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    • THE NORTHERN STAK SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1842.
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      THE LATE STRIKE , ITS CAUSES AND EFFECTS . 3 SIKG THE SUBSTANCE OP A LECTURE DELIVERED IK

      L 6 ND 0 N BT JOHN WAIKINS . " Upon these taxations , The tfoibiers aU , notable to maintain The many to them 'longing , have put cff The spinsters , carders , fullers , weavers , who , Unfit for otber life , compell'd by hanger And lack of other means , in desperate manner Earing the event to the teeth , are all in uproar ; And danger serres among them . " Eenet Till . At length the crisis had armed—it is the last drop ¦ which makes the cnp overflow . The people had patiently borne slavery—the Titter , privation of sj i their rights—the cruel infliction of every wronf : thousands of them wore clamming , ont of work , f md

      these in work were receiving most inadequate wages ; yet with tbe scanty pittance which op-pression and extortion left to them , they had not only to maintain themselves , bat to maintain thslr aged parents , to keep them ont of the bastile , ft * t human piafold whera ti » poor are pat , nos to feed , but to Bt 3 T * e , Thoy were Hrcreover compelied to pay totvards the _ iriimenanee of those who were unable te keep oat of tie bastile ; and e ^ opeEed moreover to psv Chnrch and State dues ; for the working men nave " to keep both rich and poor . € ues 3 , then , ye ¦ wlto rave s . ot felt it , guess the heavy load which those wfco labour bard had to feear ; guess what they ana ha fa "feh for their families and friends ! Weil might ParHsnent admire their fortitude and

      forbearance ; weU misht Government express its sympathy forthair sufferings ; well miehttbe Qaeen go itbcrat a begskig for them . The people though racked body and soul to the * tmost stretch of en-• durence ; though nature was ready to sink under their torments , were patient—they were forbearing ; they estnoned a -decree of magnanimity never before equalled bj eiorlal man—aever surpasstd but by the immortal gods . Promethec 3 smiling serene while the eternal vulture ia gnawing his heart , can alone hs a fit emblem ef the people of England . But this was not enough . It was no ; enough tha ; the working man was wearing himself out btfore his time with unrequited toil , and , after labouring Lard all dav in vain , was doomed to "hear the

      E 3 Q 3 E 3 of an heartbroken wiie , and the piteous cries of children sobbing for food . All this was not enough . Ail could not melt—could not soften-rthe heart of avarice , hardening itself amid the luxuries which the poor sufferers had earned for it . The millowners came to the determination to reduce the wages of their oppressed men still further , so that the most remote ace uncertain chance—the merest possibiiiyof a livelihood should be cot off , ar . d on the ga : » d of England , as en the gate of hell , should be wriue-n , ** Ko hope dwells here . " Patience itself was turned into passion by this . The workmen struck ;—they threw down their tools in despair ;—they pined their unemployed brethren , —they forced the poor creatures that ye : c-iuns to their employment to come out with

      there ; they .-topped the mills ; thoso busy hives of human industry suddenly became stiii as the house of death . Tha water was le ; iff , the £ xe 3 were put cut ; tcl departed ; machinery slop ;; every wheel was Eu : e . was rcouoclrss . The strike commenced , but who orisinLtod it I Not the rcer . ! Who wcre in reality the strikers J—Tne masters ! It was the CornLsw RcppsJers who struck ; for , said they , if the Government wlil ncs repeal the Corn Lavret we will Tsocce wages to the continental level , tLat so we msy compete with foreigners , keep up juitom , and make iortunea as usual . Ah ! ihey did noi thiuk how the men were to live , who iave to compete with foreigners cot for foruiEes , but for food . But mark the cowardly

      cunning of the miliowners , they were resolved to strike ifrainst Government because it would not give up the l ^ nd-monopoly—they were resolved to strike , bat io ^ r 1 >* ot bj closing their mills as they had threatened—tha : was too bold , too direct a-scheme ; but by an attempted redaction of wages , a plan worthy of them . They did not turn out their men , but they forced the mea to turn themselves out , and thus laid the responsibility on the men and the blame en Govcn . rn ^ nt . The men were to be driven to cerperarfoa ihac they mi ^ ht commis outra ges which should terrify GoverDment into submission to their masters wishes ; bnt the masters reckoned without their host—without the men . The men had worked

      for their ma-ters , but they resoivea that they would not fiv < ht ft-r them—they resolved that their Etrike should no : be a mere blow for faction—that they woaid not be made the mere tools of Corn Law Repealers—they resolved to strike , not for- their masters , but fur themselves ; not for the interests of others , but for their cwa interests ; noi for Corn Law Repeal , but lor the Charter . Finding that the strike was likely to extend further than they intended it ; that it would be a strike against themselves as against all otber grinding tyaricioos tyrants , they would i& \ u have gos the men to . work again . But once out , they wtrc resolved not to return wUhout their rights . The lirco had coma when God himself Eeerned to call on them to strike , and they said ,

      " We will . " Many cf them had risen that mornipg froa a bare ibor , where they had laid down fcrpirlt-ra to sleep away the pangs of Lunger , ia hope thai they ehonld wake- no more . - or tossed wita-r *» i ! esa anxiety * h&d rocked their ieids the livelong Eight in paroxysms of . meatal anguish aud bod : Jy pain ; many of them had left wives , weak , pining , S-shless , ' groaning in Bpmt and prajiag the Lord Jo help them j many of them hid been kept awaka through the watcnes of the night in cetseleis vi g ils over dying parents starved to deith , cr over children fevered by famine , tryitg

      to scothe whora they cculd cot save ; witnessing iho-e nearest to them < spiring wi : hoat medicine , withcu : food or contort of any kind—themselves locked fa =: upour ; bat they Lear the shouts of the turn-cu : ? : —tcey sun up ; " they leave the dying and the dead ; thiy dash away the tear of unavailing wee ; they sl ^ h no more ; they rise ; they rash ont ; the tumble energy of despair gives them new stioegtb . ; the hope of vengeance re-animates them ¦ w iih iresh vigour ; they clench their hands ; they set their teeth ; they draw a long breath , and a curso "cot loud , but deep , " comes forth ; they swear they V have vengeance on their oppressors .

      Lancashire shouted " Work no more ! " —Staffordshire echoed the cry—Yorkshire reverberated it on every hill , and the ery was carried from mouth to moKth , from town to town , from eonnty to county ; snll h rose , " Work no Bcre ! we ' ll work no more !" f To he concluded in our next . )

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      ARRIVAL OF THE 0 Y&RLAND MAIL . IXDiA . The mail from India arrived in Louder , on Saturday . The more detiiied accounts do net at -r . il tear out th « disiEtrous EUPjm&ry previoujly given by tbe French telegraph from ^ JsT £ -rilies , l £ the decimation cf the Britiah armies beyond the Indus . , bv fcitat , want of food , naiccms , & . ; . Thtiie bid been siakness at the

      eamp cf J = llalatad , but tha deaths were fi-w , bo tint the * ' decimation" is simply a GiliiciEtn . It is , however , bad ecoush to know that the conduct of the new Lead cf the Inaiau G :-vernmfcnt , at s . tirue when energy and p ^ rspicacuy w ^ s m _> st needed , bas been marked by tbe inott ictsplicable capriceand inaccision . That l ^ - rii E-irab ^ rougb had at one time issued crileis for the evicu ^ Uou of ifL ; b < iiiL'tan appe&rs now to be admitted , even by the Tiims . Tie ~ H . om . inj Chronicle ' s correfp-jndeiit gives tte foiiovricg prubabis Tcriioa of tte facu : —

      " AUat the 22 ui May , GiEenJ Pollock received a despatch from Loiii EUenb ^ roueh , directing hiru to return to In&u , if poEaiblb , i : mnedi * le ! y . CjEcdTiug that by actisg on these iis' -ruciions tLe interests ceufldtd to his ctnrge might mat-jliliy ttxSci , be viia ' a to tuc GjVtriiorGrEfcxei , ttatlag his Gij ^ ctions , which . Were ceriairiiy E ^ fficifcrnly c-jgect , there being far too little carriage for t-e lrai . spcrt cf the troops and Eturts , eo vrat ~ r on i . Lc- road , and much diScaliy to be &pptenecaed in £ cin . ( . uitii : g the ht : ghls tf the Kbjbcr at this s = asoQ , fihcalvi znv ocpcbliiun te tficred . Symti f ; w a ^ js ciV- r - . he deiputcK of this ktter , all tte pre para ' -iuts "ffbicli had beta ra ^ kicg for retirems ; i : t "fftre

      pcstpoccii ; £ iii , ca ; he IS ; h Jane , the Gintral received i » ifp' . j , in which his L . Tofhip ,. tbon ^ h by no lutaiis c- 'TUilenai-tiEg t ^ e idea cf a piniiactnt stay in Afighanutan . or any scheme of ultimate couqusst , or rttnoative hoitiiity , gave him permiBaion to remain until the eeasca ana fifourable for return , and he should have procured Bufccient cafiiage , cattle , and stores , to iniure tbe ssfs progress of his tioopa through the pass . L ; rd Ellenborongh also icetructed him to Btnd ou : detachments for the purpose cf destroying Uie forts and strongholds between Jellalabad ud Judulluck , and thus displaying our power to the inhabitant ! of the surrounding villages . "—This account is fubot&ntiaiiy supported by tee Bombay Times .

      In punuancs of the suggestion to make a show of vigour , Geteral Pollock bad detached a - party to attack Pesh Bolak and Lughm&n . Some relics of the 44 th regiment , nearly annihilated on the Cabal retreat , were found by the soldiers of the 31 ut at a place ailed Ali Bogh&m , and they wers so excited at th > - sight ttat they burned down the Tillsge . —Twentyfour soldiers of the 44-. ii , and a woman , were at Lughm&n ; and their rescue trai one object of the expedition . The Fort of Khelat-i-Ghi ' z ' e has been evacuated , and it * fortifications blown up by the British . This ^ as

      been done to concentrate General Nott's force at Oanclfvhrir , and was tffecte 4 by e . detachment from General Kott ' s army under CoL Wymer . Previcus to the arriTal of Colonel Wymer ' s force , the Afyh *™! had node » < Uring attack upon the fort on the 1 st Msy , l ~ ut faftAbMn galhuiUy repulsed by the girrison under CapUfr Cteigie , with great loss . Colonel Wymer was t > .. iijt ! m jftilx him to ffrttriafrnT on the stores , guns , And Bitaibla . In the meantime , during the absence of CoL Wymert determent , an Aff ^ han force , 8 fff 0 r .: v .-4 , admaced np « n Candah&r under several chiefi , Jtfnxx JQua ^ chief of Z ^ nlndawor , Softer Japg ,

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      youngest son of Shah Soojob , and Atta Mahomed . The notion of flnd ' jig the British commander ssffiotentiy weakened by the separation of his forces , prored a woeful misVjce . Two native regiments , tha 42 d and 43 d , with artillery , were sent ont to attack them , followed r , y the Queen ' s 41 st and A&dmon ' i guns . The A * J xua were driven from seme heights they had occr . pied , and having blocked up a pass in the kills ir . their fLght , a Bevere slaughter was inflicted by th ' j British artillery and infantry , want of cavalry alone preventing the destruction from being more complef A Prince Suftur Jung , one of the chiefs , on the i ^ - ii of June , deserted by bis followers , surrendered fc ' j a prisoner .

      Orders having been given by the Governor-General to form a large •' army of reserve , " 20 , 000 strong , in the district of Sirhind ( the Seikh frontier ) nnder the Commander-lnC ! iief , Sir Jasper NichoL The object of this measure is made the ground of numberless speculations . By some it is thought a precautionary measure to overawe the Seikhs , who are alleged to have shown symptoms of deiection , while others maintain the totally opposite opinion , that the Seikhs are to take the Afghan war off oar hands , and make a territorial dismemberment of the contumacious borderers , backed by the British from within the frontier . A reinforcement of 7 , 000 Seikhs , under Colonel Golab Singh , had joined General Pollock at Jellalabad , which certainly does not look like bad faith on the part of the ruler of Lahore .

      At Cabul the AfijjhariS are said to be divided among themselves , some being eager for forming conventions and terms of amity with the British . The delays in the movement towards Cabul , since the passage of the Khyber denies by General Pollock ' s force , had been rather advantageous to Akhbar Khan , who , having placed his British priBouers in safe custody at some distance from Cabul , proceeded to attack the Bala Hissar , in which Futteh Jung , the third son of Schah Soojah , who ia looked upon as attache ! to the alliance with the British , had defended himself and his father ' s treasures with ability . The r « port of money being collected in the Bala Hissir roused the cupidity of Akhbar Khan and his followers ; they , therefore , laid seige to that fort , and completed a large mine under one of the bastions , which they blew np with snch want of skill as to kill rmmfeers of their own men . The Arabs , or

      best soldiers in the service of Fntteh Jang , being alarmed for their fimilies , of which they dreaded the elaughter from the murderous propensities of Akhbar Khan and his partisans , and terrified by the news that the British had blown up the fortifications of Khelat-a-G ~ ni . zee , prior to their final retreat from the country , induced their young Sovereign , however much against bis "will , to surrender himself , and his fort , and his treasures t » the tender mercies of the notorious Akhbar . It i 3 taid , however , that no atrocities succeeded the capture , but that the Koan offered honourable terms to Fnttth Jung , leaving him invested with the chief nominal power , and appointing himself V ; at It is suppi-eed that the British prisoners had been removed from the Tez ? en valley , and taken by Akhbar Khan btjond , near , or within the Bala Hissar , for the suppositions vary in all wajs .

      CHINA . The news from China is marked by fresh victories of tbe British forces , who had advanced from Chinhae on the lo ' . h of March , under General Sir Hugh Gough and Admiral Pork * r , upon a large Chinese force Trhich had gathered together on a strong position near the city of Tstkee , about twenty miles from Ningpo . The force was conveyed sixteen miles up the river by the steamers and boats , and then marched five miles to the city . Sir Henry PottLnger ' s circular gives the following summary of the action : —

      " The chief body of the British troops , &c , marched rennd cafcside the town , and were joined at the east gate by the escal&ding party , where the whole bad an excellent view of the Chinese forces intrenched on two distinct lofty hills in front and on the left . Arrangements were directly made for advancing to attack and dislodge them as nearly as passible at the same instant . This manotuvre succeeded admirably , and although tbe enemy disputed the possession of their Bteep and difficult position so obstinately that many instances of h&nl to hand cciibat occurred , her Majesty ' s forces gallantly aad steadily persevered in their ascent nndar an unceasing fire , until their Bummits were gained , and tha rout of the Chinese army became complete at all points , and was followed up by a pursuit which was continued till sunset .

      " Whilst these operationswere going on upon the heights , the small tteamera ( Phlegethon and Nemesis ) , accompanied by some of the boats of her Majesty ' s ships , proceeded by a branch of the main river leading in the direction of the intrenched camp , where they dtstrcyed a nnmber cf gun-boats , and fire vessels ; and shortly after , on the fugitives from the Chinese camp passing near them , they landed their small crews , and pursued them in various directions , patting a number ho , s de combat . " It is estimated that the enemy could not have lost fevrer than 1 , 000 men kiiied in these different affairs , indeptndent of great numbers that were carried off wounded , and amongst whom are known te have been many Tn ^ n ^« rinii and officers of rank .

      " Her Majesty ' s plenipotentiary bas not received the rtiurn of casualties in her Majesty ' s Land forces , but he regrets to mention that three were killed and fifteen wounded ( moet of them severely ) in the Naval Brigade . " The British forces remained the night of the 15 th in the Chinese deserted camp , and the next day , after tne necessary delay or embarting tnc wonnaed , destroyed the guns , wall pieces , and matchlocks , as well as tbe useless provisions and ammunition ; and burning the camp and barracks , the Commander-in-Chief pushed fcr wild to a second entrenched camp about seven miles from Tsekee , at the Changhe pass ; but it was found that it had been evacuated during the night , and after destroying the works , and burning everything that was ignit&ble , including the Joss-houso and other buildings , which had b = en converted into magasines or barracks , her Mvjbsty ' s forces returned to Tsekee the same evening , and to Ningpo on the 17 th . "

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      THE CAMPAIGN . The struggle still lasts ; the weavers are still unwilling to starve quietly to death at work ; they still think that they may as well die of famine in the streets as in the mills . Never was the viperous power of capital more basely exercised , and its nature more glaringly exhibited , than ia this instance . After every effort to goad and drive the people into acts of -violence which might furnish a pretext for slaughtering them has

      been foiled by the prudence and forbearance of the people , even the very sympathies and kindly fceling 3 of humanity are fiercely warred with by the monsters that the labourer may be trodden down . The pres 3 teems with remonstrances to shopkeepers , publicans , and others , upon the folly and wickedness of giving money or provisions to the starving Etrugglers against the vampire power of wealth ; and that no means might be lacking to cut off the supplies , the following proclamation has been posted upon the walls of Manchester : —

      " Whereas parties are going about on the highways and streets for the purpose cf begging and collecting contributions ; notice is hereby given to all such persons , that the above practice is illegal ; and the constables are hereby requested to take immediate steps for the apprehension of all persons guilty of such effence , in order that they may be dealt with according to law . " The above document is signed by a number of Magistrates who are principally manufacturers , and members of the League .

      And thas do the " authorities" of a civilized and Christian country give evidence that they regard the peaceful asking of their neighbours for as much of bread as may stay famine , in return for labour , as a warlike declaration . They look upon the poor weavers , seeking an advance of wages , as an enemy ' s army , whom it is their duty to harass at all points , and when they can ' t force them into battle , to starve to death , by " catting off their supplies . "

      Is ever was a more heartless , cold-blooded , abrogation of everything which should pertain to human nature , than this proclamation of the Manchester millocrat magistrates . Bat if the conn try—if the shopkeepersif every man who is not a millocrat and a magistrate , be not as heartless and cold-blooded as the men whose names appear to this document ; the infamous proclamation will proclaim merely the impotence of those who issued it .

      The poor " lads , " noble fellowB 1 are still not discouraged ; they are too determined to give in , and too prudent to permit a villainous advantage to be taken of them . The proclamation has therefore been responded to by the following address of the power loom weavers and overlookers , to the trades in gene * ral , and the sympathizing public : — " We , the General Committee , in appealing to the sympathy of oar friends , 'wish it most distinctly to be understood that we shall consider it oar duty to carry

      out those plans most conducive to oar cause , We are sorry to find , in doing to , we shall have to lay before a generous public the proceedings of the authorities of this tewn , as they are using any and every means in their power to eompel as , either by starvation or intimidation , to return te our labour at tbe reduced prices . No sooner had we formed our plans for soliciting yonr aid , indeed before we could get this oixcolar into type , than they issued a placard to defeat our object ; and in this placard we are entirely prohibited from , soliciting your

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      aid , —yet -we hope you will , by your actions , show to them and to all oar enemies tbe opinion you entertain of their proceedings—and show to the public at large , that you are determined to ' Stand by the cause of the poor . * " It ia the intention of the Committee to keep from all collision with those who may wish to monopolize our right * . And therefore we lay before you tbe subject as It stands , requesting those parties who can make it a matter of convenience , to bring to tha Committee whatever their generosity may think proper ; and those who

      cannot , will be kind enough to signify their intention to the individuals whom we authorise to call for this circular , and in order to detect any fraud , they will exhibit to you an ' impress' by the same stamp as that on this circular ; all that do not are impostors , and such as we do not recognize . The time and place of eur meeting is from ten in the morning , until two in the afternoon ; and from six to nine In the evening , at Mr . Fallows ' s Temperance Hotel , Oak-street , Swan-street , Manchester . " By Order of the Committee . "

      This appeal , simple , touching , and eloquent in its simplicity , needs no commendation to those who have hearts to feel ; they will take care that the starving camp shall nob be broken up by famine ; that the rich shall not thus heartlessly and mercilessly lord it over the poor . If this does not try the temper and character of the middle classes , nothing will . We have lately bad much fuss about their sympathy with the poor , and about the necessity of a onion with them to ensure general prosperity . We' shall see by the manner in which this appeal is answered at what rate they themselves value such a union .

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      HOW TO CONVICT LEACH

      It is seldom that tyranny lacks long the tools wherewith to work , in its vocation of destroying public liberty . There are always to be found enow of scamps , fools , or traitors , who , for the sake of gain , or to indulge their spiteful personal malignity , or to shew off their powers of discrimination , or from the combined action of all these motives , will ( either knowingly or unknowingly ) , do its bidding with most mischievous alacrity . If the object of tyranny be to obtain , against some thorn

      in faction ' s side , a legal conviction of some alleged offence , no matter how baseless may be the accusation , there are two ways by which the object sought may be attained . One is , the procuring and adducing of such evidence as , true or untrue , shall bring home the charge , and furnish a colourable substantiation . The other is the so placing of the matter before that class of society from which the Jury comes as necessarily to induce a confirmed opinion and foregone conclusion on the matter before they come to the trial at all .

      We know few men who have more sorely pestered faction than James Leach . His quiet firmnefs of character , and his unanswerable argumentative lectures , alike annoying to the trade monopolists on the one hand , and to the land monopolists on the other , exposing the conspiracy of each party , and the joint conspiracy of both parties , to rob labour of its due reward , and to appropriate the produce of industry , have made Leach an object not less of fear than hatred to both Whigs and Tories . They have been long panting for his destraction . Hor has he stood alone in tbe truly enviable position of being thas the " marked man" of faotion . The bold uncompromising energy of

      M'Douall , raising the spirit of the people by deolamation as Leach enlightened their judgment b / argument and statistical inquiry , caused him to be Hot less feared , and not less hated . Never was auspicious moment waited for more anxiously than that which should give these "two men into the power of faotion . Others there were , especially Cooper and White , who in their own localities , had the merit of being just as much feared and hated ; but Leach and M'Douall , as members of the Executive , had a more general and extensive field of operation , as well as a more important and responsible position ; and it might be reasonably expected , therefore , that more anxiety would be manifested to clutch them .

      There never was on our minds a doubt ( and if there had been the events of the last month would have surely served to dissipate it ) that the " strike" was a deep plot : one of its objects being to throw the meshes of a net around the Chartist Leaders , and © epooioUy around those man . Whether or no we have been right in that opinion is , to our present subject of inquiry , unimportant . In any case the opportunity was too good to be neglected . Amid the confusion created by the "League " scoundrels , Leach and M'Douall must be laid hold of ; and means must be had whereby to ensure their

      destruction . And to effect this both the means above spoken of have been brought into requisition . Direct evidence has been sought to be established against Leach , by means of foul , deliberate , and notorious perjury . The wretch , M'Kekna , swearing with all circumstantial minuteness , to facts which thousands knew to have no existence but in his own invention ; while the two boys , apprentices of Turner , are , in defiance of the constitution and of all law upon the subject , in defiance of all honesty , and to the shameless robbery of their master , kept up in prison , doubtless that they may be drilled and

      schooled , and teased , and tortured into the parrotting of such statements as shall be manufactured for them , or insinuated into them , for tke purpose of ensuring the oonviction , not so much of their own master , as of Leach and M'Douall , upon the paltry , blackguard charge of " conspiracy" in reference to the alleged seditious and inflammatory document . The wretches have sense enough to see that , after all , they may fail . The perjurer , M'Kenna , falls far short of doing all that is wanted to be done . He manages , even if his perjury be swallowed , only to

      prove Leach s presence at a meeting in Carpenters ' Hall , where he exhorted the people to be peaceable . His evidence (!) does not at all touoh M'Douall . The two are wanted , and wanted to be destroyed at once . Hence the placard , issued by some one in the name of the Executive , ia laid hold of as a god-send ; and though there is nothing in the document that any honest man oould call seditious , that is a matter of no consequence : they will find no difficulty in making it seditious , if they can but succeed in fathering its authorship and publication upon Leach and M'Douall . And hence the false and

      illegal imprisonment of Mr . Turner ' s boys—an outrage so glaring , that it has called forth even from the Tory Morning Herald the following strong and very just expression of opinion : — "A man named Turner is charged with having printed a seditious placard . * * * This man , it appears , had two apprentices , who were also seisad by the police ; not as pariiceps criminis with their master , but as witnesses against him . They axe seised , and

      secluded under lock and key ; without any charge whatever against them , and for the avowed purpose of torturing them by imprisoumant into a proper frame of mind for disclosing the supposed secrets of their master ' s business . Let it be observed that there was no magistrate ' s warrant for this , and that Sir Charles Shaw , the chief Police Commissioner of the distriat , denies all knowledge ef it ; and yet by one of the subaltern officers nnder tbe controul of himself and Mr . Maude , has this gross outrage beeu committed .

      " Now one would have thought that Mr Maude would have stepped a little out of the lino of hia strict duty , if it was necessary , to have brought that kidnapping policeman to hie senses ; for the fool in his over-anxiety to secure , has taken the sorest numn « to thwart the ends of public justice . He la poisoning tha very evidenoe he ia so anxious to preserve immaculate ; for no juryman , with a grain of aenae , would convict a master upon revelations extorted from hia apprentices by arbitrary imprisonment . No jaryman , who understands hia doty to ' well and teuly try , ' would hang &

      dog ufon evidence ao procured . The excuse U , that if ths apprentices were allowed to be at large , they might be "tampered with ; ' but ia there any tampering like that of tbe lock and key 1 We care not whether theee youths are being dieted into the truth upon prison fare , or whether they are being fattened into confession upon roast beef and strong beer . Any way and every way in which the case may be turned , it has a bad aspect ; and Mx . Maude most be judicially blind not te have seen what an ugly look it mast have in toe eyes of every RngH «* m »> n . "

      Nothing can be clearer than the obj « ct of the false imprisonment of Mr . Turner ' s boys . It is that , right or wrong , they may be made to implicate Leach and M'Douall in the issuing of this address . That done , the work of tyranny is done ; as they themselves will give to the address whatever cha-

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      racter they please to ascribe to it . But the rogues may fail ia this ; there is yet no evidence that either Leach or M'Douall had anything whatever to do with that address ; and it may be that evon Mr . Turner ' s boys may be proof against all the infernal maneuvering and management to which they are subjected . The attempt to obtain direct evidence may fail ; and therefore the next best means for securing a verdict is resorted to . The case is unblushingly prejudged already ; the so-called seditious (!) document , ( ooncooted , for ought that yet appears in evidenee to the contrary , by the League themselves .

      who concocted the Strike , and issued in the name of the Executive , ) is published by all the Whig and Tory press as "The Address of the Executive "; commented upon as Buoh ; denounced as such . It is well known to every body that Leach and M'Douall are members of the Executive , and oonsequeutly that if this be the address of the Executive , it must be their address , and they must have issued it . The villains know this to be the only inference which can be drawn , and hence the whole factious press * from one end of the Kingdom to the other , has , ever since

      the address was issued , on account of which this conspiracy charge is hashed up , identified that and the Executive together . It has been taken for granted , without the least inquiry , and as & thing that could not be disputed , that the Executive did issue the address in question . No question has been made about this ; it is deliberately talked of on all hands , as a fact ; nobody is allowed to think otherwise ; it is treated as a perfectly settled thing , that , whatever maybe the character of the address , seditious or otherwise , it is the address of the Executive , and they did issue it , though their names do not appear to it .

      There is deep craft and deep villany in all this . The rascals know well what the formularies of the trial are to be . They know that Leach , and M'Douall if they can catch him , will be tried by Jurorsjseleoted from the middle classthe parties by whom their villanous trash is read ; and they know that when the case comes before these , Jurors , the main point to be decided will be whether the address was issued by Leach and M'Douall , as members of the Executive ? and hence their careful labour that the whole class of jurymen shall have no chance of being otherwise than satisfied in their minds , before coming to the

      trial at all , that this address , whatever may be its character , was certainly issued by the Executive , and is to be regarded as their address . To this one point the whole of the middle class press has lent itself incessantly ever since the charge was hashed up , and by no one portion of that press has this foregone conclusion , and prejudging of the case , been so industriously insisted on as by the British Statesman . His letter of the " Old Chartist" was the least of his efforts in this way . Take from his paper of the present week the following paragraph—not from a correspondent , not a stray note of news , but written Editorially : —

      " We should not have concurred in the Executive ' s address , believing the country to be unprepared to act upon it . At tbe same time , we did not blame them for it , nor do we now blame them , seeing that they have the same right to act upon their own judgment and experience that we claim to act upon our ' a . But admitting their perfect right * to issue the address , we think they were decidedly wrong in not putting their names to it They either ought not to have issued the address at all , or issuing it , they ought to have put their names to it "

      Now let the people ask themselves what is likely to be the effect of that paragraph upon the minds of the middle-olass readers of kthe Statesman , the Jurors who are to try whether the address in question be the address of the Exeoutive or not ! Can as many of them as put any faith in James O'Brien , do otherwise than come to the trial with the conviction already settled in their minds ! Will they not , of necessity , suppose that O'Brien is , from bis position , likely to know all about it , and that , from his mode of writing , he does know all about it ; and will they not , almost of necessity , seeing this in

      O'Brien ' s paper , conclude that what he styles" the Executive ' s address" is , beyond all doubt , the Executive ' s A ddress 1 And will they not , therefore , be likely to set that point down for granted , whether there be evidence to prove it or not ! Is it possible that Jame 3 O'Brien is so senseless as not to see that this must be its effect 1 Was it stolidity or villany which prompted the writing of this paragraph ? Had this been the only paragraph of the kind we might in mere charity have supposed the former ; but it is not bo ; again and again the thing is spoken of with the most perfect sang froid as the "Executive ' s

      address . " No donbt seems to exist upon O'Brien ' s mind , and he seems particularly anxious that the Jury should have no doubt upon the matter . To any mind but that of one anxious to prejudge the case , and to prejudice the accused , it is reasonable to think that the very fact so strongly censured by O'Brien would have suggested a doubt whether this document was ever issued by the Executive at all * It was nameless 1 It has not been the habit of the Exeoutive to issue documents in that maaner . They have never been previously known to put forth any document without their names . There is nothing

      in their character or in their conduct to expose them to a charge of pusillanimity . Nothing which could induce any man who knew them to suppose that they would flinch from any position they might choose to take—nothing whioh could justify any man in the presumption that they would , at an important time like this , deviate from the steadiness aad prudence of their usual course . We repeat , then , that the very fact of the document being unsigned ought to have been , by a Chartist writer , regarded as presumptive evidence in favour of the accused ; and the more especially so

      in the absence of every tittle of direct evidence to conneot the Executive with this address at all . With as much eagerness , however , as the most savage Tory bloodhound could evince , O'Brien set himself to tear away this prop from under the feet ef poor Leach . He is not content with jumping to the conclusion that it must , of course , be " the Executive ' s Address . " He is not content with inducing that conclusion on the minds of others , by thus familiarly characterizing and speaking of it . AU this had been done by the more honest press in the direct service of the factions . O'Brien leaves them far behind . He sets on his

      coward " bully , " the Old Chartist , " in the first instance , to raise a cry oi cowardice against the Executive ; and when he finds this dodge to fail , " £ e turns to work himself , and tries to eke out the charge by asking why they did not put their names to the address they issued % ! ! The fact , of there being no proof that they did issue it , he does not choose to see . We know not whether this may have any connexion with his brutal attack upon poor Leach , at the Hall of Science , in Manchester , some months ago , and with the humbling which he received at the hands of Leach before the meeting ; we know not whether it may have any reference to his blackguard treatment of Leach in the

      Convention , and on other occasions . We know not , we say , whether this hounding on of the Jurors to a foregone conclusion , may be another instance of the villanous malignity and petty vengefulness whioh especially distinguishes his character , or whether it arises from a mere blundering incapability of seeing the probable effect of his own acts . In either ease the effect remains the same . If the blood-money for M'D tUAXL has been doubled , and if he should eventuall y , in consequence thereof , be taken , and if he and Lkach shall be convicted of having issued this same address , the country will be indebted for the loss of their services to Jambs O'Bbibn , so far , at least , as the talent and influence of that grateful gentleman have enabled him to play his part .

      And now we suppose that the people most be pretty well satisfied with the vagaries of the starved wiper , James O'Beikn . At all events , we can assure them that we are quite satisfied ; and we promise our readers that as far as we are concerned ,

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      they shall have no farther annoyance from or on account of him . We think with honest Coopbb , whom the coward ruffian still loads , even in his living tomb , with his abuse , that "it ia time for every man to stand without a mask , " and however hateful might be the duty of tearing off the mask from such a face , we saw it to be a duty , and shrunk not from its performance when we perceived how much the Bafety of our best men and our cause itself required it . 'Tis the last notice of the viper we shall ever take , beyond the insertion of Mr . O'Connor ' s promised letter , if he send it .

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      A . B . —We have no room . The Female Chartists of London . —Susanna Inge calls urgently on all her Sister Chartists of the metropolis to attend a general meeting of the Females' Association , on Tuesday , the 13 / A of September , at eight o ' clock in the evening , for the purpose of taking into consideration some rules and regulations which will be brought forward for the better organization of the Association , and to assist in carrying out the principles of our glorious Charier . She requests , also , that the arrears of subscription may come up , as the money to the Executive will be due on the 15 / A . Montpklier Tavern Tea Party . —Tf \ e Committee request all persons indebted for tickets , either for

      the tea or the theatre , to pay the secretary immediately ; as they purpose to publish a list of the defaulters . Samuel Sidebottom . —If his letter was intended f or insertion it should have been directed for the Editor , and not for Mr . O'Connor . Mr . O'Connor ' s letters are invariably forwarded to him , we can , therefore , say nothing about the letter to which he refers , save that we know nothing of it . B . M'Donald . —We have no room for the letter of his friend . Greenwich and Deptford Chartists . —The best thing to be done with the viper is to forget him . He has no power to sting if the people do not give it him .

      William Ellis , Brighton . —You must employ an attorney . A Lover of all Men writes , strongly advising the different associations , clubr , <§•

      honour to tnvtte him , especially to the Chartists of Llanidloes , Bristol , Royston , Halifax , Bradford , Bingley district , Hull , Malton , Barnsley , Ipiioich , Ashton- under-Lync , Huddersfield , York , Nottingham , § c . fyc . Bradfed Chartists . —Masons' Arms . —We have no room for their address . Armstrong Walton must excuse us—we have not

      room . William Blyth . —TF

      report that Mr . Sutcliffe had , while acting as special constable , given to the magistrates a list of the names of the enrolled Chartists of his locality . Mr . Greenwood stated that he had been so informed , but did not believe it . He declined to give up his author at present ; but promised to do so hereafter . Mr . Sutcliffe concludes : —''/ now call upon Mr . William Greenwood , of Yate House , in Midgley , to meet me , and bring any person , or quantity of persons , that he may think proper , at the house of Mr . George Bedford , the Shoulder of Mutton Inn , in Midgley , on Wednesday , the \ ith instant , at seven o ' clock in the evening . I will be there to answer to any question , from any man , arid may God defend the right ; and may eternal infamy be the portion of

      the traitor . James Oak . es , Kingston-upon-Thame 3 . —His letter should have been sent to Mr . Cook , of Dudley . Probably the 7 s . sent to him , and the 3 s . adver-Used in Star , may be different sums . A . M . —Received . A Regular Subscriber , Oldkim . —We have stated some twenty times , that we never do , and never will , answer questions for the deciding of wagers . Mr . Hitchin , Kidderminster , —Let the thing atone ; it will die of itself . John Rogers , Bristol , must address Mr . Campbell : we have no authority to alter Mr . Campbell ' s report . The •* Old Chartist . "— We have received the following : —

      "TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR .. " Sir , —In your Paper of Saturday I&st , you charge me with being the writer of a letter which appeared in the British Statesman of the previous week , and signed 'An Old Chartist / "I shall feel obliged if you will favour me with your authority for making such charge . ' ¦ " Youra respectfully , "Frederick Warren . - " Manchester , Sept . 6 , 1842 . " Our authority is Mr . Frederick Warren , of Manchester and the best evidence that can be o ffe red is the above letter . Laneside Chartists . —A licensed place of worship is , bylaw , exempt from payment of rates and

      taxes , except \ t be used for some lay or secular purpose , involving profit to the parties . Its occasional occupation for charitable purposes does not mike it liable ; but if it be used for any purposes by which profit accrues , that would be holden to render it liable to the rates . The pinch would be just whether the solons would consider the sick club a charitable or a profitable using of the room . Our friends would , we think , do well to dispute their liability to the rate ; employ an attorney , and try the case on its merits . They ought to get clear ; but they must remember that we have , in fact , no law , savethe dictum of the so-called " authoi ities . " The Chartists of Clitheroe , not knowing Mr .

      Campbell's address , wish te know if he has received a letter from them , dated \ 5 th August , with 10 s . enclosed , as it has not been acknowledged in the" Star . " J . L . A ., Amblerthorn . —We cannot insert his letter . The disgraceful scenes he describes are sufficiently lamentable—the more so as the actors in them are " professors of religion" par excellence ; but their recital is not within the compass ef our ordinary cognizance . George Henry Smith . — We have , in all conscience , had enough of thei starved viper . It is needless to dive further into the dark catalogue . Let him

      wallow in hts own ' cess-pool till its filthy waters suffocate him . W . H . Dyott , 27 , A " . King-street , Dublin , has to gratefully acknowledge , on behalf of the people of Ireland favourable to democracy , the continued Javours of his English friends who continue to supply him wiih their blare . He is sorry that duties of an arduous nature preclude , for the present , the possibility of his answering personally several kind communications . The Army at a Discount . — . 4 correspondent at Nottingham , who gives his name , has sent us , under this heading , for publication , a letter ,

      from which we give Ote following paragraph : — " It will be remembered that when a number of starving people were assembled on Mapperly Hills , near Nottingham , to enjoy a meal in peace ; that they were attacked by the police and soldiers , just as the provisions which had been liberally provided by the town ' s people , were coming in sight , and that they took about 500 prisoners ; but the object which it would appear they bad in view was not known until exposed by men who were taken . After they were placed in the House of Correction , they were visited by a recruiting party . They were taken when suffering from tbe most acute pangs of hanger ; they were degraded as far

      as possible by being driven to a prison , and with the prospect of impending punishment hanging over them as a terror ; and then they were promised liberty if they would enter the army , and that they should have plenty of bread and beef . Here , then , we have the honour of being a British soldier , surrounded , as they said , by the comforts of life , placed in juxtaposition with destitution , the degradation of a prism , and the terror qf further punishment ; and these m « n have declared by their eonduct , that , bad as their situation was , it was preferable to the honour of being in the British army . Have not the Midlers placed themselves in an enviable position 1 Is not tbeir ' a an honourable occupation ? 1 Who will not now enter the army t !"

      We can scacely credit this statement . We believe that the person who sent it us would notknowinly write us what was untrue ; but we hope that such an amount of baseness is not predicable even of the factions under whom we live . If any parties wearing her Majesty ' s uniform have thus acted , we must suppose that they have done it unauthorised by their officers or by the magisterial authoriiie $ . We deem it right , however , as our correspondent speaks positively , that his statement should go forth ; while we think that there must te some mutake about it .

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      Thomas Buck . —We know nothing ^ iii tit ' tWA wr ite to Mr . Cleave , He detvet us to toy that Mr . Campbell will lecture on Sunday , the } $ th but does not say where . James Wares , West Bromwich . —We have no room for the animadversions on the Methodiit preacher ' s prayer . Let the poor fellow alone : it is probably nothing but his ignorance . The stupid notion that ministers should not meddle with politics keeps , we doubt not , many a good man in fear and hatred of Chartism , because he knows not what it is . R . II . —Six months .

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      Those Agents who wera desired to send Cash lui week , and have not dene so , will not receive their Plates till they balance their Accounts , and will not receive any Papers after this date till such Account be settled . Thosb Agents who receive both Plates in one pareel , will give T . Dancombe on tbe 19 th of November . D . Turner . —Those at Mr . Watson ' s are back Portraits , price 7 hi . The Petition and Dancombe are not yet sent off , but will both be sent in ene par , eel , as parcels to Ireland are so expensive .

      The Petiiion Plate will be delivered to the Subscribers at Bradford , Halifax , Hull , Huddersfield » Keighley , Bingley , Wakefield , Horbury , Dawsbury * York , and some otber places in Yorkshire , on Saturday next , the 17 th instant . The sooner the . other Agents send word how they are to be Bent ,. the sooner they will receive them . Wm . Worger . —The li . 6 d . was received , and th » Plates will be sent as soon as they are ready for . distribution . They have not yet been received , from the printer .

      FOR MASON AND OTHERS , STAFFORDSHIRE . £ B . d . From the Female Chartists of Daventry ... 0 8 Q Charter Association , Holbeck , per J . Davis ... .... 0 2 0 FOR THE EXECUTIVE . From T . Mills , London ... ... 0 2 2 ,. W . R ., Leeds ... ... ... 0 0 & FOR MRS . HOLBERUY . From the Chartists of Keigbley ... 1 3 S ^ Mr . Clatkson , Bradford ... 0 10 0 FOR Defence of the prosecuted Chartist Leaders , and for the the prosecution of the perjured wretch of Manchester— ¦ - . Collected by T . Tevers , Huddersfield ...... 7 a . ' Ditto in the Association room , ditto ......... 9 &

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      Friends , —It must be painful to every sincere Chartist to observe the constant bickering that is kept up by our most prominent leaders , men who above all others ought to set an example of onion . Nothing tends to weaken a popular cause more than division amongst the leaders , for it not only keeps many from joinin g * but drives many from our ranks . I am led to make these observations by the

      disgraceful and " treacherous" manner m which Mr . O'Brien has attacked Mr . O'Connor , in his two last papers , the Statesman . Disgraceful , inasmuch as he ought to have been certain of the truth of the letter he inserted , signed " An Old Chartist ;"_ treacherous , inasmuch as it goes directly in opposition to the resolution moved by Mr . O'Brien in Convention , binding the Chartist press to insert no charge against any man until a meeting had been called , and the person charged had been invited , and the charge proved against him .

      No meeting was called in Manchester to investigate the charge , —and this the ** Old Chartist , " or rather Old Scoundrel , knew . Yes , that man is a scoundrel who will write anything reflecting on the character of a public man , knowing it to be false ! O , but Mr . O'Brien says , the man has probably been imposed on himself . " Nonsense : he is equally a scoundrel to write that which he did not know to be true . I would take this opportunity to ask a few questions , which I think ought to be answered to set this subject at rest , for I see no sense in the people spending their hard-earned money to get information , and yet find the papers which ought to instruct them exhibiting nothing but bickerings and dissensions amongst leaders .

      I am of the opinion expressed by Dr . M'Donall in Convention , that if the cause is to be continually injured by the disputes of two of our leaders , let us , in the name of God , cast them from us until they have settled them . It would be an important duty of the Conference to endeavour to put aside such disgraceful proceedings . O'Brien admits he has been imposed upon by the u Old Chartist , " and that all he has wrote is false , and calls upon the friends of the injured parties to " denounce the slanderer" —denounce who 1 who can they " denounce" under an ambiguous name % what will he care for that if the parties do not know him ! Tell his name , O'Brien , if you have been imposed

      upon—you owe him no respect . But O'Brien has no right to complain about being imposed upon if he allows the Chartists to be imposed upon by him , for , says O'Brien , ** if I was to give up his name O'Connor's party oould injure him in his business ; " so it appears he is depending upon O'Connor ' s party for support , whilst he is doing what he can to iDJura them , and this . O'Brien allows . Did not Bronterre support the recommendation to exclusive dealing I This is a time for union , and it becomes the duty of the people to look after their own cause , and endeavour to keep our leaders united . We ought to have no " parties "; no O'Connor ' s party , or O'Brien ' s party , but one party , and that freedom ' s party .

      Our enemies have their disputes in counoil , bat theirs are only on the best way to put us down ; the only disputes of our leaders ought to be the best way of gaining our freedom . O'Brien states that he has shewn to certain parties that favour which O'Connor would see him M d—d before" he would shew to him . Did O'Connor Bee Hetherington d—d before he would insert his blackguard letters ? No ; and the greatest fault I can find in O'Connor is the insertion of such blackguard epistles as certain persons have from time to time sent to the Star . O'Brien has failed to answer the letter of the Manchester Chartists : assertions are not proofs , and he has indulged in nothing else . The question is not whether O'Connor has behaved kind or unkiad to O'Brien , but whether he has acted traitorously to the Chartist cause ; and he has thai

      yot to prove . Tbe questions I would ask are as follows ' . — 1 st . Did O'Brien , in Convention , move a resolution , condemning the denunciation of Chartist leaders through tbe press , without first having the charge proved i If so , he has broken his own resolution . . 2 nd . Did Mr . O'Connor , in Convention , promisd O'Brien the columns of the Sldr to set himself ngM with the public , and did he ever attempt to ar&u himself of it ! If it was offered , and he did not accept it , then he has no right to complain . # ^ ; 3 rd . Did the conversation take place which m-O'Connor stated to have passed between him ana O'Brien at Birmingham , and Mr . O'Brien Btates . m last week's Statesman , was manufactured by Mr-O'Connor , and is consequently a lie f

      Mr . Porter will feel himself interested in answering that question as it purported to have passes u his house and in his company . . Brother Chartists , it is your duty to see tnoet things set right , and not allow your beat and most disinterested leaders to be injured , and distrust created in our ranks , without great cause ; let us fro p this day bury in oblivion , all suoh disgraceful pw . ceedings , and let ns commence a fresh course )! action , by concentrating aU our energies in behatt w principle and not men ; and then , instead of as » present seeing five or six columns of your press t »* w up in personal warfare , we may hope to seetneo teeming with information to the inquiring , and interesting intelligence to the people , that the dsy « their salvation is at hand . This can only be done p y union , to promote which Bhall be the constant aim of your brother Chartist , Edward Bdrlet . York , Sept . 6 th , 1852 .

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      CARLISLE . —Iu consequence of a very abusiw article which appeared in the Whig newspapa here , the Carlisle Journal , attributing the striw and all its consequences to Mr . O'Connor , and »*• G . H . Head , banker here , who took a mwtapgj part during the foolish and Billy parade pi wp yeomanry cavalry , whioh , bnt for this h umane P ^ tleman ' s exertions , might have led to most ser ««» oonsetuences , the Chartist Association have pw »" andpubliehedthe following resolution :- That tM sincere and heartfelt thanks of this meeting are m and are hereby given , to G . H . Head , Esq , baM »' Carlisle , for hia humane and prompt endeavown * allay the excited feelings of the people , on ; t nesday , August 23 rd , and prevent them from coouwj into collision with the military , whose P ^ Sfv ^ n . uncalled-for display , might jbat for this tuBeiT /"

      terfersnoe ) have led to the most disastrous ; an | ^ r fid consequences . Whilst this meeting jwarf »¦« just meed of praise to the said G . H . He * Ji ** £ they cannot but express the disgust and in < C )? Ti *^ they feel at a most villanous advantage biwioK ° " £ taken of certain expressions in his addressw _ . working classes , by the Editor df M .. ' SfZ Journal , in an artde headed * The Ment ^ P ] S , Strike , " wherein he most unjustly attri ?< w ^ . Strike to the said G . H . Head and . Fett ^ VX a nor , Esquires , who had no more to ' MWf&Ztgi the man in the moon . This meeting beg * W ^ a hope , that a consciousness of the wtej ^ tT ^ & . motives and uprightness of his conduct , w «* ^ courage the said G . H . H « td , ^ ' ' Mrf ^ his feeling and benevolent career , in Pwirii . jna * distressed poor of Carlisle—regardless & _ b ? ¦ . ^ lignant sneers , and low personal aounluJi ^ . mean and dastardly tool of » disappointed »» graded faotion . "

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 10, 1842, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct615/page/4/