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THE ^OKTHERN STAR SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1841.
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CASE OF THE MAW REEVE.
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The Subscribers in and around London will receive the O'Connor Liberation Medals with their papers on Saturday next The Plato of Monmowth Court House will be distributed to them , and to the Subscribers in and around Birmingham on Saturday fortnight , the 1 st of Day of January , 1842 . It is particularly desired that every Agent who receives either Medals or Portraits , will not distribute them before the day named in the Star . It is for their convenience that the Plates &o . are entrusted to them before the time ; and we expect that no one in any locality will bo far abuse the confidence reposed in him , as to distribute them before the proper time , when all shall have bad their supply .
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THE SMALL PORTRAITS . To meet the wishes of many who desire to have the Small Portraits formerly issued with the Star , and who say that 4 £ d . is an awkward price to remit , we have determined to offer them at 4 d . each . The list comprises Portraits of—F . O'Connor , H . Hunt , R . Oastler , Andrew Marvel , J . R . Stephens , Arthur O'Connor , Sir W . Molesworth Thos . Attwood , and Wm . Cobbett , Bronterre O'Brien . Alt these will be allowed to the Agents and Booksellers , so as to retail at id . each . Any one experiencing difficulty in procuring them has but to inclose six Postage Stamps , either to the office , or to our principal agents , Mr . Cleave , of London , Mr . Quest , of Birmingham , and Mr . Heywood , of Manchester , and he can have any one on the lis returned to him by the next post .
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RE-ISSUE OF THE LARGE PORTRAITS . We are constantly receiving applications from new subscribers , or from friends , wishing to know upon what terms they can be supplied with the Large Portraits that have been , at different times , issued to the subscribers to the Slar ; to these applications our Invariable answer has hitherto been , " not at any price . " The calls upon us , however , have now become so numerous and so urgent , that we have determined to issua them again on the following terms : — A person wishing to subscribe for any one of the large Plates , must enter bis name with his News-agent , and Subscribe regularly for the paper for six weeks , specifying at the time he enters his name the Plato he wants .
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HUBDEBSFZSLD . O'CONNOR DEMONSTRATION . On Saturday morning , all was bustle and haste in the expectation of the distinguished patriot . At half-past ten , a carriage and tour greys started foi Cooper Bridge , to meet Mr . O'Connor , who started en route to New Mill , where he was met by the men of HoLnfirth . The people here formed into procession , accompanied by a band of music and numerous banners floating in the breeze , and &j the procession eros 3 ed the English Alps , from New Mill to Holmfirth , the siaht from Holmfirth and the valley wag
most magnificent , indeed the people merging as it were from the clouds , and then the splendid banners in rapid succession , all served to heighten the scene . Mr . O'Connor on bis arrival at Holmfirth was greeted by the assembled thousands with a real old English cheer . He addressed the people in the large room of the Rose and Crown , but not a tithe could gain admittance , and although the rain poured down jh torrents , the assembled mass stood firmly waiting to catch a glimpse of the noble advocate of the laSonring classes . The room was crowded to buSoe&tion .
Mr . O'Connor spoke for half an hour amidst the most rapturous applause . Such was the crowded state of the room that it wss afterwards ascertained that the main beam had sprung and broke into splinters , and it is a wonder that the whole of the vast assembly-werenot " let through" to the bottom , bat all passed off safe . Started for Honley at four o ' clock ; met the procession at the Banks ; marched to Honley . Started from Honley at five o ' clock to meet the men of
Huddersfield at Loekwood . From Honley the tight was most beatiiiil , the music playing , and the transparent lamps with which the procession was pro-Tided were traly ^ raDd "; but such was the inclemency of the weather , that only a very few weathered the storm , and out of three score only four reached Huddersfield . At Lockwood , the procession -was met by the men of BudderKfieid , Almondbury , Lepton , DalUm , Iindley , Paddack , &o . On entering the town the procession moved in the following order : —
Four Marshals on horseback . Almondbury band . A large and splendid banner . A full likeness of Mr . O'Connor . Reverse—England , home , and liberty . Operatives twelve abreast . A beautiful green silk banner—Golden letters . Motto—Universal Soifrage , Annual Parliaments , Vote by Ballot , Payment of Members , No Property Qualification , Equal ^ Representation . - A beautiful tri-colour . Kirkheaton flag . We demand Universal Suffrage . Operatives twelve a-breast . " Lindley band . A splendid green silk banner , with a correct ** * j *** w ** v **\» ^ iwu on a * ufuuiei ) nifcu < a wucvi
likeness of Justice holding the Scales of Equal Rights in one hand , and the People'Charter in the other . Reverse . The day of freedom dawns—the time is near When freedom , oar united efforts crown , On , on , Briton ' s , onr cause is clear , And labour shall no master , but the labourer own God Save tie people . Operatives twelve a-brezn . Tri-colour . Motto—Holmfirth National Charter Association . Reverse—The Charter our right . He that will noi ask is not worthy the blessirgs of freedom . White banner—Honley . Motto—Equality of all before the law . Reverse—Taxation without representation is
tyranny , and ought to b ? resisted . A cap of liberty carried on a long pole . Operatives twelve a-breast . Green silk banner . ' . Motto—The right of every man to liberty is from God , from nature , from birth , and from reason . Reverse—The whole of the principles contained in the People ' s Charter , we demand , for nothing ies 3 will we ever ask or take . Tri-colour ; Motto— "God save the Qu . en for we fear no one else will . " Reverse— " The glorious P-epublic of
America , and soon may England imitate that country ; its people happy aim contented . ' ' Golcar band . A splendid oil painting of the coat ef arms of the National darter Association . " 16 feet by 10 ditto . A tri-coloured flag ; Motlo— " England expeiis every man to do his doty . "
Reverse— " God helps those who help themst- ] Te 3 . " White flag ; Motto— " The land , the land . '—ibe right of every living min . " Reverse—** The rights of laoonr , soon may they be acknowledged by all the world . *" Green silk banner ; Motto— " Every man his own landlord . " Reverse— " Itown with the accursed factory system , the school of immorality , profanenes ^ , wickedness , and vice of every description . "
Operatives , sixteen atrea 3 t . Colne-bridge band . Cap of liberty . Tri-coloured flag . Large white banner ; Motto— "England , home , andlfDerty . " Reverse— " No bastiles . 'End right of every man to live npon his native 2 and . Operatives , sixteen aLrsast . Green silk flag ; Motto— " Equal represes' . aiion , " wiih the
cap of liberty . Reverse— " No distinction before the law . " Green silk flag , with silver letters"Honesty is the best policy ; 1 . 0 humbug ; do Corn Law fallacies ; the full rights of all we ask , no more we demand ; this we will haTe . " Reverse- ^ ' God g ave the earth for man ' s inheritance ; a faction have takenit tothcinsehea . Justice , justice , justice !" Honitj band . Tri-colonred flag ; 14
Motto—Universal Suffrage . " Operative ? , sixteen abreast . the carriage drawn by four greys ; postilions , scarlet jackets , Black velvet caps , and silver tassels , containing the people ' s champion , P £ ARGUS O'CO . NNOR , £ 5 ^ ., alofig with Messrs . Edsvard Clayton , Robt , Peel , and other friends . Transparent lamps on each side . Green silk £ ags on each side of the carnage . Operatives , sixteen abreast . In this manner the procession moved along Buxton-road , on New-street , Market-place , up Westgate , Market-street , down Cloth-hall-street , Kingstreet , on Queen-street , up Ramsden-street , to the Pbilosophical-haU .
When the procession arrived at the hall , it was crowded to exceBS ; it was now after six o ' clock , and , in consequence of Mr . l / Connor having received letters from London , requiring his immediate presence there on argent business , it was arranged that , so soon as he arrived , he should at once address the people . Mr . Veevers , therefore , having been calkd to the chair , introduced Mr . O Cosnor , who was received with tremendous cheering . He made & most exfteUentspeeeh , eoneludiogat half-past seven o'clock , leaving just time for him to be conveyed to the railway station to meet th 2 train . The people deeply regretted the urgency of his departure , but were consoled by a premise of another visit at some future time . After Mr . O'Connor ' s -iepartnre , Mr . Mowitt , after a few observations , replete with sound argument , moved the following resolution : —
K That this meeting pledges itself to agitate for no reform short of the People ' s Charter , the whole of which we consider as a perfect measure ; but if robbed ef one cf its principles , the whole would be involved : we , therefore , pledge ourselves nerer to agitate for , nor countenance , any measure or measures less than the whole of the principles conta : ned in the People ' s Charter , and thav we look upon the Kan who would endeavour to lead the people for any thing less , to be aa enemy to the liberties of mankind !"
Mr . £ . Clayton seconded the resolution in an effective speech , in which he exposed the present move on tte part of the Anti-ecru Law League , in coming out for the franchise ; he warned the people against the rate which was in contemplation . He referred to the history of the Roman Republic in the time of Tiberiua Gracchus and Cains Gracchus , shewing to what means the aristocracy will & \ oop to over-reach the people—by threats , intimidatien , and , finally , by over-liberality—to destroy the power of , and lead the people by , a false light- He resumed Ms seat amidst loud cheering .
Th » resolution was carried uracimously , and three cheers having been given for the Charter , three for Frost , Williams , and Jones , and three ior O'Connor ad otixer patriots , the meeting broke ap after a beany vote of thanks to the chairman .
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE KOHlHEEJt STAR . Dear Sib , —The enclosed letter is , as yon may perceive , from one of those whom the veraciouB O'Conaell has repeatedly described as an enemy , a bitter , unrelenting foe to Ireland . 1 do assure you Sir , ; t has often pazzled me to discover what can be the object , or what is to be gained , by the continuous practice of bearing false witness against toe great bulk of the people of Great Britain . He knows , as well u I do > j that every Chartist in England , Scotland , and Wales , concurs with Mr . Watson In his good ¦ wishes towards Ireland and the Irish . Yet this man , who vilifies a whole people , is angry because the lets Doctor Doyle , Sishep of Kildare , said he was a knave in politics and a hypocrite in religion . Patrick O'Higgins . Dublin , December 2 nd , 1841 .
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EMIGRATION . The trick 3 and contrivances of faction to gain and retain possession of power and profit might provoke ones merriment were not the subjects in reference to which these tricks are practised , matters of such vast importance and commanding interest . The late Whig Government had , by innumerable sins of omission and of commission rendered themselves alike detestable and contemptible in the eyes of all reasonable men .
Unwilling to throw themselves npon popular support , and by substantial reform earn a title to the nation s confidence , they pandered continually to the sworn foes of freedom , till the people , in their righteous indignation , hurled them from the position they disgraced , and their mighty promises of cheap corn , sugar , and timber failed in keeping the old feulk of Whiggery afloat . The oraey craft went down amid the yells and execrations ot deluded millions .
Then came the pious and constitutional Tories mad enough to suppose teat , because Whiggery had become the abhorrence , Toryism must © f necessity become the cherished idol of the popular will . These dupes of their own folly and wickedness declared that no distress existed in the country . According to their spc aches in and out of Parliament , England was a paradise ; so at least said his Grace of Wklukgto * ; and , considering that England in his Grace ' B mind comprised only
Windsor Castle , Buckingham Palace , Apsley House , Almack ' s , and the clubs , no doubt he was correct . There , thanks to John Bull's folly and aristocratic rascality , distress does not dare to show its ugly and unwelcome front . It seems , however that even his Grace of Wellington may be occasionally wrong ; and facts may proclaim , even to the conviction of a Tory Government , that distress does exist , with which they must grapple ; or retire from the mess , to which with hungry bellie 3 they so recently returned .
Well , th--u ; the existence of distress is admitted : and how is it proposed that such distress shall be relieved , and its recurrence prevented ! Of course we are not in the secrets of Downing-strect , and can only speak from hearsay and report . Yet , it is said that " Coming events cast their shadows before , " and some of our London contemporaries , who may probably be employed on the secret service , and act as pioneers for the ministry to discover the bearings of public opinion , haTe stated it to be an understood thing that early in the next Session of
Parliament , Government will propose a scheme to promote what the scribblers please to call "National Emigration , " by which we suppose they mean the transportation of some millions of our industrious countrymen , whose presence presses ruther hardly upon those immensely important classes who have taken a fancy to consider their fellow creatures as so many machines , to be sent anywhere anJ applied to any purpose , which may enable their tyrant task-masters to enjoy the largest amount of luxury , vice , and
idleness . This would be one way , to be sure , of getting rid of thoie whom it is inconvenient to keep ; besides which , it ha ? the merit of consistency , a thing which the late Government never troubled their brains even to think of . It is simple , and in strict accordance with the good old practice of the party ; neither more nor less than a proposition to tax one portion of the people for the purpose of transporting the other ! Still , though it is eoisiBtent with the uniform practice of Toryism , we are by no means disposed to admit itB being in accordance with the requirements of justiee , honesty , humanity , and common sense- On the contrary , we are prepared to prove that it is in perfect discordance with each of those particulars .
First , we say that any scheme of extensive , or " national" emigration , such as that hinted % i by our contemporaries , is unjust ; and that , for tsvo reasons ; it is a one-sided bargain , and it is altogether unnecessary . It is a one-sided bargain , because , through the operation of the New Poor Law on the one hand and the grinding oppression of the capitalist on the other , all who are deemed " surplns population" may be compelled
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to submit to it on pain of starvation . There is no necessity for an Aot of Parliament to- say expressly " the people shall emigrate or starve . " Would to God our rulers were honest enough thus to blazen forth their villany in open day ! This , bowever , they will not do ; they will be cunning as serpents , however little of the harmleasness of the dove they may possess . Yet , let any man ot common sense reflect for a moment on the position in which the Poor Law and the constantly increasing power ot machinery has placed the working man ; and he will at once perceive that should a plan of
emigration be adopted ] by the legislature in order to relieve the distresses of the country , the industrious artisan wonld have no choice , bnt would be compelled to submit to any terms which the interest or caprice of the tyrants might induce them to propose . _ It is also totally unnecessary . We have no surplus population in reality . That we have such a population in appearance , we readily grant ; but the cause is not a redundancy of mouths , but a bad arrangement . of society which prevents the fair remuneration of active industry . What is called the cultivated land of the United Kingdom would produce ,
if its capabilities were fully developed , food for , at least , one hundred millions of human beings . Leaving this , however , to be managed or mismanaged as to the landlords and their tenants may be most convenient , we beg to remind those who appear so anxious to send Englishmen , Irishmen , and Scotchmen to cultivate lands at the opposite side of the globe , that we have buch a thing as land which would give an ample return for the labour of cultivation at home . We have some thirty millions of waste lands which
are at present of no ubo to anybody : one-half of these lands , with skill and industry , and with a moderate outlay of capital , would yield a profitable , and , after a few years , an ample return . Let these lands , at all events , be made productive , and let the cultivated lands have their capabilities fully developed ; let the demand of an extensive home market for home productions be fully answered , and then it will be time enough to talk of banishing our surplus population from their native land .
This system of wholesale banishment is as dishonest as it is unjnst . Who are to be expatriated ? not the old , for they would be beyond the ability to work ; not the young , for they would be incapable of providing for , or taking care of , themselves . The emigrants , then , would be the strong , healthy , and active portion of the working classes , among whom preference would be given to those who had no families , or whose children were of such an age as to
be employed in useful labour on arriving at their destination . Now who is to pay for tho transportation of two or three millions of these destitute human beings to our distant colonies I Let us suppose that in Great Britain and Ireland there are three millions of the people unable to find a sufficiency of food , and that , according to the new prosperity scheme , they are to bo exported to New Zaaland , New South Wales , or Canada .
And let us inquire who is to pay the expence of this new plan for relieving national distress . The expeace must be paid by the nation , and the nation that pays ia the working people . The working people have to pay the expences of the Government , national aud local , the interest of the debt , and the rates for the relief of the poor , &c . &o . ; for , whoever appearB to pay , the whole of this enormous burden is actually borne by the industry of the country . Yet our sage rulers propose , because the country cannot sustain the burdens under
which it groans , to increase those burdens by many millions of pounds , in order to send away a large and important portion of our most able aud industrious citizens , leaving the increased taxation to be sustained by those who remain ; in addition to which they will have to maintain all the old , who are not worth transporting , and all the young , who are of too tender an age to be transported . If the Tories are disposed to make England one huge poor house , we advise them to adopt this plan , for most assuredly the Devil could not have contrived a more effectual contrivance .
But let us look a little at the expence . " To take an individual to Canada , bow much will it cost ! For transportation , food , and fit clothing , with means of living for at least a few days after his arrival there , the sum of £ 8 a-head—a small average co 3 t , even if Bure of employment the instant they touch the land . his for one and a half millions amounts to twelve millions of pounds : send the remaining one and a half million to New Zealand or New South Wales , at a cost of £ 20 a-head , and we have a total of forty-two millions of pounds ! Even granting this calculation to be too high :
supposing that only half this expence is to be incurred , are the people prepared to give twenty-one millions to carry the project into execution ! " If they are , they are much greater fools than we take them to be . " But suppose the money to be just now in Mr . Goulburn ' s breeches pocket reidy to carry the scheme into practice ; to be effectual it must bo prompt , or the vacancies will be rapidly filling upyoung ' superabundant' will be dropping in as there is more room ; so let the exiles be shipped as soon as
possible . To carry off one million of human beings , you will require four thousand ships , allowing 250 of the animals to be crammed into each . If you send off three millions , the ship-builders ought to be at once set to work , for there may be some difficulty in finding vessels . —Seriously , the more we think on the proposal , the more ridiculous it appears , and we would be half inclined to set it down as a hoax , if we did not find it advocated seriously in some of the London Papers . "
This we fancy will be deemed a pretty specimen of Tory honesty , and a pretty way of relieving distress . It is evident that the only design entertained is to thin the population by a system of deliberate murder under the name of em i gration . If sent to the Colonies , the land there is already appropriated , the proprietors could not , of course , at ence find capital to employ all , or nearly ali this sudden influx of labour , the emigrant has not means to purchase any portion of tho land from those in possession , and his only resource ia to lie down and die . TMb at least would be the case
in Canada , and should he be sent to other remote colonies nearly the same objections would apply . A vast sum must be laid out ou agricultural implements , &c , and an immediate and ready supply of food must be furnished , if , indeed , they are not to be sent there merely to perish in the desert . This shows not only the dishonesty but the inhumanity of the scheme . Half the money necessary to be expended in murdering them abroad , would , by placing them upon the waste lands and opening new channels for the beneficial employment of their skill and industry , render them comfortable and happy at home . But this is
not the only point in which the inhumanity of the scheme is glaringly apparent . To say nothing of the perils of the voyage and of the hardships to which the eiile must be exposed ia < his colonial home , let it be remembered that human beings are neither stocks nor Btones . Is it nothing to be torn from oar kindred and connections—from the solace of friendship , and the loved scenes of our childhood 1 Is it nothing to have new friends to Beek—new scenes to try , and new habits to form , in the distant wilderness ! And all this for what ! Just to sustain bad and wioked arrangements of society , and to gratify the greedy grasping of a monopolising faction .
There has been a meeting recentl y held in London on this subject , at whioh one Mr . Montgomery Mabtin took the chair , and at which a Mr . Crawford , of Paisley , and other gente , amused themselves , and tried to gull the public , by talking nonsense . We do not blame them for this , nor shall we blame the Government for pursuing a like course " for , in truth , no man can possibly talk common sense on such a senseless project . Mr . Montgomery Mabtin talks greatly in his little way about the resources of the colonies , of the amount of revenue they poor into the mother country , of the strength they add to our military force ; but he forgets to
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tell us that neither the toiling millions of this country nor of the ill-governed colonies reap any advantage from all these fine things , the whole profit being absorbed bj \> he aristocratic knaves and fools ; who are cursing by their misrule those interesting and important portions of the globe . One statement he made deserves apaesing notice . " Every colony '' , he says " that was founded , supplied us with a market beyond the control of foreigners . The Coloni st , who while he continued an Inhabitant of the mother country , consumed only five pounds worth of
British manufactures yearly , required twenty pounds worth in his new home . " We have no doubt he requires it . The question is , will he find the means of getting it ? If Mr . Maetin ' 8 logic prove anything , it proves too much , for if the prosperity of every Colonist be such as to enable him to expend three hundred per cent , more than the British resident , of the same elass at home , then it is plain the whole nation had better emigrate at once , especially as such a manoeuvre would save to our manufacturers the cost of transit .
The fact is , that Mr . Martin was dreaming all the while about pounds , shillings and pence , and could only think of men as machines for making them . Hence he talks of every colony supplying us with a market spite of foreigners . What may become of the thousands who will be compelled to steal or starve , while the said market is in process of creation , he and his class neither know ner care . We shall keep our eye upon this move of the Tories and the middle men , and if they venture to launch their emigration ship , we promise them a broadside that shall effectually sink both it and them .
In the meantime , let the people remain true to themselves , let them continue to go for the whole Charter and nothing less , and that once obtained , the regeneration of our country will be easily effeoted , and Englishmen will learn to live well at home , instead of going abroad to a worse , because more hopeless , condition of slavery than that whioh they now endure .
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To Correspondents and Agents . —Christmas Day falling on a Saturday this year , we shall , for that 1 week , publish on the Friday . Correspondents will , therefore , note this , and see to their respective communications being sent a day sooner . Tlie Agents must also take care to have their orders here in time .
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^ Several Unpaid Letters , including a large packet bearing the Liverpool post mark , have been returned to the Post Office . Nathaniel Morling , Brighton , states that he has not yet received the letter which Mr . Martin says he posted for him on the 2 \ st of November . The Chartists of Brohtaro , Herefordshire , are requested to communicate with Mr . John Parsons , No . 6 , Beaufort-place , Staplelon-road , Bristol . Chartist Blacking . —Having received letters eomplaining of money letters being sent , which have not been receivedfrom the post , R . Pinder desires that , for the future , no person will send him any remittance except by post-office order .
The Convention , —Mr . Henry Vincent desires us to state , in answer to numerous applications he has received , that he declines being put in nomination for the coming Convention . His reason is , that Mr . It . K . Philp , his partner in business , is already nominated ; and it would be impossible for both to be absent from Bath , engaged in political duties , at the same moment . Mr . V . will be actively engaged in spreading Chartism in his locality , and will do his utmost to aid the Petition , and the purposes for which the Convention wili assemble . The Irish Universal Suffrage Association return their most sincere thanks to those friends who
have favoured them with Stars , Chartist tracts , and other communications , and particularly to Mr . Wood , ofCltorley . Stars to Ireland . —Thady Cofferty Inform us , that out of twenty-two Stars , which he is apprised have been sent to him by a friend at Northampton , he has only received fifteen . The three Stars from W . B ., Darling ' on , were received . Mb . Skevinoton , Loughkrough , wishes to decline standing as a candidate for the forthcoming Convention for the town of Loughborougfi . He is thankful for tlie honour intended him ; but , as the Distiict Meeting at Nottingham have agreed upon two persons for the district , Mr . 6 ' . will withdraw .
James Sinclair , Newcastle , and various other Correspondents . —We must again request that the copy furnished to us for the Star be written on one side of the paper only .
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Mr . JoiiAN Habkkt acknowledges the receipt of Is , from Mr . Henry Frost Coatman , FortUnd-plac * , London , for Elizabeth Toyler . The money has been handed to Mrs . T . J . T . Whitehbao , Cheltenham , willobli ge ty umtitg on one side of his paper only for the future . We had as much news came on Thursday mormnff as ¦ would have filled the Star : we were obliged to cut down his report in the same way as a great many others . ' , «¦ ' ¦'¦ a ' -m Rochdale . —Will the Rochdale sub-Secretary , that sent 10 s . to Mr . John Campbell , give him Aw address again ; and also the Truro friend who sent 6 s . t John Campbell would be thankful to all parhes who have had his pamphlets to send him either cash , or the pamplets back again . _ Charles Westebton . —The letter to Mr . O'Connor ¦
teas delivered to him . , . ' John Wkaver , ofRyde , writes us to deny the authorship of the paragraph which appeared in the Chartist Intelligence of our last , with his name attached . We gave the paragraph as it reached us ; and we gave the signature because we knew nothing of the writer . _ The London O'Brien Pbess Fund . —The . long address of the Committee , received only on Thursday morning , cannot possibly appear this week . The Balance-sheet of the Executive was not received till Thursday . It cannot , consequently , appear in our present number .
John Moore . —We really can give htm no answer . We have received at this office , within the time mentioned by him , scores of letters for Mr . O'Connor , all of which have been duly forwarded : whether his may have been among them we . of of course cannot tell . Not fewer than fifty Utters have been received at this , office , within the month , from different parts , addressed to Mr . O'Connor , on nearly all sitbjecls , but mainly containing invitations for a visit to the several towns and places from where the letters have come . The parties sending seem to expect that Mr . O'Connor would answer them each and every one . This expectation is unreasonable . Look ' at the labour Mr . O'Connor has performed during the
last month ; and then say whether , m conscience , he has not had enough to do ! We may state generally , that all these letters have been seen by Mr . O'Connor , up to the time of his leaving last for London ; and that he will , after a time , state in the Star the places he will next visit , and the time . A Berhondsey Chartist , tn Cambridge , seems to have imbibed a common and most mischeivous misconception . The National Charter Association has no " branches . " It is one society ; and consequently , all its members and officers may legally communicate with each other . Y . Z . —Address Mr . Baker , Factory Superintendent , Leeds . A Constant Reader . —We have never measured
him . John Wilkinson , Birminham . —We have written h \ m , care of Mr . White . H . Cronin . —Fifty such letters , and more , have been received and forwarded . . -. W . Thorley . —Any communication for Mr . Q'Connor may be sent here . The Liverpool case shall be attended to : we purpose writing on the subject . Derby Chartists . —We did not receive the report of their meeting for the National Petition . Duncan Nicholson . —The letter from Mr . O ' . Brien next week . Stars to Ireland . —Mr . Murray , Donegal , will be thankful for a little Starlight . The Poets have been bountiful , as usual . We have
received six times more than we have read . The Worcester Chartists send us an address of congratulation to and confidence in the Executive We have not room for its insertion . Mb . R . Ridley , having completed his lour in Suffolk and Essex , is open to an engagement . Address —19 , D'Oyley-strcel , Sloane-street , Chelsea . Military Flogging . — . 4 Correspondent asks" Whether it is true that two men have been severely flogged at the Leeds Barracks within the last fortnight or ten days , and that one of them is now in . the Hospital in consequence of the punishment ? " We do not know . Wh . Stubbings , James Crawford , A here Man , Joseph Oinder , L . P . Cooke , and a great many others , must excuse « i : we have no room .
David DaVIEs , smith , George Town , Merthy , b . —The parcel he inquires about was sent from the office on Oct . 30 IA , according to the address given in his letter . II was entrusted to Pidc / orcPs , the carriers . A letter too , has been sent to him since , to the savie address , in answer to his queries ; and on the 8 th insL , a second letter was dispatched , addressed to the care of Mr . Morgan Williams . Let him inquire at the carriers at Merthyr . Mr . Hitchin , Kidderminster . —The parcel he writes about was inclosed in one sent to Mr . George White , of Birmingham , on Nov . 30 th . Perhaps Mr . White has not had an opportunity of forward ing it W . H . Clifton . —His letter to the Lord Mayor of Dublin neat week .
The Bristol Chartists are most anxiously looking for a visit from O'Connor . Their letter in reference to the correspondent is received . Their correspondence shall always have our best attention . In reference to the notice , in our last , of this matter , we have received the following letter , to which we call the attention of our Bristol friends : —
THE BRISTOL CHARTISTS AND THE STAR . Mr . Editor , —Observing your answer to the Bristol Chutists , complaint of non-reports in the Star , I conceived that the testimony of one who , for some time , sent you reports of Cuartiat meetings here , -was due t * - yon , and would not be altogether unavailing to the Chartists . I beg to state that , daring my connection wit ' i the Chartists , as an enrolled member of tho National Charter Association , I continued to report the Bristol Chartist meetings , from the one entitled tho Germansend and the Tories , down to the Chartist meeting for the release of Frost ; also tne ball and soiree : When I
resigned office , and -withdrew from the body . I have since reported many meetings , some important ones , down to the Anti-Corn Lecture of Brown , each inclusive , and have ever found the Editor readily insert the reports ia the Star . I have from the commencement of the movement here , found such complaints as those yon answer , rife ; bat whilst numbered with tbu speakers , I did not trouble myself to take reports ,, or inquire wherefore we were not reported ; but from your punctuality and attention during the short time I filled that efflce unappointed , I must bear testimony that the fault has been with those who reported , or said they reported . J .
P . S . —Upon my report of the Brown ar . ti-Corq Law meeting , I nave to add , I hope tht- early arrival thereof did not exslude a better from your columns ; and lest friends should think otherwise , I mate I do not seek appointment . I have ever served in thia office , gratuitously , unappointed , and untbanked . J , Upon this we have only to say , that our worthy friend mistakes greatly in supposing that he has been " unthanked " for his favours . A large heap of thanks have been accumulating , which we now
beg him to accept alt at once , A . B . C . suggests the propriety of furnishing every Member of the House of Commons with a copy of the Charter , which being in the English Chartist Circular , at one KuLfpentty , might be done at a very tri / ling expense , and would prevent their pleading ignorance of what ttwy are asked to make law ; and , as every bodys work is nobody s work , he suggests that every sub-secretary furnish the Member , or Members , who represents the city or borough in which he resides .
Mr , George Black . —We have received a letter from Cardtf , slating ( hough it may sometimes be policy to re / rain from expressing as much , yet a burst of honest indignation should not lessen a man in our esteem ; they consider Mr . George Black , entitled to full confidence from the Chartist body . We have also received a similar letter from Newport , Monmouthshire . James Andrews , Barnstaple All the Plates due to the Subscribers will be shortly forwarded 'to Mr . Avery . Mb . Penny—The letter to Harnor Stansfeld in our next .
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FOR THE 0 BRIEN PRESS FOND . £ 8 . d From Brighton , per Mr . Flower , treasurer to the Cominitteeat Brighton 10 o o _ the Glasgow Northern Star Reading Society , per W . Anderson 0 14 0 FOR P . H . M'DOUALL . From the Glasgow Northern Star Reading Society , per W . Anderson 0 14 0 FOB THE EXECUTIVE . From a friend , West Kad , Leeds ... o 6 *• " « «• ••• ... ... ... 0 0 6
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FOR MB . JAMBS VBBNON , SOUTHMOLTON . From Mr . EL Griffith * , Edgeware Road , London ... ... ... 8 1 FOB THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OF THE INCAS . CERATED CHABII 8 TS . The 7 s . from Daventry and Whilton , noticed for R . j Riehardson , on the 13 th of November , should have been for the . Wives and Families . The £ l from Alva , of the Bame date , is counter-ordered by Wo . Bishop , Secretary to the Chartist Association . 7 OK THE EXECUTIVE , FROM THE SALE OF BOOKS PINDEB'S BLACKING .
a . d . W . Wright , Stockpott ... ... ... o 10 Richard Haslem , Oldham 0 16 Robert Brook , Todmorden i 8 Thomas Hartley , Bornlvy l 8 Charles WIniper , Stockton 1 s Wm . Brook , Leeds ... 2 $ £ 0 9 2 O'BRIEN PRESS FUND , LEEDS—RECEIVED BT THB COMMITTEE . From the Press Committee , Liverpool ... 29 0 0 „ Andrew Dick 0 5 0 W . Brook , Sea .
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" I should e ' en weep with pity To see another thus . "—King Lear , Chartist Friends , —I have never yet solicited yonr assistance to an individual ; and if I do ho now , I hope it will not be Ineffectual . Reeve , news agent , who suffered , from time to time , about three yean' rigorous imprisonment during the battle of the unstamped , and contributed greatly to the victory , is st present under pinching difficulties and priva ' . ions . Like the fond ally who " fights for all bat ever fights in Tain , " 01 the soldier , who wins the battle for the general mote
than for himself , Reeve , though , as I have been told , he was more daring than any one in defying the little brief authority of the petty myrmidons of tyranny , has been neglected , nay , worse , those who gained by tha victory have been suffered to prejudice the minds of individuals otherwise favourably disposed towards tUa poor fellow , and he now lies , without food , without a bed , or the means of getting one day over another . He is under the doctor ' s bands for a wound in his leg which prevents him from going about to vend Chartist publications , by the sale of whioh he used to earn a precarious pittance .
The approaching Christinas ( however merry to some , ) must be a sad one to him ; but If he could get it over , he hopes forhapp ' er timeB in the ne » year . He is honest , though starving , and his zeal to do good to the cause rises above all his distresses . Should any who reads this be in a condition to spate him a mite , he will thank them again and again ; foi rent day is approaching , and what will become of him then , God only knows—probably the streets , or the bastile , with his young family . Contributions sent to John Watkins , No . 20 , TJppet Marsh , Marsh Gate , Lambeth , will be punctually paid to him and duly acknowledged . J . W .
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BRADFORD . —An Example worth Imitating—The membors <> f an Odd Fellows Lodge held it tho house of Mr . Henry Miles , Manchester-road , have agreed to withdraw their money from the bank , and are about to commence keeping a shop with it , thus scouring to themselves the profit of their own consumption . If all benefit societies would adopt the samo plan it would bring the shopkeepers to their Bcnses , an d teach them their duty to tho working classes . PetttTtrannt . —Since the demonstration , thetwo factions , Whig and Tory , scarcely know what to do with themselves , they are spitting their venom against all they can find out , who took an active part in doing honour to him , whom the peoplo delight to honour . A firm not a hundred miles from the old church , has discharged a number of female
power-loom weavers for losing about two hours work to attend the soiree and tea party . Several other manufacturers and spinners hare done the same . A great many squeamish gentlemen ( alias old women ) who come round to the bouses of the poor people to ask them to send their children to their Sunday schools , tell us there is no tyranny , no oppression , nor any misery , but what the people bring upon themselves by their dissolute habits , and blame us much for calling such men as the above tyrants and oppressors . I met with one of those gentlemen last week , when I offered to prove to him , and to open to his view , such a scene of misery and distress as would melt his flinty heart , if he would accompany me two days to the wretched hovels of the poor hand-loom weavers and woolcombers , but he declined doing bo . —Correspondent .
Death from Starvation . —An old man , named Benjn . Hay , was found dead on Saturday morning last , at the door of Mr . Parkinson , his nephew , ( who resides on Primrose Hill , Great Horton-laae . ) He was removed to the Fleece Inn in a cart to await the Coroner ' s inquest , which was held on Sunday aet , at tho Iun to which he was taken . After heariot ; the evidence , the Jury oame to the verdict of 11 Died from starvation . " The old man it appears his latterly resided in Leeds , and came to Hortonto s ' 6 his relations . He has a brother residing at Paradise Green , Horton , worth considerable property , a ad his nephew , at whose door he died , is also possessed of property , yet he was suffered to die from want .
KEIGHLEV . —On Saturday evening last , aboat seven o ' clock , a lamentable accident happened at Grove ' s Mill , about a mile from Keighley . A voting woman , named Hannah Hartley , about sixteen years of age , went an errand to Ingrow , a place at a short distance , accompanied by other two , a young man and a young woman , abeat the same age , Close by her own . residence , and betwixt that and Ingrow is a water ( commonly called a beck ) of considerable magnitude , over whioh is a narrow wooden bridge , for the convenience of the workpeople living on the opposite side . In consequence of the bridge being usually secured by a gate toprerent strangers from passing through Mr . Clongh'l mill-yard , and as this sale is always lockedat nignts ,
the young woman aud her companions went round by the cart road , a distance considerably further . After performing her errand , the party were advised to return home again by the road they came , as the darkness of the m * ht , together with the rise of tha water and the violence of the wind , would make any attempt to climb over the door of the bridge extremely dangerous . This reasonable advice waSi however , disregarded ; the young woman declaring her determination to return that way at all hazards Owing to this fatal resolution , they all went by toe bridge , and commenced climbing over the small gate fixed as a barrier . Two of the party
succeeded in getting over , but while Hartley was making the attempt , she lost her hold and feu a distance of lour or five yards into tin flood below . An immediate alarm was giTen and the neighbours rushed out with lanterns , bat the darkness and height of the water prevented all possibility of rescue . A search for the body was oommenced an Sunday morning , and continued till Tuesday noon , when the body was found at the bottom of Mr . Marriner'e dam stones , holdfast b ] a portion of her dress to a piece of iron , » l » a ' three quarters of a mile from the place where fine fell in . She has left a poor widowed mother inconsolable for her loss .
Suicidk . —Mr . Jno . Greenwood , of the Black Swaa Ino , wad found in bed last Sunday morning , with nil throat out . niaVCHESTES . —At a general meeting of the bailer-makers , held in Manchester , it was resolved that sixpence each member per week , should be levied for the support of the London masons now on strike , such levy to be paid so long as the strike continnes . They nave received their first donation of £ 3 11 s . 6 d ; from tho dressers and dyers , £ W and also from the cotton-spinners of Manchester the sum of £ 5 .
STOCXPORT . —The Unemploted . —The beaevolent are cautioned against parties who are going about begging for the turn out spinners ' , no one has been authorised to beg yet . Any conttiDUtioas will be thankfully received by Mr . Willi * a Rothwell , care of Mr . Aoger Itiley , news-ageiuj Che 8 tergate . The Committee are about to send proper persons m the different districts to collect . Contributors are requested to take notice of the date « the address and the name of the printer , and to insert the amount of their subscription in the boo with ink .
KOCHDAUB . —Polios . —On Monday last , Ml . Chadwick again attended the Petty Sessions , »» stated that he had taken the opinion of Mr . Stark * on the decision given by that bench on the previous Monday , as to the right of the police to break m » persons houses without the authority of a magistrate-That opinion was that they have decided conttarj to the law , in giving the decision in favour ot w police ; So we are to hare our houses broken opes at the will of an hired bludgeonman , and then ( v have the satisfaction of knowing that he did d » know his dutv . On TnAariav last , after twenty-M ?
or twenty-six policemen had been patrolling m streets of this borough , all night and day , they nw * the honour of apprehending a poor half-st «* f * creature , whose emaciated appearance would nw impressed any one but a tyrant with compassioni whose only crime was that he had not tasted » oo for upwards of thirty hours , and the turnkey of «« prison stated , that the man when he came to U » prison , devoured his scanty meal in snob a manner , that he thought he had not tasted food for a mott » . thebenoh diamiBaed tha case , by ordering bun om of the town immediately .
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4 THE NORTHERN STAB .
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10 MIL PATRICK O ' HIGGINS . Dear Sib , —Along with this letter you will receive a Northern Star . I have Bent the Star and Scottish Patriot ou several occasions of late , and shall continue to do so . I rejoiee in common with every Mend of liberty at the spreading of true political principles in your beautiful , but oppressed country ; aad X look forward with confidence to the period when the millions of Ireland ' s generous and fervid sens will unite as one 7 " * " witk their British Brethren to overthrow the monster , class-legislation , and the thousand evils that proceed from it
I love the Irish people ; I have been a stranger in their land ; bat I ~ w&s no stranger to their hospitality ; and " may my right hand forget its cunning"' when I forgtt the debt I owe them . Believe me , also , when I say , I am not a stranger t » Ireland's history , to her numerous civil wars fomented by knaves for the purpose of getting possession of the forfeited estates , to the disabilities interposed in marriages between Catholic and Protestant , or to the in famous means adopted by Pitt , Castlereagh , and Co . to rob yen of joai national legislature . Bat I tors with joy from the contemplation of the dark picture of your wrongs to what you will be ¦ when your capabilities are brought to light ; when the inexhaustible resources of your soil and your mines have buen brought into action by your industrious , talented , aad educated people .
In the Slar which I send with this , your talented countryman , Mr . O Brier , justly observes that if a capital of £ 130 , 000 , 000 sterling were required for the discovery and disenterobing of Noah ' s Ark , it would be immediately subscribed for—only guarantee the speculators ten per cent To bring yoar ill-used country into the same state cf cultivation as England and the low par ! . 3 of Scotland would require an outlay of £ 32 , 010 , 000 , but will thiieverbe expended upon it , while a miserable few are suffered quietly to speculate oa the fruits of your labour ? Never 1 and their power to do evil springs from your disunion , aad from ours . It astonishes mo when I read of your cheap provisions ; your best , mutton , pork , geese , turkeys , fowls , corn , and potct ^ es . But when I see what Inglis and others say of the state of wages , and add my own scanty knowledge to their better opportunities of information , I m&y then come near the truth .
Persevere , Sir , in your honest efforts for the real emancipation cf y : ur noble country—a country well entitled to the euloginm of Counsellor Phillips — a country which I firmly believe that the Romans , in the plenitude of their power , dared not to invade—a country where the praises of the true God were Ftmg on the harp , in the balls of Tara , long before the Redeemer cf mankind began his earthly career , and took upon himself our nature—a country where the arta and sciences were preserved when the rest of ths world was involved in darkness . Iceland , the Ultima Thule , and the most northern point of civilization , even Lie human race , to this day , owe to Ireland a deep debt of gratitude .
Do me the honour , Sir , to propose me as an honorary member of your Association , and add the names of William Thomson and Robert Fletcher , of Laith , to your list of subscribers . We will take care % o keep np our title of membership by regularly sending the Star , o * any oth .-r Radical papers we may get ; and you may rely on it that we will do our best to get others to follow our example . There are Irish hearts here beating in Scottish besoms , and I hope , in a short time , to shew them what they roafly owe to Ireland , and I know they will act accordingly . Dear S ' u , Believe me yours , And God bless the cause , Robbbx Watson . Leith , November 24 th , 1841 .
The Medals.
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The National Petition . —Our publisher , Mr . Hobson , has printed the National Petition for 1842 , on a neat sheet , for the purpose of being extensively distributed amongst those from whom signatures are asked , that they may know for what they are signing . He is ready to supply them to the Associations and to individuals at the following charges . —100 copies for 2 s ; 1 , 000 for 15 s . Petition sheets , of good strong paper , ruled in four columns , and holding two hundred names when filled , may also be had , price 2 d . each . The Petition and sheets may also be had from Mr . Cleave , London : and Mr . Heywood , Manchester . But in all cases the money must be sent in advance—the price being so low as to preclude credit .
Case Of The Maw Reeve.
CASE OF THE MAW REEVE .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 11, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct732/page/4/
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