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TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OT LEEDS . ¦ p ENTLEMEN , —The honour you have done me in \ X presenting to me the flattering Requisition I have just received , proposing that I should offer myself as a Candidate for your Suffrages as eue of your Representatives in Parliament , demands my most cordial thanks . lam fully sensible , likewise , of the additional value which is stamped on that Requisition by your haying associated my name with that of your honoured Townsman , Mr . Wiiliam Beckett ; and , with such a call and such a colleague , I cannot hesitate to accept your invitation , and to
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^ is such , to whatever country , creed , or calling g , jj belong . Cm foola longer remain blind to the Tillany j $ a Repealer , who now buckles a head-piece and t pocket-p iece together , to meet the present crisis , « nd so to neutralise , nay , destroy , the whole that has j ^ done for Repeal ! Thus we find Djlkikl 0 > Cox 5 O-t > pauper and repealer , wedded to Hattok , jjOia and anti-repealer , for the city of Dublin ; p ^ -iB . O'Cosxell , jun ., p » nper and repealer , tied jo the parse-strings of Ashto * Yates , anti-repealer , n < i rich man , for Carlow eounty ! So , well may the j ^ eiat or exclaim : — ¦ 'Carlo 1 ' county and repeal , hurrah ! lot repeal and C » i ! ow eounty , hurrah V
• RTut nonsense ! but can it last ! and all this jjiile honest Shasius Cbawposd is obliged to fly jo a Lancashire borough , rottenness baring closed jjgjaad against him ; while Ashtox Yates , who would joi be tolerated by a constituency of independent iweepsi is foisted upon Carlow . Would Crawfokd be tolented at Rochdale , even now , by the Orange Qjjrtists , if he was to Bay one word against the jjjgb Catholic people ! No ; not for a moment , ije O'Co 5 >' oSj O'Bhiej , Hoet , Mabtis , White , Detfet , Deeg ± >' , Dotxe , and Campbell less dear to the English people , whose cause they Berre , bejmse they are Irish ? No ; bnt dearer and more gloved ; as it is a rare thing to find "Rngiiah and jnsh working for the one common object .
Mr . O'Cos . skll has had a moral-force temperance exhibition in Graeechnrch-street , and his friends i » ve had » physical force shindy in Manchester ; jnd "wiih these , their moral and physical exhibitions Jjjd better terminate ; for , let him and his blind folloTrerg be assuied , that the Chartists will allow of an more interruption to their proceedings , or physical exposition to their forces , Ca&rusts of the empire ! Ye wio hare done so to
^ nch silenee , crush , and annihilate all anti-Irish prejudice ! the blood of your brethren has been freely and wantonly spilt in the streets of Maaehester j—your body has beea designated M wsczujrrs , " "Obakgehe * , " Hasotebiass , " and " desibotkks , ' by the sales-master of the factory child ; by the oppressor of Canada ; by the rottenest link in the rotten chain of Whiggery , and the gaoler of josr prisoners , for whose release aboye two Billions prayed in rain .
You are now npon the ere of a great crisis , and whit is your exact position ? It is this—You are rss balance of power ! and as such , the Political Lords who are to farm out power npon the approaching leasing day . If yoa re-let to the former tenants they will pay in future as ifcey have paid hitherto ; in blood , in tears , in toil , in sweat , in chains , in persecutien and bondage ; and to them you must LET FOR SEVEN YEARS ; while , upon the other hand , if yon let to the Tories they become mere TENANTS AT WILL , AND REiiOTABLE AT PLEASURE ; and never , never iuxer , can the " Bloodies" be taught reason , except in the school of adversity , which is kept at the sign of the bleak side of the Treasury Benches .
Ge $ a house of Whigs , and , for seren long years will they cling to office and multiply abuse ! Gei a loos * of Tories , and then , "but not till then , can Whig eoartahip of th « Chartists be relied upon , Then we shall be the amiable , the lorely , the heaven-bom Gurtists ! So Down with the " Bloodies , " hurrah ! hurrah ! Hurrah J and down with the Bloodies , " hnrrah
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"PUBLICOLA" AND THE CHARTISTSOtb readers will not hare forgotten the seTere punishment that we were reluctantly compelled to inflict npon Pablieola , " the " crack" writer in the Dispatch , some months ago , when , in his attempt to throw new light npon the question of a Repeal of the Union , he cast a clond round the subject which ecr . us some trouble to dispel . In commencing that controTersy , we spoke of "Publicola" and the Dispatch as they , up to that period , deserved ; bnt from the period of the opposition given to Mr . Alderman Haemsb's elevation to one of those ancient and barbarous honours now so much decried by " Pnblicola , " we have observed a gradual weaning from principle , and a very perceptible leaning to Whiggery .
It is very lamentable to witness the perversion of ingenuity and talent , and to find both directed by a public writer of no ordinary capacity , to the pitiful purpose of multiplying " the sorrows of a poor old BID . " " Publicola" always professes a kind of parental loTe for the Chartists , and generally approaches every subject connected with that body with a very patronising air . He writes as though he was far in advance of a party , whose means to catch np the space between him and them he invariably decides ; while , like the man with the bundle of carrots running before the hungry ass , he cries out , " persuasion is better than force . " Yft , we are always wrong , "Publicola" is always right ; and till Saturday last , and the week before , we never had a word of advice from this intense Mentor . When we were
weak and houseless , he joined in the general denson ; now that vre are strong and powerful he damns us , by telling us what he is , and showing the manifest difference between the Chartists and 6 Poblieola . " We placed some of his confused notions of extreme E&eraliiy before our readers last week , and we cow proceed to comment upon his more recent and far fflore foolish production . After about half a column of self-adulation , he commences Ms courtship of the Chariiais thus : —
" Mibdne the Whigs , and place the Tones in poorer , it the approicLing elections , and you mil be crushed fey both with the utmost ease . The Torie 3 "will annihil ^ e you from their innate leve of tyranny , and froai tfceir long experience of their advantages in misrule , "frhils : ihe Whigs -will assist them out of resentment , t od from a hopelessness of guiding , or even advising , a Party so perverse . Chartists , this is your crisis . There is a tide in political affairs , and it is for you now to > ske it at the floDd . If you neglect it , youi course * iil be through flats and shallows to a degraded an ;] s ^ raKe txiinction . ILet your policy be to cicely
bate&c- parties , and to take advantage of their divisions * 2 < i jraiGusitE . Abhor the Tories , bst giTe the Whigs •*» tnia : i ait precarious a majority , that that thfy must b : sensitive to ynbiic opinion , and yield to the pressure fccra Tithoat Tote for the candidate that approxinav = s the neax&st to you , and press his approximation u clcsely as possible . Tolerate n » Tory concession , eonfide in no Tory pledge , for Teries are the vermin of pledges , and all the curses they have inflicted on our ecaarry , and especially in Ireland , have been efiVctrd I ? insincere professions , and by pledges meant to be tooifcntiy Tiolated or insidiously evaded . A Tory pltdee is as vinnous as a dicer " s oaih .
" Choriists , y « a seem not avrare that the progress of Ebtralkai is siow aad limited . Tour own Charter is harrow acd miserably confined , and yet you denounce » fl that irill not miie it their creed . I lilje it as far ** it goes , but I despise it for not going further . It is fciu-d to the ignorant present . As a fical measure no-» fcing ( -JU bg mQTi . tame , pusillanimous , and even ridicuku !; ^ £ > pping-stc » ne to further things I accept it " 2 sow , was there ever stuff and nonsense eqaa ] to the abeve ! And what a distinct and beautiful tfiaract-er "Publicola" give 3 of the parties far whose favour and patronage we are to sue . He a , " The Tories will annihilate you , from their
™* &te love of tyranny , and from their long experience of their advantages in misrule ; whilst the Whi ffs vill asiist them out of resentment , and frem a hopelessness of guiding , or even advising , a party * > perTerse . " This is what the pedant calls sticky smd— adhesive , " so much so , that we really know a « how u > get 02 t o f ^ . An irishman was once asked how he wished to k * ve his body disposed of * fter his execution , to
* bich he replied , " Wish * by gorrs , I can ' t tell till I sees Low I feels after it . " Now , we imagine , tt * i when the Tories have " annihilated" us , that * kere will be but short commons for the huEgry " fcip : and we have , therefore , the less cause to **** their resentment . However , it is because we ^ ticip&te the latter threat of Whig resentment to k nearest the reality that we must draw the ^ h of hiring Whiggery , if by chance we should esc * Pe Tory annihilation . But what a picture the hater of " Old Mortality " ^ ws of those whose patronage we are to court . If
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you oppose the Whigs , says " Publicola , " they will assist the Tories in destroying you , for spite . Now , w » imagine that the lover of nothing new , and the hater of everything old , will see , in his own admission , just cause not for matching the two destroyers merely by balancing them so that the Chartists may be the shuttlecock , but for annihilating those whose immediate resentment we are taught to expect . Again , he says , " Give the Whigs so small and precarious a majority , that they must be sensitive to publio opinion , and yield to the pressure from
without . " What saperlative nonsense ! Why , here iB " Mask" in disguise , actually drawing the real character of the Whigs in order to gull us . ThiB man iB positively laughing in our face . What , then , have not their majorities been small enough to render them " sensitive and amenable to pressure "from with , out ! " Or are we to have a few tailors in the house to reduce them to a portion of a man { They have hung upon the skirts of 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , and 0 , and have looked upon , s small minority against them as a comparative triumph , and yet have they been deaf to all appeals from withoEt .
Pnblicola" should not have launched suoh a senteaoe while the majority of ONE still rings in the ears of the victims of Whig "RESENTMENT . " The time to court a widow may be on her return from her husband ' s funeral ; but the time to woo the Chartists is not just while they are smarting under the lash of Whig cruelty , treachery , brutality , and deceit—and while their best friends are , many of them , in felon ' s prisons , and many more in infirmaries , wounded by Whig " ssssmnxtrt . "
Has not the pressure from without pressed , and pressed , and pressed ; and has not the effect been a mom close and intimate courtship of the " natural eaemies" of the people by the Whigs ! And what now remains for the Chartists , but to be bottleholders for the one faction while they " annihilate " the other , whose " resentment ? vre shall then no longer dread , as a dead cock can ' t crow . After discharging nearly a column of rubbish , similar to that we have quoted above , "PuHieola" enters upon new ground , and arraigns the Chartists upon thirty-nine articles of faith , which , in compliance with the request of a Mr . Shoedkb , were allowed to , be published as approved of by a Committee of the few members of the Convention who
assembled after the 12 th of August , every word of which we gave for its proper purpose , from tbe several authorities , in several numbers of the Star , previous to their presentation to the Convention . Nothing can be more weak aod silly than the assumption of " Publicola ; " that the thirtynine articles of Mr . Shoedkr , belongs to , or has any connection with the Charter . However , he proceeds thnc : — " The Charter ( of the Chartists ) advances little or nothing npon- principle . It estimates everything by precedent , and precedent drawn from extremely barbarous times can have little application to an &ge of very advanced refinement . "
Now , the very thing of which Publicola " complains , is the very thing of all others which the Chartists do not acknowledge ^—namely , the folly of following precedent , and applying the rule of barbarous ages to the present state of society ; but the foolish man goes on labouring away through another column , commenting upon " Kings , and Queens " , and " precedents " , and " racks , " " tortures " , and " thirty-nine articles" , with which the Chartists have nothing to do . We -shall now give a few sentences from " Publicola's " letter , and then leave him .
" If & part , or parcel of a Constitution be defective or insufficient Sot the altered state of society , they immediately » et about altering it ; whilst we , with worse than a Drnidicial superstition , would put up with any evil rather than change or reform this most sacred and revered * of i nv isibl e , unt&ng ibl e , and unascertainable documents . " Fudge ! We don ' t say ; the Charter don't say ; the Chartists-don ' t Bay , one word in commendation of old institutions .
" IIy letter has reached to such a length that I am unable to show the Terj unsatisfactory nature of more than a very few of the articles in the Cnartist declaration of righta . You lay down that ' the sovereignty of the United- Kingdom is monarchical . ' Be it so ; but does it follow that it may not become republican or democratic ? You speak of the ' duties of allegiance and protectiohi" being ' reciprocal . '" Here , again , we have the whole object of the long and rambling letter admitted to be an exposition of some thirty-nine articles of political faith , about which not one Chartist in England ever bothered his head for a single moment . Now , hear what the Republican says about the right of arming : —
" As a means of self-defence against felons , the right becomeB of less value , as society contrives a better police and a better administration of jaatice—and as a means of an armed resistance to constituted authorities , the right is ridiculous and beneath contempt A bowsnd-arrow were essential to every man in the marauding banditti tides ol Edirard the Confessor , or an Eagl ' uh c « Ionist , ; but of what use would either be to an inhabitant ef London or Westminster ? The great fault ef the Chartists is , their attaching a necromancy , a sort of witchcraft or magic , to antiquity . "
This is a very tame sentiment from a fierce Republican , and the paragraph he concludes thus : — " The great fault of the chartists is , their attaching a necromancy , a Bort of witchcraft or magic to antiquity . " The . necromancy is in the brain of " Publicola ; " for every Chartist of sound mind in the k ing dom laughs at nothing more heartily than the folly of the present generation being governed by the iaTvs of barbarians , fools , idiots and despots . Their mouois . " Let the living make laws for themselves . "
They say with Btros : — " ¦ Out ur > on tim « , for it ever will leave Eat enongh of the pas ; for the fatnre to grieve ; Ou ; upon time , foT it leaves no more Of the things to come than the things before . What we" have seen , and our sons shall see , Remnants of things tkat have passed away , Fragments of stone reared by creatures of clay . " " Publicola" ends his first-love exercise thus : — " Thus , my fellow-countrymen , the ChaTtists , I
have done ray utmost to clear away your erms , and to wean you from yonr fatal cour » e at tbe appending elections . I trust 1 have inspired you with more enlirged and more noble views of H '© cr ; y , and that you will feel at the cissoluuon of Parliament , that b y supporting- Tyry candidates , you will fatally obstruet the progress of all Reform , and inflict cruel sufferings on tue working classes , frum which the proposed financial measures of the Government would infallibly relieve them . "
Let us now , at tbe close of " Publicola's" first complimentary visit , paid for the purpose of wooiDg the Chartisis , just place the more blunt John Bull ^ ansnage of Easthope in contrast with " Publicola's '' clumsv lumps of love thrown at u =. The Chronicle of Tuesday has the two following passages ; the first with reference to a " free discussion" meeting held at Swansea , ' the second the treatment which a Chartist received at Slateford . No . 1 from the Chronicle
savs" Two or three attempts at interruption were made but these were instantly snppressed , and t he i n tr u de r s were r&ther roughly handled and glad to make their escape . One of these intruders was a Chartist , who attempted to move an amendment for a petition for the liberation of Frost , Jo n es , Williams , and all the Chartist p risoners ; but do person being found to second this amendment , the proposer was pulled off the platform , carried out of the Market-place , and thrown into the street , where he was soon covered with mud whilst effecting his hasty retreat " No . 2 from the Chronicle says" The motion being seconded by Mr . Louel , was put from the chair .
At this moment , one of the Chartists got up and found some fault with the manner in which the meeting was conducted . Attempts were made to put him down , but the rest of the Chartists maintained bis right to be heard . A scene of great confusion and uproar then ensued , which ended in a hearing being allowed to the ipeaktr alluded to . Bis speech consisted mostly of abase of Ministers , and misrepresentations of the tendency of tie proposed alterations of the Corn Laws . " T he dish o n e st v of the lin e of a r gu m e nt a dopted by
the Chartist orators was well expostd by several speakers . The meeting again became uproarious , and mneh impatience was evinced at the persevering attempts nphich were made to defeat tbe objects for which it had been assembled . At length the indignation of the people w * s thoroughly roosed , and tbe more turbulent of the Chartists were unceremoniously turned out of the church . Indeed , it appeared that these disturbers of the peace only escaped a very rough handling in consideration of the sacrcdnesi of the plac « . "
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ThiB mode of courtship very forcibly reminds as of the catterwauling which precedes the happy nuptials of Miss puss and her turbulent Ram oat spouse . We regret that we have not room for the whole of " Pablicola ' s" production ; it is quite unique in its way , and the only apology that can be charitably offered , 13 , that the writer intends well , but has not scope of mind to comprehend the whole subject npon which he undertakes to write .
" Pablieola" charges the Chartists with a want of practical action , while he has recently told as that because he is enamoured of Annual Parliaments , tbe Ballot , Equalization of Electoral Districts , and the Abolition of Property Qualification ; he is the more opposed to Universal Suffrage , and Payment of Members . He might , with « qual propriety say , I delight in the perfume of the rose , and , the more bo , because I have lost the power of smelling .
'" Publicola" is a Republican ; and while he reviles the Chartists for their want of distinctiveness , he has never oendesoenddd to submit his Republican standard of franchise . The critic who wishes to find fault will make one , rather than bestow praise where censure is aimed ; like the architect who was resolved upon building the squire's house upon % particular site , while the squire was resolved that he Bbould not . The architect for a length of time oontended against the prudence of adopting the Squire ' s recommendation ; however , there was an old fox cover in view of the
proposed site , which Tiew the Squire was determined should not be shut out from the dining-room windows ; when all other excuses had failed , the architect very knowingly observed * " 0 , but Sir , that large hay-stack will obstruct the view . " Aye , aye ; by G—d , " said the Squire , " I never thought of that "; and thua where reason failed folly succeeded ; the house was built , and in the following spring the Squire had the mortification to stand where the immoveable hay-stack stood for a season , * -and from thence to enjoy hisfavourite prospect . Now such is preoisely the position of our friend
and monitor ; reason , he thinks , has failed in convincing us , and now he would induce us to change the site of oar house , as the hay-stack which now obstructs the prospect will remain there for our time ; but , with more wisdom than the squire , we will remove the nuisance , and then we can see our favourite object—the cater . But for the moral . M Well , Sir , ' - " observed the foreman of the architect , "I could ' ntbelp laughingatthe squire and the haystack . " ' 'Aye , aye , " said the architect , "but the house is to
be built upon contract , and the difference of carriage of timber , stones , lime , slates , and sand , and other materials between the two sites will pay for the joke . " Perhaps there may g of that telling thing called interest at the bottom of " Publicola ' s" letter ; and we are willing to make any excuse , though a bad one for a friend in distress . We conclude with a recommendation to " Publicola" to try and remove the hay stack rather than vainly hope to change the site of the " Charter House . "
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THE FUSTIAN JACKETS . Ws are authorised to communicate the gladtidings , that the Noble Fustian Petition Carriers have resolved themselves into a Committee to carry not only the Petition , but the Charter , the spirit of the Petition in tbe House ; and to state , that next week they will be prepared to submit , through our columns , their addresses to their Brother Trades throughout the kingdom . This is as it ought to be ; as they express it , " a firm determination to do their own work . "
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POST-OFFICE © RDERS . —All persons sending money to this Office by Fost «» ffice Order , ara especially requested to make their orders payable to Mr . John Ardill , as , by a recent alteration In the Post-office arrangements , any neglect of this would cause us a great amount of trouble and annoyance . Chaeles Keen . —His notice of the meeting of Lambrth Chartists for Wednesday was received at our office fifteen hours after our last paper had gone to press . All such notices should be in the office on Tuesday , or , at the very latest , on Wednesday , but if possible always on Tuesday . Ccpar rips . We received the notice of Mr .
Lowery ' s lecture , delivered on the Monday evening , on Friday , fourteen hours after the Scotch papers had been pasted . Wm . Cook . —His communication is an advertisement , and must be paid for as such if we insert it : we should have to pay for it . H . Mitchell . — We have received a letter with this signature , referring to , and animadverting on , some portions of a speech delivered at Manchester , on the With uit ., by Mr . Harney , and pushed in the Northern Star of the 22 nd . The writer says : —* ' // is true that Mr . H . gave notice of a motion respecting Mr . O'C ' s speech . It is untrue that the association directed Mr . H . to write to Mr . O * ConnelL or knew of his
intention to do so ; he however did write . He goes on to complain of the language of Mr . H . ' x letter to Mr . O'C . as disgraceful and intemperate . He then says : — " The A ssociation felt , as I feel , that the intemperate conduct of Mr . Harney had p ' aced 11 s in a wrong position , and given to Mr . O'C . the vantage ground ; they , therefore , refvsed to suffer the correspondence to be published . In reference to Mr . H . ' s corroboralion of Mr . Rider ' s staement , that " the members of the London Working Men's Association arc anything but working men" the writer asserts , that , with very trivial exceptions , such as Hetherington , Watson , and Cleave , they are , and were , all men who get their living by hard labour . Robekt Wild . — We cannot insert his letter . The
less publicity given to these things the better . K . M . W . — His verses are declined . Anto . ngo Nebo . — We have not room . J . S . —His charade has not enough of poetic merit for publication . John Phillips . — We have not room . Wm . Woodroffe . — Thanks : our information is pretty extensive . Bradford Chartists . — We received a placard , by post , on Monday evening , about ten o ' clock , informing us of a meeting to be liolden at Bradford , at seven the same evening , and desiring our reporter ' s attendance . We . should certainly have sent a reporter had ice known of the meeting in time ; but our friends will see that there teas no
use in sending one after the meeting was over . W . Barret rwrites : — " 1 think if Messrs . . Smart and M'Douatl will took up their accounts , once more , belonging to the Convention , they will find their receipts to be £ 36 16 s . 6 d ., and their expenditure £ 34 Is . lid ., so that £ 2 Us . Id . will remain on hand ; and the sum due to the country by the Convention will be £ 3 7 s . 11 d ., instead of £ 4 5 s . lid . James Sinclair . —The report for the 21 th of May is rather too late for publication now . James Duffet . — Tie have not ro * m for his letter : we advise him to take no notice of the stupid fellow . A Co . nsta ^ t Reader thinks public demonstrations ill calculated to facilitate the attainment of the
Charter ; advices every working man to give one day ' s tcages into the hands of a national treasurer , and then to deposit , every pay-day , such sum as he can spare , however small , for twelve months . The money thus accumulated to be sacredly devoted to the attainment of the Charter . And then , he says , will the lime be come for ( he people to prepare their petition , and appoint another Convention to attend to it . Then will the people be prepared to wait , to watch , to strike terror , and compel the Legislature to puss the Charter into law . Phili p Platt . —Let the twenty Radical voters of the neighbourhood reserve themselves . There will be a candidate—most probably a polling one
—or , if there should not , then let them vote for the Tory . Republican . —We have not room . James White . —May see Mr . O'Connor any day on application at the Castle , between nine and ten , a . m ., or between two and four , p . m . He must enquire for Mr . Noble , the governor , and make his application to him . The answer to the second question depends upon the rout he pursues . If he go by way of York that will be his nearest point , and the distance by railway is ninety miles : if he go by way of Leicester and Derby , Sheffield will be his nearest poinl , from which place the distance is about thirty miles . A Siacebe Chabtist , and Member of the National Oha-rter Association . —Dr . APDoua / l
is a member of the General Council . If his name be omitted in the published list , it is by mistake . Mohoan Williams , of Wales , and George Binss , of Sunderland , are requested to send their address to Mr . Campbell , Secretary to the Executive .
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John Moore , Trowbridge , writes us that much dissatisfaction exists among the Wiltshire Chartists in reference to the non-insertion or curtailment of their reports . The dissatisfaction ought to be with themselves . We have now received , on Thursday , a report of their meeting held on Sunday , and which , to insure insertion , should have been with us on Tuesday . They know that we have scores of times given notice that tee cannot guarantee the insertion of anything which reaches us after Wednesday . If parties will not takes the least trouble to study our necessities , they cannot expect that we should outrage the whole country for their gratification . G . W ., Bboughton-boad , Salfokd , has sent us an
account of an act of cruelty and magisterial injustice which , if true , deserves the severest and most signal reprobation . —A ytung man was cutting timber with our informant , in a wood , near to Wimslow , in Che-hire , early i > i the morning of the lith of May last , when another young man came out of a neighbouring farm yard with a bag under his arm- Two of Lord Stanley ' s samekeepers immediately spi ung out of a plantation close at hand , seized hold of the young men , and handcuffed them together . Upon searching the bag they found no game , but a few potatoes . The poor fellow said , that being out of work and having no : lodging to go ( 0 , he had slept in the farmer s barn during the night , and had taken a few
potatoes j or his breakfast . Our informant ' s companion declared he had nothing whatever to do with the affair . The two poor fellows were given in charge of a policeman , and taken to Macclesfield , and were committed to Knutsford Sessions Our informant travelled fifteen miles to the Sessions , to clear his comrade , and after waiting all day , when nearly every body was gone , the parties were brought up . In reply to the magistrate , the young man who had the bag confessed that he had taken the potattes , and the other said he had not had any thing to do with them . " Well , " said the magistrate , '' there is no witness , neither against you nor for you , therefore , your sentence is four calendar months hard labour in
Knutsford House of Correction " Our informant very justl y asks , " was there ever such justice ( qu . injustice ) heard of , as to give an industrious young man four months in one of the worst hells of England , fwr no crime whatever , or without a trial , or the least chance of clearing himself . " These facts only prove that until the people elect the magistrate * , and make the laws by which they are governed , they will always be exposed to eruelty , injustice , and oppression . The Projected Butcherv at Manchester . —We have received a letter from some person , signing himself Edward Watkins dating from 26 , Highstreet , Manchester , and describing himself as a member of the Committee of the \ Manc } iester
Anti-Corn Law Association , impugning tlie accuracy of our report of this " ever-memorable demonstration , " ana" professing to give a report , to the truth of which the writer is ready to swear . He charges the commencement of the fight upon the Char lists , and affirms that the Danites and Cobdenites stood only on the defensive . He takes credit to himself for making some exertions to preserve the peace , but forgets to inform us why police and magistrates made no such exertions . We know nothing of this Mr . Edward Watkins , but had his letter , which is somewhat long , come earlier , we should probably have published it ; and , had we done so , we should probably have made the writer wish he had not been so silly as to send it . He concludes by challenging us to
appoint a committee to act in conjunction with another committee , to be appointed by the promoters of the meeting , to enquire into the whole proceedings . We refer his " challenge" to tlie Manchester Executive , who , if they know mnything of him , will deal with it as to their judgment may be most requisite for public good . Glassow . —The Rival Reporters . — We have received from Mr . Malcolm , the reporter of the Scottish Patriot , a letter in reference to some expressions in a paragraph received from our Glasgow Correspondent , a week or two ago ; this letter was publisted in the Scottish Patriot 0 / last week ; and we have also received from our Glasgow Correspondent a letter in reply to it . — We don't like these personal bickerings ; they tend to do our cause much harm . We wish all
our correspondents to avoid , as far as it ts consistent with their public duty , all matter that may be personalty offensive to any one . We regard the Scottish Patriot as a valuable help-mate in the good work of Chartism , and should be sorry to do anything to injure it . As we could not , in justice , insert Mr . Malcolm's letter , without inserting Mr . M'Kay's reply , we shall decline to insert either . The Glasgow Chartists are best able to determine on the mutter in dispute—they know the parties and can estimate them . If Mr . Malcolm know that the accusation of being " Whiggish , " which Mr . M Kay brings against him is unfounded , he needapprehend . no mischief from it , because , in that case , it caninjure no one but his accuser .
Mb . Skevington wishes to correct a . statement made by the reporter in his speech at the Crown and Anchor . It was not the mayistrate , but the High Constable of the hundred , that ran into the brook . At the same time , he wishes to acknowledge the following sums as received by him towards bearing his expences to London and back : —From the Nottingham friends , meeting at the King George on Horseback , 5 s . ; Slicep&head , 5 s . ; Mr . Davenport , Halhern , Is . td ., Is . of which was from a friend at Sullo 7 i ; a Friend at Loughbro ' , 3 d . Mr . W . Maktin . —Mr . O'Connor has requested us to state that he has received a letter from Mr , W . Martin , which had 710 address ; and had Mr . M . staled to where the reply was to be directed , he should have had one .
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To Agents- —We cannot place any money received by Agents for defenct n to tbe account of those Agents receiving it : they nuut send the money , and when recei vkd it wiJJ be noticed , and not before . If any Chartist residing in Nevrry , Ireland , will forward his address to Mr . Kudge , lioss , Herefordshire , he will receive the Noorifiern Star regularly . G . Greenwood . —Yes .
FOR MRS . FROST . £ . b . d . From Nottingham , per W . Bilbie # 30 „ a few Chartists at Chicbester 10 0 „ a friend at Bitley ... 0 6 0 „ London , per R . Marl ^ y 0 10 0 „ Manchester , per A . Heywood d 1 0 FOR J . B . O ' BIUEN . From » friend at Batley .. 050 ^ Dunfermline 0 1 „ Manchester , per A . Heyweod 0 1 0 FOR MK . IIOEY . T . S- Brook ' s subscription 0 9 Ilj From an English patriot abroad , per Mr . W . Cook 0 10 0
« JFOR MRS . CLATT 0 N . Fro m Shel t on , per J . Yates 0 3 0 _ London , per R . Marley 0 2 * FOR THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OF THE INCARCERATED CHARTISTS . From the Rancliffe Amis , Nottingham ... 0 3 0 „ the National Charter Association , Lambeth 110 POLITIC AL PRISONERS' AND CHARTER CONVENTION FUND . F ro m A berdeen , per J . Smart ... .. 0 10 0 „ the Working Men of Tiilicoultry , near
Allo a .. 056 „ Jfnneaton Charter Association ... 0 10 0 „ Keighley 0 15 9 j „ Cononly 0 4 2 ^ .. Dumbristle 0 5 0 " «» Crossgates 0 4 0 ^ Ripponden , per P . Platta 10 0 „ Ouseburn , per J . Hall 0 2 6 „ Newton Heath , per A . Hey wood ... 0 5 0 _ Manchester 0 1 0
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FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT . Wednesday Evening , June 9 th . Suffering from the effects of a severe attack of illness , your Correspondent bus this week beon but little able to perform any kind of work , but , nevertheless , is now nearly recovered . He asks no favour but to be engaged every moment in behalf of the cause , fo r t his purpose he hopes that whenever his presence is required he may receive a letter addressed to him at No . 15 , Little Clarendon-street , Sowers Town , or at Mr . Cleave ' s , 1 , Shoe-lane , and he will attend thereto . All trades societies or meetings he will tie moat happy to attend , only let him have a few hours ' notice . The Ministry have been defeated but still cling to office . They have thrown over their Corn Bill and all the agitation in its favour amounts to just this , - nil .
London and the Metropolitan Boroughs are now the scenes of Active election proceedings . In the Tower Hamlets and the Borough of Marylebone , Chartist candidate * are in tbe field , and the men seem determined to fight with them . Petition Committee . —This bedy of real good " workies" held their weekly meeting at the Dispatch Coffee House , Bride-lane , Mr . Simpson in the chair . A number of petitions were handed in by Mr . Balls , the secretary , which were urderel to be sent to Mr . Duncombe for presentation . The Committee adjourned till Friday , June 18 th , whenit is pirtieularly requested that every member will attend and bring their petition sheets .
A most numerous meeting of the inhabitants of the parish of St . Paucras , was holden at the Vestry Rooms , on Tuesday last , Mr . Chalk , chutckwavdea in the chair . A resolution in favour of her Majesty ' s Ministerial measures was proposed and seconded , to which an amendment was proposed in favour of the Charter by Mr . Chwdfellow , seconded by Mr . Peat . The show of hands being so very nearly equal , a division was called for , upon which tbe chairman declared the amendment lust by a small majoritr .
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The Tower Hamlet men have opened a new room for the purpose of carrying 00 the agitation Their numbers are daily increasing . At THE weekly meeting of the St Pancras men the following resolution was unanimously carried : — " That at all conWhouses , beersbops , pu lie-houses , and hair dressers the members use , they insist upon the Northern Star being taken in . " The Pride of London apprentices and the joy of grownup citizens and their wives has disappeared , the veritable ground of enchantment has passed away . Astley ' s is no morel it has been destroyed by a fire which broke out on Tuesday morning at four o ' clock . The LOSS of the " President" steam ship gave rise to much and general uneasiness , but tbe feeling , however intense , with regard to that unhappy vessel and her voyagers , is , I am sorry to say , outbid by the nonarrival of the " Britannia , " for the safety of which vessel few hopes are now entertained .
The Bears and Bulls of the Stock Exchange are Wonderfully quiet ; indeed . Corn Laws and Corn Law Repeal , together with Sugar Duty and Timber Duty , do not appear to disturb the serenity of money gamblers , the atoeks remaining firm .
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Heckmondwike , Mr . Clisset will preach a sermon in Heckmondwike Market-place , on Sunday morning , June the 13 th , ou " the compassion of the Saviour towards the physical wanta of the people . " Finsbury . —On Monday evening , the 14 th inst ., the Finsbury Chartists will meet at Lunt ' s Coffee House , for the purpose of reorganising new class leaders for the Finsbury district , and earnestly solicit the co-operation of all friends to the cause of democracy . Oldham . —Mr . Bell , from Manchester , lectures here tomorrow afternoon aad evening . Gateshead . —A publio meeting is to be held at
the top of OakweU Gate , on Wednesday evenmg , for the purpose of nominating a candidate to represent this borough in . the ensuing Parliament . Messrs Mason , Cook , and others are expected . It is hoped the meeting will be well attended . London—On Sunday evening next , Jane the 13 th , Mr . Richard Spurr will open the following question for discussion , at the Chartist Room , 55 , Old Bailey , —the present position of the Chartist body , and the best tactics to be adopted for the advancement of our cause at the forthcoming elections ; when it is hoped every one feeling interested in the success of our glorious Charter will attend .
Sunderland . —On Sunday afternoon Mr . Williams will lecture at the Life Boat House ; in the evening he will lecture in the Golden Lion room . Bishop Auckland . —On Sunday afternoon , at two o ' clock , June the 20 th , Mr . Williams will lecture at Bishop Auckland Batts , and on the following evening on West Auckland Green . Derby . —There will be a delegate meeting held at the Northern Star , Derby , on Sunday , the 21 th of June , 1841 , at one o'clock in the afternoon , to take into consideration the propriety of re-electing Mr . Bairstow as missionary for the town and county of Derby and outskirts of the county . Each of the following places are requested to send a delegate : — Duffield , Holbrook , Bel per , Alfreton , Heanor , Ilkeston , St&ppleford , Sandiacre , Sawley , Borrowash ,
Ookbrook , Spondon , Breaston , Melbourn , Castle Donnington , and Barton-upon-Trent , and any other villages that take an interest in the cause of Chartism . A delegate from any such places will be gladly received . All communications must be sent to Mr . Joseph Turner , at the sign of the Northern Star , top of Bridge-street , Derby . Deptfobd . —Mr . Edmund Stallwood will lecture on Sunday evening next , June the 13 th , in the Democratic Academy , Deptford , Kent , on the Charter , as a remedy for our political disease , its practicability , means of obtainment , < fec . Huddersfield . —On Tuesday evening next a publio meeting will be held in the Association Room , " to take into consideration the bloody and unwarrantable conduct of the anti-Corn Law party , aided by Dan ' s party . "
BiLSTON . —It has been determined to hold an open air demonstration in this important mining district , on the 15 th of June , to which Messrs . White and Taylor have been invited .
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On Monday last , at his bouse in . Jarratt-etreet , aged 73 , R . W . Moxon , Esq ., formerly & magistrate of Hull . On Sunday last , aged 70 , Mr . Benjamin . Carrington , of the Holderness-road , Hull , andfonaerly of Lincoln .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 12, 1841, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct553/page/5/
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