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    • Closing of Pbisons fob Debt.—The metropolitan prisons for debt have, within the last few days, presented a different appearance to what they have
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    • ASK FOR THE ENGLISH CHARTIST CIRCULAR!
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      Now on Sale , Price Three-pence , THE E'OOR MAN'S COMPANION FOR 1843 , A . POLITICAL ALMANACK , Shewing the i ' mount and application of the Taxes raised from th . ' Industry of the Producing Classes ; and c staining a great amount of VALUABLE STATISTICAL INFORMATION . ' . contents : — THE Calendar , denoting , amongst other things , the various important epochs connected with Political Movements . —The Corn Returns , showing the Average Price of Wheat , Barley , and Oats , for the last seven years . — The New Corn Law Sliding Scale for Wheat , Barli y , Oats , and Wheaten Flour . —The amount of Spiritt ¦ and Wine consused ia each of the three Kingdoms during the last year with the amount of Duty ^ aid . —Important Statistics respecting the United Stages ; setting forth the valu » of their Annual Productions in Agriculture , Horticulture , the Forest , the Fisheries , in Mines , and in . Manufactures . —The PopuU tioa of each Cooaty ia England , Scotland and Wales , according to tbe new census , showing tho number of Male ? &nd Femoles-in each county '; with a summary , setting-ibrth the total population of the United Kingdom . The employment of the population ; an Analysis of Occupations ; being a complete refutation of the notion ; that the main body of the people are engaged in , or dependant on , Manufactures . —The progressive increase of ; the Population at each of the " Seven Ten-Yearly Periods since 1780 . —The population of New South Wales , with an analysis of the number of Males and Females , and the number of coavicts and free persons . —Table showing the annual value of Real Property in England aud Wales , in 1641 , distinguishing the value of Landed Property , Property in Buildings , and all other kinds of Property , in each County ; setting forth also the amount of Poor Rate levied in each County in 1841 ; the area-of each County in English Statute Acres ; the annual value of each acre ; and the annual value of . Property in 1815 . —Application of the information contained in the Baid table to the question of the "National Debt ; " Amount of the Debt r and how it may be paid off 11—Price of Labour , and Price of Provisions in Olden Times ; extracts from old Acts of Parliament , fixing the rate of wages and the price of provisions ; proof that the labours * . was Men cared for , and his welfare considered ; picture of England and Englishmen under the old laws , by Old Chancellor Fobthsquk ; and picture of England and Englishmen under the new laws of "Freedom of aotion , " by the " great" Lancashire Cotton Manufacturers , and the Leeds Shopkeepers . — Amount of Taxes raised during tbe last year ; and a > statement of their Expenditure . —Table showing the cost of the debt , the cost of the Army , the cost of the Navy , the cost of the Ordnance , the cost of the Civil List , the cost of " Secret Service , " tho cost of Suffering Parsons , the cost of prosecuting Felons , the co 9 t of maintaining Convicts , and the cost of all other charges , in every year from 1800 to 1842 ; with a general statement of the total amount of money spent by Government during that period . England ' s Expenditure at onb View ; or a table setting forth the average cost of each year , and the average cost of each reign , of every monarch front ' the accession of William the Conqueror to the death of the last King ; William IV ., with a statement of the amount of debt each monarch left unpaid ; and showing ' also the total governmental Expenditure from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1830 . 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Taxes raised in Great Britain , with the amount of Parochial Assessments , and the number of Committals for Crime in every year of that same period , —from 1798 to 1841 .-being , in . fact , England ' s Degradation at a Glance ! The whole compiled from Parliamentary and other documents . BY JOSHUA HOBSON . In a neat pocket volume , of sixty four close ! j printed pages , price three-Pence only ! Printed and Published by J . Hobson , 6 . Marketstreet , Leeds ; and 3 , Market-walk , Huddersfield . London / Publisher , J . Cleave , 1 , Shoe-lane , Fleetstreet . Manchester : A . Heywood , 60 , Oldhamstreet .

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      PRICE ONE PENNY . CONTENTS of Part Eight , Price sixpence : — \ J O'Connor ' s Letters on the Land—Sketches of the French Revolution by Pro Chartist—Speech of Pat Henry , the Orator of Amerioan Independence—Horrors of Transportation—Spy System and Blood Money—Lecture , by W . Jones , ( lately confined in Leicester Gaol )—What is Blasphemy f—An Address from the Poles—The Movement , by J . C . La Mont —Italy and the Operative Classes—Life of Washington—Letters , By T . B . Smith—Several Chartist Addreemn , including * & ua 0 *"" tile D * ccn »>'" Poetry , &o ., &o . " We have been watching , with interest and delight , the progress of'The English Chartist Circular ; ' a large sheet , filled with sound wisdom and no trash , for One Halfpenny . This is of itself , enough to break the rest of Tyranny , and destroy the slumbers of the luxurious few with uucomfortab . ' edreams . " Northern Star . " An immense mass of reading , four folio pages , each containing twelve columns , for a halfpenny ; the work being conducted with shrewd vigour . "—Spectator . *' This work is conducted with considerable ability , thousands have hailed it with delight . "— Weekly Dispatch . The work can be had in Monthly Parts , 6 d . each . EMMETT AND IRELAND ; an interesting Memoir from authentic sources , of the lamented Patriot Robert Emmett , incidentally detailing the Origin , Progress , and disastrous Termination of the Irish Insurrection , 1803 , &o . Embellished with a splendid steel engraved Portrait . This edition includes the Trial , celebrated Speech , &c . &c . " This little work is calculated to keep in remembrance the name of one who felt , and felt deeply , his country ' s wrongs ; a man who , in endeavouring to redress them , fell a sacrifice to the schemes of the most blood-thirsty faction that ever governed , or rather misgoverned , Ireland , We hope the book may have an extended circulation . "— Weekly Dispatch . Also now publishing , THE LABOURER'S LIBRARY , No . 1 , price One Penny . The Right of the Poor to the Suffrage of the People ' s Charter ; or the Honesty and Justice of the principle of Universal Suffrage , established and maintained by the late William Cobbett , M . P . for Oldham . Together with Mr . Cobbett ' s Address to the Farmers and Tradesmen of England , on their Treatment of the Poor . Reprinted from Cobbett ' s " Twopenny Trash . " Second edition . Third Edition . THE LABOURERS' LIBRARY , Nob . 2 and 3 . price Twopence . "The Land" the only remedy for National Poverty and impending National Ruin ; How to get it ; and How to use it . By Feargus O'Connor , -Esq ., Barrister at Law , and prisoner ( for libel ) in York Castle . Addressed to the Landlords of Ireland . " " A true labourer earns that he eats ; gets that he wears ; owes no man hate ; envies no man's happiness ; elad of other men ' s good ; content under bis own privations ; and his chief pride is in the modest comforts of his condition . "—Shakspere . THE LABOURERS'LIBRARY , No . 4 , price One Penny . Government and Society considered in relation to First Principles . By John Francis Bray . Reprinted from " Labour ' s Wrong ' s and Labour ' s Remedy . " Just published , price 2 s . 12 mo ., bound in cloth . FIFTEEN LESSONS on the ANALOGY and SYNTAX of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE , for the use of Adult Persona who have neglected the study of Grammar . By William Hill . Also , price One Shilling , bound ia cloth , PROGBESSIVE EXERCISES , Selected from the Best English Authors , and so arranged as to accord with the Progressive Lossona in the foregoing work . By W . Hill , Also , price Sixpence . THE GRAMATJCAL TEXT BOOK , for the use of Schools ; in whi ^ h the bare naked principles of grammar , expKSs&a as concisely as possible , are exhibited for thftBieer . ory . THE NEW BI , ACK LIST ; or Comparative Tables of Alkwa / jces to Rich and Poor Paupers , containing : —Anr . ual Salaries of the British Government— PaymenVj to the Royal Family , showing each day s allowance—Annual Income of the Bishops—The celebrate < £ Cirencester Dietary Table , 5 or . of Bacon foi So ' ren Days—Annual Salaries of the Ameri-• an Govern "/ nent— Pensions for Naval , Militray , Civil Judicial , 7 . nd Secret Services—Annual Salaries of the Judges— Expence of Poor Law Commission in England a / jd Wales—An Appeal to the People of England- A String of Out-door Paupers , ( Pensioners ) with their Allowances Daily and Annually . Illustrated with a large and beautiful Engraving of THE BRITISH UPAS TREE . ^ " With a variety of Useful Information , important alike to all Classes . The whole elegantly printed on a broad sheet , and sold at one Penny . London : Cleave , Shoe-lane ; Hobson , " Northern Star " ofiice , Leeds , and Market-walk , Huddersfield ; Heywood , Oldham-street , Manchester ; Guest , Birmingham ; Paton & Love , Glasgow ; Robwson , Edinburgh , and may be had , on order , oral ! the Booksellers in the kingdom .

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      EVENING STAB . LI BR ART EDITIONS . ripHE Publiflher of the EVENING STAR , grate-X ful for the patronage bestowed on the Double Sheet , containing the Life of Washington , published on the 12 th of November , 1842 , annonnces that ho will issue a standard biographical work every Saturday , in the book form , so that the series may bo bound in a volume . The size will be thirty-two pages quarto—the largest sheet allowed by Act of Parliament . It will be stamped , and may bo sent free by post . In order to amuse our friends at the Christmas and New Year ' s Holidays , we shall publish an ORIGINAL NOVEL , entire , illustrated with TWENTY-FOUR HUMOUROUS ENGRAVINGS . It will be comprised in Two Numbers . The following are the titles of the Works which will be published , and the days of publication : — December 24 th-TOM STAPLETON ABROAD . Part I . —WITH TWELVE ENGRAVINGS . December 31 st—TOM STAPLETON ABROAD . Part II—WITH TWELVE ENGRATINGS . January 7 th-THE LIFE AND TREASON OF GENERVL ARNOLD . January 4 th—THE LIFE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . These will be followed by other valuable biographies . These editions are totally distinct from the daily Star , and will contain only a synopsis-of ths news of each weeki The Evening Star , folio , will be published as usual price 4 d . The price of each Library Number of the Library Edition of the Evening Star will be Sixfencb . Orders will be received by every newsman in town and country , or will be sent free , by post , on a remittance of the above amount to the Publisher . ; Remember every Copy is stamped , and may be sent free by Post—that entire Works are publishedthat each jsheet comprises thirty-two qua » bo pagesthat the series may be bound in a volume for the library , and that the charge is only sixpence a week . Newsmen are supplied on the usual terms . Provincial newspapers inserting the above three times , and sending each paper to this office , will be furnished with all the Library Editions for six months . G . F . Pabdon , Publisher of tbe Evening Star , 262 ; Strand , London . N . B . Give yoar orders without delay , either to the Evening Star office , as above ; or to Mr . Joshua . Hobson , Publisher , Northern iSW Office , Leeds .

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      their consolidation and direction . Hitherto we hare been seeking strength ; we most now learn to nse it . Public opinion being firmed mast be directed wisely and discreetly ; and in order to this its several mouth-pieces and developements most be closely scanned and well over-hauled . I have heretofore been very fearful of offending ; I hare passed in silence many things which ought to hare been rebuktd , and have exercised censure only in tie gentlest terms when unavoidable ; I hare allowed many acts of public men , which I thought their consolidation and direction . Hitherin w «

      most unwise and mischievous , to pass nncensnred , because 1 knew their infirmities of temper , and I knew them to be useful in extending information to those who knew nothing of our principles . I calculated , therefore , for the cause , the relative magnitude of the two evils—the endurance of the mischief resulting from their lollies , or the probable loss of their services , if their pride , jealousy , or vanity , should be at all toached . The time has gone by for this nursing now ; the cause is too powerful to need it , and its interests too important to bear it . I have long seen , this to be an evil in the Star , bat I thought it to be a necessary one;—it Bhall now be remedied .

      Prom this time the voice of admoLition , and of criticism , or , if need be , of censure , though modulated to as smooth a tone as may comport with eircumstances and the safety of the eause , shall be at all times freelj heard . My time , my talent , such as it may be , and my whole power of mental and physical exertion , shall be , as heretofore , devoted to the cause ; while I require from jou the continuance of that strengthening of my hands , by which only my exertions caa be made effective . 1 ask this from you not as a favour , but as a r 5 ght , not in consideration of my past services but in just ice to your own present circumstances . Thus armed in mutual confidence , W 6 may safely bid defiance to the furious onslaught which now menaces our cause : and which holds

      in its own right , only its mane and roar , while its weth have been borrowed from crude impetuosity and heartless treachery in our own ranks . Before closing this letter , I again implore you to see to the carrying out of our organisation . Without this the efforts of your lecturers and of yourselves lose more than half their value Chartists should understand and act upon their own principles ; at least , in all cases where this can be done . I shall continue to press this subject of organisation upon yon

      week by week until , if possible , I pester you into paying fome attention to it . Were the great mass of those who hold Chartist principles now as well organized as they ought long since to have been , no government could long withstand them . Whenever they become so organized , they will open to themselves a vista of success , but not till then . Let me but Bee the organization of our National Society actively working through the whole

      country before March , and let me Eee the people using their own sense , reading and studjing it for themselves , thinking and deliberating on it , observing its exact forms of working and application , and using due vigilance to keep strictly to it all leaders , lecturers , and public mea ; and then if a dungeon lies before me , I fcball walk into it with a prouder heart , and a much sweeter sense of satisfaction , than the Prime Minister of England into Downing-street .

      let jour energies be ronsed ; your vigour braced ; and your determination made manifest ; while your prudence , caution and cooiness predominate over all . God Bave you and speed the Charter . William Hill .

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      Flistofp Lkathax , Postefract , w informed thai the columns of the Northern Star are > or o . Save for electioneering purposes . We believe there is not a whit of difference between the two candidates he names for the office of Registrar . Lascelles is as good as Hodgson , and Hodgson is as good as Lascelles . Each of them only wants the PiY iKa ± nr . nrues from the situation -without much labour . Had we imagined mat Mere was anj / reason why Hodgson should have been recommended to the notice of the freeholders before Laicellet , we assure Flvntoff Leathim that we should not have waited for or accepted his offer of pay to induce us to give such recommendation . Both Hodgson and Lascelles are the hungry dogs of the Hhig and Tory factions , fighting

      which of them thall have the freeholders bone to pick ; and that is the only qualification that either of them possesses for the office they aspire to . If the Jreeholders have learned common sense they will give both these gentlemen the go-by , and elect to the pffice the man who can bring to their service legal knowledge and business talents ; one who knows , from experience , the duties thai will be required from the man who occupies the post . If the freeholders are inclined to put away the playthings of political childhood , and choose a man because of his pecuhar fitness for the office now vacant , they will dismiss the representatives of faction , Messrs . Hodgson and Lascelles , and elect Mr . Stephenton , who comes out as an independent man ought to do .

      JLll Cojtmoicatioxs intended for the Chartists of Manchester must , tilljuture notice , le addressed , to thf ir secretary , Mr . Arthur O'AVi / , bookseller Manchester . A Sudbubt Chartist says , "That for two months he did not take any spirits , beer , tea , enffee , sugar , tobacco , nor snuff ; and that he sent 2 s . 6 d . to the Executive , and 2 s . 6 rf . to the Defence Fund . " He is still continuing the system ; and advises all others to " go and do liketcise . " Joh > " Mitchell axd George Rodgers , — We have received a communication with these names as lignatiires . We have no meins of knowing from whence it has come . They have neglected to give any town or other address .

      B . LLA > CE-s&Ki . TS — We -risk , once for all , to inform our corre-pondeJiis that documents rf this nature received at the Office ajler- Tuesday momw % in each week will be omittedfrom that week ' s Star altogether . We have adopted this rule with some in the current publication . John H . Clarke . — We have no room . The Execttivk . —L . T . Clawct must really excuse vs . We cannot insert any more letters upon this subject . His present , in reply to Mr . Wieeler , reiterates his opinion that ( he election of an Executive pro tern , was an unnecessary amd unbecoming procedure , and that the country generally was not in favour of it . He denies t that his expression in a former letter , of his t > pinion that the election was a trick of tome : enrn . y , was intended to app ly either to Mr . Wheeler or any of his associates : he had

      altogether a different party in his eye . This we can evruborate , as we know to whom Mr . Clancy alluded : it was not Mr . Wheeler , or any of the ¦ present Provisional ILxccutivc . He rebukes Mr . Wheeler , and tte think very justly , for the ¦ prominent exhibition in his own letter of the very fault ( bitterness of expressionj of which his tetter complains . This fault is entireiy avoided in Mr . Ciancy ^ s present letter , which u in lone moderate and gentiemaniy . We entirely agree with Mr . Clajicy , thatthere is a great waiit of stability in the directing power ; that there is gross ignorance of the organization , or great dereliction of duty somiwhere . Samuel Holmes . — Our opinions of the right o f women to the suffrage have been more than once staled ; but we do not think that anything but harm could result frem the introducing of that subject into the deliberations of the Bit min $ ham

      Conference . A "W oukt . — We have no room . Joes Plpper desires us to apprise his brother and sister Chartists that he is still at large , and still working in the good cause of Chartism . J . I ) ea * sends us a story of a Scotch Baptist parson-lawver , not a blacksmith , nor a whitesmith nor a shoeing smith , but something very much like a jobbing smith , who recently lent himself as s tool for the rwn of a poor cobbler . Suck occurrences will always be rife until the law shall be made by , and it * administrators amenable to ,

      the people . T ' " r 71 J . IL Watsok . —We have nol room for John Bull t letter . Thomas Craves . —The sentiments of his letter are just and good , but they would be lost upon the subject to wham it i f addressed ; and we have Ttot now room for its insertion . Dojc&ster . —Edw ' ard Burley , of York , will feel much obliaed if the tub-Secretary at Doiicatter wiii foncard his address to him , as he wiJics to correspond with him . Address , 19 , Billon , Layerthorpe , York . A Friend to Ireland . —Quinlin Orr , 2 \ o . u , Harding street , Northampton .

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      Calvincs , Minor . —The oath of a soldier or a sailor binds him to entire allegiance , and to unconditional obedience to his officers . —We suspect thai if a fiftieth part of our letter * and newspapers passed through his hands he would n it wonder at our being unable to say whether we received his letter , with an Edinburgh newspaper , on the \ 6 th July . —// is quite clear that no one en be recognised by the news-agent as a purehascr of the t > tar but him wht pays for it . — We shall be glad to receive any communications of news which he may choose to send us , J . H . —The lines to M'Dowu ^ 're declined . pAT . vtvrs Misnv — The nnfh of " a soldier or a snilnr

      J . K . —Reserved for consid ^ riii n . L . L .. " The self-elected FcrETARr , " Dundee . — We . have answered the question he asks some forty times already- ' it is a merely nominal office under Government , the acceptance of which vacates an MJ ' . ' s seat . J . Shaw —His communication is an advertisement . W . Heywood , Heywood . — We really must be excused . Addresses from every local Defence Fund would fill the paper . The better way would be- to print circulars . W ; H . Dvott , on behalf of the Irish Universal Suffr age Association , begs to gratefully acknowledge the receipt of a great number of Stars . He very frequently receives letters with them : and did

      time at alt permit , would , with pleasure reply in each instance . Immured as he is in personal business , this is impossible , and the course he fellows is this ;—When papers , announced by letter , do not arrive , he writes ; when they duly come to hand he is , however regretfully , obliged to be impartiall y silent . ScBSCRipno . NS to the Defence Fckd . —We have long lists of these lying by us , comprising the individual subscriptions from many places . We tcou'd gladly find room for them if we could ; but to do so would displace almost every every

      description of matter . Henceforth we can only give the total amount received from each place ; our friends must , therefore , take some other means ef satisfying themselves of the correctness of those amounts , and not wait until they see themselves in print . There will be no departure from this rule ; our correspondents may , therefore , save themselves the trouble of writing any more than a line , with the whole amount , stating what town it is from . This will , of course , apply to other funds as well . Middle-class Sympathy . — We give the following from a letter from Peter Rigby : —

      " As I have been surrounded with Tery curious circumstances during my short route in the North , permit me to have a corner ia your next number , by which means many of your numerous readers may make a correct estimate of middle-class integrity . " Last week , while ia Cumberland , I saw & man ' s ticket for soup , ' or a ticket to go to the grocery with , and receive , in lieu of money , for wages , -anything the grocer had to sell amounting to ¦ w ages . One stone of flour was eqnal to 2 i 8 d . in wages ; and if the working man desired to p » y his rent in Honey he is not allowed to do to , unless he be . prepared to take a ticket for the ' bag , ' but without floor , mind you ; therefore , the workman mnst pay his rent in fljur . When the man tikes

      the flour to the landlord , ihe landlord will only give the workigan 2 s . per stone , although the landlord knows full well the workman had given 2 . 8-JL per stone fur it . If the wurkman ask for meney to pay rent with , his employer will answer him by saying , workman onght to think themselves well off if they get something to eat , without seeking rent money . It has been known for landlords to take the stone of flow to tne grocer again ; so that the stone of flour has undergone the 8 am * process of buying cheap and selling dear , and no donbt passes throngh the sane hands at a loss to the workman of more than twenty per cent . " The hand-loom weavers of Cumberland have

      undergone s reduction of wages , in money , of from 10 s . 44 . to 7 s . 9 d . since the year 1839 , besides labouring under disadvantages now which then bad no existence . In Carlisle a good many of the people have adopted a very good plan for bringing the middle class to their senses , —if ever they had any , —so that , between Income-tax and exclusive dealing , the middle class of Carlisle will begin to feel something . About twenty of the workmen cinb their money together , two or three times a week , buy their goods at the first ce » t , retail them out to each subscriber according to money paid do « n , at the said cost , and , by that means , they

      get their goods much cheaper , besides stopping the supplies of those who hired bludgean-nien to break the bead of any man who dared to stand in the street and say he was hungry , and desired to est The iadg of Wigton are playing the same gsme towards their oppressors- A large number of them buy a good fat cow , butcher it for themselves , and by that means have reduced butchers' meat from 7 d . to 4 d . perlb- They deal with sheep in the same manner . Although Peel ' s tariff reduced butchers' meat , the shopocracy were not willing that the poor sfconld have a corresponding benefit but the lads of Wigton are taking the profits ictotheir own hands . "

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      THORNTON . —YES . THE 3 s-, in enr last , from Newport , for the Defence Fnnrr . should have been 3 s , 6 cL The 15 s . from Halifax , which appear * in enr last for the Defence Fnnd , was for the Defence of Ellis . FOB THE NATIONAL DEFENCE FUND . £ . B . d . From the Kawick Chartists 0 18 0 „ the Chartists of Truro 10 0 „ a poor woman , Leeds ... ... ... 0 0 1 ^ a friend 0 0 6 - _ T . W 0 0 8 .. a few friends , B . Q . 0 12 6 „ a few friends at Prescot 0 10 $ _ the Chartists of Sowerby 0 3 0 .. J . P ., Portaea 0 i 0 „ \ ht Chartists of Nuneaton 0 10 0 „ the Charists of Glasgow 2 0 _ the Chartists of Newcastle , per J . Sinclair 2 0 0 . T . F ., per Simeon , Bristol 0 2 6 FOB MB . ELLIS . From Hightown , per G . Lacy 0 1 I „ & few friends in the New Town , Bishopweannonth , per A . B . ... 0 8 T .. a few friends at Bishopwearmonth , perE . J « 1 2 w Mr . Williams's shop 0 6 3 _ the Shaksperians of Leicester 10 0 _ proceeds of Simeon ' s rsffla 0 10 0 FOB THE EXECUTIVE . From twenty members of the National Chartist Association , per G . Moore , Northwitch 0 5 0 - FOB . THE DEFENCE OF GEOBGE WHITE . From a few friends , per Simeon , Bristol ... 0 2 0

      Closing Of Pbisons Fob Debt.—The Metropolitan Prisons For Debt Have, Within The Last Few Days, Presented A Different Appearance To What They Have

      Closing of Pbisons fob Debt . —The metropolitan prisons for debt have , within the last few days , presented a different appearance to what they have

      exhibited for some time . The Ileet and Marshals « a prisons have been closed ; the former was shot on Sattzraay , and the lat / er on Thursday last . There were sHcnty in the Fleet , and only three in the Marshalsea ; and their removal took place to the Queen ' Prison , under an act passed during the last session , authorizing Lord Denman to isoue his warrant for their passage from one jail to aaother . From Tuesday to Saturday the removals took place from the Fleet . Some of the prisoners had been confined a very long period , and a few upwards of 20 years ! An eccentric character , named Jeremiah

      Board , had betn an inmate of the Fleet 28 years , having been committed in 1814 . The case of this man , who has been removed to the Queen ' s Prison , is very singular . He was a farmer , at a place called Newton ' s Farm , and was committed to the Fleet in 1814 , where he remained without much disturbance , except some Chancery proceedings , until 1838 , in which year the present act for the Insolvent Debtors' Court was passed , and in this act as an important alteration , was made giving power to creditors to proceed against parties who preferred imprisonment to taking the benefit of the act , by which proceeding they would be compelled to give up their property . Tke provision has been productive of considerable benefit ; persons have been in the Insolvent DebtorsCourt

      proceeded against ' , and compelled to dugorge their property ; others . have arranged with their creditors and gone out of custody . In the case of Board , a gentleman named Richardson , as execntor of Mary Chappell , filed a petition under the compulsory clause , and a Testing order was made under which he was appointed assignee , and by a decisive act a good deal of property wa 3 obtained . A messenger of the court was sent to the prison , and on the person of Board , and in his possession , a large sum of money , and securitie ' s for money were found , which , of courBe , the assignee seized . Mr . Richardson claimed to be a creditor for £ 8 , 185 , and the matter has been before Mr . Commissioner Harris . Advertisementi had been inserted to discover creditors , but very few were found . There was somewhere about £ 1 , 600 ,

      and » dividend was declared . Board is now Bojournin * in the Queen ' s prison , where he is , of course , a " character . " At the present period there are in the Queen ' s Prison about 2 & 0 persons , a very few is the j rules , and those who had the privilege when the act consolidating the prisons was passed were allowed to remain twelve months . Day rales have already ceased , and the other privilege will be denied at the time mentioned . There are 228 rooms in the prison ; and in some of these appartments , by the recent increase , " chums" have been placed ; that is to say , two have been lodged in one room . Some alterations have been expected in the classification of prisoners , which will now probably take place . In Whitecross-Btreet Prison there are about 360 , and 120 in Horsemonger-lane Gaol . The total number of prisoners for debt in London may be now stated at ¦ about 760 . Some years , ago there were as many in one prison .

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      CUTHEROE . —The Thespian company of Sabden ( who are all Chartista ef the right stamp ) performed the drama of Wat Tyler , in the lar * e room of the King ' a Arms icn , went through , and gave the greateat satis . faction to a full bouse , both on Saturday and Monday evenings . HULL . —The money due this week to the Executive from the sale of R , Plnder ' a blacking ia as follows : — s . d . Mr . Weatherhead , KeJghley ... 5 0 Mr . Lees , Stalyhrfdge 2 7 j «» . . « . n __ _ . . . _ . .

      7 n LEICESTER . —Monday was a day of unusual excitement in consequence of the arrival of our noble General , Thomas Cooper . By eight o ' clock in the morning the brave men began to wend their way towards the house of our late imprisoned friend , to prepare for his reception . At twelve they assembled in the Shaksperlan Room , with a band of music and a banner made expressly for the occasion , bearing upon it the following inscription , — " We hail with joy the return of our noble patriot , Thomas Cooper . " On the r everse , — " The patriotic band of tht . Leicester Chartist boot and shoemakers . " The band began to play some favourite airs through the streets to the Railway Station , surrounded by the Council ef the Shaksperian

      Association , where they met their indomitable friend , Mr . Cooper . The sight of the assembled thousands had a wonderful effect upon him . A car was immediately engaged t » convey him through some of the principal streets of the town in the . following order . The large and splendid banner that had been prepared by the boot and shomakers' society in the front ; then followed the shoemakers , the band , Mr . Cooper , and the Council of the Shaksperian Association with wands , attended by its members and friends to the amount of 10 , 000 of human beings . The procession has never been equalled since the great agitation for the Reform Bill . The procession moved down the London-road , up Belvoir-strtet , along Market-street , Market-place , Belgrave-gate , Woodboy-street , Wharf-street , up

      Humfeerstone-gate , to the Amphitheatre , where Messrs . Daffy and West ( late a prisoner in Derby gaol ) delivered animated addresses to the assembled multitude oat of the windows of the Saaksperian Room . At five o ' elock , more than 406 persons took tea on the stage of the Amphitheatre , the bind playing in the orchestra during the time . After which the company delighted themselves by dancing and other amusements in the Circus till eight , when the lectures were to commence . At half-past eight , the spaclou ^ Amphitheatre appeared one mass of human beings ; there could not be leas than four thousand people . Mr . Daffy was called to the chair , who , after a few brief remarks , introduced Mr . West , who spoke nearly an hour in defence of those great principles contained in

      the People a Charter . Mr . Beesley , from North Lancashire , followed , and spoke at great length on the land question , showing that if the people were to lay by sixpence per week for the purchasing of land , they would soon be in the full possession of the elective franchise , and by those means they would be able to overthrow the present system of aristocratical Government . After a few other remarks he sat down amidst loud cheers . Mr . Cooper then rose amidst loud and long protracted cheering . He began by showing the fallacy of asking the poor for sixpence per week , when they were actually starving for want He then alluded to the Complete Suffrage and Corn Law movements . The policy of Sir Robert Peel , and the effects of clss » - lfgiaUtion . Be then related what he had had to

      contend with during the last eleven weeks he had been immnred In Stafford Gaol ; gave an account of his trial , and the wily tricks of the Solicitor-General , who pretended to be acting with the greatest fairness , yet the subtleness of the silveiy-tongued crocodile were stabbing him at every sentence . He then , in an eloquent strain , and the tears trickling down his cheeks , related the aonl-harrowing tales of the interviews between those persons who were doomed to a foreign land to perpetual slavery , and their friends . He said he would never cease agitating for those poor creatures—poor Ellis is innocent—yet he is banished . I will ge , said he , to London , to Mr . Dnnoombe , if I have to walk , on behalf of that persecuted individual After a few other remarks he sat down amid loud cheer * .

      Mr . Maxkham came forward and said , that he never in bis life listened to Mr . Cooper with greater pleasure than be did that night , and he hoped the day was not for distant when all reformers would join in one campact . After a few other remarks he held out his hand to Mr . Cooper , which he took , and said , " many a time have I requested this hand , but it was refused . " They both said that all past differences should be buried from this time ( Great eheering . ) The following resoiutions were adopted during the sight . Moved by Mr . Coulston , and stconded by Mr . Hunt— " That this meeting has the greatest confidence in the integrity and honesty of our noble patriot , Thomas Cooper , and return him their

      sincere thanks for his manly defence on his lute trial , on behalf of those great principles contained in the People ' s Charter . " Unanimous . Moved by Mr . Beedham , seconded by Mr . Jackson— " That the thanks of this meeting be given to those persons who gave evidence in favour of Mr . Cooper on his late trial at Stafford . " Carried unanimously . Moved by Mr . Smith , seconded by Mr , Toone— " That the thanks of this meeting be given to Mr . Mullen of London , and Mr . Haines of Onndle , for the very liberal manner in which they have come forward to give ball for our noble patriot , T- Cooper . " Carried unanimously . Moved by Mr . Wooley , seconded by Mr . Smedley : —

      *¦ Tbat tne thapt * ot » hu aieeting bB aiven to the Defence Fund Committee for their valuable services on behalf of Mr . Cooper . " Moved by Mr . Jones , seconded by Mr . Allen : — " That the thanks of this meeting be given to Mr . Thomas Winters for his valuable services in collecting and keeping witnesses together during the late commission on behalf of Mr . Thomas Cooper . " A vote of thanks was then given to the Cn&innan , and three cheers for Cooper , the Charter , and O'Connor ; three for Frost , Williams , and Jones ; and the meeting dispersed . Mhs . Cooper , of Leicester , has received fer Mr . Grant , five shillings for Mr . Ellis .

      NORTHAMPTONSHIRE . —A meeting was held at the honse of Mr . Wingell , of Raands , on Monday evening , when addresses were delivered by Messrs . Marriott , of Stanwick ; M'Farlan , of Northampton ; and others . Mr . M'Farlan also exhorted the young men to associate themselves together by forming mutual instruction classes , and to devote their whole leisure time to assisting their elder brethren in prosecuting this holy cause . DUBLIN . —The Irish Universal Suffrage Association met as usual , on Sunday . Mr . Woodward was called to the chair , and the minutes being read , Mr . W . Dyott , the secretary , read a communication from an American gentleman named Wright , a memb . r of the Society of Friends , who was desirous of addressing them . Mr .

      OHiggins proposed and Mr . Clarke seconded the admission of three sew members whose names were transmitted by Mr . Leeson , of Newton Mount Kennedy , in the county of Wicklow . Mr . O'Higgins paid a wellmerited compliment to their indefatigable friend ,. Mr . Leeson , who was beating up for recruits bo successfully ; he moved the insertion of his letter on the minutes , and hoped his example would prove a stimulus to other members to exert themselves in the propagation of those opinions which he conscientiously believed cuuld alone work out the political regeneration ef Ireland —( hear . ) A certain great man had the audacity to declare publicly that there were no Chartists in Ireiand —( langcter]—although he was * ure his friend , Mr . Djott , would readily Bhow him their books

      containing the names of 1040 good men and true pledged Repealers of tke Irish Union , through th-3 only moral means by which it could be achieved or made tt any value to the public—the obtainment of Universal Suffrage , Vote bj Ballot , Annual Parliament * , Eqnal Electoral Districts , the Abolition of the Property Qialification , and Payment of Members —( hear and cbeers)—and if that was not Chartism , he ( Mr . O'Higgins ) did not know what it meant—( cheers ) But what estimate did O Cunnell set on tbo intellect of the Irish nation when he dared to enunciate without fear of contraJiicton from any despicable toadies that crawl before him in the Corn Exchange , the atrocious falsehood , that there were nob in Ireland any men honest , independent , and fearless enough to r . vow the creed of

      Richard Cartwright . Hunt , Cobbett , and O'Connor ? D : d he think the creatures there believed what they wanted courage to deny * Did be foTget tbat poor Tcm S ; eele had declared , but a week before tbat they were all Chartists , though not O'Connorites—a distinction without any difference . ( Hear , hear . ) He believed in Mr . Slurge's honesty ; and he win no more a blind follower of Mr . O'Connor than he was a lickspittle of Mr . OConnell ' s : but it was justice only to Mr . O'Connor to ailow that only for bis energy and perseverance they would not bave Mr . Sturge in the position he now occupied ; they would not have even the stunted portion of equivocal middle-class sympathy they enjoyed ; they would not have Mr . O'Connell himwilf re-adopting the six points . It was Mr .

      O Connor who thrust Annual Parliaments down his throat , —gainsay it vrho could : and , as to there being " no Cbartitta in Ireland , " he would reply to O'Connell in bis own words , addressed to their talented and esteemed secretary , "BahI" " Folly and trash !" { Hear , and load cheering . ) On tbat inBult , Mr . Dyott had calmly observed , that their trash" -was troth ; their "folly" their having so long believed m the sincerity of a man who had notoriously sold Ireland for Whig patronage and family aggrandisement—( loud cheering )—playing the game of a faction he bad deservedly « tyled " base , bloody , and brutal , " at the expence of & generous and confidin * . but duped and betrayed , people , for upwards of seven years , -wbile bar

      county after county waa given up , —in many casea - Ured for offices , —and the liberal strength at last so reduced that the " Liberator" himself waa thrust ont of Dublin , and only elected ( after bloodshed and battery ) in Cork —( bear)—all the while that , a « pl » ndvd registration staff fattened on the people ' s funds on Burgh Quay . ( Hear . ) Why if there were not Chartists In Ireland , after such experience , they would deserve to live and die tlavea . ( Hear . ) For who did not perceive that tie hoiking classea had got nothing by all the squabbles in which they bad been engaged : ( Hear . ) Who did not perceive tbat they never wou' . c get anything till the franchise—their undoubted right —gave thtm { power in their own House of Assembly . tHesr . ) And who , Ufce bim , would not tttere declare

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      rZZ * * ° v I ^ A untU not only all Ireland was Chartist , but until the people from tha Giant's Cause 7 * X , a r £ ~ CIear > and txom the Hi » o * - Houth to toe Acnill Head , trei * no longer afraid to avow their tw S ^ $ ** *» terra which would unite them with theb fellow men In Eogland and Scotland in one determine !! straggle to obtain the glorious realization of that document which Mr . OConnell himself drew ap , and of which he declared that the man who did not aoceda to it was eitk « kna * e profiting by th . evila of misrale or a fool on whom facta and reasoning made no'lmpresdon . ( Hear , hear , and loud cheers . ) -. * « » wd he hoped for the sake of Mr . O'Conneir « reputation , ONell Daunt would act the part which Gil B ! aa did by the Archbishop of Toledo , and give him a tire . . .

      •? m ? ' ( Hetr > and feasttsr . ) it really waa pitiable to eee a public man floundering as the " Liberator" was for some time back . He could nnderstand and cope with a man who opposed Chartiam ° f-1 " * * . « u to 8 ee a man admitting now the innate utility of Chartiam and next declaring he could have no connexion with its advo « ttea—tiiia day a wallowing the six pointa and next quibbling about Univereal Suffrage , ^ 11 , Saffra Se Mannood Suffrage , &c . all of which being explained amounted to the aame thine , was what he conld not unravel . The man waa surely demented ( laughter ) , or waa trying how far he could practice on the parisilea and ninnies he waB liasiducting through the tedious and labyrlnthical fool ' s march , in seach of repeal : which they had aa much chance of getting , as he ( Mr . Clarke ) had of makiDg a mortice

      without a chisel ( hear , hear . ) For himself , when he u ^ , , ° Conn 6 U l in all his contradictions and absnrdltie . was applauded and listened to , he almost blushed for Irishmen ( cheers . ) Mr . Fowler said , that it was their indUBtrry Mr . O'Connell found fault with . Let them rally at public meetings , —( hear ) -and organize their electoral strength , ( hear , ) He knew they had at least twenty-five or thirty good votea already—( bear . ) He got his perfected the other day , and so did Mr . Dyott their seeretary —( cheers . ) Let them be ready for an election , no one could tell how soon that might happen—then their existence , respeotibillty , and influence would be most gracefully acknowledged , and they would sell themselves either to Whig or Tory , whichever would come up to their price , and give a written pledge to support no Bdminstration which would not

      support the Charter —( Charter . ) They could easily make their voters fifty—enough to turn any election . — ( Loud cheers ) MALTON . —Mr . Bairstow delivered two powerful aiad animated lectures in the Market-place , on Monday ttnd Tuesday evenings , when there was a remarkably good attendance , and the attention and interest paid to the lecturer , evinced an extraordinary degree of enthusiasm . NEWCASTJJB . —Mr . W . Kimpster Robson delivered a lecture in the Chartist ' s Hall , Goat Inn , Cloth Market , on Sunday evening , at Bix o ' clock , on the evils of the present system , and the good that must inevitably accrue to the working classes of these realms in the event of the People ' a Charter becoming the law of the land . The spacious Hall was crowded to the door , and Mr . Robson most enthusiastically cheered throughout his able lecture . He did the subjects he discussed

      great justice , painting In their true colours the innumerable evila inflicted upon the wealth-producers of this country , proving to the satisfaction of hla numerous audience that class legislation introduced and cherished tbem to the alarming extent to which tyranny and oppression had now arrived . He likewise proved the Charter to be the only antidote , and defied any man or body of men to come forward aud preve the contrary . Mr . Sinclair , who was unanimously elected to the chair , took a show « f hands whether they were satisfied with the arguments adduced by Mr . Robson in defence of the Charter , and that the Charter would enable the wealth prodneera to ameliorate their own condition . A forest of hands were held up in approval of Mr . Kobson ' s epinions , and none to the contrary . Mr . Pater Rigby , irom Chorley , will lecture In the same Hall on next Sunday evening , at six o ' clock ; Is . Cd . was received for Mr . EIUs ' s defence , and several nameB were enrolled at the conclusion of the lecture .

      The Chartists of Newcastle and Gateshead held their weekly meeting in the Chartist ' s Hall , Goat Inn , Cloth Market , on Monday evening as usual , Mr . John Young in the chair . The minutes of the previous meeting having been confirmed , Mr . Sinclair said he had great pleasure in informing tke meeting that one of the honest men ef Blaydon ( a small village near Newcastle ) called on him this morning , and banded him £ 1 5 s . from the friends to a fair trial in Blaydon , for tha General Defence Fund , being the proceed ! of four pairs of children's shots , and two portraits presented and raffled for the good of the victims of Tory misrule , and Anti-Corn-Law treachery . The secretary waa then

      instructed to remit the sun ) of £ 2 to the general treasurer for the Defence Fund , making , with th « sums formerly remitted , £ i forwarded by the Charter Association of Newcastle for that laudable object , and to state that aa many of the collector ' s books have not been handed in yet , that wo will send another remittance in the course of a few days . Men of Northumberland , and Durham look at the noble example set you by the good men and true of Craralington , Shot ley Bridge . Blaydon , some of the factories in Newcastle , whose names we dare net mention , ( tyranny being so rife , ) and go and do the same . Several sums were paid into the lecturer ' s fund , and after some local business waa disposed of the meeting adjourned .

      MANCHESTER . —The Chartist joiners and painters held their weekly meeting on Friday evening last , in the Large Anti-Room of tho Carpenters' Hull , when tneji -nor * mhXg address « d by Umui . Lan » and Partington . Carpenter ' s Hall . —On Sunday last two lectures were delivered in the above ( . ball , one in the afternoon by Mr . Dauiel Donovan , of Manchester , and the other in the evening by Mr . Thomas Clark , of Stockport The attendance in the afternoon was not very numerous , owing to the rain falling without intermission . Mr . John Murray was called upon to presida Mr . Donovan delivered a most excellent address , which was loudly applauded throughout . In the evening the hall waa crowded . Mr . Jeremiah Lane was called to tue chair .

      Mr . Thomas Clark on coming forward was greeted with loud cheers . He entered into a variety of topics of deep and general interest , and animadverted in severe terms upon tbe conduct of Lord Abinger at the late special commission at Liverpool . He then recommended the system of exclusive dealing aa being in every way calculated to benefit the cause of Chartism , and called upon all persons present to aVatain from Intoxicating drinks so that they may be the better enabled to contribute towards the support of those friends who had become the victims of clous tyranny , and concluded by calling upon tke people to support , by every means in their power , that portion of tbe press which advocated their interests , more especially the Northern and Evening Stars . A collection waa then made in support of the Hall . Mr . Doyle was then called upon by the Chairman to say a

      few words upon the subject of himself and colleagues being called upon to appear before her Majesty , to answer certain conspiracies and misdemeanours of which he and they stood charged . Mr . Doyle made his way to the platform , and exposed the many attempts made to put down and imprison those who bad tbo manliness to come forward in opposition to tyranny and injustice , but the Government would find they and their emissaries had » not wide of their mark , for ho bad not tbe least donbt , nay , he could assure that audience , both for himself and his friends , that they would , if spared , return from their dungeons to attack again , with renewed vigour , the proud citadel of corruption , and never relinqnisb the contest till death or victory crowned their efforts . , Mr ! -D : > yle- .-retired amid tremendous cheers , and the meeting broke up .

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      Receipts of the Executive for the week ending March 16 th : — £ . B . d . Idle ... ... 0 18 London , per Mr . Simpson 0 5 0 Stafford ... ... 0 5 0 Chattens ... ... 0 2 6 Knifchtsbridge ... ... 0 4 8 Is ' as ' Head , Nottingham 0 5 0 Yew Green ... ... 0 3 2

      Dalton .. ... 0 13 Almondbury ... ... 0 19 Kirkheaton ... ... 0 4 8 Honley ... ... 0 2 6 Brighton ... ... 1 2 10 Old Basford ... ... 0 14 6 Lambeth Youths ... 0 10 London , per Mr . Wheeler 0 8 4 I have not thought it prudent to fend the voting lists ; God knows , even now , whether this Btep will give satisfaction . J . Campbell , Secretary .

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      SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED BY MR . I CLEAVE . POLITICAL VICTIMS DEFENCE AND SUPPORT FUND . £ 6 d Previously acknowledged ... ... 112 19 10 J J . Wells ... ... ... ... 0 0 6 — Banister ... ... ... ... 0 10 Lambeth Teetotal Chartists ... ... 0 1 5 Publisher of" Voltaire ' s Dictionary" ... 0 5 0 Aberdeen ... ... ... 1 0 0 Bury St . Edmunds ... ... ... 0 10 0 Warwick and Leamington ( fourth remittance of sale of Raffle ticket * . * ... 1 17 0 E . Holmes , Leicester , two Raffia Tickets 0 2 0 Wm . Smith ... ... . v . ... 0 0 6 Huddersfield ... ... ... 1 10 10 Irvine ... ... ... ... 0 10 0 Subscriptions acknowledged last week asforEHibf ... ... ... 0 3 1 Northampton Chartifta ... .., 0 8 4

      £ 119 9 6 * The Warwick friends bave deferred the raffle for the valuable painting of ibe " Magdalene , " until the 28 th of this month , i Applications for tickets ( one shilling each only ) should be addressed to Mr . Shepherd , at Mr . Donaldson ' s , Chapel-street , Warwick . + Tbe coat of bringing Ellla ' B case before the Judges will be defrayed outof the General Defence ^ und ; th ere need cot , therefore , be a separate fund , bat exertion to increaw the Ghneral fund .

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      Robbery . —On Sunday night last , the countinghouso of Messrs . James Procter and Sans , Rochdale , was broken open , and a quantity of sovereigns stolen therefrom . The thieves are supposed to have concealed themselves in tbe factory , previously to the doors being closed on Saturday night , aa their exit was made by a side door that was locked within the mill ; and the implements made use of to force the locks were those that belonged to the premises .

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      On Tnesday % the 15 th iasfc ., at St . Mary ' s church , Scarbro' , Cockerill Mellor , Esq ., to Mary Ann , daughter of the late Thomas Atkinson , Esq . On Monday , the Hthinst .. Mr . Wm . Parr , printer , of Knaresbro \ to Ann , daughter of Mr . Wm . Smith , farmer , 4 > f Plumpton . ., . ¦ On Thursday , the 10 th inst ., at the parish church , Doncaster , Mr . William Milner , tailor , of Hickleton , to Miss Fanny Foster . ¦ .. . . charcb

      On Wednesday , the 9 th inst ., at the parish , at Pickering , by the Rev . John Ponsonby , A . M ., James Woodward , Esq ., surgeon , or Cnowbent , Lancashire , to Margaret , youngest daughter or the late Mr . ^ Ward , surgeon , of Barton-upoasTmeday , atBedale , Mr . Philip Falshaw , of this town ; butcher and cattle dealer , to Mary Ann , tnira daughter Of Mr . Henry Nicholson , of the former plaoe , fanner and cattle dealer , amd landlord of « io King ' s Head Inn .

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      ; DEATHS . On the 12 th instant , at St . Helen ' * , Auckland , ia the 17 ih year of his age , much resr * oted , Ralph . son of the late Mr . Joseph Hark . er , formerly of Arkeogarthdale , in this county . , On TueBday evening , the 15 tb . inst ., at the hosM of her son-in-law , Mr . W . . Rax . Low Otuegate , in her 80 th year , Mrs . CattonfvajjyOpWiMliJfi Mr "Kiki

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      TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN . Brother Democrats , —As your attention has been drawn to the balance-sheet of the Executive by the Edlter of the Northern Star , in last Saturday "! paper , and as there has been some discussion on tbe Bubject already , I wilt at once explain what perhaps may be considered objectionable items in the balancesheet . ¦¦ : . -. ¦ . . . ,. ¦ ¦'" . ¦ -, ; ' . ¦ .. --- . ¦ The first is postage and stationery for the quarter ; averages 18 s . per week . Now , be it borne in mind , tbat out of tall the whole postage expenses of the

      Executive had to be taken ; that it is not merely for letters alone , but also for postage of cards , paying money orders , and , in many Instances , ; parties do not pre-pay their letters . On some occasions correspondence is unusually heavy ; as at the commencement of our accepting office , previous to the strike , &a , Stationery includes paper , pens , ink , wafers , sealing wax , twine , wrapping paper , &a . If this account is satisfactory , well and good ; if not , I cannot help it . I candidly confess I cannot make it more plain .

      I must now allude to one item in my own travelling expenses viz . £ 2 10 s . from Manchester to London , fer railway fare . The country can satisfactorily judge why the extra Its . was charged . As to Mr . Baiistow ' a travelling expenses , that genteman , I make no donbt , can explain all satisfactorily . I can only state , from my own knowledge of the fact , that he was a fugitive , not knowing but the barpiea of power were at his heels . Mr . Leach can answer for hiaexpencea ; I am sure of tbat . The £ 3 5 i . in tbe commencement ef toe sheet , had to be expended in agitating Lancashire , around Manchester , at the commencement of the present quarter .

      Now for the last objection that has been made by two or three parties , viz ., the Doctor ' s wages . We allowed him an extra ten shillings per week , because we considered he earned it He was residing in Londonhis expencea were heavier than Le&ch ' a or BairatowYin the country—his talents , hla honesty , his judgment , his worth , Induced us to believe , instead of an objection being raised by any party to hia getting two pounds per week wagts , they would have hailed It with delight Moreover the Executive considered they had only acted on the plan of organization . When the Executive met in Manchester on the 16 th of August , we bad other fish to fry than think of ten shillings per week extra or less ; bat when M'Douall and I nut afterwards , and the matter waa explained to him that certain parties objected to it , " Very well , " Baid he , " no more two pounds par week for me ; if the country considers tbat you pay me too much , why let it be as it wishes . " ¦ He had only an opportunity to receive one week ' s wages when he bad to become an exile .

      I have no more to » sy than this , that I consider the Association ought to continne his wages to his familythat I cannot do . I advanced him ten pounds oat of our funds , and was glad to find I had an opportunity to do so . Perhaps I have exceeded my daty in bo doing , if so I will repay it outof my own pocket . I am sorry I cannot pay Mrs . M'Douall her husband ' s wages ; this is the seventh week of the quarter , and I have been enabled to pay her the sum of three pounds . Leach has not received a penny of wages for the quarter ; Bairstow has received wages for nearly four weeks ; myself not one . Such are the state of tbe funds . We ought to meet immediately if possible . A return of the paying members onght to be made by the sub-Secretaries ; and all those parties who have received cards should either return the cards or pay for them .

      I have made as plain a statement of facts aa I can . A further explanation I cannot give . I have been as brief as I could . I remain , Your brother democrat , John Campbell , SecTetaiy P . S . Mr . Morgan Williams received only one week ' s wages for agitating in Wales . I paid it him before I left London for Manchester , and having Manchester in my thoughts at the time , I booked it " Morgan Williams from Mertbyr Tydvil to Manchester , £ 1 . 10 a . " and when told of it I flatly contradicted it ; I said such an item could not be entered . But on referring to the book I found it to be such . However , parties will aee it was a mere mistake . j . c .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 19, 1842, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct625/page/5/