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THE BELL CHARTISTS AND THE EXECUTIVE BALANCE SHEET, ?0 IHB EDITOR OF THE SQRTHERS STAB.
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respects , yonr answer * to some of oar questions may be deemed satisfactory ; but yoar letter , as a whole , it anything -hut satisfactory , ind anything bat what , as ¦ we think , we had & right to expect from you . You commence with an expression of " mortification " on account of oar last , and conclude with what we think to be a Tery ill-judged apology for the contume-Iioas tone of your letter , a tone which \ re cannot think to hare been merited by anything contained in onra . 'Yon write , in appareat high dudgeon , about ' ¦ euspicion" and " cerurare '' , which yon seem wishful to
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We believe that by none of our brother Chartists have the labours and deserts of the Executive been more fully valued , and more highly appreciated , than by ourselves and our brother memltrs resident in this locality . We desire to give the Executive , individually and collectively , all due credit ; and we admit tl . a : msebrredit is due to them for their activity , and zeal , i » wfl perseverance in our common cause ; b * t "white we do tbi » , we cannot for a moment admit the doctrine which the complaining tone of your Jetttr covertly but clearly asserts—that any men , however excellent and patriotic , placed by the people ' s suffrages in a position so onerous , important , and responsible , as that of the Execntivts , can consistently consider their conduct above the Question and investigttion , and even , should it fee so directed , the " suspicion" and " censure" of
the people with whose affairs they are entrusted . There was nothing in our letter displacent or niicourte-uus We wrote « imply to request from you an explanation of s « ma matters in the balanceebtet , of which , as we " did not understand them , we had a perfect right to require an explanation ; not to say that it was necessary to enable us to satisfy onr brethren , the members . We gave you at the same time- —we hope most respectfully —some general intimations which we thought calculated to promote tbe advantage of our cause . As eonneillora it vaa aot merely onr right , bat oar duty , to do that ; and when you , Sir , bava learned to know that the Rxeeutive Committee are what their office specifies , an Executive and not & rtgaaad body , you will have discovered that it was neither your right , nor your duty , to receive that intimation otherwise than respectfully .
So much , Sir , for the tone of your letter ; which it is our duty to apprise you does not oomport with our ideas of what might be expected from a responsible functionary under democratic regulations . We turn now to the consideration of your answers to , and explanation of , the several matters embodied in the queries and observations of ear last . . In accounting for the magnitude of the sum set tiown for postage , yon say that " the cards have to be posted and prepaid" , and "that every five cards cost twopence . " We only know respecting this , that no cards have been prepaid to us : all the cards we have received
we . have paid the carriage for . We can perceive no reason why this locality should be an exception to the general . rule ; nor have you condescended to point us to any . If tiie cards generally have teen posted and prepaid , we admit that this must have been expensive ; and it is our duty to give a strong opinion that thai txpence ought not to have been incurred ; but that every locality should be made to do as we have donepay for the carriage of its own cards out of its own funds . We can see no reason why we should pay for the transmission of our cards , and also for the transmission of cards to other localities .
You sUte that you receive many letters unpaid . This certainly ought not to be ; and might very easily be put a stop to . A single notice , reasonably worded , in any of the public documents of the Executive , painting cut the folly and injustice of the practice , and declaring their resolution to receive no more unpaid letters , would at once end the practice of sending unpaid letters and give no offence to any body whose temper and disposition are worthy of being consulted . In reference to the postage of the other members of the Ex ^ cntive , we admit that the pre-paymeut of replies to applications for lecturing attendance ought not to fall on mem ; neither do we think it ought to fall on the general funds of the Executive . Every such application ought to be accompanied with a postage stamp for th 6 payment of the answer ; each locality wouM * ten be r fairly its own burden ; and if that practice be not generally attended to , it is the duty of the Executive to rtquirs that it should be .
You have not informed us how it happens that Messrs . Philp , M'Douall , and Williams seem , from the Balance Sheet , to have paid respectively the large sums of 10 s ., las 6 i , and 9 a . 8 d . for postage during the first week of the quarter cwd nothing afterwards . You do not tell us . though we a&ked , whether these gentlemen aiterwardB paid their own postage , or whether it was afterwards thrown together witi that of the General Secretary , into one lump ; and , in either case , why an uniform system was not observed . Your answer respecting the Philp resolutions is satisfactory . The question was very generally , aud , we think , very naturally , asked by our members ; and we shall have great pleasure in apprising them , on your authority , that the transmission of those resolutions was the act of Mr . Philp , at hiB own txpence , and not of the Executive , at the expenca of the country . In the former case it was perfectly justifiable ; in the latter it would have been perfectly unjustifiable .
Your answer respecting " Dr . M'Douall ' s extra ten shillings a-wetk " , is no answer at all . If Dr . M'Douall has mode such sacrifices for the people ' s cause as entitle him to claim special compensation , let his claim be put forward on its own merits . The con . try has never been backward in remunerating deserving public servants . But whatever msy have been his sacrifices , tht-y form no justification of the manner in which this teB shillings a week has been paid and rtceived ont of public money , without any public vote and under disguised pretensions . When Dr . M-Donall became a candiJattiot tba Executive , he knew tbe arnoant of salary he wonld have to receive ; and he knew , or ought to have known , the law of the society , which allows no " agitating txpences" to members of tbe Executive , save when breaking up J . eir ground . Tbe Doctor ' s residence in London , and employment during the whole quarter , as jour letter intimates , in the Metropolitan districts , precludes any right on- his part to charge to the
Association one fmhiDg foz " agitating expences . " The regular weekly receipt , therefore , of Its . under this head , in addition to his salary , is ( gloss it how you may ,-an unauthorised acd perfectly unwarrantable appropriation of public funds . A-. d we should ill discharge our duty as councillors of the Association , to permit so flagrant a violation of its constitution to pass , without the strongest txpression of censure to which we are capable o ! giving utterance- We are aw ore that " what is done cannot bb undone" ; but we do hope that time past may suffice for the exhibition , in tbe Chartist Extcative , of eo Tery c ' . osc an approximation , to tte Wortt features of Tory corruption and trickery . We trtruble for the constqutnees to the Association and tbe cause , sboe'd this pitce of wanton jobbery be laid hold of and pub'ic ' . y exposed , by any members of the Association , in this or any other locality , more warm and less prudent in their indignation than we are disposed to be .
Y >> u are pleased strangely to misconstrue the tendency of onr simp ' e inquiry , as to the two items of railway and coach fare . We never dreamed of its being reasonable for the Executive to travel in the third class , " all weathers " . The information we wished for simply was : whether these items of expence were so incurred as that tbe organisation would warrant their being charged to the public , or whether they ought not to have been defrayed by some particular locality ? This information you have not com-Rjnnicated .
Your ' hit' at the Hull Chartists , in the matter of Mr . Leach ' s lecture , is a little beside the mark ! Mr . Leach did not come to Iccturt mi Hull . He was passing tkroDgh on his way to London , and merely gave us a lecture by way of filling up an evening that would have otherwise been unemployed . We have never yet had a lecturer coming here on our own invitation , the whole of whose expenses we have not cheerfully defrayed . We think your explanation respecting dates satisfactory . To conclude , we cannot reciprocate your opinion that , " if there has been a fault at all , it is being remarkably niggardly in tbe expenses . " We do not think that tbe expenses of the millionaire who compose the
anti-Corn Law League are any criterion at all by which Jo estimate tbe using of the hard-earned pence of Chartist We think it is the duty of the Bxecutive , as far aa in them li » , to enforce the observance of the rule « of the organisation upon the whole society ; and at all event * to take care that all their own transactions be in strict accordance with theae rules . We think that your letter eonUiai abundant evidaice and plain acknowledgment that they have not done « o ; and , therefore , though in our last Jetterwe hinted neither » suspicion" nor " cenrare " , we cannot close this without telling you that your answer to it leaves ne room for " suspicion" , and enforces on us the painful duty of reiterating consure" in the strongest term * . Tnuting that we may not again find it necessary thus freely sod honest )? to txpress our opinion *; the « x »
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pressiou of which gives us not more pain than their entertainment , We are . Sir , Your unflinohing Brother Chartists , The General Councillors , Resident in Hull . Signed at the request and by command of the whole , James Gsassut , sub-Secretary . To this . letter no reply was sent . COPY OP THE THIRD LETTEft TO MR . CAMPBELL " . Hull , Nov . 14 , 1842 .
Slit , —I am instructed by the couEcillors resident in Hull , to express their regret that bo little attention should have been paid by the Executive t *> their previous communications upon the subject of the expenditure , and the loose , indefinite wording of tho balance sheet . We ventured last quarter to give to the Executive some general intimations of what , in our opinion , a balance ih ? et ought to be ; and we also took the liberty of drawing your attention to some matters in the lsst Balance Sheet , which plainly shewed that the rules of tho organization hud been most flagrantly and wantonly outraged and set aside by tha Executive . We were willing to believe that the Executive were honest and well prlnciplfld , that their aberrations from
the strict lino of their official duties had resulted rather from inattention to tha rules of tbe organisation by which they are bound , than from any purpose to set themselves above rule , and to manage the uflairs and funds of the Association " on their own responsibility ! We did not , therefore , like our brethren in some ether places , make public our very just disapprobation of several transactions to which our attention was directed by the bald and meagre statements of the last Balance Sheet ; nor did we take any public notice of the most slovenly and unbusintts like way in which that Balance Sheet proved the accounts of tbe Association to have been kwpt ; and in which we regret to say they have always bstn kect .
We gave the Executive credit for honesty . We were willing to make due allowance for the necessary want of familiarity with the affairs of business induced by their previous occupations . We h--ped that experience would make them more au / ait in business matters ; and that respectful private admonition would educe from them more deference to the laws of the Association ttun they h 3 < 3 heretofore paid . WefciTe expected this more confidently , because we had the pledge not ouly of yourself , but of other members of the Executive , that our admonition should receive due attention , aud that the Dial-practices of which we complained should bo discontinued . We grieve to find ourselves disappointed . Another Balance Sheet has beeu issued , which , upon examination , we find may well vie with any of its predecessors ' for vagueness and ambiguity ; and which , vague and meagre as it is , affords evidence that nut only onr requirements , but those of the organization , have been utterly contemned .
The only items in the Balance Sheet now published regarding which distinctive information is accorded , as to the eiict purpose of appropriation , are the " wages " of ttie Executive , and the printing of cards ; all the rest are left floating in the like mist of uncertainty which has characterize ! preceding Balance Sheets ; and we are again compelled therefore to apply to yon for distinctive information upon matters which it is your duty to make plain to us and the countiy . We trust that we may be more successful in this application than in our last . We find scattered over the Balance Sheet various items , to the number of eleven and to tbe amount of twenty three pounds tan shillings , charged for travel ' ling expences for different members of the Executive ; to not one of which is a syllable of information appended as to the object er purport of the journeys thus charged for .
Officially , as conncillors , we require you , Sir , as onr Secretary , to inform us respecting each of these items ; on what business and on whose authority the journeys for which they are charged was undertaken , and also under which of the regulations of the organization the country are thus charged at all for the journeys of these gentlemen . Thus much of ir formation iu regard to the general item of "travelling txpences . " every member of tbe Association is entitled to demand from you ; and on behalf of the members resident in Hull , we require it Mind , Sir , let us have no more misconstructions . ' We do not at present make any charge again * t yourbc . f or a-. y other Hi-mber of the Executive , for causing any j- urn y to be more expensive than it might have been : that may or may not form the subject of future remark ., We do not at present say that all these journeys are not rightly charged to the Association . Upon that subject wo say nothing now . The plain question is , upon what business were these respectiva journeys
undertaken ? by whom wore they authorised ? and under what rule of the Association are they charged to the country ? To those ma ' . lers you will please to address your reply , in regard to each and every one of them . Subsidiary to the above general inquiry , we wish also to ask how it happens that a serious difference of cost appears to have been incurred by tbe same gentleman in travelling over the same ground at different periods . Under date July 6 th . we find , " Travelling from Bristol to Manchester , £ 1 18 a . 6 d . " Again , under date August 6 th , •¦ Bairstow ' a expmces to Bristol from Manchester . £ 2 16 s 6 d ; " and again , under date August 2 oth , "Bairstow from Bristol to Manchester , £ 2 2 s . " Our members make many comments upon this dibcrepancy . We think this of far lees moment than a satisfactory answer to our general enquiry ; yet , assuming that the journeys have been performed in pursuance of the rules of tke organization , it ought certainly to be reconciled .
We again draw your attention to the item " agitating expences . " We find this item to occur stven time . ? , involving an amount of £ 10 ltis 6 d . We require to be informed in reference to each uf these seven distinct chargeB , for what " new district" the expences thereby indicated were incurred . We need not , of course , tell you that the silary , or as you like to rail it , the " wages" of each member of the Executive ( save the Secretary ) is distinctly specified in tbe organization to be £ l 10 s . Weekly , uhen sitting , and that when not sitting they have no claim for waxes .
units * employed as lecturers ; and then to b' paid out of the general funds only wben opening new districts , Of course you , whose duty it is to ins : ruet every Sut-Secretary m all tho niinutiasof tbeorgyn ' zitioc , know all this ; wu do not , therefore , presume to give it as information to you ; but we advtrt to it fur the purpose of calling your attention to the fact , that in the balance sheet now published , Dr M'D mall ' s wages are for the most part of the quarter put down ngularly at £ 2 ptr week . We require to know upon what authority tbe Executive have m- 'de this deviation from tho plain printed rules of tfce Association .
There are various other matters on which it may be our duty to trouble you with enquiries hereafter . For the present we submit to you tbVse , in tee confident expectation that tbey will niKtt with prompt attention . We have enaea ^ ourud t r > make them so plain that we think they cannot be easily misunderstood—so perspicuous , that we hope they leave no room for a repetition of your complaint about " suspicions , "' and so respectfully worded as shall give us a right to expect from you a courteous reply ; while at the Bame time they are to pointed , that we trust they will furnish no pretext lor digression ; but that you ¦ will confine your reply strictly to tbe matters and things on which we seek \ ufonuation , and that no one of these will be overlooked .
Without any desire to school you in your duty , we cannot pass by the performance of our own ; which compels us to remind you that a Secretary should be a man of business—that his accounls should be clear and unambiguous , and his correspondence precise and definite and yet perspicuous and comprehensive ; and to express our bope that in these matters we may hereafter have fewer anti less causes for that " censure" of which your former co . respondents evinces much impatience . Sincerely regretting , Sir , that there should be a necessity for us thus to write to you , We are , in the performance of our duty , With all due respect , The general councillors ol the National Charter Association , resident in HuiL Signed on behalf of the whole , W . J . Holliday , Sub-Secretary . To this letter no reply has been received .
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USAMINSTON—At tbe usual weekly Chartist meeting , sixteen shillings was banded in for the Defence Fund Raffle tickets . A committee was formed to arrange for holding a public meeting to elect delegates to the Conference , and the secretary was instructed to eall on our absent friends , as their attendance if particularly required next meeting nif ht on particular business WATFORD . —Mr . Brown , of the City of London locality , delivered two leclviea here on Monday and Tuesday evening last TLess wtn the first Uctore * since the visit of the London Chartists ia-Angmt . on which occasion Mr . Brown was first heard by the Watford public We are glad to bear that bis present addresses have been productive of immense ^ "ood , » Ed that a General Counc 1 has been appointed to « r » nduct the people's affairs . Ths Defence Fpnd . —The Liverpool Council h »> Te received the turn of £ 1 18 a . for this fund .
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HA WORTS . —On Saturday evening last , at the house of Mr . Liigbton , Temperance Hstel , Haworth , Mr . Dormandy of Nottingham , delivered a lecture on Total Abstinenee : The attendance was .-very thin .. We oo not so much ^ wonder at this , because the majority of the people hetffare go far from indulging in intemperate , ' rinking , that Jhey are—through circumstances—compelled to abstain by far too much from eating . There is , therefore , rattle oause for preaching up abstinence either in eating ^ or drinking ; for , in faot , abstinence is carried on to ah intemperate degree . WIG AN . —The Chartists of Wigan have taken the roam adjuining ^ he Waggon and Horses public house , bottom of SILlgate , whwd they w , ill meet next Sunday eveuing , for th * purpose of electing a Coutcil
SHtFriEI / O . —Chartism—Mr . Edwin Gill addressed a respectable audience on Sunday evening in the Big Tree-lane R ? oru . Mr . Q . dwtit chiefly upon the fast increasing distress of the countiy ; aud the duty of the people , Mr . Eviuson followed , / 'delivering Borne appropriate and gtirriiig remarks . Mr . West . —This sterliug champion of democracy and honett advocate of the peoplu ' s rights lectured in the above roum on Monday evening . The reom "wub well filled , and at eight ocluuk Mr Dyson was called to the chair . The Chartist National anthem was then sung , after which the chairman delivered some excellent remarks , and concluded by introducing Mr . Weat , who was recdvpd with loud . demonstrations of applause Mr . W . mainly occupied the attention of his henrera by detailing his " prison txparieucea "—dwelling long on the iui potency of prosecution ; ami concluding "with 6 oiue mastevly j ^ rgndifnU" in refutation of the sophisms aud STandera ; . brought to bear against Chartism .
Mr . West ' s description of the hellish treatment he was suty \ cUd to in . the D ^ rby torture-bouae was painfully sickening , aud excited the strongest feelings of indignation in the breasts « f hia Mwjrers ; one delightful portion of Mr . West ' s address was the reading of twu letters from the Rsv . Humphrey Price , received by Mr . West whiie in jjaol . We . wish Mr . ' West would publish thoee letters that the working classes may know , and knowing appreciate , the virtues of thia '' honest priest , " who is indeed an honour to the laud that gave him birth , one of the very few who dare to pri . ach the . truth and have the honesty to practice what tbey preach . At the conclusion of Mr . West ' s lecture , Mr . Harney moved a vote of thanfes to the R ^ -v . Mr . Price , and in . tha course of & few remarks , warmly eulogised the rev . gentUman . Mr . Gill seconded the motion . Mr . George- Wright , a native of Burton-upons-Trent , spoke in support of the motion , and drtw a glowing picture of the c \ aracter of this excellent man . The motion was carried
unanimously . Tbanka having been voted to the lecturer , the meeting broke up . BRADFORD . —On Sunday , Mr . Clissett , of Millbridge , preached two sermons iu the Cnaitist room , Butterworth ' s-buildings . Collections were made for the Defence Fund , which , amounted to sixteen shillings and tbree-halfpenee . The Chartists of Daisy-bill met as usual at their room to consider of a proper person to recommend to the Council as candidate for the office of delegate to tbe Birmingham Conference . This chartists , of Bowling Back-lane , met on Sunday , and after some discussion , recommended the election of delegates to the C inference . They meet every Sunday mof nine at ten o ' clock . . " . " -. '"' THE CHARTISTS of Manchester-road , met on Sunday morning , when , ufter arrangements being roado for the election of delegates , toey adjourned to Sunday mxt at nine o ' clock . !
The Chartists resident in the contral part of Bradford , met on Sunday morning at the Council room , when several members were enrolled . They adjourned to Sunday morning next at ten o ' clock .
THE MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL met on Monday , in their room , Buttjrworth ' a-BuiMings ; after arrangements were made for the election of delegates to the forthcoming Conference , Emanuel Hutton pail Is . 8 d . for tho Defence Fund . Tho meeting adjourned to Monday evening , when the whole of the members of the Council are required to attend , and those persons having searfs are rt quested to produce them at the council meeting . At the Meetikg of Chartists or Great Horton , Eurnnroubly ftUuuiied , the foMowihg rtsolution was unanimously carried : — " That wo tho Chartists of Gieat-Horton , express our unabated confidence in Dr . M D mill for his past cervices iu the people ' s cause , and we aio likewise vl opinion that the weekly sum allowed by the plan of organization , to tho members of the Executive while sitting , should be paid to his bereaved wife , to enable her , in some measure , to bear up under her present trying and painful situation . "
NEWCASTLE . —Mr . Rlgby . of Chorley , delivered a lecture in the Chartist Hall , Gnat Inn , Cloth Market , on Sunday evening , on the principles of the People's Charier and the benefits that the working classes would derive by that document becoming the law of the land . Mr , R . told many truths respecting the Whigs and the Tories , and tne Tyrannical system they have used every effort to maintain , and concluded by challenging any one to come forward and defend the present diabolical state of things , or show cause why industry should not bavo its reward , while the drones of society live upon the fat of tbe land . He was prepared to prove that if tbe principles of the Charter were carried
out , the people would thereby be enabled to ameliorate their own condition , and that no other system of reform now extant can remove the present unparalleled distress until the whole people are fully and fairly represented in the legislature of this country . The spacious hall wasdenswly crowded , but no person appeared disposed to dispute Mr . Rigby ' s position . Mr . Kigby was cpplaudbd throughout his whole discourse . A vote of thanks having been unanimously agreed to to Mr . Rigby for the able manner in which he defended the cause of the people , the meeting dispersed . Several names were enrolled after the lecture . Mr . William Kiuipater Robson will lecture in the same hall on next Sunday ( to-morrow ) evening , at six o'clock .
The Chartists of Newcastle held their weekly business meeting on Monday evening as usual . Mr . W . K . Robuon in the chair . The minutes of tho previous uiaeling having'buen confirmed , the Secretary read a letter from Mr . 0 Connor in reply to the letter which he was instiucted en last meeting night to Bend to that gentleman . Mr Hebden appeared as one of a deputation appointed by the Chartists of Ouseburn to enter into arriingtiuentfl for the election of delegates to the forthcoming Conference in Birmingham . After soma discussion on tho Bubject a deputation of four were
elected to meet the deputation frem Ouseburn , and make the proiimi ary arraugoments for the coursa to be pursued by the numelectors at the public meetiDg . After disposing of some local business the meeting adjnurned . There was two shillings received from Cflartersbaugh for the Defence Fund , per Wm . Wilson , ami two shillings from Radcliffe Terrace , per Mr , D ; vnglty , for the same . The arfjourntd meeting of delegates from tho counties of Northumberland and Durham wil be resumed in the Chartists Hall , Newcastle , on Sunday Decenrbei-4 tb , at one o ' clock iu the afternoon .
GI . OS 9 OP . —Skfbat of the I . EAGUE . —This pl . i ' .-d aad the fiurzvuniing villages were placarded , nullifying that Mr . Acland , the tool of the Corn Law League , would lecture at the Universal School , on Monday last , at seven o ' clock in the evening . Here I would remark , although this place was built by public subscription—the poor as well as the rich subscribed—yet it is denied the former for holding any meetings in it that might tend to rouse them from their present degraded state . On this eccasion seine of the manufacturers stopped their mills at six o'clock , in order to have an opportunity of attending the lecture . The room was pretty well filled , and here and there lickspittles were stationed , in order to watch who might be favourable to their views , or
who might not , as most of them thought they had put Chartism down , when men ' s blood had been spilt , only for asking for a fair day's wages for a fair day ' s work ; and by that party , too , who say they are seeking for advancement of their wages . Oh , but the people know too well this is all humbug . But to the question . Mr . Aciand rose to address the meeting ; and , as it is a well known fact , at the League meetings the lecturer acts as chairman and speaker , he was very kindly asked whether he would , at the close of his lecture , allew discussion , or answer any questions that might be put to him . After some of his usual impertinence , ha gave the meeting to understand that he would . With this understanding , the meeting allowed him to proceed , and paid great attention , expecting to hear something advanced that might make them become Repealers ; but they were woefully mistaken .
Many of his own party went away disgusted with his arguments long before he came to a close ; and , when he saw the meeting would no longer be gulled by him , he coolly bid them a good night At this moment , Mr . Clark , of Stockport , mounted one of the forms to address the meeting in reply , in order to show the fallacy of the League ; but Acland durst not sUnd the test , alleging that he bad an engagement in Manchester . Tea , # o donbt be bad , aa I daresay the League bad to eonsjflte together to know how they mu » t raise tne j £ 50 , fl 00 . However , they did not escape without a severe castigation from Mr . Clark , who was loudly applauded throughout his address . Mr . Clark challenged . Mr . Acland to meet him anywhere , or at any time he thought fit . But , no ! he would not . After three cheers for the Charter and O'Connor , the meeting dispersed , giving three groans for the League and Aolaud . —Correspondent .
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SCARBOROUGH . —Mr . Bairstow isetfeiM . & * the Chartist Room , Dumpel -jircet , on tha : 16 'h . ittriT 17 &h , to most . attentive audiences ; r . : < , ' v ^ BOZ . MNWO 0 D .-0 n Sunday e ^ enJn gi ^ ifr ,, A . T . Taylor , of Royton , jrave' an insttttfi ; tive lecture in the Ralph Green Chartist Room , " t 6 a crowded and . attentive- audience . The lecturer was listened to with great attention , and gave gene > ralsatisfaction .. ,..,- ; . . . . DODUST . —Mr . Samnal Cook , of this place , has received iwo ehiliirus and sixpence from the Chartists of Kingswood * it being iheir fifth cc ; i £ ribution to Mason ' s fund . . ¦¦ -:-. ; ' "¦ : ¦¦
OCDBAIS . —On Sunday evening last , notwithstanding our . being disappointed of a kcturtr . - the room was crowded to overflowing . The Chairman , after reading , as Usual , a lenson from the Scriptures , read fro m the Evening Star of Friday , the 18 th instant , the speeches of Mr . Duncombe and others , delivered at . the ( Jrovm and Anchor , London , last week , whioh were listened tr , with great attention by the assembly . As the cooolnsion , 5 s . 2 d . was col » looted for the victims . HAUPAX . —Mr . Dickinson lectured to a crowded and attentive aiulienee on Sunday evening last . At the conclusion two fresh members were enrolled .
UPPER WARLey—a fiormon was preached at ' -tilts place ou Sunday 1 at , by Mr . Wallace , from Halifax , when four shillings was collected for tha wife of an incarcerated victim , whioh has beeu duly forwarded .
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WANCHESTER .- —Carpenter ' s Hall . — -Oa Sunday last , two lectures wtre delivere ¦! . in the above hall , one by Mr . Wm . Dixon , cii ) rue other in the evening by Mr . J . It Cooper . A , t ^ e conclusion of Mr . Cooper ' s lecture Mr . Dixon nude an appeal to the aufiienc *» in buhalf of the Defence Fund . The thauk > of the me « t'i ' ug having been tiven to the Lecturer aud Chairaian , the assembled thousands retired . OTJSSBOtlN . —Tba Chartists of this loosilhv
assembled as usnal ,- in th ^ ir room , on Sunday morning , Nov . 20 th . Mr . W .-Scott , * vau ceUea to the ctaa \ r . At the request of tbe nu-etirig , the secretary icad Mr . J . Campbell ' s letter from the Northern Star . —the article beaded " The Executive Balauce Sheet" —the 17 th aud 18 th article floin the Plan of Orgariiz ' . t > . > i :. — when a luost interesting and important discussion ensued * Messrs . Hall , Bruce , Hebilea , and Webh ; tafcfn * park The following resijfuUiJii ' , Which conveys the eiSct sentiwients . of the meeting was moved by Mt . J . Hall , seconded by Mr . J . Bruce , aud carried nem . con .:
—•' That this meeting is of opinion , that the cxpeiices of the Executive are e ornaously heavy , and require farther explanation , and we h"pe for the fataro that no Executive Wilt dare to interfere wish the ffen of organization , without the consent of the whole country , as it appears quite evident the present one has , la ai ' Douall's case , and charging their coacJi-hiru to tha association , when they ought to have charged the localities where they agitated ; not that we are against M'Douall receiving . the two pounds per week , ' but because it is ; i ba 4 precedent . When we look b- * ck at his past exartionc . his energy , his independent and intrepid conduct ,: we think tie . deserves it , aud •• ve beg leave to inform him that ho has onr warmest tsieem , confidence , admiration , and tfl . 'ick . s , for his pastlabuura in our glorious cause , and we sympathise with him in his preaeut critical situation , and give oar consent thai his family receive his wag «» as long an he remains & member of the Executive . "
LONDON . —Mr Fussf . ll lectured at the Britannia , Upper Chapman-street , St Georgo's Etat , on Sunday last , and was greatly applauded . l , China Walk , Lambeth —The cause of tha Political Victims is very warmly taken up in thia locality . One feeling only appears to actuate the members—a thorough hatred to claBS legislation and a determination to destroy it as soon as possible . Upwards of three pound * have be 3 n collected for the Defence Fund in little more than a . month . BOtTOW . —Mr . Jam 6 » Parkinson delivered a lectnre . on Snnday evening , on the evils attendant on the Law of Primogeniture . He most ably handled the subject , and went tbrpnsh the various evils attendant on that obnoxious law , to the complete satisfaction of the meeting . .
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VQ THE EDiTOH . OF THE NORTHERN STAB . Sir , —I am now on my way home , and intend calling at a few places which I have before visited , namely , York , Malton , Pocklington , Selby , Leeds , Halifax , Bradford . Dawabury . and jtheir environs , Burnley , Celne , Todniorrieu , Clitheroe , Sibden , and Blackburn . Then I shall visit CuorUsy , { o give an address to the calico printers . ' . . I cannot now make any arrangements as to wben t shall visit each place , but shrill correspond in due tiinSj and in due form with each locality . By publishing the above in your n 6 xt Star , you will oblige , Yours in the Cause , Peter Rigby . Newcastle-npoa-Tyne , Tueatlay morning .
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . My dear Hill , —^ There is one conviction of my mind which I cannot refrain from expressing pnblicly , that I owethe happy fact of my escape from transportation , almost entirely to the intelligence and fidelity nf Mr . Williams and Mr . Roberts , my attornies , in so urgently advising me to make a desperate struggle towards obtaining a jury , of whioh not one member had been engaged in a previous trial during the Special Commission . - Poor El is , more than once during our three houri companionship in the " glory-hole , " expresaad a passionate regret that he hud not been advised also to sue for a separate trial . ' Yet , " he always added , " who could possibly have thought , even ¦ when I was mixed Tip in trial with twenty otlieta , the ? could havo returned me guiJtv , ' on such evidence !"
And who , on earth , could have thought it ? The verdict came liko a thunderbolt upon our attornies : thia I can testify , both from conversations I hu . il with them previous to Ellis' trial , when they each spoke of bis acquittal as a certainty—and from the consternation with which they both alluded to the horrid verdict , after ichad been given . Fully aware of the rabidly revengeful state of mind which pervaded the aristocracy on each side the Judg& , — - the Jury in their box , —and the " exclusive ? " who are permitted to become spectators in the court , — our attornies strove , — from the commencement of the trials up to the day in which I was summoned into caurt with seventeen others , as "incendiaries , "—to appease our persecutors by a respectful mode of procedure , dreading that any resort to a more spirited policy might subject the poor victims to ' summary vengeance .
When the shameful verdict against William Ellis , however , iwa'ie it opeaijr manifest that no courtesy could allay the brutal spirit of ou * persecutors , on * attornies dime at once to a strong resolution . " They can but do their worst , " naid Roberta to me , " and since they have evinced so vengeful a disposition already , their eternal vpr . Het : being ' guilty , ' your only chance of a fa r trial lies in procuring aa entirely new jury . Now , remember , " said he to me in conclusion , " you can have a fresh jury if yon are determined to have one . " "Then depend upon it , I will , ' *! answered . iM ^ WilliauiB was equally urgent on this point Th ^ ifceawrof " challenging , " as it is called , and other delays occupied the court for tin hour , but that hour was well spent , inasmuch-as i : issaed in seating in the jary-bus , twelve
men , not one of whom had previously nerved < jn a jury during the Special Commission . These men did not , like their predecessors , seem to take it as a . matter af course that they were to find everything " guilty " th ffc stood in the dock , and was called "th » prisoner " bj the wiJy SirWin . Follefct ; and when told by the upright lawyer , though severe judge , Sir Nicholas Tindal , tha they could not find me " guilty "—why , they eauM not take it into their heads to do It , and bo I escaped . To conclude as I began , I feel certain that my fate would have been as hapless as that of poor E ' . I Is ^ nay , peihapB , worse , had not my attornies advised me to press for a separate trial ; for it is no secret that tha Tories were frequently , during the weeks preceding onr
trials , betting bottles of port , in the parlours of the inns at Hanley , Bnrslera and Lane-end , that Cooper and Elba would , one or both , be hung , and Capper and Robinson transported for life ( . Thank God ! Although poor injured EUis haa beef so horridly victimised , and aged Capper is immured ft * two years , in addition to having his goods seised for neglecting some legal form—yet Robinson has wbbuy escaped his ^ brutal eneudes , While I am deliyeredi from the horrors of transportation , and have yet a , chanot least , though it may bea slight one , for estabJishtiJ ^ innocence of the remaining "high crimesana ^ nJfttor meanoani" ¦ with , which I stand charged , . ' :,. •/ ¦ -. J ' ,-... " .. ' 1 am , my dear Hill , . . ' Very aKectionatalv yours , . 1 -. '¦ ¦ '¦ _
ThomasCoopsa , j . ^ V . S . —> fy attorney , Mr . Williams , informs me thtf he has caused the proper plea , " Not CroiUyr M -ta ^ bS filed for me in the Queen ' * Bench , whither 1 waftttta ^ l : " to appear on the 30 th uutant—my case havtoa btej (;¦ - *' ¦ ' . •' removed into that court by writ of certiorari , &&& $ ! ; - . ' . Literpooica « B .-.... - -W ^ iC ^ vi ' iUv . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ . ; ¦ -. . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . - . '¦ .... <» - ,: &iik&s $£
The Bell Chartists And The Executive Balance Sheet, ?0 Ihb Editor Of The Sqrthers Stab.
THE BELL CHARTISTS AND THE EXECUTIVE BALANCE SHEET , ? 0 IHB EDITOR OF THE SQRTHERS STAB .
gIS ] At a special meeting of the Hull Council , held to the purpose of considering Mr . Campbell's reply to jgrtiiB objections urged against the Balance Sheet , it 1 Bl i » olTed , — j _ i' That in the opinion of the Coundllots resident in HoD , Hr . CimpbeU " B letter in last Saturdays Star is ^ together nns&tisnictofy ; and that toe Executive have , is m&ny grave and serious matters , departed from tbe plain printed rules of the Organisation . " 2 . " That the Enb-Secretary be directed to prepare fer publication the whole of the correspondence which has passed between us as Councillors , and the Eztcntire , on this subject , and forward the same to tbe h ' OT&cr * Star . "
In obedience to the foregoing resolutions , I htrewitb forward you a copy of such letters as I have found in the minute book , regretting exceedingly that Mr . Camp bell ' s reply had not been inserted , and that owing to the oreunuitaEcea in which our late worthy sutegecretary left the district , the original of that letter , along with others , had been destroyed . I may also observe , that the first and second of the followag letters refer , ' not to the lutj but to the preceding Balance Sheet ¦ I am , Sir , Youn , truly , "W . J . Hollidat , sub-Sec Ecll , For . 22 , ISiS .
TO THE GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN . Hull , Jnly 13 . 1 S 42 . SIR , —Anxiously alive to the appreciation at iU clut weight of every movemtntin which the int-: res \ ol \> ur National Charter Society may be concerned , and believing that it will be so less your pleasure than youi duty to afford all necessary information to those who have a right to ask it from you , we , the General C juncillora resident in Hall , make no apology for troubling yon with this letter . You will probably agree with us , that wrthiDg csa be of more co&K-qnence to tbe
prosperity ' tad usefulness of our Society , than that tbe General Council and the members generally should have implicit confidence in the Executive Committee , and that nothing cro be more calculated to uphold thai confidence than tbe existence of a perfect nnderitsDding by them of the money transactions of the Esecuave . Hence it is natural and right that the published Balance Shests should be closely exssnined and distinctly understood ; and in order to this , it is necessary that they should be made as clear and TmambigiiGU 3 in their details as possible .
We have had no opportunity of consulting onr fellowconnciUors in other parts of the empire upon the subject , but we see no reason to think that their opinion wil } differ frem our own in this matter ; and we therefore feel more directly impelled , by a sense of duty , to inform you that , in our opinion , the Bainnce Sheet published in the SorQiem Star cf Saturday last , needs much explanation to enable us rightly to comprehend it We-cic have no doubt that yon are perfectly able to afford »>»»* information which is requisite to make all that may be cow dark and unintelligible to us perspi-C 3 . 8 TH » nd satisfactory ; and we hasten , therefore , at once to the laying before you of such hints for the improvement of your general system of keeping accompfcg . aad each requests for information , as to several of its items , as this Balance Sheet suggests to us .
In the first place we think tbe Balance Sheet deficient in its general contents- Our idea of a Balance Sheet is that it should present an exact statement of the whole pecuniary affairs of the society ; that debts and liabilities should appear npen its surface as well as actual cash trftngmtinnn- ffe think tke country ought to be informed , not merely what money the Executive have retsived and expended , but what , if anything , is owing to them by each and every locality , for cards and for their share of members' contributions respectively ; and also what the Executive owe , if anything . We feel f lite sure that a general and full statement of this kind -would give much satisfaction and do much good .
We think also thst much dissatisfaction is likely to be ergendered by the fact that no dates axe affixed Co ai . y of the ituns in the column of reefeipts by the Executive . This fieems to be a slovenly way of doing business . We think every sum of ca&h received should have its appropri » te date ; there is doubtless some good reason why this ii not so , and we should feel better satisfied if we knew that reason . The Jumping of the monies received from each locality , in one sum , seems also to be objectionable . It would beKQje satisfactory if the precise sources of emolument
¦ were stated ; that is , if the statement from each locality BpeciSed how much was paid for cards , and when ; how EiQca for members' subscriptions , &c We thint tfce receipts from the Star effice should be particularised , ud net riven in one gross lump . We think also that tfce column of cards shonld contain not on ! y the number of cards issned during the quarter , but also the total Ecmber issued to each locality ; and we are further of opinion that the interest of the Association Euffeia much from the issuing of cards wiihcnt cash . We recommend that in future this practice be entirely aisccnfcnced . in of
Ttns = » o » fa ¦»»« l » aT « -rcr ; tu » i ^ 3 tlvo waj grutiral intimation as to what , in our opinion , would make the Balance Sheets of the Executive in future more perspicions and satisfactory to tha conrtry than this one . We now draw your attention to some matters of expenditure , upon which we shall be happy to receive more information than the Balance Sheet affords . Ws find the sum of £ 9 Is Id . put down for postage from the 30 th of April to the 25 ; h of June inclusive , a period t > f no more than eight weeks and one day- Now ve tsle for granted ] that ai : letters received by the Executive wifl be pre-paid , and that this sum of £ 9 4 s . Id . It to be considered as expended in the pre-paymtnt of letters sent . At one ptnny each , it will pre-pay 2 . letters , and whether this , be considered as applying to Uie eiljflt -weeks within the dates or to tne wbole quarter , it appears to us to be an amount of correspondence almcsi incredible .
We Uke for granted thst , in accordance with his dnty , ¦ perilled by the organization of the society , the General Secretary transacts all the business-correspondence of the society ; and yet we find that on the 8 th of April , in the present Balance Sheet , the country is charged , in addition to the expences of the Secretary , with £ llOa . 2 a . for the postage * of three other members of the Execu-Ut 8 , viz : —Mr . Piiilp 10 a . 61 , Mr . Williams 9 s . Sd ., and Dr . M-DoaalllOs . "We wish to know how this is ? It appears to na
that the country ought net to be called on to pay the postage of all the personal correspondence of every member of the Executive Committee . We wish also for w explanation of the fact that this charge occurs eclyosce . Did these gentlemen incur no expence of pc&ge after the 8 th of April ? or are their postages , after that , thrown into one lump along with those of the General Secretary ? And if so , why are the people charged with any postages at all , but those of the Gsoeral Secretary / airfy incurred in attending to the CBszsess of the Association ?
We observe tfc&t for the week between , the 3 rd and the 10 th of June , the sum cf £ 1 13 * . Sd . is charged for postage . We remember that in that week resolutions of confidence in a late member of the Executive were passed at certain meetings in Manchester and the neighbcBrheod , and that to serve the purposes of his election C 0 Lt ~ st these resolutions were sent in packets through the post to the various sub-secretaries and a great number cf other individuals in all parts of the country . We Wish to be distinctly informed whether these packets of resolutions form part of this charge cf £ 1 13 s . Sd . for that -week ' s postage ?
The plan of organization provides that a certain propcrticn of the expences of the Executive shall be defrayed by the country -when tiey are employed in fc'eaifs ? up jiete g : oitnd tot the Association ; and we observe that various members of the Executive Beem by the balance sheet to have bt * n thus employed dnring the quarter to which it refers , as there art various churgts for " agitating expences . ; tut in no cute is it stated * here tiie labour was performed for -which th . se " agitating expences" are charged . We wish to know the reason of this omission . We wish particularly to
know where Dr . M'Douall was agitating during the two weeks from the 3 rd to the ISih of June . We wish also to be informed how it is that M'Douall wsems by the balance sheet to have bsen breaking up new greur . d n ^ Kly the whole of the quarter , as his " agitating txptca" are charged with as much regularity as his waga , week by wetk . We would gladly Jearn where hr has been employed , and where these expences have be-a incurred . We are farther very anxious to learn fcrw it is that his " agitating expences" stb charged the EXEct turn of 10 s . in addition to his SOs . every week .
There are yet a few other ittrcs that we think need esplainiEg . On the 9 th of May we find chaxgtd £ 2 foi '' cKch Tare from London . " We wish to know by whem and on what business this txpence was inenrreo . ? "We £ td also on the 2 Stb of June , 12 s . for "coach fare , " respecting which we have to Tt quest similar information . All these matters and things we find to be rife subjects of painful comment among car members here . ^ k * y apply to us for information , and we are driven therefore to apply to yen , frem whom we doubt not Jbat We hd ;^) have it satisfactory and in fulL S « lly expecting that you will enable us to meet fairly lUd ntufactorily the enquiries made of us , We are , Sir , Your Brother Chartists , The Qesksul Covscillors hesjdbht is hcll .
Srjned on behalf and by request of tbe whole , J . US . Gbassbt , Sub-Sec . To Stw letter an answer w * i received from Mr . GHnpfco , Yhfeb eafbrtaoately wm transcribed ato to Minute Book , and was destroyed along with Mr . eru&y ' f other papers by hi « wife , after he left the ii * i * i , onber Uax ^ fttiAt he was included in the CTOSk&ey 1 ioMetmeai . IU general purport , how-« T » . aay be well gathered from the reply * n » exed , in ¦ nun ill it « point , ere cowidsred seriatim .
COrT op jhe secqjjd LETTER TO KS . CAMPBELt . Hull , Jnly 17 , 18 * 2 . i , f ,, ' ~ "YOT « of the ltth , in reply to ours of the A » **« ttceivfed ; and we rejoice to . eay teat , in some
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SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED BY MR . CLEAVE . : POLITICAL TICTijI AND DEFENCE VVtiD . ¦ ¦ , ' ¦ ' ' ' . : - ' " - ¦ . •¦ - £ . 8 . d . . .. Previously acknowledged ... 119 9 6 Bradford , Wilts , » . «? . J . Penny ... 0 16 G . White . ... ... ... ... 0 16 J . Alderwick ... ... ... 0 16 C . Kendall ; . ; ... ... ... 0 0 6 G . Holbrook ... ... ... 0 0 6
J . Fisher ... ... ... ... 0 0 3 A Friend ... ... - ... ... 0 10 Lambeth Youths ... ... ... 0 2 9 T . Lee ( bill stioker ) ... ... 0 1 0 W \ M . ... ... ... ... 0 0 6 — Bennett ... ... ... ... 0 0 6 J . Wells ... ... ... 0 0 6 Ladies ' shoemakers , Foley-place 0 8 24 Lamb 8 th Teetotal Chartist ? ... 0 1 2 Proceeds of Lottery , Nov . 3 rd , at
55 , Old Bailey ... ... ... 1113 0 Stratford , Essex ~ . ... ... 0 9 0 Sale of Warwick raffle tickets , by Mr . Black ... ... ... 0 17 0 Piitney ( for Ellis ) ... ... ... 0 2 6 First dividend—City shoemakers 0 1 6 Limehouse ... ... ... "' ... 0 5 0 Nowport , Isloof Wignt ... ... 0 10 0 j . h : ... ... ... ... o 2 6 Woolcombers , Li&keard , Cornwall * ... ... . ... ... 0 6 6 Silk Hatters , S ^ nthwark , i . e .
collected by Fisher ... ... 0 2 6 Sa ' e of books givenbyilr . Cleave 0 3 o Ship Tavern ... ... ... 10 6 Falkirk and Grahp . mston ... 15 6 Falkirk Iron Works ... ... 0 l /> 0 Carron ditto ... ... ... 0 15 0 Sianhousemure ... ... ... 0 8 0 ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ : ; 139 7 -4 By P . O . and Postage , Falkirk 0 0 7
£ 139 6 9 i FOR M D 0 UAT-L . Wellingborough , per Mr . Fall ... 0 10 0 Baii . vstaple — : Will the person who tock out the Posi-office order for 10 s . forward hi 3 name aud address , and Bay for what fund tho money is intended \ * The L ' skeard Woolcombers must communicate to Mr . Cleave the name of the person who procured tho Post-i . fflse Ordfcr for tham , or their subscription will be useless . N . B . Mr . Gleavo requests such fiiem ' . a as make their Post-office Orders payab'eio him to direct the same to his own residence , 1 , Shoe-lane , Fleet-street , London . Mr . C . cannot hold himself accountable for Orders addressed So any other place .
. - ¦' ¦ " ' ¦ ¦ '¦ ' ¦ ¦ . ¦— - —? r . ' ' ' HDIiTj . -t-Defeat of the League . —On Monday and Tuesday 'last , wo wore promised the " first fruits" of tho £ 50 , 000 wrang from the swt ' at of tho factory children , in the shape of a visitation from Mr . Falvey , tho celebrated League lecturer , and the Chartists put off their meeting on Monday night , to hear whit new nostrums wereaboui tobepropounded . At the close of tho lecture , in which ho retailed wholesale the fallacies of . Aclaad and Co ., he was t&ckled , and tightly too , l > y Bairstow of the Executive . In half-an-hour poor Falvey had not a l . e « to stand on ; and at the close , challenged him boldly to a discussion on any following evening . But he had enough , far more thau enough ! and declined tho offer . On Tuesday night , it bfiinsi generally known that Bairstow remained in town , the Guild-hall was densely crowded . At the close of the lecture , which
as usual treated upon every subject but the Corn Laws , up sprung Holliday , sub-secretary of the Charter Association , aud moved , ' . " that Mr . Webster , a well-known Chartist , do take the chair . " The proposition was seconded and put to tho meeting ; at least a thousand hands were hold up in favour , and only five against . Mr . Falvey protested , but protest was vain ! The "Leaguo men" bawled j but their faotiaus braTvlIiii * . was silenced by ttio tluindering cheers of the triumphant Chanists . The hubbub lasted near half-an-hour , during wl > ich some of tho redpectablos ai-kdo off for the assiotanca ot their free-irade alli < s—the policem-n . The blue bottles arrived , and listened , apparently not ill pleased , to Falvey'a receiving , at the bands of his opponent , one of the most-effectual thrashings he or any other man ever mot with , or in all likelihood ever will . Bairstow demolished , in terms of
thrilling eloquence , every subterfuge bftUind which his opponent had taken shelter ; shewed how the traders hud grown rich at the expenco of the poor , and summed up by pourfcrayirig , in glowing colours , the avaricious , grinding , Bclfi-h ' nature of those who would now make us believo that they were actuated in this matter solely by ieelings of philanthropy and humanity . Prior to breaking up , we had three hearty cheers for the Charter , three for Bairstow , and three magnificent groans for the anti-Corn Law League . ¦ ¦ ' . '!¦ ' BIRMINGHAM . —Steelhoitse lank Meeting — Tho n 8 ual meeting of Chartists took place at the Ship Inn , Steelhcu ^ e-lane , on Tuesday evening last , Mr . John Newhouse in the chair . . Mr . EmcB delivered a very clear , manly , and most affectionate address on the "Moral and physical capabilities of man , " and was warmly applauded . A long and interesting conversation was held on the necessity of supporting Mr . Joseph Linuoy , when Mr . G .
White and others boro testimony to the straightforward conduct and sterling worth of Mr . Linnoy . A subscription was entered into for that purpose which will be continued . A discussion was then commenced on the manner in which the funds of the National Charter Association had been misappropriated by the Executive ; several were for passing a vote on the occasiou , but it was ultimately deferred to the following Tuesday , in order to allow all who ielt interested in tho matter to express their sentiments . The sub-secretary , Mr . David Potts , then colled the attention of the meeting to the election of members to the Genoral Council , which , according to tho plan of oYyanizition , should take plaoe in the beginning of December , and on the motion of Mr . A . Fusscll , it was resolved to give a week ' s notice to the mcmbcr . i of that locality in order that all might have a fair ohanoe of voting . After tho usual routiuo busiuesa was disposed of , the meetiiiK separated .
The Patriot Convict Ei . lis . —The sorrowing , and heart-broken wife , or more properly , widow , of poor Ellis , arrived here this ( vuning from Burslem , on her way to Portsmouth : to ako her farewell of her beloved , and noble-minded husband , who is now on board a transport ship , about to bid adieu to his dear wifo and children . Previous to her departure by coach to London , Mrs . Eilis read several of her husband ' s letters to the Chartists present at Mr . Follows , in Monmout . ' i-street , where she was staying , the endearing , ipatriotin , and self-denying sentiment of which , together with the sobs ot his wife , caused tears to flow from the eyes of all present . In one of thorn , he states that he had been employed with others as a labourer , and compelled to work with a number of bad characters , in a convict dress , and with seven pounds' weight of chains on his legs . In his las . let : er , written from
the convict ship , he requests to be supplied with some boobs and money , against the voyage ; and as there was no time to be loBt . Messrs . White , Follows , and Horsley , determ ned to request Mr . Cleave to supply the wants of Mr . Ellis but of the money he held , and pledged themselves on behalf of the Birmingham Chartists to make it good , in case the Chartist body objected to it . Every possible assistance was renderad Mrs . Eilis by those who were brought together during her short sojourn . and Mr . George White attended her to the coach office , and saw her safely placed in tho inside of the London ouach . It ought to bo here mentioned thit Mr . Lowe , brother-in-law of Mr . Benjamin Danks of Wednesbury his kindly consented to take charge of Mrs . Ellia ' s eldest girl , aud from his well-known kind disposition , there is no doubo the child will be well attended to .
PETERBORO . '—The Chartists of Peterboro ' and Eye met on Monday evening , at the house of Mr . Marklin , when one of the topics for the consideration of the meeting was the disinterested conduct of that noble patriot , Mr . Hames , of Oundle , who travelled at hisown expence , to Leicester and to London , as bail for Mr . Cooper and Mr . Jones , besides inumerable other benevolent acts . Mr . Taylor moved , and Mr . Marklin seconded , " A vote of thanks to that honourable gentleman for his praiflOgrUiy conduct , and may He long live to defend the dgBtB of thepowr . " ; v
MORTHAMPTON . —At a weekly meeting of the Chartists of this place , held on Tuesday night , it was resolved . " That the thanks of this meeting be given to Mr , Hames , of Oundle , for his reidiuess at all times to serve the cause of Chartism , and more especially in bis coming forward almost unsolicited to give bail for those unflinching and indefatigable patriots , Messrs . Jones and Cooper , and that the thanks of the meeting be also given to Mr . Roberts , of Bath , for his unwearied exortions on behalf of the Chartist prisoners during the late trials at Stafford .
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RECEIPTS OF THE EXECUTIVE FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOV . 23 rd , Ifi 42 . ¦ £ s d London Stuff Hat ' ers ... ... 0 1 0 Todmorden ... ... ... ... 10 0 Leeds ... ' ... ... 2 0 0 Clerkeowell ... ... 02 0 Cheltenham 0 13 4 Deptford ... ... .. ; ... 0 12 0 Manchester Shoemakers ... ... 0 8 0 London Shoemakers , Foley-street 0 8 0 ' £ 5 i i If funds are at my disposal , I wish to knovv wii 8-ther M'Douall is now to be paid his wase . My own opinion id he ought , inasmuch as he is deprived of taking a part in . tho movement . J . Campbell , Secretary .
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YOL . YI . NO . 263 . SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 26 , 1842 . W 1 ^ SJ ~ ' "
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 26, 1842, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1188/page/1/
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