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    • IRE JN T O£,THEJ?.N STAR SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1842.
    • THE yOTING FOR THE NEW EXECUTIVE The voting for the new Executive Committee^ ia
    • ANOTHER VICTIM TO THE FELL MONSTER.
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      ^ 2 — ——— - SHEFFIELD . GBEAT PUBLIC MEETING IN PABADISE SQUARE . In the course of last week a requisition , respectably . Signed , was presented to the Master Cutler , requesting ftim to convene a meeting of the inhabitants of : Sheffield , for the purpose of remonttrsting -with the Hcu * e of Commons npon its rejection of the prayer of the National Petition , and for the purpose of memorializing the Queen to dissolve the Parliament , to dismiss ber prese-t Ministers , and to call to her councils men who 'will make tie People ' s Charter a ' cabinet measure . The Master Culler hBYing declined to call the meeting , the requisitionists proceeded to do so themselrsa . The meeting yas fixed for twelye o ' clock on Monday last , and some time before that hour some hundreds fead assembled in Paradise Sqnare . "

      Mr . . Bairstow had been inTited , and -was met at the railway station by a considerable body of the ¦ working men , ¦ with banners , &c , by "whom . he was loudly cheered ; in the mean time the Sqaare continued fl Jing , and by one o ' clock , &t which hour business commenced , one of the most numerous m&etings we have seen in Sheffield had assembled to give their sanction to the important documents left for the approval cf the people by the late Convention . On the motion of Mr . Harney , seconded by Mr . Clayton , Mi . John Kelly was called to the chair . Tbe Chairman read the placard calling the meeting , &nS after few observations called upon Mr . Hamey .

      Mr . Harney said he had great pleasure in appearing before so large a meeting to propose for adaption the remonstrance alluded to in the bills calling the meeting . ( Mr . H . here read the remonstrance , which it is unnecessary to insert ) . The remonstrance stated first , " that the people of this country were suffering destitution and misery to an extent almost hitherto nnknown . " Tiiis was now too notorious to be denied by Whig or Tory . The newspapers , day after day , week after week , gave the most harrowing accounts of the misery of the people throughout England , Ireland , and Scotland . Famine ¦ talked abroad , starvation howled its agonies , and black despair everspread the land . Though in Sheffield they had not as yet ixperienced distress to the same fearful extent the people of other districts had , still if

      » change came not speedily , the lot of the men of Leicester would assuredly be the lot of the people of Sheffield—( hear , hear ) . Hundreds upon hundreds were subsisting upon parish relief , and many a child cried for bread , and there was no one to administer to its wants . Strange it was , but yet most true , that while the middle classes were fast hastening to the same rain as had already overtaken the working classes , still they obstinately and "wickedly held aloof and would not join the people in their struggle for justice . A meeting of the Manchester shopkeepers had lately been held , at trhich meeting one and all had declared either that they vere already mined or were fast hastening to destruction ; and though the Sheffield shopocr&cy had not luade thin opsh confession , yet he knew that hundreds of them

      ¦ were in the same situation as the Manchester shopkeepers . Yet were they at that meeting ? Were there fifty in that meeting ? Wera there - twenty ? He doubted if there were ten—only ten , to save their order from the well merited infamy which \ ras attached to them , for their opposition to the juBt rights of the people ; though the present system was ruining them , still they would support the aristocracy against the people ( hear , hear . ) Did not this prove that much as they pretended to liberality of feniiment , that they , nevertheless , hated nothing so much as that the toiling classes should be placed on political equality with themselves—preferring the rule of the devil himself to the rule of the majority—the sovereign democracy ? ( cheers ) This remonstrance reminded the House of

      Commons that three times had the people petitioned that House , and three times their prayer had fceen insultingly rejected . Three millions and a half of the pesple of this country petitioned only for a hearing at the bar of the Houss , and not content with denying that which was prayed for , the Honourable Members must needs shower calumny , falsehood aad slander npen suea an immense body of their countrymen ; changing upon them that they meditated the destruction cf property , and the producing of a state of anarchy and spoliation . Such ¦ were the lying calumnies of Mr . Bob Macaul » y His " Honc-urable Friend , " as the gentlemen of the Westminster tax-trap would say , his Boneurabla Prisad , Mr . Bairstow , had just corrected him .

      it -was not Bob , but Tom Macaulay ; well , the meeting ¦ would excuse him . ?\ o wonder that he confounded names when there tcs so little difference between the liberal Tom Macsulsy and Sir sHdlng-seale slippery Bob , cf Tamworth- Of the two factions it might indeed bs said with strict truth and propriety , *' tan-ta-ra-ra rogues all "—( loud cheers . ) He indignantly denied that such were the objects contemplated by the people : on the contrary it "was the faducers of the people themselves who were the spoliators and plunderers—' , lond cheers . ) The fault of the ptople was not that they were prone to violence , or did not themselves respect the property of otbers ; no , their fault was that fchsy were cst sufficiently rea ^ y to pretest theaiselves fcom violenee , and thsir own property

      from the spaiistioa of the wealthy— , 'ckeers . ) The men who -voted for this remonstrance would pledge themselves to take such steps to remedy their condition as the present circumstances of the countrj required ; he trusted they would not idly pledge tbemselvei to this , but having dore bo would show their sincerity and prove their honesty by uniting under the fl . 1 5 of the National Charter Association , and thereby prove to the Government th 3 t the demand for tha Chatter wis not made by a few demagogues , but by a people irresistable in their numbers , mighty ia their nni 9 n , determined not to submit through future agea as they have done through past co the oppression of the few , and the tyranny of those who trampled alike upon the laws of nature and of nature ' s God .

      Mr . Edwin Gill seconded the adoption of the renios-Et ance—in so doing he c&uld not help stating his confiction that in all probability the fate of this _ remonstrance would be that of the national petition . " ( Hear . ) But knowing that this was the only meaas left of peacefully and constitutionally protesting against the tyranny of the Parliament , he took npon himself with pleasure the task of seconding it , believing that ii 3 adoption would tend to open the eyes of the people more and more to the villany of their rulers . No man eould have read the debates cf the present session without feeling the utmost disgast and contempt for the

      " honourable members '' as they wera called . Hardly one among them could , cr durst take the test proposed by Sir Buncombe , declaratory that ttey had not gained their seats by bribery and corruption . It was for the people to say ho"w much longer they "would allow themselves to be plundered and trampled npon by those their mis-representatives—he ardently hoped that those to ¦ whom ne had the honour to address himself , -would swell the ranks of organized Chartism , and thus render efficient aid to their brethren struggling for the establishment of the rights and liberties of all . ( Cheers . ) The remonstrance was then adopted unanimously .

      Mr . Parkes moved the adoptien of the memorial to the Queen . The last time he had had the honour of addressing the men of Sheffield he remembered that on that occasion they "were countenanced by the reporters of the Mercury , the Jridependent , and the Iris ; bat these gentlemen were nowhere to be seen in the present meeting . How "was this ? It was because the factions , for the doing of whose dirty work these quilldrivers "were employed , were opposed to the righteous claims ef the people—ihear , hear . ; Mr . Parkss then read the memorial , and having done so , observed—We live in most extraordinary times—times in -which ia seen excess of wealth and prodigality on the one hand , and excess of poverty and degradation on the other ; the former the lot of the idle few , the latter the fata of the toiling many . This anomaly can only be accounted for by the fact that the few have usurped all the power of the state , and by class legislation have built

      op their own aggrandisement on the ruin and misery of their fdlow-creatures— ( cheers ) . This memorial states that three times the people have petitioned for justiw , and each time their petitions have been treated with scom and contempt Now the-people wonld appeal to the monarch : he hoped , for the peace of Bociety and the happiness of all classes , that the appeal . would not be made in vain , though he confess&a he had little hooe of success in that quarter . If they were desirous of " remaining slaves—if they would not make an effort to redeem themselves and their children from bozdage , then let them vote against the memorial ; hut if tees "Would snap the galling links "which bound thtni , and annihilate for ever the odious distinction of tbe tyrasi few and the enslaved many , they would give theii support to the memorial , and tell the monarch thai it was justice they wanted , and justice they would hav < —( cheers ) .

      Mr . Ludlam , a veteran in the cause , seconded the j Memorial , which was adopted unarimously . The weather had been most unfavourable all the ] msndng , thongh during the proceedings , of the meet- \ ing the rain had hitherto kept off ,, but just before the ] Conclusion of Mr . We Parkes address , it began to j descend , and was falling heavy when the Chairman 1 introduced Mr . Bairstow , who was received with loud j and repeated cheers . 1 Mr . Bairstow said , that having travelled 'the whole of a sleepless night , having j ? st left the bedside of a ]

      sick "wife , and being not only much fatigued , but also j labouring under sore depression of spirits , he was sure 1 the meeting would not be so unreasonable as to expect 1 from him a lengthy speech npon the present occasion . Bating had the honour to ait in the lite Convention , and having had while in the metropolis the opportunity of hearing the debates in the House " of Commons npon the two most important motions . of the present , or indeed any past session , he could speak a little as to the conduct ; and arguments ef the " Honourable Members . " ( Hear , bear . ) The first cf these debates -was on Mr . Shannan Crawford ' s motion ; the

      second "was on the presentation of the great National Petition , o ; course it was in the latter debate he felt tits most interest . Upon the occasion of Mr . I > aucombe ' s motion , be attended to hear "what would bs the reasons that would be advanced for witkholding from the people their inalienable rights . And what did be bear ? Way , one Hancarabl Member declaring that the adoption of the principles of Chartism wonld be the prelude to one wido-spiead" scene of rapine , plunder , anarchy , bloodshed , and murder ; to which the bloodiest sad swat ires dcipotisn would

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      bo preferable . Another declared that the triumph of the principles of democracy could only lead to the destruction of civilization and the plunging of the country into a state of midnight barbarism and brutal savagery ; snch were the sapient arguments of the collective wisdom . But , vile thongh the calumnies of these men were , still they played an honest part compared with the part played by Bome cf the traitorous " shoyhoys" who professed to be the friends of the people ; from all such friends Gid save tie people—( loud cbeers ) . Of all the men who strove to damage the cause of the people , and to throw odium and discredit upon the principles and objects of the Chartist body , Roebuck was the won-t ; his conduct was foul and treacherons in the extreme . How dare he denounce tho authors of the National Petition as being " cowardly and malignant

      dema « ofue 3 ? " He was himself a cowardly and malignant fellow for makins such a charge , and then retreating from the responsibility of slandering his superiors —( cheers ) . All the arguments of Peel and RuBsell were drawn from the speech of Roebuck . It was such men as these that the people had good cause to stand most in dread of—hypocrites , who wore the cloak of patriotism only tha . undeT its folds they might conceal the poisoned dagger with which to assassinate liberty , the bright goddess of our adoration—( loud cheers ) . The rain for some time had been falling in torrents , yet the people stood it well ; at length himself wet to the skin , Mr . Bairstow gave the signal for retreating , and an adjournment to ibe Association room in Fig Tree-lane , took place . Here not a tithe of the meeting could gain admission : those who were first , speedily crammed the

      room . Mr . G . J . HaRSEY lectured oh Sunday evening , in the roem . Fig Trte-lane j the unpropitious stats of the weather preventing theholding of the out-door meetings announced in last Saturday ' s Star .

      Ire Jn T O£,Thej?.N Star Saturday, June 25, 1842.

      IRE JN O £ , THEJ ? . N STAR SATURDAY , JUNE 25 , 1842 .

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      STATE OF THE WORKING PEOPLE . NECESSITY FOR CAUTION AND PRUDENCE . Every "week adds to the horrible destitution endured by the producers of the nation ' s wealth Evidence of this meets the eye and ear at every turn . Whole districts are enduring the torments and horrors of hunger and starvation J The griptag system of taxation , with its concomitant , the unrestrained and unregulated use of machinery , have done their work ! The one has stripped the homestead of the labourer of the property he had ; the other has taken out of his hands the power of accumulatins more '

      To raise the £ 60 , 000 , 000 a-year , necessary for the maintenance of the hordes of pensioners , siaecurists , dead-weight men , and the salaried Officers of State ; necessary for the payment of the interest of the National Debt , and for tho keeping up of the army to force the taxes out of the people ; necessary to maintain an extravagant Court : to raise the £ 60 , 000 , 000 a-year , necessary for the support of these things , every means that earth and hell could device have been employed . The consequences have been , that property has been silently , but surely , transferred from one possessor to another ; that tho middling classes have been reduced to beggary ; and the labourers brought to starve all of a heap .

      To raise that £ 50 , 000 , 000 ( made , in . reality , by the alteration in the value of money , by Peel ' s Bill , £ 120 , 000 , 000 !) it was necessary that " tho resources" of the country ( a 3 they have it ) should be developed . Hence the immense introduction and employment of machinery ; hence the engendering , promulgation , and adoption of the suicidal principles of " free-trade" ; hence the cheapening of all articles of produce , and the glutting of the market , until prodace 13 a drug , and employment at an end . Hence the difficulty ; the confusion ; the distress ; the famine ; the deaths , for want of the necessaries of life !

      Here is the causs of it all ! The Government sicsT hats , if they continue the system , the £ 60 , 000 , 000 a year ( nominally , but £ 120 , 000 , 000 really ) . To have that £ 60 , 000 , 000 , without reducing the ttreDgth of the nation to beggary and wast , is as impossible as it 13 to have vegetation without light and warmth . The one is necessary to the other ! In struggling to get the amount the tax-gatherer lays his desolating paw oa every producer of wealth . Ho strips the cottage , pulls down the man-ion , empties the till , sweep 3 up the profits , and carries all into the lap of tlia debt-annuitant , the army-paymaster , the " steward of the household , " tbe pensioner , the placeman , and the dead-weight man !

      To expec : any other result than that which now presents itself as the consequence of these doings is to be criminally simple ! And yet when are these things to have an end Who amongst oar State doctjre dare prescribe the remedy ! "Who amongst them dare propose to reduce our expenditure to £ 4 , 000 , 000 per annum . ? Who amongst them dare propose to equitably adjust the Debt , disband the Army , burn the Pension List , chop down Royal expences , reduce the salaries , discontinue the half-pay , and remove the dead weight ? Who amongBt them all dare propose this ? Not one !! And what would be the use of any measures , unless these formed a part ! When man can alter the

      nature of water , and make it not to seek its level , then , but not till then , can we raise £ 120 , 000 , 000 a-year in taxation without producing want and starvation amongst the very producers of wealth ! Our Government requires the £ 60 , 000 , 000 a-year . To keep up the present system they cannot do with less ! They cannot afford a single million back again , even though it is asked for and needed merely to put a mouthful of the " coarsest kind of food" into the heads of starving tbonsand 3 ! Not a stiver can it spare ! Only SIX could be found in the whole House of Commons to voto for tho people having back again one-sixtieth part of the enormous sum wrung from their very entrails And yet the House "SYMPATHISES" with the sufferings of the industrious people . '

      Faugh ! How it stinks ! !! : What , then , are the people to do ! Are they to I lie down and die 1 Are they to quietly endure tho 1 gnawings of hunger , the pains of starvation , till ] death relieve them from their sufferings ? Are they to do this * NO ! a thousand times NO Perieh the thought ! and blistered be tho lips that I would give utterance to it in the way of advice ! J

      Englishmen quietly lie down , and die for want of food ! Perish England first ! . 'Englishmen quietly staire to < ieath J Sink her beneath the sea , first !! ENGLISHMEN die of hunger ! and that quietly too 1 Burn England up first ! Come plague ; come pestilence j come fire ; come sword ; come water ; come invasion ; como civil war : come all these things a thousand times o ' er ; but come not the day when ENGLISHMEN will quietly starve to death '

      What , then , are the people to do ? Break the law and commit outrages on person and property ! NO ! ¦ a thousand times NO . ' The law of England is , ! that no one shall staTve to death . That law makes ! provision , for the destitute . To that law let evkhy j destitute han APPEAL ! There isvhe Overseer ! : let every destitute man go to him , and ask for sup- ; por « . There are the Magistrates ! let every one ! who is refused relief by the Overseer apply to them . ; \ ] ' 1 j j

      If they have not power to grant relief , they have ! power to communicate with the Lord Laiutenanta of tbe counties ; and , through them , with the Queen . 1 If the Magistrates refuse to entertain the application , j go to tho Lord Leiutenant in person . Tell him of ! your snfferings , of yeur endurings , of your efforts to j obtain relief : and tell him to tell the Queen how ' you are circumstanced . Do all this , quietly 1 and orderly ; and THEN if relief 13 not afforded , SEEK OUT FOR FOOD ! « ! I J J ) ! 1 j 1 1

      Go to the Overseer in the first instance . He is appointed to relieve the destitute . He has the means I to do so ia his hands . If he refuses yon once , go j again , if your necessities continue . If you are without food on the Monday , and you apply to him , and he refuse to give you any , go to him again on the Tuesday . If he again , refuses , go to him on the Wednesday , should you still be without food . If he again refuse , go the next day : and so on , from day to day , till yon get relief . j I j

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      Go each man , and each woman for himself and herself ! No acting together ; no bluster ; no threats ; QUIET DETERMINATION . Eaoh one for himself ; and eaoh one state his own case , Eaoh one apply for relief to the Overseer personally Should thero be more there when you go , wait your turn . If he ia not at home , await his coming Should he refuse relief to one , do not let that be & refusal to you . The case refused may not be as bad as your own : at all events , the Overseer ought to

      know of your condition , if you are starving ! Take care that you let him know ! Do this quietly , orderly , peaceably , but determinedly , and let us see what will be the result ! But" no mob 3 ! " no great noises ! no acting in concert . Go each one for pood TO SAVE YOU FROM STARVATION J gO ask for it from the officer appointed by the law to give it you . Go ask him properly and rightly . Put it not in the power of any unfeeling monster to get rid of your application by trumping up a charge of conspiracy !

      Should the application , or applications , to the Overseer fail , go , each one , to the nearest Magistrate . Tell him , each and every one , separately , your case . Tell him what your sufferings and endHrings are . Tell him how often you have been to the Overseer . Teil him what answer you have received . Ask him for his assistance . Ask for his advice . If he say he cannot aid you , or that he has no power ; tell him that ho has a direct channel of communication open with the Queen , through her representative , and his superior , the Lord Lieutenant . Desire him to do his dnty , by forwarding to the Lord Lieutenant

      a statement of your case ; that you are starving for want of food ; that you have repeatedly applied to the Overseer , and cannot obtain relief ; that you have applied to the Justice of the Peace , and he has no power to aid you ; that it is right the Queen knew of your condition , that she may take the necessary step 3 to afford relief . Desire the Magistrate to do his duty by communicating these thiDga to his Lord Lieutenant ; and then it is Aw duty to communicate them to the Queen ueuself , in her otvn proper person , and not through the Secretary of Statf ..

      When these steps are taken , and still no relief afforded , get up a requisition to tho Mayor or Constable of your Borough or Township , to call a public meeting for the purpose of publicly addressing the Lord Lieutenant of the County . Shoald he call the meeting , well and good : should he refuse , let twenty inhabitant householders call it themselves . At tb . 8 meeting agree upon a Memorial to the Lord Lieutenant ; let it set

      forth the fact ? as they stand in your locality ; lot it set forth the efforts made , individually , to obtain relief ; let it call upon him to make tho condition of the Memorialists known to her Majesty ; l # ta deputation of shrewd , intelligent , discreet men be appointed to wait upon the Lord Lieutenant in person with such Memorial ; and let them communicate to an adjourned meeting the answer they receive !

      Now , this is a perfectly legal but iarffjctual way of bringing the sufferings of the starving poor into public notice ; and will assuredly compkl relief ! Should it not do so , —THEN seek out for food " Self-preservation is the first law of nature . " Preserve yourselves ! The law awards you relief take all legal means of getting what the law awards : if it be refused or withheld—SEEK OUT All the writers on jurisprudence hold that a man is not guilty of theft or larceny who takes food to keep himself from starving to death . Such

      has been held to be tho case by Grotius and Yvp-EENDOB . F ; and the only writers who have denied that that prinofple applies to Eagland , have done so on the ground that " by the law sufficient provision is made for the Buppty of the necessitous by collections for the poor and by the power of the civil magistrate . " If , therefore , there bo not " sufficient provistoji ; " or if " the power of the civil magistrate' ? be abrogated , thsn the law of nature returns in full force ; and a man , according to reason and to nature , is not guilty of theft or larcency who takes food to keep himself from pining to death !

      Again do we implore of tho peoples to db cautious and prudent ! Spies are abroad ! They will entrap , if not minded . Avoid All secret meetings all conspiracies ' . all plottings ! Every thing you say and do on such occasions is known to the magistracy and the Government ! Look at tho "little '' debate in the House of Lords on Tuesday night . Wellington could not give Kinnaird information respecting some places in North Lancashire , because that would defeat the ends of justice , as Government had information affecting individuals . Just so ! Wherever there are plottings , there are spies and all is known ! Whoever xs a party to a plot iu England , either to upset Government or to destroy

      property , is a ninny , or something far worse J Plotting always defeats itself ! It must , inevitably , do so . Every man , in such circumstances , is in every other man's power- The more there are of the plotters , tho greater is tho individual danger , and the probability of the success of the plot lessened . No man who has an act of that nature to perform is safe if he entrust even his thoughts to any one else . Avoid , then , all plottings ! Avoid all " secret meetings , " as they are called ; but which are not secret from the magistracy ! Avoid all breaches of law or order ; take all necessary legal stepB to bring your case before the public eye ; ground for youreelve 3 ample defence , should you have , at last , to go and take .

      Again , we say , beware of spies ! You may know them bj the recommendations they give . They will try to persuade you to givo battle to the soldiery ; and that you can beat them ! Never was there greater delusion ! Why should "we fight the soldiers ? What have the soldiers done ? Poor fellows ! thuy are the veriest slaves in existence ! A Eoldier ia better fed than a working man ; but he is , essentially , a slave ! Why , then should we fight him I In God's name , why 1 Working people ; whoever advises you to come into collision with the soldiery , / s an enemy that wishes for your destruoiion and is all to effect biiruuuuu ttuu 13 tuttus iv cueub

      ; taking proper means ; timing » u proper ; i it ! or a fool , whose counsels , if sincere , will not j the less surely bring you to destruction , if you trust j and act on them . Scout all such advisers from you , ! should they appear ! No ! no ! no fighting with the soldiers ! no firing-¦ upon them ; or firiDg by them upon the people ! No ' such firing as that ! It would be tho height of combined folly and treachery ! ! Again ire repeat , beware of spies . ' —they are 1 abroad ! They aro seeking blood ! Disappoint i them !

      ¦ MOST ABOMINABLE . Read the following nauseous and disgusting specimen of exuberant and bursting loyalty with which the trial of Francis was prefaced in the columns of the hot-bun ' " Sun : "— - '' Trial of John Francis for High Treason . —The occasion of the trial of this misguided , foolish young man , for shaoting with a pistol at our beloved Qu ? en , "whilst enjoying an innocent recreation in -which the meanest subject in the land ia privileged to indulge in safety when tbe labours of the day are o ' er , convocated at the Old Bailey to-day all those individuals , who , venerating our Queen , for her private and public virtues , for her feeling heart and the interest she takes in everything which relates to the welfare of her people , and which on no occasion she has omitted to manifest ,

      and being anxious to obtain a glimpse at the heartless miscreant who eould harbour a thought of ill against her who reigns predominant in the affection * of every loyal subject , could by interest or other means obtain admission to the Court . And when we saw the feeling of mingled SCORN and indignation exhibited by every person there against that man standing at the bar , wo regretted , though the Conrt was full , that its limits were net large enough to admit of more being present , that the prisoner and the world might know that the 1 detestation of his crime and him -was not confined to a ! few , but was general , nay , universal throughout the ; whole country . The arrangements for admission to-day ¦ appeared to be of an excellent order , and though the Court was nearly filled , it was at no time crowded to

      such inconvenient excess as on the oecasion of Good's triaL " There ' s a specimen of the loyalty of this great two-fisted adulator ! So ! mingled feelings of

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      " Boom and indignation" are those which possessed the minds of the Jury , who , among others , saw 11 that man standing at the bar , " and who ^ were called upon to judge dispassionately u pon the evidence adduced ! Verily this print has out-done itself- ^ -no easy task—in the art of ^ fulsome adulation ! Itis truly beastly and contemptible ! But while We learn that eyery loyal subject was ( ( anxious to obtain a glimpse of the heartless

      miscreant , " we learn also from the concluding unfortunate little three lines , that the company was not so numerous as that drawn together by the desire to see Daniel Good ! Verily , loyalty must be at a discount , when the Criminal Court cannot be filled upon so interesting an occasion as the trial of an ignorant youth who hoped to gain a livelihood by firing a bulletless pistol at the hind wheel of the Queen ' s carriage !

      The youth , however , for his indiscretion , has been sentenced . "The Court , " through the mouth of Chief Justice TIndal , has adjudged him "to be hanged by the neck till he be dead ; then to be beheaded ; and his body cut into four quarters , and disposed of as her Majesty shall direct" A savage inhuman sentence ! and a barbarous law that imposes it !!

      His life is to be forfeited ! The "Bloody old Times" has sounded the note Of blood ! It has been labouring hard to prepare the public mind for the awful and astounding fact , that a life is to be taken , as a warning to others not to attempt to shoot at the Queen ' s carriage Wheel I A youth is to be strangled and beheaded for high treason , because he fired a bulletless pistol in the direction of the Queen ' s carriage . ' And yet we are a Christian people ! and the Queen herself is " Head of the Church , under Christ" !!!

      Query . —If we hanff , behead , and quarter young Fbancib for shooting at the Queen ' s carriage wheel with a pistol , in which there is no evidence to prove there was a bullet , and from which shooting neither the Queen , her carriage , nor any of her attendants , nor any mortal breathing , sustained any , the slightest , injury ; what should we have done to him had he shot a bullet through , the Queen ' s head \

      Talk not to us of " the Queen's magnanimity" If ehe permit the iife of Francis to be taken for this Bhooting-at-hcr-carriage-affiur , the bloody deed will . stick to her name through life , and blot her escutcheon in death ! If she allow him to be hanged and quartered , she may '' dispose" of his cut-up body as she may please , even to the servingupof the joints at her own table , without adding to the horror and detestation which the act of strangulation will excite amongst " her'' people !

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      Poor Holbebry is gone ! He has escaped the ruffian fang of class despotism through the deathly portal . Another is added to the long catalogue of Wnig-mado widows , whoso occupation it must be to weep over the ashes of the dead ; and surely another and a powerful incentive is afforded to his brethren to call forth all the energies and exercise all the determined perseveranoe of men , who have resolved that the system which originates these horrid blotches on the escutcheon of humanity shall be annihilated .

      On Tuesday morning a letter was received at this office , informing U 3 that an order for his liberation , on finding satisfactory bail for five years , had been received from the Home Secretary ; and stating that the York Chartists wero unablo to , furnish the amount required , being all poor working men . They requited that Mr . O'Connor might be informed of the matter , and their letter was accordingly forwarded to that gentleman . In the

      meantime , that uo delay might take place , arrangements wore instantly made for tendering the bail of Messrs . Hill and Hobion to the acceptance of the York Magistratea . Mr . II 9 B 30 N was at Huddcrsfield , but returned that night , and 5 so and Mr . Hill were iiiteading to go off together to York next morning ; when a second letter arrived apprising us that death had already put in all the bail that could be now given ! The poor fellow had expired about half-past four o ' clock on Tuesday morning .

      The letter of the Charti 3 t 8 of York was simply sent , without comment or observation , to Mr . O'Con . nor , from whom , on Thursday morning—as early as it could be—the following was addressed to Mr . IIobson : — , . ¦ ¦ ' « Denham Cottage , June 22 nd , 1842 . " My dbar HonsoN , —Nothing would give me greater pleasure or ao us more service , than if you and Ardill would proceed at once to York , and give bail for poor Holberry ; and let this undertaking upon my part be your guarantee .

      • ' ! do hereby undertake to hold J . Hobson and John Ardill harmless from any injury , damage , or pecuniary demand which may be made upon them , if they become security for Holberry ' a keeping the peace , and that I wilt pay all such sums , costs ,: and legal expences as his violation of the bond shall entail upou them , " Feargus O'Connor . " This may serve to shew his disconsolate widow that what his friends the Chartists could do for him , all were alike prompt and ready to do . But it is done , poor fellow ! All is over , and he has escaped . And we fear that even now thousands of honest , good , virtuous Englishmen are almost ready to envy the condition of the cold lump of clay which once was the athletic form of James Holberry !

      The York Chartists bestirred themselves briskly and promptly ; they procured the attendanca of an attorney and surgeon at the inquest , which was held that night , and of which tho verdict was— " Died by the visitation of God , and we are of opinion that the deceased has had every attention paid to him . " The inquest lasted four hours . Our reporter went off by the next train after the news reached us , to collect all the necessary information on the spot . Ho did not return till next day ( Thursday ) , which is our publishing day ; and as the report is likely to be long , we

      have no alternatiyo but to resorve it for our next number ; having neither space to give it nor time to get it up for this number . Meantime , wo think it right to state , that at a meeting of the Association held immediately after the close of the inquest , a vote of thanks was moved and . parried unanimously , to George Leema . n , 'Esq ; , solicitor , for his generous conduct in attending gratuitously at the Coroner ' s investigation on behalf of the Chartists of York . This gentleman , from all that we can learn , bag acquitted himself so as to descrvo the esteem of all good man .

      The Chartists of York also acquitted thpmselves like men on the melancholy occasion ; they did all that man could do to have the last remains of the victim conveyed to thoir resting place in a creditable manner . A handsome coffin was furnished out of their slender resources , and by their own exertions . And , on Wednesday evening , after being consigned to the cave of friends who had arrived from Sheffield for the purpose , the corpse was removed to the latter place for interment , a number of Chartists accompanying it out of the city .

      Entreating our fellow Chartists to regard the manes of poor Holberry as calling loudly for appeasement , and for the prostration of the accursed system of misrule to which and by which he has been sacrificed , we take leave of the melancholy Bubject for the present week , to return to it next week in full . :

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      THE NEW EXECUTIVE . From a return and address inserted in another column , it will be seen that the New Executive have been appointed ; and that they assume their official duties ( immediately . T . 0 give eSect to their labours , it is necessary they should have support . Without means , their hands are tied . With means , they aro in a position to take advantage of every opportunity that offers itself to forward and etrengthea the Chartist movement . ¦ ¦ ¦ '¦ Look at what has been effected by the late Executive ; and remember that they bftTe , all

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      alongj been crippled for w » nt of supplies . Judge from what has been done , what thera might have been , had the necessary funds been at command ! The Chartist publio have to say whether this state of things is to continue or not . Unless the Executive be piaoed in a position to act , it ia . folly , te appoint them , and worse than folly to expect service from / them when appointed . ^ Without means , nothing can be done . ,

      The present , we tkink , a good opportunity of placing the matter before all concerned . The accession to office of the New Exccuxive ought to be seized upon , and the necessary steps taken to place in their hands that which will enable them to go to work at once . If they are crippled at starting , they will feel the disheartening effects through all the

      race « ¦ . - . ^ ¦ : •¦ - ¦ ¦ . : - .. On Wednesday last , a gentleman called at our effice ; a middle-class man , but one of the very best friends to the cause of Chartism that we know ; one whose purse is ever ready , and whose money is constantly given , to advance the " ultra" movement . In the course of a conversation had with Mr . Hobson on the present position and prospects of Chartism , he proposed , as the b ? st means of induotzng tho New Executive into office ,

      A NATIONAL TRIBUTE , to enable its members to adopt decisive measures to advance the cause of tha People's Charter ; and he further proposed to head it with his subscription , adding that if more was wanted , he was ready . In three minutes a list was prepared , and the following sums set down ;— - £ . b . d . A . Londsdale , Manchester ...... 1 1 0 William Hill .... .. 2 2 0 Joshua Hobson ... 1 10 John Ardill 1 10 ^

      Now then , Chartists , what say you ? Will you " go and dp likewise" in accordance with yonr respective means ? Let the next Northern Star that we publish shew the sum total on the list swelled to a considerable amount . Let every one do his besL There are our middleclass friends ; those of that class whom we know to be our friends j let them be waited upon' by the proper officers in every locality . Proper attention and exertion in this respect , will do much towards the end in view . One hundred friends subscribing £ 1 Is . each—and surely that number can be found —will give the Executive one hundred guineas at once .

      To work , then , Chartists I Let every locality fix for itself & certain sy , m , and take the neoessary steps to raise it . Let this be a sacred duty . The Executive have been chosen by the people to perform the people's work : the people are bound tu accord them support ! This is a good opportunity , too , of testing in some degree the value of general middle-class sympathy ! They pretend to be converts to Chartism , and to wish to aid in the dissemination of Chartist principles . TRY THEM ! Heie is an opportunity of their employing some portion of their wealth to a good purpose ; a righteous Chartist purpose . See that they miss it not ! Wait on them ; present them with the subscription list ; a 3 k them for their contribution ; and—r ——• take what you can get !

      To work , then , every one J ¦ We hope for a good list next week . Those of our monied friends who read this , and are anxious to aid the good work , will do well to send their contributions to our publisher , direct . He has offered to become treasurer for this fund . They need not stay till they are waited upon ; but send at once . Let us see , then , what can be done !

      The Yoting For The New Executive The Voting For The New Executive Committee^ Ia

      THE yOTING FOR THE NEW EXECUTIVE The voting for the new Executive Committee ^ ia

      They would drive put Bunch valuable matterTrom the Star \ and we have had already to put out much that we would gladly have had in . Oar friends must therefore excuse the enameratipnj instead of the insertion , of their several testimonies , as frankly borne , a 3 yre hope they have been honestly deserved . We thask them all . We preserve the resolutions for future reference , ' » f need be 4 and Bhall go on our way taking ¦ ' ¦ fresh heart of courage , " from their recorded sentiments , to battle with all enemies , avowed or concealed , in full fearlessness of honesty . V t ^

      The same causes which have shnt oat the resolutions above referred to , must also plead pur excuse to Robert Knapton , John Douglas , Edward Brad * lev , A . CAv , IsHngtonj "¦ : William Douglas , Hadcliffa Colliery , W ; S ., L . T . Clancey , Thos . Gibbon , Ponty Rhyn , and a great number of M Cosstant Readers , " who have added their individual testimony to the general voice ; All breathe the Bame spirit ; all speak the same language ; all tell ns that we have not miscalculated in supposing the great body of the Chartist pubiip able to estimate fully and fairly the public acts of public men .

      over ; and a tabular statement of the places froaj which votes have been received , and of the number of votes , in each place , for each candidate , has been handed to us by the General Secretary . We cannot publish the document as we received it , for this reason : there are not half enough of figures in our office to " set '' it . We are compelled therefore to content ourselves with giving merely the names of the respective candidates , and the total number of votes for each . They are as follows : — P . M . Brophy ... 1656 W . D . Taylor ... 784

      J . Leach ... ... 10830 M . Williams ... 4410 J . Campbell ... 97 J 2 R ; Ridley ... 833 P . M . M'Douall ... 11221 W . Jones ... 1072 C . Doyle ... ... 1239 J . Fussell ... 82 T . Cooper ... ... 2454 J . W . Parker ... 231 J . H . R . Bairstow 4611 J , Mason ... ... 860 J . West ... ... 1537 G . White .... ... 979 R . K . Philp ... 2656 B . M'Cartney ... 165 W . Beesly ... 1725 W . V . Jackson ... 1005 E . Stallwood ... 299 R . Marsden ... 941 J . Skevington . ... 445 ; E . Clayton ... 250 It will be seen , therefore , that the election has fallen upon Messrs . M'Douall , Leaoh , Campbell

      Morgan , and Bairstow . ' The following was sent by Mr . Campbell , to follow the tabular statement above referred to : — •' It will be Been that 205 places have voted , and 1 h these places , in many instances , not one half of the members have polled . The following places are enrolled in the association , but have not returned their votes , Llanidloes Howden Liveraedge Shelton Matket Weighton Holywell Midgley Hazle Grove Morley Ipswich Newport , Monmouthshire Kondal Wellington Lancaster Nuneaton . Longton

      Opeh « haw Sha-w Penzince Halshaw Moor Preston youths Chatham Redruth Maltoa Rotherham Koaresbro ' Southampton Bipon Stockton Oakharapton SlttiHgbourne Totness Sunderland Shaftesbury Skipton Poity Gio " Spilaby North Shields Stanningley Winchcomb Siroudwater Gainsborough Sheernes 3 Ouseburn Sheffield youths Hatherne Truro Bradford , Wilts

      Tunatall Chalford Vintner Alfreton W p rttey Newark Wingate Grange Colliery Hucknall Torkard Warwick Beverley Wigan Heckmondwike Warminster Doficaster Silsden Hatters , London Wednesbury Manchester Fustian Cutters Wigton Do . Blacksmiths Wolverhampton Dawgreen West Auckland Birstal Birkenhead LUtlehorough . Tonbridge Middleton Matlock Neytown , Montgomery-Bonsall shire

      Wimalow Birmingham Shoemakers Pontypool Hucknall-under-Huth-Aberdare waite Abergavenny Heanor Almondbury Donholme Banbury Wilsden Bury St . Edmund'B West Ardsley BaCBp East Ardsley Bacnstaple Northampton Bhoem&kera Bristol youths Peierlow Bristol trades Pittsford B / ackburne Yoxhall Bath Oaken Gates Bmton-on-Trent Oadley .

      Boston Beeston . Bridport Burslem Brideford Sodom Berry Braw Ettinshall Lane Kidderminster Diyentry Kingston Thurmaston Chowbent Wigston Congleton Whitney Gantttbury Brcseley Cambridge Cleckheaton Cardiff Sheltoo .

      Cwydon Prlnc 8 s'End Camborne WillenbaU C <> ckermouth Brockmore Coalbrook Dale O 3 sett Chickenley Bulwell Compstall Bridge Selby Darlaaton Swinton Ereter Tipton Failsworth Overton Greenwich Great Gun Gloucester Anstey Hunslet ' Great Glenn .

      " Brother Dbmocrats , —I send you a list of the places that have not polled fei the Executive . There are upwards of twenty other localities in London that have not voted ; and as I have had to write down the towns that have not Voted from memory alone it may happen that there are some few may be inserted a second time ; however , on the whole , I think the list is neariy correct . There are some "placss , the names el which I could not call to mind . " There are now upwards of four hundred localities

      enrolled in our Association , varied in the number of its members in each place , from a dozin to two thousand So much for past exertions—now for the future . We must , if possible , redouble pur exertions to extend our Association ; and here i would wish respectfully to impress on the minda of the Chartists to read careSally over a letter inserted in the Star of the 28 th of May , signed F . on Propagandism . Let the new Executive be emppwered to send agitators into districts . where our principles have not as yet found footing .

      " The result of the poll Ja now before yen , and for my part I feel proud \) f the confidence reposed inme by my brother Chartists ; and I hope , by pursuing the same nndeviating course for the future , as I nave done for the past , still to merit the confidence which : must ba gratifying to every good Chattibt . '? ' ¦ I am authorised to call the new Executive together on Monday , the 4 th day of July next , to meat at Mr . Leach ' s , at ten o ' clock in . the forenoon . . - ¦ .. ' " I remaia , ;¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦" . ¦ . " .. . ' ; " Your brother democrat , " John CAMPBEiL , Secretary . 'Hawoith , June 2 l 3 t , 1842 . *^ " P . S . The towns' names which have not voted bara been written at Hawbrth . "

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      Brief Roles por the Goveknmenx of all wh » write for this Paper : — 1 . Write legibly . Make as few erasures and interline *" tiona as possible . In writing names of persons and places be more particular than uaua ! to make eetsi letter distinct and clear—also in nsinr words not ¦¦ ¦ .. English . - ¦; ' : . . : / : ¦ . ¦; - . ¦ . / - ¦ ; . 2 . Writeonly on one side of the paper . 3 . Employ no abbreviations whatever , bnt write <«' every-word in full . ' * .,- Address all communications intended for publici tion to the «• Editor" j all other commnnicationJ--such as orders , remittances of jmoney , * . c : —to . 0 Pablisher , " Mr . J . Hobson ; ' all remittances w money to any of t * s public funds for -whioh books are kept here , to Mr . ArdilL Mnch uQneceessry

      trouble often arises to xa from a want of , pf .. eision in attending to these things . Never »>* np these different matters in the sama sheet Always prefer to Bend an enclosnrs , 01 eten * separata letter . Much confusion < ftan occurs , ana many articles of news get overlooked , becw « of their being ' written on the : same diee * as Qontains the order of an Agent , wW * goes into the Publishing Oifiay and ^ liable , iii the hurry of the fcuiineas , to be ( o 1 * gotten instead of being sent up to the Editor-So again orders have been sometimes neg lected because of their being written on the back » naws paragraphs , which being sent to the 5 *** hare been by him " put infeand , " witnoutJeBJeab « ti&g to ttanaotibi tbe order , AU ti » ea « tf 0 w *

      Another Victim To The Fell Monster.

      ANOTHER VICTIM TO THE FELL MONSTER .

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      THE NORTHERN STAR AND THE " DENUNCIATORS " The universality and unanimity of opinion expressed by the whole people from one end of the kingdom to the other upon this subject , is not less gratifying to us than valuable as evidence of the pooples ' s capability of judging and estimating men-3 actions by the only just Btandard—that of truth and reason . It was stated in our last that the deliberations of the London Delegate Meeting upon this matter were adjourned , at the instance of Doctor M'Douall , We attach to the decision of this meeting , given under such circumstances ,

      no small importance . The delegates are picked men ; picked for their intelligence aad honesty , from all the localities of the Metropolis ; they had had the advantage of a week ' s deliberatiou and thought upon the subject ; they had had the benefit of all the Doctor ' s statements and arguments ; they had had the opportunity of consulting with and receiving the instructions of their constituents ; they may , therefore , with the most perfect propriety , be said to have represented all the Chartists of the Metropolis , and their opinion to be the opinion of London . We refer , therefore , with some pleasure to the following accoHnt . given by our reporter of the meeting : —

      " Mr . Ferguson moved the . following resolution , whioh had been proposed at the preceding meeting : — 'That this meeting havsfull confidence in Mr . Hill , the Editor of the Northern Star , and will support him so long as they find him acting justly in support of the people ' s rights , and that this meeting look upon all those who try to destroy the < SVar , or its proprietor , in the manner that some have lately done , without first making a direct charge , and proving the same to be trse , as enemies to the people , and the cause of freedom ; as men who haveentered our ranks from a love of vain glory and the enemy's

      gold ! that , therefore , this meeting are determined to suppportthe Star , its Editor , ( Mr . Hill ) and . proprietor , ( Mr . O ' Connor ) , so long as they do justly to the people and the cause of freeddm . Mr . Ferguson ably supported this resolution and stated that he had seen nothing during the week to induce him to withdraw it . Mr . Caffay ably seconded the resolution Messrs . Christopher , Wheeler , Drake , Goulding , Longwith , and others spoke in favour of the resolutioa , and complained of the Executive mixing themselves up with the quarrels of Mr . Philp , and commentod strongly upon the words of Dr . M'Douall

      at the preceding meeting , in stating that they would send no more documents for insertion to the Northern Star . Mr , Fussell moved as an amendment ' That the Secretary correspond with the Secretary of the Executive , for the purpose of ascertaining the steps they have taken in bringing the subject of the Northern Star before the General Council of the National Charter Association and the public' Mr . Fussell stated that at the previous : meeting Doctor M'Douall had stated that the Executive intended to call three Conferences—one at

      Manchester , one at Birmingham , and one at London . He thought that this would be the best plan to adopt . He had perFeot confidence in Mr . Hill and the Star , but he thought the Conforences would do much good . If the Executive would not call these Conferences , the General Council could . Mr . Ridley seconded the amendment . For the amendment three bauds were hold up , and the whole of meeting , including the mo » er and seconder of the amendment , for the original vote of confidence in Mr . Hill and tfle Star . "

      Votes and assuranees of confidence , equally strongly and satisfactorily worded , have been received from Derby , from the Bristol Chartist Youths ,, from AsHTON-UNDEH-LvNE , from Aebroath , from Leith , from the Clock-House Locality , London , from Heckmondwike and LivEnSEDas , from Hanlexv UpRER-HANLEY , and Smallthorne in the Potteries , from the Trade Society of Shoemakers , meeting at the Cannon Coffee-house , Old-Street , London , from the Camberwell and Walworth Chartists , from the Chartists of Davy Hulms , from the Chartists of Stalybridqe , of Qldhak , of- Ply-MODTH , ( sent last week but received too late ) of Newcastle-cpoK-Tyne , passed at a great public

      meeting , after a week ' s notice , and sent for onr last , but received too late ; from Keighley , from Wads worth , from Yeovil , from BrimscombV" frbm Stroud , from Calyerton , from Chester , from LAMBETH ^ fodis Chelsea , from the Cur op London , from SotitHAMPTdN , from Tonbridoe , from Woodhouse , near Leeds ; from HoRTON , near Bradford , from FiNSBuay ; from the Buok ' s Head , Bethnal GflKEN ; from Newport , Isle 0 ? Wight s from St . PANCRASjand frbm several other places . R . esolutiona of a different charaoter have been received from Clitherob , and from the ecore of Chartists at WoiTON-yNDEREDQEjthe parties whom Mr . O'Bb ^ bw represented at the Stuxga Conference . ' It is impossiblti to devote the necessary space " to the insertioa of all these resolutions ia ( uil .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 25, 1842, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct604/page/4/