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    mHE GENERAL BOAED of DIRECTORS X having declared a DIVIDEND for the Half Tear ending the Thirtieth of June last , at the Bate of Seven per Cent , per Annum , the same will be payable at the Head Office , or at the following Blanches , as may be most convenient for the Shared " hdiflersj upon Monday , the 3 rd of September . In order to prepare the Dividend Warrants , no Transfer of Shares can be allowed "betwixt Saturday , the Eighteenth Instant , and Monday , the 3 rd of September . By Order of the Board , JAS . SCARTH , General Manager . Head Office , Leeds , Angnst 3 , 1 S 3 S .

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    ANNIVERSARY OF THE EOCHDALE RADICAL ASSOCIATION . rnHE inhabitants of Rocbdale and its Vicinity J _ are respectfully informed , that the above ASSOCIATION will Celebrate its THIRD ANNIVERSARY by a PUBLIC DINNER , in lie Assembly Room , Theatre . RoehdAle , on TCESDAT , the 21 st instant Dinner at Four o'Cloek in the Afternoon .

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    THE MOTHER'S MANUAL , Or every mother her own Physician . By H . Coxgrete . - ^ -. Treatise on tbe disorders occurring in the early stages of infancy , particularly at the period of cutting their teeth , with the means of preventing convulsions , fits , &c , consequent on that painful operation . ' Suggestions and advice , well worthy the attention of ever } -mother . "—Nottingham Review . Price Sixpence , with an Engraving . ^ Sold wholesale and retail by J . Hobson , Northern Star Office , Leeds , and by all the Vendors of that Journal ; also by all Yen ' dors of cbeap periodicals throughout the country . Agents may be supplied with Show or Posting " Bills , on application to the publisher , or to Mr . Hobson .

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    GOOD ISEWS TO THE AFFLICTED . DR . B . COX T 71 MBRACES the present opportunity of announ--Li cing himself as an experienced practitioner in the Cure of tbat troublesome DISEASE , so frequently contracted by incautious youth of both ? exes in tbe moments of imprudent excitement Upwards of Twenty-three years be has practised in tbe town of Leeds , daring which time he has bad every opportunity of witnessing tbe effects of this dreadful malady in all its stages . The most obsti-

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    , tm ^ mmW E -W ^ M ^ V ' - ' < ' ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ " " • • ¦ • • ¦ : ¦ " £ " V-: - /¦ ¦ . : ; : " ¦ - :: ¦ : ¦ - ¦' ¦ ; . ¦ ' ¦ ¦ •? Just Published , Price One Shilling f Bound in Cloth n THE MTiO ^ ^ * AND ENTEHT 1 IKIM CLASS BOdE BY WltUAM Hill . ! ? 4 lso recently Published , price One Shillingy Bound in Cloth ^ -PROGRESSIV ^ XBEC&ES , selected from the best English Authors , and so arranged as to accord with the Progressive Lessons in the t foregoing Work , . j B 7 WILLIAM HILL . j SOME YEA . BS ago , the Aathor ' of this little of the subject may , in one week , be qualified oin * ^ orkpnblxsbeda treatise entitled Fiptjjkn I fitracthis children ' without : other assistance J Lessons on the Analogy an * SYuxi * oethe !¦ ¦ Thp vot t n ^ w I Ekglkh ^ WK ^ fortheJJsetfAdMPerr TESTOMONI ^ XW ^ Se PRESS l TwtorlZKl ^* ^ tS ^« Selected from a host of sinS ^ S ^ spKing the J eiteZrSlt ^ 7 ™ - f ^ . ^ W , former Work , may" convey some idea ofthe P ? blie extensive ^ bale ; but , owing to particular torcnin- Estimation in which the Principle of this " Work is ? stances attendant on its publication , the Price-was Golden— ; "wpic ul iais wort is £ S M eWhaL ^ i gl ! l ' a-o ' \ \ , . ^ ^ "Mr . Hill is evidently an original thinker . He ' fJ ^ ^^^ f ^ d ^ "fte ^ c 8 m PN 4 % P « ttaetoi , - with : ability and success , the exUtiae that ^« ng written for Adults , its style was not well system of English Grammar , and pointa out the suited for Ae ^ youthful mind , and they regretted , absurdities with which it , is encumbered . Justly therefore that it could not be made so universally condemning the too frequent practice of making useful as it otberwisemigbt have been . For these pupils commit portions of Grammar to memory a ! reasons , the Author has so remodelled the Work as . tasks , he maintairis that the only proper way to the v ? ? 1 equally useful to Children and Adults , memory is through the understanding ..... . It is while at the same time , tbe Price has been reduced but justice to him to say that , in a few pages he so much as to place it witbm every persons reach . gives a more clear and comprehensive view of the Ihe Kational School Grammar" is so structure of the English language than can be found - written as to amuse , while it instructs . The princi- in some very elaborate works . ' ^ Literary GazHte ' pie of : the Work is precisely that of the Author ' s « A sensible and useful book , particularly suited former Work , "Fifteen Lessons , " &e . Taking for private instruction . "—Athencsum . out merely tbe Controversial part , all tbat could be « Mr . Hill has discharged his task with considere d of that T \ ork may be said , with still greater able ability ; and no person can pewse his book force and propriety of th ^ . with anything like attention , without obtaining a _ The Lessons in this Work , as m tbe former , are dear and sufficient estimate of the construction and ' intended solely for the use of natives . They are laws of his vernacular tongue . "—Leeds Times i divested , therefore , of all those hair ' s-breadth dis- «< A concise , philosophical , and lucid exposition 1 tinctions and unnecessary subdivisions in Analogy , of the principles on which the language of Milton < which , if atall useful , can only be usefal to and Shakspeare rests- ^ excelientlycalculated to be ' foreigners . The Science of Grammar is disen- of service to adult persons who have neglected the tangled in this Work from tbe folds of mys- study of Grammar . " —Bradford Observer . ticism which have so long _ enshrouded it . The « This is a very useful book for those persons to absurd and unmeaning technicalities , which pervade whom it is . addressed . Its style is clear , simple all other Works on Grammar , are exchanged for and satisfactory .... j . All who wish to obtain a clear terms which have a aefinite and precise meaning , view of the construction of the English language illustrative of the things they represent . The Parts will do well to consult its pages . "—Police Gazette of speech are arranged on an entirely new Principle , « This is a useful book . It is calculated to give founded on a Philosophical Consideration of the the student a correct idea of grammatical constructs ature of Language , and applicable to all Lan- tion—of tbe analogies of the language—and of the guages . The necessary Divisions and Subdivision * nature of the various parts of speech . It is simple arerationlly accounted for-and the Principles of butnotmean ; clear , but not diffuse : and there are Universal Grammar demonstrated so fully , that the few works in which the first principles of Grammar meanest capacity may understand them as clearly are better explained or more ably followed up . " - as it -understands that two and two mate four . York Chronicle , November 13 // i , 1834 . InSyntax , the formation of the English Language " ... . The method he has adopted to convey his is exclusively consulted , without any unnecessary lessons is the least repulsive to a learm-r that we reference to other Languages . A majority of the have yet seen , not excepting that of Mr . Cobbett , numerous Eules given in most Grammars are shown ..... . .. ^ whole treatise seems to be intended an a to be httle better than a heap of senseless Tautology , mental machine to abbreviate the labour of mind The necessary "Rules are demonstrated upon rational We consider this treatise one of the most Principles and illustrated by a variety of Examples , useful that has yet issued from the press , under the By tbe Use of this Book and its accompan \ ing Ex- Class , English Grammar .-G W < w Liberator ercises , a child will , in a few weeks , acquire a good ° knowledge of Grammar without any of the disgust- PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR , ing drudgery of Tasks , which , under the present at his residence , System , prevents nine out of ten from ever acquiring BETHEL CHAPEL , PRINCE STREET , HULL , a knowledge of Grammar at all . and at the So much are the Principles of this important NORTHERN STAR ' OFFICE , LEEDS ; Science simplified in these little Worts that by the By Simpkin and Marshall , London : and by all the use of them , a parent having no previous knowledge Agents of the Northern Star in Town and Country . ALSO , THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED , PRICE THREEPENCE , ; THE PECULIAR SANCTITY OF THE SABBAT ' H - . " . " ¦' ¦ : : " " A SEEitf ^ - ^ - '; DELIVERED IN BETHEL CHAPEL , HULL , BY WILLIAM HILL , MINISTER OF THE SAID CHAPEL . ; Also in the Press , and will be published shortlyy FIFTEEN LESSONS ON THE ANALOGY AND SYNTAX of THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . ' Tb'rd Edition revised and amended .

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    1 st . TO prove the attachment which is felt by tens of thousands of all Classes , but of the Working Classes more especially , to Mr . Oastler personally , for the disinterested and devoted services which he has rendered to the cause of Justice and Humanity , for many years past ; during which period , as it is well known , he has sacrificed everything roost dear to man—health , wealth , and worldly fame , that he might , by restoring the rights of the Poor , assist to save the Country from impending danger and from eventual destruction . A man of one purpose , he has sought tbe accomplishment of that purpose , by the stead y and well-sustained application of all the faculties of

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    < ? '* \ \ right knowledge of the common principles of political wisdom and justice , which Ought to regulate all men , everywhere alike . He bag toiled long and hard to re-unite the Labourer and the Landlord , the Workman ; and the Master , the Peers and the People shewing each that , unless all are friends , they must , and will i eventually destroy one another . Tbe crisis has arrived , and hia country now calls upon him to come forward , and either in the S ate or out of it , as Providence shall determine , to be the instrument of giving National expression , and National authority to the views he has so zealously , and unceasingly , whilst in a private station , impressed upon . his fellow-countrymen .

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    ' i 1 < ' STAFFORDSHIRE HOUSE , 40 , LOWERHEAD-ROW , LEEDS . J EASTWOOD in again returning his acknow-_ ledgements to the Inhabitants of Leeds and its Vicinity , for their numerous Favors , begs to inform them , that he has just received a Large Stock of GLASS , CHINA , TABLE SERVICES , and EARTHENWARE , of the Neatest and most Modern Patterns , which he is able to offer on Terms which cannot fail to secure the continued Favors of the Public . Leeds , July 28 th , 1838 .

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    ATA MEETING of the BEERSELLERS , ii . heldin the Music Hall , Leeds , on Thursday Evening , the 9 th lust ., to Petition Parliament against Lord Brougham ' s New Beer Bill , the following Resolutions were unanimously agreed to . 1 st . —That it is the opinion of this Meeting that the Bill lately introduced into the House of Lords by Lord Brougham , having for its object the total suppression of tbeBeersellers , is an unjust and atrocious attack upon the rights of nearly 50 000 individualswho have

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  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 11, 1838, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1018/page/1/