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THE POOR LAW SYSTEM.
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On the 31 st of Dec , with the Magazines will'bo published , with illustrations by a distinguished artist , No . 1 , Price One Shilling , to be completed in 12 Monthly Numbers .
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PEEL'S TARIFF OUTBOHE THE COFFEE TAX REPEALED ! MESSRS . CROW AND TYRELL beg to call the attention of the Chartist Public to tho BEVERAGE prepared by them , as a Cheap and Wholesome substitute for Taxed Coffee . Its nutritious qualities are equalled by none in the Market ; while its mode of Preparation renders it vastly superior to the Trash offered for Sale by those who regard not the health of the Consumer . As a means of supporting the " Executive Committee of the National Charter Association , " and aa a means of crippling the Governmental Exchequer , it may be made a ready and powerful weapon in the hands of the Sons of Toil . A single Trial will prove its supenority over other Preparations of like pretensions .
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rpHE NEW YORK LINE OF PACKETS . J . Sail punctually on their regular days from LIVERPOOL . —As follows , viz . SHEFFIELD . Allen , 587 tons , 1 st Jan . HOTTINGUER , Hursley , ... 1035 tons , 5 "h Jan . ROSCIUa , Collins , ... 1150 tons , 13 th Jan These vessels are all first class , and have been built expressly for the convenience and accommodation of Cabin , Second Cabin , and Steerage Passengers , who will be treated with every caro and attention during the passage by the officers of the ships . Fresh water is served out daily . All Passengers by theee Ships will be found in lib .
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Just Published , price 2 s . 6 d ., and sent free on receipt of a Post-office Order for 33 . 6 d . MANLY VIGOUR : a Popular Inquiry into the CONCEALED CAUSES of its PREMATURE DECLINE ; with Instructions for its COMPLETE RESTORATION , addressed to-those suffering from the Destructive Consequences of Excessive Indulgence in Solitary and Delusive Habits , Youthfu } Imprudence , or Infection ; with Remarks on the Treatment of Ghonorrhoe , Gleet , Stricture andSyph ills . Illustrated with Cases , &c . '
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GREEN'S DISEASES OF THE SKIN . Second edition , in 1 toI . 8 vo , with two illustrative coloured plates , price 129 . boards ; by permission , dedicated to the President of the Royal College of Physicians , APR A C TIC A L COMPENDIU M of the DISEASES of the SKIN , including a Partioular Consideration of the more frequsnt and intractable forms of these affections . Illustrated by numerous cases . By Jonathan Green , M . D ., 40 , Great Mariborough Street , Member of the Royal College of Surgeons , London , and formerly surgeon in the Royal Navy . \* For reviews of tho first edition see the medical and general press of the period . ; : Whittaker and Co . Ave-Maria Lane ; to be had of all Booksellers .
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LETTER FROM MR . WM . HICK , NORTHERN STAB , OFFICE , LEEDS . . ¦> Northern Star Office , Leods , March 17 th , 1842 . ftp entlemen , —You will oblige by forwarding , at IT your earliest convenience , the same quantity of PARR'S LIFE PILLS as last sent . VVhile I am writing I cannot refrain frpm communicating the flattering intelligence of the groat good your pills are doing in Leeds and its neighbourhood . It is clearly a great error to find fault with a medicine merely because it is a patent one ; and more especially since its use has contributed so largely to the public health . The fact is , however , predjudice is fast giving way , as it always must where the pills are tried . A few cases in point may serve to confirm and illustrate what I have asserted .
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Just Published , the 12 th Edition , Price 4 s ., and sent Free to any part of the United Kingdom oh the receipt of a Post Office Order , for 53 .
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T THOMAS GRUNWELL , at present , and few ! twelve months past , residing in Leeds in thl County of York , and being a Butcher , do herebv give Notice , That I intend to present a Petition to the Court of Bankruptcy , for the LeedB District praying to be Examined touching my Debts , Estate and Effects ; and to be protected from all Process upon making a full disclosure and surrender of eooa Estate and Effects , for payment of my just « ai lawful Debts ; and I hereby further give Notice that the time when the matter of the said Petition shall be heard , is to be advertised in the London Gazette and in the Northern iS / ar newspaper , one month , at the least , after the date hereof . As witness my hand this Twenty-first day of December , in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fortytwo .- ¦ ' ¦ - " . ' ' ' . ¦ " ' ¦ ' ¦ " - . '¦ . THOMAS GRUNWELL . Signed in the presenoe of I Thos . F . Foden , Solicitor v Iieeda .
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CAUTION TO LADIES . THE PROPRIETORS oip KEARSLEY'S ORIGINAL WIDOW WELCH'S FEMALE PILLS , find it incumbent on them to caution the purchasers of these Pills against an imitation , by a person of the name of Smithebs , and calling herself the Grand-daughter of the late Widow Welch , but who £ has no right to the preparing of them , the Original Recipe having been sold to the late G . Kearslky , of Fleet- street , whose widow found it necessary to make the following affidavit , for tha protectionof her property , in the year 1798 : —
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Just Published , Price 2 s . 6 d . ( Or sent free to the most remote parts of the Kingdom , in a sealed envelope , on the receipt of a post-office order for 3 s . 6 d . ) , TBE SECRET MEDIC AX . ADVISES . BEING a practical Treatise oh the prevention and cure of the VENEREAL DISEASE , and other affections of the urinary and sexual organs , in both sexes , with a mild and successful mode of treatment , in all their forms and consequences ; especially Stric-
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SHEFFIELD . — THE CLAYTON BUBUL Fu . vd . . At a mating of the contributors to this fund held the Fig Tree-lane Bosm , en Monday evening , Dec 191 tfct . ^' -iwing resolutions were adopted unatdmously-*« That tba persons presant having contributed to tl ftmd ejected for the pnrpose of bringing ihe remaii of enr njuidered brother vsajten from Northallerton SheEiiti , which fond , owing to unfavourable circut stances , ws 3 not applied to the abova purpose , and at tie present time lodged al the Northern Star-O&zt xre c ns . ier that the monies in question sbonld be giv < to Mrs . Ciajton , the widow , of our deceased brothi patr : - -t ; ais-J so far aa we are concerned , we give c Totes that the moni ? a in the hands of Mr . Ardill sha be so appropriated . " "That we call upon all parti ttronrrhouc tLe country , who subscribed to the abo ^ fact ; , to immediately detflde upon its appropriation and * c -i , i their decision to the Northern Star . "'
CkkistmaS Dat . —Notwithstanding the domesti attrs . ' --ias of chranaas festivities , a very good me-jtin . w ^ s Lad on Sunday evening , in the Fig-tree-lar > e Room Sir . H ^ jjt a presided , and read Mr . Danconjbe ' s spscci from tu = Northern Star , which was received withmari of ecthnsiistic approbation . Mr . Harney next addresse the rs . eetiag , bringing nnder their notice the . proposi tionE ti > be submitted to tbe Conference , ¦ which he com mented upon at considerable length . Mr . H . nex ailuccd to the day on which they were assembled—thi
fcirtr > -cl 3 y d Jesus of Nazareth . He traced the careei of tl- ear ^ y Christians , shewing from their triumpl ] over persecution that the Chartists had but to imitate their heroic conduct te ensure a glorious triumph oTei tfceir persecutors . By persereracce tije . Christians had , d&spue persecution , succeeded in at last placing Emperors c-3 ihe Imperial throne of Borne , and by pt-rse-Tex 3 r . ee tne democrats of this country would yet succeed in establishing the people on the throne of its legitimate soTar-iinaty . Mr . Paries afterwards addressed the mettirg . delivering an interesting address .
BRAt-FOBO . —The adjourned nicetin ? of the Council took place on Sunday morning in their room , Butttrwurth-buildi-gs , when the question o * the Executive tria again a-.-joaraed to Sunday , the Sth ol January , in crasi tfcat the Council might hear e \ ejy aide « f tfc- ; question before tiiey decide . Gqodmaxsesd . —Tbe Chartists who meet at Mr . Golcsiuroi ^ L ' s held their usual noting en Saturday ereoisir , ¦ R-iiv-n ths sum of 4 s . 6 d . was voted to assist the Bi-mirtham delegates . 11 iddletos Fields—Tbe Cbarrist 3 meetizg at the Three P : gt-ons coilrclrd 3 s . 7 d . to the dsiesrste Fund , "which was paid on Sunday ni ^ ht by their Council Daist Hili—On Sunday the ChartUis cf this place net 'Ti thtir roi-m , and after arranjeic " -:: !? being made for fuivher txertien , the sum of £ l wss paid to assist in defraying the delegates expences to B ' . ri-ingham .
T » £ "w Lzeds —The CbartistB of this " jlace met on Sunday morning , when three shillings vra 3 paid to defray th * dteg&tes' expence to Birminghsm . * The meeting anjoumed to ten o ' clock on Sunday morning , when it is requested that all the members will be present , as business of importance wiii be laid' before tttOTTl-Cor > -ciL Boom . —The Chartisia meeting in this Joonrsxarted themselves by collecting and going round to their friends to raise funds for the delegates to go to Birmingham . They paid 18 * . 4 d ., and collected 3 s . 6 d . fat Dr . MTteualL They meet errery Sunday xnorxucg at ten o ' clock .
CDSEBtTRM . —The Chartists of this locality assembled en Sunday morning . Letters were read from Mr . Willia'rns . of Snnderland and Mr . P . ^ . Bropby . T V ~; .-. vr -:-. .-z : x . Tii to be aent to the Slar Office jj i ^ wFttod . Mr . J . Hall , irtasnrti for the amberland and Durham Lecturer ' s Fund has ad from South Shields five shillings . vRRXHSTOM . —Havre ? had J . S Buckingham , i tbe Great Ijeagne , lecturing us en the repeal and thousand questions , " we placarded the town , anng Mr . Dickinson to lecture on Sunday in the n . ¦ - * . -A :-: ?~ ople ' 3 Wrongs and the ' People ' s *¦ ¦ . i , ± : v 2 at half-past six in the evening on the Corn -Laws and League Fallacies . The aftarnooE lecture was well attended ; and although the lectnrer was
labouring under a serere cold , he mada ^ deep and lasting impression on the minds of the audience . At bali-paat six in the evening , our room was crammed , stairs , asd alL A working man was called upon to preside , who , in a brief speech , introdtii-ed-the lecturer . Who ecnusenced advising bis anciieEce to hoid back Uttdr coB-ficuoni , and stick as tight to their prejudices as they ccuid ; he would have them in spite of all their pait impressions , and ia defiance of the pleasing fallacies , that selfish men and their hirelings ttrow oat t'j EOmare the unwary : and this tnnsform&iion should be performed by ths nngic wand of truth and stubborn l&et alone , for 1 st truih and" error grapple , and in a fair , aad open encounter we have no occasion to fear the issne . " In my address to you , " said he , " I hu-ve no
party pnrposa to serve ; for the measures I advocate will beneut ail men , so matter what title they rosy bear , or what station in life they may fi . lL I wish to nuite the broken pieces of society . I wish to heal their wounds and win my way to the hearts and minds of Tncn by appealing to their reasoning powers , and not to tcsir pn-jnaices asd passions ; for that by which z better state of things must be accomplished is not tbe sinewy arm , or the clumsy cudgel , or the sharp sword . 2 io ; such weapons are only worthy of man in a state of wild savage barbarism , when he tried to out do the Bsnr&ge tribea ef tbe forest and acted the part of the tiger . Tnst which shall win glorious liberty , is , in the Words of Ben . Stott , author of ' Songs for the TWiIli ii na '
' Knowledge ! righteous word !; B = st gift of God , by all adored ! The reign of Freedom is rtstored WheraTe its deeds are planted . * Before it despotism qoaiieih ; Tbe bloodied sword before it fafleth ; With truth aione , it aye prevaileth , Fair , fftpritwn , and undaunted ¦" The lecturer then introduced the subject of his lecture , took ap the araumsnts of the Free Traders ons by one , and Ebowtt ! the difference between " Free Trade '' and "Fair Trade ; " and replied to the assertion that the continenfal stat-as would take off their tariffs when we took rS our import duty . " More work , more wages , " Was the next fallacy examined , and the lecturer proved
that the reverse had always been the fact" Exten-: son of Trade / " Extension of D -stress , " Extension i f ! crime , " " extaiBion of diK-sse , " *' exteDs 5 en of df ^ ih , " : * moretrade , " " more bastil 9 s , "" moi'o prisons , " ' . ' more tics- pitals , " " more graves . " The effect produced by Dickin- ; son ' s happy picture of John SmileB , Esq . the great majiu- \ £ acturer : ard his three daughters , was a clrncbsr ; and ' slthrarh it was Sunday , we could not refri . n * ae meeting from ^ iviug a hearty round of applause . Wecan give oaly a faint outline of the argumentative di £ - 1 course , and the hearty blows dealt at the various ; Bophisms put forth . " Some got a clonck , and some got a daw ; " and I believe there were only ttree mm in the aseemWy who ¦ were not convinced , and those i
Were our fat depnty constable and two of his lobsters , Who stead there from the beginning . After the lecture Was concluded , a vote of thanks was prised to the lecturer , who promised to give as another-lecture on Thursday evening . Subject , " The Trruicph of CaarfiBL . " As Mi . Dickinson was passing tbe aepnty on his way out , he said , "Weil , old gentleman , how do yon like the 008000067 " to which the deputy said , "be had nothing to say against it ; but ha should always attend with his men whenever there was a lecture . " The police force had orders to cnt a placard from the wall announcing the lectures , and have taken it to the police-cfEce
On Thursday , evening , the attendance was more and more numerous , lnacy hail to go awcy without an opportunity of Bearing the lecture . The room « mrt stairs were crammed to suffocation . The police were there in lull bloom . At di ; Lt &e Jectn : er entered the room amidst the cheer * of our friends and gave us a lecture on the triumph of Chartism . It wn a complete triumph for us ; for after the lecture , which lasted nearly two hours , we enrolled sixteen new members -, and some of oar old members who had . left us at the time of the rirts , came forward and joined as once more . We arc now beginning with renewed spirit A few more such helps as this , and we shall be abla to bold our heads up with the \ &tL—Correspondent
jrOTTXUGHAHI . —Oj . Monday evening last , a public dinner tovk place at the sign of the Feargus O'Connor , in honour of that champion of the rights of the indnstrious millions , Feargus O'Connor , Esq . The room in which tbe banquet was held was tastefully decorated with evergreens , artificial flowers , and the portraits of O'Connor , Frost , Eitanett , Buncombe , Cobbett , and many other patriot * . After the good things provided by the worthy host and hostess had been done ample jutice to , and the doth bad been draws , the « - > i « tmr . ftn ( Mr . Simmons ) gave " " The people , tbe lfg tHtnaro Bonree of all power , " which was responded to by Mr . Roberta in an able manner . After several patriotic songs , recitations , aod glees , tbe ^ jurpifm gav e " Feargns O'Connor , the -nTiflin ^ MTi g
advocate of the people ' s rights , " The chairman , in yeapoT" * ing to the toast , cud be felt some diffidence , s be tfcppgfrt be could not do it that justice it deserved . He tben eulogised Mr . O'Connor in tbe tigbsA terns—Mid of all the . men that has appeared ia « foi eoontry , be waa tbe inott imffiw ^ tng advocate of tbe tigbts of tbe toiling millions—he had flttpffit * from tbe ranks of the aristocracy , where be might tore enjoyed aO thehmrks of life , and all t *» t vat fm ifwHt » a to make man happy in this life , and bad led a lite of trial , and of danger to himself , te tbe sole purpose of benefiting the working
Am * . Be bad spent bis money in their cause , bad FulfttH imprisonment , and was prepared to sacrifice even lib It **** for them . He bad made ttiem wnat pUy now wore a terror to faotiop ! He had taaght Bjat Yhkh ^ they never knew before—that the upper niktt sf satjrtj were their enemies . He was not wYmtjhe . vfpsx : . ordexa represented him to "be—a man Wiw wo « id divide property . No , his only object was f » i 4 jtrOiril 1 in < K latxmz . He ( the cbaliman ) believed F . O'Connor . E 4 , to bo the stannchest advocate of tbe righto of the ptople that had ever appeared in this COsntry : be , therefore , advised the people to stick te Hm mo onto deatfc . The Chairman then gave " the
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¦ People ' s Charter , and may it soon become the law of tbi land , " which-wss responded to by Mr . M'Dnffi The nex toast was " Frost , Will-ams , and Jones , and all lucat ctratod patriots : " to which toast Mr . Lilly responded ii a very able manner . The next toast was " the Chartist of Nottingham , " which was responded to by Mr . Barker He took a cursory view of the Charter ever sines it introduction into Nottingham by Mr . O'Connor , and re probaUd the late dishonourable compromise with tb < enem / , which bronght on a discussion , from which i appeared that some « f the Chartists had been the dupe : of the Sturgites , believing them to be friends ; bui they have since found ttiem to be wolves in sbeeps clothing -, ana vow they will not be gulled by them anj more . The company recaled themselves on good old English , fore . The greatest good humour and con viviality prevailed during the whole of the evening .
Calverton Notts . —The Chartists of this place hac an entiiiuriastic meeting on Sunday evening , llr . An > tony , of Arnold , delivered an addrtss to a very respeo table andience , on the evils of taxation . IttOSSLET . —llr . ArtAr O'Neill , Secretary to the Manchester Charting , de-livfptd a lecture in the Association Room , on Monday evening last , on the question" Will the proposed repeal of the Corn-Laws benefit the social condition of the people . ' SOWfiKBY .-Mr B-esley lectured at this place on Saturday la&t . At tbe weekly Chartist meeting on Sunday , the following resolution -was agreed to : — "That ilr . John Cleave is a fit and proper ]» eTson to fill up the place of Mr . Cimpbeil , as General Sscs-etary ol the National Charter Ass ^ cia'ion , until a new oue be elected to fill thu office . " On Monday , Mr . Kigby lectured on the prospects of Chartism , and in the evening of the same day a ; ball was heldi
OLOHAM . —On Monday evening laBt , the conn , cillors and members in public meeting assembled , unanimously passed the fallowing resolutions : — ' -Ttat it is the opinion of this meeting that the Executive's Balauca sbeet should net be published in the public newspapers , but in future ^ re recommend that it be printed on a ebeet and sent to each locality , and vre request the Chartbts in evrry lecaiity will take the same into their serious consideration . " " That it is the opinion of this meeting , in consequence of the resignation of Mr . J-.. hi Campbell , as General Secretary , that the books , cards , and ether documents now in his hands , after they have been audited , be forthwith placed in the possession of Mr . Cleave , until such time
as an efficient Gtner . il Secretary can be elected . " " Christmas eve , a numbeT of ChartiBt youths , male and fjgmale , visited the bouses of tfeeir brethren , and sung a variety of Ctartist hymns ; by tWs means they collected 263 . which will be eppropriated to the Victim Fund ; at the recital on Sunday , 13 s . 4 Jd . was collected for the Victim Fnnd ; also on the same day , at Heald ' s Green Schoel , Chadderton , after Mr . Leach ' a lecture , 7 s . 2 d . was collected towards making up the defence of Mr . Samuel Tardley . The female ClwrtiEts cf this town , at tteir weekly meeting , voted ten shillings to Tardlej ' s Defence Fond , and 10 a . 6 d . to Mrs . Bell , of Hey wood .
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Eublix . —One hundred and seventy of the journeymen batr < is of tills city , ha ? e •* turned out , " in consequence of their employers refnsic . w to entertain a proposition recently set on foot , having for its object xhe u total abolition" of all nisht work . Tha fruits of this are already apparent in the importation of some twenty bakers from the riorth of the Tweed .
The Poor Law System.
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 31, 1842, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct784/page/2/
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