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    • THE ^ORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11. 1841.
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      HUDDERSFIELD . O'CONKOR DEMONSTRATION . On Saturday morning , all was bustle and baste in the expectation of the distinguished patriot . At half-past ten , a carriage and four greys started for Cooper Bridge , to meet Mr . O'Connor , who started en route to New Mill , where he was met by the men of Holafirth . The people here formed into procession , accompanied by a- band of music and numerous banners floating in the breeze , and ks the procession eros 3 ed the English Alps , from New Mill to Holmfirth , the sight from Holnifirth and the valley was most magnificent , indeed the people merging as it were from the clouds , and then the splendid banners in rapid sucstssion , all served to heighten the scene .

      Mr . O'Connor on his arrival at Holmfirth was greeted by the assembled thousands with a real old English cheer . He addressed the people in the large room of the Eoso and Crown , but not a tithe could gain admittance , and although the rain poured down ib torrents , the assembled mass stood firmly waiting to catch a glimpse of the noble advocate of the labouring classes . The room was crowded to Buffoe&tion . Mr . O'Connor spoke for half an hour amidst the most rapturous applause . Such 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 sot "let through" to the bottom , bat all passed off safe .

      Started for Honley at four o'clock ; met the procession at the Banks ; marched to Honley . Started from Honley at five o ' clock to meet the men of . Huddersfield at Loekwood , From Honley the tight was most beatiful , the music playing , and the transparent lamps with which the procession was pro-Tided were truly grand ; bui such was the inclemency of the weather , that only a very few weathered the storm , and out of three ecore only four reached Huddersfield . At Lockwood , the procession was met by the mEn of Hudder&field , Almondbory , Lepton , Dalton , Lindley , Paddock , &c . On . entering the town the procession moved in the following order : —

      Four Marshals on horseback . Almondbnry band . A large and splendid banner . A full likeness of Mr . O'Connor . Reverse—England , home , and liberty . Operatives twelve abreast . A beautiful green silk banner—Golden letters . Motto—Universal Suffrage , Annual Parliaments , Vote by Ballot , Payment of Members , No . Property Qualification , Equal Representation . - A beautiful tri-colour . Kirkheaton flag . We demand Universal Suffrage . Operatives twelve a-breaet . " Iindley band . A snlendid sreen silk banner , with a correct £ CJMViilUU ff A WVU fll 1 ^ UBiiUU j 1 tit « S WH ^ VI

      * " 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 , onr cause is clear , And labour shall no master , but the labourer own . God Save the people . Operatives twelve a-brean . Tri-colour . Motto—Holmfirth National Charter Association . Reverse—The Charter our right . He that will not ask is not worthy the blessings of freedom . White banner—Honley . Motto—Equality of all before the law . Reverse—Taxation without representation is

      tynnny , and ought to b < 5 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 from reason . Reverse—The whole of iho principles contained in the People ' s Charter , we demand , for nothing Jess will we ever ask or take . Tri-colour ; Motto— "God save the Qu . en for we fear no one else will . " Reverse— " The glorious Republic of America , and soon may England imitate that country ; its

      people happy aim contented . ' Golcar band . A splendid oil painting of the coat © f arms of the National Cimttur Association . " 16 feet by 10 ditto . A tri-coloured fl . sg ; Motio— " England expeiis every man to do his duty . " Reverse— " God helps those who help themsfclTca . " White flag ; Motto— " The land , the land !— - * ne right of every living min . " Reverse—** The rights of laoonr , soon may they be acknowledged by '

      all the world . - " Green silk banner ; Motto— " Every man his ovra landlord . " Reverse— " Down with the accursed factory Eystem , the school of immorality , profaneneso , wickedness , and vice of every description . " Operatives , sixteen ab ea 3 t . Colne-bridge band . Cap of liberty . Tri-coloured flag . Large white banner ; Motto— "England , home , and ifDerty . " Reverse— "No bastiles . T ^ e right of

      every man to live upon his native land . Operatives , sixtaen abreast . Green silk flag ; Motto— " Equal represes' . aiion , " with the cap of liberty . Reverse— " No distinction before the law . " Green silkfiag . with silver letters" Honesty is the best policy ; :. o humbug ; no Corn Law fallacies ; the full rights of all we ask , so more we demand ; this we will hare . "

      Reverse- ^ " God gave the earth for man' 3 inheritance ; a faction have taken it to themselves . Justice , justice , justice !" Honley band . Tri-colonxed flag ; Motto— 14 Universal Suffrage . " Operatives , sixteen abreast . the carriage drawn by four greys ; postilions , scarlet jackets , Black velvet caps , and silver tassels , containing the people's champion , P £ ARGUS O'CO . NKOB , £ 5 ^ ., along with Messrs . Edsvard Clayton , Robt , Peel , and other friends . Transparent lamps on each side . Green silk fiagB on each side of the

      carnage . Operatives , sixteen abreast . In this manner the procession moved along Buxton-road , on New-street , Market-place , up Westgate , Market-street , down doth-hall-street , Kingstreet , on Queen-street , up Ramsden-street , to the Philosophical-hall . Whan the procession arrived at the hall , it was Crowded to excess ; it was now after six o ' clock , and , in consequence of Mr . O'Connor having received letters from London , requiring his immediate

      presence there on argent business , it was arranged that , so soon as he arrived , he should at once address the people . Mr . Veevers , therefore , having been calki to the chair , inteodneed Mr . O Cosnor , who was received with , tremendous cheering . He made a most exsellentspeeeh , eonelndingai half-past seven o ' clock , leaving just time for him to be conveyed to the railway station to meet t > 2 train . The people deeply regretted the urgency of his departure , but were consoled , by a premise of another visit at some future time .

      After Mr . O'Connor ' s departure , Mr . Mowitt , after m few observations , replete with sound argument , moved the following resolution : — K That this meeting pledges itself to agitate for no reform short of the People ' s Charter , the whole of which we consider as a perfect measure ; but it robbed ef one of its principles , the whole would be involved : we , therefore , pledge ourselves never to agitate for , nor counter . ance , any measure or measures less than the whole of the principles conta : ned in the People's Charter , and that we look upon the man who would endeavour to lead the people for aBj thme less , to be an enemy to the libertiee of mankin £ "

      Mr . £ . Clayton seconded the resolution in an effective speech , in . which he exposed the present move on the wrt of the Anti-corn Law League , in coining out for the franchise ; he warned the people against the ruse which was in contemplation . He referred to fte history of the Roman Republic in the time of Tiberius Gracchus and Caius Gracchus , shewing to what means the aristocracy will sioop to over-reach the peop le- ^ by threats , uuimidatien , and , finally , by over-liberality—to destroy the power of , and lead the people by , a false light- He resumed His seat amidst lend cheering .

      Th » resolution was earned u ? animously , and tiree cheers having been given for the Charter , tbrpe for Frost , Willing a , and Jones , and three tor O'Connor ad other patriots , the meeting broke up after a kearty vote of thanks to the chairman .

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      TO THE EDITOR OF THS NORTHERN STAR . Dear Sib , —The enclosed letter Ib , as yon may perceive , from one of those whom the veracioug O'Connell has repestadly described as an enemy , a bitter , unrelenting foe to Ireland . 2 do assure yon Sir , it has often pnzrled me to disco ver what can ba 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 u I do , that every Chartist in England , Scotland , and Wales , concurs with Mr . Watson in bis good wishes towards Ireland and the Irish . Yet tola man , who vilifies a whole people , is angry because the lets Doctor Doyle , Bishep of Ktld&re , said be was a knave in politics and a hypocrite in religion . Patrick . O'Higqins . Dublin , December 2 nd , 1841 .

      TO HE . PATB 1 CK ( THIGGINS . Dear Sib , —Along with this letter you will receive a Northern Star . I have Bent the Star and Scottish Patriot on several occasions of late , and shall continue to do so . I rejoiee 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 sens will unite as one mun witk their British Brethren to overthrow the monster , class-legislation , and the thousand evils that proceed from it .

      I love the Irish people ; I kftve been a stranger in their land ; bat I was no stranger to their hospitality ; and " may my right hand forget its ennning"" when I forgtt 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 interposed in marriages between Catholic and Protestant , or to the infamous means adopted by Pitt , Castlereagh , and Co . to rob yeu of your national legislature . Bat I tarn 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 and your mines have boen brought into action by your industrious , talented , and educated people .

      In the Star which I send with this , your talented countryman , Mr . O Brier , justly observes that if a capital of £ 130 , 000 , 000 sterling were required for the discovery and disentombing of Noah ' s Ark , it would be immediately subscribed for—only guarantee the speculators ten per cent To bring yoar ill-used country into the same state cf cultivation as England and the low part 3 of Scotland would require an outlay of £ 32 , 010 , 000 , but will this ever be expended upon it , while & miserable few are suffered quietly to speculate oa the fruits of your labour ? Never I and their power to do evil springs from yoar disunion , and from oura . It astonishes me when I read of your cheap provisions ; your beaf , mutton , pork , geese , turkeys , fowls , corn , and poU-ties . But when I tee what Inglis and others say 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 cf y : ur noble eountry—a country well entitled to the eulogium of Counsellor 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 balls of Tare , long before the Redeemer cf mankind began his earthly career , and took upon himself our nature—a country where the aits and sciences were preserved when the rest of tha world was involved in darkness . Iceland , the Ultima Thule , and the most northern point of civilization , even Uie humaa race , to thia day , owe to Ireland a deep debt of gratitude .

      Do me the honour , Sir , to propose me as an honorary member of your Association , and add the names of William Thomson and Robert Fletcher , of Laith , to your list of subscribers . We will take care to keep up oui title of membership by regularly sending the Star , o * any oth ^ r Radical papers we may get ; and you may rely on it that we will do our best to get otht rs to follow our example . There are Irish hearts here beating in Scottish bosoms , and I hope , 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 , Robert Watson . Leith , November 24 th , 1841 .

      The ^Orthern Star Saturday, December 11. 1841.

      THE ^ ORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , DECEMBER 11 . 1841 .

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      EMIGRATION . The trick 3 and contrivances of faction to gain and retain possession of power and profit might provoke ones merriment were not the subjects in reference to which these tricks are practised , matters of such vast importance and commanding interest . The late "Whig Government had , by innumerable sins of omission and of commission rendered themselves alike detestable and contemptible in the eyes of all reasonable men .

      Unwilling to throw themselves npon 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 eoni , sugar , and timber failed in keeping the old kulk of Whiggery afloat . The crasy craf t 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 © f 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 spc aches in and out of Parliament , England was a paradise ; so at least said his Grace of "Wklxi ^ gto * ; and , considering that England in his Grace'B 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 occa ^ sionaily 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 bellie 3 they bo recently returned .

      Wei ] , th-., ii ; 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-strect , 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 , and act as pioneers for the ministry to discover the bearings of public opinion , have stated it to be an understood thing that early in the next Session of

      Parliament , Government will propose a scheme to promote what the scribblers please to call "National Emigration , " by which we suppose they mean the transportation of some millions of our industrious countrymen , whose presence presses rather hardly upon 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 thoie 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 strict 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 eoisiBtent with the uniform practice of Toryism , we are by no means disposed to admit itB being in accordance with the req . uirem . anta 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 u by our contemporaries , is unjust ; and that , for tvn ? reasons ; it is a one-sided bargain , and it is altogether unnecessary . It is a one-sided 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 " sorplns population" may be compelled

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      to submit to it on pain of starvation . There is no necessity for an Aot of Parliament to say expressly M people shall 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 serpent ? , however little of the harmlesaness of the dove they may possess . Yet , let any man ot common sense reflect for a moment on the position in which the Poor Law and the constantly increasing power of machinery has placed ths 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 , bnt 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 months , bat a bad arrangement . of society whiob 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 beinga . 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 capabilities fully 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 unjnst . 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 transpor tation of two or three millions of these destitute human beings to our distant colonies t 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 tie new prosperity scheme , they are to bo exported to New Zsaland , 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 exppnees of the Government , national aud local , the interest of the debt , and the rates for the relief of the poor , &c . &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 not have contrived a more effectual contrivance .

      But let us look a little at the expence . " To take an individual to Canada , bow much will it cost ! 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 . bis for one and a half millions amounts to twelve millions of pounds : send the remaining one and a half million to New Zealand or New South Wales , at a oost 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 !'' If they are , they are much greater fools than we take them to be . " But suppose the money to be just now in Mr . Goulbubn ' s breeches pocket ready to carry the scheme into practice ; to be effectual it must be prompt , or the vacancies will be rapidly filling opyoung ' superabundant' 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 Papers . "

      This we fancy will be deemed a pretty spacimeu 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 em i gration . If sent to the Colonies , the land there is already appropriated , the proprietors could not , of course , at ence find capital to employ all , or nearly all this sudden influx of labour , the emigrant has not

      means to purchase any portion of tho land from those in possession , and his only resource ia to lie down and die . TMb at least would be the case in Canada , and should he be sent to other remote colonies neatly the same objections would apply . A vast sum must be laid out on agricultural implements , « Sco ., and an immediate and ready supply of food must be furnished , if , indeed , they are not to be sent there merely to porish in the desert .

      This shows not only the dishonesty but the inhumanity of the scheme . Half the money necessary to be expended in murderiDg them abroad , would , by placing them upon the waste lands aud 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 whieh 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 Btones . Is it nothing to be torn from onr 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 1 And all this for what ! Just to sustain bad and wioked arrangements of society , and to gratify the greedy grasping of a monopolising faction .

      There has been » meeting recentl y held in London on this Bubjeot , at whiob one Mr . Montgomkbt Mabtin took the chair , and at which a Mr . Cbawford , of Paisley , and other gents , amused themselves , and tried to gull the public , 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 . Montgomery Maktin talks greaily in his little way ' about the resources of the colonies , of the amount of revenue they poor into the mother country , of the strength they add to oar military force ; bat he forgets to

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      tell us thai neither the toiling millions of this country nor of the ill-governed colonies reap any advantage from all these fine 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 deservesapaeaing notice . "Every colony '' , he says " that was founded , supplied as with a market beyond the control of foreigners . The Colon ! st , 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 . Mabtin ' s logic prove anything , it proves too much , for if the prosperity of eyery Colonist be such as to enable hint to expend three hundred per cent , more than the British resident , of the same elass at home , then it is plain the whole nation had better emigrate at once , especially as such a manoeuvre would save to our manufacturers the cost ot transit .

      Thefaet 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 . Henoe 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 ner care . We shall keep our eye anon 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 .

      In 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 ot going abroad to a worse , because more hopeless , condition of slavery than that which they now endure .

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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 ^ d . is an awkward price to remit , we have determined to offer them at 4 d . each . The list comprises Portraits of—F . O'Connor , H . Hunt , R . Oaatler , Andrew Marvel , J . R . Stephens , Arthur O'Connor , Sir W . Molesworth Thos . Attwood , and Wot . Cobbett , Brontene O'Brien . All these will be allowed to the Agents and Booksellers , so as to retail at id . each . Any one experiencing difficulty in procuring them has but to inclose six Postage Stamps , either te the office , or to our principal agents , Mr . Cleave , of London , Mr . Quest , of Birmingham , and Mr . Heywood , of Manchester , and he can have any one on the lia 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 , oi from friends , wishing to know upon what terms they can be supplied with the Large Portraits that 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 large Plates , mast enter his name with his News-agent , and Subscribe regularly for the paper for six weeks , specifying at the time he enters his name the Plate he wants .

      At the end of bis 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 Ageut , and no more . The Agent will be charged for Paper and Plate for that Week 9 d . ; no that he will have 25 per cent , profit for his trouble . The Papers will cost him nothing for carriage , as they go by post ; and we will contrive to get the Plates to him for as little cost as possible . Any aubaeriber who receives bis paper direct from , the office , can have the plates on the same terms as from nn 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 . R . Stephens . R . Emmett , and Richard Oiutler . F . O'Connor . The agents had better open their subscription lists immediately , and apprise us 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 1 week , publish on the Friday . Correspondents will , therefore , note this , and see to their respective communications being sent a day sooner . Tlie Agents must also take care to have their orders here in lime .

      The National Petition . —Our publisher , Mr . Hobson , has printed the National Petition for 1842 , on 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 Id . 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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      Seyeral Unpaid Letxebs , including a large packet bearing the Liverpool post mark , have been returned to the Post Office . Nathaniel Morltng , Brighton , states that he has not yet received the letter which Mr . Martin says he posted for him on the 2 \ sl of November . The Chartists of Bbohtard , Herefordshire , are requested to communicate with Mr . John Parsons , No . 6 , Beaufort-place , Stapleton-road , Bristol . Chartist Blacking . —Having received letters eomplaining 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 uu 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 , of Chorley , Stars to Ireland . —Thady Cafferty informs us , that out of twenty-two Scars , which he is apprised have been sent to him by a friend at Northampton , he has only received fifteen . The three Stars from W . B ., Darliiu / on , were received . Mb . Skevinoton , Loughforouyh , wishes to decline standing as a candidate for the forthcoming Convention for the town of Loughborough . He is Vmnkful for tlie honour intended him ; but , as the District Meeting at Nottingham have agreed upon two 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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      Mb . Julian Habnky acknowledges the reoetpt of U , from Mr . Henry Frost Coatman , Portland-place , London * for Elizabeth Taylor . The money has been handed to Mrs . T . J . T . Whitehbao , Cheltenham , wWoblige by umtifp on one side cjhispaper onl % ' for ' the future . We had as much news came on Thursday mormng 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-Seeretaryythat sent 10 s . to Mr . John Campbell , give Mm 1 ms address again ; and also the Truro friend who John Campbell would be thankful to all parties who have had his pamphlets to send him either

      cash , or the pamplets back again . r _ Charles Westerton . —2 * A « letter to Mr . O'Connor teas delivered to him . r John Weaver , ofRyde , writes us to deny the authorship of the paragraph which appeared in the Chartist Intelligence of our last , with his name attached . We gave the paragraph as it reached us ; and we gave the signature because we knew nothing of the writer . ' _ ' The London O'Bbien Pbess Fund . —The . long address of the Committee , recewed only on Thursday morning , cannot possibl y 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 parties sending seem to expect that Mr . O'Connor would answer them each and every one . 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 ! We may state generally , that all these letters have been seen by Mr . O'Connor , up to the time 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 Bermondsey 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 , all its members and qfficers 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 oj'Mr . White . H . Cronin . —Fifty such letters , and more , have been received and forwarded . . - W . Thorley . —Any communication for Mr . Q'Connor may be sent here . The Liverpool case shall be attended to : we purpose writing on the

      subject . Derby Chartists . —We did not recetve the report of their meeting for the National Petition . Duncan Nicholson . —The letter from Mr . O'Brien next week . Stars to Ireland . —Mr . Murray , Donegal , will be thankful for a little Star % /»< . 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 lour in Suffolk and Essex , is open to an engagement . Address —19 , D'Oyley-street , Sloane street , 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 punishment 1 " We do not know . Wm . Stubbings , James Crawford , A here Man , Joseph Ginder , L . P . Cooke , and a great many others , must excuse « i : we have no room .

      David Davies , smith , George Town , Merthy ; b —The parcel he inquires about was sent from the office on Oct . ZOth , according to the address given in his letter . It teas entrusted to Pictc / ord's , the carriers . A letter too , has been sent to him since , to the same address , in answer to his queries ; and on the 9 th insL , a second letter was dispatched , addressed to the care of Mr . Morgan Williams . Let him inquire at the carriers at Merthyr . MB . HlTCHIN , KiDDERMINSTEB . —The parcel he writes about was inclosed in one sent to Mr . George While , 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 neat 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 , tee have received the following letter , to which we call the attention of our Bristol friends : —

      THE BRISTOL CHARTISTS AND THE STAR . MR . Editor , —Observing your answer to the Bristol Chartists , complaint of non-reports in the Star , I conceived that the testimony of one who , for some time , sent you reperts ot Chartist meetings here , was due U ¦ you , and would not be altogether unavailing to the Chartists . I beg to state that , during 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 tho Germansend and the Tories , down to the Chartist meeting for the release ol Froat ; also the ball and soiree : when I

      resigned office , and withdrew from the body . I bave since repotted many 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 a * those you answer , rife ; bat 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 office unappointed , I must bear testimony that the fault has been with those who reported , or said they reported . J .

      P . S . —Upon my report of the Brown anti-Corn Law meeting , I have to add , I hope tlu- early arrival thereof did not exolude a better from your columns ; and lest frienda should think ornerwiae , I mate I do not seek appointment . I have ever served in thia office , gratuitously , unappointed , and unthanked . J . Upon this we have only to say , that our worthy friend mistakes greatly in supposi 7 ig that he has been 14 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 Memher of the House of Commons with a copy of the Charter , which being in the English Chartist Circular , at one hulfpew , y , might be done at a very trifling 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 letter from Cardiff , stating though it may sometimes be policy to re / rain from expressing as much , yet a burst of honest indignation should 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 Andrews , Barnstaple . —All the Plates due to the Subscribers will be shortly forwarded 'to Mr . Awry . Mr . Penny—The letter to Hamor Staosfeld in our next .

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      Mb . Ennks , County Durham . —Mr . Baxter ' s address is No . 3 , Bridgeman ' s place , near Coekerillspring , Bolton . Wm . Scott . —His letter was sent to Mr . Cleave , but being without name it would perhaps not be noticed . W . H . Lawner , 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 Northern Star will receive their interest by presenting their checks to Mr . John Leech , Buxton Road , Huddersfleld ; Asbton , to Mr . Edward Hebson ; Bradford , to Mr . J . Clarkson ; Halifax , to Mr . R Wilkinson ; and Rochdale , to Mr . Robert Holt Lists of Shareholders are wanted from the fot louring places , on receipt of which , orders for pay ment will be sentfnm the office : —Bar ** ley , Ellen * . Hull , and Oldham .

      FOB THE O ' BRIEN PRESS FUND . £ 8 . d . From Brighton , per Mr . Flower , treasurer to the Committeeafe Brighton 10 o o „ the Glasgow Northern Star Reading Society , per W . Anderson 0 14 0 FOR P . H . M'DOUALL . From the Glasgow Northern Star Reading Society , per W . Anderson 0 14 0 FOR THE EXECUTIVE . From a friend , West Bad , Leeds ... o 6 ~ W . R 0 0 6

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      "I should e ' en weep with pity To see another thus . "—King Lear . Chartist Fbiends , —I have never yet solicited yonr assistance to an individual ; and if I do so now , I hope it will not be Ineffectual . Reeve , news agent , who suffered , from time to time , about three years * rigorom imprisonment during the battle of the unstamped , and contributed greatly to the victory , is at present under pinching difficulties and privations . Like the fond ally who " fights for all but ever fights in vain , " or 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 littla brief authority of the petty myrmidons of tyranny , haa been neglected , nay , worse , those who gained by tha victory bave been suffered to prejudice the minds of individuals otherwise favourably disposed towards thia poor fallow , and he now lies , without food , without a bed , or the means of getting one day over another . He ia under the doctor ' s hands for a wound in bis leg which prevents him from going about to vend Chartist publications , by the sale of which he used to earn a precarious pittance .

      The approaching Christinas ( however merry to some , ) must be a sad one to him ; bat if he could get it over , he hopes forhapp ' er tiraeB in the ne » year . He is honest , though starving , and his zeal to do good to the causa rises above all his distresses . Should any who reads this be in a condition to spare him a mite , he will thank them again and again ; tot rent day is approaching , and what will become of him then , God only knows—probably the streets , or the bastile , with his young family . Contributions sent to John Watklns , No . 20 , TJppet Marah , Marsh Gate , Lambeth , will be punctually paid to him and duly acknowledged . J . W .

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      BRADFORD . —An Example worth Imitating—The membors "fan Odd Fellows Lodge held it tho house of Mr . Henry Milea , Manchester-road , have agreed to withdraw their money from the bank , and are about to commence keeping a shop with it , thus scouring to themselves the profit of their own consumption . If all benefit societies would adopt the samo plan it would bring the shopkeepers to their senses , an d teach them their dutj to tho working classes . Pett yTtrannt . —Since the demonstration , thetwo factions , Whig and Tory , scarcely know what to do with themselves , they are spitting their venom against all they can find out , who took an active part in doing honour to him , whom the peoplfl delight to honour . A firm not a hundred miles from

      tae old cnurcn , nas discharged a number ot 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 upon themselves by their dissolute habits , and blame as 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 tohisview , 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 woolcombers , but he declined doing bo . —Correspondent .

      Death from Starvation . —An old man , named Benjn . Hay , was found dead on Saturday morning last , at the door of Mr . Parkinson , his nephew , ( who reBWea on Primrose Hill , Great Horton-laue . ) He was removed to the Fleece Inn in a cart to await the Coroner ' s inquest , whieh was held on Sunday ast , at , tho Inn to which he was taken . After hear * iot ; the evidence , the Jury oame to the verdict of "Died from starvation . " The old man it appears his latterly resided in Leeds , and came to Horton to s ^ e his relations . He has a brother residing at Paradise Green , Horton , worth considerable property , and his nephew , at whose door he died , is also poe * sussed of property , yet he was suffered to die from want .

      KEIOHIiEV . —On Saturday evening last . aboot seven o ' clock , a lamentable accident happened at Grove ' s Mill , about a mile from Keighley . A young woman , named Hannah Hartley , about sixteen years of age , went an errand to Ingrow , a place si a short distance , accompanied by other two , a young man and a young woman , about the same agea 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 living on the opposite side . In consequence of the bridge being usually secured by a gate to prevent strangers from passing through Mr . Clongh ' l mill-yard , and as this gate is always lockedat nights

      the young woman aud her companions went roaaa 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 tha darkness of the w # ht , together with the rise ot tha water and the violence of the wind , would mike any attempt to climb over the door of the bridge extremely dangerous . This reasonable advice w « i however , disregarded ; the young woman declaring her determination to return that way at all hazards Owing to this fatal resolution , they all went by tM bridge , and commenced climbing over the small gate fixed as a barrier . Two of the party

      succeeded in getting over , but while Hartley * M making the attempt , she lost her hold and feu a distance of four or five yards into too flood below . An immediate alarm was given , and the neighbours rushed out with lanterns , bat the darkness and height of the water prevented all possibility of rescue . A search for the body wm commenced an Sunday morning , and continued till Tuesday noon , when the body was found a * *™ bottom of Mr . Marriner's dam stones , held fast by a portion of her dress to a piece of iron , aboat three quarters of a mile from the place where she fell in . She has left a poor widowed mother incon solable for her loss .

      Suicide . —Mr . Jno . Greenwood , of the Black Swaa Jno , was found in bed last Sunday morning , w ' i&his throat out . MANCHESTER . —At a general meeting of the bailer-makers , held in Manchester , it was re solved that sixpence each member per week , should be levied for the support of the London masons now on strike , such levy to be paid so long as the strike continnes . They nave received their first donatt <» of £ 3 11 s . 6 d ; from tho dressers and dyers , * 1 ° ! and also from the cotton-spinners of Manchester the sum of £ 5 .

      8 TOCKPOUT . —Thb Unemploted . —W » benevolent are cautioned against parties who W going about begging for tho tnrn out spinners : no one has been authorised to beg yet . Any contributions will be thankfully received by Mr . Willi « o Rothwell , care of Mr . Roger Iiiley , news-agenti Che 8 tergate . The Committee are about to send pro per persons m the different districts to collect . Con * tributors are requested to take notice of the date « the address and the name of the printer , and to insert the amount of their subscription in the booK with ink .

      KOCHDAUS . —Polick—On Monday last , Ml Chadwick again attended the Petty Sessions , »» stated that he had taken the opinion of Mr . Start " on the decision given by that bench on the previous Monday , as to the right of the police to break mw persons houses without the authority of a magistrate That opinion was that they have decided contw to the l » w , in giving the decision in favour « t " police ; So we are to have our houses broken ope > at the will of an hired bludgeonman , and thenJ » have the satisfaction of knowing that he did n » foe

      know his duty . On Tuesday last , after twentyor twenty-six policemen had been patrolling , w * streets of this borough , all night and day , they M « the honour of apprehending a poor half-searr ^ creature , whose emaciated appearance would D »' impressed any one but a tyrant with compasstfBi whose only crime was that he had not tasted row for upwards of thirty hours , and the turnkey otw » prison stated , that the man when he came to ¦»*» prison , devoured his scanty meal in suoh a manner , that he thought ho had not tasted food for a mon » . thebenoa 'dismissed th * case , by ordering nun <*»* of the town immediately .

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      The Subscribers in and around London will receive tbe O'Connor Liberation Medals with their papers on Saturday next The Plate of Monmonth Court House will be distributed to 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 before the day named in the Star . It is for their convenience that the Plates &o- are entrusted to them before the time ; and we expect that no one in any locality will so far abuse the confidence reposed in him , aa to distribute them before the proper time , when all shall have had their supply .

      The Medals.

      THE MEDALS .

      Case Of The Man Reeve.

      CASE OF THE MAN REEVE .

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      FOR MR . JAMBS VBRNON , SOUtBMOLTON . From Mr . H . Griffith ! , Edgeware Road , London ... ... ... 9 1 » OR THB WIVES AND FAMILIES OF THB INCAb CKRAIBD CHAfttlSTS . The 7 s . from Daventry and Wbllton , noticed for R , J . Richardson , on the 13 th of November , should have been for the . Wives and Families . The £ l front Alva , of the same date , la counter-ordered by Wn , Bishop , Secretary to the Chartist Association . 70 ft THE EXECUTIVE , FEOM THB SALE OF BOOKS PINDER' 8 BLACKING .

      8 . d . W . Wright , Stoekport ... ... ... o 10 Richard Haslem , Oldham 0 10 Robert Brook , Todmordra l 8 Thomas Hartley , Burol » y i 8 Charles Winsper , Stockton i 8 Wm . Brook , Leeds ... 2 6 £ 0 9 2 O'BRIEN PRESS FUND , LEEDS—RECEIVED BT THB COMMITTEE . From the Press Committee , Liverpool ... 20 o 0 „ Andrew Dick ... ... ... 0 5 0

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 11, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1139/page/4/