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    • BELPER.—On Monday night last, Mr. West delivered his second lecture of his series, "on the • 1. . '¦¦»¦ • *»¦ "• i « : - • ir 1 ¦ . i ' '¦¦ *•'• ¦- . ¦ .-.,.
    • 1HE NORTHERN bTAR SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1842.
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      HEWCASTMB . —A delegate meeting for the County of Northumberland and adjacent districts Of Durham was bald in the Chartists' Hall , Newcastle , OH Sunday l&St ; Mr . John Hebden , of Ousebtrn , presided . Bix . Sinclair w . is appointed secretary pro ten .. The Secretary took down the names of the delegates , and read several letters from districts at a distance , which could not be present bj delegation , wherein each declared their willingness t © co-operate in the proceedings of that d&y . The Several places » i which Mr . O'Connor is K > leorare daring hia week ' B visit were then agreed on , and a lengthy discussion took plaoe respecting sending a delegate to Manchester , which ended in a negative , on account ef the Tast expenee which would be necessarily incurred . Mr . Sinclair read a letter ,

      which he had receiTed in a parcel of Chartist Cireviars , from the Hunt ' s Monument Commuted" in Manchester , containing a copy of the Committee ' s address , whereupon the whole of the delegates present were furnished with copies of the address , and pledged themselves to do what they could for that truly laudable object Mr . S . received 2 a . from L . L . J . H . G . S . for that fund , together with several other contributions for theBame . Some other local Business was transacted , and the meeting adjourned . IONDON . —RlSISGScK , OxyOHl > -SrHSET , STEPNBT . —Mr . J . Campbell lectured here oh Sunday evening , in his usual effective and brilliant style . Mr . Parker filled the chair , and also addressed the meeting at some length . Sixteen members were esrelled .

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      TO THE SHAKSPEREAN BRIGADE OF " LEICESTER CHARTISTS . Manchester , Musden ' s Temperance Hotel , ' Wednesday morning , Aug . IT , 1843 . 3 IT bhaVb CouitipES , —I left you on Toetaay afternoon , the 9 th xnstxat , ami between that date sad the present , one of the meat important periods In the . fclstory of tire working-men of thi »; country Bas commenced . Of the . -widely-extended strike for labour " * wages , which has been pretty generally eocTerted into a stand for the Chart « r , yon will be already aware , by the daily and weekly papers ^ Whether that ¦ widelyspread Tfesclre have entered into your minds and hearts . at the time I am writing this , I feel some anxiety to learn . But 1 must hasten to rehearse some of tht passages of my diversified experience since the Jay I left you

      -1 had a good meeting at Birmingham ,, in the Hall of Science , ( a rery commodious building belonging to the Socialists ) on tfes Taesdsy evening . I found George White to be what 1 had long heard biia reported to be —ft sound-hearted , { borough-going democrat J enrolled twenty-Fonr " at the close of the meeting . I had long and very interesting conversations ' . he next day with White , and Earned / much from him respecting tie progress of the mcrreiaent in an 4 around Sinning-, ham , and the causeswny in Birmingham Itstlf , tfaisga for some time looked less satisfactory than . could b « wished . At sight { Wednesday ) we had a good meeting out of doors , near the Railway Station , notwithstanding a beayy rain .

      Oa Tnnrsday began a-series of excitements , such as bad hitherto been a stranger to . I was set down at twelve at noon , bythe omnibus , at Wedneabnry . ( called Wedgebnryty the natives , ; in toe midst of 30 ODQool-Hers on strike for wages . They formed one of the noblest eights I erer witnessed . Linney , O'Neil . Pearson , and others addressed them ; conclusive resolutions , binding the -whole assembly to desist altogether from l&botsi until their / ast demands were complied with , were put and carried unanimously and yt ^ H "" Entail'y * I then briefly addreued this immense gathering of laboort sons ; a Tast assemblage of human eyas , all raised in expectant intelligence—brave -bosoms thrown open to the son and sir , and stalwart arms and stout bands held up with instantaneous heartiness , the very moment that I put it to them whether they would all adopt the People ' s Charter . I shall not lose the impression m&de upon me by the v , ew of that meeting as long ss I live . I proceeded in Linney ' s company to

      BOston . For two mortal hoars I addressed the f aTourito brigade—the " body guard" ef on ? bra * e chief , y « = ar « rw , in the evening . Taere ware about * , 008 present on a piece of ground formed like an amphitheatre , where they sat in fixed earnestness receiving my plain remarks , apparently as enthusiastic at the close , as at the beginning . The Tiew of the massive hands of those brave colliers raised in approral of the Gharter , convinced me in a twinkling of O'Connors shrewdness in selecting the " black , brigade af Bilston Chartists" as his " body guards . " God help the poor fellow that provokes a blow from the shonMer-of-mutton fist of a Bilston collier ! We enrolled fifty members at the dosa of the Bilston meeting . Ltnaey assured me that Hie ¦ whole region was rife with Casitism -. this honest , independent , and brave man has been indefatigable in his labours among this bold and simpl&heartod people : there is not a ™* ti in the whole movement who , in " my judgment , deserves more highly the praise and confidence of his brother Cnaxtists than Joseph Xaoavy . -

      On Friday morning , the 13 th , I walked on to Wol-Yerhampton , and addressed another meeting of the hardy toilers of the " black diamonds "—the whole district , for many miles , having entirely ceased labour , and nothing being more easy than to get an out-door meeting of thousands npon thousands at this time of excitement : tbsWoWeTbaraptancoUiers . like the assemblage I had previously addresed , held up their mighty hands with one accord , and instantly , whan I asked them if Uu > T wouW pxr > nnA 8 the caaae of the Charter . In the afternoon , I got on by railway to Stafford . I found matters in a somewhat critical condition" in this Tory-ridden borough . Mason , and bis - companions in tribulation , are confined in the gaol here : one bandied and fifty eollters had been also lodged in it within the week—troop 3 of soldiers had" been marched

      into the tows—additional rooms were being built to the gaol—cannon , it was said , was to be planted upon the extreme towns—and everything looked so threatening , that whes the friend * hare took a bill to the printer , announcing my lecture , he did not dare to print it . Great fears were entertained that I would be apprehended if I dared to stand up in the Marketplace , that night . However , when seven o ' clock had struck , there I was—mounted on a famous long bench , procured by the friends . The super intendent or police then took his station close fey ray right elbow , the Tory gentry and ladies threw up their windows to listen and hear the rebel Chartist commit himself , a&d to see him pounced upon and borne away in the dirty daws of the raw lobsters . But no ! I shewed how excellent it was to have a

      " Sweet liitle saver-voiced lady , " And pay our million and a quarter yearly to support herself and her establishment . I demonstrated that loyal Chartists knew the land would be mined if the Civil List were cot kept up ? and that working men would all weep their eyes sore if Adelaide were to be bereft of her £ 100 , 000 a-year . I denounced any ragged shoemaker ( Stafford , lite Northampton , yon know , my brave Sbakspeareans , is a famous sheemaking town , ) as a stupid fellow if he dared to talk about his aged grandmother being in a bastile and vegetating on skilly , wbilethe 3 > owager had three palaees to live in . -The satire completely blunted the talons of the blue-bottle ; hia hard face relaxed , his teeth separated , and at length be grinned outright , while the host of shopmates burst into laughter .

      Well—what was to be done 1 . I could not be taken up for treasoa , fot my words were ultra-loyal , with a witness ! Three villanous red-ceats , standing in the crowd , soon solved the difficulty : they looked on and listened till they were laughed out of countenance , and then turned their attention to a couple of Italians who had just brought their music into the Sqnare . Determined on making a disturbance , one of the Ted-coats at first cosxad , and thsn dragged one of the foreigners among the crowd , and strove earnestly to incite the masiciaa to " grind .- Perceiving the scoundrel ' s intention I called on the policeman to witness it ; bat saw , from bis looks , that be would not budge one inch to put down the annoyance , wfeile he would gladly seise me as th « primary cause of disturbance . I therefore siid , * I am . willing to go to prison for speaking troth ; let the chief polietmaa take

      ¦ me , if ha will , for ageateing troth ,- but 1 -wiH not be imprisoned for a dirty row . ' Allyon wfco are of opinion that we adjourn to the Common , where w » can hold a meeting without disturbance , bold up your , hands . " The adjournment was" carried , and I dinaoonted in a moment , and off we went , the people following ns . I commence * » nT > y-ng " Spread the Charter ; " the bold Crispins eaught the strain , and . oar procession to the Common was soon swelled by thousands . We had a good meeting ; sod when it was well-nigh dark , started again for the town , singing Spread the Charter . " The police were passed , and looked aghast at this novelty The gaol was reached , the soldiers turned out guard , and thought the crowd had come to make an attack ; but fairly laughed-when they ieard the singing . 23 iree cbeers ware given for po « r Mason , close tmder his cell , in spite of tht bayonets , and the multitude dispersed .

      That night will be a memorable one with the Stafford Crispins ; and I trust they will not neglect to annoy their enemies with ammunition so easily mustered and ao pleasantly expended as a little threat musk . " Well rally aivwnd him , " I should have said , be-« sme a tavourite ai the places I nave already passed , as well B * 8 taffv »« L ¦ Let me jurt say , en leaving Stafford , that Peplow , Hunnible , » n £ other fins young fellows , are growing up there , who will soon be able to act an important part - fa thejatfveaaiW

      -Tha £ arth £ * 1 went , my beloved oomradas , the more thickly I-found excitement kindling . I reached the Potteries on Sunday afternoon , aad found a spirit I «* B y was not prejsired for . Labear had ceased there , sJ * o among ttje *» ffien ; and flow , the w « ol * Uon not U > Zooow I foBHd , was taJdng a decided tea : a 2 were nttstoumrttyio ** ' * # * *** 9 ™ ° * **?*/ & for 0 * rights tfMobffKTittK *^* * fr * e « t Ws had maeangs % \ Xeatoata&Vu&Su&r on fiw * maay afternoon , Aug . 14 th . and at aiAt I prescbed frma " Th * u shalt do no

      ¦ mrder , - on the large-area called tbft " Crown-bank , " at Hanley . Tketimew « s-rery exeitini , and I gave notice that i -ironld address the o » iaei » on strike , on Uu same spot , the next moniing , si eight o ' clock . A large assembly appeared at that time ; the resolution that all wrong men vast latour till the Charter become the fcnr «^^ Z a ^ , wMpntaaa 4 s « ao » dadbyworlringmftn , aad eairiepd jtriuBiphaDUy , and after a few hearty aad sensible words from old daddy Bieharis ( whose hesat , fiodbleas Ubn ! i « « s aonod as an aoozs in the people's eiusej tbe m * efen « ^ ispmasd , with tb « inttst , on titepiit

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      of the colliera , to ask all the workers at the eartben-• spare factories , < Stc , to leave theh- laboar . I regained in Hanley daring the day ; saw the shops closed , and all the town become as lifeless as on a Banday forenoon-, heard of the multitude doing queer things in the town , and also at Stoke , Penton , and Lane-end ; but sate none of them . The soldiers , nearly dropping with fatigue , I saw pass through the town , in the afternoon , pursuing something which , it seemed , they could not catch ; but nothingalarmlBg ever came before my own eyes .

      I met the peeple again at six at night . The Square was crowded ; I should say there were 29 , 000 people there ; several of the gentry , fee ., in conversational knots , being on the verge of the crowd . I protested against the insobriety I saw in the persons of a few , — proclaimed the illegality at destroying property , &c ; hut exhorted the peopie to hold by their rightful resolves , and to held by them , too , till they had their rights . I frit sure I might be prevented getting out at the Potteries , if I did not make an effort to get away privately , and as I was bound to attend the Manchester Conference , in quality of delegate from the excited district I was leaving , as well as being your representative , my darling boys , —why I set out on foot , with two hearty youths as companions , at half-past twelve on Menday night .

      Toe droll adventures of that night I will record in another letter , for I must now be off to the Conference . I am , My brave brigade , Your faithful «• General , " Thomas Cooper . Haxsden ' s Temperance Hotel , Wednesday Hight , Aug . 17 . P S I have scarcely time left to tell you how I got ont of the Potteries .

      Suffice it to say , —I was Beiewd , taken before a floe old Justice , examined before him as he sat up in bed , told him who I was and all about it ; but they dared not keep me ! This was at Hunkm , at two o ' clock on Tuesday morning . I intended , with the two good iads who carried my bag and cloak , to reach Macclesfifld by Bs > ven , in order to take the coach for Manchester ; but as we bad been detained by the Burslem authorities bo long , we struck down for the Crowe Station , on the Birmingham and Manchester line of railway : and , after losing our way twice , we reached Crewe in time to have a hearty good breakfast before the train started . . ¦ To my gn-at delight , I got into the carriage containing my beloved Bairetow , Campbell , and Ciarke , a young dei egate from Boss , in Herefordshire . From the Star you wil learn what was done at the Conference ; I will not , tfctrefore , take up valuable space by saying a word about it .

      Knaliy , my brave comrades , I am now about to Set ont , privato . y . from 11 auchester , after having just read the horrid piece of . hypocrisy and cruuity which the Morramg Chrbnxdie , has chosen to insert against me , in iu leaaiug article of to-day . What villains are these scribDlers for the Anti-Corn Law League ! In order to dear themselves trom the charge of originating the strike , they strive to incite the Tory Government to take my blood , or personal liberty , by pointing me out as an agent for the Tories ! - . Heaven grant we may be able to turn this strike to our advantage , and thereby have our revenge on the hypocritical League .

      When and where 1 shall see you , my beloved lads , I cannot tell , until the time comes , Yours , to the death , TH 6 MA 9 COOrES .

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      PROGRESS OF THE STRIKE . By the Pope but the League-men reckoned without their host ! They little knew what they were about They have raised a devil they will find it difficult to lay ! ! They have gotten the people otrt ! How will they get them in again ? How will they allay the excitement they have caused ? And , above all and before all , how will they compensate for the loss of life and the personal injuries ; the shootings , and cuttings , and slashings ; the imprisonments , and the transportings that are to follow : how will they compensate for these things , whioh they , and they alone , have caused ?

      We say again , that the League-men have caused all this hubbub . They are at the bottom of it all . It is a measure they have long bad in contemplation . Even since the last General Election means have been constantly used to inflame the publio mind to prepare it for the master stroke . The Globe immediately announced that the battle-cry was to be : - M BREAD or BLOOD" ! and the most dishonest and infamous use was made

      b y the whole Whig press , of tbe fact that "incendiarism" had again shown itself in the South . They paraded the fact most prominently ; dwelt upon it loud and long ; evidently doing their best to cause it to spread , ae a means of hampering the new Ministers , and drivJDg them from office . The Morning Chronicle declared u the fires resulted from a feeling of revesqe against the bread ~ tcunng land ' lords ; " and the Globe called them "the beginning of a fearful . ORGANIZED SYSTEM OF DE . STRTJCT 1 ON "!

      The Morning Chronicle also talked of BARRICADES being erected to force the adoption of the Whig Budget . Here are his very words : — u France , i n 1830 , according to the oracle of Tamwonh , by an example of physical force , disturbed the slumbers of tbe English oligarchy . Is not France disturbing at this moment , the prospective Buocess of a Tory Budget ! " * We must hare money , ' says M . Humann . — Toulouse answers by a barricade . u ' We must have money , 1 says Sir Robert Peel . — Manchester and Birmingham MAY answer any budget but the Whig one , with a barricade . ' The Globe followed in the same strain . Here are his words : —

      M "Whoever else may have forgotten , the Duke of Wellington has not ceased to remember the French revolation ot 1830 , nor the effect which the three dayt events in Paris had npon the public mind in this country . - The same canses which accomplished the downfall of the elder branch of the Bourbon family < ffected also the overthrow of the WellingtoRPeel administratien , by the impulse which they communicated to the public mind in favour of legislative reforms .

      " The popular disorders which have broken out in Toulouse and other towns of France , exeited by tbe attempt of the Government to supply the deficiencies -ofthe state by increased taxation upon the people , arb tiKELT to HAVE A POWERFUL EFFECT UPON THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY , under the circtiiostances in tehieh they are at present placed . Nor will the resemblance between the present and the past escape unobserved by the plain un-Bophisrieated mind of the Duke of Wellington . " The Examiner , too , had his share in the plot . He gave pretty good hints in the following fashion .

      u How soft , bow delightful , his new bed of roses , Should Piel , undisturbed , by the Chartists , or SWING , Find the Captain *—contented with all he proposes—To Mb RodenB and PerohalB ready to cling !" The Sun published the most ferocious and dastardly article ever penned by a bloody-minded coward against Dr . Hook and the ladies of Leeds , because some one had told him that they had interfered to prevent the return of Brown-Bread JesEPH , as M . P . for the Borough . The misoreant said j—

      " If any ladies , led by a mistaken party zeal , side , like Dr . Hoek and others of the clergy , with the oppressors of the people , they must not be surprised should even their olaimB to "universal homage fail , in a time of excitement , to disarm the haired of savage hunger . " It has happened that ladies' heads have been carried about the streets on poles , or trailed in the dirt- ; and it has happened , saSoieBtly within recollection to SERVE both FOB . a warning and AN EXAMPLE , that a priesthood has been compelled to find safety in flight , aad those who braved the popular indignation forfeited their lives to their temerity /* These were the teachings of the organs OF THE League ! These were the sentiments , tbe horrible , hellish sentiments , they strove to instil into the publio mind !

      Contemporaneously with these atrocious inoendiary teachings , were the attempts of the anti-Corn Law mem , Leagued together under the title of the "Daily Bread Soeiety , " to iniuee the people to join them in what they themselTes denominated an ORGANISED PLAN-TO BREAK THE LAW . " 1 A pamphlet was published in Leeds , in which the plan was detailed . This pamphlet was reviewed and noticed by nearly all the anti . Corn-Law press . Did they condemn it ! Did they warn , the people against joining in the plot ! Did they denounce it as fflegali No suea thing 1 They all bnt recommend toe plan to fce adopted 1 They spoke of it as ¦ Ctptain Rock .

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      " Eomethiug STARTLING and novel ? ' bat they did not condemn it , nor point out the danger to those who Eight act on it . And yet what were the recommendations of these Leagued Daily-Bread Men 1 Listen : — . . ' * Now the way thb Americans obtained the botf&agz , and exemption from heavy taxation , furnishes US with AN EXAMPLE WORTHT OF IHITATION * The English landlord said to the Americans , We will impose a tax on your tea . ' ' No , ' said the Americans , ' we shall not be imposed upon ; ' we are not represented , and we deny your right to tax as . ' A cargo of tea waa sent to one of their sea-ports ( Bosten ) , and an exciseman was Bent to collect the tax t

      THE EXCISEMAN WAS TARRED AND FEATHERED by the Americans , and the tea emptied into the ocean , rather than they would submit to pay a tax upon it . Here , then , toe see a practical way of abolishing the Com Laws . " ' That the Corn Law oould pot be imposed without bloodshed , nor continued without bloodshed , was not admitted as a reason why it should not exiet ; for ba it recollected there was Corn Law blood shed in Westminster in 1815 , and Corn-Law blood shed at Peterloo in 1819 ; so that even if it were certain that in could not be repealed without bloodshed , it by no means follows that it should be suffered to exist . England has some noble ' Romans' who would willingly lay down their lives in such a holy cause .

      Oh t she has sons that never , never Will stoop to be the landlord ' s Blares While heaven has light Or earth has graves . " "When Barbarous sent a message to Marseilles that they were to send him 'six hundred men who knew how to die , ' the call was quickly responded to ; nor would such a call to Manchester be long Knre . iponded to , though , it is hoped , it may not be necessary !!" The "Bloody Old Times" is ^ now hard at work to fix the getting-up of the strike upon the Chartists and he talks loudly of the " violent and incendiary writings in the Northern Star . " Will he be kind

      enough to point out a single paper in England , aye , one which has denounced all these atrocious attempts to excite tumul t and disorder , excepting the Northern Star A He cannot find one ! Tne Star alone has exposed the deep laid villainous schemes of the plotters . The Star alone has shown up the atrocity of the doctrines these parties have tried to inculcate . The Star alone has regular ) ; watched the attempts of these men , and sounded the note of warning and alarm . Tne Star alone has done tins . It did not wait till now , and then find out that these attempts were being made . As soon as ever toe incendiary articles appeared , the Star called

      public attention to them , and reprobated the doctrines there taught . It is , therefore , a little too bad for the Times and the League papers , ( f # r they , too , join in the song ) to charge rhe present state of feeling to the "incendiary teachings of the Northern Star" Had the press of England shown & tithe of the watchfulness that we have , and spoken out as became it , the anti-Corn Law League wtuld have been shivered to atoms lojg ago ! We have had to battle them single-banded ; and , Bingle-btnded , we have procured for them the detestation of every honest son of Labour in the Kingdom j because , siugle-handed , we have exposed their villany , and torn off the veil that hid their deformity .

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

      "The proceeding ^ yesterd ay the anti-Corn Law Conference speak for themselves . Gkntlbikn who declared THEY WILL PAY NO TAXES TILL THE CORN LAW BE REPEALED wen vociferously cheered . The recital' that workmen have said it was not wards would move Parliament , bat force , and they wonld have it if they did not change their system , ' was heard with no disapprobation . In the manufacturing districts men declare that ' io good can be done until thev riot , ' and in the metropolis

      the information is received with approbation . To-day and tomorrow it will be spread throughout the empire , and the ideas of rising , of rioting , and of re : fusing to pay taxes , will be presented at one aid the tame time to many thousand persons . The sanctity once belonging to the law , which prevented such conceptions , is at an end ; the minds of the people are becoming familiarised with the idea of resistance ; and , if their misery be not relieved , it will not be long before corresponding DEEDS will S * &ING FROM THE IBXa !

      " In common with many members of the Conference , and with the memorialists from Hinckley , we have become convinced that it is useless to place before the Parliament and tbe aristocracy evidence ofthe sufferings of the people . Politicians rejoice that the unruly workmen of tne manufacturing towns are tamed into obedience by hunger ; bigots exult that the half pagan , half free-thinking town's-peoplo are for their ems visited by a judgment which threatens annihilation . To bigotB and politicians , piotures of distress in the manufacturing districts

      are not disagreeable ; and . we will not contribute to their pleasure b y repeating them . We turn rather to Mr . Taunton s-speeob , who said"' It appeared to him that the time was past for talking : the TIME was COME TO DO something , and he would tell them what to do—( cheers . ) He thought they ought to proceed at once to appoint a COMMITTEE OF PLBLIC 8 AFBTT IN THE METROPOLIS , and iudUC 6 every delegate from the country te pour in such facts as would organise such a body of publio opinion as would create the utmost odium against those in power , and COMPEL them to yield . "

      Pretty fair this , was not it" Old Bloody ? " Where were you then f Did yon denounce the incendiary writing ? Did yon point it out to the publio , and shew the real nature of the League men , in their base and cowardly attempts to get the working people to " rise" and " riot , " while they appeared as ' ¦ friends of good erder ; " and , as magistrates , let loose the military upon them , for only doing that to which they had been incited ! Did you do this "Old Bloody . » " No ! you left the task to us 2 W ^ e did it . We exposed the plot . We denounced the concoctors of it . We cautioned the people against the snare laid for them . We counselled to peace and good order ! And yet the " riots" and the M risings" are to be attributed to the" incendiary writings in the Northern Star' !!

      While thiB M Conference" was sitting * Mr . O'Connor happened to meet with Acland , the hired tool and lacquey of the anti-Corn Law League ; the man who is paid £ 10 per week for his services . They met at Halifax . They had a discussion upon the question of the Corn Law Repeal After the discussion , Mr . O'Connor and Mr , Acland had Borne talk . In the Star of the succeeding week ; that is to say , in the Star of July 16 th , 1 M 2 , Mr . O'Connor published the following fact , in a letter addressed by him to the Chartist body : —

      " One thing which Acuind told me , as he said , in confidence , must not be kept back . No , no ; lam not just the man to keep the secrets of the League . Now , let every man pay particular attention to the following disclosure , coming from tbe principal spouter of the Plague ' . Acland said to me , — "Well , Mr . O'Connor , we shall either have a Repeal of the Cora Laws , or the Charter in three weeks . Mr . O'Connor— Indeed 1 how !" Mr . Acland— "Well , I tell you , in confidence , that the object of the League ' s present meeting in London , is to take into consideration the propriety OF STOPPING ALL THE MILLS UPON A GIVEN DAY It I AND THEY "WILL DO ITini "

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

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

      And eves so lately as the 2 nd day of the present month , Mr . Alderman Chappsll , atameetiDg held in Manchester , said— *

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      ¦ ¦** ¦ It appeared that the only plan which the manufacturers had to resort to at present , was , TO STOP THEIR FACTORIES * ' 1 !! < f Is it apparent now who were the concocterfli of the strike ? Is it apparent woo ? who were the movers to it ? . ; :. ** 'No , *? . says the Weekly Chronicle ;^ M Mr . Fearfctts O'Connor may swear himself black in the face before we give the allKhtest credence to a charge unsupported by iny other eTidence , and utterly irreconcilable with plain and palpable facts ; ' * ; Is the charge " unsupported by any other : evidence" ! /« it " utterly irreconcilable with plain aad palpable foots' *! Is it irreconcilable ^ with the faots we have been narrating ! Is it irrecoiaoilable with the incendiary teaching ? or the Globe , Chronicle

      and Stint And , by the bye , talking of incendiarism brings to our miud a recollection of the dodges and shifts of Master Weekly ; Chronicle . himielf , respecting the Swing incitements iu the beginning of the present yean The Weekly Chronicle was , by no means , the last in the field at that game . He seemed as if he received a Crod-send , in the fact of a few firea haying occurred in the South , apparently the work of incendiarism ; andi to make the most of it , he printed a huge poster , in which the word SWlNia was the mo 3 t striking line . With these posters ; he covered the entire of his shop window in the Strand ; aad the effect upon the passers-by on the other side Was , that the word Swing appeared in something like the following manner : — >

      SWING . SW |^ swing swing swiisrd " ; ; . : ¦ ¦ ' : ¦ ¦ ' "' : ' : ¦¦{ ' 0- ) : ¦¦ : ' ¦¦ ' ' ¦'' ¦ '¦ : i- ' . ^ ¦ : ;¦ - ¦ jt-.-r ¦ ' : ¦¦ - ; . -- - -V - ' ; The rest of the bill not being readable at that distance from the smallness of -the printv And while the WeekfyyraQ doing this 6 utside : the window , he was doing his best inside his paper , without committing himself , to point Out Svririg as » rn ^ ans of annoying and harrassing the new Ministers ! ;

      But cannot the statement of Mr . O'Connor be corroborated ! Let us see , Wbite the Weekly Chronicle was thus endeavouring to get his patrons out of the mess they have gotten . into , another organ of their body was let'ing the cat out of the ba ^ , and glorying in the deed ! The Stindoy Times , of Sunday lasf , makes the following avowal : — ¦ '" Our readers are probably aware that the project of SHUTTING W ALL THEi MILLS IN ONE DiVt originated with this journal , arid that we have all along persisted in considering it as the only means } by which the repeal of the Corn Laws was likely to be obtained ^ The

      ANTI-GORN LAW LEAGUE CONSIDERED THE PROPOSITION AGAIN AND AGAIN allusions were from time to time made to it by several speakers ; but it was generally rejected as a thing that Would seem exceedingly harsh to the operatives themselves . "

      They rejected the project , ¦¦ after ' considering it again and again , because it would seem harsh to the operatives themselves t Not because it was wicked ; riot because it was illegal ; not because " - . it was disorderly ; not becauae it would lead to " riots " and " risings : " it was rejected not because of these considerations , but because it would seem harsh to the operatives themselves ! In other words , it would be an open declaratien of wax against the operatives ,: and Would expose mill property to the fury of a ttarving people , —a people made to starve by the immediate and direct aota of the masters

      themselves , There was all the difference in the world between the mastera *• closing the mills , " and the workmen doing it of themselves , and forcing tbe masters to comply ! And though the Anti-Corn- League rejected the . projeot in the Shape put before them by the \ Sunday Times , yet . ' they ' did not reJBot it in the other and ihore feasible shape of driving the workmen by reductions of wages , to do thi thing themselves . They did not u reject" this " jrojeot ' ! ^ t ^ o ; they acted on it J and the present ohioiio and truly awful ttate of things is the coisequenoe !! I

      Let our readers also mark ariother fact . All the reductions in wages that have been attempted within the last two months in the manufactories , have been attempted by Corn-Law-Repealing masters I Point out a Tory or Conservative master who has attempted anj such reduotioH . We believe it would be impossible . At all events , we have not beard of any such . . This fact speaks volumes ! Refer , too , to the letter of oar Preston correspondent , detailing the horrible carnage in that town , and the prior proceedings . Look well at the words there printed in capital letters ! Remember that it is two delegates from Ashcon , ( the town where the strike first commenced . ) to the Preston lads to get them to join in it , who declare , publicly , that

      "THE MIDDLE CLASSES FOUND THEM THE MEANS" to go to Preston I Note this fact ! and then ask how it is that that the middle olasaea are note bo fond of scrik . es aa to pay the delegates to go over all parts of the country to " extead " theni !»! The fact is , that the strike did commence at Ashton , as has . been already detailed ; and that the ostensible cause of it was the attempted reductions of wages by ) the ^ Corn L » w Repealing Messrs . Bailky ; and another fact is , as soon as it did commence , six persons were dispatched from the town of Ashton to the other towns in Lancashire ; AND THEIR EXPENCES WERE PAID BY MONEY SUBSCRIBED BY

      FACTORY MASTERS AND SHOPKEEPERS BELONGING TO THAT TOWN . And are the League men to suffer no consequences for these acts f Are the people , the Working people , whom they have induced to " riso" andJ" riot ? ' these to bear all the shootings , all the cuttinga to pieces , all the sabreings , all the tramplings to death , all the woundings , aU the imprisonments , all the transportings , and , possibly , all the hangings ; are the working people to endure all these things , while the fiendish hatchers of the plot escape soathlesa and free I ! I this to be the case I No 1 by heaven I JUSTICE , of some eort or other we will have ! f J \ . '¦ ¦ : - ' " . ' - ' : " :.: si ' ; .. ¦ ¦¦ ¦• : : '¦ . ¦ ¦ -y .

      oi-To ike working people we say , be wise ! be prudent ! Be not betrayed into collisions with the military . Present not yourselves before them as marks to ; be shot at | like ; so naay carrion-crows , and be laid ; weltering in ^ ihe streets . Come sot near them . ; Keep the peace Do not riot . ; vDestroy no property ; Burn no mills . Commit no depredations . Injure id man . Be quiet ; be firm : i « i < i please yourselves whether you go to work or stay away I ^ ,

      Our own opinion of the V Strike" and its merits was distinctly registered in last week ' s Star ; especially inthe tw ^ O articles in the third editioniheaded , " Progress of the Strike , ? and . *? Further Progress . " Every event which has since tranapired has confirmed us in the opinion we then held : tad we have now therefore only to reiterate it , and to request for it all the attention that the people think it worth . By referenoe to the , address of the Conference delegates , and the letter of Mr . O'Comnob , it will be seen that he and they hold a diffsrent opinion . Time will speedjly decide whoso opinion is most wiae . We entreat only the people will not be

      dispouraged if , after a | L hanng tried the strike as a mews for obtaining the Charter , they find it to fail of accomplishing that object . W © entreat them , in that case , to remember that they are still no worse j that ^ the means to which : they ! before looked are still at ; hand j that pradenoe and determination , patience and perseverance , firmness and moral courage an invincible ; that nothing cam wrtHSCiiNi ) thkte contiwued EXHiBixioK and that by the calling into requisition of these qoalities every reverse may be , in itseif made matter for advance J the ^ shackles mB « erentually fall from ^^^ MJjW AW ) SHA 4 STAND

      Belper.—On Monday Night Last, Mr. West Delivered His Second Lecture Of His Series, "On The • 1. . '¦¦»¦ • *»¦ "• I « : - • Ir 1 ¦ . I ' '¦¦ *•'• ¦- . ¦ .-.,.

      BELPER . —On Monday night last , Mr . West delivered his second lecture of his series , " on the 1 . . '¦¦»¦ *»¦ "• i « : - ir ¦ . i ' '¦¦ *•'• ¦ - . ¦ .-.,.

      evus arising irom tne misapplication ot tne powers of production , and the capabilities of the soil under just and proper reguliations , to supply the wants of all with abundance , " and was attended with a crowded and an attentive audience . Mr . West enrolled fifty-four members at the close . Wednesday evening , Mr . West visited Swanwick , and addressed a large meeting , and also on Thursday at noon , addressed a large assembly of colliers ; a , number-of members w- > re enrolled at the close of each meeting . On THCBspAY , Mr * WeBt visited AshoVer ; on Saturday , he was at Duffield ; and on Sunday , at Edge . At all these places he proclaimed the Charter , and enrolled members .

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      HALIFAX . The disturbances connected with , the turn-outs commenced in Halifax on Monday morning last . Their arrival from Lancashire had been expected for some time , and the magistrates had been active in making preparations to receive them . They had issued placards , referring to the disturbances in Lancashire , and calling upon the inhabitants to asaist them in the preservation of peace and order . A very large number of special constables were Sworn in , and the regular police , and the military stationed at the barraeks , were under orders to be in readiness to act at a moment ' s notice . The military force regularly stationed at Halifax , consisted of two companies of the 61 st Regt . of foot ,

      comprising upwards of 100 men , and their numbers were subsequently augmented by the arrival of two troops of the 11 th Hussars , one from Leeds , where they had passed the previous night on their road from York , and entered Halifax about eight o ' clock on Monday morning , and the other from Burnley , who entered the town about seven o ' clock in the evening . With these accessions , the military in the tdvro on Monday evening , comprised a force of about two hundred men . The immense crowds of turn-outs , who thronged to excess the streets of the town , produced a state of sxoitement and commotion almost unprecedented in Halifax , and which formed ample employment for all the forces—both civil and military—at the disposal of the authorities .

      So early as five o ' clock in the morning , the people were astir , and assembled in considerable numbers in the Market Place ; they were all peaceable , however , and so would have continued , till their meeting was over , and then have returned home again in the same good order they had met . But whilst a person was addressing them , the magistrates , accompanied by the police and about two hundred special con * stables , came up . Mr . Pollard , one of the magistrates , a ddressed the crowd for nearly half an hour , and remonstrated with them on the danger of assem .-bting in stich meetings ; and engaging in such schemes , which must result in disastrous consequencoa to themselves . The assembled multitude , however , manifested no great alacrity to leave the spot .

      and the magistrates having ordered the multitude to disperse , loud shouts were raised amongst them of "Let ' s away to Luddenden Foot , '' and thia proposition , meeting with general concurrence , the shouts became ; universal , and the multitude , arranging themselves into a sort of procession , cleared away and proceeded at once to that place , where a large body of the Lancashire turn-outs were congregated for the purpose of marching into Halifax . v Betwixt eleven and twelve o ' clock the turn-outs from Lancashire approached the town in immense numbers . -The grand point of junction was at King Cross , on the Burnley Road , where the various bodies , each composed of thousands of men , from Hebden BridgeSowerby BridgeLuddenden Foot

      , , , Todmorden , Rochdale , and other places , united together in one immense procession , filling the whole breadth of the road , and stretching to a vast length . When they got to the North Bridge at Halifax , the military and police were drawn up , so as to occupy the whole road , and . prevent the passage of the peopie , the cavalry being popted in front , the infantry next , and behind them the police and special constables . Thi 8 wa 8 above twelve o ' clock . In the precession were great numbers of women , most of whom were placed in the middle . On their progress being arrested by the military and police , several of the womea went up , and seiain « the bridles of the cavalry , exolaMing , " You would not hurt a woman , would you ? " endeavonred to turn them oh one side .

      One of tbe women coming up in front shouted to the magistrates and soldiery , " We didn't come here for bayonets , we came for bread . " It is stated , that one woman was stabbed in the breast by one of the soldfers with a bayonet , though not seriously , but in general the soldiera did not molest them . Soon after a circumstance occurred which oau 3 ed a diversion of the military , and opened a passage over the bridge into the town . It was stated that the mills of Messrs . Norris and Lister , at the bottom of Foundry-street , were attacked , and the military and police force gathered on the bridge ^ leaving that spot for iae . protection of the mills alluded to ; in a few minutes the entire procession had passed into the heart of the town , and by the time the military

      arrived at Messrs . Norris arid Listers' mills ; the plugs were drawn , and the men tamed but . Almost at the very same moment that the Lancashire processions _ approached the town , another procession , also oomprising immense numbers , from the neighbourhood of Bradford , approached it in another directipri . The Bradford procession was preceded by a number of tho 17 th Laacers from that town } and on the : procession reaohing New Bank within a short distance of Halifax , the Lancers drew up acfoaa the road , smd being joined here by the Infantry an , d Hussars from Halifax , succeeded in arresting the progress of the

      turn-outs , along the main road . The : procession , however , broke up into groups and proceeding along Rands Banki and different bye roads , evaded the military and reached the town , when they immediately became amalgamated with the Lancashire people . After the junction had taken placej they proceeded to Messrs . Akroyd ' s mill , at Haley Hill , for the purpose of turning out the hands , but when they arrived there , the men had gone to dinner , and the mill was consequently already stopped . Mr . Edward Akroyd asked them what they wanted , to which they replied they most have the plugs out of the boilers . Mr . A . said if that was what thef wanted , they must come and do it , and accordingly one of them attempted to take ont the plag , but not being able to succeed , the engineer , by 31 r

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      ' - '" . ' / . ... , ; . . . . r . * Akroyd ' s orders , pulled it out for them . It is stated thit Mr . E . Akroyd gave four sovereigns to the men , ' and told them to buy bread with it for the women . They proceeded ^ next to Bawling Dyke Mill , and commenced making a cutting through the mill jam , in order to let off the water ; when just while the ? were engaged in this attempt , the military came up , and dispersed them , and captured six of . the insurgents ; ; About eleven , soldiers of the infantry were detached to escort the prisoners . to the Police-office , and on their road were followed by a large portion of ; the pepple ; who made repeated attempts to rescue the prisoners , whioh 80 exasperated the soldiers , that they faced round , and firod upon them . A man called Wad 8 WortIi .,, was , we

      understand , wounded in the leg , and jTvaS ; carried off by his comrades . The spirit of the crowd , wa ^ still unsribdued . In WellV , Lane . ^ o . tIi ^ -ia ^^ a 9 ie ^ Me and again the soldiery fired , but ^ re- ha VAi . not heard that any injury was done . Whea Jh ^ j ^ we in the vicinity of the Police-office , the streets ,, w . bich are there very narrow andcrooked j weripM ;* gjcaai measure blocked up by crowds ; and . before , tthe poldiers could force a passage thrpn 8 irvtfle . niiJihey fired twice , and then charged wpoa th ^ mi WiWithflir bayonets , wounding a ; great number ^ , bufcjwn * of them seriously . They succeeded at lengt ^ iin . iiodAyig the prisoners in the Police-office . ( JreaJtaopfthecsipris were entertained that an , atteo ^ pt ; ewouW , be made to break open the prison and reson ^ .

      thejprisoners , and a number of infantry were stationBdineJce tdga ^ 8 on-th ^ - ^ lMel ^'> . ' ^^/ ' . ' . v ^ ;;\ .:. v-. ' .-. ' , i = 'f « - : ; -i < n >{< : : At two o ' clock in the afternoon , a meeting of from ten to fifteen thousand people v ? as he , ld . on Skireoat Moor a t ne extensive tti ' oor in fhe immediate ceighbourhooJ > Halifax » Th ^^ rie pfifli e meetin « , waa peaceable tut firm . . Three resolutions , were passed , pledging-. ¦ ¦ ineeting not to return to work , tjll tbe People ' s Char < u > 'ccaine the ¦ lalf ^ pf the , lajid j ; ttill their wages sv ? r *> ! adyanced / tps the sjliandaffl ^ 1840 ; and till a gnaran ¦ ¦' : . > wa >^ entered- Ufa , byu thjej . em ployers that they shou t be ^ pt . upip thaMtondard . In the course of ttie ai 1 ternponi ,. thisipeo |> leJteTrinK gather , d i n great crowds u various placee ^ bufc mare particolarlv oDPOsite ; the . Nortbgate .. Hotelkf ! the

      cavalry charged upon them , but the peopla ^ fljing in terror before them , no injuriesirere inflicted . uWiier * everthecrowds became at all uumanageabje »^ r Were forced upon the soldiers , the' JnfanUy « a 4 e . gR 8 tJhe least hentatiori in pricking them with their ba ^ ooeta , and Boores of people"in Halifax / recgifedJft tfeiaway Blight bayonet wounds on Monday , Oie poor follow , who had got pricked through his fuetian jacket with a bayonet , we saw go ?^ ^ writhjiiig ; , down iith © street , in the midst of a number of commiserating companions . The only serious wound wasone which occurred accidentally to a sergeant in one of the regiments , who , while handling bis musket , touched it in such a manner , that the percusaion cap exploded , arid the piece went off , and lodged the shot ;

      in one of his arm « .. He was taken to the in * nrmary , and it is probable bis arm will be disabled , even it it should escape amputation . The procetaing 8 commenced on Tuesday with a meeting on 8 ki » coat Moor , at six o ' clock in the morning , at which about 2 . 000 or 3 , 000 people were present . Tbe proceedings commenced by singing a hymn , ?> Praise Q * & from ¦ whom all blessings owVV which was followed by a prayer by one of the men , invoking the ' assistance and protection of the Almighty in their enterprise , and praying that peace and order might be preserved . After this a man frwa Bradford addressed the meeting . He proposed that delegates should be sent to Todmorden , Bradford , and HuddersflelJ , to induce the men ot those places to march immediately

      upon Halifax . In compliance with tbe proposttion , three delegates were appointed to proceed to each of the Places named , and it was resolved that another meeting should be held on the moor , at one o ' clock at noon , at which it was expected that : their numbers would be reinforced by the men of Todmorden , Bradford , and Huddersfield . To lose no time tt Was also agreed that those present at the meeting should immediately proceed to Elland , Cooper-Bridge , Brighouse , Stainland , and BuJtialand , to stop ; all the mills there , which it was thought might be accomplished before the time of bolding the next meeting , and in accordance wiUi this resolution , the great bulk of thoae present , formed into , a sort of procession , and filing across the moor , proceeded on their mission . This concluded the ¦ meeting . . ' - ' - ' . "' . - ; . -. , ' ' ••' ¦ ' .. ¦ ¦ '¦ ¦ . - . ' : ' . : '¦'¦ . ' , ¦ ' ¦¦¦ . ' . ' : ' - . : ¦¦¦ ' ; : ";; : - .,

      The prisoners captured at Halifax on Monday afternoon , at , and subsequently to , the affray at Akroyd ' a mill , eleven in number , were sent off ; .-ip Wakefleld on Taefiday forenoon . It ; waa determined by tbe magistrates to Send them there for safety , previous to their examination . They were placed fa two nmniknses , each drawn by four horses and guarded by a file ef the 11 th HoBsars , under the command of an officer , and , beaded by Mr ., Briggs . a magtstrata , proceeded at full gallop to the railway station , at EHand . The people of course had very Boon notice of thia movement ; in fast it had been anticipated , and considerable crowds h * d congregated all down the road on the look out , particularly at Salter-Hebble , were an attempt wai made to stop the road , preparatory to a rescue . This , however .

      was unsuccessful , / and ¦' .. atones were thrown , at theconvoy from the wood which stirts the . r « a < I to Elland , At the time they arrived in the station at the latter place , the train towarda ^ akeaeld was in waiting , to which the prlsoriera were at once transferred ; and the train was quickly at full « p ed , Contfderabla num bers of people had gained . Vaceesm to tbostatlon , and the prisoners , on their departure * we « j cheered by their companions , soinei of I ' wbona to ^ tl ^^ ni to ktsep their spfrits up . fortheyshonld ^ n b ^ llbffatef } . At the , timei these ; : twpomnibuses and , . ^ prjsoperi . airlved , theiewa 8 anothwtomnlbn ^ inthe i ^ ion , ji ^ a ^ ot ( tt proceed with passengers to Halifax , itbm ii ^ s , ^^ Chester . &c Aftef lea'rtng the action . It waa yarywon evident that there were very lar ^ efluiribera < 4 t aaqp ^ ia

      au oirections in a . n « e , 0 r t |» e ;|^^ t ; excitoment , and btfore the conveyance frkdrfitisi&A&ify , siaapt j ^' abundance were again thr « wn ^ m ^ lyro ^ t , iiia » struck the omnibus repeatedly , ' but tberpassien ^ sra escaped withoatinjory . OareH ^^ S ^ lterrffebbl ^ ihow , ever , the danger was greatly rncreasetif , ' , '¦' , , ' f 0 Jt j' $ . exasperated bad the people' b © c « We at' the treatment they had received , that lond threats were tttte ^ ed that not one should escape . The passengewi , of course , could not apply this langtuge to themselves '; they were conscious of not having done any injury , and ! had con-Sdenee that the peopie would . Dot wilfully Inflict damage upon persons respecting whom they could nave no cause of complaint ; and in thia opinion they were strengthened by the fact that , as « oon as it became

      known that the omnibus contained only railway passengers , and no " offlciata , " a safe paasage was guanw . teed through the thonsanda who were assembled oa the roadside , and along the rocky heights of Salter-Hebble—a place of all others calculated for the p ^ tection of any party who mi # ht eho ' ose to avail themselves of ita cover from whence te harass an enemy . / A- : man then took the head of the leader , and , ; ws ' vjtipftf his hand , all feat of attack from the menacing throng .,. ' seemed to nave vanished , and the vehicle was' B lo ^ ly ^ af -, > . cendingtaehiU . But , on a sudden ; a cry was rai » ed , Tui ^ t ' / , ! the soldiers were advancing , and as auddenly the appflr rest cairn was succeeded by an over whelming teinpjBsl ! ^ for , in « moment , as it were , a shower of larg ; ej s ^ onea ' , | ,, were hurled from all parts of the emtaence amotig + he

      soldiers who then came ap at full gallop . and'on to ^ ihe ., .. heads ofthe devoted and Innocent passenger ^ who thiia , ' , suffered severely from the accidental cirenmstahee of , " being compelled , thougn . only for a few moirientsi to ' . ba j " apparently under the protection of the Boldiery . ' ' . ' Witft , , such direct aim were these missile * hurled , that scarcely asoldier escaped unhurt—some of them receive ^ seve ^ . cuts—three of them Were felrly - felle d ' - ' , from : ~ - ^ Ke 4 t ! ' . " ! . ' !' horses , the animals setting of i and leavttfif Ulelr TBit ^ ; ^ rideta to the mercy of the mob . These thteti &te ' p ) n .- J , , . vates in the 11 th Hussars : their names are Ale « ader , " Frager , John Attatin . and Thomas Giarkaonythe ^ , ^ were all more or less injured ; but tito oT ; t ^ eni / were for a time ma . de priaonen . Of conrse , ¦ 'th . ere' Was ¦ ' '"" ¦¦ _ ,. a devil of a hubbub kicked up now I -An . eijWeas ' ^^\ ,. : seuii to Mia

      oa uu ror luiaavry , . sou mo nuQKtfat aftereharging with ball , returned , bead » d ; by Nfr ., ' , Briggg , to the reaoae of their oompanionir , which' they "' effected ^ During ; the ; -a ^/ Mr /^ B # ^ : ' re 6 ^ e % a '; Y ' wound on the arm fram a stone , whh ^ dirabied ntaa , j ., and he went home ; the ^ 'Soldfera ^ Kftr pr&rto ' usly ^' . i received orders to fire , and these orders we ^; ' carried ' isto bSeet , wa 'axe afraid wfth ' a'pf ^ xesaW , ^ 6 iiy 4 fV $ * , : we cannot speak with e ^ ih ^ f ^ ap ^ Tues ^ i ^^ ven ^ . ing , two of the soldier ' s horses bad not been heard of . the third bad been covered . Return Ve do W ffie passengers , who bad ,, in goo * earnest , ' : W » 8 M $ tne , pelting of » pitiless stona of : stoi ^ ' Tnes ^^ nBfeiejl ' of four or five iruride , and about thS ' same ' imiiib' ar-miMide . . Mi . Backer , repwterfori ^ papeiV ^ ai ^ rieortTOlately and had a very narrow escape y Mr lnjt wi ( r em c ^ ib ^

      plete \ y through behind with :-a large ; atone , ^ tid he received one or two severe wounds and several' contusiwa . Ayoung ladyi Jiiiw ' ^ street , Leeds , who sat between "Mr . BaripBf and tbe driver , received a Mghtfnl out in the head , wiitcb bl » d profusely . It is fortunate that : thelwaddbg of > her beanet , was very thick ; for thia doub ^ lew had- the effect of breaking the force with . which ^ the » tdBe had descended . She was . going oixia uvWb to -Mr . Cockerham , of Halifax ; and on enqoiry there < Jn Tuesday afternoon , we learned that she . was not « macii twae for her injury . A gentleman , named Liyd 8 ck , ftoiD « tief fleld , we undersUnd , was very eeverely snti about-tile legs and in other parts ; he bled veqr mooh , abd waa obliged to leave the OHiaibus , and remain at a « Mdaide house until aurgicol assistanoe could ; be ^ ptcicUi « d He was attended very speedily by Mr . iHolioyd . 'i of Halifax , and after having hU woand « dz « and 3 nR > caM >

      on bis journey . Tbe other pauengaw «» &pbdr with , morealigfitiBJurlea .- ., The onujiboijiiaa ^ adfc l ^ jtewii " and one of the horses was cutinthalsgby a « tone . Jjha paitf af ter thia ^ got safe to Hali&r . j ^ ii ^ ocsi xsxw . This affiir having subsided , the people again met in tlw afternoon , acoording to arrangement , on Skireoat Moor . ; Large nun * era ^ WCT » 'itfatteSa % oe ; and everytlunis : iroa oonduoted ia peas * an < f j ^ rf * <> Mer After the meeting broke up , ho ^ ev ^ larie 1 ; assembhea congregated in ^^ the . street ^ ia » a ifroupBot peopte were seen wending their » % V Jro ^ aH ' -aireotioas towards North Bridge , over whioh 48 the rbsd to Mr . Akroyd ' s milL knowii as'tbe Shaaea ^ 'wiiich ia ^^ a ^ tRower-loom ^ eetablishment , AboWNoirai » 33 « e . the yanous groups > all ^ ^ going' in the mm fdrreefion , anitirig together , formed one immense assemblage . Soon after , a smaU number of laetf , vrho ^ wereWadtanoe of the main body utrasgled one by one . irito

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      Co t ^^ n ?^ CPttej ^ onlientd . TO CORBKSPOMDKNTS AND tfBlBNi > S . — Wi shall feel extremely obliged to our Correspondents and Friends ' . " .. ' inalipartioj' thaComipf , if they will take the tmtifetofpHmriitito iahce that transpires in their respective loca l ities , as early as possible after ^ the ociMrrmce . Frprn all towns whet-e the Strike is held otit , we slwiiild like to heme a letter by every post , bringing vp the netcs in a toHofc ^ ini ^ harraiiv $ . ^ W ^ each plaoe see to this and oblige us ?

      Mary Jones , Bbistol . —TTe canno / insert the com munication sent ; nor would it serve her if we did . -The information she seeks can jmly be compelled by law proceedings . : A Constant Reader , London . —Ye * . Mr . Pit * keihly is gone to Americaibutnbt to sidy there at present . He is gone to" look out" and to sell his goods . He is inclined to act on the maxim , u look before you leap . * ' We understand his intentions are to go over nearly all the States , and to make close observation and inquiry upon the points important to emigrants and settlers . The result of his observations we expect to be the

      thetins of giving 4 o the w % rtd . All who know Mi , ; Pitkethly toill pronounce him to be a Jit man for the purpose . . ' . , [ . ' - . ;¦ ' " . ' ; '¦" . V ; V ' "" ¦ ¦ - ,: . A Chabitist , Cablis ^ e , ts thanked for the extracts from . a letter' writtenfrom LancasterCastle to Mb : Warden , of' Bolton . They but bear out what we before knew of the ungrateful man who has done his liitle best to sting tne hand that fed Him ! ; perhaps " a Carlisle ' Chartist' *'' .- is not aware of the fact that the man in question would havestarvedwhileingaol , had [ it not been for the unsolicited bounty of Mr . O'Connor ; but we can tell Mm thatthe fact is so ; and that the mm of

      SEVENTY- EIGHT POUNDS was GIVEN to him by Mr * : O'Connor , during hi » imprisonment ! and , perhaps , " a Carlisle Chartist" is not aware that'the ^ gratefulreturn madejor this handsome , ndy , generous , treatment was the writing . ofletters , suchai [ the ' one he has sent us , to whisper and insinuate away the character of the man upon whose free gifts • he was existingit And " a Carlisle Chariot * ' may not be further aware that so deep-rooted is the malignity of the ungratefulmah % and so bitter is his animosity , that he declared , soon after his liberation , at the dinner-table of one of the niost stanch O'Con ' nel / ite-Whig-Rndicals in England , that "Mr . O'Connor and the Star people bated him with that , hatred , that had he , or they , but coubagk , they would rHn a knife through his heart . ! " We

      are aware ofy and can tell " a Carlise Chartist " these things ; and therefore we are not surprised at the character of : the letter he has sent . As for the request he makes rejecting thepublicationof the document alluded to , all we can make no promise : we must see [ itfirst . A PUBSE , containing a sum of money , was picked up at the meeting held a fortnight since last Sunday , and is now in the possession of Mr . Isaac Kitchen , Bradford Moor ' To our Readers and ^ FaiKNps . —The state of our columns this day will be a sufficient apology for our sikhce about , dnd nonrinseriion of , many articles , both of news and observation , jeceived during the week . Some oj these are in type , but obliged to be displaced , —the notice of Mr . West ' s lecture at Chesterfield amongst them .

      1he Northern Btar Saturday, August 20, 1842.

      1 HE NORTHERN bTAR SATURDAY , AUGUST 20 , 1842 .

      State Of Tub Couisftrt

      STATE OF TUB COUISfTRt

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      ¦ S P 4 nti » _ THE NORTHERN TIR ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 20, 1842, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct612/page/4/