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I ~ " "Z ^ xOB OF TEE " m OBTHEBN STAB" TO & * HIS EEA 2 XERS . TsrESBS—On theirrt page of the present Tramrf ~ ifce S ^ , yon have a letter from Mr . O'Connor , )* jjattei -snack I am Trilling to believe must have 5 * A cnSftenUr distasteful to you . *^ % "Gonncr very properly seeks to set himself Jf BsiB SffiootsBiiottobe misrmderstood ; not to ^ gj to occupy a i&lse position . He is right . lam *^^ ous that , so far as I can help it , neither lie ^ % oaer jnan should occupy a false position , or a 1 ^^ s ™ to viica he is not entitled . I therefore very Mi
j ^ w corroborate - O'Connor ' * statement , that ^' v ^ been no party to any syllable that I hare ^ Lgi jjpon the condnct of the Executive ; on the * \ l ! rr he has always , in his private conversations *? f \ nl held a similar tone to that of Ma letter . Hk I cheerfnUy do this justice to llr . O'Connor , ^ t-j » also rtguixe justice for myself ; both from him from tot . I claim Ihe right of an opinion npon aB fL js of pubfie interest ; a right which I concede to ^^ sn and -wiH yield to bo man . ¦^ jjai ^ x . O'Connor in error , in supposing that my ^ $ 3 npon the proposed appointment of » new ^^ sscenuy vere calculated to place him at all in
iTjjsfcj in -Hindi he seems to Uiini tney mignt place "" ^ xertimly they "were not so intended . Mi . O Con-^ c ^ and actei ""ith Mr . Leach at a public meeting , " sa opponent of the Anti-Cora iair league ; and he ^ L-gmeifted bin npon his talent and Hshonesty . I J £ E ^ 7 ^^ re that either the talent or the honesty of l ^ sch , as an opponent of the Anti-Corn Law las ever baa * disputed . Bat both the talent -jj fla honesty of the ExecutiTe , in their capacity EiBcnJiTB , have been disputed ; and they teen by * t 3 ? l 2 I ? e P 01 ^ 011 ° * ^ leir constituents * 2 a upon to resign : but , though the gross charges been
^ jjj than hsre neTer met , twe ef them , Zw&m $ l of these charges , and in defiance of ! L isn of 2 jk ? constituents to resign , still retain j : Bus I t ( 3 d to be utterly ineompatihls -with ^^ poucple ; and it tra 3 in reference to this that I eeodnaa ccoS be expected to associate himself ^ jattifciD on Bus Ececniive , until they had first cleared ttaarthsMiss . Jsaysostffi . But Mr . Leach may be K-jgt jsd very talented ss an opponent of ihe " J ^ C ob ' ljv League , and yet Tery dishonest and ar isssspefcBi as a member of the people ' s Execu-Btb . ¦ & > £ ¦ IenDar ^ P 30 ** 7 ' - ^ eve * said a
* sd ta £ a disparagement ; in the latter capacity 1 jan bnmght no charge against him , individually ; I bn 122 ^ impeached him as a party to the acta of gg Executive m a -whole body . Mr . Leach has never ^ jsiEiaa sny of the acts of the Executive as a body ; j ja bonnd therefore to suppose that he consen-# to tfces » H ; and I hold every man responsible tr ererj act to srhieh he consents . I am made jsfaiow , to my cost , that the law holds a man jsgansbls far acts te -which he did not consent -. but 1 kjaUpply thai doctrine to Mr . leach ; I charge upon vjb ody ths "things to -which he did consent Of the
jsjae acU snS conduct of the Executive , I have not a c $ e "roTi to retract of all that I have aii I have said nothing -withont due thought 33 » aaderatioTi . I have said nothing for lia&IiaTe not given-proofs as I have gone alonglisre aid nothing -which I am not prepared to subjSBfcie before a public meeting , though I deny the E ^ lrfaryparty to require me to do so . I have no si& tointerfere -with Mr . O'Connor's judgment : hs has HEffi&ri ^ to hisopimon as Ihavetoinine . To his pM n itnl on my mode of expressing my opinion of the
InecavB , I hive no reply to maie : I am a plain EjB maanaEpsdeaspade . Bnt though I respect Mr . CCdbsg ? as nrutb as any man ought to respect him , I raped yon and the cause of Chartism stSl more ; and liEBst beg that in this matter , -which is most essential laainportsnt to jour interests , you -will not permit yonr jejoEil regard for him to blind you to the merits of the ok ; tbslyOTTrfflfamyonrainijadgnientby the facts xsd by ma evidence and not by the opinion of any man . Have sera » iked jon to take my opinion upon any sabject , fsrther thin I supported my opinion by proofs I aoT » t « k you to So bo no ^ . I ask you , u I always
tiTe do : e , 4 o lanajonr o-vrn judgment of the case npon £ > ova laasij , iudfpandent of any other consideration TfcsifTsr j sad Jihme you fer sot having , long since , csStobJ that ^ ndgment so generally and so conclusively , sis prednde further bickering . TJggitTOth in Ms . OXJonnor ' s latter to -which it ncll bsvay easy for me to reply ; but I have no detstaisspupthe jar . I have never had any such fen * . 3 ! the charges against tie Executive had been
riifist by fair argument , simple explanation , or eaSdittao-Jriedginent , instead of personal abuse and kSEj falsa counter accusations , there -would never bnjtesi sny jsr at all ; the -whole matter -would have Ian ken settled Tery speedily and very guietly . JSaKsnaof its not having been so , belongs not to me , te to those Thofonnd it more convenient to keep up Satema by attacking others , than to settle it by agflvTHtg ihemselves . Justies , however , compels zs { ojjy 2 atl think Mr . O'Connor ^ strictures on Hi . Jcia Watkin * B letter much more unnecessarily S 5 TEM 1 hu anything that Mr . Watkin ' s has -written scat &s Executive . Mr . Watkins is a man-who has
Eaannui service , and endured jnncb « nfering in the OEfc 3 kncnrnoman in the -whole movement -who ^• pTeBmore decided evidence ef his thorough de'Ssdnea to Chartism than John Watkins . I know no fiain ths-srhole movement more fully entitled to the P » pk * igood opinion p-nri their th > "Tk * - I know no ta in Sa -whole movement -who has preserved Srooghoat Mi -ahole career -& more stern honesty , « s 34 mOT 8 rtnct and honourable adherence to principle tta « asbteni 7 aanJohnWatkiiis . I do not Bay that Mi opiiilaia are , thfirsfSre , entitled to any other -weight 2 sa ti ^ -Biii they may have from the reasons tpoa * Mci ihey are fonnded ; bet 1 do say that &oe tilings ensht to infiuee us to examine those
rea-* M » ea before ire censure him either for the holding » f& » expresskn of Mb opinions . 1 id si fired of seeing the discussion in the Star as ^• OXkamororyoucanbe . I had closed the cobamns a Sto- against m farthfir continuance some -weeks jSijnni aid not suit die Executive . Their friends j *» 4 Ofif or h ; and they themselves procursd them to •**» PS » a for h , by sppiying t » Mr . O'Connor and ^ nfing lfis pledge to that effect , at Birmingham . 2 « BS Qdnk that Mr . O'Connor acted wisely , or righUy , P ™ l ttat pledgBi but when informed by himself •* 3 alad done soIdidnot choose to save cause for
, ^ Tttott ^ it obstinate or factious . I am now anxions , «»» yi hsTeb 6 en , to have done with it I feaie S 74 ntjinit ; and I havedoBe no more than my to * w * ^* 7 " * " B most nDPIeasaat aDd a painful ^^ ii-Bas a duty , and 2 have done it . I cordially jj tok SB opinion of Mr . O'Connor , thatitis timefor 6 a lnt ** exdadea &om the Star , and I therefore ^ 'fcSftpress the publication of several communij ^/^""* * ° f them a most important and argumenfi » a ^ ' TMdl 2 hS 7 e h 3 & by me som 8 " *«***• ^ J ^ W of wMch has -Biitten tome thre © times , re-*^ j- (« - i ¦ . i - n ^ Mk « U W iUD Him ? UIUCO j AC "
^"" SwpaBliesaon . 2 irill not publish anything *****> rt ^ emmar &Jm ^ y parties whatever . The * j wenaJrl ' " ^" Sbar ^ p ^^ y ** j b p ° fe 4 va « 7 *^ lt 8 Ktenas Bhaa ^ further occu ietej ! ^^» _ subject ; and my chief reason for this ^~ £ *** Ja a aai thi coniLuance of ae controversy ia b ^ n ^ 01 " ^ ^ esood that can be dene by it fa ^ 7 ^ The people ' s minds have been directed j ^ »*» s and they inn nse their infor-JSS 5 a ase ° D ! ttl" lntar 8 SuMancs . Thus , the 3 a » » t , tte ^ SscMef may be prevented ; and , * ^ « at I wi * for . having
tea o ^^^ 80 ^ -with been actuated in this * Seaaj C 3 ? 'diti 0 M ly Personal motiyea . I declare is a » - ^ fcsTBB&fe thattheraneverhas beoi sman esta ^ j ^ ^ artist movemint against whom I ever » h »^ ^ s a of personal ill feeling ; aoa that , ^^ - p ^^^ ^^ iiavebeen nomoreaianthTeainen ^ a sQuj ^ J S » movement , whom Ihave ever ia oiir ^ & ^^ V ^ bRJ- One of these three ** " *^> ittX . 014 ** ^ m ° Tement , and tt » ottier ^ P ^ aajjfc " 1 ) een " » * & » linerr fiiem , * a ? i ^ ^ » - There was , aexefore , no posaibffiiy ^^ ' *•! b ^ 8 ^ b 7 Peroaal motives , « veu if my I Wfr ^ r *** apaH 8 of it , which I hope it isnot &t ' * Wl ? r > er 0 f ^ P 168611 * the past Execuft tt o ^ T ^ ^^ as a brother , aud whom 1 fc ae ' bB ^ * £ 5 r 9 ltp ° CTfiry OiEP * ^ ° f Bering ^ pad pif T cimt ol mj iB& 1 EDC 8 - mta ™ y « g » d ^* tor tup fcjj —
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on my part t for I would much rather have been able to think differently . However , as I have often said before , I now say again ; the chief thing the people have to do is to let the past be a beacon for the future , and to -watch better hereafter , those whom they install in office , that this disagreeable dutymay not again devolve on ma And now , fcefore taking leave of the subject , a -word or two abent tfie " counter accusations . " There has been a great deal said about " plots and conspiracies " against the Executive ; a great deal about some letter or letters from leeds , sometime abont the time of Cooper ' s being here , last summer ? about a letter from
Hull , affirming that the Hull Chartists were about to pass the Balance Sheet , when I came into the room and put a stop to it ; and about an extract of s letter from Cooper to Mead , written in July last , ¦ which was stolen from 3 iead , the -week before Christmas , at Hull , by a man named Fraser , and which has been since printed and circulated all over the country as proof of my being concerned in the alleged " conspiracy .- Jfow , first , as to Cooper ' s letter to Mead , leach and others are now most industriously affirming this to be one of the letters to which he
he alluded at the South Lancashire delegate meeting . Now , in the Sist place , neither Leach nor any other member of the Executive knew of the existence of that letter , any more than I did , until the -week before Christmas . It was a private letter from Coeper to Mead ; it was shown by Mead , while at Hull , to Fraser , who seeing a paragraph of which he thought a vilianous use could be made , contrived to steal it ; it -was directly after printed , and has made no small stir in a little way ever since . Here is Mead ' a own explanation of the manner in which it was obtained , —sent to me for publication : —
" The paragraph which Mr . Fraser in such a very unhandsome TOHTiTier extracted from a private , letter wiihout leave or licence , cannot implicate me in any conspiracy ; and being written bo long back as July last , could not , I conceive , implicate Mr . Cooper in the present affair of defalcation , because at that time a knowledge of it did not exist . Sir . Fraser came to me as a brother , and as such I received him ; and with my Chartist brethren I am above suspicion of any
mean or sinister designs . I did not then know that he belonged to the discontented clique in HnlL j scarcely knew there was any dispute between Mr . Hill and Messrs . Padget and Co . 1 prized Cooper ' s letters , and those of Oastler , as so many portraits of the minds of their respective writers , and as such I showed them to Mr . Fraser , and so little 4 id 1 notice the meanly extracted- paragraph , even when I received the letter , that I never even mentioned it at Nottingham or elsewhere "
Ton see , therefore , that this could not have been one ol the letters alluded t © by Mr . Leach , at the South Lancashire delegate meeting in November ; because Mr . Leaeh could not then have known of its existence . But supposing it had h&ea one of them , how does it affect me ? The extract is as follows : — " Yon will see how we have spoken out about the hnmbog Executive . George and Juliasi , -with the Editor at Leeds , - and our ( JeneraZissiino , ail go teUh me , I give you the hint . Jo&nny Casipfcell is O'Brienizing , he must be stopped , ot we shall all strike on the breakers together ; get your Notts chaps to approve of the resolutions of our delegate meeting . "
Now the only part of this which can affect me ia that ¦ which is printed in italics ; and the qnesrion is in tefiat did I " go with" Mr . Cooper ? Now I have before stated that when Mr . Cooper -was at Leeds he named to me his scheme of an Annual Convention ; and that I approved the id ^ a * though I doubted its practicability under existing-laws . If Mr . Cooper had meant anything more , pr anything other , than simply this , when he spoke of mj " going with" him , he would have been guilty of gross falsehood in asserting it . As far as this goes , I did " go with" him , but in bo other way . So far from plotting with him against the Executive , I earnestly urged him to use his influence with the
Leicestershire delegates . not to make any public attack upon the Executive , but to write to them privately , as we had dons at HulL ' After the factious publication of this extract , I wrote ; to Mr . Cooper , informing him of the use that trss being made of it , and requesting him , as an act of justice both to himself and me , to write 3 letter for the Star , slating truly and exactly what it did refer to . For some reason best known to himself , Mr . Cooper did not think proper to do this . However , when plainly asked the question by Mr . O'Connor at Birmingham , he did give his testimony to the truth , as appears by the following paragraph in the report of the meeting called by the Executive : —
" Aye , Bsid Mr . O Connor , that is juBt the thing . A mora dastardly production never appeared . Here stands Mr . Cooper and here am 1 , and now I ask him if my acquiescence or if the acquiescence of "the Editor at Leeds '" or of the other parties , in his suggestion amounted to more than this : —Mr . Cooper suggested the propriety of selecting five business men from an annual convention , who should act £ s an Executive ; he said he did so because not ose half of thoBe who voted knew
anything about the business habits of the men put in nomination , whereas , all elected aa delegates , would have the confidence of the country , while the CnvenUon would be the best judges of their business habits , and could suggest the names of such men to the people—( hear , hear , and cheers . Now will Mr . Cooper S 3 y that mj agreement or that of the Editor with him went further than this ? H Mr . Cooper . —Certainly not "—( cheers . )
I have a letter from Mr . Cooper now by me confirming the truth of this statement . So much , then , for the proof which this extract affords of the " plotting and conspiracy" charges against roe ; and of the veracity of tbosa who make them . ' Now for the letter or letters from Leeds . € > f these I know nothing . 1 do not say that there may not have been letters sent from Leeds I do not say that these letters may not have alluded to some plot or conspiracy against the Executive . I do not £ eny this , because I know nothing about it It may or may sot have been so . I am no way concerned in it . But here are the words which concern me : —
" The Executive received letters from various parts , informing us that a conspiracy was being formed against them , and particularly a letter from Leeds , which stated that Mr . Hill and others agreed there in a certain bouse , to pursue a certain course ot conduct against the Executive , the basis of which was—that ihe characler of ihe Executive teas to be suffidenSv shaken in private , and then by a simultaneous pub'ic assault / /" ? ? * Here , then , is the direct charge against me ; and this has been repeated and reiterated again , and again , and
again . It is , in fact , the constant theme of invective . It is the Executive ' s defence . Now I do say that if the Executive have received any letter containing this statement , the writer of that letter is a liar . I have not ceased to call for the publication of this letter , and of the writer ' s came , ever sices the statement ma first published . And I have a right to demand that after my solemn denial the people shall refuse to hear this charge repeated in my absence until it shall have been sustained > y the publication of the letter , with the writer's name . Then -with respect to the letter said to have been received from Hull ; I mnst again bring to
your recollection the resolutions both of the Council and of the body of the Hull ChartistB . The resolution of the Councillors contains these words : — " That the General Councillors resident in HulL having seen a statement in the Star attributed to Mr ., James Leach , of Manchester , that * in the month of ¦ Jnlylast . the Hull ChartiBts were about to pass thei Balance Sheet , when Hr . Hill entered the room and put a stop to it ; and a friend that was present at that meeting wrete \ o Campbell , stating that there was a plot hatching against the Executive , * do most unequivocally and unqualifiedly a £ rm this statement to be false : tha . t there never was any a > nch thing as far as we know , as
any body ot Chartista betes at that time 3 bont to pass the Balance Sheet and being stopped by Mr . Hill on biB ( coming into the * oom ; that Mr . Hill was not by any : meanB the first of the Hull Councillors to start objections to that Balance Sheet ; that the firBt council , meeting to consider that Balance Sheet was specially I convened by Mi . Robert Jackson , at the suggestion of ; several other councillors , and every councillor was pre-1 sent save one : that , notwithstanding our just dissatis- i faction , there was not amongst us any ¦* plot hatching ! against the Executive , * and that consequently bo persoa { could have truly sent to the Executive any letter to : that effect ; that we , the councillors of Hull , are not in ;
the habit of * hatching plots , * but of speaking our minds ; freely upon such subject ! as we have & right to take ! cosmisaceof ; that -we are not . in the habit of being led by any individnaij-whsafit Mx . Hfll or Mi . Leach , in : the formation of our opinions , but ihafwe endeavour to nBe our own judgment ; and , further , that we demand j from Mi . leach or Mr . Campbell the publication of the j letter -which Mr . Leaeh says was received from a friend , i who was present at the meeting when the Hull Char-1 tists were stopped from passing the Balance Sheet by : Mr . Hill , together with the writer * name ; and that if : this our demand be not complied -with , we shall believe i this statement of Mr . Leach ' s to have betn invented \ either by him or CatnpbelL' * j
This -bus published in the Korifern Slar of December 10 th , and the Star of December 2 iih , contained 3 rebo ' uti-n ef ths whole body t-f the Cisjiists of Sull , of uhich the folio wi 2 g is part ;—
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That we , the Hull members assembled , have heard with surprise , a statement read from a late number of the Star , purporting to have emanated from Mr . Leach , at a meeting of South Lancashire delegates , that The Hull Chartists were about to pass the Balance Sheet , when Mr . Hill entered the room , and put a Btop to it ; ' and we hereby declare that that Balance Sheet was never submitted to the Hull Chartists , except individually , through the columns of the Northern Star . "
I suppoBe it needlesa for me to add anything in refutation of this charge . At the same meeting at which he made these " plotting and conspiracy" statements , Mr . Leach gave a grossly false version of a private conversation between him andme , in Mr . Hobson ' a kitchen ; manifestly for no other purpose than wantonly to injure me in the estimation of thoBe to whom he spoke , as a means of lessening the force of my charges against himself and colleagues . I have publicly charged this wickedness upon Mr . Leach many times , and he has not
ventnred even to deny it I am sorry that such practices have been resorted to . They compel me to a course which I would willingly have been excused adopting . But however others may affect to despise calumny , 1 cannot afford to do so . I calumniate no man . I never in my whole life made a charge of any kind against any man without adducing my proofs at the same time . And I would despise myself as the veriest wretch alive , if I could bring a serious accusation against any man and refuse to give my authority for it when called for ] but yet go on repeating the
accusation . I refer to these matters now because I know that this is the regular practice wherever the people will tolerate ifc . I have a letter from Mr . Leach , received this week , in which he states his intention to bring np these and other such matters at every public mettinff he may hereafter attend . Now this can never hurt me , otherwise than as it seriously hurts the cause by disgusting and nauseatine all decent men . I therefore
remind the people—more for their own sakes than for mine , "that fair play is a jewel " , and that I have as much , tight to it as any other man . I ask themnot to pay me any deference or to give me any advantage—but to do justice ; and not to permit me to be wantonly calumniated in my absence . In what I have written upon the conduct of the Executive , I have not used the language of invective , but of argument . I have given proofs for every word . I gave fair and ample scope for reply . I permitted them to say what they pleased in reply , however offensive and whether at all connected -with the subject or not I answered
their call for public discussion by a fair offer to meet them in their own town of Manchester and prove every syllable I have charged against them . They have not accepted ray offer . I challenged them to meet me before the public and prove their charges against me . They have not accepted my challenge . I now repeat that I am ready at any time ( aa soon as the necessary arrangements can be made , as stated ia my former letters , ) to meet any man in England , and prove my charges . I am ready , at any time , to meet any man in England who has any political charge to prefer against me ; let him but give me fair notice of his purpose , and tell me beforehand what I have to meet .
I have now been before the public nearly fourteen years . During that time I have preserved , unbroken , my consistency , I have never yet found it necessary to eat my own words , to shrink from my own statements , or to fly , from the consequences of my own acts . I never yet found it necessary to deny , retract , or explain away , any single word that I ever said , or any single line that I ever wrote . I was never even required to retract an assertion that I had made . I hope always to preserve the same consistency . I ask the people to give me fair play . I ask no more .
and I ask that—not so much for my own sake as for theirs . I am tied here at the desk ; I can't run all over the country to meetings . I have no other means of serving the people than through the columns of the Slar . I have no other means of defending myself when unjustly attacked . It is not too much , therefore , if when I tell the people that 1 will not hereafter employ these columns , even for my own defence , upon this subject . I st the same time require them to see that that circumstance be not taken an unfair advantage of .
In order thai the people may have the whole merits of the whole question of this Executive business fairly before them at one iriew , 1 shall shortly publish the whole discussion in a pamphlet . In that pamphlet I will deal fairly . It shall not be a one-sided thing ; I will not publish my own comments alone , but I will also give all the letters , statements , and explanations of the several members of the Executive that have been
published ; so that the . whole thing may be aeen fairly . My object and my wish is that the men should receive no injustic 9 ; that they should be fairly known and fully understood , and fairly dealt with , by the people . I have no anger against any of them ; but I have a full determination , while I have any influence with the people , to use it not only for the advancement of our principles among those who do not recegnise them , but for their enforcement am one thoBe who do .
One more word and I have done . Mr . O'Connor says that if the letters of the Hull Councillors bad been written for publication , the Executive should have been warned of it . They were not written for publication : had they been so , they would have been published at the time . Their very style and tone tells that they were intended only as private remonstrances -. had they been heeded as such , all this "hubbub" would have been spared . It was the subsequent conduct of the Executive which rendered their publication necessary . And now , my friends , I have done with this subject The whole thing is in your hands , and yon will deal with it as you please . I am , as I have ever been , Your faithful friend and servant , William Hill . "Northern Star" Office , Leeds . February I , 18 * 3 .
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Metropolitan Victim Committee . —We have received their address , but cannot insert it . Like appeals from every locality having victims would fillup almost the entire Star ; andjf any should be admitted , we could deny none without rendering ourselves liable to be charged with partiality . The Star is a national organ ; and tee think Us columns , therefore , a fair channel for general appeals on behalf of all the victims , but not for special and local ones for particular cases ; unless indeed their individual cases have something peculiar about them so as to give them a fair claim to more than common interest . Birmingham . —Mbs . Robebts ' s Fund . —All communications , in future , for Mrs . Roberts'
Committee , must be addressed for John Newhouse , secretary No . 11 . Upper Tower-street , Birmingham ; Mr . Charles Thorp having resigned acting as secretary . Will Mr . Bsopht send his address to W . Dove , Nottingham ? Wm . Higgjsbottom , and others . —We have sent their letter to Mr . O'Connor . A Stanch Oabtlekite , Bkadfobd . —Never mind the brawlers : we have no room to waste on them . B . S . —Queries— 1 , Yes ; 2 , No ; 3 , false . Wm . Emerson . —It was neither of them . T . M . Wheeler . —The answer te the Enigma next week . Chartist Addresses . — Wi have received several of these , this week , from different places , and on
different subjects . We have not room jor any of them . R . Knowles . —^ 0 room . A Poor Chartist . — "Don ' t you wish you may yet t " J . Brows . —The case of Mrs . Ellis is sufficiently well known to the Chartist public : it is not eloquence , but money , that is wanted for her . S . J . j Bristol . —His litter on organization was received . One of his recommendations would violate ihe law ; the other we wish his permission to embody in our next article on the subject . He wUl see that vie have , in our present number , inserted his tetter on the Benefit Society . Sis other letters we shall be glad to receive , and to insert as * jse may have room . Thanks for the paper he . ' sent us and for similar favours heretofore .
Will Mb . Wm . Jones , of Liverpool , send his addresr . to James Atkinson , 17 , Plough-court , Fet ter-lane , Holborn , as he wishes to communicede unlh him ? Righard Hawkins , New Inn ¦ fa rd , Nottingham , makes the same request . Jobt .- « Skebritt , NottixghaJI .. — We never saw the notices he writes so warmly about . A / , Mr . John West is now residing in Hull ., all communications for him must be addressed , care of Mr . Seward , Carton's Entry , Market-place ,
Hull . John Robinson wovld suggest to the Chartists of Marichesler the idea of getting up a play for the lencfJ . of the Defence Fwd , and offers la give / tis persoTUil amstance in the gcUing oj it out .
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to provoke us * nt » a controversy to bring his paper into ™ n ° ™ We shall not gratify him . More Middus Cl ass Sympathy . -JF * learn from a Correspondent at Martock , in Somersetshire , that it ts a general custom among the opulent of that parish to sell coals to the poor , at half price , at Christmas . Friday , January 6 / A , was the-day announced for the poor to assemble , at the house §/ one of the contributors , to receive a ticket each to procure the coals , provided the contributor thought them entitled to the same . The tickets were given to Ml that made application but two , Samuel Maunder , aged eighty-four years and Hannuh Rayson . The reasons being , that Samuel Maunder allowed his grandson , a Chartist , to live in his house , and to offer for sale , in his window , such tfublica / ions as alluded „
to the * wcked principles" of the Chartists . They o * ' i ° » , !/ incur » bent upon them to refuse Samuel Maunder a ticket so long as he encouraged such wickedness in his house . Our Week ' s Correspondence . — We received on Ihursday morning a vast amount of correspondence which we h : ve not had even time to read . It is reserved for another opportunity , when such as may be necessary will be inserted . We wish we could ever get our numerous correspondents to send us their favours a day or two earlier in the week , before the columns of the Star are preoccupied . We have been obliged to curtail all reports so received that we have made any use of . Thomas Clarke , Stockport . —We received his request at too late an hour to be attended to . Bolton Chartists . —Send the resolution to Isaac Barrow , by letter .
J . H . —Thanks . Edinbpbgh . —The long report of the proceedings of a meeting held on the I 9 ch of January is of no use to us on the 2 nd of February . Reports , to be oj any value , should be sent at the time the meetings are held .
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Mb . Sykes , Almondbury . —The letter received , dated January 31 et , and posted at Hadderafleld , February 1 st , was not prepaid . Mr . N . Gseaien . —Both the last remittances have been but 5 s . each . Mb . Rowe , Northwicn . —The Petition Plates are at Mr . Hey wood ' s . : Mr . Fletcher . —The 10 s . from Colchester should have baen Brightlingsea , near Colchester . E . Spencer , Melksham . —If the 5 s . has not been noticed , it has not bten received at this office . Thomas Holbrook . —Yes . Dcnfermune . —The persons writing from this place can have the Plates by sending 10 s ., and saying who the the parcel is to be addressed to .
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HUDDERSFIELD . RECEPTION OF FBARQUS O'CONNOR , On Saturday night last we bad a visit from Mr O'Connor , when the Philosophical Hall , the largest building in the towD , was procured for the occasion . At eiaht o'cAock , Mr . O'Connor accompanied by his friends , and preceded by a splendid band , left the Swan Hotel , and proceeded to the place of meeting . Toe gentleman , . upon ascending the platform ' , was most vociferously chee * e 4 , anrt shortly after that unsomproniising veteran , Air . VeverB ^ was unanimously called to the chair ; who after a soul-stirring appeal to his audience oh behalf ot' their rights and liberties , introduced Mr . O'Connor to the meetioc . I
Mr . O'Connor spok for two hours and forty minates , replying to all the f tllicies of the Anti-Corn Law lecturers . He introduced the question now so prominently relied upoa by the League to shelter themselves , namely , the immensely increased value given to agricultural and landed property by the spread of ! manufactures . This position , said he , I am not going to deny , but I am going to combat and to expose the League deductions , namely , that they , the landlords , have received this accession of wealth from profits unjustly withheld from capitalists—( heir , hear . ) I am going to admit the fact , that landed property has received great augmentation from the increase of manufactures ; but I undertake to prove tfeat the increase has come from the pockets of the people ,
and not from those of their masters—( loud cheera ) Now the great augmentation to landed property con aists not in the increased value of farming land—{ hear , hear ); the great increase has been derived fropi groundrents , where new towns have been built ; and Uouserent in towns which have been augmented io | the number of inhabitants by the rapid increase of manufactures . Well , then , could I select a better spot wherein te illustrate my argument than just where 1 n ^ w stand ? This town belongs to Sir John Kamaden . Before you were drafted here , some ground for which no | w a large price is paid by the yard , was then let fora mere trifle by the acre—( hear , hear , and loud cheers ) I ^ ow , then , who pays the ground-rent , and the house rentl of every
warehouse , mm and shop , and residence here!—( We do . ) Of course you do , and for the gas and oil—( cheers . ) Suppose there are four thousand or five thousand , or any number of operatives' cottages let fer ten pounds a-year , and worth but six pounds , jwho paya the whole , firstly upon the six pounds , or official valus —( laughter . ) Sir John hss bis profit ot ground rent , and then npon the house-rent the master has his profit of fourteen pounds a-year ; and thus J am ready to contend and to prove , that while I admit the fact that Sir John Kamsden ' s property within fifty years has had an increase from the operation of manufactures by at least £ 70 , 000 a year , I will also contend , that on this increase the masters have had an increase 1 on this
article alone of three times that amount ( Cheers , and " To . be sure they have . ") This is a branch of the whole question of free trade much relied upon by the League , who would blind us to their own active enorniities by directing attention to the passive process by yibich landed property has been iiicreased ia vaiue ; the fact being , that so long as you could bear the burden of both they never complained , but now that one or other must be taken from your shoulders , ihey say , "Oh , take the land-sharks by all means "—( eheers . ) Mr . O Connor then went into the question of small mauters , and showed the injury done to society by the ruin of men whose interests were more nearly identified with those of their men , than those of the leviathan machine owners could passibly be . Twenty years ago ,
said he , there were 28 email masters in Paddock , an adjoining village ; they made from five to eight pieces of coarse kerseys a man ; and thoy employed from nine to twenty-live hands or more . Now , where aie they ? — " ' . " aye , intieed , " and cheers . ) Well , I will tell you : three out of the twenty-eight are still struggling against smoke ; and the remnant of the capital of the remaining twenty-five , driven from the market , has been , for want of protection to them , transferred with joint-stock bank shares to consolidate a fund for the very men who broke them to gamble upon —( loud cheers ) . Grossland has swallowed up the whole twenty-five , and now with less than half the hands makes more in a week than all the others made twenty years ago—( loud cheers ) . Why , then , do the shopketpers of Paddock wonder at
their impoverishment , which must continue ; till Mr . Crosslanii ' s mules and jennies and spindles are Been going on Saturday night into their shops for bread and cheese , and bacon , and bonnets , and muffa and boas , and tippets and caps , and shoes and beds , and coat a , and gloves , and watches —( laughter anil cheera ) . Now , said Mr . O'Connor , will yon hear the plain and simple fact from me ? England is at the present moment like a large hotel in a watering-place or in a race town . It is buile for the accommodation of the casual visitors only , and is empty during the recess . The sudden and anomalous progress of manufactures produced as sudden and anomalous an increase in all those departments in trade and commerce , and from which the increased luxuries were to be supplied . The new commercial
society was an artificial society , and , in fact , like the manufacturing department , become , from sudden demand , competitive in its transactions . The great improvements in machinery , by degrees enabled the largest capitalists to drive the smaller onea from the market ; and with every commercial failure , there came a corresponding sectional failure of that class employed in producing or vending luxuries or necessaries— - ( cheers ) . The failure of a bank or of a large manufacturing concern at first but presents the single misfortune ; to you , whereaa ,, taken in all its beariugs , it should present to you the failure of a corresponding portion of that society eetablished for the production and vending of those luxuries and necessaries —( cheers ) . Thus { like the large hotel it is merry for a moment , and dull for an
hour . When times are said to mend , by the receipt of fresh orders from abroad , instead of those orders giving a yearly impetus to trade , or requiring more hands , they are perfected , as if by magic , and the hotel is again closed —( cheers ) . See bow this shakes confidence ; at present the sum of 3 d . is demanded in Huddersfield for a Leeds £ 5 note before you get change for it . ( aye , 6 d . ); well , Bay 3 d ., and so of a Hudderafleld note in Leeds— ( hear , hear ,- hear ) Well , then , why ? simply because gambling has rendered everything precarious and uncertain ; until , Sot the first time in this gteat nation , machinery has compelled the monarch to submit to a tax upon her income . ( Cbeerr ) TSow , do you understand me ? j ( "Aye , every word ot it , " and cheers . ) Mr . O'Connor then addressed the meeting upon the services performed by the Evening Star newspaper , and reminded them that
Huddersfleld had undertaken to raise £ 1 , 500 to enable him to establish a daily paper ; and why now ! Tefuse their support to one in which he could have no selSsh motive ; one possessed by one of the most honourable , amiable , aud gentlemanlike young men he had ever had the good fortune to meet Why not rally round him who Was losing £ 72 a-week by his advocacy of their cause ? ( Cheers , and " We wilL ") Aye , but ; do it . After a smasher at the deserters and trimmers , and a defence of his policy in opposing the League , ! the resolutions so often referred to in the Evening Star were severally proposed , and unanimously adopted ; The man who seconded the resolution in favour of the Evening Star setting the example of practice by informingjthe meeting that he and nine shopmates had subscribed to it from the time that Mr . O'Connor ; took it up —( loud cheers followed this announcement . ) ¦
After a vote of thanks to Mr . O'Connor , and the veteran Chairman , the meeting broke up ; and at twelve o ' clock Mr . O'Connor departed for Normanton Station , seventeen miles , having spent the remainder of the evening ia company with Mr . Pitkethly and his friends . :
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NEWCASTLE . —Mr . Kidd , of Glasgow , lectured in the Chartiafa Hall on Sunday evening . Mr . Kidd will deliver a leeture in the same place on next Sunday evening , at half-past six o ' clock . The Chartists of Newcastle and Gateahead held their weekly business meeting on Monday evening . The minutes of the previous meeting having been confirmed and some local business disposed of , it was agreed that the discussion npon Mr . Cooper ' s plan of organization should be postponed until it was ascertained whether it was in conformity with law 01 not . ; STOCKPORT . —On Sunday evening last , Mri Christopher Doyle lectured to the friends in this town , on which occasion the lan ? e room was crammed to suffocation . A vote of thanks was passed to Mr . Kidd and the Sunderland lads .
HUDDERSFJEIiD . —On Sunday last , the usual district delegate meeting was held ia the Democratic chapel , Thurstonland . After the usual routine of business connected with the district had been disposed of , and the business relative the Birmingham Conference delegates settled , a vote of thanks to FearguB O'Connor , Esq . for his unwearied exertions jin the cause of Democracy , and for his promptitude ! in responding to the call of the Chartiats of this district , was agreed to . The subject of Cooper ' s Plan of Organization was deferred until next delegate meeting , — The meeting was then adjourned of that day fortnight , to be held in Mr . Dickinson's Room , Huddersfield |; ehair to taken at twelve o ' clock . :
DEWSBURY . —A District Council meeting was held on Sunday , in the large room over the Co-operative Store . After the financial business bad been transacted , James Fox and William Robshaw were requested to hold their respective offices as Secretary and Treasurer henceforward . - The next council meeting will be held on Sunday , Feb . 12 th , in the large room over the Gooperative Stores , Dowsbury . ) BUCSFAST&ElGia . —This is a new locajity to the National Charter Association . Fifty members have been enrolled , and a meeting room engaged . } Some opposition has been offered , by the " clergy" especially bat if crowded meetings be any criterion , this neisd not be feared : and we may anticipate that numerous proselytes to the good cause will reward the energetic ; efforta of the few friends who havo established the Association in this place . A contribution u . * si been forvraifiecl to the Defence Fund .
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Leeds . —On Sunday afternoon and evening , Mr Fraser lectured to . large audiences in the Chartist Raom , Cheapside , when 113- 0 $ d . was collected for Mrs . Ellis . Persons who may / eel inclined to give anything towards this laudable object , will be kind enough to bruit ? it to Air . Brook , treasurer for this fund . It is the duty of every Chartist , but more especially those who by their situation can afford it , to do something" towards assisting those who have suffered in their cause—let all , then , who can , come forward immediately , so that Leeds may not b& behind ia this holy work .
The Council met on Sunday morning , and by adjournment tn the evening , aft « r the lecture , when the Bub-secrstary brought forward Mr . Cooper's plan of Organization ; hs likewise read the artiola in the Star relative to it . A resolution waa moved , deciding against its adoption in its present form , and statin" that the present plan , with a few im , provements , ( such as the registration , the place appointed where the Executive should meet th transact business , and that printed copies of tee . Balance Sheet should be transmitted to hca sub-Secretary in the kingdom , instead on the present" method , ) is the best that cabe had under the present state of the law After some discussion , in which the council
generally approved of the resolution ^ an amendment was moved— " That a committee of five persons be appointed to examine both plans , with a view that the Leeds' Chartiats may submit one to the consideration of their Chartist brethren . " The original resolution was withdrawn in favour of the amendment , which was carried unanimously . A committee was then appointed , consisting of Messrs . Jones , Fraser , Knowles , Brayshaw , and Brook . A motion was then carried that a soiree should be held on Monday , Feb . 27 th , in the Room , Cheapside , for the benefit of M'Douall . A member of the Association , named Parker , a hard-working man , then presented himself before the Council , to lay a gross charge against Mr . Dean Taylor , late Chartisfe
lecturer . He detailed his case as follows : —After Taylor had left the North and East Riding , he resided at Leeds , and was engaged at different times to lecture in the Room , Cheapside , on Sunday evenings ; on one of these occasions , Parker and his wife , who regularly attended , became acquainted with him , and solicited him to go and take tea at their house , which was situated in Hunslet Lane . He did bo ; and in the course of the evening told thorn that he was in poverty and distress , and other pitiful tales . Parker , who is a very feeling man , took him into his house , and gave him board and lodgings for more than two months ; after this Taylor left and took a room , or rather persuaded some one cL-o to take it for him , to preach in on his own account ; he had it betwixt two and three months , received all the
collections , aud now a poor working man is left to psy the rent . This room is situated at the Ba . uk , Marsh Lane . However , on Sunday , January the 15 th , Taylor and Parker ' s wife stript Parker ' s house of every thing they could well take , betwixt four and five o ' clock in ths morning ; and both of them left town together . It is suspected they have gone to London . The poor man could hardly relate the above for tears ; he and his wife have always lived happy and comfortable ; his home is now broken up , and all by an ungrateful and unprincipled vagabond . Several persons attested to the truth of the statement . The members of the Council thought they were bound to send this forth to their Chartist brethren throughout the kingdom , so that they may be on their guard against such vile and deceitful impostors .
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class-ma . de laws have made their victims : let us endeavour to release them . Fellow Working Men , — WHEN I sent the Advertisement to be Published , which has appeared for the last few weeks , and which states that I am willing to give four shillings to the Executive and one shilling to the Victim Fund out of every one hundred pounds weight of beverage , I say , my friends , at that time it struck me very forcibly that the Victim Fond stood much need of augmenting , and I think bo still
as you may see by their letter ; and I also thiuk , if I may judge from appearance , that , the country evinces but little disposition to support the cause of Ghartism through the Executive , inasmuch as neither myself nor Messrs . Crow and Tyrrel have had much to add to their funds for some weeks past . I therefore propose that the whole of the five shillings pet hundred pounds be given to the Victims' Defence Fund , and it Bhall appear as before in Mr . Cleave ' s Subscription List weekly , until the assizes are over , when we can make fresh arrangements as the times
may require . Now , my friends , it remains with the people , whether those men who have been made victims for no other crime than that of demanding justice at the hands of our oppressors be left to the clemenoy of a merciless judge and a time-serving jury , or whether they shall have funds sufficiently supplied which will 6 ecure to them justice ; and we moat remember that there is only a few weeks to raise the money in , and we should also remember that wa that are at liberty are only so because the law has not got hold of us , but that we perhaps may have said and done more towards the downfall of tyrants than those whom it is our duty to support . I now leave the matter in your hands , and only have to say , that I pledged myself in 1819 never to rest until wo were free—I never have nor ever will . Roger Pindsb . Hall .
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FOB THE NATIONAL DEFENCE FUND . £ b . ii . From Robert Hutcuin , fl ixdresaer , America 0 4 0 ~ the female operatives at the Fabric , Boulogne-sur-Mer , Franco ... 0 14 4 . J ~ the Chartists of Wtst Kilbride , proceeds of a raffls for the Petition Piate ... 0 4 4 £ .. T . B Hyllan . perJ . Wllliawa ... ¦ 0 1 6 „ a few friends at EasiDgton-lane , per J . Hunter 0 6 10 J „ J . Williams ( donation ) 0 1 7 ^ „ James Norman , Leeds 0 0 6
FOB MRS . ELLIS . From the Chartists of Newport , Isle of Wight ... ~ 0 10 0 — the Chartists of Leeds 0 11 1 „ a female friend at Bampton , per Mr . Spencer 0 1 € FOB MBS . BOBERTS . From the Chartists of Newport , Isle of Wight 0 5 0 „ the Chartists of Huddersfleld , per J . Cnapman 0 5 6
Triumphant Meeting Of The Working Classes, And Defeat Of The Uni Ted Forces Of The League Undmgus1ed, And League Disguised.
TRIUMPHANT MEETING OF THE WORKING CLASSES , AND DEFEAT OF THE UNI TED FORCES OF THE LEAGUE UNDMGUS 1 ED , AND LEAGUE DISGUISED .
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BRADFORD . [ Froviihe Evening Star . ) Bradford having responded to the general call to send delegates to the Conference lately , held at Birmingham , and further having resisted the insidious schemes of some of those Chartists into ¦ whose eyes a portion of the League gold-dust bad been thrown , by refusing to elect a " whole hgg , ' and two " sucking pig" Chartists , Mr . O'Connor visited the town on Friday last , for the purpose of reimbursing the fund out of which the expenses of sending those delegates had been taken . The working men having heard ot Mr . OConaor's intended Visit , issued circulars challenging the League to discussion .
At eight o'elock , the time at which business was to commence , the Social Institution , an immense Hall , capable of holding from 2 , 000 to 3 , 000 persons , was not only wedged in every part , but the stairs , staircases , and every avenue was literally blocked up , so that when Mr . O'Connor arrived at the entrance , it was with difficulty he could be forced through the dense mass . In fact , we presume that even our short-sighted friend of the Observer will admit , tbat so crowded a meeting never has been seen in this town . After Mr . O'Connor had concluded an address , under the several beecls set forth in the bill calling the meeting , and ha ting laid his views upon the subject of free trade and the land clearly before the meeting , and when the resolution passed at Manchester , Rochdale , Ashton , Stalybridge and Bolton was proposed and seconded , and without any previous notice whatever to Mr . O'Connor or the Chartists , a
Mr . Smedhurst got up , and after attempting for three quarters of an hour to grapple with the arguments of Mr . O'Connor , he proposed , as an amendment to the resolution , " That ft repeal of the Corn Laws would be a positive benefit to the shepkeepingand working classes . " Preserving the latter part , which went to pledge the meeting not to join in any agitation for a repeal of the Income Tax . Mr . C . Wilson seconded the amendment . Mr . Hodgson , one of the four delegates to the first Birmingham Conference , moved , and Mr . Fletcher seconded , another amendment , " That that meeting send no resolutions to Parliament , for or against the repeal of the Cora Laws .
In the course of biB speech Mr . Hodgson read an article from the Evening Star of the 17 th of Oct ., which he declared waa in favour of a repeal of the Corn Laws , and , as Mr . O'Connor was the editor , of course he was the writer . Mr . Hodgson and Mr . Ft etcher were received by their brother working men with universal and almost continuous disapprobation from the beginning to the end of their appeals . Mr . H . stated , that Mr . O'Connor ¦ would not dare to suggest a petition to the meeting founded upon the resolutions , and why stop the resolutions , and contended that the people should go on for the Charter , without reference to the agitation for the Lvague .
Mr . O'Connor very briefly replied to all the arguments of both parties . In answer to the charge of having advocated the repeal 'of the Corn L * ws , in the Evening Slar , or any other paper , he defied any man to show a line having tbat tendency . " Facts were chiais tbat winna ding , " as Burns said , and so were dales . With respect to the article in the Evening Star of the 17 th of October , and referred to by Mr . Hodgson , the date was a fact that " winna ding . " On the 17 th of Ootober , Mr . O'Connor was in his bed , and his doctor was In Liverpool ready to swear to his incapacity from illness to move ; but that should not be his only answer , he would pledge himself to place the assurance of the Proprietor in the hands of their Secretary , that he ( Mr . O'Connor ) neither saw , wrote , nor heard of the article referred to—( long-continued cheering followed this announcement ) Mr . O'Connor then referred , in no measured
terms , to the part acted by some Chartists who had become freetraders fora job ; and now , said he , let us just inquire into the whys and the wherefores of this said resolution : all would admit that the Chartist cause must be kept alive , and before the public . All would admit that it was not practicable to get up a petition this session , declaring our strength and determination . In thiB state Acland and , Cobden for the League had gone through the country , declaring that the Chartists wore down , and had joined the League—( hear , hear ) . The press re-echoed this , snd the cause was likely to be damaged should the Chartists or the House of Commons believe the assertion . Here , then , -was the only mods of giving a fiat contradiction to the falsehood —( loud cheers ) , —here was the cheapest way of keeping Chartism alive and unsullied , and of defending the people from the charges that would otherwise be unquestionably made in the House by Cobien and Co—( renewed cheers ) .
After the close of Mr . O'Connor ' s address , the several resolutions and amendments were severally put by the Chairman , when about twenty bands were held up for that of Mr . Smedhurst , and a forest against it . The amendment of Mr . Hodgson received precisely a similar fate ; and upon the original resolution being put , the whole meeting , with the exception of about thirty , held up their bands , and it was declared earned , amid thunders of applause ; and thus were the macbinationB of the repealers undisguised and the repealers disguised frustrated in Bradford . The resolution that the foregoing be transmitted to Mr . Duneombe , signed by the Chairman , as the resolution of the meeting , and to be presented by him to the Bouse of Commons , was then put and carried ; and that pledging the people to support the Evening Slar was carried without a single dissentient .
A uaanimoas vote pi confidence in , and thanks to , Ftargus O'Connor , * was then carried by acclamation ; and after a few words from that gentleman , the meeting separated , and at twoiva o ' clock Mr , O'Connor started for Lisds .
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Paine ' b Birthday . —This event was celebrated in the usual manner at several places on Monday evening last . We have received long accounts of the festivities , for none of which have we space , our columns having been pretty well occupied even before their receipt .
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NEWCASTLE . —The pitmen of Kenton Colliery summoned their employer before the Bench of Magistrates in Newcastle , for a breach of agreement It was ably shown by Mr . Lockie Harie , ( the solicitor for the complainers ) that according to the bond the men were entitled to work at which they could earn thirty shillings per fortnight throughout the year , with the exception of on « fortnight , between the 20 th of Deo . and the 20 th of Jan ., which the masters had it in their power to lay them off , whereas the men were deficient in the amount to
which they were entitled by their written agreement for three fortnights tfinniug , and claimed as a maiter of justice due to his clients that they be remunerated for the loss they have sustained . The solicitor for the defendant in his defence admitted that the men had sustained a loss , which he thought they were entitled to have indemnified , but not to the extent tbat they claimed . The Justices retired to consider , and returned it as their opinion , that the men had sustained no great loss by the wages being kept off , and therefore dismissed the case . The employer sat on the Bench as a magistrate that day . ;
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Rsgistoted , Thomas Emmett Silence , son of George and Mary Silence , Charlton-stroet , Somers Town > London . On Sunday last , the infant son of John and Catherine Rawclrff waa christened by the Rev . J , Cannell , at the Catholic Chapel , St . Wilfreds , Preston , John Frost Raweliff .
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DEATHS . On Friday , the 27 th tilt ., at Huddersfiold , after a short illness , Mr . Edward Manners , painter , lately of Bradford , and formerly many years foreman to the late Mr , Frederick Wilson ., painter , Upperhead Row , Leeds . At the New Humaramsj London , on Sunday , the 22 aduU ., John Hampton Hampton Lewis , Esq ., of Henley . aa&Bydjor , m the County of Acglesfy .
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S Chartists , in general meeting ofJoseph Goods . —All the fellow wants is THE NORTHERN TAR . [ Chartists , in general meeting of Joseph Goode . —An th » /¦ *// ... ,. . •_
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 4, 1843, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct977/page/5/
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