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    • STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
    • 2Tu Btancrg am? Comgpontumtg*
    • i^crUjcotmns Cijarlt'st ^Leetitxgp.
    • TO THE SHAKSPEREAX BRIGADE OF XEICESTEK CHARTiSIS.
    • THE jN t OETHEB,]S STAR. SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1842.
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      LncESTEKsaiRE . —On Sunday afternoon , a camp meeting will be held at Wigstone , to commence at two o ' clock . On Monday Mr . Daily will be at Glem , and Mr . Beedb . a : n at . the bottom of Humbcrstone Gate . On Tuesday Mr . Duffy will be at Ribworth , and Mr . Beeaham iD the Pasture . Oa Wednesday Mr . DuSy -will be at MarkSeld , and Mr- Beedham in thePiDjjle . On Thursday ilr . DaSy will be intne Market PIsr-5 , Leicester , and Mr . Beedhara a : Blaby . On Friday Mr . Daffy will be in the Foundry Sarnie , and Mr . Beedham at Oadley .

      Waxwoktb . —A concert and ball will be held at the -Muc : pe ; icr Tavern , on Wednesday evening , Anira 5 > the 24 us , for the purpose of removing some uiSculrisrs we arc labouring under . Tickets sixpence each . Several talented indivicnais are engaged to add to its evening's amusement . Nottingham—Mr . Clarke ' s route for nest week on the Forest , at half-past two and sis in the evening ; Monday , Caj-iion ; Tnesdzj , I *« cvr Bradford ; Wednesday . > ew Lenton ; Thnrsday , Stafford ; Siturdsv , . Noah ' s Ark . Mr . Mead will attend at the lisbin Head , on Saturday evening ; at the Pheasant or . Sunday noon ; at the Rancliffe Arms on Sunday evening . Any locality desirous of Mr . Mead's £ . - -rTices , Tnll please to address him ac Airs . SiulihV , "Wa . rstr-.-a . ie , Isoiringham .

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      Manchester , Hand en ' s Temperance Hotel , Wednesday morning , Aug . 17 , 1542 . My £ 2 _ iYs Comp . ^ dss , —I Jeft jv-a on Tuesday afiriaoon , the Si Instant , End between that date and the present , one of tie most important periods in the history of tbe worfcing-ir . en of . this cocatry has comntenx ' d . Of the widely-extended strike for labour ' s ¦¦ tracts , -wiich bs « been pretty generally converted into a Kanti for tbe Charter , yon vt ' ili fca already aware , by the d-. lij ami weekly paper ? . Whether thr . t ¦ widelyspread resolve have entered into yonr minds and hearts , si tes time I am "writing this , ITsel soaje anxiety to learn . Bat I nrast hasten ta rehearse « ra-3 of the prs-EEcea cf my diversified experience since the Jay I lef ; too .

      I tad a good meeting at Birmingham , in tie Hall of Sconce , > , a-vrry commodious builtiiug belcr . ging to the S ^ c ' aiiits ; on the Tuesday eTening . I found George White to be treat I had long beard him reported to be —a sound-heart *** " ! , thorough-going dtmocrat I enrolled twecty-four at the close of the meeting . I fcad 1 ob § and very interesting conversations ihe next dsy -w ^ Uj "vrni ' je , and learned muca from Isim respecting tbe prosrrtss of tbe movement in ani around Birmingham " acd tie cr . uses -srhy in S ' rmitEham itself , thiDgs fur some time looked ! ts 3 satisfactory tfcsn could be wishe . l . At night > WedstBcbyi -we had a good meeting oa : of doors , near the RailWEy Station , notwithstanding a hesw rain .

      04 Thursday beg-sa s series of excitements , Buch as I had ji'tierto be * n a stranger to . I was set down at t well' ; al ^ noon , by the omnibus , at Wedatsbury , ( called "Wtii ^ ebury by ine mtivts , ) in the midst of SO . OOOcoN liersion strike for wajes . They f ^ rnisd one of the cobltit s :-j 1 ^ s I ever -witnessed . Limey , 0 Neil , Pearsan . asi c-ti-ers cdWlre-ised them ; conclusiTs resolutions , l > In » 1 i-. c the -whole assembly to desist alto : » ethfc * , from }« bv < cr nmil their jast demands -were complied with , ¦ were pur and carried unanimously and enthusiastically . 2 ihm briefly addressed tbia immense gathering of labour ' s sons ; a vast iS 5 embl ?^ e of fcuman eyes , all raised in espwtans intelligence—bra- ? e bosoms thrown cp = n to the sun and air , aad stalwart arms and &tcnt bands held up with instantaneous heartiness , the vwy moment that I pnt it to them , -whether they would all aioiit tie People ' s Cintter . I shall not loss thu impression made upon me by the Tew of that meeting as Ion ? as I lire . I proceeded in Llnnty ' s company to

      B' . lston . For two mortal hours I addressed the favourite brigade—tie " body sriiard" ef our bravd chief , F = arjns , in th = evsaing . I acre trsre about 4 . Cu- £ present on a piece of groniil formed lite &n an . phithfca . trs , wht »« fie } ' sat in fixed eamestnesa receiTicz my plain remarks , apparently aa enthusiastic at the close , as at the bfc ^ inmus- The Tiew cf the massive hands of thoae hra ^ e coHitraraisei in approval of the Charter , conTinced me in 2 . twinilin . g cf O Connor ' s shrewdness insekcting the " black-brisjade ef Bilstun Charftsts '" as his " body ccsres - God help tbe pwr fellow tbat provokes a hl-jw from the shonlder-of-mntton fist of a Bilstoa eo ' . Iier ! We enrolled fifty members at the c ! o 33 of the B ls : o : i meeting . L : nney assured me that the whole itgicn was rife with Caartism : _ thia honest , independent , and brave man ha 3 k&cn indefatigible ra bis lafe'iirs among » his bold and Eimple-hearted people : tLrre is cot 3 Tr . ^ r . in the -whole movement who , -in my jiAgrs-xiit . deserves more highly the praise and conlirenes < f his brother Chartiits tLan Joseph Licney . -

      OiF : iiay mors . E : ; . ine 12-J :, 1 waiked on to w-oiverhanip-on . ana aiuress ^ danother meeticg of thah ^ rdy t ^ isers ox ite " Matt iJiainonds ' —the whole district , for inanv rsiies , haTirg entirely ceased labour , ar . d nothing being more tasj ti : an to get an oat-cwr mce :-ii 2 g of thousands nroa tLoufaods at tnis tiiBeof fxdte-Vitzi : the ¦ WoVrerh . T . Tnptoa coii-fcrs , l ; ka the assemblages I had pr-ivisciij addr ^ ed , held tip their mighty bands ¦ Bith one nceord . and instantly , -when I EiEed tbcEV if they wvnid e * ponsa tbe cause of the Charter . In tbe afttn : ocn , I got on by rai . w 3 y to Stafford . I f-janiJ niLtters in a somewhat criiical condition in thi 3 Tory-ridden bjrough . M ?* on , and bis companions in tribulation , are confined : in ths Kaol here : one bar ^ rcd and £ f ly colliers ha-d been also lodged in i : "within the wtek—troops of splditra had bt-en marched

      in : o the to-sni—additio ; ;? l rooms were 0 ri 3 g buiit to the ciol nsaoa , it -W 3 s sai < 3 , ¦ was to t > ep « 2 TJt € d "upva the extreme totrers—acd everything looked so thrtattaicr , ihzt when the friends here tock a bill to the printer , annoiinciD ^ my leeture , he did no ; dare to print it . G-tot r ears were enterrained thit I would " l ^ aurrs ; :: cnQed if I dared to stasci cp in tie Marketplac « , " thit liisnt . However , when sev ^ n o ' clock had J strucs , tb = ie 1 was—mounted en a famons ] o ^ g bti-ch , procured by the friends . Tea superintendent of police then touk his station clofa by my ri ? ht tlww , the Tory . gentry and ladies thre- r ud their windows to listen End bear the rebel Chartist commit himself , end to eee him poucc « a upon st . ' . i b ? rne ' i-sray in the airry claws of th « nw lobst&rs . B jt no ' I shewed how excellent it * ras to have a

      - * ' Svrest Bitle Bilver-voicsd lady , " And p-y our mllliaa atid a quarter yeiiiy to support hers =: f and her tita ' Dlishmfent . I demonstrated that lj . -al Chartist kaew tte land wcaLI be ninsd if the CiTt ; Liit were n . t tept up ? and tbat woiking men ^¦ ould 2 > - weep their tyes sore if Adelaide were to be bertf : 0 : Ler £ 10 ' " » . OJO a-year . I denounced any ragged shoemuktr 'Sii 5 ord , like Northampton , ycu know , my bravs ifh- ^ spisareiiLB , is a famous shotnizkuig town , ) as r . itcpM ieiiow i ? be dsred to talt s'bsnt his ag-rd £ T ^ sdai « tbrr htics in a hostile ar . d vegcUtU-g on stilly , ¦ wh : u = the D ^^ -ager had thre e pal 2 : s 3 to live in . Tbe satir = ciTuplele ' . j bionted the talons of tbe blue-bottle ; his bsrd face rslax-i , his teeth separated , and a : length be grimed ouirigbt , while the hest of hhopmatea burst iatc- laagfcrer .

      Well—whai was ta be doa « ? I could not be taken "cp l .-r trcasuu , for my -words were xiiti ^ -iojal , "with a -witccis : Tirte villamoas red-ctats , standing in the crowd , suon BolTfcd the uiS .: ulty -. thty looked en and . listened till they were laughed out of ecunttnsnee , &nd ta ^ a tum-. -d tieir attention to a couple of Italians -who had jast brous bt tbeir music into the Square . Deterniin-J on making a disturbance , ona of the red-coats at first c-. cxsd , an-i then dragged one of the foreigners 333 t > Eg th = crowd , and Etrove eirneit ! y to incite the cusic ^ n to " grind . " Perceiving the scoundrel ' s intention I called on the policeman to - £ ritneE 3 it ; but saw , fr . 'in tis looks , Vta . he -wotf ^ not buose ona inch to pat down tte a-Eop . nea , while he wou . c gladly sefzj nife ss the primary caust of GiMurbanee . I th « cfore said , * 'I am willing to go fc » " prison fcr spsakisg truth ; let de chief pjiiceEian take ia =, if he will , fur speaking tiuth , but I wUl not be i : uprt--or . e : i fcr a dirty r ^ w : All jou who are of opinion

      ti ..-r ¦*• *• adparn to the Common , where Wv > can hold a meeting withoat disturbance , hold up year hands . " T £ ? t-ij jurament was cirriri , and 1 dis mounted in a mouj = a ^ , End oS" we went , the people f . ; i ! . >* -ing us . I o" > ni ; i : r 2 Cc ^ singing " Spread ths Charttr ; " tbe bold Crispins caa ? ht the strain , and our procession to the CanmLi ^ i -was soon swrlied by thousands . TVe iiad a gsod . Hieethi ^; and when it -was wfell-ai ^ h dark , started M-In for the town , 3 inging " Spread the Charter . " The ¦ p ' - ' Aoi Wire passtJ , and looked s-jhast at tni 3 novelty . The z-oi was reached , the saldiers turned out guard , and thuagiiw the crowd had cjme to make an attack ; fca ; fairly lda ^ bed w hen tht 7 heard the smgins- Three di = s ? s Woce f civan for post Misaa , closa under isia cell , in spite of tiis bayonets , and the multitude dispersed . That nieht will be a memorable one with the Stafford Crispins ; and I trust they wili u ^ i neglect w annoy their enemies with ammunition so easily mustered and to tlca « a ^ ily expended as a little throat music

      - ' wvn isRy sronnd him , " I stools bave said , becatts a fivoatits at the places I have already passed , as well sa StsSbrd . . ¦ ; Lst tne just say , ere leaving StaSord , that Peplow , Huanibie , and o ^ ier fine young fellows , are growing up there , -who will » on be able to act an important part > in tts raoTtmest . Ths fartiier I went , my beloved comrades , the more . thiekly I found excitement kindling . I reached the ; Pottferies on Sunday afternoon , and found a spirii 11 really was not prepared for . Labour had ceased there , i ai « aaong tbe colliers ; and now , the resolution not to ! iabow , I found , -s-iis taiii « 8 decided turn : all were ' ^ ^^ pi ^^ p ^ r t ^ w ^ ^^ ^ t ^ v v ^ *^**^ — ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^ — ¦ 1

      ^ ^ ^^ ixLzttl on tcorkiK ' j us mere , till HA greil sbttjgU for the : tVjUi 0 / labour had bt&i tried- We had meetings at £ tnton and Lane-end , on the Sunday afternoon , Aug . > 14 ~ h , and at night I presc&ed bom " Then sh » l t do no I murder , " on the large area called the " Crown-bank , " at j Hanley . Tae time -was very exciting , and I gave notice 1 fiat 1 would address tie callers on s&Ifee , oa lbs same j spot , ths next morning , at eight o'clock . A large assembly appeared at taa £ time ; the resolution that all icorkizg mm cease lateur till Ine CJuxtler become the ; law 0 / Hie fatd . was put a Jd seconded by vrorki ng men , end" ! carried triumphantly , and after a few hearty and Bensible : ; words from old daddy Richards ( whose heart , God bless I turn ! is as sound aa an acorn in the people ' s cause ) j tte meeting Oupersed , with the intent , on the put I

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      of the colliery to ask all the sorters at the earthenware factories , &D-, to leave their labot" -. I remained in Hanley during the day ; saw the shops closed , and all the town become as lifeless as on a Sunday forenoon ; heard of the multitude doing queer things in the town , and also at Stoke , Fentou , and Lane-end ; but saiv none of them . The soldiers , nearly dropping -with fatigue , I saw pass through the town , in the afternoon , pursuing something -which , it seemed , they could not catch ; but nothing alarming evef came before my own eyes .

      I met the peeple again at six at night The Square was crowded ; I should say there were 20 , 000 people there ; several of the gentry , fcc , in conversational knots , being on ths verge of the crowd . I protested against the insobriety J saw in the persons of a few , — proclaimed the Viejaliiy of destroying property , &c ; but exhorted the people to hold by their rightful resolves , and to hold by them , too , till they bad their rights . I felt sure I might be prevented getting out ef the Potteries , if I did not make an effort to get away priTately , and as I was bsund to attend the Manchester Conference , in quality of delegate from the excited , district I -wr * leaving , ? 9 -well aa taing your representative , my darling boys , —why I set out on foot , with two hearty youths as companions , at half-past twelve on Monday night .

      Tne droll adventures of that night I-will record m another letter , for I must now be off to the Confaicnce . I am , My brave brigade , Tour faithful " General , " Thomas Cooper . Mareden ' s Temperance Hotel , Wednesday Night , Aug . 17 . PS I have scarcely time left to tell yon how I got dnt of the Potteries .

      Suffice it to say , —I was seized , taken tefore & £ ce old Justice , examined before him as he sat np in bed , told him who I was and all about it ; but they dare 4 not keep me ! This was at Buralem , at two o ' clock on Tuesday morning . I intended , with the two good lads -who carried my bag and cloak , to reach Macclesfield by seven , in order to take the coach for Manchester ; but as we had been detained by the Burslem authorities so long , we struck down for the Ctewe Station , on the Birmingham and Manchester line of iail-¦ vrsy and , after losing oar way twice , W 8 reached Cre-s-e in time to have a hearty good breakfast before the train started . To my great delight , I got into tbe carriage containing my beloved Bnirstow , Campbell , and Clarke , a young delegate from Ross , in Herefordshire . From the Sl&r you -wl-l learn what was done at the Conference ; I -will not , therefore , take up valuable space by saying 3 -word about it .

      Finally , my brave comrades , I sm now about to set ont , priTately , from Manchester , after having just read the horrid piece of hypocrisy and cru « lty which the Morninj Chronicle ha 3 chosen to insert aga'nst me , in its leading article of to-day . What villains are these BCiibblers for the Anti-Corn Law Xeague ! In order to clear themselves from the charge of originating the strike , they strive to incite the Tory Government to take my blood , or personal liberty , by pointing me out as an agent for the Tories ! Heaven grant we may be able to turn this strike to cu- - advantage , and thereby have our revenge on the hypocritical League .

      When and where I shall see you , my beloved lads , I cannot tell , until the time comes . Yours , to the death , Thsmas Cooper .

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      PEOGRESS OF THE STRIKE . By the Pope but the League-men reckoned without their host ! They little knew what they were about . They have raised a devil they will find it difficult to lay ! I They have gotten the people out ! How v . ' 11 they get them in again I How -will they allay the excitement they have caused 1 And , above all and before all , how will they compensate for the loss of 3 ife and tte personal injuries ; the shootings , and cutting ?; and slashings ; the imprisonments , and the traisportings that are to follow : how will they eompensate for these things , which they , and they alone , have caused ?

      We say again , that the League-men , have caused all this habDub . They are at the bottom of it all . It is a measure they have long had in contemplation . Even since the last General Election means have been constantly used to iuflame the public xcind to prepare it for the master stroke . The Globe immediately announced that the battle-cry was to ba

      " BREAD or BLOOD" ! and the most dishonest and infamoua use was made by the whole "Whig press , of the fact that " incendiarism ' had again shown itself in the South . They paraded the fact most prominently ; dwelt upon it lond azd long ; evidently doing their best to cause i : to spread , as a means of hampering the new Ministers , and driving them from office . The Morning Chronicle declared" thejircs resulted from a fcehnq of revenge ayainst the bread-tmihg landlords ; " and the Giobe called them "the lerjinning of a fearful ORGANIZED SYSTEM OF DE . STRUCTION'M The Morning Cliromcle also talked of BARRICADES being erected to force the adoption of the Whig Budget . Here are his very words : —

      " France , in 1 S 30 , according to the oracle of Tamworth , by an example of physical force , disturbed the slumbers of the English oligarchy . Is not France disturbing at this moment , the prospective success of a Tory Budget I li ' We must have money , ' say 3 M . Humann . — Toclouse answers by a barricade . 41 * We must have money , 1 says Sir Robert Peel . — Manchester a : td Birm ^ gham MAY a . nswer any budget but the Whig one , with a barricade . " The Glole followed ia the same strain . Here are Ms words : —

      " Whoever else may have forgotten , the Duke of Wellington has not ceased to remember the French revolutfon of Io 30 , nor the effect which the three days' events in Paris had upon the public mind in this country . The same causes which accomplished the downfall of the elder branch of the Bourbon fam' -ly effected also the overthrow of the Wellington-Pee , administration , by the impulse which they communicated to the public mind in favour of legislative reforms .

      " The popular disorders which have broken out in Toulouse and other towns of France , excited by the attempt of the Government to supply the deficiencies of the state oy increased taxation upon the people , ash likelt to HAVE A POWERFUL EFFECT UPON THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY , under the chcuicstances in ichieh they are at present placed . Isor will the resemblance between the present and the past escape unobserved by the plain unsophisiicaitd mind of the Duke of Wellington . " The , Examiner , too , had his share in the plot . He gave pretty good h \ nls in the following fashion : —

      . * ' How SDft , how delightful , his new led of roses , Should Peel , undisliirb'd ^ by the Chartists , or SWLNG , . „ - ¦ Ficd the Cap / am *—coutented with all he proposes—To hi 3 Itodens aad Percivals ready to cling J " The Sun published the most ferociou 3 and dastardly article ever penued by a bloody-minded coward against Dr . Hook and the ladies of Leeds , because some one hid toid him that they had interfered to prevent the return of Brown-Bread J&seph , as M . P . for the Borough . The miscreant said : —

      " If any ladies , led by a mistaken party zeal , Bide , like Dr . Hook and others of the clergy , with the oppressors of tbe people , they must not be surprised should even tieur claims to universal homage tail , in a time of excitement , to disarm the hatred of savage hunger . . " It has happened that ladies' heads have been carried about the streets on poles , or trailed in the dirt ; and it has happened , sufficiently within recollection to SERVE both FOR a warning and AN EXAMPLE , that a priesthood ha 3 been compelled to find safety in flight , aad those who braved the popular indignation forfeited their lives to their temerity . "

      | These were the teachings of the organs of IRE Leagob 1 These were the sentiments , the horrible , hellish sentiments , they strove to instil into the public mind ! Contemporaneously with these atrocious incendiary teachingSj were tte attempts of the anti-Corn Law men , Leagued together nnder the title of the Daily Bread Society , " to induce the people to join them in what they themselves denominated an "ORGANISED PLAN-TO BREAK THE LAW . " ! A pamphlet wus published in Leeds , in which the plan was detailed . This pamphlet was received and noticed by nearly all the anti-Corn * Law press . Did they condemn it ? Did they warn the people against joining in the plot ! Did they denounce it aa illegal ? No such thing ! They all but recommend the plan to be adopted ! They spoke of it as Captain Bock .

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      " something stabtling and novel- " but they did not condemn it , nor point out the danger to those who might act on it . And yet what were the recommendations of these Leagued Daily-Bread Men ? Listen : — " ¦ . "NOW THE WAY THE AMERICANS OBTAINED THE Suffbage , and exemption from heavy taxation , furnishes us with AN EXAMPLE WORTHY OF IMITATION ' The English landlord said to the Americans , 'We will impose a tax on your tea . 'No , ' said the Americans , ¦ ' we shall not be imposed upon ; we '' are not represented , and we deny your right to tax us / A cargo of tea was sent to one of their searports ( Bos ^ ton ) , and an exciseman was sent to collect the tax

      THE EXCISEMAN WAS TARRED AND EEATHERfcD by the Americans , and the toa emptied into the ocean , rather than they would submit to pay a tax upon it . i / ere , then , tve see a practical way of abolishing the Corn Laws . " ' That the Corn Law could not be imposed without bloodshed , nor continued without bloodshed , was not admitted as a reason why it should not exist ; for be it recallected there was Corn Law blood shed in Westminster in 1815 , and Corn-Law blood Bhed at Peterloo in 1819 ; so that even if it were certain that it could not be repealed without bloodshed , it by no means follows that it should be ' suffered-to exist . England has some noblfi * ItOBiaus' who would willingly lay down , their lives in such a holy

      cause . Oh I she has sons that never , never Will stoop to be tho landlord ' s slaves While heaven has light Or earth has graves . " " When Barbarous sent a message to Marseilles that they were to send him ' six hundred men who knew how to die , ' the call was quickly responded to ; nor would such a call . to Manchester be long unre 3 ponded to , though , it is hoped , it may not be eoessary !!"

      The "Bloody Old Times" is now hard a t work to $ \ the getting-up of the strike upon the " Ch . aii . ists . aud he talks loudly of the " violent and incend'ary writings in the Northern Star . " Will he be kind enough to point out a single paper in England , aya , orce which has denounced all these atrocious attempts to excite tumult and disorder , excepting the Northern Start He cannot fiad one . ! The Star p ' one has exposed the deep-laid > ilJainou 3 schemes of the plotters . The Slar alone has shown up the atrocity of the doctrines these parties have tried to inculcate . The Siar alone has Tetv > iarly watched the attempts of these men , and sounded the note of warning and alarm . The Star alone has done this . It did not wait till nouvand then 6 'id out

      these attempts were being made . As soon as ever the incendiary aTticles appeared , the Star call' d public attention to them , and reprobated the doctrines there taught . It is , therefore , a little too bad for the Times aud the League papers , Hot they , too , join in the song ) to charge the present state of fcsling to the " incendiary teachings of the Northern Star . " Had the press of England shown a tithe of the watchfulness that we have , and spoken out as became it , the anti-Corn Law League would have bren shivered to atoms lojg ago ! We have had to battle them single-handed ; and , single-handed , we have procured for them the detestation of every honest Eon of Labour in the Kingdom ; because , single-handed , we bave exposed their villany , and torn off the veil that hid their deformity . this

      Proceed we now to ^ r beginning ^ f Strike not upon the Chartists , as the Times and League organs have it , but upon the League men , without mistake or possibility of being gainsaid . There was a "Conference" lately sitting in London , composed of Delegates belonging to the ami-Corn Law League . This " Conference" talked over some queeT things . The nature of their talkings and their deliberations will be best understood by the following extract from their own organ . It speaks volumes . It appeared in the Sun only a month ago ! Read it : —

      "The proceedings yesterday at the anti-Corn Law Conference speak for themselves . Gentlemen who declared THEY WILL PAY NO TAXES TILL THE CORN LAW BE REPEALED were vociferously cheered . Tho recital' that workmen have said it was not words would move Parliament , but force , and they would have it if they did not change their system , ' was heard with no disapprobation . In the manufacturing districts men declare that ' no good can be done until they riot , ' and in the metropolis

      the information is received with approbation . To-day and tomorrow it will be spread throughout the empire , and the ideas of ruing , of rioting , and of : refusing , to pay . taxes , will be presented at one and the same time to many thousand persons . The sanctity once bsloDglng to the law , which prevented such conceptions , is at an end ; the minds of the people are becoming familiarised with the idea of risistasce ; and , if their misery be not relieved , it will not be long before corresponding DEEDS WILL spring from , the idea ! "

      M In common with many members of the Conference , and with the memorialists from Hinckley , we have become convinced that it ia U 3 eless to place before the Parliament and the aristocracy evidence of the sufferings of the people . Politicians ' rejoice that the uuruly workmen of the manufacturing-towns are tamed into obedience by hunger ; bigots exult that the ha * f pagan , half free-thinkine town ' s-peoplo are for their sins visited by a judgment which threatens annihilation . To bigots and politicians , pictures of distress in the manufacturing districts

      are not disagreeable ; and we will not contribute to their pleasure by repeating them . We turn rather to Mr . Tauutons speech , who said"' It appeared to him that the time toas past for talking ; the time was come to do ^ something , and he would tell them what to do— ( cheers . ) He thought they ought to proceed at once to appoint a committee OF PUBLIC SAFETY IN THE METKOPOLIS , and induce every delegate from the country to pour in such facts as would organise such a body of public opinion as would create the utmost odium against those in power , and COMPEL them to yield . "

      _ Pretty fair thiB , was not it" Old Bloody 7 " Where were you then ? Did you denounce the incendiary writing ? Did you point it . out to the public , and shew the real nature of the League men , in their base and cowardly attempts to get the working people to " rise" and " riot , " while they appeared as ' friends of good order ; " and , as magistrates , let loose tho military upon them , for only doing that to which they had been incited ! Did you do this "Old Bloody V No ! you left the task to us ! We did it . We exposed the plot . We denounced the concoctors of it . We cautioned the people against the snare laid for them . We counselled to peace and good order And yet the " riots" and the " risinga" arc to be attributed to the " incendiary writings in the Northern Star ' . ' !

      While this "Conference" was sitting , Mr . O'Conxor happened to meet with Acland , the hired tool and lacquey of the anti-Corn Law League ; the man who h paid £ 10 per week for his services . They met at Halifax . They had a discussion upon the question of the Corn Law Repeal . After the discussion , Mr . O'Connor and Mr . Aclakd had some talk . In the Star o £ the succeeding week ; that is to say , in the Slar of July 16 th , 1 G 42 , Mr . O ' Connor published the following fact , in a letter addressed by him to the Chartist body : —

      " One thing "which A , cland told me , as he said , in confidence , must not be kept back . No , no ; I am not just the man to keep the secrets of the League Now , let every man pay particular attention to the following disclosure , coming from the principal spouter of the' Plague ' . Acland said to me , — "Well , Mr . O'Connor , we shall either have a Repeal of the Cora Laws , or the Charter in three weeks . Mr . O'Connor— " Indeed ! how ?" Mr . Acland— " Well , I tell you , in confidence , that the object of the League ' s present meeting in London , is to take into consideration the propriety OF STOPPING ALI / THE MILLS UPON A GIVEN DAY !!! AND THEY WILL DO IT !!!!"

      This was published near a month before the strike . Now , Acland has never contradicted it . He dare not do it !! Even in the Conference" itself , so lately as the 29 th of July , one of the delegates , Mr . Finch , Jan ., from Liverpool , is reported to have said : — " The League and anti-Monopoly Associations , teith the assistance of the Colliers (/) have the power ot compelling tbe aristocracy , in less than one month , to abolish Cora Laws altogether , and to

      compel them also to grant the People ' s Charter . Let the Colliers in all parts of the kingdom cease working for one month , and the thing is done I ! They have only to insist upon these mea-Burnres before they go to work s gain . This is the most simple and efficient measure that could be adopted to get all we teant without spilling a drop of blood , or causing any commotion of any kind , the city of London would be without fad , and all other concerns must come to a stand till it was settled . "

      And even so lately as the 2 nd day of the present month , Mr . Alderman Chappell , at a meeting hjeld in Manchester , said—

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      11 appeared that the only plan which th 0 manufacturers had to resort to at present , was , TO STOP THEiRFAGlORIES'M !!! Is it apparent now who were the concocters of the sTBiKE ? Is it apparentnow who were the movers to it ? "No , " says the Weekly Chronicle :- < ., ' ,. ¦; " air . FeargHS O'Connor may swear bimself black in the fape before we give the slightest credence to a charge unsupported by any other evidence , and utterly irreconcilable with pld | i and palpable facts . "

      Is the charge " unsupported by any other evidence" I h it " utterly irreconcilable with plain and palpable facts" ? is it irreconcilable with the facts we have been narrating 1 Is it irff concilable with the incendiary teachings of the Globe , Chronicle and Sun ?• And , by the bye , talking of incendiarism brings to our mind a recdlleofcioa of the dodges and shifts of Master Weekly Chronicle himself , respecting the Swing incitement * in the beginning of the present year . Hixa WeeklyChroniclewas , by

      no means , the last in the field at that game . He seemed as if he received a God-send , in the fact of a few fires having occurred in the South , apparently the work of incendiarism j and to make the most of it ,... he printed a huge poster , in which tho word SWING was the most striking Jine . With these posters he covered the entire of . his shop window in the Strand ; aad the effect upon the passers-by on the other side was , that the word Swing appeared in something like the following manner : ~

      " SWING SWING . SWING . SWING ; SVVING . SVVING ; SWING SWING , SWING ' The rest of the bill not being readable at that distance from the smallueas of the print . And while the Weekly was . " . doing this outside the window , he was doing his best inside his paper , without committing himself , to point out Swing as a means of annoying and harrassing the new Ministers ^! ' . : ¦'" ¦ ¦ : " : ' - ¦ ' ¦ ¦'¦ ¦ ' ' ' ¦ ¦

      . But cannot the ¦ 'Statement-of Mr . O'Connor be corroborated ? Let us see . While the Weekly Chronicle yvus thus endeavouring to get his patrons out of the mess they have gotten into , another organ of their body was letting the cat out of the bag , and glorying in the deed ! The Sunday Times , of Sunday last , makes the following 8 T 0 wal : — " Our readers are probably aware that the project of SHUTTING UP ALL THE MILLS IN ONE DAY originated with this journal , and that we have all along persisted in considering it as the only means by which the repeal of the Corn Laws was likely to be obtained . The ANTr-GORN LAW LEAGUE CONSIDERED THE PROPOSE TION AGAIN AND AGAIN j allusions were from time to time

      made to it by several speakers ; but it was generally rejected as a thing that would seem , exceedingly harsh to the operatives themselves . " . They rejected the project , after considering it again and again , because it would seem harsh to the operatives themselves ! Not because it was wicked ; not because it was illegal ; not because it was disorderly ; notbecause it would lead to " riots " and " risings ; " it was rejected not because of these considerations , but b : cause it would seem harsh to the operatives themselves ! In other words , it would be an open dcolaratien of war against the

      operatives , and Wuuld expose mill property to the fury of a Btarviogpeoplev ^ -a people made to starve by the immediate and direct acts of the masters themselves . There was all the difference in the world between the mastera (> closing the mills , " and the workmen doing it of themselves , and forcing the masters to . comply ! And though the Anti-Corn-Lcague rejected the project in the shape put before them by the Sutiday Times , yet they did not rejeot it iu the other and more feasible shape of driving the workmen by reductions of wages , to do the tbing themselves . They did not " reject "" this " projeot'M No ; they acted on it ! andthe present chaotio and truly awful state of things is the consequence !!!

      Let oar readers also mark another fact . AH the reductions in wages that have'been attempted within tho last two months in tho manufactories , have been attempted by Corn-Law-Repealing masters ! Point out a Tory or Conservative master who has attempted any such reduction . We believe it would be impossible . At all events , wo have not beard of any such . This fact speaks volumes !

      Refer , tooj to the letter of our Preston cprrespohdent , detailing the horrible carnage in that town , and the prior proceedings . Look well at the words there prinied in capital letters ! Romember that it is two delegates from Ashton , ( the town where the strike first commenced , ) to the Preston lads to get them to join in it , who declare , publioly that "THE MIDDLE CLASSES FQUNO THEM THE MEANS" to go to Preston ! Note this fact 1 and then ask how it is that that the middle classes are now so fond of strikes . as to pay the delegates to go over all parts of the country to " eaiWnd ' ¦ ' them'il 1 " ¦' ¦¦ ¦ '

      The fact is , that the strike did commence at Ashton , as has been already detailed ; and that the ostensible cause of it was the attempted reductions of wages by the Com Law Repealing Messre . Bailey ; and another fact is , &a soon as it did commencence , six persona were dispatched from the town of Ashton to the other towns in Lancashire ; AND EXPENCES WERE PAID BY MONEY SUBSCRIBED BY FACTORY MASTERS AND SHOPKEEPERS BELONGING TO THAT TOWNv

      And are the League men to suffer no consequences for these acts ? Are the people , the workivg people , whom they have induced to " rise" and " riot ; " are these to bear all the shootings , all the ' , ' cfitting 4 to pieces , all the sabreing , all the trampliuKs to death , all the woundings , all the imprisonments , all the transppr ( iing 8 i and , possiblyi all the haugings ; are ) - the working people to endure all these tbingg , while the fiendish hatchers of the plot escape scathless and free 1 ! Is this to be the case No ! by heaven , JUSTICE , of some sort or other we will have !!!

      To the working people we say , be wise ! be prudent ! Be not betrayed into collisions witli the military . Present not yourselves before them as marks' to be shot at , like bo many carrion-crows ^ and be laid weltering in the streets . Come not neat them , keep the peace Do not riot . Destroy no property . Burn np mills . Commit no depredations ^ Injure no man . Be quiet ; be firm : aad please yourselveia whether you go to work or stay away J ^

      Our own opinion of the "Strike' * and its merits was distinctly registered in last week ' s Star , especially in the two articles in the thi ^ d edition , headed , ' ' Progress of the Strike , ? and " : Farther Progress . '' E ? € iry event which hiia since traaBpirei haa confirmed us in the opinion we then held : and we have now therefore only to reiterate it , and to request for it all the attention that the people think it worth . By reference to the address of the Coniferenca delegates , and the letter pf Mr . O'COMNOB , it Will be seen that he and they hold a different opinion . Time will speedily decide whose opinion ia most wise , we entreat only the people will not be

      discouraged if , after all , having tried the strike as a means for obtaining the Charter , they find it tofafl of accompiishiog that object . We entreat them , in that casef to remember that they are ettll no worse ; that the means to which they before looked are still at hand ; that prudence and determination , patience and perseverance , firmness and moral courage an invincible ; that nothing can WITHSTAND THEIR CONTIKUEP EXHIBITION and that by the calliug into requisition of these qualities every reverse may ba in itseif made matter for advance ; the shackles must eventually fall from aiiSB **" " "

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      BEtPEB . —On Monday night last , Mr , West delivered his second lecture of his series , "on the evils arising from the misapplication of the powers of production , and the capabilities of the soil under just and proper regulations , to supply the wants of all with abundance , " a » d was attended with a crowded aud an attentive audience . Mr , West en * rolled fifty-four members at the close . Wednesday ereniag , Mr . West visited Swanwick , and addressed a large meeting , and also on Thursday at noon , addressed a large assembly of colliers ; a number of members w < ire enrolled at the close of each meeting . On Thursday , Mr . West visited Ashoyer ; on Saturday , he Was at Duffield ; and on Sunday , at Edge . At all these places he proclaimed the Charter , and enrolled members .

      State Of The Country.

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      HALIFAX . The disturbances connected with the turn-outs commenced in Halifax on Monday morning last Their arrival from Lancashire had been expected for edme time , and the magistrates had been active in making preparations to receive them . They had issued placards referring to the disturbances in Lancashire , and calling upon the inhabitants to assist them in the preservation of peace and order . A very large number of special constables wbre sworn in , and the regular police , and the military stationed at the barracks , were under ordera to be in readiness to act at a moment's notice . The military force regularly stationed at Halifax , consisted

      of two companies of the 61 st Regt . of foot , comprisitig upwards of 100 men , arid their numbers were subsequently augmented by the arrival of , two troops of the 11 th Hussars , one from Leeds , where they had passed the previous night on their road ' from York , and entered Halifax about eight o ' clock on Monday morning , and the oth ^ r from Burnley , who entered the town about seven o ' clock in the evening , With these accessions , the military in the town on Monday evening ^ comprised a force of about two hundred men . The immense crowds of turn-outs ^ Who thronged to excess the streets of the town , produced a state of excitement and commotion almost unprecedented in Halifax , and which formed ample employment ior all the forces—both

      civil and military—at the disposal of the authorities . So early as five o ' clock in the morniDg , the people were astir ^ and ; assembled ia considerable numbers in the Market Place they were all peaceable , however , and so would have continued , till their meeting was over , and then have returned home again in the same good order they had met . But whilst a person was addressing them , the magistrates , accompanied by the police and about two hundred special constables , came up , Mr . Pollard , one of the magistrates , sddresbed the crowd tor , nearly half an hour , and remonatrated with them on the danger of assembling in such meetings , and engaging in such schemes , which must result in disastrpvis consequences to themselves . The assembled multitude , however .

      manifested ho groat alacrity to leave the spot , and the magistrates having ordered the multitude to disperse , loud shouts were raised amongst them of "Let's away to Luddeaden Foot , " and this propositioni meeting with general concurrence , the shouts became universal , and the multitude , arranging themselves into a sort of procession , cleared away and proceeded at once to that place , where a large body of the Lancashire turn-outs were congregated for the purpose of marching into Halifax . Betwixt eleven and twelve o ' clock the turn-outs from Laucashire approached the town in immense

      numbers . The grand point of junction was at King Cross , on the Burnley Road * where the various bodies , each composed of thousands of men , from Hebden Bridge , Sovverby Br'dge , Luddenden Foot , Todmordeu , Rochdale , and other .. places ^ united together in one immense procession , filling the whole breadth of the road , and stretchiug to a vast length ; When they got to the North Bridge at Halifax , the miHtary aud police were drawn up , so as to occupy the whole road , and prevent the passage of the people , the cavalry being popted in front , the infantry next , and behind them the police and special constables . This was above twelve o'clock . In the

      precession were great numbers of women , niost of whom were placed in the middle . On their progress being arrested by the military and police , several of the women went up , and seizing the bridles of the cavalry , exclaiming , " You would not hurt a woman , would you ? " endeavouredto turn them on one side . One of the women coming up in front shouted to the magistrates and soldiery , ' * We didn't come here for bayonets , we came for bread . " It is stated that one woman was stabbed in the breast by one of the soldiers with a bayonet , though not seriously , bat in general the soldiers did not molest them . Soon after a circumstance occurred which caused a diversion of tho military , and opened a passage over the bridge into the town . It was stated that the

      mills ot Messrs . Norris and Lister ^ at the bottom of Foundry-street , were attacked , and the military and police force gathered on the bridge , leaving that spot for the . protection of the mills alluded to ; in a few . minutes the entire procession had passed into the heart of the town , and by the time the military arrived at Messrs . Norris and Listers' mills , tho plugs were drawn ; and the men turned out . Almost at the very same moment that the Lancashire processions approached the town , another procession , also comprising immense numbers , ifrom the neighbourhood of Bradford , approached it in another direction . Tae Bradford procession was preceded by a number of the 17 th LaBcerBfrom that town , and on the procession reaching New Bank within a short distance of Halifax , the Lancers drew ap across the road , and

      beio £ joined here by the Infantry and Hussars from Halifax , succeeded in arresting the progress of the tuni-onts , along the main road . The procession however , broke up into groups aad proceeding along Rands Bank , and different bye roadfij evaded the military and reached the town , when ikey immediately became amalgamated with the Laocashire people After the junction liad takenplace , tfcey proceeded to Messrs . Akroyd's mill , at ^ Haley Ml , for the purpose of turning out the hands , bat when they amved there , the men had gone to dinner , and tjbemill -was consequently already stopped . Mr . Edward Afcroyd asked them What they wanted , to wftioh they reDh' ^ d they mast have the plugs ont 6 f the boilers . Mr - A . said if that was what they wanted ' thev must come and d o it , and accordinitlT one or them . attempted to ' take ou ^ S ^ p ffi but not being able to succeed , the engineer , by M ?

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      Akroyd ' s orders , pulled it out for them . It is stated thit Mr . E . Akroyd gave four sovereigns to the men , and told them to buy bread with it for the women . They proceeded next to ^^ ^ Bowling Dyke ; Mill , and commenced making a cutting through tl e mill dam , in order to let off the water ; when just while they were engaged in this attempt , the mil :-tary came up , and dispersed them , and captured six of the insurgents . About eleven soldiers of -theinfantry were detached to escort the prisoners to the Police-ofBce , and on their road were followed by a large portion of the people , who made repeated attempts to rescue the prisoners * which so exasperated the soldiers , that they faced round , and area upon them . A man called Wadsworth was , we understand ; wounded in the leg , aud was carried ofi ? ; i _— : —; —— " - fc , - -

      by his comrades . The spirit of the crowd was still unsubdued . In Well Lane , another rush was made , and again the soldiery fired , But we have no 6 heard that any injury was done . Whon they came iu the Ticinity of the Police-office , the streets , which , are there very narrow and crooked , were in a great measure blocked up by crowds ; and before the soldiers could force a passage through them they fired twice , and then charged spoa them with their bayonetSj wounding a great number , but none ; of them seriously ; They succeeded at length in lodging the prigoners in the Police-ofSce ; Great apprehensions were entertained that an attempt would be made to break open the prison and rescue the prisoners , and a number of infantry were stationed inside to garrison , the place . ; . ; . : ¦ . . ' : ¦<¦ : :- . [ :- .

      At two o ' clock in the afternoon , a meeting of from ten to fifteen thousand people was held on Skircoat Moor , a fine extensive ; . moor in the immediate neighbourhood of Halifax . Thet » ne of the meeting was peaceable but firm . Three resolutions were passed , pledging the meeting not to return to work till the People's Charter became the law of the land ' , ; till their wages were iadvanced to the standard of 1840 ; and till a guarantee was entered into by the employers that they should be kept up to that standard . In the course of the afternoon , the people having gatherid in great crowds in various places , but more particularly opposite the Northgate Hotel , the cavalry charged upon them , but the people flying in terror before them , no injuries Were inflicted .

      Wherever the crowds became at all unmanageable , or were forced upon the soldiers , the infantry made not the least hesitation in pricking them with their bavonets , and scores of people in Halifax received in this way slight bayonet wound 8 on Monday . One poor fellow ^ who had got pricked through his fustian jacket with a bayonet , we saw go writhiug down the street , in the midst of a number of commiserating companiona . v . The only serious wound was one which occurred accidentally to a sergeant in one of tha : regiments , who , while handling bis musket , touched it in such ; a manner , ; that the percussion cap exr ploded , and the piece went off , and lodged the shot in one of ; his arms . He was taken to theittfirmary , and it is probable his arm will be

      disabled , even ; if it should escape amputation . ¦ The proceedings commenced oa Tuesday with a meetiug on Skircoat > Ioor , at six o ' clock in tbe moving , at which about 2 , 000 or 3 , 010 people ^ were present . . The proceedings commenced 5 y singing a hymn ^ . " Praise God from whom all blessings flow , " which wps followed by a prayer by one of the men , invoking the assistance and protection of the Almighty in their ; enterprise , and prayiDg that peace and order might be preserved . After tbia a man from Bradford addressed the meeting . He proposed that delegates should be sent to Todmorden , Bradford , and Huddersfield , to induce the men of those places to march immediately upon Halifax . In compliance with the J proposition ,

      three delegates wete appointed to proceed to each o £ tho . places named , and it was resolved that another , meeting should be held on tbe moor , at one o ' clock at noon , ab which it was expected that their numbers would be reinforced by the men of Todmorden , Bradford , and iiuddersneld . To lose no time it was also agreed that those present at the meeting should immediately proceed to EUand , CkKipet-Bridge , Brighouae , Stainland , and Barkisland , to stop all the mills there , which it waa thought might be accomplished before the time of holding the next meeting , and in accordance with . thW resolution , the great bulk of those present ,, formed into a sort of procession , and filing across the moor , proceeded on their mission . This concluded the meeting . - .- .. '¦ ¦ '¦ . ¦¦ ; " ¦ :- ;¦• ' .- ' ' ¦ > ' ¦' " ¦¦ ¦ ' — ¦ : . "¦ ' ' . '¦ '¦;;' - ' ' ¦ ¦• ¦ : : : "' . ;' \ '

      The prisoners captured at Halifax on Monday afternoon , at , and subsequently to , the affray at Abroyd ' s mill , eleven in Lumber , were sent off to Wakefield on Tuesday forenoon . Ifc was determined ; by ; the magistrates to send them there for safety , previous to their txamination- They were placed In two omnibusea , eachdrawn by four horses and guarded by a file of the 11 th Hussars , under the command of an officer , - 'and . headed by Mr . Bnggs , a magistrate , proceeded at fullgallop to the railway station , at EHand . The people of course had very soon notice of this movement ; in fact it bad been anticipated , and considerable crowds had congregated all down the road on the look out , particularly at Salter-Hebble , were an attempt was made to stop the road , preparatory to a rescue . This , however , .

      was unsuccessful , and stones were thrown at the convoy from the wood which skirts the road to' Eliand . At the time they : arriyed in the . ' . . station :: * -- *' at tfee lattsr place , tbe train towards Wakefleld was in -waiting , to which the prisoners -were at one © ira-nsferred ; and the train was quickly at full sp ^ ed . Considerable numbers ot people had gained access to the station , and the prisoners , on their departure , were cheered by their companions , eoine of whom told them to keep their spirits up , for they should soon be liberated . Attbe time these two omnibuses and the prisoners . itriv-V . " ed , there was anothtromnib-oa in the ^ stati on , just about to proceed with passengers to Halifax , from Leeds , Manchester , &c . After leaving the station , it was Tery mon evident that there were very largeaumbers of people in

      all directions in a state of the greatest excitement , and b * fore the conveyance had proceeded far , stones ia abun < ia-ace were again i&rewu from ths wood ; these struck the omnibus repsatedlyv butVthe pa « eBgets escaped withqutinjury .. On reaching Salter-Hebble , bowever , the danger was greatly increased , for so exasperated bad the people became at the treaV nient they had received , that loud threats were uttered that not one should escape . The passengers , of « oursei could not apply this language to themselves ; they were cqnscipui } of not haying done any injory , and had confidence that the people would not wilfully ibfliefc damage upon persons respecting whom they could have no cause of complaint ; aad iu this opinion they were strengthened by the fact that , as soon as it became

      known that the omnibus contained only railway passengers , and no " officials , " a safe passage was guaranteed through the thousands who were assembled on the roadside , aud along the rocky heights of Salter-Hebble—a place of-all others calculated for the protection of any party who mipht choose to avail themselves of its cover from whence to harass on enemy . A man then , took the bead of the leader , and , "waving his hand , all fear of attack from the menacing throng seemed to have vanished , and the vehicle was slowly ascending the hill . But , on a sudden , a cty was raised that the soldiers were advancing , and as suddenly the apparent calm was succeeded by an overwhelming tempest , for , in a moment , as it were , a shower of large ; stones were hurled from aU parts of the eminence among the

      soldiers who then came up at full gallop , and on to the heads of the devoted and Jnnoeent passengers , who thus suffered severely ftovo . ~ the accidental circumstance of being compelled , though only for a few inomettts , to bo apparently under the protection of the soldiery . With such direct aim were these missiles hurled , that scarcely a soldier ; escaped unhurt—some of them received severe cuts—three of theiu were fairly felled from their horses , the animals setting of , and leaving their late ridew to the mercy of the mob . These three are privates Jn the 11 th Hussars : their names are Alexander Frazar , John Austin , and Thomas Claikson : ; they were all more or less injuted ;/ but twp of them were for a time made prisoners . Of couree , the re /^^ s a devil of a hubbub kicked up now 1 . Aa express 'waa

      sent to Ha ifax . tor theinfaatiyi . and | theHH 8 sa * 3 , after ^ charging with baU ; r 6 ttuned /; hwded by r Mr . Brigg 8 , to the rescue of their companions , which they eflected . During the affray , Mr . Briggs received a wound on the aripirem a stone , which disabled h&a , and he went home ;; the Boldiers had previously received orders to fire , and these orders were carried into effect , we are afraid with a fatal result , but of this we cannot speak with certainty ; up to Tuesday eyeaing , two of the soidlet ' s hoiaea had not been Lewd of , the third had been recovered . Return we now : to the passengers , who had , in good earuoat , to Endure th « pelting of a pitiless storm of ; stones . These consisted of four or five inside , and about the same number outside . Mr . Barker , reporter for this paper , was one of the latter ,

      and had a very narrow escape ; his hat was cut completely through behind with a large stone ,, and be received one or two severe wounds and several contasions . Ayoung lady , MiBa Maohin ; of Wbitelockstreet , Leeds , who sat between Mr . Barker and . tie driver , received a frightful cut in the head , ^ ^ -which , bled profusely . It is fortunite ; that the : wadding of ; hex . bonnet , was very thick ; for this , doubtless had . t&e effect of breaking the force with which the stone had descended . She was going on a visit to / . Mr . Cocketham , of Halifai ; and on enquiry there \' qn Tuesday afternoon , we learned that she was not ninch "Worse for her injury . Agentleman , named Layceck , ' fnpL Sheffield , we understand , was yery severely cut abqut ^ e legs and in other parts ; he bled yery mnch . an ^ ^ obliged to leave the omiiibuB , and remain ai-: t ' ioWside house until surgical assistance could fee' wica ^*

      He was attended very speedily by ; Mr , Sol ^ oy *^ Halifax , and after hayipghis wpund ^ dressed v ^^ . on hia journey . The other passengers escap « 4 * vj * more ilight iDjuries . ; The omnibus was muchlnj oMV and one of th « horses was cut in the leg by a stone . Ta 8 g ar ^ r after this got safe to Halifax . .- ' This afiEair having subsided , the people agaioine * in the afternoon , according to arrangement , on Skir ' coat Moor * Large numbers were in attendance , and everything was conducted in peace and perfect order . After thejaeetinR broke up , however , Jar ge assemblies congregated in the streets , and groups of people were seen wending their vay from all Axec-Mona towards North Bridge , over which is the row to Mr . Akroyd ' s mill , known as the Shadesj tvben ia a power-loom establishment . About North Bridge , the various groups , all going in the same direction , uniting together , ibrined one immense assemblage . t '^ on after , a small number of men , who werei in an ? ftnce of the main body , straggled one by one into

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      To Correspondents and Friends— We shall feel extremely obliged to our Correspondents and Friends in all parts of the Country , if they will take the trouble to forward to the Office every thing of importance thai transpires in their respective localities , as early as possible after the occurrence . From all towns where the Strike is held out , we should Wee to have a letter by every post , bringing up ( he netcsina sort of continued narrative . \ Will some friend in each place see toVits dud oblige tis I

      Mary Jones , Bristol . —We cannot insert the enm munication sent ; nor would it serve her if we did . The information she seeks can only be com ' " . ¦ ¦ pelted by law proceedings . " A . Constant Reader , London . —Ye * . Mr . Pit-Jcethly is gone to' America , but not to stay there at present . He is gone lo "look out , " and to sell his goods . He is inclined to act tin the maxim , ¦ •* . ¦ * ' look before you leap . ' We understand his intentions are to go overnearly all the States , and to make close observation and inquiry upph the points important to emiardhts and settlers . The

      result of his observations we expect to be the means of giving to the world . All who know Mi . ' Pitkethly will pronounce him to be a fit man for the purpose . A Chartist , Carlisle , is thanked for the extracts from a letter written from Lancaster Castle to Mb . Warden , of Jiolton . They but bear out what we before knew of the ungrateful man who has done his little best to sting the hand that fed him ! Perhaps " a Carlisle Chartist" is not aware of the fact that the man in question would have starved while in gaol , had it not been for the unsolicited bounty of Mr . O'Connor ; but wel can tell him that the fact is so ; and that the sum of

      SEyJBNTY-EIGHT POUNDS was : GIVEN to Mm by Mr . O Connor during hix imprisonment ! and , perhaps , " a Carlisle Chartist" is not aware that the grateful return made / or this handsome , nay , generous , treatment was the writing of letters , such as the one he has sent its , to whisper and insinuate away the characierof the man upon- whose free gifts he was existing ' !¦ And ? a Carlisle Chartist ' may ' , not be further aware that so deep-rooted is the malignity of the ungrateful man , and so bitter is his animosity , that he declared , soon after his liberation , at the dinner-table of one of the most stanch OConrieUiie- Whig-Rttdicals in England , that " Mr . O'Connor and the Star people hated him with that hatred , that had he , or they , but courage , they would run a knife through his heart I" We

      are aware of , and can tell "* ' oi Cdrlise Chartist " these things ; and therefore we are not surprised at the character of thev . letter 'he has sent . As for the request he makes respecting the publication of the document alluded to , all we can make no promise : we must see it first . A Purse , containing a sum of money , was picked up at the meeting held d fortnight since ' last'Sunday , and is now in the possession of Mr . Isaac Kitchen , Bradford Moor : To our Readers and Friends . —The stated of our columns this day will be a sufficient apology for our silence about , and non-insertion of , many articles , both of news and observation , received during the week . Some oj these are in type , but obliged to be displaced , —the notice of Mr . West's lecture at Chesterfield amongst them , ¦

      2tu Btancrg Am? Comgpontumtg*

      2 Tu Btancrg am ? Comgpontumtg *

      I^Crujcotmns Cijarlt'st ^Leetitxgp.

      i ^ crUjcotmns Cijarlt ' st ^ Leetitxgp .

      To The Shakspereax Brigade Of Xeicestek Chartisis.

      TO THE SHAKSPEREAX BRIGADE OF XEICESTEK CHARTiSIS .

      The Jn T Oetheb,]S Star. Saturday, August 20, 1842.

      THE jN t OETHEB , ] S STAR . SATURDAY , AUGUST 20 , 1842 .

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      4 THE NORTHERN STAR . ^ n _ _ . —^ ¦ — s ¦ —— : * ' ' ¦ — * ¦ ' " " . '' ¦ ' . - -. : — ¦— : ! ! —— -. : . " ' ¦ ¦ " ' ¦ * " * * •¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦¦ ¦ ¦ -

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 20, 1842, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct444/page/4/