the public , I have thus , at all risk and pain , come forward to discharge a duty which can be better performed by au advocate than by the accused ; and , in conclusion , I have only to say , that very many resolutions , complimentary to my excellent friend , have been to my knowledge displaced by him to make room for matter which h « considered to be of more importance ; while he appears to have gone to some inconvenience to give immediate insertion to the only resolutions of disapprobation which , after many years of a well tried political life , have been passed upon him . He can well afford it . I am prevented from replying to many letter * in consequence of my sight being much impaired . F . O'C .

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      THE WANT OF " MOTHER GOOSE" AND

      THE WANTS OF OTHERS . TO THE EDITOR . OF THE NORTH EBN STAR . Sir , —In your last , I sawan article headed " Wanted , a Horn Book for if other Goose ; " on reading which I could not ( from motives of pure charity ) do otherwise than make an attempt to supply that desideratum . I , therefore , went to work on Ihe Lord ' s day , thinking' it no sin to do an act of kindness on that day ; particularly , as I cannot devote much time to Dame Goose , save on St . Agnew ' sday . In this Horn Book , Mtther Goose will find the Chartist alphabet , which she never yet learned . There she will find some short words , frequently used by her , but of the signification of which , she is entirely ignorant , and she will also meet with some short lessons adapted to her wants , and the improvement of her scarcely unshelled charge . Thus , Sir , if other Goose and her littleana , may cease their whimperings , and rely upon tbe promise of their wants being speedily supplied .

      I dont ask you , Sir , to insert any portion of tbe little " wanted" in your columns , because there are other wants . Some want to do good by exposing the villanies of those in power , and by pointing out the way of escape from the bondage in which the people are now held . Some wont to bewilder the people with inexplicable nonsense about old H-o-u-se-s , and undefined definitions of Household Suffrage . Others want to fill your columns with censures for not catering to their whims . Others make cart-rope speeches , and want you to give them to the public verbatim , because they want the public to call them clever .

      And others , who are paid for spouting , want their lectures (?) to be on ev . ery table , imagining that tbe produce of their brains is most delicious fruit , and ought to be tasted by all ; and , moreover , they want you to place them on a pedestal , and to conjure the people to fall down and worship these gods . Yes , gods—they dont want to be known as hired crotchetmongers , or as Sappers and Miners in the Whig snny , though they labour ( under cover ) to sap tbe foundation of tbe Charter , and undermine your firmlyestablished journal . But I know they do not want me to write in this style ; and , I suppose , you do not want me further to trespass on your space .

      Should your " devil" want something to light the fire , and you think proper to accommodate him with this , I shall not want my friends ( though they amount to twenty-three J to pass a vote of censure upon you , and say it was agreed to by the men of Leeds . You know your owu business , and us scribes and paid parrots should not want to dictate to you , and sing in your ears " ME first—don't place me at the bottom of the list ; " for I am , Your's , truly , An Old Radical . Leeds . Feb . lGtb , 1841 .

      Wakef1eld Hell

      WAKEF 1 ELD HELL

      TO THE EDITOll OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sir , —Some of your readers may porlnps feel squeamish , about the heading of these letters , but when they have read the statement contained in this , they will perhaps agree with me that the title is very mild , when compared with the atrocities of the " system . " In my last letter it was clearly shewn , that the " rules" of the place are sheer humbug , drawn up for the purpose of imposing upon that portion of the public , who are sufficiently respectable , and have curiosity enough , to inspect that abode of misery and torture . 1 will now give a few specimens of the effects produced by the " silent system , " which will fully justify you in using the term mad-house , i . e . a bouse for making men mad , not for curing them . I know of nothing better calculated to cause idiotcy or madness than the discipline of Wakenelti prison .

      I wish that some of our humanity mongers would demand an inquiry into the workings of the " silent system , " ( but it would not answer their purpose unless it took place at Janiaicu , or the Cape of Good Hope , ) if such inquiry took placo it would be found , that huudreds have been totally lost to their families and friends on account of the cruel treatment they have received whilst in that prison . , I waa personally acquainted with two woolcsmbers at Bradford , aa strong healthy men &s weru to be found in the town , who had been sent to Wakefield for some trifling assault ; one of them a man who weighed about fifteen stone , came out a living skeleton , cuVoredwith bruises from head to foot , and raving mad , in which state he died shortly after . The other when I last saw him , was a drivelling idiot ; hundreds of men in Bradford who read this will know who I mean . Although I was not allowed to look either to the right or left , nor to converse or make signs to any of the prisoners , yet with this drawback upon my means

      of observation , I counted about SO in a state of idiotcy through close confinement , want of air , ( being never allowed into the yard / , ind continued silence and starvation . There is no deujrjng this ; and I am confident , that if the governor , chaplain , surgeon , keeper , and clerk , were examined , they would at once admit it ; at least , a majority of them , for they have frequently done so when 1 oonvereed with them on the subject . The surgeon has told me that he would state what £ have already advanced , if examined before a Committee of tho House of Commons . The chaplain has told me several times that six months of such treatment would sand him to his grave ; I would , therefore , recommend my friends , at Barosley , Bradford , and Sheffield , to get up ^ -petition to the Honourable House , praying for an inquiry into the treatment of prisoners , and the effects produced on their constitutions by the ' silent system , ' as practised at Wakefield and other Houses of Correction .

      Aa an illustration of its effects , I will mention the case of a man from Sheffield , confined for felony ; his number was 335 . He applied to the keeper to write a letter to his wife , at the same time that I was writing in the office . The keeper asked him how long he had been in the prison ? as the rules state " that no man shall be allowed to write until he has been six Months in the prison and only once a month afterwards . " He answered that he did not know , bat he thought he had

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      baen three months ; he was then ordered to ask the clerk . When he returned , he said , that the clerk told him he had been there eight months . I remarked , that it was very strange a man could not tell how long he had been suffering such misery . The keeper replied , "That It was a common thing there for men to lose their recollection , and have no knowledge of how their time passed . " I have frequently seen men pulled from their seats , when their time of imprisonment ; had expired , although their numbm had been called several time * All this eao be proved , and will be admitted , by the principal officers of the den : in short , none but those who have experienced it , can have the slightest Idea of the cruelty aad torture inflicted on both mind and body , in that infamous place , the very existence of which proves the brutality and bUodthiratiness of the ¦ " powers that be . " I am , Sir , yours , truly , Gkorge White . If 0 . 3 Court , Essex-street , Birmingham .

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      PUBLIC MEETINGS AGAINST THE POOR-LAW AMENDMENT ACT . —MEETING IN UlTTLE

      BOLTON . ( From the Bolttn Chronicle . ) A public meeting of leypayers , convened by the overseers , In consequence of a requisition numerously signed , was held in the Town Hall , Little Bolton , on Wednesday evening last ; to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning both Houses of Paliament against the renewal of the Poor Law Amendment Act The room was crowded to excess , but was very orderly . On the motion of Mr . Thomas Myerscough , Mr . Gilbert Wnalley , one of tbe overseers , was called to the chair . l The Chairman briefly opened the proceedings by desiring the meeting to be orderly , and give every speaker an impartial hearing ; having read the notice convening the meeting .

      Richard Marsden , a weaver , rose to move the first resolution , and said any old man present would not have believed thirty or forty years ago that a poor man , applying for relief , in case of distress , could not obtain It unless he went to the workhouse , like a prison-house , surrounded by walls , separated from his wife and children , and fed on gruel and food too scanty to preserve health and life . ( Hear , hear . ) In times like these too , of tho severest distress , to be separated from their families was a double infliction of injustice ; it was in times like these that nan and wife required each other ' s presence , In order that they might afford each other more comfort and consolation j but the bare idea of having their children taken from them was maddening , aud made the brain to whirl . If he were wealthy , and separated from his children , the hope of reward might

      influence their conduct in some degree , but not being bo they would be reckless of the future , and require his protecting aid . Let the Hoo Union afford an example as to the manner in which children were treated . ( Hear , bear , hear . ) It was in evidence that in that Union the Governor flogged glrla of fourteen aud sixteen years of age oa the bare back , and what rendered it still worse , women were , compelled to hold their aims while he performed the act of flagellation , ( cries of shame ); a woman was separated from her child , and she Bald rather thaa be so she would cut her own throat ; but they enforced the order , and next moming she left the place , and having no means of sustenance and no prospect but the horrid bastile , she put a period to her existence . ( Hear , hear . ) As a woman said to him on Monday , " blessed is the wombtbat never bears . ' * The inhabitants of Bolton had formed

      a committee wmch they called the watch committee , whose duty it was to inform the public when their rights or liberties were likely to be assailed . This meeting emanated from that committee ; and they told the public to petition , but would Government attend to their petition ? he feared they would not , from , the thousands which had been already Bent without avail . Tke committee aaw the position in which they Btood ; they felt alarmed and pointed to the public view tbe object about to destroy them . Could the people , however , avoid the calamity ? If they could not , it was not the fault of the committee , but the circumstances under which we were placed . Suppose a man was bound hand and foot to a tree ; a person placed at a short distance from him to warn him of danger ; and if a lion or

      some other ferocious animal were to approach , and the man set to watch made an alarm what would it avail the captive who was bound hand and foot to a tree , aud could not move ? ( hear , hear , aud cheers ) , why then inform him of his danger for " sufficient for the day is the evil thereof" unless it were in his power to afford him some relief ? And it was not less absurd to pray and desire tbe lion or other beast not to hurt him than it was to petition the House of Commons not to renew tbe New Poor Law Bill ; they knew the lion would seize upon the man , from past experience ; and the knowledge they had of the House of Commous taught them what to expect from there . Then , he said , why come there ? He was asked not to come there to petition Parliament ; but to awaken the energies of the people ,

      and tell them boldly to bid defiance to those who would trample Upon them . ( Cheers ) Let them only look at their real position . They bad been contributing for years to a fund for their relief in case of sickness and distress , and yet they had no power over their own money ; it must be left to the management of others . For that he would not have cared one straw , if he must have had justice ; but he had not . If the money was appropriated to its legitimate purposes , instead of being squandered away , lie would have been satisfied ; but he found , in the first place , that upwards of sixty thousand pounds a-year was paid to the Commissioners and their minions , who were distributed all over the country , and were shamefully making away with the public money . These men , too , had

      exclusive power , and could deal with the public as they thought proper . Suppose , iu the case of a benefit society , which had a committee acting for it who did not do their duty iu a proper manner , the society were to appoiut others in their stead , yet still the old committee refused to give up , and exacted the usual sums from tbe members , what would be done with them ? Why , they would be taken to a court of justice , and punished for fraud : but if they should fail in obtaining justice , they could leave the society . This Poor Law Committee , however , resolve that we shall not leave it ; that we must remain members ; but , be it understood , only paying members . ( Hear . ) What must they do in a case like this ? Why , if they found they could not pay without distressing their families , and they forced

      them to it , say " do it at your peril . " ( Cheers . ) Did they think there was any other course ? He liked not violence , but he would say either give us the power to choose our own guardians , and deal with our funds as we like , or else give us the privilege of leaving the society , or " we will not pay as usual . " ( Loud cheers . ) Their energies were great for the well-being of society , and in return they claimed the privilege of being well fed and well clothed . The speaker here showed how rich men , as in the case of the members of the old corporations , would filch out of other people ' s property when they had the power , as under the old system . The old corporation of Bristol let the walls and quays of the Frome and Avon to the society of merchants for

      £ 10 , and they let tliem again to a sub-contractor for £ l , 40 o a year . ( Hear , hear . ) Again , a gentleman had occasion to go down to his vessel , which was unloading at the time , on account of delay , and found , from inquiries made , that the parties who contracted for it only received 3 s . 6 d . for what he had to pay 16 s . Ho urged them eitb . tr to insist upon having justice done to them , or no longer pay any rates . They must not suppose they could gain everything by a petition . It was like the waggoner in the mire , wha lifted up his eyes and prayed to Jupiter to be extricated , wlnveas , if he had placed his shoulder to the wheel and done it himself , he might have been successful . Afttr some further observations , he concluded by moving the following resolution : —

      " That this meeting having had notice of a Bill brought into Parliament by Lord John Kusseil , to continue arid extend the unhappy operations of the Poor Law Amendment Act for tbe period of ten yours , takes this opportunity of expressing its determined opposition to the said Bill , as being unconstitutional , anti-Christian , oppressive , and unjust . " Mr . Thomas Mjerscough , in seconding the motion just made , observed that he read in the resolution that the Bill of Lord lobn Russell was unconstitutional : that it was so must be evident , because it to . ik away from the people the privilege of managing their own local affairs , and rested them in the hands of three men called Coiuuiissioners , who had power to make rules , orders , and regulations , having the force and

      effect of statute law . Every writer on tbe Constitution had clearly held that a trust cannot be delegated , so that few , if any , have the effrontery to declare that the powers conferred by the Heuse of Commons oa the three Commissioners are right in principle . It was said , when the Bill was first passed , that the poor were eating up the land , and that the rates amounted to £ 7 , 800 , 060 . He stated , some time ago , the amount collected iu Little Bolton to be , in 1838 , the suru of £ 1870 12 s . 2 d . ; but of this £ 1121 17 s . 4 d . went to other expences , so that £ 754 4 s . lOd . was all that was applied to the poor . The Commissioners had boasted that in one year they had made a saving of £ 2 , ioo , oi ) 0 ; but if Little Bolton was any criterion to go by , of what the poor cost throughout the country , they never received more than £ 3 , 240 , 0 u 0 , as the remainder went in payment of couuty rates , church-rates , constables , and other things , so that ,, if tho account of the Commissioners were true , the poor had only received about

      £ 84 , 000 . Tke idea that the poor cost this amount frightened the Parliament , so they set to work in establishing the new law , which had cost upwards of £ 60 , 000 a year to carry it into operation , aud if renewed , Would next year cost more than £ 100 , 000 . ( Hear , heat . ) When one of the assistant Commissioners was before the House of Commons , Mr . Power , he believed it was , who was formerly in this district , but we had now another allied Mr . Mott ; when the former Was before a Committee of the Hoiise , Mr . J ) . W . Harvey asked him how much he received per year , aud his reply was six or seven hundred pounds , and waen he questioned him with regard to expencei , it appeared that those were six or seven hundred pounds or more alsu This seeinedan extraordinary sum . and Mr . Harvey wished to know how it was spent , and was about to obtain an answer , when he was stopped by the Chairman , this question being considered rather too dose , because he knew it was rather too keen a bit for a commissioner to explain how he expeftded six or seven hundred

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      pounds a year and only allow a poor man la CM a week to live upon . " ( Cheers . ) It was said thi 3 law was to lessen the expenses of the different unions , but ho would show them , by an average taken three sears preceding the operation of the old law , and three year * afterwards , that this was incorrect . The average ex pencea in the Bolton Union , for three yean , under the old law , was £ 9 , 365 per annum , and the expences for the firs * quarter , after the new law came into operation , were £ 2 , 816 ; the second quarter , £ 3 , 68 *; third quarto * , £ 4 , 759 ; fifth , £ 5 , 1 * 2 } and the last call Wttfor £ o , « 00 ; which was at the rate of £ 24 , « 00 a year . ( Hear , hear . ) TblswasabeautifuIsort of ^ peaBe , to be rare ! an * it was a question for their consideration , whether , wittf all'these stated amendment * , the poor were any better

      fed and clothed than before ? It was quite certain they were not , and he bad this from undoubted authority , for he had a petition in his pocket , about to be sent to Parliament , by the Bolton Board of Guardians , which clearly stated " that tbe rate * are heavier and tbe poof not better provided for . " ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Ash worth , and others in' the town , ( if it were true , ) had stated that tbe people , from inquiries made , were in a truly deplorable state , and was it net monstrous that they should be so , at a cost , too , of £ 24 , 000 a year to the Union ? ( Hear , hear . ) The clerk to the board had stated that there was a saving of £ 800 a year out of £ l , 2 & 0 formerly expended in tbe salaries of officers . But how this could be was a mystery to him , when be found that the different officers , including medical

      gentlemeo , registrars , &c cost the Union £ 2 , 613 inoaa year . He was not against men being properly remunerated for their labour ; but by the new law their duties were so mixed up , one township with another , that it -was impossible they could attend to them without considerable losi to the townships . How was it possible that tbirty-two or thirty-three townships could be properly managed by five overseera ? He found , on examining the books of Little Bolton , that the last rate ' paid by Mr . Dawson , in 1839 , at sixpence in the pound , amounted to £ 1 , 083 , and the loss , in empty houses , removals , ic , amounted only to £ 74 Is . 4 d . The next rate was ninepenca in the pound , from the 24 th of June , 1839 , to 21 st March , 1840 , amounting to £ 1 , 592 11 * . 10 * d-, and the amount

      of loss in arrears , empty houses , removals , &c , was £ 288 7 s . lid . The next rate was one shilling in the pound , from . the 21 st March to the 25 th September , 1840 , amounting to £ 2 , 389 3 s . 5 jd ., and the loss , including arrears , in this instance , waa the enormous sum of £ 782 lCs . lid ., which waa more than all the money paid to the poor in 1838 . ( Cheers . ) He called toil monstrous , and although termed by its supporters the perfection of wisdom , yet such were its results ; and , further , he believed that if the accounts were examined , it would be found that a number of people ( lie could give names , but would not do bo at present , aa the matter would unquestionably undergo investigation ) whose rates had been forgiven—people who were better able to pay than himself , and there were other

      matters which , when brought to light , would extile their astonishment . The new Bill had been put into hia hands on that day only , and therefore he bad nut bad sufficient time to peruse it , to point out fully ito iniquity ; but from beginning to end , it appeared to extend the power of tbe Commissioners . By one clause he noticed that , however poor a person might be , there could be no forgiveness of rates , not even by the magistrates , unless by tbe Guardians . This would be all right if . the Guardians were left to themselves ; but it so happened that they could do nothing in opposition to the will of the mighty Commissioners—every thing to be loft to the three kings at Somerset House —( hear , hear ) . ;—without their approbation , tht Guardians bad not' the power of turning aff even a

      delinquent servant , and to suppose that the present men in office would not carry the measure into full effect waa next to impossible . He bad been told eonfldtmly that * ne or two members of the Board of Guardian * were iu constant correspondence with the Comrui .-i ionera , and wete advising them to introduce the law qaietly , step by step . ( Hear , hear , and ' Shame . ") Now ^ if this were true , it only seemed still more strongly to manifest the disposition of Mr . Mott , who bad , of late , visited Great Bolton workhouse , and found fault -with everything . ( Hear . ) They wera living there at the rate * f 2 s . O ^ d . per head pci- week , bow much lower Mr . Mott's dietary table would be he could not say , but it was quite little snou ^ 'ii . Mr . Mutt's next movement would be to enlarge the

      workhouse ; and this new bill not only gave the commissioners power to do so , but also to classify the paupers . ( Hear , hear . ) What -was still worse , whatever i :: ul created their poverty , no matter whether by crime or misfortune , they were all to share the same fate , and this was not to be doubted , because Lord John Kusseil himself bad made the assertion ; and in some parts , even now , this beautiful system of separation was going on , and in Kensington the workhouses—for , men , women , and children were distinct , in fact , were three miles apart , to prevent communication or intercourse between them : so that a man was prevented from seeing bis wife and children , ( A voice' here called out " let 'em take one . of mine and 111 fire into ' em . ") He held a document in his hand ,-the whole of which he

      should like to have read , but it was too long . It was headed in the following curious manner , — " Selling English Children . —Selling the bodies of the yoor . — Incendiary fireis . " He found , by this document , that there was a society , in London , calling it .- _ lf tbe " Children ' s Friend Stciety , " which had bet-u for a considerable period , trafficking in poor destitu . e children out of workhouses , and sending them to the Cape of Good Hope and other distant colonies , and openly selling them in tbe market like cattle . ( Hear , bear , and shame . ) The fact was , they first taxed the people so as to make them poor , and then punished th- 'in for being so . To show the dislike patties entertained for the bastiles , he might mention an instance which he bad seen in the capers the other day , of a wnmau , who

      -was brought before tbe magistrates charged with breaking a window . Mr . Wightman found she was in a distressed state , and ordered her to the workhou-j . She then stated that she had been in the workhou-e , but had escaped from it to get into prison , in orkr that she might receive better treatment . Mr . Wightman , however , refused to convict her , and sent a policeman with her to the workhouse ; but on their way sne took up a stone and threw it through another vrindow , aud was again obliged to be brought up . Air . WiiTlitraau then informed her-that he should be obliged to commit her for three months . She replied " the longpr the

      better" —and was committed . ( Hear , hear . * Mr . Wakley also had stated in a speech in tbe Hi use of Commons , that numbers bad died from stiuvation , rather than go into a union workhouse , and related 3 number of instances that had come under his notice as coroner of Middlesex . And were we to have laws like these thrust upon us ? ( No , no . ) One great evil was , the amount of taxes we bad to pay , as wouid be found by Cobbett'tf Legacy , a work which every man ought to have : for in the same proportion as the Government taxes increased , the amount of poor rates increased aud poverty along with them . He ( ouad in this work tbe following statement : —

      Poor-rates . Govern , taxes . Reign of James II . 160 , 6 » 0 1 , 3 * ' 0 , 000 1776 1 , 496 , 906 S . OOD . OOO 1780 . ....: 2 , 250 , 000 lO . Oiiu . oOO 1833 ¦ „ ...,.... C , 70 Q , 000 52 , 000 , 000 When he was before a committee of the House of Commons , on the Question of a minimum of w ; i < r . s . and which he could not agree to , he was asked if he h-A any other plan to propose , he replied that he had , b > reduce the taxes from 50 or 60 millions to something like ten or twelve millions ; aad he also informed them th : it Mr . Preston had stated the truth to tbe House of Commons " when he informed them that out of every 18 s . e . irned by the labourer 1 &j . either directly or indirectly w ent ia taxes ; but if instead . of that they wohW call at poor

      men ' s houses and here and there cut a piece of bacon , the people would not stand it . Along -with their poverty also they had' rural police , because it was necessary to keep the posr quiet ; but the only and safe way to quieten them was by giving them plenty of bread and cbeese . ( Cheers . ) The overseers of Great Bolton , a short time ago had sent a petition to tbe magistrates against the new police hei ¦« which he would read . [ The petition which \ i ^ have before published was then read . ] Tbi .= waa an important "document , and shewed them that thH public -were not able to pay . These facts shewed that the New Poor Law did not , nor could it

      wovk well , and that it was Anti-Christian as stated in tho resolution , no one would attempt to deny ; lor he defied them to produce any passage from tte beginning to the end of the Bjble , which did not call upon them , to support the poor , and needy , and not 10 rob the hireling of bis wages ; and yet the measure wss calculated to produce those direful effects which Mr . Marsden had detailed . It was unnecessary to enlarge upon this subject , for any one who had taken up a newspaper , must have seen evidence of its direful effects . The bastardy clauses which had been spoken upon , had operated vety unfavourably in that township , for they left unprotected the weaker party , and did not punish the guilty .

      Mr . MYEBSCOUGH again rose and read a communication which had been received by Mr . Dawson , and accompanied by a copy of the same act , which stated that be should be happy to receive any instructions or suggestions as to the course best to be pursued when tbe bill was in committee . Tbe Chairman then put tbe motien , -which waa carried unanimously , amid loud cheering . Mr . William Thiklwind , seconded the adoption of tbe rosolution and petition , which were carried with acclamation . Mr . Daniel Diggle , and others afterwards spoke , but not in accordance wittb . the object for -which the meeting Was called .:

      Meeting in Great Bolton . —On Thursday evening a Bimilar meeting was held in the Sessions Koom , Great Bolton , -which was not quite so numerously attended aa that In Little Bolton . Mr . Naisby was unanimously called to the chair .

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      The Pabishiosebs of St . George , Southwark , met oa Friday at the Grapes Tavern , Suffolk-street , and passed resolutions calling on tbe Members of the Borough to oppose the clause in the New Poor Law Amendment Bill giving plural and proxy-voting for Guardians , several speakers condemned the bill nltogether . —The parishes of St . Paul , Coreat Garden , and St . Luke ' s , Middlesex , also passed amilar resolutions on Friday .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 20, 1841, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct695/page/7/