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Will Mr . W . Jones , Chartist lecturer , send his address to W . Foster , of Bingley , as soon as possible ? A-j OF C . —No . We suppose we must have answered the question twenty times in the Star . DuXDEE . —The report of the unemployed next teeek . Saiisbcbt . —Tfie address to Feargus O'Connor next week . Cragdjxe . —No room this week . Bbighton . —Our friends must excuss us : tee fear the election correspondence they have sent us tcould-not have sufficientpublic interest to compensate for the space it would occupy . Joffi ? Bubbotts , Bubjylet . —His communication is received : we shall use it next week .
A Seiptoi ? Chartist informs us thai in thai good toicn a case of embezzlement teas made matter of magisterial investigation on Saturday ; but thaithe parlies implicated being " respectable "—the constable was posted at the door of the Courthouse to prevent the ingress of the working men who were curious to hear how the administrators of justice would talk to " respectable" deRnguents , and anxious to see the practical enforcement of the maxim , thai in England the same law governs loth rich and poor . T . Palmer . — It will be all one sheet . Jakes Datvso >" , of Lees , begs to acknowledge the receipt of £ 1 4 . s . 4 id , from his Mossley friends , during his incarceration .
Bristol Cbabtists . —Their address to Mr . O'Connor next week . William Rtjssell , late of Nottingham . —Thanks for his friendl y private note . We wish all those who hcvc _ complaints to make would evince a like spirit . —We have no recollection of the resolutions he alludes to . If we had received them we should certainly have published then . As Old " Radical . —We are a little sceptical as to the conversion of Mr . Baines to Chartism . Joh > ' Simpson . — We cannot give long subscription fists in detail—our space will not permit it . TP nrMrvfiTTiv . —All persons holding petition sheets are requested to bring them , either filled or not , by Monday next , to Mr . E . Spink , 145 , Lancasier-sireei .
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W . N . vesixob had better say how many Pistes are wanted , and hare them in one psrceL J . E . —It is rot uecessary . A Pascel addressed to G . Whitby was enclosed to Mr . Simeon , Bristol , and forwarded to Mr . Cleave . "Will the parties detaining such parcel forward it as addressed ? Carlisle—A Numbeb . or Chabtists Cannot find any account . I OB , THE 2 iAS CHEST EB StTFEBEBS . £ a . d . From a few friends of the Political Institute , Sheffield ... ... -0 2 6 _ Kensington and Knightsbridge 0 17 9
FOB TBS EXECrTITS . . From the Chartists of Morley ... fl 10 0 FOB MBS . JOKES , MBS . BOBEBTS , AM ) MBS , -WILLIAMS . From several persons in Ixmdon , per John Simpson .. . ... 2 17 0 JOB THE FAMILY OF G . PLTXS , OF BRADFORD . Transferred from the Chartists' Contested Seats Fund , by the Carlisle Association ... ... 0 5 0 FOB THB COS"T £ > -riOS . From a few friends at Mr . Holdforth ' s silk m ill , Horsforth ... e 4 8 _ DaTidRoshforth « 0 6 .. a friends at Swain Green ... 8 2 9 _ W . Traughton , Holms Mill ... 0 16 _ a few fripn r >« , per M . Gsrbutt 0 2 6
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Losdos . —A grand gala and ball will take place * t tie Royal Albert Saloon , Shepherdess "Walk , City Bead , on Thursday , the 12 th May , fox the benefit of Mr . Lunt , an old stager in the cause of democracy . { The -whole to conclude with a splendid drama . — Tickets 9 i ; reserved seats , Is . ; ball room , Is . Castle-sxbzet , Leicesteb-squabe . —Mr . Beesley , delegate from Lancashire , trill lecture at the Gockhouse , on Sunday next . . Globe Fields . —A special meeting of the members ol this locality will be held next Sunday , at the Hit or Miss , 79 , West-street . Devonshire-street , at 7 o ' clock in tas evening , to take into consideration to remote this locality to a more suitable place of meeting .
New Road . —SHOEiiAKEBS . —Mr . Woodward , the delegate from Brighton , "will lecture at tho King and Qaeen , Foley-srreet , Cleveland-street , on Sunday evening next . &La 2 Tlebo 5 E . —Mr . Leach , president of the Executive , will lecture at the Working Men ' s Hall , No . 5 , Circus-street , New-road , on Sunday evening next , at half-past seven o ' clock , Victobia Thsatbe . —A benefit for the ConTention will take placs , this evening , Saturday . Dockhead . —A raffle , consisting of three portraits , xmmely , Frost , O'Connor , and Emmett , will take 5 lace , for the benefit of the ConTention Fund , at St . ohn's Coffee House , on Wednesday evening next , at eight o ' clock . Tickets , 3 d . each , can be had of Mr . Jeanes , hair dresser , Snowsfields .
oo , Old Eailet . —Mr . Powell , delegate to the Convention , will lecture here on Sunday evening . Mr . Doyle , delegate to the Convention for Cheshire , will lecture here on Tnesday next . Rothebhithe . —A Citizen of London mU address ihe men of Rotberhitie—subject— " The Repeal of the Union , and the means to obtain «"—on Sunday evening next , at seven o ' clock , at Bailey ' s Temperance Coffee House , Chnrch Passage , near 3 totb . erb . hhe Chnrch . Public discussions take place here eTery Wednesday evening .
Eastebs Division , Bootslakebs . —On Sunday evening next , a lecture will be delivered at the Star Coffee House , Golden Lane , by Mr . Christopher Doy ' e , at half-past seven o ' clock . BKRMoyjssrr . —A special meeting' of the BeriaoiidEey locality will be held on Monday evening next , at the Horns Tavern , Crucifix-lane , at haifpas ; seven o ' clock precisely , to elect a new Treasurer , in the room of Charles Je&nes , who has resigned . Dckistielb . —iir . William Aitken will deliver a lecture in the Association Room , Hall Green , Dakinfield , on Sunday ( to-morrow ) , at six o ' clock in the evening . Oldhah . —Mr . John Bailey will lecture here on Sunday evening next , at six o ' clock .
Wati-EHEad Mixi- —Mr . John Bailey "will lecture -at this place on Sanday next , at two o ' elock In the afternoon . BoLLnvGWOBtH . —Mr . R . Wild , of Lower Burn , mil lecture here on Sunday next , April 24 th , at halfpast ' ivro o ' clock in the afternoon , in aid of the Convention . Glossd p . —Mr . It . Wild -will lecture here on Sunday evening , at six o ' clock . Bbadfobd . —Mr . J . Dewhnrst vfill lecture here on Saturday ( this day ) , at the Masons' Arms , at seven o'clock in the evening . Sia > xixglet . —Mr . J . Dewhurst will address the females of Sianningley on Tuesday next . A memo-• wal to her Majesty will be adopted , for the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jone 3 .
Suxdeblasd . —On Sunday afternoon , Mr . Charles Connor wiil lecture at the Life Boat Hoasc , at halfpast two o'clock . iia WiiUA 3 i 5 will lecture on Monday evening next , in the Unitarian Chapel , Bridge-street , " On the suffrage . " The lecture to commence at eight D ' clock . Pixse-vs Delegate Meeti . ng . —Again vre urge npon the pitmen of the Tjte and Wear to send delegates to ihe meeting intended to be held on Saturday ( this day ) , at Mr . Thoma 3 Hutchinson ' E , Freemasons ' Arms , Moakwearmouih . The business "will be of the utmost Importance . HoLLisvrooD . —Mr . Thoma 3 Storor , of Ashton , lectures here on Sunday next , at six o ' clock in the evening .
YVaebkgto . w—Public Discussion . —On Sunday next , a discussion wjil take place in the Chartist Boom , Bank-street , at half-past six o ' clock in the evening , when all parties in politics are earnestly invited to attend . Subject— " Is war necessary V Mr . Thomas Lowe opens the discussion . Abkrgavejot . —Mr . William Edwards , of Newportj is expected to lecture here on Tuesday , the 3 rd of May , in the Association Boom , Frogmorestreet . MAOCLFSFrELD . —A delegate meeting will take place in the Association Rooms , WatercoteS , on Snnday , lhe 1 st of May . The County Secretary must at the same time inform the different Associations that a county lecturer cannot be engaged until the fcext delegate meeting , as the whole of the Convention and LecinrerB' Fund is not brought up .
DrKSBrRT . —A District Conncil meeting will be fcela in the Room over the Co-operative Store , on Sunday next . Mb , Taylor ' s Rotttb fob the ESEtrwG Week : — it Nottingham Forest , on the afternoon of Sunday text , and at the Chapel , Rice Place , in the evening ; « to Monday , at Hucknall TorVard ; on Tuesday , at Old Bas-ford ; on Wednesday , at A , ambley j and OB * Voxd&y evening , at Bnddicgtoa ,
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Derbtshiue , —Mr . Dean Taylor will lecture at the following places , at seven o ' clock each evening —At Belper , in the Market Place , on Monday April 25 ih ; at Duffield , on Tuesday , the 26 th ; at Heanor , on Wednesday , the 27 th ; at Swanwich , on Thursday , the 28 th ; at Matlock Bridge , on Friday the 29 th-and he will preach in Belper Market . Place , at five o clock on Sunday evening , May 1 st . A collection will be made at the close of each lecture to aid th 9 funds . Me . Chahi . es Cokkob will be at South Shields on Monday , the 25 th inst . ; North Shields , Tuesday ! the 26 tn ; Middlesborough , Wednesday , the 27 th Stokeslsy , Thursday and Friday , the 28 th and 29 : h ; Bishop Auckland , Sunday , May 1 st ; and at the tea party , West Auckland , on Monday . Mav the 2 nd . ¦ J
Staltbbidge . —Mr . J . Crowther of Lower-Moor , near Oldham , will deliver a lecture in the National Charter Association room , on Sunday evening , the 24 th , at six o ' clock . BlBSUNGBAM . —A collection will take place at the Aston-street rooms , on Sunday and Monday evenings , for the Convention Fund . Haslet . —Mr . Candy ' s route as follows : —At Wolverhampton , on Monday the 25 th ; Stourbridgo , on Tuesday ; Kidderminster , on Wednesday ; Bromsgrove ,. on Thursday ; Worcester , on Friday ; and at Redditeh on Saturday and Sunday , the 30 th , and May 1 st .
Delegate Meeting . —A meeting of delegates from the various districts in the West Riding , will be held at the house , of Mr . Carrodus , tho North Tavern , Bradford , on Sunday , the 1 st of May , at ten o'clock in the forenoon . " It is particularly requested that each district . will appoint a delegate . Debdt . —Mr . P . M . Brophy ' s route for the ensuing week : —At Swadliacote on Sunday morning , at ten o ' clock ,- Burton-on-Trent , Sunday , at six in the evening ; Tutbury , on Monday , at seven o'clock YoxhaJl , on Tnesday ; Derby , on Wednesday , in the Association rooms , Willow-row , at seven o ' clock ; and at Belper , on Thursday . Manchester—Messrs . Jtoss , Dixon , and Smethurst , will lecture at the Carpenters' Hall , on Sunday afternoon and evening ; after wiiica letters will be read from Mr . J . lJea . ch member of the
Convention . Rochdale . —Mr . Edward Clark of Manchester , will lecture next Sunday ( to-morrow ) , in the Association room , to commence at half-past two o ' clock , and six in the evening . Mr . Bell ' s Routs . —Mr . Bell will lecture at Halifax , on Monday the 25 th inst . ; Ovenden , Tuesday ; Miienden , "W ednesday ; Luddenden , Thursday ; Lower Wortley , Friday ; Ripponden , Saturday ; and at Sowerby , on Sunday , the fir 3 t day of May .
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Snnday afternoon , the funeral of Brother Dymonds , deceased , of the Ancient Order of Foresters , took place at Sunderland . Upwards of one hundred men of the lodge testified their respect for his memory by accompanying his remains to the grave , in Sonderlsad Church-yard . i » QNJ 5 O ! T—Jamaica Level . —A dreadful accident occurred to a poor boy , ten years old , at Porter ' s , rope-makers , Jamaica-level , at half-p " ast seven o'clock , on Monday evening ; while cleaning some portion of the steam engine , the boy ' s right arm W 3 S caught between the rollers of the engine , by which it was brokeu in three places . Hs lies in a dangerous state in Guy's Hospital .
NORWICH . —Change 'fcixcisG . —Oa Thursday , April 7 th , the Norwich scholars ascended the tower of St . Peter ' s , Mancroft , and attempted to riDg the longest Peal of Stedman Cinques ever rang in England ; they attained about 6 , 000 chaDges in about four hours and a half , after which the tenor bell , which weighs , with stock and bearing 3 , SjOOOlbs , broke her gudgeon , and fell on the massive beams beneath with a tremendous crash , but sustaining no injury . The ringers were more frightened than hurt . LETTERS OF MR . O'BRIEX TO THE EDITOR " OF THE " NORTHERN STAR" AND TO THE ¦ UNREPRESENTED CLASSES . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NOBTHEBN STAB .
- Sib ., —From your conduct towards ma on former occasions , it was my intention never again to trouble you with any communication , public or private ; but you have SO fonlly and basely misrepresented me in yonr last paper , 1 bat I feel bound by the respect I owe the ChartiBr body , to notice the deception jott have practised on them at my ex pence . I therefore demand the publication ef this , not less on public grounds , than on grounds' personal to myself . I demand it , cot as a favour , xtoT I will owe you no favour , ) but as a matter of right ; and if ^ on will not insert m j letter on that ground , you need not insert it alL
Tne part you represented me as having acted at the Birmingham Conference , is the very opposite of the part I did act , —and you know it . Had O'Connor been in the same place , and acted the like part , how different would have been yonr commentary ! Tonr " leading , " or rasher misleading article is , from first to last , ( as far as I am concerned , ) a gross and wilful perversion of facts ; artfully got up for the purpose of denouncing me in the estimation of the Chartist public . But you will nst succeed . I defy you—I defy O'Connor himself with all his popularity and influence , to make the Chartist public belieye that my conduct on Conference was what jotu laboured artiste would ( by its perversions , suppressions , and studied misrepresentations ) lead them to believe . That conduct I am prepared to
defend against you or any other , person ; and for that purpose I hereby challenge you to meet me before the pnbBc , either in your own town of Leeds , or in Birmingham , Manchester , or London . Let tie meeting be a public one , openly and fairly convened , with due notice given , < Scc Ton shall yourself name the time and place ; or if you cannot afford the time , I will meet O Connor or any other man , or »« t of men , whom yon may choose to name . Now mind , you don't burke this challenge as you did my answer to the challenge of the Socialists . With all the power and popularity of O'Connor and the Star , I am not afraid to meet any or all of you in a just cause . I will not argue with you for a victory , or leadership- Victory I despise , Jeader-Bhip I abhor . I will meet you only to establish justice for myself , and truth for tie public .
Tis not of your leading article alone I complain . I complain also of O'Connor ' s letters , and of certain reported proceedings and resolutions relating to the Conference , which you have inserted in the Star , all of which are calculated to place me in a false position before the Cbartist pnblic . This you have no right to do—you have no right to use the Northern Slar , which you call 'i the people ' s organ , '' to rain honest public servants in their geod opinion by false and malicious
representations of their acts . In my capacity of delegate or deputy at the Conference , I was the servant of the Cnartista of Wottan-under-Edge , in _ Gloucestershire Tour misrepresentations of my conduct in that capacity are calculated to injure me in their estimation , and not only in their's , bnt in the estimation of tbs ChartUt public generally . This is a wrong , a grievous wrong , which you have no right to inflict . I demand redress at your hands , and , I think , I demand only what is jnst when I ass : —
1 st That you will either publicly accept , or publicly decline my challenge ; and that if you accept , you wiil name the time and place in next week ' s Star . 2 nd . That the question to be tried betwee i us be , " whether you have , or have not , most foully misrepresented me in last week ' s Slar ; and that for the purpose of bringing me icto odium with the Chartist body" —to which you . may add , if you Iifee—" whether your editorial practice of condemning and encouraging others to condemn men without a hearing , and upon erparle statements , is not calculated to destroy our cause , by driving away from our racks in despair and disgust , eTery intelligent man of spirit who may happen to gi- ? e umbrage to O'Connor , yourself , or the admirers of the Slar . "
3 rd . That you will publish in the Star of tee following week , a full and impartial report of the discussion , the reporter to be a peraenunconnected with either party . 4 th . That you will insert along "with this ( by way of antidote to the poison you have disseminated , ) the following address to the Chartist body . I have made it as brief as possible , that you may have no excuse for rejecting it , on the score of inconvenient length , or the " crowded state" of your columns . Tours , &c James B , O'Brien .
The Crescent , Edgebasten , Birmingham . Beotheb Chahtists , —I pray you not to believe one word said about me in the Star of last week ; nor to come to any conclusion respecting ths part taken by ma in the Conference , until Mr . Hill , or somebody for him , has accepted or declined my challenge . I will not be judged by the . report * of the Star , the Nonconformist , or any other paper in the kingdom . They are every one of them interested in misrepresenting and putting me down . I am neither a Sturgite , an O'Connorite , a Lovettite , nor any ether itt . I am what you have ever known me to be , and no mistake . ' I give Mr . Sturge , Mr . O'Connor , and every other public man , credit for all the good they do . But I will not pin my faith to any man ' s sleeve , nor belong to any party , other than that of the people .
My acts-and sentiments on the late Conference were directiy tie opposite of what the Star would lead you to infer . Yours , ever , James B . O'Beiex . [ The tone and temper , of this letter would have perfectly justified -as in putting it into the fire , instead of publishing it- Bnt we can 'very well afford to allow an angry man to splutter ; the more particularly when we have given him no cause to be angry . We have never yet known a leader preparing to bolt from the course who did Dot kiek most vicionsly at the first admonition of the Koiihern Slar , however f tntie or gentlemanly , I * o matter tow sttli and small
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the voice , its sound is hateful if sounded otherwise than in praise . God knows , that nothing in the whole movement affords us so much pleasure as to praisa the leaders , whenever we can do bo consistently and honestly ; and that we have never omitted any opportunity of calling the attention of the people to the merits and deserts of Mr . O'Brien , from whose energetic writings we believe the cause of liberty and sound principle to have received much f artherance . Bat though we believe Mr . O'Brien to have been a very useful man , we cannot therefore consent to fall in love with every thing he may Bay and do , merely because it happens to be his Baying and doing . We respect Mr . O'Brien xrach for the services be has rendered ; but we respect the causa
to which those services have been rendered much mare . And though we are quite ready te give Mr . O'Brien all the credit for shrewdness of judgment to which he is entitled , we Tenture to hope that the public , at all events , will see that we may chance to differ with him in opinion , and to express that difference of opinion in friendly and gentlemanly language , without meriting the morccau here bestowed upon us . We have never hesitated to give Mr . O'Brien free liberty to dissent from our opinions , and to espreBS his dissent in our own columns ; which he has done , ere now , with much less of courtesy than we have always observed towards him . Yet we never prated to the people about Mr . O'Brien " seeking to injure us in the estimation of the Chartiats . " We never
talked of his dissension from our advice or opinions as the inflicting of a " grievous wrong " . ' IVor did we ever vapour about " demanding redress at his hands , " or challenge him to meet na to discus 3 the question of whether his expression of dissent from our policy and proceeding was not " intended for the purpose of bringing us into odium with 'tb ' e-Chartist body" ? Had we done bo , we should have been laughed at , and thrown overboard by the people ; and we Bhould have richly deserved it We can tell Mr . O'Brien , that" if we do not greatly mistafee the character and intelligence cf the Chartist public , the time for such letters as this of his to do any harm to any one but their authors , or to do any thing but harm to their authors has gone by . The people have now a knack of thinking ; of looking beyond the mera wordy tutface , and forming their opinion from facts' and principles . Mr . O'Brien has enough of judgment to perceive that
bis position in the Sturgite Conference was unnatural , and anomaleus , and calculated to excite great surprise in the minds of many honest Chattists . The reasoning of our last week ' s article appears to have satisfied his mind that he has been playing a foolish and idle game ; bathe has not magnauiaity enough to acknowledge the conviction thus forced upon him ; and forthwith he is angry with us for having obliged him to Bee hi 3 folly . Feeling conscious that his laudations of the Sturge men , and of their perfect exhibition of the " democratic principle , " would not suffice to counterbalance the proofs of their insincaiity , "which our article laid plainly before both him and the people , he hopes to escape from the humiliation of retracing his steps asd renouncing his new a lliance by an impudent attempt to brand ns with the titles of liar and miscreant . He affirms that our representation of his proceedings at the Conference is wilfully false . His words are : —
" The part you represented me as having acted at the Birmingham Conference is the very opposite of the part I did act , —ana * you know it . Ha 4 O'Connor been in the Bame place , and acted the like part , how different would have been your commentary ! Yenr " leading , " or rather misleading article is , fft > m first to last ( as far as I am concerned ) , a gross and wilful perversion of facts ; artfully got up for the purposo of denouncing me In the estimation of the Chartist public . " From , any other man this paragraph would have surprised ns . From ilr . O'Brien it would at one time have surprised us : it does not now . Our answer to it is that we gave the statements from the Nonconfonnisl newspaper—the official organ of the
Conference ; that wj gave tho statements precisely as we fouud them , neither adding nor diminishing a word ; that we perverted nothing ; that we suppressed nothing ; that we mis-epresented nothing ; and that as we cannot Bapposo that Mr . O'Brien has not seen the Nonconformist , we must believe that he knows this to be the fact We have since then compared the report given by the Nonconformist with that of the Birmingham Journal and several other papers : we find them all to agree in giving precisely the sams version of the facts aa is given by tho Nonconformist ; and we must have some better reason than Mr . OB .-ien ' s thinking and saying bo , before we can believe that all the oracles of his new friends " are every one of them interested in
misrepresenting and putting him down" ! The sneer about what our commentary might probably have been , had O'Connor been in the same place , and acted a lite part , is in perfect keeping with the refct of this very disingenuous and insidious letter . The readers of the Star know very well , and Mr . O'Brien knows very well , that we nave not hesitated to express , th « ngh in his own paper , our dlesent from , and disapprobation of , Mr . O'Connor ' s opinions and policy , when ever our regard for public interest required it Mr . O'Brien { knows more : he knows that fie has dissented from Mr . O'Connor ' s opinions , and that be has always had free course to express bis own opinions in the Northern Star , however adverse
ta those of the Editor and Proprietor , at any length be pleased . There was always , to be sure , this difference between Mr . O'Connor and Mr . O'Brien ; that Mr . O'Connor never presumed to bluster in the style of this letter , about any expression of dissent from his opinion . We imagine the people know us now sufficiently -well to feel satisfied that if Mr . O'Connor had been in the same place , and acted the like part , our commentary would have been similar . We should have respectfully , tut firmly and promptly , intimated that we disagreed with him . This is all we have done in the present instance , to call forth the very gentlemanly letter now before us . " The very head and front of our offending , ** is in the following few lines of our last week ' s leading
article : — " What , then , ia the conclusion forced upon the mind by all these proceedings taken as a whole ? Th « avowed object of these men is the uniting of the whole energies of the whole people , and particularly the uniting of the middle and working classes ; and they prosecute this object by a means which , can bare no otter effect than that of breaking up , aa far as it may be successful , the union of the working classes already established . This may be sufficient to prove to Mr . O'Brien that his suspicions of the Sturgeite ' s were groundless ; we acknowledge , however much we may regret , to dissent from his opinion , that upon our mind it has worked a conclusion exactly the reverse cf this . "
We defy any man breathing to point out ft BingTe word that we have ever written of O'Brien less respectful than those we have quoted above : and yet this is to use the Northern Siur with a malicious intention to ruin Mr . OBrieu ) God help the poor thin skinned fellow ! But Mr . O'Brien denias the accuracy of the report He affirms that his conduct—that his acta and sentiments were directly tha opposite of what is reported of him . Suppose , for the sake of argument , the report to have been incorrect , ( which we don't believe ) why then shonld Mr . O'Brien tnrn round and abuse us ? We give our authority for every word we say re « specting him—we So not profess to giva it as our own report , for we had no reporter there—we take
the report from the official organ of the Conf-irence , simply because we are determined not to be charged with having " artfully got np' * a report to suit our own purposes . YeJ , Mr . O'Brien , knowing these facts , pours out the full vial of his indignation upon us , and affirms that tee have laboured by wilful suppressions , and perversion and misrepresentation , to malign and ruin him with the Chartist public ! He does not condescend to tell us what the suppressions , perversions , and misrepresentations are . A temperately and decentlyexpressed letter informing U 3 that the NoJiconformist report , from which we had quoted , was an incorrect one , and giving his own version of tho facts and bis own correction of the misrepresentations , would have been
a communication at least as likely to obtain insertion in a paper which'has always befriended him , as the insolent and Wactgnard epistle which betas thought proper to send . But this , it seems , did not suit Mr O'Brien ' s purpose . He knew perfectly -fl ell that if any misrepresentation of him had been given in the Northern Star , it had been given unwittingly ; and that nothing would give its conductor greater pleasure than to correct any such misrepresentation . Iustead , however , of taking the course which any decent roan , conscious of having truth on his side , would have taken , Mr . O'Brien thinks proper to plaob himself altogether without the pale of civilised society . There is no accounting for taste ; and we have no wish to interfere with Mr . O'Brien ' s taste ,
farther than may be agreeable to him , or necessary to our own protection , or that of the people . As to his vapouring " challenge" (!) we tell him very candidly we have much better occupation for our time . He knew himself to be quite safe in making it ; because h « -was quit © sure that there was no danger of its being accepted . There are one or two other points , in this extraordinary epistle , that we must notice before we shake hands with Mr . O'Brien , and wish him better luck and better temper- He begins bis letter by an insinuation that , at seme former time , be has received ill usage fromUB . We do not like general insinuation ; and ¦ would rather bave Been the when and the how
hoBertiy pointed out . For the satisfaction of such readers as may feel any interest in it , we state thus publicly , and we refer to the whole of the Northern Star for evidence , that we have never permitted an opportunity of serving Mr . O'Brien ' s interests , or defending or npholding his character , when we could rightly aud honestly do ao , to escape us unimproved * We have watched for opportunies of serving him in consideration of his former writings on behalf of the cause , as anxiously as -we could have sought our own personal advancement , and much more anxiously than we have done so . We have his own letters by us in ? vfaich he acknowledges , in glowing terms , " the kind , the generous , nay , the chivalrous manner" in which our regard for his interests and . character hate been
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evinced . He has &ad the full use of the columns of the Northern star , during the whole term of its existence , to write therein , upon public sulyecis , whatever he thought proper . His communcationa on all matters of principle have been invariably inserted , at ¦ whatever inconvenience , and in every instance at full length , and without the slightest alteration , a delicacy or courtesy never extended to any other correspondent of the paper , not even ttt the proprietor Maiaelf { And yet thia man , who has always written in the paper whatever he liked , and of whose communications we nover altered a single word , is the only man who haa talked of V suppression and mutilation , " in reference to his correspondence . Upon two occasions he sent
grossly libellous attacks on Individuals ; for which we refused to make the Star a vehicle * Qae of tneao was a letter from Lancaster Castle , in raferonc& to certain parties connected with the Southern Star . I The other was what he called hia " answer to the Socialists * challenge ' which he here insults us with having " burked . ' With the exception of these two mattera of personal attack , we repeat that Mr . O'Brien has written in the Northern Star any thing and every thing he liked ; aud we think that the people will concur with us in the opinion that if , insteadi of this letter , he had written a plain statement of the factay which . be says were misrepresented , to us , it would have been more serviceable to his creditl He insinuates , or rather
asserts plainly , that we make au " editorial practice of condemning and encouraging others to condemn men without a hearing . " He kuows this ; to be false ; and as all our readers know it to be false also , we need siy no more abou * . it . Oar insertion of this present letter of Mr . O Brien ' $ is a proof that bo far from condemning men unheard , we are willing to hear them even when they have nothing to say . And now we leave Mr . O'Brieh and his challenge in the hands © f the people ^ who we have no doubt will deal with them as they deserve . Mr . O'Brien says that we have misrepresented him ; he does not say HOW ; he says that we have perverted facts ; he does not say w h at facts ; he says that we are interested in misrepresenting and putting him down ; he does not say now we can be , or > vhv we should BE , SO INTERESTED . We sa 7 that we have misr
represented nothing ; that wo have quoted the statements ( for which we have given our authority ) fairly and honestly ; that we believe , from the confirmation made by many other papers , that that statement is correct ; and we are the more satisfied that it is so , because we have seen the last number of the Nonconfoi-mist , and do not find in it any notice Of any complaint from Mr . O'Brien about the inaccuracy of thereporfc . Here , then , we leare the matter . If Mr . O'Brien can justify himself to the people , we have no objection ; but we have a great objection to be further annoyed or abused by a man towards whom we have never manifested any hut a kind and friendly feeling , and for whom we have now no other wish than teat bo may live long , and enjoy-all : ' the happiness and public confidence to which hia merits and public services entitle him . —Ec . N . S }
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HOUSE OF LORDS . —Fhiday , April 15 . The Forged Exchequer-Bills Bill was read a third time , a clause proposed by turd Brougham being incorporated with the » ct . The Matquis of NonauNBY presented a petition from the municipal authorities of Hull , complaining of an excessive addition to the numbers of the borough magistracy . In the month of November last every vacancy bad , as they stated , been filled up and tho town possessed its full complement of twenty-four magistrates , when , without any commuaic&tiou with the Town-Council , eight other gentlemen were , with no previous notice , put upon the commission . The Noble liord proceeded to compare hia own conduct , when in power , with the course which had been pursued by the present Ministers in respect to the appointment of magistrates , and concluded by expressing his conviction that unless future Governments were more sparing in their fivours , the office of justice of the peace would become an object of sovereign contempt . :
The LORD CHANCELLOR defended the numerous appointments which he had felt it his duty to make , by stating the proportion of political partisans whom the late Ministers had , on no other ground , selected , and insisting upon the necessity of giving to each party a fair share of Municipal honours . In the case of Hull , twenty-three magistrates had in all been originally appointed , four only of whom were Conservatives , and cf these four not one hEd , from ono causejOr other , ever acted . He therefore thought , in adding e % ht other Conservatives , gentlemen of high respectability , to the list , still leaving a large majority to his opponents , he had done much to dilute and temper the spirit of partisanship whicu had [ hitherto infested the borough . It had
been generally admitted that there should be an admixture of the opinions of both parties , and upon that principle had he acted , although only where there was a strong preponderance , and in some cases an exclusive possession of the bench by one party , had he interfered . He quoted Yaraouth j Guilfordj Wigah , Coventry , Leicester , Plymouth , and Bristol , as instances of the unscrupulous extent to which the late Ministry had carried their political preferences , and declared , that holding himself respoBsibie for the due exercise of the prerogative of the Crown , he had mads careful inquiries into the character of those whom he had selected , and bad appointed those only who , but for their politics , would have met with equal favour from his predecessors . :
Lord COTTEMU Ji complained that the Government , in its search for information , had applied to private sources instead of to the , Town-Councils , who aa a recognised body , should have had the preference . After a few words from Lord Brougham , the petition was laid on tne table , and their Lordships adjourned .
Monday , April 18 . The Earl of Ripon moved the second reading of the Corn Importation Bill , and stated the reasons which had led the Government to modify the existing law . Earl Stanhope opposed the Bill , and made a warm attack on Sir Robert Peel and the Government , who , he contended , had grossly deceived tho agricultural interest , which find placed them in power . The Noble Earl spoke at great length , and concluded by moving that the Bill be read a second time this day six months . A debate arose , which lasted till nearly twelve o ' clock . [ ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ Earl Hardwicke declared his perfect conviction that this Bill did not touch the substantial protection which the farmer enjoyed , while it satisfied the people by modif / ing a law on which the country bad expressed an irresistible opinion .
The Duke of Buckingham was , however , ofadiffereDt opinion , He viowed the Bill with feelings of the deepest alarm . ' ¦ , Tue Earl of Winchilsea supported the bill aa a " final settlement" of a question which had dangerously agitated the country-Lord Western saw nothing final in it , brought forward , as it had been , by a ministry ftom whom diflferent things had been expected . Similar opinions as to the instability and temporary nature of the bill were expressed in the course of the evening by Lord Brougham , Earl Fitzwilliam , and Lord Melbourne , who all , however , treated it as a sure step in tho right direction . Bat Lord Brougham , while he expressed a qualified approbation of tbe bill , could net support it , and proposed an amendment , as an amendment en Earl Stanhope ' s that it was not expedient to lay a duty on the importation of foreign corn .
The other speakers weref Lord FITZGERALD , who vindicated tha Government ; and Lord BEAUMONT , who expressed bis alarm not only at the Corn Importation Bill , but at the reductions and alterations of the new tariff . After Lord Melbourne spoke , two divisions took place , one on Earl Stanhope ' s amendment , which was opposod by 119 to 17 ; and on Lord Brougham ' s , which was opposed bj 109 to 0 ..
Tuesday , April 19 . Lord Melbourne moved a resolution to the effect that a fixed , duty on . foreign corn imported into this country was ^ preferable to a sliding scal e varying with the average prices . His Lordship was not sanguine as to the adoption of his resolution by the House , but ho looked forward with confidence to the day when its truth would yet be acknowledged and acted on . The Earl of Ripon said that this resolution , if acceded to , would annul the decision of the previous evening , in favour © ft the government measure . He was of opinion that a fixed duty would not work Y ^ ry satisfactorily , if " fijfed" it could bo called , which would have to vary from eight shillings to nothing , and frem nothing to eight shillings . A long debate ensued , after which a division took place , when the numbers were for Lord Melbourne ' s
motion-Present 40 Proxies 22 — H Against it—Present .......... ..,.,....,,..,.... 117 Proxies ...,.., ,.,,.. i ..,,,,.............. 90 - —207 Majority against a fixed duty ... 136 The House adjourned at a quarter past two .
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HOUSE OF COMMONS , Fbidat , April 15 . On the order of the third reading of the Mutiny Bill in the House of Commons , Captain Bern A L proposeda clause to prohibit flogging in the army during tee time cf peace , except on f , march , or for theft He trusted be should have t ? / e aid of Captain Boldero , now a member of the Government , who , before his accession , to Office , bad be en a steady foe to this description of punishment . He f . tated the progress of legislation respecting it , and corabated the conclusion of the Committee which had r eported upon the subject in 1836 . Military ....-men . ; indeed , were for the most part adverse to the aboli ' . iqn of the practice ; but the members of all profer ^ ipna were wedded to received fonng o | discipline Be thought
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that if mora attention wore given to the moral and iutelleclual improvement of the soldiers , offansea would be less numerous ; and severe punishment lesanecescary . Ho applied to the success whichattended the efforts of Lord W . BentiECk and other general officers for the abolition of corporal yunishraenti It was no wonder that men , deceived into the service by recruiting sergeants , with false hopes of pay and promotion , should become wreckless and worthless . At the end of a long life of toil and danger , their only reward was a pittance of Cd . a day , to be paid in case of good bBhaviour . He believed that a limitation in the term of service would do niors than any severity to improve the character of the army . After aonie explanations from Captain Bolder © , respecting the consistency of his own opinions ,
Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS observed , that the practice of flogging was gradually growing into disuse . It was applied only to very gross offences , and was always avoided until every other resource bad failed . He therefore recomaiended It to tae Hpu 3 e to leave the subject in its present favourable train . Tbe proposed clause took a distinction between peace and war ; but it would be highly dan 4 eroua to put the soldier fighting his country ' s battles in a worse situation than the soldier enjoying peace . Equally dangerous was toe distinction as t » the offences on march : ' .-. "Why should these be dealt with more severely than offence * in garrison or on parado ?
Mr . Macau lay said , that having been Secretary ^ War , he thought it right to take his fair sUare of responsibility for stich military legislation aa was necessary to the public service ; and , therefora , taough he felt tb » t the practice of flogging had formerly bean carried to the length of a great abme , he weuld oppose the present motion . Lord A . Lennox thought the spectacle of flogging was a brutal and disgusting one ; but he feared it was impossible to dispense with flogging ¦ ¦ altogether . It was not , indeed , practised in the French army ,.-but then there had been eighty-one capital executions in that army during the very last year ; and what would Captain Bernal ' s Quaker friends at Wycombe say to that ? , . . ' -... ¦ ¦ - ' - . ' Mr . Stanley ( Anglesea ) was convinced that if the flogging took , place in the eight of tho public , the practice would not be suffered to continue another - day . ' ¦ ' ¦ . . ' .. ' : ¦ ' - ¦ " '~ ¦ . ' ' ' ' ¦ . ' . ¦
Mr . VIVIAN defended the punishment on the score of necessity . It was seldom applied but in the cases of men on whom all milder penalties were found quite inc-fficacioua . Mr . HOWARD spoke on the same side ; jis did also Dr . NICHOLL , the Judge-Advocate : but as the dinner nour was approaching , Hon . Members grew irrepressibly impatient and clamorous , and the debate became inaudible . Colonel Rawdon referred to the report of the committee appointed to examine this subject in 1636 , who had unanimously declared the impracticability of substituting any other effectual punishment : and to that purport the Pufca of Wellington ha 4 gl * en his decisive evidence .
The uproar of the hungry was now renewed , and Captain P 0 X 1 HLL obtained but one moment of tsilenco in which to express his disapprobation of Captain Bernara motion . On a division , the clause was rejected . The House having resolved itself into Committee on the Colonial Customs Bill , Mr . LAUeucHERE proposedthatwheaten flourshould continue to be imported , duty free , into the Canadas . He adopted the argument of the late Mr . Poulett Thornson , that no British , no imperial object , required the
imposition of any duty on this article ; and that , hi the absence of such objects , th 9 mother country ought not to interfere in the taxation of Colonial imports . The preseiit Government had avowed that the duty now proposed by them on this article waa not at all intended for the protection of British agriculture , ' nor of any Canadian interest , but for ihter-colonial objects . What those objects might be be could not understand . Hehad the same objection to the proposed duty on the import of cured meat . The flour imported into Canada came from the ITnited States , and was paid- for chiefly in British manufactures .
Mr . Gladstone advocated the proposed duty on the ground of protection , not to any class of producers , either in England or in Canada , but to the class of consumers in other colonies , which are importing and not exporting countries . If American flour were imported duty free into Canada , Canada could export an eqnal quantity of her own produce , which she would otherwise have retained for her own consumption . The corn which she might so export , for instance , to Newfoundland , would then-be duty free ; but the Newfoundlander would pay the same price for it as for American corn / which , when imported into Newfoundland , is subject to diityi the difference being gained by the Canadian exporter .
Mr . Roebuck could have understood , however he might disapprove , a wish to protect English agriculture against' American produce ; but that was disaavowed , and the interest . of consumers in other Colpnies , for instance , Newfoundland , waa Bet up . How the Newfoundland . consumer was to get bis corn cheaper , by reason of ft -s . duty , he could not understand . He contended that it was inexpedient to in ^ terfeve with the trade of the Colonies , except for some clear benefit ; and the law of 1773 had declared that this benefit must be ttie regulation of the commerce of the whole empire . Now , the benefit here professed was solely to tbe consumers in non-exporting Colonies , and it lay on Mr . Gladstone to show how consrimers could benefit by a 2 s . duty on an article consumed by them .
Lord Stanley defended Mr . OJiidstone , who had not said that tneduty cf 23 . would make corn cheaper to the Newfoundlander , but that the Newfoundlander would pay as much for Canadian corn , which bore no import duty in Newfoundland , as for American corn > Which would have borne a duty there ; while the Newfoundland revenue would lose the duty which , if the corn bad come to Newfoundland from America instead of Canada , it must have paid to the Newfoundland exchequer . Mr . Labouchere ' s amendment having been negatived by a division , . on the clause
Lord John Russell ^ respecting salt pToviaions , condemned the duty as a wanton interference with the general principle of commercial freedom ; and this , not for the saka of consumers , as Mr . Gladstone had alleged , but only for the sake of the Newfoundland revenue , as Lord Stanley had now admitted . He warmly reprobated this petty meddling sort of legislation , as obstructing the commerce between Canada and the United States . Mr . Gladstone censured the heat with which Lord John Russell had spoken .
Mr . LawoucHere repeated his objections to the principle of tbe import duties from the United States into Canada , with reference to the article of salt meat These matters seemed to be of small importance , but they might lead to very serious results . The existing system had worked well for eleven years , and was introduced by the Whig Cabinet when Lord Stanley himself was a member of it ; . He did not , however , ag « 9 with Mr . Roebuck that the change was a violation of the act of 1778 . Lord Howick considered the charge to be unwarranted by ariy practical incenvenience in the system which had prevailed for so many years * If there was an injury to the revenue of Newfoundland , let it bo met by a local act imposing a Cnly there on the import of Canadian flour .
Sir It . Peel rtated , that on the imports into the other three British provinces of North America from the Unted States the duty was 5 s . ; into Canada only 2 s . The argument derived from the mischief of chaoging what bad been for some years established was one which he was a little surprised to hear urged and cheered on the opposite side of the House . When he had used tnat argament himself he hadjbeen greeted with a derioion which seemed to indicate an opinion in that quitter that nothing could be more foolish . Mr . LabqCciieue added a few words . Mr . C . Bulleu said the duty would induce smuggling into Canada , and raise up enemies in tbe United States , where it was just now jpartlcularly important to conciliate public feeling . On the cause regulating the . import of foreign Etigar into the calonies ,
Mr . Cqbden asked how this was consistent with the exclusion of foreign sugar from the mother country , on pretence of its being slave-grown ? Mri Gladstone answered , t ' aat it was no new prir ¦ vllege , but was ona which th « colohiiea had always enjoyed . While negotiations were pending with foreign countries upon the sugar question , any minute alters tion was obviously inexpedient . The remaining clauses were then disposed of , and the House adjourned . Monday , April 18 . The 8 rst reading of the Income Tax Bill was xaoved by Sir R . Feel . This was opposed by Lord John Russell , who moved that it be read a first time this day six months . Sir R . Peel , in his reply , stated that be proposed to make an alteration in favour of the Scotch farmer , whose proportion , of the tax is to be 2 ^ d . instead of 3 Jd . in the pound .
Amongst the Members on the Opposition aide of the House who supported the Income Tax Bill , were Mr . Raikes Currie , who passed a glowing eulogium on Sir Robert Pee ) ., and declared be would net view hia measures through the " smoked glass" of faction . Mr . Ri < - / e , who eopported the Bill also , in the hope that a m'edification would be introduced into it in favour of incor / ies derived from professions . Mr . Roebuck , Mr / Muntz , Mr . Villiera , Mr . Thomas Duncombe , and Mr . Cobden , all spoke strongly agaiu&t the ^ ilK ¦ , - . ¦¦' . ¦ ¦"¦ ¦ : ; ¦ : - ¦ ' ¦ . . "' . ¦ . ' ¦ ; ¦ , •; ¦ : - . ¦ ¦' . . : ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ Al n " Buncombe , commenting on Mr . R . Currie ' s ealogium on Sir R . Pe « l , observed that if half what he aaid were true , a political miUeniam had commenced with the accession of the Right Hpnourable Baronet to ¦ . OfficeV ¦'' ¦¦ / .- ' "¦ ' ' ¦' . '¦ ¦ - . '¦ -. " : ' - . ' ; . ¦ :. ¦ Mr . Wallace and Mr .- Suarman Crmvford also spoke ogainBt the tix , which waa Bupported on the Ministerial side of the House by Mr . Hakdy and filr .
MOXKTON MltNES . On a division , Lord JOHN RirssELL's motion waB rejected by 285 to 188 . The bill was then read a fiist time . ¦ ' ¦ ' . '¦ ; ' . ' . ' ¦ " - - . " . . . ¦¦ - " ¦ ; . / - .. ; ; . - The rest of the evening was occupied by voting some grants in a committee of supply ; and consider ing . in committee , the Municipal Corporations BilL
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Tuesday , Jpril 19 th . - Lord Stanley , in reply to Mr . F . M . Stewart , entered into a somewhat lengthened and important statement as to tho arno&nt of demand for labour in our Australian colonies and Canada , and the degree in . which that demand was Buppjied by voluntary emigration . ¦ ¦ - ¦"• : ' .-
THE CHABTEB . Mr . T . Duncombe gave notice that on Monday the 2 d of May , he would present a National Petition , signed by more than three millions of the industrious classes in favour of the People ' s Charter , and thai on the following day he would move that the petition be taken into consideration , and the petitioners heard at the bar by counsel or by their agents . ; ¦ / > . - ;¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ' . ' .: . ..-. . . , ' - ¦; Mr . Ferraud rose to move ^ for a select committee to inquiry into the existence of frauds in the various manufactures of the United Kingdom : and also certain resolutions , purporting that " the House would protect working men giving true evidence before such committee . He cpive-ided that it was
tho dishonesty of our raaniifticturera which had lost them their superiority in the markets of the world ; and read various communications front books , newspapers , and letters , ia support of his alJe ^ ati ons . Ha ako entered ; oa . the subjecl ; of the truck systeaij and the alleged cruelties and oppressions practised on the working classeg by their employersj most of whom were zealous Corn Law Repealers . Mr . Fielding and Mr . Wallace supported the proposed inquiry . Mr . Wakley sugfi ; ested thai , in order to do full and complete justice , the inquiry should include the agricultural a 3 well as the manufacturing employers , and concluded by proposing an amendment to that efec t * ¦
Col . SiBTHORP was willing to agree to the amendment , from a firm conviction that the agriculturists would cocie clear out of tho inquiry . Sir Jas . Graham was of opinion that the instanoea adduced by Mr . Ferrand were exceptions to the general rulo of tho honour and integrity of Britislr BVtrchants and manufacturers . He took excepiioa to the proposed resoIcLtious , pledging the House to protect work men in giving evidence before a Cominittee , as being quite superfluous ; and as to the Committee itself , he ll-ared that its inquiries would not prove beneficial , seeing that open competition was mover effectual in suppressing fraud than any Act of Parliament But ho was willing to agree to aa inquiry into the truefc system ; and ber therefor © moved , as an amendment , ** that a Select Committea be appointed to inquire into the operation of the law which prohibits the payment of wageo-otherwise than i » the current coin of the roalzm " . :
Mr . Stuart Wpbtley thought that Sir James Graham had taken too favourable a view of the matter . - : -. ¦• ¦ .- '¦ " ¦ : ¦ , ¦ ¦ . . .. "¦ : .- ¦ , . Mr . Muxiz and Mr . Mark Philip 3 vindicated the merchants and manufacturers of the country . After some observations from Mr . Piumptre and Mr . Yorke , ' : ¦ , . ¦ . .... ;; . : ' . . ' - . •¦ ' ¦ . " . .- - Mr . CoBDENreminded the ilonse of the manner in which Mr . Ferrand ' s former charges had beea received , and contrasted it with the mode in which , his present motion was dealt with by tho Qbyerriment . He supported the motion for inquiry , and was not afraid of the result .
Sir Robert Peel was astonished at Mr . Cobden ' S tone , and was hot aware that checra and smiles were to be construed into acquiescence with every sentiment uttered . It was no function of the Government to vindicate the Anti-Corn Law League from charges brought against it . As to the motioft of Mr . Ferrand , he could not acquiesce in it , for it contained allegations against the- manufacturers of the United kingdom . Frauds iu manufactures there would bo while the world lasted ; and the effectual rernedy for these frauds wa 3 open competition in trade . .. : - .. " ¦ ' . ' - : ¦ ' ; . ' : . '¦ ¦/ Mr . Hardy supported the amendment proposed by Sir Jajraea Graham . Dr . BowRiNQ declared that Mr . Ferrand ' s statements had injured the reputation of pur manufactures to a greater extent than he himself was aware of . . After a fow words from Sir Charks Burrell ,
Mr . Ferrand withdrew his motion , and Sir Jas . Graham ' s amendment for a Select Commitiee to inquire into the ( ruck syst am was agreed to . Mr . Sergeant Jackson ( the Solicitor- General for Ireland ) obtained leave to bring in a Bill to assimilate the law ia Ireland , as to the punishment of death , to that of England ; and to abolish the punishment of death in certain cases . Some other business was disposed J , and the House aoiourned .
The New "New Move."
THE NEW " NEW MOVE . "
Me . Editor , —The snbject to which Mr . O'Connor * * letter , of Jast week , referred , wai matter which I had to lay before the publ ic , which I conaider to be of th » greatest importance ; and my reason for delaying my ; notice , till next week , ' . ia briefly the want of time to lay the matter , in a clear and simple form , before tha public . Every members tuna has been tikea up ini discharge of his Convention duty , and in correspoadinj with hisAconititnenta ; however , I shall devote my lesure time to the purpose cf exposing fully tho tricks and machinations of the " move" par ty-Being a member of the present Cinventionj I went , by chance , on my arr ival , to tha coffee house where th& " new move " , party meet ; and there I learned , from
Mr . iovetfc ' s own lips , some facta which will at onea prove the objects of the Stargita Biovement . I shall be able to show to yea that Mr . Lovett and bis party at Birmingham , consulted how they could best get rid of the name of the Coarter , which , as yet , they -were not sufficiently strong to do ; and also that it was in contemplation , at Birmingham , when it would ba prudent to form a junctioa with Djiniel O'Corinell ; and other means of getting rid of the old leaders . In short / Sir , I pledge myself to lay before you snob a series of astonishing facts as will at once ahow the objects and . tendency of the " new move" men , and expose their treacneryj ¦ - ' ¦ ' .. ' ¦ . - ¦ : ' ,.: '¦ ¦ . ' ¦ . .. . . . "" ¦ ¦ :. ¦ : . " : Your obedient Servant , George Harrison , Member of the National Convention . London .
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TO THE FIFTY-NINE DELEGATES WHO ASSEMBLED AT THE HOP-POLE INN , MANCHESTER , AND VOTED FOR THE CHARTER ; Brother Chartists , —The Jast tlmo yon assembled you appointed me to collect a quota of money from each delegate , towards defraying tho expences allotted to the Chartist 3 incurred ., in getting up the meetings . It is with pleasuro that I inform you that a few have nobly come forward and
paid their share . Gtherd that I havo seen say that theirs would have been paid had ttey Ifnoyva the amount levied . As you have given me authority to make what I conceived a fair levy ; I wish toinform you that if every 0119 who represented any trade , or body of men , will brinir Ifw 6 d . to Mr . J Leach , Tib-street , it will be sufficient to discharge all debts ; the report of which shall afterwards appear , and if any surplus remains , , 1 will hand it over to the Town Council . Yours faithfully , William Griffin .
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . SlB , —We , the nndersigned , having noticed a atatement contained in the report of Mr . Falvey ' s lecture at Suhderiand , as given in tbe Northern Star of Saturday last—' ¦ That , at the closeof the lectara , three cheers were given for Joseph Sturge and the middle class Chartists , "—beg leave to state that we were present from the commencement of the lecture to the close of tho proceedings , and to deny , in the strongest terms , that any cheers were given , or ; proposed , in our hearing , to Mr . Sturge : or his patty ; and futther , we beg leaya to state , that if any sush prdpoaition had beeii made in our hearing , it would have received our decided opposition , and , webriieve , the . opposition of the great body of the Chartists of Sunderiand . We leave you to make wliat use of this declaration yon think proper . William Mowatt . James Monarch , Infirmary , Bishopweaxinoutb , Suuderland . Sanderland , April 18 th , 1842 .
Biabriages.
BIABRIAGES .
Yesterday ,-at the parish church , Bradford ^ Mr Pickup , solicitor , Bradford , to Amelia , third daughter of the late Mr . Thomas Pullan , of tho samo P Tuesday , the Ilth Inst ., at the Cathedral , Ripon , by the ' Rev . J . JamesonvMr . John Cock . io Hannah , the third daughter of Mr . Warwick , of the Navigation Inn , allof Ripon . ' . y , __ „ On Thursday last , at Soiilcoates church , Hull , Mr . Henry Johnston , of London , to Lucy , eldest daughter of William Ajre , Esq . Lansdowne Terr race , Hull .: „ , . t . ; v „ ,, Same day , at Kniaresborongh , by the Rer . C . Hart , Mr . J . H . Shuit , of Limehouse , Middlesex , to Martha , seventh daughter of the late Mr . Jonathaa Sh « U , o € Harrogato . . . y j » , T Lately , at the parisb . charohj Leeca , Air . dames Howgate , to Mis ? Mary Ann Long , both of thia t (> wn .- ^ '¦ ¦ ¦ ' . ' -. - . : > ., " ... . ¦¦ ,. . ' - ; - ¦ - ¦ - ¦¦ - . ' : ¦ ¦ ' ¦' . ; ;
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¦ : . ' ; . deaths ^ ^ - : r : - ^^ 0 ^ rnz ¦ : Oa Tuesday last , aged 56 , Mrs . Hill , the wife fit Y A JH Mr . Jonas Hill , joiner and h ^ Uder , Westgate , B ^^ jf ^ - ^^ JvV % k Monday last ; aged 40 , Mr , John S ^ t | p 5 & > U ^~*^^ OM sorter , Millbank Head , Bradford . v _ SfcJ ^ C ^ iiPriLj On Saturdayj deeply iegr 8 tted , aged J&gnS ^^^ TW ^ Ul Joseph Buckley , stonemason , York . ^^^ L ^^ r" ^**> Wtt San > e day , at Ri pon , aged 39 , Mrs . ^ y ^ M ^^ y f ^^^ j wray Bruce , wifja of Mr . BtuciBj boe ^ keT j ^^^ gtiJ ^^ cUy of Yoils , vf 3 A ^ SAi 5 TKl
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