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Front to be devoted to the Fund for relieving the Wives and Children of the imprisoned Chartist Victims ,
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HULL WOOL MAST . A MARKET for the SALE OF WOOL will be held at the RAILWAY STATION , in Kinoston-upon-Hull , on Tuesday , the 2 ° ! h June , at Ten o'Clock , and will be continued each successive Tuesday till 24 th August . Every Accommodation and Facility for depositing , weighing , and otherwise disposing of Wool , will be provided in the place appropriated to the Market * By order of the Committee of the Holdernesa Agricultural Society . JAMES IVESON , Secretary . Hedon , 20 th May , 1841 . '
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* A ^ afl ^ M . 1 J ^^^ & A jtO ^^ L . LEEDS BOROUGH SESSIONS . NOT ICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , That the next General Quarter Sessions of thb Peace for the Borough of Leedsj in the County of York , will be holdeu before Thomas Flower Ellis the Younger , Esquire , Recorder of the said Borough , at the Court Hcuse , in Leeds , on Wednesday , the Seventh Day of July uext , at Two o'Clock in the Afternoon , at which time and place all Jurors , Constables , Police Officers , Prosecutors , Witnesses , Persons bound by Recognizances , and others having business at the said Sessions , are reauired to attend .
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WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . MIDSUMMER SESSIONS . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , that the Midsummer General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the West Riding of " the County of York , will will be opened at Skipton , on Tuesday , the 29 th day of Juneinstaut ; aud by Adjournmenifrom thence will be holden at Bradford , on Wednesday , the 30 th Day of the same mouth of June , at Ten of the Clook in the Forenoon of each of the same days ; and also , by further Adjournment from thence , will be holden at Rothebham on Monday , the 5 th Day of July next , at Eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon , when all Jurors , Suitors , Persons bound by Recognizance , and others having business at the said several Sessions , are required to attend the Court on the several Days and at the several Hours abovementioned .
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FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH . Price is . l ^ d . per box . rpHIS exoellent Family PILL is a Medicine fcf JL long-tried efficacy for correcting all Disorders ef the Stomach and . Bowels , the common symptoms of which are costiveness , flatulency , spasma , loss of appetite , Bick head-ache , giddiness , Bense of fulness after meals , dizziness of the eyes , drowsiness and pains in the stomach and bowels . Indigestion producing a torpid state of the liver , and a constant inactivity of the bowels , causing a disorganization
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tj-es of & s parties for the discharge of the datiea to be imposed . It will fee » great day for England and for Leeds i-j the day of trial shall oome . For out men we 2 stoiii not the slightest apprehension . They will ^ japk ; because reason , knowledge , and common Lg « are upon ^ ieip "de . & eTer J oth « town In jjj j jad is well prepared for the coming struggle as \ V jjJj } If not , let them up and be doing , fatj , we are proud to find , are so . Rochdale is 2 aHre , and Ceawtojld is all right . ^ iV- nm-i ' as ttw i * hA ^ Ja ^ Thft ^ tra t \ 9 f * h » Ani ^^ n
{ he br * re little band of patriots at Hull will do j ^ jr du ty nobly . We hare now no fear that -JQJPS 05 will be sent to stop the power for evil of Ae Bi onej Member . Let them but be guarded gg ^ y difficalty in all ooalitions with Whig ^ nk i 8 * ° ^^ ^ ^^ sufficient closeness . Qer are slippery as eels , and poisonous as rattle-^ es . It is a hazardous experiment to touch ^ eTen with a lon g pole . Howeve r , let the Hull ^ jrtisB look out at the polling day . Let j ^ be in do hurry to Tote ; but 1 st them watch jj . Wfligs—let them constantly inspect th «
. $ clerk ' s books , and Bee that tTery Yeljj , snake splits fairly ; and , if any signs jypeir of & disposition to shirk the Colonelis fthem keep back in a body till the last—and fcjre the KOkenny cats to fight ont the " spree" till jkj see which is the strongest ; if the Tories can fat thejr opponent without help , let them do so ; J not , g o at once ia a sufficient body just to turn jje scale , and so leaTe them . Bradford has , we ygceJTe , anoiier Chartist candidate in the field , Mr . Sxpsok , whose manly address we publish elsejtiere . Tie Chartists here are in high glee , and fed sare of winning .
One piece of information , from our London corjgpondent , we are unable rightly to comprehend . jjj tells us , speaking of the Tower Hamlets moreseats , that Mr . Thompson , the son of Colonel Bhmpso . n , is supported by the working Chartists , < 5 S not backed by any of the leaders . We trust gs correspondent has been misinformed . We canus suppose that the leading Chartists of London jib sse in the field an opponent of the Whig
nomi-J 53 , on Chartist principles , declaring for the whole Garter and something more , without rendering all go aid they can . At all events " the lads" are light . If the leaders hang back , this is the time to show them that they are an unnecessary clog upon { is wheel of liberty , which can Tery well turn round njkmi them . Have at the Whigs , at all events , jsod London Chartists ! Down with " the bloody Whks !"
What is the City about . We hope the new Elecfcm Committee will take care to stir up " Johxst " isd the four torias " with a long pole . " In Leicester two Chartist candidates are to be bought forward to contest the Northern Division of ibe County . Canvassers are appointed to visit the districts and beat up for funds—the sinews of this giorions war—to report to the County Delegate Meeting on Sunday week . They must have a cheeris | account to render . Let the struggle be made at fluee , and cheerfully . Now or never is the time for action—the downfall of Whiggery will be the first gone in the foundation of the sacred temple of liberty , in which our children and our children ' s children shall worship the God of their fathers .
Upon the whole , " the land lies well" and the prospect is most cheering . The people are bestirring them right nobly . They are doing their work relL They hare " taken their affairs into their fwn hands" and prosperity shall follow . England s >* n no longer to be a slave-land . Englishmen SHALL sot longeb be slaves ! Ihey have willed their freedom ; they have prov « d their title to it ; they have proved themselves worthy of it , and freedom they mcst xsd shaxl have ! Death or Liberty ! No Surrender ! Onward 1 ire conquer ; backward we will not go I
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. * . THE PETITION BEARERS . Is our first page will be found the Addiess of the people ' s mou ; h-piece—the eighteen fustian-jacketed Petition bearers— w the people . We shall not mar this Address by comment ; bat we eall on all our friendB to read it ; and on the -Scottish Patriot , Dundee dhrmicle , Perth Chronicle , and all other Chartist papers , to reprint it . Let it l > e known and read through all the land !
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POST-OFFICE ORDSRS . —All persons sending money to this Office by Fo st-effice Order are especially requested to make their orders payable to Mr . JoHn Ardill , as , by a recent alteration in tne Yost-otB . ee arrangements , any neglect of this would cause qb a great amount of trouble and annoyance . Mi . O'Co > - > - £ B icill be happy to see Mr . Harney upon the subject of his letter ichen the period of his lectureship draws to a close . H . iLiBSDEX . —Mr . O'Connor begs to ask why R . Marsden , one of the most honest Chartists in the world , and the man who drew tears from the f-nty eves of the Birmingham patriots and the
London reporters , is allowed to work fifteen hours a day for seven shillings per week , irhile there is such a demand for Chartist lecturers ? Marsden is a modest man ; but why not drag him from his loom into the field . Mr . O'Connor mys , if it zcilt not be considered " offensive" or ' * despotic , ' he irill most cheerfully become one of Marsderi ' s paying pupils , for lecturing , in any locality . IIe . U'Connob begs us to say , that he cannot possibly answer one half of the letters he receives ; and thai he will not , in any instance , interfere with the Chartists in the local management of their electioneering affairs . They know their oven business beat ; and are responsible to the body for
every ad they do . They are all doing nobly ; and only the disappointed tempters complain . Ms . u'Co >> ob answers no private letter upon politics : he keeps no secrets with the enemy . Wjl Tasxxr , bjot and shoemaker , Totness , Devonihire , requests us to state , that he was presented with a son and heir on the 2 ith of May , who was duly registered , on the 6 th of June , to the great mortification of the Whig Registrar , by the name of Feargus O'Connor Tanner . Mr . Tanner has forwarded Is . to Mr . O'Connor for Uoey ; but in consequence ^ of many towns having announced the fact of a subscription being on foot , no sums received have as yet been published .
A FKitSD A 5 D his Wi ? e , of Manchester , request to know whether Mr . O'Connor has received , / re . ™ thcrr ., Is . 6 d ., for the above purpose?—Yes . M * . U'Coxsoe ' s ieply to one of the fuslian-jacket and cteck-shiTi Chartists , comical men ofMa-yieboTie , is " Yes , wiih pleasure ; and feels holioured by the request . " rf As E . N ( jui ££ B of Bath" asks us two questions . — "Fir *!—Do vou advise an ejector to vote for John Arthur Roibuck , Esq ., as a fit person to represent the city of Bath ? " To this we say , test him at the hustings . If he pledge himself to the whole Charter without mistake , parley , or pro crastination , vote for him : if he hut you off with any shvffle about being favourable to its principles , but the time not come for their operation , let him go to the d 1 ; tend a Tory sooner asks
than a sham Radical Whig tool . He w , secondly— Whether it will be illegal tn him to vote for that candidate at the next election upon vhgm a majority of Ms men shcUl decide by Ballot 3 Certainly not : hi * volt i * A" Dim—he has a right to give it to any candidate whom he * &ay choote ; and he hat as much right to take the advice of hit men at the advice of any other person in using it . The ejtd o ? oppbessos" tron'f do . Eehocbitus sends us word that a meeting of some half dozen or so of the respectable manufacturers o / Newtovcn assembled recently in the red partour of the Sun Inn , for the purpose of movmg a petition for the repeal of the Corn Laws , when it urns resolved , ** that any workman refusing his signature to the said petition should be forthwith discharged frem his employment . " He regards this as a u horrible * ' mode of manufacturing
petitions , and so do we . Oxs op thb USRKPEESE 5 TED . —We are sorry that the demands upon our space prevent us from inserting his well-reasoned tetter .
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* *? £ * % ?¦ D 05 CAK has sent us a letter addressed to the Editor of the Stirling observer , m reply to an attack made upon him in that paper . It seems the Editor of the Stirling Observer has det f M * . Duncan as a person " destitute of the plainest principles of political economy . " Mr . D . challenges the Editor to discuss with him any question of political economy before a public meeting of the inhabitants of Stirling , or of any ° i J ° 7 *» the country . Being challenged bv the Edii&f < tf iU Observer to try hislumi * "ther in Stirling or Faikirk . Mr . D . states himself to be ready , at a moment ' s notice , to discuss Chartism , or Corn Law repeal , in either of those towns whenever he may be invited there bv uorinng and he » » . _
men ; offers a like challenge to any or all of the lecturers in the pay of the anti-Corn Law league , pledging himself to procure for them a large meeting and tn attentive audience , and to refute all their clap-trap soptdstry . A Constant Reader gives good advice to the working classes of Great Britain and Ireland ; but which , we apprehend , would be belter understood and appreciated in the columns of the Methodist Magazine than in those of the Northern Star " I * ational Thasksgivisg Htmn . "— We can neither read it nor sing it . " Odb to Libkstt . "— We have n » room . C . J . C . will get it at Mr . J . Cleave ' s , 1 , Shoe-lane , Fleet-street .
John Mullholland . — We have no room . A Losdos- Democrat is quite wrong if he supposes that we have either forgot or underrate the exertions of Mr . Harney . " The Patbiqt ' s Call" cannot be heard in our columns . Richard Elus writes to complain that , at a public meeting of the inhabitants of Cambden , holden in the Infant School Room , at that place , and called by the sound of bell , after a temperance meeting , on Thursday last , the Vicar being in the chair , and expatiating in favour of what is called the moderation principle , to the disparagement of teetotalism , Mr . Ellis hissed , when the Rev . Vicar immediately ordered him to be turned out
of the room , which he prevented from being done by making himself scarce . Oce Manchester Correspondent complains that when his long reports of lectures , Sfc , are cut down to a paragraph he gets into ' hot water ' about the mailer . Now , for the satisfaction of all who may be concerned in it , we beg to state , once for all , that the chief fault we have had occasion to find with our excellent correspondent has been that his reports are almost always too lengthy . They are nearly always greatly compressed after we receive them . And if the parties who complain would come and sit at our desk for a week or two , they would find out the absolute necessity for this . There is nothing our friends seem so pertinaciously determined to forget as that we have but one Northern Star
for all England , Ireland , and Scotland . "The Day of Retribution" must tarry awhile . D . M'M . — We see nothing wonderful in the matter : it may very likely have been a letter from the General-Post-office , in reply to some enquiry forwarded from the party previous to his leaving Edinburgh . -If D . M ' M . be very curious about it , the better- way would be to make his enquiry of the person named in his letter . A Constant Reader , at Dundee . — We are unable to answer either of his questions : we have no other informalion on the subject than that which he himself has seen in the Star . Mb . Wm , Maktiic teishes us to say that all communications for him must , for the present , be addressed to the care of Mr . James Ibbelson , bookseller , Bradford , Yorkshire . R . Brook . —His teller has been sent to Mr .
Campbell . " The Kilkenny Cats" next week . Wm . Cohsti . —Every communication which we h + ve receivedfrom Banbury has been inserted . J . S . V . —The case is indeed an " awful and alarming" one . We shall probably return to it hereafter . Want of space forbids it at present , but itjwillnot grow stale . A Chichester Chartist . —Thanks for his information : it may be useful , though we do not think its insertion would be prudent . Executive . —Mr . Campbell , the secretary , wants the addresses of the Chartists in Hull , Keighley , Dalsfon , Heckmondwike , Colne , Blackburn , Sunderland , Ndntwich , Leeds , Dewsbury , Chester
Chesterfield , Congleton , Walsall , and all other places that have not . already forwarded him them . Mr . CampbsWs address it 18 , Adderleyslreel , Shaw ' s Brow , Manchester . Wm . RrssELL . — We had " prudential" reasons fw the non-insertion of his previous communication but those reasons had nothing to do with the " Post-office order" to which he refers . "One "who "woct-d be free . " '—We thank him for tKe esrpression of his good opinion , and hope always to deserve it . The demands upon our space at this electioneering time preclude the possibility of our inserting correspondence . S . Biggs — We have no room .
Wh . Skierow should have come with his letter io tell us what it means . Peter M'Bropht , of No . 4 , VTormwood-gate , Dullin , Ttishes to have the address of the Secretary of the Newry Charter Association . > Addresses to the People on their Duty at the : Elections . — he hate received scores ef documents of this character from individuals and from various local councils , all tending to thoic tht deep anxiety felt by the peop ' e , and their interest in the great national game about to be played off ' before them . Most of them are rf respectable composition ; and they all breathe one spirit of annihilation to the ''" bloodies "—no matter by what means .
Homo , a middle-class man , but a Chartist , who writes from an agricultural village in Somersetshire , \ gires a sad picture of the ignorance and serfdom i of the people in that neighbourhood , and strongly '• recorhmends to the Executive the sending of Chartift missionaries in'o the agricultural dis- j iricts , to rouse the population of the villages and ' small market-towns , especially of West Somerset , j which seems io have been entirely neglected . The ; people , he says , are smarting under a sense of ' i their wrongs , but are ill informed as to their \ origin . They need on y a political teac ! < er io [ raise amongst them a host of thorough-bred ' Chartists , going " the whole hog , bristles and j all . " R . Carrlthers , Xewcastle . — The paragraph he has
sent us-wculd be charged to us as an advertisement , and can only be inserted as such . Tiverton , Devon . —The notice of a meeting on June 7 th . arriving at the Star office on June 16 th , is rather too late . Portsmouth . —The report of Dr . M ^ Douall ' s meeting on the 1 th oj June we received on the 16 th . We ought ts have had it on the D / h , and then it would have been inserted . MiDDLEfBORorGH . —The meeting of the Police Commissioners , en Monday the 1 th , ought to have been sent to us on Tttesday , the 8 th ; it would then have been inserted . The Tbowbridge Chartists , hating heard that Dr . M'Douali is in the Wat , wish him io visit them , as well as the Chertisls at Bradford , Weslbury , and Devizes : they are all anxious to hearJiim .
Mr . A . Duncan . — We are compelled to reserve his address to the electors and non-electors of Clackmannnan and K ' inross-thire till next week .
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T . Smith , Plymouth . —All the small ones at the price of the paper . FOR THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OF THE INCARCERATED CHARTISTS . £ 8 . d . Prom Moriey 0 2 0 „ Swain Green , per J . Alderson 0 2 8 POLITICAL PRISONERS' AND CHARTER CONVENTION FUND . Prom a few friends at Patricroft , per J . i ) empsey ... 0 4 3 _ Upper Wortley 0 3 3 _ Frome ... ... 0 3 6
FOR MB , HOEY . From J ., Gl&sgow ... 0 l 9 „ Pudsey Association 0 1 8 _ the Chartists of Mansfield 0 5 0
FOR MRS . FROST . From Mrs . Frost ' s Committee st ManchMter , per Pi Shorrocks ... —«* ¦¦• 3 10 0 „ A ' Friend at Leeds - ... 0 0 6 „ Upper Wortley 0 4 9 . Moriey 6 2 S .. Trowbridge , per J . Merchant ... 1 3 0 „ Mr . Hnnell , Norwich . _ 0 13 « Hr . Hardwent 0 8 9 „ ThreeRepablican Tailors , per J . Cleave 0 16 Wandsworth Charter Association , per J . Knight 0 5 « .. Frome 0 5 0 FOB THE EXPEJrCBS OP BETPBNIJfO CHABTIST MIKBERS AT THE ENSUING ELECTION . From DunfennliBe , per W . Drysdale ... 6 0
FOR PRESS FOR J . B . O 3 RIEK . From Jonn Findley , Chariestown ... ~ 0 1 0 FOB KB .-WHEELER , OF MANCHESTER . From Morley ... « 3 0 POR THE EXECUTIVE . From Woodhonse Chartist Association 0 5 FOB WILLIAMS AND LEECH " S ELECTION EXPENCES From Moriey 0 3 0
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OLDHAM . —The Whigs have , it seems determined to bring forward Mr . J . B . Smith , of Manchester , as their candidate . Oni correspondent says they may bring who they will , the two well-tried member * , Mesra . Fielding and Johnson will be returned .
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. LEEDS . —Look before you Leap ! ob , the ^ "EBALirTY op the Liberals . "—A capital hit at the M Bloodies , " by Hick , the Chartist poet ; bnt yet no poetry . All sound , sober , prosy sense , well worth reading , and onght to be read by every body . It is sold for a halfpenny , and will bo kept in type for a week or two at out office , to supply the country . Ancient Romans . —On Monday , ihis steadily pro-Kressing body opened a senate at the houst of Mr . Fleming , the Yorkshire Hussar Inn , York-street , when a n * mber of respectable individuals were initiated , who , with the general officers of the society , spent the evening in the utmost conviviality . The name adopted by the new senate is Constantino the Great . "
Fatal Accident . —On Saturday last , an inquest was held at the Court House , before John Blackburn , Esq ., on the body of John Dixon , of Oulton . The deceased was a whitiBg miller , employed at the ileet Mills , near thistown j and on Friday morning week , previous to commencing his work , wasengaged iu oiling some part of the machinery connected with a stamper . For this purpose he had a ladder to enable him to reach the more elevated parts ; and whilst standing on the ladder , it would seem that it had shghtly slipped , which threw him from his positron , and his hand was caught between two cog wheels . The whole of his fingers on one hand were broken , and the hand itself much shattered . He was taken at once io the Leeds Infirmary , where for some days he appeared to be recovering ; severe inflammation , however , supervened , and he died on Friday , from the effects of his injuries . Verdict" Accidental death . "
t £ ^? * T On Monday last , a fellow named John Marvell , a cloth-dresser , residing in Springstreet , Bank , was brought before Messrs . Musgrave and Is ell , at the Court House , charged with a brutal assault , on his own son , an interesting looking lad about nine years of age . The prisoner went home on Saturday night , between seven and eight o clock , m a state of intoxication , and as soon as he entered the house , he took a plate containing some provisions which had been saved for his dinner and threw it under the firegrate . Upon serins this , his
wite , who knewfrom sadexperiencetheviolence of his temper , left the house , and his wrath then burst upon his unoffending child , who had been put to bed ; he struck him over the head and different parts of the body , with a fire-poker , and with a piece of wood , and to such an extent was his violence carried , that surgical aid was obliged to be obtained and for some time it was doubtful whether the injuries would not terminate fatally ; it was fortunate for the prisoner that such was not the case . Meanwhile the police were sent for , and the child removed and put to bed . The prisoner then being left alene in his house , went up stairs and attempted to set it
on are , and an alarm was soon raised that smoke was issuing out of an upper window . A policeman then went m and found the prisoner laid all his leDgth on the floor , and at once took him into custody , whilst another threw some water into the bed-room . It was found that he had taken a shovel full of fire up stairs , and thrown some combustibles upon it , which had a narrow escape of setting the premises on fire . These circumstances were detailed , and the manner in which the unfortunate victim of brutal violence gave his evidence against his father , caused a thrill of
horror m the court . The fellow having been asked what he had to say for himBelf replied that he did not know any thing about it—he was so drunk that he did not know what he did . Mr . Musgrave told him that did not at all lessen his crime ; he did not remember at any time having a more outrageous case brought before him , and the magistrates were sorry they could not inflict a more severe punishment than that which the law empowered them to do in such cases . They should , however , go to the full extent . He was then fined £ 5 , and in default of payment was sent to Wakefield House of Correction
for two months . STROUD . —Civility and Truth-speaking Habits op M . P . ' s , Specially Interesting to the Electors of Stroud . —Mr . Martin , who was one of the deputation from the Petition Convention to the Hon . Members for this borough , Mr . Poulctt Scrope and little Lord John , gives the following account of his mission : — " Four times we waited on the little Lord , and though it was at the hour of one in the afternoon , we were informed he was in bed , the place where the deputation found him when they waited on him in behalf of poor Frostand wheu
, he made use of ths following language : —• The Privy Conncil have agreed to save his life ; but I am sorry for it . ' . We were told that his private secretary would send an answer to a circular which we left ; but it never came to hand . Now for Mr . Scrope . We called at his houBe at noon , when the servant said that he had ordered his horse , which wonJd be at the door at one o ' clock , and then he would hear what we had to say . We were there at the time , the horse was ready , but you will scarcely believe me when I tell you that hia footman was instructed to say he was ill in bed . "
BARNSXiEV . —Weavers' Turnout . —A meeting was hdd on Monday , the } 4 : h inst ., to hear the report of the Committee . Every satisfaction was given by those men to their fellow-workmen . There appears every prospect of success , though it is entailing a great deal of distress upon poor workmen , who are only striving to protect their wages from the inroads of a tyrant . There has been a uniformity of wages ever since two of our noble minded patriots were transported in 1821 . There was also a great meeting of the weavers of Dodworth , on Monday afternoon , when eloquent appeals were made by Messrs . Shaw and Alexander , and all classes protested that they would support the weavers .
BRISTOL—Ticket meetiDg 3 are the order of the day here , and the Whigs are trying all their arts to gull the trade 3 isto the support of Mr . Berkeley . A grand public meeting , on " Free Trade" principles was called for Monday night , iu Ryan ' s Amphitheatre ; but , like all other meetings of late , it was not only " tk-kettedY' but packed with the dupe ? of the " Plague , " in order that so inconvenient a subject as discussion might not find room to enter . It was also well guarded by police . Mr .
Cobdeu , of Manchester , of bludgeon notoriety , with his company of free traders , was in attendance ; and , in one of his flowery , unmeaning speeches , threw dust in tho eyes of his dupes , and blinded them to their own interest . Free trade was , declared to be the panacea for all the grievances under which we labour . Mr . Berkeley was expected to show , but , though loudly called for , he did not come , and a promise was held out that he would be present on a future evening . The meeting then broke up .
KElCrHLET . —Easter Dues . —The new Rector of Keighley , Mr . Busfield , is at present favouring the inhabitants with a proof of his sympathy for the poor , by adding to their thousand and one burthens that of Easter Dues . He avows himself a firm supporter of the Church as it is , and declares his determination to enforce its laws to the last , especially those which give him power over the purses of his parishioners . To prepare the way for this new claim , he sent round , some weeks ago , several females of his flock belonging to the middle class , who went into every house , hut , and cabin , kindly inquiring after the welfare of the inhabitants , the number of the children , the schools and places of worship they attended , with other particulars , all of
which they inserted in a book . It since turns out that these amiable women were employed by their reverend pastor in bringing him a correct account of the state of his flock , preparatory to their undergoing the operation of the shears , as a collector is low going round informing the blind , lame , and starving that nothing can screen them from payment , and that tiistrahus on their goods will certainly be made in case of a refusal . This commencement of the ministerial duties of a man who has already between two and three thousand pounds a year , more espv-cially at a time like the present , when tew working people can get the common necessaries of life , is certainly a mark of kindness many of the poor dip . no ; expect , and which they will loag remember with becoming gratitude .
ASHTON . M BLANCHOLT OCCURRE KCE . —On Saturday week , during the conarmation held at St . Thomas ' s Church , Ashton , near Wigan , a very serious event took place , and which arose from a momentary unfounded report in the west gallery that it was giving way . This was about half-past six o ' clock , at which time the bishop had just concluded confirming the females , when a crack was heard in the western gallery , as if from the back ot one of the seats , occasioned by pressure ; this immediately caused an impression on the minds of several persons that the gallery was giving way under them , just in front wh » re the organ is situated . At ihe impulse of the moment , a general alarm was created , which was considerably heightened by one sf the singers telling those standing near him that the gallery was giving way , and requested them to go oat qaietly ; which advice , unfortunately , was not followed . A
simultaneous rush instantly took place towards the gallery stairs , and , in the harry and confusion to get out , numbers of females fell at the bottom of the stairs , and scores following hard on in the fright , also fJl orer them until the staircase was completely filled up , the females being literally piled one on the other nearly to the ceiling . The screaming at this moment was heart-rending ; bat the police , after several ineffectual efforts , at last gucceeded in extricating them from their awful predicament . The whole of the persons remained jammed together for nearly twenty minutes , and ihe weight of bo many from the upper part of the stairs pressing downwards rendered the situation of those underneath truly appalling . One aged female was so much injured that she died the same evening , but although a great number of others were seriously injured , they are all at present in a fair way of recovery .
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NEWCASTLE . Ma . Editoe , —By giTing insertion to the following correspondence you will greatly oblige the Chartiata of this district I remain , Sir , Toura truly , James Sinclair , Sub-Secretary . Newcastle , lid Jane , 1841 . Bm , —I was instructed , at a public meeting of the inhabitants of this town , to requeat you to become a candidate for the suffrage of Newcastta-upon-Tyne at the anticipated election . The committee are busy can" ~~ " ~—~—^— . ,
vassing the electors , several hundreds of whom have promised to support whatever candidate , of Chartist principles , may be brought forward . An answer at your earliest convenience , stating the terms upon which you would accept of our invitation , will greatly oblige . Sir , Yours truly , La the cause of truth , James Sinclair , Secretary . To James Bronterre O'Brien , Esq .., ' Lancaster Castle .
MR . O ' BRIEN ' S ANSWER . Lancaster Castle , June « th , 1841 . My bear Sir , —I have thiB moment received your very flattering and gratifying communication , and lose not a moment in replying to it : By all means , and at all hazards , take advantage of the forthcoming general election , to procure , if possible , a real national representation for the country ; and tell the men of Newcastle , it affords me infinite gratification to find tfaem so vigorously alive to the true interests and honour of their town , as to be amongst the first to assert , practically , the right of the non-electors to a full participation in the benefits of representative government Now or never is the time to strike an affective blow for the liberties of the people ; and if
the men of Newcastle will only do , what you say they are preparing to do , they will have sounded the death knell of tyranny for ever , and covered themselves with immortal glory . Tell them , by all means , that my services are at their disposal , for whatever kind qf work they may cut out for me , provided it involve no compromise of principle , or deviation from the great charter , to which we ail stand pledged ; and tell them also that , with the exception of Brighton , there is not another town in the United Kingdom I would be more proud to represent than the spirited town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , although there ate upwards of twenty towns in the kingdom that weuld prefer me for their representative to any other man in the country , excepting Feargus O'Connor . Newcastle , I
believe , sends two Members to Parliament j more than nine-tenths of its inhabitants are small tradesmen , mechanics , and working men , who , although the real authors of whatever prosperity the town enjoys , are wholly unrepresented in feelings and interests by either , or both , of the present sitting members . ' —this must no longer be . Tis perfectly infamous that only one-tenth part of your population composed of land and house lords , ship-owners , merchants , usurers , lawyers , brokers , and parsons—fellows who would swallow up ten times more than you all produce , ( if they could get it , ) without yielding you any corresponding advantage , and still be unsatisfied and ungrateful— 'tis perfectly infamous , I say , that this grasping , heartless , worklesa fraction of your
population , should have two representatives , while , you , the industrious nine-tenths , constituting the worth and strength of your town , should have no representative at all !!! In God and the people ' s name , then , put an end to this abominable anomaly at the forthcoming election . Unless either of the two ruling ; factions will agree to coalesce and split votes with you , so as to give you man for man , i . e . member for member , oppose both alike upon the hustings ; return your own men by show of hands , and stick , by them when you have returned them , resolved to recognise no other as your representatives . If , for instance , you return me , for want of a better , I pledge myself to stick by you to the death , so long as you stick by me ; and if the rest of the country will not go and do likewise , they may go to the D—1 , for they will deserve to die as they have lived , miserable , unpitied slaves . Oh . ' if the
Chartist press woald but give up their dirty , jealous , personal squabbles , and for once act an honourable , manly part , how soon we should see four hundred good men and true , ready to take the field , and be put in nomination , and beat both factions , on every hustings , at the approaching elections ! But , may-hap , it is not yet too late . Let the men of Newcastle , at all evtnts , set tham a good example . Let the brave men of the Tyne set the ball a-going with spirit , and may-hap , notwithstanding all the folly and treachery we havo experienced , the game may be taken up by the men of Sunderland and Durham , who will kick the bill into Yorkshire and Lancashire , who will kick it again into the midland disiricts , and so on , till it rolls along southwards into London , and thence right into St . Stephen's Chapel , where , I trust , it will carry speaker , mace , and all , before it !! !
Until I hear from you again , and know more of your condition and prospects , I can offer no further suggestions as to . the course you should pursue . I shall expect , however , to hear from you soon again , and meanwhile be pleased to convey my affectionate regard and sincere thanks to the men of Newcastle , for the honour they have done me , and the gratifying proof they have given of the confidence reposed in nie—a confidence of which I feel most proud to be the depository , and which , I hope , they shall never have cause to regret as misplaced . Please also to inform them that 1 should instantly issue an address to them through the newspapers , but that , through an unexampled stretch of despotism , I am cut off from all communication with the press . But more of this when I write again . Meanwhile , I remain , My dear Sir , Very sincert-ly your ' s James Bronteurk O'Brien . To Mr . James Sinclair .
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EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MR . O'BRIEN , IN ANSWER TO ONE FROM MR . BOWMAN , OF CARLISLE . Lancaster Castle , June 14 th , 1841 . Mr dear Bowman , —I have received yours of the 12 th instant , with the enclosed printud address , and am most gratified to find by both that the man of C irlisle mean to do their duty to themselves nuel country at the approaching election . Now or never ( as I before observed ) is the time to strike an effective blow at both fa , cti « n * . If the unrepresented people let this opportunity Blip through tlibir
bands , they will sup sorrow for their neglect , and that for many along dreary day ! For , believe me , Bo wman , that unless we can accomplish at the cowing uieciiuiid , one or tie other of these two things—namely , either tda admission of some fifty Chartist Members into the new House of Commons , or failing that , the creation of a g reat National Council , consisting of soiw . 20 u or 300 Chartist representatives of the people , openly u » d fairly elected by the show of hands at lite priucipui elections throughout the kingdom—unless , I say , we accomplish either or both of these ol > jects at the coming elections , it is my decided opinion that a bloody revolution is not far distant .
If , however , we can accomplish either or both of these objects , the revolution may be averted , for then the millions will have a something to look to—a something to sustain their fainting hopes , and stand between them and despair—« something io induce them to wail a tillle longer , before abandoning all hope of legal and peaceable redress , they take their affairs into their own hutids . and res-sit to the ULTIMA ratio ef armed force to right ihemsdvts If they can get some forty or fifty of their own fneudu into the House of Commons , it will be a sign that the upper and middle classes have at last begun to recognise their just claims ; and that circumstance , as ¦ well as the h » pe of Beelng something done for them by the Parliamentary exertions of their new ^ eleeted friends , will postpone , if not entirely extinguish , all schemes of a revolutionary character .
Bat if the two factions will not permit this—if neither of them will coalesce , and split their votes wim the Chartists , so as to yield the latter a party in the House of Commons—in short , if the factions are determined to have the entire representation of the country to themselves , and to leave 6 . 000 , 00 i ) ot ariuit working men without any representation at all , then * . hev « win be bat one sheet anchor for us—but one solitary plank between us and the fathomless mulf of revolution j that plank is the Great Nationui Council , to be elected by a show of hands . This Conncil , as the depository of the nation ' s confidence , will at once serve as a constitutional rallying point fo * the outraged minions , and as a carrier uyainsl revolution , by enabling them to carry on the war of right against their oppressors , without -violating the
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law , or endangering the peace of society . Its business will be to negotiate with the Government ( in the name of the nation which has just clothed it with its confidence snd authority ) an Act of Settlement , which shall at once make the People ' s Charter the law of the land , and establish saoh guarantees for the protection of property , as will relieve both rich and poor from all apprehensions of want , or the fear af want . How that could be done , I have already explained iu « mie of our conYenations , wnen we met in Carlisle . Togo over the matter here , would occupy too much space , and , after all , would be only the opinion of one man . Besides , on the National Council , would , of caurse , devolve the task of framing the Act of Settlement , and therefore all we have to consider now is , how to render that Council as full and complete a representation of the people as possible .
It can be dene only by every man doing his duty at the elections . Let every county , city , and borough have its candidates ready to be put in nomination ; let no Chartist be absent from the hustings on the day of nomination ; let no Chartist hand be held up for Whig or Tory on that day , but let every Chartist hand be held up , when the show of hands is taken , for the Chartist candidates ; and thus let both factions be made to see , to their shame and sorrow , that they form bat a miserable , despised fraction of the population . To save the future expence and inconvenience of having too many candidates elected , it might be well to have the same candidates elected for two or more places in the same county or district Thus the same parties might represent Newcastle , Morpeth , and North Shields , in Northumberland ; and two other candidates Gatfcshead , South Shields , and Sunderland , in Durham . But the people themselves are the best judges on this point ; so to the people let us leave it .
Even it the National Council were not to meet when the new Parliament meets—were it absolutely to do nothing after its election , every member of it remaining at home , and occupying himself as he does nowstill even on this hypothesis , it is of the utmost consequence to have them elected ; for , we know not the moment , ( in . critical times like these , ) when the services of such a body may he required , to take advantage of some national crisis , in behalf of the millions that ejected them . Now , remember that in troubled times you can have no elections [—and that the only authority competent te act for the people in such times is the authority they have themselves created in time of peace . Under all circumstances , therefore , the existence of such a body as the projected National Council , is essentially necessary to our purposes at the present time .
I am extremely giad to see that the advice given by the Northern Star last week corresponds exactly with the substance of what I have suggested to my friends all over the country—including my former letters to yourself and Mr . Arthur , of Carlisle . By all means , I repeat , coalesce with either faction , that will bona fide coalesce with you , on terms of reciprocal advantagethat is , on the conditions of splitting their votes with you , and giving you man for man in the representation of the Borough . But if neither will split their votes with you , then down with both factions alike—Bet up your own candidates , and look to none else , either beore ar after the election .
There is but one part of the Star ' s advice I regret to see—one part from which I dissent tn to to . I mean the Editor ' s recommendation to support Tories against Whigs , in case the Chartists should not be able to return their own candidate . I cannot possibly concur in this advice , nor will any of my friends throughout the country . Our business , as Chartists , is , I repeat , to disavow both factions alike , even as they have disavowed us , and to make no distinction whatever between them , saving where they choose to make the distinction themselves , by agreeing to coalesce and split their votes with our party . That is the only possible owe in which we can recognise either faction without compromising our principles , and degrading ourselves as a party . What . ' vote for a Tory , merely to keep out a Whig ! Vote for a villain who waits to put down me , and my principles , and my party , by
brute force , merely to get rid of another villain who has tried the same game , and failed ! No ! d—n me ! if I do . If I were to help either villain against the other , I should help the weaker villain , who has failed , rather . than the stronger one , who is about to cashier him for his failure , and to whom all that is black and blue in the land , looks for the suppressien of Chartism . And as to thenewAocus pocus policy of promoting Chartism by inundating the next House of Commons with Toryism , I cannot find language capable of expressing my contempt for it O'Connor is certainly mad , if he imagines it ; for I am certain he could never swallow such a gross lump of Cobbettism in a moment of sober reflection . It is contrary to all his former recorded opinions , and utterly at variance ¦ with the policy ho so ably and manfully followed up against the Liberator and Champion . Lot the Chartists but once make common cause with the
Tories , no matter for what purpose , and that moment they annihilate themselves morally as a political party , and prepare the way for their physical extinction , by the very villains they would league with , covertly supported by the other villains they leagued against With what face could any Chartist hereafter camplain of Tory violence or Tory atrocity , if he" had but lent & helping hand towards placing them in power , and that , well-knowing all the time , that their principal object in getting power was to crush him and exterminate his principles by the force of hired assassins ? I tell you , Bowman , that the Chartist who votes for a Tory , unless that Tory votes far him , is eithor a fool or a traitor . Down with both factions ! —and no distinction !—that should be our cry . Yours , < kc . James B . O'Brien .
[ We give two letters from Mr . O'Brien this week , — all we have room for . By the last paragraph above , it will be seen that Mr . O'Brien does not agree in the recommendation of the Slar and Mr . O'Connor , as to the course to be pursued by Chartist voters at the approaching election . It is only by placing all opinions before the people that they can come to discreet conclusions , as to the course most likely to be profitablo to their own cause . The Star and Mr . O'Connor but approved of that course of action which the people ef Nottingham decided upon adopting ; and . in favour of which nearly the unanimous voice of the people has been expressed—and the effect of which has been the affording the people that opportunity which the whigs would have cheerfully deferred . The Nottingham election has
caused a dissolution of Parliament—the Nottingham election has caused the break-up of the only Ministry that has held power under what may be called the Reformed Constitution of this country ; and whose acts should consequently not be conipared with the acts of those whose power the Reform Bill was to strangle ; and we regret exceedingly to find that what Nottingham so Wisely resolved and acted upon , and what the people , the Star , and the Convention so highly approved of , should meet with the disapprobation of any Chartist . If any defence of the Star und Mr . O'Connor were necessary , we should only be justified in using that defence , if either had acted in contravention to the public will ; but what was our situation ? what was our duty ? and how have we
discharged it 1 are the questions for popular solution . Our situation was this : some defined opinion was required at our hands . Our duty in delivering th . it opinion was to take care that we compromised none of our own principles ; and to weigh wherein our opinion * and those of the country harmonised or clashed . How did we discharge that duty ? Thus : the country appointed a Convention of thirteen persons , having their fall and undivided con--Silence . We placed our own opiniens in abeyance until we should have been in possession of the digest of the national will , through the only national representative body in existence . That digest we gave—luminous , splendid , ail-comprehensive , and convincing as it was : and we honestly confess that it
must have been a strong leaning upon our side which the arguments therein contained would not hav * removed . But it so happened that our views and tb \; views of the Convention in no wise differed . Hence the charge against Mr . O'Connor and the Star should be for having cheerfully folowtd and zealously worked out the unanimous opinion and express recommendation of tbat body , and we imagine that reference to dates will prove that while we were merely engaged in the organisation of publie opinion and its preparation for acting upon the advice of the Convention , the Convention wws in a higher stage and preparing for the dirediw of publio opinion . Now , suppose the Star and Me . O'Cannor , oven had they differed from the Convf .. -ntton , to have flown in the face of the National Representatives ,
would not both have been justly chargeable T , nth intolerance and despotism ? We regret excef jdingly that any one act of ours , of Mr . O'Connor , ot of the Convention , ( should have failed to comma ' ad the entire approbation of so bold , so Zealous , soab ' . e , so unflinching , and , upon almost every oceasior ,, so uniformly discreet a teacher as Mr . O'Brien . However , if we had but the alternative of acting uporj the opinions and recommendations of Mr . O'Brien , or the Convention , anil if our opinions were to f jrm try 3 balance , and were they evon unsettled , we have nob . esltatlon in declaring that we would at once throw 0 * 1084 opinions into the national scale . That we have done ; and it will be f > r the people to decide how ' far the / will follow the recommendations of the Co / avention , supported by O'Connor and the Star .
They will on this subject ., as we ever wish them to do on all—take their ovjjl well-considered course —but we tell them that If they suffer themselves to be led away from their determfnatfera to beat down the " bloodies * - at all T fl 8 » rds , they will bitterly repent it ]
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Hollingworwh . —Mr . William "Aitkin , of Ashton , schoolmaster , \ till lecture at tne Chartist Meeting Room , on Sunday , the 20 th instant ; and Mr . Butterworth , from Manchester , on Thursday , the 24 th instant . South Lancashire . —Mr . James Leech will lecture at the following places : —On Sunday , June 20 th , at Brown-street , Manchester ; Monday , 21 st , at Hyde ; Tuesday , 22 d , at StAley Bridge ; Wednesday , 23 d , at Milne-row ; Thureday , 24 tb , at Oldham ; and on Friday , 25 th , ftt Shaw ,
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# Dewsbury . —Mr . George Julian Harney will deliver a lecture in the Mturket-place , on Sunday , the 20 th of June , at six o ' clock in the evening . Subject : Priestcraft the cause of the ignorance and slavery of mankind . ' Heckmondwikb . —Mr . Harney will address the people on Monday , the 21 st of June , in the Marketplace . Bradford . —Mr . Harney wilt address the peoplo on Tuesday , the 22 d of June . Upphr Wortley . —Mr . Harney will address the people on Saturday , the 19 th of Jane . Bishop Auckland and . West Avcklakd . —Mr . Williams will ieotnre at those places , as announced in last week ' s Star , if not required to go to Leeds .
Wilwick . —On Monday next , if the weather permit , Mr . Skeviogton will address the men of wilwick at one o'cloek at noon ; and the men of Sheepshead at six o ' clock , p . m . Chesterfield . —A social tea meeting takes place on Tuesday , the 29 th instant , in the Meeting Room , Hill-side . Tickets , ninepence each , may be had of Mr . Moore , Bedlam ; Mr . Martin , Market-square ; Mr . Ellis , Market-square ; Mr . Barker , Lord ' e-millstreet ; Mr . M'DonaJd , Brampton ; and Mr . W . Martin , Hill-side . It is particularly requested that all friends will make early application , as the nnmber of tickets will be limited . Several friends from Sheffield will be present , and arrangements are making for the services of the Derbyshire Chartist missionary for that day *
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NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Ths Provisional Executive have agreed to call the Permanent Executive together on Monday , the 12 ui day of July next .
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The Chartist Election Committee m < , t last night , to hear the report of the correspondence with the gentlemen whom the Secretary was instructed , at the public meeting , on the 27 th ultimo , to request to become candidates for the Suffrage of Newcastle , at the ensuing election . Mr . Scott , of Oust-Wra , being called to the chair , the Secretary read Mr . O'Brien ' s affirmative answer , as above ; Mr . V . Sankey ' s negative , assigning as a r <) ason his pre-engagement by the electors of Marylebone ; and Mr . Watkins ' s negative , in which he very minutely drew a picture of what that House must of necessity be when sent there under the present system . Mr . Hall then moved , and Mr . Bruce seconded , "That Jam 03 Bronterre O'Brien , Esq ., and Mr . Johu Mason ,
be the candidates for the town of Newcastle , at the anticipated election . "—Carried . Mr . Sinclair moved , and Mr . Crotners seconded , " That the Secretary be instructed to send a copy ot hia letter to Mr . O'Brien , and Mr . O'B . ' s answer , to the Northern St ar , requesting them to insert the sama "—Carried . Mr . Sinclair moved , and Mr . FTankland seconded , " That this meeting adjourn until Monday evening , the 14 th inst ., at half-past seven o ' clock ; and that a deputation be appointed to wait upon Messrs . Richard Ayre , M . 8 . Dodds , J . Turnbull , D . France , J . Blakey , J . Allison , W . Byrne , T . Hume , W . Graham , Thomas Gray , Thomas Home , Wm . Atkins , J . B . Owen , and Wm . Cook , requesting their co-operation on that occasion . "Carried . James Sinclair .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 19, 1841, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct384/page/5/
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