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THIRD EDITION. ARREST 4>F THB REY. W. HILL.
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I have jnrt seen one of the guards of the North Midland Hallway , and be informed inethatMr . tx . J . Habsey , or Sheffield , had been brougbAm the custody of a Manchester officer , by the last Derby train , t <> the Normanton Station , whence he would be taken to Manchester . „ Jos . Hobsox .
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TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN . Brother Democrats—No man can lay the charge to me that I am fond of faction—it matters not whether that man belongs to the Metropolitan Parliamentary Reform Association , to the Christian Chartists , to the Complete Suffrage Association , to the National Association , or to ihe National Charter Association , not a single member of any one of these dare accuse me of being factious . Therefore , I may safely investigate the document issued by the Complete Suffragists for convening the Conference on the 27 th December next . Every true Democrat most admit that there is the greatest necessity to convene a National Conference , but to make it a national one , what is the foundation on which it ought to be based ? Can it be called national when
a faction is to have half the power at it 1—nay , more than half the power ; for , whilst London , Manchester , Birmingham , and the towns of the greatest importance and most numerocs population , are to be restricted to six representatives , and such very important towns as Nottingham , Leicester , Norwich , &c , are to be restricted to four , the Email towns where the millownershave thegreatest power can send two ; thus positively giving a double power to the patriotic electors in the _ election of representatives What poor man dare give an untrammelled vote on such an occasion , unless at the hazard of losing his employmeat , and eventually bringing destruction on
himself and family ? But to investigate the conduct of the Council of the Complete Suffrage Association with impartiality , it is right that we should take a closer view of its conduct on the day it met in Birmingham ; it did not allow strangers to be present at its deliberations . Yesterday , a gentleman called on me to inform me that he was ordered out of the room , and that when the report was brought up , when strangers were present on the day afterwards , it was the intention of the parties to allow the electors the power to elect two delegates to the Conference , for the working men's one ; and but for Mr . Stephenson , of Worcester , such would have been carried .
If such report be correct Cand I have every reason to believe it is ; if it is not , I hope I shall be set right on the matter , as I should not wish to make any falsa statements , tending to mislead the democratic party ) what conclusion can I possibly come to ? Can any working man—can any real Democrat come to any but the following—namely , that this party are not sincere . I am not cynic enough to condemn a whole body for the acts of one or a few of its members ; but when a deliberative body assumes to itself the power to concoct schemes for the advancement of Democracy , then the Bublio ought to scrutinize the acts of such men . What I propose to the Council of the complete suffragists is this , that , if they wiEh to have a bona fide representation of the people , namely , to reconsider their
address and take such steps as will bring together the whole intelligence , talent , and strength of the popular party into one great conference , they will limit the aggregate numbers of the Conference , say to 638 ; that they will divide the whole of England , Scotland , and Wales , into districts ; that accordiDg to the population in each district , delegates shall be elected ; that the people , the whole people , and neither more or Ies 3 than the people , shall have the power to elect the representatives ; such are the views I entertain on the election of Delegates to the Conference pretended to he National , to be held on December 27 th , 1842 . If the representation of the whole is not recognised and acted upon , I then in that case enter my most Eolemn protest against the convening of any such Convention , and denominating it National , ana for the following reasors ,
viz—1 st . That it is false to call it a complete representation . 2 nd . That , if called , it has the appearance of faction . 3 rd . That it would be exactly as just to allow any one sect in religion to have the power to elect a majority to the Conference as to allow the electors to do so ; and what I recommend the people to do , if the Complete Suffragists persevere in their factious opposition to a complete representation of the people , is this—to protest against such injustice . Let not the non-electors make the shadow of an attempt to elect a single delegate to the Conference ; and in every district let the honest electors , who wish to see the people fairly represented , attend the patriotic electors' meetings , and more an
amendment to their electing delegates to the following effect : — " That this meeting of electors entirely disapprove of the one-Eided , narrow-minded policy of the Complete Suffrage Council , in convening a Conference to be elected contrary to the true spirit of genuine democracy and real liberty ; and cannot , therefore , for a moment , entertain the idea of at all taking part in a Convention so elected . " If ontheother hand the Ejstem of convening the conference be abandoned , and that of justice established in its place , then let every hand be at work to assist in so holy an undertaking ; let the wealth and wisdom of the Metropolitan Parliamentary Reform Association be put into active operation ou the occasion ; let the zeal of the Christian Chartists be actively employed to fortrard such an object ; let the energies of the
Complete Suffrage Association lend its assistance ; let the members of the National Association not lag in the good cause ; and let the whole force of our own great , powerful , nnmerous , and intelligent association be exercised on such a grand and noble object . To the people , I Bay , watch carefully all parties ; adhere to the Charter , the whole Charter , and nothing less than the Charter ; and I repeat again , although I am not factious , and hate denunciation , yet every exertion on my part shall be made to forward liberty , to establish even-handed justice , and , as far as I am able , thwart the designs of those who would make merchandise of the people , and keep np agitation to serve their own sinister ends . I have the honour to be , Your brother Democrat , John Campbell .
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VICTIM FUND . I have paid over to Mr . Cleave the following sums for the victims : — s . d . Unknown .. 7 6 J . Horley 1 0 Wm . Loft 2 0 Shoemakers , Birmingham ... 5 0 Ipswich ... 10 0 Ipswich Females * 0 Colchester 10 0
D . K 1 0 Colchester , p * r Collingwood 2 6 Chatford 2 1 Merry 1 6 Hock locality 2 10 Lynn Regis 1 ° 0 Two friends 1 0 Salisbury 10 0 I have paid in the Salisbury district 10 s . before to some person in Manchester , but as 1 did not book it at the time 1 have had it to pay a second time .
, Will Kr . Dickenson , the Manchester packer , send me his address ? „ ... , , The note , in connection with the ' / s . od ., headed " unknown , " has been mislaid ; will the party who paid it send me the separate items ! J . Campbell , Secretary .
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SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED BY MR . CLEAVE . POLITICAL VICTIMS AND DEFENCE FUND . _ , £ S d Subscriptions previously acknowledged ... 9 15 5 Friends , Pocklingion 0 10 0 Temperance Hotel , New Marketplace , Bolton ... ... ... 10 0 Ledbury , Wilts 0 6 0 Mr . Fedhngham , Ledbury 0 3 6 Chartists , Cheltenham 0 15 0 Subscriptions , per Mr . Campbell 0 7 6 Wm . C . M 10 0 Mr . Atkins , Bridgwater 0 2 6 "
Mr . Yoxall , ditto 0 2 6 Mr . Cass , ditto 0 10 Mr . Huxley , Tunstall , Staffordshire ] ... 110 0 An Old Rad , Huil 0 10 0 Silkweavers locality , London 0 10 0 J . E 0 10 C . R 0 10 Shoemakers , Hackney ... 0 4 4 Mr . Hunt and Friends ... ,.. ... 0 2 4 Mr . Elliott , Stockwell 0 2 6 Friends , per Mr . Christopher ... ... 0 8 8 Bagthorpe , Nottinghamshire ... ... 0 2 6 £ 17 15 9 MASON AND CO ., VICTIMS . Teetotal locality , Waterloo-road 0 2 6
MKS . HOLBERHT . A few Chartist Mason ? , London 0 8 1 MEMORIAL DEMONSTRATION . Wm . Stubbings , Langton , near Tunbridge Wells 0 5 0
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ADDRESS OF THE COAL MINERS OF YORKSHIRE TO ALL CONSUMERS OF COAL . Ladies and Gentlemen , —We , the colliers of Yorkshire , humbly come before you in the hope that you will lend a kind ear to our distress , and give us that sympathy which we have a right to expect . We are driven only by want and . misery to lay before the impartial reader the eDormons injnstice under ¦ which we have for years been victims and sufferers . We have employed every means in our power to be kindly listened to by onr masters ; we have applied to them , but to no purpose . We are , therefore , compelled by them to lay before the pnblic our grievances . 1 st . A reduction of wages to an alarming extent , so that we and our families are perishing for kok of food . 2 nd . A great addition has beeu made to our day ' s work , bat none to our wages ; ( the reverse ) we have as much coal to get in two days as we had formerly in three .
3 rd . On account of the corves ( or waggons ) being continually enlarged , and our day ' s work increased , we have only two or three days in the week ; the wages of two or three days is not sufficient to maintain us and our families through seven days . 4 th . We are obliged to work in water and damp places , so that we get rheumatism and all sorts of complaints ; and we are obliged to work naked , er nearly so , on account of the bard and laborious employment we have to peiform . 5 th . Getting coala by measure and selling them by weight ; this is the reason why they are continually enlarging the corves ; every new one that is made is larger than the old one . When they sold by measure they did not do so ; if they had , tfee public would have got the benefit ; but now that they pocket it all they are never quiet . £ tb . Our masters have turned off from their employment some of the delegates whom we chose to represent our grievances to them .
The millions in our own country , ¦ without taking into account the millions uf foreigners , who 3 re , through our labour , warmed every day , fmm the humblest being in our country to our gracious Queen , are Httle aware of all the misery , all the oppression , cruelty , and tyranny we' are suVjected to by our masters . The Negroes were never reduced to Buoh subjection j they had only to work a few hours in the open air , whilst we ¦ white men , and , above all , Englishmen , cannot sea the Bun some times f . T weeks together except on Sundays , which is worse than any prison in the kingdom , and more injurious to the human By stem than the solitary eeli . We are even worse treated than the greatest criminals in the slave mines of Siberia , for they have plenty of food given to them ; they can walk and work erect ; all their mines are six feet hieh :
whilst we are cramped and crushed into holes sometimes not more than eighteen or twenty inches high and a yard wide , and ore forced to work naked in those low and narrow boles . When we enter the bowels of the earth we eannot say that we shall see our wives and families again ; we cannot ran out of the pits to Bave onr lives ; we are forced to crawl on our hands and feet , the distance we have to . go in and out before we can reach the basket that took us down . There is no trade or profession that is so much txposed to danger as that of the collier , and E 9 man stands more in need of education and religion than the collier ; for no one is more suddenly snatched out of time into eternity . Unacquainted with the will of God and the laws of man ; ignorant , stupid , and wicked ; as he lives so he dies , and bis blood will be required
at your hand . There are societies established for the education of the soldier and sailor , but none for the colliers ; institutions fer the support and education of the children and orphanB of the soldier and sailor , is it so with the orphans of the collier ? We Bay not The soldier may get a pension if he is wounded in battle , and be entered into an hospital ; the sailor may be rescued from a watery grave ; but the collier is doomed to die without any one taking notice of him . He is more devoted to his country than either the soldier or sailor ; his life is in jeopardy every mement , and strange to say , there is no reward for him ; but even bis master will reduce his wages if he ean . He is doomed to be crushed to death by the recks , to be drowned , to be suffocated by the sulphureous gases , to be burned or scorched alive ; no one can lend a helping hand to
rescue him ; no one can see what is going on in the bottom of the pits . Look only at the numerous accidents which are continually taking place , and you will shudder ; your blood will run cold at the horrible misery we have to suffer , for a small pittance , or a piece of bread . All is not yet told , and wero we to write until this day twelve months , more than one half would remain untold . Look at our children ; who takes care of them ? who gives them the food and education they are entitled to ? where are their schools ? where can they learn the laws of their Creator 1 the laws of their country ? and the love of man ? They are brought up in slavery and ignorance ; they are ¦ worse trtated than the children of the negro . Instruction is denied them ; they only go to the Sunday school , and even on that day they are so fatigued and
tired that they cannot learn any , or even enjoy themselves . We may add here , the school-masters universally describe the pit boy as always more drowsy and sleepy , as duller and more Btupid at learning , than other boys ; as reading much worse than they formerly did before tbey went into the pits , and yet equally willing to learn . ( Commissioners' Report , p . 175 ; see also the Times for the month of May last ) They are doomed to follow their fathers in the pits , and crawl where he cannot This country can never expect to see men fit to defend their Queen and country whilst treating them with such barbarity , and sending them to the grave before it has been ordered by providence . It is our humble opinion , that it is impossible for us to bear up much longer under the burden which prisses so hea ? ily upon us and our families , and which is f . ' ist hastening us to the grave , and which so exhausts us ,
that we can scarcely crawl home . Do we there meet with that comfort we are entitled to ? do we there meet with a table well stored with good and eubsatutial food ? or even the commonest necessaries of life- ? do we thers find onr families well fed , and necessary raiment to pnt on ? To all these questions we say no . If this was the case it would be some solace to cur weary , exhausted , and emaciated bodies , -writhing and agonizing with pain , on account of the peculiar position , the cold damp air , and nauseous gases we have to labour Hnder , and other evils too numerous to mention , which are injurious to the human system ; instead of all thia we find an an abode of poverty and misery ; an empty table , or nearly so ; a care-worn sickly wife , and hungry , desolate , and half-starred children , cryiDg for bread . Oh ! how heart-rending is the cry of starving children for bread .
We make this appeal , not in our own name , but in the name of our perishing families , who , through want , are fast hastening to the grave , to appear before that God \ rho has declared , " cursed is ha that withholdeththe hir * of the labourer . " ( See also Eccles , chap , it ., Ter . 1 . ) . . To expect from onr masters an increase of wages js out of the question , for we hare tried if . We tope , by the exertion of our representatives iu Parliament , and the public , we shall be rescued from further danger , by coming to eur help and giving us that relief we can
get nowhere else , by adding threepence to every ton of coala yoa pay for , for the benefit of the collier * . We have no other resource but that one left ; and we ^ P that every one that has got a British heart , and bates oppression , will come to onr relief . By such timely help we shall be able to maintain oar families from starvation , and send them to school instead of the pita We sincerely hope and trust that yon will oo ™ 6 one and all t © onr assistance , and by yonr support remove the unparalleled distress under which we groan , and which has been borne with unexampled prtieM © and fortitude .
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Our masters bave ears only for the sound of gold , smiling eyes for their customers , and feelings for themselves . We who send more gold into their pockets than any other trade are left to starve in these pits , ten , twelve , and sometimes fourteen hours per day . Are Englishmen to suffer slavery to exist to such a an extent at home , whilst they give millions of pounds and millions of Bibles to extirpate it from Asia . Africa , and America ; and send teachers to form schools in all parts of the globe , whilst our own children are remaining in ignorance , and groveiling in the bowels of the earth , ufider one of the most tyrannical and oppressive systems teat ever existed ? We , who warm you every
day , who expose our lives for you , you will certainly give us the trifle we aek of you without hesitation . Remember , that through our labour , all the trade is carried on , all the manufactures ; all the steamers which bring riches from the remotest parts of tho earth , are set in motion by ns . Remember us at your meal , and thiDk if you could have had all these comforts of life without the collier . Remember us in the evenins , when the toils of the day are over , and you are enjoying tne benefit of a good warm fire . Remember that we are ' all brethren , and tbat the Bani 9 Cieator sees onr sufferings , and will come to our help . Ramemberthat He ¦ who gives to the poor and suffering , gives also to the rioh .
We , theColHersof Yorkshire , pray that our Heavenly and Almighty Father may receive you amongst the just , and increase your happiness in this world . Committee Room , Wakefi&ld , Sept , 25 ib , 1842 .
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TKOWBRIDGE . —On Thursday , the 22 nd ult ., a vestry meeting was held , in pursuance of a notice of the same , for the purpose of making out a list of names of those persons willing and those licble to serve as special constables , to Iho number ot sixty , in addition to the police force ; but the Chartists and ratepayers in general were determined not to have them . At the time appointed , eleven o ' clock , Mr . J . Noweth , one of the churchwardens , was called to the chair . The Chairman then called opon Mr . Bush , solfoitor , to read the notice calling the meeting . He then read the warrant from the Magistrates to the Churchwardens for them to call the meeting . Mr . J . Webb then rose and moved the
following resolution : — "That , in the opinion of this meeting , there is a suffi c ient police force in this parish ; it ia therefore inexpedient to elect any special constables . " The resolution was seconded by Mr . W . Edgeal . It was put by the Chairman , and carried unanimously , not one being against it . Ou the evening of the satno day , a glorious meeting was held in the Democratic Hall , for the purpose ot uniting both bodies of Chartists , these meeting at the Democratic Hall , and those at the Hope Chapel . The Shakesperians and All Saints , at Leicester , set the example , atd Trowbridge have nobly followed it , for they wero convinced that nothing was more needed at the present than union . At the time appointed , eight o ' clock , John Stevens was called to
the chair , and after stating the object for which the meeting was called , and advising a union , a list of rules were discussed and agreed to unanimously , on which a 3 we trust a permanent union may be based . BATH . —On Sunday , the remains of Mr . G . M . Bartkti were interred at Upper Swainswick Burial Ground . He was carried to his long home by twelve of his most intimate acquaintances , wearing rosettes of black crape and crimson . The pall was borne by six young ladies ; being much respected , a large concourse of persons assembled in front of his house , in order that they might join the mournful procession , and although it had not been made a public affair , there could not be less than 1000 persons present while the funeral service was been performed .
TONBRIDGE . —On Monday nighr , a full meeting was held at the large room , at the Chequers' Inn , when . Mr . Snelling lectured on the rise and progress of Chartism , to a full meeting . A vote of thanks was passed at the conclusion . GLASGOW . —The directors of the Charter Association met in the Hall , College Open , on Monday evening . Mr . Allcott in the chair . After disposing of the ordinary business of the Association , the delegate meeting about to be held at Edinburgh was taken into consideration , when it was resolved to call a publ'c meeting on Friday , the 30 th , to take into consideration the propriety of sending a delegate , or delegates , to the above . Mr . H . Vincent leotured in the City Hall , on Monday evening .
NOTTINGHAM— On Sunday , Mr . Simmons , preached a very impressive sermon in the Democratic Chapel , Rice-place , to a crowded audience . A good feeling was manifested throughout . At the conclusion , a subscription was entered into for ihe purpose of defraying the chapel rent . —On Monday evening , in the same place , Mr . R . T . Morrison delivered a highly interesting lecture on persecution . N 3 ^ CA 5 Tr . E . —Mr . Russell , of Nottingham , preached a sermon in the Chartists' Hall , Goat Inn , Cloth-market , on Sunday evening last . After the sermon , it was announced that there would be public meetings held there every Sunday evening , for the
future , at seven o ' clock- The Chartists of Newcastle held their weekly business meeting in their Hall , on Monday evening . Mr . Wra . Smith in the chair . It was announced from the chair that there was 193 . lid . collected for fhe defence fund . Mr . Phinnix gave notice of a motion , deprecating tho cruelty of the tyrants in power towards our best friends , and expressing a determination to use every possible means of procuring the " sinews of war , " to assist in procuring justice for them , and to form a committee for that purpose After disposing of some local business , the meeting adjourned soon after ten o ' clock .
HUM .. —On Monday evening we had an overflowing audience at the Mason ' s Lodge . Mr . Pindar in the chair . He opened the meeting in an excellent address , but short , and wished every oce to have a fair hearing . Mr . Grassby , the Seoretary , read the balanoe sheet , aud . stated they would shortly be enabled to engage a local lecturer . Mr . Harfield commenced his address by saying , be was there to address himself to men whose desire was to know the truth , and not to men who are mere expedience mongers . After which he proceeded to deliver a most stiring lecture amid the enthusiastic applanse of a crowded audience . Three new members took out their cards . The people are beginning to enquire who receives the benefit of" Peel ' s Tariff , " as beef is no lower , although there continues to be large importations of cattle .
Leed 3 , —At the Council meeting on Sunday morning , after several resolutions bad been carried , one was moved and carried that the Treasurer be authorised to transmit thirty shillings to Mr . O'Connor , for the General Defence Fund . Mr . T . B . Smith preached a very excellent sermon to a large audience , at night , iu the room , Cheapside . ]
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BELPER . —The Belper Committee for the Dafence Fund feel great pleasure in having obtained the sum of £ 3 10 s . ; and that it would be a neglect of duty not to congratulate the respective members and friends of the following places , which constitute the . locality , who have especially along with Dames , or Messdames , Stocks , Tipper , Birch , Bell , and Bslfield , members of the Belper Female National Charter Association , for coming forward so readily at this time of peculiar distress and persecution , for so nobly doing their duty in behalf of their incarcerated brethren , and especially as they are not yet wearied in prosecuting thia labour of love , as will appear from the enclosed resolution . The following are the specific sums received by the treasurer from the fallowing pl * ces : —
£ . s . d . Balper females ... ... o 12 o Males ... ... ... 0 14 0 Daffield , Mr . Pratt ... ... 0 15 0 Mattlock , Smith ... 0 10 0 Swanwlek . Mr . Q . Walters ... 0 1 6 Alfreton , Mr . Cross ... ... 0 6 0 Ashover , Mr . Boar .. ' . ... 0 3 0 Heage , Mr . Rogers ... ... 0 2 6 Total ... ... ... £ 3 10 0 James Vickebs , Treasurer Ed . Cross , Secretary .
At a meeting of the female Chartists of Belper , on Monday night , Mrs . Birch in the chair , the following resolution was unanimously adopted ; moved by Mrs . Belfleld , and seconded by Mrs . Poole : — " That we , the female Chattists of Belper , feel it a duty incumbent on us , at the present crisis , to uso our best exertions in raising funds for the defence of our Incarcerated brethren , and the support of their suffering families , and call on our sisters in all parts of the kingdom to be up and doing their duty to their country , and tbuir oppressed and suffering families . " STJNDERXlAKD . —On Sunday afternoon , Mr . Williams lectured on the Moor near ; the Railway-station . The weather was unfavourable , and the audience , therefore , was not large . A collection was made at the close for the General Defence Fund , when the sum of 5 * . ll ^ tl . was received . Mr , W . announced that another collection would be made the ensuing week .
BIRmlNGHAIVI . —The friends at Aston-street were disappointed on Sunday in not li wing a loeturer , Mr . Paries failing to corns according to promise . Mr . Talbert read several extracts from the life of Muir ; O Connor ' s letter , and different portions" . . of the Star were also read . On Monday night the usual meeting took place , Mr . Russell in the chair ; after the usual monetary business was concluded tho Secretary stated that the courcil was deficient of two members , when Messrs . Maliss and Ruesell were electud . The raffla for the gun for the benefit of George White was postponed to next Monday night , when it will positively take place . Tickets , sixpence each .
A Delegate Meeting was held at Wednesbury , on Sunday , when delegates were present from Wednesbury , Bilston , Walsall , Birmingham , Dudley , and Coseley . The proposition of Mr . Q Connor , to accept the services of Mr . Roberts , of Bath , at the ensuing Special Commission a $ Stafford , was unanimously adapted . A letter was directed to be sent to Mr . O Connor informing him of the same , and requesting him to communicate with Mr . R . immediately . Monies fur Mason ' s Defence Fund were received from the Star Office and other places . The next delegate meeting will be held at the Chartist Room , in Wednesbury , on Sunday , Ootobsr ths 9 th , at ten o ' clock in the morning .
Steelhouse Lane . —The Chartists of this locality met as usual on Tuesday night , Mr . Porter in the chair . The letter of Mr . O ' Connor , in the Star of Saturday last , was brought under the consideration of the members of the Committee , and the propriety ef votiDg money to the General Dafenee Fund was discussed . It appearing that some-portion of the funds in hand had been collected for the special pnrpose of defending George White , a debate of considerable length took place upon the propriety of merging such funds into the General'Defence Fund . Upon a vote being taken the numbers were equil , when the Chairman gave the casting vote for the appropriation of all monies to the General Defence .
The Washingtonians have been dispossessed of their rooms , through the interference of Mr . Corbett , a member of the Council of the Complete Sufirage Association . He having taken the premises adjoining , considered , of course , the approximation of a Chartist Association a nuisance not to bd borno . Lecture . —A lecture for the benefit of Mr . George White's Defence Fund was delivered by Mr . T . S . Mackinfcosh . ftt the Sooial Institution , Lawrence-street , on Tuesday evening last ; the surject , " Martyrs to Liberty . " At the close of the lecture , Mr . Thorn was called to the chair , and the audience , in pursuance of notice , passed a resolution for the election of a Committee to collect funds for th £ General Defence , and also appointed parties to carry it into effect
HALIFAX . —Those localities in the Halifax district holding monies subscribed for the General Defence Fund , will be kind enough to forward the same to the District Secretary , or to the Association Room , Swan Coppice , on or before Sunday , Oct . 2 nd , a ? it will be much more convenient to the parties receiving the same , and attended with much less expence , to go all together . l SHEFFIELD . —Education . —On Monday evening last , Mr . Edwin Gill delivered an interesting lecture on the subject of education , in the Chartist Room , Figtree-lane . The following is an extract from Mr . G . ' u discourse : — " We have had great talk about national education in our time ; we have been told that we may bless our stars that we were born in this enlightened country , in this the much-vaunted nineteenth century ,
the age of intellect , &c , fee . Hearing these things , a stranger would suppose that this was the most enlightened , Christian , prosperous , and happy nation on the face of the earth . Let us see how Buch titles will accord with England ' s present state . We have an abundance of churches and chapels , and a noble army , Called-by-the-Graee-of-God parsons , aa instructors , who receive £ 9 , 459 : 5 G 5 for their labours . Then we have Sunday schools , charity schools , Lancasterian schools , and national schools , where orthodox and loyalty are crammed into the brain or thrashed into the breeches of the rising generation ; without mentioning the heterodox sects , such as Unitarians , Presbjteriaus , B . iptists , AhabaptistsWesleyan Methodists , Primitive Metnodists , and Church Methodists ; besides Quakew , Jumpers , and Shakers , each sect having schools for the
promulgation of its own doctrines , in which loyalty and morality are combined . With euch a number of public seminaries we ought to be an enlightened people , and as far religion , what with the licensed and the contraband faiths , we smvly ought to bo a moral people , and if we take into consideration the enormous sums our education costs us , we must be a wealthy people . But are we so—are we wealthy ? Let the bastileB be crammed to suffocation with our heat avtisans and mechanics , the numerous deaths from starvation , the suicides occasioned by poverty and wretchtuutsg , the tide of emigration and the lists of bankruptcy answer ; and when in times like thesa , we take into account the cost of a royal visit , the splendid coattmies of a retinue of noble sycophauts , dinner services of gold , &c , and then see the starving " rabble , " the " swinish multitude , " as the unfortunate i
poor are insolently called , the shoeless , naked , hungry ptopla throwing their hats in the air , and calling on God to preserve their oppressors , to uphold that Byatem of tyrauny which like tfce poisonous upas tree is blasting their every hope , —I ask , have the people been rightly educated ? Morality is at an equally low discount , crime is said to be rapidly on the increase . We are told that a great majority of the prisoners tried at the sessions and assizes are not able to read or write , and a reverend divine haa said that there are thousands " liviog without God , and without hope , " hovv weil the instructors of the people have done their duty ! Well may they sing their old song over and over again every Sunday , " We have done the things we ought not to havo dore , and left undone the things we ought to have done " 1 The thanks of the meeting were unanimously given to Mr . Giii for his excellent lecture .
The Patriot Cooper . —Mr . Harney has received a letter from this gallant patriot , in reply to one sent by Mr . H . It will be seen that a former letter sent by Mr . Harney has been detained : — " Stafford , County Gaol , Saturday , Sept 24 th , 1842 . "My dear Julian , —Your reply did not reach me . Never mind it ' Our light afflictions are bat for a moment' I sm well and happy . How : can I fail ? I do not know one gloomy moment " This day week , Tindal , Parke , and Rolfe , the Judges , open their ' special commission' for our trials , When nine will come on I cannot tell ; perhaps Monday . I am expecting that day , my dear Julian , with exultation . To be acquitted is a thing I do not dream of ; but I shall have a glorious opportunity ef speaking truth . And yet I will not offend , rashly .
"I am to be assisted by a lawyer , but I act for myself in Court O'Connor has promised me to be there ; aud I shall be proud and happy to see yon , my dear Julian , there also . Tell- to keep his heart up . My little darling keeps her ' s up , as a patriot ' s wife should . ¦ ? • ¦ " My best regards to Mrs . H ., and accept yourself the enduring love of , " "Fours , most affectionately , " Thohas Cooper . "
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THE SPECIAL COMMISSION . ( From our own Correspondent ) Stafford , Thursday . —On next Saturday another Monmouth scene will be re-enacted here . On that day Judges Tindal and Parke , who presided at ihe Special Commission at Monmouth in 1839-40 , will , aided by Sir Robert Mounsey Koifc , open the commission here for the trial of 244 wretched beings , whose greatest , if not only , crime is poverty . The poor fellows even within the walls of their dungeon , bear aught but the appearance of men who would
transgress the laws of their country . Their conduct in prison is lauded by the governor and the visiting magistrates , as exemplary and truly praiseworthy . The most melancholy spectaclo is that which presents itself outside of the gaol , which is surrounded by the sorrowiug wives and children of the prisoners , whose haggard countenances aud threadworn garments indicate' . Biiffjring , misery , poverty , and rags , beyond description . They may be t / uly called " a houseless , clotheleas , and breadles 3 crowd , " to whom death ought to be a thousand times more acceptable than life . ' ¦¦ ...
The prosecutors under the special commission make no concealment of their intention to vent all their spleen and direct all-their power ofvindicating the law against such prisoners as an : acknowledged Chartists . Amongst those who are thus marked out as victims to be made examples of , are Thoraas Cooper , who is thus described in the calendar " Age 37 ; reads and writes superiorly . He is committed for inciting and persuading a great number of people to assemble and gather together , and riotously and tumultuously crtatiiw a great noise aud disturbance on the 15 ( h August , 1842 , at the parish ofStoke-upon-Trent . " Arthur O'Neil , " aged 22 ; reads and writes well ; for iucitiwgand oausi / ig a great number of persrns to assemble and t / other together to disturb the public peioo , on tho 26 th Aug . 1242 , at the parish of ltowtay Regis . " And William Ellis , " aged 32 ; . who reads and writes well ; for
having , with divers other persons , on the 16 h of August , 1842 , and on other days , at the parish of Burslom , traitorously compelled , imagined , aud devised , and intended to levy war against her Majesty , in order to force and compel hor said Majofcty to change her measures and counsels . " That the persecutors intend making a good harvest of trie affair may be judged of by tho fact that in some case 3 the briefs for counsel contain iifty sheets . The prisoners complain much of the usual course beiEg deviated from by ttiB "? aifpointraeiit of local f . ttornies to prosecute for offences alleged to : bo committed in . their peculiar localities ; this , they say , will afford an opportunity for the indulgence of personal hostile feelings . The prisoners would sooner commit themselves to tho tender merciea of the Crown officers , than to be thus subjected to the merciless treatment of men for whom they entertain hte most natural abhorrence .
Nothing so clearly proves the low subterfuges to which certain local functionaries had recour . e for committals as a recital of the charges under which many of the prisoners stand committed . Upon reading them , tho public will justly exclaim" What ! a Speoial Commission to try such offences , which could be better punished summarily bv the magistrate , than left to be disposed of by a Spi-cial Commisfiion , at an enormous expeuce to the country !" The charges alluded to are as follows : —Joseph Brostcr , . tor stealing four and sixpence ; KU'iu-y Howard , stealing a book ; George Shaw , stealing a shirt ; Edward Adams , demanding the sum of sixpence ; William Priuce , stealing one tame rabbit ; Williams Napper , John Hulme , Smith Child , Wm . Plant , Thomas Adams , and DavidParkes , demanding the sum of one shilling ; Samuel Locked , demanding
the sum of sixpence ; John Hall , demanding the eum of sixpence ; James Wooley , demanding the sum of sixpence ; end Elizabeth Bryan , stealing one picture frame . Now , if those offences were brought before one of our Metropolitan Magistrates , he would either dismiss the charge , or , at most , takiug the circumstances into consideration , would sond the accused for a week or a fortnight to prison . Exclusive of the prisoners thus committed for the Sp ' t-cial Commission , there are 110 to be tried at the Sessions , the euormity of whose offences may be judged of by tho sample given of tiio commitments for the Commission . It is pretty cltar by the classification of the prisoners by Mr . Brutton , the governor of the gaol , that they are not the uneducated set which it is so much the objact of the Whigs and Tories to represent them as being . The ubj oined is the classification returned by the governor , viz .:
—Prisoners who can read and write superiorly 1 Ditto , read and write well ... ... ... 1 : 7 Ditto , read and write imperfectly ... ... 50 Ditto , read well ... .. ... ... ' 5 Ditto , read imperfectly ... ... ... 73 Ditto * , . who can neither read or write ... 59 Ditto , on bail ... ... 25 - Total , 240 Here is a "damning lie" to those calumniators of the working olasses who designate them as an ignorant , brutal , and lawless body , whose sole obj ; ct it is to destroy life and property .
The J unge 3 will merely open the court on Saturday , pro forma ; for that occasion the ouiy persons summoned , are the justices of the peace , mayors , oorcawrp , » a » ho <» t < nro , »» fcu ^ . io , «* tt ^ « . lw *» - » 1 L * * p constables , and bailiffs . On Sunday , the Judges will iUte . nd Divine Service , in Christ's " Church , when the Itev . Mr . E . Coldwell , rector , will preach . It is to be hoped that- hia sermon will savour more of mercy , than what characterised the discourse of the Rev . Clergyman who preached before the Judges at the Monmouth Special Commission . On Monday , the Grand Jury will bo sworn at ten o ' clock , a . m ., precisely , when the Petit Jury , prosecutors , and witnesses , are bound to attend . The Solicitor-General , Mr . Sergeant Talfourd , and Sergeant Ludlow , Mr . Godson , Mr . Whately , aud Mr . Waddington , will conduct the proseoution .
After the first day , or at least after two or three convictions , three courts will be opened , in each of which a Judge will preside . This regulation will expedite the business . It is calculated that not more than 180 prisoners ^ ill be tried , and that the rest will be liberated oa their recognizances to appear when called upon . Four more prisoners are expected here from Burslcm charged w-ith being principals in the demolition and burning of the Rev . Mr . Vates house and property , on the 15 th of August . They were brought into Burslem on Tuesday ; one of them was severely wounded in the head .
Iu Newoastlo-under-Lyme , Mr . Wise , Captain MauneriDg , Mr . AJdcrly , and a few other magisterial dignitaries , are making great work about the protect / on of life and property daring the winter . On Monday and Tuesday they held meetings at the Castle Hotel , Newcastle , when they resolved to erect a temporary bavracks , at a cost of £ 500 , for the accommodation of two companies of infantry and one troop of horse . Government has promised to build for them a permanent barracks in spring , The Newcastle justices arc also raising a police force , and another bedy , which they designate a ' * protective force , " to escort the witnesses attending the commission , of whom there are forty housed iu Newcastle .
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ARREST OF T . B . SMITH . Star Office , Fijieeji minutes past One . I hare just returned from the police ofice , haying learned what was the sort of " refreshment" the Manchester police officers had gone to procure . They were absent on another arresting expedition ; and hare just returned with Mr . T . B . Smith in custody , he being apprehended on a similar charge , indeed ineladed in ths same warrant with Mr . Hill . Mr . Smith was taken at his own home , and his house was searchftd by the c&iers , and all" papers or letters found there removed "in custody ''
also . When Mr . Rexd had informed Inspector Tatlor , from Manchester , who I was , I made a formal application to be permitted to see Mr . Hill , before fee was removed from Leeds ; and he immediately replied that my request should be granted . I then asked " urhfnV and his reply wa 3 '' Sometime in the conrsn of the afternoon . " " Could it be now" ? was my next qnestion ; and the answer to it " no ; not just now : we have some refreshment to get : bat yon shall see him before we Etart . " " Will sou name a lime V " Sometime abou : three o ' clock . If you will be at the Star office , we will send on for you . "
From this conversation , and especially from the fact of " refreshment " being still wanted by the Manchester men , I infer that they have more arrests to make in this toira ; and that they were anxious to get them made , and the prisoners all together , before they permit any of them to be seen by their friends , Mr . Hill has been kept in the " Stone jag" since hi 3 arrest . He is not , however , placed amongst the other inmates of the wretched hole used as a prison ; but is considerately placed in the women ^ s ward , ( whieh happened to be empty , ) which he has , ( till just now that Mr . Smith has joined him , ) occupied to himself .
He and Mr . Surra , with any others that may be arrested , will be removed to Manchester this afternoon , I believe ; and be brought up for examination to-morrow , at the New Bailey Court . I shall go up to Manchester with them , or aiter them , fcr the pnrpeEe of procuring bail , &c . I shall also attend the examination to-morrow , and communicate the result in an edition of the Star , to be published in Leeds to-morrow evening . Josh . Hobsos .
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EDITOR OF THE " STAR . " Leeds Police Office , Friday , Ttceke < tClock This morning , about a quarter past nine , my eood Friend , Mr . Hill , was arrested in . the streets of Leeds , by two oficers from Manchester , on the authority of a warrant issued by Mr . J . F . Foster , J . P . and backedby a Leeds Magistrate . The charse is , as far as I can ascertain , one of " seditiou , " arising out of words spoken r , some meeting or other , " tending to exite a breach of ihe Peace . " He was on his tray to tbe Star-oStce . when he was pointed out to the
Manchester police officers by one of the Leeds officers , ( who was accompanying them " on their search , ) and brought to this place without ar . v of his friends knowing of the arrest . "While -waiting for his presence at the Stor-onice , to prepare the second edition of the paper , it was intimated to me by a friend that Mr . Hill had been seen to enter the Police-office , accomp anied by two strangers ; and it was believed that he was in cusiody . I instantly repaired to the plr . ee , where I now write , to ascertain if such ¦ was tie fact . After waiting some little time , I aw Mr . Read , the Chief Constable , and on my puttin" the question to him , he at once informed
me that the fact was so . I then applied to see " hir . Hill ; -when Mr . Read informed me , that he was in the custody of the Manchester officers Tvho alone could grant my request ; -and that ihey were then somewhere in the town procuring refreshment . " I therefore determined to await " their return , to make the request to them to be permitted to see my friend , b ' efore he is removed from this place to Manchester , which I expect he will be in the course of the day . I have now -waited sn hour-and-a-half ; but the officers hsve net made their appearance . "I shall ¦ w aii until they do , and communicate the result of rnv application r ^ soon as I learn it . JOS . HoDSON .
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Northern Star Office , Friday , Quarter-past Tiro . I have jest seen Mr . Hill . He was brought to this Office by the Manchester efficers , accompanied by a Leed 3 police sergeant . He had been taken to his own residence , I believe , ' and his fionse searched . When the party arrived here , Irspector Tatloh addressing me , s ^ id , that H they had found on Mr . Hill a number of keys
which he informed ihem opened certain drawers and boxes at the Northern Star office , and that he wished to see what was contained in them . ' I immediately answered the application by another question : " Have yon any authority to come here to search ! Have jena search warrant ? This place is mine . "Whatever is here is in my possessicc , and unless you h&Te authority to come here and search , I most as suredly shall not permit such a search to be made . In ihis cfice are a Tast number of papers and documents of all kinds : and I shall not consent
to their oeicg exposed to : fle gaza of strangers , unless there is authority to compel me . If you have a warrant , show it , and I will not resist you : if you have not , no search shall be made here . " On this , the Inspector said that " the locked drawers and boxes here , of which Mr . Hill had the keys , were his ; and it were those he wished to see . " My answer was , " whatever locked drawers or boxes are in this office , belong to the office ; and Mr . Hill has been entrusted with the keys , because such drawers
or boxes are for ihe reception of those official documents , belonging the office , over which he has charge . But Euch documents are no more his . than the books belonging the establishment are the property of the Clerk there , ( 'pointing to Mr . Abdill , ) who has Jhe charge of them . "Whatever is in this" office , or house , is mine . If you have any authority to search my house , show it , und go to work . If you have no authority , it cannot he done . " He then replied , 1 1 have no warrant : and if you object , of course I mnst refrain . "
" I then sfked if is was likely they would depart for Manchester this day ; and received for answer it was possible ihey might not . I then asked , if such was the case , could bail be accepted for Mr . Hill ' s appearance in the morning ; for I should , not like that he should have to be kept in the Leeds Stone Jug" all night ; and the inspector said that he could not accept bail , and the Magistrates would be gone from the Court . He , however , would endeavour to leave for Manchester to-night .
„___ . .. After ihaking hands wi-. h Mr . Hill , and after hearing from him thai the alleged charge against him is for atteadire and speaking at a meeting m Manohefiter on the 17 ih of August last ; he was con ^ ¦ reyed back to his quarters in the " Stone Jug , mjder a promise , from the efficera , that I ^ h <"" d be allowed to see him again before he is taken off to Manchester . J ° s- Hobson .
ARREST OF G . J . -HARNEY . Star Office , , _ , Friday * Three o'Clock .
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RECEIPTS OF THE EXECUTIVE FOB , THE WEEK ENDING SEPT . 27 th , 1842 . £ b d Exeter 0 4 2 Birmingham shoemakers 0 3 6 Ipswich 0 5 0 Ipswich Females 0 2 6 Nottingham , per Barton 0 10 0 London , St . Pancra 9 ... 1 0 0 Derby 10 0 London , Hammersmith ... 0 5 0 Colchester , CoUiugwood 0 2 6 St . Alban ' s 0 10 Tiverton 0 10 0 Carrin « ton 0 4 0 Mansfield 0 2 0 On the 3 : d Sept . I should have acknowledged 12 s from the London Stone Masons . Will Mr . Child , of Coalbrook Dale , write to me \ "Will the Loughbro ' sub-Secretary write to me !
Parties in want of cards , in and round Manchester , can be supplied by Mr . Leach , bookseller , 40 , Oak-street , Manchester . I am very anxious tbat when a sub-secretary receives cards of membership , he should write acknowledging their safe arrival . The following instructions to parties who write letters may not be useless ; let the letter be commenced thus , suppose the letter is from Manohester : — Manchester , 26 , Johu-street , Sept . 19 ih , 1842 . By simp ' y heading letters ifi the above manner eo mistake could ever occur . In reply to a Watford Chartist , the translatioH of the two latin quotations is sana , sound—tnens , mind —in , in— tana , Eound— corpora , body—Nemo , no one —morialium . of mortals— sapit , is wise— omnibus , at all hours . I contes 3 I acted unwise in giviag a latin quotation at all—however I won ' t offend again in a hurry . John Campbell , becrttary .
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EXTRAORDINARY HUNT FOR £ 100 , OFFERED BY Til ESP YMASTERS OF THE SECRET SERVICE MONEY . On Thursday morning week the villago of Bacup was the scene of a laughable farce , owing to a worthy son of Escalpins , who sleeps with his eyes open , making it known to the powers that be , that a notorious Fox had stayed in Bacup all night ; accordingly the bloodhounds wert laid on the soont , and amongst them were the following noted dogs : — Harry Fourhole , a particular favourite , who ran for , and carried off the Odd Fellows' Stakes , amounting to £ 40 . Sergeant Numskull , a devil for having a good nose , and keeping his wife out of the poorhouse . Nelfather , a Newfoundland dog , just imported , who has given up an honourable and lucrative trade to run in tho pack .
Peter Simple , a dog nearly allied to the powors that be , and a sure destroyer of young women ' s happiness , as there will soon be as many bastards of his as w iil make a pack of his own ; and Bleakoountry , a dog who is trying to signalize himself , but has not brains sufficient , not being a licensed dog a ? yet , but it is hoped he soon will be ; besides a many others . After doubling , &c . they at last came to view ; but here another obstacle presented itself—who was to take him ? One said , ha ha 3 teeth ; another , claws ; a thirdj he carries pockets ; a fourth said the oldest in the service should have the honour of the death ; the eldest said tho youngest should show his bravery . However , in thia state of things they passed and re-passed their prey on tho road , none of them daring to _ look on it , and had it not been for two sheep dogs , in the shape of two carters , which they charged to help , the prize would have remained untouched .
But oh , what will the wor 2 d say , when it is made known that the consternation of the pack was bordering on despair , when they were informed very civilly that they were not hunting Dr . M'Douall . but that the person whom they were kindly pleased to escort on tfce road was no other than Mr . William Beesley , of Acorington , eii route to Todmorden , to attend a Chartist meeting , to which place he very kindly invited them 1 Ha ! ha ! ha ! Bacup dogs have good noses ! What will you take for your pius , Tom i
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Thheatened Outbreak i . y WoLVERiiAMPfON . —A gentleman , wno has just arrived from Woivei'hampton , states thai the utmost excitement prevails there , in consequence of iho n ; tices from the men expiring on Saturday , when aij tne men will turn out , as thoy cannot possibly exist on their present wages . The " butty" and " ¦ tommy" systems are in full operation in thia locality , and are amongst the primary causes of the discontent that pervades the working classes . Fatal Railway Accident . —A gentleman from London states ( hat as the train on Moaday was
about thirty miles from London , aud within two miloa of Tririg , that tho &uard observed tho headless body of a man , with the two hauds also torn away , on the line . Upon rotting out from London , he 6 aya that the guard wv ; dusked to have a look-out , in . consequence of tho wii-els of the engine that arrived having beentmearcci wi ; h blood . On Tuesday ,-a ' fine cow , the property of : Av . Bannister , had its head and legs cut off by tho vrain near Pankridge . Three of them " had strayed on the line , two . escaped , but the laUor was knocked down by the engine before it could rcake out of tho way . Its value is estimated at £ 15 :
Earl Talbot , the Lerd Lieutenant of the county , and John Edward Piercy , Esq ., High Sheriif , are daily ensfag'jd with tho authorities from eleven to four o ' clock , in preparing for the forthcoming trials . Mr . Rogers the May ; r , is in L'tndon communicating it is supposed with the Home Secretary , regarding tho said trials . Every tbint ; here is tranquil . The only absorbing topic is the probable fate of the prisoners . Ckow- and Tyriiell ' s Beverage . —The proceeds due to the Executive from the ' sale of Messrs . Crow and Tyrrell's Beverage , from the 17 ih to tho 24 th of Sjptember , is as follows : — £ s d Mr . Mogg , wholesale agent for Shropshire 0 ( 5 0 Mr . Harney , Sheffield ... ... ... 0 6 0 Mr . Cleave , London , and wholesale agent for the South ... 0 4-6
Mr . Viokers , Belper ... ... ... 0 3 0 Mr . Morgan , Dcptford ... ... ... 0 3 0 Mr . Thomson , Stockpori ... 0 3 0 Mr . Twite , " Bath ... ... 0 3 0 Mr . Sweet , Nottingham ¦•¦ ... ... 0 1 6 Mr . Hibbard , Mansfield ... 0 16 Pindeb ' s Blacking—Duo this tive from the sa ; e of R . Piudcr ' s Mr . Legge , Aberdeen Mr . Huslem , Old ham Mr . Cleave , 1 , Shoe-lane ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 1, 1842, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct773/page/1/
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