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    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1842.
    • TO TH%CHARTISTS OF SCOTLAND.
    • THE SCOTTISH CONVENTION VOTE.
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      TO THE CHARTISTS OF NORTH LANCASHIRE . { Brother Chartists . —We , the delegates of North I laoeaahire , address ourselves to yon at this most critical maaeat , with a foil confidence that you -will st this I Mme give as yonr undivided support in carrying out the j pl » aa ¦»» bava adopted for forwarding the caule of I T 7 jrivers&liberty . It is quite time that the -working ! Masses should begin to act in -nnion together , they have too long been led away by the subtle and cunning cbemes of the designing knaves who hare robbed them Alt their hard-earned money , to squander it away upon tfeeitselves , their sons , daughters , and dependents , in useless pensions , abominable sinecures , and unjust -wars . Wehsve too long obey ed them and suffered ibem to sot discord amongst us by keeping up religious

      leads , and national antipathies , so that they may be able with more ease to crush any movement calculated to give the people their rights . But , thank Grod , the people have opened their eyes ; they b » ve examined from whence has arisen their present distress . They bare have studied political science , and have found Hot the cause of all their grievances springs from class legislation . The people of England can no longer be persuaded to look Troth contempt and indifference upon tee people of Ireland ; they no longer regard them as liens , but pity their sufferings brought upon them by the cruel deeds- of their and our oppressors ; they solicit them to join in an agitation for a fall measure of jHsfcire , one not only calculated for repealing tbe nnion , and the Cora Lairs , bat for the repealing every r ther bad

      » w ; we deplore ths many divisions that have taken place on former occasions , and hope for the future all bickerings end Jealousies may be done away with ; ¦• e , are glad to find that a spirit of perseverance ha * begun to be Bjamfest * d in North Lancashire , unequalled < sn any former agitation , and amidst all the persecution ¦ we have to contend against from both Whig and Tory , * e are uscreasicg the members of our association with astonishing rapidity . We particularly advise the working classes to keep aloof from every agitation , save that ¦ which will give to them political power , and not to lend their mighty power to accomplish any object but tfcat of tee People ' s Charter . A mighty move is now esdeavoured to be got op by the Com Law repealers , in ¦« rder to divert the working classes from the agitation

      they are so nobly engaged in . The Com Law repealers are no friends lo the people , they are a money-grubb ' ujg et of individuals , who are determined to enrich themaeftes at the expence ef all whom they bring under their tyrannical sway , however loud they may boast of their feelicpsfor thepoor . Their actions spfafr louder than "words , which proves that they are the greatest enemies to the working classes . They persecute tbem in every Way they possibly can , only by meeting in fair and -epea disenssion ; thiB they Bhrink from , knowing tbat toe principles of the Charter are based upon the eternal sock of truth that cannot be undermined by flimsy arguseata brought by such a erew of political hypocrites . Tfeey deprive us of places to meet in ; they discharge an whom they may « mploy who bave the honesty to

      express their opinions , if they differ from their own ; and yet they would persuade us that they were Chartists ! and if the working classes will only assist them to obtain a repeal of the Gorn Laws , they " will then go &r the Charter 1 Beware of wolves in sheep ' s clothing . ! Tbey intend not what they promise ; they want to make a secocd reform agitation to accomplish their own ends , and then turn round and laugh at the credulity of ¦ working mea . We warn the Chartists of the folly of agitating for a repeal of the Corn Laws , even if a repeal wonld benefit the country . Whilst the aristocracy have under thtir command a standing army of butchers , and a base and dissolute priesthood , there it so prospect of the Com Laws being repealed ; for the landowners , fur whose benefit they are kept on , have

      fired up to the extent , and even exceeded their' incomes , they , consequently , have been compelled to ¦ mortgage their eiUtes to pay the interest of the mortgage , and if a repeal of the Gorn Laws do take place , and the price of land be lowered , the rents of the farmer ¦ would be reduced , and those landowners , whose estates are mortgaged as a majority of them are , ( som $ of the landowners paying as much as three-fourths of the rent ttey receive in the shape of interest upon mortgages , \ would ba entirely ruined , left deep in debt , and nothing to pay with . ; whilst the money-monger , who lent the nosey , would be benefitfced ; and yet the landowners , ¦ before ths Corn Laws can be repealed , must give their consent by passing the bill through the House of Lords . And what power has the Common * left to enforce them

      to pass it , even if a majority could be obtained to pass it through the House of Commons ? Just none ; for il they stop the supplies , the Com Law repealers would lie the greatest lojers ; the trade of the ceuntry being carried on by paper money and fictitious capital , the Bwney system would be entirely destroyed , anarcby and confusion become the order of the day . The landowners having the army to assist them , thelrsons being the officers would serve them , sooner than see the estate cf their father , the baronial castles of their ancestors going to the hinds of the money speculators , would cast down all who opposed them , like the mower cutting down the ripe grass . Yes , we assure you , that no measure can be obtained for t ^ e relief of the people xtOtii tftey have a control over their representatives .

      iJive us , then , werkine men , your mrpport . Unite , mite , for the purpose of obtaining political freedom . Support the forthcoming Convention with all your aaifht . Give yoas assistance at this time . Before your delegate can take his seat in the Convention , th « sum < rf £ 18 » u » i be raised . This sum your delegates have agreed to have in the hands of the treasurer , Mr . ' Smith , cq the 13 th of February , at the latest . No time must be lost ; all hands mast be at work . There i&nst be no hanging back at tbia time . Let all the signatures be obtained to the Petition thai possibly can begot , but let them bo the signatures of all entitled to the franchise . Follow not the example of the Corn

      Law repealers , who , in order to obtain as many signatures as the Chartists , are taking down the names of little children , and are even boasting at obtaining the signatures of children two and three times over . Act honestly but determinedly , and nothing can stop you bom obtaining jour political rights as freemen . We call upon you to supply the required sum for the Congestion without delay ; aad that union and brotherly love may still increase amongst us , and that "Universal Suffrage , and no surrender , may for ever be the metto « f woiklng men . W . Beesley , District Secretary .

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      TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL CHASTER ASSOCIATIONHi Dear Fetexds , —I have no doubt you will feel tnxicus to learn what I have been deing for some timi past , and I EliaU feal it my duty to give you a short sketch of my labours in the cause during my tour in the various parts of the country . In the course of my agitation since I arrived , in the metropolis for the purpose of meeting the members of ths Executive , I have visited Ipswich and Norwich , in both of which places I addressed meetings , and pro ? eared an addition to the numbers of the Association . I would likewise have visited Chatham , but tae fog in Vva river prevented me from reaching that place in time , and consequently the people hsd dispersed long before I reached Qravewnd in the Ipswich steam boat A second dissppoiifttnent arose from an announcement in its Star , to wtich I never gave my consent ; and 1 trust parties , in future , who advertise me to be at places a £ certain dates , will , in the * first place , ask me the question vrhfcther I can go or not .

      I visited Canterbury , and lecture ! in the Town Hall to an audience who never heard of the Charter except from prejudiced sources . The impression was good , and an association was formed in the prisst-ridden c ' ty , to whom I disposed of 50 cards , which , with 54 I left at Ipswich , strengthened the association in that part of the country embraced in the toar by 104 new members . I then proceeded to Diventry , in Northamptonshire , where I addressed a respectable company of my old friends , and caused an increase of members . I moved ¦ oa , orratber marched , with a company of friends , to Xong Buckley , where I addressed a very good paying auditcce in a barn , formed an association , and disposed of fifty cards .

      I aert marched , escorted as usual , through the snow to PitcnJord , and was received by a joyful peal of bells rung for the occasion . I lectured in a barn where there were two pks outside and tiro policemen inside The pigs granted , the police grumbled , and the peuple wera gratified . Tt > e police were sent lor by an old lacy , who either imagined we were going to storm her bouse , or steal the pigs . Tke pigs remained unmolested to dirt at the Srtt Chartist lecture ever addressed to the swinish multitude , and the police , like all "Watchful guardians on a frorty niglit , repaired to the nearest public house , for the purpose of drinking the old lady ' s beakh , at her cspedal expence . On ths following evening I lectured in the Town Hall , which wa 3 filled to overflowing 1 y my constituents , and who were , by all accounts , satisfied that free trade was good enough abstractly , but likely to be ruinous , under present circumstances , if practically enforced , -without the People's Charter .

      I proceeded to Weliingborough , where I delivered two lectures , in a coach-maker ' s shop , and enrolled twenty-five new merabsrs , which fact is the best illnstzation of thetffect cf the lecture . At Ketterir-g I lectured twice , and attended a very Jarge tea-party , g ^ ven by the ladies . Thirty cards were taken at Kettering , which , I am happy to say , ia ¦* ery likely to take a leading part in the movement . I proceeded onwards to Weldon-in-the-Woods , -where I found but few Chartists to begin with ; they were , cowe-rer , of the -right sort , aad the agricultural labonrera were very fcttentive .

      Onndlewsw the last place in Northampton T ? hich I Tiaied , and I had much pleasure in meeting with a Teoerable and respected old gentleman , of the name of Haxnes , who has distributed aa immease number of tacts of all kinds , who contributed largely" to the old Convention , end who provided a place of meeting . fBxtitism is mnch indebted to Mr . Eames , and he has i . j thanks , as one of the party , for bis unequalled * xetUons in the cause , surrounded as be is by prejudice and hostile interests . - ¦ " - - - I an , my dear Friends , Yonr ' f , in the cause , P . il MT ) 0 Cail . My address is l , Shoe-lane , London Wisbeach , Cambridgeshire , Jan-lfth , 18 * 2 ,

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      TO THE MEMBERS , SUB-SECRETARIES , AND GENERAL COUNCILLORS OF THE NATIONAL

      CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Brother Democrats , —Nothing can arrest the rapid progress of our principles except our own divisions or apathy . Divisions ever have been the bane of the progress of the cause of justice and humanity ; observe how the Whigs and Tories cover every fault they possibly can in the parties in their ranks . I have invariably found that the best way to forward our great and sacred cause is , to avoid jealousy ; every good democrat will be appreciated sccerding to hi * deserts . I wish , that parties writing to me would prepay their letters , I have had lately to pay for ssveral letters twopence each , whereas if they were pre-paid they would come free to me , and only cost the Benders one penny each . Such places as have not had cards can have them by applying to me . I would feel obliged to the gentleman wb . 9 remitted tsn shillings from Redrath , in Cornwall , for cards , if be would write to me again ; when be shall have done so , I will transmit cards to

      him . I also wish to know if Mr . Martin , of Brampton , has received the cards Isenthim . I received a letter from Boston , yesterday , stating that cards were wanting , they remitted me £ 1 0 a . 6 & . for the cards ; this is the fourth town in Lincolnshire enrolled in the National Charter Association . The association new exists in every town of note in England ; it has a strong and firm footing in London , the metropolis of Europe ; in Manchester , the great commercial mart ; in Liverpool , in Birmingham , Newcastle , Carlisle , Leeds , York , Hull , Bamsley , Bradford , Dawsbury . Huddersfield , Halifax , Oldham , Aahton , Rochdale , Bolton , Stockport , Chester , Maccltsfleld , Derby , Longhiorough , Nottingham , Leicester , the Potteries , Stafford , Coventry , Warwick , Worcester , Merthyr Tydvil , Brighton , Bath , Bristol , Norwich , Ipswich , Canterbury , Durham , Sunderland , Chatham , Portsmouth , Isle ef Wight , Oxford , Cambridge , and hundreds of other places .

      You see we have penetrated into the seats of State Church intolerance , vie ., Canterbury , Durham , Chester , and Norwich ; into the great sea ports , into villages , in almost every county in England and Wales ; into the University towns of Oxford and Cambridge . I now ask when were our principles so rapidly extended before in so short a space of time , with such little means ? I am particularly anxious that the following places should authorise the sub-Secretaries to write to me , viz .: — Wandsworth Deptford Hpywood Selby . Quesnsbead Church well Beverley Newcastle-under-Lyse Walsall Birmingham , Swallow-street

      Coventry Stapleford Ruddington D&lston New Mills G-lossop Blackwood Yarm Percy Main Hartlepool Milford Seghill Cramlington Hazlegrove Wilsden Stanningley Kingswood-hill Ripon Boroughbridge Bridlington Chelsea Wolverton Birstal Cleckhe&ton Dodworth Woolwich Lepton ' Chatham

      Hollingwood Winslow Northwich Bridport Royton Exeter Tonbridge Birkeahead KeUuham Silsden Camborne , Corn- Driffield wall Wednesbury Sunderland Nuneatou Croydon Idle I sincerely hope that the sub-Secretaries of the above "will immediately correspond with ma I return my most sincere thanks to Messrs . Balrstow and Taylor for sending me the names ' of the sub-Secretaries wherever they establish the Association . Years in the cause , John Campbell , Sec .

      The Northern Star Saturday, January 22, 1842.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , JANUARY 22 , 1842 .

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      THE NEW » NEW MOVE "" MR . BIGGS AND HIS MIDLAND COUNTIES ' CHARTER . The position of the people and the "liberal " middle-classes of this country affords an illustration of the old fable of Mohammed and the moantain j which but for the consequences involved in and the circumstances which have led to it might be amusing . Most heartily , however , do we rejoice to see that the well-schooled people understand their lesson and are resolved to perfectly plaj out their part . Whatever of bullying and blustering and kicking and

      vapouring and coaxing and wheedling may be reserted to , the mountain will not badge ; and Mohasihed , if he purpose to effect a junction must positively advance , not merely halfway , but the wkole distance , The Whig middle classes succeeded , ten years ago , in persuading the people to win power for them , with the distinct bargain that it should be used for the protection of the people and shared with them ; they used that power for purposes of oppression , robbery , aDd spoliation under the name and forms of law ; they were reminded of their compact by the abused

      and deceived people ; they replied by proclamations , police-bludgeons , military pageants , unjust arrest 3 , isock trials , murderous pre-determined sentences , dungeons , and tortures ; the spirit of the peeple was aroused ; they were hurled from the seats they iad defiled ; and the sceptre was wrested from their grasp . They are now beginning to find that the prosperity of the wicked is not for ever ; that a reaction must eome , and does come . They are beginning to feel how very powerless they are without the aid of the abased and vilified and insulted people . Seeing tbi 3 , their first thought was

      to neutralise the power they had called into activity by dividing its forces ; hence the many attempts by corrupting or cajoling venal or weak-minded leaders to split up the people into sections ; to convert the sections into factions , and so to occupy them in destroying each other : hence the " new move , " the Bbewsteb factios , and the other efforts that have been made and are yet making to destroy that unity of action whiflfa is the anchor of the people ' s hope . This game has been tried to surfeiting , but ineffectually : the people do but laugh in the faces of their tools , and dram them out of the ranks .

      Unable to destroy the people ' s energies , they perceive their only chance of maintaining their own position and of regaining power to lie in the devising of some means whereby it should be again purchased to their use ; and they are very anxious therefore to close up the wounds they have so rudely opened and to knit the people again to them . Hence the Cora Law Repeal clap-trap which has se signally failed as to have become a bye word of contempt ; and hence too the more recent and more wily move of " complete Enffrage" to which the aid and countenance of Mr . Stubge has been obtained ; in which the vague principle of Universal Suffrage is recognised , but with a careful exclusion of all those necessary fences of detail which are alike

      important for the obtainieg , guiding , and retaining of it All these are alike unavailing ; the time for cajoling the people has gone by ; they have long since settled in their minds the principle of Umveesal Sctfjuge ; they have prepared and laid down a plan for the useful working of that principle ; and they don ' t choose to begin their work again , because the middle classes find it only now convenient to acknowledge their ignorance . Hence , to resume our simile , the people like the mountain have remained firm ; while the middle classes , like Mohammed , have been moathing and mouthing , and coaxing and coaxing , and are now beginning to think seriously of coming to the -mountain .

      As a last coaxing effort , Mr . Wh . Biggs , of Lei » cester , has thrown his delicately-formed tub to the great whale . He gives a flourish of trumpets preparatory , which is echoed by several H Liberal " papers of aa amended Charter , which was to remove from the People ' s Charter all that was unjust or offensive , and cause it to be adopted by the middle classes ; he is permitted to occupy Bix mortal columns of a large folio newspaper , with the full-length bantling at its birth ; and what is the result ! Why an abortion , so perfect , that it is alike spurned by all parties ! Poor Mr . Biggs ! What an ill-used man ! How shameful ! that the naughty people , and the still more naughty middle classes , for whose service it was specially adapted , won ' t touch his amended Charter J We have waited to see the answer of the " Dissenting Ministers and Midland Counties' Reformers '' to

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      the very modest "devolving of Mr . BiQGsVb&nt-Hng upon them , before we said anything about it . That reply Mr . Biggs furnishes in the following letter to the Editor of the paper which inserted his " amended Charter" : — " * ' Leicester , Jan . 6 , 1842 . " Sir , —In your last week ' s paper , you were kind enough to insert a letter of mine , in the course of which I intimated my intention ' of devolving the Buccess or

      failure of the Amended Charter upon the dissenting ministers of the midland counties . ' I have , since that time , had the pleasure of seeing maay of those gentlemen , and I find that though they generally agree in the principles of the Amended Charter , and will have no objection as citizsns and friends of civil and religious liberty , at fitting times and seasons , to give to it , in as far as they approve it , their support , yet tbat , as dissenting ministers , they are disinclined to be so intimately Identified with it as I proposed .

      " I regret further to Bay , that the result of my correspondence with the Whig Radical Reformers , and dissenting ministers of Nottingham , Derby , and Loughborough , as to the proposed Political Convention , is not encouraging or satisfactory . " Under these cucumatances , the plan must be left to the calm consideration and reflection of Reformers generally . So far as I am Individually concerned , it is enough that I have redeemed my promise of introducing it to the public I believe firmly that the working classes will consult their real interest by adopting it

      I beli&ve further , that the middle classes may support it with perfect security ; but of this both classes must constitute themselves the judges : it is a subject on which it would be gratuitous on all sides to be precipitate . Having no greater personal interest in the progress of public liberty than the poorest man in the empire , I can be well content that some other mbre feasible project may be launched , which may have a greater prospect of immediate or ultimate success . "I remain , Sir , "Your obedient servant ,

      " William Biggs . " So that Mr . Biggs now figures something like a Chinese mandarin , without his button . His " amended Charter " , instead of being " the Midland Counties ' Charter , " is poor Mr . Bigos ' lame bantling ; kicked out by the Dissenting Ministers , disowned by the Whig-Radicals , and cuffed equally by the Nonconformist , and the good Chartist Parson , Humphrey Price ! Well ; well ! these things will happen . The best of projects are sometimes frustrated ; and as heavy a fall as this has ere now overtaken as great a man as Mr . Biggs .

      We have a spice of that indiscriminate chanty in our disposition which would induce us , had we the means , to keep an open refuge for the destitute ; and in the true spirit of this disposition , as Mr . Biggs ' friends "bowed him out" we proceed to "take him in , " and to introduce him to the notice of our readers . We have read this "Midland Counties' Charter " xao 3 t carefully ; and find dishonesty in every lineament . He sets out with a flaming eulogiutn on the principles of the People ' s Charter . He says , speaking in the character of " the under-signed Ministers of Religion , members of Reform Societies , fcc . " : —

      " We hold tbat the general principles of the Charter are correct and indisputable ; that they lie at the foundation of all democratic governments ; that they are old as time , immutable as fate , eternal as the hills , and are at once the pride and birthright of the human race . " He proceeds to assert that the design of th « original framers of the Charter " to cause the Radicals of the United Kingdom to form , if possible , a concentration of their principles ia a practical form ,

      upon which they could be brought to unite , and to whickthey might point , as a Charter they are determined to obtain" ; in other words , to induce a union of all reformers in the empire , for the purpose of effecting a grand national organic change in the Parliamentary representation , based upon the principles of the "Equal Rights of Man , " has signally failed ; and tbat though the Charter has been now three years before the public , it is as far from effecting the object designed , as it was when it was first launched into political existence .

      These are his reasons for sitting down to remodel and to purge of its impurities the Charter ; of whose p > inciptes he has spoken so highly : and after labouring , as we have said , throigh six long columns , the " amendments" he proposes are to give the vote to all persons of twenty-five yeara instead of twentyone , — to make the residence qualification twelve months instead of six , —and to fix the duration of Parliaments at three years instead of one . With these alterations he regards the Charter as : — "A practical scheme of political reform , which , while it is based upon first principles , may in pur honest and conscientious conviction , come into immediate operation to morrow , withont the slightest insecurity to life , liberty , or property . "

      Now , the first natural feeling of a honest man at eight of this statement is , " Why then make a fuss about such trifling matters of difference as these ? Why not at once , seeing that the Charter has been three years before the public , and ha 3 therefore many admirers and honest advocates , merge these slight and inconsiderable matters of difference on detail for the attainment of the great end Bought ; a cordial agreement on the principles ¦?" This we say is the first thing that strikes a honest mind . The end avowedly sought is an union of the middle classes with the Chartists , for the purpose of honestly promoting the great principles of the Charter ; and if this end were really sought , and if the Charter was so near to Mr . Biggs' mind as to need

      only these alterations , and if the middle classes were very anxious about the union for the purpose avowed , there can be no manner of doubt that they would sacrifice their own predilections on these points , rather than hazard the con tinuance of that disagreement which they affect to deplore . This is the clear-sighted view of the matter , taken by the Rev . Mr . Price , who , in a letter to the Leicester Chronicle , says : — ¦ " If Mr . Biggs can win over the middle classes to the Charter cause , without compromising a particle of true liberty , I for one will gratefully honour him as one of the noblest friends of the working man , and of the united empire . Let Mr . Biggs proceed in his design , but in such away as not to stop others . The first ,

      which may now be called the old Charter , is most probably , rooted in the very souls of hundreds of tboinands under five and twenty years of age ; * Such ardent spirits , downright in earnest , might possibJt be brought to contemplate , their liberty held five or bLx years before thair eyes , in abeyance ; and thus , after having , finished one five or seven years' apprenticeship , to look forward to another . But this will now become a severe trial . Mr . Biggs should have come forth somewhat earlier with his amendments , and I am not prepared to say that they are not amendments . * * Though myself one of the middle classes , and approving of Mr . Biggs ' s amendments , I for the present adhere to the old Charter for two reasons : first , because my main trust , under God , is in the working mea ; and next , because the old Charter is rooted in their heaita . "

      In the same spirit of manly sincerity , the 'Nonconformist , after stating his objections to the laying down of details at all , for which he thinks the minds of the middle classes yet unprepared , exclaims : — " Nor do we see anything so much more valuable in a twelvemonth's residence , and twenty-five years of age , regarded as pre-requisites of the franchise over six months' residence and twenty-one yearB of age , as to render an entire change of the principles upon whioh complete suffrage is based , either necessary or justifiable . Were the whole matter talked over now for the first time , we will not aver that Mr .

      Biggs might not adduce strong arguments why the one set of checks upon the suffrage were . to be preferred to the other . Bat why , when the ^ bther plan has been some years before the world , when it is based upon intelligible principles , and when ib affords a guarantee for the fit exercise of the franchise , but an inconsiderable fraction less trustworthy than that proposed by Mr . Biggs—why now , at the commencement of an important movement , the suspicions of working men are to be excited by provisions which , after all , will not allay the fears of the middle classes , is to our minds , we confess , a question to which we can furnish no satisfactory reply . "

      We confess that had not Mr . Biggs himself furnished it , we should have been as much at a loss for a reply as our contemporary . Mr . Big « s has , however , taken great pains not to be mistaken . He has , as we before said , stamped dishonesty upon every lineament of his new Charter . His professed object is to produce union with the Chartists . Wo have already Been enough to shew that that is not his purpose ; and lest we should , by any possibility , mistake him , he begins this crusade for union with a volley ef senseless and scurrilous invective against the Chartist leaders . " The conduct of some of the Chartist leaders has ^ beea 6 trangely incons ' utent ' ¦ : —wi th " equal

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      rights upon their lips , they hare been practically intolerant to all who differed from them ; with a professed sympathy for the millions , they have perpetuated their distresses ; with an avowed hatred of Toryism , they have coalesced with and supported Tories ; with a claim to superior patriotism , they have been practically the worst enemies of civil liberty this country ever saw ; they have thus alarmed , abused , and yUified those whose assistance was indispensable to their success , and without whose

      concurrence they had not the slightest shadow of a chanoe ; they have alienated friends , strengthened enemieB , obstructed practical measures of relief , and have aided to restore that party to the Government , from which they have hot the smallest chance of dislodging it;—and yet , with all these merits and perfovmancea " full blown , and fresh as May , " affect now to wonder there pan . be no union between them and the middle classes , when they themselves are the guilty authors of the separation !"

      This is thei mild and conciliatory language of a middle-class writer who seeks an union with the Chartists ! We don't wonder that the Dissenting Ministers are ashamed of their connection with such a man as this ; so v ^ ry bungling » workman in cloakmaking ! Not less singularly unfortunata is Mr . Biggs in the consistency of his animadversions on and proposed alterations in the Charter with bis professions of respect and yeheration for its principles . He holds : —

      " That the general principles of the Charter are correct and indisputable ; that they lie at the foundation of all democratic governments ; that they are old as time , immutable as fate , eternal aa the hills , and are at once the pride and birthright of the human race " - ; - . ¦ ¦/ : . , ¦ ¦ ' ' ; .. / - ¦' ; . . ' . > , ; ¦ '' : ; ' - ' ¦ ¦ ' . ' ¦ ¦ / : \ ¦ And yet two out of the three of his proposed alterations are in the tery teeth of those principles , and t a third he accords but a very grumbling kind of assent ! The first great principle of tho Charter i Universal Suffrage , and Mr . Biggs afiirms his cordial belief in this great cardinal principle by proposing an alteration whioh would disfranchise a very large portion of those who now have the suffrage ; 1 . Another great principle Of the Charter is ^ Annual or Sessional Parliaments—and this principle Mr .

      BiGas labours , through a full third of his document , to upset and quotes numerous authorities to show its mischievous tendency 1 Another great principle is the negation of Property qualification . Upon this principle Mr . BiaGS says : — " We do not as practical men entirety agree as to the expediency of this proposition , yet , acting upon the principle with which we set out , of agreeing in all cases where we can without a compromise of our integrity , or honest convictions , we shall not itisist upon any particular property qualification as a . sine quanon . * * But as we apprehend that 'in " this old European world of ours , ' and particularly in our day and generation , other considerations being equal ) men of property would always be prefemd , wei leave this clause of the Charter untouched "

      This is Mr . Biofs' mode of holding that ; the general principles of the Charter are correct and indisputable ; that they lie at the foundation of all democratic governments j that they are old as time , immutable as fate , eternal as the hills , and are at once the pride and birthright of the human race . . ; . ' . . - - ¦/ . ¦¦ . / ¦¦ ' . ' ... ¦ . ' : ¦ , ¦ ¦" . ¦ ' ¦ Really , the thing , after all , is a good joke to laugh at ! And then the "indispensable importance of the middle classes to the Chartists" ! Without

      them the Chartists have : no manner of chance ! The Charter agitation "has signally failed" ! It has been "three years before the public , and is yet no nearer the attainment of its object than at first 1 " Good , simple Mr . Bi «« s ! whence came this " amended Charter" of your ' s 1 How long must we have waited for it ; if your friends , the Whigs , had yet been on the sunny-side of Downing Street r and if the Charter agitation had never risen 1 Answer that ; Schoolmaster ! The Nonconformist is not quite so astute . He says that the appearance of this "Amended Charter "]

      "Indicates , that the accession of the Tories to power has rgiven a mighty impulse to the cause of the people , and that the removal of ihe Whigs has restored to more than its wonted elasticity the reforming [ spirit of the present day . Leading men of the middle class are beginning to shake off the lethargy with which ^ opiate of Whig professions had fairly overcome them ; and as , one by one , they are brought rounoV to consciousness by

      the cold water of Tory rule , they discern the amesing difference there ia between the airy dreams of stimulated fancy , and the obstinate realities of actual and waking life . We hail their restoration to the ranks , which , for a brief period , and under a temporary hallucination , they quitted—and we trust the time is not far distant , when the reformers of every class will be again animated with one bouI , and . march down in one compact and irresistible phalanx upon the common foe . " -. '¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ " ¦¦ . ' . : , - ¦ . " ¦ - . ¦ ¦ ., - • ¦ .

      This is , just what we have always Baid . Wo always told the people , maugre all the grumbling of some good Cnarti&ts at our " protory" policy , that a bleak view of Downing-street , was the only thing for bringing round the Whigs and making Chartists of them . See how the thing works ! Let this Charter of Mr . Biggs , answer . Let the people but keep true to themselves and their own Charter , as they have hitherto done , and we stake our lives on it that when Mohammed is fairly satisfied that the mountain won't more ; he will soon come to the mountain !

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      Mr dear Friends , —You invited me , after my incarceration , to visit your country for the purpose , as your letters stated , of proving that your affection towards me had not abated . In compliance with your wishes , I went to Scotland before I had visited any district of England , and after attending nearly fifty largo meetings I had the heartfelt consolation to find that you were a people worth suffering for , while nothing more increased my affection towards you than the hearty response with which my appeals on behalf of my native land were met .

      For seven years I have laboured in England and Scotland in the cause of national liberty ; and although aJmost exiled from the loved land for which my family have suffered an unprecedented martyrdom , yet have I at all times , out of season and in season , brought * the woes of Ireland before you . When I went amongst you in 1836 I found you distracted between the undefined tests of O'Conhell and Durham , as they were called ; and then , for the first time , did I , in person , unite the whole of the working classes in one great national union . My subsequent visits to Scotland have been numerous and expensive ; and it was my delight to hold you up in all my speeches and writings as the stronghold of demooracv .

      In October and November last , I say , I attended nearly fifty large public meetings , at each and all of which the National Petition was unanimously adopted , while a distinct pledge to assist Ireland in her . struggle for redemption was also carried . During my sojourn , a National Convention of Scottish delegates was spoken of , and , without my knowledge , the good men of Elders . ey , the birth place of the immortal Wallace , did me the honour to elect me

      as their delegate . Rutherglen followed the example of Eldersley , and by its election strengthened my hands by the increased confidence . While I was in Sootland no opposition , not any , was offered to the National Petition . No amendment was moved to its adoption—all was unanimous , till those , whose duty it was to preserve union , met in Convention Oh the third day of January ; and to the proceedings of that body I shall now apply myself .

      I should have written to you on the subject in last week ' s Star , but I preferred waiting till you had the whole of the proceedings before you ; and even now , in consequence of the neglect of my reporter , you are in but very imperfect possession of the facts . Nay , I cannot make head or tail of his infernal trash myself , although I was present . I must now relieve the proceedings from the obscurity

      in wHch neglect and treaoMry have enveloped them . On Monday , the 3 rd , the delegates met . I was not present upon that day , and I have . no reason to regret my absence , as I learn that Brewster , the old torment , occupied the whole day in an attempt to sow discord and confusion : he was bafiled , however , by the good sense of the delegates ; Nothing of more , importance than putting down this firebrand occurred on Monday , beyond the very discre-

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      ditable manner in whioh one of the synod of Glasgow procured his- election . Brewster said that any four or five persons might elect a delegate ; and on the instant off rah Mr ; Charles M'Ewin to a few houses called Gavan , tapped at a few doors , which were opened , and on Tuesday , their pious representative , presented his credentials and was admitted ; thug leaving Gatton and Old Sarum in the shade . . ¦ ¦ , - - ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ : -.- : ¦ ¦ . ¦• • . : ¦ ¦; . ¦ '¦ . : :

      You shall now hear how the principle of equal represehtatioa was practically carried but by the Church-Chartist Synod of Glasgow . Fifty-four delegates was the greatest number that voted , and of these fifty-four Glasgow alone returned seventeen ! Aye , seventeen ! and of those seventeen the following were Whigs—rank Whigs , and compose the Chartist presbytery of Glasgow . M'Far lane , he was said to be elected for Montrpse , Malcolm , ( for some country district ) , Patteson , Curriej Jack , M'Evvin , Dixon , Casselsj Rbdgers , and some other whose name I do not recollect . Now , all these ran about like rats , endeavouring to get a constituency ; and I

      am bold to assert that altogether they did not represent 500 of the working classes of any part of the world . Added to these we had Brewster , and three of his tools chosen by the shopkeepers of Paisley , and a person of the name of Mitchell ; elected at a twopenny ticket meeting at Aberdeen , one of the Calton Hill bucks , aud sabsequcntly one of the •' new move" gentry . Now * Proudfoot , ^^ Ross , Colquhoun , and M « yers , ( the treasurer of the Chartist Church ) , as fine a fellow as lives , and myself were also elected for parts of Glasgow , Messrs . Proudfoot and Ross being bound dotvi by the instructions of their constituents .

      Thusi there were ten Glasgow preachers , all Whigs—not a drop of Chartist blood In their veinsfour Brewsterite 3 and Mitchell , making a total of fifteen ; and will any man in Scotland tell me that the set represent 500 working men ? and yet we had to contend against them . In consequence of M'Douall ' s very excellent letter in last week's Sldr , I shall be explicit . That letter was written under a misapprehension . It was written tinder the impression that the vote of the Synod , by which we were to have had two petitions , remained undisturbed , while , thanks to Lowefy , for a very excellent amendment which rescinded the one of the Synod , we were spared the disgrace of a double petition . /

      I shall now ; lay before you all that happened of importance : during Tuesday and Wednesday . On Tuesday Jack moved the rejection of the petition and the adoption of a new petition for Scotland . One of the saints , of course , seconded it , and that firm and noble fellotv , John Wallace M'Crea , moved an amendment for the adoption of the petition as it stood . To this Lowery moved another amendment ,, to the effect that all places where the National Petition had been adopted should go on procuring signatures ; and that in future , to prevent disunion , all extraneous matter should be omitted from a National Petition . The

      vote was first taken upon the amendments , when M'Crea ' s was carried By a large majority . ^ M'Crea ' s amendment and Jack ' s resolution were then put when the numbers were equal , 27 and 27 ; the Chairman having voted , and Rodger who was pledged by hifi constituents to support the Petition , having refused to vote . In this dilemma the Chairman was called upon to give his casting vote . I , with others protested against this , as he had voted before ; however , he requested five minutes reflection in the vestry room , and at the end of that period , he gave the casting vote against the National Petition .

      Emboldened by their temporary triumph , Patteson , another of the Synod , moved a resolution deprecating all interference with meetings which had for their object the removal of what he termed •' ¦ infamous monopolies "— -a most rascally resolution—one calculated to hand us over , bound neck and heels , to the League ; the Synod to a man , with Brewster and his tools and a few who were looking to the Presbytary for preferment , voted for this ; but we carried an amendment of Lowery's , recommending the old course of explaining our principles and taking the vote at all meetingsi by a sweeping majority .

      On Wednesday morning the committee brought in a new petition for Scotland , and Brewster , who objected to any details , even the mention of Repeal and the Poor Law Amendment Act , opposed it , because there was no mention made of Paisley 1 Now , Scotchmen , what think you of that man ' s brain ? Did I not always tell you that he was * daft . " However to this petition there was some objection , but it passed . ( Continued next week . )

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      TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . S i R—In justice to those delegates , who , in the late Chartist Convention , supported and voted in favour of the National Petition , I think their names and votes ought to have been recorded . in the reports' Bent you by your Glasgow correspondent . I much regret that ihis has not been done , as I perceive from Dr . M'Douall ' s letter , published in last Saturday ' s Star , some delegates are accused ( and I have good reason to believe justly ) of nol voting :, who had instructions from their constituents to vote for the Petition .

      Now , as the names of those who acted thus treacherously to their constituents , and , in fact , to their country , are not mentioned , and lest I may be reckoned among those who objected to the petition , I beg leave to state , for the Satisfaction of my English friends , that I supported it to the utmost of in ? ability ; and on its being rejected by the casung vot < $ t ; he chairman , he having voted against it previously , t supported and voted for Mr . Lowery's amendment . By inserting the above inthe 5 / a > : of next Saturday , you will confer a special favour on Yours very respectfully , Duncan Robertson . Motherwell , Jan . 16 , 1842 ,

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      Brief Rules for the : Government of all ¥ h » write for Newspapers . —• Write legibly . Make as few erasures and interlineations as possible In writing names of persons and places be more particular than usual ' to make every letter distinct and clear—also in using words not English-Write only on one side of the paper . Employ no abbreviations whatevery but write out every word in full . Address communications not to . any particular person , but to "The Editor . " Finally , when you sit down to write , don ' t be in ahurryj Consider that hurried writing makes slow printing . Horton Reform Association . —We have no room for the address ; at all events not this week . Belfast Chartists . — We arc compelled to reserve

      their report till next week . T . S . —The Sheffield Political Institute is an isolated . "¦ body , altogether distinct from the Charier Association ; but professing to advocate the same principles and to seek the accomplishment of the same object . H . Johnson , Portsea , is not the H . Johnson whom we lately designated " a fool , and something more . " W . Cordeux . —The reports of the York Chartists will be always subjected to precisely the same discretionary process as all other reports sent to this office . We have further to request , that in future they will conjine their resolutions to such matters of local or general policy as come properly within their scope , and leave the business affairs of this office to those who have its

      management . Delph . —The Saddleworth Chartists wish to ask Mr * O Connor , throiiah the medium of the St&T , if he can pay them a visit some time soon , on his way to or from Leeds . Saddhivorth is in as corrupt a state as London : hundreds of working men would gladly come forward but for the tyrannyoj ' 'theirmasters , shopkeepers , and parsoris . They return their thanks to ihe Editor of the Stax for his able advocacy of the rights of labeur , and to Mr . Penny , of Mills Bridge , for his letters te Mr . StansJield . ¦ ¦ * . Arthur O'Neil , sub Secretary to the Redfearhstreet Chartists , wishes that all communications intended for him be dddressed , for the future , lo the care of Mr . James Wheeler ^ Wh ittle-street .

      , Manchester . . Bolton . —All letters and communications to be sent to William Baird , No . 1 , Flash-street , Bollon , Lancashire . Persons holding Petition Sheets are requested to bring theniin as soon as possible to the rooms in Howeli-crdft . H . A . Donaldson . —received . The Chartists oj'Spittle-gate , Grantham , wilt [ please to write io . i \ lr . . J * Sweet ; Goose gate , Nottingham , and state if they canaid their brethren in supporting the Convention . Joseph Andrews . —the statements of shoemakers ' wages by all means ; but mind and be correctsend riot a word which can be disputed . We cannot answer his questionA

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      Patt M'Twowltbr is a sad simpleton . Hehadevi * dently , as he says , hai lately teen the Northern Star , or he would have known that ail his objec' - ' : ¦ tiorisaboutCornLawRepealhavebeenmetand repliedto > initdqainandagain . " ¦ -. ¦ Kbtterino C ^ ABTiSTS wUl see that D r . M'BowW tetter has rendered their report unnecessary . General Secretary ' s Address , —Mr . John Campbell , 18 , Adderley street , Shaw ' s Brow ' , Man-- Chester , : ; :.: ¦ ¦ ' ¦¦ : : ¦ . :: ¦ ¦'¦ -: : "' . - ' ¦ ¦/ " - " ' . " ¦ ¦ . ¦ " Hanley ^ Chartists co mplain of theirbrief reports being curtailed . We can assure them that we do it with reluctance , but have no alternative . We are obliged to curtail all reports as much as pdssibte . If ' our Hanley friends were here to see the amount of labour this causes , they would

      readily believe . that wewouldgladly [ excuseyapor tionofit ifpossible .: y = Hanley Females . —Their address next week , Mr . T . Falvby and our Manchester Reporter i—We have received a letter from our Manchester Correspondent ' in reference : to the letter of Mr . Falvey noticed in our last , defending the accuracy of his report . As lie denied insertion to Mr . Falvey ' s letter , we do hot think it would he fair to insert this . Enough that our reporter affirms his report to be trite in every particular , and appeals to the audience and the local press for dorroooraiion : He has also enclosed extrqets from the Manchester anli Com Law press , which bear out the statements of his letter . Mb . Campbell wishes that some person would for ward Co him a Northern Star of the 5 th

      ofOcto-Jer , ia 39 . All Letters to be addressed as usual to Mr . Camp'" ¦ " , bell , Sa / ford i until a further notice appears in : the ¦ ¦ -Star . " - " - ¦ ¦ . - . ; ' v . ¦ - ¦ " . '¦ : ¦"" - '" ¦ - ¦ ¦ : - : ' - " : . yr- ' "' - ; Support for the Executive . —William Fairbum writes :- — " " . ' - ' . ' . '¦ . "¦ ¦¦ . ; :: - - ¦ ' ,. ' ' -. ¦¦ : . -: '¦ ' ' «« If you will allow me , I will point out a plan to the Chartists of England whereby they may rajse a fund . " , - not only for the Executive , but also for the Execu" tivo to be able to employ something like fifty able leoturers for this country , namely : There is . 300 Chartist Associations , and by each Association getting up a tea party and ball once in six months , the proceeds , after paying the expencea , to go to the fund , and with good management , it could be

      made to bring upwards of £ 300 . The Executive to pay 53 . per week to each lecturer , and the associations reckoning six places , one for each night , ( and Sunday as a rest day ) to pay 2 s . 6 d . to the lecturer , wbioa Would make his wages £ 1 per week . By so dding , it would be the means of spreading our principleg in places wkere they are unknown . Then there would be the additional membera which would be : got , and the cards of nn'Oibership , being paid for regularly every month , would enable the Executive to go on with their good work ; which would strike terror -to the oppressors of the working millions . — -The Cbartists of Wednesbury intend to get up a tea party and ball shortly , for the benefit of the Executive :

      and they hope that the above plan will be acted upon by all the Chartists of England . " Plan for the support of the Executive , and thb Cause ^ ENERALLY .- ^ A Factory Youth proposes the following plan : — "Let the Association rooms be opened two nights per week , or on . Sundays if more convenient , for the purpose of teaching reading , writing , accounts , ^ c , and let 1 ' two , or more , competent persons be appointed by ¦ the Association to each room as teachers , who may be changed quarterly , or otherwi se , and : whose services must be performed gratisr-each pupil to pay one penny per night . There are thousands of yeuhg persons who , likemyself , are confined in the factories during the day , that

      would be glad to see such a plan established for their moral and intellectual improvement .- I would strongly recommend the above to the consideration of those who are in thehabit of meetin at the public-houses . Let them immediately take rooms , and commence supporting the Executive and the cause generally according to the above plan , which will at the same time be the means of spreading sound information amongst the rising generation ^ a subject which ought to be kept in view by every real philanthropic mind . But , setting aside the moral and intellectual view of the : effect which such apian is calculated to produce ^ let us see what would be the effect of it in another point of view < if only : partially carried out . Suppose that out of the 300 towns which at present compose the Association , only

      150 could be induced io put the plan into operation , arid the attendance of pupils was , upon an average , thirty-six at each room ; ihenthirty-siM at one penny each night , would raise 6 s . for the two nights per week , and that mid tiplied by 150 would produce --a weekly sum of £ 45 , which is equal to the weekly contributions oj ' 10 . 800 members I and that carried forward would , in o year ' s time ,: produce the sum of £ 2 , 34011 With such a sum at the disposal of the Chartist body , could nothing be done ? Unhappy Ireland might have missionaries sent over to her , and her long-deluded sons might be made to see their true interests ; t » short , a steady fire might be kept up on the citadel of corruption ! which would speedily ) compel its factious occupants to surrender . ' , - ,

      Chartist Tokens of Honour . —A Cotreponden writes thus : — ^ ^ ; " Some time ago I observed in the valuable paper of which you arethe Editor a few lines on the subject of presenfingevery Chartist who was suffetinK in prison at that tlmtj , for his advocacy of the good cause ; with a Medal , inscribed ^ witk his name , the date of his arrest , sentence , name of the Judge , &c , to serve as a token of gratitude to himself , as well as to be worn on public eccasioDs , and be an hek > loom to his family . ; . ' . - . ¦ . ¦;• ::: . . - ¦ . . . ¦ ; ; " Now , Sir , I ; know not how this agreeable proposition fell to the ground ; but it appears it Is forgotten , and perhaps it was laid aside > for lack of funds to ' . carry it out . ~ ' . . "¦ ; . ;¦ /¦ ¦ ¦¦ -: v : ¦ . '¦ ' - . ' - ¦ .. '' . ¦ .

      "But just at this time , when the Executive is sadly In ..- want of the means of pursuing their bject , I think a goodly sum might be raised by having « 00 medals of the above description , and each individual to pay for bis own . Then there might be some use for the tricolour of the ' Woolwich Cadet , ' as they would surely pay for their own , as well as Fear gua ' a ; and if any profit remained ; let it go to the ¦ Executive . ' : ; ' ¦ ¦;¦ ¦ ¦ ¦; - . . ' v ' .. ' ; -: \/ : ¦ . ;¦ ¦ ¦¦ x- .: " Surely the high-minded and intelligent individuals . who were incarcerated would be' proud to per . petuate their names amongst their progeny , and the cause of which they were the advocates and I feel satisfied the heroic Feargua would endeavour to see the object carried out on a scale worthy its

      importance , particularly as he has lived to see his own in circulation , and coveted by every lover of liberty . I would respectfully suggest , then , that steps be token to carry put this desirable object , by the appointment 1 of a Committee , or some other expeditious method , if only to aid the Executive . ' . ' Hoping this : proposal may meet your approbation and the public eye , as well as the proposition of our intelligent friend at Chichester , " I remain , Sir , " A lover of equality , and " One of the Sufferers . " " P . S . There would be no need for a head on the medal , an emblem of Freedom would answer quite as ¦ weiL .:. ¦ - ¦¦ / ¦ ¦ ¦ .- . ¦ ¦ •¦ . ¦ " ¦ ¦ : . ¦¦ , ¦ . - ¦ ¦ ¦••• ¦ •¦ '

      Bisley . —Distribution of the Funds of the Manufacturers' Relief Committee . —A correspondent , who signs "Abel D . Cook , " and who states himself ready to prove his assertions on oath , writes usi that the portion of the funds of the Manufacturers' Relief Committee sent to Bisley , is being shamefully misapplied ; that a system of favouritism . and exclusion is carried ¦ on in its distribution , which , if true , is abomina ' He . He says : — » "OnThursday , December 30 , 1841 , a person who has been left desttute by the death of an only parent , applied for some relief from this fund , but wai refused ; the alleged reason being that she kept a Chartist lodger in . her house , and that as long , as she kept him she should have no relief , though the parties knew that she had no other dependence . 7 Another person was refused , because he bad mads

      and mended shoes for the said Chartist ; and permitted him to frequent his house : this being given as the only reason for refusing relief . Other persons , who are actually starvirg for want of the common necessaries of life , have been refused relief . upon equally frivolous grounds : some because they had parish relief , to the extraordinary amount of one shilling per week—although their order is to distribute this money without regard to the parish : others because they went to chapel , &c ., &e . ; while some persons who are " well to do in the worjd " have received relief . One person who has a large sum of money deposited in the bank , and an extensive business , has been relieved with a quantity of coal . Another person , who has conataat employ , earning on the average 30 s . per week , bad soma coal given him . And another person , with constant employ , and property enougk to keep him , iai also received part of this charity . " :

      Of course we cannot know whether the facts beat here stated : we only know that if they ie iti * abominable . ¦ : " ¦ ¦¦ ¦'¦ . '¦ : . , ; ¦ SKiPTON Corn Law Meetinq . —Afr . Knowles , < if Keighley , sends us an account of a moral-force ¦ ^ anti-Corn Law meeting at Skipton , at which ' . .. Messrs . Dr . Smiles and CoundUor Moore were ther-V licnis , " and where the writer , wishing to discuss tke question , was seised by the throatt thrown from the platform into the body of the meeting , and ullimdtelv mtched down stairs , and

      V taken away insensible ; but he does not say when the meeting was held . A . C—The proprietor of the Weekly Dispatch is AldermanHarmer . ' .. '¦ Legal QuESTiONS . ^ -5 ' etJerore / these have co me tout lately . We can do nothing with them . Mr . O'C . is , not here : and if we , who have not professionally studied , the law , should advise , we might do more : mischief than we could repair , i . e . iV our advice were acted on . John Kelsey . —The list was inset-ted just as we uceived it .

      To Th%Chartists Of Scotland.

      TO TH % CHARTISTS OF SCOTLAND .

      The Scottish Convention Vote.

      THE SCOTTISH CONVENTION VOTE .

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      _ 4 ' ^ THE NORTHERW STAR .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 22, 1842, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1145/page/4/