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    • THE NORTHERN STAit. SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1841.
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      CONTINUATION OF THE NARRATIVE OF MITCHELL , THE GIPSY BOY . { Continued from our latt . J _ ** length I got tired of this mode of life ; par-• ealarly as I got nothing by it , except what I >» vragi ?< i to thieve and secrete on my own account . •« d wki « a I used to conceal in secret parts of my trottsar * . Those gipsies used to make the sale of pots and ffis a pretext for picking pockets , and it was not aa uncommon thing for one of the women to % e engaged ia telling a young lady , or gentleman ,

      their fortune , while myself , or some of the men , who w * n dressed np , stood by waiting to hare ours told , while we were picking the pockets of the jwag people . We were once encamped alongside another gang of gipsies , asd the queen of the gang asked me if I wonld like to hare my fortune told , and I said yes ; » nd the moment she looked at my hand , she aid , * Eh , lad , tbee will rarely he hanged . " In less -Sub . eighteen months , and before , or just about that tine from tbe date , I was arrested for the murder f Mr . Blackburn .

      The gipsy pointed oat tbe lines in my hand , which I never observed before . Upon one hand , close to file bntt of my fifigers , there is a deep wide line waning from one side of the palm to the other , - * ad npon the other there is no such mark at all . I mean t « say that there is not in the world sneh « eepcr » te people as a gang of gipsies . I am sure they think nothing of killing any man , or stealing * bj gentleman ' s child . Servant girls should be cautioned against them , aa from them we used to learn all die ways of the houses in the

      neighbour-As the time I left the gipsies , I bad £ 25 with me , whieh I cheated them out of . I left them , finally , after being about two years with them , and I hare ksard no more of them since . I was then at the tker side , the south side of Manchester , and , with » j £ 25 , 1 returned to Sheffield , having spent aboot £ S of it oa my way home . When I left them , it is aw wonder , after such training , that I entered with great alacrity into another line of thieving , upon my wa account , and that I was rejoiced to possess the frsUs of my own industry . On my return to jay unhappy and disconsolate parents , I heard that they hid given me up for lost ,

      sod ihtt they had advertised their prodigal son in tfee public papers . I shall never forget the delight « f my poor mother on the recovery » f her Jong Io 6 t ekfld . I was very sensibly touched at the state of Stating she , as well as my father and Bisters , displayed upon the occasion ; bat the effect was soon lost , tbe die was cast , and I must go . I mean to ¦ ay that persons of my age , who are not caught till tfcey become habituated to thieving , never can be Meaimtd ; and I have often known thieves , young a * d old , to have committed robberies of which they bid plans the night after their release from Wake fte&d . They are very true to each other , and never let one another want for defence and such like .

      Thieving , I could not help , thinking , was much wrier than , working , aad , from the security with which I saw the gipsies , my late companions , carry «¦ their extensive and unlawful business , and the eaiBiand they always had of money , greatly helped t * fix me in the determination to follow a similar coarse . Besides those many inducements , I waa , by tikis time , quite expert in dexterity of finger , and in all tbe various tricks of a thief , and thought it really a pity that bo mnch ability should be thrown ¦ away . Above all , working I hated with a mortal fcaired , and was quite ambitious to let my friends and acquaintance see that I could live independently without it , and live icell too , and like a gentleman . 1 mean to say that the same silly notion has been tbe ruin of thousands of young men , I was bat a told , but vanity and a silly notion took hold of

      " Gipsy Jack , " as I was called , was mnch admired , for his personal attractions and many accomffishsients . I was thought handsome ; and it slrnck aw that bo handsome a fellow as I was ought not ie wori at alL Influenced by these and other such Ska notions , equally destructive of my future peace and welfare , I anxiously sought up all the noto-* 30 Bsly vicious acquaintances I possibly could , asd willing'y allied myself in all their most" desperate ¦ adercakings . In a word , I became one of a gang af tbe most desperate and determined robbers that « rer infesied any neighbourhood or any country .

      I know ihey arc all on the high way to the degradation I am now suffering , and to that gallows wnieh I have , by the mercy of our most gracious Sovereign , bo narrowly escaped ; and if this account af my own and their practices be made public , Jtad , through that means , become the rooting up and destruction « f the Barnsley gang , I shall , by such coarse , render all the atonement I amnow able to Make , for my numerona 0 &ud heavy offences and sins , and perhaps it may be received as an acceptable work : of gratitude Jor ihe mercy which has been so gneioa&ly and unexpectedly extended to me ; and to tfeei bo desirable an end , I have made up my aaiad to conceal nothing that I can recollect , bow-« rer it may tell against myself , and however scurvily aiy late nnfortuaate and ' misguided comrades may

      I am now about to disclose a life , though short , Bet being more than sixteen or seventeen when I was ant to York Castle , which 1 mean to say has never lees cqu * lled for the number and atrocity of crimes committed . I h&ve committed , aad been-concerned in , eore than owe thocsand robberies , and , at length , I was sentenced to death for murder , as if tiut crime could not be concealed , although I was sever , to my knowledge , even suspected before . Some ef these robberies , particularly those which I aacisted tbe gipsies in committing , and some that I altar wards committed wiih the Barnsley gang , whom I ahail name , were accompanied with the greatest Tioleice . I don ' t know , for a positive fact , that ^ eath followed in any case , although we have fre-^ aacrly left oar victims dreadfully stabbed , beaten , mad « bused , and as we thought , dead on the road , of a winter's nijfht , and never heard of them again .

      After remaining with my father about a year , awfrrrnig him in his business as a bricklayer , I left inm , aad ¦© erasJouaUy assisted him and other persons fci tbe Bame line of business , principally for the purfome of blinding people as to what I was really en-. gaged aboat , I , at first , began to rob entirely on -aw ewn account , and committed many extensive robberies upon tbe market people at Barnsley . I ¦ carried on , by myself , about a year , and I seldom aDowed » market day to pass without making many ¦ tteeessful experiments on the pockets of the market people . The sums I obtained ifi this way varied mat one to five , ten , and thirty pounds ; not more at a time , I mean , but the experiments were fregseat . I do not know the names oT the persons , or •* w * "iid tell at once , bu ; I can tell the ' public what I always found to be the most convenient time for ^ 9 bkinj { them : at the public house when they were

      ^ ettxng drunk , or when they left the public house drank to go home . One of the last robberies was at this sort . Robinson , Cherry , and ine , ( not ibe Cherry that was tried for Air . Blackburn ' s jBsrder s but hi 3 brother , } watched a country--mua ^ ti ' . o a- public-house , to get change , to ¦ j m , j for a new bat he bought , and we followed SW , asd when he left to go home , at dark , he fell when he v . oi outside tbe house ; and , when I saw him , I pretended to be drunk , too , and staggend against him , and'helped him up , and asked aha srhscn was his road home ; and when he told Bis , I told him that that was my road , too ; and that 1 wsald go part of the ro&d home with him ; so I took him und < -r the arm , and led him out of tne 4 ewu on the Shtffi-ld road , and we had not got far , when Cherry and Robinson eaffle up , and knocked « b ^ th down , and robbed the man of , I think , thirty-2 t » pounds iu Doses and sovereigns .

      1 then left off business , on my ows account , and jcraed -sriih a young man , named Joseph Bentley , « f Birasky ; be is a bnck-maker by irade , and aboct U-. e age of twenty-two years , middle-sized , and « &a in figure ; John Hayes , of Barnsley , a weaver , sbc * K twenty-one ye&ra of &ge , and abotit the same a > Bentl y in shape and figure ; Thomas Broadhead , ¦ ml B * rn-ky , a weaver , about twenty-one years of a £ B ; James Bites , also of Barnsley , though he came &an Skeknondthorpe , sboct nine miles distant-, * he vw about eighteen j ears of age .

      These younjj men hid long been in the habit of nAblng persons in tbe chapels and chnrches of © arnstey , and as they came oat in groups after the anriees , ' especially in the door or gateway . Many enoos were robbed op . these occasions by us , and Ita ^ w the practice siill coni ' mnoa , and by the same ¦ ciiijjos , ss it is considered the most secure branch af tbe trade , though not tbe most lucrative , I have Bos kaown more than two or three pounds being got at one time from one person in that way . This aias we resorted to every Sunday , and although I « utted it last Bummer , in order to devote my time to a morn extensive and larger system of plunder , yet it k still carried on by the same parties . It is not -aalr * t the evening and afternoon Bervice , but after *• Bwraine serriee , that congregations at Barnsley arc thus robbed . ¦ „ ,. . . , . I sin quite convinced that it will be fonnd that aa » person * whoa I have named are known to be

      — - it frequenters of places of worship , ana a 4 w » yi the Ivst in and first out . They frequently aaava xaloable watches , tnuff-boxes , cieees of m j —j otfier things that people carry about with ftaam . Then articles they plant in a place up th * wa « g »» -r ©* d- « df , Topping *! field , in c Mt in o watt belonging *• Charles Topping ' * field . This field Bt j »< t at the entrance of the town ; there u a public vefi there , and the hole , which is sufficiently large to **¦** » hh , is just inside Borne steps , it is covered « e with soae etones , which they have to remove when they plant anything . To " plant , " is a slang am it among thieves , signifying to hide stolen propauj , to tbit if discovered , it may not be found mfamth ^ Jf ^ emtit 01 person of the thief . f « a ' wcr ? that I do not happp « n to know of any pacaMiV nam % in particular , who has been robbed aa tbea * eotacioaH , or to know where any of the at ffcfee * wfth tew exeeptiona , happen- to be at this aaatvaVamMn ^ at all events , 1 thonght it a poor

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      bus'iness for me if I did not get more than four pounds a week as my share of this species of church plunder-The watches and articles of that kind , we always took to Sheffield , where we were always sure to Hud a ready sale for them fet the pawnbrokers ' shops . I come now to another , and more extensive species of thieving- About this time I became acquainted with Joseph TattershalJ , a weaver , about twenty-one years of age ; Hichard Slater , aged about twenty-four years ; Thomas Fenwick , a shuttle-maker , about nineteen years old ; James Wells , a weaver , about twenty-nx years old ; Geo . Hartley , alias , Bacco Hartley , a weaver , about

      twenty-four years old , and John Gillett , a weaver , about thirty years old ; and I mean to say that there cannot be found living Hpon the face of the earth a more desperate set of meo than the persons I have just named . They were a select gang to themselves when I joined them , and were also so when I was apprehended , and were then in full force and activity . The first robber / which I recollect to have been committed by them , after I first joined thorn , was upon & gentleman who had beea putting op at the White Bear Inn , ( the head inn , ) Barnsley . We , followed him by design , seeing that he was drunk , and we overtook him at the top of the Old Milllane , in Barnsley . It was on Saturday sight tbe

      3 d of October last . They knocked him down and robbed him of near £ 40 . We had seen him get change for some notes ai » grocer ' s shop in the town . He was much hurt and was obliged to be taken to the inn by some persons who saw him on the ground . I did not touch the gentleman myself , though 1 was with the party and helped to rob him . Bacco Hartley knocked him down with » heavy piece of W » od . It was quite dark ; he fell at once as if he was shot ; he hit him with all his force on the head . After w * had got the money , we all went to a public house , kept by Michael Teenny ; I tio not recollect the name or sign of the house , but we there shared the money equally among us . This house is much frequented by thieves of the very wont and most no-orions description . In fact , it was our headquarters and the head-quarters of the several gangs of

      thieves in Barnslej and tbe neighbourhood . The landlord will admit any kind of oompany , however bad , and will receive stolen property of any description . We spent most of our time there . He had many dancings in the house , which were always attended by giriB of the town and the very worst of characters like ourselves . I would advise parents not to allow their children to go to this , or to many other houses which I shall uention in the course of my narrative . The very best and most innocent girls will look in for change or a message , and , when pressed , will take a taste from one and a taste from another , and very often will remain there all night , and be ruined , and never care for father or mother again ; and they are denied when their parents think them long out , and come te look after them .

      There was no reward offered for tho apprehension of the persons that robbed the gentleman of whom I have just spoken from the White Bear , and who , we afterwards heard , imagined had lost his money . I was allowed an equal share of all plunder with them , because I had allowed them , on an occasion just before the robbery I have mentioned , to ha * e a gh&rs with me in a robbery I had committed by myself at Doncaster Races . The robbery was effected by myself upon a gentleman in the street at Doncaster . In a crowd I picked his pocket of a pocketbook , containing £ 34 . I did not know him ; nor wad I aware he had any money about him . It was all chance work .

      I also robbed a gentleman on the same day , on th ' e race-course , of a pocket-book and a memorandum book . The pocket-book had in it £ 57 , in £ 5 notes and sovereigns . I did not know who he was ; I did the act just at the moment the horsea were passing as in the race , which is considered an excellent opportunity , by thieves , for picking pockets . It was a part of this money that I allowed to each of the gang when I met them after at Michael Teenuy ' s public-house , so that they all agreed that I had a moral right to share in the plunder of the gentleman from the White Bear . ( To be continued ia our nod . )

      The Northern Stait. Saturday, April 24, 1841.

      THE NORTHERN STAit . SATURDAY , APRIL 24 , 1841 .

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      THE NEW MOVE . " Save me from my Meeds . " In another part the 8 tar will be found a long and interesting letter from Mr . O'Coshor , in which he calls , * nd we think justly and fairly , for an expression- of public opinion as to the " new aove . " We last week showed that it was deficient in the principal ingredient , " Universal Suffrage . " Mr . O'Connor says it escaped as , that it was also deficient in equalization of representation ; while it appears to have escaped him , that it is also deficient in the mode of election ;—that of self-nomination being substituted for " the Ballot . " " Save ns from our friends . "

      We last week put a " kiek in the gallop" of tb « project by Bkowing Daniel ' s delight and co-operation . We have this week to notiee the fact of the whole Whig " Establishment" being in extaeies at the project . They Bay it is just the thing— " the one thing needful f just the " Chartism for the times we live in ; " each and every one of our ootemporaries , if they will allow ns the familiarity , unhesitatingly declaring the object of the ** new move" to be to get rid" ef Feaxgus O'Connor . Before we begin to lay a- few extracts before our readers from the "damniag praise" of the WLig papers , jast one word .

      Our readers will recollect that when commenting upon Dan ' s plan of haviag " a body sitting in London , directirg tbe country , and SATUBATix&tbe land with tracts , " be said that funds , —ample funds , — would be subscribed ; an * ,, in commenting npon his scheme as propounded in a letter to tbe defunct Fox and Goose Club , m to » k the liberty of saying , " Aye , faith , there would be no lack of foods to support such an Association ; the secret-saarvioe fund would bleed freely . " Now , then , heai what tho Morning Chronicle s » y-s , wiih reference tothe "new move" : —

      "We see hot wst a . portiok OS tbb PUBLIC GRANT FOB EDUCATIONAL FITRP 38 ES SHOULD SOT FLOW T 0 WAUB 5 THK PROPOSED SCHOOLS ,. AS SOO * AS THEY ARK . LS ACTUAL OPERaTlON . " A word only will be required upon the above .. Js the object to carry the Charter 1 If so , is a Whi £ Goyernment very likely to give " gnuits of money' ' to effect an object * to frustrate which , cost thorn , mil - lions of money and loss of character ?' One extract might be sufficient , out the Sun , ¦ the Greenacre ChrcauU , the Special ** , the Exami ner ^ and all , all , even Mother Goose , are ia xtob g delight with the project .

      We shall give Gsobgb H . Wak ^ M J ?" . f Or Sheffield , a distinct notice upon the- Babj&efei t , ^ i \ 6 ) Bg there is but a step between the- ridicaiouf and sublime , having commenced with tie Ckr&uel , we shall finish with Mother Goose . In a cohaan for the curious , writim' in that most carious joarnal . by Mr . Hiisu Sr iNsrELn , and hith ? rto aodestly placed i * inner i , rm [ a ^ d 0 \ preparatory school tor begiaaere , } r find the following laudation of our frieads' t or ^ project . Stansfkld sayB " . —

      ** Brr thb Chartism * or tqv ™ this Address IS 0 » A KlTO WITH WHICH t HOJfEST MAN Ca > VJAMtEL , AJTD THE yiAil *» COMMKNDKD FOR OB TAINIKG Vt 1 OGHT C 0 MXA > D T aB APPR 0 BAT 10 K OF SlB Robert Pskl hiksew . Now we ask if any plan . ( though it were fasting and praying , ) which w * sf , t all calculated to carry the Charter wouldbe » iallli > , eiy to receive the approbation of the TamworthBarv uet 1 No , no . They onlj object to " physical force / - \^ j t 8 h 0 uld frighten something oat of the old women ; and if fasting and prayiag were eal / dated to frighten more , or ev « n as mueh , they woo ' id equally object to that .

      The Sptcw . or and Extmtner write in general terms of apr . roval of the new project ; indeed it is quite to their taste ; but they pass u mere wadding in the political world . In f * st , it is nothing more or less thaa a new mode ef canvassing for support for Mechanic ' s Institute * , and the Brougham system of making one portion of tbe Working class disgusted " with all below them ; and thus effect , for another while , by an aristocracy of labourers , by galling contrast , what has been hitherto effected by taxation and the caunon .

      However , people who work sixteen hours a day from the age of nine to about thirty-five , when they are thrown into a bastile as unfit for use , have very little relish for any protracted course of study or " education , " though it were certain in one hundred and twenty years to gain the Charter / or them .

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      In fact , " ignorance , " " ignorance , " ignorance , has been the cry aa long as we can remember , and long before we were born ; and would , if knowledge were an electoral test , be a cry with the powerful few , who may well cry "ignorance , " so long as a people are ignorant enough to let them live upon iheir very heart ' s blood . But we waste time , as the will of the country , whieh we this day record upon the foolish attempt , pats the extinguisher for ever upon all hope of a wise people being gulled by ignorant coxcombs .

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      THE NOTTINGHAM ELECTION . Of a verity the Whigs are like the fastidious soldier ; hit them high , or hit them low , we cannot please them . In the unreforaed times , when even Biilt Pin looked npon public opinion as » requisite in the ministerial stock , Parliaments were dissolved upon question ^ , not npon the relative value of persons npon a fanciful arithmetical sum made of a candidate ' s whole creed and life . Thus , for or against the Malt Tax , the Emancipation Bill , the Dissenters' Relief Bill , or any other Bill npon which the Minister did not find himself quite secure . Thus were the labours of electors narrowed to the mere expression of opinion upon the one question at issue .

      But now , alas ! dissolution being a thing never dreamed of , so long as the old crew can hang together , every single contest becomes a matter of wholesale canvass ; and whoever tells most I es and swears hardest to them , baa the best cnance , provided he has s Lord of the Bedchamber at his back with the " needful . " In speaking of the Nottingham election , the Chronicle Bays that Lord John Russell has nothing to apprehend from u the eloquence ot Mr . WvlLTEB " upon the question of the Poor LawB ; and the Whig press is outrageous at the starved-off of Nottingham making the vulgar question of food , raiment , and liberty , any part or parcel ot an election contest .

      Now , it is quite clear that" guoad" Mr . Walth *' s eloquence , Lord John would have nothing to fear ; but the fact of Mr . Walter being returned , jusi now , " pendente lite" upon suc& a question as opposition to the New Poor Law , wosld speak in dumb eloquence to the Noble Lord , a language of which he would comprehend the full value . It would be far more significant than my Lord JBvbleigh ' s nod , &ad especially to a brother Minister of the Noble Lord ' s , Sir Johjt C . Hobhodse , the ether Member for Nottingham , and to whom it woold be a very significant notice to quit , —or to have his traps , at all events , ready for a start vpon the next rent day .

      Now , we look upon the question of the Poor Laws as next in importance to * ur Charter ; not that we expect any , the slightest , mitigation from the return of Mr . Walter , or from a whole Tory House . But it being the very worst of the many very bad Whig measures , and this being the time for renewing the contract , we do , without cant , look upon the present opportunity , taken in all > its bearings , as a Divine interposition of Providence , to afford the people of Nottingham ( so riotous and t urious for "Reform , " ) an opportunity of testifying sorrow for their ignorance and repentance for their rormer reliance upon Whig tricksters , by which they were induced to have recourse to the torch for the destruction of property .

      We take it , that if the Poor Law was a just reward for what the people of Nottingham did to promote ** Reform , " that the return of Mr . Wamkb , just now , will be a fair reward for tho Poor Law . But let us come to the point . A merchant of the name of Travers con&slts with a grocer of the same of SwiTHiff , both of tbe city of London , as to the most fit and proper person to represent the poor weavers of Nottingham- These fellowB Bay , " 0 ! T . P . G . Y . H . L . Z . Larpewt , the French merchant ,

      and Chairman of a whole parcel of Boards- and Banks , is just the man to cook the weavers' dishf bo let ua consign him to the starve-guta at Nottingham , maiked 'To be kept dxy , and this side up , '" " He is just the man , " says the Sun . Well , down comes this worthy to » Mr . Close and others , _ aad they countersign the consignment , and they put-the right side up , "Repeal of tbe Corn Laws and-tho Ballot . " About St . Mary ' s Church , and the Boor Laws , and all those trifles , he is silent , but toUl think of them .

      Now , then , pitching , men over boanl and coming to a consideration of measures , what , let us ask Are the " Puaquk" ju&tnow endeavouring t o accomplish 1 is it not to make a reptal ef the C orn LawA the only test upon a > dissolution— " the c ne thing needful , " as tho " Young Liar" has it ? On this question , howefer , the French cook , Monsieur Froggy ,. and his opponent are upon a perfect « qnality .: aa WiLiia ia for a repeal of the

      Con . Laws ; but the people think 'ithat a repeal of the New Poor Law is more necessary than a . repeal of the Corn Laws ; and , th . nfore , w : thout re&rence to tbe rival men , they make measures their con-Bidwauon ; and they say , •* what do you want 1 If a Corn Law repealer , you ean have him . ia the person , of a Boor Law cepeakr . ' * But n » ,, as your wealth depends upou wir . poverty , you would prefer naiihf r to Doth .

      Na' « r we like to be plain , and let us taka a fair namp lo for a plain argument . WALTE&jmd Eastmop /; then ,. are proprietors of the leading Journals of t ) leir respective parties . East hope caAla himself . lib ? ral and Walisr . illuaeraL Now , the repeal of the Corn Law * is to be tbe next test ef liberality , an-d Waatkh , as will as EASTHuPE , is na to the mark tbere ; and thea " WxistR is bejoud Easihopk in h ' oeraiity upon the real question of cheap food , tho rtspeaiof tho New Pv » or Law . But . why mince tho "master ! The Sim , auu the Whigs coll all opposition 10 'Wfligsb s tb . eChaitJsif . au "uuholy . alliance between Chartists and Tories . " We ask , eould an alliance bornore uaholy than with a bloody faction , who have consigned tho b-tt . friends of the people to penal settlements , to felons' dunjieous , and to death I

      Ag * iu , DAN aud his niyrniidons have told the Chartists that they are noone , uo party , and havenopower ; but as SwjiKT tells the Tories to their faces ,, we hold the balance of power ; and how can we show that power so fff-jctualy as by beating the enemy most imtnediatelv iu our way , because in offioe ! If the Cha tists had a dkui of their ewn , and if it was a general eiec'iou , then their duty would be to siaud ny thtir own inuii ; but here they must use their weight &a ili « balance of power , aud instead of beiu ^ loiter mwlo tool- of , they must now make a tool of Walter to beat ihe W . cgs .

      The Sun ? ays , ' * Mr . b- > m »> ouy was recommended ; but we don ' t want a Gwr niment hack . " Why , what is evtrv W ., ig in tat House but a hack , bo long as the Tories joiu \ hi Whigs in all their destructive mea-nrcs , and th « cry of " keep the Tories out'' brings all ihe Kadical tail to tho aid of the Whigs , upon the slight-eat chance of defeat , no matter what the question is 2 Messrs . Wu ^ TtuEiD atid Sweet havo put the tbiug upon its proper footix ;*; . They Bay , ** let them call this cea iiion what ttiey please ; we have no dread of the Poor Law for ourselves , but we have witnessed its bisEtsng ^ CV-cts upon our less fortunate neighbours , and aa we hu ]< i our votes in trust for them , for THEIR best friend tr . ey shall begiyen . "

      We look upon tho resul . of the Nottingham election as of the last importance to the Radical e * u » e . The return of Lakpknt , the French Cook will add a joint to tie oppressor ' s tail ; while the return of Waltrr must , as a matter of course imafeh the knov and bre ^ k up the old bundle of ratten twigs . They oughi noc to hold office ; they ought not to proceed wi . h the Poor Law Amendment Bill , and they -will ki ; ow now to value Chartist power , if their man is packed up a ^ ain and sent back to " Tkaveks and &tsithin , " labelled " This side up , " "Poor Law Ajuskmiekt Act . "

      If the opponent of thic ; Bill ie > now returned , and while a dissolution is p ^ udiug , how many votes will it convert upon ihe retnaioing portion , and when bringing up the Report ! It ia all-important .

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      Nothing can be more silly than the Whig chatter of Chartist leaders being hired by the Tories , and for this reason : —The Whigs bat prove popular hatred against themselves , because , though nothing averse to paj Chartist leaders , they cannot get one ; for it would be a dangerous experiment to advocate Whig principles upon a public hustings . The hatred to Whigs and Whiggery has became awful and deadly . Unite , indeed 1 Perhaps Mrs . Fbost , Mrs . Clayton , or Mrs . Pbddie , may feel inclined to unite with the Whigs I

      Now , one word a » to the justice . Suppose , then , a contest for Nottingham to lie between Sir Robbrt Imolis , the greatest Tory in England , and Fkahgus O'Conwob ; and suppose Eastbopb , or Mubdo Younq , to have the casting vote ; for whom would they rote f For Iwqlis , without * moment's hesitation . Then , inasmuch as Whigs hate Chartists more than they hate Tories , why may not Chartists pay them off in kind ! However , we have only to say that we highly approve of our friends' determination : and we should be cowardly were we to

      await the result and then give our opinion according to that result ; so we go in the boat with Whitehzad and Sweet and pur jolly Chartist crew , and say " down with the Whig . " Give Fbogot a touch of your training to take back to tbe city . Ask him about the £ 70 , 000 for horses and £ 30 , 006 for knowledge . " Ask him about Frost , and Clayton , and the Charier , and Peel ' s Bill of 1819 ; and ram the six point * down his ears . "Go the whole hog , " and when you go about it , do it like men , at once , without being afraid of being taken to task by the encmf .

      This to a great God-send for our eause . The Chartists shovld all poll early , to show that they poll for the principle and not for the man ; aad mind give it to Froggy well , about poor Loncle * and the House that Jack bwlt , and all the rest of it . This is the first real opportuafty the men ot Nottingham have had since the Reform Bill ; and we say , go it Chartists . Mind yo * pack Larpent up , labelled this side up . " " New Poor Law . " Indeed ^ if you bave any time , you shwdd have a coffin carried through the town , with tie Poor Law Amendment Act on it , ; and marked " This- side up . " 1 There is one ewemastance which cannot be te *

      ' forcibly impressed- upon the minds of the Chartist * ft is this : —Havl&g embarked in the project , thty must now " go- i » , over , or through f neither turning to the right-hand nor to the left ; braving everything , and afraid of nothing ; but least of ail ff the paper pellets and seaseless anathemas of friends East « opb and Mubdo-Swung , Traveiis , Swimm , and tbe sugar baker , android clothes" ( Close ) * f Nottiughan , who most insolently presume to be better judges'of popular feeling and popular opinion at

      Nottingham , and what and who- weuld best represent it * than Whitehkad s&dSwarc ^ two men ofgreat natura ] understanding , unblemished character , and w « il known tnnd-heartedness , wh » feel for their neighbours aa&for their country . Bet them beat the Fretvefi cook , an J leave the aombes to ua ! They must take especial care the * . Mr . Returning Officer plays no trick at the neauaation . They must have their own fugleman , dressed in their owtv colours ; and they must divide , if any unfair plag ia attempted .

      Above all , go with theirr man , fearless , and * nothing daunted I Go with him , not as Walter ,, but as an emblem of English hatred to starvation ,, transportation , incarceration , and every thing thai is base . This is the met important election that has taken place msee the Reform Bill . Blinks' it for a peri » d as they may , the real question to be decided is , "Bastile , or liberty ; " " starvation , or plenty ? "house , or no house f " England , or transportation ; " " virtuous poverty , no viee ; or vice preferable to virtue . " These are the questions at issevbetween the people aud their oppressors .

      Chartists ! give the " base , brutal , and bloody " rascals a slight touch ot that " power" which they keep eternally telling you " yoaJiav-e not got ; " just let them feet it ! Go at them- like Britons ! Never mind old Beggarman , or the - "' Establishment" 1 Mind your homes ! your familiw 1 and your wives ! and down with ihe Whigs ! !!

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      THE CONVENTION . Ws this week publish a Hat' of the several delegates nominated to the Convention , to meet on th& 3 rd of May . If any have escaped our observation , we meat urgently press-upon our friends the absolute necessity of forwarding the names , under corer , to Mr . A . Heywood , 60 , . OJdham-street , Manchester , for th » Exeoutive , by the first post , in ordes that the businass may be oomplBtod . It will bo the duty , then ,, of the Executive td tranamit , at oace . to each localUf which has returned a delegate , the list of the tea . chosen at a public , meeting by ballot , and also- to forward a list to our offioe .

      It will than be the duty of oar London friends to agree for a convenient , commodious , and respectable place of mesting , so that not an bout ' s delay will take place when the delegates arrive . When the treasurer is appointed , Mr . O'Connoo will transoit to him the funds for the payment of the delegates , and place * of meeting ; an d * as Glasgow has nobly resolved upon paying , its own delegate , we respectfully submit the propriety of paying the three London delegates £ 1 per week each , which will be thse £ 3 Bpared by Glasgow paying , its own . Thiss is for the delegates to > decide upon .

      This is a work which eannot be omitted * and no time must be lost . Ejrery locality that has elected a delegate must ba prepared with means to send him to London on Saturday next , Kay 1 st , if chosen . We have already noticed the following as nominated : —M'Douall , Pitkethly , Cullam , Deegan . Collins ; Woodward , Brighton ; DoTer , Norwich ; Skevington , Loughborough ; Smart , Leicester ; Marsden , Boltons Williams , Wales ; Arthur , Carlisle ^ Gillet , Sheffield ; Sweet , Nottingham ; Martin , Birmingham , for Restoration Committee .

      Any of those elected , who cannot attend , will have the goodnesB to advise the Executive , at once , of that fact ; and any whoso names have been this week omitted by us will also advise the Executive . In balloting , of course the Executive will put in the name of each candidate as many times as he has been nominated by different localities . Never , perhaps , was there a more propitious movement than the present for our representatives to meet . We shall expect a fair and full expression of opinion upon all questions interesting to our cause ; while their effect , and the effect of the National Petition , must be a sickener , for those who hugged themselves into the hope that Chartism was dead . It is now going to rise from the tomb with a giant ' s strength . Let the petitions be signed by every one in the kingdom .

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      GEORGE HENRY WARD AND THE NEW

      MOVE . This uncommon booby , who will thrust his bead into everything , has written a parcel of stuff upou the " new move . " He writes about what he knows nothing . He says that " Fbaugus O'Connor is furioas , because Lovbtt , Collins , and Vincent discountenance the hew Convention ; " the fact being that Collins hai sought the honour of being one of the members , and , we think , indecently sought it .

      But poor Geobge has a parcel of stuff about a man with one leg , aad a man with two legs ; but he has not said a word abont the man with two legs and twojarma not being able to fill one belly . He hints , as usnal , about a bit of political economy , and then says he will say nothing more upon that subject , but takes us to task for not saying what the Charter would do . Now , our principal charge against Reformers is for having told the people what Reform would do , and that Reform has not done one of the promised i things . We hold it that nothing could be more

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      despotic than laying down rules for the government of an enfranchised body not yet in existence . Whatever Universal Suffrage does , it will do with the concurrence of the majority . That ' s all we have a right to expect . Bui our reason for giving Gkobqb Hemrt Wabd a separate notice is this : he is chief " knowledge" monger ; ' he says he will giro the people a vote when they are qualified by " education , " and that being bis test , it becomes our duty to oomparo his practice with his preaching , in order that we may judge of his sincerity . We take it , then , .. that reading his Chronicle ia a good preparatory "

      education , " at least so GitoBatr Hewry Wabd must admit . We next take it that a tax upon "knowledge' ' is the way to prevent its spread . We next take the last Stamp Returns , and find that the Chronicle is paying well at 4 Jd . We then take the Chronicle at 5 d . airtlwe find that , Geobob Henbt Wabd , Esq . principal" kuowledge" -monger ^ has taxed his scholars to the small sum . of £ 41 13 * . 4 d . per week , or more than £ 20 # 0 per annum , or to the amount of one-fifteenth of the whole sum proposed for " educating" the whole people ; or ia other words , taking a leaf out of the Chancellor of the Exchequer ' s book , he has laid an increase of ten per cent , on hi » lights ; We think that will do for our friend !

      While be is clamouring for " knowledge , " as attest of electoral fitness , he has fobbed £ 2 , 0 * 0 a year by oon-electoral ignorance ; no , by electoral ignorance , for we doubt the peop > reading his jargon ^ . How different with the Chartists . Maguire , the spy asks the Secretary of the Golden Lane Association for a Northern Star , and he offers 4 % d . No , says the Secretary , th « y are sent to us for circulation by our English brother Chartists ; w& will only tske one penny to defray expenses . How different that , from our friend ' s practice 2

      In fact , the whole press » mad about the sew Conventi&a ; and the Exammer takes the metropolitan Chartists to task for not returning more gentlemanly men than Njxbsoh , Wall , and Boain * , and also states the proposal for a > new Convention to he a failure . Foot , poor Examiner ; one half of th& sum for its eapencos was lodged by return of , post , and the Convention meets on the 3 rd of May under your nose , aad fast in time for tb » "tuque , " who are about assembling at the same tone . Will they meet our menV- We give them tb # Examiner-and Chronicle staff ie back them . Our poor old croakers are all dead fteaten . " Keep the Tories out" has lost its charm . What next !

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      IRISH PRQGRBSSi DAN IN A QJJANDARY . All things are going gloriously o&-m Ireland ; every post brings us bcw intelligence / , aad every ¦ ew batch of intelEgene ? is store inspiriting than the last . The seed of Chartism , sown upon- a soil bo fruitful , cannot fail to * bri « g forth plentifully ; and it ia d « ing so to the nig * diaoMftfiture of the &wh-traitor and bis dupes and myrmidons . Ife » uisin fits , and--knows not what t » do ; the ghost- of Chartism hsonte his day dreams , and disturbs his nightly eltmben . He now repents bitterly , © r seems todoeof thai he attacked thmn . He isioo « td a general not * 9 < kMW that by so doing he has netessarily caused ^ man ? to in quire ; aad the

      villaim knows enough of maa ' s disposition to receive the troth upon inquiry } t » know that all investigafspo , instituted by Irishmen , int * the principles of Chartism , their connexion with repeal , and-with the interests oE ^ tbe-lrish people , must lead t « comparisons between tbeso unchanged and unobaogeaMe principles , sad' tke ever-flittia §* iortuousnes » of his eareezv- j coasistent only in being perfectly inconsistent ; which , oomparisou could-end only disastrously for him * . Hence , at a meeting of his staff » u Tuesday week ,, the old Pox takes another tikk out of his bag , and seeks to " gaaamon the flate- " by affecting new to > treat the Chartists with contempt . The Batf « tt < VindicMtor tha » reports

      itt"Mr Hubert M'GuiRStsatd that he had made it bia-dnty to go to Golden-lane on Saturday evening-Jast , and had saoceeded in procuring s » me informatioa relative . to the Chartists wty > mat then . The first cla « be aad proeiued to their discovery was one of the cards dated " Bublin , 1841 , " aid- beatimtc the Bignata-ru of two secretaries . He ( Mb M'Goire ) had afterwards succeeded in making out their , principal man or leader —( hear )—who resides ia OoWenMane , and who gave him . ( Mr . M'Guire ) a copy ofcthe Northern Star fooone

      penny . He ( Mr . M'GuireJ ^ offoied fall price for th « paper , bat , it was refused ,. tl » gentleman to whomiJie oflfered it eaying that be goVit gratis himself . He had promise * to attend their-meeting next Sunday , . bat ** ij sine * - heard that they , had merged into a trade society—( . hear )—and bad' branches in tbe liberty , Jatnes'statreet , Mary ' s Abbey , and elsewhere . It might or might not be pmdent bis doing so , bat he { Mr . Mi ^ hiire ) had resolved opon attending the nteetisg . on Sunday next , and gaining as much additional informati « B as possible .

      "Mr . O'Connell—IfrwouW be much betterrfor Mr M'Guire nofe to nwsddla with these persons at alL They had deceived and deluded him . wiih most unpardonable lies ., iodeed , so contemptible are theso men , that to take any notice of them would be merely to raise them to % fictitious importance .. These fellows are really too contemptible . I implore of yon not to believe one word they say—( a laugh ) . Ii know their abift well ; they fewacy that we will make them : suJbjecU for discussion here , and hope that , tttey . will thus- be protruded into , notiee . For my part * . L will never say a word more about them . "

      Weaskonlyof every , one of Dan ' s dupas to placfr this affectation of ccokapt alongside the- earnest ** - n « es of his long ,, laboured , and Ijing addwgs to the operatives of l ^ ewry , inserted elsewhere ^ and we know then that they will feel his position as eettainly aa he himselSfeelB it . Dam ha » become « ooscious that his end , draws nigh ; he ia- dead b « ateu , andfeelait ; nor does he feel it th » -less keealy , as wegues 8 , from not being able , with all his affected indifference , to prevent other people from seeing it . Thus , an Irish paper , which , it will be seen , has Bmall love for the " liberator , " commenting upon this meeting , e&ys : —

      " Feargus , we prophecy , will be able to attend a meeting ac the Corn-Exchange yet , and beard his persecutor even in that saactuary of bis ill-gained power . Sa terrified ia the Agvtator at the prospect —which , we admit , is anything but an agreeable one—that , notwithstanding his resolution to allow the Chartists to sink into insignificance by never minding them , he could not repress the anxiety of hiai * mind at Lusk , where , adverting agaia to these objects of his apprehension , he eagerly impressed upon the people the direful cousequenceB of fraternising with men who dare to say what they want without equivocation or evasion . "

      Yes ,. the time is coming when Ireland shall open her eyes , and the film of interested humbug shall fall from them . The battle of truth against fraud was never seen to more advantage than in thiB conflict between O'Cosnell and O'Connor , Do but contrast the maans at the disposal of the parties . Oue having at his back nearly fifty pliant M , P . ' s the whole press of tho empire , Whig and Tory the whole of tho old machinery for humbugging Ireland , Repeal rent , hia liberty , aud an undertaking of non-interference from the Viceroy , and the Attorney-General . Tbe other has his pen , and is in solitary confinement . See , then , the power of truth over falsehood—the advantage of principle over scheming !

      Further on , at the same meeting , the "five hundred thousand fighting men" miscreant , substituting tho wordm " physical force" for Chartism , says : — _ " If the doctrine of physical force were introduced into Ireland , he would abandon the agitation of Repeal . ( Hear ) This , Mr . Fe * rKu » O'Connor and the Chartists knew , and they , therefore , preached tlur d * otnne to defeat hit purpo * M . He could not understand the nan unless he was in the pay of the enemy- ( hear , hear ) -and this idea was greatly abroad m England . " . Let all eyea be now kept upon Ireland .

      We subjoin the following few lines from the Waterford correspondent of the World , in order to show the blighting effect whioh "hope deferred " and humbug has had upon the very best town in Ireland ; he says : — "This city is as politically inactive as if aredress of the evils , under winch the country was said to labour had be ^ a effected ; aud you would at this moment hear as little uttered about Ropeal , the collection of the fund . &o ., as if Daniel O Connell , or Thomas Reynolds , had never been amongst us . " ,

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      3 d much for the Big Beggarman , who says that O'Conjtob being in the pay of the enemy , is a ramonr gaining ground in England . He is hr the pay of the enemy ; but it is of the enemy to the obstruction of freedom , liberty , and the Charter . He , no doubt ifi much in Dan ' s way , but we are glad to find thai Dan is about to be removed out of his way . Just let any man of unprejudiced mind review tha manner in which O'Connob has stood np against and battled , thiB tyrant , from the hour he entered the House of Commons , in 1153 , to the present moment ; without acting like the tyrant ' s weaker foes , who always gave him a triumph by going over to the enemy in disgust ; but O'Connob has held to his every grinciple and to hia country , and has beaten him fairly and consistently . _

      We intimated , before the Session commenced , what the upshot of "Repeal" would be . Da it has announced his intention of giving it up if Chartisaj succeeds . Aa further evidence that the power of Dan is fast failing , and his blarney losing its effect , we give the following , from the Dublin Monitor , in r eference to another and a later meeting of the " Royal LoyalB " :-M There was a jubilee yesterday at the Corn Exchange , in honour of a God-send from America to the empty coffers of Repeal . Three hundred

      pounds were received from the American Repealers and great waa the delight thereat . Thus the asso ' ciation is out of Mr . O'Connell ' s debt , and he stands in the position of debtor to it for a while . We undertake to predict , however , that before many weeks we shall have vouchers to prove that ti « above hundreds bave gone the way of all their pre * decessors—spent upon a fatuity . "We have not paid the proper attention to tbe last auditing of the Repeal accounts whioh the interesting nature of the subject required . We shall briefly do so now , and as toe document has the great Bern of brevity , we subjoia it ;—

      "We certify that we bave examined tbe accounts of Daniel O'Connell , £ 8 % , M . P ., as treasurer of the Loyal National Repeal Association ot Ireland , uptt this date , and we find tkat a earn of £ 72 18 s . Id . ha » been advanced by Mr . O * ebnnell beyond the sums lodge * in his bands , and that said sum of £ 72 18 a . id . ia now dme to him as such treamer . " Pated this 14 th Aprils 1841 . " Signed by the Auditors , *• Stephen Mubpbt , ( A v « ry eminent Soettr whose name dbnft appear among the Iicen » tiates or members of either the College of Physicians or Sorgeoni of Ireland . ) " John BEi * z . i . T ( TailoiV " Mabtin Ckban , ( Paid ; official of tke Cora Ex . change ) . " Thomas Abkins , ( Tailbr ) ,. •? Wm . Magennis , " ( Genirt .

      ""Thus it appeared , that on the authority of the above distinguiched ' anditora , ' the Association was in debt £ 72 18 s . Id . on the-14 th inst . But the re * ceipts from America have converted the debt into a credit for the time being . ""Would it not be more satisfactory to the poor people , whose farthings , and pence , and shillings find then ? way into the Repeal fnnda , if a detailed ao * cousiof the expenditure was submitted to them . Suppeae so other useful purpose was gained , surely it wotrid > be an amusing gratiikatwn to them to read over the varied items . -

      "It is quite clear that , as-far as the cash is concerned , Repeal in this country ? is at a discount . The Irish Repealers are not able to-keep their own treasury from bankruptcy ! If their warm-hearted and sympathising friends in England , Scotland , and AmerJeay did not aid them , there would not be a farthiag todivide among the bnagrjefficialsof Burghquay . . This , certainly , speaks well for the popularity of Repeal in Ireland , notwithstanding the great eloquence aud indefatigable * energies of its great apoBtley and' the sanctified accuracy' of the audited accounts to use the pious-phraseology of Tom Steele .

      " Miv GTConnell tells us that when he has £ 250 , 000 in his-treasury he will r « p «< tl ( the Union ; bat by what happy alchemy will he ba able to raise that sum ! Why , if all the repeal bartons in Tom Arkins- shop were to be counted : ae sovereigns , the treasujqr w » uld still be empty , owing to the perpetual drain apon it . " W * often wish the honest andiinAistrious men of Ireland , , wh » earn their monayiby the bard sweat of their b * ow , eould see the sleek , and solemnised complacency with which it is-squandered . among a parcel of idle officials , wh »* boo- and boo and ay keep fooi ' s ' , ' that 'thrift may . fellow famu ' Dg . ' Verily ? . Repeal is no delusion to . toem—it fills their pockets ; : and dolts indeed would they beif they did not m » ye heaven and earth to- keep the ball in motion

      (< But there will bean end trail this . The people are beginning to open thek < eyesv " Yes , yes ; , there will be an eud . to it , and the begin * ing of ' . thisTend is come l \ Th » glorious seed of Chartiam-is already shootingjorth tne bud of investigation ,, which shall terminate-i& the blossoming of satisfaction , and the full fruit of honesty .

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      THEi * NEW MOVE , " ITS PATRON , ANEh THE COUNTRY . Oc& paper is filled to-day with the expressed ' opinions of the country ea the "New Move . " We > ha * 8 rs « axcely anything bat recantations of tbe sia * pie and unsuspecting , who hane been hooked , bat are-bre * king from the anglers ( let theUettera of th « s * mea 6 e read—they are worth reading , ) aud resolve ttoas of condemnatiotti of . the whole project . If there be any bodies or individuals , appertaining to the Chartist ranks , who . have not yet studied * the "• New Move" in alL its bearings—its ojagm , its purport , and its tendency—we must beg : them to remember that its . ostensible and avowed object is

      the carrying of the > . Charter—the extending , a&d making sure and u&jrassai , of the principles of th » Charter ; to remember that this is / Ai object of the new move—the most ardently professed desiie of its concoctore and Buggorters ; we beg them , then , to read the address of Daniel 0 'Connju . u to the operatives of , Newiy , published in our tkird page , Ut note the ardenoj of Daniel ' s love for Chattism , and then , that there may be " no mistake" ' as to the real object of this * new move , " we prewat them once more with the declaration of the arch-traitor , the avowed enekx of Chartism , respecting it . He is privy to the whole scheme , and h&thus dilates upon its hatching and intended effect i—

      "He understood that there teas an Association about being formed , at ihe head of which were Messrs . Lovett , Collins , and dfave— three of as good men as were in the community ~ -having for its object HOUSEHOLD SUFFRAGE and SHORTENING THE DUBAtion of parliament , and PERFECTLY UNCONNECTED WITH FEARGUS and his wild associates ; and instead of impeding reform in England , this Association might be made exceedingly useful under proper management , and the guidance of tie men whose names he mentioned . " Need we insert further 1 Is any o ne so bli nd a » to be yet unable to discover the signs of the times .

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      Many correspondents must remain unnoticed until next week . Ebeatck . —In our last week ' s notices to corresmdents , W . O ., Nuneaton ; should have bee W . J . O . iNuneaton . _ . j EBaATUM .- / n Mr . O'Brien ' s fetter on the Soeua Power of the Middle Classes , $ c . which appears n the first page of last week ' s Star , a mtsprtra occurs in the . note , at the bottom of the first column

      For "' depreciation" of our currenq § , % e-, re ^ appreciation . Mr . OB . oj ' course , aUudet to Feei ' s BUI , which , by making vfoney tcaru raised Us value relatively to every other cm ** dily , and thereby virtually augmented the *<* tional" Debt , as well as all V ^^ . ^ jT . obligations incurred between 1797 ( W *'" : Bank slopped payment ) and 1819 ( the dale tf PeeVsBiU ) . j - Am Mb . Wm . Mabtin wishes his name inserted tn w Smut as a teetotaller ; but no fanatio or

      num-Bbightom .-Our Brighton friends vtW M ^ J letter of the Etecutiwe , that they ^ " / "K the duty * f balloting for the members to cons * tute the Petition Convention . A hardworking Chartist . —We havenot «*«¦ : _ Obawah BROja > Bnm . -We do not think thepubHed cation of his letter advisable . ' .,, - •// R . Blight .- We cannot publish his letter i ; Wg bear in mind the fact , and may use tt anowier time . a , ^ tro rlsm Henry Griffiths calls emphatically upon tM * ° ! . ing men of London to aid him in breaking turn the attempt made by Messrs . Sailer «»» ^ stop the tight of road which & . fl ^ always had across what is now called '«« ' ~ " ?'/ Fork , in Notting Vale . '¦ From the , * taU ^ ul his letter , which is too long for , mserl r !;! * think it a case in which the people «[« ** K assert their rights ; and we hepejhey w so .

      Sto Mtetoevg Aittr Cort?E*Pont»«W

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      4 THE NORTHERN STAR . . _ _! _ ^ _

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 24, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct546/page/4/