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TVTORTH OF ENGLAND JOINT STOCK PROl\ VISION COM PAN Y.-The QUARTERLY MEETING of the Shareholders of tbe above Com-
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pany will bo held on Thursday Evening , February 18 th , at ths Joiners ? Hall , High Friar Stbeet . The Cha , ir to be taken at Eight o'Clock . The Attendance of the Shareholders is particularly requested . By Order of the Directors . Stores , Foot of Side , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Feb . 9 th , 1841 .
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Just Published , DR . P . M . M'DOUALL'S Plan of Organization , Dedicated to the Working Men of Dundee . Chartist News Agents , and Associations will be supplied with any number , at 6 s . 3 d . per Hundred , on application to James M'Pherson , No . 8 , Horse Water Wynd , Scouring-burn , Dundee .
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ILL-TREATMENT - OF FEARGUS _ O ' CONIfOR . MEN OF LONDON . ' A PUBLIC MEETING will bo held at the Social Institution , John SSreef , Tottenham , Court Road , on Monday , February the 5 th , 1841 * to receive the Report of Messrs . Spuur , Boggis , and Neesom , the Deputation appointed at the Great Meeting hold at the Wfiite Conduit House , on Jan . the 4 th last , to present a Memorial to Lord Normanby on the TREATMENT OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR , now in York Castle , and to take . the necessary measures to bring tho Cause of the above Gentleman before the House of Commons , with a view to its mitigation .
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J . R . STEPHENS . ON SUNDAY , Fbbhuabt 28 th , THREE SERMONS will be preached by Joseph Rayneb Stephens , in the Working Man ' s Institution , Hyde ; in the Morning , at Half-past Tea o'Clock ; in the Afternoon , at Two ; and at Six in the Evening . N . B . Collections will be made after each Sermon , towards the Funds of the Institution .
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TO TBE WORKING VIES OF LONDON . A PUBLIC DINNER to congratulate Henrt Vincent , on his Liberation from his long Imprisonment , will take place at the White Conduit House Tavern , on Monday , Mabch 1 . Mr . William . Lovett , in the Chair . Tickets , 3 s . « aoh ; Lady ' s ditto , 2 s . 6 d . ; to be had at the following ' places : —Cleave , No . 1 , Shoe-lane ; Hetherington , No . 126 , Strand ; Watson , No . 15 , City-road ; Lovett , No . 183 , Tottenham-court-road ; of the Committee , who , caeet at the Globe , Shoelane , Fleet-street , every Monday and Thursday Evening ; and of the Secretary , H . Mitchell , No . 67 , Red Lion-street . * Every Man who desires to Bee " The Chatter " become the Law of the Land , is earnestly requested to co-operate with the Committee ia making the Arrangements as effective aa possible .
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T ~ wr-os- * appointed as the Provisional Execu-1- ~ y \; a 2 c f ^ S 5 the nomination of candidates t !> ep . ' - ' : " t % ; ar ; and . after fixing two different £ Lf for i * e election , failed to issue the balloting *^ * n d BOibisjj lurther was heard of them until KfvS for mother Delegate meeting I confer ^ ff of the delegates thai sat at Manchester , I ** fdeeVlr sorrowed to find this . The plan of f « Son"h » d worked admirabl y well as far ^ fSen carried oat , and the "falling off" by v P'oTisional Executive , at a fame most im-* lil I deemed calculated to be very fatal . I am ffT ^ to know for what this Delate Meeting is eaSed although I have many conjectures ; none »?* Wh , however , cau support , in my mind , the * ~ = tv for another Delegate Meeting , and the & fl ^/ U" it would necessarily entail . ^^ r bTdesir *! to bring the " plan" more ^ TT the law , as wae Tariety of opinion existed ferineil legality ; but this could haYe been the ^^ r ^ t of the new Executive , and thus the ex-^ Jnfi delegate meeting avoided . I have thought , pen < ^ &ffe m » J *« » deficiency of funds , but an *** v > ^ country would , I am sure , have ^ Sed this ; bat a delegate meeting coold only I-Soi frewer difficulties in & pecuniary point of ^ h ' cost the people of Wiltshire nearly £ 7 to send tr-twa the Us ; occasion , the distance being great , / S&aases heavy . This will serve to shew that in a . " far West" there are great difficulties attending * T « iniECS . I do not mean to say that delegate Z * L& are of no avail ; the last effected incalculav p ood - but too often repeated , the interest rilJhed ' to wem falls off , more particularly as the JSXh&d be en led 10 expecf , without further i&-* jj > the final completion and operation of the plan «? r ? AdT agreed uptn . Irish » 1 » understood as not endeavouring to v » ute , or cast discredit , upon the Provisional fScBtive ! From what I saw of them at the BJersie Meeiins , I am convinced they are ^ 4 q Vestionablv " good and true" and f ^ : a do 111 for the best . Further particulars have Ka » r-onused : these may reveal mat : er 3 hitherto
*~ tnowa w > d unexpected . 1 am sure , nece ^ ary , Wtohire wiil respond to th « call , as it is powerfeHr ^ oaft aEd its Eense of J ustice " "P * rraiti ¦ bw it must be shown what good is to be fWed ' - vcM immediate object the delegates aie to ' hive la view ; and this in a manner fully to be ^ PSST only a few words to address to the ¦ p- ^ jjHfliEx ecutive . If , upon mature consideration , f u f « nd ihis Delegate Meeting must be had , suffi-^ jicuMincement should be given , to eEable the « M ti » enciesw make necessary preparations , and t k ffe bus ; be no putting off or adjournments from fhTdiT fixed , which was the ease once or twice ere the aieaag of Julv 20 ih , 1840 . I sbonld recora-B £ Bd Monday , the first of March , as the best time , % it is found absolutely neces 3 * ry for delegates to assemble . . Viih besi feelings to all , and a desire to promote { is safs *^ of Chartism , 1 remain ,
Yost ' s , obediently , R . K . Philp . 18 , G . -ove , Baih , Feb . 9 , 1841 . We quite agree with Mr . Philp in thinking that era : Decessity should be clearly seeD , and shown it exist , before patting the country to the expence md incoaveniencs of a general delegate meeting . We do soi see the necessity for * uca a meeting at presets ; though we are anxious not to trench on the prerogative of the Provisional Execafire . Bat we iive in opinion ; and that opinion i 3 , that the < srgmis * tion works well ; that it has worked well ,
tudso&t it will work well ; that it requires some Enle modification , which may be given to it by the Iterative , as well without a delegate meeting as trial one . If , however , the Provisional Executive think otherwise , we will gladly aid either them or any delegate meeting which they may call . "We e&aaol ) eaTe $ is subject , without do ' wg the ProvifioEa ! Execative the justice of BaviDg , that we telicve tfce delay referred to by onr correspondent to hive originated in circumstances over which they taaH not exercise conrroul .
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T . Dixo >\—Hu song iron t do . JL R . S . —We have no doubt the poor married man out cf trork , " spoken of in his letter , may be imprisoned for his arrears of bastardy , even uiAer tilt pres-eni fcislardy / airs . L T . Ciaxct— We hate not room for Ms letter . We know of no remedy for the Post-cffi . cc irreffularxtiet hit that of ' ajijjWcatwn to ite Postmaster , vhich is , grneraiiy speaking , no remedy at all . We cmthtualiy receive accounts of correspondence that never reaches vt : and ire have
ourtehet pciied j&ajiy letters to various places tchich ve Lcve every reasr / n to believe never reached their destination . These things have increased much tince the eiiablithmrnt of the Penny Postage , and more especially since that of the registration rrindle . Ixjgzisz . — We hardly knote irhai to say to him Al . depends upon the eract cirewmstancesin which he may kcit be . In s ^ me state * of America—in Texoi , or in Canada—an agricultural labourer , if industrious , is almost sure to live much Letter than he can here . But tee are the last to
en-Cj ^ rageany man leave"OldEr . fand . " We « ri ^» to : cs the people "live" at home : end , pease Cod , tee hope Met to see it . A CoxsiAxr Reader , J . ' T . — His lines vront do . ¦* . AiHwoKTH . —Never mind the catchpenny : lei it do i : i do . ^" lUiili THOXiS A 5 D ilOBGA * WlLUAKS , of MfTihyr Tydriljtere expended much virtuous indigncridn on the supposed non insertion of a para-! £ & ?}' , sent to us lest iceek , about a Paine ' s oir : n-doy anniversary . If they had read the Strthtm Siar , they tcould have seen that the y hoie thing appeared just as we received it : and in a situation vrhere it could scarelp have escaped their noiice if they had opened the paper at all . *• illLiXH . — Thanks . We do not think it advisable
to itii-zri his lelier . " EIEH Hack . £ Tt . — IFe have received jrom this person a somewhat lengthy epistle , in ichich , the only remark that can fairly claim notice from us is the jtiiovrhig ;—''/ remember you asking me , in the ¦ iliuc Saloon , irhy ice h&i taken so iitt ' e notice C > fr . O'Ciii . TiOT ! and v : y answer tras , 'The zdr . ee < f our L , ndon friends' ' . '' J / r . // . seems r ^;; 7 f c / : ' \ e charge of" ingratitude" being im-Jr . ' iei . zi he state * it to be , aga ' uist him and the other coi :-: n-.-piTi 7 ters , in our remarks on Mr . M'Xeil's ie ' . ier , iatt seek . We don ' t iconder at it . People vjdvr . like io he lo'd of their faults . Did Mr . h-x ' -e : l ever hear the old adage , "Less said
l / CHEST ^ N >" Ji 7 IG >\ S . L ChaBTEB ASSOCIATION . —We her ? received a communication from the Council ?/ r / iii body having reference to , and denouncing ]^_ i : i--re lerrr . i . certain parties in Newcastle . We do no ! think it wise or pUi ' . ic to insert the Kto > tr . y ; -icctiQn ; but tee have our eye very tiesdi / y upon the movements of the tchoie party , end o / sr , s ; ij / others connected with them ; and tie iui Llcm l < , ok abroad for mercy if any foul P l Is fSi ^ y brought home to ificm . Meantor , ire hive little fear of any mischief : the people are 7 ioic loo wide axcake to be tickled and £ Sii % ~ iS iarne tlTne - , ^ s -i zizzDS cr the Chaetsk" shall appear . *' BiZ 2 z * .-The report of the Paine ' s dinner at •> &- ' . ' :.- ^ 7 , cja zras considerably longer than the paragraph vrc inserted . We are under the
ne-: p cf ( . rec ' Jy abbreviating most of the refr " i z- ' . ich we receive . Did tee not do so , tee *^ - ' leave snore than half of them entirely out . We endeavour to do as strict and fair justice to ° " P zees , parties , and persons as possible ; but ** canric-. ' give upour right of judgment as to the ^ S'h at which we find it necessary or convenient y . 25 s / ir ? any c : Tr-. Tr . i ! nication sent to us . \ i ? * ? G — We cannot insert his letter . The fvr . zem Star is no vehicle for personal
squab-° Sr i ; ~ - ~^ 'ever mind the should-have-been C 5 fi ; r and would-be parson ' s missive . It is a ( kj&Zt . ?'' ' ai ) jd ° f te a ™ ess . ^^¦ SoTne person has sent us a report of a P&s . ic iTizeiing held here six iceeks ago . It w q / ^ l : ° ' o'd to pass for news . ' ^ He have received a letter bearing ifds signa-} vrr frum Wahall , controverting the statements ¦ w ovr Jast relative to the proceedings cf the Whig Part y at the late election . We gave our state-™»* f on the testimony of eye witnesses , on ichost TxJV y iy ™ P ^ ce great reliance .
" ? i-ETTEss . — One or two correspondents have "Kueek forgotten io pay their letters . This is Wssrj ° * H saddles us with double postage . In ¦ J w" *^ , ' vnpeM Mtert vrill be refused . i . vPvr ™*™* - — w « to ™ no room . t * - * Edinburgh . —Next week . * B » T ¦^ 0 GESS - — We have no room . ^ g , Esrroxs , RiSEj » „ . „ , / do . StlZL ~ * ~ ~ W . to ™ wi ™ d a letter from Z ^^ ° Mh this signature , slating thai , in wtequence of an article appearing in ih ' ujour-VFnneernmgMr . Peter Chappel having been ZT . res Witty t > f defrauding the Victim Fund , « J incapaU e of serving in any office in the or *;; , ^**« ' ^»» i the Committee of the Co->^? "Cf Store thought it their duty to call a aceo ? , ' ' i t 0 bakt * Mr - Peter ChappeVs thev ^^ t' afteT . ^ ery minute investigation , SflW t ' . eir affairs tr > fo in n ^* r » i / ts ,,, * , hir , n
ChoTrZ ' / h- hece given io their agent , Mr . he 2 £ j * ! !**' ihankt - IK * letter purports io i £ * l * h * lfoflhe Committee , and insertion "" tat for u in "justice" to Mr . Chappel . We
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have great pleasure in learninq and making public the fact that the SlockpoU Co operative Society is in a flourishing condition ; and we have also - great pleasure in learning that the Stockporl Co-operatives find Mr . Peter Chapp ° l more trustworthy than ths Manchester Chartis ) s found him . Li . MBsrH Council .. —Report next week . Jobh Rcsselt .. —The non-insertion of the Leeds Demonstration in a part of the Scotch impression of the following week was an oversight , not discovered until too late to be amended . In reply to his complaints of their reports being shortened , we can only tell him , as we tell others , thai every place must have a little consideration for every other place , or the Star would not be what it isa perfectly national organ .
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S . Dobson . —The tvo parcels for Mansfield were sent to the Post-office al the same time . We cannot account for their not being both delivered at the tame delivery . Mb . Weaver , MAccLtSFiELD . —77 ie papers were forwarded at the usual time . F . W .- Siheox , Bristol . — We sent them at the usual time . Job * Thompson . —7 * Ae papers are posted at the usual time . The cover sent is the same as sent from the office .
J . Sti ; bbs » Macclespield . — We had not any papers left when his letter came stating the mistake that had occurred . Thoxas Bodgess . —The portraits of F . O'Connor have not been delivered Io the agents . J . Millab , BosiiiLL , will receive ' the plates he has ordered in his next panel . T . EvELEJGH ,. Loi ; GHBOROrGH . — We know nothing whatever about the £ l- \ J . Kexdal , Bradford , Wilts , — We had given him credit for them before his letter arrived .
FOB THE COMMITTEE FOB SITPEXIXTESDIJiG DA . N . ' s CHAKI 1 ST WELCOME TO LEEDS . £ S . d . From J . Turner , London 0 10 .. a Friend , Manchester .. 026 .. the Dnndee Democratic Association 0 10 6 FOB THB WIVES A > 'D FAMILIES OF THB ISCA . ECER 1 . TED CHABTISTS . From the "W orking Men ' s Association , Truro 10 6 „ the Society of Shoemakers , Hull ... 0 10 6 „ the Members of the K-ational Charter Association , Hull 0 19 6 1 10 0 .. Glasgow—W . Kidd ... ... 0 1 0 do . J . Ord ... ... 0 0 6 .. a few Chartists at Shrewsbury 0 10 0 FOE CLATTOS ' S FUXERAL . From ths Committee of the Relief - Fund , Great Horton , near "Bradford 0 6 0 ~ Miss Iveson , Mount Pleasant , nearWakefield 0 5 0 .. C . A eh ton , Birmiagh&in ... 0 0 6 .. a Wesk-yan Ch&rtist , Stroud ... 0 2 6 _ Leeds , by J . Temple , collected from a few Mechanics ... 0 3 6 From the National Cbartist AESOciation , Oldham ... ... 0 10 0 . » Class No . 2 , of National Charter Association , Brldge-. houses , Sheffield 9 6 0 „ Ousebarn , near Newcastle , being a collection made at the National Charter Association Council Meeting .... 0 4 0 FOB JACKSON . From Friend * at Knntsford , but want help 0 2 6 TOB . THE XATIONAL EXECUTIVE COC . NC 1 L . From the Working ilen ' a Association ,. Truro 0 10 «
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Birmingham , Feb . 7 , 1841 . Sib , —I am quite at a loss to see how any person can ( without a factious desire io construe wrongly ) nndersrand me ever to hare said that I wonld agirate for anything less than the Charter Suffrage , That Charter requiring a residence of three-months effects all that caution requires ; as susb I advocate it , and whether it be called household , or any other name be given to it , 1 care not , so that it includes , a ? I have said , every man of mature age and sound mind . Yours , Sec . JOH-T COLLISS . P . S . "Will yon be kind enough to point out the difference between " my definition of Household Suffrage , " and the Suffrage of the Charter ! Joh . v Colllxs . [ We have much ' pleasure in inserting the foregoing letter . " Collins will take our candid assurance that in any observations upon h ' i 3 former letters , we were not only not sway » d by any factious feeling , but that we made our remarks in the most friendly spirit , susd with the very best intentions , in reply to his postscript , we have only to observe that , bis question though a short one , requires a long answer , too long for our paper of this week , to the exclusion of other immediately important matter ; but we undertake to reply to it in our next , not only we trust to his satisfaction , bus to the satisfaction of every man of sound mind in the empire . Had we conceived the least desire to be factious , we mi ^ ht have commented upon the report of Collins's speech as , it appeared in the Leeds Times , before it was coatradicted , nor in fact , is there a syllable in our former comment , which cm be fairly construed otherwise tbau as friendly . —Ed ]
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GLASGOW . —Plum > eb ! Plunder ! Plunder ! bt the Glasgow Shopocracy . —An extraordinary and unprecedented exposure of a system of robbery upon the public , by the shop-keepers of Glasgow and suburbs , with light weights , has jusl taken place before the authorities here , which has created one general feeling of astonishment and indignation in the public mind , and petrified the magistrates at its nature and extent . Some months ago , a meeting of the inhabitants of Coweaddens , principally Chartists , was held for the purpose ot memorialising the magistrates of Glasgow to cause an examination to be mide of the weights of dealers and retailers , which , after considerable delay , they agreed to , and appointed proper persons ior that
purpose , and who have already visited the shopocracy of the North quarter , Anderston , Pa . rti ; k , Govan , Gorbals , Ca . ' tou , and Bridgeton . Amongst the places first visited , scarcely an individual grocer , batcher , or-biker , escaped ; in Bridgeton , for instance , olJv fire or six had their weights correct , and from the ^ appearance of their weights , it is shrewdly suspected they had got timely information , and , of course , furnished themselves with new ones . The Ex-Provost , a consequential individual , was heavily fined , his weights being greatly deficient , his stone weigbt wanted one pound and » half , which , under a moderate calculation , wonld amount to ten or twelve shillings yearly of a robbery by deficient "weight npon the article of oatmeal used by a poor family . This man considered himself insulted when he was fcked to sign the National Petition , and the church which he attends polluted , because it was granted at different periods to the Chanisis
for meetings . In fac :, with a few noble exceptions , the shopocracy were , and Etill are , the deadly foes of Chartism . They have , however , got a sad humbling at present , and-their tongues that used to wag , and utter every calumny they could invent against their Cnartist neighbours , have ceased w perform their base and ungenerous offices . The fines which have been imposed upon them by the Justice of Peace Court have varied from seven shillings and sixpence to five pounds , the highest penalty allowed by law . The grocers and dealers whe have not yet been visited , are crowding the office of the adjuster of scales and weights , in order to have their own adjusted , and thereby save the penalty and disgrace , which would follow detection , ftow , these are the persona who fill our jury boxes , officiate as elders acd deacons in our churches—subscribe thei pounds for Bible societies and the erection of new rhnrches —while the old ones are not half full—elect our
Members of Parliament—and , after the manner of the Pharisees of old , thank God in public that they re not like these wicked Chartists . —Correspondent .
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The Educated Midple Classes . —As Jurymen on Coroners' inquests generally consist of members of the middle rather than the working class , the following remarks may be supposed to apply to the former class : —At an inquest held Ia 3 t week , Mr . Wakley , the coroner , saiJ that the Middlesex magistrates now required all Christian names to be written in full on the inquisition paper by the jurymen . There was * n old saying , that "the schoolmaster was abroad , " but he thought he was very much " wanted at home , " for some persons could not write at all , and at an inquest he had recently
held , only five jurymen out of thirteen could do so . Mr . Wakley , after these observations , signed his own name and handed the paper to the jury . Seeing that one old-gentleman detained it longer than he thought necessary , he asked nim the reason , when the juryman exclaimed , Dang it , Pve done it at last ; but I ' ve been bo long used to sign my name , which is Benjamin , ' Ban , ' that I forgot how to go through with it . " All the jurymen having signed , the Coroner , on looking over the names , discovered thai the person who had been so puzzled had , as he Baid , " done it , " at Ia 3 t by writing " Bengaraaa , "
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TO THB EDITOR OF THE KOBTHSBM STAB . Sm , —It would confer a favour upon your readers here , if you , or any of your readers , conld inform them whether it was the Repealers , the Orangemen , or the Precursors , who dashed the windows about O'Conneil ' s ears at Belfast , and hunted Dan out of the Green Isle , out of his own dear country . Many are of opinion that had he brought the threatened 500 , 000 with him , he would hare m&de an awkward attack upon the Scotch and English Chartists . Yours , &c . A Constant Reader .
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TO THE MIDDLE CLASSES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM . Gentlemen , —Many years have e ' apsed tince Britain witnessed a scene similar to that -which took place at Leeds , on the 21 st ult A scene that bos strengthened in us the hope long cherished , that this year will not be characterised like the past , by the flagrant neglect of that duty so important to both the employer and the employed , of meeting together and consulting each other on subjects of mutual interest . A deep chasm produced by mutual pride , prejudice , and ignorance , has long separated the tvro classes . We hope the day has at length dawned , that Bhall see that breach filled up by mutual necessity , forbearance and intelligence , so as to form a common ground whereon to stand in united opposition against the common foe . In the public interview at Leeds , the unanimous declaration of tae Cnartist Delegates was , "Thatthe People ' s Charter was the only fulcrum on which the powerful lever of the masses could rest . "
You will ask , what has given rise to the deep seated and almost universal desire of the millions to establish the principles of the Charter ? It is not because they are ^ opposed to any number of individuals as such ; it is not because they desire to take away power from one section of the community , and confer it upon another ; it is because the full perception of the evils necessarily connected with that demon-monster—irresponsible power , { by whomsoever possessed , ) has penetrated into the depths and dens of poverty , and , enforced in a
tenfold degree by their increasing necessities , has found a home in every heart , aud an echo in every action of the un- enfranchised many . Its wars , taxations , tyrannies , persecutions , and open enmity to the best interests of manufacturer and operative have made them miserable , whether it appeared under the name cf Toryism or Whiggery . No wonder , therefore , that in the People's Charter they hailed principles which by conferring power on all who are justly entitled to it , shall so controul the legislator as to make him the virtual repreaanfcatire ot the Trill and interests ot all .
From their thorough conviction of the necessity of a change in the system of government , ( without reference to individuals , ) they refused you their assistance in tbe anti-Corn Law agitation ; they felt persuaded that although by a momentary pressure from without , tbe lion was forced to give up the prey , they had no security that as soon as the pressure was removed , he would not stretch oat his unhallowed paw and take it again , being still possessed of the power . In addition to this , they felt that in their unjust exclusion from the franchise they were slaves ; their
desire wai not to obtain that which would only have made them well-fed ilaves ; they dtsired liberty for her own Bake -, the degrading thought was constantly before them , that they were deprived of a right which a fow bricks and mortar conferred upon others , no more industrious , virtuous , or intelligent than themselves . And , however much many may doubt it , there is a deep seated desire among the millions to obtain , by the development of their minds , that intellectual and moral importance , which alone ennobles man , and without which , he is but a worm , however gilded or however rich .
Gentlemen , these are the reasons that h&ve given risd to that deep determination of the masses nerer to agitate for any measure short of justice to all . We rejoice that the same effects that have been produced in our minds , are now displaying themselves in yours . "We have long ^ deplored the existence among you of a peculiar apirit of caste that has hitherto prevented you from holding intercourse -with those whom yon supposed birth , rank , or riches had placed below you . It has prevented you from examining our principles . We fear yon have too often cherished groundless prejudices ; believing a press that has always pandered to these prejudices , as a means of securing success , and
confounding tte fortuitous and rash conduct of a few men , with tbe mighty and sacred principles they professed to advocate . Actuated by these feelings and swayed by these errors , you have neglected your true interests till , although there is still abundant field for commercial enterprise , some ot the richest advantages bare been lost never to be regained . We rejoice that in your desire to extend to others their rights , you proclaim that you are wiser to day than you were yesterday ; t o * long have w « all been ignorant of that truth , that to be happy and prosperous , we must be just That to feel all the horrors of bankruptcy and misery , we require only to be selfish and exclusive .
How little real power does the present franchise confer upon you ? Witness tbe reception of your anti-Corn Law Bill by your nominal representatives . In truth there is no representation ; your power only enables you to nominate , once in seven years , an individual , who then becomes independent of your opinions , and too often cart less of your interests . If there be one feeling of contempt in our ' minda for any man , it is tor him whe , possessing the franchise , looks down with fciiperciliuus pride on those who have it not ; his power is but a name ; his pride is that of a maniac , who points to bis straw coronet , and wooden sceptre , and thinks himself a king , though chained and mistrabla .
Every day , and every hour , the commercial prospects become more gloomy ;* universal bankruptcy Is inevitable , un ess exclusive prejudices are speedily thrown away . There is no hope but in a union of the oppressed classes , to secure for themselves Virtual instead of nominal representation . \ Te remain , Your unenfranchised fellow subjects , JOif . V COLLISS . Arthur O'Neill . The news of the Xew York panic ( come to hand since the above was written ) fearfully verifies it
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^ THE MIDDLE-CLASS UNION AGAIN . TO THE EDITOB OP THE NORTHERN STAR . February 12 , 1841 . Bear Sir , —I am surprised to see Mr . Coifing s name attached to an address to tbe middle classes , and inserted in the Leeds Times ot Saturday last . There is something inure in the act than a mere sacrifice of private feeling Cor the attainment of a public good ; and , therefore , it is altogether unjustifiable . I see you have received a copy of this address , but have withheld its insertion , perhaps , for want of room , perhaps not—no matter .
The first objection I take is , its being published in that paper . And -what result can Mr . Collins expect from its publication there ? Can he suppose the Times will " Jump Jim Crow , " and come over to the Charter ? I trow not Does he txpect , by tbia means , to make known the principles of Chartism among the middle classes ? I suppose he does . Well , if it so happen ; for I with to put the best construction I can on the attempt , what then ? Dots our redemption depend on this , as the silly Editor of that very erudite piece of black and white would have us believe ? I answer , Ko , no ! no !!
Now , it is evident Mr . C . thinks bo , or he would not have consented to be a party in such an affair . So far , then , Mr . Smiles and he are agreed . Whether such an address be beneficial at all , is unnecessary to discuss , having already been settled by our friend , 0 "Connor , and others—at least , to my satisfaction . There is , nevertheless , one great error into which Mr . C . has fallen ; it is that of seeking to continue , in existence , an evil , for the purpose of obtaining a good ; and that this evil is the Times newspaper , will require but little argument to prove .
What it worse than a false friend ? Has it not employed all its worst energies to malign Chartists and misrepresent Chartism ? Have not its columns been filled with hodge-podge stories hatched by our enemies for our destruction , and this , for the purpose of making a party of its own to fall back upon for an existence , in the most unprincipled manner , without which it must have given up the ghost ? But , what is most strange , after giving the principles by which it ia repported , their death-blow at the late noble demonstration ,
and , as it purposely to keep Jfoi&er Goose on her legs , Mr . C . is induced to send one of a series of addresses to be published weekly In the Times— to cater for its readers—to supply the place of the editor ' s insufficient and dry " grey goose quill , " and furnish the means of puffing the " ware" in naming placard ! through every town and Tillage , \> J the stirring appendage of a respectable name attached to a " Chartist address ; " when , by s well-merited alienee , and contempt of such a slanderer , according to his deserts , it
might" Donbly dying , have gone down , Unwept , unhonoured , and uniung . " It might , I Lay—aye , more , it would . What was it previous to the existence of the Association 1 Worse than nothing—a losing concern . One of two things , but for this , then , must have happened—either what I have just mentioned , or a thorough change of politics ; perhaps another out-andout Chartist paper would have been the consequence . But thus encouraged , Mother Goose may drag on harassing , as usual , the frant and rear of our good cause , by her wishywasby , t&ldeidasb , instalment nonsense , the Chartists to have the peculiar gratification of reflecting that one of their owa body is tfte cause . I would not like to be the man .
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Had Mr . Collins spent his time in devising means for more effectually unitiDg tho working classes among themselves , there would have been something like consistency in the employment This Is all every honest Chartist ought to seek , and all he need seek . For , this accomplished , we have then all the rineir , intellect , independence , and honesty necessary . Supposing this were the case in Leeds , which contains 82 , 120 inhabitants , out o ( which number there are 61 , 675 , or more than three times the number of the working class to that of any other ; and If the forge town * ot the country average an equal number , and the whole country anything near it , what man of common sense will continue for a moment longer to prate about the strength of the aristocracy , or middle class , or both , when put in competition with working men . The strength or power of these two classes , in comparison , is only powerful in
money , loweunntng , selfishness , aud trickery— whose magic influence lies chiefly in bribing and corrupting their devotees ; and surely we have had enough of this . I deny that they possess an equal amount of intellect for sound political purposes—they have not a tithe of the material—if they hare , where is it ? They have long had the power , where are its manifestations ? But allowing there is no particular want of this on either side ; we want virtue and honesty more than any thing : and I tell them plainly they have had a fair trial—they have been weighed in the balance and found wanting—they'll be tried no more—and no mistake . I say to working men , stand it out ! you have them on your own terms . Do it yourselve * and it will be done to your satisfaction ; let them but touch it and it is corrupted . Do it yourselves , and yours will be the honour—seek their aid , in their way , aud all the honour un . l profit will be theira ; the laVour and disappointment , only , your * .
1 would here conclude my letter , but I am wishful , if you can spare room , of offering a few remarks on another subject , so unsparingly maltreated by our friend the Times , whenever opportunity serves ; and that la , what tbe editor and his friends call the " marines * and irrationality" of Chartist denunciation of the middle and upper classes . A man who lives ia & glass house should be careful about throwing atones , lest hia own windows tie broken in return . Who were the first oftenders * The middle classes or the Chartists ? Who promised all , and then would give nothing ? Or , rather , something a great deal worse tban nothing ! The middle cla sses . Who premised us Reform , and said we should not have it , terming us idle vagabonds—progressive reform , and
then swore finality was fairest—stood and looked on at our crippled trade , and consequent hunger and starvat ion of tena of thousands of industrious artisans—robbedof the laud , righto , privileges , laws , protection—punished for poverty as for crime , immured in damnable skillygolee traps , which are also of their erecting f Who , in eight years , have added seven millions to the national debt , with increase of taxation , and every oppressive and available aggravation , * nd yet remained deaf to the wail of the suffering , the petitioning of the mild , submissive , tamo , and patient people ? Who was it , I ask , did all this , and now complain of being roughly handled—in words only ? Who ? Why these same middle classes . Good God ! then they are no wiser yet , with all they have seen and
feltnot convinced that their crimes deserve punishment , the immaculate gentlemen ! Had any single individual , on his own account , inflicted a thousandth part of the injury upon society , with one voice of execration , like the jell of so many demons , they would bare dragged him to the gallows and hanged him by act of parliament , as being uuflt to live . But now , forsooth , because , in a body , with powor and acts ot parliament , and juries in their hands , they rob on a large scale , and commit slow murder to boot—they are not to be censured—not to be called by their right names , and held up to public scorn and indignation for the purpuse of being shamed out of their crimes , by the men they have injured and continue to injure—by the relations and friends of the murdered , without being set down as " mad and irrational . " Had not mild remonstrance been tried , there might have been some excuse fer this fault-finding of theira ; but they know full well , nothing short of open rapture could attract
attention , and therefore the necessity justified the course pursued—patience and long-suffering ceuld bear no mure—no wonder the volcano broke out—no wonder " breathing thoughts and burning words " were applied ; and but for the real and genuine Christianity of the oppressed—nod they done as they were done unto , then , they would have given an eye for an eye , and a tooth for a toothmeasure for measure : they would have " lash'd the rascals naked round the world . " But , no ; they knew better -, they know better ; they forgave , they do forgive ; and yet , I cannot promise to impenitency a continuance of such forbearance ; let the mrnencU honourablebe made , and all will be yet well . Let tbe upper and middle classes do it ; as do it they must ; they have much to repent of , and much to be forg i ven ; let them merit this forgivene&s by conceding equal rights on equal terms , and our brotherhood is formed . Wntil then , Mr . Editor , I am their enemy .
I will watch their motions , and give timely warn ing ; bolder and firmer the more I am oppressed . I am , dear Sir , Without disguise , Yours , affectionately , William Hick ,
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mm TO THB CDITO& OF TUB NORTHERN STAR . Sir , —In consequence of the quantity of important and interesting matter < with which you are constantly supplitd , by your yery numerous and intelligent correspondents , from every part of the Kingdom , I have hitherto abstained from obtruding myself on your notice ; but I cannot allow the present opportunity to pass without doing you an act of justlto , which gratitude prompts me to perform . I return you my sincere thanks and heartfelt acknowledgements for the zeal and ability , bnt , above all , the honesty with which you have ever supported the claims of the working unenfranchised order to which I belong , but more especially for your recent conduct in challenging the enemy ta an open combat with the Chartists of London . I thank yoa , as though the struggle was made
for myself alone , and there was not another to reap the benefit : and I will fight as hard to gain a victory as if there was not another to help me . Each for all , and all for each , is my motto , and tbe grand secret of an imperishable union ; and when this principle is understood by the toiling millions , rampant tyranny will hide its head , and they obtain their natural rights . It is already known and acted on in London , by a sufficient number to present an impenetrable front to bricks and mortar . You have thrown down the gauntlet for the London Chartists ; and when I say I thank you for that , I know every one will say amen . But will the Fox and Goose Club , or him who was invited to play the first fiddle , or any other of the minor performers at the great Leeds concert , take it
up ? No , I gay no . I am sorry to say so ; but it is my solemn conviction , arising from the fact you have already stated , that we are too well garrisoned to allow them any chance of victory j and they know it , and are too crafty to risk a defeat . Believe me , a M . P . at the end of a man ' s name has lost all the influence it once possessed over the minds of the people ; and nothing but sterling honesty of purpase , and a constant pursuit of principle , can command attention , or gain resptct . And hence it is that the great thimbterigjuggler , O'Connell , who says the pea is under the repeal thimble , the Household Suffrage thimble , or any other thiinblo , except the right one , would no more show his apostate head at a public meeting here than
I dare put my hand in tbe fire . No ; a year's rint would not induce him to face tbe London workies . The bare announcement of such a thing would be the signal for a general muster of the trades , whose enemy he proved himnelf to be by his crafty endeavours to destroy the Unions . I , therefore , take it for granted that neither the head nor the tail will venture an attack ; but if they do , we are well prepared to meet it . Our various places of meeting are like so many martello to wers round the metropolis ; and , with twelve hours ' notice , we will fill the largest place they can find with those who may not be " reasonably deemed" qualified to expose the mockery of Household Suffrage , and put to flight the Household troops . I am . Sir , One of the Slave Class , Richard Spurr . London , 91 , St . John ' s-street , Smithueld Bars , Feb . 9 th , 1841 .
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MB . PEDDIE , IN THE WHIG HELL HOLE , AT liEVERLEY . Edinburgh , 8 th of January , 1841 . 15 , West Richmond-street The following letter from Mrs . Peddie to Mr . Burnett , of B radford , has been banded to us for publication . It forbids comment We dare not trust ourselves to speak upon it 1 Sir , —I am favoured with yours of the 6 th inat , and feel much gratified with the sympathy you expreised for my husband ; mid shall give you , as briefly as possible , an account ; of his present situation and sufferings , for the information of yourself and your friend , Mr . Wm . Martin . You would , of course , see his letter in theJVorihern Star of Sept 5 , 1840 , to Lord Normanby , which gave a particular account of the barbarous treatment of the tread-mill , whereby he was often compelled " to suck the perspiration from his shirt , for a momentary relief . " In addition to the dreadful details
of that letter , which met with no notice nor redress from his Lordship , a friend addressed a letter to the Northern Star , extracts « f which appeared , October the 17 tb , under the title of " Horrora of Whig Prison Discipline , " giving an account of an illness which he had endured for twenty-eight days , in which he contemplated the return to health with some degree of honor , in the expectatien of being again put upon the mill , and to the mill he was sent accordingly . It was imagined by his keepers , that his illness was feigned , in consequence of which he was cast into the dungeon , or black-bole , a place without even a stone seat to sit upon , destitute of furniture , having neither bedstead , form , or stool ; so that a person confined in it , must either walk , or sit upon the floor . In thia place he was confined all that day without ; food , water , or light Next morning , ( Sunday ) he was visited by the Governor and the Chaplain ; the latter of whom administered to him taunt * ia place of consolation , and acted
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as one labouring under the same impression as the others . And , indeed , he left my husband with the impression upon his mind , " That the K « v . Gentlenum and others , had considered hia death as likely to- take place , and were , amongst themselves , preparing for it . " Such are bit own words . After being thus confined and barbarously treated , until suffering humanity could bear up no longer , he was at length removed from tba damp dungeon , and proper medicines administered to him , and the Governor was at last forced to confess , "That had they thought him so HI as be sow in reality was , he wonld not have been
there at all ; but that they had acted under an impression that be was saying he wa » woTse than he was , which he believed not now to be the case . " Yet , under tUis impression , was Mr . Peddie condemned to a solitary dungeon , and tie most inhuman treatment , and was gives to understand , on his convalescence , "That so sooa as the surgeon reported tim fit for work , should he again refuse , nnder similar circumstances , be would be taken before the magistrates , who would order him thirty days confinement , or to be well whipped" Upon this threatened infliction of the lash to a political prisoner , I need make do comment .
A letter received from him on the 18 th December ult , gives the latest account of his sufferings , which I Bhall give you in his own words : — ' t have Suffered much since I last wrote , but whether it arises from a confirmed stomach eomplaint , or is , in faet , the effect of the mill upon my system , I , indeed , cam / ot ; say . But I will furnish you with facts , and you can judge for yourself . "Tbfs day seven weeks , exactly , I was well ia health , with the exception of the pain in my knee , when I was put upon the mill . I had suffered from my knee much . I had been on it only two or thr ee days , when my appetite and sleep , in a great measure , left me . I was seized , after some days , with a dull , heavy , oppressive pain in my breast , with occasional sickness . In this
state I remained till I left tbe mill to write my petition . For some daya I thought myself better ; but I got again very sick , and vomited severely ; so much so , that I required the aid of tho surgeon , who ordered the proper remedies ; and what did me more good than any thing , some tea once a day . In a few days I got better , and yesterday three weeks , I felt better than I had done for months , and had that day , for the first time for weeks , eaten a full dinner . On that day I was again put upon the mill . That night I was In a state of exhaustion truly distressing . For three days the pain in my knee was extremely Bevere ; bat since I have suffered less on it , than for months before . My appetite again left me . Sleep almost banished , I have not been one day entirely free from sickness . I again
applied to the surgeon , have taken medicines constantly , also tea in the afternoon ; bat I am getting no better . It is impossible for me to describe what I have suffered . Were you to see me sometimes at night , the state I am in would melt the heart of a savage . ( Not an English one , J . A . ) You may form some idea from the fact that , at this cold and incle ment season of the year , my body , from morning to night , is literally covered with , and very frequently pouring out the perspiration as rain . I for three weeks past , have not gone to bed with a dry shirt , except the night when I put on a clean 08 e ; and very frequently my shirt is , in sober reality ,
as wet as from the washing-tub , although I work without my jacket , with my neck and breast bare . In thia state am I locked tip without fire or light , in a cold cell , where I He in bed for hours trembling , before I can fall asleep ; and when I awake , which 1 generally do about twelve o ' clock , my limbs are stiffened , and my breast aud head in a state past my powers of description . I yesterday saw the Burgeon , who has ordered me from the mill fur a few days . The consequence will likely be , a partial restoration to health ; when I will , by being put upon the mill again , have to chance a renewal of my sufferings , until at last my constitution finally gives way . "
In addition to this , I may state , that by the rules of the house , he Js not permitted to receive the visits of a friend , wife , or child , unless in case of dangerous illness , supposed unto death , which must be certified by the surgeon . Now , aahe ia upwards ot two hundred miles from bis family , it is not likely that he could derive any advantage from that solitary indulgence , were such an event to take place , as he might be dead and buried , before their arrival , and them lose the opportunity of ascertaining the cause of death . No letter is allowed to pass the portals of hia gloomy abode , without being inspected by the governor , chaplain , &c . It follows , therefore , from this inquisitorial power , that should a prisoner be treated with illegal severity , that the groans of his dittress will not be allowed to reach the ears of hia friends . In many cases , his letters have
been re-written orer and over and over again , before they were allowed to pass from his cell ; and , even then , those passages obliterated which did not suit the taste of his gaolers , and where he might state the truth plainly , which , in short , renders truth almost a dead letter . In one case , upon the very first letter he sent to Edinburgh for me being stopped , in which , "he had described , " according to his own words , " and truly , the Sbvere discipline of Beverley House of Correction , " he was Informed by the Visiting Justices , that no letter written by him , likely in any way to cause reflection upon tbe character of the establishment would reach his friends ; and subsequently he was informed by the chaplain , that " it now formed part of his duty to read all hia letters , and that to reach their destination , they must be very moderately written , aad be veiy proper indeed .
s Now , so long , " he observes , " as such restrictions are imposed , and the other rules rigidly enforced , as they are to the very letter , the friends of the prisoner can have no assurance that the letters they receive contain true accounts of the prisoner's health , treatment , &c , whieh can only be the cause of much sorrow and anxiety . There is another practice I speak of , from my own experience , which exposes the prisoner to much danger from cold , that is , even at this season , when upon the mill , my clothes are never dry ; and to be then locked ' up with every pore of the body open , in a cold cell , without food , must be dangerous , passing over many other grounds of complaint "
He also justly complains of being restricted to write only once a month . He goes on to say : — " By the rules , I am only permitted to send to my wife one letter a month , which I feel to be a yery great hardship indeed ; and I believe thut it is the first time a political prisoner has been so circumstanced . My wife is a woman of an extremely delicate constitution , and bad health ; and the very best medical aid has left her iu an extremely delicate and precariouB state . The anxiety , therefore , that I feel on hev account during the month is painfully intense . " He ia also debarred from making any allusions to Government , or using any obnoxious expressions towards them ; consequently , he can give his friends no account of his apprehension , &c . without developing the wicked and disgraceful spy system , to which he has become a victim .
As a proof of the frivolous and vexatious nature of these restrictions , a letter was stopped because it cited the following , from the 1 Oth of Isaiah : — " Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees , and that write grievousness which they have prescribed , to turn away the needy from judgment , and to take away the right from the peor of my people , that widows may be their prey , and that they may rob the fatherless . " This was , by tbe magistrates , construed into a reflection upon the Government Several other letters , on equally trifling grounds , were objected to , and delays of the most vexatious kind took place every month , until on the 18 th of September last , a letter which he had written me , and
in which , to use his own words , he bad " studiously avoided every subject that the authorities had restricted , " ( which was afterwards admitted by themselves , ) was not allowed to be forwarded , but was sent to London for tb . e opinion and edification of the Homeoffice ; whence , after a detention of three weeks , it was returned , and allowed to be forwarded as unobjectionable . My letters , on the plea of containing some trifling news , such as a notice of an expedition to China , &c , and the progress of Collins , White , &c in Scotland , were also withheld from him . Indeed , at one time , it was within a few days of three months that he had been allowed to receive any intelligence from Edinburgh .
It would fill a velunie to state all my husband ' s sufferings in his horrible place of confinement It was his wish to have these printed , in the hope it might stimulate his friends , in their exertions on his behalf , on the meeting of Parliament ; but the great expence renders this impracticable . But I hope enough has been said to excite sympathy ' I hope , therefore , that in memorializing her Majesty , that you will not only pray for a mitigation of his punishment , —in particular that the felon ' s treatment of the treadmill may be prohibited—but that he may be removed to York , Lancaster , er any other place of confinement , where the prisoners enjoy a milder treatment , and that he may be placed upon the same footing as other political prisoners , convicted at the same period ; which might prove the Ministers of the Crown are not desirous to inflict a punishment which humanity cannot bear ; nor to administer the rigours of the law at the expence of the life of the prisoner .
You inquire if Mr . Peddie has stated anything concerning poor old Drake . In his last , be mentions a very strange circumstance—the disappearance of his fellow prisoner and companion in misfortune , Old Drake I on the 13 th of November . He has made repeated inquiries after him , but has been refused information . Once , in passing Drake , having spoken a single word to him inadvertently , he was seat to bis bed supperless . I remain , Sir , With much respect , Jank S . Peddie .
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MR . D . O'CONNELL . TO THE SDITOB OF THB NOETHHKN STAB . Sir , —I see from Mr . O'Connell ' s speech at Leeds , that he attempted to account for his absence from the Leeds Demonstration , by saying tbat he was dotained at Belfast by some irregularity in tho sailing of the packet , and by a horse breaking down on the stage between this and Annan . What happened at Belfast I know not , but this I do know , that the break down did not detain him five minutes 1 ! What vile shifts do rogues and cowards teaoit to . I am , A Hatbb of Hi / MBtra . Dumfries , 4 th February , 1841 .
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Accidbni from an Ajr Gun . —A few day 8 ago , aa Mr . Oastler , of Kirby wiske , near Thirsk , a relation of " our good King , " was charging , by pumping , an air ^ un , the ball exploded , and very severely injured him about the head and face , fracturing the jaw , and carrying away part of one cheek , besides various contusions about the body . We are glad to hear there ia some hope of bis recovery .
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TO THE EDITOR OF THK NORTHERN STAR . Sju , —It is with reliictanco that I am obliged to ask you to insert what merely relates to individuals , in the columns that would be better employed in conveying more » 3 eful matter to your numerous readers . Bat being convinced that it is due to myself to off « ur some remarks on the observations of Mr . F . O'Connor , in his letter ia yours of last week , about the reports that Mr . A . Duncan and I sent to the Star , I wouldreceiv it as a favour if you would insert this in your journaL In enumerating the sacrifices he has made for too people , Mr . O'Connor complains of having bad to pay £ 10 for those reports , and says that he bargained for news , and that we only sent our own speeches , and observes that it is but just to me to say I thought I
was writing according to contract . The affair was thus : —Duncan and I had arranged , before the closing of tbe Convention , to go round Scotland if we could find means to do so . Mr . O'Cannot had stated in th « Glasgow CoaveKiion , that he would give ten shillings per column for Chartist news from Scotland . He also told me he wonld give that sum when I went to Ireland ; we therefore calculated that what we got fur reporting oar meetings in Scotland , added to what assistant we would get from their proceeds , wonld enable us to carry on the agitation . We sent about two columns per week , mostly containing reports of from , four to six meetings . We reported the speeches of others always in preference to our owa , and also g » v » the weaver ' s wages , state of trade , and » f the Chartist
cause , when we could get them . There were distinct reports of the proceedings of the Convention that sat at Newcastle , and of meetings of the trades out of work at Dundee ; in fact , the accounts of matters were as much condensed as any that appeared in the paper . After we had aent upwards of ten columns , we sent in to Mr . O'Connor an account requesting £ 5 : we got no answer , and it proceeded uutil it vu twentyfour columna ; by thia time we had written him three r four letters , and uo answer . When in London , aX the Convention tba » . *» fc last Chriaunas , I met Mr-O'Connor near Covent Garden ; Mr . Dewhinst aud Me Hodgson , delegates from Bolton , were with me ; before I had time to apeak- in the matter , he reverted to it himself , and stated he had just received all our letters at once , and thanked " me for the manner in which we had done their business , and said he bad sent orders to the cfllce to settle it There wm £ 6 paid by
the office , when it ceased , saying they had received no orders from Mr . O'Connor . Afterwards a le ter was aent saying that he had allowed £ o , and claiming the balance . There was no complaint of the nature of the reports made then , until deeming it our right , I persisted in urging our claim of £ 10 , when , after much delay , a paragraph from Mr . O'Cjnnor appeared in the Star , not one of the most handsome or delicate , stating he ordered £ 5 to be given me . Though not liking it , I did not say anything , but when the subject is again and again broughtbefore the public , I think I should do so . I have no Wish to detract from any favours Mr . O'Connor has done to the cause , or its advocates individually , but most assuredly I never received any from him ; on the contrary , I have not been used ev « n with the courtesy given to others of his agents . Yours , ROBBRT LOWERT .
[ We give this letter , because we are determined that no man shall have a right to complain of ill-usage from the NorUtern Star , though we ate really unable to find in it anything but a confirmation of Mr . O Connor ' s statement , that ten pounds were actually given for the speeches of Mr . A . Duncan and Mr . Lowery ; save that , in th ^ last line , Mn . Lowery discovers that he has not been treated with the courtesy given to others of Mr . O ' Connor ' s agents . This obliges us , who have the responsibility and management of Mr . O'Connor ' s business , to explain what this '' want of courtesy " is ; and how it originated . Ia the early part of 1839 , Mr . Lowery was connected with a person named Rucastle , in a nows-agency at
Newcastleupon-Tyn » . They were supplied with papers from this office , on the guarantee of Mr . Blakey , then proprietor of the Northern Liberator , until they had contracted a debt to the amount of between £ 40 and £ 50 . The consequence of thia was , that when Mr . Lowery again began to sell the Star , he was supplied for cash only . This is the want of courtesy complained of by Mr . Lowery % while upon Mr . O'Connor ' s part , he has to complain that though his clerk bks applied many times , within these two years ,. to Mr . Blakey , upon the subject , yet baa he not been treated to the courtesy of the slightest notice . Wo should not hare alluded to this part of the subject but for Mr . Lowery's own observation ; but surely every
man , haviDg common notions of right and justice , will admit that Mr . O'Connor acted most honourably in not deducting the £ 10 from a larger debt due . And , in truth , we are ot a loss to guess at air . Lowerj ' s cause of complaint . Mr . O'Connor was not enumerating the sacrifices made by him ; he has always said that the success of the cause has more th'in repaid him ; he was merely explaining the difficulties in the way of having his speeches reported for payment , compared with the . facilities which the Star now affords toothers with profit ; and , we ask ,. could terms more complimentary be used , in the mode of illustration :, than
those used by Mr . O'Connor towards Mr . Lowery ? Mr . O'Connor never lost an opportunity of praising Mr . Lowery , and he even said that he paid the £ 10 with pleasure , convinced that the reports did good . But let it be understood , once for all , that Mr . O'Connor has to pay ready money for every stamp he uses , before they leave the Stamp Office , while the common usage of the trade is three months * credit . AH agents undertake the sale of the Star according to the , rules of the office ; nothing is required of them but payment according to those rules ; and nothing beyond the rules of the office has ever been required from Mr . Lowery . —Eds ]
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