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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1841.
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ciua i Dasten to inrorm inat BANBURY—Tuesday. The nomination of the three candidates for the representatien of the Borough having just con-
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TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE COUNTY OF FIFE.
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GENTLEMEN , —Allow me to assure you , thatfor the invitation which I have received from a portion of your number to offer myself as a Candidate for your Suffrages , to represent you in Parliament , I return you my warmest thanks . Your invitation I at once accept , and , shall take an early opportunity of meeting you personally aud publicly , and then explain my principles , and aaswer any questions that may be put to me . In the meantime , allow me to give you a brief outline of my political principles . 1 st . I am determinedly opposed to all monopolies of every kind ; and shall , ' therefore , labour incessantly for their entire destruction ; but , being of opinion that all those monopolies which press so heavily upon the industry of the country , have sprung from , and are grounded in , the " monopoly of legislation , " I shall particularly devote my attention to the entire rooting up and overthrow of that master grievance . 2 nd . I shall support a thorough and searching inquiry into the laws and institutions of the country , with a view to their revision and purification , aa I believe their present tendencies are to lead to the commission of crime , and then punish those who perpetrate it . 3 rd . I am opposed to the connection of Churcli and State , being convinced that that unholy union , has done much to retard the progress of Christianity , as well as being a grievous outrage upon the consciences of Dissenters , and an intolerable burden upon the shoulders of the poor ; I shall , therefore , work heart and soul for their immediate and complete separation . 4 th . I believe agricultnre to have innumerable benefits to confer upon a nation superior te commerce ; and , therefore , shall attend carefully aud diligently to every measure introduced into the House of Commons , which may in any way affect its interests . 5 th . I shall , at the end of every Session , return and give an account of ray stewardship . I shall be at all times ready to explain any part of my conduct as your representative which may require it ; aud shall resign my trust into your hands when called upon to do so by a majority of the people . Gentlemen , —Upon these principles I take my stand , and look with perfect confidence to their triumph over all interested opposition . Men of Fife , do your duty , and I shall do mine . : JOHN DUNCAN .
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The disorder we have in view owes ita fatal results either to neglect or ignorance . In tha first stage it is always local , and easy to be extinguished by attending to the directions fully pointed out in the Treatise , without the smallest injury to the constitution ; but when neglected , or improperly treated , a merelocal affection will be converted into an incurable and fatal malady . What a pity that a young man , the hope of his country and the darling of his parents , should be snatched from all the prospects and enjoymetns of life by the consequences of one unguarded moment , and b y adisease which is not in its own nature fatal , and which never proves so if properly treated . 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Be did not like the tone of consideration i jn which Gentlemen on both sides of the hustings rooke of the poor . He did not like the idea of ; jnaking the poor always the recipients of charity , j He wanted the poor to hare their rights , and then : they woald not need any charity at all . ( Loud , cheer ? . ) That was odo fact—a singular anomaly of ; their social state . The poor and the industrious should alway 3 be Epoken of and thought of at the i game time . It was a singular fact that those who i produced all the wealth ; rrho , is connection with capital and skill , made the country great , rich , and powerful , should not at the same time be permitted to skare in the results of that industry . That society could not be well managed—could not be governed on just and Christian principles , which , disregarding that principle of scripture , which said , "That
flje labourer should first be the partaker of the fruits ;' and thai " he who would not work , neither should he eat . " Society distributed its rewards to its useless members , and awarded misery and toil , &nd destitution to those who produced all the wealth , who made this country so great . ( Loud ebeers . ) Therefore let the working men ask for no fftTOur , seek no charity ; let them ask a fair and full participation in the results of their own industry . Let them ask for justice , and justice only , and then be had not the slightest doubt they would require no charity from any class of the community . It was for these reasons that he stood forward with pride and pleasure to propose Mr . James Williams , of Sunderland , as a fit and proper person to represent this great and important borough . ( Loud cheers . )
Mr . James Iixingwobth seconded the nomination . Mr . JosHrA Hobso . v next advanced to the front of the hustings , and proposed Mr . James Leech , of Manchester , a man well qualified to represent , not only the interests of the boreagh of Leeds , but the whole community , vrhetner manufacturing or agricultural . Mr . William Gbeig seconded the nomination . The Matox then esquired if any other gentleman had & candidate to propose , and none appearing , he called noon „ , Mr . IJcmb , who spoke at great length , on all the Whig topics , aTowing himself for an extension of the Suffrage , and for other reforms , but he would proceed very cautiously , and not give a man a vote fill he was sufficiently " intelligent " to exercise it . For some time before he had finished , strong symptoms of disapprobation began to manifest themselves , he was heard in any thing but a
satisfactory manner . Mr . William Beckett was received with vociferous cheering by Ms Mends , bit assailed with hisses , cat-calls , hootins , and the most dkcordaut noises by the well trained band of hired " slavies , " yrbo were present to support the Liberals . The inierrap ; ion continued with more or less intensity during the whole of his adddress . Mr . Alda 34 spoke amidst " confusion worse confounded , and it was impossible for any one at the distance of two yards from him , to hear a sentence which fell from him . Lord Jocblyx followed , but the game still continned , and only those who stood beside" him could hear a word he said .
Mr . JAMES WILLIAMS next came forward , and wa 3 received with tremendous cheers . He addressed the meeting as electors and non-electors of the borough « f Leeds , Englishmen , Irishmen , or Scotchmen ; to whatever country , to whateTer sect or party they might belong , he met them that day with feelings of pride , because he had principles to unfold to taem which , it waa their interest and their duty to understand . He had duties to bring before them which he was sure required only to be brought before them , to enable them to recognise their Importance , and to cause them , as one man , to unne heart , hand , and soul , and bind _ themselves together under the principles of equal jast 5 ce and ecmi&e&e * a new movement "without reference to fictions , political , religious or commercial . Had thej assembled then to be tbe slaves of faction ! ( Shouts . ) of " No , no . ' ") Had they assembled as the descendants of Pvm , Hampden , Elliott , and
Cromwell , and the rest of the illcsirious neroes , patriots , and philanthropists , thai had raised England to her proud position inthesca ' . e of nations ? ( Cheers . ) The country was now in a state which both parties admitted to be bordering on revolution , and therefore they had both proved , themselves incapable of properly managingthe country which they had ruled so long . ( A voice , " The Corn Laws . ") He heard a person in the crowd allude to the Corn Laws Were there no eviis afflicting England previous to the passing of the Corn Laws ? Was it no grievance that a party shoald have the power to plunge them into warfare with their brethren of other countries , telling them that those men whose interests and feelings were the same as their own , were their natural enemies , and that they were promoting the honour of their country by plunging the weapon of destruction into their bosoms , and making thonsands of widowed wives and tens of thousands of
fatherless children , sqnandenng millions of treasure , and entailing a debt that was now weighing them to tie earth 1 ( Lond cheering . ) He appeared bfcfore them as the aneoinpromising advocate of free trade , and tbe determined opponent of tbe existing Corn Laws , and all taxes that made food dear , and , as a necessary eonseqnence . wages low . ( Loud cheers . ) What said their friend , Mr . Hume ? He told ihem that those laws were enacted by monopolizing law makers . And yet Lord John Ttussell declared that the Beform Bill was intended to give a preponderance to the landed interest , which Air . Hcme considered a band of plundering monopolists . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Hume had told them that there was a selfish principle in human nature , and
how were they to counteract the encroachments made upon their rights by men under the influence of that principle but by destroying class-legislatioa ? He asked them were they not qualified to exercise tie franchise ! Were they not equal to the Kegroes of the northern states of America I and eld not Mr . Buckingham tell them , in a book he had recently pu blished , that the Negroes of North America exercised the franchise in Massachusetts I aud so far from any evil following it , the greatest good was the result of it . ( Lond cheers . ) Then were not Englishmen qualified to exercise the franchise ? He demanded for every man of mature age a voice in the making of the laws that were to secure his peace , happiness , and rights from those who
wished to encroach upon them . ( Very great cheers . ) He was for a scheme of national education , unconnected with religions creeds . ( Shouts of "So is Hume . ") He was for the total separation of Church and Si&te- ( Shouts of " So is Hume . "; He was for the repeal of all those laws that encroach on the rights of conscience , and for the repeal of all the taxes on tbe necessaries of life , and the substitution of a property tax . ( Loud cheers . ) He contended , however , if the Dissenters wished a repeal of the Chsrch-rates . a repeal of the Corn-laws , and other sectional measures , they must come forward to the miiiions and say , they were willing and anxious ; o extend to them the power they themselves possessed . They ( ihe Chartists ) did not want to advance thecause by the sword ; they gave that to their oppressors . They had the power of the press , that mighty instrument , whose battle for the right had been
so effectual in the past , and would be more so in the future —( cheers)—the press which had been the ark in which the productions of the mind were floated over the convulsions and anarchy that once deluged the earth and brought them down to an age in which the growing enlightenment of the people was adapted to understand them . There was the cause of truth , and for truth there was the press , with scinch they would fight the battles of humanity , and would leave the field bloodless . ( Loud cheers . ) With that they would achieve a triumph more glorious by far than those which Wellington , Manborough , or Napoleon , or any of the men of sword could boast of ; a Tictory that would leave no orphaned children , no widowed wives , which would leave none to weep bsnind it , but which vr ould proclaim peace and prosperity , and would enable the whole world to hold a jubilee , and celebrate their universal emancipation . ( Loud and repeated cheers . )
air . James Leech , of Manchester , then presented himself , and was received with tremendous cheers by the Chartists . He said that the question by which the country was now agitated irom beginning to end , was that propounded by the Whig Governttent , and to which the name of free trade had been given . ( Hear , hear . ) Now he presumed * hat the woollen weavers of YorksLire were about in the same position as the cotton weavers of Lancashire . Let him pnt a single question * ith respect to their trade and commerce . Had they not had within the last thirty years a thriving trade in Yorkshire , unparalleled in any other county in the world , and had not their wages during t « e same period been rapidly sinking down to almost
** aing ; ( Crfes of " They have . " } Within the « e fifteen years the wages of the working men at Wwfard hid i > eezz r&iaced to the extern of neariy *«• out of every 20 s . that was formerly paid , Jau e the worsted trade , in that sasie district , had aoabisd . Did they want more of such ** extension V * 5 hane /') What was the reason of all this ! for ?*** * M a question they ought to examine , and n-rmg discovered it , they ought to apply a ** ° ttj . iUear , hsar . ) The reason in the first Piaee , wa « the conrpetition of steam , wood and tton again * the nesh , Wood , and bones of the people ; K i secondly , to the protection given to that macbi-^ by kw , which hi \ d been denied to the man who
aiade it , and to the clave who worked it , when " was made . ( Hear , hear . ) The Whigs had talked ™* a of late about Free " j * rade ; now suppose the ^ fnues of England were \ O be decided fey a rac e , M that an Englishman an d a Frenchman was to " ? « ie two contending p&n . 'es . ( Hear , bear , and « een . ) The free traderspla . wd a cwt . of lead upon , ?* eaoulders of the Englishm \ n , and yet they ex-J * f *? d him to compete with tke frenchman who had 5 S *™« to carry . (» Aye , that ' s ihe Corn Laws . ") ; wSV ** the way in which the labouring classes "i * been dealt with , ( Cheers . ) ' fae Government j « wie eoantry had constantly been pi ^ in * hurtbem ^ their backs , in addition to the ** MH > 0 , 000 * -je » r that they had to pay for the L'U * re * t of aj
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misnamed thing called the National Debt . ( Cheers , and -an exclamation of " Who gave us it !") He had been asked who gave them the National Debt ! It was the Tories who gave them it ; but the Whigs bad kept it up . ( Cheers and hisses , and cries of " They have . ") It was his firm conviction that the burthens which now ground down the people would never be removed until they were represented in the senate-house , and a due protection given to their owa industry . ( Hear , hear . ) He would call their attention to a fact which came under his own observation at Manchester . There was a certain manufacturer who had 50 spinners in hi 3 establishment ; they turned out in consequence of a reduction of wages . When they went back to work
at a reduced price , there was only employment for 25 , for the spinning mules had been joined together , and one man was made to do two men ' s work ; and yet not a single shilling extra was allowed for the additional labour . ( Shame . ) These same men again turned out , and when they applied for work a second time , they found that the machinery were not only double decked , but self-actiDg , and there was a cast iron man to supereede them . ( Cries of " Shame , shame , shame . " These men were now walking about tbe Btreots , Borne selling onions , others gathering rags , and the remainder resorting to any other miserable mode in their power to obtain a mouthful of bread . ( Cries of " Shame , shame . ") Some persons would say—would you tax machinery ? No , he
would not , but in proportion as machinery superseded manual labour , and the populatian of the large ' manufacturing towns became redundant , they ought to be withdrawn to the waste lands of tbe country to cultivate the soi /; and that wonld repeal the Corn LawB , and give the people bread enough to eat . ( Hear , hear . ) He had the authority of Mr . Porter for saying that the export of manufactures from this country amounted to between £ -6 » , ooo , eoo and £ 70 , 000 , 000 a-year . and yet Le found tu » t during the last twenty-five years the wages of the working classo 3 had been reduced from £ 100 , 000 , 000 to £ 120 , 000 , 000 a-jcar , while the whole of their exports had not amounted to more than the sums he had mentioned . ( Hear , hear , and
loud cheers . ) What had been the result ! The mimifactur ers had now no market whiGh was of any value to them . Why ? Because they had destroyed the best market they had in the world , namely the home market , by taking away the wages of the working men ( Cheers , and cries of Hear , hear . ) They reminded him of a man who was afflicted with athma , and who , in order to breathe more freely , cut his own throat . ( Laughter . ) The manufacturers of this country had done the same thing ; they had taken away from the labouring classes tha means of purchas i ng the produee of their own toil , and then complained of being unable to dispose of their goods . ( Hear . ) The Speaker then proceeded to show that a total repeal of the Corn Laws would
only benefit an individual to the extent of three halfpence a week , and added that a man who rose at half-past fire in a morning to go to his work , and happened to stumble upon some stone on the road , would lose more by a fine , for loss of time , than the repeal of the Corn Laws would benefit him . ( Cneers . ) The Whig 3 had charged the Tories with making food dear , but he ( Mr . Leech ) charged the Whigs with making it doubly dear by reducing the wages ' of the working classes by means of machinery . He claimed on behalf of those who were the producers of all wealth a right to vote in sending men to the House of Commons who would give the same protection to labour as was given to property . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) He had no objection to property haviug its just protection , but
he denied in toto that it had a right to more than tbe industrious classes who produced it . ( Hear , hear ) He begged to tell both the great factions that , if they _ delayed much longer to do justice to the working men of England , a bloody revolution would fee the consequence . K Hisses & groauS . ) Some gentlemen seemed to think that was desirous of such a result . He begged to say that he would rather endure slavery much " longer than he had done thau see England steeped up to the ear 3 in blood and turmoil . What he meant to say was , that , if such a tt&te of things did happen , it could not be charged upon the ignorance of the people , but upon those who had reduced them to their present miserable condition by unjust and selfish-legislation , ( The speaker sat down amidst great cheers . )
At the conclusion of Mr . Leech ' s address , the Mayor , assisted by the Town Clerk , proceeded to take the show of hands . The appearance of the crowd when all hands were held up , was interesting in ih exrreme , and when to the hands sneceeded the waving of hats , the effect was beyond description . The shouts and clapping of bands were truly deafening . The Mator deliberated and consulted for upwards of twenty minutes , and the show was tnken no less than thirteen times , when the
Mayor at last said , reall y the parties were so nicely balanced that it vras with great difficulty he could decide which had the majority . He had taken an oath to fill the duties of his office impartially , without fear , favour , or affection to any party , though he might not coincide with a ^ rea ^ number then present . He admitted the majority was not great , bnt still , according to the best opinion he could form irom tbe show of hands , and the extent of ground covered , he conceived ihe show was in favour of Mr , Hume and Mr . A ! dam . Tiiis announcement wa 3 received with mingled cheers and
execratiocs . Air . Hobson and Mr . Fleming at once announced that as the ? how of hands was agahis ! them , and as they were adherents to the principle of Universal Suffrage , they should act on that , principle ; and , on behalf of Mr . Wiiliams and Mr . Leech , withdrew from further contett . Mr . John Atki > "son then , in the usual form , demanded a poll for Mr . Beckett and Lord Joce . ' yn , and the immense crowd , who' had been stauding till nearly five o ' clock , dispersed without anv sign of -disturbance or ill blood being manifested . One thing connected with this election is deserving of espeeial note : the Chartists had the hearing . Not one of the other candidates were heard , even by their own friends ; but the Chartist candidates , as well as their proposers and seconders , were heard with the greatest order , attention , and even interest , by all parties .
THE POLL Took place ou Thursday morning . For tbe first two hours , the Whig candidates had the lead , but at eleven o ' clock , Mr . Wm . Beckett was at the head of the poll . At three o ' clock , the numbers were : — AJdam 1815 Hume ... 17 !) l Beckett — 1 H ~ 3 Jocelyn 1759 FINAL CLOSE OF TUB POLL . Beekett ( T ) 2075 Aldam ( W ) ... „ 2642 Hume ( W ') 2 » 34 Jocelyn ( T ) 19 _ ' 7 Beckett and Aldam retnrned .
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Ms . O'Co >' . voa has been requested to sat / whether 5 s . from Irvine , for P . Hoey , arrived snfe ? Ye ? , and also It . 6 d . from A . W , Edinburgh , toicards defraying erpence of M Doual !' s election . Mrs . Frost a >; d the Subscjuftio : < s on her beha . lt . — We hare received a letter signed "E . Truemas , " and dated from 264 , Xewtnrrn-roic , Birmingham , enquiring whether Mrs . Frost has received any of ( he donation * tchich we have received for hir , nnd if not , irhy ? to which , rre answer , that , on the ' 2 {) th of Jariuary , in this year , £ Ab 2 s . ' ~ ld . teas sent to ?> frs . Frosty the fwl OJTiOUyii of all ire had received for her up to ( fie 26 iA of December , 1840 , and of which £ 5 was from F . O Connor , ar . d £ 32 lSs . % kd . was the
produce of the extra halfpenny upon the Star of November 7 th . From January to June of this year , we have received for her account £ 4 2 s . Id ., which teas sent to her on the 23 rd instant . Thomas Baldwik , Cols * . —W > do not well understand the cme he has sent us about the overlroker and his eye-glass . There never will be wanting tools and instruments of tyranny so long as working men suffer their energies to be consumed in ihe production of wealth for others . William Paine . — We have no room . Stratfori > -o 3-Avo>\—A correspondent writes us that the town council has v&ted out of the publicfunds dlQofor the repairs of the church , includ . ny the carpeting of the seats for the town-council men .
Jf the householders of Slrutford-on-Avon do justice to themselves , they wilt take care , at the next election , to have men who know better how to its * the people ' s money . A . M . R . G . K- —No . Mb . Dkan TATLOfi . — W * are requested to state , thai any locality wishing the services of this qentieman as a lecturer must apply at once to Mr . John Jackson , Co-operative Stores , Green Lane , Derby . E . Clj ^ tom . —Seems in his note to blame us for the non-appearance , last week , of the notice he has note sent us . We beg to assure him , that if it had been sent it should have been inserted . G . B . —We have no room for his poetry at present . Thb Correspondence bettceen Air . O'Connor and
parties in London , alluded to in the recent correspondence between Mr . O'C . and Mr . Henry Heiherington , has been forwarded to us by the latter gentleman , for insertion . We received it last week , but too late for insertion ; this week it is excluded by the elections . Next week it shall appear . Tee i ' OBis must excuse us : we have received more Chartist election songs than we could count m an hour or sing in a week . Bust Chxbtisis must excuse us . We cannot giv * their church-rate communication this week . The elections fill our columns . M . Scbofield , Ashtox—Neither a father or mother is heir-ai-lcu ) to a child : the nearest relative of testator's father u heir to the residue .
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Radicals of Hyde . —We do not know anything about Mr . Moor house . William Clark .. —If not noticed , it has not been received . J . Elhs . —The portraits of Feargus O , Connor were sent by post , postage paid , leng ago . George Wright . —Do not know . Robert Allison , Cotti . ngham . — We do not know him , and never sent any papers to him . FOR THE WIVES AJJD FAMILIES OF THE INCARCERATED CHARTISTS . £ . S . d . From Heckmondwike , per GoodhaU ... 0 5 0 POLITICAL PRISONERS' AND CHARTER CONVENTION
FUND . From Chester-le-street 8 _ Birmingham National Charter Association # 90 .. Redditch , do ., do 0 5 0 „ Mr . Valoise , TValsall 0 1 .. Mr . M'Carne , do . _ 2 « FOR HBS . FROST . From D . C . W ., Dundee 0 2 $ .. John Simpson , Wakefleld ... 1 0 _ Mrs . Lancaster , do . ... ... 1 9 ~ a friend , do . ... 0 6 0 2 6 „ From a few frienda to Chartism , Southampton ... 0 « 0 FOR MR . HOEY . Hugh M'Harney and three others , at Dunfermline 0 3 I
FOR A PRESS FOR J . B . O ' BRIEN . From T . Ireland , Dunfermiine 0 9 6 -. D C . W ., Dundee 0 2 6 _ FOR THE PERSECUTED CHARTISTS IN IRELAND . 2 From Hugh M'Marnay and P . M'Marnay . Danfermline ,.. ... ... 0 3 6 for the EXECUTIVE COUNCIL , MANCHESTER , TO BRING TO JUSTICE THE PARTIES WHO ATTACKED THE CHARTISTS AT MANCHESTER . From Colsnaughton , per T . Hall e 4 0 „ Tillic&ultry 9 4 8
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THE REAL QUESTION FAIRLY STATED "ELECTORS AND NON-ELECTORS , if you JCi would learn the real merits of the "Corn , Sugar , and Timber" Question , and tbe effect the Whig Scheme would have upon Farmers , Labourers , Shopkeepers , and Owners of Money in other people's hands , read AN ADDRESS To the Electors and Non-Electors of the County of Cork . By Feargus O'Connor . Which , together with a Letter to Mr . Thomas Cronjs , an Irish Elector , is neatly printed in a large Sheet , and sold for ONE FENNY . Printed and published by Joshua Hobson , Publisher of the Siar > froin whom it may be had in any quantity ; and may be had also of all Agents of the Star .
The Northern Star. Saturday, July 3, 1841.
THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JULY 3 , 1841 .
Our space is so fully occupied with the elections that we can do no more than call the attention of our West Riding friends to Mr . O'Connor ' s letter in our first page : and we do implore them to read and mark well its every line . Everything that faction can do , by gold , threats , or violence , will , we know , be done to keep the people from giving their owa men the . ahow of hands . This must not be permitted . The honeBt " workies" of Yorkshire must come in their countless thousands and testify by their peaceful assertion of the rigkt their consciousness of wrong . MONDAY MUST BE SUCH A DAY AS YORKSHIRE NEVER SAW .
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THE NEW " HOUSE . " The work goes warmly on ! There is a certainty of a warm berth for the next Ministry , be they whom they may ! At the hour of going to press , the elections decided left the Whigs in a minority of twenty-one ! The Bloodies have got a smashing ! Won't they be savage ! and won't they give us something to get on to the Treasury Benches again ?
Ciua I Dasten To Inrorm Inat Banbury—Tuesday. The Nomination Of The Three Candidates For The Representatien Of The Borough Having Just Con-
ciua i Dasten to inrorm inat BANBURY—Tuesday . The nomination of the three candidates for the representatien of the Borough having just con-
ea , you mere nas Deen a glorious display of feeling among the people , in favour of the Radical candidate . By seven o ' eloek this morning , they began to muster , and continued to do so till a little past eight o ' clock , when they began to parade the town accompanied by the man of their heart , Henry Vincent , his nominator , seconder , and committee , with a goodly number of electors , and a committee of non-lectors , with band , banners . and flags , followed by the different societies to whom they belonged , forming one of the largest
processions ever remembered on a day of nomiuation morn ; after parading the town , they arrived at the hustings , and after the preliminaries had been gone through , the Mayor proceed to call upon Mr . Tancreds friends as the first in the field . Mr . Lionel Spurrett nominated , and a Jstranger seconded the nomination . Mr . Vincent was then nominated by Mr . Morse , and seconded by Mr , Cocktril ) , Mr . Holheck nominated by Dr . Sanderson , seconded by B . Aplin , Esq . It would be in vain for me to attempt to give a report of their speeches ; I therefore shall only say , Mr . Tancred endeavoured to show that ho had done all he could do to promote Reform , since he had been the representative of the Borough , and that
he could not make out why he should be so unpopular now , &c . Mr . V . in his usual Btyle delivered his views and intentions should he be returned , and gave both Whigs and Tories a good dressing . Mr . Holbech spoke some time like a thorough goin $ z Tory about the Church and Queen , Ministers and the Corn Law ? , &c , and about 12 o'clock , the Mayor called for a show of hands , when it was declared that the show was in favour of Mr . Vincent ; after which the dense crowd withdrew , accompanying rheir re = pecnve man to his Committee-room , Mr . Vincent ' s friends taking a round in that part of Banbury and Neilthrop which they had not gone before . The non-electors meet at thre « o ' clock , and intend parading the town all the afternoon .
If tbe poll closes before the post leaves to-morrow I will write you the result . I am , Sir , Yours , truly , W . COLLETT .
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TO THE CONSTITUENCY OF THE PETITION CONVENTION , &c . Friends and Brothers . —I . in common with my friend Smart , laid before you a statement of our ineotue ami expenditure , some time ago , and in the printed statement there were two mistakes : first , £ 1 was put down in the receipts instead of one shilling ; secondly , £ 1 6 s . in the tspenditure , instead of £ l 5 s . I wrote to the Star , correcting those mistakes , and fairly stating bow maUers now Btood between hs and the country . For Bome reason or other , my letter was not inserted in the Star . I do not wish to make a public complaint of this neglect , because I do not know whether it was received , but if received , and two gross errors published , they ought to have been corrected . The base now stands as follows : — 1 st . The London delegates and the doorkeeper have been paid in full , except an additional 10 s . to each London delegate , provided there was a surplus fund .
2 nd . Messrs . Smart , Skevington , and Martin , still require to be paid one pound each , and as there have been funds sufficient subscribed at the Star office , I should expect that they would apply for their respective sums , and tbe balance be handed over to the Executive , as well as Mr . PitkethJy ' s balance sheet , which has never yet been accounted for before the public . The account handed in to the Star office shows that I sm a loser by thin transaction to the amount of 18 . 6 < 1 . which I cheerfully submit to .
I have to return my sincere thanks to the country , { or the manner in which they have come forward to support us , and also to Mr . Cleave , for the kind manner in which he aided the finance committea Mr . O'Connor also deservss the thanks of tbe constituency for the personal exertionB be made to maintain the Convention for the fortnight in London . I remain , yours sincerely , In the cause of justice , P . II . M'Douall . Bath , June 22 d , 1841 ,
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LETTER FROM MR . O'BRIEN TO MR . O'CONNOR . Lancaster Castle , June 29 th , 1841 . Mt Deae Feahgus , —I see you have favoured me frith trwo voluminous letters In the Star ot Saturday l&st Why a few incidental remarks disapproving of a single item in your multifarious and most diversified recommendations to the people , Bhoald draw forth eight columns from your pen , yon best know yourself . All I know is that you could have said more , ( to the purpose ) in one half a column than you have said in tee eight , and that nevertleless yon bave not uttered one senter . ee calculated to make me see your new pro-Jury policy in any other light than I have seen it in from tbe outset I ct $ consider your assumptions , your reasoning upon them , and your conclusions to be , from first to last , a string of airy delusions .
'Tis not mv intention , however , to keep up a controversy -with you en the subject , nor upon any other subject , numerous as are the subjects upon which we differ .
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In tbe first place , I could not expect the use of eight columns of your paper to answer you paragraph by paragraph . In tbe next place , eight columns from me would be sure to draw eight more ( mayhap eighteen ) from you , and still neither party be satisfied . la the third place , I abominate controversy between friends , or men embarked in the same cause , never having known any good to come of it , but much evil . In the fourth place , my opposition to one point would be sore to lead me ( in the progress of tbe controversy ) to dispute your statements and the wisdom of your views on many other points , not of immediate interest , a course which would bo neither agreeable to me nor profitable to the cause .
In the fifth place , my opposition te such of your doctrine and modes of agitation as I disapprove of , would be construed by your friends , and by those who don't know me , into attacks upon yourself , the Star , and your immediate followers . And in the sixth and last place , because when men differ in opinion , I think it best and sufficient , for bath parties to address themselves to the pnblic , and having explained their respective views , leave the rest to pablio opinion , For those general reasons and also for the particular one that the elections will be over or nearly over , before this appears in print , I shall barely say in this letter , what may suffice to let the public see , wherein we agree and differ , ou the subject of dispute between us , and then take mj leave of the discussion .
lat . We are both in favour of practically asserting Universal Suffrage at the present election by cheating a National Representation through the show of bauds ' suffrage , supposing that suffrage to be in our favour , as , no doubt it is , or wouid be , were proper steps taken to prepare the country for it On this point we are fully agreed . It was recommended to us in the manifesto of the first Convection ; it received the sanction of innumerable publio meetings j it was approved of by both you and mo , before the Convention made it one of its ulterior measures ; " and I now state , what I have
often stated before , that had all tbe leaders , yourself included , only applied your energies unitedly and cordially to this one point , by canvassing and agitating the country for tbe last twelve or even three months , and getting candidates ready for each county , city , and borough , &c , instead of broaching new and conflict , isg plans ot agitation , with no practical object in view —had you and they , I say , only done this , we might be at this moment in a condition to carry the Charter , or something nearly tantamount and directly leading ta it
Upon the question of a national representation , then , We both agreed , as regards its utility and necessity . We only diSar as to the fact , whether you and other leaders have taken the proper 6 teps to secure it . Yoa think you have . I ~ think you have not ; and I think the other Convention leaders who sanctioned it in the manifesto , are still more to blame than you , for not having taken any steps whatever to prepare the country for it , till within a week or two of the elections , when , of course , it was too late . You did something in the way of recommendation . They did nothing at all .
2 . We are both agreed m recommending Chartist electors to bring forward candidates of their own , at every election , and to split . their votes with either faction that will split with them . So far we are agreed , but you at once destroy the good of your recommendation ; you , in fact , render it almost a dead letter , by tagging au » thet recommendation to it , which makes the first . nugatory ; for you tell the Chartist electors " in all places where they are not strong enough to carry their own man" ( that is EVERYWHERE !) to vote for the Tory , and keep out the Whig . You must see , if you are not blind , that this advice knocks the other on the head , —for what inducement can a Tory candidate have to split bis votes with our party , if you tell him before hand ,
that he is to have our votes , whether he splits with us or not ? What Tory candidate would be Billy enough to drag a Chartist candidate along With him into Parliament if he could get in without ? Yet that is the very position your Vro-Tory policy would place him in . Then , as to the Whig party—the more likely of the two to coalesce with us—you knock all our chances from that quarter on the head at once , by the palpably absurd and unjust distinction you set up between them and tke Tories ; for , you tell us that the Whigs must at all hazards bo destroyed as a party —that their extinction as a party is absolutely essential to the success of Chartism . How could you expect a Whig candidate to coalesce with us under these circumstances ? True , he is a tyrant and
a usurper , but he knows the Tory is the same or worse , and that we , Chartists , I&owlt too . If he Bees us , then , make a distinction in favour of his rival at his expense , he naturally concludes , ( and has a right to conclude ) , that our opposition is not to the principle of tyranny and usurpation , ( which would be justifiable and laudable ) , but to some meaner , baser motives infused into tbe Chartist electors by tht ) ignorance or malice of others , and with these feelings , he naturally says to himself , — " Damn these Chartists ! Why should I coalesce with them to get in one Whig at the expense of getting in a Chartist fellow along with him . Who will vote for a worse iyraid than Tnyself on tbe mere speculation of extinguishing me , and that , without his getting , or even
stipulating for , any advantage at all from tbat other tyrant ? No ! better to let two Tories in , than , a Whig and Chartist , on these terms , " and so there is an end of all cbance ot the Whig party splitting with us . Thus , you see , Feargus , that your second recommendation goes entirely to destroy your first—that in which we both agree—namely to split with either party that will bona Jide split with us . But if instead of making your absurd and unjust distinction between the two factions , —the Chartist electors tsay Newcastle , for instance ) were to go honestly and manfully to each of the two factions , and say thus— " here we are , 100 Chartist electors of this borough , though having votes ourselves , we ar « virtually unenfranchised in consequence of our brethren , the non-electers , 8 , 000 strong
having no votes , through your usurped monopoly of tbe franchise . These 8 , 000 honest , useful men belong , like ourselves , to the ranks of laborious industry . Their wants , feelings , and Interests are the same as ours , and they would consequently vote as -we vote , if they had their rights . An unjust law deprives them of thtse rights ; and though their disfranchisement virtually deprives us of ours , unless you Whigs , with your 1 , 000 votes , or you Tories , with your 800 , shall choose to make common cause with them and us . It is in your power to render the unjust law a dead letter in this borough , by returning two popular candidates , agreeably to the will of the majority of the whole electors and non- electors—and we should have a just right to require that at your hands . But we ask not so much . We shall be content with one representative for us 8 , 401 adult men , and leave you to choose the other , though only 1 , 800 in number . We
offer to coalesce and split out votes with either party of you on these conditions , that is , man for man in the representation of the borough ; but if neither of you will do this—if you are determined to have the whole representation to yourselves , then we shall oppose you both alike , we shall make common-cause with our unrepresented brethren , put candidates of our own in nomiuation , and abide by ihe show of hands , as our forefathers did , before your blasted property-qualifications had robbed them of their rights . And we teH you for your comfort , that every other borough , city , and county in the kingdom will do the same—so now take the consequences of your tyranny and folly . We propose the most moderate terms to you , terms which offered you more than justice , and ourselves less , but in tbe pride and selfishness of your hearts , you have rejected us with scorn—which proves that it is you , and not the law , that is in fault . So now , as we said before , take the consequences . "
Now Fearg us , what can be plainer , more straightforward , more intelligible than this ? Compare it with the hobbling , crooked course you recommend , and say in the hones ty of your heart , which would be the more likely one—your ' s or mine—to promote our common object—viz ., Hie causing one or other of tbe / actions to Coalesce With US , SO as to pet some forty or jlft y Chartist candidates into the House of Commons ; or failing that , to gel a national representation by show of hands . Either of these you admit would effect our purposei . e ., either the forty or fifty members , or the national representation . We ore agreed in recommending both —we only differ as to the mode of doing the thing . You prefer yours ; I prefer mine . Well , let the country decide between us , or without us , if they like . After all the decision must rest with them , and provided success crown their efforts , neither you nor 1 will , I believe , care by whose plans or advice they carry their points .
3 rd . I have stated how far we agree and disagree on two heads . Let me now pass to a third . You seem to think it no disgrace fora Chartist to vote for a Tory though tbat Tory will not vote tot , nor recognise him in any shape or way , as entitled to equal rights with himself . I , on the contrary , think it most disgraceful and degrading to vote for either Whig or Tory , or to give either faction a moment ' s countenance or support , except on terms of reci procity or the mutual recognition of each other ' s rights . I go further 1 assert that the Chartist who ToteB fox either Whig or Tory ( except on the terms specified ) , does practically , sanction the usurpation and tyranny of the faction he rotes for ; that he , by so doing , becomes , in fact , morally responsible for the future crimes and tyranny of that faction , and . that he disqualifies himself morally for all future resistance to its domination , at
leaat until he wipes out his disgrace at some future election . Remember , he Totedfpr the faction with a full knowledge of its character and acts ; he helped to p * t a member of it into power ovet him and his , and , consequently , I again repeat , be can have no right afterwards to resist or complain of the crimes or tyranny of that faction . Bat the case becomes entirely altered , where the factions agree to split their votes with our candidate . A Chartiist elector may then , 1 say , both conscientiously and honestly vote for the faction that splits with us ,- —partly because though ostensibly voting for them he is ¦ voting in reality for his own man , and his own princicples ( he having got perhaps ten votes in exchange for one ) but chiefly because the " simple fact of either faction so far recognising our claims as to agree to split their votes with us pro tanto is an abandonment of the usurpation we charge them with , and does therefore entitle them to
our approbation and support in return . " Yes , Feargos , I abide by every word and letter of this sentence , even the word approbation , which like
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Macbeth ' s omen , seems most unaccountably to have stuck in your throat . Remember , I apply the "word approbation to the faction ' s then conduct < viz : in splitting with us ) , and not to their general conduct or principles . And why should we not approve of such conduct ? Is it not aa abandonment of their usurpation , to prefer a coalition with us to either coalescing with the other faction , or letting them return the two members ? You ndmit , yourself , ttiat the Whigs , generally , would rather return tea Tories than one Chartist to Parliament , and vies versa . la fact , no man knows better than you , that it matters little to the great body of the electors ( Whig and Tory ) which of the two factions prevails at an election ; so long aa they can
keep out of Parliament '' men of extreme and dangerous opinions , "—i . e . Chartists . Ttus being the genetal feeling , then , does not that constituency deserve approbation at our hands , which first breaks through the pride of caste , and discarding all selfish feeling and class interests , opens a door for the admission of Chartism into the House of Commons , by giving a Chartist candidate the benefit of their votes , so that the non-electors shall be represented as well as their own class ? I decidedly think such constituency , whether Whig or Tory , entitled to oar approbation and thanks , as well as to the votes we may be able to give in exchange , and so would you , I guess , if you rightly conceive my meaning .
Now for the injurious tendencies of your advice , and the assumptions it is founded upon . [ We shall give the remainder of Mr . O'B ' s letter in our next ] [ The reader will perceive , from the conclsding portion of this letter , that it is to be continued . We nave given above all we have received , and just as we received it . We are happy to perceive the perfect unanimity of purpose which exists between Mr . O'Connor and Mr . O'Brien , whatever difference may exist between them , as to the means proposed for the accomplishment of the same objec * The manner in which this difference of opinion is expressed furnishes a proper example to all partics advocating the cause of the people . —Ed ]
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Keighlet . —On Friday last , Lords Morpeth and Milton paid a visit here on their electioneering tour through the West Riding . It had been the intention of the Whig party to make their reception as brilliant as possible by stopping their factories , and making their work-people walk in procession with cards and banners . The extreme wetness of the day , however , and the unwillingness of the people to add to the pageant , by honouring the party who had used them so badly , made the attempt such a miserable failure , tbat by the time the candidatos made their entry the whole number might be about equal to that usually drawn together to witness a dog battle , or the exploits of Punch and Judy . The Chartista , who had been making
preparations for the occasion , had drawn a waggon opposite the Whig hustings , on which stood Messrs . Firth and Knowles , surrounded by a number of Radicals , to interrogate the candidates . It having been agreed upon between the two parties that both should have a fair hearing , Lord Morpeth addressed the crowd upon the bad effects of Tory Government , and the great benefits likely to spring from the three important measures proposed by the present Ministry . The speech , which was an echo to tho others on the same subject , was replied to by Mr . Joseph Firth , who gare an able Radical speech , commenting , as he went ou , upon the delinquency of the Whigs , and their various base measures . He told him that the display of yellow around him
meagre as it was , would have been much more so , if the manufacturers had not intimidated their work , people , by compelling them to sport the badge of his party . For his part , he said he had no doubt that , if he had been working at his old employment of woolcombing , and been at the head of a family of small children , he should have formed one of the crowd , with a yellow card in his hat . The effect of this observation was quite magical , for in the course of a few minutes afterwards scarcely a card was to be seen , some of the weavers shewing their independence so far as to tear them in pieces , and throw them towards the Whig hustings . Lord Milton uttered a few sentences afterwards , but he spoke so low , and appeared bo ill at ease , that he
excited the pity , more than the spleen , of the spectators . Mr . Knowles replied in an able and effective speech , which toJd ably upon his Lordship's , and drew loud and repeated applause from ths crowd . The Chartist committee had procured a black flag with the portraits of Frost and O'Connor fastened to it , beneath which was inscribed in large letters , " behold Frost and Q'Coneer the Whig victims . " During Mr . Firth's discourse , this flag was unfurled full in the faces of the two candidates as startling proofs of Whig liberality . After the business was over , their Lordships proceeded to Otley and were saluted on their departure with heavy groans mixed with a few cheera from the crowd . On Tuesday last , the two Tory candidates paid their visit on the same business . The day was
extremely fine and as Whig misrule had taken away a great deal of that marked preference which used to be bestowed upon them , the blues Buffered very little molestation . Their entrance into the town from Bingley was very imposing , their adherents having mustered in strong numbers from the surrounding places . The procession extended upwards of half a mile and consisted of a large number of horsemen and some thousands on foot , in the midst of which was the carriage of the two candidates drawn by some of the rabble who were acting the dignified part of horses . They were questioned and replied to in a similar manner by Messrs . Firth and Knowles and with nearly the same effect . After which , a show of hands was taken upon the utter want of confidence iu both Whig and Tory which appeared to be carried by an immense majority .
Gi . A GOW . —Tuesday , two o ' clock ; it hasjtistbeen ascertained that Provost Campbell is going to stand on the Conservative interest . Gheenock . —A publio meeting is to be held tonight , iTuesday , ) in Greenock , for the purpose of taking iato consideration the policy which should be pursued at the election , A deputation is just now in the Patriot office , where I write this , requesting an orator to attend said meeting , and Mr . Malcolm has just now agreed to go down . Great excitement prevails ; the plot thickens ; not a speaker can be spared ; Jotters pour ia ' . o the Patriot office evory post , demanding candidates to stand at the nomination . A letter has just this moment arrived from Selkirk wishing a candidate , but ; none can be spared . O for Feargus out at the present moment , is the general wish expressed .
Ayr . —Mr . Jack , of Glasgow , who stands for the Ayr Burghs , attended a public meeting in the town of Ayr last ( Monday ) night , and at a great public meeting held there , it was unanimously agreed to bring him forward to the poll in opposition to Lord James Stuart . Glasgow . —( From , our own Correspondent . )—great public meeting was held , in front of the Gaol , to select candidates for this city . Mr . George Ross , upon being called to the chair , stated the object of the meeting , in a brief speech , and concluded by calling upon Mr . Gillespie , who , in a splendid speech , proposed George Mills , Esq ., of Bowling Bay . " Never , " said Mr . Gillespie , " will I forget the day that I saw the bloody head of old Wilson exhibited on this same spot where I now stand ,
under the reign , of . the bloody Tories ; " and now he would not forget that a Clayton was murdered , and that a Peddie was being slowly slaughtered by the Whigs . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Mr . Rodger seconded Mr . Mills , in a speech in which he struck at both factious with a ^ iant hand . He concluded , after a long and powerful speech , amid great cheering from the vast multitude , which , at this time , was estimated at 80 , 000 . The Whigs said 40 , 000 ; and some of the Tories said 50 , 000 . Mr . Berkmire stood forward as the advocate of the Whig Members . ( Laughter , groans , and hisses , amid much confusion . ) Mr . Berkmire floundered away , but was ultimately compelled to retire after moving an amendment that Dcnnistoun , their present member , should be their
man in place of Milles , which was seconded by Mr . Wylie . When the show of hands was taken , a few was held up for the amendment , but for Milles the vast assembly held up a forest of hands . Mr . Cullen then stept forward to propose Mr . Moir , which he did in a speech which elicited bursts of approbation from the vast multitude around him ; when the name of Moir was mentioned , nothing could exceed the enthusiasm of the meeting . Mr . Proudfoot seconded the nomination of Mr . Moir , in language which told home to the feelings of all present . After which the Chairman asked if there was any amendment to propose , but no one made their appearance for that
purpose , when he put the motion of Mr . Cullen to the meeting , when the vost show of hands equalled Mr . O'Connor ' s on a former occasion . Mr . Moir , who was on the hustings , being loudly called for , addressed the meeting . Nothing could exceed tbe warmth with which he was greeted and the applause hid sentiments received . The rain at this time began te fall very heavy , and as I was writing on the hustings and had to be off in time for the post , I left the meeting , amid the rapturous cheering of the assembled thousands , when Moir stated that he would show up the Whi # j at tho nomination , which takes place on Friday .
Ashton-undeb-Ltnb . —The Tarits of this borough have brought forward one Mr . Harrop , proprietor of the Bardsley collieries , with little prospect of success . In accordance with a resolution , passed on the 20 th , a public meeting has been called by the Chartists , tote held in the Charlestown meetingroom , on Monday , the 28 th , and both candidates invited to attend . The following questions were submitted : —1 . Will you , if returned to Parliament for this borough , vote forthe People ' s Charter to become the law of the land t 2 . Will you vote for the extinction of the New Police Act ! 3 . Will you vote for a repeal of the New Poor Law ? ( These questions were put to Chares Hindley , Esq . The late member ; Harrop , did not attend , not knowing what the People ' s Charter meaut . ) Mr . Hindley pledged himself to rote forthe firstaadsecond reading of
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the Charter , but on the third reading , he would exeroise his ovm opinion , always contending for Universal Suffrage . He would vote for the release of political prisoners , and the return of Frost , Williams , and Jones . He would vote for a repeal of tho New Poor Law ; and as to the New Police Act , he always was for ABhton choosing its own police . After a great deal of disturbance , the following resolution was adopted : —** That it is the opinion of this meeting that neither of the candidates are fit persons to represent this borough in the Commons * House of Parliament . "—Correspondent .
Loughbsbough . — On Sunday evening , June 27 th , there was a large muster of delegates , when the reports being favourable , it was agreed that two candidates should be nominated , and that Messrs . Skevington and Dean Taylor should be invited to allow themselves to be put in nomination , with which they have complied . It was agreed that the collectors should persevere in getting subscriptions . Mr . Eveleigh was appointed treasurer , and exertions are being made to render it an effective display oa behalf of Chartism .
Golcar —Patty spirit is running very high in this place , and it appears the valiant ' yellowsquad * hs . re been boasting what noble deeds they performed on Tuesday last in front of the Druida Hotel , but forgets to mention how they had to leave their JMilten and Morpeth banners on their way home at night ; afuw boys who had betn . ridden down by Crosland , Tom , Taylor , Sootch . Bab , and Pilling , looking out for these brave Golcar shoddy men , and attacking them and putting the whole gang of them to the rout;—musicians , nog-bearers , and the whole posse of them . Some of the fraternity who happened to be a little wealthier than
the rest , are threatening th . e poor voters that they shall have no ' wark' if they do aot "vote for Mil ton and Morpeth . One of the piou 3 deacon-dippers sent word to an old kinsman of the same name as himself , that , if he did not vote for Milton and Morpeth . no more ' wark' for him : the old man exclaimed , " Why , I never could raise a pair o" new br eeches ain t' Whigs come into office , and it is not likely I shall gia my vote to get them in again . " The blues are taking the poor men on , and , no doubt , they will thrive . is well under their new matters as they have been doing £ or some time bock with the yellows .
To The Independent Electors Of The County Of Fife.
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