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THE UOETHEKN STAR SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1843.
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A WOMAN KILLED BY HER HUSBAND,— EXTRAORDINARY CASE AT CASTLENORTH WICH.
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10 THE SUITOR OF THS JfOKTHEKS STAB . Deab Sin , —There is now some hope that the asitalion for the People " * Charter trill , ere long , be brought to ft successful close . A cry Is bow raised through the land by the -vorkiea for some practical measure to be connected ¦ with , obi movement—something that will , wiuLsfctlley are EtrnigliDg for the Charter , benefit their condition , and prove to the Government and those "who are opposed to our principles , that the people have at last arriTed to that state of political knowledge that t \ -a J- ~ feiuj ** & tKo lsigh-BKy t > in » losils to the city of freedom , ana -which it is impossible for the Government to btockurp . The cry is f « the La 5 d , the Lasd , the Lasd ; and , so eager are they to get it , that it is now the ^ nly topic of eoorexaGon .
The letters and lecturss of Mr . O'Connor have had » Tnagki effect in producing myn mighty change is tbe public mind , together with &e articles and letters -which has « f 3 ate appeared in that valnable organ ef the peopfe ' s , the Northern Siar . The question now is , lowara "we to get it ? This question may be answered ia many ways ; and how should it be allotted out ? Mr . Editor , I would beg leave to suggest one plan , s » a leave it In the hand * of the people to be improved upon . Supposing we had 100 , 000 Chartists that ¦ would subscribe threepence per week . That , 1 beliBTB , would amount to £ 1 , 250 weekly , or £ 55 , 000
ssuuaiiy , for the purpose either of purchasing the land , or taking it npon a long lease . We will suppose the latter , thkt we take 1000 acres of land upon a lease of ninety years . 3 would divide 700 acres into small farms of five acres each , that would make 140 farm * . I would build 140 cottages , so that each family might TTfhabii Its on dwelling . I would buUd a public kitchen and dining-room , so that all the cooking aught be performed at once , and "by that means save a great smouutjof trouble ; and in order that * brotherly feeling might "be cultivate amongst them , they should all dine together in oneroom ,
A . school and library should be established , and a fiat-rate tpacihffr or teachers engaged to educate the young , and , » t stated times , instruct the adults . A lecture room should also he erected , in which lectures should be delivered at certain periods upon different subjects . The cottages and dining-room should be so built , that the families should in wet weather be easbied to go to the dining-room under cover . Now , to pay She salaries of the schoolmasters , lecturers , fcc , the 300 acres that is left from 760 , should be cultivated by the 140 farmers upon the estate for Dothing . and tbe produce of tbe so © acres should be sold to clear the expenees above staled . The society to be enrolled under JUt of Parliament , and the officers to be elected by the whole body of subscribers . — The exp&uces for establishing the farms ve -win suppose to be as / oIIowb : —Building 140 coltegBS . £ 60 each , £ ^ 406 ; £ » B for st ocking each farm .
4 A , £ 7 , 0 W ); £ 49 for each family to live npoD until the itatxrop ha produced , ; £ 5 , £ 08 1 building dining-room , kitchen , school , and lecture-reom . £ 1500 ; library £ 100 . This would amount to £ 33 . , 600 . Thus you see newly 3 , 300 acres of lasa could be taken and stocked every year , and 420 faxsiUes could be aaiply provided for , and » large number of Chartists employed ia tha building of cottages , and also the making of furniture , * c .: and in ordri to take more farms , cr to spread tbe agitation , or raise faada lor any purpose the society might think fit , each man should pay £ 6 for rent per year , and tbe first year ' s farms would bring in as lent the « am of £ 2 , 520 . By UiiB means an education would be secured to the people , jtbeir arcnmstsijces bettered , labour made more plentiful , a . home trade created , and the people in a s&ort time made independent of the ¦ white alavc-Srijer who has driven thousands to a premature era-re .
Sir , if yoa think this worthy of iEisartiaa , jou will oblige me by inserting it I have taken the kin * you gave last week ; I havein tome thinp been brief : I am afraid , been too much so . I will -write again in a short time , ana show that fire acres of land , if property cultivated , -will produce £ 140 worth ef provisions tpon an . average . year ' s , W . BJSESLET . Newcastle , AprD 12 , 1543 .
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bntby a permanent fund , to which ^ j ^^ fca ^ heart , and can * pare a penny , w'j { y ^ dliy subscribe , and as we are inrftHture to avoh * ^ cannon ' s mouth , the lion ' s paw , and the League ^ , trapj ^ ^ to subscribe for these savi ng purposes . " \ 7 e must no longer leave our members ' ^ ^ tender mercies of prejudiced employers , tyrr landlords , and money-grubbing shopkeepers } br , endeavour to tmlte them in one great National Be- Jeat Society , having for its object their protection r . gainst forced idleness , and consequent poverty , tyrant , task-masters , and their masters , the tyranny of magistrates , and the Government , for locating our members upon the l and , ot otherwise profitably employing them , and by all these means , and | the increased power it will invest us with , being j brought continually to bear upon tbe ruling faction , comptl them to accede to the demand of tbe people ] for theii long withheld political rights , by the enactment « f the People * * Charter . ^
Having onoe made & movement upon the land , we could soon avail ourselves of the most improved machinery ( some of which will , no doubt , be for sale at any price in a few years , ) and become a party in point of wealth , upon an equal footing witk the boasting aianufacturera . But my fellows , —A well-arranged National Benefit Society is the only plan that will thoroughly meet our present wants and wuheB . I therefore beg of you to give this subject your whole study ; and I would beg Tespeotfolly-tQ suggest to our zealous , untiring chieftain , the necessity of making bis plan a National Benefit
Society , embodying all the objects I have above named , that we may not have many funds , and many calls upon the people , but one fund for the several purposes , one set of officers , one set of collectors ; this will conduce to tiie expedition of business j our General Secretary , if be be a man of business , a man who will work , he can , with a little help frem the Executive Committee , or Council , perform the duties of such a secretary , which would be consistent with economy ; our lecturers , too , could advocate the whole plan &a easily as a part ; and I doubt not , when such a plan is agreed npon at a Convention elected by the people , that the millions would quickly enroll themselves under it Gbacchus .
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SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED BY MR . CLEATE . POLITICAL VICTIMS' DEFESCE AND SUPPOBT FUMD . £ S d Preyjouslv acknowledged ... ... ... 417 5 3 £ Greenwich - •¦• 0 10 0 Silk Weavers , London 0 10 0 Islington 0 3 0 Mz .-Edesbury 0 10 Mr . Jndge 0 10 Mr . Wills 0 0 6 Mr . Bell and Friends ... 0 4 0 Mr . T . Llewellan 0 10 H . D . ( Battersea ) 0 0 6 Mrs , Windlis and Female Friends ... 0 5 3 Shoulder of Mutton , Baxksr Gate ,
Nottingham 17 0 Melton Mowbray 0 5 6 Barnsley 0 18 7 Ackworth ... ~ 0 12 0 Cawthorn 0 4 0 Southampton ( for Circulars ) ... ... 1 0 10 it Bnrns and Friends , Newport 0 8 3 J . Llewellin and Friends , do 0 3 0 J . Williams and Friends , do 0 2 3
£ 424 4 Hi FOB M * I > 0 UALL . Previously acknowledged ... 26 12 10 J Proceeds of a Concert , City , London ... 130
FOB MRS . SLUS . Previously acknowledged 25 0 0 Friends , per Mr . Homes , Oundle . 0 8 0 £ 23 8 6 Cobbections . —A misprint occurred in tbe list inserted in last week ' s Siar . It was there represented that Mr . Cleave had received from A s d Rounds and Ringstead 0 0 0 A few Bras 3 fonnders ( shopmates ) Northampton 0 7 6 Edinburgh 0 8 0
Not ? , these , three ( 3 eeming ) items should have been printed as too only . Thus—Rounds and Ringstead , Northampton ... 0 7 6 A few Brassfonnders ( shopmates ) Edinburgh 0 8 0 The mistake occurred from the word Northampton" having been written under "Ringstead , " there not haying t > een sufficient space to write it on the same line . The " sum total" should have been £ 417 5 3 J instead of £ 317 5 3 L *
In the list of subscriptions for Mrs . Ellis reverse the sum of three shillings stated to have been received from Marylebone , and seven shillings from Linwood .
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* These errora were in the manuscript . The latter one was altered in our Second Edition , on re-examation of the sum total .
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THE GOVERNMENT FACTORY BILL ,
In tha early part of the discussion on this most important measure , a daily contemporary , by no means remarkable for hla delicacy of opposition to to the measures generally of the present Government , or for his hesitancy in denouncing every thing of Tory origin as compared with Whig productions , because so satisfied of the importance of this measure to the real interests of the country , that , after reviewing the opposition it was likely to encounter from the fanaticism of High Church , on
the one hand , and of dissent on the other , he concluded by expressing his hope that , if these two mischievous parties could not he induced to lay aside in some degree their folly , all moderate and rational men -would at once come to the aid of Government and take the Bill in its present shape rather than not have it at all . We are most happy to see this excellent advice to some extent acted acted on ; though not , we think , so largely as it ought to be . Hitherto whenever the people en matte have been appealed . to , and have spoken
on the matter , they have held the language of rationality and sense . They have pointed out to the Government the objectionable parts of the Bill and have suggested the means of it being made . fair and equi able ; but they have not , like Mr . E . Baimes Jan ., come to the conclusion , that thb osb thin a TO BB AIXED AT IS MOT TO AMEND THE BILL , » UT TO get bid op it . This is the style of oratory of a few of Neddy ' s patrons among the tub-thumpers . They hare doubtless had their commands from the green-curtained pews ; and Neddt takes his one
in all readiness and reverence . His lectures are dealt out with an impartialness that does him credit . First , Lord Whabscliffe is honoured by his Braying , next The Parents of Sunday School Children , and now the Rev . Dr . Reed is condescendingly admitted to a Bhare of his henign notice . Neddt is absolutely in fits and agonies about Lord Joss Russell ' s resolutions . Sir James Gbaham and the Times might have been excused for their impertinence in presuming to thrust
education on the people . Bat for Xord Johnthe very breath of Whig nostrils—to play this shabby game I to give notice of resolutions which must expese , in all Us nakedness , thefiUhy character « f the dissenting Mercurial opposition 1 For Lord Johs to de this ! To take the Tory serpent by the tafl , and exilbit it—a very rod of Aaron ! And to do so without leave asked , either of . Nsjjby or the tub-thumpers ! Oh ! horrible ! naughty , naughty , Lord John ! O . fie !
Do but hear how virtuously Nsddt does rebuke the peccant Lord ; see how he flourishes the . birch as it descends upon his noble breech : — "The danger is extreme . And where , in these circumstances , lies our only hope 1 It lies in xnaos the most perfett , and in iFFOJtr the matt unceasing , among all the friends of religions liberty . M , nothing can be conceived more calculated to destroy that union , and to put an end to that effort , than Lord John Rnssell ' s resolutions . Aye , and paradoxical as it may sound , their danger is lust in proportion to their merit . "
Faith 3 Neddz , there ' s nothing paradoxical at all in it . The rotten cause of Mammon [ to which you and your crew are all devoted can never suffer from anything but merit ; save so far as the suicidal consequences of your , own acts visit you . There ib merit in Lord John ' s resolutions . They go , if honestly adopted , to make the Bill everything which an honest man could wish ; hence your Losiility .
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** The discussion of Lord John Russell ' s Resolutions would divebt the friends of ReligiouB Liberty from the urgent and indispensable duty of opposing with all their might the dangerous attack ou their liberties involved in Sir James Graham ' s Bill . If this were a light matter , I would make a comparison which our Country Gentlemen would understand better than they understand the principles of Religious Liberty : I would say that these Resolutions will have the same effect as the trailing of a herring across the fox ' s track , which bafne 3 the scent of the dogs , and perhaps sends them after that which , if they come up with it , proveB ouly to be a worthless herring , whilst the real game has made his escape . "
How provoking of Lord John 1 Thus to foil the scent of the pious " pack" ! and with a herring too ! the wasteful one ; not to think of the soup which might have come from it ! Mark too , how well Neddy knows the character of his associates and patrons . The a paok" J what an admirable idea ! The hungry curs—howling after tkeir piey , the helpless poor , with whom they see another "big dog' ^ preparing to make off . O ! that herring ! ( H ) erriiig John what cau you think of !! But Neddy won't take tbe herring bait . He knows the smell of it , and is not to be caught ; it must be boiled not frizzled for him : —
"To suspend our opposition to a plan so incurably bad as Sir James Graham ' s , in order to discuss another so unintelligible as Lord John Russell ' s wou'd be an absolute waste of time , as well as tbe sacrifice of an opportunity never to be recalled . " Thus speaks Nedd y through his shrewd medium , to the " pack "; while he thus continues his . objurgation of Lord John : — " Lord John Russell has not en this occasion entitled himself to the confidence of the friends of Religious Liberty—first , beoanse be began by an illconsidered Land most unfortunate defence of the Government measure ; and next , because he seems to intend to graft his own shoot upon their radically vicious stock . '
Thus , m fact , through two mortal columns of his prison sheet does this unprincipled animal labour to induce the " pack" to refuse to hare anything at all to do with Lord John Russell ' s resolution , and to persevere ia their vociferoas rejection of the entire Bill . The consequence jof this will be that the resolutions of Lord John , not being backed by the parties whose objections they are supposed to represent , will lose much of that imposing attitude which they might otherwise have taken and will command nothing of the respectful attention from Government which they must otherwise have had .
They will , in all probability be rejeoted . The Bill will be ( passed nearly in its present form , and the really honest and conscientious of the Dissenters , together with the mass of the rate-payers generally , will have to thank Neddy and the tub-thumpers for any inconveniences to which , in its operation , they may be subjected . Lord John ' s resolutions , as we have already said —if honestly conoeived and adopted—ara sufficient to render the Bill—in this department of it—all that an honest man could wish for . True the first of Lord John ' s resolutions is a little misty .
He provides for an adequate representation of the rate-payers at the Board of Trustees ; but he does not say exactly what he would consider an adequate representation . We should interpret this to mean the election of the whole Board . But in any way let the ratepayers be adequately—fairly —represented , and , on that score , we are satisfied . He provides also that the Trustees shall elect their own Chairman ; thus doing away with the intidiou ° nes 8 of the respect paid to the clergyman , by making him perpetual chairman : indeed it does not necessarily follow from Lord John ' s resolutions that th « clergyman shall be a trustee at all .
"The third , fourth and fifth of Lord John Resskl ' s resolutions provide for the religious education of children of Churchmen , Dissenters and Roman Catholics , on principles whioh would secure to all a large amount of religious instruction without interfering with the peculiar opinions of any . According to this plan , the Holy Scriptures in the authorised version are to be read by and taught in these schools to all Protestant children , whether belonging to the Church or Dissenters , whilst a special provision is to be made for the instruction b ! Roman Catholio children whose parents object to the reading of the authorised version .
Nothing can be fairer than this . These resolutions likewise provide that children educated in the schools during the week , shall be allowed on tbe Sunday to attend any school and aay place of worship their parents may think fit . And ia order that Dissenters , when qualified , may not be excluded from teaching in these schools , they further provide that the religious instruction , except so far as the reading of the Sacred Scriptures is concerned , shall be given by the clergyman of the parish , or by some person appointed by him , to tha children belonging to the Established Church , and that it shall be given apart from the ordinary lessons of the school . "
The eighth of Lord John ' s resolutions provides against that really objectionable clause which would draw a line of distinction between the British and Foreign , and other efficiently oonduoted Dissenting schools . There can certainly be no reason why a certificate Bhould not be received as readily from a Wesleyan , or an Unitarian , or an Independent , or a New Jerusalem school efficiently conducted , as from a British and Foreign , or a Roman Catholio school ; and Lord John ' s resolutions provide that this shall be so . "There is every reason to think that a measure of education , founded
on the principles asserted in the above resolution , wonld give general , if not universal satisfaction . " We regret much , therefore , to see the honest-minded and well-meaning Dissenters , of whom there are thousands—knowing nothing of the Bill but that which they are told by Neddy , and the tub-thumpera , induced by these utterly unprincipled and dishonest leaders to * run a-muck" at the whole Bill , instead of strengthening the hands of Lord John Rtjssell for the carrying of these reasonable and proper
resotions . One good effect of this mad-dog-ism on the part of Dissenters iB , that it has considerably qualified the harrassment of Government by High Church bigots . They have regained sense and coolness , as the others seem to lose ; and just for this reason : — because they see , as we do , in the boll-headedness of Dissenters the safety of the Church dominanoy whioh they desire . Hence , their opposition is diverted from the Bill , and turned to Lord John ' s resolutions , which they declare will render the Bill an unbearable curse .
So that poor Lord John and his resolutions stand now between the two fires , while the Government Bill , in its original form , gets rid of one formidable source of opposition entirely , and is enabled to laugh at the other , from its divided weakness . Neddy is not far wrong , therefore , when he says : — " Let bo one be so thoughtless as to suppose that there is the remotest chance of those resolutions being carried . Lord John Russell can no more carry his resolutions next month , than he can next month enter the Queen ' s Cabinet as Prime Minister . "
There can be no doubt that if Lord John Russell ' s resolutions had been well backed op by the Dissenters he would have carried them . The tone with which Sir J . Gbaham received them amounted almost to a pledge to that effect . But with ± he ravings against them of Ned » y and the tubiiumpera ; while the Government can point Lord J&hn to the fact that tbe parties on whose behalf he pmrpotB to act repudiate his resolutions , be is neyflr likely to carry them .
T ~ he fill will ) we have no doubt , be carried very much in its present form ; somewhat modified and amended it tnay be . We hope , certainly , that Lord John IIvssbll'b eighth resolution will be embodied in it ; but it certainly is in small danger froni the idle raving for its entire rejection of Neddy s . \ nd the tub-thumpers . If it were bo , we should be inclined , with our contemporary , to say , "Let j . " ^ rational and moderate men come to the aid of the Government . " Let us hate
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Education—without cl erical ascendancy , if possible—but , in any case fa us have Education . And after all—supposing it should pass even in its present form— -what is the mighty bugbear—so far as Education is concerned , of which we have heard bo mucb . braying and thumping from Neddy and his BleeVhaired patrons ! The Spectator has a few words on the matter well put . We borrow them : —
" In order to estimate the value of the objections to th d details ot Sir James Graham ' s educational clauses , let us briefly enumerate their provisions . They go to establish schools under the management of a Local Board of Trustees , subjected to the inspection of four lay Inspectors , with a staff of assistant Sub-Inspectors , and to the control of the Educational Committee of the Council . The Looal Board is to consist of the Clergyman and the Churchwardens of the district , ex-cfficio Trustees and four other Trustees , two of whom must be
occupiers of Factories employing children , chosen by the distriot Justices of the Peace out of persons assessed at a certain sum . to the poor , or out of those who have contributed a certain proportional sum to the entire cost of the school . Every person giving a site to a school shall be one of the Trustees during his wnole life . This Board iB tied down to certain regulations for insuring due respect to the religious persuasions of the parents of children attending the schools . The Bible , and " no other book of religion whatever , " is to be taught to all the pupils :
instruction in the { peculiar doctrines of tbe Church of England , "one hour in eaoh day , " is to be given but scholars whose parents desire that they shall not be present at such instruction shall not be compelled to attend . Tho scholars are to attend the service of the Church onoe a-dayon Sundays , unless the parents desire them not to do so , on the ground of religious objections . And the Educational Committee of the Privy Council are , through their Inspectors appointed by the Queen , that is by her Minister , to watch over the observance of these regulations and enforce them .
"These arrangements put the entire controul of this partial system of National Education in the hands of the Civil Government . A majority of the Local Trustees are appointed by the Justices of the Peace , who are appointed and removable at pleasure by Government . Tho Inspectors are appointed by Government . The Educational Committoe of of the Pfiry Council have the power of checking every contravention of the regulations made to insure liberty of conscience . Sir Robert Peel ' s Government are endeavouring to put into the hands
of the Ministers of Education created by Lord Melbourne ' s Government the means of educating the people . The system of schools contemplated by the present Government-Bill must be worked in the sense of the Ministers of tho day ; and the Ministers of the day must conform to the 6 ense of the House of Commons asd its constituents . This , in the present advanced stage of publio opinion , is no bad guarantee that the administration of the schools wiH not be taiuted with a proselytizing or an intolerant spirit .
" But this approbation of the broad outline of the measurseis quite consistent with a deaire that every thing in itB details to which well-founded obj eotions can be urged should be amended . All the objections of any plausibility or weight that have been urged against the Bill axe in reality objections to details . They all resolve into apprehensions entertained by the Dissenters and liberal Churchmen that the meabure may be perverted into a system of proselytiem .
"Regarding this measure , as it ought to be regarded with a total absence of all partisan feeling , and solely with a view to the effects it is calculated to produce upon society at large , we see no reason why the most zealous Churchman should objeot to Sir J . Graham ' s Bill , modified to meet the amendments suggested in Lord Joen Russell ' s resolutions ; or why , on ihe other hand the staunchest friend of civil and religious liberty should hesitate to support it . Nay , with regard to the objections urged against the constitution of the Looal Boards
contemplated by the original bill , it does appear , that with Ministers so completely in the power of the House of Commons as tbe Minister of this country arc—with sonstituencies in which the Dissenters are probably more powerful than they would be under a more extended franchise—with the growing feeling in favour of secular education , and an unfettered preBS—the control vested in the Committee of the Privy Council for Education would be found sufficient to counteract any danger from that Eource . "
With these sentiments of the Spectator we entirely oonour , and entreat that the people will see to it , that the honest and well-meaning of the dissenters through the whole country be not hood-winked by Neddy and his " pack ; " that they have Lord John Russell's resolutions duly explained to tbem , and that they be entreated to direct their petitions in favour of those resolutions , and not against the Bill . We may in that case hope to see a sufficient strength ia the shape of Parliamentary support
to enable Lord John to carry these resolutions if he be disposed to do so ; while , on the other hand , if they are determined to keep up the yelping of the "pack , " and to go against the Bill entirely , it is then we think clearly the duty of all rational and moderate men to come at once to the aid of Government , and show the tub-thumpers that National Education and universal welfare at © not matters to be tamely saoriflced , or lightly thrown into the froth tub of polemical discussion .
Amidst all the hubbub on tho Education question , the " paok" contrive always to throw their wee negative on the entire Bill . This we have before asserted , and are still satisfied , arises from their objection , not to its educational , but to its protective ciauees , which they lack the courage to attack openly . Wo hear ( not a word from them in reprobation , of the really iniquitous portion of the Bill , the lugging into the hell-holes of infants eight years of age . This ought not for an instant to be tolerated ; the people ought with one voice to reject this as eagerly
as ithey receive the real boon of education . The reopening of the subject , too , should be taken advantage of to remind Government that nearly the entire medical talent of Great Britain , and a great majority of the most estimable among the clergy , gentlemen , and magistrates , have long since laid before Parliament their solemn asseveration and conviction that the permitting of young personsaye , or even of adult persons , but especially of young persons , and more especially young femalesto labour in those moral and physical pest-houses fo
so long a period , as the law now compels from them is destructive of their health , morals , and comforts , and tends to a constant depreciation and ultimate abrogation of all that is great and valuable in Bociety . These are the real matters to whioh pubic attention should be pointed ; these are the things in whioh the Bill needs amendment ; but these suit not Neddy and the " Paok . " They have no hope to got rid of the protective clauses contained in tbe Bill ; no hope to shuffle out of the pains and penalties threatened to the " Pack" for violation of its necessary and humane provisions . This is the real secret of the " cry" which they
have opened , and of their anger at Lord John Rus bell for throwing tbe H herring" of bis resolutions across the "trail . " Nothing could prove more conclusively than does the manner in whioh the pack " treat tbia seemingly fair and honest attempt of Lord John Russell to meet all their objections ; that those objections are , as we first pronounced them , perfectly insincere and knavish , and form the index only to a disposition whioh , were it n « t p . ' aced within whole * some trammels , would revel heartlessly and joyously in toil and misery , making indiffervtnt merchandise of groans and tears , and blood and bones , and bodies and souls , so that " profit" might but result , and the " filthy lucre" be hauled in .
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Wm . Carruth . —Sand their names , and we w ill not supply them .
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Very great excitement has prevailed during the past week at Castle-Northwich , in consequence of suspicious circumstances attending the death of Sarah Hough , Wife of William Hough , captain of a fiat whioh plioB to and from Liverpool . The poor woman died on Thursday , the 6 th instant , and on the 8 th instant , an inquest was held before James Roscoe , Esq ., coroner for the Knutsford division , when a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God , from natural causes . " was returned .
On the following day ( Sunday ) the corpse was buried at Wilton , when a scene of great disorder ensued ; the husband , who attended the funeral , being hooted and groaned at by the spectators as he left the church yard . After the interment , many painful rumours ; were freely circulated , and facts were elicited , which induoed an application to be made to Henry Churtou , Esq . to hold another inquest ; for it appears that Castle North wich is not included in the Knutsford division , and therefore the investigation-taken before Mr . Roscoe was irregular and illegal . Mr . Churton consequently gave instructions that ] the body should be exhumed ; and on Saturday last proceeded to hold his inquest The excitement in the neighbourhood was most intense .
A most respectable jury had been summoned for the occasion ; and among ihose who attended the proceedings , were G . Wilbraham , E ? q ., J . F . France , Esq ., G . Shaokerloy , Esq ., and J . H . Harper , Esq ., magistrates of the county . Catharine Allcook , daughter of the deceased , with whom Bhe resided , deposed that the health of deceased had been very good during the last two years ; deceased ( was confined about seven months ago , Bhe continued to suckle the child till Sunday , the 2 ad instant , she was then in her usual health ; my Btep-father ( Wm . Hough ) had been about several days ; he came home on that Sunday morning , about six o ' clock ; hel was somewhat in liquor ; in about half an hour he left tbe house , and returned at ten
o ' clock very much intoxicated ; he laid himself down on the squab , and shortly after had a quarrel with the deceased ; I and my sister were present when my step-father ' s son came in , who complained of not having had sufficient food ; my mother was preparing dinner , and had put on the fire two saucepans containing a dumpling and potatoes , which my stepfather removed off the fire , and placed at the baok of the door , which he fastened ; he then clenched his fist , and asked my mother " where she would have it I" my mother was then sitting down , suckling the child ; she said " any where ; " he then struck her a heavy blow on the right breast , which scarred her breast and the child ' s face ; I took the child from my mother and carried it out of doors ; but before
I did so , deceased received another blow from him on her side , he having previously pushed her back on the sofa , and held her down with his knees . Before fthis occurred , deceased and her husband lived happily together ; before my step-father struck deceased , she took up the poker and said , " By G , I aia sworn to take care of my children ;' deceased , after she had been beaten , went to James Marsh ' s ; her fate was nearly covered with biood ; she bled very much from the nose ; Mrs . Marsh washed her face ; deceased sent for the Hartford con&table , and afterwards broke her own baok door open ; myself , my sister , and deceased remained at home the whole ] of the afternoon ; deceased complained very much , and was unable to take any
food till half-past four , when she had some tea and a slice of bread and butter ; about nine o ' clock she had a tea-cup full of stew ; deceased did not go to bed , as she was afraid her husband wtuld come in and abuse her ; David Marsh and my step-father cams home at twelve o ' clonk , both very drunk ; the the whole of us remained up all night ; Marsh went away at four on Monday morning , and Kitty Leather a neighbour who ' sat with us , at half-past five ; soon after my step-father awoke , and told my mother that he '' had some stuff about him which would lay either her jor any other person asleep . "—( This we believe refers to a superstitious notion , entertained by { persons in those parts , that the men who accompany j the flats in their voyages have
about them a kind of charm , for producing certain talismanio effects . ) Witness continued her statements by deposing that Hough threatened to send the bailiffs ; ( deceased kept a shop ) deceased left the house , and fwent to an Attorney ' s office , to know whether he could send the bailiffs ; she afterwards went to Lucy Poynion ' s house , where she complianed of being unwell , and went up stairs , where she said , " O dear , you must let me lie on your bed , for I shall die "; she afterwards said , "O Bill Hough , O Bih Hou&h , thou hast done my job" ; deceased was perfectly sensible , I remained with her the whole afternoon , ! I left her and returned the following morning , she was very ill and rambling ;
sne complained I very much of her head , tbere were present Lucy Poynton and several other persons ; Ann Hitchin was also present applying leeches to both temples . | My step-father came to see deceased in the afternoon , but my mother refused to see him . I remained with her till ten o ' clock . I d . id not see her again ; till Wednesday morning , she was then worse : I remained with her About ten minutes . I did not see her alive after this time . [ We nay here remark , that Hough was a widower when be married the deceased , she also being a widow , and both having children , the offspring of their former marriages ; who ;! it appears , all lived together when thiB unhappy transaction ooourred . l
Nancy Allcock , another daughter of the deceased , corroborated her ; sister ' s testimony in all its main particulars . I Sarah Marsh confirmed the previous evidence . Sarah Harrison , landlady of the Wheat Sheaf public-bouse , stated that deceased called there ou Monday morning , the 3 rd instant ; she was very
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sick , and had a little brandy and water ; she went away much excited , leaning on Mrs . Poynton ' s arm . Catharine Leather deposed- ^ -On Sunday , the 2 nd lnst ., I was in the shop of James Marsh , when I heard deceased scream out " murder . " I went into the back yard , and savv deceased leaning against a rain tub ; she said , " Oh , woman , will yoa see me murdered ? " Wm . Hough was standing behind her ; he struck her two blows on the back part- . of her head . I said " Oh , Wm . Hough , don't hit her , " and he said , " I'll knock her bloody neck off ; IJ ha appeared to be tipsy . On Sunday night deceased sent for mo , and said she dare not stay in the house alone , for she was afraid her husband was getting more '' rink . I remained with her the whole night . I left at five o ' clock on Monday moraine . Houeh
came in at twelve o clock on Sunday night ; thera was no quarreling while I stayed . We had nothing but coffee and some stew . Deceased complained very much of her head in the course of the night , and said , " this is what I wanted , I wished him to strike me , for I conld then swear my life against him '; she said she bad no comfort amongst them ; she did not blame her hxuband so much as his eon ; he had been a good husband to herself , and a good father to her children . Deceased and her husband had appeared to live od good terms with each other ; I never knew them to have words before this quarrel . Jane Weadall , who had been called od to draw deceased breasts , deposed to the appearances ; de « ceased said , " O dear me , I doubt William Hough has done my job . "
Luoy Poynton , corroborated the testimony of tho two first witnesses as to the facts mentioned by them ; and further deposed , that en the Monday , Mr . Dean , a Burgeon was Kent for , whose attentions witness described . William Hough ( she added ) came to my house on Wednesday , where he remained the whole day ; he was apparently in great distress ; at two o ' clock he went up stairs with me , and assisted ia rubbing his wife ' s hands ; he kissed her , and she kissed him ; deceased appeared insensible but unable to articulate ; she beoame gradually worse , and
expired about six o ' clock on Thursday morning . Wm . Hough remained with her the whole of the night , and left my house about a quarter of an hour before deceased expired . ¦ Mr . James Dean , surgeon , of Winningtou , deposed that he visited the deceased on the Monday , Tuesday , aud Wednesday , and described the remedies he applied , as well as the result of a post mortem examinatiod of the body on the 7 th inBtant . He was of opinion that death - was caused by inflammation of the brain ; a blow on the chest might produce such inflammation .
Mr . Samuel Dean , surgeon , also saw deceased , accompanied by his brother , on the Wednesday evening , and attended the post mortem examination ; his opinion was that she suffered from effusion on the brain , caused by previous inflammation ; in hia judgment , she would not have died had she not received several contusions and concussions prior to her death . Samuel Birt identified the body as that of Sarah . Hough . The investigation occupied ten hours ; but the above are the most material points in the evidence adduced . After consulting together for about half an hour , the jury returned the following
verdict' * That the deceased came to her death by infiam * matipn of the brain , brought on by concussion , which was occasioned by injuries inflicted on her by her husband , and that she would not have so died , * if such injuries had not been inflicted on her , and that Buch injuries were not inflicted with malice aforethought . " William Hough , who had been detained in custody to await the result ef the inquest , was then committed by the Coroner , H . Churton , Esq ., to Chester Castle , to take his trial at the next Assizes , on the charge of Manslaughter . —Chester Courant .
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DUNDEE . —At the usual weekly meeting of tho Democratic Council , held on Monday last , tbe 17 th instant , after the usual business of the meeting being transacted , a motion was brought forward to the effect , that we specially invite Mr . O'Connor , Mr . Dunoombe , and the Rev . W . Hill to Dundee in the course of their intended visit to Scotland , whioh was carried unanimously . LONDON— -At a meeting of the Chartist Paintera , held on Sunday morning last , in their Reading Room , Watson-street , Peter-street , an animated discussion took place , on the propriety of admitting persons belonging to other trades to join their Asso * oiation , ( several having applied to be enrolled ) , when the following resolutions were carried unanimously : " That members of the various trades , who have not yet formed themselves into Charter Associations , may enrol themselves in the Painters' Chartist Association until there are a sufficient number of one trade to form themselves into a Council , for the purpose of opening a Trade Association , when it is expected they will do bo . " " That none but membeis of the Association be entitled to tho privileges of the Reading Room , unless introduced by a member . "
Chartism in Essex . —A large public open air meeting was held on Easter Monday , at Coggeshall , in the spacious yard of the Swan Inn . So great had been the prejudice excited , that every effort was used by the authorities to prevent the meeting ' being held , and every public room in the town was refused them . A large and commodious hustings was therefore erected in the abeve place , and shortly after two o ' clock , Mr . J . Burroughs , a tradesman of the tows , was called to the chair . Mr . Sewell , in a long ana eloquent address , expatiated upon the injustice of the present system of class legislation , and proved , bj argument , addressed to the reason and feelings of the audience , that the Poor Laws , the Established
Church , the Army , tbe Corn Laws , and all the other evils under which they were labouring , was owing to the working classes being deprived of the Elective Franchise . Mr . Sewell , in the course of his address , was repeatedly and enthusiastically cheered . Mr . Wheeler , ia an address of considerable length , demonstrated that the People ' s Charter was a fall asd efficient remedy for the cure of their political evils , and earnestly entreated them to enlist under the banners of the National Charter Association . The Chairman in an able manner commented upon the addresser of Messrs . Sewell and Wheeler , and the meetiil closed by a vote of thanks to that individual , ant three hearty cheers for the Charter . Mr , ( Jatchet , *
patentee of a large plush manufactory , and employtf of a great number of men , kindly invited MeiSB Wheeler and Sewell to an annual dinner given to the men in his employ , whioh invitation was accepted ) and the toast of " Their Guests , " being proposed bj Mr . Gatcbet , Mr . Wheeler responded , in an address which was much applauded A social party was helo in the evening , at the Large Room , of the Swan Inn which was neatly decorated with the portraits « O'Connor , Duncombe , and others , Mr . Hewitt in tt » chair . Mr . Gatchet and several tradesmen of the town , attended . Upwards of thirty cards oP
membership were disposed of , and many enrolled them * selves as members who did not then take up car 4 i Messrs . Wheeler and Sewell addressed the assemWJj advocating tho spread of knowledge , and moob * mending the Chartist Circular and Northern S / af . Many numbers of the Circular and Tracts were cmposed-of , and an agency for them established . TM attendance at the meeting , from the surrounding town , was large ; and Chartism , through this vis « i and the energy of a few Norwich men , residing i& this town , is now put in a flourishing condition J » the agricultural county of Essex .
NEWCASTLE . —A meeting of delegates from *• counties of Northumberland and Durham , wa s new » the Chartist Hail , Goat Inn . Cloth Market , on SooW j atone o'clock . Mr . Wm . Smith having been « ieeoa to the chair , the Secretary read the minntea of the previous delegate meeting , which were conflrntfO ' The Secretary then read letters from Bishop Auckl « o » Hexhani , Blaydon , SunderLind , Warkworth , Mbrpe » j Darlington , and several of the colliery district * , wnert » they expressed their regret at not being able to seniv *
delegate to the meeting ; but they all , with one eW tion , expressed their willingness to do all in iM * power for the support of a lecturer , and ware fffir gratified that a lecturer had been engaged for the < j * trick Each of the delegates present reported «» state of Chartism in the localities which they represented , whioh was highly gratifying . They all , »* man , declared the willingness of t&eir constitaeaU W contribute towards the support of a permanent teen ?" for tbe district The financial affairs having & «?* jT ranfffid . and snma nthor district ; business disposed r *»
the following route was marked oat for Mr . Beesleyj" next week , namely , Newcastle ( Ckartists ' Hall . atw " o'clock in the evening ) , Sunday , 23 rd . ; SundKi ^ Monday . 24 th ; South Shields , Tuesday , 25 th ; CU jr coata , Hartley Pans , and Cowpen , Wednesday , 2 »^ Bedlington and Morpeth , on Thursday , 27 th ; ^^^ L cliffa Terrace , on Saturday , 29 th . It was then agreea ^ unanimously , " Th » t this meeting do now adjourn-iwrj Sunday , Kth day of May , when it will be renimeo the Tyne Dock Tavern Long Room , South 8 bie' ^ one o ' clock , p . m . of that day . " A vote of thanta » J » been carrisd to the Chairman , the meeting adJoarM * Mb . Kidd , late of Glasgow , now of South B&ie 1 ?* leotnred in the Chartist Hall , Newcastle , on ^ anw evening , on the robjeot of Government proseeotw > DKOT 1 INQHAOT . —Mr . Cooper , of Meerter , . ** l
vered three discourses , oa the Foteat , ass """ jj The day being flae , thera was a considerable pBjftto from the surrounding villages , as well as W ^ i town . Mr . Cjoper visited Arnold the next aa / t ^ noon , and addressed a meeting of the friends tffl » also in the open air . On Monday evening , P 1 ? h . u tingham Chartists assembled , for an Easter tf **" - * . ' /^ Mr . Bean ' s Rooms ; the tea-tables were th ^ 'Sted excess , in fact , the numerous company were W ® * *} ^ to divide , and sit down at three separate times . *^ tea , dancing commenced in one room , while tn 9 _ and sentiment , witu recitations and »( idre 88 e ? rt ji epersed , were fcept up in another apartment , tl )* ter three the following morning , —Mr . Cooper , of Leiee *** 1 presiding .
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THE UOETHEKN STAR SATURDAY , APRIL 22 , 1843 .
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FOR THE NATIONAL DEFENCE FUND . i £ S . d . From the Landlord of Bear-lane Chapel , per F . W . Simeon , Bristol © 5 0 „ a few friends at Wbitwicfc , per J . Skevington , Loa « hborough ... 0 4 6 „ a few friends at Haworth , per John Townend ... 0 5 0 „ Hunslet , per J . Longbottom 0 3 0 foe hr . cockbdrn , of kewcastle . From a Chartist . Alfreton 0 10
A Woman Killed By Her Husband,— Extraordinary Case At Castlenorth Wich.
A WOMAN KILLED BY HER HUSBAND , — EXTRAORDINARY CASE AT CASTLENORTH WICH .
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Aberdeen Chartists . —Mr . Hill will have great pleasure in visiting them at the time he visits Scotland . Will they send the exact address of their Secretary , that he may communicate with him he reafter I „„ ,, , „ J . P ., Kelso . —the Charltsls of England and Scotland may be all united in one organization and by one rule ;\ but toe have never yet seen a plan which wouldeWect it . We shall , if no one else does , in all probability yet propose such a plan to them . We have always held it to be a most important matter for accomplishment . Let us , if possible , have but one union for the entire kingdom . ! Thb Sooth Shields Canting Tub thumpers . — There can be no doubt that Beeslcy and Kidd have a good ) action for false imprisonment and also for assault . They should prosecute by all
means . A Democrat , Hindi . et — We are quite aware oj the grammatica l ] inconsistency referred to by his fi rst question *; but have a reason for persisting in it , sufficiently strong for our own satisfaction , though it islneither necessary nor convenient to assign it here . His second question is not statea with sufficient clearness to enable us perfectly to answer it ; as he does net tell us what proficiency he has made in algebra , or whether he knows
anything at all of it or not . If he be , as we suspect , a working man , with little time for study , and little money to spend on books or teachers , end no knowledge at all of the principles % f the science , we recommend to him Fenning ' s Algebra , price 2 s . 6 d . \ In answer to various requests , Mr . Ruffey Ridley respectfully \ declines lecturinq till the re organization of the Chartist body . Letters for Mrs . Ellis may be addressed as follows : Mrs . Ellis , care of Fletcher Mandley , Commer
cial-street , Burslem , Staffordshire Potteries . Will some of ( he secretaries of the associations formed for the purpose of erecting halls for the working classes have the kindness to forward copies of their articles to Robert AF Whinnie , JVo 2 , Jameses-place , Edinburgh 1 All communications for the Hull Chartists must in future be addressed Mr . Wm . Smith , sub-secretary , 8 , Vicar-lane , Hull . Holmfirth . — We know nothing of Mr . Marsden er his tour . j Teades' Unio > s . —Cost of Strikes . — Will some correspondent who is familiar with the fact send us an ) estimate of the amount expended in the various strikes that have occurred in re * cent years , specifying dales and sums , and all
other particulars of circumstance . We wish especially for information as to the great Fent Strike at Barnsley among the linen weavers in 1821-2 , and ] the previous one , a year or two before that , { for an advance of wages : also the Bradford Strike of somewhere about that date : and the Leeds Strike of a mtrc recent period : and the Mason ' s Strike . We wish for full statistical information respecting all these , and any other exhibitions of the power and determination of the people . T . T ., Boltow .- ^ Receive d ; thanks . H ., Knabesbobough . —Received too late . Errata . —In our , last , in an article on the " Repeal of the Union . " \ the word London was printed instead of Dublin ; and in Die same paragraph appeared the word barons instead of barristers .
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! T 0 TEE COAL MINEBS OF ENGLA ^ A SCOTLAND , AND WALES . SBLXOfr Slates . —No hranantelng can any longer doubt that -we are groaning under one of the most smvun systems that ever existed ^ nder tha sna ; let r * toretoe , firmly resoVre to nnite ourselves mto oneignrt soeie ^ fo ? the pu rpose of ^ vmg ^ ves tom tfre < Iire Sppresion of the Coal Pit Kin ^ s . J& *?}*™ teases -us that we can only accomplish this by one ^^^^ IS ^ JZP * re ^ ^
^ S . ^ SldJm . A'U- We determin ed * rA to ba goaded on in tbe manner we have been ^ to Btvsa-Se onVsodety in Its infancy by a premature ^ ke Inch a measure st this time -would be only stfiSying the sours Sesire of oar oppressor . TOtko ** ^ ceempbahing anything T > eneficial to us , bat , on VJie -contrary , swamp the -wholesome embryo of a union that , by judkaons management , -will ere long mate = £ he tyrants tremble at their own imbecility . ThF . y are not content -with robbing toe poor pit slaves of tbe Tyae and Wear of jSSO ^ OOO ; buj isey are fining them for the most trivial alleged offences , so that sometimes a collier ¦ vhea he few performed a hard day ' s trorV finds bmself in debt * t night .
In some of the bonds there axe seventeen clauses sab-Jectiiig the adaer to a fe * e of 2 s- 6 d _ It is impossible for any man to steer dear of them alL When hia corve cornea to buikif it does not please , they can fine the iewer 2 s . 6 d- ot 7 s . as Shey may think proper . They csu compel ftainen to worii bnt they , in return , are not compelled to pay any -wages . No , no , tliey « an ieep it all from Ikem if they Uaiiik proper . Aie those robberies to be contained "with impunity ? We advise yon to become determined that they shall not ; bnt be ¦ Baa , be patient , or elseyou "wd ri ^ et the-chains to your shackles . It is better to suffer patiently for a season , and then have liberty , thaa be gulled as we have been i > efore . They . are all united to a man to oppress the poor . "Way should not -we take a leaf out of their boot ? If onion be beneficial to them , union eanm » t be
inimical to us , and passing events daily teach that we never shall have justice done us , until -we are firmly united in oae solid bond thronghoni tbe whole Empire . United -we stend , divided -we fa 5 L On account of tbe rapid and extensive increase of fiia Miners' Phflanthropieal Society in the principal TjiiniTig districts thronghont England and Scotland , it is resolved to hold a general delegate meeting of all grades of Tnmprn , whether iron , lead , or coaJ , at Mr . Hamlet Booth ' s , Rosa and Crown , Shielda Tfew Hoad , Heweastle-upon-Tyne , on Monday , May 1 st , 1843 ; and , as business of vast importance will come before that meeting , the brethren already joined earnestly request that every colliery and mine in the United Kingdom , ¦ who are -weary and heavy laden , will send a delegate to that meeting .
FeUeiF-men , be determined l—do not be apathetic any longer ; and , spaniel-like , lick the hand that smites you . If yon ¦ will join us , no power on earth can pre-Tent us from getting our lights . We have only to agree amongst ourselves upon * plan to pursue . II "we d * not fcelj ourselves , -we csnnot expect other people toldpio . Miners from WaleB , lancashire , and Staffordshire can come to Kawcastle by the packets from XiTerpool at very little expenea Colliers , arouse!—be op and be doing j the harvest is really ready . Men i as yon value your lrres , yon are " bound to coHie ; for your tyrannical drivers » re determined to have wealth , and that yon muBt ~ work for it Tea , if it be at the expence ot your lives , or of the " rirtae of your Trivea and daughters . If there be any colliery that cannot sends delegate , they can call a sieetang , -write a letter to me , at James Sinclair's , newsagent , 25 , High Bridge , Newcastle-npon-Tyne -, and it ¦ will be thankfully received .
We wiH appoint missionaries to attend any part of &e country , if those places -which have not yet joined the society -wish us to send them . We sincerely bope and trust that 1 Mb call will not be in -rain to the districts in the South . Let there not be one district without a delegate at that mffeting ; and yon will greatly cbfife , Tour ' s truly , In the cause of freedom , Datid Sir allow , Creneral Secretary . Sbincliff , near Durham , April 17 th , 1813 . ru-u-. rjj--j -i _ , ^^^^ nrj-u-j-j-j j jj .
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TO THE CHARTIST PUBLIC . How to jst the Charter ! How to get the land . ' Bow to get machinery ! -TJpon file necessity of establishing a NationalBenefit fiodaiy , as part aad parcel of our orfanizition , for the purp ^ ee of preventing -our brethren suffering buDzer and Mtkedness fo ? the Charters ate , aod ^ or feelings from [ being -wounded -wiih acesranis , sueh as that from Satesheaa , of Cockburn , the Chartist , begging alms dnpon the bridge .
TO 5 gE XDITOB OP THE KOKXHEM STAB . . SIB , —IMa - with great pleasure I perceive yourself ^ eetisg attention to the question of the land , and a pew g rganrnfa ' cin , and with delight I see Mr . O'Connor , isabogt to subsoita plan for locating the people-upon ths land , &S jpart of our future operations , and cfK&n > S 3 tipii > Imeece &y ' bD 2 B £ iBb the 07 of " Bodalitm ,- which Bone ignorant menders of our « to body , as -watt as designing inaves , . aed pretended Chaittsta , may feel inclined , Jar . their aw * peculiar pnrposee , to set up . ¦ win not deter the main ibdy of omr fellows from availing themselves of aplaa fcatevery step we take in ear political struggle wndsrs jja more necessary . But . whilst TO are about amending oar orgainxttion , and extending onr ~ operations , Jfit us , as far as ¦ within xs lies , makettiatplan perfect ,- tfcereis a gap to fill up between us and our location uponi&e land , that gap is tha tiniB of trials and troubles , in our struggle to
obtain a living , and save a trifle ptr m ££ to puce in Jhe food that is to help . ua on to the land ; thi 3 time must be provided for , and as far as pos&ufie ; its uifils aJteyiaied . pot by the chanse penny of s ft-eUng twrt ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 22, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct930/page/4/
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