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      THE LAND ! THE LAND !! Note Publishing , complete in One Vol ^ neatly Bound in Cloth , Price 2 s . 6 d . A PRACTICAL WORK on the MANAGEMENT OF SMALL FARMS . By Feabgtjs O'CojraoK , Esq ., Barrister and Farmer . The desire of the author has been to famish a valuable compendium at 6 uch price as would enable every vforfcingm&n . to become possessed of it . No . 4 may fee said to contain all the practical instructions necessary for carrying out the plan , together with PLates , describing Farm House , Offices , Tank , Farm Yard , &c ; while the whole contains all the information requisite for carrying out all the operations . NJ 3 . —Tie above "Work may still be procured in Numbers , price fid . each . H I have , within the last few months visited every part of France , and I declare that I have seen more misery in one street in Dnblin , than in all France ; the people are well clad , well fed , and merry ; they are all employed on Small Fabxs of their own , or , on equitable takingB !" Vide Lord Cloncurry ' s Letter in Morning Chronicle , Oct . 25 th , 1843 . London : —Cleave , Shoe-lane , Fleet-Btreet ; Puriess , Compton-street ; Heywood , Manchester ; | Hobson , Northern Star Office . Leeds j Guest , Bir-! mingham ; Paton and Love , Glasgow ; and all Agents I of this paper .

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      a sOTON-UggBR » X » 'graL 2 ro ^ IRACY ^ OF " tIjT ^ COTTOIT LORDS ^ GAINST THE OPPRESSED FACTORY OPERiTTTES . This town and neighbourhood {» nftich noted for the YyraDDy and oppression practised % > y the mill-owners orex the pool factory slaves ) is threatened again -with a eneral strike for wages . It is a weB-known tact , that the markets connected -witti "fcbe cotton msoafectnre 'have for Borne time back j > een much more " healthy * than they -were wont to be . So * heing thB case , the « orkmen haw come to the conchifflon ( and ^ Mtly so ) that they , having had to suffer from the " t * dness of trade" , ought now to . reap a little ol the benefit * - * ccuing from its revival . They have , therefore , requested their employers to give tfcem that whiefc thsy pr ^ nised at the last rednction , viz . an advance of ^ d . P « cat , —that heing th « waounl taken fro » theTrecvers on that occasion .

      No sooner was this application made by ibe hands fa tte em ploy of Xessra . Bayners , —one of the firma paying the "worst -prices in the town , —than one el the foulest plots -ever known was nnblnahingly published , iy the following placard : — "PD&LfcJfoiiCB . —Ab it cannot escape observation Hut the workpeople of Oils neighbourhood are in a stata of great excitement on the subject of wages?—We the undersigned master * of Aahton-under-Xyne , fisrat , DaMnftold , and Mossley , anxious to prevent ail the inconTenienceand-iuflftrins which would remit from anotba tnm-ont , hereby declare tb&t neither 1320 state of tiaCe , nor a fail comparison of 'the sate of wages paid herVtfilh those of other districts , anthorbes an ad-Tartce at the present moment ; and ~ we feel it out duty therefore to give . this public notice , that whilst we hare so wish to lower wages , or to refuse a careful consideration of any proTed grievance , wb abb fbepased STEADILY . TO RESIST A 2 TX ADVASCE , OB . AJTT .

      TUBTHER B 5 CB . 0 ACH 1 LEST OS AST ISDITtDCAi IIE . M . J . B . Reyner and Brothers , Robert Lees and Sons , Jas . and John Kenworthy , Abel Buckley and Co . Samuel JHegjnbotom and Peter Platt , _ Sons , John Redfem and Sons , Samuel Robinson , Nathaniel Buckley and James Brooke and Co . Sons , Hyde , Sons , and Sowerby , Binns , Bean , and Sons , Thomas Mellor and Sons , James Knott and Son , -John Whittaker and Sons , Peter Lsigh . " " November 3 rd , 1843 . "

      Thft factory opex&tivea were , however , determined that they wonld not ba frightened out of their rights , and knowing that the hands of Mr . Wood , of Crlossop , Iiste obtained an advance of one penny per cot upon 27-inch tletb , nineteen picks and twenty-nine yards long , bung Is . per cut now paid for this kind of fabric , they agreed that a public meeting of vreavsrs and card-room hands should be called , those being two of Jhe worst paid branches of factory labour , to take into consideration the statements put forth by the masters . A bin was immediately drawn up , and posted through the town , which ran as follows : —

      " Public If otick . —As ifc cannot escape observation that the manufacturers of Aahton-Qn € er > Lyne and its neighbourhood are labouring under great excitement , in consequence of the operative power-loom weavers and ord-loom hands seeking an advance of wages , knowing at the same Una that they have sufficient profits to gire an advance , we , the operatives , are as anxious to prevent all the inconvenience and suffering of another tarn-out as our employers , as we are the greatest anfierers in the end . Sot still ire axe determined to

      hiTe an advance , Isiitrrins that it wSl bfeaeEt boih masters and operatives . The manufacturers say that the state of trade will sot allow an advance of wages ; but we know it to be -a fact , and are able to prove that they are receiving from la . to la . 3 d . per cut more than they were eighteen months a £ 0 ; and some of them are ^"" TftrtnTTiig more t ?» M » 1 , 000 cuts per day , which Trill amount to from £ 15 , 000 to £ 20 , 000 per year , and they have the assnrance to issue a placard stating that the state of trade will not allow them to give us lack the hut reduction .

      " Our masiers state that the rate of wages in other districts wSl not justify them in giving an advance . We again refer them to ( Hossop and several other districts , who have an advance , and are now paying more than they are in this district . Our employers state that they are willing to redress our grievances . ' The following are a few ol thexnt" lat—We want oar wages weekly . " 2 nd—Some of our employers make us pay for shuttles , windows , and machinery which may happen to £ et kroten or -worn ant , and charge xu for them , which we hate so right to pay , as it is jvol © n * machinery , neither is it our fault " 3 rd—Our employers turn Cots on our hands for prttended faults , and make us pay more for them than the market price . " , 4 &—At some of the mills they quarter four times a-day , two-pence per time , in particular J . B . Rsyner and Brothers .

      " O ! Reynen , O ! Reyners , how often have you been the first to reduce wages , and now you are taking a most conspicuous part to prevent an advance . " There are other grievances which we shall not now frvnTnrrM ? , but shall reserve them for a future period . "Weavers and card-room hands , attend the meeting which win be held in the Charlestown meeting room , on Wednesday evening , Nov . 8 th , at eight o ' clock , and shew by your thousands that you are determined to be so longer trampled upon with impunity . By Order of The Committee . " November 6 th , 1812 . The pnblie meeting called by the placard sent out by the Operatives was very numerously attended , and was addressed by Mr . R . Pilling and others as to the course they ought to pursue .

      Notwithstanding the intimidating placard put forth liytfae Mill-owners , the weavers of Messrs . Bay ners to the number of -117 , have given a fortnight ' s notice , tbat unless they receive an advance ef 1 jd per cut they will leave work ; -and to prevent being charged with illegally leaving the masters' employ , each person gave notice singly in the warehouse . Since the above notice was given , the masters whose TtflTnea appear to the public placard above given , in order te prevent any support being rendered to the hands of 2 £ essr& . BeyBer * , whose notice expires this woek ; and to carry out their infamsns designs , have put up in their T&nous warehouses the following prin . ed notice : — " This is to give notice that we intend to close our Weaving Departments on the 25 th of November . " Signed [ Here follows the name of the firm ]"

      Comment cm the above 1 b useless . Suffice it to say , Vb »\ Eucb * course will thiow oat a ! employment boat 4 , 000 weavers ; and in a abort time the other hands will have to leave work ; thus we may expect at least 8 , 000 or 10 , 000 persons walking the streets in the course of a few days .

      PHONOGRAPHY . ( Ahn>i from Viz Phonographic Journal J « J £ rs i > : ras . Sis , —Phonography may truly be called * talking on paper . * I am in daily , nay hourly , conversation -vrithTny phonegraphic friends , both at . home and abroad . The post brings daily communications ; and local phonographers , are hourly leaving their conversational letters , to which I reply with a rapidity litUe excelled by speech ; but when unfortunate enough to receive a long-hand letter , to which I have to return a long-hand reply , then I have to forego the pleasure f using this delightful mode of speech , and have to iffiict myself half an honr to write -what I might in Phonography Bay in fivB mimiteii I feel , on &mh

      occasions , as if I ¦ were a stammerer , and had an impediment in my written speech , which is exceedingly annoying . The more I think of and practise this beauiiful science , the more powerful are its appeals for in . creased activity in spreading a knowledge xtl its principles , and scattering , far and wide , the seed which is yet to produce a harvest of blessings to this and every other nation—a harvest of which , at present , we have uot the EO « t remote conception . I believe the advantages to be derived from Phonography are as innuzaerable as the stars of night , or stars of mom—dewdrops which the sun impearls en every leaf and every iiower . It is time that people were made more fully alivfc to the erroneousness of our present orthography , and the great necessity that exists for a briefer and

      siore correct method of communication by means of the pen and press . The fountains of trnth and knowledge are , to a great extent , closed to the mass of the people , on account of the confusion and difficulty which now block up the entrance to them , in the shape of a ^ written language composed of about 50 , 000 words , of Which -49 , 950 ate incorrectly spilt , and onlj 50 are , T ^ v ^ T K ^ onifl " * ° > np £ S OF THE SPOKES tnfl ^ t " ™ t ^ hot * naBter ' however , is vow abroad ; BiH ^™^ - "" - MH

      pS ^ wSSrK , Viu ^ h ? ?* Smigta the front of a waSo ? £ & £ E £ 3 *« * pecttKe fcnuer , residing in the aeSKSSo ? painted in-&e new Phonographic cbAmteT ^ S ?* STmore « Jarned"mate t otoSfcwaSSaSSj ? Selon confl&DflT said it was « Oree-ek ; -T ISS jSKsker asserwtod it was " Hayfcnr ,- n ^ a ^ wxs jsxtinif ieaaet ( either ) Haybrew « firw-ei a xo&p happen Xirmint" la abort all of them marrelied ^ reaSy en . being . toM the amonrrt « t information eontained in so HBall a compus , and wandered tehsX would be dona Best— 'JBtrift Journal .

      2 &BXIEY 3 . Tidth . —last Sunday evening a meeting was holden to coinioence the carrying put of the New Plan of Orj ^ nizaiioi ^ Kfty-twp meiEbers were enrolled , and axrangemeato ? srs beiBg made for carrying on the agitation vigeron 3 ly ) J by the appointment of a fisJented lecturer for SoCth Wales . 5 iocktok-05- ! Tees—Mr . C . D . 5 toarfc- lectured iere in the Mechanics' leading room , oa Monday evening las j .

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      PROGRESS OF THE IRISH REBELLION . Sikce we last wrote , a True Bill has been found against the Irish Repealers ; and all things for the present appear to progress in that systematic manner in which Statute law can be warped to the performance of those duties to which its wieldera desire to direct it . Thrust and counter thrust " , hit and counter hit , has been exchanged ; the respective expounders and mystiners of the law appearing equally resolute . But as the intemperate and overanxious swordsman is no match for a cool and deliberate antagonist , neither does the babbling Mr *

      T . B . Smith appear to have any chance with the cool , the judicious , and discriminating Jonathan Hesn . If the country was not likely to pay dearly for the faroe now enacting in the Court of Queen ' s Bench in Ireland , we could join in that merriment , of which the Learned Attox « £ Y-Gensbal appears to be the very life and soul . But inasmuch as the liberties of some men , and the national resources are at stake , we cannot avoid stamping the conduct of the Irish Attobsey-Gkne-RAi , with that deep and heavy brand of reprobation » hich it so well merits . "We quite agree with the

      Times as to the mock sentimentality which distinguished the English crocodiles when shedding tears over their Cbartist prey . " We can recollect the embarrassment of plain J . Campbell , when in vain he attempted to read the last letterof theimmortal Shell . And hypocritical though such manifestations were yet they evinced a solemnity , whether real or assumed , which may be considered a necessary portion of the paraphernalia of a court of justice . Mr . T . B . Smith , however , is of a different opinion , and has therefore decided upon playing a different part . Should a verdict of " guilty" be the result however *

      the country will then look hack upon the proceedings as a whole : and seeing the indecent manner in which they were commenced , it will be difficult to reconcile them to the result . The captious , the cantankerous , the unprofessional , and ungentlemanlike manner in which this legal Don Quixote has treated the Bench , the Bar , the ir&versers , and the public , has at once stamped him as wholly unfit to wield the great and important powers veBted in him , not only in the present eventful crisis , bnt upon any , even the most unimportant , occasion . So glaring has been the rancour of this law

      officer , that even the Bench , three of whom are known to have a strong political bias in favour of " legitimacy , " has been put to the blush upon more occasions than one , and compelled to rule against the Attobset-Geskbal , withoat reqniring to hear argument upon the other side . Meantime , while the Btorm lulls in the teapot , the hurricane continues to rage ontside . Towns are being still garrisoned , and provisioned for a long siege . Our warships are still moored in our ports . The Chelsea pensioners are still being drilled . The loyal Pro » tessants are being secieilt armed . Upon the

      side of aggression all goes merrily on ; while we hear scarce a breath about that Commission upon whose report the foundation of future tranquillity is to be based . There have been so many nostrums proposed for the tranquilization of Ireland , that even allowing all to be good , it would puzzle the veriest sage to select from the lot . The Times , indeed , claims credit for being the terrier that roused the bull-dog to action % and also for having propounded those means of redress likely to be EatiEf&ctory to all parties ; and it is our purpose very briefly to analyse the arguments , the assumptions , and the proposals of our contemporary .

      In the outset of the agitation the Txmes demanded a 3 the remedy , a mere difference of action from that -which marked Whig policy . That journal recommended the appointment of friends to the Tory Administration , as a means of preserving Tory ascendancy ; to the end that the corrective power might be sufficiently strong to suppress the voice of complaint . Such was the first recommendation of the Times ; while in the estimation of its conductor there was not a single practical grievance existing throughout the land . " Travel north , Bouth , east , or west , " quoth the Times , " and we defy yon to meet a peasant , traveller , farmer , or tourist , wio will be

      able to assign a single practical grievance as a cause of the present dissatisfaction . " As soon , however , as the strong Government did assume a strong posi-, tion , then the Times , always dissatisfied with every ; thing but itself , and anxious to hold the balance of j power in Ireland as well as in Wales , began to ' . spe&k t > I a redress of grievances , but more from a desire to hamper the Government than to see the j object effected . In this field of coeroive conciliation the Times has ; hai a full summer's Tange . And upon Thursday last we were favoured with a digest of the long

      dream , with a compendium of the long history of this long-seeing jonrnal . And what did it amount to 1 Why , afcer having laid down a number of plans for the pacification of Ireland , —the most accepted of which was a rival State Church ; and just as the reader must have been in extacies at the revelations by which permanent peace was to be so cheaply purchased , behold the magician wields his -wand , strikes the centre , and down tumbles the fairy palace , leaving nothing to be seen amid the ruins , save theee sad words : " This is our remedy , but U is impossible to apply it . "

      However the Times may now find it convenient to defend its policy with reference to the Repeal agitation , to guess after action , and prophecy after event , yet we confidently venture to predicate , that never in the annals of newspaper writing has any journal ever yet presented such a jumble of heterogenous absurdity , as the Times has npon Irish affairs . The Times appears perfectly satisfied -with the master hand by which the military blow was struck in Ireland ; hut like ourselves is dissatisfied with the manner in which the legal arm has been wielded . The difference between ns , however , is this : the

      objection of the Times is not so much to the conduct , as to the appointment of Mr . T . B . Smith as a part of Sib Robebi Peel ' s Government ; while the « bj « cv in piaiang the Iron Duke evinces nothing more than a desire to play off the spleen of the disappointed Lord Ashbukton : and thus , in the persons of the Duke and the Attorney-General , are the battles with Peel and Ashbtjbtok fought . For our part however , -we think there was equal ill-will , precipitancy , and rancour evinced in the mode of commencing the p roclamation warfare , that has been since so characteristicall y followed up in the Conrt of Queen ' s Bench .

      Very little donbt can now exist that public opinion . ha 3 gmn a shock to Government intention . And to i that W 3 mu = r ascribe lie hasty abandonment of

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      further proceedings affrfost the Repealere . We , as well as the Times v entured upon a few p redictions relative to the Repeal agitation ; and one of which was , that Ihe conduct which the Irish Attorney . General was certain to pursue , would be followed by the destruction of the Irish Government . To that prediction wo still adhere , well knowing that the administration of Lord De Grbt is unpalatable to a majority of the English Cabinet ; while the appointment of Mr . T . B . Smith , who was obliged to fly to Bipon , a pocket borough of Lord De Grey ' s

      relative ' s , for a seat , has caused general dissatisfaction throughout Ireland . That Lord Eliot iu prepariug to take his stand with Sir Robbet Peel and the conciliative portion of the Cabinet , is manifest from his present inactivity . And perhaps no fairer opportunity could have been presented to Sir Robsst P £ el , as a justification for flinging the rampant Irish Church party overboard ; and to that end we anticipate the recommendation of some euoh policy in the report to be laid before Parliament by the Irish Commissioners .

      Meantime the condition of South Wales , the manifest tendency to a decline in the English market , together with the non-intrusion question in Scotland , added to the increasing acts of incendiarism , all give earnest of an unquiet winter . Authority should draw no hasty conclusion from the present delusive calm . If Irish towns are garrisoned with English troops , it should be borne in mind that the most important towns in England are garrisoned with Irish hearts ; and in the event of the conviction of the Irish Repealers , we understand that it is the intention of the Irish residents in Lancashire and

      Yorkshire , to convene a meeting of their own countrymen in some central spot , to decide upon a petition to Parliament , or a memorial to the Queen , for their liberation . Such a step will not only be legal and constitutional , bat praiseworthy ; and will be rendered more effective by the peaceable and harmonious manner in which the assembled thousands and hundreds of thousands will be sure to transact their business . Such an example set by those two great counties , if the metropolis does not take the

      lead , would be sure to be followed by every district in England : thus verifying our oft repeated prediction , that England after all is the stage whereon Ireland ' s battle must be fought . Let us not be misunderstood . We do not mean a physical encounter between an unarmed people and an armed soldiery ; but we do mean that moral engagement in which the voice of knowledge must silence the cannon ' s roar , and the point of argument blunt the sharpest sword . .

      Public opinion is now upon the stretch . The mind contemplates with horror the military preparations being now made for the subjugation of Irish liberty . We warn the aggressors against rousing the English lion , or driving the Irish who have sought shelter in this land to that desperation which would assuredly follow the announcement that the English sword had been drawn against Irish liberty . The last Repeal campaign has put them in possession of more of their country ' s history than they were previously acquainted with ; and while it has taught them the wrongs they endure , at the same time it has informed them of the means they possess to redress them . The Irish are not like the people of any other country . They can act as one

      man , when Ireland demands their co-operation ; while a traitor or approver is a thing seldom discovered in their ranks . They can live like hermits : and die like heroes ! and we venture to predict that upon the very first announcement of a verdiot of guilty , that that Irishman who is known to smoke a pipe , to taste of exciseable spirits , or of any artiole from which duty was wrung to carry on the war of aggression , will be denounced ja a traitor to his country . Every Irishman will soon torn his hovel into a temperance hotel , where neither coffee , tea or sugar will , be used , or anything that will furnish the sinews of war ; and we believe tbat there is not an Irish publican who would not vie in being the leader to surrender his trade , though ever so lucrative , upon the altar of his country .

      What chance , then , can a military force have against such a people ! And if the Irish , in their own land , only abstain from any act of violence , be the provocation ever so great , they may rest assured that their countrymen in England possess sufficient power , backed as they would be by the English working classes , to accomplish the freedom of their country . We have given copious reports of the manner in which justice was sought to be withheld from the Irish traversers , by the Irish ArroRNEir-Genkbal . Those reports will be read by eyery man , with disgust , while all will be prepared to receive a verdict of " guilty , " should such be the the result , as an offering to one man's vengeance , rather than as the vindication of the offended law .

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      way amongst that body , whose cole consideration ever has been the best and most efficacious mode of protecting their own peculiar description of property . The balance of opinion has alternated between Whig and Tory principles ; each preferred in turn , according to the inducements for speculation and protection for gambling , tlWit they could offer ; but we now fitid that to the employment of a consuming prodaoing power , and to that alone , the gentlemen of the Stock Exchange look for profit and security .

      We cannot conclude thiB brief notice of so important a subject , without tendering our best thanks to Mr . Allso p , for having thns sprung from his " order , " and thrown the weight of his talent and experience into the Labour scale . We are indebted to a correspondent for Mr . Allsop ' s circular ; and should this meet his eye , we rrould esteem it as a favour if , in future , he would transmit us an early copy , in order that we may follow him in his train of reasoning ; and , if not requesting too much , we

      would hail with pleasure a more extensive commentary from his pen , upon all those matters connected with the moaetary affairs transacted on " 'Change " . He has now got fairly at the root of the great evil ; and no service can be greater than that which will enable the working classes to judge clearly and dispassionately upon the effect that the doings of this apparently dissociated section have upon all those concerns in life which mainly affect the comforts of the working classes .

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      The Scotch Blasphemy Tbuls . —We had intended to ' comment at some length on these atrocious mockeries dignified with the names of " law" and "justice , ' * but are compelled most relutantly by press of matter to postpone our remarks till next week . John Duncan , of Dundee—A Correspondent writes to us that " Mr . Duncan is , and has been for Gome months past in a very bad state of health . " He says " He ( Mr . D . ) was singled out last year at the time of the Bttike ua one of the objects of prosecution ; was thrown into gaol , where he lay for sometime , and kept in suspense regarding his trial ; and being of a nervous and excitable cast of mind , it preyed upon him to such

      an extent that be is now confined to his bed with but poor , prospects of recovery . He has been removed to Edinburgh . " Our Correspondent adds— " That a very small sum from each of the places where Mr . Duncan bas lectured would do much to relieve him and his family at this trying period ; and we are sure that if the Editor of the Star be kind enough to give this a place , it will be responded to . '' Liberation of George White . —Mr . Stallwood appeals to the Loadsn Chartists to remember that Mr . White will be liberated at Christmas ( the 7 th of January , we believe , is the day ) , and that that event ought not to pass by unheeded . He suggests that Committees should be formed immediately in all the Metropolitan localities to form , arrangements to escort

      Mr . White from his prison by a procession , or otherwise arrange to give him a reception in some way worthy of his services . Mr . Stallwood goes on to suggest other matters to the London Chartists which may be best done by Mr . S . himself , to " enable the victim of tyranny to return to his home better than be left it" Amen , say we . Priestcraft versos Chartism . —Oar Newcastle correspondent sends ua the following : —John and Frances Scott , of Oaseborn Bank-top , had an infant child of theiis christened in All Saints' Church , Newcastle , by the R « v . J . B , Green , on Sunday , the 5 tb inst The Ra v . Gentleman , after performing the

      ceremony upon several other infants , took the child referred to in his arms , and was preparing to go through the usual form , when the godmother told hi * Beverence (?) that the name was to be Eleanor Frost , O'Connor ! Upon which he refused to keep the child in his anils , but returned her to the godmother and performed the rites of baptism in the woman ' s arms ! The Rsv . individual baptised several children before and after E F- O'C , all of whom he held in his arme during the ceremony ; but her he wonld not , because she was to be called Eleanor Frost O ^ Connor . " Bristol ( jhariists — mi communications must be ab sent to Mr . F . C . Evans , No . i , MarlbowBgh-hill , Bristol .

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      London Correskonbknt for th& "Northern Star . " —Mr . Edmund Stallwood , having been appointed Correspondent for the Metropolis , request ^ of the sub-Seoretariea and others to forward hiui timely notice of all forthcoming political , trades , and other meetings ; that , where possible , he may attend them . Mr . S . will be obliged for all information touching the Cbartist cause , and matters of " news" in general . All communications to be addressed to Mr .-gtaHwood , at No . 6 , Little Vale Place , Hammersmith ; or at Mr . Waeeler ' si 243 £ , Temple Bar . Ma . John WEsr .-j-AU communications tor Mr . West , must ba addressed , No . 20 , Lambert-street , Sheffield . " Stars" to Ireland . —Mr . Green , Vine Yard ,

      Sheffield , acknowledges the receipt of a number of Stars . They have been forwarded to Ireland . A . B . C—rf the wife makes oath that she has been ill-treated , that she cannot live with her husband , &C the law toill compel him to keep her . What might be the rate of allowance , we cannot say s that would rest with the magistrates . Thomas Webb , Stockport . —We do not see that the party has any right to interfere . Thoa . Webb is surely at liberty to visit hia friends when he pleases ; and , at their request , to collect from them their subscriptions for th « society of which they are members . We hope T . Webb will let us know whether the sergeant of police tries to enforce his threat or

      not . ; Thos . Clark , late of " stockport , bat now member of the Executive Committee , London , writes as fol-Iowb ;— I Sir , —In the Star of Saturday last , under the head of " Bath , " it is stated tbat " Mr . Clark , of Stockport " lectured on the previous Monday . It also appears the " Mr . Clark" mentioned attended without an invitation , or giving proper notice . Now , Sir , as I am the only person known by the Chartists as " Mr . Clark , of Stocfeport , " and not feeling ambitious of appearing in the position of the person above

      Alluded to . you jwill oblige me by informing your readers that I have been resident in London for the last month . \ The Poets . —The' "nes headed " The death of the Factory Child , " we must respectfully decline . The Song , " by the ! " Charlestown Poet , " is not sufficiently poetic . <* An Old Radical's" " acrostis , &c wilt not do . \ ^ George White . 4—The Birmingham Committee acknowledge the Bum of ten shillings from Bromssrove , for Mr . White . I The Birmingham Shoemakers have sent Mr .

      White 7 s . i . * The Glasgow Pottery . —Since writing the notice which , under this head , appears in our seventh page , we have received a communication from our Glasgow Correspondent , vouching for the truth of the statements of "An Enemy to Whig and Tory Tyranny . " Our Correspondent says : — " I rind that an attempt is made to contradict the statements of 'An Enemy to Tyranny' in the case of ' The Glasgow Pottery' . I have bad occasion to meet With the friend | who signs himself as above , . since Saturday last ; and , after full inquiry , and without wishing to do injustice to any one , I have no hesitation in saying , that the meeting got up in the Pottery was got up at the bidding of the masters , and that

      many of the men who gave acquiescence to the proceedings , did so for the sake of their employment' * The Truck System . —We had intended to have laid before our readers some most strange revealments , in relation to this kobbikg practice . We find that it has become sptematised on the North Midland Railway ; the tommy-shop , in that case , being a van to travel on the line from Leeds to Masbro , ' with the flour and other provisions for the men employed as plate-layers and road-repairers . The travelling tructt-shop ! Trucking by steam I We get on . Next week , perhaps , we shall be able to give all particulars . J . W . Parker next week . Miners' Finances—We request that our

      correspondents , who favour us with reports of Miners meetings , will endeavour to write correctly , at least let us have the names of persons , places , and items of finance plainly and properly written . We cannot undertake to publish reports one week , and the next , have to print a mass of corrections . Some of the communications we receive would puzzlo a " Philadelphia Lawyer" to make out ; no wonder the compositors make mistakes . We have this week received the following corrections : — Thornhill , Si . 9 d . ; should have been Farnhil ) , 8 s . 9 d . Horse Shoe , Barsley , 8 J < i . ; should have been 7 s . 8 £ d . Bradford Colliery , should have been Bradford Colliery 15 s . 2 d . Littleborough 153 . 21 ; should have been Littleborough , £ 1 2 s . 9 A

      Fleece , Boltoa , 33 . lid . ; should have been £ 3 Us . Horse Shoe , Ringley , £ 2 Si . ; should have been Horse Shoe , Ringley , £ 1 33 . Cheshire—The Secretaries of the Chartist Association in the following places are requested to send their address to Thomas Webb , 37 , Chester-gate , Stockport , in order that there may be arrangements made for Mr . M'Grath ' s , tour—Wimslow , Northwioh , Middlewicb , Nantwich , Congleton , Maccletfield , Glossop , New Mills , Mottram , Hyde , ' Chester , Sandbaoh , Warrington . Iu any of the above places where there is no association in existence , correspondence from any Chartist friend Will be attended to . A Subscriber . —There was no evidence offered on the trial to shew that Mr . Frost was in Newport on the day in question . The report of the trial is the only information we have upon , the subject . Ths London Typk Pounders . —We have received

      from this body an address , a considerable portion of which is occupied with thanks to the conductors of this paper for their advocacy of labour's rights and the Type Founder ' s cause in particular . We beg to assure our friends that we justly appreciate their kindness , and shall in the future , as in the past , be ever ready to do all that in our power lies to aid the cause of righteous labour against that of 'grinding " monopolizing" capital . . The address contains several other matters which we would have published , but for one reason . Our Sheffield correspondent has informed us that . the strike in that town has happily terminated by the victory of the men . Hoping that ere this the like result bas takenjplace in London , we have witheld the address . Should our anticipations prove to be incorrect , wo may publish such portions of it as may be necessary , at a future time . Simpson , Bland , and Ha worth , Bury . —Mr . O'Connor waain Ireland in the year 1839 .

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      Roberton Farrell . —We have not one copy left . James Denholme , Dunbab . —Write to the Postmaster-General ; the papers are always sent from Leeds regularly . ) VICTIM FUND . Thompson . Salop ' ... ... ... ... 0 10

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      STATE PROSECUTIONS . —Dublin , Nov . 14 . Judge Burton sat at half-past ten o ' clock , to hear motions of course . ] After the disposal of some cases , inoluding that of the Queen « . Samuel Gray , which was postponed till next day , the State Prosecutions came on . Mr . Whiteside-4 The parties in the case of the Queen v . O'Connell and others were to appear in person to-day , aad the parties are in attendance now . f

      Sir Colman O'Lpghlin—Taeyjare in attendance , my Lords , for the purpose of pleading , this being the last day . . Mr . O'Connellj accompanied by Mr . Daniel O'Connell , jun ., entered the Court , and was followed by the other traversers , namely , Mr . John O'Connell , M . P ., Mr . Steele , Dr . Gray , Rev . Messrs . Tyrrell and Tierhey , Mr . Barrett , Mr . Duffy , and Mr . Ray . i Mr . Forde—Mr . O'Connell bands in his plea , my Lords . S Chief Justice—Mr . Daniel O'Connell . Mr . Forde—Yes , Mr . Daniel O'Connell , my

      Lord . ; Attorney-General—I would wish the Clerk of the Crown would state that plea . Mr . John O'Connell handed in his plea . The other defendants handed in their pleas . Clerk of the Crojwn—Do you wish to hear those pleas now read , Mr . Attorney-General I Attorney-General—1 do . Chief Justice—Are there any more pleas ! Clerk of the Crown—There are none , my Lord . Tao officer then read the following plea : —

      IN THE QUEEN ' S BEPiCH CROWN SIDE . The Queen against Daniel O'Connell John O'Connell Thos Steele T M , Ray John Gray Charles G Duffy Rev P J Tyrrell Rev T Tierny Richard Barrett And now the said Daniel O'Connell ia his . own proper person comes into the Court here of our Lady the Queen before ] the Queen herself and having heard the said alleged indictment read and protesting that he is not guilty of the premises charged in the said alleged indictment or any part thereof for plea ] in abatement thereto nevertheless saith that he ought not to be compelled to answer 1 the 6 aid alleged indictment and that the same ought to be quashed because bo saith tue said indictment heretofore to wit on the 2 d day of November ia the year of oar Lord 1843 to wit at the naid court of our said Lady the Queen before the

      Queen herself to Wit in the parish , of St . Mark in the county of the city of Dublin aforesaid was found a true bill by the jurors upon the evidence of divers to wit four witnesses ] then and there produced before them and then and there examined by the jurors aforesaid and that the said witnesses then and there produced before and examined by the jurors aforesaid j were nor was any of them previous to their and his being so exaamined bv the jurors aforesaid sworn in the said court of our said lady the Queen before the Queen htrself according to the provisions of a certain statute passed in a certain session of parliament holden in tao SO" . hiyear of the reign of hia late Majesty King Georgeilll . intituled an act to regulate proceedings of gramd juries in Ireland upon bills of indictment to wit 'in the parish of St . Mark ia ihe

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      county of the city of Dublin aforesaid and he is ready to verify wherefore he prays judgment of the said indictment and that the same may be quashed and so forth . Daniel O'Connell . „ Mr . Forde—All the rest are the same . Attorney-General— -Now , my Lords , I object to any of those pleas being received by the court } and the court will of coarse allow me time until to-morrow morning , that I may be prepared to state at length the grounds on which I object to them . I don't conceive that at this stage of the pro * ceedings the party can plead in abatement , for if they plead in abatement at all , they shall plead that plea on arraignment , and on being put in charge . But until I have on opportunity of looking into the pleas , I hope the court will not receive them , and that I shall hare an opportunity of addressing the court ia the morning .

      Mr . Forde—The time for pleading expires to * night . . Clerk of the Crown—They can be received as of to-day . Chief Justice—There is a similar plea tendered on the part of each traverser . Mr . Forde—Yes , my Lord , verbatim . The time for pleading expires to-night , and we got no notice . Mr . M'Donough—Mr . Forde , wait awhile and leave it to counsel , if you please .. Chief Justice ( to Attorney-General)—You wisb the consideration of those pleas to be postponed until

      morning . Attorney-General—Yes , my Lord . Chief Justice--Of course , Mr . Attorney-General , that must be without prejudice to the rule on the traversers to appear and plead to-day . They hare appeared and put in a plea ; and whether that be & valid or invalid plea , it is to be taken as if that plea were put in now . Attorney-General—Of course , my Lord , they tender that plea ; bow , if the court be ultimately of opinion that it is a proper plea to be put on the

      file-Mr . Hatchell—The way I conceive the case stands at present is this—The party came in within the limited time for pleading , and gave in his plea . That plea was read , and the other pleas are exactly in the same words for all the parties . I conceive that plea is now put in , and on record . The . iraveasers seek no extension of time ; they have complied witn the rales of law , and the terms of their recognizance . If the Attorney-General conceive those pleas , or any of them , ought not to be received * they are open to objection , and his course will be to move to set aside those pleas on suoh grounds as he may be advised .

      Attorney General—Tnis is a matter that must be left to the discretion of the court . If those pleas are not pleas that they would be justified in putting in at this stage of the proceedings ; and if the course Mr . Hatchell suggests were pursued , the consequence would be this—I would have to serve notice to-morrow ; that notice could not be regularly moved until after to-morrow , and that will delay the investigation of that which ought to be investigated without delay—namely , the right of the traversers to put in those please at this state of the proceedings . Mr . Hatchell—The court has already decided that a question arising in these trials should not be debated without due notice . Such Was the course adopted with respect to us . I conceive the Attorney * General will not be too late to serve notice for after to-morrow . He will have full time to consider the bearing of the case , and to move to set aside tho pleas , or to demur to them .

      Judge Crampton—And if it were convenient for the Attorney-General to state his grounds of objection now he might make his motion , and the court would let it stand until the following morning . The Chief Justice thought the matter was in the discretion of the court , and that counsel on either side ought not to interfere with that discretion . The court had no right to go into the case then if it would be inconvenient , and if no ends of public justice could be attained by it . It was , he conceived , in the discretion of the court to postpone it until the following morning , the parties having tendered their pleas . Mr . Whiteside—That , of course , is between the Crown Counsel and the court . We are not bound

      to appear on that notice . Mr . Fitzgibbon—Suppose the Court shall determine to-morrow that these pleas are not in time as pleas in abatement , the time to plead to the merits lapses . But if the Court now determine it , the traversers are now in time to plead in bar . But if the Court postpone that consideration until tomorrow morning , it is only right that to-morrow be considered as to-day ; and if the Court will determine to-morrow that those pleas are not in time , all we want is , that the plea in bar shall be received to-morrow . Attorney-General—When that matter is discussed to-morrow , that and the other circumstances of the case will be under the control of the Court ; but I trust that nothing will be anticipated or decided to-day .

      Chief Justice—The traversers are not to be prejudiced by the matter not being further discussed to-day . Mr . Whiteside—There is no decision calling upon us to appear on ths part of the traversers , so you may argue it yourselves . Mr . Henn— I submit that by the course the Attorney-General asks the court to take , we are deprived of a benefit which we are entitled td-r-not a benefit I would say , but a matter of right—and the

      reasons assigned by the Attorney-General discloses that fact ; for if the | pleas were received now , and there is no reason why they should not be received , the Attorney-General conceives it would be necessary to serve notice , and that that would cause delay . But if so ; it was a delay the party were entitled to ; that notice should apprize us of his reasons for objecting to the pleas . He complained of our making a motion without giving him two days ' notice ; and is it not reasonable that he should be required to give notice to us !

      Chief Justice—I doubt if there can be any objection to the course the Attorney-Generol proposes ; and I eay , as a member of the Court , that four o ' clock i 3 not a proper hour to go on with the discussion of this case . His Lordship had scarcely concluded these observations when the officer directed the crier to adjourn the court , and the Court was accordingly adjourned at about twenty minutes to four o ' clock * without further discussion of the case .

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      SUNDERLAND . —Mr . D . Stnart lectured here on Sunday and Monday evenings , " on the Repeal agitation , to very good audiences . HIAMCBESTER . CARPENTfiBS' Hall . —The Chartists of Manchester held their usual weekly meeting in the above Hall , on Sunday last , vfhen a flerraon was preaebed by that truly talented and worthy man , Mr . J . Barrow , from Boltop . The spaciouB Hall was crowded in every part by an attentive and respectable audience . MIXiNRCW . —William Dixon , from Manchester , paid a visit t& this place , on Monday evening last , and delivered a lecture in the Chartist Room , to a large and respectable audience .

      GLASGOW . —At a meeting held in the Young Men ' s Academy , College-street , on Monday evening ,, it was resolved , that a public meeting should be held on Monday evening next , for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of advancing , so far as practicable , the plan of Organisation . Let all those who feel interested in the question of a union with England and Wales , rally round the New Organization , so far as it can be acted upon : and instead

      of finding faults , step forward and prepare for the Conference which is to meet in April next , when the whole country will have an opportunity of being consulted as to our future line of action , and if there be anything defective in the new plan , then will be the time to discuss such . I hope my fellow oitizens will adopt such steps as will entitle them to be represented in the ensuing Conference . Men of Glasgow , recollect this is your own cause ; therefore to the meeting on Monday evening next

      . B fT IDGETON . —Mr . J . Adams lectured in the Chartist Hall , Dale-street , on Wednesday evening last . At the close of the lecture , some objections were raised by a Corn-Law Repealer ( a Mr . Madden ) which ended in a challenge by Mr . Colquhoun , to discuss tho merits of a repeal of the Corn Laws , under existing circumstances . This , Mr . Madden , found convenient to decline ; bat offered to meet any ^ rki ? g " . ^ the villa « e on t he question , which otter Mr . wm . Brown at once accepted . DUMFftiESr-Ou Thursday , the Dumfries and Maxwelltown

      Working Men ' s Association , whichhas been in existence for about seven years , was dissolved , or rather merged in the National Charter Association . At a meeting of the members of the Mter society , on Monday evening last , Mr . James M Niel , stocking-maker , was nominated a member of the Council , in the room of Mr . John Bell , joiner , resigned . The cause is at present in a flourishing condition in Dumfries , both as regards accession to the Chartist ranks and increased zeal—a result which Mr . O'Connor ' s well-timed visit , and the introduction of our new Organization , have beea mainly instrumental in producing .

      Nottingham . —At the delegate meeting , Held » t Ilkestone , on Sunday last , Mr . Vickers , from Belper , in the chair , the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to : —1 st . " That a levy fee laid upon eaoh locality that ha 3 had the services of the lecturer to the full amount agreed to at the delegate meetinjf held at'Nottingham in June last , to enable the Committee to pay off the arrears due to the Lecture Fund . " 2 nd . " That this meeting records its sincere thanks to Mr . C . Doyle , for tha able aud consistent mannor in which he has discharged his duiies whilst lecturing in this district ; aud should any locality be in want of a lecturer , they be % to recomsieiid that gentleman as a powerful auxiiiarv to tho cause of Chartism , "

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      THE CRISIS . We announced last month that it was the practice of monied men in the city to publish a monthly circular setting forth their views and opinions relative to the several securities in the investment of which they were entrusted by other parties . We then selected the circular of Mr . Thomas Allsop for comment , and from it we exhibited the fact that that discriminating and talented agent looked to the cultivation of the land as the only feasible means of

      escape from our present difficulties . His reasoning npon the subject was so brief , but yet conclusive , that we submitted the whole of that portion of his circular to our readers . It was evident that the writer had drawn his conclusions from a general review of the whole system , rather than from any partiality that he entertained for an agricultural life . He has followed up his able circular of last month by one for the present which now lies before us ; and from which we beg to submit the following all-important paragraph . He says : —

      " The abundance of money 80 often noticed COntinueB , though withoat arty beneficial results . " The great source of national prosperity , beneficial and constant employment , has not been realized ; and though new markets are open in the East , there is reason to fear that the machine-producing power in this country alone will far outrun any reasonable or probable demand , without mach permanent benefit to the great balk of the population . It is quite evident to men of practical experience—to reflective observers , that great changes are inevitable , and , if not made by

      the Government , will be forced inte operation by the alterations which have taken place in the material condition of the population , by the rapid diffusion of useful information and intelligence , and by the frightful anomalies which abound in our social system ; anomalies ¦ which are so numerous and of such frequent occurrence as to excite neither sensation nor remark from those exposed to their immediate operation . As the Sun , ere it is risen , sometimes paints its image in the atmosphere , B 3 the spirit of great change strides on before the change itself , and in to-day is seen the morrow . "

      If we required any proof of the soundness of our own reasoning upon the general system , here we have it furnished by on © whose business it is to direct capitalists ia the investment of their funds . This review , at any time important , is doubly so a the present moment , when the cry of a " renewal of trade" rings in our ears . We have printed the above extract precisely as we found it ; and let those who so loudly vaunt the mighty influences of "Free Trade , " draw what conclusions they may from their own fanciful imaginations , they cannot get over the one emphasised word , " atone , " which , in speaking of machine-producing power , Mr . Aixsop says , will "alone" far

      outrun any reasonable or probable demand without much permanent benefit to the great bulk of the population . It is cheering to find men of Mr-Allsop ' s rank and talent looking to the rapid diffusion of information and intelligence , as a means of destroying those frightful anomalies which abound ia our social system . We would recommend our rulers to look upon the miniature of their condition , as presented by Mr . Allsop , indicative of that full image in the atmosphere which must , ere long , remind them of that hftyoo into which their mis-rule La hurrying tho nation . The principles of democracy it would appear , have not only forced themselves upon thecoDsidtration of tho laudtu and shop-keepng clssstF , but they are now beginning to find their

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      THE QUESTIONS SETTLED AT LAST . WILTj THE REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS BENEFIT THE WORKING CLASSES ? AND IS O'CONNOR IN THE PAY OP THE

      TORIES ? At length and at last these questions are set at reat . Taey are completely settled placed beyond the power of doubt or disputation . They have agitated men's minds for along period ' They have caused much diecussion ; more dogmatism ; and no small amount of ill-feeling and bad blood . All this however is now at an end . The finisher is given to it all .

      The cry that " O'Connor is in the pay of the Tories" has been most industriously circulated . It was in the mouth of every Corn-Law Repealer , the moment that O'Connob ' s name and doings were mentioned . It mattered not that the accusation received an emphatic denial . It mattered not that proof was challenged and demanded . It mattered not that no one ever attempted to give even a shadow of proof . It mattered not all this : the accusation waa still gonerally bandied about .

      Now this did not suit some of the Barnsley Repealers . They were anxious to know whether there were any foundation for the accusation or not . They knew that they had no proof of it themselves ; and they , therefore sought for it , from onie who would necessarily know , if the thing were even so . In the neighbourhood of BarnBley there lives one who can " read the stars" one who Has thn nnwnr wno can read tne stars" ; one who has the power

      to open the book of fate , and tell both what has happened , and what is to happen . His power to do this is well known . HiB judgment , with his means of information , ia known to be infallible . He Was never known to be wrong ; and he has been consulted in cases of emergency and weighty importance by thousands of individuals . Indeed be is known in the entire neighbourhood as

      West , thb Wise-maw . To this man the Corn Law Repealers resolved to appeal . He could out the Gordian knot . He could tell , if any man on earth could ; he , who knew all things , past , present , and to come . Accordingly a Mr . Leadspohd , with two brothers of the name of Hunt , and a few more , from Worsbro ' Common , repaired to the seer . Arrived there , and being duly ushered into the presence of the Wise-man , they detailed their errand . Their minds were disturbed . They were anxious to know the truth ; they knew he aione could tell them . Was Feahgus O'Connor in thk pay of the Tories ? . . "

      The Wise-man retired . He entered his study . He put on his considerinff-cap . He consulted the stars . He asked the question of fate ; and , having got his answer , he returned to the querists . All Wa 3 breatless anxiety . The Oracle opened his lips . He procounced . The words were : — " NO . O'Connor is not in the pay of the Tories . " Here was a stunner ! As it was , however , from

      the book of fate itself , they received the information with all-beooming acquiescence . Tbey noxt essayed another trial of the Wise-man ' s wisdom . They put it to him : " Would a Repeal of the Corn Laws benefit the work ing classes ? " Again he retired . Again he consu'ted the starry heavens . Again he received his answer ; and again he imparted it to bis inquirers . The answer was : —

      "A 1 < under Existing Circumstances . " Thisiwas a finisher . The poor League men were done . for . It was death to all their hopes ; all their aspirations . The dictum they dare not dispute . It was truth from the lips of the wish . Their own poor notions were surrendered at once ; and the departed wiser and better men . Before leaving , one of the party had another

      striking proof of the means of all knowledge , on the part Of the Wise-man . Recollecting that bis garden had been lately robbed , he told the circumstance , and wished to know who had committed the depredation . The Wise-man went to consult . On his return , he named tha thief ; and the querists retired to their homes , perfeotly satisfied that the oracle had spoken truth .

      Thus , then , these knotty points are set at rest Who , after this , will dare to assert the truth of the pay-of-the-Tories accusation ! or augur good from a repeal of the Corn Laws 1

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 18, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct955/page/4/