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      O'COlfKELL AND THE IRISH CATHOLIC CLERGY . TO THE RIGHT RET . DOCTOR BL __ , . CATHOLIC BISHOP OF DROMORB . Mt Lobd , —I beEevB it is not customary to make any analogy for addressing a letter to any one wbo appears before the public upon political questions , thronch the medium of the press . Assuming this as a right whieb I aho&ld hope -will not be controverted , I take leave , tins publicly , to make a few observations npoa your Lordship ' s letter , of the 9 th instant , to the Editor d the Harry Telegraph .

      MyXord , I nave , with 1 * 9 little degree of pain , read th at letter in the Daily Freeman and in the Wetldy freeman 's Jmrnal of this day ; and I regret te Bee that , in yonr anxiety to make Mr . O'Connell appear to the world as the honest , uncompromising , consistent patriot winch yon wish him to be , and in yonr admiration of his transcendent eloquence and splendid abilities believe him to be , you have in some parts of e very speech and letter of yours , in his pnise , exposed yourWlf to a flat contradiction from every one who has taken the trouble t © examine and read My . 0 Cornell ' s p olitical letters and meandering career . ^ The facts are one and all against your Lordship ' s charitable assump tions , and I am sorry for it ; because it is great injustice to any man , and to the country , to hold him up to his countrymen upon false assumptions either for public adulation or public odtum . Equity , and eqnity alone , should be tbe ground upon "which every public IP'ti should ba tried . Equity is the shield and protection of tbe just man ; but the terror of the knave .

      Tbe following sentence ocenrs in your Lordship ' s letter ef tba 9 th instant , namely , I believe , indesd , th at neither tbe war with China nor that with Afighanistan were favourite undertakings with him , ( Mr . O'Connell , ) and that which has caused nnaecessarily Ecch horrible f-ffision of blood _ Dd snch extensive and "wanton destruction of human life , rather fills him ¦ wi th horror than exultation . * Now this is just the kind of feelm * which every good man should have wished Mr . O Council to have entertained , and having entertained it , to have maintained it lite an honest nun ; bat his conduct span tbe occasion was the very reverse . When the question of war with China came under discussion in the Souse of Commons , or as

      the fashionable elan * of the day has it , " was beiu * _ isen _ sesl , ~* " Mr . O'ConneH made by far tfce most trocalfint speech of all the advocates of that nefarious measure ; one sentecoe of which was cheered to the echo by the enemi ** of mankind at both aides of the House . He saJd , * That British ralonr would teach the aaney and insolent Chinese a salutary lesson at the cannor * mouth even under the very walls of Prkin . " How honest , consistent , snd prudent is this conduct in ths advocate of anti-war and anti-slavery at public meetings ! How sweet it falls from the lips * f him who ostentatiously proclaims that " He would n « t ahed one drop of tinman blood to achieve the liberty of the world !!"

      Yon ray , my Lord , that " yon hare paid your years ' subscription before hand , to the Repeal rent , and that you glory in it ; and that you feel perfect confidence in the integrity and loyalty as well as in the ability , prudence , and enexscj of the illustrioM individual who Is tbe head of tbe Repeal Association . " I believe this most thoroughly . I am convinced that you have the mtmoat confidence in Mr . O * Co __ elTs wisdom , prndence , ability , and integrity , or else you would not do so . You musk mean his , ability , integrity , and , prndence as s statesman or semtor , as ne one doubts ox questions bis ability as a lawyer and an orator ; bntl dodonbtand questien his ability and integrity as a senator . In what measure or proposition has he shown any proof of eithpr one otter , or any of those qualities for which you gfre him credit ! Where are they to be found ? Show

      ane the statute or proposition , or actjor deed of big in favour of public liberty since he went into Parliament is 18 SJ , and I shall m * st willingly give him credit for It ? I should not find fault with him for having been unsuccessful in the House of Commons ; but I do find fault with him for net having had the moral courage to hare made tbe effort in his place in Parliament , particularly when his friends the only British ministry fr » . t ever intended doing justice to Ireland , were in power , and when that Ministry had a commanding majority in the House of Commons . Where , then . Is hie aialisy ? Wbera is hi * integrity ? What has he done or proposed to do ? Let me not be answered by Catholic Emancipation , which would be no answer , as he had not a seat in Parliament when that measure was carried . When then is the proof of bis ability and integrity as a statesman ?

      Kow , my Lord , I who have for miny years taken as active part in politics , and carefully and attentively read Mr . O'Connell ' s letters and speeches , and took great trouble fe > collect them with a view to their publication , as the history of his life written by his own hand ; and who confided , implicitly confided , in his ability and integrity , and was captivated by his eloquence , and lota to distrust him until he abandoned the true , pare Radical faith in 1835 , and openly and avowedly joined the deceitful and treacherous Whin , do not wish to take you by surprise whose studies and pursuits are of a different and mveh higher order fhrt-n politics . Bat , on the contrary , in order to prove to

      jour Lordship and every other eulogist and admirer of the ability and integrity of Mr . O'Connell , that I wish to deal with this subject fairly and candidly , do now give yon one month to discover and publish any one proposition for the benefit of his eoantry , or Is promotion of the public interest , brought forward by Mr . CConntll In hie place in Parliament , during the whole of his « flli __ o _ parliamentary career , the Repeal of the Union always excepted , because he says himself , that be was relnciantly forced into the discussion of that measure . And mind , thai I am prepared to prove that he marred , wilfully marred , the introduction of many a measure which would have been of essential benefit to his country .

      As toh 2 S " Ioyalty , * ' it appears to me and to many others to have been , at one time , exceedingly questionable , or if sot fuestionable , sfibrds a bad test of that wisdom , prudence , ability and integrity for which your Lordship gives him so much credit . M " y Lord , he has often plumed himself upon the ability and foretight which he displayed for fire long years in futile , and , I may add , fyn *»» H « effort * , to conciliate tbe Orangemen , and t _ t too , in spite of the remonstrances of those who knew them better than be did , and whose ¦ knowledge he was afterwards forced , publicly forced , to admit . The time Mr . O'Connell chose to conciliate the Orangemen always did and always win carry a good deal of well-founded suspicion of his loyalty sbont it ; tbe more so when we take into conaideratian hi * wisdom ,

      prndence , ability , and experience . Mark the time and the circumstances wen . My Lord , I pray yon do not treat this carelessly , but weigh it welL At the very period , and long before , when Mr . O'Connell was by all the eloquence and all tbe artifice of w £ ( fcb be is aaster , lulling his cred-lou , warm-hearted , and confiding countrymen into the delusive hope that Use Orangemen could not only be conciliated , but that hundreds of them had sacrificed their prejudices on the liter of thtir country , and joined the ranks of tbe Eepealers , the Duke of Cumberland , who was Grand Master of the Orangemen of the Empire , sad Colonel Fairman , Lord Kenyon , and other great Orange leaders , formed a conspiracy to charge the

      dynaiiy on the death of William tbe Fourth s _ d place the Bake of Cumberland on the throne . This conspiracy -was happily exploded by the inquiry which Parliament instituted iato the origin , nature , and tendency of the Orange institutions . I shall not now say at whose suggestion this inquiry was instituted . Sut it is clear to any one who reads the report of that inquiry , the letters of Colonel PWrman and itr . Herriek , and the disavowal by the Duke of Cumberland , in thi-Bouse of Lores , of any conreetion with Orangemen or Onxge institutions , that had this inquiry not taken place we would not be blessed with Qaeen Victoria fur onr Sovereign . It is immaterial whether Mr . O'Connell played wiifally into the _ nd « of the Duke of Ctumberk-d or he did net In either ease he is not deserting

      w tfce high cfcsracter for wisdom and prndence which yon are pleased to give him , because if he did lend his aid wrfuUy ard corruptly 10 the Puke of Cumberland , ke is net entitled to your encomium upon his prudence . integrity , and loyalty . And if he acted in ignorance ot fise mcMnatioES of tfce Dufce of Cumberland and the Oangaten , which is the only excuse that can be offtxtd for him , he is equally disentitled to Bat wiedem , prudence , integrity , and ability for * fcich you give him credit . Mr . OConnell threw every obetabla in his po-vrer in tbe way of that

      uypnry ; from what motive is best known to himself , ft is to the talent , energy , perseverance , and integrity of Mr . Win . Pra _ cis Finn , the brother-in-law of Mr . O'Coimell , axd to the late Mr . E- S . Ruthven , that the waotry is indebted for tnat inquiry . To Air . Buthven for tsTing presented and supported tie petition which payed far it ; and to Mr . Finn for having obtained the Cranmittee , and conducted the inquiry , and brought forward tbe evidence , for which he is justly entitled to £ » gratitude of his country , and to the marked appro-« & > n of his sovereign .

      ln addition to the effect which this childish parade wot coLciliating the Orangemen was likely to give to HJ 8 designs of the Bake ef Cumberland , ifc had the ° «* i of forcing tbs Government to re-embody and ** & the Orange Yeomanry , who had been disarmed snd disbanded by the Date of Wellington and Sir Sobert Peel in 1629 . } i appears , my Lord , that your admiration of Mr . v Cocneil ' i nnrivalled eloquence , and your own wellknown _ and universally admitted charitableness and s * ° pd nature hate led yon to forgetor overlook , his

      , Cndenee before the Committee ol the House of lords , * the Hth day of March , 1825 , and published in tbe lords' Report on the State of Ireland , " in pages 152 , ***» 155 , of that Beport , touching the character . *« Joa , and loyalty , of the Irish Catholic Priests . He «» eften uid that that evidence was upon oaih , and I txnei * it wag , ^ , ^ . jjat ^ 0 j ^ swear ? Ob ! is is * " *« £ ertoibie . He swore that the Irish Priests were ^^^ Ji ia fact universally , the Bons of poor , low , ^ aoJa « i whose first rise in tbe world or advanee in * w scsJi of jo ^ j- . ^ q ^ l _ * geM-jne one of tieir

      " *» * SeneaL ' ythB eWaft , into ihe priesthood . That ~ -v * ere 5 « ££ rii 3 y men of vulgar babits and inaiiners . iT * the society in which they moved it was the seret of the government to secure theii loyalty -by * Sclden link fem $ & CT 0 Wn : » that is by a regium £ J « n s ; acd that ri ^ st of them , if not all , would ch ± er-> J accept of it And tiit the king should have a *** OB the nomination of tte CathoUc bishops , ily

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      Lord , do not take in ; word for these facts , but read the evidence itself . On the same day , the 11 th of March , 1825 , ( page 163 , ) aria before the same Committee , this wise , prudent , and ffluatrions individual , the Head of the Repeal Association , " strongly urged the di&fiancbisei&ent of the Forty Shillings Freeholders , and they were disfranchised . How many thousands of those disfranchised freeholders and their wives and children perished of want in the bo § s and ditches , victims of this horrid recommendation to disfranchise them ? But causing death by star ration is not shedding human blo < yl ¦

      Thosa two propo 3 itioE 8—the disfranchisement of the Forty Shillings Freeholders , and the Payment of tbe Catholic Clergy by the State , were tbe terms upon which ilr . OConnell agreed to accept of Catholic Emancipation , and were by him in his several letters recommending them " to the People of Ireland" technically called " Wings . " I cannot even now read these atrocious letters without pain and indignation . When the great LeJnster meeting was held in Carlow , for the purpose ot taking tbe sense of tbe province of Leinster open-those wings , * ' and which meeting was most ahamefully packed by those who were favourable

      to . the " wings . " The late lamented Right Rav . Dr . Dayle said that the greatest difficulty he found in giving his evidence before tbe Committee of the House of Lords , was to avoid failing into the pit which Mr . O'Connell had dug for the Catholic Hierarchy . And at the meeting held in St Andrew's parish , upon the same subject , the Rev . Mr . Purcell ' s indignation at the proposition to pay the Catholic Clergy was eo great that he raised his hand to heaven , and said , " may this right ^ haud fall down withered and powerless by my side the day it u corrupted by a re < / i * m donum . " This was language becoming a tru 9 patriot , and does honour to human

      nature . Mr . O'Connell ' s evidence is forthcoming . It cannot be bloUed ont , and the British Minist er ever ready to take advantage of every c ' ueumstance « hich will add to the power of the oligarchy , will one day or other , carry that evidtnos into practical operation . But as this wise , Drudent , and illustrious statesman has not condescended to tell bis country , the use the Minister will mast certainly make of this evidence , I , even I , poor Pdddy O * B !?? xnB , the Chartist , shall do so . Unless the elective franchise be given to every inhabitant of this empire , of sane mind and not convicted -of any felonious effence , as snre as I am writing upon

      this paper , so sure will the English Parliament pass an act to pay the Catholic clergy out of the taxes ; ana although the clergy in existence at the time of parsing the act , may , and no doubt will , refuse the bribe , yet the Minister will , as he ever did . persevere , and open an account for every pariah in the kingdom , and sooner than . be thwarted in his fecheme of corruption , carry to the credit of every parish , the annual amount which was refused by the parish priest , and nse the accumulated ixna as a bribe , a tempting bribe to his suceessor . Remember ray words ; mark them well ; for as sure as God is in Heaven , this attempt st corruption will be made , and "which nothins can prevent except a Parliament returned by Universal Suffrage .

      In my next letter , I shall state as briefly as possible , tbe motive which influenced Ur . O'Connell to commence the Repeal Agitation , the reasons for putting it in abeyance , tbe tffscts of that agitation , and the agitation tor tbe totai abolition of tithe ; its effects and tbe reason for entering into a base compromise of that question . In the meantime , I am , My Lord , With , ths greatest respect . Your Lordship ' s obedient servant , PATBICK O'HlGGlKS . Dublin , December 17 , 1842 .

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      T~—TO THE COLLIERS OF ENGLAND , SCOTLAND , " IRELAND , AND WALES . Fellow-Workmen , —We earnestly address these few lines to you , hoping that you will boldly come forwards and assert yoni rights , and not allow your-Belves to be trampled on any longer by the greatest tyrants on earth ; they are doing all that they possibly can to crush you ; and yet you stand quietly by witk your hands folded , lamenting your fate . There is no power on- earth can prevent you from being paid for your labour , if you will only be true to yourselves , your wives , and families , Every day we expose our lives for the welfare of the country , and tbe conntry leaves us to starve . What would England have been but for

      the eollien ? Would it have been the manufacturer for the world ? No ; you , our fellow-workmen , yon are the foundation whereon all the greatness of this nation is built ; and without you this migh'cy fabric cannot stand . Then why should we give our labour to the whole world , and cot in return demand tint ( from those we every day warm and n > ake comfortable ) remuneration which will make eur wives and children comfortable ? Yes , we have . Then let us be np and doing ; for if we do nothing for ourselves , no one will for us , for God helps them that help themselves . Let no one &ay be can do nothing , for every one can do something . Let every one work as though the success of tbe cause depended upon himself entirely . Let us make one simultaneous effort to throw off our

      present yoke of oppression , to attain those great and ncble objects . We request that the men of every pit will appoint a man to write , or forward to as , addressed to the Colliers , Griffin Inn , Wakefield , every accident , and all Information concerning ttifi miseries that oppress yon ,-those facts , carefully collected and ptinted , will shew to tbe world such a picture as it never saw before . Talk of the negroes > it is true that they were bad enough , bat we are ten times "worse . We recollect , some time ego , seeing an aceomnt of the colliers of Scotland passing resolutions to establish societies in every town , village , and hamlet where there were any collier . This is a noble objectunited we stand , divided we fall . This , thi * is the obj&ct we * are trying to accomplish . We call npoa every true-hearted coier to "write to u immediately on the subject , and we will give them the requisite information in writing or personally : for unless we can be

      united we shall never do any good ; how is it possible we can , when we do not understand each other f Why should not we unite to protect our labour as well as the masters ? they unite to oppress na ; ¦ well , then , let us give each other the right h&Dd of friendship . We are perfectly satisfied that if we only understand each other , and had confidence in each other , we ahenld soon gain oar rights and liberties , political and social . We call upon etfery true-hearted Englishman , but more particularly the colliers of Ayrshire , Staffordshire , and readers of the Stir ; we request that tbe latter will show this to the colliers around where they live , and speak to them on the subject We beg all our brethren to send us the name of their pits , with their address and numbers of men emp / cyed , reductions of wages , strikes , and all other matters whatsoever connected with these respective localities ; to send as their names for enrolment , and diffuse unity and concord ,-for without this we shall labour in rain . Yours .

      On behalf ol tbe Yorkshire Colliers , The Executive . Wakefield , Dec . 21 , 1 S 42 . P . S . —The collierB around here strongly express their abhorrence at the rules and regulations to be observed at the Ayr colliery ; we particularly request their secretary to Write to ns giving all particulars en every point , and will do all we possibly can to put a stop to such like proceedings .

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      LECTURE DELIVERED IN MAKYLEBONE IN 1841—STILL PBRHAPS APPROPRIATE . PABT II . Offerees must needs come , says the Scripture . Yes , but Trhea , in accordance with Scripture , we denounce woe unto him by whom the offence oometb , we are immediately cried out upon as persons seeking to create divisions , when it is clear that those who give the offence , not he who complains of it , are those who occasion the division . The offender , fearful that his offences will be visited upon him , comes , like the conseience-Btricken Joram , and asks , "Is it peace ? " and

      we answer with Jtha , " What peace , to long as the whoredoms of tby mother Jtscbel , and her witchcrafis are so many ? " So long as you keep giving such just occasions of offence , we want a council of censors to bear and determine all matters of dispute and difference among us . Cato , the Roman Censor , was a most severe one , yet , to the eternal honour of that noble-minded people , they re-elected him annually . lam convinced that until we are prepared to act with Roman austerity , with American firmness , we shall never make ourselves formidable or feared . Shakipfeare

      says" There is some shew sf goodness in things evil , If men observingly would find it out . '' Let ns see if we ean find any excuse far onr divisions , or if any good can be derived from them . When men have been engaged in a long and trying straggle , snch as ours for the Charter—suffering all the evils which " they are striving to remeve from others , and sacrificing themselves to tie cause^—is it to be wondered at that their tempers , if net their spirit * , should break—that they should become apt to attribute their ill success to one another—crimination and recrimination ensues —and friends suspect friends because foes are ont of reach . Contention even in a good cause rouses the evil passions of our nature , aggravates them , embitters them- But let us on the beat and feme of our distemper " sprinkle cool patience . " Let us reserve the false

      all our spleen to be vented on our enemies , or friends of the cause . We are at present baffling one another . But out of this evil good will come . The conflicting elements will clear the air , settle it , and a cahner a more healthy state of thing * will ensue . The muddy stream will run itself dear . Our movement at present resembles a watch—we have factions within factions , like wheels within wheels , but the more they come in colliaonj the more they co contrary to each other , the faster they will strike out all that impedes us—tfce faster they wffl ferward tbe hands of time to that ? reat boor when the Chabteb shall be struck ! Tie strife is not ao much amoDg the people as among the leaders . Let the people keep united a nd they need r . ot care f > r—they may rather rejoice at the divisions among tne leaders ; for were the leaders all to coalesce they might cteat toe ptople , but , not agreeing , ifiej

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      will watch , they will expose one another . We have lately had the Cabinet Ministers of Chartism among as ( 1841 ) the Executive—come up to heal the breaches in our Israel , bat I am sorry to say that tbe method they took was likely to inflame , rather than to allay the differences that nnfortunately . exist < They declaimed against personalities and yet were personal themselvea The president said , we had Spnrrites among us Iwhere are they T—surely it was forming too low an estimate of the understandings of the saea of London to suppose them capable of leaving the Charter to follow fin individual like Spnrr I Sporrites J why we want Spurrites in one sense of the word—we want men to spur us on . They said , too , there was Watkinitea ! that was the first time I had heard of

      them . I have not seen them yet . Why , I aih not a Watkinite myself . I am a Chartist 01 nothing . I should abhor myself if I were capable of worshipping anything , or suffering others to worship me ; if I could think more of my own personal interests or advantages than , of th . 9 great , the immortal cause . Ah , but we have ites , mites , Ind 6 ed . as all manworshippera must be—and they would erect their Dagons in England ; but , thank God ! the English are made of " sterner stuff" than to bow their knees to any god on earth . They are a proud , an independent people , and the greatest among them is bo only becanse he is the least , the servant of all ; for the very Sovereign of England is bu& the servant of Englishmen ; and so far

      from being owned as a master , he would more likely be discharged as a servant , if he acted unjustly or tyrannically . No , no , we will have no worshippers to cry down all who will not cry up their idols . The Lord said , yet have 1 left me seven ;¦ thousand In Israel , all the knees which have net bowed to Baal "and thanks be to God , there are left in Great Britain and Ireland thousands of Chartists who will never forsake them—who look to the cause alone , and will no longer respect or txust the man , hftwever high in fivour or confidence he may have been , that deviates the least , that diverges a hairVbre&dth from it If we are to have partisans ; if persons aie to be regarded more than principles—farewell to free thought , to free discussion , to all hope of freedem .

      Chartist friends , I speak not to please your prejudices , nor your passions—I speak to promote our principles . I know that some of us are so besotted , so infatuated , no * with love of ourselves , no , if we truly loved ourselves ttiis would not be , but with the love of idols , that we are in danger of neglecting , of losing sight of the cause . I cannot Bee any man deceived , deluded , or delighted with bombast , bravado , or blarney , without pitying him and feeling indignant at the selfish and self-loving charlatans who seek to befool us at a

      time-when wisdom is most needed . So long as tbe people are fond of being gulled—so long as they listen to quacks and fortune-tellers whether in law , physic , or divinity , not excepting politics , ) so long will just occasion of grief be given to their friends , who will feiva the mollification to be suspected for their honest advice . Wh : it can they do but appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober ? for , while the people are in this condition they resemble Caliban , who made a god of a drunken Bteward , and because the honest Trinculo would not worship with him , he was beaten for it

      Great men are too apt to forget goodnes ? . Which alone constitutes true greatness ; but we have none among u ? too great , too high , to be called to account . If the greatest among us do an injury to the cause—by persecution » t peculation—they are as amenable to justice , as liable to be eUdted- —as likely to be charged and condemned as the least . King David was a great man , but he was not a good ae , wheB , trusting to the iuipubity of supreme power , he spared to take of his own fl- > cks and herds , and took the single ewe lamb belonging to a poor man ; but there was found a prophet , a greater than he , who went to him , convicted him oat of his own mouth , and passed sentence upon him in the remarkable words—Thou art tbe man ! King George III . was more great than good when be persecuted Wilkt *; but tbs people made common cause with Wilkes , and compelled the stupid tyrant and stubborn bigot to give way . Tne people of

      England hays still that power , and should it be found that creatures of their own power were exercising their power , not for the purpose for which it was entrusted to them—but for selfish or ambitious ends—should it be proved that the men of their choice were worthy of their choice —would they not tell them to their teeth— "Tuua did ye I" Yes , for hy eo doing they would do a service to the cause , to themselves end to the mensince power should always be curbed by humility ; but il ia the curse of men of office to be attended by flatterers instead of honest truth-tellers—to have that vanity inflamed which requires to be mortified . Janius , in those elegant letters which are tbe perfection of the Xoglish language , attacked the Duka of Grafton the Prime Minister of the day for raining an innocent man and his family ; he bad but to prove this to the conviction of generuu&-minded Englishmen , and they sympathised with him .

      My friends , I boldly assert , I fearlessly avow , that there now needs a revolution in Chartism it&elf—a reform among tke reformers—Chartism needs to be brought back to its first principles—It needs rescuing from bad hands . Let the honest men , the sound and sensible portion of the Chartist public , rally together and they will save it Let them unite , and the dishonest who aow flourish lite green bay trees will witber away—the place that now knows them will know them no more . Ye most make a resolute stand fearlessly to repel all further encroachments , deter * mined to regain the ground that we have Insensibly been sliding from . Tbe more desperate our condition , the more determined we should be . " Once more unto the breach , dear friends , once mote t Or close the wall np with oar Chartist dead . ' *

      Thongh the fate of an Otway await me , who was starved to death upon Towar-hill , or of a Chatterton , who poisoned himself to prevent sach a fate , yet will I try to tie last , and shonld I return to tbe country—should I live , like tbe 6 tork , to revisit my parental neat—I will take back a heart ancorrupted , aueontaniinated by town politics . I will take with me a token from this deluge of sin and miser /—that at least in ens district in this sink of corruption , Chartism , dove-like , can rest its foot . I will tell tbe conntry that , at Marylebone , a green leaf from tbe tree of liberty may be culled . I shall return as I came , and I came filled with all that love « f liberty which nature , which my native scenes in particular , are so well calculated to inspire . I shall again

      roam the moorland hills , erst trod by the fearless and free-footed ancient Britons , ere tbe Romans had conquered them—the SaxoDs had driven them into Wales , and the NormanB had penetrated into that , their last TetTeat , and subdued them there . I have hunted in their primeval toresta—fished in their still-running streams—swum in an ocean that once "was theirs , and breathed the breath of heaven that was wont to wave the woods and seas of their unburthened , unfettered times , and that now mocks their sophisticated , their degenerated posterity . I have knelt on their eartbern tombs that rise co-part with tbe green-growing earth itself , monuments of ancient Britons , altars of libertyand I have prayed that the same spirit might animate me which animated them , and did not leave them but with

      life itself—and the lark has arisen over my head like a spirit from their ashes singiDg its way to Heaven t—ah , I am not a disciple of this man or of that ; I am a disciple of Q-od and nature , and solitude was no solitude to me . for there I had tbe congenial society of all natura . But the battle of the Charter must be fought in towns —must be fought In London . The country is the place to breed Chartists in—to rear them up ; but in London their best exertions are needed ; for it would signify nothing if the country were gained and London were not , unconverted London would corrupt the country again . Wat Tyler carried eight counties with him into London , but lost bis life there—lost it by treachery . John Cade was equally unBuccesful in London . 'Twos ever thus . All great cities are hollow , are rotten . Jesus Christ converted whole vll . ' aeea , but be could make but

      little impression on Jerusalem ; witness that weeping exclamation of biso / er it . What must be done with this London J Like Shakspere ' s swan , I have stemmed the stream , swum against tbe tide , ant ! spent my strength with over-matching waves again and again —and if I must die , I will die singing—if I must sink baneatb the waves of factfon , tbe whispers of calumny , yet the Charter shall be saved—tbe Charter shall live ; I will bold it aloft as Cssdar held'tbe records of Rome , wiU one arm , while he bore himself up with the other , thro lgb a tempestuous surb'e , and from furious foes , as Roi ; i , bore Cora ' s child over rock and mountain , and though wounded , though dying , stayed not , ixtera i not , till he had lodged it perfectly safe , secure in its mother ' s arms ; so shall the Charter be preserved—it shall survive , a signal , a memento , a

      talisman ^ " Unhurt amid the war of elements . The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds /' for , like the immortal soul of man , our Charter whatever be its fate here will be found hereafter , wreathed round the cross of Christ , the very presence of the Almighty God of Eternity . ' J . W . Battersea-sqaare .

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      "ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY . " PAB . T II . Yes ; and if ever Englishmen had a duty to perform it is now now England expects it most , foe now she needs it moat We ( to not do our duty when we emigrate—no more than the soldier does who flies from his post in the day ef battle . A true-born Englishman will not leave England—he will rather stay as Lord Sandwich did on board bis burning vessel and perish with her . Oar duty is now to rescue our country from the rapacious gripe of those who prey upon her—who are making her their spoil—we must not thudc of saving ourselves but of saving her—it is our duty to stand by her to the last plank—to d i « for her . No true Englishman will ever survive her country .

      But men in general do not do their duty—we have sufficient proof of this in the present condition of Englaati—we do anything but our daty : bat what are all other things that we do compared to our duty ? When the hour of death arrives—the hour we all live for—all that we have lived for—all that we have been—all that we have done , will all ba as nothing , for ail will be fast , all , except the gleasing reflection that we have done oat

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      duty . Yea , that alone will console us atlast—nothing will reconcile nsy will make ua resigned , will make tu welcome our fate , but the thonght of that—may we all a *^ * ° ' ¦** * ^ "Thank God I have doae my But how few do their duty , and the few that do it are thwarted by the many * " ¦**> not - If aU did their dnty , should we find the young woman called the Queen giving a masqued ball for the entertainment of heraelf and conrtieis when the wrong country was groaning in unprecedented nr . sery and distress ?— -should we find lords and ladles putting on all kinds of antic shapes and sporting in a sea of follies , like so many dolphins , while tha cries * f suffering Innocence and starved industry were unheeded , or needed bnfc to be mocked—to be mademerrimeat off -should we find bishops riding about in their grand carriages _ with their purple liveried servants , one before and two behindand all tbe and vanities

      , pomps Of this wicked world , while their fleeced flocks , their shorn lam bs ( shorn to , . the quick ) were compelled to pawn their very bibles and prayer books for food?—shonld we find parsons tod their congregations making this honest confession—| " we nave done wiiat we ought not to have done '—that Is . lcft their duty undone—should we find them confessing this truth . "¦ every Sunday , and then all the week going the eame round again so as to nufe « 1 tua same confession true again the next Sunday , as if to make good their own words ?—should we find lawyers , some of whom in this mighty city ( London ) would sell the blood of their own brothers for a shilling—those worae than Judaaes , for he repanted and hanged himself , but lawyers do not re nt and are not hanged ? Shonld -we find —but I need not lengthen the catalogue—I might make a new Newgate Calendar If I were to recofd all the crimes of the graat unhanged . I wiU leave them , as Hamlet says , to Heaven : ¦ ¦

      11 And to those thorns that In their bosoms lodge To prick and sting them " - — And will now observe , in conclusion , that we , as Char ^ tists , have a duty to do , not only to our country , but to the Chartist cause In particular , - : if both , be not one-It is our duty not to see that ctuse in any way injured or damaged or weakened , either by the enemy without , or by the false friend within—it is our duty not to suffer ourselves to be deceived , or coined , or cheated , or led away by delusions of any kiud—for , be sure , every wrong step we take we BhaU have to retrace it again before we can advance one foot the tight way . We bavo two stars , the star of the north and the star in the east to guide us , if we are wise men , to the place , or the point , where our Saviour the Charter is . Let us fix our eyes on the cause and vow that aothlng else shall lead us . Then we shall be - safe , and what ia 1 of infinitely more importance , we shall save our . country . The

      progress of a Chartist is like the Pilgrim's Progress—many temptations will beset us—many false brethren will joia us—many dangers will rise to affright us—our trials will be many—but we have but to go straight on—to persevere in spite of all—and we shall arrive at the heavenly city of our hoprai at last—our new Jerusalem —and receive the Charter « s our crown of glory . " England expects ovary man to do his duty" —let me impress that once more upon your -. m ' inda—let' me leave yen with that Impression . Euglahd not only expects it—she entreats it—8 he Impresses it—she implores it—we should die or do It And not only does England expect it but God expects it—what else were we made for but to do our duty ?—what were we born for else ?—why are are we Englishmen 1 L&fc our cry then ba— " God and old Euglaud , and every man to his duty l" ¦ . . . ¦ .. " . .:. - ¦ •¦ ¦¦ : ¦ ¦ ¦ : ¦ ¦ - ¦ , - . .:: ¦ .. ' ; . - Battersea . J . W .

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      ABSURDITY OF THE "REPEAL" DOCTRINE . The Anti-Cirn-Law League formerly rested their claims for a Repeal , on the ground that food and other commodities would be much cheaper—that the working classes would be greatly benefited , and trade would be iucreased by their Having to spend less upon food and more upon manufactures . Having been baflled from this position , they now take their stand upon another , and say "that the benefit would be derived , not so much from the difference in price , as from having a regular and constant demand for our goods , by having it always in our power to make a just and equitable exchange . "

      Now this position , under present clrcumstancea , Is utterly as uttenabl * as the other . Why do they want an exekange ? Are all the backs in England covered ? Has every man , woman , and child , an extra suit for Sundays and holidays ? Are all their houses neatly furnished ? Are all their beds suffioiontly supplied with Bheets , and quilts , and blankets 1 Do the surplus goods belong to those who are starving for food ? It they do , then exchange away ; bat if they do not , why send your goods abroad when they are so much wanted at home ? Why send them to the foreigner when your , own workpeople and your owu townspeople are starving for wantofthem ? " Oh I" say you , "they have no money to buy with , or they should gladly have them . '

      Why have they no money to buy with , but because they have been unjustly deprived of it ? What better , then , would an exchange be for them ? If tiiey have no money to buy the goods , how could they find money to bny tho food for which you might exchange tbemf The food would be yours—not theirs . "But we would employ them , " say you , " and then they would have money to buy both food and goods . " How long would you employ them ? A month or a year ? If you employed them , would they not be producing at the same time ? And if they were producing ,

      would they not be producing more than they could purchase ? " Yon cannot employ them without profit , " you say . And is not a profit appropriating more goods to yourselves than you can yourselves consume 1 Who then is to consume them ? What is to become of the surplus ? You cannot sell them , for those who could buy them would not be atye to consume them ; and thitse who could consume them would not be able to buy them . . Therefore , as a necessary consequence , they would accumulate . Your stocks would increase , in spite of yourselves , so long as profit , or your own aggranditement vn the stluiulas .

      How long , then , would you continue : to employ your Workpeople ? Juat till the exchango had been made , not longer . Then the merchants , finding they could not dispose of the food , would cease to send out orders for more , or rather , they would refuse to take it in exchange . Therefore , the foreigner having no thing else to pay with , could not order any more goods . Where , then , would be the " permanently increasing demand , " so much talked of ? How long aftev that , would " wages keep up , " or " regular . employment" be found for the peop le ? "¦ ' " ' ... ; - ¦'¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦ . "' :. : , . ¦ ¦/ . . ¦ '¦ . ¦

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      TO THE KDITOB OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sib , —This freedom , of calling on you to give the following case of direct attack on the liberty of tbe subject , you will excuse , I am sure , after the details are fully explained . The case is thus , —on the 11 th of this month , a young nan , of the name of William Clement , in the employ of Mr . Orrell , cotton-spinner , Belmont , near Bolton-le-Moors , was arrested at home , about two o ' clock in the morning , and taken to the police-office .

      on the charge u assisting to engrave a plate , or stamp , to counterfeit the Halifax and Huddersneld Union Bank , was locked np , and from Bolton was removed to Manchester , and lodged in the King-street lock-up , and was confined there until the 14 th , from thence was removed to Halifax , and confined there until the 19 th , and on that day was brought up before the magistrates on the bench , and , on hla appearing , he waa simply asked his name , and was instantly set at liberty , without any cause being shown either by the police or magistracy .

      The above is a plain and true statement of the facts of the case ; I can folly attest them ; and farther , the above William Clement , instead of haviog the ability to engrave , can barely write his own name . Now , Mr . Editor , Lam fully aware that there is one law for the rich , and another for the poor , yet notwithstanding this , l should like you to give your opinion on the above , for I have never heard or read of a more direct attack on the liberty of the person before . '¦ ( • ' . ¦ . " ¦¦ ' ¦ '¦ ¦ ' . -: '¦ . ' . '¦ . ¦ ' . ¦ ¦" 1 bad almost forgot to inform you that the aforesaid William Clement is a powerioom-weaver , and has been in the employ of Mr . Haalingdon , of Bolton , for the space of upwards of four years , and was so until the said Mr . Haslingdon ' a factory was destroyed by fire the last month ; after that he obtained work at Mr . Orrell ' a , Be ' mont ; now , in consequence of the above transaction , be is utterly without employment . I subscribe myself , Your obedient Servant ^ Daniel Diggle . Bolton , Deo . 2 Oth , 1842 .

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      MR- DICKENSON , THE MANCHESTER : ¦ '¦ ¦ PACKER . ' ; , ¦ V ' / " . ' :: ¦_ ¦ . ' ' . . TO THE EDIXOE OP THE NQRTHEBN STAB . Dear SIR—I am very sorry to have to trouble 70 a on this occasion , but wishing always to have truth and justice upon any statements that may effect private or public characters fairly laid before the public , I am bound at this time to contradict a statement that appears in youxpapeT on Saturday , the 10 th of December , respecting Mr . T . Olckenson , better known as the Manchester Packer , and the South Lancashire Delegate meeting . . .- ¦' . . ' . ¦ ' ¦ ¦ : ¦ ; : ' . ' ¦ : , ; •/¦ . . '¦¦¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' ) . - ' . ¦ ¦

      The certificate and resolution as purporting to hate been issued from the above meeting is a tissue of falsehood and a perversion of truth . The certificate and resolution in your paper of the 10 th Instant , was neither passed nor given to him at , or from , that meeting , and moreover neither John Murrey nor William Grooott , -were delegates at the said meeting . It ia true the charges against him were brought before that meeting , and to tbe said charges he , Thomas Dickenaon , pleaded guilty , and said it was through poverty he was obliged , to have recourse to the same . There were other charges to be brought against him , but these were left for the council of the locality to which he belonged . They were to summons the parties preferring tte charges before them and decide accordingly , but strange to say , these patties werenerv « x sum-

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      moned , but for what reason is best known to the partie * themselves constituting the said council , or I am sure the parties preferring the charges would n » t have lacked either honesty of courage in coming forward to subatantiaie - the truth of their accusations If thex ^ had been summoned to appear before th «*?; CounciL ' There was one resolution passed reapeettmj him at the delegate meeting referred to , and that was , if he could clear himself before the ceun « il . Mr . Dixon , the , Secretary

      to the delegates , was to give to him credentials upon the receipt of a certificate from the council , bearing the signature of the Chairman , which he brought ; but it was given to him unfairly , as they did not have the parties summoned , to hear both sides of the question . — I am surprised at Mr . Diekenson for being so foolish as to state that he got them from the delegate meeting , for he might be sure the delegates would see them . and then what confidence could any of the delegates place in him after publishing such a falsehood and wilfully stating that he received them from the delegates .

      By giving this a place in your paper , you will greatly oblige , ' - . ' . ¦ . ¦; . : ; ¦ ... ¦ - ¦ " ¦ ¦;¦; ' , ' , - . ' ' - ¦¦ .. ¦ '¦ ' ' ¦ ¦; . " ' ¦ Yours , in the good cause , Thos Railton , Chairman of the above-named delegate meeting ..

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      ¦' - .. ¦' . ¦¦ ¦ ¦¦¦ . -- . ' : " ; , ? ¦ ¦ .- : ' - - v . ¦ ¦' . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHKRI * STAR . Sir , —The following is a oopy of a letter which has been handed to me by a friend to send for insertion I the Northern Star , in order that the ceuntry may see the usuage that poor Wild and others are undergoing in the Knutsford House of Correction . If you think it worthy of a place in your columns , its insertion . will greatly oblige . —Yours truly , : W . D . Knutaford House of Correction , Dec . 16 , 1842 . Dear Cousin , —These fow lines come with my kind love to you and your family , hoping they will find you in good health and spirits , as they leave me moderately so afcpresent •' . ' :-: . ' . : ¦ . * ¦ . ¦ . -: . -, " .. ¦ : . - . .: / ' ¦¦

      I received your kind and welcome favour of the 12 th instant ; and to begin my necessarily short letter I must inform you , and atl our 'friends In the neighbourhood from which we come , that we can be visitad on the 2 nd January , > Dd then not till the first Monday in February ; and after that , on tho first Monday In April , between the hours of 10 and 4 o ' clock . I should be glad to see you here if you could make it accord with your other engagements , along with either my father , or brother , or any other friends . The period of my liberation approaches but tardily ,

      but I shall reconcile myself to the lot of happiness which falls to my share , and in order to make the beat of my leisure time after work , and to hvfe a Jittle ioiprovemant for-themind mingled with the tortures and punishment of the body , I wish you , when you come , to bring the following books , via , M'Callock'a and Cob , bett ' s Grammara , Hamilton ' s Geographical Key , and Walker ' s Pronouncing Dictionary , and I Bhall feel much pleasure in receiving from . you any small work which your library afforda , sentimental orscientiflc , as nothing Theological or Political will be allowed . ' -

      I send my very best and most affectionate love to my ( 3 fear wife and children , to my father and mother , and my brothers and sisters : and I send my sincere and warmest respects to those few friends who have given their assistance to the widowed Wife and fatherless children of the unfortunate , unaltered Robert Wild . I wish M » Wild to make a bag to put the books in , which will enable me to keep them clean . Dsar Cousin , 5 ou hope that I shall cheerfully submit to the discipline of the prison . Now , Sir , I ask you , how can a man cheerfully submit to the brief nummary of rules here annexed , tide , talking , singing , whistling ,

      attempting to communicate by signs or any other way , either in the day rooms , work rooma , or cells , any unnecessary looking about in going to , or returning from , the chapel , or at meals , work , or exercise ? These are some of the rules , the breach of which Is considered an offauce against the prison regulations , is forbidden , and will be severely punished . I wish there waa anything connected with the whole place that could eneourage cheerfnlnesa . Alas ! there is not , but as you know so little about the treatment , I must give you a short but true statement of the diet in this place . '' : . . ' . ' ¦' . ' . ' ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ •'¦ . ' . ' "¦ ¦ ¦ ¦' •• ¦ v : . ¦' ¦ : . ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ ¦¦'¦"¦ ' ¦

      We have half a pound of bread and two ounces of oatmeal made into giuel , for breakfast ; the same for supper every day . We have eight ounces Of cooked butcher ' s meat weekly ; one pound and a haif of potatoes to dinner . We have soup , in which the meat is boiled , on Mondays and Thursdays to dinner . On Friday we have one pound and a half of potatoes with salt to dinner ; and on Saturday , salt and potatoes by way of a change . Dear Cousin , you may form an opinion bow easy it is to be content upon such scanty allowance . The effects are already visible in my body and physical strength , which ate « o fur impaired that I ttemble when on my legs after the least exertion : You will cease to be surprised when I tell you that mine is not the only case of the same

      kind-The ttfaots of conflnement and poor diet have reduced me extremely low , which you will perceive when I tell you tha ( s on my acrest ' , T weighed eleven and half stones , and now I weigh only ten stone three pounds , consequently , I have lost only one pound per week for the sixteen weeks , and if I go on at this rate for the whole term , I ¦ hall , at the end , be juat three stonea good . There will be a fine fellow % r you—almost fit for a place in the British Museum , or the Manchester abological GiirJens . But , to return , I waa telling you about the prison discipline . We are compelled when exercising , to walk with our hands behind ua , which I find very inconvenient these cold days . I have applied to the Magistrates to be allowed more food , but without

      eUCCeSS . : ¦ . •; ,. . ¦¦¦ - .. .. . , -. ' . ¦¦ . - . .. . ¦ . • ' .. My paper ti full , and my time expired , and I shall , therefore , eitm for the . presents .. " hoping , you will forward this , or a copy , to my wife . By attending to my earnest request , you will greatly oblige , . ¦ ¦ " . '¦ : ¦;¦ ¦¦ '' . ' : : - '' . ; . ¦ .. . . ' ¦ .. -. ¦ ' ' . ' ' . '¦¦ ¦¦¦ - ¦ Your affectionate cousin , ROJBRi VITud , Of Mottram .

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      LejvDON . —Nationai . Associatipn Hall , Holborn . —On Sunday eveningf Jan . 1 , Mr . Parry will deliver a lee tu ; eon the " Results of the Birmingham Con * ference , " lecture to commonce at half-past seven o ' clock preoisely . > lr . Martin will lecture atthei Star Coffee House , Golden-lane , on Sunday , Jan . 1 st . A . DF . LE 8 ATE meeting will be held at Wednesbury , on Sunday , to audit the books and other business . Halifax . —On Sunday ( to-morrow ) , Mr . A . Hanson , of Eliand , -will deliver a lecture in the Large Koom , Swa . u Coppice , at six in the evening .

      Radclifve Bridqb . —On Sunday pext , two lecturea will bu delivered in the Chartist Association Room , Radoliffe Bridge , by Mr . Isa ao Barrow , of Boltou . service to commence in the afternoon at two o'clock , and ia the evening at six . On Tuesday , there wilt be » t © i > party , at whioh Mr . Leach , of Manchester , and other frienda are expected to be pereent . ^ . ' . . '¦ ¦' ; . ¦ ¦¦ . - ¦ : ' ¦ . . .. ;/ ... ' : ' ¦ ' . - .. :- ¦ ¦ •¦ '¦' - : - .: ¦ ... ' ¦ : Bbadjord . —On Sunday there will be a public meeting held ia the large ruom , Batterworth ' sbuildings , to hear the report from the delegates of the proceedings at Birmingham Conference . ^ The chair will betaken at two o ' clock in the afternoon . There-will be a collection after the meeting to defray the expences of the delegates . : Bkadfoiid . —The members of the Co-oporatire Stores will meet on Sundayjmmiue , at six o ' clock .

      A Meeting of the council and Chartists of Bradford will be held in the council room , on Sunday , at two o ' clock in the afternoon , to hear the report from the delegates to the Birmingham Conference . The Members of the General Council , who are nominatea for the ensuing year , will meet on Monday next , at seven o'clock in the eveninja ; , in their roornvButterworth buildings , when it is requested every member , will attetuL Salpord . —A member ' s meeting will be heldnest Sunday afternoon , at two o ' clock , when business of importance will be laid before the meetiug . : Mr . Littler will lecture in the Chartist Room , Great George-street , Salford on Sunday next .

      OtDHAM . —On Sunday ( to-morrow ) Mr . Wm . Booth , of Newton Heath , will lecture in the Chartist Room , Greaves-street , at six o ' clock in the evening . Carrinqton . —There will be a public meeting here on Sunday evening next , in Mr . Laes large room , Mansfield-road , at seven o ' clock , when Mr . Harrison will give an account of Ms mission at the Birmingham Conference . " Mr . R . G . GAMMAGB of Northampton , will lecture at the following places during next week : — -Reading , Tuesday ; Oxford , Wednesday ; Banbury , Thursday ; Shutford , Friday andSunday .

      Kirkheaton . —The Chartists of this locality will have a tea party on Friday evening ; tea to be on the table at five o ' olook . Ladies ' tickets 6 d ., gentlemen ' s dd ., may be had of Thomas Stringer , jun ., S » nts ; Benjamin Jamieson , Square ; and William Hogson , Towo ... ;; . ' . .. - ' . ¦ . / . . ' .. ;¦ . ' . ¦ - . ; . ¦ ¦ • _ . ¦ . ' ,- . - ¦ . ;• ' ;;;; ¦'¦ Mr . Thomas Ibbotson , local lecturer , of Bradford , will visit the following places during next week : — Huddersfield , Sunday afternoon and evening ; Monday at Honley ; Tnesday , at Hoknfirth ; Wednesday , at Kirkheaton , at each place at eight o ' clock in tneevenjng . ¦¦¦¦ ¦ ; . ¦ ¦ ¦ . ^ , ' " - '¦ ¦ ;¦ . / - . \ - ' " .. - ¦ , "

      Roceites in the CoDNiY op LouaH .--The Drogheda Conservative States , that , ^ on Sunday evening last a body of men proceeded to . the . . bouse 01 Mr . Marmion , of Killaleyi county of Loujh , and threatened his life unless he would give up a fas m fie had lately taken from which a person named the * Glazier * had been ejected . There were upwards of 200 persons present . Three of the parry , h ^ ebten committed to Dundalk gaol , by Mr . John M'Clmtock , oj Diumoar ^ V

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      Lbed 3 . WqoLLBif Markbts —The Ia ^ t Tue ^ day ' a market at both Cloih Balls , was one of" tho chiliest of the year , and although stocks are not -large , there is a doubt whether even this is significant of a batter demand having arisen , or a proof that manufacturers are tired of beeping 8 t 0 i > k . . "•¦ Unrem ' an >; rativa prioes a * e said to be the order of the day , nor , we beiieve , is it possible to tell except at a loss . ou the cost of production . The wool trade , which ha > been slightly advanced , iias again relapsed , und except an impulse be given , will be ' as doll as need be . - HODDKRSFIKLD CLOTH MARKET , TOESPVT , pHC . 27 t ; hv— As might be expected there was Uttie -. « sinetB done in our Ball this day , it being the close i > r the year , whether the opening one for the ' new . . year will make ad hfiproveineut upon tho old one , ve must wait and see ; for the sake of the poor wo wish it may , ' '" . -. '" .... ; \ ... ¦ ¦ - : ' ¦/ .: ' . ¦'¦

      RoCKDAtE FLANMKL MARKET , MoNDAT , D-C 26 . —Though there was but a chfn attendance v biyars in the market , there has . been a very fair dems ad for flannels , considering the ^ time of the year . Fof some months back , pieces have met with a ready sale ; bat the manufacturers have not beers Mo to obtain an advance in price . Iu general , ev . u whoa trade is good , there is bHt little business tmunacted . between Christmas day aud the new market , . viiich is always " h « l . d the first Stonday after ( be -ixth of January . : The Wool market still remains hcivy j the dealers expecting a rise from an incrpasRd d » - mand for goods , and tho manufacturers boiiv ? unableto give ' : an advance until they are enabled to hell their pieces proportionably higher . Richmond Corn Market , Mondat , Dec 28 . — We had a fair supply of Grain in Our market co-day . Wheat sold from 5 < 3 d , to 6 s 6 d . Oats 2 s to 3 y , Barley 3 s , to 3 s 9 d . Beans 3 s 91 , to 4 s 6 d per bnshel .

      London Smuhfield , Monday , ' 'Dec . 20 . —lu pur market to-day , we had a fair average time oi year supply of Beas' 3 , in the quality of which a slight comparatire falling off wag apparent . ¦ Althougli jnost of the buichers appear to bo " -tolerably well stocked , . their attendance was , on-the whole-, numerous . For the primest Bef we had a steady inquiry at fully , ; but at nothing quotable beyonil the prices noted on this day se ' nnight , or from 4 * 2 i to 4 s 6 i per stotie , while the value of the middling and inferior kiads was mostly supported , a . 'iu a fair demand was effected by tho salesmen . Tiir imports of foreign stock , since our last report , have been again very limited , those at Southampton hjiving comprised 80 bullocks from Spain , 20 of which were on offer from thia morning , but they commanded little attention , from their miserable courfuion .

      waile at Hull , twenty have been received , por the Leedg steamer , from Hamburgh ' , not a single head having come to hand in the Port of London . There was a scanty number of sheep on sale . Tho primest old Downs sold , in some few instances , at 4 s Gd per 8 ibs ., and the quotations of all other kinds remained unaltered . Scarcely any Calves were on offer—so little was doing in them that our figures are almost nominal . The Porfc 4 rade was rather firm at' late rates . From our Northern grazing districts we received about 600 short horns ; from Norfolk ^ Suffolk , and Essex 110 horned and polled sorts ; from our Western and Midland counties , 250 Hei-efords , runts , Devor . s , and Irish beasts ; from other parts of England , -225 of various breeds ; and from Scotland 70 Scotsj the remainder of the supply being derived from the nnighbourhoed of London .

      London Cofcw Exchange , Monday , Dbcr . 26 . — Last week the receipts of Wheat from our own ooastB were on an average scale , and considering the state of the atmosphere , of fair average quality . Fresh up this morning scarcely any Wheat came to hand from Essex ; while , from all other quarters the supplies , coastwise and by land carriage and samples , ware limited . Although this was a holiday market , we had a fair attendance of both town and count ry buyers , who purobased nearly the whole of the best Wheat of home growth readily , at fully the prices noted on thfs day se ' naight , but in other kinds a limited amonnt of business was passing at Iato rates . We had a good supply of foreign Wheat on offer , the

      transactions m which were of a retail nature at previous currencies . The imports continue scanty . The returns of Barley have Veen large , but the actual quantity on the stands was not to say great . The beat malting parcels realised full prices ; but ^ distillera * sorts were a shade easier . The Malt trade was very inaotive , yet we can notice no alteration whatever in the quotations . With English and Scotch Oats we were well supplied ; but the arrivals from Ireland were unimportant . This article moved off slowly at last week ' s currencies . In Beans and Posts next to nothing was ; doing . The sale of Flour was dull , and the top price of the best town-made was 45 s per 280 lbs .

      Bohough and Spitai . fiei . ds . —The arrivals of Potatoes , since our last , have not been to bay extensive , yet as -the ' supply on hand is large , and th « quantities of green vegetables extensive for the time of year , the' demand is dull ,: at the rates beneath quoted : —Scotch reds , 55 s to 603 per ton ; York ditto , 453 to 60 s ; Devons , 45 s to 50 s ; Kens and Essex whites ^ 403 to 4 fls ; Witibeach , 35 s to 45 s ; Jersey and Gnernsey blues , 353 to 49 a ; Yorkshire Prince Regents , 45 s to 50 . —Tallow . —This market

      is very dull and inactive , both on the spot , and for tbo spring ; fine Y . C , in small parcels , are to be had at 48 s ; and the speculative price for the spring mouths is not abovei 47 s 6 d . The Stock here next Monday will be quite what we anticipated some time since . ; namely , 35 , 000 oabks . Although this paay be considered a fair quantity for the vi me of year , it must be remembered that the stock of Talloir at the-oBtports is very short compared with former years . Town Tallow , 47 s 6 d to 48 s nett cash , rough , fat 2 s 8 d per 8 lb .

      Wool Mahket . —The imports of Wool in tbe port of London , during the past week have amounted to 1 , 312 bales , chiefly from Odessa and our colonies . Thero has been some speculative inquiry , for the beat parcels of both English and Foreign ; but for actual use , a very limited quantity has changed hands , and prices remain unaltered . Borough Hop Market . —This being a holiday market , exceedingly little business was passing in Hops today ( Monday ) , and the following prices are next to nominal •*—East Kent in pockets , £ 5 10 a to £ 6 10 a ; Mid Rents , do , £ 6 5 a to £ 6 ; do m bags , £ 4 10 s to £ 5 59 ; Sussex , £ 4 10 a to £ S 83 ; Farnhams , £ 8 to £ 10 ; Old Hops , £ 3 to £ 4 103 .

      LiYEiiroiL Corn Market , Monday , Dec . 26 — Ourimi- ' otU- of Grain , &o . this week include 2 , 620 quarters of Wheat , 6 , 840 quarters of Oats , 5000 sacks of Flour , 9 , 180 loads of Oatmeal from Ireland , and 5 , 450 barrels of Flour from Canada . The business in Foreign Wheat has beer , only of moderate amount , but at the prioes of last week ; latterly , indeed , holders generally have shown lass disposition to sell at these rates . Irish new Wheat must be quoted Id to 2 d per bushel cheaper , 6 ° 4 d to

      63 6 d per 701 bs , being taken for the best runs of red . No change in the value of Flonr . The increased supply of Oats has consisted principally of secondary qualities , which have met but a slow 6 ale at 2 s 2 d to 2 a 3 d ; a few very fine mealing have been disposed of at 2 s 4 d to 2 s 4 id per 451 bs . Oatmeal has rather declined in value ; 21 s per load may be considered ihe top for Irish , at which , however , several parcels of the finer marks have gone into the hands of the dealers . No alteration as regards Barleyj Beans , and Pens .

      Marchestkr Cokn Mahkbt , Satooijay , Dec . 24 . —During the week a steaay demand tor Flour has been exhibited , and the previons currency was firmly supported . ; the amount of the tran 6 actiou 3 was , howeverj on a very limited scale , and altogether to consumers for immediate use . There was very little inquiry for Oatmeal , and late rates were not supported . Qn reference to the statement of importS j it will be found that Ireland continues 10 furnish large supplies of Wheat , Flour , Oats , and Oatmeal . At our market this morning , there was a very slender attendance of buyers , and no change can be noted in the value of either Wheat or Flour . The business done in Oatmeal was chiefly in retail , at a reduction of 6 d per load from the currency of this day se ' nnight . ' Oats and Beans were but little inquired for , and we reduce our quotations Is to 2 s pet quarter for the latter article .

      Liverpool Cattle Market , Monday , Dec 26 . — The supply of Cattle at market to-day has not been quite so urge as last week , whioh met with dull sale . Beef 5 ^ d to 6 d ; Mutton Sid to 6 jd per lb . State of Tjude . —Since Taeeday last , there has been a gradual improvement in the demand for manufactured goods of nearly every description ; and though the amount of actual business has not been very large , a slight advance of price may be uoted in all the leading fabrics , with a very firm feeline on the part of the mauufaoturers . In yarn ,

      owing to the season , very little business has been done , but the market exhibits a decided increage of firmness ae compared with that of last week ; andsnoh of the spinners as feel inclined to make contracts for future delivery have little difficulty in doing so at prices rather above those at present prevailing . The pjartial sospenaion of the Yorkshire Agricultural Bank . creates no sensation here as its buflinesri is understood ' -. to have been WJ limited , and quite out of the ordinary range of Manchester engagements . — -Manchester Guardian of Wednesday .

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      CHBiSiius HouDATS . —Monday last was obsflnred as a very general holiday in Leeds , the shopkeepers generally ( the society of frienda excepted ) hanntf responded ts- the appeal of their assistants , and dosed thoir respective establishments on thatday . The only exceptions we observed to the rule urBriggate were the shops of Mr . Pegler and Mr . Baxradoagb , linen drapers , who chose to make themselves singular by the exhibition of their goods to tha holiday keepers . We trust that no diminution of pronis will accrue to those who took a liberal coarse , and sot their aasiat&uu at lib ' erty for one day in tha year ¦ ¦ . '¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦" ¦ ¦ . ' . ¦ . . - ' ¦ ' : - ' . ' ; ' - ¦ " . ' ¦ >¦ ¦ : ¦

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 31, 1842, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1193/page/7/