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    • 1 THE NORTHERN STAR. j SATURDAY, JULY 8, 2843.
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      IBTTEBS IBOM THE MOUNTAINS . XSTSC X SERIES OP XXTTERS TBOH A 5 OLD JLUi 15 OS COEXIST ; , TO A 1 OTDCG MA > f IK DUBLIN . JTrom "The Beauties of the * Press : *** a selection d original ArUdes , Essays , # & , tcMA briginaUp appeared in the" ~ Bsxss " newspaper , established *» IrilaaZ ty Arthur OCormort ajfUr fee / orcftfc sicppression x > f tbe Ztartaem Slat 5 jr the < xovent JKBij isiiEB UL Hi deab Pribsb—Ihe situation of Ireland since Mr . Pit * eame to fire ieaa of bSBui * ias been dailj srotriDg more critical , and ought natnraQv to hare « xtatedti * &aiBaifla * teCSon oIa 3 nisaflterof common sagacity . -HemigatlsTeiaBxked 3 n the horizon the nnaU dona me a xuxrir . fcsnaYlfce hstbisget ot the coining deluge ; jetl » entiiuteaihe ehieT government ol

      Jhinnost important , thiB predoM oonntry , —ibr men it is toBntaia , —ai a mort important ionctnre So pageants , topujapetoj tounrealmockeries . H »» libaH-weaccount for thi »* ynenomenon ? Why shonld a minister of dislij £ nMi 9 d talents seek © nfc ; like Dogberry in the play , the most aesertlera man for office ? Is it that i ^ is ileterinia ^ a in all Ms measures to tmst toHie operation of Hind chance , without the employment of rational Tmtmen in <»[ w » i lg g Qa& hfi conceives it to be the Interest of . Britain to nun Ireland , and employs such persona aa he thinks most fit to accomplish this object 2 Is it Uiat he thinks fools -will be most obsegnions to the ozdEnof tfee interior British cabinet ? Oris It ' that he supposes the headlong temerity of folly * and inexperi ence may not see the danger of critical situations and may be found mote ready to engage in desperate expert-2 &fintxr ?

      IhsTsoftes asked jbjbbII , Wbj ¦ was the present Chief Governor of Ireland-selected for the station ? I -eanndl difine the cause . I -cannot find that he possesses soy of the talents cf the TenerablB magistrate , his father —I cannot find thathe possessesanyart of « ondlss 3 on or of goremment , except "we abonld suppose that a Strong bead is a perfection in the Ticeroy of a Province much addicted io the pleasures of the table . Apolitical Mentor-has been assigned to Otis juvenile statesman , ytranger in government and "wisdom ihan in years . Sat "What can ha boast ? Much political craft and sanguin aryiashness ; -which latter , by the oonrtssy of Ireland , is to be called jSrmn ess . The great policy of the present adminiBtration has been directed to two objects—resistance to the claims of the Catholics , and the depression

      of £ be fr ^ pnria of 3 > ja 3 JsiDentajy Reform . Vv ith these Tieis the old j * ineip le of disiaon -was adopted ; the dissensoons TrMch had f or some time subsisted between the Protestants and Catholics in the North , sot without secret enconragement from certain magistrates , and teen fomented , if sot by the posMre encouragement , jet by the connivance , oz the yrfmrnai snpineness of others , had attained such a pitch of inveteracy , that the two parties openly resorted to arms and seemed bent on mutual extermination . I ¦ will not positively say fiat Government viewed irifh secret complacency the -satatal and xabid animosity that -urged the bigots of contending sects to sn open -warfare "with esch other . I-willnotrpositively attribute . to Government a criminal desire of rendering the spirit ef rancour and

      "Snitssl persecution general , as a means of ¦ weakening the people , or of turning them from the pnizoii of constitutional objects . Yet certainly these disorders raged without controul during a long period . The military -when they -were called oat , seemed uniloanly to embroil matters sSB men by their inlerferenca . I believB , on every occasion , they ranged themselves -with the Orangemen ; and this scene of disorder "sras ^ riewed by those who had the full power of repressing it-with a ^ egree ofapathythatto me appears , an other principles , Inexplicable . The outragesof the populace in ; other parts of Ireland , -were , in like manner , angered to proceed to great lengths before any measures Trere taken by GoTBrnmeut to check them . A small mnnber of soldiers , judicionsly disposed through the

      country , and under the direction of active and prodeni magistrates , -would soon have Testored good order ; but the persona and habitations of the gentry in those counties -where disturbances prevailed -were left for inany months-without any protection , except such as the exertions -of themselves , their servants and dependants afforded . In fact , it seemed as if Government viewed these illegal proceedings -with a secret joy and triumph ; and in a refinement of profound , but criminal policy , ¦ wished to nurture and forward the spirit of outrage , thai it might bs orgamsdd and grow into such a form -of zegulsrinEurrection as would fornish the pretext fcr T « ying asiae an forms of the constitution , and forin-¦ trochicnHf ¦ a system of -violent coercive measures and a Bromjus government that xhonld comprehend and

      cempreBatheSiiijooent -withtaegtiiily , silence the public Toks , overawe the advocates for freedom , fill Iheland "with terror and Eurpidon , and completely extin ^ uisa all movements of the people towards the attainment of their two' favourite objects . Perhaps it was hoped and expected that the men of properly , and the friends of peace and good order in the country , disgusted 'by the tendency to riot in the lewer class of people , not only might tbrow their freight into the scale of Government , bat actually become advocates for an Union of Ibis country with England , -which has been a favourite « cli ? ma of the British cahiBei since the lime that Ire-1 » tw 1 in anna extorted certain concessions from the -nKymffan ^^ d the apprehensions of Britain . This xtmch is undeniable ; that we heard some of those who are the most intimately connected 'with the present -Government and the best acquainted -with the secrets

      of the gibln ^ nt , express the monstrous -wish thai a whole province , the most considerable in the country , in point of 3 > opBl& £ 3 AQ * 7 Tr /?»* 3 . rjE J ^ Tc ^ peTty ^ ixxfozzna ^ iQzi suncl Tnnwa » , - could it driven to rebellion , or ¦ were in open nbelliaaj ' iot I do not wish to mis-state or aggravate expressions in themselves sufficiently abominable . At "Qjb same time aB proposals for an enquiry into the state of ike poor and . the grounds of their complaints and discontents -was represented as a factious attempt to inflame by connivance and public approbation the disorders of those -who sought for redress through-the medium of tumult " The people might have grievances , but jhis "was sot the time — " the eoneessxens of Jusfice might be imputed to intimidation . " - The arm of Government -was aV last stretched forth ; and ths fcyaiem of rigour began ts be developed in all its TWfffOFB .

      A noble ZLord high in military situation seems to have been the first inventor of armeasure , which whs after-¦ wsrds sanctioned and imitated by the Lesidatare . I mean that of dispensing "with the usual formalities of law , and transporting suspected persons from their couuLf v nider the idea of TnaTinhrg the iieet This conduct -was Teprobated in the strongest Tnnirner by a lasroed Judge , trbo succeeded Qie Boble Iiord in a c 3 r-C&ii thrcngh ^>» a conatiyj but t >>« 1-egislatuie interposed to protect the stretch of p « wer , or , as the disaflected mjghtcallit , this ^ violation of the lsw aad conrtitaiion , by a bill cf i&denmity . TVhat bin of indemnity ahould protect ham from the justice of Britain , whose arbitrary act firat furnished thB precedent for filling the navy with discontent , for »>» Wng the safety of the British Empire to its centre , and rendering , perhaps , what used to be its protection , its sorest scourge atsome future day ?

      Peace be to the manes of the trial by jury ! . No-w came the ImnrrreeSon Bill You are well acquainted -with the provisioBS of thiB jnost formidable act , which with the curfew , introduced such a system of jealous tieonr ss-was scarcelyeverdevised before underthemost aibitrary and tyrannical governments . " Theact , " it maybe said , "was dictated by the necessity of the times . " Be it- so ; the sudden leap from gross supineneBs to a degree of severity , -which equals anything that the reixa- of terror of Bobespoerre exhibited , confounSs and electrifies ths people .

      The magistrates of this country art sot universally competent to » situation that in disturbed times re-• qnrres prudence and good temper , joined : with activity , sod a ksowieage of the laws . Many ecclesiastics have unwisely obtruded themselves , or been thrust by ethers , ± ato commissions of the peace ; and they have not been distinguished , I fear , by that spirit of liberality and mercy which ekaracterizea the Christian religion . What trsmendous powers were conferred os those men ! " Any magistsate may send for strangers , and propound to them the alternative of giving sureties for their good "behaviour , or going to gaol . " On xepresentation of the magistrates , in a special session , that a district , at county , lain a disturbed state , at in danger of becoming so , it is to be proclaimed . The inhabitants then are

      -warned , aa a petty session , to keep within Qieir dwellinga , between sun and zaa , os pals of being SBnt on board 1 he fleet . The magistrates may break open houses , between sun and sun , to 2 nd whether the inhabitants are at home—and may send those "who are absent on board the feet , when found , unless they can prove , to the saS ^/ acHca of the magistrate , that they were absent on their lawful business . Paaons taking Knbrefnl oaths are to be sent on board the fleet This power of joint transportation and imprisonment , 3 s at the will of a single magistrate ^ It is true the Act says , that persons coming within these clauses , may , if they give tail , appeal from the single magistrate , to the magistrates of Session , one of whom must be of the quorum : but

      there m jjo penalty on the magistrate refusing baiL Persons assembling tnmnltnonsly in the day time , opposing magiBtiates by bright , 5 n their domic 2 iBry searches for inhabitants , arms , -or lodgers ; persons Tending seditious papers , or papers unstamped that ' ought to be stamped , are to be sent on board the flsetj ana any ^ roman selling ^ papers of the foregoing . description , is to 1 » committed to prison , there to Temwn till she discovers the persons from whom she received them . The magistrates did set suffer this act to remain a dead letter . District after district , oosty after oonnty , har been proclaimed . We begin that the of

      to apprehend imy-jnetB the TiceregaJ residence Trffl . bft the only part o ! the Mcgdom not in a rtatBof diBturbance , or likely to become-Bo . Arrest has succeeded to arrest—&e kingdom i * jrtrnck -with terror —the dtmgeons are crowded . What . more . can be followed ? Thesuspension of the Habeas Corpus nctfpllows—prodMnalions supersede the authority of law , and the civil administration of the country is banded over to the military . I do not speat of the decay of trade : cf the failure of public credit ; of the general distress ; these are a > ciT > Kwmar > consequences of the wax T . speak * of -measures and of misfortunes which might have been avoided .

      Times of party heat and public commotion are raid , to ^ require and authorise a suspension of t £ e Habeas Corpss ^ d , and a suppression cf the trial by jury . 1 3 £ &y be paradoxical ptrtaps . bet , in ksj mind , such times do peculiarly require tkat those safe grunda

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      should be retained and preserved with reverend care to protect individuals from being oppressed and crushed by the strong hand of power and of party . jTimes of faction and disturbance are full of groundless suspicion and jaUonsnge ; slight mmours are received as important information ; tbemortldle whisper is beard with avidity . Every man has enemias ; at such th » ttiat , ^» they come forward ; Vbsj BBfam like noxious reptiles In & hot pestilentaal se&son . Calumny takes the form of serious accusation , and arm * herself with all the terrors of the law ; the maHee of the private foe pnt on the vizard of the public avenger ; even babbling impertinence and prying enrosity wear the terrific feature * of inquiritorial authority . NoJinnocency of life—no integrity of intentiou—do ciroumspection in words or conduct , can ensure to any mas an untroubled condition , or even safety at such times . In my apprehension , it would be right , Instead of diminishing the constitutional regulations for the protection of the

      tabzsn , to add to them new means' of security from wanton oppression . Is it consistent with the safety of the individual , that in times when men ' s passions 3 T 8 Inflamed and party zage prevails , » single person , perhaps , a person ignorant , weak , prejudiced and incapable , should have a power of tearing men from their houses and their families that were supported by their indnsfcry ; without allowing them any opportunity of defending themselves or confronting them with their accusers , and sending them on board tenders ; while the provision for the protection of the innocent by as appeal , is eluded , through the impunity in refusing bail , which the act affords to the magistrate ? We may Judge how unfit some of the justices are to be invested with these formidable powers , from what has been done by some of them ! men invested with sacred functions , from -whom one would look for information and humanity . Hot only the single dwellings of the suspected have been burned , but whole villages have been devoted to the flames ! Y '•

      what is the present state of the country ? A system of jealousy and espionage is adopted ; an auction of secret intelligence is instituted ; large premiums are offered for the encouragement of perjury , ) by subscriptions for informers ; whole legions of spies are enlisted is the service of Government , who are most liberally paid with the money of the public . But my paper is exhausted . I am yeurs , MoNTANtrs .

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      A DAY AFTER THE FAIR . The ruinous policy of procrastination , which has I ever been , t&e distinguishing char&cteriEtic of the i class-ministry of ibis country , is now being sorely I felt . Comptfoi after complaint has been made of . grievances which were known to exist , but a deaf i ear has been always turned to those complaints ; ¦ until at length the several suffering communities have 1 marshalled themselves under the standard of their , respective grievances , and claim from fear what , has been refused to justice . The defiance of the

      Times to the Irish people to represent a single ! practical grievance of which they complain , and , ' the declaration of the Home Secretary that all the abuses that did exist have been already removed , I and that what still remains of complaint must be set [ down to "treason " , has been answered from Ireland | and America by threats of the extermination of ; that race from which the grievances are supposed to flow . Upon the other hand , we find the multiplied injustices imposed by class legislation upon the

      Welsh people resounding through the hills and dales , and threatening vengeance for long borne wrongs ; while justice , if seasonably administered , would have stopped the howl . Again , if we look abroad , we see the moment of England ' s weakness seised upon as a fitting opportunity to undermine her foreign policy by establishing the Bourbon dynasty in Spain ; a joint in our foreign relations which if dislocated may tend not only to the dismemberment of the " United" empire as regards the loss of Ireland , but to the decline a $ d fail of Britain ' s self as a nation !

      The citadel of corruption is sow much' in the same situation as the Times described Espxbthbo to be in a few days back ; it has failed to preserve the power of a hollow square , firing upon all points , and is now as it were the centre , fired upon from a ll points , itself . So long as a majority of the classes of which our patchwork representative system is composed were satisfied with the mosaic work of our rulers as a whole , so long was the strength general of the party backed by the strength local of the classes of which it was composed ;

      by which means the minority of the several classes were held locally and generally in subjection . But now , how changed the prospsct ' . Instead of the sectional strength -which the majority of those classes formerly gave to the Government in compliance with the implied contract that the majority of each should plunder and live upon the minority , the necessities arising from an expensive system have compelled the Government itself to fall back upon hitherto favoured protected supporters , and , in consequence of this , a majority of each class now constitutes the dissatisfied of its order .

      In England , the Church Hierarchy bat yield to Government necessity from a thorough conviction of their own weakness , and upon the principle that a half loaf is better than no bread ; the agricultural interest , though yelling around the minister in approving and acquiescing cheers ^ regrowlingthroughont the nation at his measures , while he is vain and foolish enough to suppose that a handful of subservient representatives can quell the gathering storm ; the manufacturing , interest are taking advantage of agricultural inquietude as a meanB of advancing their favourite nostrumsof Free Trade , " and are using the

      unpopularity of the minister , rather than argument , as a means of pushing their demands ; the middle classes are pining in the midst of goods rendered valueless , and purchased upon ** promises to pay , " and which bankers are cautious in exacting for fear of producing a premature bankruptcy ; industry , the teat " from which the several mouths should draw their sustenance , has been dried vp by the unjust and impolitic and wholesale substitution of , artificial for manual labour ; while , in the midst of all , the chosen few are so glutted with wealth as to make it a drug in their hands , at a time of the greatest national

      distress . Such is the picture which England presents at the rpresent moment ! If we ' turn to Sootland , we find the seeds of religious feud and contention , which , though sown in apparent mildness , are likely to mature in war and angry strife : nor are the other interests in Scotland one jot more satisfied with things as they are than their neighbours in England . In Wales the picture is still more striking . There we have the fruits of the knowledge of injustice , and the disinclination to remedy acknowledged . grievances , vividly depicted . As with Ireland , so with Wales . We heard not of the grievance of

      excessi ve tolls , of scanty provision for the poor , of unrequiting prices for agricultural -produce , the low rate of wages , the long suffering and just complaint of the working classes , until " Rebecca" exhibited those grievances in fire and wrote them in blood . Then , for the first time , does the leading journalist condescend to inform us that those grievances are of long Btanding , and full y justify complaint . Then , for the first time , do we hear from the Magistrates themselves that their loog sanctioning and upholding of injustice has led to force for its destruction . Then for the first time , upon the many

      occasions they are called upon to adjudicate upon the question of tolls , do they discover that the traveller fer many years past has been subject to an extortion of 50 per cent , at the toll bars , the trustees ohargnyj 4 £ d . in cases where threepence were only leviable , and ninepenca where the payment of sixpence should only be demanded . ! This longstanding injustice was tamely acquiesced in , and allowed to be practiced with their fullf oncurreace as they must have had a perfect knowledge of it ; until at length they have been compelled by force

      to take cognizance of the abuse . We ] now hear of Magistrates convened by the Secretary of State for the Home Department admitting the existence of * U the grievances complained of ; and yet do our rulera stand growling like a dog with ; a bone in his mouth , instead of boldly confessing the existence of t he several grievances , and justly meeting them . But no ; while these complaints ring through the land , we find them making a mere reckless nee , if possible , than ever of the national resources while their organ proposes , as a remedy , an additional

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      number of Chief Justices as the best means of silencing complaint ! How is it possible that the industrioas : portion of society can look calmly on , while pauper foreign monarchB are living upon their resources , and pauper foreign princes are receiving dower ont of their scanty means * ! Parliament is now drawing near to its Sessional dose ; and were we critically to review its acts we might perhaps once more come under the thumb of the Attorney-Generax ; but what may be libel in an individual to disclose may be virtue in a people to resist . If we tarn to Ireland , there we find the

      national industry paralised by the stand-still policy and procrastination of Government ; until at length the people have been taught the dreadful lesson that a good , to be achieved , must be achieved by threat . They have now before them many practica l instances of thia Bad truth , illustrated by circumBtanoes which have occurred in our own time . In 1323 , when the exaction of the Tithe impost was still levied by the standard of war prices , the Irish people rosa up in arms and compelled the Government of that

      day to relieve them of a portion of the tax by placing it upon the shoulders of their wealthier neighbours . In 1829 , after twenty-nine years of successful resistance to the claims oF the Catholioa , the Minister of that time was compelled to yield to fear what he had refused to justice . Again , in 1832 , after the incaioex&tum , tran . sporta . Uou and death of several Reformers , " the Bill , the whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill , " which had been so pertinaciously refused to petition remonstrance and prayer ^ was granted to fire and sword .

      We wonld ask our lagging , self ^ sufficient and timeserving rnlersi whether they hold power for no better purpose than ; that of alternately exhibiting their moral weakness and physical strength , and merely to teach the people the most scientific mode of extracting the means for keeping them in subjection ? While we see all these abases staring as in the face , however , we would inconsequence the more urgentl y impress upon the minds of our readers the fact , that however great , or however numerous the sectional causes of complaint may be , none desire a remedy that would go farther than to correct thoBe abuses of

      which they themselves complain ; while nothing short of the , People ' s Charter , whole and entire , can make them participants in any advantage to be gained by the correction of any single abuse : and therefore does it become their duty to look watchfully at passing events , and to act cautiously under existing circumstances . Let them not for a moment suppose thit the threat of violence , nay ; even to extermination , against the Government is indicative of a fellew-feeling for the working classes . Let them not imagine that justice to the Scotch Seceders—justice to the inferior clergy

      of the Protestant Church of England—justice to the agricultural interest—justice to the manufacturing interest—justice to tbe shopkeeping interest , or justice to "JEtebe ; cca , " means justice to them . No , far otherwise ! Justice can only be administered to any single class by doing an act of injustice to the working classes . What does their justice mean ! Does it not imply aTemission of some burden which they are now called upon to bear , and which burden if taken from their shoulders by their representatives must inevitably be placed upon the shoulders of those who are not represented at all ! I The Chartists then , have no interest in making common cause with those parties who contend for a remission of their © wn class grievances ; but they shonld take advantage of all

      and every opportunity to strengthen their own hands , for the achievement ot that great and holy measure which would at one and the same time administer equal justice to each and to all . Of this tbe working classes may rest assured , that all those who are now marshalled under tbe standard of sectional abuse , would strike their colours to-morrow , and join to a man in resisting the claims of the working classes ; and for this simple reason ; because all others live and prosper upon their weakness . For these reasons then , we would once more strenuously recommend them to renew the motto of " The Charier and no surrender" upon their banner , and not to strike it until the object is aohieved : for then , but not till then , will justice be done to all classes of the community .

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      ORGANIZATION . We are glad to see that this subject is now beginning to occupy the people's attention ; it has been taken up since the news of our last by the South-Lancashire Delegates , the Metropolitan Delegates , the Sheffield Chartists , and tbe Halifax Chartists , and each one of these important bodies takes , in some respects , a different view of it . Tbe Metropolitan Delegates are for carrying out Mr . O'Connor's plaa of appointing a General Secretary , and electing an Executive note . This seems to us to be beginning at completely the wrong end of the work : and in

      this view we are supported by the South Lancashire Delegates , and by the Sheffield and Halifax Chartists who think with us , that an organization should precede an Executive ; and that an organization to be effective and to give satisfaction to the people , and to secure efficient protection for the people , must emanate not from a small junto of perhaps very ignorant or very stupid and selfwilled individuals , who may chance to be elected on the executive , but from the people themselves , at a national delegate meeting , fairly representing the whole mind and the whole will of the whole people .

      The organisation of our ranks is the most important national question that can be debated . It is of first consequence that we bring to it all the talent , all the research , all the coolness , all the discrimination and all the legal acumen of which we are master . It will not do to permit it to be marred by the selfwill of any man who may chance to think himself wiser than all the world , or to value his own head so little as to run it wilfully against a . stone wall , while he knows that it cannot go alone but must break all our heads at , the same time . It is just this sort of bull-necked-ness which has given us all the

      " backenings" we have heretofore had . It is necessary before we have an Executive , that the powers and duties of the Executive should be exactly defined and laid down ; that they may know their plaee and keep it , and not have it in their power to drag the whole movement into a ditch " on their own responsibility" . This can only be done by the Organization , and hence , the necessity of bringing to vne discussion of that Organization such a diversity of talent and opinion as shall render it impossible for any one or two to carry it all their own way , and substitute " their own responsibiliir "

      for a due attention to the safety of the cause . We need scarcely say , therefore , that we concur heartily in the opinion of our Sheffield friends that the people should have before them , some time before they elect their delegates , all the various plans ot organization which ha * e been elicited ; that they may weigh and consider the advantages and disadvantages of « ach and all of them , aud duly and accurately instruct their delegates . This requires time . It is not a work to be hurried about . The people had better by half wait a week or two , and hare an organization which will work , than patch up one hastily to see it tumble to pieces again in a few months . It is impossible for the

      thing to be well done either on the 17 th of July or the 1 st of August . There is not time for due deliberation . ; . The 16 th of August has been named . We think that too early . The first week in September would be as soon as , in our opinion , the National Delegate meeting could be held with benefit and safety to the cause . Between now and then there will be full time for enquiry , investigation , and thought ; and not a day too long ; the Delegates will come to their work knowing what they are about , and we may expect the result of their consultation , to be a safe , workable , and efficient plan < which shall enable the whole people to co-operate as one man . Any thing less than this will be worse than nothing . Wo have not been able to get rea « iy the mass of documents upon the subject wbjtuh we promised fur

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      this week ' s Star . We find it a " stiffar" job than w reckoned on : they need so much arrangement and re-writing . We regret the delay less ; because we have this week received one or two other communications which we shall give with them , and we are anxious to place the whole before the people at ene view ; for which purpose we request that any other ; parties who intend sending anything on the subject , will do so before next Tuesday . When we have laid before the people all the hint and suggestions of others on the matter , we shall give them our own . We shall give the whole law of

      Organization , both as it affeots political , religious , and ] benevolent societies . We shall shew them ] how they may make an Organization of the Chartist body to combine all the advantages of all these different characters ; how they may bare an effective , universal , workable , going ; organization . Which shall not only violato no law , bat which shall compel the law to guarantee their safety , and to proteet them from aggression . We shall show the people how to have such an organization as shall efficiently help on our move ment jsnd with ordinary care defy any government to break into it without coming down to Parliament and asking for a law specifically for that purpose .

      This will , in all probability , oooupy as much space as we can spare for it in several successive numbers of the Star . We shall then publish the whole in a pamphlet , to be called "The People ' s Handbook of Organization , " so that every man can carry it in his waistcoat pocket , and consult it at his leisure ; and we shall then leave it to the people to make of our comments what use they please . But we implore them not to bd too hasty in calling their delegate meeting . ; but to give time for the full developement and adoption of an efficient plan in the several localities before the delegates are elected .

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      AMERICAN SYMPATHIZERS . Elsewhere , our readers will find some rather astounding news from tho United States . The Repeal movement seems to be making head-way in America at a tremendous rate . The Yankee Repealers , having no fear of the English Attorney-General or the Irish Viceroy before their eyes , speak out their mind with sufficient plainness ; and faith '' they mouth it well" ;! They threaten to seize upon the Canadas ; to shew British ships , or at all events the merchandise contained in them , the shortest way to the bottom of the sea . They threaten the British Government with a simultaneous attack from America , France , Ireland , and the

      irishmen in England . We commend this intelligence to the especial reading and careful consideration of Government . It bears not , to be sure , the seal of Congress , nor the authority of the United States government ; bat it is yet worth the while of Sir Robert Peel to give it careful and deliberate thought : it comes from those who are masters alike of Congress and of the States Government ; and whom it behoves well any British Government to think twice of , before it hazard the inducing of them to resort to such means as may be at hand for tho accomplishment of their declared purposes .

      Doubtless there is about these Yankee " sympathizers" a good deal of the exuberance of wild Liberty . They promise more than they are likely to be able to perform . But they can do enough to tease a government most sadly , if they set themselves to work . It would be , for instanoo , a terrible thing if they bhould take from us our North American colonies ! We have bought those colonies at a plaguy dear rate ; and they should be worth something . This part of their threat there is no doubt the Yankees could carry out . They can drub us out of America whenever they please . In talking ,

      however , of the " revolt' of four millions of Chartists , they reokoa without their host . The Chartists will do no such thing . They are looking for a great constitutional change to be wrought by other means than " revolt" . They seek not to overturn , but to consolidate and to establish on a firm and pure basi ^ the powers of government . When the Chartists were . struggling with a tyrant Government for their own liberties and those of Ireland at tbe same time , Mr . O'Connell insolently threatened to send over to the aid of Government 500 , 000 fighting men , to put down

      the Chartists . The Chartists will not retaliate this insolence . They will not lend the Government a single man to put down Repeal ; but they will not " revolt " . They will go on steadily pursuing their moral-warfare ; taking advantage of all circumstances which may rise to aid them ; and , if Repeal is to create ; the physical tornadowhich the " sympathizers " threaten , even in the wilduess of the storm the Chartists will pour oil upon the waters of contention : they will accomplish by mild means alone , the establishment of those just principles , which will place England and Ireland on a footing of equality , and both upon the plane of right .

      Much as W 3 love , aud dearly as we prize , the rights of Irishmen and liberties of Englishmen , we hope never to see them purchased at the price of foreign aid . We like not this coquetting with the French . We have never yet seen any good of French interference in either England or Ireland . We do not expect it . We hope Mr . O'Connell does not countenance these appeals to French " sympathy " . There are ill-natured people who seem to think he does ; i who speak of Mr . ; Mooney , the agent in America of the Dublin Corn Exchange Club , as the immediate incitement to this outburst of

      American enthusiasm ; who point to the significant allusions to France in several of the " Liberator ' s" speeches , and to the mustachioed foreigners whom he recently introduced at Irish Repeal meetings ; and who from all these things infer that Mr . O'Connell favours secretly the interference of foreigners in the domestic affairs and relationships of Great Britain and Ireland . We are sot willing to believe this ; because if we could : believe it , we must doubt Mr . O'Conkei . l ' s sincerity . We must believe that he is not honestly seeking Repeal ; that is to say , that he is either not seeking ic at all , or seeking it for the benefit , not of

      the Irish people , but of a middle-class faction . We desire to think better things of him . Bat we shall see how he receives his new allies . It will now be seaa whether the physical-force overtures—the pikes , muskets , and firebrands—of America and France are more acceptable to him than the moral , peaceful , and constitutional aid of the English Chartists which he so lately spurned . Meantime we bid the people—the English people —go on their own way ; turn neither to the right nor left ; persist in looking , by legal and moral means only , for that Charter of right , which shall ensure justice not only for themselves , but for their Irish brethren .

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      MR . O'CONNOR'S FARMING WORK . The first number of this work has made its appearance , and will be read with universal avidity . It is but " an opening" of the subject—a glimpse , just to show its vastness ; but it points as an index to a dealing with the matter" which will set at rest all theyelpers and proaers Who have hitherto bespattered Ht . In an elaborate introduction , he "laya the axe to the root" of the

      syetem i now in vogue , both agricultural and manufacturing in such style aa he only can . He then opens his work , not as a treatise on Small Farms exclusively , but as a general work of Agricultural Science , which may serve equally as a text book for the small farmer ox the large , the labourer , or the capitalist employing labourers . The chapter upon Rents ,. alone , is worth all the books ! upon Agricultural Science ever before published .

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      ASHTON-ONDER-MWE . —Mr . ([ James Leach , of Manchester , delivered a lecture hero oa Monday Ia 6 t , m which he showed the neccesitv of the Chartist body uniting one and all , that they might be prepared to take advantage of the coming crisis averring that ihebest time to attack an enemy vvari whoa circumstances made him weak ¦

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      TO THE PEOPLE ON MY RESPECTIVE TO THE PEOpJlE ON MY RESPECTIVE

      LECTURING TOURS . My Dear Friends , — I wish I could get a few weeks made up of j Sundays aad Mondays ; I could then perhaps accommodate you all ; but as I know of do meanB whereby to compass thiB , I can only suggest to yon , as the next best thing , that we should try to make the most and the best ( of the weeks and tbe days as they are . It is clear that I cannot be everywhere on Sunday , nor everywhere on Monday ; nor can I permit the other days to remain unoccupied . I shall suit myself to your convenience as nearly as circumstances will permit ; and I must entreat that where we cannot mould circumstances to pur wish , you will aid me to govern them to ourjpurpose .

      I shall , if it Cmaylplea ® God , be at Belper on Friday the 14 th , and shall address the people on the present state and ! prospects ] of Chartism , at halfpast seven in the evening , at the Leopard Inn , Bridge-street . I had been given to understand that Saturday evening would suit my Derby Friends ; they now write me that it will not suit them , which I regret much , as it will lose me a day . On Sunday , ' the 16 th , I preach twice at Loughborougb ; afternoon and evening ; and ' , on Monday evening , I address the people of Loughborough on the present state

      and prospects of Chartism . On Tuesday , the 18 th , I address the people of Derby ; and on Wednesday , the 19 th , I prooeed to Nottingham . On Thursday the 20 th , I attend the tea party and festival of my good friends at Arnold . On Friday , the 21 st , I visit my good friends of I Suttoa-in-Ashfield , which , being within three miles must serve also for Mansfield ; I cannot give a day ! to each . On Sunday , the 23 rd , I hope to be with iny own little flock at Hull ; and on Monday , the 24 ' th , to address the people of

      Sheffield . I The Newcastle Friends write thatffhey must have me on a Sunday . ] l will try to accommodate them j but this will compel me to take their district on my return from Scotland , instead of on my way there . I shall now , therefore , take steamboat , if all be Well , from Hull to Leith , i > n Wednesday , the 2 nd of August . This , I Buppose , will land me in Leith some time on Friday , th ) 4 th ; so that I shall just have time to recover the queerness of my stomach and get myself into working order for my Edinburgh friends on Sunday . My further movements in Scotland I

      shall endeavour to advertise precisely next week , so that my friends in each town shall have full notice of the exaot day when I can be W'th them ; while at the same lime , it must be always borne in mind , that I accept the invitations of my friends only on condition that they take me " with all my imperfections oa my head . " Toey , of course , do not expect ranting declamation from me ; whoever does will be disappointed ; I have neither taste nor strength for it . I am no long * winded orator : I have not physical power to make long speeches nor to speak out of doors : and my ] general health is so precarious , that I can seldom calculate from one day to another

      upon my ability to- do anything : I may sometimes seem moderately well one day and the next be unable to leave my room ; and sometimes even a few hours will make all this difference in my state . Heuce , therefore , my friends , at any particular place who may expect me , must neither be angry nor surprised if I should disappoint them . I promise them that nothing but such physical suffering as may totally incapacitate me shall cause any such occurrence . I hope to be able to attead every appointment punctually , but I cannot promise to overcome nature nor to withstand sickness .

      It is not necessary for me to say more now . In my letter published in the Star of May 20 th th 9 people have tho expression of my mind ; I have not changed since then ; nor am I likely to do so . I am , my dear Friends , Your faithful Friend and Servant , William Hill . Leeds , July 6 th ] 1843 .

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      Calvinos Minor . — We cannot advise him . The Act he speaks af we never saw . It is , therefore , impossible for us to sap whether the official has or has not power to act as he has done , and divert the pension to other parties on the grounds slated . Mr . W . Cooper , of Weldon , near Wandsford , a small benighteh agricultural village in Northamptonshire , desires us to say that he is much obliged to Mr . \ James Cash , of Knutsford , and other friends , nor their presents of Northern Star newspapers . They will be of essential service ; and he has a strong desire to get the Star into the hands of the agricultural labourers , that they , too , may know the cause of the grinding poverty to \ which THE THING has

      subjected them ; and join with their brethren in the manufacturing , districts to bring about a better state of things , kohen the labourer will be deemed to be worthy of his hire , and have the privilege to receivk and ENJOY it . That hire being , "he that proctuceth shall be FIRST PaRTAKEli of the fruits . " Poor Uw at Warrjngton . —We have received a communication ^ from some one in Wa rringtm , signed " Washington , " detailing some atrocious a-: ts of Poor Law tyranny , which he avers to have taken place in the workhouse at that place We cannot beljeve his statements . The whole thing appears to be a hoax ; cunningly got up by some of our good "friends" to get ' us saain

      within the meshes of the law "for libel on the Poor Law authorities . " The letter is written by a not very good penmanist ; but the facts he details are soj improbable , and yet so coldbloodedly atrocious , that we cannot credit them . Will any of our friends at Warrington advise us as to the manner in whtch the Poor Law is " administered" in I Warrington Workhouse ? Has the " master" died lately ? and have there been any floggings of young females ? The letter in question avers \ that such is the case : but we repeat that we do not believe the story . We fear the whole thing Us an attempt to entrap us . The ' letter we shall preserve . Wm . Gresty an » John Murray . — We have received

      from these parties an address purporting to issue from Carpentevh' Hall , Manchester , calling upon the Chartist body ( 0 assist a late prominent character in the Chartist movement , who is now supposed to be \ out of the country . They state that he is in great need ; and that they have voted for him £ \ from their own funds , and collected £ 2 after their evening ' s lecture for him . We rejoice to see a spirit of liberality manifested by Chartists ; but \ we think the Chartists of Manchester might have found more blameless objects for its exetcise ^ without travelling so far . We publish this weep a balance-sheet of the expenses of the trial which was entirely brought about by the recklessness oj the party for wfutm our

      correspondents evince so wirm an interest . That balance-sheet dyes not exhibit a tithe of the actual co-it to the Charfists and public generally of that affair ; while i ^ takes no cognizance whatever of the scores of ruined families occasioned by it . We think some of these have some claim on the sympathies of the \ Manchester Chartids . We this week publish a letter from one who was left without the means of getting up to London to meet the judjjmerU in the case , and who pawned hi * toolchest sooner than be branded as a skulker ; while the party who sterns to engross the sympathising affections of our correspondents meanly shrunk from sharing the rLks into which he had dragged better men . That pmor f , lieu ?* tool chest is still

      in pawn ; and ' j it would , in our opinion , have been a more legitimate applicatv > n of their sym-, pathies if the CUrpettiert , Hall Chartists had devoted some of their money to its redemption . We have another letter from a victim to the satrie recklessness , whose wife and family are conse-. quently in a basUle * Why are they not Jit sub-, jects for Manchester sympathy ? And why does not the party for whom this appeal is made , go to his profession and earn his own living ? Why should an educated man consertt to hang mean' y on the skirls of a half famished people , with the World before ^ Mm for the exercise of his own talents and industry , and safe jrrni any fear of

      further consequences from his folly ? Any man with a spark 0 / manly feeling , rather than condescend to hang himself upon the people under such circumstances , would sooner hang himself upon a tree . \ HoLMFiaiH , —To Lecturebs . —All letters , for the future , must be directed , post patrf , to Joseph Clegg , boot ani shoemaker . South-lane , Holmfirth . . The Holmfirth Chartists are anxious that Mr . O'Connor should msit them at his first convenience . Hull Chartists .- ^ // comnmnicatioris must be adadressed to Mr . Wm . Smith , 8 , H ' est-nlreet-courl , West-strcrt , \ City Chartis ; s . —The finnonncfmrnt of a concert at Turn-again-lahe is an advertisement .

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      Ms .. Seed , Worsted Inspector , of Halifax , denies having had ana hand or part in the apprehension or examination of Mrs . Lassey and her daughter when proceeding homewards with a warp and weft in a " piece poke , " as detailed in a paragraph in our last . It seisms that there are two worsted inspectors in Halifax : perhaps our correspondent has been mistaken in the name . Will he explain ? Susans * Iwok has sent us a long letter to say that she " very much question ? the propriety or right of Mr . O'Connor to name or suggest to

      the people , through the medium of the " Star , " any person to fill any office whatever . It is not according to her ideas of democracy . " We dare say Miss Inge is greatly in love with her own ideas of democracy ; and so she ought , for we fancy they will suit nobody else . A democracy which questions the right of any man to name or suggest what he thinks may be for the general pood , is a very queer kind of democracy . Miss Inge thinks the people would sooner elect a man on Mr . O'Connor ' s recommendation than on their own judgment . We Co not think them quite such fnnls .

      Wikgate Grange Coltiery . —We have received a letter from Thomas Weddler respecting the conduct of one of the ** viewers" at a pit in thai locality . It seems that the pit in question is fitted up with a un ' re rope , which the men deem unsaf e to trust their lives upon . The matter has been before the magistrates twice ; both times on the application of the master , for "taw" on the men fer refusing to work . The first time two men were committed : the second time the case was discharged on the understanding that the rope in question should be tested with twenty tens weight . This test hat not been applied . Some eigbt ^ tons have been suspended on it ; and ojur correspondent avers that it caused the rope to split . Still it was not removed ; but the demand is made that the men resume work with it

      i » its present stale . The men , having had their fears strengthened by the impel feet and partial test applied , refuse to comply with the requirement ; and warrants have been issued to bring three of them before the magistrates at Castle Eden . The men have also appealed to the magistrates for protection . Three several times ham they applied for summonses against their employers for wages , or compensation , they allege to he due to them , in . consequence of the pit being in an unfit state for worky because of the imminent danger to life . These applications , have been refused . Our correspondent also , desires to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums , in answer to an appeal Jor aid to enable the question to be

      tried : — "Coxhoe Colliery , £ 1 ( thiscolliery had only 18 s . lOd . in their fund ^ but made out the above sum : they had a trial themselves on Saturday last , and defeated their employers r ; South Wingate , £ 1 Is . \ 0 id . ; Belmont , 8 s . 7 d . ; Haswetl , £ 1 ; Rainlon ' s , is . 9 d . ; Newbottle , 7 . i . Md ; Shiney Row , 3 s . 6 ^ rf , ; Moorsley , 9 s . ; Shinchff , 5 s . 8 id . ; Shotton , 12 s . Id . ; Pittington , LOs . ; Sherburn Hilt , 6 s . ; New Durham , 19 s . ; Pelton Fell , 4 * . ; from two friends , 2 s . Qd . ; Henton , £ \; and Lumley Colliery , 10 s . ; making a total sum of £ 9 4 s . Id , collected on Monday evening . Should any of the colliers in Yorkshire , or elsewhere , think proper to lend their support , it will be gratefully received by Michael John Barkhouse , Wingate Grange Colliery , Durham , and

      duly acknowledged in the Star . " Dav y Lamp— We Have received a letter under this signature from South Helton . The writer describes himself as a pitman , but writes wry like an attorney ' s clerk . He sends a rough sketch » f a scheme for a general strike , which he earnestly commends to our favourable notice . We have no doubt that he is some hired scamp doing the work of the middle classes , in seeking to produce mischief . We cautioned the people to be on their guard against fellows of this character . There are plenty of them all over the country , usinq all kinds of insidious means to raise another striketrap . G . Ball ofHaughall Colliery desires to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums . —

      £ b d From Leasingthom 2 0 6 From Shildon Adelaides ... 0 14 10 From Copy Crooks 14 3 From Eldon 0 11 6 From Westerton 5 11 S . L . Ambler—We fear x » e cannot find room for his letters on Toleration , Jordan Chadwick—His lines are declined . W . Fose , Boston— We do not see that there should be any difficulty in procuring the works he speaks of . They are published by Mr . Cleave . All the numbers are in print , if the Bookseller he speaks of has a pareel direct from London , he has only to tell his Collector that he wanted the Lancaster Trials , published by Cleave , Shoe-lane , and it should be sufficient toptocure them .

      A" Town To Let."—A Letter From Workington, From Which We Make The Following Extract, Gives A Melancholy Picture Of The State Of Trade Iu That

      A" Town to Let . " —A letter from Workington , from which we make the following extract , gives a melancholy picture of the state of trade iu that

      town : — " The number 01 empty houses is immense . In the greatest thoroughfare , say Wilson-street , there are several shops and houses closed . The public-house in the , which you sold to Mr . , has been unoccupied for more than twelve months ; in fact , the saying is correct of a town to let . Under these disheartening circumstances , ft behoves those who have a trifle not to throw it may . "—Carlisle Journal . Tailors and Shoemakers . —The two useful classes here al uded to , are more frequently suffering from ill-health than any others ; this arises from their cramped position during the hours of labour , and the want of proper exercise and fresh air ; but however much these blessings may be desired , necessity compels them to forego their enjoyment ; in their absence nature demands the aid of medicine , and none more benign or invigorating has ever been offered to the world than Parr ' s Life Pills , as tens of thousands restored from sickness to health can testify . Many letters are published recording the miraculous benefits of this medicine , and may be obtained of any of the agents . ¦ .

      Four Persons Poisoned . —On Monday last inquests were held at Hardway , near Gosport , before C . B . Longcroft , Esq ., coroner , on view of the bodies of John Lapthorne , a carpenter of Haslar , and Mary , bis wife , whose deaths were occasioned under the followng distressing circumstances : —It appeared in evidence that , about three months ago , WUHam Wilkins , a labourer , at Hardway , went on board a frigate in Portsmouth harbour that was paying off ( he believed the Blonde ) to bring away the rubbish and sweepings . Oa tha * . occasion a sailor on board gave Wilkins a quart bottle containing some liquid , saying there was something for him to drink . Wilkins , thinking it was a bottle of spirits , on his return home drank about half a

      wine-glass full , and gave his wife some , and neither of them felt any ill effects from drinking it ; but it tasting very bitter , ana not liking it , the bottle was pat in the cupboard , where it rrfmaiaed until Tuesday , the 16 &h inst ., except that upon one ocoasion vYilkins ' s daughter took a small quantity of the liquid in her mouth for the toothache , which she said lulled the pain . Ou Friday eveniDg , Wilkins ' a wife wishing to preserve some gooseberries , told her daughter to take out of the cupboard all the empty bottles and wash them ; on taking up the bottle containing the liquid , the daughter asked what was to be done with it , whsn she was told by her father and mother to throw it away and 6 oak the bottle , instead of which she

      unfortunately took it to x \ irs . Lapthorne , who professed to have some knowledge of medicine to ask her if she knew what it was , telling her it had relieved her tooth ache . Mrs . Capthorne on tasting it pronounced it to be damaged liquor , and saying she thought there was no harm is it , poured oat and drank about half a wine-glass foil ; her husband and two women who were present each drank about the same quantity . In a few houro they were all taken exceedingl y ill , and Mr . Lowes , a medical gentleman , of Gosport , being called in , after alatal interval of about thirty bonra found them labouring under the dreadful effects a some poison . ^ He amimstered medicines , and used every means in his power to relieve them . In the

      course of Saturday they were visited by Doctort Allen , Mortimer , and Little , of Haslar , and the neighbourhood , but all their efforts were without avail as to poor Lapthorne and his wife—she died on Sunday , and he on Monday , leaving eight children M deplore their sudtfen and mejancholy bereavement . The two other women are now lyin ^ in * very precarious state , but hopes are entertained of their recovery . The contents of the bottle , oi being tested by Mr . Lowes , did not appear to hat * any mineral poison in it , but proved to be tinctnfl of colobicum , the seeds of which were in the bottle !

      and a label thereon , which was with difficuW deciphered , indicated the same . It is not kno «» how the sailor , who wa 3 unknown to WilkiiA obtained the bottle , whether from the medicis * store of tho ship , or from the cabin of one of ti ' officers . It is supposed that when Wilkins receif ^ it , the seed could not have been long in the bott ^ or he would have suffered from taking the quantW he did . The taste was extremely bitter . No blaS * w * s attached to Wilkins , his wife , or daughttf The jury returned verdicts of " Died from t » kW tincture of colchicum , ignorantly aud without inW" " tioa oi harm . "—Hampshire Telegraph .

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      J . M'Larn . —Enquire at London , we do not know anything ; about it here . A . Sharples , —Say what county if possible . L . Shelling , Iunbridgb Wells . —A letter was sent , addressed &a above , on June 1 st , and it Uas : been returned . Will Mr . Snelling send boa ad- dress ? Liddlb , Pheston . —Enqoire at Xondoa .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 8, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1220/page/4/