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    • TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.
    • TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD YISCOUNT MELBOURNE.
    • MRS. ROBERTS, THE WHIG MADE WIDOW.
    • TO OUX& T * laA T> yr Rgi
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      A nation mw pays for her feats of chivalry until th » has thrown off her amour . Die BBWB&BlBWn by steam hav * never yet felt th « full shock « f w . They are vain enough to tape that they weold become oonToyed smugglers to * H puts of Europe , This may hare done , in olden tines , with a limited production tod almosta mono polj of trade ; bat , now , they would find the A nation nertr pays-for her feats of chivalry until jbjhasthTcrwn other araonr .

      feUsstenKKL ProdwsSoa wouM be Embed beyond calculation ; hands would be proportionall y thrown « oi of employment ; masu&etuns woold become & &t& while the priee of provisions would be raised to 4 « wtf Btaaiard-tteapable of befag affected by a Repeal of the Cora Lawyer any other hasty paddag" that the national oooks coald toss up for poor JefcnBuIL

      A jaaoaretnaingfrw tfcebnsile of war to the etlm of peaee , is like a drunken nan returning to ai » seises in a brothel , and looking in Tain for the fair hand that picked his pocket . The time of war ii a period when general excitement allows tyranny as ucoatroDod sway ; and hone , by searching lottery , we find that almost erery unopposed act of tjrtBny has been passed while the nation ' s brain was turned with the war-cry and the shout of

      The power of levying war or proclaiming peace , baprerogttiTe exelnsiTely Tested in the Crown ; asd hence the feelings of the Monarch in usually consulted rather than the interests of the nation . We now find the "Cituen Kin * * Tery ranch in the situation of Othello ' s wile , when dmded between her duty to a father and her duty to a husband , wherein , whiehere ? way she decided , her own feelings most be sacrificed . Lbopou > Ii the one great consideration with France and England . Lows woaW willingly keep the crown upon hit sonin-law ' s bead by procuring peaee ; but then selfinterest steps in , and tells Locis that the only way

      of keeping on his own night-cap" is to go to war . His position is much like that of Dick Mabxix , the kn » member for Galway , upon the ere of a dissolution . Acts of charity had reduced Mawim from an estate ef £ 2 &X > a year to beggary ; and when asked why , at his time of life , he wished to remain in Parliament , he replied , that he might remain 0 CT < jfoa « L Upon the first mmonr of a dissefaiion , the suite at apartneata occupied by MiKH , in MuriePt Hotel , were got ready for bis reception , the landlord baring nerer been disappointed ef a risit from the MJP . for the last twenty years upon the wiad of a dissolution . So with Lora . He must go to war to keep ont of danger

      Let the nation bear in mind that an English treasury is the deril ' s exchequer , and that if all tin pensioners created by the last desolating war were to die , at one given moment , in a fit of patriotic apoplexy , their pay , pensions , and emoluments would rerert to the Exchequer , but neTer to the nation . If erery pensioner , royal bastard , placeman , half-pay officer , and public poaper , was to < & to-morrow , sot one single ernmb would their death place npon the poor man ' s table . War pens a market for the sale of commissions , and other bounties ; but peace opens no cash office to settle accounts with the public credi

      tor . "We are bow paying for all those wars which , sine * 1688 , baTe eoet th * nation bo much blood * nd ¦ waev ; and ia letmrn fw which the Crvwn has changed heads , property has changed hands , and tbe people hare changed sides . We wonder what 4 he" Infidel" Emperor of China would » y , if , npon asking oar Enr » y to bis "hellish" out-of-debt dosnniions wh&t EagJand had to shew for thousands span thousands of millions of money , fatherless children , and widowed mothers , otr Envoy should answer " a lady in the family way , and a troop of state-pensioners , to send ear souls to heaves in a hand basket I" And yet such , in reality , is the only true answer that could be given to

      hfrw-We cannot eonelnde this article more appropriately than with an extract from one of O'Cqjoiob ' s speeches at Qasgow . He says : —** War is to trade what the hotbed is to the plant ; it forces it , but strengthens it not in the growth : while peace is as the pore air of heaven , which fonts U not , but strengthens it till it arriTes at maturity . "

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      APFAIES OF THE EAST . The London Gazette of Friday and Tuesday publishes official details of the operations on the coast of Syria : they contain nothing of importance which we did not lay before our readers in last Saturday ' s Siar . Since thea no farther advices hare been retched frost the East by the London journals or the British Government ; and the following meagre paragraph ( which we copy from the Sun of Wednes d » j ) is all the fresh news that lias been published k France upon the subject : —

      PARIS , TlTESDAT . —TMi dayi MemUatr has the Wtowing : — « 13 m Qaverament only received on Monty , the ittb , news frem the East These adviees , which left Alexandria , September * 6 th , and was transmitted 7 telegraph to Paris , eontxin few details . The Yiov uy hat replied whb . mneh . moderation to the act of de-PoritioB , but be was preparing to oppose sa enezgetie wktaace , It n presumed that Ibrahim Paen » had Backed the **—«> "fr' ^ troop * . The resalt of his "peratiens was not yet known . It was only known Sat the Lebanon had remained toaaqniLThe Uj&sert aMerta tt » i tbe eoremnwijt had re-« BTBd aews of the bombardment snd taxing of St Jean fAsreby theBritah .

      The Morning Herald has published a long docn-¦ * addressed by M . Thwra ( the French Minister ) WLord Palmenton , with respect to the Eastern Question ; but it throws little light on ihe subject U the mean time the French GoTenmeni is making Xnat preparations fer war ; and the French josr-» b continue to inflame the warlike spirit which tusaies the population .

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      IHE WEEKLY CHRONICLE AND A CONSTANT READER . A Constant Reader has enclosed the following ' Cwmndrum" as he calls it , from No . 5 of the **? & > Question , as debated teftrfxa . Fsakcis Kick and * Manchester Overseer , in the Weekly ^ nnuU ,. % paper which , by 4 he way , we thought long Biace gone to POT . The following is the

      * aff * ph : — / ( "iAtheeadier progrea of the cotton , trade , be says , Cfctttai did not flow to tbe macn&ctQier quite so £ & * t * Pwple did . ' Wbat Mr . Plaes puts in the light of ¦» peat an iacrease of population we an rather di * - J *" l to > Ute ai a firtn *! deeceue of veattb ; for ^ " Ch espUal may be abstractedly increased , yet , if ^ pof « lattta shall h * Te ioeressed stiQ fwter , wealth ,

      . *» proper seaae , at we bare already stated , will * j * declined , and certainly sot h » r « risen . There u JJ ftri difference between u . Whether populatton ••«•¦« inter tttaa capital , or capital increase slower *• popolatkm , is a mere diftrenee in the roriing ¦ tte « me &ct , aad imporeriaiiBient la equally tbe ^ tt > The proportion between ttw number to ahare , 7 » ae anount to be shared , iitkemainquesUon . We ?* ud strive meet to incresM the latter , Mr . Place to ^ kfte former .-

      A ConstantReader must be Tery dull , indeed , not * saderstaud so simple a proposition , and one y * fring the XBterest of the ignorant , " and , * " **• "written , BaambignouBly for that class , ^^ b y Gbobs * Hjdoit Waed , u The ignorant 2 * « e » Howerer , as oar Correspondent has taken **« M to seek , we cannot refase the trouble to ^^« answer . The passage means , that if popu-7 * & increases faster than wealth , wealth increases *** er thaa pojml » tkm ; bat if , apon the other band , ^ ch increases faster than population , then * Wation increases slower than wealth . JP * '' * i * no real difference between tht two

      ** wer population increases faster than capital or 7 «» 1 increases faster than population is a mere dif-T ^ eeof wording the same f&ci , and impoverishment * yaO j tie result . " No more difference appears to r * fretween the two propositions , than between a Zr ^ ^ 'M and a horse-ehesnut ; while there ia as ^^ tMitti in the one as there is sense in the other ; ;** is not one particle . We find the ayfcielein ^* ho open with the following passage : — " Few know more about the working classes or 9 ymp » - Jjjj sasre with them than Mr . Place . " Perhaps 0 Br h * nd is in ire nay as well tr&ns

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      l » t « that seatence also . It means that Mr . Piacb hariag Med all his old tools in aa endMToor to tMo&dk a hard working people to that lot to which &ema 8 torsaregracionSJpSto M « n them , has enlisted the Weekl , Chronic U opon the forlorn hope . Poor Place , the former eloak of the ° stane beggar" eBonomist , is as thraadb * re « any old cast-off ganteit to be found in Bag Fair . How Tery wonderful that some SMn , called canning are so deficient in that most necessary of all ingredients called tact : surely , Mr . Placb mast see that he has been out of fashion for the last twenty years . late that sentence also ^ Mr . Pi ^ ck hx ™ . «^ In v 5 . fT . .

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      Mt XoaD , -lt is really painful to a rightly directed ^ t ° >~ « . track f a M in ^ w ^ whoTe eweer h « been aa *^ by ¦ h . melM , abandonment of Principle , and tbe basest spirit of me ^ . ad ^ w ***** m looking orer the seTersl meante . which y <« r ldrdAip' 8 QoTenment hat originated or supported . I cannot find a tingle one which baia direct tendency totJmto thechsracteori « proTe tbecon ^^ L ***™ **» * «**• Coming into Pojer . Pled «« l » asthe Whig ! were , toatleastanbonest adTigowus endeaTov to effect the benefidal ehann . whieh hd become

      » impenfiTely neoessary--solemnly « Wd topeao ., retrenchment , and reform , and knowrityof the nation , they haTe . In the teeth of all their profession , and pretensiou , united th « mselTe * with the plunderer * of their country . They baTe , at pmerrers of peaee , brought us to the ere of w , making u « » t tbeaue time ridkulous and despiahk in the eyes of all Europe . As Refomen , they b * Te made reform a modcery-a mere same-a delusien of the worst kind . Their retrenchment- I pa . er in rilenee for the preeent , aanrisg you , howeTer . that before 1 conclude you ahali find that I haTe neither orerlooked nor

      forgotten tt . As yoor Lordship ha > been the leader in 11 or most of these explaits of the defcert ^ le and shabby " Whigs , it Is but fair that your Lcrdabfp should be brought before th . tribunal of public opinion , to gto an account of the niisn » aa $ ement of a trust so generously confided , and , as the erent hat proTed . > o ntterly « m « wrTed and so shamefully abwed . I « k * ny one » olook «« fanyaKiiIBpartl&lly at the whole policy of yow ^» art , art than to ssy , if he can , notthstyou baTe acted upon the prindplee on which you profi » edly took office , but that you baTe eren attempted todoso .

      The natka is made np of three diatinet classes . We hare a class who lire by . and fatten upon , pubUe £ «** , toctading the Court and the arfctoeraey . tog * Qm wltti an who obtain an undue share of the public reTenae , orof the produce of labour ; a elaas consisting of those who . by the Reform BUI . hm been admitted to the ri ^ rt of Tottng ; and a da » consisting of those who produce neixly all the wealth aad pay nearly aU the taxes , od almost entiwly sapport Uie otter two classes , and yet h » T « no Totoe at » u ia the

      • lection of those who are called tfaerepresenUtiTes of the whole people . To these three classes aU the aeta of the GoTerament must h » Te reference , and it ia only in pro-Portion to the measure of justice or injutiee with which they are treated , by the parUeain authority , that the executfre can be considered to neglect or to perform its moat important duties . The question then , ii , " In what way baTe the interests of tfeeee three classes been eared for and promoted by the policy of your Lordahipt SoTnameni y

      I beUere the following summary will be not far from the mark . Tbe nntdait , in whieh you arc yourself included , yoa bx-n , done your beat to secure In the plunder they hare , by ttwir rascality and usurped power , acquired ; ani , not content with thia , yoa haTe , inwDdryways , increased their power to oppress . Th » second dan , in the pride of your suppose * security , youh » T « kicked at and insulted till you tremble at the

      effixrts of your own folly , and dan not Tenture an appeal eren to the shopoerat aad Mammon-worship , ping constituency of year own creation . Around the third class you hare artfully wtyour legidattro snares and traps , in the hope of tearing from them the teat remainsof liberty and independence , and of reducing them to a worse oonditioa than thai to -which tbeir Tory oppresson had rednead them ; and from -trhwa your hypoeritieal profeedons promised to set them

      This it no fancied picture ; nor ia it one drawn by malignity or iU-wm . It ia a portrait drawn from beta ; an * it ia presented to you by one who would haTe been proud to hsTe deTotodwhateTer he might haTe possessed to tiw supports the , so-called , liberal QoTernment , if he could haTe beheTed them to be honest and sincere ; bat , my iced , I am compelled by your whole OOndnct to beliere that honesty and Lord Melbourne are u far asunder as the peles ; andl baTe nothing , therefore , to do , but to tell you , and through yon the people , what atepa I think erery hwest man , and erery Bible Christian , is bonad to take ia thia eTeotful period of the woridi history .

      snppoae not , my Lord , that I pen those letters fr&m an idea of their producing any impression upon a head so stupid aad a heart so callous as your Lordship ' s No ; humble , ai I am , and Lord , as yon are , I should deem you , though the companion of a Queen , beneath my notice , as a priT * te correspondent But , aa a public maa , we all feel your pernicious influence , audit becomes tbe duty of all , to hold you up to that public ceasm -which all men merit , woo , baring been in--reafced by Proridence with a power to do good , Hke demons of darkness , employ it for the purposei of eTfl .

      That such has b «« a your Lordship ' s public conduct , what I hare pointed out in my former letters , has made manifest ; and some ether matters , Which must now be noticed , will serre to make it stm more manifest Some of the subjects upon which the loud-mouthed Whigs , when in opposition , haTe been in the habit of keeping np a perpetual clamour , hare been , as it was natural to expect they would be , forced upon your attention in such a manner as to forbid their being eoolly placed spon the abettor laid by in silence . Among these , Education , Dissenters ' grieranees , and the iniquitous Com Laws held a distinguished place . The

      necessity of obtaining Bound legislation in all these matters was one of the principal arguments « t « Hf of in the Reform Sin agitation . I do not mean to S * J that any of these things haTe been forgotten . On the contrary ; you , as the great state-tinker , aided by you batch of jeumeymen , ( who , by tbe way , eTince , on all occasions , by their bungling workmanship , that they aerer serred a regular apprenticeship to the trade , ) haTe tried your hand at all these jobs ; and , if you bare been liberal in nothing else , you haTe not been at all niggardly in tbe use of your " soft sawder , " to the injury of your customers , and the well filling of your own capacioQS pouches .

      Your anxious care for the education of the people was erineed in a manner whieh the most stupid could hardly fall to comprehend . £ 30 , 000 , « ut > f the taxes , for educating the people of England and Wales , looks like an enormous sum , when placed beside the trifling sum of £ 70 , 000 for the much more importact object of proTiding lodgings for tbe Queen ' s horses' You may , indeed , write John Bull down an ass if he fails to tretsure up in his memory this insult ; and to let you know , on all fitting occasions , that he does so .

      As this subject , » f education , is one on whieh I shall haTe much to say , in a future letter to your Lordship , I shall not enlarge Bpon it at present ; bat proceed to notice the way in which you hare chosen to redrea ( as some of your friends , when they get drunk and funny , are pleased to call itl ' the Dissenters' grievances . You h&Te giTen them a ynH ^ p Act , filled with as much covert iaralfc as it was possible to cram into it : such an Act aa tfie old Nonconformist * would bare spurned frem them with abhorrence . But it is in the matter of Tithes and Church Bates that , on this subject , your

      unblushing abandonment of principle shines forth most conspicuously . Yon knew that a continuous excitement , and bickering , and ill-will was kept in almost erery parish in the country by these unpopular and impolitic imposts ; that the Church was annually made a scene of uproar and confusion ; and that eren should the Church party , by the aid of Sturges Bourne ' s Act , gain a majority of rotes , tha leTying of the rate was always & matter of less , distress , and anaoy&nce , to the moit conscientious persons in the parish ; while , by the refusal of a rate , the venerable structures , raised by the piety of our ancestors , must be left to moulder and decay : it

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      being a fact , which needs no proof , that the p i ous ons and daughters of the Church would rather not worship at all than worship in a building repaired and beautified at their own sole expense ; you knew that all this was a fruitful source of dispute aad contentien , and often of the most onchristianlike hardship and oppression ; and , yet , in the fece of all this , and in the face of all your liberal professions , things remain jw * as they were before the UberaU got possession ol the high places of the land ! I beg pardon , my Lord , things do not remain aa they were : they are much ^^ **• wW * " ^ M P " ' ' «** tt i *»

      worse than in the time of Tory domination . Then , the accursed factions were dirided ; and , amidst the falling out of the rogues , honest men tood » ebanoft of sometimes coming by their own ; but now tbe rascals are united , and the oppression and plunder of the people goes on apaoe . Here is aa honest Qsaker despoiled of his goods for conscience' sake ; and there ia John Thoregood rotting in Cheimsfbrd jail—his business rained , and his health Unpairedat the demand of a State Church , while the base Whigs stand wincing that they cannot help it , or preparing a remedy wstae than the flinfetn

      Instead of taking a straightforward coarse ; laying upon the table of the " House" two Bills , one for the release of the Imprisoned martyr , aad tbe other for the abolition of tithes and of church rates , and tbe equitable distribution of existing church property , ao as to pro * Tide for the decent maintenance of the clergy , and the repairs of the sacred edifices , you Lordship ' s ' honourable colleague , Lord John Russell , proposes that any person confined for more than twelve months , and for leas than £ 5 , may be liberated by a Jadge , without the consent of the person who sent him to prison . ' JBeally , my Lord , the Dissenters are infinitely obliged to the

      liberality of the Whig GoTernmcnt 1 Thia proposition inTolTes a recognition of the legality of church ratesthe Tery thing whieh they complain of ssa "grisranca , " and against which , when out of office , your party always moat bitterly inreighed . Nay , more ; it giTes to the Church the right to be as reTengeful and unjust as she pleases for a whole year . And , if she can but continue to haTe a claim upon her Tictim for more than £ 5 , she mayrBTelinher malice and TindictiTe rage without hindrance or oontroul This is a somewhat curious method of " redressing s ^ ieTaace * . " But I must , in justice both to you aad them , say that I tWnk the

      Dissenters daeerre ao bettor treatment at your hands than they have had . They baTe , on all occasions , Stood aloof from the ranks of the people , and haTe refused to aid them in their righteous endeaTours to obtain justice ; they ought not , therefore , to wonder that the same measure is meted out to them as others , aad that their own claims are disregarded by a bad and Ticioua OoTernment : nor haTe they any right to expect to obtain religious liberty till , ia tbe spirit of the religion whieh they profess , they come forward to join heart and soul in the demand for civil liberty , without which religious liberty can neither be obtained nor secured .

      Your professions , made when seeking to obtain place and power , on the subject of the Corn Laws , haTe been jnst as binding as the rest I am not going now into the M&ttmeot of tbe question of Cora Law Repeal ; that is forefcn to my purpose ; but I must remark that , on thia subject , you haTe displayed your recklassnen to an extent to whieh Vb » day will come when you will look back with astonishment Whether the present repeal of those laws would benefit the nation is a question open to dispute ; but it cannot be disputed that your strength , as a Minister , lias in the support of the shop , oeracy who hare the electiTS franchise , and who , by

      that means , return tbe House of Commons . These parties have told yon , in language not to be misuadewtood , that they consider their interests to be endangered by the Corn Laws ; nay , that the continuance of those laws mast be their ruin . I , here , gtre no opinion about the truth of all this ; but I say that it is nir to conclude that a government will have some sympathy with those by whose farour they hold their places You seem , howerer , determined to outrage the dictates of sound policy as much as those of common honesty ;

      and , In your insufferable pride , you not only refuse to pay attention to the petitions of those by whom you are supported , but you so refuse as to evince te them , if they have any powers of understanding at all , the sovereign contempt in whieh yon hold them . The contempt ia , bo doubt , well merited , were it tea times more bitter than it is , but that is no evidence of yoor wisdom in thus blazoning it with BO litUe Ceremony . I have more to s » y ; but , for the present , must subscribe myself , Your Lordship ' s " Friend , " Numa . London , Oct 1 , 1840 .

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      We have again to crave tbe indulgence of our readers for tha disappointment many of them ft ft to experience in the late receipt of tbeir papers last Saturday . The cause of it was another breakage of our Machine . The double-cylindered Machine we have prints at the rate of 2 , 000 copies pet hour : and on Friday last a breakage occurred , which completely stopped us from working with it for that week . The forms -were placed upon the siBglfr « ylindered Machine ; and as it only prints at the rate of l . ooo per hour , it was impossible to get tbe requisite quantity printed in time .

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      TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS .

      John Dcxcan . —Any books may be sent to Mr . O'Connor * T . C—His doggrel won ' t do . J . Lovb . —We have not room for his Address to the Working Classes of Norfolk . Thok as Ibkland . —The idea is good . We have seen and considered it before ; but find some difficulty inoettmg them . The attempt has been made . John Rodgkks . —Thanks . A Vjcmm of Deception . —We cannot publish his Utter . It would certainly cause us to be prosecuted for libel ; and tee should be mad to risk a prosecution on anonymous authority . VL li . —His letter to John Russell . M . R . must stand ever for the present . Hjekbt Hill . —Mr . Vallance lives at 34 , Lovagate , Hull : and tte give the concluding paragraph of his book as an answer to H . Hill , and all other like enquirers , of whom we have several : —

      "Any person writing for oae of my sixpenny pamphlets , and desiring an answeiymust enclose a shilling for the same ; but any number in addition will be sent at the price marked on them , so that the reader will see that I charge sixpence for writing the letter , as I cannot spend my time for nothing ; nor do I pay postage either way without an additional remittance for that purpose ; but where no answer is required ^ by enclosing two fourpenny pieces , a sixpenny pamphlet , containing thirty-six pages , or two of my threepenny ones , will be post-paid to " any part of the kingdom so long as tbe Penny ' Postage Act continues in operation . Any number of copies may be enclosed is the same parcel at the price marked on them .

      "J . H . VAU . ANCB . " Thb Pebfobxkbs at thk GAiRicK Thkatbe , Manchester , have sent us a notice of 9 s . bd . for the Wives and families of the Imprisoned Chartists ; but have sent no cash xrith it . Let them give the cash to the Secretary of the Manchester Committee . James CDLTmHoosB . —We think the "Hymn" might be much mended . Jakes Htslop . —Wehavenoroom . Prices op Wbavwg . — We have received a communication which seems to have princi pal reference to a comparison of the prices paid bu some firm in Leeds , in 1825 , urith the prices of the same firm in 1840 . it u ( 90 long for publication by a yard or two .

      N . M . advises that , instead of marking metallic coins , the Chartists should select all pieces of paper , linen , boards , parchment , or anything , for whieh they have no particular use , and , » n the moments of idle amusement , write thereon some text relating to the Charter , the prisoners , and the Motional Debt . Having selected a quantity of scraps , lei them betake themselves to writing : they will , by so doin ^ , learn to write , read , and sum . As they pass along the streets , let them give them to some young children , or fixng them into the doorways . If you want to send to shop , wrap the money in such paper , parchme ? a , or linen . The Chartists of Stroud

      have done this , and do not scruple to place them in the pews at church , so that , on the Sunday , the church-going few have such remarks as these put into their hands . —Pray for O'Connor , Frost , Vincent , and the 200 Chartist prisoners . " Josticb" would suggest to the people the following simple rule for the obtaining of speedy and permanent relief from oppression and suffering . — " Suppose the Order of Shepherds 40 , 000 , the Foresters 80 , 000 , the Druids 8 u , « 00 , and the Odd Fellows were 160 , 1 ) 00 , and all other Orders in the same proportion , —suppose , for instance , that the Order of Odd Fellows were 160 , 000 , and they were to make a levy through

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      the whale of the Order of sixpence per member , ** would raise # , 000 . Then , suppose this sum be applied in the best possible manner , in a Joint Stock Woollen Manufacture , under the direction qfthe best talented brethren of the Order conversant with the trade above-mentioned . The above capital might be worked so that , at the end of the first gear , U would realise a profit of £ 2 , 000 . fy so doing , U \ would induce every other Order ** the United Kingdom to act upon this plan . In every year it would increase this capital fifty percent ., and also have a tendency to assuage the distress that prevails in this nation from year U year , and be rendered a great moral blessing tomaOHndin general . JOTETH CaBXKK , Hecrttary to the Stockport Associa tion , ha * sent u * < m appeitl to the men qfHazMleorove . Atherlow . ChcadU . and athm » «»?* ... the whole of theOnU * of Hxamt * «* r mtmh ~

      , about Stockport , tiho have never yet contributed to the support of the ruined famiRes of the eight Stoekppri prisoners , nor tt the prisoners themselves . He contends , and very properl y , that this neglect is unfeeling , and highly censurable ; as they encouraged the speeches and resolutions of the prisoner * by foretU of uplifted hands , and eehmng cheers , which amid not have been forgotten , even if the present neglect did not recall the delusive sounds to the remembrance of those % r who are suffering in their cause . Mb . Baibstow , the Wat Biding Missionary , is particularly requested > by Mr . E . Broadbent , on behalf of the Chartists of' A * hlon-under-L \ ne to give a lecture ai that place previous to comw mencing Ms tow through the West Riding . W . T ^ Manchkoteh . —No . T . s ? . —His song won ' t do .

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      A Regulab Subscribe * has sent us a spirited , but not very well written , appeal to the men of Wilts , on behalf of Chlriebl and Potts . He says . — "It was stated in the public papers , that the number who attended the Trowbridge demonstration were 15 , 000 ; Bradford , 7 . 000 ; Westbury , about 2 , 000 ; and the surrounding villages in proper . to it , —now , if 5 , 000 of these individuals who attended these meetings would contribute the email sum of one penny each , in tix months it would ? secure for the victims the turn of eight shillings per week during their imprisonment , and allow tometlung for collecting , books , &e . ; and there U not a working man in this county who i * not bound , not in Humanity , but in

      justtoe , to aid the subscription . " We hope his appeal will be responded to in a right spirit by those to whom it is addressed . Samuel Cairns .-7 % « letter from Barker is a very proper and creditable letter ; but does not possess enough of interest for publication . Philo . —We are torry to learn the intelligence he communicates } but do not see that my good end would be obtained by printing it ; particularly as xt is Phiki ' s opinion that the parties can do no harm . Better apply the Bedlamite ' s remedy : "let them die of themselves . " Thk ** Horn of Librbty" and the m Linm on John Frost'' will not do . DlSSKKINATIOlf OF ChABTIST PRINCIPtK — ' %#

      South Hetton Chartists recommend to all ^ Mrtut shopkeepers and middle class men < . jeral opinions , such as are engaged as tobaoe . ust and grocers and tea-dealers , to inscribe upon jach tea and tobaeco puper any inscription , maxim , axiom , or anecdote , relative to Chartists and Chartism which they might consider best , so that n o ne may he i gnorant of what we are striving for ; ana that the misconceptions of the middle classes about the anti-property" doctrines of Chartism may be dispelled . M « ny other trades , such as bakers , chemists , &c ^ mi ght do much in this way for the removal of error and the extension of truth . An Odd Fellow wishes to know whether M * Douall

      or Collm * belong to the Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows ? Birmingham . —Mas . E . BboWN ' S SUPPORT FUND . — We have received , from the Secretary , a statement of this fund , from which it appears that the total amount received from April 6 th to September 5 th , is £ 23 17 * . 3 d .,- and the weekly allowances to Mrs . B . and other expenses amount to £ 17 2 * . lid , ; leaving a balance of MUs . id . in the hands cf the Treasurer . The Committee Urgently request the publication of the subscription list , assigning a * their reason , that they are ******* < e ** h net publishing their subscriptions . This "taunt , come from whom it may , t * cruel and unreasonable . We are very sorry that we cannot meet the very natural wish of the Committee to meet and strangle it by publishing the items ; but , really , there are so many subscription funds

      through the whole country , for so many patriotic and necessary ptirposes , that we cannot trust ourselves to relax the rigid rule of excluding particulars in any instance , unless , indeed , tt may be to some extent in that of the General Executive Council of the National . . Charter Association . Our friends wilt see that i f we did begin the practice of inserting particulars , each place would have an equal claim upon our columns with every other place . Every committee , whose whole accounts were not published , would then be sure to be taunted and suspected : and there would be no end to the publication of every separate penny given . We are sorry to seem rigorous ; but tt is of necessity . We must act upon an uniform rule . J . Watson . — -The analysis of the Hand-loom Weavers Report is received , and shall appear in our- next .

      Mb . Baibstow . —The paragraph announcing this gentleman ' s Lecture on the Corn Laws at Derby , on Monday evening , and at Helper , on Tuesday , is an advertisement . j Jambs Swkbt . — We did not receive the report of Mr . Bairstorfs lectures . On the other subject named in his letter he will hear from us bv post . * Matall Bkaumokt . —• Too late . Dkmocrat . —Will he send us some local paper giving some aecount of the murder . " they must say something of it . The story is so horrible , that we shall keep it over till our next , in hope of cmfirtnation , i f it be true . Hknby Tommet is under consideration . His

      communication it fearfully long . The Address to thb Hand-loom Weatkbs of Carlisle is omitted for tack of room . A Suffolk Radical thinks , as the municipal efectiotw are coming on . that , by the ht of November , a gotd fund might be rawed for the support of the families of the imprisoned Chartists : He says— " Let every Chartist who has a vote for a Town Councillor ask each Candidate for something for the families of those in prison . I do not seg why the middle classes should not contri ' butethetr mtles . No one shall have a vote from me without a shilling . " John Mason .- — We would have gladly given the address from the Northern Liberator , but '' it is too long , and * ur space too much crowded . We never received the MS . copy which Mr . M . says he sent several weeks ago . Sigma . —We are glutted with poetry .

      Gbkat Hobton CHARTIST 9 .-&nd the flannels for the victim *—each man ' s portion separately wrapped and directed , and then the whole made into one parcel—to this Office , and we will see to their immediate transmission . T . Lawrence . —Enquire at Deacon ' s . T . L . —Chesterfield . —Apply to the agent for ene of Oastler , if not received . G . Habdino . —The Post-office charge for money o ?**** ** tyjxnce for any sum not exceeding £ 2 , and etghteenpence for all orders above that to £ 5 , above which sum no orders are drawn Three might be drawn for £ 2 each , which would cost etghteenpence . A bank order would only ,. cost sixpence if it did not exceed £ 10 . Christian Chartism — The notice of Mr . Clayton's - lecture on this subject in the Primitive Methodist Chapel , at Huddersfietd , minomced for Monday tvening , is an advertisement .

      Oldham Radicals . —Their resolutions and address were too late for this week . Rochdalbv- The notice of the intended Tea Meeting on the Bth of November , would be charged to us as an advertisement .

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      To Agents . —Again we notice to those Agents who hare not sent the balance of their accounts , that unless they send between and Thursday next , their papers of Saturday next will be stopped . Sererai hare written complaining that their papers of last Saturday were stopped without notice : this is incorrect ; a notice of this kind appeared a fortnight ago .

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      Notice . —All monies in future , for the relief of the families of the Imprisoned Chartists , must be sent to Mr . Shorroeks , 70 , Gun Street , Manchester , to be by him transferred , weekly , to the Treasurer , A . Heywood , Oldham Street , Manchester . The Book of Snbscriptiena is at present in the bands of the Committee ; as soon as they : return it audited , we shall publish the balance-sheet The entire Account baring been placed in their hands , all we shall haTe to do , in future , will be to publish their weekly report .

      FOR FLANNELS FOR CHARTISTS IN WAKKPIELD From R . M Adam , Cockermouth 0 0 6 From an Old Radical , Bradford , per J . Clarksm ^ ... ... 0 16 From Mrs . Lancaster-, Wakefield 0 2 6 From Yew Green , near Huddersfield ... ... 0 5 0 From London , per J . Cleave , from four persons , Is . each ... ... 0 4 0 GENERAL DEFENCE FUND . From a Friend 0 0 6

      FOR PEDDIS . From a few Friends at Loggie , near Dundee 0 5 0

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      FOR MBS . FROST . From Kitty , an old Radical V wife , at Bradford , per J . Garkson 0 1 0 Collected at the Aire and Colder , by Mr . Mason ... ... 3 1 $ Do . do . oh Sunday last ... — 0 4 6 From Duckinfield , per Cook ... 0 1 6 for mbs . pbost .

      TOR MRS . VINCENT . From afewFriends atTiverton ... 0 10 0 FOR THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OF THB INCARCERATED CHARTISTS . York , perW . PuUen sbookl « Do . T . Williams * * do . 3 0 Do . W . Cordevx ' sdo . l 6 **> . E . Cutley ' s do . 1 3 Do . D . Helton ' s do . 3 6 : 0 1 6 1 From D . 8 . M . Ellandand others .

      , per W . Ritchie ... ... ... 1 14 6 From a Constant Reader ... ... 0 2 6 From the Radicals of Horbury ... 0 10 0 FromS . M ^ Wakf fierd ... ... 0 2 6 A few Friends at Wakefield ... 0 5 6 The Edinburgh Charter Association , per William Husband ... 0 18 0 London Committee ... £ 2 15 6 To Advertisement 0 16 — 2 14 0

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      * TO THB RDITOH OF THB NORTHERN STAB . Sib , —Allow me a space in your columns to call the attention of the Chartist body , as well as that of the friends of justice and humanity in all classes , to the forlorn condition of Mrs . Roberts , ( and her three children ) the widowed wifeof Francis Roberts , Of Birmingham , one of the three men tried , convicted , and sentenced to death at the Warwick Assizes , in August , 1839 , for an alleged participation in the attack upon the bouses in the Ball Ring , Birmingham , on tha 15 th of July preceding ; and whose puniehmeat was subsequently commuted to transportation for . life .

      Amongst all these families of the "Victims of Whiggery" who have received the sympathy and supportof their Chart istbrethren , nonehaveatood , aud will Btand , more in neod of than Mrs . Roberts , and the infant family ; whilst I think I may venture to say , none have been so much neglected . At the period of her husband ' a arrest she , with her infant fiunily , were left entirel y destitute of the necossariea of life , and within a few weeks of her confinement , in addition to which , the landlord of the b ouse , in which they have been lodging , seized upon the miserable furniture of the unprotected and helpless woman for arrears of rent , and turned her and herobildren into the street , from w-iich she sought refuge in the equally miserable home of her mother

      , Cas woman a poor as her daughter ) where she gave both to an infant , deprived not only of the consolation of her husband ' s presence ana support , but of hose things at euch times considered necessary , even by the most poor and wretched . This occrrred whue her husband was awaiting his trial in Warwick Gaofc I may here state that Francis Roberts Ivan a Tery poor man , but an industrious one ; had been a member of the Temperance Society for three years , was a good husband and father , and a harmless , inoffensive man . Let it also be borne in mind that numerous affidavits were made by respectable shopkeepers and others , in Birmingham , that Roberts was not in the Bull Ring on the evening of the I 5 tb of July , and that the * saw him in hia nwn

      neighbourhood at the time it wav alleged by Hail , the prize-fightingpoliceman of Birmingham , he saw him intheBalTRing . . 1 ,. myself , Sir , brought up with , me to London , from Birmingham , a petition which Mrs . Roberts placed in my hands to be presented to the Home Secretary , (** scorpion" Russell ) written by herself , ( or for her ) atoned by several tradesmen and manufacturers ia Birmingham , including th « firm he worked for up to the time of his arrest , and containing the affidavits of about a dozen shopkeepers living in the same street as Roberts , ( a loug distance from the Bull Ring > , all affirming they saw Roberts in , and about the door of bis own house at the night of the riot , at the time it took place , and both previous and after . ( It is necessary for me

      bere to state that the reason the parties making the affidavit , did not come forward at the time , was , no one , not even the counsel employed for the defence , was aware up to the time of their being arraigned at the bar , that they would be indicted for anything more than a slight misdemeanour and little dreamt the unfortunate Roberts and his companions would be twice , on a charge affecting their lives , with the vindictive , cunning Attorney-General against them , pursuing them as a bloodhound would bis prey . Let it be also recollected , that Roberts was not arrested on the same night c « the riot , but as he was proceeding to his work the next morning ! and that the notorious ** Bill " Hall wma the only witness against him . Messrs .

      Lovett and Collins , with whom Roberta passed some time in Warwick gaol , can offer their testimony as to the amiability of Roberta ' s character , whose chief concern , previons to his departure , was for his wife and children , from whom he had been violently and ruthlessly torn . Mrs . Roberts , who is of extremely delicate constitution , broken-hearted at the lossof her husband , and with an infant family , is now residing at Birmingham in a state of extreme destitution , relieved only by the casual assistance of a few sympathising workingmen . Mr . Porter , bootmaker , Bull-straet , Birmingham , will afford every information respecting Mrs . Roberts , and be happy to receive any contributions n her behalf .

      I am , Sir , respectfully yours , Robert Habtw ell , coapositor . Late Delegate for Tower Hamlets . P . S . —I must request any subscription to be brwarded to Mr . Porter , as above , as , though I eh it my duty to make Mrs . Roberta ' s case known , I have suffered too much lately from persecution , calumny , misrepresentation , and ingratitude , to interfere m any way with the pecuniary business of any agitation I may in the interim be engaged in . R . H .

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      ADDRESS FROM THE WORKING MEN OF

      NOTTINGHAM TO THE DEMOCRATS OF FRANCE . Brother Democrats , —We hail with delight the noble stand you have made , founded , as it is upon the pure principles of Democracy ; and we beg to assure you , that ) the toiling millions of England will take no part in any proceedings which may any Way tend to create any misunderstanding , or any angry feelings between you and us , with a view . to suppress the rising spirit of freedom in France , or m any other part of the world . Shut out of the Hue of the Constitution , as we are , having no voice in the making of the laws we are called upon to obey , our petitions and remonstrances unheeded , our best friends incarcerated or expatriated for daring to complain of the base sjBtem whioh is grinding us to toe dust .

      Democrats of France , our interests and your interests are bound up together ; and we hope that no power on earth will ever be able to separate hem . The day is gone by when either Whig or Tory can qualify abuse , reconcile injustice , or silence complaint , by bandying responsibility from faction to faction . The hoar is fast approaching , when the strongest union will prove that a consolidation of all thai is vicious and daring will appear but as chaff before the hurricane of popular indignation . Onward , then , brave Frenchmen , until universal liberty , which is the just right of man , is obtained . Past experience , we hope , has taught both yon and us to rely upon our own exertions ; and now is the time when aU the energies which we possess should be put forth to emancipate ourselves from a worse than Egyptian bondage . We remain , Brother Democrats ,

      Yours , in the spirit of fraternity , The Members of thb Charter Association OF NOTINGHAJH . Thomas Stanford , Secretary .

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      « edln * s only cUhned 1 ) Oot . uassrupuloiisly design "" *» ***** & * " Porter , " and at the saws / time P * ™ " *!» e sobriquet True" to the name , wbkfa , to the hame ofj » very Scotsman , he blazons on hto tttte P »* e j A Whig paper in town ( aad we all taowsw to inurpn * their estimate of Radios ! meetings ) « fm » If ^^ ' i *^'** . -i «^ - ' *^' « he-- M « iW V » Sllw JhoughVRadical -Scotsmsn . " by aealculatien , " not loosely but carefully made , " makes out the munificent number of 700 ! Who , I may safely say , U » The-Faluner ? " .: ..... ... .

      The next count in the indictment against me Is , the having denominated a Mr . Robert Douglas " reporter for the True Scotsman , " to the manifest and imminent danger of harlng it aappoeed he wm " « ur fiftablitbofl reporter , " knowing foil well , at tin same time , that such was not the ease . To clear myself from so Terr aertotu a charge , allow me to say , in the first place , that he giTes me credit for a more intimate aoquamt aaee with the minutisa of " the cheap and economical establishment" concerned in getting up bis paper than I can lay claim to ; aad , ia the second , that Robert Boagiaa was reporter for Mm on the occasion in question . a « to hi * being "our established reporter , " never meant to convey the notion that he was .

      But the third « designed and deliberatefalsehood" i » the poser ! Eighteen months in York Castle , on skilly and water gruel , would be merciful for such aa offence r Will it be believed I said that a certain " long paper , " wad by the aforesaid pro import reporter , was " sa amendment ; " whereas , accenting to this -veraefoo * joumaiiat . it was " adUUnctnaolution . " Whowfllbeikr * the Star or ita "falsifying" reporters after this ? Unfortunately for tbe true scribe in question , howeTer , tt happens to be entirely unusual for one distinct reso lution to be moTed and ( attempted to be ) secMded , while another and prior one is under discussion before a meeting , a * was the ease here , when the motto * of Mr . John Duncan was undisposed of . It must bxv » been aa amendment therefore .

      ^ The »«» reall 4 he ains of cwnmissionthat this keenfelt * hunter could detect in a report of half-a-dozen colonss ; and the sins , or rather sin , of omission is even nor * laughable . It seems I forgot to state why tbe pn tempo * reporter's "long paper" was sot seconded ; haTing merely mentioned the fact . To make amead » for such shameful neglect , let me now inform yo « r readers , Mr . Editor , upon the autiwrity of thia immaculate reporter , that a gentleman who had agreed previously ( for snob things are not left to chance ) aad fully determined to secrad it , had actually ™ got upom his legs to do so , bat after having accomplished thfe part ef his arduous task , bis tongue unfortunately refused to do the rest ; and the Chairman , like my unobservant self , being unable to diTe into the intentions of the audience , neTer noticed this seconder-in-lnten tion . And , so . the " long paper" ct the pro tempore fell to the ground , and treat was the fall thereof I

      These are the designed and deliberate falsehoods " of the " falsifying reporter , " who intended to mislead , through the Star , the Radical public I HaTing thus shown the Tame to be put nponthv truih of this "true" journal , I shall . In future , allow the creature who does for it V > emit his bile onnoUoed . I am , your Tery obLdient servant , Thb Whiter qv thb Report . Edinbro ' , 124 h Oct . 1840 .

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      In his bat paper , besides " tbe falsifying reporter of , he Starr this doughty ta ^ t-cmaTrunr til * against George White , John Duncan , John Ritchie , the Edinburgh Association , the Scottish Patriot , and many others ! Surely , the planet Mars is in the Mi- ^ A ^ t ' ¦ " ¦¦' i . ' ? , *~ .

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      KOBS YOTJHQ PATRIOTS .

      Thh FirsjPatriot in ScoTtAND . --Sir ,--I would ref « yowrjBuraat to a circumstance which passed unnoticed ^ ia 1 1839 , when beasts , called WhigsTen-IfJiJ f »!* i caof t to , ? ririn « . daB 8 e 8 » * nd stole its loTeliest flower , ( William LoTett , ) as soon as the intelligence reached Scotland , Alexander M Laren , operatire tailor , in Alyth , * town in tbe > county of Perth , went to the United Secession Church , on Sabbath the 18 th of August , 1839 , and PuMiely named his soa William Eovett , thaUw might adorn his family circle , and that the aame might be banded down to his children ' s ea&lren . f |™ J ° H'J ** * , generation , in remembrance of him who defended the rights of Britons , at

      Birnungnam , ana suffered for them at Warwick . By Kiviug tbta insertion in your widely circulated journal , you will oblige an observer ofpast events . M Atth « Catholic chapel , by the Rev . John Rfcby , ¦ & £ O-CoSofcoUht ! 118 0 hri 8 tened ^ Mr . Edwsrd Sykes , of Dodsworth , has had a soa registered Feargus O'Connor Sykes . On Friday , October 2 nd , Mary , the wife of John Burgess , Coldcoats , was safely delivered of a son . who was duly registered George Feargus MTiouall Frost Burgess . The clergyman of Tnaity Church observed , it was a very unlucky name , for he had given one that name who had died . At the Catholic ckapel , this morning , the 14 th instant , the fourteenth child of Moses aud Mary Adams was baptized by the Rer . Mr . Marshall , in

      tBBname of Catharine O'Connor Adams . *> a Wednesday , September 23 rd , 1840 , Mary , tha W 1 £ n ° . . ' Bart" * Fawcett , Hulme , who is now a Whig victim , in Kirkdale Gaol , for advocating the-Charter , on the 12 th August , 1839 , was delivered of a son , who was baptised and duly registered Zacha-^ rt ? » . , ! ft ^ B ^ 5 ' ° »» are sorry to add , the child died on Friday , the 25 th , and on Sunday was intered at Rusholme burying ground with all the honours of Chartism , in a good oak 0 \ , - ow noble patriot ' s name in fulL on a splendid plate , to the gazoof all aronnd . On the 13 th nlt ^ , Richard Feargus , the son of George and Esther Royle , a fine boy . one vear and

      eight months old , was chrutened in honour of the patriotic O'Connor , at the Old Church , Manchester . On the . 12 th of September , Eliza , the wife of Joseph Heywood , of Heywood , in Laaoasbir ^ waa dehrered yf a daughter , which has been ^ unregistered by the name of Alice Feargus Frost M'DouaH . ^ Sunday , October 11 th , at the Parish Church , at AshtoH-under-Lyne , was christened , by the Rev . John Handforth , curate of that place , the infant son of Mr . AUmond , Cotton-street , Ashton , William Frost Feargus O'Connor AUmond . ^ he Rev . Gentleman remarked that it was very foolish of themhavingsach names , but the man told him if ' lit would not christen that name he would take it somewher

      e , else , and he would take it one hundred oiled or he wonld have it the name he wanted . Also , the fctol Ma *< Daniel Hague , of Staljbridge , wa « christened Peter Murray M'Douall Hague . J $$ ! ar& s- U & * * 8 th " » 8 taot , Ann , the wife of Job Wild , aXhartwt , No . 32 Court , fcospital-Street , Birmingham , was delivered of » daughter , and , out of respect to oar noble and distiugSshed gSStewiiJ ^ utwed ¦*"*» **» William Shepherd Runsford , of Bristol , had a son born to him on the 23 i ult ., who has ooen duly registered Feargus Vincent O'Connor Runsford . _ On Sunday last , the 11 th instant , at St . Mary ' s Church , Bury , by the R « t . Mr . PaTer , was christened James Feargna O'Connor Bennettin honour

      , of the brave and - unflinching patriot ) Feargns O'Connor . m Sopd » J » the 27 th ult ^ the son of James and Mary Wild was baptised by the name of John Feargus Mid , at St . Luke ' s Chapel , Heywood . The son of Mr . Joseph Sykes , of Hnddersneld , 75 ? ^ p * 1 ^? . th » namo ® f Feanms O'Connor Alfred , on Thursday week . .. wu «« ? & « M * A of John FearguBHitchener , son of John and Mary Hitchener , born August 6 th , was duly registered ia the register book of births , on the 2 nd !!*? ? i * P , V jmber \! * *• ' R- BWw registrar of the dutnet of Heaton Norris , Lancashire . * « , i ^^ ^ */ lby u 0 ^ l ' * * " » **>** °° the 13 th ult ., who has been christened Henry Vincent .

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      MARRSAeSS

      On Sunday last , at Skipwith , by the Rev . J . Jackson , vicar of . Riccan ^ Mr . Thomas Simpson farmer and cattle dealer , ThornhiU Cottage , Skip , with , to ^ Miss Frames , eldest daughter of Mr . Thomas Hesale , farmer and grazier , Mount Pleasant , Skipwith . ¦ , '¦¦ ' . On Saturday ket , at the parish church , Wykeham , by the Rev . J . Skelton , vicar of Wold Newton , Mr . Robert Stabb , farmer , Sawdon , to Ann , daughter of Mr . Wm . Coultas , plumber and glazier , Rodeton .

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      DEATH .

      On Sunday last , after a lingering illness , much respected , aged 35 years , Mr . William Firth , printer , of this town . V On the Uth instant , in the 25 th year of her age , Susannah , the beloved wife of Mr . Thomas Peace , grocer and draper , Chowbent . Oa the 8 th inst . at Flanshaw , near Wakefield , Mary Inman , relict of Joshua Inman , aged 87 Tears On the 29 th ulU Samnel , the infant son of Samuel Holberry , of Sheffield , who is now suffering as * victim to Whig tyranny in Northallerton gaol , and whose punishment was enhanced by the knowledge of his child ' s death , without peraiaiion to see him . On Tuesday last , Tery suddenly , in the 50 to year of his age , Mr . John Cumber , of Malton , land agent . On Monday last , aged 77 yearn , Mr . William Walker , of Lord Mayor ' s Walk , in the suburbs of York .

      On Sunday ^ last , aged 17 years , Ann , the goungest daughter of Mr . Robert Ssxton , clothier , of Osartt . Same day , in York , in the 90 th year of her ase . Mrs . Jane Pontey , _ Same day , aged 37 , Edith , the beloved wife of Mr . Leonard Harland , Queen-street , Hall , much and desevedly respected by a large circle of friends . On Saturday last , after a short but severe illness , aged 41 , Elizabeth , wife of Mr . Wm . Land , oombmakor , of York . - Same day , at Barnard Castle , at an advaaced age . Mr . Allan . - f ¦ On Friday , aged 55 , Mr . William Young , of Wake field , brewer . *

      To The Right Honourable Lord Yiscount Melbourne.

      TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD YISCOUNT MELBOURNE .

      Mrs. Roberts, The Whig Made Widow.

      MRS . ROBERTS , THE WHIG MADE WIDOW .

      To Oux& T * Laa T&Gt; Yr Rgi

      TO OUX& T * T > Rgi

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      WHO IS THE FALSIFIER !" TO THB BDITOB OF THB KORTHBRIf STAB . SIR , —A certain Quixotic editor * in this city has accused me of having , in tbe account of Collins and M'Doo&U ' s Tiait , repotted In the Star , "told designed and deliberate falsehoods , for the purpose of misleading it ( the Star ) and its readers . " Such a charge , dee . picable as its source may be , I conceive It to be a duty I owe to you and your readers , as well as myself , to notice and expose . Though the attack was made ostensibly upon me , the writer ' s evident object was , so far as his means permitted , to weaken that implicit confidence whieh the Radical body place in the Star , as a chronicler of the movement

      The charges whieh he has brought against " The falsifying ( that ia , in plain English , the lying ) reporter , " are not , even were they fane , sufficient to bear out his general accusations . Referring to the number mentioned in the Star aa having attended the meeting in Dun Edin Hall , he says— "If the Hall holds 2 , 000 , it was no more than half filled , even according to the statements of the party who conducted the proceedings . The highest number they claim as attending the meeting is 1 , 000 . " In answer to this , and to shew it * falsehood . I would

      just refer to the statement made at tbe subsequent meeting by the gtntleman appointed by the committee to act as treasurer , at tie meeting in question referred to , to tbe effect that money had been drawn from some hundreds more than the number here stated , that many got in for less than the regular charge , and that numbers got in gratis . At the meeting when this statement was made , in contradiction to the number given by the True Scotsman , the reporter for that print was present And yet this modem Quixote has the aos to tell us that the party who conducted tbe pre-

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      THE NORTHERN STAR . i ,..:: ¦ ¦ . ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ , , .. „ ., r __^_^ ' ' - -- K . ' - " - ' " ¦ ¦ == a *

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 17, 1840, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/king-y1kbzq92ze2706/page/5/