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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1841.
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CASE OF THE MAN REEVE.
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HXTDDERSFIEIiD . O'CONNOR DEMONSTRATION . Ob Saturday-morning , all was bustle and kiste in the expectation of the distinguished patriot . At iitf-past ten , a c&rriafte and four greys Btarted for Cooper Bridge , to xaees Mr . O'Connor , who started *» route to New Mill , where he was met by the men of Holmfirtb . The people here formed into procession , accompanied by a band of music and numerous banners floating in the breeze , and as the procession crossed the English Alps , from New Mill to
Holmfirth , the sight from Hohnfirth and the valley was ¦ matt magnificent , indeed the people merging as it were from the clouds , and then the splendid banners in rapid succession , all serred to heighten the scene . Mr . O'Connor on his arrival at Hohnfirth was greeted by the assembled thousands with a real old £ ttglifih cheer . He addressed the people in the large Toom of the Rose and Crown , bat not a tithe could gain admittance , and although the rain poured down re torrents , the assembled mss 3 stood firmly waitins to catch a glimpse of the noble advocate of the labouring classes . The room , "was crowded to suffocation .
Mr . O'Connor spoke for half an hour amidst the Eos ; rapturous appianse . Sach was the crowded state of the room that it was afterwards ascertained that the main beam had sprung and broke into splinters , and it is a wonder that the whole of the vast assembly were not "let through" to the bottom , but &U passed of safe . Started for Honley at four o'clock ; met the procession at the Banks ; marched to Honley . Started from Boaley at five o ' clock to meet the men of
Hudders-Eeld at Loektrood . From Honley the fight was nosi beatiful , the music playing , and the transparent lamps with which the procession was pro-Tided were truly grand ; but such was the inclemency of the weather , that only a Tery few sreatfeered the s : onn , and out of three score only four reached Hudcersfield . At Lockwood , the procession was met by the men of Huddersfield , Almondbury , Lepton , Dilton , Lindley , Paddock , ic . On enterine ; the town the procession moved in the followine order : —
Fear Marshals on horseback . Almondbnry band , A large &ad splendid banner . A full likeness of Mr . O'Connor . Reverse—England , home , and liberty . Operatives twelve abreast . A beautiful green silk banner—Golden letters . Hot to—Universal Suffrage , Annual Parliaments , Yote by Ballot , Payment of Members , No Property Qualification , Equal Representation . A beautiful tri-eolour . Kirkheaton flag . We demand Universal Suffrage . Operatives twelve a-breast . Lindley band .
A splendid green silk banner , with a correct Likeness of Justice holding the Scales of Equal Rights in one . hand , and the People' Charter in the other . Reverse . The day of freedom dawns—the time is near When freedom , oar united efforts crown . On , on , Briton ' s , our cause is clear , And labour Ehall no master , but the labourer own God Save the people . Operatives twelve a-breast . Tri-colour .
Motto—Hohnfirth National Charter Association . Beverse—The Charter our right . He that will not ask is uot worthy the blessings of freedom . White banner—Honley . Motto—Equality of all before the law . Beverse—Taxation without representation is tyranny , aad ought to be resisted . A cap of liberty carried on a long pole . Operatives twelve a-breast . Green silk banner .
Motto—The right of every man to liberty is from God , from nature , from birth , and frcm reason . Reverse—The whole of the principles contained in the People ' s Charter , we demand , for nothing less will we ever ask or take . Tri-coloar ; Mono- "God save the Queen for w « fear no one else wiiL " Reverse— The gloricus Republic of America , and soon may England
inmate that country ; its people happy aad comentid . " Golcar band . A splendid oil painting of the coat ef arms of the National Charter Association . " 16 feet by 10 ditto . A tri-coloured frig ; Motto— " England experts every nun to do his dnty . " Reverse— " God he ' . ps those who help themsslves . " White flajr ; Motto— " The land , the land . '—the right of every living man . "
Reverse— " The rights of labour , soon may they be acknowledged by all the world . " Green silk banner ; if otto— " Every man his own landlord . " Reverse— " Down with the accursed factory system , the school of immorality , profaneEess , wickedness vand vice of every description . " Operatives , sixteen abreast . Colse-bridge band . Cap of liberty . Tri-coloured flag . Large white banner ;
Motto— England , borne , andliberiy . " Reverse—'' No bastiles . The right of every man to live upon his native land . " Operatives , sixteen abreast . " Green s . Ys . flag ; Motto— " Equal representation , " vriih the cap of liberty . Reverse— " No distinction before the law . " Green silk flag , wiih diver letters"Honesty is the best policy ; no humbng ; no Corn Law fallacies ; the full rights of all we ask , eo more we demand ; this we will have . "
Rever ; e- ^ God gave the earth for man ' s inheritance ; a faction have taken it to themselves . Justice , justice , justice !'' Honley band . Tri-coloiire < i &ag ; Motto— " Universal Suffrage . " Operatives , dxveer . abreast . THE CARRIAGE , drawn by four greys ; postilions , scarlet jackets , black velvet caps , and Eilyer tassels , containing the people ' s champion , FEARGUS O'CONNOR , ESy ,., along with ilessrs . Edward Clayton , Robt Peel , and other friends . Transparent Iamp 3 on each side . Green £ iik fiigs on each side of the
carnage . Operatives , sixteen abreast . In this manner the procession moved along Buxtot-road , on New-street , Market-place , up Westgate , Market-street , down Cloth-hall-street , Kingsa-eet , on Queen-street , up Ramsden-street , to the Philosophical-hall . When the precession arrived &t the hall , it was crowded to esc-ss ; it was now after six o ' clock , ud , in consequence of Mr . O'Connor having received
loiters from London , requiring his immediate pre-Bence there on urgent business , it was arranged that , so soon as he arrived , he should at opce adorers the people , ilr . Yeevers , therefore , having been called to the chair , introduced Mr . O'Coancr , who was received with tremendous cheering . He made a most excellent speech , concluding at half-past seven o ' clock , leaving jast time for him to be conveyed to the railway station to meet the train . The people deeply regretted the urgency of his departure , but were consoled by a premise of another visit at some future
tune . After Mr . O'Connor ' s departure , Mr , Mowitt , after % few observations , replete with sound argument , moved the following resolution : — " That this meeting pledges itEelf to agitate for no reform short of the People ' s Charter , the whole of ¦ which we consider as a > perfect measure ; bnt if lobbed of one of its principles , the whole would be involved : we , therefore , pledge ourselves never to agitate for , nor countenance , any measure or measures less than the whole of the principles contained in the People ' s Charter , and that we look upon the man who would endeavour to lead the people for any thisg less , to be an enemy to the liberties of mankind . "
' Mr . E . Clayton seconded the resolution in an effective speech , in which he exposed the present move on the part of the Anti-corn Law League , in coming ont for the franchise ; he warned the people against the ruse whiehwas in contemplation . He referred to tb © history of the Roman Republic in the time of Tiberius Gracchu 3 and Cains Gracchus , shewing to what means the aristocracy will stoop to over-reach the people—by threats , intimidation , and , finally , by over-liberality—to destroy the power of , and lead the people by , a falss light . He resumed his seat amidst load cheering .
Tho Tesohitionwis carriedtit animonsK , a ^ d ihTee cheers having been given for the Charter , three for Frost , Williams , and Jones , and " three for O'Connor and other patriots , the meeting broke np after a hearty vote of th&sJu to the chairman .
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TO THE EDITOB OP THE K 0 BTHER 5 8 IAB . Deis Sir , —The enclosed letter is , aa yon may perceive , from one of those whom the veracious O'Connell hai repeat 9 dly described ai an enemy , a bitter , unrelent ' ng foe to Ireland . I do assure yon Sir , it has often puzzled me to discover what can be the object , or what is to be gained , by the continuous practice of bearing false witness against the great bulk of the people of Great Britain . He knows , as well is I do , tbat every Chartist in England , Scotland , and Wales , concurs with Mr . Watson in hU good wishes towards Ireland and the Irish . Yet this man , who vilifies a whole people , is angry because the l ats Doctor Doyle , Bishep of Kildare , said he was a knave in politics and a hypocrite in religion . Patbick O'Hiqgins . Dublin , December 2 nd , 1811 .
The Northern Star. Saturday, December 11, 1841.
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EMIGRATION . The tricks and contrivances of faction to gain and retain possession of power and profit mi ^ ht provoke onea merriment were not the subjects in reference to which these tricks are practised , matters of such vast importance and commanding interest . The late Whig Gavernment had , by innumerable sins of omission and of commission rendered themselves alike detestable and contemptible in the eye 3 of all reasonable men .
Unwilling to throw themselves upon popular support , and by substantial reform earn a title to the nation ' s confidence , they pandered continually to the sworn foes of freedom , till the people , in their righteous indignation , hurled them from the position they disgraced , and their mighty promises of cheap corn , sugar , and timber failed in keeping the old kulk of Whiggery afloat . The crazy craft went down amid the yells and execrations of deluded millions .
Then came the pious and constitutional Tories ; mad enough to suppose that , because Whiggery had become the abhorrence , Toryism must of necessity become the cherished idol of the popular will . These dupes of their own folly and wickedness declared that no distress existed in the country . According to their speeches in and out of Parliament , England was a paradise ; so at least said his Grace of Welixngtos ; and , considering that England" in his Grace ' s mind comprised only Windsor Castle , Buckingham Palace , Apsley
House , Almack ' s , and the clubs , no doubt he was correct . There , thanks to John Bull ' s folly and aristocratic rascality , distress does not dare to show its ugly and unwelcome front . It seems , however that even his Grace of Wellington may be occasionally wrong ; and facts may proclaim , even to the conviction of a Tory Government , that distress does exist , with which they must grapple ; or retire from the mess , to which with hungry bellies they so recently returned .
WelJ , then ; the existence of distress is admitted : and how is it proposed that such distress shall be relieved , and its recurrence prevented ? Of course we are not in the secrets of Downing-street , and can only speak from hearsay and report- Yet , it is said that " Coming events cast their shadows before , " and some of our London contemporaries , who may probably be employed on the secret service , aad act as pioneers for the ministry to discover the bearings of public opinion , have stated it to be an understood thine that early in the next Session of
Parliament , Government will propose a scheme to promote what the Bcribblers please to call "National Emigration , " by which we sappose they mean the transportation of some millions of ou industrious countrymen , whose presence presses rather hardly npon those immensely important classes who have taken a fancy to consider their fellow creatures as so many machines , to be sent anywhere and applied to any purpose , which may enable their tyrant task-masters to enjoy the largest amount of luxury , vice , and
idleness . This would be one way , to be sure , of getting rid of those whom it is inconvenient to keep ; besides which , it has the merit of consistency , a thing which the late Government never troubled their brains even to think of . It is simple , and in strici accordance with the good old practice of the party ; neither more nor less than a proposition to tax one portion of the people for the purpose of transporting the other ! Still , though it is consistent with the uniform practice of Toryism , we are by no means disposed to admit its being in accordance with the requirements of justice , honesty , humanity , and common sense . On the contrary , we are prepared to prove that it is in perfect discordance with each of those particulars .
First , we say that any scheme of extensive , or national" emigration , such as that hinted at by our contemporaries , is unjust ; and that , for two reasons ; it is a one-sided bargain , and it is altogether unnecessary . It is a one-Bided bargain , because , through the operation of the New Poor Law on the one hand and the grinding oppression of the capitalist on the other , all who are deemed " surplus population" may be compelled
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to submit to it on pain of starvation . There is no necessity for an Act of Parliament to say expressly "the people Bhall emigrate or starve . " Would to God our rulers were honest enough thus to blazon forth their villany in open day ! This , however , they will not do ; they will be cunning as serpents , however little of the hannlessness of the dove they may possess . Yet , let any man of common sense reflect for a moment on the position in which the Poor Law and the constantly increasing power of machinery has placed the working man ; and he will at once perceive that should a plan of
emigration be adopted ! by the legislature in order to relieve the distresses of the country , the industrious artisan , would have no choice , but would be compelled to submit to any terms which the interest or caprice of the tyrants might induce them to propose . It is also totally unnecessary . We have no surplus population in reality . That we have such a population in appearance , we readily grant ; but the cause is not a redundancy of mouths , but a bad arrangement of society which prevents the fair remuneration of active industry . What is called the cultivated land of the United Kingdom would produce ,
if its capabilities were fully developed , food for , at least , one hundred millions of human beings . Leaving this , however , to be managed or mismanaged as to the landlords and their tenants may be most convenient , we beg to remind those who appear so anxious to send Englishmen , Irishmen , and Scotchmen to cultivate lands at the opposite side of the globe , that we have such a thing as land which would give an ample return for the labour of cultivation at home . We have some thirty millions of waste lands which
are at present of no use to anybody ; one-half of these lands , with skill and industry , and with a moderate outlay of capital , would yield a profitable , and , after a few years , an ample return . Let these lands , at all events , be made productive , and let the cultivated lands have their capabiliticsfully developed ; let the demand of an extensive home market for home productions be fully answered , and then it . will be time enough to talk of banishing our surplus population from their native land .
This system of wholesale banishment is as dishonest as it is unjust . Who are to be expatriated ? not the old , for they would be beyond the ability to work ; not the young , for they would be incapable of providing for , or taking care of , themselves . The emigrants , then , would be the strong , healthy , and active portion of the working classes , among whom preference would be given to those who had no families , or whose children were of such an age as to
be employed in useful labour on arriving at their destination . Now who is to pay for the transportation of two or three millions of these destitute human beings to our distant colonies ! Let us suppose that in Great Britain and Ireland there are three millions of the people unable to find a sufficiency of food , and that , according to the new prosperity scheme , they are to be exported to New Zealand , New South Wales , or Canada .
And let us inquire who is to pay the expence of this new plan for relieving national distress . The expence must be paid by the nation , and the nation that pays is the working people . The working people have to pay the expenoes of the Government , national and local , the interest of the debt , and the rates for the relief of the poor , &o . &o . ; for , whoever appears to pay , the whole of this enormous burden is actually borne by the industry of the country . Yet our sage rulers propose , because the country cannot sustain the burdens under
which it groans , to increase those burdens by many millions of pounds , in order to send away a large and important portion of our most able and industrious citizens , leaving the increased taxation to be sustained by those who remain ; in addition to which they will have to maintain all the old , who are not worth transporting , and all the young , who are of too tender an age to be transported . If the Tories are disposed to make England one huge poor house , we advise them to adopt this plan , for most assuredly the Devil could cot have contrived a more effectual contrivance .
But let us look a little at the expence . " To take an individual to Canada , how much will it cost I For transportation , food , and fit clothing , -with means of living for at least a few days after his arrival there , the sum of £ 3 a-head—a small average cost , even if sure of employment the instant they touch the land . his for one and a half millions amounts to twelve millions of pounds : send the remaining one and a half million to New Zzaland or New South Wales , at a cost of £ 20 a-head , and we have a total of forty-two millions of pounds ! Even granting this calculation to be too high :
supposing that only half this expence is to be incurred , are the people prepared to give twenty-one millions to carry the project into execution 1 " If they are , they are much greater fooJs than we take them to be . " But suppose the money to be just now in Mr . Goulburn ' s breeches pocket ready to carry the scheme into practice ; to be effectual it muBt be prompt , or the vacancies will be rapidly filling upyoung' superabundants' will be dropping in as there is more room ; so let the exiles be shipped as soon as
possible . To carry off one million of human beings , you will require four thousand ships , allowing 250 of the animals to be crammed into each . ( If you send off three millions , the ship-builders ought to be at once set to work , for there may be some difficulty in finding vessels . —Seriously , the more we think on the proposal , the more ridiculous it appears , and we would be half inclined to set it down as a hoax , if we did not find it advocated seriously in some of the London Pipers . "
This we fancy will be deemed a pretty specimen of Tory honesty , and a pretty way of relieving distress . It is evident that the only design entertained is to thin the population by a system of deliberate murder under the name of emigration . If sent to the Colonies , the land there is already appropriated , the proprietors could not , of course , at once find capital to employ all , or nearly all this sudden influx of labour , the emigrant has not
means to purchase any portion of the land from those in possession , and his only resource is to lie down and die . This at least would be the case in Canada , and should he be sent to other remote colonies nearly the same objections would apply . A vast sum muu be laid out on agricultural implements , &c , and an immediate and ready supply of food must be furnished , if , indeed , they are not to be sent there merely to perish in the desert .
This shows not only the dishonesty but the inhumanity of the scheme . Half the money necessary to be expended in murdering them abroad , would , by placing them upon the waste lands and opening new channels for the beneficial employment of their skill and industry , render them comfortable and happy at home . But this is not the only point in whioh the inhumanity of the scheme is glaringly apparent . To say nothing of the perils of the voyage and of
the hardships to which the eiile must be exposed ia his colonial home , let it be remembered that human beings are neither stocks nor stones . Is it nothing to be torn from oar kindred and connections—from the solace of friendship , and the loved scenes of our childhood ? Is it nothing to have new friends to seek—new scenes to try , and new habits to form , in the distant wilderness ! And all this for what I Just to sustain bad and wicked arrangements of society , and to gratify the greedy grasping of a monopolising faction .
There has been a meeting recently held in London on this subject , at which one Mr . Montgomery Mjlrtin took the chair , and at which a Mr . Cbawp ord , of Paisley , and other gents , amused themselves , and tried to gull the publio , by talking nonsense . We do not blame them for this , nor shall we blame the Government for pursuing a like course ; for , in truth , no man can possibly talk common sense on such a senseless project Mr . Montgomeey Mabtin talks greatly in his little way about the resources of the colonies , of * : he amount of revenue they pour into the mother country , of the strength they add to our military force ; but he forgets to
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tell us that neither the toiling millions of this country nor of the ill-governed eolonies reap any advantage from all these fiae things , the whole profit being absorbed by ^ the aristocratic knaves and fools ; who are cursing by their misrule those interesting and important portions of the globe . One statement he made deserves apassing notice , ** Every ' colony " , he says " that was founded , supplied ua with a market beyond the control of foreigners . The Colonist , who while he continued an inhabitant of the mother country , consumed only five pounds worth of
British manufactures yearly , required twenty pounds worth in his new home . " We have no doubt he requires it . The question is , will he find the means of getting it ? If Mr . Martin ' s logic prove anything , it proves too much , for \! the prosperity of every Colonist be such as to enable him to expend three hundred per cent , more than the British resident , of the same elasa at home , then it is plain the whole naiion had better emigrate at once , especially as Buck a manoeuvre would save to our manufacturers the cost of transit .
The fact is , that Mr . Martin was dreaming all the while about pounds , shillings and pence , and could only think , of men as machines for making them . Hence he talks of every colony supplying us with a market spite of foreigners . What may become of the thousands who will be compelled to steal or starve , while the said market is in process of creation , he and his class neither know nor caro . We shall keep our eye upon this move of the Tories and the middle men , and if they venture to launch their emigration ship , we promise them a broadside that shall effectually sink both it and them .
la the meantime , let the people remain true to themselves , let them continue to go for the whole Charter and nothing less , and that once obtained , the regeneration of our country will be easily effected , and Englishmen will learn to live well at home , instead of going abroad to a worse , because more hopeless , condition of slavery than that whioh they now endure .
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the subscribers in ana around London will receive the O'Connor Liberation Medals with their papers on Saturday next The Plate of Monmouth Court House will be distributed io them , and to the Subscribers in and around Birmingham on Saturday fortnight , the 1 st of Day of January , 1842 . It is particularly desired that every Agent who receives either Medals or Portraits , will not distribute them be / ore the day named in the Star . It Is for their convenience that the Plates &c . are entrusted to them before the time ; and we expect that no one in any locality will bo far abuse the confidence reposed in him , aa to distribute them before the proper time , when all shall have had their supply .
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^ THE SMALL PORTRAITS . To meet the wishes of many who desire to have the Small Portraits formerly issued with the Star , and who say that 4 . 4 d . is an awkward price to remit , we have determined to offer them at 4 d . each . The liat comprises Portraits of—F . O'Connor , H . Hunt , R . Oastler , Andrew Marvel , J . 11 . Stephens , Arthur O'Connor , Sir W . Molesworth Thos . Attwood , and Wm . Cobbett , Broaterre O'Brien . All these will be allowed to the A gents and Booksellers , bo as to retail at 4 d . each . Any one experiencing difficulty in procuring them baa but to' Inclose six Postage Stamps , either to the office , or to our principal agents , Mr . Cleave , of London , Mr . Guest , of Birmingham , and Mr . Heywood , of Manchester , and be can have any one on the Us returned to him by the next post .
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RE-ISSUE OF THE LARGE PORTRAITS . We are constantly receiving applications from new subscribers , or from friends , wishing to know upon what terms they can be supplied with the Large Portraits tbat have been , at different times , issued to the subscribers to the Star ; to these applications our invariable answer has hitherto been , " not at any price , " The calls upon us , Bowever , have now become so numerous and so urgent , that we have determined to issue them again on the following terms : — A person wishing to subscribe for any one of the larqe Plates , must enter his name with his News-agent , and Subscribe regularly for the paper for six weeks , specifying at the time he enters bis name the Plate he wants .
At the end of his six weeks' subscription he will receive the Plate along with his Paper for that week , for both of which he will be charged Is . by the Agent , and no more . The Agent will be charged for Paper and Plate for that week 9 d . ; bo that he will have 25 per cent , profit for his trouble . The Papers will cost him nothing for carriage , os they go by pott ; and we will contrive to get the Plates to him for aa little cost as possible . Any subscriber who receives his paper direct from the office , can have the plates on the same terms as from an agent . Here , then , is an easy manner by which all who desire can have any of the under-mentioned plates : —
The Convention . John Collins . John Frost Dr . M'Douall . J . K . Stephens . R . Emniett , and Richard Ostler . F . O'Connor . The agents had better open their subscription lists immediately , and apprise ua of the number they will require of each .
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To Correspondents and Agents . —Christmas Day falling on a Saturday this year , we shall , for that week , publish on the Friday . Correspondents will , therefore , note this , and see to their res-peclive communications being sent a day sooner * The Agents mtist also take care to have their orders here in time . The National Petition—Our publisher , Mr . Hobson , has printed the National Petition for 1842 , ore a neat sheet , for the purpose of being extensively distributed amongst those from whom
signatures are asked , that they may know for what they are signing . He is ready to supply them to the Associations and to individuals at the following charges . —100 copies for 2 s ; 1 , 000 for 15 s . Petition sheets , of good strong paper , ruled in four columns , and holding two hundred names when filled , may also be had , price 2 d . each . The Petition and sheets may also be had from Mr . Cleave , London : . and Mr . Heywood , Manchester . But in all cases the money must be sent in advance—the price being so low as to preclude credit .
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Several Unpaid Lettem , including a large packet bearing the Liverpool post mark , have been returned to the Post Office . Nathaniel Mohling , Brighton , slates that he has not yet received the letter which Mr . Martin says he posted for him on the 2 \ st of November . The Cbartists of Bromyakd , Hbrefordshihe , are requested to communicate with Mr . John Parsons , No . 6 , Beaufort-place , Stapleton-road , Bristol . Chaktist Blacking . —Having received letters complaining of money letters being sent , which have not been received from the post , R . Pinder desires that , for the future , no person will send him any remittance except by post-office order .
The Convention , —Mr . Henry Vincent desires us to state , in answer to numerous applications he has received , that he declines being put in nomination for the coming Convention . His reason is , that Mr . R . K . Philp , his partner in business , is already nominated ; and it would be impossible for both to be absent from Bath , engaged in political duties , at the same moment . Mr . V . will be actively engaged in spreading Chartism in his locality , and will do his utmost to aid the Petition , and the purposes for which the Convention will assemble . The Irish Universal Suffrage Association return their most sincere thanks to those friends who have favoured them with Stars , Chartist tracts , and other communications , and particularly to
Mr . Wood , qfChorley . Stabs to Ireland . —Thady Cafferty informs us , that out of twenty-two Stars , which he is apprised have been sent to Aim by a friend at Northampton , he has only received fifteen . The three Stars from W . B ., Darlington , were received . Mr . Skevikgxon , Loughborough , wishes to decline standing as a candidate for the forthcoming Convention for the town of Loughborough . He is thankful for the honour intended him ; but , as the District Meeting at Nottingham have agreed upon tiro persons for the district , Mr . S . will withdraw . James Sinclair , Newcastle , and various other Correspondents . — We must again request that the copy furnished to us for the Star be written on one side of the paper only .
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Ma . Julian Harmey acknowledges , the receipt of Is . from Mr . Henry Frost Coalman , Portland-place , London , for Elisabeth Taylor . The money hai been handed to Mrs . T . J T Wu \ TBnRAD , Cheltenham , wtil oblige by wrtiing on one side of his paper only for the future ^ We had as much news came on Thursday morning as would have filled the Star : we were obliged to cut down his report in the same way as a great many others . : '* ¦ Rochdale . —Will the Rochdale sub-Secretary * that sent 10 * . to Mr . John Campbell , give him his address again ; and also the Truro friend who sentSs . i
John C ampbell would be thankful to all parties who have had his pamphlets to send him either cash , or the pamplets back again . ? Charles Westebton . —The letter to Mr . O Connor teas delivered to him . John Weaver , ofRt / de , writes us to deny the authorship of the paragraph which appeared in the Chartist Intelligence of our last , with his nsme attached . We gave the paragraph as it reached us ; and we gave the signature because we knew nothing of the writer . The London O'Brien Pbess Fund . —The long address of the Committee , received only on
Thursday morning , cannot possibly appear this week . The Balance-sheet of the Executive was not received till Thursday . It cannot , consequently , appear in our present number . John Moore . —We really can give him no answer . We have received at this office , within the time mentioned by him , scores of letters for Mr . O'Connor , all of which have been duly forwarded : whether his may have been among them we of of course cannot tell . Not fewer than fifty letters have been received at this office , within the month , from different parts , addressed to . Mr . O'Connor , on nearly all subjects , but mainly containing invitations for a visit to the several towns and places from where the letters have come . The parlies sending seem to expect that Mr .
O'Connor would answer them each and everyone . This expectation is unreasonable . Look at the labour Mr . O'Connor has performed during the last month ; and then say whether , in conscience , he has not had enough to do I We may state generally , that all these letters have been seen off Mr . O'Connor , up to the lime of his leaving last for London ; and that , he will , after a time , state in the Star the places he will next visit , and the time . A Bebmondsey Chartist , in Cambridge , seems to have imbibed a common and most mischeivous misconception ., The National Charter Association has no * ' branches . " It is one society ; \ and consequently , ell its members and officers may legally communicate with each other .
Y . Z . —Address Mr . Baker , Factory Superintendent , Leeds . A Constant Reader . —We have never measured him . John Wilkinson , Birminham . — We have written him , care of Mr . White . H . Cronin . —Fifty such letters , and more , have been received and forwarded . W . Thorley . —Any communication for Mr . O'Connor may be sent here . The Liverpool case shall be attended to : we purpose writing on the subject . _ . .
Derby Chartists . —We did not receive the report of their meeting for the National Petition . Duncan Nicholson . —The letter from Mr . O'Brien next week . Stabs to Ireland . —Mr . Murray , Donegal , will be thankful for a little Starlight . The Poets have been bountiful , as usual . We have received six times more than we have read . The Worcester Chartists send us an address of congratulation to and confidence in the Executive . We have not room for its insertion . Mr . R . Ridley , having completed his tour in Suffolk and Essex , is open to an engagement . Address
—19 , D'Oyley-streetfSloanestreet , Chelsea . Military Flogging . —A Correspondent asks" Whether it is true that two men have been severely flogged at the Leeds Barracks within the last fortnight or ten days , and that one of them is now in the Hospital in consequence of the punish * ment ? " We do not know . Wm . Stubbings . James Crawford , A mere Man , Joseph Ginder , L . P . Cooke , and a great many others , must excuse Uf : toe have no room . David Davies , smith , George Town , Merthyb . —The parcel he inquires about was sent from the
t $ vx on Oct . 30 ( ft , according to the address given tn his letter . It was entrusted to Pick / ord ' s , the carriers . A letter too , has been sent to him since , to the same address , in ansiver to Ms queries ; and on the SUi insl ., a second letter was dispatched , addressed to the cere of Mr . Morgan Williams . Let him inquire at the carriers at Merthyr . Mr . Hitchin , Kidderminster — The parcel he writes about was inclosed in one sent to Mr . George White , of Birmingham , on Nov . 30 th . Perhaps Mr . White has not had an opportunity of forward ing it .
W . H . Clifton . —His letter to the Lord Mayor of Dublin next week . The Bristol Chartists are most anxiously looking for a visit from O'Connor . Their letter in reference to the correspondent is received . Their correspondence shall always have our best attention . In reference to the notice , in our last , of this matter , we have received the following letter , to which we call the attention of our Bristol friends : — *
THE BRISTOL CHARTISTS AND THE STAR . Ma . Editor , —Observing your answer to the Bristol Chartists , complaint of nou-reports in the Star , I conceived that the testimony of one who , for some time , sent you reperts of Chartist meetings here , was due to you , and would not be altogether unavailing to the Chartists . I beg to state that , daring my connection with the Chartists , as an enrolled member of the National Charter Association , I continued to report the Bristol Chartist meetings , from the one entitled the Germansend and the Tories , down to the Chartist meeting for the release of Frost ; also the ball and soiree : when I
resigned office , and withdrew from the body . I have since reported Biany meetings , some important ones , down to the Anti-Corn Lecture of Brown , each inclusive , and have ever found the Editor readily insert the reports in the Star . I have from the commencement of the movement here , found such complaints aa those you answer , rife ; but whilst numbered with the speakers , I did not trouble myself to take reports , or inquire wherefore we were not reported ; but from your punctuality and attention during the short time I filled that effice unappointed , I most bear testimony that , the fault has been with those whs reported , or said they reported . J .
P . S . —Upon my report of the Brown anti-Corn Law meeting , I nave to add , 1 hope the early arrival thereof did not exclude a better from your columns ; and lest friends should think orhorwise , I state I do not seek appointment I have ever served in this offiee , gratuitously , unappoicted , and unthanked . J . Upon this we have only to say , that our worthy friend mistakes greatly in supposing that he has been " unthanked " for his favours . A large heap of thanks have been accumulating , which we now
beg him to accept all at once-A . B . C . suggests the propriety of furnishing every Member of the House of Commons with a copy of the Charter , which being in the English Chartist Circular , at one halfpenny , might be done at a very trijling expense , and would prevent their pleading ignorance of what they are asked to make law ; and , as every body ' s work is nobody ' s work , he suggests that every sub-secretary furnish the Member , or Members , who represents the city or borough in which he resides .
Mr . George Black . —We have received a lettet from Cardiff , stating though it may sometimes be policy to refrain from , expressing as much , yet a burst of honest indignation skould not lessen a man in our esteem ; they consider Mr . George Black entitled to full confidence from the Chartist body . We have also received a similar letter from Newport , Monmouthshire , — James akdrews , Barnstaple . —All the Plates due to the Subscribers will be shortly forwarded to Mr . Avery . Mr . Penny—The letter to Hamer Stansfeld in our next .
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^ Mr . Ennes , County Durham . —Mr . Baxter ' s address is No . 3 , Bridgeman ' s place , near Cockerillspring , Bolton . Wm . Scott . —His letter was sent to Mr . Cleave , but being without name it would perhaps not be noticed . ~ + W . H . Lawneb , John Goldsmith , Henry Gray , and several others , are referred to the notice about the Portraits , both large and small .
Notice . —The Huddersfield Shareholders In the JVorthern Star will receive their interest by presenting their checks to Mr . John Leech , Buxton - Road , Huddersfield ; Ashton , to Mr . Edward Hebson j Bradford , to Mr . J . Clarkaon ; Halifax , toMr . R . Wilkinson ; and Rochdale , to Mr . Robert Holt Lists of Shareholders ark wanted from the foV lowing places , on receipt of which , orders for payment will be sent from the office : —Barnsley , Ettarut Hull , and Oldhatn . '
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FOB MB . JAMES VBRNOIC , SO 0 THHOLTOK . From Mr . H . Griffith ! , Edgeware Boad , London ... ... ... 0 10 FOE THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OF THE INCAR . CBBATED CHARTISTS . The 7 s . from Daventry and Whilton , noticed for R . j t Richardson , on the 19 th of November , should hav » been for the Wives and Families . The £ l front Aiva , of the same date , is counter-ordered by Wo , Bishop , Secretary to the Chartist Association . FOR THE EXECUTIVE , FROM THE SALE OF B 0 GB& PINDER ' S BLACKING .
8 . d . W . "Wright , Stockport ... ... ... o io Richard Haslem , Oldham ... ... o 10 Robert Brook , Todmordon ... ... i g Thomas Hartley , Bnrnlay ... ... i g Charles Winsper , Stockton ... ... i g Wm . Brook , Leeds 2 6 £ 0 9 2 O ' BRIEN PRESS POND , LEEDS—RECE 1 TED BT THB COMMITTEE . From the Press Committee , Liverpool ... 20 0 0 „ Andrew Dick ... 0 5 0 W . Brook , Sec
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" I should e ' en weep with pity To see another thus . " —King Lear , Chabtist Fkiends , —I have never yet solicited yoor assistance to an individual ; and if I do io now , I hope it-will not be ineffectual . Reeve , news agent , who suffered , from time to time , about three yean * rigorou imprisonment during the battle of the unstamped , and contributed greatly to the victory , is at present under pinching difficulties and privations . Like toe foot ally who " fights for all but ever fights in / vain , " oi the soldier , who wins the battle for the general more
than for himself , Reeve , though , as I have been told , he was more daring than any one in defying the litllj brief authority of the petty myrmidons of tyranny , hai been neglected , nay , worse , those who gained by tin victory have been suffered to prejudice the minds of individuals otherwise favourably disposed towards tUi poor fellow , and he now lies , without food , without t bed , or the means of getting one day over another . He is under the doctor ' s hands for a wound in his leg which prevents him from going about to vend Chartist publications , by the sale of which he used to earn * precarious pittance .
The approaching Christmas ( however merry to some , ) must be a sad one to him ; but if he could get it over , he hopes for happier times in the Be * yeat He is honest , though starving , and his E 9 al to do good to the cause rises above all his distresses . Should any who reads this be in a condition to span him a mite , he will thank them again aad again ; for rent day is approaching , and what will become of him then , God only knows—probably the streets , or t 2 u bastile , with his young family . Contributions sent to John Watkins , No . 20 , Uppa Marsh , Marsh Gate , Lambeth , will be punctually paid to him and duly acknowledged . J . W .
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BRADFORD . —Ai * Example wobth Imitating—The members of an Odd Fellows Lodge held it the house of Mr . Henry Miles , Manchester-road have agreed to withdraw their money from the bank , and are about to commence keeping a shop with it , thus securing to themselves the profit of their own consumption . If all benefit societies would adopt the same plan it would bring the shopkeeper to their senses , and teach them their duty to the working classes .
Pett yTy banny . —Since the demonstration , the two factions , Whig and Tory , scarcely know what to do with themselves , they are spitting their venon against all they can find out , who took an active part in doing honour to him , whom the people delight to honour . A firm not a hundred miles from the old church , has discharged a number of female power-loom weavers for losing about two hours work to attend the soiree and tea party . Several other manufacturers and spinners have done the same . A great many squeamish gentlemen ( alias old women )
who come round to the houses of the poor people to ask them to send their children to their Sunday schools , tell us there is no tyranny , no oppression , nor any misery , but what the people bring upoa themselves by their dissolute habit 3 , and blame us much for calling such men as the above tyrants and oppressors . I met with one of those gentlemen last week , when I offered to prove to him , and to open to his view , such a scene of misery and distress as would melt his flinty heart , if he would accompany me two days to the wretched hovels of the poor hand-loom weavers and wooloombers , bnt he declined doing so . —Correspondent .
Death from Starvation . —An old man , named Benjn . Hay , was fonnd dead on Saturday morning last , at the door of Mr . Parkinson , his nephew , { who resides on Primrose Hill , Great Horton-lane . ) He was removed to the Fleece Inn in a cart to await the Coroner ' s inquest , which was held on Sunday ast , at the Inn to which he was taken . After hearing the evidence , the Jury came to the verdict of 'Died from starvation . " The old mas it appears his latterly resided in Leeds , and came to Horton to s ? e his relations . He has a brother residing at Par » - dise Green , Horton , worth considerable property , and his nephew , at whose door he died , is also pots ? ssed of property , yet he was suffered to die from want .
KEIGHXiEV . —On Saturday evening last , aboot seven o'clock , a lamentable accident happened U Grove ' s Mill , about a mile from Keighley . A young woman , named Hannah Hartley , about sixteen years of age , went an errand to Ingrow , » place at a Bhort distance , accompanied by other two , a young man and a young woman , about the same age . Close by her own residence , and betwixt that and Ingrow is a water ( commonly called a beck ) of considerable magnitude , over which is a narrow wooden bridge , for the convenience of the workpeople UviBg on the opposite Bide . In consequence of the bridge being usually secured by agate to prevent strangers from passing through Mr . Clough ' j mill-yard , and as this gate is always locked at nights ,
the young woman and her companions went round by the cart road , a distance considerably further . After performing her errand , the party were advised to return home again by the road they came , as the darkness of the night , together with the rise of the water and the violence of the wind , would nuke any attempt to climb over the door of the bridge extremely dangerous . This reasonable advice snt however , disregarded ; the young woman declaring her determination to return that way at all hazards . Owing to this fatal resolution , they all went by the bridge , and commenced climbing over the Bmau gate fixed as a barrier . Two of the party
succeeded in getting over , but while Hartley w » a making tho attempt , she lost her hold and fell a distance of four or five yards into the flood below . Aa immediate alarm was gi « n , aud the neighbours rushed out with lantern ? , bnt the darkness and height of the water prevented all possibility of rescue . A search for the body wM commenced an Sunday morning , and continued tul Tuesday noon , when the body was found at the bottom of Mr . Marriner ' s dam stones , held fast by a portion of her dress to a piece of iron , about three quarters of a mile from the place where she fell in . She has left a poor widowed mother inconsolable for her lass .
Suicide . —Mr . Jno . Greenwood , of the Black Swan Inn , was found in bed last Sunday morning , with bis throat out . MANCHESTER . —At a general meeting of the bailer-makers , held in Manchester , it was resolved that sixpence each member per week , should be levied for the support of the London masons now on strike , Bach levy to be paid so long as the strike continues . They have received their first donation of £ 3 11 s . 6 d ; from the dressera and dyers , £ 10 ; and also from the cotton-spinners of Manchester the sum of £ 5 .
STOCKPORT . —The Unemployed . Tm benevolent are cautioned against parties who aw going about begging for the turn ont spinners : no one has been authorised to beg yet . Any contnbatioas will be thankfully received by Mr . WiUiW Rothwell , care of Mr . Roger Riley , news-agent , Chestergate . The Committee are about to send proper persons in the different districts to collect . Contributors are requested to take notice of the date of the address and the name of the printer , and torn sett the amount of their subscription in the boo * with ink .
ROCHDALE . —Police . —On Monday last , Mr . Chadwick again attended the Petty Sessions , and stated that he had taken the opinion of Mr . Starbe on the decision given by that bench oa the pr ? ! ™ Monday , as to the right of the police to break in » persons houses without the authority of a magis trate . That opinion was that they have decided contrary to the law , in giving the decision in favour of tw police . So we ' are to have our houses broken opes at the will of aa hired blndgeonman , and then » have the satisfaction of knowing that he di « n 0 * know his dutw On Tuesdav last , after twenty-K »
or twenty-six policemen had been patrolling «« streets of this borough , all night and day , they nw the honour of apprehending a poor half-starvea creature , whose emaciated appearance wonld navo impressed any one but a tyrant with compassio ^ whose only orimewas that he had not t * " ]??" for upwards of thirty hours , and the turnkey of «» prison stated , that the man whoa he came to uw prison , devoured his scanty meal in such a manner ; that he thought ho had not tasted food for » »«*¦» thebenoh dismissed tha ease , by ordering nun o «» of the town immediately .
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TO UK . PATE 1 CK CHIGOINS . Dear Sis , —Along -with Uxia letter you will receive a Northern Star . I have sent the Star and Scottish Patriot on several occasi ons of late , and shall continue to do so . I rejoice in common ¦ with , every friend of liberty at the spreading of true political principles in your beautiful , but oppressed country ; and I look forward with confidence to the period when the millions of Ireland ' s generous and fervid Bens will unite as one man witk their British brethren to overthrow the monster , class-legislation , and the thousand evils that proceed from it
I love the Irish people ; I have been a stranger in their land ; but I was no Btranger to their hospitality ; and " may my right hand forget its cunning" when forget the debt I owe them . Believe me , also , when I say , I am not a stranger t » Ireland's history , to her numerous civil wars fomented by knaves for the purpose of getting possession of the forfeited estates , to the disabilities intsrpoBed in marriages between Catholic and Protestant , or to the infamous means adopted by Pitt , Castlereagb , and Co . to rob y « u of your national legislature . But I turn with joy from the contemplation of the dark picture of your wrongs to -what you will be when your capabilities are brought to light ; -when the inexhaustible resources of your soil ami your mines have been brought into action by your industrious , talented , and educated people .
In the Siar which I Bend with this , your talented countryman , Mr . OBrieD , justly observes that if a capital of £ 130 , 000 , 000 sterling were required for the discovery and disentombing of r » oai g Ark , if "would be immediately subscribed for—only gooraatee the epecubtars ten per cent To bring your ill-used country into the same state of cultivation as Eogiand and the low parts of Scotland would require an outlay of £ 32 , 090 , 000 , but will this ever be expended upon it , while a miserable few sxe suffered quietly to speculate on the fruits of your labour ? Never ! and their power to do evil springs from your disunion , and from oars . It astonishes me when I read of your cheap provisions ; your beef , mutton , pork , geese , turkeys , fowls , corn , and potatoes . But when I see what Inglis and others eay of the state of wages , and add my own scanty knowledge to their better opportunities of information , I may then come near the truth .
Persevere , Sir , in your honest efforts for the real emancipation of your noble country—a country well entitled to the eulogium of Councilor Phillips—a country which I firmly believe that the Romans , in the plenitude of their power , dared not to invade—a country where the praises of the true God were sung on the harp , in the halls of Tara , long before the Redeemer cf mankind began his earthly career , and took upon himself our nature—a country where the arts and sciences were preserved when the rest of the world was involved in darkness . Iceland , the Ultima Thule , and the moat northern point of civilization , even the human race , to this day , owe to Ireland a deep debt of gratitude .
Do me the honour , Sir , to propose me as an honorary member of jour Association , and add the names ef William Thomson and Robert Fletcher , of Leith , to your list of subscribers . We will take care to keep up our title of membership by regularly sending the Star , or any other Radical papers we may get ; and von may rely on it that we will do our best to get others to follow our example . There are Irish hearts here beating in Scottish bosoms , and I hops , in a short time , to shew them what they really owe to Ireland , and I know they will act accordingly . Dear Sir , Believe me yours , And God bless the cause , Robzht Watson . Leith , November 2 Uh , 1841 .
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4 ^ THE NORTHERN STAB . ^
Case Of The Man Reeve.
CASE OF THE MAN REEVE .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 11, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct872/page/4/
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