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TO JOSEPH STURGE, ESQ., BIRMINGHAM
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2To 33?aDir0 antr CotTCtfponDatig*
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DEATH " FROM A PISTOL-SHOT, IN LEEDS.
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CHARTIST HYMN BOOK.
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KARIUAGE.
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KING CHAELES ' fl CROFT , OR ROYAL WEST-END MARKET . Accommodation for Carts in a most convenient Situation , between Briggate and Albion-dreet , Leeds . B LKANAH OATES , Broker , &c . No . . " 5 , King Charles-street , begs to inform the Public ' that he has taken the above Croft , and from a general opinion expressed by the inhabitants in its favour aa the most eligible situation fora VEGfc / fABLE MARKET , he has the satisfaction to announce that it js intended to erect tor the purpose a suitable Building , to cover upwards of One Thousand Square Yards of Ground , still leaving some Thousands ef Square Yards open ^ to accommodate Carts fi or . i the Country , for unloading and loading , or staathuiC , at Twoperjce each per Day .
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CONVEYANCE OF GOODS TO AND FROM LONDON BY RAILWAY . JOHN KEN WORTHY and Co . beg to inform O tfieir Friends and the Public that , on tbe Fi&sr of September next , they intend to commence Carrying by RAILWAY to and from LONDON , and LEEDS , BRADFORD . HALIFAX . HUDDERSFIELD , DEWSBURY , &o ., and hope to merit a share , of that support so many years . oouferrcd on them as Carriers by Canal . Warehouses . —Axe Inn , Aldermanbuuy , akd Railway Station , Cajiden Town , London . Railway Trains to Liverpool , Manchester , Rochdale , &c ., every Day .
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THE NEW YORK LINE OF PACKETS . Sail punctually on their regular days from LIVERPOOL . —As follows , viz . SHEFFIELD , Allen .... 600 tons , \* t Srpt . N 1 CH . BIDDLB . Trueman ... 778 tons . b'h Srpt . ROSCIUS , Collius 1150 tons , Yith Sept . For NEW ORLEANS . GOODWIN , Davis 700 tons , 30 ^ Aug . LORDJ 5 EATON . Fitzsimmons , 730 tons , llh Hip ' t .
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their own officers to disguise themselves ; to worm themselves into the confidence of the join or meat upon whom they are set ; to deceiTe them into a belief that they are bosom friends , and may be entreated with their every thought ; and thai , as these tools , by such insidious md treacherous means , pump out of the party their innermost thoughts , they relate them , with their own colourings aad additions , to the cowardly dastards who hare employed them ! Remember that it is English governors ; the administrators of EngUsh Jutes ! the protectors and guardians of the
liTes and liberties (?) of Englishmen , who thus act ! Aye , and remember , too , that a portion of the public press ; a portion of that press which has been long known as the most base , sordid , mercenary , treacherous , and truckling , that ever disgraced the earth : remember that a portion of this press has been base enough to publicly justify this most hellish system , even when enacted in England , and by Englishmen ! The Times , in relation to this very exposure made by White , defends the
employment of the wretch to deceive and betray White , by the no less wretches who paid the thing to compass the destruction ef aa honest , bold , nprigbt , fearless , truth-speaking citizen ! This practice the Times defends and justifies : arguing that our blessed , and paternal , and much-loved Government could not long exist , unless it resorted to such means to learn the opinions and counteract the intended actions of the governed ! A . rare commentary on the degeneracy of the times ; and of the nature of the now English Government !
Whits and Cooper are to be made " example ? of ! They are to be sacrificed / They are to be offered up on the altar of clas 3 prejudice 3 They are to be victimised , to satisfy the cravings of a depraved and debased appetite for vengeance ! The note of preparation to the jurors who have to try each of them has been sonnded ! The Morning Chronicle has taken it in hand to procure the quietus of Coopeb . ; and Old Bloody has been set upon Whste
Let » jury dare to acquit either of them ; and they will be denounced by these mercenary hirelings" as traitors to their country ! To appease the longings of" ous Patersal" these men must be offered up ! ¦ victimised ! The cue has been given to the bloodhounds , who havs started on the scent , and will hunt their victims down 1 The juries alone have note to do their portion of the work- It is now well known what that work is i They never fail in it , when prejudice is excited and class-fears appealed to ¦ '
Next turn to Leach's case . Bead over the whole examination well . Endeavour to draw out of the whole mass of jumblety stuff anything that would seem to sanction the conduct of the magistrates , in B committing him for trial , " and in demanding such heavy ( and for a working man ) excessive bail 5 Try to do this ; aad a job presents itself not easy of accomplishment ! There is one thing in connection , with Leach ' s case
that must not be suffered to drop out of sight . Indeed it mast be instantly taken up by the whole country , and an " example" must be made ! The Chartist leaders are to be made an u example" of ; and the facts we are about to narrate will show , in some sort , the means used to accomplish this object . Host heartily do we thank God that the means exist to make the wicked be caught in his own snare ! and to cause him to fall into the pit he digged for others !
By the report of the examination of Leach , it will be seen that a John M'Kessa swears , point blank , that Leach attended a meeting at the Carpenter ' s Hall , on the Saturday after the riots commenced ; that he knew Leach , and that he saw him there ; that he saw aim come upon the platform after another man had done speaking ; that he heard Lbach speak ; that he remembered him saysaying that" if they did not link together as one man , it would throw thejeause back fifty years . He advised them to keep the peace ; and not to starve . "
By a reference to the report it will be seen that this M'Kenxa , who describes himself as a Echoolmaster , deposes , on oath ; s-weas » , point blank , to all of these things . In so doing , he has committed PERJURY . ' He is a black-hearted perjured villain Leach was never near the meeting in question ! On u the Saturday after the riots commenced" h 8 never darkened the doors of the Carpenter ' s Hall !!! He was at home , in his own shop , minding his own business all the time the meeting was being held ! This is known to Ecores and hundreds of witnesses It can be proved beyond the possibility of donbt .
And yet , upon the evidence of this lying perjured ruffian was Lbach committed for trial ! Upon the evidence of this wretch , who risked transportation rather than let the wished-for victim escape , were heavy and excessive bonds required ! And upon the testimony of suborned rascals like thi 3 , were scores of Chartists convicted and sentenced to long periods of imprisonments in the persecuting period of 1839 . Now , this ease must be met i Tbe perjured
villain must be made to receive the punishment aceorded by the law to perjurers . The people ' s friends are to be made examples" of : let the people make an " example" of this hired perjured scoundrel J Let the people teach him and all such like , that the liberties of their leaders are too valuable to be lyingly sworn away by mercenary scamp 3 , who are but too ready to do the dirty work of their dirty employers . Let the perjurer hare the full benefit of his perjury 3
We advise that he be indicted , the first opportunity , for swearing to false and lying statements . We advise that the people enter into a subscription to defray the cost of the prosecution . We advise that a spirited and honesl-ish lawyer be set to work to get up the case against him . We advise that the ruffian , who so glibly swallowed the oath , and then ixed to get an honest man laid by the heels , shall be made a public example" of , at the public expence .
Now this must be done instanler . Iso time must be loss . A u vigorous" and " strong" prosecution in this clear and undeniable case , will have a wonderful effect upon others of the same Btamp , who may be contemplating a similar victimisation Let them but be once shown that the ls , w awajds transportation for the crime of perjury , and we shall not have them quite bo ready to swear lies into truth , and thus procure the incarceration of the people's advocates and friends . Too many
have had to suiter from this cause already I Here is a case that can be laid hold of , and handled . It is tangible and clear . No doubt can possibly exist respecting it . All that the wretch detailed aboat Leach being at tbe Carpenter ' s Hall meeting ; his coming upon the platform ; his speaking ; and the words he spoke ; all that the ruffian thus so minutely detailed , o . v oath , was SHEER INVENTION , —LIES ! Let him receive the fruits of his lying ! We charge the peopl * to see to it !
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THE BIRMINGHAM CONFERENCE . Little minds and ignorant people are always very nnwilling to part with any " little brief authority" with which they may have been invested . They like " To strut aad fume their hour upon toe stage , " and " Shew tfi » f » tinsell'd bravery . " The «* risings , " and the riotings , " the boiler tappings , of the poor dnpes to the League have afforded many of the same League , in their capacity of Justices , an opportunity , such as they never had
before , of being " great men" for the nonce . It is * ? ery gratifying thing to be able to command military , and specials , and blue bludgeon men ; to parade them up and down the Btreets of a town , and to " shew people who are their masters . " The League men of all degrees , justices , specials , ** yeos , " and *• blues " have had rare fun of this sort . Their excellent eompeerB , tbe Tory Bugs—to whom the late breeze " wu like raw meat thrown to a famished wolf—have not enjoyed the sport less heartily ; and neither of
them seem at all disposed to quit the gamo . It is not enough that the prisons are full and that the &Dk& is over , or nearly so , and that the people never were more peaceful than they now are , and indeed have been through the whole time , save when they have been driven iafco violence by the authorities " themselves—a task not very easy , but yet just ft possible achievement ; it is not enough that * U deeeat show and pretext of necessity fe extraordinary measures has gone fauly by ; the
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" authorities" love this " playing at despotism" so well that they are determined to keep up the game a bit longer . All-Jaw is therefore placed in abeyance —the liberty of the subject is laughed at , and the right of expressing the opinions of honest EDglishm « n , in the way prescribed and provided for by the constitution , abrogated . The people mast not meet , to discuss grievances or to express opinions , because the authorities proclaim all meetings of the people illegal . So at least it is at Leeds and in many other places . A requisition was here presented to the Mayor , signed by a considerable number of influential and u respectable " men , as well as by a number of honest and useful
working men , praying him to call a meeting of the inhabitants © f the borough for the purpose of electing delegates for the approachiig Conference . That functionary not merely refased to call the meeting , but insolently threatened that if the meeting were called by the requisitors it should be dispersed . In consequence of this and of communications from various other places , informing U 3 that public meetings could not be holden , we addressed a letter to Mr . Stttrge , requesting him to postpone the sitting of the Conference for one month , to give time for the restoration of something like order and peace in the country , when the right of public meeting may be again recognised , and the people may be able to elect their representatives fairly and freely .
O course , we know not what Mr . Stubge and ht 3 friends will do . Whether they will postpone the Conference , or go on with it . It is therefore necessary that the people should go on with their preparations , and be ready for either contingency . Let the requisitions in every place . be prepared and presented . Wherever meetings are allowed , let delegated be chosen . Wherever the Dogberries
prevent the meetings from being holden , let a letter , stating the facts , without any angry comment on them , be sent to the Chairman of the Conference ; that Mr . Stubgb aDd his friends may know exactly the position which the Conference does hold , and the amount of influence to which it is entitled Let this by no means be omitted in any one case ; let the people do their own work well , that their friend 3 may have heart in working for them .
ABANDONMENT OP THE CONFERENCE BY MR . STURGE . Since writing the above , and after posting our letter to Mr . Stueoe , a copy of which we now publish elsewhere , we have received by the post this ( Thursday ) morning , the following : — " ( IMPORTANT . ) " NATIONAL COMPLETE SUFFRAGE UNION . "At a meeting of the Council , held in the Office of the Union , Wateiloo-street , Birmingham , August 30 th , 1842 , ' the Chairman having read a resolution , adopted by tbe Committee of the Birmingham Town Hall , refusing the nae of that building for a public meeting to appoint delegates to tha Conference , and the Secretary baring read letters , by which it appeared that similar meetings would be prohibited in other places : —
" Resolved , —That instead of holding a Conference on the 7 th of September , a special extraordinary meeting of the Council shall be held on the 12 th of September , a t three o ' clock , P . M ., in tbe room belonging to the Union , ( formerly the Mechanics' Institution , Newballetreet , ) Birmingham ; and that the friends of the cause , throughout the country , be invited to communicate to that meeting , by letter addressed to the chairman , snch recommendations and advice for the consideration of the Conncil , as they may deem called for by the peculiar position in which the country is placed . " Joseph Sturge . President "
The people will see , therefore , that the Conference is not postponed but given up ; the Council having doubtless found that it was unlikely to become , under present circumstances , anything like what it was desirable it Bhould be . We regret , certainly , the resolution to abandon the Conference ; and hope that it will be reconsidered . We did think tbe period of its session to be ill chosen , and the event proves that we were right in so thinking ; but we are still of opinion that such a Conference , well and honestly got up , could not fail to be productive of great good . We
should be sorry to suppose that the abandonment of the Conference has arisen from any fear , lest our call upeu the people to make it a really " national" one should be responded to . As we were willing to believe that the ostensible was the real object of the conveners of this Conference , so we are willing to believe that the reason assigned for its abandonment is the real reason why it is abandoned ; that it is not given np from any fear that so many delegates should be sent to it , not merely from the
Complete Suffrage Union but from the people generally , as would make it unmanageable for party purposes . We are quite willing to believe that tbe object of Mr . Stcrge and of those who act with him , was upon this occasion to give fair play t" the expression of the public voice , to consult freely with the people through the median of their friends , by themselves fairly elected , upon the best means of enhancing their interests aad securing their rights .
We repeat oar conviction that this would be a proceeding franght with good ; and our expression of regret that this Conference of the peoptifa friends , summoned , as we think , hastily and without due consideration , has been yet more hastily and inconsiderately abandoned . We would respectfully urge on those by whom it was projected the probability that a few weeks will suffice to restore the authorities from their fainting fits—to tire the children of their new toy—and to restore a state of things in which the Conference so desirable might be safely and usefully holden .
We hope the projectors of the Conference will take these hints as they are meant , in all honest kindness . Tae idea of the Conference having been first promulgated by them , we think that the honour and the management of it should in justice be accorded to ihem , notwithstanding even their present abandonment of the desi g * . We think , however , that the de .-i ^ n is too good to be lost sigh t of , and that if the . Stcege friends persist m their refusal to go on with it , it should then be taken up by the people themselves ; who should , as eoou as circumstances will permit , carry out , in its efficiency , the avowed purport of this intended Conference ; soliciting the co-optration of Mr . Stcrge and all other good men . _
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Sir , —Assuming that in . you I address one whose avowed anxiety to support the establishment of political right , and the enfranchisement of the people , generally , is honest and sincere , I make no apology tor intruding on your attention the notice of what I take to be most important considerations . The state of the country at this moment is fraught with fearful interest to every true philanthropist . Every good man must of necessity desire to see the general adoption of some measures whereby tbe fermentation of popular discontent may be , in some degree , allayed , the differences of opinion among good men accommodated , tbe breaches in the ranks of
patriotism closed up , and the intelligence , sp irit , and energy of the people so guided and directed as that by peaceful and certain advances , the goal of righteousness may be attained , in the putting of the people into possession of those legislative powers which have been often proved by the clearest induction , to appertain to them ; and their natural right to which is , indeed , self-evident I rejoice , therefore , most sincerely , ia your proposal to gather into one focus the wisdom , and intelligence of all those elapses of the people amongst whom it is important to the general well-being that a good understanding should prevail , The assembling together
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of a National Conference of Delegates , fairly and freely chosen , so as fully to represent the whole people , in the manner intimated by your late proposition ; to confer with each other ; to compare their ideas ; to club their intell i gence ; and to determine by amicable and friendly discussion upon the best mode of general conduct to be , under present circumstances , recommended to and adopted by the people , can scarcely fail , if not mismanaged , to eventuate ia something really good . But in order to this it is first of all necessary to take care that the Conference be of this character ; that it do fully , fairly , and freely represent the opinions , wishes , and sentiments of the people , in all those places from which delegates may be eent to it ; and that all
E laces , feeling an inttrest in its discussions , shall are free scope to be fairly represented in it ; and I question , much and seriously , whether the circumstances be now in existence to make this possible . Great subjects of investigation must come before such an assembly ; subjects on which it is necessary that the people should have consulted together , and should have , to some extent at least , so formed public opinion as to be able to give instructions to their delegates . For this , it does not seem to me that the period between the issuing of your announcement and the time when these delegates must of necessity be elected , in order to iheir sitting on the 7 th inst . is by any means sufficient . Thi 3 I saw to be matter of serious regret
at the first issuing of the announcement , signed by yourself , summoning this Conference . And I saw also that its hasty meeting would , of necessity , entail another serious inconvenience on the people , for the advancement of whose interests its session is projected : it would allow them less time than is desirable for selecting fit men as their representatives . My knowledge , however , of the energy , and , to a great extent , of the shrewdness and prudence , of which the unenfranchised people of this country are possessed , and which they can bring into exercise , when spirited thereto on extraordinary oocasions , induced me to trust to those qualities for the avoidance ef any harm to the beneficial character of this Conference , from the somewhat hascy manner
of its eonyenement . _ And , therefore , participating cordially in the desire that at the present crisis some specific course of conduct should be , if possible , unanimousl y a g r eed upo n a nd pursued by the friends of the people generally , I waived these objections , thougn I did not overlook them , and brought whatever small amount of influence I may happen to possess , most heartily into the support of those , by whom , as " friends of the people , " this intended Conference has been summoned . I recommended the people , in last week ' s Northern Star , in the strongest terms I was able to use , to make this Conference efficient for its avowed and benevolent purpose ; and I can have no doubt that they would have done so , had we lived in ordinary times
or under ordinary circumstances . The fact , however , of the recent excitement in the manufacturing districts , has furnished to those whose purpose it ia to uphold faction and to keep down the people a pretext , which they are not slaok to lay hold of , for the establishment of such a state of things as renders it almost impossible that any Buch Conference as I presume you contemplate an be holden at the time specified . You , I am quite sure , would be sorry to see delegates meet together on such an occasion and for such a purpose , otherwise than in snch numbers as to form a pretty " full" assemblage of the people ' s friends , "fairly" and legally chosen as their representatives . You know that no delegate can be legally chosen otherwise
than at a public meeting ; nor can he indeed in any other way be fairly" and " freely" chosen ; because there could otherwise be no means of testing public opinion as to his merits and qualifications : and my position has enabled me to leiru enough already of the state of things in very many of those districts of the country most deeply interested in the discussions of this Conference , to know that public meetings for the election of delegates thereto will not be , just now . permitted by the authorities to be holden . in the borough of Leeds , for instance , a most respectfully aud numerously signed requisition , bearing the names of most of the influential members of the National Complete Suffrage Union , as well as those of several members of the National
Charter Association , has been presented to the Mayor , praying him to call a meeting for the purpose ; but that functionary not only refused to call the meeting , but informed the parties who presented the requisition , that should they call the meeting on their owu responsibility , it would be considered by the authorities as an illegal meeting , and would certainly be dispersed . ' The effect of this expression of the purpose of the Mayor has been the withdrawal of their names from the requisition , by all the members of the National Complete Suffrage Union , who had signed it , and their refusal either to call the meeting on their own responsibility or to co-operate in any way with those of the requisitors who were desirous
to call the meeting . Like intelligence has reached me frcm so many places as to induce a fear on my part that nothing like a national delegate meeting can be held so early as the 7 th instant . It is of great importance that the avowed and benevolent object of this Conference should not be frustrated ; aud yet that object must , in all propability , be frustrated unless the Conference itself be so constituted , that as many of the people as may be wishful can bo fairly represented in it . Without at all recognising as juit and right what I believe you will agree with mo in deeming to be a tyrannical and unconstitutional suppression of the right of publio meeting , I yet take the liberty of suggesting to you that the people's friends would display , most
efficaciously , their prudence and sincerity by bending in some little to the storm they cannot stem . The excitement of the " disturbed districts" is fast subsiding , and things are settling gradually down into something like the usual appearances of society ; we may reasonably conclude , therefore , that the absurd fears of the nestling authorities will proportionately subside ; that the regard for right aud fair-play of the well-disposed among them will resume its operation ; and that the right of public meeting will be again recognised iu a few weeks . It would then become possible—aud certainly is most desirablethat a public and open Conference of the people ' s friends , freely and fairly chosen by th © people , should meet together to agree and determine upon some
specific course of conduct by which thft cause of right may be upholden , the people's grievances redressed , and these fearful convulsions of Bociety totally avoided for the future . I am exceedingly desirous , as must bo every good man , that the intended Conference Bhould effect this purpose , but I much fear that if called now together , it will not be able to do so , however wise and patriotic may be the individuals of whom it is composed ; because I fear it caunot be made sufficiently national in character to command national respect aud confidence ; without which its recommendations would bd powerless and its labours useless . My object , therefore , in thus troubling you , is to pray that you and the gentlemen with whom you
act , will take seriously into consideration all the circumstances of the whole matter , and , in consideration of the interests of many thousands , —perhaps some millions—of our fellow-countrymen , for whose interests , as friends of the people , we are bound to care , and who are likely , under present circumstances , to have no voice in this Conference at all , to postpone its session until such time as a reasonable expeo tation can be fairly entertained of its being able to effect the object for which it is convened . It is perhaps d fficult to say how long it may be before the magnates of faction may so far recover their senses as to recognise again the right of public meeting ; but I should hope that , at all events , a month may suffice far the playing of their present daring and dangerous game of recklessness . I take
leave , therefore , to suggest to you the propriety of postponing the session of the Conference for one month !; that the people may have time and opportunity to mske it efficient 10 its purpose—of devising such a specific course of action as may command the general assent and approbation of the people's friends , and its consequent general recommendation to , aud adoption by , the people themselves , tor the safe , certain , aud speedy acquisition of the people ' s rights . With every disposition to hail you as a fellowlabourer in the cause of right , and to cooperate with you aud every other sincere friend of the people for its advancement , and praying that the smile of Providence may accompany that of an approving conscience on our several and collective efforts lor its establishment ,
I am , Sir , Respectfully and faithfully yours , Wm . Hill , Editor of the Northern Star Leeds , September 1 , 1842 .
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Chartist Prisoners . —Mr . Wm . Lacy , hair culler , Cleckhealon , will gladly receive and forward any monies intrusted to him for the defence of the Chartist prisoners from that district . A SINCERE CHAB . TIST , PsXEB RlGBY , JaMES AtKIHson , J ., andseveralother correspondents will accept our thanks , and excuse us ; as tee think they will see that we have quite at much of Mr . James O'Brien and the Old Chartist as it is at all desirable . John Campbsll , Leith , recommends that all who may be in employment , w ill , to a man , subscribe weekly , as God shall prosper them—and let the cash so gathered be paid over to the coal miners , as subsistence for them and their families , thereby deterring them from again resuming their labour , unlil the People ' s Charter become the law ofllie land .
Ms . John Wilcox has received from Mr . George Ashwell , of Baventry , ten shillings for Mr . Candy . MiSTictTi Secretus . — -Never mind Hie rascal , let him lie atcay .
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Samuel Knight , Coventry . —We have tugged for ™ Aour at his letter , but cannot read it ., Mr . U . Ko-s has removed to No . 2 , Camdenptaee , _ " * «; Bradshaw-street , Hulme , Manchester . L . ti ., Northampton . — We do not know what arrangements have been made . The best way would be to write first and make the enquiry of Mrs . Choke . M . H ., Birmingham Ass our thanks for his present favour and for his promise of future ones . W . W ,, A 8 hton-undbr-Lyne . —Thanks . Db . M'Douall ' s lonq letter was received by Thursday ' s post .
C . C , Cirencesteb . —His communication , wr itten on both sides , was received on Thursday . It will appear in our next . T . Salmon must write to Mr . Sounders privately . Address op the London Delegates to the Females of the Metropolis , next week . A Host op Correspondents mast excuse aa i we have as much matter , Chartist news . State of the Country , articles of communication , and other important maters as would fill three papers now lying upon our table ; not one word of which can be even read before our present Star goes to press . Wo can but do what we can ; our utmost energies are tasked to get all in , but the paper will hold only a certain quantity .
Many of our correspondents might ease us much if they would be loss prolix , and give us facts instead of speeches , comments , and opinions . We have very often to wade through four or five pages of manuscript to get out of them the fact of some meeting having been held , or some man ' s having lectured , which we chronicle in two lines . We wish that some of those who think themselves neglected , would take a single day ' s spell at reading our correspondence . We should like to refer a good many of our favours to the Evening Star , which , though though smaller than tno Northern Slar t has more room , because it cornea out daily , and would probably feel , as a relief , a little of that which overburdens us .
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S . Mann , Ashburton . —The Plates cannot be sent on till we receive them—they are yet in the hands of the printer . To Agents—AH Agents are requested to send word , during the next week , how their Plate * are to be forwarded , and how many of each . Some Agents at a distance , who find it difficult to obtain parcels , can have both Plates in one parcel by having them two or three weeks later . Any Agent having orders for the otbor PJates given with the " Star" had better forward them , and they can be enclosed in the same parcels . J . Jeffries , Axbridge . —Apply to the Agent who Bends the Paper . T . Fright . —Mr . Cleave is agent . FOR THE POLITICAL VICTIMS . THEIR WIVES AND
FAMILIES . £ B . O . From Knishtsbridge , being proceeds of a ball on July 25 th ... ... 2 11 0 FOR THE CHARTIST PRISONERS' DEFENCE FUND From W . Lacy , hair-cutter , Cleckheatou ... ... . 010
FOR THE EXECUTIVE . From the Chartists of Walworth locality ... ... ... ... 0 10 Q FOR MRS . H 0 LBERS . Y . From a friend at Colchester ... ... 0 2 6 FOR MR . PEDDIE . J From and old Radical , Edinburgh ... 0 0 6
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On Tuesday , great excitement was caused in Park-lane from the circumstance of a young man , being Bhot , who was in the service of Mr . Wharton , of the "Victoria Hotel , as brewer . The name of the unfortunate deceased is John Dunwell , ' and he , it appears , was going into the gateway of his master's yard , on Tnesday forenoon , when he was met by a young man , named Joseph Henry Bennett , a pupil with Mr . John Ingham Ikin , surgeon , of Cookndge-Btreet , whose surgery is in Alexander-street , nearly directly opposite the stable yard of Mr . Wharton .
Bennett , it seems , had a pistol in his hand , which he pointed at Dunwell , and pulled the trigger ; the pistol missed fire , and the parties stood for a minute , when Bennett again pointed the pistol , and discharged it at Dunwell , who fell , and died in a very lew minutes . The unfortunate deceased was tweuty-6 ix years of age , had been for about ten years with Mr . Wharton , and was greatly respected in his situation . Benuett is nineteen years of age , and is described as being of an absent disposition . His family is highly respectable , and reside at Wakefield , where hia father is a physician in extensive practice . The young mau , it seems , also , had been sworn in a special constable , without Mr . Ikin ' s knowledge or consent , and
during the excitement consequent upon the late riots had officiated both by day aud night ; the pistol , too , he had only receutly purchased , professedly to " shoot the Chartists , " but really , we should suppose , for no other purpose than , like many others , to amuse himself . The following evidence was adduced at the inquest held on Wednesday morning , before John Blackburn , Esq ., coroner , and a respectable jury , at Wharton ' s Hotel : — Mr . Wm . Price , surgeon , examined—I was called in to examine the deceased a few minutes after his death , and have made a post mortem examination of
the body . The wound is ou the left breast bone ; the wound has been made by a ball , which splintered the breast bone ; it had then taken a direction rather down and across the breast , parsing over the large vessels of the heart , injuring tho pulmonory artery , passing through the lobe of the right lung , through the fifth rib on the right side , and was found lodged in the hollow of the scapula of the shoulder blade The immediate cause of death most probably was the severe injury to the norves of the base of tho heart , occasionod no doubt by tho gunshot wound . The passage of the ball through so vital a part would cause certain death .
George Gibbs , of Stayeley—I am thirteen years of age , and am acquainted with Joseph Henry Bennett , pupil to Mr . Ikin ; I was on a . visit to Mr . Ikin ' s , and was with Bennett yesterday morning in the field behind Alexander-place , about nine o ' clock ; ho wanted to fire off a pistol , aud asked me to go with him ; Ho had a small pistol with him . ( The pistol was produced by policeman Hirst , and identified by the witness . ] Bennett fired a pistol at a piece of pot ; the pistol missed fire the first time—the second time it went off . This was tho only time he fired . Bannett told me he had ' got the pistol to shoot the Chartists with . I left Benuett at Mr . Ikin ' s about tea o'clock ; I saw no more of him daring the day .
Stephen Redgwelt— I am a labouring man , and reside at Holbeck . I saw the deceased near this house yesterday , about eleven o ' clock . I saw a young gentleman come out of a passage on the opposite side of the street , with a pistol in his hand . [ The witness identified Bennett as the person . ] I passed by him , as he came out of the passage ; the deceased was then nailing a piece of wood on each side of Mr . Wharton ' s door ; he left the door , and stood for a moment talking with a carrier in the street . Mr . Bennett walked across the street , and went into a gateway leading into Mr . Wharton ' s yard . Dunwell also went into the same gateway , and I immediately heard a report of fire-arms . I turned round , and saw the deceased staggering
towards a cart , which was by the side of the causeway ; he fell on the cart shafts , and I saw blood issuing from his breast . I turned him over ; he groaned , but did not speak . He was taken into Mr . Wharton's house . When I was turning the deceased over , Bennett was close by , and said , " He is shot—I have shot him—I'll no for a doctor . I did ' nt know the pistol was loaded . " He then went into the passage out of which 1 had seen him come . I did not see anything more . Before the firing took place I had not heard anything said , either by Ben . nett or Dunweil . Bennett appeared alarmed and excited . I did not see the pistol fired ; both parties were in the passage ; I was three or four yards off .
Jonathan Marshall —I live at Farslcy , I am a clothier ; I am ia tbe habit of coming to this house on Market "days . 1 knew the deceased . I was in Mr . Wharton ' s yard yesterday morning , eat right opposite the gate-way ; it might be half-past eleven o ' clock ; I saw Bennett enter the gate-way ; Dunwell entered immediately after—ia fact they seemed to meet in the gate-way ; I saw Bennett present a pistol at DunweJl ; it snapped , but did not go off . Dunwell held up his right hand and exclaimed "Ah 1 " as if in joke . I saw Bennett do something at the pistol , during which Dunwell stood still , not seeming the least apprehensive of danger , and Bennett then snapped the pistol again and it went off ; he pointed the pistol deliberately at him—seemed as if he took aim . I did not hear Bennett say anything . I saw Dunwell stagger away , and on following him found him laid down in the street . I should think the parties were within two yards when the
shot was fired . I had not the least apprehension of danger when 1 saw the pistol pointed ; I thought it had only a cap on , and was not charged . When I saw Bennett again he was coming out of Mr . Ikin's passage ; a gentleman said to him " Did you shoot the man V to whioh he replied " I did . " In answer to questions by the jury , the witness said he was sure the pistol was pointed the first time after Dunwell got into the passage : the second time he held it as if taking aim . Wm . Wrigglesworth— -I am nine years of age . I live in St . John ' s Square . I was coming along Alexander-street yeste : ay morning , and I saw a young man pointing a pistol in Mr . Whartoii ' s gateway ; he snapped it off , and it missed ; I think ( pointing to Bennett ) that is the young man ; I saw him when the pistol missed take a cap out of his pocket , and put it on the pistol ; he then snapped the pistol again , and jt went off , and shot a man ; they were both standing just within the gateway .
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Joseph Bates—I am a wool merchant in Leeds ; I was in Park-lane yesterday , and heard the report of a piBtol ; I turned into Alexander-street quickly , and saw the deceased laid across a cart shaft , and blood running out of his waistcoat . I saw Mr . Bennett running into the passage leading to Mr . Ikin ' s house . I followed him , and he camo out of Mr . Ikin ' s house , Mr . Ikin following him . I said to him , "Are you the person who has shot this young man V Bennett answered " Yea , I have shot him . " I asked him his motive , when he said , I had forgot
the pistol was loaded ; I had been out firing it in the morning , and had forgot that 1 had loaded it again . " I then said , "Did you say anything to deceased before you fired V He replied , ' I said I would shoot him ; and I snapped the pistol at him , as I had previously done at Mr . Ikin s ostler , and at others . The pistol went off , and then I remembered that I had loaded it . " He said further that he knew the deceased was shot , and ran in for Mr . Ikin . Bennett seemed in great distress , and was much excited .
James Matthews—I am groom to Mr . Ikin , I knew Bennett , and I knew Dunwell ; the pistol ( produced ) belongs to Mr . Bennett ; I saw it in his possession one day last week ; he told me he had bought it , but did not say what for ; I have seen him fire it off once or twice , with nothing but powder in . I was standing in our stable door-stead yesterday morning ; I saw Bennett and Dunwell iu the gateway of Mr . Wharton ' s yard ; I saw the pistol go off , but did not see how it was poiated . Bennett and the deceased were on god terms together . The pistol was utterly under Bennett ' s charge ; I never saw it laid about . He had pointed the pistol at me , but had not snapped it ; he pointed it at me yesterday morning ; I told him to give over , as it might go off . He had told me in the morning that it was loaded when he pointed it at me , but said afterwards that he had fired it off . This being the whole of the evidence ,
The Coroner summed up the case , and explained the law upon the subject ; the Jury then retired , and after an absence of three quarters of ah hour , returned a verdict of MANSLAUGHTER against Joseph Henry Bennett , who was committed to York to take his trial at tho present assizss , the Grand Jury not being discharged .
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HupDEBSFiELD . — Mr . T . B . Smith will visit the friends at Huddertueld ( according to their request ) , on Sunday ( to-morrow . ) He will arrive this evening . Thb Souih Lancashire delegate meeting will be held in the Brown-street Chartist Rooms , Rear St . Andrew ' s Church , Travis-street , Manchester , on Sunday , September , llth , at eleven o ' clock precisely , when very important business will be brought before the delegates . Each locality , is particularly requested to either send a delegate or communicate with the secretary previous .
Mr . Cook intends lecturing in the following places during the ensuing week : — . Canterbury , on Monday ; Tonbridge , on Tuesday ; Tonbridi ( e Wells , on Wednesday ; Brighton , on Thursday ; Lewee , on Saturday . Heb » en Bridge . —B . Rushton will preach two sermons in the Association room , on Sunday ( tomorrow , ) at two o ' clock , in the afternoon , and at six in the evening . The Committee for the assistance of Mrs . Sadler , meet at the Crown and Anchor , Cheshire-street , Waterloo Town , on Wednesday evening , at eight o ' clock . A full attendance is requested .
Mr . P . M . Brophy will lecture at Littleborough , on Monday , the 5 th of September ; Colne , on Tuesday , the 6 th ; Bacup , on Wednesday , the 7 ih ; Todmorden , on Thursday , the 8 ; h , and Friday , tbe flth j Halifax , on Saturday and Sunday , the 19 ih and 11 th ; and Huddersfield , on Monday and Tuesday , the 12 cb and 13 th instant . Holbeck . —On Sunday ( to-morrow ) evening , a sermon will be preached here by Mr . Barron , of Nottingham . To commence at half-paat six o ' clock .
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Sheffield . —A raeetinjj will be held av Sky Eiige on San'day afternoon , ( to-morrow , ) at half-pist two o ' clock . A Meeting will be held in tae Fig-tree-kne reonj , on Sunday evening , ( to-morrow . ) at seven o ' clock . Mr * W . " Bell , Chartist Lecturer , wili ' .. ' filiv * r two lectures in the room Fig-tree-lane , on Monday and Tuesday Evenings , September the 5 th and G-. h . Admi 8 siou , One Penny . The lecture to commence each evening at eight o ' clock precisely . tOT Fbargus O'Connor's Daily Paper , the / -kening Star , pabJio / y read in the Fig-tree-fane roam , every evening , Doors open at six o ' clock . Admission free . Mr . Dean . Tatior wiJI visit the folloxving places during next week : —Monday and Tuesday a * . Scarborough ; Thursday and Friday , at York ; Saturday , at Howden ; Suadav , at Holme ; and Monday , the l 2 tluatHull .
Stock port . —Mr . James Mitchell will lecture on Sunday evening next . RoYTON . —Mr . Thomas Clark , of Storkporf , will leotnre here , on Suaday next , at six o ' clock ? n ihe evening . London . —Mr . Brown lectures at China Vr ' alk , Larabetb , to-morrow evening , at eight o ' clock . Mile End . —Mr . Campbell will lecture on the Corn Laws , in the Chartist Assembly , rooms Mile End-road . Discussion iuvited . , London . —A lecture will be delivered on ? nnday evening , at the New Chartist Room , 29 . VMj 1 ^ Kaa Road , near the Red Cow . Chair to i 7 e tak ^ u at eeven o ' clock . Mr . Dickenson , the Manchester packer , vtiII lecture on Sunday evening , at the New Chariisfc Room , 29 A , Mile End Road , near the Red CV . v .
The m ^ mbebs the late Provisional Ccmtnif fee are requested to ait ^ nd at 55 , Old Bailey , ou Sunday afternoon , at two o ' clock precisely , that a balance sheet may be published , and the affair brought to a final close . Mexbro . '—A delegate meeting will be hold tomorrow ( Sunday ) , Sept . 4 th , athalf-past ten oVlook in the morning , at the Masons' Arms Inn , New Mexbro ' .
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Getting rid of a Monster . —Mr . Wm . Thwaite , farmer , of dheepridge , near Huddersfield , on Sunday morning , the 24 th July , voided one of those dangeroas species of worms , " taenia , " or tape-worm , of the amaz'ng length of sixty-six yards , and containing 3300 joiDts , and weighing two pounds thirteen ounces— Halifax Guardian . This paragraph ha 3 gone the round of tho press ; but no paper has yet told the fact that the cause of this voidauce was the taking of Dr . Wallace ' s celebrated ^ pice uuta . Dr . Wallace is well known in all parts of Yorkshire as the first worm-doctor of the day .
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On Sunday , the 17 th ult ., at Vienna , by tho Pastoi to the English Ambassador , Mr . Wm . Walker , ol Leeds , to Miss Elizabeth Green , of Settle .
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PEATBS . Tuesday last , aged 50 , Mr . William Marriott , compositor . He had been engaged in the Intelligencer- * fficse for the long period of fourteen years , during which time be was ever distinguished for zeal and punctuality . In life he maintained the character of a sincere friend and affectionate husband . On Sunday , August g&IefccifWtf Jftftoat aged thirteen months , « f Lewfe * ; ^~ *~ . T ? On the 27 th ult ., a / Cerm ^ 40 ^ 3 | Bra ^ C typhus f 6 \ er , John Nifihols ^ wMnM ^ ui ^ Mpfe «^ MBber of the Tavistock Chartt » Q |^ te ( W ?^ P wW * f tbe ^ BY 18 ^ mnrow .
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THE PATRIOT YICTIM COOPER . Elsewhere we give two letters from Mr . Cgopeb , written from his prison house . One of them , intended as a private letter , may show something of the mind and feelings of the man . We entreat the attention of our readers to those letters . We beg that they may be read carefully ; and that those who read them will remember that they are tbe letters of " the bully . " Yes ! the writer of those letters is the man whom James
O'Brien , tbe " Schoolmaster "; the chaste and mealy-mouthed middle-class man ; the " educated " member of a learned profession : the writer of those letters is the man whom James O'Beie . v denominates " a bully" ! whom he , in his last Slatesmam classes along with O'Connor , the " coward and trsutor" ; hounds on the dogs of Government upon the trail of both of them ; aud upbraids the Government for not having sooner laid them by the heels ' ! ! '
To Joseph Sturge, Esq., Birmingham
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Death " From A Pistol-Shot, In Leeds.
DEATH " FROM A PISTOL-SHOT , IN LEEDS .
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THE PATRIOTIC COOPER . TO THE EDITOR OP THE NORTHERN STAR . Sir . —Since the arrest ef Mr . Cooper , the Charfcista of Leicester have been moat anxious to adopt the moat efficient means to Bave the man of their choice from tbe fangs of the law . And to do this they have elected a committee of five , with power to add to their number , to be callod a " Defence Fund Committee , " to raise funds to defend Mr . Cooper at his forthcoming trial at Stafford . The Committee desire , through the medium of your journal , to make an appeal to the Chartists of Great Britain to assist them , as far as they are able , as ho is likely to be tried in a few days .
They sincerely hope that their appeal will not be made in vain . Any sum will be thankfully received by the Committee of Mr . Cooper ' s defence fond . I remain , Brother Chartists , Yours , in the good cause of right against might , Thomas Winier . PS . Any person or association wishing to contribute to the above object , can direct to Mr . Crow , 81 , Belgrave-gate , treasurer ; or to Mr . Johnson , 37 , Bedfordstreet , secretary to the defence fond committee . T . W . Leicester , 11 , Cburcbgate , Aug . 31 , 1812 .
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AMERICA . We received on Sunday , bylthe British and North American mail-steamer Columbia , commanded by Captain Judkins , Boston paperB to the 16 th iRstam , her day of sailing , and New York and Philadelphia to the 15 th inolueive . The Columbia has made an excellent voyage of nine days sixteen hours only from Boston , aud eleven days fourteen hours from Halifax . She has brought twenty-six passengers , a smaller number than usual .
The ratification of the Treaty on the Boundary Line had not been brought by this steamer as was expec ed ; it was under deliberation , and no doubt existed that it would be completed in two or three cays . Lord Ashburton was expected in New York on the 17 th , where a fete was in preparation for him by the British residents , conjointly with the American cit'zens and corporate authorities . He will afterwards , it is said , ^ o to Niagara Falls , visit Sir C . and Lady Bagot , and return to New York to embark in the Warspite .
Lord \ lorpetb . is away out on Lake Superior , fishing , shooting , sleeping with the Indians iu their wigwams , writiug pobtry to the pretty squaws , and passing his time very pleasantly . Mr . Van Burea is as busy as a bee in a tar barrel cutting his cabbages , and cutting out plans for districting the State , bo that the locofocos will have nearly all the members of Congress . Mr . Webster , Secretary of State , has gone to Piny Point , to enjoy the luxury of salt water bathing , and feasting on soft crabs and oysters , and the charms ot the beautiful girls there . He returns to Washington to-day , to resume his duties at the State Department , receive the treaty ratified from the Senate , communicate the same to Lord Asbburtou , and then take leave of him till he sees him at the fete in Now York .
ExrRAORDXNARr POISO . MNG OP THREE CHILDREN . —On Friday last , Mrs . Jameson , the wife of a gardener , residing at No . 4 , Jones ' s-gardens , Bethnalgreen , attended at the London Hospital , iu the Mile End-road , with her three eons—namely , Thomas Jameson , aged ten ; Malcolm , aged five ; and Lindsay , aged three—the former being an out-patient of that institution . Whiles waiting in the hall the three boys strayed into the grounds belonging to the buildiug , and which are beautified by various shrub 3 . After traversing through the grounds for some distance , they came to a plant called dog-bean , a species of deadly night shade , upon which there were a number of ripe berries , aud not knowing
their pernicious qualities , the poor children plucked off all they could find ripe and ate them , and then returned to their parent . Their poisonous effect was not peroeptible until twelve o'clock on the same night , when all were seized in the gamo way , and they were removed without loss of time to the London Hospital , when the cause was quite perceptible . During the whole of Saturday the three sufferers were closely attended by Dr . Gordon and other medical officers of the hosp i t al , but so serious are the ' . effect ' s of the poison that but little hope was eutertained of their recovery . — Observer . An Aristocrat . —On Saturday , at the Insolvent Debtors' Court , Lord George Loftus ( son of the Marquia of Ely ) filed his schedule , previous to
obtaining a hearing for December next . In his affidavit he stated that his father refused to pay his debts . His Lordship has been iu tha Fleet Prison since February last , and has had an allowance during that time of £ 6 per week from his father , the same allowance which has been paid him a g > eat many years . The debts , in the aggre £ ate , are set forth at . £ 15254 , of which £ 9 , 151 are without consideration . In the year 1838 , the Marquis of Ely paid debts for the insolvent to the extent of £ 3 , 000 . The insolvent stated that many of his debts arose from having become party to various bills of exchange for Captain the Hon . F
W . Byne , for which Jie never received any consideration , aud on threo of which he was in custody . The insolvent was formerly an en ? i # n in the ' Grenadier Guards , which commission he sold some time ago . Amongst the items in the schedule , two are extracted , as extending from 1836 to tho present year : — ' * Paid fir Admission to plaocs of amusement , libraries , &c , £ 1 , 200 . " "Lost by play and betting during this time , but of which I can give no particular account , about £ 10 , 000 . " There does not appear in the schedule any property for the creditors , who are principally composed of persons who figure in " bill transactions . "
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 3, 1842, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct769/page/5/
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