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      IS H 050 CB OF FEAKGUS O'CONNOR , ESQ ., THE UNFLINCHING AND UNCHANGEABLE ADVOCATE OF THE BIGHTS OF THE TOILING MILLIONS !! ALL Persons wishing to join the Procession , and do honour to that unjustly persecuted Friend of the People , are informed that the Procession will form at HOCKLEY HILL , at Half-pasx Tem O'Clock , precisely , and proceed in the following Order : — 1 st . —Two Marshals on Horseback . 2 nd . —A Body of Females . 3 rd . —The Council of the National Charier Association . 4 th . —Brass Band . 5 th . —The Tkiuhphal Cab , drawn by Six Grey Horses , in which Mr . O'CONNOR will be seated . 6 th . —The Executive Council of the National Charter Association in an open carriage . 7 th . —Members of the National Charter Association , Four-a-Breast , followed by a Splendid Green Flag , bearing the Motto of the Association . 8 th . —The Flag of the Hibernian Saoiety , followed by Irishmen . 9 th . —The various Trades will form in dae order as they arrive upon the Ground , accompanied by various Flags and Davioea belonging to their Trades . Two Marshals on hors « baok will bring up the Procession . The Procession will proceed through the following Streets : — Great Hampton Street , Snow Hill , Bull Street , High Street , Bull Ring , Digbeth , Rea Street , Bradford Street , Bromsgrovo Street , Pershore Street , Worcester Street , New Street , Suffolk Street , Exeter Row , to Holloway Head ; where Mr . O'CONNOR and the Members of the Executive Council will address the assembled Thousands . Men of Birmingham , —Shew by your conduct on that day , your love and desire for Liberty , and let both Whigs and Tories seo that Persecution has not had the effect anticipated by them . Come forward , then , like Men determined to drive Slavery from your Homes and your Country . By Order of the Demonstration Committee , WILLIAM PARKES , Secretary . WALTER THORNE , Chairman . Mr . O'CONNOR will attend the Tea Party and Ball to be held at the Hall of Science , Lawrence Street , on Tuesday Evening . Notioe . —The Demonstration Committee will leave the Committee Rooms , Freeman Street , at Ten o'Clook , with Car , Flags , Banners , Bands , &o . All Trade Societies , and Persons wishing to take part in the Damanatration , will join with the Committee , aad proceed to Hockley Hill to form the Procession , &o .

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      WELCOME TO THE NOBLE PATRIOTS !! THE Trades and tha Public are respectfully Iuform 9 d , that on MONDAY , the 27 th of September , 1 ail , there will be A PUBLIC PROCESSION , To Welcome into MANCHESTER those Brave and Noble Patriots , EEAHGTJS O'COJSNOB . ESQ ., J . B . O'BKIEN , ESQ ., MR . WM . BENBOW , REV . W . V . JACKSON , MR . JOHN LIVESEY , AND MR . BARKER , Who have Suffered Imprisonment for maintaining the Rights of Labour and the Principles 5 of the PEOPLE'S CHARTER . Mew op Manchester !—Ya Sons of Toil , show forth your Moral Strength I—Cheer on those Brave Patriots , who , whilst in their Dungeons , swore by the God of Justice , that they would leave their PrisonB neither Silenced nor Dismayed . ORDER OF PROCESSION . To Meet at Twelve o ' CIock , in Stephenson ' s Square . To form as quick as possible , four a-breast , and to proceed up Oldham Scroet , along Swan Street , Shudehill , Old Mitigate , Deanegate , Bridge Street , Chapel Street , Victoria Street , Market Street , Oldham Street , and into Stephenson's Square , where those Brave Patriots will address the People . The Committee solicit all Trado 3 who have not already given in their names to forward the same to the Committee , at their Rooms , 9 , Whittle-street , where they meet every evening , so that they may be plaoed iu the most convenient order in the Procession . FAVOURS TO BE WORN-GREEN AND WHITE . It is particularly requested that all Persons will strictly obey the Orders of the Marshals and sub-Marshals . JOSEPH LINNEY AND THOMAS RANKIN , MARSHALS . m > — IN THE EVENING THERE WILL BE A TEA PARTY AND BALL IN THE HALL OF SCIENCE , CAMP FIELD , MANCHESTER , Where the above named Gentlemen will attend . Tea to be on the Table at Saven o'CIock . Chair to be taken at Eight , and Dancing to commence at Ten o'CIock . Gentlemens' Tickets Is . 3 d . eaoh ; Ladies' 9 d ., to be had at the following places : —A . Heywood , O ! dham-screet ; Wroea , Ancoats-lano ; Hutton , Hair-dresser , Chester-road ; Holmes , baker , Broughton-road ; Appleton , Hair-dresser , Bank Top ; at the National Charter Association Rooms , and at the Co-Operative Store .

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      LIBERATION OF THE PATRIOT CAPTIYE ! WORKING MEN OF LEEDS , —Your BRAVE , UNFLINCHING , and INDOMITABLE Friend O'CONNOR , Will make his FIRST ENTRY into yoiir Town since his Liberatioa from Sixteen Months of " Solitary Confinement" in a Whig-Dungeon in York Castle , ON TUESDAY , THE 28 th OF SEPTEMBER , On which occasion it is intended to afford you an opportunity of paying that mark of respect to the CHAMPION OF YOUR RIGHTS , which his past Services and Sufferings in your cause ENTITLE HIM TO RECEIVE . The RELEASE of the Patriot from the clutches of Tyranny and Faction , will be celebrated by A SOIREE , IN THE MUSIC HALL , ALBION STREET , The following distinguished Gentlemen have been invited to attend : —Sharmin Cuawfoud , Ksq ., M . P ., and General Johnson , M . P , the Mover and Seconder of the late admirable Amendment to the " Address , " by which they obtained ths votss of thirty-nine Members to the question of Universal Suffrage ; Thomas DuncoMbe , Esq ., M . P ., the presenter of the National Petition signed by 1 , 400 , 000 Persons praying for the Charter and for the Release of the Political Prisoners ; John Fielden , Esq ., JI . P ., the firm friend of the working people on all occasions ; aud Colonel Thompson the distinguished advocate of Free Trade and Universal Suffrage . A PUBLIC PROCESSION will also be formed to rcoeive and welcome the Poor Man ' s Advocate and Friend , O'CONNOR , Which will proceed through the Principal Streets of the Town . Place and Time of Starting will bo announced ia future Advertisements . On which occasion a substantial TEA SUPPES will be served up , under good arrangements , and the proceedings of the Evening enlivened by Musio and Song . TEA ON THE TABLE AT HALF-PAST SEVEN O'CLOCK . Tickets , Is . 6 d . each may be had at the following places : —Tho Northern Star Office ; the Association Room , Shambles ; Androw Gardaor ' s , Novvs Agent , George-Street ; Frank Philips's , Hair Dresser , Kirkstall-Road ; James Illingworth ' s , Pork Butcher , Meadow-Lane . I „ | . ACCOUNT OF MONIES ll&JEl \ £ U Ai' THE NORTHERN STAR OFFICE , AND PAID ON ACCOUNT OF THE LATE CONVENTION . DR . CR . i £ s . a . £ t B # ^ March 20—To Cash noticed in the Star 3 16 0 „ —By Cash paid Mr . Pitkethly , _ 27-Ditto 27 7 2 £ per Order .. ? S o 0 April 3-Ditto 17 lit 2 ~ —Ditto , Mr . Cleave 80 0 0 _ 10-Ditto 9 11 6 „ 28 10 !) .. 17—Ditto 7 5 0 A June 18—Ditto , Mr . William Martin , per „ 24—Ditto ... 4 5 6 " M . P . M'Douall ... ... 1 0 0 May 1—Ditto 7 13 July 10—Ditto , Mr . Smart 10 0 „ 15—Ditto 5132 _ —Ditto , Mr . Skevington ... 10 0 „ 22—Ditto 3106 ~ —Ditto , Dr . M'Douall , per Cleave , .. 29—Ditto 5 14 7 for Wall and others ... 0 10 0 June 5—Ditto 2 19 5 Sept . . 0—Ditto , Dr . M'Douall ... 0 16 „ 22—Ditto 4 2 0 ' ~ 13—Ditto , Mr . Rose , per Order of .. 19-Ditto 0 11 0 Dr . M'Douall 0 10 0 ~ 26—Ditto 0 10 - —Ditto , Mr . Ridley 0 10 0 July 3-Ditto 15 6 ~ —Ditto , Mr . Wall 0 10 0 _ 10—Ditto 0 ft 0 ~ 17—Ditto 0 5 0 r . 23-To CaA from Mr . L . Pitkethly , being balance in his , hauda at the time it was ' first intended the Coaven- . ] tion should break up ... C 18 4 By Balance to account of the Executive .. 13 3 11 £ 108 16 2 £ 108 16 2 - . . I

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      BtBKXNGBAK . —RsKii or TBS Um « n . —An extraordinary see&e took place at the meeting of Repealers , held at Mrs . Gateley ' s , Old Meeting Street on Sunday evening last . Mr . Morris was caSed to the chair , and , after * long address had bees delivered by Mr . Hurray , the servant of the Aoti-Corn Law League , in -which he warned the Irishmen present t « be on their guard , a&d gare snndry broad hints concerning the Chartists , Mr . Gateley , the Secretary , read a long letter from Mr . Bay , Secretary to the Repeal AsaoohrtioQ of Dublin , warning the Repealers of Dublin against joining the Chartists , and stating that so member of % Cbartis * Association could be admitted a member of the Repeal Society . He then stated that all

      members of the Chartist Association oould hare their money returned . Mr . George White protested against such an unreasonable proposition , and insisted on the proposition oontained in Mr . Bay's letter being submitted to a Tote of the members . He could not see anything in Mr . Ray more than aay ether member . His letter did net state whether he bad taken the opinion of the members who reao&d in Dublin on the question ; the letter should , therefore , be received as the mere opinion of an individual . He , therefore , wished that the opinion of the meeting should be taken . The Secretary objected to a rote being taken , and said it was against the rules . Mr . White then requested that the rules should be produced , and told the messing that if they Agreed to the substance of Mr . Ray ' s letter , that thev -would destroy the usefulness of the Association in Birmingham . Mr . Gateley informed him that

      they had eo rule ? , but that he might procure a copy by applying to the parent society in Dublin . A scene cf confusion then took place ; several Irishmen present demanded their money back , and a large number left the room in disgust , declaring their determination not to be dictated to by Mr . Ray . Several ^ Englishmen followed their example , de ; daring it to be nothing more than a Whig society particularly as Mr . Murray concluded his long speech by proposing a person who had taken an actiTe part on behalf of the Whigs at the late electioa . A number of Irishmen afterwards assembled , and determined that the liberty of their native land should no longer be left to the guidance of a few trafficking politicians ; they resolvea to form a Repeal Association which should embrace all true friends of Irish liberty . Further notice will be given next week .

      O'Co . woa DofO . vsnuTio : * , Wednesday Ete > --iss . —The committee for conducting this important business hare been exceedingly active during the week , deputations were appointed to wait on the xariou 3 trades , all those applied to hare given their consent , and [ also agreed to subscribe towards the expencea ; several of the surrounding towes have sent word of their intention to honour the people's champion , and from the friendly assurances of assistance received from various quarters , the display is sure to be the best ever witnessed in this neighbourhood . All friends at a distance are informed that the procession will form at Hockley Hill , at halfpan ten o ' clock . The members of the Executive are requested to be in Birmingham on Sunday if possible ; all delegates will be pleased to do the same .

      Fsost , " WiiiUHs , as » Jg . ybs . The General Restoration Committee of Birmingham held it * nsaal weekly meeting on Tuesday evening last , Mr . Richard Thompson in the chair ; when it was agreed for this commitee to aid the demonstration on Monday aext , by all means in their power . bEPTPoRD . —The brothers of the Deptford locality met on Sunday , read the minutes , and confirmed them , transacted some bnsiness relative to tie visit of Feargus O'Connor , Esq . to this place , and adjourned till Wednesday , and to meet on Sunday next to hear lectures . NOTTINSHAIK . —On Wednesday evening , a second glorious meeting was held in the Marketplace , for the benefit of B . O'Brien ; Mr . Cooper addressed the meeting at great length , and a collection was ma . de in support of the object of the neetisg .

      SttSTON . —Mb . Masos lectured here on Thursday to a numerous audience , who were much delighted with his discourse , and several new members were enrolled . We still keep increasing .

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      LEEDS . —Two able lectures were delivered on Sunday , by Mr . Martin . On Monday , at the usual weekly meeting several new members were enrolled . Ths cause is thriving here , and looks well . Mr . Jones has been appointed oa the East-Riding delegation . HlGHVlT ROBBEBTES IS THE ToW 5 OF LEEDS , — Are the Watch Committee , and are the police aware , of the numerous cases of highway robbery that have occurred is ihe tovn of Leeds , within these ax weeks last past \ And if they are , what are the police doing ! We are informed that not Jess than a dozen persons have been stopped on the road leading from Hunslet Lane into Pottery Field—the new road , we mean , made by the North Midland Railway Company—and robbed of different articles of value , money , watches , provision baskets , and provisions . On this road there are no lights after the entrance to the goods depot of the Railway is passed ; s . nd there the road makes a turn at a right an £ le .

      A more secluded place for a thief comld scarcely be made . On ihe one hand is a high wall , round the Railway Company ' s station , nine or ten feet high . No lights , no police or watchmen , asi every means of escape—on the other hand , over the fields into Hunslet Lane , i 3 afforded . The place has accordingly be = n frequented for the last six weeks , by a gang of four or six individuals ; and though we believe scarcely a ni ^ ht has passed , but some one has been stopped , and in many cases robbed , yet not a single policeman has been ordered to make that road his beat . " It is time that both the Watch Committee and Improvement Commissioners saw to this matter . The Railway Company ,

      or the proper parties ought to be caLed upon to finish the road—ihe Improvement Commissioners ou ^ h : to see in the lamps being placed there immediately—ard the Waich Committee ought immediately to see to both day and night police perambulating that road , as a " beat" to itself . We give the following cases which have reached us , so that they may inquire into : he matter . On Wednesday night week , William Brown , an elderly person , and a resident of Pouerj Field , was returning home by the read in guesti ' -n , between the hours of seven and eight . When ju .-t past the turn above spoken of , he n run a ^_ iiit by one person and instantly felled by another . While down he was kicked and otherwise maltreiied by the whole four , who had made their

      appearai . ee . His pockets "were rifled , apu they too * from him thirty-five shillings , all he had in the world . Be i 3 a poor man , a woollen-weaver , and has been out uf work" for many months . The main of the money he had was borrowed from a friend , to enable him to begin a little trade in the huxteriug line -, and it all went ! leaviEg the poor man in a wwrse c-jnduijn loan before . Whcu they left him , they took over the wall and fields into Huuslet-lane ; ana ; hu& ^ 2 he followed them for some ai =: &i . cc , calling out kt watch" as loud as he could , no help came tear . With diSculty he crawled home , iuffericg from the kicks and blows he had received . The week before this two other men , inhabitants of Pottery-S = ld , were stopped in the very same place ; and from one his week ' s wages were taken , and from ihe o : h-.-r 373 ^ d ., all he had . Several woiten returuum from Leeds market have been slopped ,

      i&d iheir pr ^ T . s . oiis aiid provision baskets vaieu irvm tkem . L ^ t the police go into Pottery Fiel d , and JB 3 ka inquiries , and they will find more of this kind of cases than we have spokes of : and let the proper parties see to due measures of protection being imme ^ iiaieiy taken . Pottery Field is a thicklypeopled district—and ihongh the dwellers there be " humble" and poor people , we opine they mu&t be protected . Property to a good amount , we believe , has been missed out of the Goods Railway Station , which imm ^ d ' -ately adjoins the road spoken of : and that the Directors have a suspicion that it has been received by parties in this very road , may be inferred from the fact , that they have latterly raised their Trail from seven feet to ten feet high . They took precautionary measures for themselves . Let ihe Watch Commutes and Improvement Commislioners do the same for the poor people .

      ASHTON-TJNDEB .-I . TrNE . —Corros TtaiNjrr . —Mr . Editor , the following is a specimen ot the desire the cotton lords manifest in this neighbourhood io mend the condition of the working class . I went into a public house on Saturday eveni ng , where a cumber of operative spinners attended to arrange their affairs , it being their reckoning . I heard bitter ctmplaints of bad usage , todnpon 5 r quiring what was wrong , the following note was handed to me by a steady married workman : —

      Mr . Thos . Meld , By W . and J . Warbrick , b . d . Sept . 3 , To a carriage arm and brass bnst 1 2 I asked the meaning of him shtwing me this invoice , and he replied , that the article mentioned in ibe paper was pan of a spiniraiEg frame that broke while working , and although he had nothing whatever to do with the accideDi , yet be had to pay for it ; and another man present stated that he was employed in the same mill , and had to pay Is . 5 d . for a cast iron plate being broke , and which i 3 still actually working . There are hundreds of instances of this kind of oppression that never come to light ; but what are the factory inspectors doing ! there is plenty of work for them in this ne i ghbourhood , if they would attend , such as running over-time , working children at meal hours , ic , such is their liberality . —Correspondent .

      ROCHDALE , —On Wednesday week a public l&eeting of the electors and non-electors who supported Shanaan Crawford , E < q ., at the recent general election , was held in tho Charter Meeting Koorn , School-lane , to express th-.-ir approbation and gratitude for the noble conduct of their esteemed and truly popular representative ; and also to return thinks to the ikirty-aine meml ere wae nip

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      ported him opon the occasion . Mr . James Taylor , Jan ., was unanimously called to the chair , who in an appropriate address opened the proceedings of the meeting . Mr . James Taylor , delegate to the old Convention , proposed in % lengthy and able address , and Mr . Thomas lavsey , « ne of the most influential supporters of Mr . Crawford , seeonded the resolution : — "That the thanks of this nesting be given to Wm . Shaman Crawford , Esq ., M . P . for this Borough , for bringing forward his motion in the House of Commons on the Address to the Throne , as also to those members who supported him on that occasion ; and this meeting bope their conduct may be taken as an earnest that those members will , on all fitting opportunities , and by constitutional means in their power , aid the people in their present struggle to obtain their due share in the representation—on the

      principles of Universal Suffrage , jBqual Representation , Annual Parliaments , Vote by Ballot , and No Property Qualification ; and that the censure of this meeting be passed on Messrs . Roebuck , Ward , and others , who , professing themselves the friends of the people , refused their support to the above-named motion , and left the House . And this meeting is further of opinion that the introduction of the New Poor Law has greatly aggravated the distress so much deplored in the speech from the throne , and that as it is more than probable that that law will come under discussion in the House of Commons during this session , this meeting strongly urges upon those Members who supported Mr . Crawford ' s motion to give that measure their most decided and unqualified opposition . " It was also agreed that printed copies of the resolution should be transmitted to the glorious thirty-nine ; and , after a vote of thanks to the chairman , the meeting broke up .

      SHEFFIELD . — Mitigation op Punishment . —Some months ago Thomas Booth and John Gregory , "were tried and convicted on a charge of wheelrattening , and sentenced to seven years' transportation . A memorial in their behalf was transmitted , through Mr . Parker , M . P . for the borough , to the Home-office ; an answer , bearing date the 26 th of August , has been received by Mr . Parker , stating that that gentleman ' s application having been considered , the prisoners will be liberated after one year ' s incarceration from the time of their conviction . Obatost . —Professor Calvert delivered two of a coarse * of six lectures on oratory , in Surrey-street Chapel , on the evenings of Tuesday , the 7 th , and Wednesday , the 8 ; h , aad the third on Monday evening , the 18 th .

      Fibs . —On Saturday night , about twelve o ' clock , the neighbourhood of South-street , in the Park , ivas thrown into a state of alarm by a discovery that the Low Ropery , occupied by Mr . Mudford , sacking and oil-cloth manufacturer , was on fire . The engines were sent for , and about two o'clock the fire was subdued , after property to the supposed amount of £ 200 had been destroyed . Death by Dbowsisg . —On Sunday morning , a promising boy of the name of Robert Eyre , apprenticed in the office of the Sheffield Independent , was unfortunately drowned while bathing neat Attercliffe . The Boy . John Stuart Wortlkt . —It was stated in the last number of the Slart that this gentleman had been appointed one of the Secretaries of the Board of Control . In the Sheffield Mercury , of last Saturday , appeared a letter from Mr . Wortley , denying the truth of this report .

      Inquest befoee T . Badger , Esq . —An inquest was held at the house of Mr . A . England , the Middlewood Tavern , on view of the body of John Fawcett , painter , Charlotte-street , Sheffield , who had been found hung to a tree , in a coppice , near Middlewood , on the morning of Sunday week . He had used his handkerchief for the purpose , and appeared to have been dead two or three daya . On the Thursday previous , he was seen in Middlewood Forge , and appeared in a very dejected state of mind . Verdict of the jury , " That the deceased hanged himself while labouring under a fit of temporary insanity .

      BIRMINGHAM . —Church Rates . —One of the mo 3 t uproarious meetings ever held in Birmingham took place at the Town Hall , on Friday last , at which the base Tory faction made a desperate effort to saddle the people with a church rate . Large placards were posted through the town a week previous to the time of meeting , informing the public that none but burgesses would be allowed admission to the Town Hall . Counter-statements were issued by the Anti- Church-rate party , informing the inhabitants that all householdeis nad a ri ^ ht to be present . The people , however , determined to be precent , and on the doors being opened thousands presented themselves for admission , and although a strong body of police guarded the doors , a tremendous rush took place , which bore down all opposition , and in a few minutes every part of the immense hall was occupied by the " Sovereign People . " Mr . Bouchier , one of the Churchwardens , endeavoured to take ths chair ,

      when it was moved that Alderman Western should occupy that situation . After an indescribable geene of uproar and confusion , a poll was entered into , in the course of which a polling booth , which was erected in the body of the hall , was broken down , when in rushed a large posse of police , bludgeon in hand . They were received with tremendous yells and shouts of defiance , and had t bey attempted to strike , serious results would have followed . At the close of the poll it was ascertained that somewhere about seventy voted for Bouchier , and nearly 3 , 000 for Weston . Whilst the polling was goine on , the meeting was addressed by Mr McDonnell , Mr George White , Mr . Collins , and others . After which Mr . Bouchier attempted to read something from « paper , but was received with such a torrent of groans that not a single word could be heard . Mr . Weston was afterwards conducted to the chair , amid loud cheers , and asked whether any person had a proposition to make , and none attempting he declared the meeting dissolved .

      tlTTtETOWW . —On Sunday last , a sermon was delivered by Mr . Braitbwaite , a Weslejan Minister from Bradford , for the benefit of Sunday schools In his discourse he made the following assertions It is ths duty of parents to keep their children from two f ism ? , viz .: Socialism and Chartism . The Socialists destroyed the Bible , aad the Chartists pro perty ; they fired stacks and shot their neighbour , and when they had made themselves destitute by iheir own misconduct , they wanted to divide what others had accumulated by industry .

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      TO THE EDITOR OP THE SOBTHERN STAB . Sir , —As we cannot at present conveniently convene a public meeting , you will much oblige us by giViEg publicity to the following balance sheet—the ltenii bciijg too numerous to expect that you would occupy so much space as ihty would take for a mere local concern , we have condensed them into the fallowing form . Any of the Wigton friends can see the proper balance sheet on application . Your ' s , respectfully , Edwaiid Mark , Sub-Sec . Wigton , Stpt . 13 : h . 1340 .

      RECEIPTS . 1840 . £ s . d . Sept . 13 : h Jill March 7 th , 1841 , as per Balance Sheet 5 13 7 March 7 : h till Sept . 12 th , 1841 ( as per Receipt Book ) Ill 6 ^ 7 10 H Expenditure .- 7 O 4 i In Treasurer ' 3 hands 0 9 L » John Brtce , Thohas Barnfathkb , Auditors .

      EXPENDITURE . 1840 . £ s . d . Stpt . 12 ch till March 7 tb , 1841 , as per Balance Sheet 4 3 5 j March 7 th till Sept . 12 th , 1841 , as per Book of Expenditure 2 18 11 7 0 4 ^ E . Mark , Sec . R . Gate , Treasurer .

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      On Sunday last , was christened in All Saint ' s Church , Newcastle-on-Tyne , Margaret O'Connor Beil , daughter of James and Mary Bell . The son of William Smith , of Knowlewocd , Todmorden , was christened David O ^ Connor Smi th , at the Primitive Methodist Chapel in that place , on Sunday last . Un tie 28 th of August last , Ellen , the daughter of William Holt , of Rochdale , was delivered of a son , which was duly registered in the name of Feargus O'Connor Holt . Christened in the Roman Catholic Cbapel , Glasgow , on Sunday last , by the Rev . Mr . Lang , the son of John and Elizabeth Ghisholm , and named Feargus O'Connor Chi&holm .

      Robert Emmet , son of Joseph and Hannah Cotton , was baptized by the Rev . Mr . Schofield , at Manchester , on Sunday last . On Sunday last , was christened , in the Parish Church , Sheffield , Feargus O'Connor Wallace Holmshaw , the son of George and Henrietta Holmshaw On stating the name , the Vicar grimly asked the father if he could not give his child some otfeer name 1 " No , " was the reply ; hearing this , his " Reverence" proceeded with his unpleasant

      task" Feargu 3 O'Connor , I baptize" u Stop , " says ihe fathtr , " Feargus O'Connor Wallace is the name . " His Viearship , tios corrected , got through his job , but whether the names of O'Connor and Wallace had frightened him and made him forget a portion of his duty , or that he deemed the Chartist babe unworthy of being touched by his sacred finger , we know not , we only know that he omitted to mark the cross upon the forehead of the child , which is , we believe , part ol the ceremony .

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      Hacknev . —Tha Chartists of this locality meet every Tuesday night at eight o'clock , at Mr . Weston ' s Temperance Hotel , Mare-street . Halifax . —Mr . B . Rushton will preach in the Charter Lecture-room , back of Swan-yard , to morrrow at six o ' clock iu the evening . Asnold , Nottikghahshiiie . —On Sunday next , two bermonB will be preached in the ChartiBt Cbapel , Meadow-side , Arnold , by Mr . Dean Taylor , ( ot Birmingham , ) for tbe benefit of the Chartist Sunday School . Services to commence at half-past two in the afternoon , and at six o ' clock in the evening . Nottingham . —Mr . Harrison will preach on the Forest next Sunday afternoon , at naif-past six o ' clock , if weather psrmit ; if not in the chapel . Calvebton . —Mr . Dean Taylor lectures here on Monday next , at half-past six o'olock .

      Carlton—Mr . Dean Taylor lectures here en Tuesday next , at half-past six . Basford . —Mr . Dean Taylor lectures here on Wednesday , at half-past six . Newark . —Mr . Dean Taylor lectures here on Thursday , at half-past six . Macclksfieu ) . —On Sunday evening next , Mr . Chandiey will lecture on the " Evils of the Factory System , " in the Chartist Rooms , Watercoates , at half-past six o'clock . A public meeting of the members will b « held on Monday evening , at half-past seven o ' clock , on business connected with Mr . O'Connor ' s visit to Manchester . It is hoped all will attend .

      Sheffield . —Mr . Otley will lecture in the large room . Fig-Tree-lane , at seven o'clock on Sunday evening . Subject : —** The life and character of Washington . " Eccles . —Mr . Bell of Salford , will leoturehere on Monday evening . Upper Hanlet . —Mr . Joseph Copper , of Tunstall , will deliver two lecinres on Sunday , tbe 19 th of September , at Mr . Pepper ' fi Association Room , Smorthern , at half-past two in the afternoon , and at six in the evening , on the necessity of union to obtain the People's Charter .

      Hanlet . —A tea-party and ball will take place on Sept . 27 th , at the house of Mr . Wm . Hall , George and Dragon Inn , New-street , to commemorate the release of their consistent , indefatigabie , aud talented patriot , Brouterre O'Brien , ( from Whig torture nad persecution , Slaitawaitb . —Mr . Thomas "Vevers will lecture on Sunday next , the liHh , at three o ' clock in the afternoon , at the house of Mr . Wm . Rollitt . Mount Pleasant . Mr . Morgan ' s Route for next Week . —Lon «

      Benton , Suuday the 19 th , at one o ' clock , p . m . ; Benton-square , at foar ; Westmoore , on Monday , at seven in the evening ; New Quay , North Shields , on Tuesday , the 21 st , at halfpast six o ' cleck ; Market-street , South Shields , on w edneBday the 22 nd , at seveu o ' clock p . m . ; Walker Iron Works , on Thursday the 23 rd , at seven o ' clo « k ; and at Mr . Hall ' s long room , Goat Inn , Cloth Market ; Newcastle , on Friday the 24 th , to celebrate the release from the Whig dungeon of that unflinching advocate of justice to the industrious classes , James Bronterre O'Brien , Esq .

      Holmpirth . —Mr . Edward Clayton will lecture on Sunday next , tbe 19-h , in the National Charter Association-room , at three o ' clock in the afternoon . Manchester . —Mr . Griffla will deliver a lecture in Tib-street , on Sunday morning , on the truly alarming state of the nation . Lancashire . —Mr . Richard Marsden will visit the following places , according to the dates : —Preston , Monday , Sept . 20 ih ; Tuesday , 21 st , Lancaster ; Wednesday , 22 nd , Clithero : Thursday , 23 rd ,

      Barnowldswick ; Friday , 24 ih , Colne ; Saturday , 25 th , Acrington ; Monday , 27 th , Blackburn ; Tuesday , 28 th , Padiham ; Wednesday , 29 ch , Burnley ; Thurs-30 th , Bicup ; Friday , Oct . 1 st , Darwen ; and Saturday , 2 ud , at Chorley . Sejlby . —The delegate meeting will be held at Mr . George Woodall ' s , Temperance Hotel , Andus-street . The delegated to meet at the above place on Sunday morning , as early as possible . Any Chartist wishing to send by letter , must address to tbe Secretary , Wm . Sutherby , shoemaker , Gowthorp .

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      TO THE FUSTIAN JACKETS , THE BLISTERED HANDS , AND UNSHORN CHINS , ( From the English Chartist Circular . J Mt ykry dear and much-valued Friends , — My time now i * very precious , but I must in a harry say a few worda U you , I have been , since Monday week , in a state of nervous excitement , such a » I never before experienced . This baa been entirely occasioned by tbe heavy load of responsibility which your much increased strength as a party , and increased affection for myself , baa imposed upon me . We have now arrived at a period of our history , whan to love the people and advocate their cause will be dangerous . I am of an enthusiastic and excitable disposition ; and I only pray that I may be gifted with prudence and judgment to mate me useful without rendering me impractical . I see the obstacles against which we have to contend .

      I have attended seven or eight of tbe most glorions meetings ever beld in London and its environs within the last ten or eleven days—meetings which , if giving to either of tbe monied orders their countenance and support , would of themselves be snfflcient to awe their opponent *; but aa tbe proceedings were for the advancement of those principles which must crush the monopoly and nnjast power of both factions , they were , with the single exception of tbe Crown and Anchor Meeting , unnoticed by the whole press of London . By this dastardly conduct of the press , which should be the true reflex of public opinion , we are compelled to serk other means of communication than through the profligate columns of the faction journals . This we very perseveringly accomplish , but at great expencs and trouble .

      Our labours wonld be considerably lessened if the press staled fairly to the npper classes the principles which we seek to establish— the means by which we hope to enforce them , and the universally beneficial results which we anticipate from their adoption . But the silence of the press leaves our intentions open to the assaults of any interested knave or fool who chooses to censure or abuse The only manner in -which we can meet the hostility of the newspapers is by now and then taking steps so decided and general in politics , as to force notice of our proceedings in their columns . Had we not resisted the injustice of Whig chairmen during the reeent Anti Corn-law Meetings , the press would have lost &iftht of Chartism altogether . Had we not

      forced our 2 , 10 Q , ij 0 u names to the bar of the H « use , previouj to the dissolution , Chartism would have been fchalen considerably . Had wa not taken a prominent part during the rec « nt election contests , we sbouid be still looked upon as a mere . appendage to Whiggery—taken up at will and laid down at pleasure . The Tories affected to believe that we were about to turn Tories : then the Times newspaper courted the people : but finding that we used its proprietor merely as an emblem of hatred of Whiggery , not as a token of affection for Toryism , that Protean organ very speedily began to spit its venom once more upon tne people ' s cause . Now , my friends , this blinding of ministers , of judges , of lawyers , and of jurors , is both unbound , unjust , ar . d very dangerous . Oar union , our strength , and our resolution , is the only force which at present we can present to unconstitutional power and the law ' s caprice . What then should we do ? We should make London the

      he ? d quarters of some representative body , as Manchester is of an executive body . You know we cannot stop now , neither can we recede a hair's paint from our declared opinions . This representative body should , in my opinion , be instantly formed , and might consist of a member from each district of the metropolis . Their duty should be to force a consideration of oar principles upon the upper and middle classes ; to organize the metropolis for petitioning ; and , above all , in conjunction with the Trades , now so nobly coming out , to prepare for a grand demonstration through London , of the Chartists , —merely to show the strength of the adherents of our principles . Thay might alBO act as a eommittee of review ; to cerament upon public men ' s acts , and discuss tbe measures recommended by tbe several leaders of the people . Such demonstration and organ ' . zition must keep forcing our principles upon the enemy ; and that is all we want .

      Bnt above all , and before all , my dear friends , preserve cnio . n ! not only among yourselves , but among yeur leaders , making them pull together , or depart in psace ; for , believe me , that our dissension is tha one thing now relied upon by tbe faction , as their title to rule us by the sword . No man in his senses can doubt , but that we are on the eve of some great change ; and no thoughtful man bnt must look with certainty fora union of an plunderers , before they will surrender what we seek for . This , then , is my position . The Whigs ask

      m to join in order to aid them in a constitutional assault npon the present administration ; without any , the slightest , intention of making a single organic change in the system which jost Bends oat one batch , and pats in another batch of well-paid placemen . Now , to meet their union , we have no other means than the formation of as close a union , —rendered more powerful by our numbers . To this end , then , let all , one and all , struggle . Let " union" be oar watch ward , and " liberty" oar war cry ; and let our motto be " onward , atid tc « conquer ; backvoard , and vx falL "

      I shall , from time to time , contrive to say a harried word or two to yon , through tbe nme channel in which this appears ; and shall at all times be ready and willing to aid to the fullest extent io the glorious causa in which we have embarked . We must now be Chutists—and out and out Chartists . No shams ! Ever your faithful friend , Feabgcs O'Cex > 'OB . London , Sept . 15 th , mi .

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      ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE DUKE OF ORLEANS . Paris , September 13 . An attempt to assassinate the Duke of Orleans was made this forenoon near to the Rue Faubourg St . Antoine . His Royal Highness and his brothers , the Dukes de Nemours and d'Aumale , preceded by a brilliant Btaff , were riding at the head of the 17 th Light Infantry , which was about to make its triumphant entry into Paris , coming from Algiers , and had reached the spot just mentioned , when a

      man presented himself before them with a brace of pistols , -which he attempted to fire at the Duke of Orleans : only one of these went off , the ball from it missed the Duke , but severely wounded the horse of Colonel Levaillant . The assassin , a journeyman sawyer , was arrested , and the column moved forward under the escort of several hundred Municipal Guards and Cuirassiers , and of as many of the secret society men ( Republicans ) in blouses . No further incident occurred .

      This atrocious attempt is connected with emeutes which took place in Paris on Friday and Saturday nights , but which had not attracted much attention . At Clermont Farraud rebellious movements occurred on Thursday and Friday last , in which several soldiers were killed and wounded . A large number of the rebela fell in defence of the barricades they had erected . The pretext for this insurrection was that which was used at Toulouse—the census .

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      Notwithstanding these unpleasant occurrences , the Paris Bourse was affected only in a trifling degree on Monday . The National of Sunday was seized for an article on the disturbances at Macon , in which it says that the Government neglects no opportunity of bringing the army into collision with the citizens , and of habituating the army to shed the blood of the people . There were four persons killed at Macon , two mortally wounded , and six others more or less severely injured . P . S . —The author of the attempt is named Nicolas Papard ; he is 37 years of ago , born in the district of the Vosges , and established at Paris about three years . The horse ridden by General Schneider was also wounded . The disturbances at Clermont were completely appeased .

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      NOBWJCH . —The Chartists of Norwich , having determined on openiug their rooms near St . Martin ' s Gates , for the purpose of meeting tie friends of Bronterre O'Brien , at six o ' clock in the evening of Monday , Sept . 27 th , they wish to inform their friends that every means will be exerted to amuse , instruct , and delight them , and that tickets of admission may be had of Mr . S . Goat , St . Augustine ' s—gentle meu , 91 , ladies , 4 Jd . ; two-thirds of which will bo expended for the accommodation of those present , and the remaining third to be sent immediately to that champion of liberty , Bronterre O'Brien , as an acknowledgment of the high estimation in which he i ? hold by all who have read the productions of his powerful mind ,

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      LATEST FROM AMERICA .

      The packet ship New York , Captain Cropper , arrived at Liverpool oa Monday eveninft . Sb * sailed from the city on the 20 th ult ., and has brought papers eix days later than those brought by the last xnatt steamer . Their ooateutB are important . The President bad , as it was expected he would , vetoed the bill to incorporate the Fiscal Bank of the United States . In a message , dated on the 16 th ult ., and transmitted to Congress , ho stated at length his objections to the b ; ll . The Daily Express gives the following epitome of Mr . Tyler ' * objections :- — .. " The President aTguoa that tho Bank' is an unsettled question , but adds that , for twenty-five years his opinions hare been unreservedly expressedfirst , in the Virginia Legislature ; next in tbe House of Representatives ; then in the Senate ; and lastly before the people , in the lato cauvass . " With such opinions , he reasons that he could not sanction this bill withont a surrender of

      religious obligation , of all self-respect , and the actual commission of a crime . w Tho President firBt objects to a bank of discount , which , he argues , is not necessary * to collect , safely keep , and disbureo the publis revenue . ' The power of discount which the iate United States Bank had , he reasons , was very mischievous . and useless , while its power to deal in exchanges was eminently useful . " From this we are to infer , we presume , that tho President would approve a Bank Bill dealing in exchanges , but not a bill having the power to discount .

      " The President then objects to the « ompromise item in the Bauk Bill . He reasons that the proposition construing the silence of a state into aa assent for ihe esublwhmeat of a brauca is but a subterfuge , and he then insinuates that he would rather sign a bill with ample powers to establish branches . Thus it appears that 'the compromise- * but made the bill moreobjeation&ble to the constitutional scruples of the President . " The President then reasons at some length npoa the conflict which this bilLia calculated to create between the States and the Federal Government as to this disputed power of establishing branches . " The President doe 3 not state what kind of a bank he would approve , if any . M An inference , however , may be drawn from the message , that -a bank with no power to establish branches but by the assent of the States , and no power to make discounts , would fiud favour with the Executive .

      "Tne President insinuates that there are other objections to the bill than those he states , of which he waves the discussion . " The message bears internal marks of having been writteu in haste , or rather in the natural agitation of the mind the . President must have felt when thus compelled to differ with his friends . " Perhaps a more signal instance of the impropriety of the absolute ' veto' power in a Republican form of government cannot bo found than in thi 3 of President Tyler . Seventeen put of the twenty-six States of the Union elected a President with the belief , if not certainty , that he would not exercise the veto power upon a Bank bill . That President is removed by death , and the constitution which

      makes the Vice-President , his successor , ' tho Executive , ' clothes that officer with the power to veto aa act congress passes , and which the Executive whom the people elected would have signed . "Thus , under President Tyler's construction of his duty to exercise the veto , an accident coavertg the Republic into a Monarchy , in spite of the people , and upon a matter the people considered adjudicated in the eleotion of the Executive they voted for . President Tyler thus , no matter what he thinks of the voice of the people , is bound to exercise the veto by bis oaJh , ana this in a case which even he must own the peeple did not reflect or decide upon . in voting for a Vice-Prfifiilcnt , who , it was quits improbable then , would become the Executive . "

      The rejection of tbe bill , which having passed the Senate and House of Represantatives , was a favourite measure of the majority , had produced a great sensation at Washington , and had given rise to a variety of rumours . At first the act of vetoing the bill would , it was thought , cause the breaking up of the Cabinet ; but men ' s minds had begun to cool , and at the date of the latest accounts from Washington , no apprehension was entertained that the rejection of the measure would cause any resignations on the part of members of tho Administration . The Bankrupt Bill had been the subject of singular treatment . In the House of Representatives , on the 17 th ult . a motion to lay the bill ou the table

      was unexpectedly carried by 110 to 97 . On the 18 th a motion was made for the reconsideration o £ the vote of the preceding day . The motion , after some delay , was carried by 103 to 98 . The vote was then , reconsidered . Ultimately the bill was passed br 110 to 105 . A Bank Bill , in a modified form , would , it was believed , be brought forward in ihe Legislature . The money and the stock market had not undergone any material alteration in the interval betweea the sailing of the Acadia and the New York . The exchange on London for the packet was 108 | . The shares ia the Bank of the United States were quoted at U ± . Tho Canada papers do not contain any news of importance .

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      REPEAL OF THE UNION . MR . O'CONNOR AND DR . COOKE , TO THE KEV . DR . COOKE , BELFAST . Reverend Sir , —Having learned , during my incarceration ia York Ca&tle , that Mr . O'ConneH deciinad your challenge to discuss the merits of the Kepeal of the Union , and fearing that more importance than was fair has been attached to his refusal , and knowing that a handle has been made of it to the prejudice of the question , and being in my heart a sincere advocate of the measure , I do hereby invite you to a free discussion on the subject at Belfast , or at any other place -which may better suit your taste or convenience . Your acknowledged high character leads me to believe that your sole object in challenging Mr . O'Connell was prompted by a desire to arrive at just conclusions after fair argument . In order to accomplish so desirable a

      purposo , I have held myself disengaged for the first week of October , the four first days of which I submit to your judgment aa the time for entertaining the subject Ali arrangements shall be left to yon , as to the hour of meeting , the order of speaking , and tha time for adjournment . I merely require free adm : ? &i jn , the doors to bo open one hour previous to the chair being taken , the discussion to take place in the largest room that can be procured , that you appoint one Chairman , I another , and these two gentlemen select aa ¦ umpire , to whose judgment and final decision all disputed points shall be referred . Tha following proposition to be submitted , ef which I undertake to prove the affirmative— " That the Rapea , ! . of tho Lagislativo

      Union between Great Britain aad Ireland ¦ would , above any otiier measure , tend to increase the wealth and develope the hitherto neglectad resources of the latter country ; that to a native Legislature alone can the Irish people look with certainty for peace , and with confidence for national aggandizement and social improvement . In it we would recognise the only just and certain means of checking absenteeism , of improving morals , of advancing agriculture , of dispensing education , of protecting trade , and of psrpetuating a real bond of connectkm with our English neighbours . " I have tho hononr , Reverend Sir , to romain , Yoar obedient humble servant , Feargus O'Connor . London , September 11 , 1841

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      to the working men of manchester . Englishmen , Irishmen , and Scotchmen , — Those noble , undaunted , and unflinching advocates of your rights , Feargua O'Connor and J . B . O Brieu , Esqrs ., will enter Manchester , on Monday the 27 th , and yoa will have the opportunity of seeing those unchanged patriots whom you have repeatedly cheered loudly and enthusiastically , at the close of your meetings held since their incarceration . You who have so many times made the welkin ring with your stentorian voices , will on that day Lave a chance of shewing your personal respect to those gentlemen .

      Come forward , then , in acclaiming thousand ? , and let them liavsi ele&r and demonstrable proof , that aa they are not cbanged after all tae taunts , sneers , persecntions , and prosecutions of their and your enemies , that you are the same as when they were dragged from yoa by the blood hounds of class made law . Let them see that they have not Buffered for an ungracious people . Let them not be discouraged by your apathy and indifference ; but convince them that they yet live in yonr breasts and that they will do , ao long as they maintain their ground , as they hitherto have done , firmly , consistently , and honourably .

      O'Connor ia . again rousing the dormant energies of the people , and the encouragement he has already met with has stimulated him forward in Mb career , and prompted him to visit the length and breadth of the land , even before he has had time to recruit his health , crushing botk factions by hi * talents and eloquence . Then , again , we shall have the well-tried but unwearied champion and schoolmaster of the age , the companion of Feargus , the talented and indomitable O'Brien , to expose the present corrupt , artificial , and falling system , holding it up to the biaaa of opea day , and shewing its deformities ; and we ahall lava proposed a plan by which our empty-headed , shortsighted , and imbecile rulera may save the wreck from sinking . . . " ... who have made atfrtfcea

      Such men as these , great , and bid defiance to all obstacles and dangers OjMai ^ r > .. , them , deserve yuur confidence and snnnnrL j / tr ^^^^ f * 1 *~ i \ expects every man to do his duty , " and cmajC ^^ t / J ^ . f ^ y ^ T that you will do yours . f /? t ^^ " ^ ' A \ A > A . Youm , in tho canae of ^ f ^ ff ^ tii ^ . ' / f Wm No . 34 , Loraas-atreet , Bank Top , \ V ~ , u « -, * & '^ l ' u ' ^ 1 Manchester . ^ O ^' /^ 'y 'V '

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      Grand Procession At Birmingham, On Monday, September The 20th, 1841,

      GRAND PROCESSION AT BIRMINGHAM , ON MONDAY , SEPTEMBER THE 20 TH , 1841 ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 18, 1841, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct721/page/5/