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"Wlli Mr . W . Jones , Chartist lecturer , send his address io W . Foster , of Bingley , as soon as possible ? A ., OF C . —No . We suppose tee must have answered the question twenty times in the Star . Dundee . —The report of the unemployed next teeek . S&LisBVB . T . —Thc address to Feargus O'Connor next week . Cbagdale . —No room this week . Brighton . —Our friends must excuse us : tre fear the election correspondence they have sent us tcouldnot have sufficientpublic interest to compensate far the space it would occupy . John Burrows , Buexlet . —His communication is received : we shall use it next iceek .
A Skiptot Chjlbtist informs us that in thai good ioicn a case of embezzlement was made matter of magisterial investigation on Saturday ; but thaithe parlies implicated being " respectable" —the constable was posltd at the door of the Courthunse io prevent Ae ingress of the working men tcho were curious to hear how the administrators o f justice wou ld talk io " respectable" delinquents , and anxious to see the practical enforcement of the maxim , that in England the same law governs both rich and poor . T . Paimeb . — It will be all one sheet . James Datvso" , of Lees , begs to acknowledge the receipt of £ 1 4 s . 4 $ d , from his Mossley friends , during his incarceration .
2 Jjlistol Chabtists . —Their address to Mr . 0 Con ' nor next week . WiuJam Russell , late of Nottingham . —Thanks for his friendl y private note . We wish all those who haye ^ complaints to make would evince a like spirit . —We have no recollection of the resolutions he alludes to . If we had received them we should certainly have published then . As Old " Radical . —We are a little sceptical as to the conversion of Mr . Baines to Chartism . Johs Simpson . — We cannot give long subscription fists in detail—our space will not permit it . BlESIIXGHAil . —All persons holding petition sheets are requested id bring them , either filled or not , by Monday next , to Mr . E . Spink , 145 , Lancaster-street .
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W . N . Testxob had better say how many Plates are wanted , and have them in one psrceL J . ~ B . —It is rot accessary . A Paecei . addressed to G . Whitby "was enclosed to Mr . Simeon , Bristol , and forwarded to Mr . Cleave . "Will the parties detaining such parcel forward it as addressed ? CaSLI 5 L £ —A NtTMEEE OF CHAB . TISTS . —Cannot find any account . I OB . THE 1 USCHBSTEB StPFKEEKS . £ s . d . From a few friends of the Political Institute , Sh&ffield ... ... 0 2 6 „ Kensington and Knighisbridge 0 17 9
TOS IHS EXECrTITS , . From the Chartists of Morlej ... 0 10 0 POB . MBS . J 0 > 'E 5 , MBS . BOBEHTS , AXD MBS , TTIXLIA 5 IS . From several persons in iondon , per John Simpson ... l IT o FOB THE FAMILY OF G . FLTXX , OJ BBADFOBD Transferred from the Chartists' Contested Seats Fund , by the Carlisle Association ... ... 0 5 0 FOB THB CO : > T £ > -IIOX . From a few friends at Mr . Holdforth ' s silk mill , Horsforth ... G 4 8 „ DavidRoshforth « 0 6 .. a friends at Swain Green ... 8 2 9 ~ W . Traugbton , Holms Mill ... 0 16 _ a few friends , per M . Garbutt 0 2 6
TOB MBS . JBOST . From a few friends at Swaine Green 0 © 4 _ ilr . Sewell , London 0 10 FOB IHE O * BBIEN ' S PBE 5 S FVSD . Transferred from the Contested Seat Tn ? a , us ordered- i > y the Carlisle Association , being half the amount sent by them , the other half to the famiiy ol G . Flynn , Bradford 0 5 0
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Londox . —A grand gala and ball will take place * t the Royal Albert Saloon , Shepherdess "Walk , City Road , ea Thursday , the 12 th May , for the benefit of Mr . Loot , an old stager in the cause of democracy . { The whole to conclude with a splendid drama . — Tickets 9 i ; reserved seats , Is . ; ball room , Is . Castle-street , LmcssTES-sqvxBE . —Mr . Beesley , delegate from Lancashire , trill lecture at the Clockhouse , on Sunday next . Globe Fields . —A special meeting of the members ol tfv * locality will be held next Sunday , ai the Hit or Miss , 79 , West-street . Xtevonshire-street , at 7 o ' clock in tha evening , to take into consideration to remove this locality to a more suitable ) place of meeting .
New Road . —Shoesiakebs . —Mr . Woodward , the delegate from Brighton , will lecture at tho King and Queen , Foley-sireet , Cleveland-street , on Sunday evening next . MABTLEB 05 E . —Mr . Leach , president of the Execufiye , will lecture at the Working Men ' s Hall , No . 5 , Cireas-sireet , New-road , on Sunday evening next , at half-pist seven o ' clock , Victosl * . Theatbe . —A benefit for the Convention will take pl&es , thi 3 evening , Saturday . Dockhead . —A raffle , consisting of three portraits , namely . Frost , O'Connor , and Enamett , will take place , for the benefit of the Convention Fund , at St . John ' s Coffee House , On Wednesday evening nest , at eight o ' clock- Tickets , 3 d . each , can be had of Mr . Janes , hair dresser , SnowHfialds .
55 j Old Bailet . —Mr . Powell , delegate to the Convention , will lecture here on Sunday evening . Mr . Doyle , delegate to the Convention for Cheshire , will lecture here on Tnesday next . BoTHEBHiTHE . —A Citizen of London will address ihe men of Rotberhitke—subject- ^ - " The Repeal of the Union , and the mean 3 to obtain it" —on Sunday evening next , at seven o ' clock , at Bailey ' s Temperance Coffee House , Chnrch Passage , near Botherhuhe Church . Public discnssions take place here every Wednesdav evening .
Eastern Division , Boothakebs . —On Sunday evening next , a lecture will be delivered at the Star Coffee Honse , Golden Lane , by Mr . Christopher Doyle , at half-past seven o ' clock . BFTRMpypsJEY . —A special meeting of the BermoEuBey locality will be held on Monday evening next , at the HornB Tavern , Crucifix-lane , at haifpas ; seven o'clock precisely , to elect a new Treasurer , in the room of Charles Jeanes , who has resigned , Dck ^ tiixb . —Mr . William Aitken will deliver a lecture in the Association Room , Hall Green , Dukin-Seld , on Sunday do-morrow ) , at six o ' clock in the evening . Oldhah . —Mr . John Bailey will lecture here on Sunday evening next , at six o'clock .
Wat ^ eheab Mm- —Mr . John Bailey will lecture at this place on Sanday next , at two o ' clock in the afternoon . HoiiiXGWOBXH . —3 Ir . R . Wild , of Lower Burn , mil lecture here on Sunday next , April 24 th , at halfpast two o ' clock in the afternoon , in aid of the Convention . Glossdp . —Mr . R . Wild vril ] lecture here on Sunday evening , at six o ' clock . Bradford . —Mr . J . Dewhnrst will lecture here on Saturday ( this day ) , ai the Masons' Arms , at seven o'clock in the evening . Sianxixglet . —Mr . J . Dewhurst will address the females of Ssanningley on Tuesday next . A memorial to her Majesty "Will be adopted , for the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jone 3 .
ScjfDERiA ^ D . —On Sunday afternoon , Mr . Charles Connor will lecture at the Life Boat Hoasc , at halfpast two o ' clock . bis . Wuajaxs will lecture on Monday evening next , in the Unitarian Chapel , Bridge-street , " On the suffrage . " The lecture to commence at eight D ' clock . Piras-vs Delegate Meeti . ng . —Again we urge npon the pitmen of the Tyiie and Wear to send delegates to the meeting intended to De held on Situiday ( this day ) , at Mr . Thoma 3 Hutchinson ' s , Freemasons ' Arms , Monkwearmouih . The business will be of the utmost importance . Hollimwood . —Mr . Thoma 3 Storor , of Ashton , lectures here on Sunday next , at six o'clock in the evening .
Wakrisgtox . —Public Discussion . —On Sunday next , a discussion will take place in the Chartist Boom , Bank-street , at half-past six o ' clock in the evening , when all parties in politics are earnestly invited to attend . Subject— "Is war necessary ? Mr . Thomas Lowe opens the discussion . Abkrgayeo t . —Mr . William Edwards , of Newport , is expected to lecture here on Tuesday , the 3 rd of May , in the Association Room , Frogmors-Efcreet . MAOCLrsTiELD . —A delegate meeting will take place in the Association Rooms , Watercotes , on Snnday , the 1 st of May . The County Secretary must at the same time inform the different Associations that a county lecturer cannot be engaged until the fcexi delegate meeting , as the whole of the Convention and LecinrerB' Fund is not brought up .
BrwsBrRT . —A District Council meeting will be held in the Room over the Co-operative Store , on Sunday next . Mb . Tatlob ' s Route tob the skewing Week : — it Nottingham ForeEt , on the afternoon of Sunday text , and at the Chapel , Rice Place , in the evening ; * o Monday , at Hncknall Torkard ; on Tuesday , at Old Basibrd ; on Wednesday , at JJajBpley J and on ^ tordiy evening , at Rnddingtoa ,
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Derbyshire . —Mr . Dean Taylor will lecture at the following places , at seven o ' clock each evening : —At Belper , in the Market Place , on Monday Apr il 25 th ; at DuffiBld , on Tuesday , the 26 th ¦ at Heanor , on Wednesday , the 27 th ; at Swanwich , on Thursday , the 28 th ; at Matlock Bridge , on Friday the 29 ih ; and he will preach in Belper Market Place , at five o ' clock on Sunday evening , May 1 st A collection will be made at the close of each lecture to aid th 9 funds . Me . Chaexes Co » tsob wiJl be at South Shields , on Monday , the 25 th inst . ; North Shields , Tuesday ! the 26 th ; Middlesborough , Wednesday , the *> 7 th Stokesley , Thursday and Friday , the 28 th and 29 : h ; Bishop Auckland , Sunday , May 1 st ; and at the -tea party , West Auckland , on Monday , May the 2 nd .
Staltbbidge . —Mr . J . Crowther of Lower-Moor , near Oldham , will deliver a lecture in the National Charter Association room , on Sunday evening , the 24 th , at six o ' clock . Birmingham . —A collection will take place at the Aston-strees rooms , on Sunday and Monday evenings , for the Convention Fund . Haslet . —Mr . Candy ' s route as follows : —At Wolverhampton , on Monday the 25 th j Stourbridgo , on Tuesday ; Kidderminster , on Wednesday ; Bromsgrove ,. on Thursday ; Worcester , on Friday ; and at Redditeh on Saturday and Sunday , the 30 th , and May 1 st .
Delegate Mekting . —A meeting of delegates from the various districts in the West Riding , will be held at the house , of Mr . Carrodus , tho North Tavern , Bradford , on Sunday , the 1 st of May , at ten o ' clock in the forenoon . " It is particularly requested that each district . will appoint a delegate . Debbt . —Mr . P . M . Brophy's route for the ensuing week : —At Swadlincote on Sunday morning , at ten o ' clock r Burton-on-Trent , Sunday , at six in the evening ; Tutbury , on Monday , at seven o ' clock ; Yoxhall , on Tuesday ; Derby , on Wednesday , in the Association rooms , Willow-row , at seven o ' clock ; and at Belper , on Thursday . Maxchester . —Messrs . Ross , Dixon , and Smethurst , will lecture at the Carpenters' Hall , on Sunday afternoon and evening ; after which letters will ba read from Mr . J . Leach member of the
Convention . Rochdale . —Mr . Edward Clark of Manchester , will lecture next Snnday ( to-morrow ) , in the Association room , to commence at half-past two o ' clock , and six in the evening . Mr . Bell's Rocts . —Sir . Bell will lecture at Halifax , on Monday the 25 th inst . ; Ovenden , Tuesday ; Mixenden , "W ednesday ; Luddenden , Thursday ; Lower Worthy , Friday ; Ripponden , Saturday ; and at Sowerby , on Sunday , the first day of May .
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j > lace at Sunderland . Upwards of one hundred men of the lodge testified their respect for his memory by accompanying his remains to the grave , in Snnderl&nd Church-yard . LONDON . —Jamaica Level . —A dreadful accident occurred to a poor boy , ten years old , at Porter ' s , rope-makers , Jamaica-level , at balf-p ' ast seven o'clock , on Monday evening ; while cleaning some portion of the steam engine , the boy ' s right arm was caught between the rollers of the engine , by which it was broken in three places . He lies in a dangerous state in Gny ' s Hospital .
NORWICH . —Change "Ri . ngi . ng . —Ou Thursday , April 7 th , the Norwich scholars ascended the tower of St . Peter ' s , Mancroft , and attempted to riDg the longest Peal of Stedman Cinque 3 ever rung in England ; they attained about 6 , 000 changes in abont four hours and a half , after which the tenor bell , which weighs , with stock and bearing 3 , 5 , 0001 bs , broke her gudgeon , and fell on the massive beams beneath with a tremendous crash , but sustaining no injury , "The ringers were more frightened than " hurt .
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the voice , its sound is hateful if sounded otherwise than in praise . God knows , that nothing in the whole movement affords us so much pleasure as to praisa the leaders , whenever we can do so consistently and honestly ; and that we have never omitted any opportunity of calling the attention of the people to the merits and deserts of Mr . O'Brien , from whose energetic writings we believe the cause of liberty and sound principle to have received much furtherance . But though we belisve Mr . O'Brien to have been a very useful man , we cannot therefore consent to fall in love with every thing he may flay and do , merely because it happens to be his saying and doing . We respect Mr . O'Brien much for the services he has rendered : but we respect the cause
to which those services have been rendered much more . And thoagh "we are quite ready te give Mr . O'Brien all the credit for shrewdness of judgment to which he is entitled , we venture to hope that the public , at all events , will see that we may chance to differ with him in opinion , and to express that difference of opinion in friendly and gentlemanly language , without meriting the morcuiu here bestowed upon us . "We have never hesitated to give Mr . O'Brien free liberty to dissent from our opinions , aud to express his dissent in our own columns ; which he has done , ere now , with much less of courtesy than we have always observed towards him . Yet we never prated to the people about Mr . O'Brien " Beeking to injure us in the estimation of the Chartiats . " We never
talked of his dissension from our advice or opinions as the inflicting of a " grievous wrong" . Nor did we ever vapour about " demanding redress at his hands , " or challenge him to meet na to discus 3 the question of whether his expression of dissent from our policy and proceeding was not " intended for the purpose of bringing us into odium with the Chartist body" ? Had we done so , we should have been laughed at , and thrown overboard by the people ; and we should have richly deserved it We cau tell Mr . O'Brien , that'if we do not greatly mistake the character and intelligence cf the Chartist public , the time for such letters as thifl of his to do any harm to any one but their authors , or to do any thing but barm to their authors has gone fcy . The people have now a knack of thinking ; of looking beyond the mere wordy surface , and forming their opinion from facta and principles . Mr . O'Brien has enough of judgment to perceive that
bis position in the Sturgite Conference was unnatural , and anomaleus , and calculated to excite great surprise in the minds of many honest Chartists . The reasoning of our last week ' s article- appears to have satisfied his mind that he has been playing a fooiUh and idle game ; but he has not magnanimity enough to acknowledge the conviction thus forced upon him ; and forthwith he is angry with us for having obliged him to see his folly . Feeling conscious that his laudations of the Sturge men , and of their perfect exhibition of the " democratic principle , " would not suffice to counterbalance the proofs of their insincerity , -which our article laid plainly before both him and the people , he bopee to escape from the humiliation of retracing his steps and renouncing bis new alliance by an impudent attempt to brand us with the titles of liar and miscreant . He affirms that our representation of his proceedings at the Conference is ¦ wilfully false . His words are : —
" The part you represented me as having acted at the Birmingham Conference is the very opposite of the part I did act , —oncf you know it . Ha 4 O'Connor been in the same place , aud acted the like part , how different would have been your commentary ! Yeur "leading , " or rather misleading article is , f&ra first to last ( as far as I am concerned ) , a gross and wilful perversion of facts ; artfully got up for the purpose of denouncing me In the estimation of the Chartist public . " Prom any other man this paragraph would have surprised us . From Mr . O'Brien it would at one time have surprised us : it does not now . Our answer to it is that wa gave the statements from the Nonconformist newspaper—the official organ of the
Conference ; that wj gave the statements precisely as we fouud them , neither adding hot diminishing a -word ; that we perverted nothing ; that we suppressed nothing ; that we mis-epressnted nothing ; and that a 3 we cannot aupposo that Mr . O'Brien has not seen the Nonconformist , we must believe . that he knows this to be the fact We have since then compared the report given by tbe Nonconformist with that of tbe Birmingham Journal and several other papers : we find them all to agree in giving precisely the sams version of the facts as is given by tho Nonconformist ; and we must have some better reason than Mr . OBrien ' a thinking and saying so , before we can Relieve that all the oracles of his new friends " are every one of tuem interested in
misrepresenting and putting him down" ! The sneer about what our commentary might probably have been , had O'Connor been in the same place , and acted a like part , is in perfect keeping with the re * t of this very disingenuous and Insidious letter . The readers of the Star know very well , and Mr . O'Brien tnowa - » ery -well , tbat we have not hesitated to express , th « ugh In hla own paper , our dissent from , and disapprobation of , Mr . O'Connor ' s opinions and policy , when ever our regard for public interest required it . Mr . O'Brien [ knows more : he knows that he has dissented from Mr . O'Connor ' s opinions , and that hsb-n always had free course to express bis own opinions in the Northern Star however adverse ta those of the Editor and Proprietor , at any length
he plea 3 ed . There wa ? always , to b 8 sure , this difference between Mr . O'Connor and Mr . O'Brien ; that Mr . O'Connor never presumed to bluster in the style of this letter , about any expression of dissent from his opinion . We imagine the people know us now sufficiently well to feel satisfied that if Mr . O'Connor had been in the same place , and acted the like part , our commentary would have been similar . We should have respectfully , lut firmly and promptly , intimated that -we disagreed with him . This is all we have done in the present instance , to call forth tbe very gentlemanly letter now before us . " The very head and front of our offending , " la in the following few lines of our last week ' s leading article : —
" What , then , us the conclusion forced upon the mind by all these proceedings taken as a whole ? The avowed object of these men is the uniting of the whole energies of the whole people , and particularly the uniting of the middle and working classes ; and they prosecute this object by a means which can have no other effect than that of breaking up , as far as it may be successful , the union of the working classes already established . This may be sufficient to prove to Mr . O'Brien that hia suspicions of the Sturgeite ' s were groundless ; wa acknowledge , however much we may regret , - to dissent from his opinion , that upon our mind it has -worked a conclusion exactly the reverse cf this . "
We defy any man breathing to point out a single word that we have ever written of OBrien less respectful than those we have qusted above : and yet this is to use the Northern Slur with a malicious intention to ruin Mr . O'Briei . ! God help the poor thin skinned fellow ! But Mr . O'Brien denias the accuracy of the report . He affirms that his conduct—that hia acta and sentiments were directly tha opposite of what Is reported of him . Suppose , for the sake of argument , the report to have been incorrect , ( which we don't believe ) why then should ilr . O'Brien tarn round and abuse us 1 We give our authority for every word we say respecting him—we fio not profess to giva it as our own report , for we had no reporter there—we take
the report from the official organ of the Conference , simply because we are determined not to be charged with having " artfully got up a report to suit our . own purposes . Yet , Mr . O'Brien , knowing these facts , pours out the fnll vial of his indignation upon us , and affirms that tee have laboured by wilful suppressions , and perversion and misrepresentation , to malign and ruin him with the Chartist public ! He does not condescend to tell us what the suppressions , perversions , and misrepresentations are . A tempemtaly and decently expressed letter informing U 3 that the Nonconformist report , from which we had quoted , was an inconect one , and giving hia own version of the facts and bis own correction of the misrepresentations , would have been
a communication at least as likely to obtain insertion in a paper which " has always befriended him , as the insolent and blackguard epistle which he has thought , proper to send . But this , it seems , did not suit Mr O'Brien's purpose . He knew perfectly M ell that if any misrepresentation of him had been given in the Northern Slur , it had been given unwittingly ; and that nothing would give its conductor greater pleasure than to correct any such misrepresentation . Instead , however , of taking the course which any decent man , conscious of having truth on his side , would have taken , Mr . O'Brien thinks proper to placo himself altogether without the pale of civilised society . There is no accounting for taste ; aud we have no wish to interfere ¦ with Mr . O'Brien ' s taste ,
farther than may be agreeable to him , or necessary to our own protection , or that of the people . As to his vapouring " challenge" (!) we tell him very candidly we have much better occupation for our time . He knew himself to be quite safe in making it ; because ha was quit © sure tbat there was no danger of its being accepted . There are one or two other points , in this extraordinary epistle , that we must notice before we shake hands with Mr . O'Brien , and wish him better lack and better temper . He begins bis letter by an insinuation that , at seme former time , be has received ill nsage from us . We do not like general insinuation ; and ¦ would rather have Been the when and the how
hoBertly pointed eut . For tho BaUsfaction of BUCh readers as may feel any interest in it , we state thus publicly , and we refer to the whole of the Northern Star for evidence , that we have never permitted an opportunity of serving Mr . O'Brien ' s interests , or defending or upholding his character , when -we could rightly aud honestly do ao , to escape us unimproved ! We nave watched for oppoitunies ol serving him in consideration of his former writings on behalf of the cause , as anxiously as we could have sought our own personal advancement , and much more anxiously than we , have done so . We have bis own letters by us in TVfaich he acknowledges , in glowing terms , " the kind , the generous , nay , the chivalrous manner" in which our regard for his interests and . character hate been
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evinced . He has bad tho full use of the columns of the Northern Star , during the whole term of its existence , to write thfireinj upon public subjects , whatever he thought proper . Hia communcatious on all matteia of principle have been invariably inserted , at whatever inconvenience , and in every instance * at full length , and without the slightest alteration , a delicacy of courtesy never extended to any other correspondent of the paper , not even tq the proprietor i-uaiself ( And yet this man , who has always writtea in the paper whatever he liked , and of whose communications we never altered a single ^ ord . ia the only man who haa talked of " suppression and mutilation , " in reference to his correspondence . Upon two occasions he sent
grossly libellous attacks on individuals ; for which we refused to make the Star a vehicle . One of theao was \ a letter from lancasfcer -Castle , in . reference to certain parties connected with the Southern Star . I The other was wiwt he called bis " answer to the Socialists' challenge" \ vhieu he here insults us with having " burked . ' With tha exception of these two rn alters of personal attack , we repeat that Mr . O'Brien has written in the Northern Star any thing and every thing he liked ; aud -we think that the people will concur with us in the opinion that if , instead of this letter , he bad written a plain statement ' of the facta > wUicli . fee ; says ¦ we-ie misrepresented , to us , it would Have been more serviceable to hia credit 1 He insinuates , or rather
asserts plainly , that ' we make an " editorial practice of condemning and encouraging others to condemn men without a hearing . " He knows this ; to , bo false ; and as all our readers know it to be falsa also , we need siy no more abou ' ; it . Oar insertion of this present letter of Mr . O ' Brien ' s ia a pioof that bo far from condemning men unheard , we ave willing to hear them even when they have nothing to say . And now we leave Mr . O'Brieh ; and his challenge in the hands of the people ^ who we have no doubt will deal with them as they deserve . Mr . O'Brien says that we have misrepresented him ; he does not say how ; he soys that we have perverted facts ; he does not say "w n at fa CT 3 ; he says that we are interested in misrepresenting and putting him down ; he does not say how we can be , or why we ; should BE , SO INTERESTED . We s& 7 that we have
misrepresented nothing ; that wo have quoted the statements ( for which we have jtiven our authority ) fairly and honestly ; that we ; believe , from the confirmation made by many other papers , that that statement is correct ; and we are the more satisfied that it is so , because we have seen the last number of the Npnconforniist , and do not find in it any notice Of any complaint from Mr . O'Briea about the inaccuracy of the report . Here , then , we leave the matter . If Mr . O'Brien can justify himself to the people , we have no objection ; but we have a great objection to be further annoyed or abused by a man towards whom we have never manifested any Jmt a kind and friendly feeling , and for whom we have now no other wish than that ho may live long , and enjoy alt the happiness and public confidence to which hia merits and public services entitle him . —Ed . N . SI
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HOUSE OF LORDS . — Friday , April 15 . The Forged Exchequer-Bills Bill was read a third time , a clause proposed by Lord Brougham being incorporated with the » ct . The Marquis of NOHMANi » y presented a petition from the municipal authorities of Hull , complaining of an excessive addition to the numbers of the borough magistracy . In the month of November last every vacancy bad , as they stated , been filled up and tho town
possessed its full complement of twenty-four magistrates , when , without any commuaicatiou with the Town-Council , eight other gentlemen were , with no previous notice , put upon the commission . The Noble liord proceeded to compare hia own conduct , when in power , with the course which had bean pm sued by the present Ministers in respect to the appointment of magistrates , and concluded by expressing his conviction tbat unless future Governments were more sparing ia their fivours , the office of justice of the peaca would become an object of sovereign contempt
The LORD CHANCELLOR defended the numerous appointments which he had felt it his duty to make , by stating the proportion of political partisans whom the late Ministers had , on no other ground , selected , and insisting upon the necessity of giving to each party a fair share of Municipal honours . In the case of Hull , twenty-three magistrates had in all been originally appointed , four only of -whom were Conservatives , and cf these four not one bed , from one caus 4 or other , ever acted . He therefore thought , in adding e % ht other Conservatives , gentlemen of high respectability , to the list , still leaving a large majority to his opponents , he had done much to dilute and temper the apirit of partisanship which had ihitberto infested the . borough . It bad
been generally admitted tbat there should be an admixture of the opinions of both parties , and upon that principle had he acted , although only where thera was a strong preponderance , and in some cases an exclusive possession of the bench by one party , had he interfered . He quoted Yarmouth j Guilfprdj Wigan , Coventry , Leicester , Plymouth , and Bristol , as instances of the unscrupulous extent to which the late Minietry had carried their political preferences , and declared , that holding himself respoBaibie for the due exorcise of the prerogative of tbe Crown , he had mads careful inquiries into the character of those whom he had selected , and bad appointed those only who , but for their politics , would have met with equal favour from bis predee * S 9 or 3 . :
Lord Coxtexium complained that the Government , in its search for information , had appiied to private sources instead of to the ^ own-Councils , who as a recognised body , should have had the preference . After a few words from Lord Brougham , the petition was laid on the table , and their Lordships adjourned .
Monday , April 18 . The Earl of Ripon moved the second reading of the Corn Importation Bill , and stated the reasons which bad led the Government to modify the existing law . Earl Stanhope opposed the Bill , and made a warm attack on Sir Robert Peel and the Government , who , he contended , had grossly deceived the agricultural interest , which had placed them in power . The Noble Earl spoke at great length ; and concluded by moving that tbe Bill be read a second time this day six months . A debate arose , which lasUd till nearly twelve o ' clock . ¦ ( " '¦ - ¦ Earl Hardwicke declared his perfect conviction that this Bill did not touch the substantial protection which the farmer enjoyed , while it satisfiedthe people by niodif / ing a law on which the country bad expressed an irresistible opinion .
The Duke of Buckingham was , however , ofauifferect opinion . He viewed the Bill with feelings of the deepest alarm . , Tue Earl of Winchilsea supported the bill as a " final settlement" of a queatioa which had dangerously agitated the country . Lord Western saw nothing final in it , brought forward , us it had been , by a ministry from whom different things had been expected . Similar opinions as to the instability and temporary nature of the bill were expressed io the course of the evening by Lord Brougham , Earl Fitzwilliam , and Lord Melbourne , who all , however , treated it as a sure step in the right direction . Bat Lord Brougham , while he expressed a qualified approbation of tbe bill , could net support it , and proposed an amendment , as an amendment en Earl Stanhope ' s that it was not expedient to lay a duty on the importation of foreign corn .
The other speakers weret Lord FITZGERALD , who vindicated ths Government ; and Lord BEAUJIONT , whe expressed his alarm not only at the Corn Importation Bill , but at the reductions and alterations of the new tariff . After Lord Melbourne spoke , two divisions took place , one on Earl Stanhope ' s amendment , which was opposod by 119 to 17 ; and on Lord Brougham ' s , which was opposed bj 109 to 5 ..
Tuesday , Aprxl 19 . Lord Melbourne moved a resolution to the effect that a fixed duty on foreign com imported into this country -was ^ preferable to a . sliding scale varying with tho average prices . His Lordship was not sanguine as to tbe adoption of his resolution by the House , but ho looked forward with confidence to the day when its truth would yet be acknowledged and acted on . The Earl of Ripon said that this resolution , if acceded to , would annul the decision of the previous evening , in favour oft the government measure . He was of opinion that a fixed duty would not work very satisfactorily , it "& $ ed" it could bo called , which would have to vary from eight shillings to nothing , and frem nothing to eight shillings . A long debate ensued , after which a division took place , when the numbers were for lord Melbourne's motion-Present 40 Proxies ..... * ..... 22 — U Against it—Present ....... 117 Proxies ...,..,,,,,.,,,,,, ^ , ,.,. 90 —207 Majority against a fixed duty ... 136 The House adjourned at a quarter past two .
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HOUSE OF COMMONS , Fridat , April 15 . On the order of the third reading of the Mutiny Bill in the House of Commons , Captain 3 ebna l proposed a clause to prohibit flogging in the army during tee time « f peace , except on r ,, march , or for theft . He trusted he should have t ? / e aid of Captain Boldero , now a member of the Government , who , before his accession to office , bad been a steady foe to this description of punishment . He f . tated the progress of legislation respecting it , and cor Abated the conclusion of the Committee which had reported upon the subject in 1836 . Military men ; indeed , ¦ were for the moat part adverse to the ftboli ' . - ioii of the practice ; bub the membera of all profer ^ ipna were wedded to received formg o ( discipline Be thought
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that if morg attention were given to the moral and intellectual iinprovanient of the soldiers , ofiandes would be less riumeroua ; and severe punishment lesanecescary . Ho appe . r . lfcd to the fiuccesswhich attended the efforts cf Lord W . Bentinck and other general officers for the abolition of corporal punishment It Was no wonder that hien * deceived into the service by recruiting sergeants , with false hopes of pay and promotion , should become wrecklesa and woithles ? . At tho enti of a long life of toil and danger , their only reward was a pittance ot Sd . a day , to be paid in caae of gopd b « bavibur . He believed that a limitation in the term , of service \ vould do niora than any seventy to improve the character of the army . After eonie explanations from Captain Boidebo , respecting the consistency of bia own opinions ,
Sit HOWARD DOUGLAS observed , that the practice of flogging was gradually growing into disuse . It was applied only to very gross offences , and was always avoided until every other resource bad failed . He therefore recomnierided it to the House to leave the Subject in its present favourable train . The proposed clause took a distinction between peace and war ; but it would be highly dangerous to put the soldier fighting his country ' s battles in a worse situation than the soldier enjoying peace . Equally dangerous was tbe distinction as t » the offences on march :. why should these bia dealt with more severely than offences in garlison or on parado ?
Mr . Macaulay said , that haviiig been Secretaryat War , he thonght it right to take his fair share of responsibility for such military legislation as was necessary to the public service ; and , therefora , taoagh he felt that the practice of flogging had formerly bean carried to the lengta of a great abme , be would oppose the present motion . Lord A . Lennox thought the spectacle of flogging was a brutal and disgusting one ; but he fearedit was impossible to dispense with flogging aitogetaer . It v / as not , indeed , practised in the French array , tut then there had been eighty-one capital executions in that army during the very last year ; and what would Captain Bernal ' s Quaker friends at Wycombesay to that ? ' , '¦ ¦ ; . .. ' . ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ' ' :, .. ' ¦ Mr . Stanley ( Anglesea ) was convinced that if the flogging took , place in the aight of the public , the practice would not be suffered to continue another day . ' ' . '' .. ¦ ; ¦ ' - ¦' " ' . ' ' '¦ ¦' . ¦
Mr . Vivian defended the punishment on the scora of necessity . It was seldom applied but in the cases of men on whom all milder penalties were found quite inefficacious . Mr . HOWARD spoke on the same side ; as did also Dr . NlCHOLL , the Judge-Advocate ; but as the dinner bour was approaching , Hon . Members grow irrepressibly impatient and clamorous , and the debate became inaudible . Colonel Rawdon referred to the report of the committee appointed to examine this subject in 1836 , "who bad unanimously declared the impracticability of substituting any other effectual punishment : and to that purport tho Duka of Wellington bad given bis decisive evidence .
The uproar of the hungry was now renewed , and Captain Pouull obtained but one moment of silenco in which to express hia disapprobation of Captain Bcrnal ' a motion . On a division , the clause was rejected . Tbe House having resolved itself into Committee on tbe Colonial Customs Bill , Mr . LAB 0 UCHERE proposed that wheaten flourshould continue to fee imported , duty frea , into the Canadas . He adopted the argument of the late Mr . Poulett Thomson , that no British , no imperial object , required the
imposiUori of any duty on this article ; and that , in the absence of such objects , th 9 mother country ought not to interfere in the taxation of Colonial impotts . The preaont Government bad avowed that the duty now proposed by them on this article Waa not at all intended for the protection of British agriculture , nor of any Canadian interest , but for inter-colonial objects . What those objects might be he could not understand . Hehad the same objection to the proposed duty on the import of cured meat . The flour imported into Canada came from the United States , and was paid-for chiefly in British manufactures .
Mr . Gladstone advocated tbe proposed duty on the ground of protection , not to any class of producers , either in England or in Canada , but to the clasa of consumers in other colonies , which are imparting and not exporting countries . If American flour were imported duty free into Canada , Canada could export -an eqnal quantity of her own produce , which she would otherwise have retained for her own consumption . The corn which she might so export , for instanca . to Newfoundland , would then be duty free ; but the Newfoundlander would pay the same price for it as for American corn * which , when imported into Newfoundland , is subject to duty , the difference being gained by the Canadian exporter .
Mr . Roebuck could have understood , however he might disapprove , a wish to protect English agriculture against American produce ; but that was disaavowed , and the interest of consumers in other Colonies , for instance , Newfoundlandi"waa Bet up . How the Newfoundland consumeit was to get biB corn cheaper , by reason : pf a is . duty , he could not understand . He contended that it was inexpedient to in ^ terfeie with the trade of the Colonies , except for some clear benefit ; and the law of 1778 had declared that this benefit must bo the regulation of the commerce of the whole empire . Now , the benefit here professed was solely to the consumer 8 in non-exporting Colonies , and \ i \ &y on ¦ -. ¦ Mr . ( jVaflslone to show how consumers could benefit by a 2 s . duty on an article consumed by them .
Lord Stanley defended Mr . Gladstone , who had not said tbat . tbe duty cf 2 s . vrpuhl make corn cheaper to tbe Newfoundlander , but that the Newfoundlander would pay as much for Canadian corn , which bore no import duty in Newfoundland , as for American corn , which would have borne a duty there ; while the Newfoundland revenue would lose the duty which , if the corn bad come to Newfoundland from America instead of Canada , it must have paidto the Newfoundland exchequer . Mr . Xaboucheke ' s amendment having been negatived by a division , . on the
Lord John Russell ^ clause respecting salt proyigions , condemned the duty as a wanton interference with the general principle of commercial freedom ; and this , not for the sake of consumers , as Mr . Gladstone had alleged , but only for the sake of the Newfoundland revenue , as Lord Stanley had now admitted . He warmly reprobated this petty meddling sort of legislation , as obstructing the commerce between Canada and the United States . Mr . Gladstone censured the heat with which Lord John Russell had spoken .
Mr . LaHOUCHERE repeated his objections to the principle of tbe import duties from the United States into Canada , with reference to the article of salt meat . These matters seemed to be of small importance , but they might lead to very serious results . The existing system had worked well for eleven years , and was introduced by the Whig Cabinet when Lotd Stanley himself was a member of IS . He did not / however , agre 9 with Mr , Roebuck that the change was a violation of the act of 1778 . Lord Howicii considered the charge to be unwarranted by any practical inconvenience in the system which had prevailed for bo many years * If there was an inju . ty to the revenue of Newfoundland , let it bo met by a local act imposing a duty there ou the import of Canadian flour .
Sir It . Peel stated , ^ that on the imports into the other three British provinces of North America from the Untsd States the duty was 5 e . ; into Canada only 2 s . The argument derived from the mischief of changing what bad been for some years established was one which be "Was a little surprised to hear urged and cheered on the opposite side of the House . When he had used that argument himself he hadjbeen greeted with a derioipn which seemed to indicate an opinion in that quarter that nothing could be more foolish . Mr . Ladoiichere added a few words . Mr . C . BULLEUsaid the duty would indues smuggling into Canada , and raise up enemies in tbe United States , wbere it -was jnst now particularly important to conciliate public feeling . On tbe cause regulating tbe . inipoit of foreign sugar into the calonies ,
Mr . CQBDEN asked how this was consistent "Witb the exclusion of foreign sugar from the mother country , on pretence of its being slave-grown ? . ' . Mi , GiADSTONE answered , tbat it "was no new prir ¦ vilege , butvwaa o » a wWcb tbe ooloniea had always enjoyed . While negotiations -were penaing with foreign countries upon the sugar question , auy minute alters ^ tion was obviously inexpedient . The remaining clauses were then disposed of , and tbe House adjourned . Monday , April 18 . The first reading of the Income Tax Bill was raoved by Sir R . Peel . This was opposed by Lord John Russell , who moved that it be read a first time this day six months . Sir R . Peel , in bis reply , stated that he proposed to make an alteration in favour of the Scotch fanner , whose proportion , of the tax is to be 2 | d . instead of 3 id . in the pound .
Amongst the Members on the Opposition aide of the House who supported the Income Tax Bill , were Mr . Baikes Currie , -who passed a glowing eulogium on Sir Robert Pee ) ,, and declared be would net view bia measures through the " smoked glass" of faction . Mr . Rir ^ , who supported the Bill also , in the hope that a m vsdificatipn would be introduced into it in favour of incor / ies derived from professions . Mr . ftoebuck , Mr / Muntz , Mr . Villiera , Mr . Thomas Duncombe , and Mr . Cobden , all spobe strongly against thV ' BilK ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦' . - ' ¦ ¦' ¦ ¦ : : ' ¦ . "' . " ¦ : ¦ , : ¦ - . - . ¦ \ : ¦ > In Duncombe , commenting on Mr . R . Curtie's eAlogium on Sir R . Peel , observed that if half what he said were true , a political miiienium bad commenced ¦ w ith the accession of tbe Right Honourable Baionet to ¦ . office ; ¦ ¦ ¦' ¦ . , ' . ' - ' ' - ¦" . ' ¦• .. . ¦¦ -: ¦ -. "¦ ¦ ¦ . ' - . . - :. Mr . Wallace and Mr- Suarman Crawford also spoke against the -tax , which- wa « euppoited on the Ministerial side of the House by Mr . Hakdt andfilr .
MONKTON MILNES . On a division , LoTd JOHN Russell's motion was rejected by 285 to 188 . Tbe bill was then read a fiist time . ¦' . ' . ' ¦ ¦ ' ¦'¦ . ¦ . .- " . " . ' ¦ .. - ; ; The t 6 Bt of the evening -was occupied by votvng some grants in a committee of supply ; and consider-Jng , in committee , the Municipal CoipoiationsBilL
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Tuesday , April 19 th . , Lord Stanley , in reply to Mr . P . M . Stewart entered into a somewhat lengthened and important statement as to tho ampant of demand for labour in our Australian colonies and Canada , and the degree in . which that demand was supplied by voluntary emigration .
THE CHAKTKK . ¦ Mr , T . Dunco 3 ibe gavb notice that on Monday the 2 d of May , he would present a National Petition , signed by more than three millions of the industrioQ 3 classesin favour of the People's Charter , and that on the following day he would move that the petition be taken into consideration , and the petitioners heard at the bar by counsel or by their agents . ; : . •; . ¦ ¦ . •¦;• ¦ ¦ : : ' . ' . . ¦ . ..-. . . , '¦ ¦; Mr . Fehrand rose to move for a select committee to iaquirp into the existence of frauds in tho various manufactures of the United Kingdom ; and also certain resolutions , purporting that " the House would protect working : men giving true evidence before such committee . He come'ided that it was
tho dibhoDesty of oiir rnanufticturera which had lost them their superiority ia the markets of the world ; and read various communications from books , newspapers ^ and letters , ill eupport of his allegations . Ha also entered oa the subject of the truck system * and the alleged cruelties and oppreesions practised on the workiij w classes by their employerSj most of whom were z-a ! oas Corn Law Repealers . Mr . Fielding and Mr . Wallace supported the proposed inquiry . Mr . Waklev suggested that , in order to do full and complete justice , the inquiry should include the agricultural as well as the manufacturing employers , and concluded by proposing an amendment to that efibct . . ' .. ¦ ; .
Col . SiBTHORP was willing to agree to the amendment , from a firm conviction that the agriculturists would come clear out of tho inquiry . Sir Jas . Graham was of opinion that the instances adduced by Mr . Ferrand were exceptions to tho general rule of tho honour and integrity of British merchants and manufacturers . He took exception to the proposed resolutions , pledging the Houa « to protect workmen in giving evidence before a Committee , as being quite supcrfluoua ; and as to tha Committeeitself , he feared that its inquiries would not prove beneficial , peeing that open competition was morer effectual in suppressing fraud thart any Act of Parliament But he was willing to agree to aa inquiry into ' t'h ' ei truck system ; and he therefore moved , as an amendment , ' * that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the operation of the law which prohibiis the payment of wages-otherwise than i » the current coin of the realms " .
Mr . Stuart Wortley thought that Sir James Graham had taken too favourable a view of the matter .: : "¦ . ¦ .- ¦ " -.- ¦¦ ¦ : ¦"¦ " i ¦ . . ' ; . Mr . Muxiz and Mr . Mauk Philip 3 vindicated the merchantg and manufacturers of the country . After some observations from Mr . Plumptre and Mr . Yorke , . . ' , ¦ . ' - . , . •¦ ¦ . ¦ . ¦ .. .. " ; . ¦ . ¦ ' . ' - . ~~ ' / . ' . . ¦ ¦ Mr . Coeden reminded the House of the manner in which Mr . Ferrand ' s former charges had been received , and contrasted it with the mode in which , hia present motion was dealt with by tho Qdyernment . Ho supported the motion for inquiry , and was not afraid of the result .
Sir Robert Peel was astonished at Mr . Cobden ' S tone , and was hot aware that cheers and smiles were to be constraed into acquiescence with every sentiment uttered . It was no function of the Government to Vindicate the Anti-Corn Law League from charges brought against it- As to the motion of Mr . Ferrand , he could not acquiesce in it , for it contained allegations against the- nianufacturera of t ) ia United kingdom . Frauds iu manufactures there would bo whileI the world lasted ; and the effectual remedy for these frauds wa 3 open competition in trade . ,. : - ' , ' " . ¦ . ' . ' ' ¦ - ¦ " . ¦ ' . ... "¦ . '¦ ¦ . " Mr . Hardy supported the amendment proposed by Sir Jamea Graham . Dr . BowRifiQ declared that Mr . Ferrand ' s statements had injured the reputation of our manufactures to a greater extent than he himself was awareof . . After a fow words from Sir Charks Burrell ,
Mr . Ferrand withdrew his motion , and Sir Jas . Graham ' s amendment for a Select Comtaitiee to inquire into the truck "sy tt am was agreed to . Mr . Sergeant Jackson ( the Solicitor- General for Ireland ) obtained leave to bring in a Bill to assimilate the law ia Ireland , as to the punishment of death , to that of England ; andto abolish the punishment of death in certain cases . Some other business was disposed J , and the House adjourned .
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Me . Editor , —1 hz subjecttowhich Mr . O ^ Connor * * letter , of Jast week , referred , w ^ is matter which I had to lay before the public , which I coimcier to be of tb » greateat importance ; and my reason for delaying my ; notice , till next week , \ ia briEfly tbe want of time to lay tbe matter , in a clear arid simple form , before the > pubHo . Every jnembers time has been takea up in discharge of his Convention duty ; and in corresponding with bjsconititnenta ; however , I shall devote my lesure time to the purpose cf exposing fully tho tricks and . machinations of the ¦* ' new move" party . Being a member of tbe preBent Cmvention , I went , by chance , on my arrival , to tha coffte honss ¦ where tb& " new move " , party meet ; and there I learned , frora
Mr . Lovett ' s own lips , some facts which will fit onea prove the objects of the Stargifce movement . I shall be able to show to yea that Mr . Lovett and his party at Birmingham , consulted bow they could beat get rid of :-the- name of She Charter , which , as yet , they -were not sufficiently strong to do ; and also that it was in contemplation , at Birmingham , -when it would ba prudent toform a junction witb Daniel O'Corinell ; and otbee means of getting rid of the old leaders . In short . Sir , I pledge myself to lay before you snch a series of astonishinig facts as will at once Bhow the objects aha . tendency o £ tbe " new move" men , and expose their treachery ; "' ¦ ' " . ¦ ¦ ' .. ¦ ¦¦ ¦¦; ' .- /¦[¦ ¦ . . ' ' .. .. . '" ::: . " : Your obedient Servant , George Harbison , Member of the National Convention , London .
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TO THE FiFTY-NINE DELEGATES WHO ASSEMBLED AT THE HOP-POLE INN , MANCHESTER , AND VOTED FOR THE CHARTER ; Brother Chartists , —The Jast timo you assembled you appointed me to collect a quota of money from each delegate , towards defraying the expences allotted to the Chartist 3 incurred , in getting up the meetings . It is with pleasuro that I inform you that a few have nobly Come forward and
paid their share . : Others that I havo seen say that theirs would have been paid had th « y bnowa th . 0 amount levied . As you have given me authority to make what I conceived a fair levy ^ I wish toinform you that if every one _ who represented any trade , or body of men , will brinir Is / 6 d . to Mr . J Leach , Tib-street , it will be suffi ; iont to discharge all debts ; the report of which shall afterwards appear , and if any surplus remains ,, ! will hand it over to the Town Council . Yours faithfully , William Griffin .
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sis , —tVe , the nndersigned , having noticed a statement contained in the report of Mr . Falvey ' s lecture at Suhderiand , as given in the Northern Star of Saturday last " That , at the close of the lecture , three cheers were given for Joseph Sturge and the middle class Chartiats , ' '—beg leave to fitata that we vrere present from tbe commencement of the lecture to tbe ClO 89 of tho proceeaings , and to deny , in the strongest terms , that any cheers were given , or ; proposed , in our bearing , to -Mr . Sturge or bis patty ; and futther , we beg leava to state , that if any susb propoaition had been made in our hearing , it would have received our decided opposition , and , we believey the opposition of the great body ofthe Chartists of Sunderland . We leave you to make yiMl UBe of this declaration you think proper . William Mowatt . James Monarch , Infirmary , Bishopweaiinoutb , Sunderland . Sanderlaad , April 18 th , 1842 .
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Yesterday , -at the pariah , churcb , ^ « r Pickup , solicitor , Bradford , to Amelia , third daughter of the late Mr . Thomas Pullan , of tho sam © P ' Tuesday , the 11 th ingt ., at the Cathedral , Ripon , by the ' Rey . J . Jamesonv&lr . John Cock ,. to Hannah , the third daughter of Jlr . Warwick , of tho ¦¦
Navigation Inn , allof Ripon .. : . , , - f . On Thursday last , at Sculcoates churcb , Hull , Mr . Henry Johnston , of L 6 ndoa r to Lacy , eldest daughter of William Ayre , Esq . Lansdowne Ter-Same day , at Knaresborongh , by the Rot . C . Hart , Mr . J . H . Shuit , of Limehouse , Middlesex , to Martha , seventh daughter of the late Mr . Jonathan . Shrsti , of Haxrogate . , v , ,, Lately , at the parish chtiTcbr JueeGS , filr . oames Howgate , to Mis ? Mary Ann Long , both of this town . ' -- '¦ ¦ ' . ' - ¦ . ¦ ¦/; . ;• - .. " ... . - . ¦/ ' - ¦ ' - ; ¦ . ¦ " - ¦¦' . - - ' ¦ .: . ' ¦ " ¦ __ . ' -. _ - __^ . _^^^^ . ^^ A «^* ^ . ^« 4 ¦ I' * m w t ' V f fl f f \ f m' t " \ n f t \ .. ~ - - ~ w--
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LETTERS OF MR . O'BRIEN TO THE EDITOR " OF THE " NORTHERN STAR" AND TO THE T ;>~ REPRE 3 ENTED CLASSES . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NOBTHEBN STAU .
SIR , —From your conduct towards ma on former occasions , it w&s my intention never a $ ain to trouble you "with any communication , public or private ; but you have so fonlly and basely misrepresented me in yonr last paper , Ibat I feel bound by the respect I owe the Chartist body , to notice tbe deception you have practised on them at my ex pence . I therefore demand tbe publication ef this , not less on public grounds , than on grounds " personal to myself . I demand it , not as a favour , . { for I will owe you no favour , ) but as a matter of right ; and if oron will not insert my letter on that ground , you need not insert it alL
The part you represented me as having acted at the Birmingham Conference , ia the very opposite of the part I did act , —and you know it . Had O'Connor been in the same place , and acted tbe like part , how different would have been your commentary ! Yonr " leading , " or rather misleading article is , from first to last , ( as far as I am concerned , ) a gross and wilful perversion of facts ; artfully got up fur the purpoK of denouncing me in the estimation of the CaaitiEt public . But you Trill net succeed . I defy jou—I defy O'Connor himself with all his popularity and influence , to make tbe Chartist pablie belieTe that my conduct on Conference ¦ was wbat your laboured article would ( by its perversions , suppressions , aud studied misrepresentations ) lead them to believe . That conduct I am prepared to
defend against you or any other person ; and for tbat purpose I hereby challenge you to meet me before the public , either in your own town of Leeds , or in Birmingham , Manchester , or London . Let tke meeting be a public one , openly and fairly convened , with due notice given , &c You shall yourself name the time and place ; or if you cannot afford the time , I will meet O Connor or any other rnan , or set ot men , whom yon may choose to name . Jf ow mind , you don't burke this challenge as you did my answer to tbe challenge of the Socialists . With all tbe power and popularity of O'Connor and the Star , 1 am not afraid to meet any or all ofyouinajust cause . I will not argue with you for & victory , or leadership . Victory I despise , . leadership I abhor . I will meet you only to establish justice for myself , and truth for the public .
Tis not of yonr leading article alone I complain . I complain also of O'Connor ' s letters , and of certain reported proceedings and resolutions relating to the Conference , which you have inserted in the Star , all of which are calculated to place me in a false position before tbe Cbartist public . Tbia you have no right to do—you have do right to use the Northern Star , which you call 'i the people ' s organ , " to ruin honest public servants in their geod opinion by false and malicious
representations of their acts . In my capacity of delegate or deputy at tbe Conference , I was the servant of the Chartists of Wottan-under-Edge , i ^ Gloucestershire . Tour misrepresentations of my conduct in tbat capacity are calculated to injure me in their estimation , and not only in their ' a , bnt in the estimation of the Chartut public generally . This is a wrong , a grievous wrong , which yon have no right to inflict . I demand redress at your bands , and , I think , I demand only what is last when I
ask—1 st . That you will either publicly accept , or publicly decline my challenge ; and that if you accept , you will name tha time and place in next week ' s Star . 2 nd- That the queition to be tried betwee i us be , " whether you have , or have not , most foully misrepresented me in last "week ' s Star ; and thai for thB purpose of bringing ma icto odium with the Chartist body "—to which you . may add , if you like— "whether your editorial practice of condemning and encouraging others to condemn men without a hearing , and upon e ^ parle statements , is not calculate ;! to destroy our cause , by driving away from our ranks in despair and disgust , every intelligent man of spirit who may bappsn to gv ? e umbrage to O'Connor , yourself , or the admirers of the Star . "
3 rd . That you will publish in the Star of the following week , a full and impartial report of the discussion , the reporter to be a persen "unconnected with either party . 4 tii . That you will insert along with this ( by way of antidote to the poison you havo disseminated , ) the following address to the Chartist body . I have made it as brief as possible , that you may have no excuse for rejecting it , on the score of inconvenient length , or the " crowded state" of yonr columns . Yours , &c . James B . O'Bbien ,
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i Tha Crescent , Edgebasten , Birmingham . ! Beothes Chabtists , —I pray you not to believe ; one word said about me in the Star of last week ; nor j to come to any conclusion respecting tha part taken by I me in the Conference , until Mr . Hill , or somebody for ) him , has accepted or declined my challenge . j I will not be judged by the . report * of the Star , the i Nonconformist , or any other paper in the kingdom . ' They are every one of them interested in misrepresen'fci ing and putting me down . I am neither a Sturgite , an j crConnorite , a Lovettite , nor any ether ile . 1 am what I you have ever known me to be , and so mistake ! I j give Mr . Sturge , Mr . O'Connor , and every other public man , credit for all the good they do . But I will not pin my faith to any man ' s sleeve , nor belong to any party , other than that of the people . \ My acts-and sentiments on the late Conference were ; directi ' y the opposite of what the Star would lead you ! to infer . ! Yours , ever , Jasies B . O'Beieh . i
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i [ The tone and temper of this letter would have perfectly I justified us in putting it into the fire , instead of publishing it Bnt we can very well afford to allow an angry man to splutter ; the more particularly when j we have given him no cause to be angry . TVe have j never yet known a leader preparing to bolt from j the course who did not kiek most viciously at the | first admonition of the Noiihern Star , however gtn- j tie or gentlemanly , I * o matter tow sttll and small j
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Sunseblaks.—Pokestsb's Fpxeral.—On Snnday Afternoon, The Funeral Of Brother Djmonds, Deceased, Of The Ancient Order Of Foresters, Took
SUNSEBLAKS . —Pokestsb ' s Fpxeral . —On Snnday afternoon , the funeral of Brother Djmonds , deceased , of the Ancient Order of Foresters , took
The New "New Move."
THE NEW " NEW MOVE . "
Jbraatora Mauri Ages.
JBraatora MAURI AGES .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 23, 1842, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct887/page/5/
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