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TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF LEEDS . n ENTLEMEN , —A Requisition has been prevl scnted to me from a large and influential Body of the Electors of Leeds , calling upon me to become a Candidate , in conjunction with . Lord Jocelyn , for the Representation of the Borough in the event of a Dissolution of Parliament . The character of the Appeal with which I am honoured , whether I regard the number or respectability of the parties who make it , is such as will not permit me to hesitate between the inclination of private feeling and the dictates of public duty ; I , therefore , Gentlemen , respectfully announce to you my intention of complying with its request . In deolaring myself a Candidate for so great an honour , and in purposing to undertake so heavy a responsibility as that of watching over the Parliamentary Interests of this extensive Borough , I wish I could offer to you the benefit of Parliamentary as well as Commercial Experience in the consideration of a Jl those great questions which so deeply absorb the publio mind . Never have we stood more in need of the ability of an energetic Government or the wisdom of an enlightened Legislature than at the present moment ; and I confess that I do not recollsct ^ the period when th « depression of every branchofjour Commercial Interests has been so appalling as it now is , nor can I conceive any duty so imperative upon Parliament as that of a most patient yet prompt endeavour to devise substantial means of relief . What may be the cause or the combination of causes which has produced this paralysis of our commercial strength , or what may be the best means of restoring us to activity , admits of mnch discussion , and deserves to be discussed with moderation and temper . To those who ascribe our present distress to'the operation oF the existing Corn Laws , I can admit that a reduction and modification of the present scale of duties would not be attended with injustice to any class of the community ; and to the advocates of Free Trade I can equally admit that our Commercial Code requires deliberate investigation , and that many obstacles which now impede the current » f Trade may be removed without injury to any other existing Interest ; but in the pursuit of this object , I hope that England will not be compelled to abandon those exertions which she has so nobly begun in tearing oif the hideous badge of Slavery from the human race . Upon the subject of the Poor Law , the provisions relating to what is called out-door relief appear to uio to have been made by the Commissioners in utter ignorance of the precarious empleyment of a manufacturing population , of which not only individuals , but masses of individuals , are , at a few days' notice , reduced from a state of industrious competency , to helplesB destitution . Relief bo restricted is wholly inapplicable to the wants of the dense population of a trading district ; besides which , there are other parts of this law that evidently require amendment . It is needless for me to dwell in this address upon my devotion to our Church , or upon the importance which I attach to the Religious Education and Moral Improvement of the Poor . It is equally heedless for me to express my reverence and admiration for all those institutions comprised within the pale of our unequalled Constitution , calculated as they are to entail blessings upon all classes ef the Community ; but I am persuaded that these blessings cannot be permanently enjoyed by any class , or in any rank of life , unless- due regard be paid to the means of subsistence and to the " contented labour" of the great body of the People . Whatever may be the estimation in whioh the policy of the present Administration has betn held by its supporters , they must acknowledge that that policy cannot be successfully applied to the exigencies of the State except it be based upon the Confidence of the Nation . They must see that this Confidence has been withdrawn ; --a general dissatisfaction with the measures of our Rulers , and an increasing suspicion of the Honesty of their motives , are fast growing upon the public mind : I concur in these apprehensions , and should hail their removal from Office as the first step to the restoration of our National Prosperity . I have the honour to be , Gentlemen , Your faithful Friend and Servant , WM . BECKETT . Kirkfltall Grange , 8 th June . 1841 .
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TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF LEEDS . / I ENTLEMEN , —The honour yon have done main VX presenting to me the flattering Requisition I hare just received , proposing that I should offer myself as a Candidate for yonr Suffrages as ene of your Representatives in Parliament , demands my most cordial thanks . I am fully sensible , likewise . of the additional value which is * . stamped on that Requisition by your having associated my name with that of , your honoured Townsman , Mr . William Beckett ; and , with such a call and such a colleague , I cannot hesitate to accept your invitation , and to profess my willingness to fight with yon the battle of the Constitution in this great Crisis of the public affairs . With respect to the principle on which I no w come forward , I have already had some opportunity of explaining myself to yon personally ; but in accepting your Requisition I am bound to state explicitly to all the Electors what those principles arc . In one word , then , they are strictly Conservative ; that ib to say , they are such as will , lead me to consult the interests , not of one class to the exclusion or prejudice of others , but to advance the well-being of the entire Community , adhering as closely as possible to the old Landmarks of the Constitution . I shall not bid for your support by promising to root up and destroy every Institution ! h » c maybe found to require Regulation or Improvement ; bat with 'due respect to the existing Laws aud Usages of the Country , I would labour to preserve whatever is useful , and honestly to correct and reform whatever is amiss . As to the immediate questions whioh now occupy the publio mind , I believe you will agree with me in . thinking that , however important they are in themselves , and deserving of the most serious consideration of the Legislature , they do not constitute the real point at issue at this time , which is no less than the formation of an efficient Government in plate of the weak Ministry which has for the last few and disastrous years exercised the responsibility wit iiout being able to wield the- powers of the State . That the unexampled depression of theConamercial and Financial affairs of the Country requires a searching investigation into its cause , and great wisdom and firmness in applying the fittest remedies , no man can doubt ; but it is equally obvious that the indispensable preliminary to this is the formation of a strong and effective Government , wise in counsel , and possessing the confidence of so decided a majority of the Representatives of the people as to have the power of carrying through the measures whioh they may deem the exigency of the times to re * fuire . To the support of such a Government , if elected as one of your Representatives , I shall consider it my duty to render my assistance , believing entirely that it can be formed only on Conservative principles ; and while thus seeking to accomplish what I consider necessary to the safety of the Country , I will address myself assiduously to the protection aud advancement of your ownvaried interests , and to the consideration of those great ; and complicated national questions whioh involve on the one hand the greatest extension that oan safely and profitably be made of the Manufacturing and Commercial Exertions « f this Country , and on the other the promotion of the large and important interests of the Cultivators ' of the Soil ; the supply of Food to all classes free from the influence of Foreign Jealousy and the dangers of Foreign War ; the removal of all the harsh and needless severity of the New Poor Law , rendering it applicable ( which at present it is not ) to the vicissitudes of the trade , and the wants ana comforts of the Manufacturing Population ; the maintenanoe of the great and truly glorious effort made at so large a cost by this Country to strike off the bonds of Slavery throughout the world ; and the extension of those means of a moral and religious National Education which can alone insure the safety of the State and the well-being of all Classes among our rapidly-increasing Population . Upon these and all other subjects I shall be happy to afford you every satisfaction in ray power whenever the proper period arrives for my again appearing among you , and in . the meantime I shall rely on the continuance of those efforts upon your part to which you have so generously pledged yourselves , and which , if continued , cannot , I believe , fail to be crowned with the desired effect . I have the honour to be , Gentlemen , Your most obedient , humble servant , JOCELYN . London , June 7 , 1840 .
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. £ * guek , to whatever country , creed , or tailing *»« belong . Qp the tools longer reauin blind to the Tillanj j the Repealer , who now buckles a head-pieee and ^ et-p iece together , to meet the present crisis , * jj ^ to neutralise , nay , destroy , the whole that has Sa , done for Repeal ! Thus we find Danie , IfCoSfDi , paap « and repealer , wedded to Hattok , li Bin * nd anti-repealer , for the city of Dnblin ; JJJnH , O'CosraiA , jnn ., paoper and repealer , tied ^ pnrse-strinxs of Ashtos Yatbs , anti-repealer jjeh man . for Carlow county ! So , w « U may the tys&x exclaim : — Cariow county and repeal , hurrah ! For repeal and Carioir county , hurrah !" it
^ "h » t nonsense ! can I this _ yi e honest Shashas Csawfoxd is obliged to fly % Lancashire borough , rottenness having closed jjdjad against him j while Ashtos Yates , who would ^ 5 be tolerated by a constituency of independent ffttpit is foisted upon Carlow . Would Ckawfobjj . w jerited at Rochdale , eTen now , by the Orange / wast-s if he was to say one word against the i jjsk Cstholic people ! No ; not for a moment , in O'Cotsoh , O'Beixji , Host , Maktih , White , nrfjET , Deegas , Dotlb , and Campbkll less dear Oie English people , whose cause they Berre , be--jse they are Irish ! No ; but dearer and more yored ; as it is a rare thing to find English and ijjji working for the one common object .
j £ r . o'Cosxkll ha 3 had a moral-force temperance jjfclbition in Gracechnrch-street , and his friends t are had a physical force shindy in Manchester ; ai with these , theirmoral and physical exhibitions ^ J betta terminate ; for , let him and his blind folfcirers be assured , that the Chartists will allow of , o jnore interraprion to their proceedings , or physical ^ position to their forces . Chartists of the empire ! Ye wko hare done so
jack to silence , crush , and-annihilate all anti-Irish prejudice ! the blood of yoor brethren has been jjtelj and wantonly spilt in the streets of Ma » - frssiei j—your body has been designated w xisau sB , " " OsAXGQtKK , " Hatcotksiaks , " and " dsis otbbSj * ' by the sales-master of the factory child ; ferine oppressor of Canada ; by the rottenest link n ' the rotten chain of Whiggery , and the gaoler of war prisoners , for whose release above two njDioiis prayed in vain .
You are now upon the eve of a great crisis , and vfcat is your exact position ! It is this—You are jss balance of power ! and as such , the Political ypit who are to farm out power upon the appoaeaing leasing day . If you re-let to the fanner tenants they will pay in future as iey have paid hitherto ; in blood , in tears , in toil , in treat , in chains , in persecntitn and bondage ; and to them you must LET FOR SEVEN YEARS ; while , upon the other hand , if yon let to the Tories &ej become mere TENANTS AT WILL , AND BEMUTABLE AT PLEASURE ; and ne * er , never > tcrtr , can the " Bloodies" be tanght reason , except in the school of adversity , which is kept at the sign rf the bleak tide of the Treasury Benches .
Get a house of WhigB , and , for seven long years wil ] they cling to office and multiply abuse ! Get a boos « of Tories , and then , but not till then , can Whig courtship of the Chartists be relied upon . Then we ilaU be the amiable , the lovely , the heaven-bom ( hanisis ! So Down with fhe a Bloodies , " hurrah 3 hurrah I Hurrah ! and down with the " Bloodies , " hurrah
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"PUBLICOLA" AND THE CHARTISTS . Oca readers will not have forgotten the severe punishment that we were reluctantly compelled to inflict upon Pablicola , the " crack" writer in the Dispatch , some months ago , when , in his attempt to throw new light upon the question of a Repeal of the Union , he cast a cloud round the subject which cost us some trouble to dispel . In commencing that controversy , we spoke of "Pubiieola" and the Dispatch as they , up to that period , deserved ; but from the period of the oppo-Erion given to Mr . Alderman Harkeb ' s elevation to oae of those ancient and barbarous honours now so much decried by w Pnblieola , " we have observed a gradual weanisg from principle , and a rerj perceptible leaning to Whiggery .
It is very lamentable to witness the perversion of ingenuity and talent , and to find both directed by a public writer of no ordinary capacity , to the pitifnl purpose of multiplying " the sorrows of a poor old nan . " "Publicola" always professes a kind of parental lore for the Chartists , and generally approaches eTery Eubjeet connected with that body with a very patronising air . He writes as though he was far in advance of a party , whose means to catch up the ipace between him and them he invariably decides
waue , like the man with the bundle of carrots rmmiijg before the hungry ass , he crie 3 out , " per-Kidon is better than force . " Yet , we are always Tong , "Pab ! ieola"is always right ; and till Saturday ian , and the week before , we never had a word of advice from this inteDse Mentor . When we were weak and houseless , he joined in the general derision ; now that we are Etrong and powerful k damns us , by telling us what he is , and Ehowing the manifest difference between the Chartists and 6 Publicola "
We placed some of hh confused notions of extreme liberality before our readers last week , and we now proceed ; o comment upon his more recent and far Bore foolish production . After about half a column of self-adulation , he commences his courtship of the Chartists thus : — " Sabdne the Whigs , and place the Tories in power , * S the approaching elections , and you will be crashed fcj both with the utmost ease . The Toriei will annibik * you from their innate leve of tyranny , and from their long experience of their advantages in misrule , ¦* hils : the Whigs "will assist them out of resentment , m& from a hopelessness of guiding , or even advising , a P&rt ? so perverse . Chartists , this is your erisis . There is a tide in political aSairs , and it is for yon now to it
^ e hi the flood- If you neglect it , jour eourse * iil be throngh flats and shallows to a degraded and s ^ xab ' . e fciUicuon . Let your policy be to Eicely b » - ksce parries , and to take advantage of tbeir divisions * £ d j-alonsies . Abhor the Tories , but give the Whigs * 3 in ^ . 1 aci precarious a majority , that that thoy must * KaiitiTe to public opinion , and yield to the pressnr © ^ Ka TiUiout . Tote for the candidate that approxi-J 2 x ^ s tiic E £ &T £ &t to yott , ajid press iiis approximation *» deseiy sa possible . Tolerate ne Tory concession , KfcSde in no Tory pledge , for Teries are the Tennin of pledges , and all the curses they have inflicted on our wantry , and especially in Ireland , have been effected bj insincere professions , and by pledges meant to be a&oltn !] y violated or insidiously evaded . A Tory P'fc ^ ce is as virtuous as a dicer ' s oath .
" Chartists , y « u stem not aware that the progress of Eteraiism is slow and limited . Tour o ^ ni Charter is fcarow isd miserably confined , and yet yon denonnce fl that will not make it their creed . I like it as far "it goes , bnt I despise it for not going further . It is * = iifcd to the ignorant present . As a Soil measure no-> & ££ can be more tame , pusillanimous , and even ridieuls !»; ass stepping-stone to further things I accept it " ^ ow , was there ever stuff and nonsense equa ] to the above * And what a distinct and beautiful character "Publicola" gives of the parties for * hose favour and patronage we are to sue . He aJs , " The Tories will annihilate yon , from their
auiate love of tyranny , and from their long experience of their advantages in misrule ; tchilst the Whigs win assist them out of resentment , and fr » m a kopelessEesB of guiding , or even advising , a party *> perverse . " This is what the pedant calls sticky » ad— adhesive , " so mnch bo , that we really know »« how to get out of it . An Irishman was once asked how he wished to We his body disposed of after his execution , to
* hich he replied , " Wisha by gorra , I . can ' t tell tiH I sees how I feels after it . " Now , we imagine , ^» J when the Tories have " annihilated" ns , that &ere will be but short commons for the hungry " aip : and we have , therefore , the less cause to fear their resentment . However , it is because we 'Wicipate the latter threat of Whig resentment to ** nearest the reality that we must draw the ^ 'a of biting Whiggery , if by chance we should ^ cape Tory annihilation . Bat -what a picture the hater of " Old Mortality " sriws of ihose whose patronage we are to court . If
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you oppose the Whigs , says " Pablicola , " they will Msist the Tories in destroying yon , for spite . Now , w » imagine that the lorer of nothing new , and the hater of everything old , will see , in his own admission , just cause no > for matching the two destroyers merely by balancing them so that the Chartists may be the shuttlecock , bnt for annihilating those whose immediate resentment we are taught to expect . Again , he says , " Give the Whigs bo small and precarious a majority , that they must be sensitive to publie opinion , and yield to the pressure from
without . " What saperlative -iltoense ! Why , here is "Mask" in disguise , actoaHy drawing the real character of the Whigs in order to gull us . This man is positively laughing in our face . What , then , have not their majorities been small enough to render them sensitive and amenable to pressure "from with , out ! " Or are we to have a few tailors in the house to reduce them to a portion of a man ? They have hung upon the skirts of J , 2 , 3 , i , and 5 , and have looked upon a small minority against them as a comparative triumph , and yet have they been deaf to all appeals from without .
Publicola" should not have launched such a senteice while the majority of ONE still rings in the ears of the victims of Whig "RESENTMENT . " The time to court a widow may be on her return from her husband ' s funeral ; but the time to woo the Chartista is not just while they are smarting under the lash of Whig cruelty , treachery , brutality , and deceit—and while their best friends are , many of them , in felon's prisons , and many more in infirmaries , wounded by Whig resentment . '
Has not the pressure from without pressed , and pressed , and pressed ; and has not the effect been a mow close and intimate courtship of the " natural enemies" of the people by the Whiga ? And what now remains for the ChtrtiBtB , but to be bottleboldera for the one faction while they " annihilate " the other , whose " resentment" we shall then no longer dread , as a dead cock can't crow . After discharging nearly a column of rubbish , similar to that we have qaoted above , "Puklicola" enters upon new ground , and arraigns the Chartists upon thirty-nine articles of faith , which , in
compliance with the request of a Mr . Shoede £ , were allowed to be published as approved of by a Committee of the few members of the Convention who assembled after the 12 th of August , every word of which we gave for its proper purpose , from the several authorities , in several numbers of the Star , previous to their presentation to the Convention . Nothing can be more weak and silly than the assumption of " Publicola ; " that the thirtynine articles of Mr . Shoedkb , belongs to , or has any connection with the Charter , However , he proceeds thnr : —
** The Charter ^ of Chartists ) advance * little or nothing upon principle . It estimates everything by precedent , and precedent drawn from extremely barbarous times can have little application to an age of very advanced refinement . " Now , the very thing of which " Publicola " complains , is the very thing of all others which the Chartists do not" acknowledge—namely , the folly of following precedent , and applying the rule of barbarous ages to the present state of society ; bnt the foolish man goes on labouring away through another column , commenting upon " Kings , and Queens " , and " precedents " , and " racks , " and " tortures " , asd ** thirty-nine articles " , with which the Chartists have nothing to do . We shall now give a few sentences from " Publicola ' s ; "' letter , and then leave him .
" If a part or parcel of s Constitution be defective or insufficient for the altered state of society , they immediately aet about altering it ; 'whilst we , with worse than a Itruidkial superstition , would put up with any evil rather than change or reform this most sacred and revered of invisible , untaagible , and unascert&inable documents . " Fudge ! We don ' t say ; the Charter don't say ; the Chartists don ' t say , one word in commendation of old institutions .
" IIy letter has reached to such a length that I am unable to show the very unsatisfactory nature of more than a very few of the articles in the Chartist declaration of rights . Yon lay down that ' the sovereignty of the United Kingdom is monarchical . ' Be it so ; but does it follow that it may not become republican or democratic ? You speak of the ' duties of allegiance and protection / being ' reciprocal . Here , again , we have the whole object of the long and rambling letter admitted to be an exposition of some thirty-nine articles of political faith , about which not one Chartist in England ever bothered his head for a single moment . Now , hear what the Republican says about the right of arming : —
" As a means " of self-defence against felons , the right become * of less Yalue , as Bociety contrives a better police and a better administration o ? justice—and as a means of an armed resistance to constituted authorities , the right is ridiculous and beneath contempt A bowand-arrow were essential to every man in the marauding banditti times of Edward the Confessor , or an English eslonist ; but of what use would either be to an inhabitant of London or Westminster ? The great fault ef the CaartisU is , their attaching a necromancy , a sort of witchcraft or magic , to antiquity . "
This is a very tame sentiment from a fierce Republican , and the paragraph he concludes thus : — " The great fault of the chartists is , their attaching a necromancy , a sort of witchcraft or magic to antiquity . " The necromancy is in the brain of " Pnblicola ; " for every Charti 35 of sound mind in the kingdom laughs at nothing more heartily than the folly of the present generation being governed by the iaivs of barbarians , fools , idiots and despots . Their
motto is , " Let the living make laws for themselves . They say vrith Bthon : — " . Out upon time , forit ever will leave Bat enough of the past for the future to grieve ; Oat upon time , for it leaves no more Of the things to come than the things before . "What we have seen , and our sons shall see , Remnants of things tfeat haTe passed away , Fragments of stone reared by creatnres of clay . " " Publicola" ends his fir 3 t-love exercise thns : —
" Tbns , my' fellow-countrymen , the Chartists , I have done " my utmost to clear away your errors , and to wean you from your fatal course at t&e appending ejections . L trust I have inspired you with more enlarged and more noble Tiews of liberty , and that you will feel at the dissolution of Parliament , that by supporting Tory candidates , you -will fatally obstruet the -progress of all Reform , aud irflict cruel sufferings on the working classes , from -which the proposed financial measures of the Government would infallibly relieve them . "
Let us now , at the close of " PublicolaV first complimentary visis , paid for the pnrpose or wooing the Chartists , just place the more blunt John Bull language of Easthope in contrast with " Publicola ' s " clumsy lumpri of love thrown at us . The Chronicle of Tnesday has the two foliowiug passages ; the first with reference to a " free discnEaion" meeting held at Swansea , the second the treatment which a Chartist received at Slateford . No . 1 from the Chronicle
says"Two or three attempts at interruption were made , but these were instantly suppressed , and the intruders were rather roughly handled and glad to make their eseape . One of these intruders was a Chartist , who attempted to move an amendment for a petition for the liberation of Frost , Jones , Williams , and all the Chartist prisoners ; but no person being found to second this amendment , the proposer was pulled off the platform , carried out . of the Maiket-place , and thrown into the street , where ke was soon covered ¦ with mud -whilst effecting hia ha » ty retreat . " No . 2 from the Chronicle says" The motion being seconded by Mr . Louel , was . put from the chair .
At this moment , one of the Chartists got up and found some fault with the manner in which the meeting iras conducted . Attempts were made to put him down , but the rest of the Chartists maintained his right to be heard . A scene of great confusion and uproar then ensued , which ended in a hearing being allowed to the speaker alluded to . His speech consisted mostly of abuse of Ministers , and misrepresentations of the tendency of tie proposed alterations , of the Com LiTS .
•• The dishonesty of the line of argument adopted by the Chartist orators was well exposed by several speakers . The meeting again became uproarious , and much . impatience was evinced at the persevering attempts which were made to defeat the objects for -which it had been assembled . At length the indignation of the people was thoroughly roused , and the more turbulent of the Chartists were unceremoniously turned ont of the church . Indeed , it appeared that these disturbers of the peace only escaped a very rough handling in consideration of the sacredness of the plact . "
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This mode of courtship very forcibly reminds as of the caUerwauling which precedes the happy nuptiah of Miss puss and her turbulent Ram eat spouse . We regret that we hare not room for the whole of " Pablieola's" production ; it is quite unique in its way , and the only apology that can be charitably offered , is , that the writer intends well , but has not scope of mind , to comprehend the whole subject upon whioh he undertakes to write .
" Publicola" oharges the Chartists with a want of practical action , while he has recently told us that because he is enamoured of Annual Parliaments , the Ballot , Equalization of Electoral Districts , and the Abolition of Property Qualification ; he is the more opposed to Universal Suffrage , and Payment of Members . He might , with « qual propriety say , I delight in the perfume of the rose , and , the more so , because I have lost the power of smelling .
*• Publicola" is a Republican ; and while he reviles the Chartists for their want of distinctiveness , he has never condescended to submit his Republican standard of franchise . The critic who wishes to find fault will make one , ratherthan bestow praise where censure is aimed ; like the architect who was resolved upon building the squire ' s house upon a particular site , while the squire was resolved that he should not . The architect for a length of time eontended against the prudence of adopting the Squire ' s recommendation ; however , there was an old fox cover in view of the
proposed site , which view the Squire was determined should not be shut out from the dining-room windows ; when all other excuses had failed , the architect very knowingly observed ) " 0 , but Sir , that large hay-stack will obstruct the view . " u Aye , aye ; by G—d , " said the Squire , " I never thought of that "; and thus where reason failed folly succeeded ; the house was built , and in the following spring the Squire had the mortification to stand where the immoveable hay-stack stood for a season , 'and from thence to enjoy his favourite prospect Now such is precisely the position of our friend
and monitor ; reason , he thinks , has failed in convincing us , and now he would induce us to change the site of our house , as the hay-stack which now obstructs the prospect will remain there for our time ; but , with more wisdom than the squire , we will remove the nuisance , aad then we can see our favourite object—the cower . But for the moral " Well , Sir , ' - " observed the foreman of the architect , "I could'nthelp laughing at the squire and the haystack . " l'Aye , aye , " said the architect , "but the house is to
be built upon contract , and the difference of carriage of timber , stones , lime , slates , and sand , and other materials between the two sites will pay for the joke . " Perhaps there may g of that telling thing called interest at the bottom of " Pablicola ' s" letter ; and we are willing to make any excuse , though a bad one for a friend in distress . We conclude with a recommendation to " Publicola" to try and remove the hay stack rather than vainly hope to change the site of the " Charter House . "
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THE FUSTIAN JACKETS . We are authorised to communicate the gladtidings , that the Noble Fustian Petition Carriers have resolved themselves into a Committee to carry not only the Petition , bnt the Charter , the spirit of the Petition in the House ; and to state , that next week they will be prepared to submit , through our columns , their addresses to their Brother Trades throughout the kingdom . This is as it ought to be ; as they express it , " a firm determination to do their owa work . "
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POST-OFFICE © BDERS . —All persons sending money to tnis Office by Post-office Order , ara especially requested to make their orders payable to Mr . Jonn Ardill , as , by a recent alteration in the Post-office arrangements , any neglect of this would cause us a great amount of trouble and
annoyance . Chables Kek . v . —His notice of the meeting of Lambeth Chartists for Wednesday teas received at our office fifteen hours after our last paper had gone to press . Ail such notices should be in the office on Tuesday , or , at the very latest , on Wednesday , but if possible always on Tuesday . Cupar Fife . We received the notice of Mr . Lottery ' s lecture , delivered on the Monday evening , on Friday , fourteen hours after the Scotch papers had been pasted . Wm . Cook . —His communication is an advertisement , and must be paid for as such if we insert it : we should have to pay for it . H . Mitchell . — H ' e have received a letter with this signature , referring to , and animadverting on , some portions of a speech delivered at Manchester , on the 16 tfi ult . y by Mr . Harney , and published in the Northern Star of the 22 / td . The
writer says : — It is true that Mr . H . gave notice of a motion respecting Mr . G"C ' s speech . It is untrue that the association directed Mr . H . to write to Mr . O'Conn el I , or knew of his intention to do so ; he however did write . " He goes on to complain of the language of Mr . H . 'n letter to Mr . O'C . as disgraceful and intemperate . He then says : — "The Association felt , as I feel , that the intemperate conduct of Mr . Harney had placed us in a wrong position , and given to Mr . O'C . the vantage ground ; they , therefore , refused to suffer the correspondence to be published . In reference to Mr . H . ' s corroboration of Mr . Rider ' s ttaement , that " the members of the London Working Men ' s Association are anything but working men" the writer assr . rts , that , with very trivial exceptions , such as Hetherington , Watson , and Cleave , they are , and were , alt men who get their living liy hard labour .
Robert Wild . — We cannot insert his letter . The less publicity given to these things the better . K . M . W . —His verses are declined . Antongo Nebo . — We have not room . J . S . —His charade has not enough of poetic merit for publication . John Phillips . — We have not room . Wm . Woodroffe . — Thanks : our information is pretty extensive . Bradjobd Chartists . — We received a placard , by post , on Monday evening , about ten o'clock , informing us of a meeting to be hofden at Bradford , at seven the same evening , and desiring our reporter's attendance . We should certainly have sent a reporter had ire knotrn of the meeting i ? i
time ; but our friends will see that there was no use in sending one after the meeting was over . W . Bab . b . et -rwrites : — " / think if Messrs . Smart and M Douall xciU look up their accounts , once more , belonging to the Convention , they willjind ( heir receipts to be £ 36 16 s . 6 d ., and their expenditure £ Zi Is . lid ., so that £ 2 Us . Id . willremainon ha 7 id ; and the sum due to the country by the Convention will be £ 3 7 s . 1 Id ., instead of £ 4 5 s . Ud . James Sinclair . —The report for the 21 th of May is rather too late for publication now . James Duffs ? . — Vie have not ro » m for his letter : we advise him to take no notice of the stupid fellow .
A Constant Reader thinks public demonstrations ill calculated to facilitate the attainment of the Charter ; advises every working man to give one day ' s uages into the hands of a national treasurer ; and then to deposit , every pay-day , such sum as he can spare , however small , for twelve months . The money thus accumulated to be sacredly devoted to the attainment of the Charter . And then , he says , will the time be come for the people to prepare their petition , and appoint another Convention to attend to it . Then will the people be prepared to wait , to watch , to strike terror , and compel the Legislature to pass the Charter into law .
Philip Platt . —Let the twenty Radical voters of tfie neighbourhood reserve themselves . There will be a candidate—most probably a polling one —or , if there should not , then let them vote for the Tory . Republican . —We have not room . James White . —May see Mr . O'Connor any day on application at the Castle , between nine und ten , a . m ., or between two and four , p . m . He must enquire for Mr . Noble , the governor , and make his application to him . The answer to the second question depends upon the rout he pursues . If
he go by way of York that unit be his nearest point , and the distance by railway is nintty miles : if he goby way of Leicester and Derby , Sheffield will be his nearest point , from which place the distance is about thirty -miles . A Sincere Chartist , and Membeb of the National Charter Association . —Dr . M'Douall is a member of the General Council . If his name be omitted in the published list , it is by mistake . Morgan Williams , of Wales , and Georgb Bimns , of Sunderland , are requested to send their address to Mr . Campbell , Secretary to the Executive .
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John Moore , Trowbridge , writes its that much dissatisfaction exists among the Wiltshire Chartists in reference to the non-insertion or curtailment of ^ their reports . The dissatisfaction aught to be teith themselves . We have now received , on Thursday , a report of their meeting held on Sunday , and which , to insure insertion , should have been with us on Tuesday . They know that we have scores of times given notice thai w , e cannot guarantee the insertion of anything which reaches us after Wednesday . If parties will not takes the least trouble to study our , necessities , they cannot expect that we should outrage the whole country for their gratification . G . W ., Beoughton-boad , Salfobd , has sent us an account of an act of cruelty and magisterial
injustice which , i f true , deserves the severest and most signal reprobation . —A ytung man was cutting limber with our informant , in a wood , near to Wimslow , in Che-hire , early in the morning of the 14 th of May last , when another younq man came out of a neighbouring farm yard with a bag under his arm . Two of Lord Stanley's gamekeepers immediately spiung out of a plantation close at hand , seized hold of the young men , and handcuffed them together . Upon searching the bag they found no game , but a few potatoes . The poor fellow said , that being out of work and having no lodging to go to , he had slept in the farmer ' s barn during the night t and had taken a few potatoesJor his breakfast . Our informant ' s companion declared he had nothing whatever to do
wtih the affair . The two poor fellows were given in charge of a policeman , and taken to Macclesfield , and were committed to Knutsford Sessions . Our informant travelled fifteen miles to the Sessions , to clear his comrade , and after waiting all day , when nearly every body was gone , the parties were brought up . In reply to the magistrate , the young man who had the hag confessed that he had taken the potattes , and the other said he had not had anything to do with them . " Well , " said the magistrate , " there is no witness , neither against you nor for you , therefore , your sentence is four , calendar months hard labour in Knutsford House of Correction . " Our informant very Justly asks , " was there ever such justice ( qu . injustice ) heard of , as to give an industrious
young man four months in one of the worst hells of England , far no crime whatever , or without a trial , or the least chance of clearing himself . " These fads only prove that until the people elect the magistrates , anft make the laws by which they are governed , they will always be exposed to eruelty , injustice , and oppression . The Projected Butchery at Manchester . —We have received a letter from some person , signing himself Edward Watkins datingfrom 26 " , Highstreet , Manchester , and describing himself as a member of the Committee of the ) Manchester Anti-Corn Law Association , impugning the accuracy of our report of this " ever-memorable demonstration" and professing to give a report , to the truth of which the writer is ready to swear . He
charges the commencement of the fight upon the Chartists , and affirms that the Danites and Cobdenites stood only on the defensive . He takes credit to himself for making some exertions to preserve the peace , but forgets to inform us why police and magistrates made no such exertions . We know nothing of this Mr . Edward Watkins , but had his letter , which is somewhat long , come earlier , we should probably have published it ; and , had toe done so , we should probably have made the writer wish he had not been so silly as to send it . He concludes by challenging us to appoint a committee to act in conjunction with another committee , to be appointed by tlie promoters of the meeting , to enquire into the whole proceedings . We refer his " challenge" to the
Manchester Executive , who , tf they know « nything cf him , will deal with it as to their judgment may be most requisite for public good . Glasgow . —Thb Rival Reporters . — We have received from Mr . Malcolm , the reporter of the Scottish Patriot , a letter in reference to some expressions in a paragraph received from our Glasgow Correspondent , a Week or two ago ; this letter was published in the Scottish Patriot oj last week ; and we have also received from our Glasgow Correspondent a letter in reply to it . — We don't like these personal bickerings ; they tend to do our cause much harm . We wish all our correspondents to avoid , as far as it is consistent with their public duty , all matter that map be personally offensive to any one . We regard
the Scottish Patriot as a valuable help-mate in the good work of Chartism , and , should be sorry to do anything to injure it . As we could not , in justice , insert Air . Malcolm's letter , without inserting Mr . M'Kay's reply , we shall decline to insert either . The Glasgow Chartists are best able to determine on the matter in dispute—they know the parties and can estimate them . If Mr . Malcolm know that the accusation of being " Whiggish , " which Mr . M'Kay brings against him is unfounded , he need apprehend no mischief from it , because , in that case , it can injure no one but his accuser . Mr , Skevington wishes to correct a statement made
by the reporter in his speech ut the Crown and ' Anchor . It was not the magistrate , but the High Constable of the hundred , that ran into the brook . At the same time , he wishes to acknowledge the following sums as received by him towards bearing his expences to London and back : —From the Nottingham friends , meeting at the King George on Horseback , 5 s . ; Sheepshead , 5 s . ; Mr . Davenport , Hathern , Is . fd ., Is . of which was from a friend at Sutton ; a Friend at Loughbro ' , 3 d . Ma . W . Martin . —Mr . O'Connor has requested us to state thai he has received a letter from Air , W . Martin , which had no address ; and had Mr . M . stated to where the reply was to be directed , he ihould have had one .
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To Agents . —We cannot placo any money received by Agents for defeno ? n to the account of those Agents receiving it : they must send the money , and when received it will be noticed , and not before . If any Chartist reshi ing in Newry , Ireland , will forward his address to Mr . Hurtge , Rosa , Herefordshire , he will receive the Noorthern Star regularly . G . Greenwood . —Yes .
POR MRS . FROST . £ . a . d . From Nottingham , per W . Bilbie # 39 * . a few Chartists at Chiehester 10 0 „ a friend at Buley ... 0 6 0 ^ London , per R . Marley 0 10 0 -. Manchester , pur A . Hey wood 6 1 0 FOR J . B . O ' BRIEN . From a friend at Batley 0 5 0 „ Dunfermline 0 1 t ' ., Manchester , per A . Heyweod 0 1 0 FOR MR ., I 1 OET . T . S . Brook ' s subscription .. 0 911 J From an English patriot abroad , per Mr . W . Cook 0 10 0
FOR MRS . CLAYTON . From Shelton , per J . Yates 0 3 0 „ London , per R . Marley 0 2 KOR THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OF fTHE INCARCERATED CHARTISTS . From the Rancliffe Arms , Nottingham ... 0 3 0 _ the National Charter Association , Lambeth 110 i POLITICAL PRISONERS' AND CHARTER CONVKNTION
FUND . From Aberdeen , per J . Smart ... .. 0 10 0 „ the Working Men of Tillicoultry , near Alloa 0 5 0 ^ Nuneaton Charter Association ... 0 10 o _ Ktighley 0 15 9 ^ ^ Cononly 0 4 23 „ Dumbristle 0 5 o " < . Crossgates 0 4 0 _ Ripponrten , per P . Platta 10 0 « Ouseburn , per J . Hall 0 2 6 „ Newton Heath , per A . Hoywood ... 0 5 0 „ . Manchester 0 10
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FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT . Wednesday Evening , June Oth . Suffering from the effects of a severe attack of illness , your Correspoudentbas this we « k been but little able to perform any kind of work , but , nevertheless , is now nearly recovered . He asks no favour but to bo engaged every niomeut in behalf of the cause , for this purpose he hopes that whenever hia presence ia required he may receive a letter addressed to him at No . 15 , Little Clarendon-atreW , Soiuers Town , or at Mr . Cleave'a , 1 , Shoe-lane , and he will attend thereto . All trades societies or meetings he will be moat happy to attend , only let him have a fow hours' notice . The Ministry have been defeated but still cling to office . They have thrown over their Corn Bill and all the agitation in its favour amounts to just this , nil ,
London and the Metropolitan Boroughs are now the scenes of active election proceedings . In the Tower Hamlets and the Borough of Marylebone , Chartist candidates are in the field , and the men seem determined to fight with them . ¦ Petition Committee . —This body of real good "« w * te » ' held their weekly meeting at the Dispatch Coffee Hoa » e , Bride-lane , Mr . Simpson in the chair . A number of petitions were handed in by Mr . Balls , the secretary , which were ordered to be sent to Mr . Duncombe for presentation . The Committee adjourned till Friday , June 18-h , v > hemt is pMtieulariy requested that , every member will-attend aad bring their petition sheets .
. A most numerous meeting of the inhabitants of the parish or 8 t . Paner&s , was holden at the Vestry Rooms , on Tuesday last , Mr . Chalk , churchwarden in the chair . A resolution in favour of her Majesty ' s Ministerial measures was proposed and seconded , to which an amendment was proposed in favour of the Charter by Mr . Gktudfellow , seconded by Mr . Peat . The show of bands being so very nearly equal , a division was called for , upon which the chairman declared the amendment loit by a email majority .
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Thb Tower Hamlet men have opened a new room for the purpose of carrying on the agitation Their numbers are dally increasing . . AT the weekly meeting of the St . Panens men the following resolution was unanimously carried : —rf TJbat at all coffee-houses , beerahops , pa / lie-houses , and hair dressers the members use , they insist upon the Northern Star being taken in . " Thb Pride of London apprentices and the joy of grownup citizens and their wives has disappeared , the veritable ground of enchantment has passed away . Aatley's is no morel it has been destroyed by a fire which broke oat on Tuesday morning at four o ' clock . The loss of the " President" steam ship gave rise to much and general uneasiness , but the feeling , however intense , with regard to that unhappy vessel and her voyagers , is , I am sorry to say , outbid by the nonarrival of the " Britannia , " for the safety of which vessel few hopes are now entertained .
The Bears and Bulls of the Stock Exchange are wonderfully quiet ; Indeed , Corn Laws and Corn Law Repeal , together with Sugar Duty and Timber Duty , do not appear to disturb the serenity of money gamblers , the stoeks remaining firm .
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Heckhondwike . — -Mr . Ciisset will preach a sermon in Heckmondwike Market-place , on Sunday morning , June the 13 th , on " the compassion of the Saviour towards the physical wants of the people . " Finsbury . —On Monday evening , the Hth inst ., the Finsbury Chartistu will meet at Lunt ' s Coffee Hou 6 e , for the purpose of reorganising new class leaders for the Finsbury district , and earnestly solicit the co-operation of all friends to the cause of democracy . Oldham . —Mr . Bell , from Manchester , lectures here tomorrow afternoon and evening .
Gateshead . —A publio meeting is to be held at the top of Oakwell Gate , on Wednesday evening , for the purpose of nominating a candidate to represent this borough in the ensning Parliament . Messrs Mason , Cook , and others are expected . It is hoped the meeting will be well attended . London—On Sunday evening next , June the 13 th , Mr . Riohard Spurr will open the following question for discussion , at the Chartist Room , 55 , Old Bailey , —the present position of the Chartist body , and the best tactics to be adopted for the advancement of our cause at the forthcoming elections ; when it is hoped every one feeling interested in the sucoess of our glorious Charter will attend .
Sunderland . —On Sunday afternoon Mr . Williams will lecture at the Life Boat House ; in the evening he will lecture in the Golden Lion room . Bishop Auckland . —On Sunday afternoon , at two o ' clock , June the 20 th , Mr . Williams will lecture at Bishop Auckland Batts , and on the following evening on West Auckland Green . Derby . —There will be a delegate meeting held at the Northern Star , Derby , on Sunday , the 21 th of June , 1841 , at one o ' olockin the afternoon , to take into consideration the propriety of re-electing Mr . Bairstow as missionary for the town and county of Derby and outskirts of the county . Each of the following places are requested to send a delegate : — Duffleld , Holbrook , Bel per , Alfreton , Heanor , llkeston , Stappleford , Sandiacre , Sawley , Borrowash ,
Ookbrook , Sponaon , Breaston , Melbourn , Castle Donnington , and Barton-upou-Trent , and any other villages that take an interest in the cause of Chartism . A delegate from any such places will be gladly received . All communications must be sent to Mr . Joseph Turner , at the sigh of the Northern Star , top of Bridge-street , Derby . Deptford . —Mr . Edmund Stallwood will lecture on Sunday evening next , June the 13 th , in the Democratic Academy , Deptford , Kent , on the Charter , as a remedy for our political disease , its practicability , means of obtainment , &o . . Hcddersfield . —On Tuesday evening next a public meeting will be held in the Association Koom , " to take into consideration the bloody , and unwarrantable conduct of the anti-Cora Law party , aided by Dan ' s party . "
Bilston . —It has been determined to hold an open air demonstration in this important mining distriot , on the 15 th of June , to which Messrs . White and Taylor have been invited .
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On Monday last , at his house in Jarratt-Btreet , aged 73 , R . W . Moxon , Esq ., formerly * magistrate of Hull . On Sunday last , aged 70 , Mr . Benjamin Canington , of the Holdemess-road , Hull , and formerly of Lincoln .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 12, 1841, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct710/page/5/
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