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    • THE NORTHERS STAR SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1841.
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      Th ^ re is nothing in the papers worth presenting to our readers under this hold . We prefer , therefore , to fill the space with good Chartist intelligence .

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      BIRMINGHAM . —The National Charter Asso-« &tion held their weekly meeting in the Htjll 01 Seieuc ? , LvwTenoe-street ; the chair iris tak ^ n bj Mr . S . uallwood . The minutes of the last meeting being read and confirmed , the address to the inhabitants of Birmingham and sumrandirg districts was read to the meeting . The correspondence was alsa Tead , includiug a letter from the Rev . Mr . Hill , editor of the Start to the great satisfaction of alJ present . Mr . T . P . Green then addressed the meeting for some time , in an able manner , when it "Was carried unanimously that the address be sent to the Star , praying for its insertion . Many applied for C 3 rds of membership , but could not be supplied , the cards not having arrived from Manchester . We h jpe to be able to supply them next week .

      Restoration Committee . —By the weekly report flf the proceedings of this body oaiiUed from onr last , it appears that a number of new honorary H » ember 3 were added to the committee 3 t its sitting on the 19 A instant ; that memorials from Oldham , Nottingham , Manchester , Barnsley , Forfar , and Aberdeen , had been received by the committee since its previous meeting . The committee hare determined , as soon as sufficient funds are in their hands , to ean « e ihe memorials to be presented . Ail memorials , fund * , and communications to be addressed for eomrn : ' :: ee , to Mr . Guest , bookseller , Steelhouse lane . The committee meets eTery Tuesday evening , at ha ! f-pi ~ t rfx o ' clock , at the ' HaU of Science , Law-Bence-.-treet . Admittance free .

      Impohtast Public Meotsg . —( From our men Corrci-jjsndsnLj—Ai the conclusion of the service at the Carii- . ian Chartist church , oa Sunday evening last , it wa 3 announced that 3 meeting wonld ba held on the following Tuesday , to hear Messrs . Collins and O' ^ veil deliver a report of their mission ' to Leeds . At the appointed time , hundreds -li n ked to the © lace of meeting , anxious to hear the result of the long-talked of demonstration . The place was crowded lon < bciore the time for commencing business had arrived , and a vast number had to go away , unabie to gain admittance ; and such was the eagerness cf those present to hear an account of the late trans-Actions at Leeds , that a working man , in the gallery , commenced reading an account of tha proceedings from a Leeds newspaper , and was listened to

      attentireiv . When the time for onening the me&tina tentiveiy . When tbe time for opening the meeting had arnved , Mr . Styles was called to the chair . He opened the business by s e ating that they had met there that evening , for the purpose of hearing Mes ? r ~ . Collins and O'Neil deliver an acconc : of the result of their mission . Mr . O'Neii , then arose , and proceeded at considerable length , and with great minu : eu !? 3 s , to detail the whole of the circumstance ? that had taken place , from the time of his arrival at Leeds to hb departure . He described his meeting with ? he other delegates—i ; : e conference between the Chartist delegation and Messrs . Hume , Roebuck , &c—the excited state of Leeds—the Chartist procession and meeting—the meeting at Marshall ' s mili —the cif * et produced on the audienee by the Chartist

      speaK ^ rs , &c . and concmutd amid great applause . Mr . Ci-iiius then came forward , amid the hearty plaulits of the assembly , and proceeded in his nsual s : yle to explain the more important features connected with the important proceedings tnsr had taken p ;* ce at Leeds , He said he had no doubi but that £ o . ^ l would result from it to the Chartist cause ; he also read extracts from the Leeds newspapers , m eorro&oration of his statements ; he likewise de-• cribea what took place at the public dinner , held at the M . ; -. e-hall , on Friday evening , and commented on the expressions bmhI at that meeting by Daniel 0 'Con . neil ind Mr . Hoebuck . After fully recounting to his consii ' . uenis the part ha had taken in the

      T * noas tran&act oas , he sa : down amidst loag and loud cheering , the meeting being highly delighted with the accouut they had received . Mr . Hill then ic-ved " That the thanks of the ' meetin ^ be given to Messrs . Collins and O'Neil , for the praiseworthy manner in which they had performed the duty encrast-d w them . "' This was seconded by several is the btvdy of the meeting and pissed ucaaitton = Iy . The-Chairman then read an account of the money received for the purpose of defraying the expences of Messrs . Coliins and O'Neii to Leed ? , and also the expenditure , from which it appeared that a Bnrplc = ! remained , which waj ordered to be handed to the O " o .--rvational Commitiee . A vote of thanks

      was thcu proposed for the chairman and carried mjanim--us ! y . Previous to the separation of the meeting , a large number of females determined that ft Char-ist tea drinking should be got up , and retired into t ; .- ? vestry , for tne purposa of forming themielves : nw a committee to carry out that object . An excellent spirit prevails here at present , and it is hoped "hat ths Cliartist cause will ere loEg be strenger inau -rver it yet was in Birmingham . Faosr . Williams , a > t > -Jones . —The General Committee for these yietims held their weekly meeting < m Tuesday evening , a ; the Hall of Science , Lawxenc *—west , Mr . Barratt in the chair . The correspondence for the week was read , and the following resolution was moved by Mr . Smallwood , seconded

      by Mr . P . H . Green , and earned unanimously : — ** That Messrs . Moir , Lovett , and Morgan Williams , be communicated with by thi 3 Committee , to know whether they are wiiliug to act for the presentation of the memorials to the Q \ ttrx , as laid tiowii ia the Werttem Star . " The Committee intend completing their anajgements for the presentation of the memorials a . 5 soon as they Lave cufficienifnnds is hand . Memorials have been received tbi 3 last week from Manchester , Carlisle , Brighton , Srourbria ^ e , and Kinross . The arracgemenis of the Committee , respecaag Secretaries , is as follows : —Financial Secretary , Mr . William Barlow ; Corresponding Secretary , Mr . J . P . Green ; and Committee Secretary , Mr . Thompson .

      BRIGHT OS . —A mating of the members of tie Kstior . al Charter Association took place here on Monday test , jb tie large Room . 110 , Gloster Lace , to take measures to secure the return of Frost , Williams , and Joes 3 ; Mr . Councillor Fredtrici Page in th < j chair , Mr . Councillor Woodward moved the first resolution : — . That this meeting is of epir . ion that John Frost , Zephaaiah William * , and William Jones , wtre illegally tr iad ar . d banished frcm their native sand ; and it hereby pledges itself to use every c ^ nstitmicisal means in its power , to effect th ^ ir restoration to taeir country , « nd itrir distressed ami sorrowing families . "—He proceeded to fchow that the local authorities bad ddavoured to do all they could to prevent Jiie boldirg < tf thE meeting . Tliey luust know the ss . id ) tnat evtry

      endeavour bau been made by tbeir Council to gtt the Town Hall ; and tha ? tbr authorities were , and are iietenoinKl , \ to they say * not in any way to countenance or lil-j ^ - aisy Cbartioi luetting to take pace in Brighton . He was one &f & deputation who waited on the O-n'table with a requisition , signed by eighty etectors , nod about twenty householders of the borough , to request of him to call a public town meeting , fur the puruosa for which tbry ttat evening mtt The Ckmstabfr thoc ^ bt fit in the txercu « of tea prerogative , to refa ^ c the use of the Hill for such a purpose , aHefuig -hut taey intended t > hold a Chartiit ruetf . ng ; p > at : fce . in cocjoacvion widi taa magistrates , had leceivia a clrcnlir from the Home Office , some time K >^ v r .-, » t . > alio -w any Chartist meetings to tike pl& <*

      in Br . £ h-, > n , if t' ^ y couid prevent them- " Well , " said Mr . T -V ., ' -, it n-jxl attempt t-j get the Hall was try a tc \~ - ^' Aub to the Ciiri to the Conimissioners ; he ( Mr . W i having beea informed , that if twenty Aettors : t / --- fl - ' - ***> ° * tbe BaU « and . the Hall wtaEot -Trrj -usly ei- ^ a ^ etl , there was a resolution on tbe Cc : f : ; ni-r : rneia' boois , that the Hall should be granted . V / i-: ' , tLe Coui-cil got up a requisit-ioB , and , to msV'S turc . tbv . y got appended to it twenty-fire eteetoiV z . n . -. nn , iuste&d cf twenty . They again met ¦ W iih a rcfri ^; . nut , as the Clerk gaid , ttat he refused S » Hu . il , bu- hat he bad no povrer to grant it for such » perp : —; , m-. rs yarticulirlj- after their being refused by tb .- CiBi ' . i ^ . e . Mr . Willi am Flowers seconded the KBoiav : ~» , -ud , in a short but effective address ,

      Tindk . til I rcit and bis companions . The resolution m ti > t . n vut -o ttie meeting , and unanimously earned . iix . C >« iuc . nor Coiling prop ~ 8 * i the n ^ xt lesolntion ' : — «« Thai , sgreeaMe to the first resolution , a memorial be aest to ' her M = je £ ty the Qasrn , praying her to exercise twr prerc-sat ' . vc , by causing Frost , Williams , and J » ne » to be lil- ^ T ' ^ -A , and reitored to taeir homes , their families , acd -x ^ ULtry . " Mr . Collicg then read to the mfitii 2 . tbe cj > --. unrial to l . er Majesty , as recommended jjy tfct ! BinniDgham Conuuittee , and concluded by jDOTicg : t s a ^ jption in conjunction with the rceolution . Mr . Councillor Ailen seconded tbe resolution , and the adoption -A the memorial , and after an eloquent addrtss , -MDdD'ied , amidst cheers , by raying , -when the names ¦ o f * Russell , a Norraauiby , and a > M&ule would be

      forgotten , and roiving in the graves " » ith their bodies , loaded irith the exeenaou asd detestation of after generitiorui . ti , e naiuts of Frost , Wiliuuns , and Jones , - ©¦ Connw , Vinc « it , and O'Brien , would be leTartd and 4 « pe « t-d . Mitx generations -would siDg , in songs of } oj , to the inenicrr of ti » peraecnted p » trioU of bygone days . The resolution and address were then pat to tbe xneetiiie , and carrkd amid load acclamation Me . CouaciUoT Ji « hn PAgerw » to propose tbe ntxt ie » 0-fation : — " T-it three of the old Convention be ap-# olated by the Birmicgkam Gummittee , to present oar ddrese u > the Q ivku , u represeat&tiTes of ota feelings , on vai&B , tDu grievsjJceB , asd our am # e ; and that

      mu London bre : breo . be reqoected to atiend oor depnftMktn to the £ * tec of the Palace ; and ire recommend 4 otbe Birniingh&ia Committee , June * Moir , William Xovefct , sud Morgan Williams , u the depnUtion to pmmt the sxidrtss to her Majesty . " Hi . George Pap-. wortfe * eco :: dt-A the resoletion , -which wit nn » nimously adapted . Mr . Alien proposed the following rvsolntioa — " Tea « thw mtttins , deeply soosible of the aimott fijf i | in » rMi extnioni of that determined and nnflincbfag pstriot , Fe » rgn » O'Connor , Esq ., before * od during fba ttiai of tLe exiled patriots , and of the Rev . Win . fiffl , Editor of the Northern Star , in his fearless ezpomm U the illeg&Uty of the fcrHO , and injuti « e of the Mbeoee , tender tbem on * ao « t liaeere Qttska for Uitir

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      services , : n f e ccuse i , t freenom and humanity , on that occasion . " Sir . Ali « n paid a high-merited compliment to the character of the noble Feargua , the friend of the poor , and the vindicator of their light- " . Mr . Flowers , Eeconded the resolution , and said the greatest honour that be e ? er ftlt had been conferred on him , was when the noble O'Conror took him by the band at their first Chartist meeting in their Town HalL Mr . Yeneas could not let the ksolution pass without laying claim to a little honour , that be should ever hold in remembrance . He had the pleasure « f riding with the noble champion in his carriage , from Brighton to Worthing j he should never forget it &b long as he lived . A more feeling , & more fatherly-lite man , he never had the pleasure of conversing with , than Feargus O'Connor ;

      he was kind , generous and noble—he was a real noble —a noble of nature . In nobility O'Connor stood above Jformanby , Russell , < fc Co ., as St Paul ' s aboTe & mushroom . The resolution was then put and carried , with a loud hurrah , that made the rery 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 , and the other imprisoned Chartists , which were loudly and enthusiastically responded to . YEOVXli . —A pnblic meeting waa held on Monday evening , in the CUarfcist Meeting Room , in this town , to memorialise the Q'ie « n to grant a free pardon to John Fro 3 t , Zsphaniah Williams , and William Jones . Mr . Abednego Stephens was called

      to the chair . Mr . Edmunds moved the following resolution : — " That this meeting strongly condemns tae Whig Government , in their tyrannical and unconstitutional proceedings against all political prisoners , more especially in their illegally transporting John Frost , Zephaniah Williams , and William Jones . " Mr . Manchester , in a few sensible remarks , seconded the resolution , which was carried unanimously . Mr . John Bainbridge moved the second resolution , " That this meeting deeply sympathises * with the sufferings of the unfortunate patriots , Jobs Frost , Zephaniah Williams , and William Jones ; and be ng firmly convinced that

      previous to their trials the due formB of law were not complied with , and that in their trials sufficient evidence was not adduced to warrant a conviction of hijfh treason , do hereby adopt the address to the Queen . " Mr . Hooper seconded the motion , which wa 3 supported by Mr . Hewlett , and carried unanimously . It was also resolved , " That three of the old Convention be appointed by the Birmingham Committee , to present an address to the Queen , as representatives of our feelings , our wants , and oar cau 3 e . The chairman made a few closing remarks , and the meeting separated . [ Reports of the several speeches were sent to us , but are omitted for lack of room . — £ d 1

      WOTTON-USDES-EDQB .-On Monday , Januarv the 25 ' , h , a very spirited meeting was held in the Working Men ' s room , Churchietreet , for the pnrpose of " memorializing" her Majesty for the return of Fros > t , Williams , and Jones . Messrs . Morgan and Simeon , of Bristol , attended as delegate ? . Mr . Rowland Lacey was called to the chair ; resolutions of an appropriate character , and the addrefs lately pnblished in the Star , were unanimously adopted and ably supported by various speakers . PEBTH .-On Wednesday week , a soiree and baii was held here , in aid of the wives and families of the imprismed Chartists , when the meeting was addressed by various friends ; and at the conclusion three cheers were given for Frost , Williams , and JoHes ; for Feargu 3 O'Connor ; for Richardson aDd Collins ; and for the Charter . After clearing all the expences , thirty-two shillings remain , and will be forwarded to the proper quarter .

      HEBDEN BR ! DGE .-Mr . Doyle lectured here a J ' tw eveuings a << o . At the conclusion of his lecture three cheers were given for O'Coanor , the Char : er , and for Frost , Williams , and Jones . DSO'SXSDEN ' . —On Tuesday evening last , Mr . Doyle iectured here to the great gratification of a numerous auditory , by whom he was rapturously applauded . SHEFFIELD . —Chartism wears here a more than usually favourable aspect . At the last weekly meeting , thg members determined to have nothing to do with the Household Suffrage party in any way whatever , and to suppen neither men nor measures , short of the entire r * sht of Universal Suffrage .

      WIGAN . —Yr . Bsjrgtow addrew d & meeting here , ou Monday e » v . u , u . >» : >« , at ^ reat le ngth , in which he detailed the proceedings at the Leeds meetings . At the conclusion , three cheers each were given for Feargus O'Connor ; for the speaker ; for the Chatter ; for Frost , Williams , and Jones ; and a ^ oto of thanks to the Chairman ( Air . Hyslop ) . Mr . B . ' a visits have given a great impulse to the

      . SOUTH I * ANCASHraE .-Mr . Leech , the South Lancashire missionary , will deliver lectures at the following places , during the next fortnight : On Sunday , the 31 st , RatcliftVBridge ; Monday , Feb . l » t , at the Carpenter ' e-hall , Manchester ; Tuesday , the 2 < 1 , at at a room , near Droylsden ; Wednesday , the 3 J , at Pilkingura ; Thursday , the 4 th , » t Mouram ; Friday , the 5 ih , at Rawden-lane ; Saturday , the 6 tn , at Kewton Heath ; Sunday , the 7 ih , at Brown-awvet ; Monday , the 8 ih , at Bolton ; Tuesday , the 9 : h , at Wjgan ; Wednesday , thelOtb , at Liverpool ; and on Thursday , the 11 th , at Warrington . The various associations are requfoted to make the necessary preparations for his reception .

      BATH . —On Monday evening last , an interesting meeting was held at the Charter Association Room , 31 r . Clarke in the chair , when several addresses , alluding to" The Labourer ' s Employment Society " of Bath , and the conduct of the police , were delivered . Mr . Aleuander of Newport , also addressed the meeting . LZIGH . —Mr . Bellamy ' s Libebatios prom Lancaster Castle . —At a meeting held during the week , ( our correspondent doe 3 not name the evening , ) Mr . Biirstow , having been invited to lecture here , the friends obtained the nss of the

      Rev . Mr . Aitkins' chapel , which is capable of holding five hundred person ? . About two hoara before the commencement of the lecture , Mr . Bellamy asreeably surprised the Chartists , by his sudden , and quite unexpected , arrival from Lancaster Castle , ( where ht ; has been confined fifteen months . ) having obtained a respite of three months . Mr . Bellamy appears to enjoy excellent health ; and has undergone no change of principles . The chapel was completely filled , owing to the excitement created . At the conclusion of Mr . Doyle's lecture , three cheers was given for O'Connor ; the Lecturer , and the ChaTter .

      PKESTOST . —On Monday night , this town was visited by Harrison , the spy , who was discovered there ; and , by the activity of one of the Chartists , taken before the Guardians on Tuesday , for leaving his family chargable . The lenieut ex offido Chairuman , however , kt him loose again pon society , on his promising to r&y when he got work ; and would not allow the 103 . reward for his apprehension .

      The Northers Star Saturday, January 30, 1841.

      THE NORTHERS STAR SATURDAY , JANUARY 30 , 1841 .

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      WHAT EVERY ONE SAYS MUST BE

      TRUE . We take it as an admitted fact , that what every one say 3 timst be true ; nor do we apprehend that even the concurrence of " the Great Liar of the North , " will shake the maxim , when applied to the tiiumph of Chartism , on Thursday tfee 21 st of January , 1841 . Every person , and all authorities , concur in admitting that rever was there so complete , so entire , and so 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 case are laid bare !

      Beit remembered , then , that education was one of the gre . t principles of the " Leeds Parliamentary Reform Association , " and from the operation of which upon the sound judgment of the industrious classes 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 so desirable an end , nothing was so necessary as a parley between the rival partiesthe philanthropic masters and their misled Blares .

      The magical effect of eloquence is almost unbounded , and it but required the oratorical powers of the rich oppressor to persuade the poor oppressed that grieTances 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 . " Equal justice for each and for all , '' was , we believe , a point in the principles of the Association How far this point has been observed , and how fax , and by what means , the light of knowledge was to hare dispersed the dark cloud of ignorance , let us , in the first place , consider , before we proceed with our general review .

      A parley was to hare 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 uaintellectoal sixpennies , the knowledge-thirsting Chartists , of themselves , purchased no fewer than 1 , 300 of the number . This fact was communicated to ( he Secretary of the Club , when , to oar surprise and disgust , the further issue of tickets was stopped , left the ignorant people should purchase a chance of hearing the

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      truth , and bein ^? there by converted ! The reason of this stoppage waa most uablushingly 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 dUtance , —( 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 np 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 Bell one to a Chartist . In pursuance of ibiis order , tho 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-five tickets each ; and when reminded that those were 6 d . tickets , the liberal news-vendor replied , Ay « , I know they are , but they are goiDg 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 . Sxansfeld would have countenanced so pitiful a trick ; and therefore we lay it at the door of the overdiligent unscrupnlons 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 Majesty tho 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 been furnished , in the first instance , to the members , and 4 , 000 places were let at the various prices , of from Is . 6 d . to 5 s . —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 . j The feast was originally to have been on Wednesday the ' 20 th ; but , inasmuch as Thursday is the market-day in some parts of the West Riding , aud , as those Chartists who are most independent of mill lords havo occasion to attend their market towns , it waa , therefore , " reasonably deemed" prudent to alter the day to the 21 st .

      With such obstacles , and many others , such aa the intimidation of masters and overseers , the Chartists went to work ; and , upon the ove of battle , the enemy struck ! The object ; tho one , the sole , the only object , for which the meeting was called , and upon which nearly £ 2 , 000 was expended , was abandoned . Every thing was conceded to the despised delegates of the despised Chartists ; and mercy , even mercy , wa 3 asked for , and generously conceded . The preliminaries wore 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 experimemt made by means of the Reform Bill , to improve the condition of the country , hath failed to attain the end desired by the people ; and , a further Reform having , therefore , become necea sary , it is the opinion of this meeting that the united efforts of all Reformers ought to be directed to obtain such a further enlargement of the franchise , as ahould make the interests « f the representatives identical with those of the whole country , and by this means secure a just government for all classes of the people . "

      Now , we ask 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 t 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 Messsrs . Marshall and Stansfeld ; and 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 . ' s , and aristocrats , come to feel the pulse of England ' s young pride , the pageant , as far as regards the aristocratic representation , is turned into a puppetshow , where Punch and Judy Hi ; he , Strickland , and Williams , in their own proper persons , represent the English aristocracy ! The first speaker who presents himself , Mr . Hume , is mistakeu 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 indiguation

      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 on 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 their chairman , and to have carried any resolutions declaratory of their principles ; but they could have hit upon noue more sweeping , in recognition of their right , and their cause , and their Charter , than that in which all bo happily , and so unanimously agreed . No attempt , from the commencement , was made , by one of the eight thonsand persons , to introduce the question of Household Suffrage , to advance which the meeting was called ; whi . e friend aud foe declared that Universal Suffrage was the only jusc principle of franchise .

      Let us now ask if such a result could have been contemplated , would tho experiment have been tried ! No , never 1 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 la&t 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 shoots 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 , " " unannointcdj' " unanneatedj' — perishedin its infancy , strangled in its cradle , and sent , " with account unsettled , " before the tribunal of public opinion .

      The Chartists have been told , insol « ntly told , that they were only potent for evilj 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 oat-numbering those of the dub . " They came , —they * aw , —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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      I ¦ ¦¦ .. ( I .- ' , ' H . ' l ' single exception of something which Mr . Mabshall read from a piece of paper , and which , as Chairman , he w& 8 bound to do , not one of the members of the " Leeds Parliamentary Reform Association " appeared in the contest . It was the completest represeosatioa of Hamlet , without a Hamlet , we ever heardtellof ! Where was Mr . Stansfeld , with his Bible , and Traveller ' s Tales , and Joe Miller 1 Where was Joshua Bower , Esq ., and where was Chaxu . es Cummins , Eb ^ ., and , — " Where , and O where , is my Highland laddie 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 d . for the upper class ; the Is . 6 d . for the middle class ; and the 6 d . for the class that pays for all . And let us , as a finisher to the dispute between the H-o-n-s-e and the intellect , dearly 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 men ' s lives , men ' s liberties , and men ' s properties .

      Universal Suffrage would protest the capital of him with one hundred thousand pounds , against the capital of him with one million thousand pounds , by so ordering demand and supply , that a man shall neither swamp the market , or overbold his goods upon the strength of his largo capital , to the destruction of his poorer neighbour . Universal Suffrage 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 good system , would become the best customers of the shop-keeping class . They would wear more hose , more shoes , and more clothes ; they would use 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 tho 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 groat a responsibility .

      Universal Suffrage would protect tha Monarch from a Republic , and Uuivorsal Suffrage would protect the cottage from ruin , while Household Suffrage 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 n « ighbour , to his own ultimate and certain destruction , and to the country ' s ruin . In short , we cannot improve upon our former position : that Universal Suffrage would disfranchise the vicious

      aud enfranchise the virtuous of all classes , from the aristocracy to Mr . Baptist Noel's without-God-and-withbut-hope" staff ; and that if the principle of exclusion is to be 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 hundred labourers , who never can hope to live independently of iudustry , would have , if possible , a greater interest in upholding the emDloyers' capital than the master himself .

      Now , can any sound judging man deny these facts , without first proving that the working classes are all mad 1 Why , we Bball be asked , in years of as great distress , have not these things been urged by , or on behalf of , the toiling millions ! Why has the mero question of abstract right , to be forcibly carried , constituted the sum and substance of political agitation ? Tiie question is easy of solution . Till the reduction upon newspaper stamps ,- ( the greatest revolutiou ever known in this or any other country ) , —the 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 the Leeds Mercury and the Manchester Guird ' xan . These two political rips collated , what they were pleased to call , the public opinion of the millions ; and there being no organ to dissent from their falsehoods , they became tho salesmasters of provincial feelings in the metropolis ; hence , London , which is a citadel , always either taken or defended , according to tho weakness or strength of the garrison , fell into the prevailing notion , would not stir against Lancashire and Yorkshire , and , in short , took the epidemic

      AW how is it ? The Mercury and Guardian now only represent " the wreok 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 bo well carried as when he had only one horse , one saddle , and one bridle . The horse was always in wind , without sore mouth from strange bridle , or sore back from badly fitting saddles ; whereas , when he bad ten , all were out of order and out of wind . Now , such is procisoly the case with the people . Formerly they wero delighted with a pleasant ride

      upon the local hobby-horse ; and wa had as many crotchets as journals , and as many journals as crotchets , and as many officers as soldiers . Now we havo 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 passeugers going the one way upon the great thoroughfare of life .

      Again , then , do we congratulate ourselves , our friends , their delegates , and their cause , upon the victory of victories gained upon the 21 st 1 By that , the Chartists have proved to the world that they require but » clear stage and no favour ; and that physical force has Only been mentioned in consequence of the unjust and cowardly suppression of moral strength . How could a victory be more decisive 1 Without striking a blow the lenemy capitulated , surrendered at discretion , and inarched 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 oar 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 moat cordially thank the people and their delegates ; and it now only remains for us to lament the " mill of troubles , " which a covetous 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 most be true . "

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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 Moor on Thursday was to the last degree meagre and miserable Mr . Fcargu ? O'Connor , who burns with hatred to Mr . CConuell , and who considered the latter as coming to Leeds to triumph over him , did every thing that 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 re ' ers to the triumphant ( and , therefore , to the fallen god , " meagre and miserable ") gathering which took place on the 21 st . The " thieving god , " as the honey-lipped O'OJonnell called his friend , gave us 10 , 000 for the " Great Peep Greea Meeting , " at which all admitted there were from 300 , 000 to 400 , 000 persons ; and he gives us 3 , 000 for " The Welcome to Dan" Meeting , 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 m cold weather , packs much more c ¦ osely than an in-door meeting . In a room there are angles 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 Goeenacre Chron . gives us 4 , 000 . How is this , COCKEB ? :

      Oh ! Neddy , if it had been a Whig meeting ,-how many pairs of spectacles would you have had on 1 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 are always delicate in venturing a guess at large masses of persons , and therefore prefer taking the opinion of an old offices , who was oa the 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 three hundred thonsand persons present at the period when the greatest number were together . "

      So much for Mercurial acouracy , delicacy , and arithmetic ; and now a word for the " gentleman" in his capacity of champion for the sucking dove , the injured innocent , poor Dan . The Mercury forgets who called for , aud obtained , three 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 he turns upon O'Connor for having implored the working men of Yorkshire to give O'Connell such a reception as he deserved !

      When did age , sex , rank , friendship , or fellowship screen matt or beast from the filth of the venomvomiting wretch , who , for twenty years has lived upon the wreck of character , regardless whether of friend or foe ! and this is the " sucking dove , " on whose behalf the Mercury pleads ! Had the first victim to the tyrant ' s rancour met him with the same bold and manly front that O'Connor has presented to his overy 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 expence , and without any reference to personal feelings , to meet him in public discussion ; but no , darkness and cowardice shrunk from light aud courage . O'Connok is the first man who has triumphantly made the tyrant ' s friend cry " hold ! " " enough I" " spare J O spare your victim ' . "—Yes , the victim in bondage has beaten the beast at large .

      But let us take the question upon its merits . O'Connor was expected in Dublin , and the " sucking dove " said , " If he come , the boys will give him a swim ia the Liffoy . " At ona of the palavers of his creatures , some blustering coward said that " he met O'Connor at a meeting at Preston , and that he had a great iniud to kick him . " What was the pacificator ' s reply ? I am glad you did not , my friend ; that would have been physical force , which we discountenance . Did he say so ! Ho ; but the valiant geutleman said , " you never would have been more right in your life than you would have been had you kicked him well . "

      The beait , marked O'Connor out for the notice of the Attorney General ; called him a destructive , torch-aud-dagger man , and so forth . Now what did O'Connor say 1 Did he say kick him 1 No ; he said , " let ( here be no drunkenness , no riot ; if any should attempt it , let him be instantly restrained . ' '* Well , but popular feeling and disgust ran so high that the strongest manifestation of dislike could not have been possibly restrained , had Dan shown his

      nose in Leeds , as promised ; and it was O'Connor did it all !!! although , it was all done before he knew anything of the arrangements . Why the Chronicle even saddles a placard upon O'Connor , which O'Connor never saw , or probably never heard of ! Let it , however , be a consolation to O'Connor to know , that the coward who would not have dared to face him , was prevented by a fair-piay-loving English community of blietered hands , from striking him while he was down .

      The poor Mercury makes a leader of a most foolish aud enigmatical epistle of Lord Fitzw illiam , forgetting that the said Lord Fitzwilliam , while Baines was 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 Suffrage Meeting ; " and in his leading article he maintains that "the Chartists obtained the completest of all victories—they took captive the entire army of the enemy "

      The Intelligencer ., a far honeater and more efficient organ , speaks thus of the demonstration : — " The ' Great Demonstration' of the Whig Reformers of the Reform Aet , in Leeds , has turned out , as we predicted it would turn out—a decided failure . Of the announced staTa , only a few of the second magnitude were present —Mich as Mr . Hume , Mr . Roebuck , CoL Thompson , Mr . Williams , ( from c « ventry , ) Mr . Sharman Crawfeyd , and Sir George Strickland . Mr . O'Connell was not present ; but arrived yesterday in time to get

      a bit of dinner . Sir W . Molesworth excused himself ; he ia jealous of Mr . Roebuck . Mr . Baines refused , and left Leeds to show bis contempt for Mr . Stansfeld ' s agitation .. Letters were read from various parties ; but we did not hear any thing of one from F . H . Fftwkes , Esq ., of Farnley Hall , who wrote to decline on the ground that the only point on which he agreed with the managers , was that \ Reform * was at a very low ebb . Surely it was not quite fair to burk the opinleDs of so active and respectable a local Reformer .

      " The Chartist' Demonstration' was a far more effective exhibition , and shows much greater power both at 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 ail points . The Whigs , in fact , made an abject submission to them ; they literally sued to them , in bondsman ' s bey , 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

      men Chartists waged the battle of argument with the Whig nobs , aye , and beat them too , inasmuch as if there bis any arguments good for Household Suffrage , the same argument ! must be still better for Universal Suffrage . The solitary resolution moved , was also squared to Chartist toleration . It simply affirms that further reform to required . In this the Chartists of course agree . So the Whigs have actually taken nothing by their movement ; in all respect * playing second fiddle only . We repeat that the affair was an utter failure , though an fanmBPw aura of money has

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      been lavished upon it ; the ercater part of whu ho doubt ; wilHall te the share of- ^ fie Messm ^ aSW It is an old iiiaxim that foolish persons always iJl for their hobby . " ** " But although the Whigs have broken down ia ft * attempt to enlist under their banner the great bodj ^ the working men of Leeds and its vicinity , theywf shewn plainly enough that they are ready to join a ! Chartists , or any body of complainants , as soom , Conservative and . constitutional Government shall U formed . Were Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of , ^ ? ling ton in office , these sticklers f >> r Household Suff ^ L would swallow any other nostrum for the sske ^ influence over the minds of the masses . They are aT altogether devoid of honest principle . WeqbettfrT however , whether the Chartists will ever again socm them as leaders . If they enlist , they must be ccfatM to take the lowest tank . They have persecuted ty ! old pupils ; and to trust them again would be ijv , making a bosom companion ot the viper . Tho stiW quent arrival of O'Connell , and his attendance atw night's dinner , will rot contribute to smooth theita towards a reconciliation . '

      " Oar report of the proceedings embraces all the W ing points of the slightest importance or interest ife * speaking was below mediocrity . Mr . Home nmhU from subject to subject , and scarcely ever finubei sentence ; Mr . Roebuck is tiresome ; Colonel Thompeo ! prosy ; Mr . Williams a mere chatterer . Mr . Shanm » Crawford appears to be a clever man , but the meetta evinced a strong indisposition to listen to hinv » M many persons left the mill as soon as he began to apea The greater portion went to see O'Connell , and lp ^ J disappointed . Sir G « orge Strickland put himself « au defence as to hia conduct as Chairman of the Hull Ele tion Committee : it would have been better for him fa he kept silence , for his explanation only makes the bk * still blacker . . . **

      "We shall have to return to this and other parti rf the day ' s exhibition , when time and place are morg 4 disposal . We have said enough , however , to shewtfm this ' Demonstration * was merely an affair of atnokt , Tha mountain laboured , and brought forth a very Uj mouse indeed . " Let the " thieving god" and his injured innoceat " take their change out of all these proofs of Chartist triumph , and add to them the fact , that all who wit . nessed the procession admitted that it was thj largest , the most orderly , and the most imposjot ever seen in Leeds .

      But , Bays the Mercury , they had no plaefe . we always fought it out , even with Feaegcj himself . Indeed ; let us see . Feakgus himself w « at Leeds for three years , during the hottest period of excitement , and when a good meeting would hart been nuts to the poor Whigs in Leeds , so ceie » brated in olden times for giving the tone to Englandhow many out-door meetings did the redoubtables call 1 Why , just ore , in three years , and ii which , though the Mayor was in the chair and the M . P . Baines and all his family , ud all the masters , overseers , place-hunters , and

      toadies , that could be mustered , congregated , Mr . O'Connor , after a journey of a hundred miles , and with a ruptured blood-vessel , met ttw whole army singly and alone ; not a man appointed to second his amendment ; no arrangements made for opposition . Yet , did O'Connor carry his amendment , and that too upon the vital question of the repeal of the Corn Laws , in the centre of the greit manufacturing couuty of York , and ia defiance of the whole muster , though the Whig Mayor eontended , in the very teeth of the meeting , that tho majority was for the original motion ; knowing well the contrary to be the fact .

      So much , then , for the courtesy , civilization , pluck , and politeness of the gallant Queen-groaset - ^ -the veracious politician—the consistent journalist —the polished gentleman—defender of the sucking dove , and so forth . We pity those leetle abortion who sneak after and crouch before the moving mass of filth , that has nocked their very size , and reviled their every act , while we commend the manly bearioj of the Gallant Napieb and the brave O'CoNNon . flho have made the bottle-holders of the great towvaliant slanderer cry , " Hold . '" " Enough . ' "

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      LEICESTER . EVEN A GREATER CHARTIST TRIUMPH THAK THAT OF THE TWENTY-FIRST . From Leeds to Leicester did Danny aud Jon in company start . The object of the Leicester do was , to give to Lord Acre and Bombshell ( Easthope ) all the advantage which svmpathj for cobblers and church-rate " martyrs" could bestow , previously to another election . Admission only by ticket ; and Chartists , aud even their friend ? , positively refused entrance . Police , to phisiognomisa every unwashed applicant , and all the avenuea well guarded . Well , eays the reader , and where was the triumphl Why , bear , and you shall confess .

      Daniel and Joseph vouchsafed an autograph letter to Messrs . Seal and Mabkhah , two leading Chartists , in which the writers requested the honour of an interview at their hotel , after the meeting , to have a little ohat ; and when the said Danny and Joey would answer any questions which the said Seal and Mahkiiah might choose to propose . Well ; what of that ?—where is the triumph ! Why , here , in these few words . Messrs . Seai

      and Mabkhah presented their compliment ? , mi begged to decline the honour which they could not accept without DEMEANING THEMSELVES Now , then , was ever so great a triumph ? When before did two M . P . ' s receive such a slap on the face from two of the unwashed 1 Two liberals ; political pedlars ; hawking their wares and volunteer ing 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 the 2 lst . ; because , until the working men are taught the value 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 the acceptance we should DEMEAN OURSELVES !" Well done , Leicester . We confess in these two words you have outdone us . In proof , we give tha letter of John Mabkham to Feabgus O'Conhob , and which O'Connor transmitted to us : — " Leicester , January 23 rd , 1841 .

      " Mt Deaji Sib , —The great church rate meetingii held here thia evening ; Dan . and Hume , Easthope ) and Ellis , are all here . Admission only by ticket , and so scrupulous have the fellows been that they have bad a . person at each of their offices who they thought bad a knowledge of the Chartists and their friends , and they positively refused to sell a single ticket to any one who was known to be friendly to us . Dan and Hnme « eat for ma and Seal to night , to go to their inn , " to have a little chat , or to answer any question we might

      think proper to put to them . " We sent a letter inatanter , to say we should be wanting in self-respect and a due consideration to the honour of our friendi , after such a gratuitous insult offered to our body , If ** accepted their Invitation . uirfi * " Poor , but yet faithful , " I remain , dear Sir , " Yours truly , " J . MabkhaK . " To Feargus O'Connor . Esq . "

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      THE ELECTIONS . Tbsbb are now five of these things upon the tapiit to wit , Canterbury , where the contest is between » Mr . Wilson ( Whig ) and a Mr . Smyths ( Tory ) . Here the betting is twenty shillings to a pound either way ; and it needs little comment , as it is * very pretty quarrel as it stands : the Whig having blackguarded the Tory most awfully ; the Tory having challenged him ; the Whig has madei copious discharge of gentlemanly compensation for political language . The letter ot apology runs thus : —

      . " Mr . Frederick Tilliers , on the part of Mr . Henni * ker Wilson , disclaim * having had the intention ifl the above-mentioned sentences of saying anything personally offensive to Mr . Smythe , or what would be painful to bis feelings aa a gentleman . Mr . Villiera n » k « a tke aamedisclaimer as to any other part of aia speech . Mr VUlien further , expresses Mr . H . Wilson ' s regret that bis speech should have been understood by any one w personally offensive to Mr . 8 mythe . "FBEDEBICK YILL 1 BB 3 . . "FBEDEBICK 8 OITON . " January tit 1843 U "

      Now , from the words , "feeRngs a * a gentleman , it is quite clear that the most upright gentleman may be the most consummate political vagabond , and vice versa . Well , so much for the gentlemanly heroes !

      Cfavugt Exfltltigftltt.

      CfavUgt EXfltltigfTltt .

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      ¦¦ 4 - THE NORTHERN STAR . ' _ - ___ ¦ ¦ I

  • Citation
    • 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-ncseproduct534/page/4/