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THE KORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1841.
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Th ^ re i = nothing in the papers worth presentirg to < rar reaa ^ rs under thJ 3 head . We prefer , tl . encfure to aii tno space with good Chartist intelligence .
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^ SnuHiNGHAW . —The National Charter A ? sociati'ia neid their weekly meeting in the Hzl \ oi Scien ¦* , Lawrtace-street " ; the chair was tskcn by Mr . Sir , a I ! wood . The minutes of the . ' last meeting being r ¦ -. i aii «! confirmed , the address to the inhabitants oi li nningham and surrounding districts -was read o tae meeting . The correspondence was a ' so reaii . leading a letter from the Rty . Mr . Hal , © ditcr \ ii vhe Star , to the great satisfaction of all prese / r . Mr . T . P . Green then addressed the mceth . e- for some time , in an able manner , when it was c ^ -. j- sd unanimously that the aidres 3 be sent to the S : : r , praying for its injmi'jn . Mauy applied for cir ^ . > f mimberahjp , bui eouid notie supp'ied , the carui' not having arrived frc-m Manchester . Weh ¦>> -. 10 be able to supply them next week .
RESTuaiTioN Committed . —By the weekly report of tht proc-eedicga of this bojy oicin-eu from our list , it appears- that a number of u ^ vr honorary aiember :- were added to the coamiitt-e at its sitting on tht I ;^ h instant ; that nu m trials from Oldham , Isottn ^ ujtn , Manchester , Bjiui ] ey Forfar , and AberJ-e ^ , had been received oy : he ecmniitee since its prori ; ns meeting . The {¦ omniHtes hare deter-BJni-d , 3 .- < oon as sufficient fur , is are ia their uicds , to ca :: ; e : he memorials to be tre ^ nie-d . All memorial * , f" -. d- - , and c jmmDi . icaii . 'Ss : p-i > - > addressed ' or eomair .-e . 'n Mr . Guest , bookseller , S : ee : hou 3 e lane . Tne cmruutee mseU every T-je .-diy evening , a : half-p-r : -x o ' clock , at the Hall of Scieu . ee , Lawreace- ^ ire-t . Admittance free .
Impo > : y . » nt Public Meeting . —( Frim our own Corns ,. ' , leni . ^—At the cone . usion o ; the service at the C : ? f-: ian Chartist church ; ou Sunday evening list , it v-a ? annouaced that a cieetki ^ would be hel d oh the flowing Tuesday , to hear Messrs . Collins * ndO' \ Nr : l deliver a report of their mission to Leeds . A : the appointed time , hundreds fijeked to the }> lace of rareting , anxious to hear the result of the ong-ta : k :-i of demonstration . Tne place . was crowded long bsi-.-re the lime for commencing business had arrived , 2 ~ d a T 35 J number had to 30 away , unabie to gain admittance ; and such v . as the eagerness ot those pr ^ r ^ -nt to hear an accoun t of the late transactions ai Lseds , that a working man , in the gallery , Commeiie ' -i reading an account of the proceedings
from a Lt . is newspaper , and was listened to attentive ; - . When the time for oj ening the meeting had arrived , Mr . Styles was culled to the chair . He cp-. ut-i ihe bu =: ness by s'aihig that they ha a met rh-re rfri ? evening , for the purpose of hearing Messrs . C'i'lins and U'NeU deliver an aceourr , ol the re-u : t of their mission . Mr . O'Neil , then -ruse , and pi-m-r ^ Ued at considerable-lergth , and with great minateDe- -i . 10 detail the whole of the circumstance * thath ^ J -iK . ? n place , from the time of his artiral at Leeds t-o hi 5 departure . He described his meeting ¦ w ith tnb >" = her delegates— "he conference between the Cha-rUt delegation and Me- « rs . Hume , Roebuck , ¦ & .:. —the excited state of Li-eds—the Chartist procession r . 'jd meeting—the meetiug at Marshall ' s mill
—the eiiec : produced on the audience by the Chartist speaker-. &e . atd concluded amid j ; reat applause . Mr . Colnm then came forward , amid the hearty plauUiw of the assembly , and proceeded in his USJLal ? rvle 'o exfiain the more important features connect ¦ - ! . v ; i . h the importaut proceedings tint had taken [' ';¦¦? si Leeds . He .-aid he had no doubt bu : that g ' . 'C'ti ¦ a ron " .. i re > uk from it to the Chartist cause ; he also r-. a-t extracts from the Leeds nt- . vspapers , in oorroburinon . of his statements ; he likewise de-Bcri ^ e- ^ r -: rock piay-e at ihe public dinner , held at the M . U-. C-: ail , on Friday even ^ n ^ , and commented OH the- - -spTessijns tised a ; lhat meeting by Daniei O'CoTia- 1 a ^ d M . T . Roebuck . After fully recounuug to his c-j ;> iituenis the part he had taken in the rar iocs uiusa ^ t'ons , he sa down amidst long and 1-ui cheering , the meeting being highiy delight -J with xhe account th :-y had received . Mr . Hill then unveil " That the tbanks of the meeting
be givc : i ;•;• ilasirs . Colims and O' ^ NeJi , for the praiicworrhy iD ^ iiiier : n which they had parformeu the duty ci .-. r ; :- " : t-d to tnem . " This was seconded by sereral in * u- bo ^ y of the meeting and passed unanimously , i ne Ciiairmin then rtid an account of the mon ' . y r- _ :-:: vad for the purpose of defraying the expencer- of Messrs . Collins aud l ) ' ^ eil to Leed ? , and also th-- -rs ^ .-nditure , from which it appeared that a surplus rrz . i . aed , which was ordere'lto be bonded to the Or-irrational CcHimit ; ee . A vo'e of tha :. ks was the .- ! i . ropo ~ ed for the chairman ar ; d carried niianim : > . y . Prevjun 3 to the .-eparation of the meeting , r *! argt- number of females det-ci-miri ' -d ' . hit & CLar .-.--. . ¦ a . crinkiiig should begot ap , and retire : into : hc "• --: iry , for the purposa of forming themselves iii ' . o a committee to c ^ rry out that obj-rct . An exceiie . .: -p ; rit prevails here at present , and it is hoped tha . iiie Chartist canse will ere loe ^ be stronger tlx- ' i rVvT it yet was in BirmiEgham .
Tv . on . "> T" iLUAiLS , a > 'D JoneS- —The General Committee n ; r ' . iicss vict-ais held their weekly meeting on Tj-:-c ^ . evening , a : the Hall of Sc . ence , Lawrence- ; : Tk .- \ . Mr . Birratt in the chair . The correspondeLct ; r the week was read , and the following resolnnca m- mov « i by Mr . Small wood , seconded by Mr . P . H . Green , and carried unanimously : — M Tbit Zui' -irs . 3 Joir , Luviit , and Morgan" Williams , be coffii-:. i- ? % Lcd with by this Committee ,, to know whether thev are willing to act for ihs preseniation
of the mcK-i-. als to the Qjeen , as laid do . va in ' . he K&rti . tni z . ar . " The Committee intend completing their an a laments for the prevention of tha memorial- as .- :-Oil as they have suSeieiiifunds in hand . Memonals r . ive been revive *! this la-t week from Maachtiter , Curiisle , Brighton . St-. urbna ^ ' e , and Kinros-. The arrangements of the Committee , respe-nng Secretaries , is a 5 foliows : —Financial Secretary , Mr . William Barl « w ; Currespondisg S ^ crtizry , Mr . J . P . Green ; and Committee Secretary , Mr . ' Thompson .
BHIGHTOK- —A . mtetinf of the members of the JTational Q : sr : tr Aisocin-jon took place here , on Monday last , in the Large Room . llu . Glosttr Lane , to t * ke mei ?^ ir » s to secure the rfcturn of Frost , "Williams ., andJones ; Mr . Councillor Fredriici Pace ic the cnair , Mr . CsaBciili-r Woodward moved the £ >? tresolution : — . " Tbit this meitii : ;; is of epinion tkit John Frust , Zephaniah "WiilLanii , and William Jones , were ilU- ? ally tried and H&i : islied from their -uative iand ; anii it hereby pled ^ va itself to use every constitutional means in its ' powt--. to effect their resu > ration to tbtir country , and their disir Jt ^ ed and Borrowing famiiitE . "—He proeeeded to eliow that tiie local authorities ha ^ i endeaTonrs : " t . j do all they coald to prefent the holding of tte me ^ ticj . They must know the said ; that every
endeafo"T jsui been made bj" thtir Council tegtt the Town HbT ;; sj } d thai the au-iorHits were , and are determint-J , . j they £ sy , not n axiy waj to court-enance or allew '^ . 7 Chartist ni = eiing to take p ; ace in Brkhtcn . Ke was ene af a deputation wLo waitetl on the C sf . iUe wiih a requisition , signed by eighty electors , zr .-. i a ' -uiii twenty hou--ifho '! ders o ! tbsitorough , to r * qne ; -: ui hiui to call a pullic toj » n meeting , { or Bis purpose i-.-t which tbty : ust evening met The Constable thc ^ -ht £ t , in the exe : cise of his prcrugative , to refuse tLe " use of the Hall for such a purpose , alleging th . it ' - ¦ ¦ -y intendtd to hold a Charust metticg ; that he ia r , ' junction whh the inagUtratea , had rec £ iTt . <\ a c rcalar from the Hoiae Office-, some time back n- - -i t r . " nw any Chartist meetLn ^ s to take place
in Bri ^ Lt :, : f they couid prevent t ^ em . "" "VVtll , " said Mr . V . ' .. , < ur ntxi E .-. tempt % > get the Hali was by a rfc- ^ uisU : a iv ths Cltrk to the Conimisjioaers ; he ( Mr . Vr ' . - - . viE-z beeu informed , tL&t if twenty electors if-j ' -. -r -: f > r tiie use of the Hail , and the Haii was cot vre .:- > iy ec-: a ^ £ d , there was a reso 5 uti-n en the Cknuiii ' .- : ers' bjQks , that the Hall should be granted . "We , the Council got up a requisition , aiid , to lnike >' . ; -. th ^ y j ; ot appended to it twenty- £ ve elector .- ' ut-.,-.-.- * instead of twenty . They again met vith a refu-:.:. ^ -t , as the Clerk said , ti . at HE refused the H 2 .. 1 , bu . ; :. at he hid no power to grant it for such a purpose . M .- -r- particularly after their b ^ ing rtfuse-i by the c ^ -iii ~ - 'At . Mr . WiUi&ru Flowers secoEJed the xe&oiutv .-a . r .-d , in a shott but efecdve address ,
Tindicite-i F-jit and his companions . The resolution was tLeu pu : : . ¦ tee meeting , and unanimously drricd . Mr . C-uancill-T Colliiig proposed the n . it resolution : — " That , agrer ^ i ie to the fust resolution , a memorial be Bent to her M- ; - - -sty the Qae-n , prajia ? her to exercise her prer ^ -iUYt , by causing Frost , Wiiliams , and Janes te be liberal * d , and restored to tUeir homes , their £ unilies , and rr-ootry . " Mr . Colling then read to the meeting the intui-jrial to her 3 J 3 Jesty , as recommended by the Bir : ; ii : ; s ; Lam Ccmmitttej and concluded by DOTiBg its adupuon in pjEJoijCtion with iharcsoluton . Mr . CociJCiUi-T Ailen secoudtA the resolution , a ^ d the adoption of the luemuri&l , and after an eloquent address , « onclu ^ 6 c . amiUst cheers , by Baying , when the names er f a Rassfcil , s Nonaaaby , acd a Mauls would be forthen
« ottea , aad rowing ia the graves ^ ith bodies , loaded with :- * execration and deteststiw of aft « generations . Vl- Eamts of Frost , Williams , ' and Jones , O'Connor , Vi 3 C ; at , acd O'Brien , wooid be wvered and wtpectcd . Af us generations would siDg , in songs oi joy , to the memory of the persecuted patriots of bygone day * . The resolution and address were then put to the meetly , and carried amid loud- acclamation Mr . Councillor J jhn Pige rose to propose the next resolution : — " That three of the old Conrention be appointed by the Birmingkam Committee , to present oui address to tit t ^ jeeii , as representotiTcs of our feelings , v vtn-j , raid grieT&nces , and oar cause ; and that
# nr Lendon V-rt uren be requested to attend our deputation to the b i-tes of the Palace ; and we recommend tiiha BJruiingham Committee , James Moir , Wiliiam torett , a&a Morgan Williams , as the deputation to precs&t the aadreSB to her Mb j-sty , ** Mr . George Pap-Worth seoor . de-J- the resolution , which vu unsnlmoosly adopted . Mr . Alien proposed the following rvsaluiioa . ; " Th » t fW * mettlng , deeply socaible of the almost Hii ^ iimim taLsnions o { th * t deten&ined a&d UEfiinch | p » patziet , Foargus O Connor , Esq ., before acd during Ifae trial of the exiled patriots , and of the Rev . Wm Hill , Editor of tfa » NoriJtem Star , in his f « arless eipo ant ¦ / tb » iUef&iity ^ *^ ^ ' and injnjtice of the MstoM * , tAist theo . o « mort sincere ttinnts for tkeiJ
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services . , in i e cause of frceacm and humanity , on that occasion . " Mr . Allen paid a bi'h-mcrited coinplituttit to tie character of the noble Fc-ar ^ ais , the friend of the poor , and the vindicator of their rights . Mr . Flowers , seconded the resolution , and Krid the greatest honour that be ever felt had been conferred on him , was when the noble O'Connor took him by the hand at their first Chartist meeting in their Town HalL Mr . Venesa could not let the resolution pass without laying claim to a little honour , that he should ever hold in remembrance . He had the pleasure ef riding with the noWe champion in his carriage , from Brighton to Wortking ;
he thould never forget it as long as he 1 ' iTed . A more feeling , a more fatherly-like man , he neTer had the pleasure of eonvtrsinj with , than Feargns O'Connor ; he was kind , generous aud noble—he was a real noble —a noble of nature . In nobility O'Connor stood above Xonuanby , Russell , & Co ., as St Paul ' s above & mushroom . The resolution was then put and carried , with a Joad hurrah , that made the very building shake again . Thanks were voted to the Chairman , and three cheers were proposed for Frost , "Williams , and Jones ; for the Charter ; for Feargus O'Connor , suid the other imprisoned Chartists , which were loudly and enthusiastically responded to .
PEBTH .-On Wednesday week , a soiree and bail was held here , in aid of the wives and families of the impris ; ued Chartists , when the meeting was addressed by various friends ; aud at the conclusion three cheers were given for Frost , Williams , and Jones ; for Feargus O'Connor ; for Richardson and Collins ; and for the Charter . After clearing all the expences , thirty-two shillings remain s and will be forwarded to the proper quarter . H 3 BSEN BRIDGE—Mr . Doyle lectured here a lew uvenir . gs ago . At the conclusion of his JecMre three che ^ Ta wer e given for O'Coanor , the Charier , and for Frost , Williams , and Jones . DBOTIiSDUN . —On Tuesday evening last , Mr . Doyle lectured here to the great gratification of a numerous auditory , by whom he was rapturously applauded .
SHEFFIELD . —Chanism wears here a more than usually favourable aspect . At the last weekly meeting , ths members determined to hare nothing to do with the Household Suffrage pany in any way whatever , anJ to suppert neither men nor measures , shun of the entire right of Universal Suffrage . WlGANi—Mr . Bairstow addressed a meeting here , ou ilonday evening last , at great length , in which he detaiied the proceedings at the Leeds meetings . At the conclusion , three cheers each were given for Feargus O'Connor ; for the speaker ; for the Charter ; for Frost , Williams , and Jones ; and a- vote of thanks to the Chairman ^ Mr , Hyslop ) . Mr . B . ' d visits have given a great impulse to the cause .
SOUTH IiANCASHISE .-Mr . Leech , the South Lancashire m ssionary , will deliver lectures at the following places , dunug the next fortnight : On Suuday , the 31 bf , Raichfie-Bridge ; Monday , Feb . 1 st , at tfle Carpenter ' s-hali , Manchester ; Tuesday , the 2 d , at a' a room , near Droylsden ; Wednesday , the 3 j , at Pilkin ^ ton ; Thursday , the 4 ih , at Mottr ^ m ; Friday , the 5 th , at Hawden-lane ; Saturday , the b ' lh , at Sevrion Hearh ; Sunday , the 7 ih , at Brown-s--. r et ; Monday , the 8 : h , at Bulton ; Tuesday , the 9 ; h , at Wigan ; Wednesday , tbelOib , at Liverpool ; and on Thuroilay , the lltn , at Warrington . The various associations are requested to make the necessary preparations for his reception .
BATH . —On Monday evening last , an interesting meeting was held at the Charter Association Room , Mr . Clarke in the chair , when several addresses , alluding to" The Labourer ' s Employment Society " oi Bath , and the couduct of the police , were delivered . Mr . Aieua-nder of Newport , also addressed ihe meeting .
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Chabtist Adhlsives , oh Stickers . —We have received samples of two adhesive 3 for letters , from Manchester . On one is printed the sentence , — "Remember Frost , Williams , and Jones ; " and on the other , — "The Charter , and Ko Surrender . " They are neatly engraved on green paper , ready for pasting , and we would recommeud the use of them as a good mode of calling attention to the Chartist victims and the People ' s Charter . lsHi .-au . \ Gaol Treatme . vt . —A long investigation took pia : e the v . r . it dj y , at Brixton House of Cv » rrer :: on , touching the death of Elizabeth BaHks , aged o 5 , wno died just aft-r having descended irom : he tread wheel , A fellow-prisoner stated , that the poor woman was much troubled in bed with a cough all night previous , and that she said the clothing was very thin upon her . The poor creature was put on the treadwheel twice the following
morning , and the witness gave the following account of her death : —I was bitting on my seat waiting for my turn to co , there were four or five persons on the wheel at the . ^ ame time , when the deceased , who had been up the ia . t time about five minutes , told two of the girls to get out of her way as quick as possible , when she got down and sat on the seat . She looked very ill , and turned quite blue in the lace ,, and nevpr uttered a single word . I ran to her a = si-tance , and supported her upon the seat , when she expired in my arms . " An attempt was made to clear the prison functionaries of any alleged neglect , but the foreman of the jury remarked , — " that there was no doubt that the ueaih of th- woman was accelerated by the hard labour and prisiui regularions , at a time when her frame was debilitated by liluess . " He added that the surgeon could not be aware of her illne ? s , a = * she never msntioned her c-ouuh to him . "Verdict— Death from Natural Causes . "
More Railway AcciDf . nts . —On Tuesday last , iwu men lost their lives on the Bokon and Preston 'rlailway ; one from a quantity of earth suddenly giving way , and ihe other fron ? being kuocked down , and run over by some soil waggons . Inquests have been hdd over them , aud verdicts o ' f "Accidental dea : h" returned . Unsatcral Parent . —The msgistrateB of the Manchester Borough Court , were on Monday engaged in investigating into the conduct of a brute uamed Mary Soloman , towards one of her children .
It had been found in the cola-hole , lying on a few shavings , and so biack that it could scarcely be recognised as a human being . The prisoner , it seemed , lived with a person named Cox ; and the reason assigned for their inhuman treatment of the po ' . r child was , that they had entered it iir . o a burial club , and would be entitled to a sum of money should it die . The surgeon deposed that the child was not in immediate danger of losing itB life , and the prisoners were discharged with an admonition .
U . TWHOLESOMs Meat . —On Monday , the carcases of two ? heep , and three pig ? , were publicly burned in the Free Market , Le- ds . The Commissioners appear to be inore vigila . it m the execution of the duties of their important office , than they have previously been .
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WHAT EVERY ONE SAYS MUST BE TRUE . We take it as an admitted fact , that what every one says must be true ; nor do we apprehend that even ihe concurrence of " the Great Liar of the North , " will shake the maxim , when applied to the tiiumph of Chartism , on Thursday tie 21 st of January , 1841 . Every person , and all authorities , concur in admitting that never was there so complete , so entire , and eo noble a victory . But if upon the mere face of facts presented to the public eye , all agree in the completeness of our triumph , what must be the public surprise when all the facts of the cafe are laid bare !
Be it remembered , then , that education was one of the great principles of the " Leeds Parliamentary Reform Association , " and from the operation of which upon the sound judgment of the industrious clas > e 3 every hope of an alliance between them and their masters was fully anticipated . " The people were deluded , and only required teaching ; the people were ignorant , and only required instruction . " To bring about bo desirable an end , nothing waa bo necea * ary as & parley between the rival partiesthe philanthropic masters and their misled slaves .
The magical effect of eloquence is almost unbounded , and it bat required the oratorical powers of the rich , oppressor to persuade the poor oppressed that grievances were equally felt by the capitalist , who from others' labour had amassed millions , and by those whose very sweat had been coined into gold to fill their coffers . " Eqaal justice for each and for all , " was , we believe , a point in the principles of the Association . How far this point has been observed , aad how far , and by what means , the light of knowledge was to have dispersed tke dark cloud , of ignorance , let us , in the first place , consider , before we proceed with our general review .
A parley was to bare taken place , whereat all grades of intellect , from 6 d . to 5 s ., were to have been represented . The first issue of tickets took place ; and out of 1 , 500 of the onintellectual sixpennies , the knowledge-thirsting Chartists , of themselves , purchased no fewer than 1 , 300 of the number . This fact was communicated to the Secrstary of the Club , when , to our surprise and disgust , the farther issue ef tickets was stopped , lest the igaorant people should purchase a cbanoeof bearing the
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• ruth , and being thereby converted ! Thereaconof this stoppage was eicsj uublushingly made public . However , after a short lapse of time , and when the snow and intense cold promised to operate as a bar to the attendance of the Chartists from a distance , —( it being well understood that none at home would venture , under the employer and overseer , to go to the parley in any other capacity than that of hearers and applauders , )—after this lapse , about 700 more tickets were issued , and of which the Chartists bought up the number of 500 . Upon this second brisk sale , orders were sent by the Secretary to the several vendors of tickets , to sell them to members only , and not to sell one to a Chartist . In pursuance of thiig order , the Chartists were at a
stand ; and upon one of the body applying at the shop of a liberal newsvendor , at Bradford , he was told that there were none in the shop . In a short time afterwards , however , the same Chartist saw the same liberal news-vendor packing up two parcels of twenty-fivo tickets each ; and when reminded that those were 6 d . tickets , the liberal news-vendor replied , " Aye , I know they are , but they are going back to the Secretary , as you want them to oppose the Association . " Now , to the truth of this we pledge ourselves . We cannot for one moment suppose that either Mr . Marshall or Mr . Stansfeld would have countenanced so pitiful a trick ; and therefore we lay it at the door of the orerdiligent unscrupulous Secretary .
So much for the positive hindrance offered to the attendance of the ignorant , while the great array of Nobility , Gentry , and Members of Parliament , which the programme promised , was of itself sufficient to awe the unwashed into obedience , if not into absence . In fact , had all the expected guests arrived , Mr . Marshall might fairly have been said to have stolen a march upon her Majesty , by opening the Parliament in his FJax Mill , on the 21 st , instead of allowing her MajeBty the usual privilege of doing so in person , from the throne of the House of Lords on the 26 th .
Tickets , as was unblushingly stated , were to have bet . n furnished , in the first instance , to the members , and 4 , 000 places were let at the various prices , of from Is . 6 J . to 5 i . —a sum much beyond that which either Mr . Marshall or Mr . Stansfeld , even with Household Suffrage , will allow their men to spare for an intellectual entertainment . The feast was originally to have been on Wednesday the 20 ; h ; but , inasmuch as Thursday is the market-day in some parta of the West Riding , aud , as those Chartists who are most independent of mill lords have occasion to attend their market towns , " it was , therc : fi / re , " reasonably deemed" prudent to alter the day to the 21 st .
With such obstacles , and many others , such as the intimidation of masters and overseers , the Chartists went to work ; and , upon the eve of battle , the enemy si ruck ! The object ; the one , the sole , the only object , for which the meeting was called , and upon wnich nearly £ 2 , 000 was expended , was abandoned . Every thing was conceded to the despised delegates of the- despised Chartists ; and mercy , even mercy , was asked for , and generously conceded . The preliminaries were agreed upon , and a resolution was unanimously adopted as the only test of principle to be proposed . That resolution we here once more insert . It runs thus : —
" That the great experiment made by means of the Refi > rm Bill , to improve the condition of the . country , hnth failed to attain the end desired by the people ; and , a further Reform having , therefore , become necessary , it is the opinion of this meeting that the united efforts of all Reformers ought to be directed to obtain Mich a further enlargement of the franchise , as should make the interests ef the representatives identical with these of the whole country , and by this means secure a just government for all classes of the people . "
Now , we a-k if a Republican of the ultra school could , by possibility , desire a wider field for the exercise of his imagination , than the boundless space which this positive negative , or negative positive , ( which you please , my dears , ) presents ! Where , in this resolution , are to be found the strong , the defined , the practicable , the intelligible , the enfranchising , the improving , the educating , the equalising principles of the Association , according to the several letters of Messprs . Marshall and Stansfeld ; aD d where are the rules for the government of the body , which were to bo submitted for the adoption , not for the consideration , but for the adoption of the apostolical meeting , which was to have consecrated the flax mill by the recognition of our new Magna Charta" !
The day arrived , and behold ! instead of a five shilling platform , groaning under Peers , M . P . ' c , and aristocrats , come to feel the pulse of Englaud ' s young pride , the pageant , as far as regards the aristocratic representation , is turned into a puppetshow , where Punch and Judy Hume , Strickland , and Williams , in their own proper persons , represent the English aristocracy ! The first speaker who presents himself , Mr . Hume , is mistaken for Mr . Daniel O'Connell , who was to have been the " great gun" of the night ; and poor Mr . Hume is assailed with that warmth of bursting indignation
which for weeks had been bottled for the destroyer of the poor man ' s liberty , and the reviler of English women's fame . The " destructive Chartists" interfere , explain the mistake , and Mr . Hume is heard ; and thus the business goes on , a Sham-Radical and a Chartist in turn addressing the meeting ; the shams fencing and talking nonsense , the Chartists laying ou the whip , and actually electrifying the ignorant platformite ? , the two-and-sixpenny , and the one-and-sixpenny audience ; while the sixpenny visitors evinced their delight and approbation at the triumph of their champions , in cheers both hearty , loud , and long .
The Chartists ( and the club know it ) were strong enough to have chosen tLeir chairman , and to have carried any resolutions declaratory of their principles ; but they could have hit upon none more sweeping , in recognition of their right , and their cause , and their Charter , than that in which all so happily , and so unanimously agreed . No attempt , from the commencement , was made , by one of the eight thousand persons , to introduce the question of Household Suffrage , to advance which the meeting waa called ; while friend and foe declared that Universal Suffrage was the only just principle of franchise .
Let us now ask if such a result could have been contemplated , would the experiment have been tried ? No , never ] We look , then , upon the victory of the 21 st of January , 1841 , a 3 being , in the expressive language of the Mercury , the completest of all triumphs . We consider it as the first step in the last stage of our moral warfare—as the first " direction " of public opinion . Public opinion must have been well created and thoroughly and soundly organised , before the first attempt at its direction could have been so triumphantly successful . One false step on the 21 st , and Chartism would have received a " heavy blow ; " whereas , prudent management has dealt death and dismay in the ranks of the enemy .
The mill meeting was to have been followed , by transplanting the healthy skoots of young opinion from the nursery to all parts of the Empire . That project has , however , been abandoned , and the Association , which , but ten days since , was brim-full of hope , now lies prostrate , — " UNHOUSED , " " unannointed , " " unannealed , " — perished in its infancy , strangled in its cradle , and sent , " with account unsettled , " before the tribunal of public opinion .
The Chartists have been told , insolently told , that they were only potent for evil ; but he who said so dared not witness their potency for good . From all parts of tke country , and from Scotland , they selected their delegates , far out-numbering those of the Club . "They came , —they taut , —they conquered . ' ' There was no bullying , no bluster , no declaration of war ; no torch , no dagger , but with the scythe of common sense they mowed down every blade of opposition . And singular , most singular , that with the
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single exception of something which Mr . Marshall read from a piece of paper , and which , as Chairman , he was bouud to do , not one of the members of the " Leeds Parliamentary Reform Association " appeared in the contest . It was the completest represedsatioa of Hamlet , without a Hamlet , we ever heard tell oft Where was Mr . Stansf eld , with his Bible , and Traveller ' s Tales , and Joe Miller ! Where was Jushva Bower , Esq ., and where was Charles Cummins , Esq ., and , — " Where , and O where , is my Highland Iaddi « gone ?" Where was the thrilling eloquence , the soul-stirring patriotism , the undying flame , the untiring energy of the Doctor !
We could not have had a more happy illustration of the several parties of which society is composed , than that which the Mill was intended to represent on the 21 st . The platform for the peers ; the 2 & 6 U for the upper clas 3 ; the Is . 6 d . for the middle class ; and the 6 d , for the class that pays for all . And let us , aa a finisher to the dispute between tne Ho-u-se and the intellect , clearly show the advantage which the enfranchisement of the latter must , of necessity , have over the enfranchisement of the former .
Universal Suffrage would be the advocate of the meritorious soldier , who had seen service , and who understood his duty , against the hairy-lipped monkey who slips from his mammy ' s apron-string to command his betters . Universal Suffrage would place merit , genius , and talent , instead of patronised prejudice , folly , and ignorance upon the bench ; and thus make reason and justice , instead of caprice and fancy , preside over mon ' s lives , men ' s liberties , and men ' s properties .
Universal Suffrage would protect the capital oi him with one hundred thousand pounds , against the capital of him with one million thousaud pounds , by so ordering demand and supply , that a man shell neither swamp the market , or overbold his goods upon the strength of his large capital , to the destruction of his poorer neighbour . Universal Suffrago would protect the shopkeeper
against the truck system of the feeding mongers , and against the monopoly of government purveyors , at the lowest wholesale price , for the worst description of food , for unwilling idlers who , under a sood system , would become the best customers of the shop-keeping class . They would wear more hose , more shoes , and more clothes ; they would nso more furniture , more coals , and more of ^ the manufacture of their own hands .
Universal Suffrage would protect the banker and the merchant , from all losses consequent upon unnatural trade . Universal Suffrage would protect the landed proprietor from the Jew-jobber , the tax-eater , and the money lender . Universal Suffrage would protect the peerage as a distinction for merit . Universal Suffrage would protect the large capitalists ' from that crash , that awful crash , which the present system must inevitably subject them to . Universal Suffrage would protect the Ministry from too great a responsibility .
Universal Suffrage would protect th « Monarch from a Republic , and Universal Suffrage would protect the cottage from ruin , while Household Suffrago would place it in the power of the wealthy to erect monuments to his own temporary greatness and grandeur , to the immediate ruin of his poorer neighbour , to his own ultimate and certain destruction , and to tho country ' s ruin . In short , we cannot improve upon our former position : that Universal Suffrage would disfranchise the vicious
and enfranchise the virtuous of all classes , from the aristocracy to Mr . Baptist Noel ' s " without-God-and-without-hope" staff ; and that if the principle of exclusion is to bo admitted , the industrious would represent all other classes more honestly and efficiently than all other classes unitedly could represent themselves ; and that ninety-nine in every hundrod labourers , who never can hope to live independently of industry , would have , if possible , a greater interest in upholding tho emoloyers' capital than tho master himself .
Now , can any sound judging man deny these facts , without first proving that the working classes are all mad i Way , we shall be asked , ia years of as great distress , have not these things been urged by , or on behalf of , the toiling millions \ Why has tho mere qutstion of ubstract riqht , to be forcibly carried , constituted the sum and substance of political agitation ? U ' no question is easy of solution . Till the reduction upon newspaper stamps ,- ( the greatest revolution ever known in this or any other country ) , —trie people could only think ; they could not express their thoughts ; and York and
Lancaster , the centre of the hive , the marrow of England ' s back-bone , were represented , exclusively , by tho Leeds Mercwy and the Manchester Git'inlian . These two political rips collated , what they were pleased to call , the public opinion of the millions ; and there being no organ to dissont from their falsehoods , they became the salesmasters of provincial feelings in the metropolis ; hence , London , which is a citadel , always either taken or defended , according to the weakness or strength of the garrison , fell into tho prevailing notion , would not stir against Lancashire and Yorkshire , and , in short , took the epidemic .
A uw how is it ! The Mercury and Guardian now only represent " the wreck of old opinions . " They have not , unitedly , the power to call a single meeting , or carry a single resolution , for any one purpose ; they cannot assist where they before administered ; they cannot procure a vote , where they before conferred seats . Thus has the freshness of popular provincial opinion given a freshness to metropolitan opinion , and taken off the rust of ages .
A keen sportsman once remarked , that he never was so well carried as when he had only one horse , one saddle , aud one bridle . The horse was always in wind , without sore mouth from strange bridle , or sore back from badly fitting saddles ; whereas , when he had ten , all were out of order and out of wind . Now , such is precisely the case with the people . Formerly thoy wero delighted with a pleasaut ride
upon the local hobby-horse ; and we had as many crotchets as journals , and as many journals as crotchet ? , and as many officers aa soldiers . Now we have one organ shining with equal brilliancy upon the hovel and the palace—equally illuming the peasant as the peer—a national finger-post , pointing out the one straight road to freedom ; and hence we find all the passengers going the one way upon the great thoroughfare of life .
Again , than , do we congratulate ourselves , our friends , their delegates , and their cause , upon the victory of victories gained upon the 21 st ! By that , tbo Chartists have proved to the world that they require but a clear stage and no favour ; aud that physical force ha 3 only been mentioned in consequence of the unjust aad cowardly suppression of moral strength . How could a victory be more decisive ! Without striking a blow the ' . enemy capitulated , surrendered at discretion , and marched out without their arms , leaving their principles , as Sir Peter Teazle left his character—behind them . In fact , the Household troops were surrounded aud made prisoners of war , by the very first charge of the Universal brigade .
Bat let not our troops suppose that this victory is to be the signal for repose ! No , no , we must go on , adding triumph to triumph , until the Charter becomes the law of the land . Again do we most cordially thank the people and their delegates ; and it now only remains for us to lament the " mill of troubles , " which a covetons old gentleman has allowed an indiscreet young boy to bring upon him . The people came—they saw—they conquered . This all admit—because none can deny it : and " what every one says must be true . " 1 I
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LEICESTER . EVEN A GREATER CHARTIST TRIUMPH IHiS THAT OF THE TWENTY-FIRST . From Leeds to Leicester did Danny and Jon in company start . The object of the Leicester dt > was , to give to Lord Acre and Bombshell ( Easthopk ) all the advantage which sympaftj for cobblers and church-rate " martyrs" vM bestow , previously to another election . Admission only by ticket ; and Chartists , and even their friends , positively refused entrance . Police , to phisiognomia every unwashed applicant , and all the avenues well guarded . Well , says the reader , and where was the triumph ! Why , hear , and you shall confess .
Daniel and Joseph vouchsafed an autograph letter to Messrs . Seal aad Maekham , two leading Chartists , in which the writers requested the honour of an interview at their hotel , after the meeting , to have a little chat ; and when the said Daunt td Joey would answer any questions which the said Seal and Markham might choose to propose . Well ; what of that 1—where is the triumph ! Why , here , ia these few words . Messrs . Seil
and Maiucham presented their compliments , and begged to decline the honour which they could not accept without DEMEANING THEMSELVES ! Now , then , was ever so great a triumph ! Wiea before did two M . P . 's receive such a slap on lie face from two of the unwashed I Two liberals ; political pedlars jhawking their wares and voluntetring to be catechised by Chartists , —and the Chartists declining the honour , lest they should DEMEAN
THEMSELVES ! This , we say , is a greater triumph than even thfl 21 st ; because , until the working men are taught the vaiue of self-esteem , their rulers will never hold them in better estimation than as so many nose-led brutes . " We decline the honour , because , by lit acceptance we sshould DEMEAN OURSELVES !" Well done , Leicester . We confess in these two words you have outdone us . In proof , we give th « letter of John Markham to Feargus O'Cohsos , and which O'Con . nob transmitted to us : — " Leicester , January 23 rd , 1841 .
"Mi Dear Sir , —The great church rate meetin | i « held here this evening ; Dan . and Hume , Easting and Ellis , are all here . Admission only by ticket , and so scrupulous have the fellows been that they haveb » d a person at each of their offices who they thought had a knowledge of the Chartists and their friends , and they positively refused to sell a single ticket to aDy one who was known to be friendly to us . Dan and Hume sent for me and Seal to night , to go to their inn , " to have a little chat , or to answer any question we migk *
think proper to put to them . " We sent a letta instanter , to say we should be wanting in self-reaped and a due consideration to the honour of our friend * after such a gratuitous insult offered to our body , if « accepted their invitation . mzti " Poor , but yet faithful , " I remain , dear Sir , « ' Youra truly , " J . MarkU ** " To Feargus O'Connor . Esq . " .
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THE KORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JANUARY 30 , 1841 .
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O'CONNOR , O'CONNELL , THE MERCURY , AND THE TRIUMPH OF THE 21 st . We give the following bit from the journal of the man of veracity ; he says : — " The assemblage of Chartists at Holbeck 3 VIoor on Thursday was to the last degree meagre and miserable-Mr . Fsargus O'Connor , who burns with hatred to Mr . O'Connell , and who considered the latter as coining to Leeds to triumph over him , did every thing tbat fierce personal rancour , as well as political animosity , could suggest , to procure an overwhelming attendance of Chartists , with a view to oppose , if not to insult and silence him . "
Only one word upon that portion of the bit which refers to the triumphant ( and , therefore , to tho fallen god , " meagre and miserable "; gathering which took place on the 21 st . ¦ The " thieving god , " as the honey-lipped O'Connell called his friend , gave us 10 , 000 for the " Great Peep Green Meeting , " at which all admitted there were from 300 , 000 to 400 , 000 persons ; and be ^ iveius 3 , 000 for " The Welcome to Dan" Meating , while the space occupied , before the thousands had fully assembled , was three thousand square yards . Now , all persons are aware that an out-door
meeting , and especially in . cold weather , packs much more clo : ely than an in-door meeting . In a room there are ang ? c * and corners , and other obstacles , to the complete occupation of the whole space . However , a part of the meeting covered 3 , 000 square yards ; the procession filled Briggate , perhaps the largest street in any provincial town in England , as full as an egg ; and having dispatched thousands to their homes , we contrived to find room for nearly 5 , 000 of the 3 , 000 in Mr . Marshall ' s Mill ! Why , even old weekly Green acre Chron . gives us 4 , 000 . How is this . Cocker ?
Oh ! Neddy , if it had been a Whig meeting , how many pairs of spectacles would you bave had on \ The whole staff of the establishment would have counted each man twice over , and then would have multiplied all the numbers severally counted , and the product would have been the amount , announced thus : — ' * We aro always delicate in venturing a guess at large masses of persons , and therefore prefer taking the opinion of an old officer , who was on tho ground , and who paid particular attention to the space occupied , and the position of the audience , and he assures us that there could not have been fewer than from two to thvee hundred thousand persons present at theperiod when the greatest number were together . "
So much for Mercurial accuracy , delicacy , and arithmetic ; and now a word for the " gentleman" in his capacity of champion for the sucking dove , the injured innocent , poorDAN . The Mercury forgets who called for , aad obtained , throe groans for the Queen of the Reforming King ; he forgets that within the month he and the sucking dove have been pelting ; each other with " swindler , " " thieving God , " and so forth ; ( but , politically speaking , these are lumps of love ;) and then ho turns upon O'Connor for having inv plored the working men of Yorkshire to give O'Connell such a reception as he deserved !
When did age , sex , rank , friendship , or fellowship screen man or beast from the filth of the venomvomithig wretch , who , for twenty years has lived upon the wreck of character , regardless whether of friend or foe ! and this is the " sucking dove , " ou whose behalf the Mercury pleads ! Had the firat victim to the tyrant ' s rancour met him with the same bold and manly front that O ' Connor has presented to his every charge , many a fair fame would have been spared the soil of
his dirty tongue . O Connor met him on the threshold ; and the Mercury appears to forget that he challenged him at his own ezpence , and without any reference to personal feelings , to meet him in public discussion ; but no , darkness and cowardice shrunk from light and courage . O'Connor is the first man who has triumphantly made the tyrant ' s friend cry " hold ! " " enough 1 " " spare ! O spare your victim I" —Yes , the victim in bondage has beaten the boast at large .
But let us take the question upon its merits . O'Connor was expected in Dublin , and tho " sucking dovo " said , " If he come , the boys will give him a swim in the Liffey . " At one of the palavers of , his creatures , some blustering coward said that " he met O'Connor at a meeting at Preston , and tbat he had a great mind to kick him . " What was the pacificator ' s reply ? I am glad yon did not , ' my friend ; that would have been physical force , which wo discountenance . Did he say so 1 No ; but the valiant gentleman said , " you never would have been more right in your life than you would have been had you kicked him well . "
The bea&t marked O'Connor out for the notice of the Attorset General ; called him a destructive , torch-and-dagger man , and so forth . Now what did O'Connor say I Did he say kick him ! No ; he said , " let there be no drunkenness , no riot ; if any should attempt it , let him be instantly restrained . ' * - Well , but popular feeling and disgust ran bo high that the strongest manifestation of dislike could not havo been possibly restrained , had Dan shown his
nose in Leeds , as promised ; and it was O Connor did it all ! 1 ! although , it was a / 1 done before he knew anything of tho arrangements . Why the Chronicle oven Baddies a placard upou O ' Connor , which O'Connor never saw , or probably never heard of ! Let it , however , be a consolation to O'Conn&u to know , that tho coward who would not have dared to face him , was prevented by a fair-play-loving English community of blistered hands , from striking him while he was down .
The poor Mercury makes a leader of a most foolish and enigmatical epistle of Lord Fitzw illiam , forgetting that the said Lord Fitzwilliam , while Baines wa 3 groaning the Queen , was declaiming , publicly , the very expressions which the bloodthirsty O'Connor procured to be expunged from the Convention Manifesto , as being illegal . The fact is , that O'Connor , the Star , and the people , have beaten O'Connell , the whole Whig
Establishment , the Whigs , the sham Radicals , the Fox and Goose Club , and the whole community of rich oppressors . Again , we say , there never was such a triumph , when the Mercury is compelled to head his report thus : — " Great Household Suffrage Demonstration , converted into a Universal Suifiage Meeting ; " and in his leading article he maintains that " the Chartists obtained the completest of all victories— they took captive the entire at my of the enemy . '
The Iniellxyencer , a far honester and more efficient organ , speaks thus of the demonstration : — " The ' Great Demonstration' of the Whig Reformers of the Reform Act , in Leeds , has turned out , as we predicted it would turn out—a decided failure . Of the anuounced stars , only a few of the second magnitude were present—such as Mr . Hume , Mr . Roebuck , CoL Thompson , Mr . Williams , ( from Atventry , ) Mr . Sharman Crawferd , and Sir George Strickland . Mr . © "ConneU was not presdnt ; but arrived yesterday in time to « ret
a bit of dinner . Sit W . Molesworth excused himself ; he is jealous of Mr . Roebuck . Me . Baines refused , and left Leeds to show his contempt for Mr . Stansfeld ' s agitation . Letters were read from various parties ; but we did not hear any thing of one from F . H . Fawtes , Esq ., of Famley Hall , who wrote to decline on the ground that the only point on which he agreed with the managers , was that ' Reform' waa at a very low ebb . Surely it was not quite fair to burk the opinions of so active and respectable a local Reformer .
" TheChartist ' Demonstrationwasafarmore effective exhibition , and shows much greater power both as to numbers and the feelings of the working men . They evinced a determined and well-founded hatred of the trickster O'Connell , and were successful at all points . The Whigs , in fact , made an abject submission to them ; they literally sued to them , in bondsman ' s key , for forbearance ; assigned to them equal rights on Messrs . Marshall ' s costly hustings ! accorded them man for man in the settled list of orators ; and the working-Chartists the
men waged battle of argument with the Whig nobs , aye , and beat them too , inasmuch as if there bo any arguments good for Household Suffrage , tho same arguments must be still better for Universal Suffrage . The solitary resolution moved , was also squared to Chartist toleration . It » imply affirms that further reform is required . In ttda the Cbartiats of course agree . So the Whigs havo actually taken nothing by their movement ; in all respects playing flecond fiddle only . We repeat that the affair was an utter failure , though aa immense nun of money * ?*»
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been lavished upon it ; the creattr part of wj ,-no doubt , will fill to the share of the M essrs . Mar h * It is an old maxim that foolish persons alwivo ^ for their hobby . ' * **> " But although the Whigs have broken down ia th ^ . attempt to enlist under thoir banner the great bocl * the working men of Leeds and its vicinity , theyW shewn plainly enough tfeat they are ready to join h * Chartists , or any body of complainants , as soon Jr Conservative and constitutional Government ' shauV formed . Were Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of-a lington in office , these sticklers far Household Suffw ^ would swallow any other nostrum for the sake * influence over the minds of the masses . They are ^ altogether devoid of honest principle . We questi however , whether the Chartists will ever again ac « S them as leaders .: If they enlist , they roust be conS to take the lowest rank . They-have persecu ted tS old pupils ; and to trust them again would b « to , making a bosom companion of the viper . The suK ? quent arrival of O'Connell , and his attendanse atiJ night's dinner , will not contribute to smooth the * tnvsirrin n . TM » . nTi (* ili » fcinTl . t
" Our report of the proceedings embraces all the leu ing points of the slightest importance or interest tl speaking : was below mediocrity . Mr . Hume rambW from subject to subject , and scarcely ever finisha sentence ; Mr . Roebuck is tiresome ; Colonel ThompJ prosy ; Mr . Williams a mere chatterer . Mr . Sharm ^ Crawford appears to be a clever man , butthe meetb ! evinced to listen
a strong lnaisposiuon to him , ^ many persons left the mill as soon as he bepan to ape * The greater portion went to see O'Connell , and tJw disappointed . Sir George Strickland put himself « n 2 defence as to hia conduct as Chairman of the Hull Bu ? tion Committee : it would have been better for him £ he kept silence , for his explanation only makes the bLu still blacker . m
"We shall have to return to this and other partad the day ' s exhibition , when time and place are more I disposal . We have said enough , however , to shew \ u this ' Demonstration' was merely an affair of 8 ino |» The mountain laboured , and brought forth a very tfa mouse indeed . " ™ Let the " thieving god" and his " injured innoceap take their change out of all these proofs of Chartii triumph , and add to them the fact , that all who wii nessed the procession admitted that it was ft , largest , the most orderly , and the most impost ever seen in Leeds .
But , says tho Mercury , they had no pli ^ . we always fought it out , even with Fkahgij himfelf . Indeed ; let us see . Feaegcs himself wy at Leeds for three years , during the hottest period of excitement , and when a good meeting would nju been nuts to the poor Whigs in Leeds , eo cefe . brated in olden times forgiving the tone to England how many out-door meetings did the redonbj ! ablescalll Why , just one , in three years * and > j which " , though the Mayor was in the chitr and the M . P . Baines and all his family , «] all the masters , overseers , place-hunters , igj
toadies , that could be mustered , congregate Mr . O ' Connor , after a journey of a hundi ^ miles , and with a ruptured blood-vessel , met fa whole army singly and alone ; not a man appoints to second his amendment ; no arrangements made for opposition . Yet , did O'Connor carry his amendmeil and that too upon the vital question of tin repeal of the Corn Laws , in the centre of the greii manufacturing county of York , and in defiance rf the whole muster , though the Whig Mayor cm . tended , in the very teeth of the meeting , that ik majority was for the original motion ; knowing wdl the contrary to be tho fact .
So much , then , for the courtesy , civilization , pluck , and politeness of the gallant Queen-groans —the veracious politician—the consistent journal ^ —the polished gentleman—defender of the suckitj dovo , and so forth . Wo pity those leetle abortion ! who sneak after and crouch before the moving ma of filth , that has nocked their very siz-3 , and roriW their every act , while we commend the manly bearijj of the Gallant Napier and the brave 0 'Connob , ti 1 « have made tho bottle-holders of the great vowvaliant slanderer cry , Hold ! " " Enough !"
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THE ELECTIONS . There are now five of these things upon the / flp " * to wit , Canterbury , where the contest is between * Mr . Wilson ( Whig ) and a Mr . Smyths ( Tory ) . IJere the betting is twenty shillings to a ponM either way ; and it needs little comment , as it is * very pretty quarrel as it stands : the Whigh *^ blackguarded the Tory most awfully ; tha Tory having challenged him ; the Whig has made * copious discharge of gentlemanly compensati 011 for political language . The letter of a pology wai thus : —
" Mr . Frederick VilUers , on the part of Mr . Henriker Wilson , disclaims having had the intention in tM above-mentioned sentences of saying anything P 813 ^ ally offensive to Mr . Smythe , or what would be pun ™ to bia feelings as a gentleman . Mr . Villiera makes tw same disclaimer a * to any other part of bis speech . « ' Villiew further expresses Mr . H . Wilson ' s regret" « his speech should have been understood by v > 7 on 8 M personally offensive to M < r . Smythe . " Frederick Vii . «*** " Frederick button" January 22 , 1841 . "
Now , from the words , "feelings as a genlltmm it is . quite clear that the most upright gentleman may be the most consummate political vagaboB " » nd vice versa . Well , ao much for the gentlemw * heroes !
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4 THE NORTHERN STAR .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 30, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct364/page/4/
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