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      E 5 UGRATI 0 N . rt > THE EDITOB OF TBE KOBTBE *? t STAB . Iz ^ a Sib ., —In you last -week ' s number appears an Bcccar : of a poor weaver -who left the town of Clayton tiiht months ago for 2 * ew York , and snceeeded in obu > iuLii ? employment at three times the amount of ¦ Wdf r - he received in ttiiB country . The article finishes by V _ i-: a > j that his -wife left Clayton to follow her im " . -- . who had been » o prosperous . For one monir ^ t 1 o not donbt this sta tement ; it is possible eucc ^ i ; to be trne ; the T" * " whose name is not ment :---. 5 v ^ is more lnck ? It 1 * " many hundreds who go tc ^— . t' -.-x Bat tor what purpose the aboTe article an-. tii- your paper I tlo not know , except it be to tt ici that one man has bettered his condition in itiT -i : his uriappy country .

      j _ , _ - f-arinj ; many Hiay fall into the same erroneous Cf , --. ,.-. as I and some other Chartists di 3 fifteen jt-jniis ago , from similar statement * that then appeared it- your psper , I fe « l bound in charity to those who ctrr .:-r fcnow , and who think of emigrating , to craTe a ii ^; . il portion of your Talnable journal for a few rctnEr ^ s . First—It is a fact that a great quantity cf it . in . both in New York and Liverpool , derive a EjJcEdid living through the system of emigration , and tre ! Etcres >* ed in the circulation of false reports re-£ j- ^ : c : iig emigrants * prosperity in America . Yet , eupp « :-S all the flattering accounts to be true of individu-Js duirg -well in America , it does not prove that it is batter lo emigrate any more fh » n a few out cf a many A ~ rnejib rccceeding in this country ¦ would prove that

      ¦ glv d was in a prospering condition ; for it must be mi ' -un-tood , few out of those who do not succeed have tb-: :, i-ans of sending word how they are situated , po =. ta ^ s being high in America . I and a Birmingham Charriit friend landed at 2 » ew Orleans twelve months ago from Orleaas ; we went by wat £ r nbont twenty-five ' fctir . died miles , filing at many towns , and stopping at s > me without any chance of getting employment i T j discribe the misery of deck paisengers ( for cabin &r >! railway passengers know nothing of what ths ¦ w rHl : ig eEUjrsnt suffers ) would occupy too much cf 5 ^ - . ? p * ice , asd recall feelings in my mind which must ever be remembered with disgust . Let it suffice to say , frc-n . the moment the unsuspecting emigrant p ? . ys his pa ^ s ^ e morey -at Liverpool he is the subject of ridicule , ill trt-itmsnt , and robbery . We stopped in Cincinnati OLr : acnth , s ^ d from thence got to Pitsburg through the kindness cf two English settlers . Pitsburg was

      Terr flit , and hundreds of men , some with families , lariisg , seeking employment ; and tbe expression nsed b ? as old nan , an English settler , was , " G » d God ! is tfctre nobody to stop people from being deluded from PiUburg ? " We walked to New York , a distance little under 5 C 0 miles ; the quantity of English and Iriiii mechanics going West * to the places we were leaving , most of them begging their way , were almost iLecLctivable , and would cot possibly bs believsd by those in England accustomed to hear flattering reports . At New York I saw many who had not the means to purchase a meal , some of whom I had known in this country . I retained by the ship Liberty , having cc board 209 returned passengers stowed in h £ e hogs , End treated worse than dogs ; the ship Patrick Henry , bringing 230 , the same day ; and r . t the same time many vessels full of passengers , were waiting for a fair ¦ wicd tossii for New York .

      A few words abeut the ship brokers , as they call thc-iselvij , and I have dene . Maty of these men possessing nothing , save & good suit cf clothes , and wellqualjfied with the lip , hire a room under a warehouse , near ihe docks , which they stile a " ship-broker ' s office . " "It- ^ e are attended by men called lookers out , who accost the stranger in that character which they think Bisy suit the principal hirer . A email portion of space . in tbe ship between the mid-decks , which they divide ' into two places , calling one the second cabin , and tbe « her steerages , the onij difference in the price charged , and instead of putting in goods , stsw in as many living Km is as they posziMy can ,- the captain finding fire and ' water , subject to many tyrannical restrictions . Three ' qurra per day of water , is false . They profess to give I two , but in the ship I was in , three pints was our allowance . The pawenger always gets tie worst water , "trLich is caused by the casks not being so clean as they curhi .

      To conclude , it is long odds against the success cf a gtfttfranic- Now the land—the land it the spot for pure happiness , which cannot be obtained , at the least , under £ 100 . Hoping I have not trespassed too much on your Bpace ; yet , wishing to prevent the disappointment and mortification I endured , I remain , Tour sincere admirer and fellow Chartist , Sajicel Davies , 51 , Steelhouse-lane , Birmingham May lith , 1843 .

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      TO F . O'CONNOR , ESQ , My deab . Sib ., —Aa treasurer to the Chartist Defecce Fund , permit me to present to your nonce two very deserving victims , who have traversed from the special commission at Chester , and have taken their trials at the late assizes without any aid from our body , and are now undergoing their sentenca of twelve months ' imprisonment in Chaster Castle . John Burgess , a man of unimpeachal . ' e integrity , has a wife and thrcs small children , and the parish refuse them any aid unless such as a bastile will afford . His lather keeps a beer shop in this town , and is a venerable Radical of the Cartwright school ; it has cost him twenty-one pounds , and he has his daughter-in-law and the three children to keep . The other man ' s name is Thomas Berrisford ; he has two motherless children left in the like state of destitution .

      I think tbe caae of these two patriots ought not to bs lost sight of , and therefore take the liberty of representing it to you , through the medium of the Star , and our other Chartist friends -will thus also become acquainted with it by the same means . * I remain , my dear Sir , Most respectfully , In the love of our common cause , E . V . Mead , Your Old Commodore . Congleton , Cheshire , May llth , 1543 .

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      TO THE MEMBERS OF TBE NATIONAL CHASTER ASSOCIATION , RESIDING IN SURREY . I regret that I am obliged U tall your attention once more , to the necessity of making some arrangements whereby the amount of money due to several iadividuals on accoont of the late demonstration , and also of the late tea party held at tbe MentpeBer Tavern . I have endeavoured to accomplish this for a long time past , I have spent mneh time , and yet am blamed by many . I trust this will be a sufficient hint to those whom it may concern , and that they wili pay the amonct which they owe , or I shall be compelled to send the list of the individuals for publication in the Star . The money to be paid at my residence , 3 , Pagoda Terrace , Bermondsey , New-road ; or at We Browne ' s East-lane , Walworth . Yours to Berve , * John May . sabd . No . 3 , Pagoda Terrace , Bemoudsey , New Road .

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      AN APPEAL TO THE WOMEN OF GREAT BRITAIN . The Female Chartists of the City of London being abont to draw ap a memorial toherMajesty , requesting her to take into her serious consideration the degraded and deplorable condition of the working classes of this country , and as this memorial is , to bs signed by women only , we entreat those to whom this 13 addressed to assist us with all their energies in procuring signatures ; and also we should be most graceful for their aid towards raising a fund to enable us . to carry out this object We have already received letters from several localities , expressing their approval and promising assist ance : we therefore hope teat this public appeal will

      not be in Tain . Oh , do not be apathetic . ' as long as you are so , both yourselves and sufferings will be despised . Remember , a number of the most talented advocates of Chartism are now lying in prison . How long is this persecution to continue ? - How long is man to exist the elave of another ? How long to wander with an aching heart and an emaciated frame in the midst of pknty which he must not share , food he must not taste , clothing he mnst not wear ? How long are the oppressed people of this country to toil fifteen or sixteen hours a day to obtain a small quantity of the commonest food ? How long to hear the cry of their

      starving children , to bear the sight as bitter as the cry , of seeing tfaeii little ones creeping forth to a factory , there to be worked like machine * until they re worked out of existence ? Let women and men answer as it depends upou themselves ; they have been too patient , they have endured misery and privation of every kind bo long that cur rulers seem to have thought the more they suffisred the more silent they became bat the voice of liberty , the voice of the advocates of the Charter have aroused thousands from their lethargy —men and women seem beginning to remember whose image they bear , what privileges they ought to possess , and the power they do possess , when united to obtain

      In conclusion , we would remind you that it is written ! thai whoso oppressfcth the pcor rcproacheth bis Maker ; ' sod what is every man , 6 very woman who is living in j luxury and idteotss on the money that ; is wrung from the hands of a distressed people , but a disgrace to our country and a reproach to our God ? Be assured that love of country "vriil not lessen in any woman ' s heart the lore of home . This appeal having met with the approbation of the members , I subscribe myself , Your democratic sister , E . J . Mills , President cf tie Female Chartist Association . Communications to be addressed to tbe secretory , Miss Inge , 23 , Great Wamer-itreet , Clerkenwell .

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      TO THE ED 1 T . 0 B OF THE KOBTHBBJi STAB . Mb . Editob , —In your last week ' s publication , I and my name was inserted by Mr . Ruffcy Ridley , as a defaulter for three dinner tickets te the late Demonstration Committee . 2 dr . Ridley ch&rgea me with foafteen tickets . I never received but twelve , for which number I settled with him , excepting one ticket which was had by Mr . Tbomasson , late Delegate to the Convention , and which Mr . Ridley engaged to receive the money tor and waited upon him for that purpose . Mr Ridley has also inserted a balance sheet in last week's Slar , of tbe money receive # on behalf of the Co : ispiratorsi , in which J am made a creditor for Is . 3 d ., when the scm I paid him was S 3 . 3 d . Trusting that in fairness you will insert the above . I remain , yours , Samuel Foed .

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      Great Attracti »'.—Mr. O'Connor Will Lecture

      Great Attracti »' . —Mr . O'Connor will lecture

      on Tuesday evening , at the City of London Political and Scientific Institution , 1 , Turnagaia-lane , Skinner-street . Subject— " The Land . " On the following evening ( Wednesday ) Mr . O'Conner will lecture on the " Repeal of the Legislative Union with Ireland .

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      REPEAL OF THE UiNION . The Union , indeed ! What a fascinating title ! and by what endearing and mutual courtesies it has be « n preserved . The blood-stained bridegroom wooed the trembling bride with sword in one hand and faggot in the other , and while both were dyed M-itfl the blood of her children dragged her amid bristling bayonets to the altar ; and calls the rape an union ! Uiiion indeed ! ! Union of what ! Of

      hearts . 0 ! no ; of thought 1 no ; of interest do ; of religion ? no ; of love ! 0 ! no ; but Union of all the elements of hate , of prejudice and revenge upon the one side , and of bitter snfferiDg woe and sorrow upon the othtr ! And can it still preserve its name , while those who fatten upon the compact , threaten to maintain it holy , pure , and entire , by the force of arms and martial law , should thelbride press for a divorce ! The Irish have learned many useful lessons from their Saxon task-masters . They have

      received some measure of promised improvement , not a 3 a part of the contract , tut a 3 a growling dog receives a bone from the hand of an affrighted child . Measures granted from fear , conceded to sturdy demand . The Irish fee ] , firstiy , that the measures so conceded aTe involuntary gifts , and , secondly that without a national representation the nation could not receive any benefits from them . What a reluctant Parliament surrendered to fear , a factions aristocracy rendered useless . However , that portion of society which is now in spite of mother-Church

      and Dissent-Church , beginning to educate itself , to think for itself , to speak for itself , and to act for itself , is also beginning to ask the simple and pertinent question on [ its own behalf . w Where « our share of this Union V Yes , the industrious portion of Irish and of English society with a marvellous coincidence of tbought , ask these questions \ " Are our rights belter preserved f" " Are our liberties more secure V u Are our estates raised in value !" " Is our capital belter protected ! " " Are our , morals improved ? "' " Is our religion strengthened ?"

      * Are our children eligible to all those places , pensions , and offices , to uphold which this Union must be preserved by Physical Force Can the shade of an affirmative be given to any of these questions ! On the contrary , is it not obvious to the friends of peace and of real onion , that Ireland was conquered by fraud and treachery and never by arms , and that the blood-stained standard of the State Church , has ever been the rallyingpoint of the invaders , and , the tk Church , is in danger" the war-cry of the Irish 6 taff ?

      From the time of the second Harry to the inaus- ! picious moment when the bloody tyrant Cromwell . set his foot on Irish gronnd , the plunder of the natives , to inrich the foreign invader , was the " emus belli , " and from the moment that the English i people ( tnat is a few livery men of London , a hand- \ full of Lords Spiritual and Temporal ) made a pre-, sent of Ireland , together with their own country , to j the Dutchman , the enrichment of the Protestant

      Church , at the expence of the Irish Hatien has been the sole object of the English Oligarchy . For more than a century and a half , the leech , in its new j character has sucked the very vitals , the heart and j marrow , from Irishmen , until at length , vainly hoping that exhaustion had brought about despondency , weakness , and despair , the monster would now fall upon its withering victim and crush it for ever .

      We heed bat little what state politicians and their press may say or threaten . How they may promise the subjugation of Ireland by the powers placed at i their disposal , or invent new means of torture should these fail , but when we find the Irish Church organ , the Standard , hallooing Irishmen of the North upon their disarmed countrymen of the South ; when we find that print recommending the Church staff to compel Sir Robkbt Peel to set the men of the North at the rebels , then we Bay that Ireland ' s greatest enemy , the English Law-Church ( which

      means , simply , the parson-staff ) , has taken its proper I position at the head of its troopp , shouting aloud the Charch-union cry of " war to the Knife ! " The offensive position taken by the Lords , the Commons , and almoEt the whole press , would lead the Irish to the belief , that in these threats the English voice was heard , and the English mind pourtrayed ; but it is not so ; the English people will not allow tbe fomenters of popular discord to turn the sober mind of England from the consideration of a great national question

      to any recollection of individual delinquencies . No ; never had the English people a more glorious opportunity of proving to the world that in a national struggle they can lose sight of all smaller considerations . We will not mince the matter ; we s « y that if Mr . O'Connell eviace earnestness of purpose now , tae recollection of his former vacillations will be buried in the glorious struggle and still more glorious triumph of a people in their moral might .

      We say in their moral might , because we well know , with the history of former rebellions before us , that al 1 Ireland would be mortgaged to insure the ready appliances of subjugation ; while , if the Irish people , with their patriotic Priesthood , will but use the moral means at their disposal , they may baulk fcciion of i ; s prey , g ain a triumph for their country , and leave upon record the imperishable lesson , ' That to be free a nation need but will it . "

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      and to be powerful a people need but be united and peaceful . Opinion is sharper than the sword , more powerful than the cannon ball , and a more deadly enemy to tyranny than both . We shall cautiously abstain from mixing op the question of the Charter with that of Repeal , while we would , at the same time , most earnestly implore the working classes to bold the shield of their protection , which is might , between their struggling Irish brethren and the tyranny with which they are threatened . For however the

      Duke and Sir Robert may pledge themselves to no more than the use of all the constitutional powers of oppression at their command , yet will the Rodek ' b , the Jocelyn ' s , and the Londonderry ' s ( which is the now title of the Castlereagh ' b ) as the champions ofOrangeism and the church force them if possible into a war of extermination . The Irish love their homes , their families and their hearths ; they approach death with the cheering reflection that their bones will be laid alongside the remains of those who in life were near and dear to them ; to insure these things they seek to relieve themselves from a state of provincial degradation and to

      place themselves in a position of national independence ; and for these just , theoe holy , these virtuous and patriotic aspirations , Bhall tao blood of auother race of Irishmen manure the soil of the spoiler , while it irrigates the fair fiolda of freedom to mature a harvest of " dragon ' s teeth" for future years . Do those who have carved up the interests of the weak as spoil for the strong stand in need of another partition of " ihe oft-divided" Ireland 1 And is young England now powerful in her moral strength to receive a stab through the side of her sister ? for be assured that every new bolt placed in the chains of Irish slavery rivets the manacles of Englishmen and makes thorn harder to shake cff .

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      TO THE RESCUE . An earnest of the "tender meroies" in reserve for " the 59 " has been given i n the persons of Cooper and the venerable old man Richards . It had been hoped that they would be permitted to wear out the long period of incarceration assigned them in the Queen's Bench , where in some degree the rigours of imprisonment would have been modified from the immediate surveillance of Government , as compared with those provincial hell-holes over which the

      reigning spirits are the sympathising local lords of the ascendant" in tho " middle classes . " Memorials to that effeot were presented to Government , but vainly ; thty were removed on Saturday without a a moment ' s notice , at five o ' clock in tho morning , from the Queen ' s Bench prison to that infernal den , Stafford Gio 1 , there to experience the fate of Clayton and Holbekry , unless rescued by the determined expression of tho people's honest indignation .

      A letter from an excellent Chartist at Stafford informs us that they are subjected to the gaol diet , " which consists of coarse mixed meal bread with thin skilly , and some few potatoes , half of which aro rotten . No animal food—no soup—nor anything else . " Cooper has memorialised the visiting Magistrates for permission to provide his own food , and to have books and writing materials . He is denied all . Shut out entirely from all communication with the world , he is not allowed to correspond with any one , —not even with his dying wife—for six months to come .

      Coopers constitution was undermined in early youth by severe study—two year's treatment like that to which he has been consigned , will murder him . Richards is an old man . His silver hair and querulous tones of voice and faltering footsteps shew that , under any circumstances , his home must shortly be " the one appointed . " And these are the men on whom the hand of savage vengeance is laid thus heavily . ' Capper is also subjected to like treatment . What can bo done I They must perish if the people do not stir . Will the people let them perish without effort J or will they raise , from one end of the

      empire to another—from city , town , village , household chapel , church , and workshop , such a Bhout of indignation as shall make even vengeance pause in its career ? Remember , no time is to be lost . About it , then , at once ! We learn that on Monday next , at 12 o ' clock , in Leicester Market Place , a Petition will be submitted to the public of that town . Let every city , town , village and hamlet , and individual in the empire , follow the example , { and pour in their petitions to T . S . Duncojide , Esq ., M . P ., G , Albany Court , Piccadilly , London , by whom they will be presented to the House of Commons .

      There must be no trilling nor dallying in the matter . Every day is a day ' s bitter misery to them . The animus of Government is manifest . The time approaches nearly when the fate of others will be decided by the same arbiters . Much , therefore , in many ways depends on prompt exertion . Let the effort be made now and at once . We have made reference to the animus of Government . If it needed further confirmation than from these horrid facts , we have it in a letter which now lies before us , from one of tbe poor fellows who gave evidence against" the 59 , " at Lancaster , and who affirms that because he chose not to load his conscience with a

      lie , the paltry meanness h&s been resorted to of refusing to pay him the poor value of his time occupied in " public service . " He says : — " I was the second witness called upon against Feargua O'Connor , and fifty-nine other prisoners . I spoke tbe truth to the best of my knowledge , and would not take bribe . I was called by Gregory Lewin a d—d scamp , and he told me if I wanted my wages , I might go to Feargus O'Connor for them , and if I did not return borne , he would have me placed among tbe rest of tbe prisoners , as he bad better given me £ 100 to have remained at home , for a d—d scoundrel as I was . "

      Coupling thia testimony with the facts of poor Cooper and his mates , there can be no mistaking the purposes of Government ; and the simple question is , whether the people will let their friends be murdered and their cause trampled on beforo their eyes without moving .

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      THE LAND QUESTION . We have been surprised to receive two or three communications from which it would appear that some Chartists look upon Mr . O'Connor ' s proposition for the appropriation of the land to its legitimate purpose of supporting the people in comfort , as calculated to lead away the people from the struggle after political right , to a mere consideration of their social position . Wo are amazed to think how such an idea can have

      entered any body ' s head . If we have not greatly misunderstood Mr . O'Connor , nothing could have been further from his head at any rate . There is no possibility of severing the political and social condition of the people . They are cause and effect . The one produces the other as naturally and necessarily as fire produces heat . Who thinks that the Charter would be valuable to the people , if its achievement rested in itBelf ; or if it did operate as a cause to produce social amelioration and individual benefit as its effect ? Can Mr . O'CoifNOR , or can the People be better occupied than

      in the investigation of the mode through which the cause may best operate to produce the effect proposed ! For ourselves , if we conceived the purpose or tbe tendency of the land scheme to be in the least degree detrimental to the progress of the Charter movement , it should instantly have our most determined opposition . We do not so regard it . On the contrary , we it think if duly understood and acted on , calculated to be the most powerful collateral aid to the enfranchisement of the whole people that has yet occupied the people ' s mind . We shall recur to this subject again and again .

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      the factory bill . . We give elsewhere a long report of a most important meeting of Millownera and Members of Parliament in consideration of the labour clauses of the Factory Bill . We invite special attention to the speeches of the partizans of labour and money respectively . We say the speeches ; we cannot say the arguments of both ; becauso ilio argument was ill ou one side .

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      TO THE PEOPLE . My Deab Fbiehds , — -I have now lying before me a shoal of letters from all parts of England and Scotland ; filled with the most kindly expressions of good feeling and regard , and requesting me to preach here , te lecture there , to attend soirees yonder , and to go all over . And all press ] their claims for early visitation . To reply to all by post would occupy much of that time for which your service finds me quite sufficient of employment . Some' few , where circumstances required special services or explanations I have answered thus ; the rest must consider this as a general reply in which all are alike interested .

      Firstly , then ; I qan take no tour till after the argument in the Queen ' s Bench . That is quite clear . My tour for health , recreation , and agitation may be out short in its commencement , and I may find myself alongside Cooper , Richards , and Capper , in a stone coffin , studying sermons on Chartism and Class legislation , with ^ ekiUy" and " rotten potatoes" for my text . Until after ** My Lords the Queen ' s Justices" shall have signified their pleasure as to my being allowed to use my powers of

      locomotion , I can go nowhither save to Bury , and Bolton , and Rochdale , to all of which places I have been long pledged , and where ( D . V . ) I shall preach on Sunday 21 st . at Bury , on Monday 22 nd . at Bolton , and Tuesday 23 rd . at Rochdale . I must then * ' wait for further orders "—or at all events for permission to make further arrangements . Secondly , I go no where , where I am not wanted ; I . take no individual invitations , I go nowhere but at the request of the people themselves ; I never obtrude myself .

      Thirdly , I fam desirous to cause no disappointment . In many of tho plaoes to which I am invited I shall be personally a stranger . They have been been used to have lecturers of all sorts amoug them ; and it is common to estimate speeches by . the yard I am no long-winded speaker . The state of my health utterly precludes the possibility of my doing it . I have not physical strength to speak two or three hours at a stretcb . One of my principal inducements to quit for a time my ordinary seclusion is the hope of being able thereby to repair my shattered health . I am

      broken down—worn out—as nearly as may be—and I cannot stand very severe labour . For this reason as well as because I am one of those who think that religion is the best policy , and that True Christianity is the only true politics . I shall make my several towns both South and North preaching tours ; endeavouring to shew that every consistent Christian must be a Chartistt and that all will be the better Chartists for being Christians . I know there are some to whom the word " Christian Chartist" bears an unpleasant sound . I cannot help that ; I must not let complaisanoe lead me into hypocrisy ; ( they would like me no better for it if I did ;)

      I must be honest ; I am a Christian Chartist , and I hope also that I am a Chartist Christian ; I believe Christianity to be the soul , of which Chartism is the body ; and I cannot consent to separate them . I am aware that my profession has been so much abused , by many—made so powerful an accessary to all the evils of class legislation—that many of my good friends think it , per se , an evil , and would be glad to ses me altother M drop it" ; I think not with them : and cannot consent to oblige them at the expence of my conscience . Whenever I come , I appear in my own character . I sustain no doubles .

      Thirdly , I shall not take a farthing from the people beyond the bar eexpences of the route . It is my doctrine that that no man ought to take pay from the people who can do without it . I cannot travel at my own cost . I am too poor . But I can labour " for the love of it "; and I Bhall despise myself when I consent to do otherwise . If there be any thing in these things , in the leastjdegree unpalatable to the people of any of tho towns which I have promised to attend , I beg that they will write at once and say so ; that I may know , to arrange accordingly . This is my reason for now refering to them .

      These things distinctly understood , if it is so please the lieges , and if Providence permit me health enough , as soon as June puts in , I shall arrange my tours going first south to Sheffield , Derby , Loughborough , Nottingham , and all the other towns in that district from which I have invitations , then North , to all the towns in Northumberland and Cumberland , to which I am invited , and then for the very nursery of sober , thoughtful patriotism , " bonnie" Scotland ; towards whose cloud capt hills my soul yearns with aa anxious expectation .

      I shall , of course , lay down the routes distinctly and communicate with each place , so as that every town shall know exactly when to expect me . Devoted as I have ever been to your cause ; which is no less my cause , I am , Your faithful friend and Eervant , Wm . Hill . Northern Star , Leeds , Thursday , May 18 , 1843 .

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      Ashton Shoemakers . — We cannot interfere . K . T . Osborn , Silston . — We know nothing of Mr . Pepper's letters . J . H ., Darlington . — We have no room . Thomas Heanes , Manchester . — We cannot insert the address . We have seldom seen a worse specimen of the very spirit which it affects to reprove . It is a virulent and unprovoked attack upo 7 i parties whom its authors have not the manliness t-t name , and who , if they should reply in their defence , would be immediately accused of denunciation . Mr . Harrison , of Notlinyham , is requested lo communicate his address to T . J . Crowtlier , Gloueester Coffee-house , Church-street , Shoreditch , London . Tkb Nottingham Frameworkers' Petition . —This document is only in course of siqnature , and has

      not been presented , —as stated by us last week . Bath Chartists . —The report of Mr . Marriott ' s lecture on the llth instant did not reach us till Thursday , liith , too late for insertion , even had it not been too long for insei'lion under any circumstances . We cannot , except under peculiar circumstances , give lectures at length . Bernard M ' Cartney writes as from Chnringcross Hospital ( te which xve regret to hear that he has been confined ever since his arrival in London J to ask certain questions in reference to a letter which appeared in a recent number of the Star . // he be not captiously disposed , he will see , on again looking at ( hat letter , that his que tions are unnecessary : if he be , we have nothing to say to him .

      Home Truth and Homely . —To ( he working classes and others—My friends , there never will be any change in this country for you until you act differently to what you have done yet ; and you will say how happens that ? Well , I will tell you : you are keeping a set of idle , drunken publicans . There is not a week in the year but what you are giving hundreds 0 / pounds weekly to this set of idle ruffians ; and , my friends , this money goes to tyrants—yes . tyrants to the very core : and so long as you spend your money in this manner , so long will you have tyrants to tyrannize over you . Yours , John Law ford , delver . Hiohto-cn , May 17 , 1843 .

      To the Colliers of the Wkar , — Will any of the colliers wishing lo have the services of William Beesley , of Accrington , send their addresses to Mr . George Charlton , sail-maker , ! , Fitter ' s-row , Suhderland . as soon as convenient .

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      FOR THE NATIONAL DEFENCE FUND . £ 8 . d . From three friends at Harogate 0 13 ^ Croyden , C . Segrave 0 10 0 „ silk mill a ; Horsforth 0 1 11 „ Knaresbro" , per J . D .... ... ... 0 0 3 ^ _ an old Radical 0 0 c „ J . S . Cullen 0 0 4 „ J . FarmawoTth and J . Twist , Amertca 0 4 0 « . Dd ph , Saddlewortb , per W . Hirst ... 0 11 0 „ The Cap at Liberty , fifth subscription of one pound eadti ... ... ... I O 0 „ Brighton , par George Giles 0 10 0 „ W . T . L ., L'jruleu 000 „ The Rauclifl ' e Arms , Nottingham , per J . Sweet ' 0 5 6 „ Weir PoUf-rv , for Air . Campbell Smithwiik 0 7 0 „ Clltheroe , per Jauies Heaton 2 0 0

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      W . S . —Tbe poUtoe article ia Mr . O' Connor ' s letter of last week was from toe Leeds Mercury ol April 22 , 1843 .

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      ( From the Times correspondent . ) Dublin , May 15 . —The A gitation . —The recent Ministerial declarations , although rather roughly handled by the Metropolitan organs of repeal , appear to have excited a far fuller measure of indignation throughout the provinces . The various local journals teem with diatribes of the most dangerous tendency ; and sentiments are freely broached , which in the incipient state of the agitation , might h * ve been ( however discreetly ) passed over as worthless specimens of native bombast , but which must be regarded at tho present crisis as the natural result of culpable apathy in a quarter where it was least expected . A provincial paper of Saturday , supposed to be the organ of Dr . M'Hale , thus refers to the allabsorbing topic : —

      "The demand for justice of nine millions of peoplo is to be drowned in the roar of artillery , and that which was carried by blood is to bo upheld by slaughter ; Wellington and his sanguinary allies are ready * to cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war , ' but with all their legions at their back they are doomed to discomfiture and disappointment .. The game of coercion was played before the Catholic Association was suppressed , but what was the result ? —that body , under the magic hand of the man who now guides the destinies of his country , sprang into a more vigorous existence , and Wellington and Peel were coerced themselves to terminate the struggle , not by the slaughter of tho Irish people , but by the concession of their rights . Thus will the present also end . and tho noODle of Ireland , bv nfinnpahlo and f

      ~ ~ — j - — ^^— — — — — — ^^ - — ^ — — — — - ^ -- _ - ^ g ^ - — v v ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ h v ^^ v ^ . ^ i ^ p ^^^ determined resistance to oppression , will again triumph over Peel and Wellington , and compel them once more to become traitors to their own principles . We repeat again , tho time is come to try men ' s souls , and the time ia come when physical force is to be encountered by moral force , aud when every Irishman should be ou tho side of his country . It' we are invaded , probably Arthur Duke of Wellington will iu person lead the invaders of his native laud ; and if he should , why if he caught cold from the sea voyage , or if the climate disagreed with him , or if any of those accidents which flesh is heir to produced fatal consequences to a man of his advanced . age , we would , bad as he is , be charitable enough to afford him a grave . "

      In the same papor ( tbe Tuam Herald ) appears a vivid description of a repeal meeting held in the evermemorable village of ' Aughrim , " from which an abridged account may not be without interest as a specimen of the " spirit" of the agitation : — "On Sunday last a numerous meeting of the parishes of Aughrim and Kiloonnell was held at the Chapel-yard , Aughrim , for the purpose of appointing wardens and arranging for the collection of tbe repeal rent . A number of respectable , persons from Ballinasloo were present , and seemed to take great interest in the proceedings . The venerated and patriotic parish priest of Aughrim , the Rev . Mr . Manning , in an eloquent address , explained the

      object of tho meeting , and impressed upon the people the necessity of the strictest observance of the laws . The assembly was also addressed by Mr . J . Dillon , of Caher , and in glowing terms by that distinguished aud unshrinking patriot , Mr . N . Boy Ian , justice of tho peaco , Hilton-house , county of Meath . The whole scene was one of the deepest interest—calling up proud recollectii na of the past , and full of high promise of tho future . Who could look without emotion on the hill of Kilcommedan , where 18 OOOunditcipliued and badly-armed Irish defeated 27 , 000 veterans , furnished with all tho munitions of war , and flash ad with tho victories thoy had won ou tho battle fields of France and Holland ? But who would not

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      feel proud to be an Irishman when he beheld the pass of Uraohree , where 2 , 500 Irish horse conjDleUiw defeated 8 , 000 of the flower of European chivalry--French Hugonots , Dutch and Danish guards with several chosen regiments of English Dragoons i WeS might St . Ruth exclaim , in the hour of tri ' utnnlu that he would * drive the English to the gates of Dublin ! ' ¦ Never did men , inferior in numbers and arms , obtain a more complete victory over the enemies of their country and king , till robbed of it bv

      chance through the death of their commander , ! And that scene was fall of promise of future independence to Ireland—proving that the voice of freedom had reached the most retired parts of our island . Yes in every quarter of the country the spirit of nationality is animating the masses . Deeply and steadily a the mighty tide of popular feeling advancing onward * nor is it the less irresistible for wanting the storm and foam upon its surface , which , on former occa sions , generally characterized similar movements in Ireland . "

      The Mr . Dillon alluded to in the foregoing is a gentleman of high respectability in the county , and he is , moreover , if I mistake not , a recent auxiliary to the ranks of the repealers . The boards of guardians , too , are daily becoming infected with the repeal mania . The Abbeyleix board has already declared in favour of the measure * and the guardians of the Dundalk Union , haying taken umbrage at the refusal of the commissioners to dismiss the clerk for the high offence of being " connected with an anti-repeal party , " are about to tread in the footsteps of their Queen's-county brethren . Ono of the guardians gave notice on the last day of meeting that , "in consequence of the letter from the commissioners ( above alluded to ) he would move at their next sitting , that they should discuss the repeal of the union , and that a petition from the board be forwarded to Parliament for the repeal of that measure . " This is another practical proof of the stimulus given to the agitation by the working of the odious Poor Law .

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      LONDON . —Frost , Williams , Jones , and Ems , —A grand concert will take place at the Mechanics ' Institution , Circus-street , New Road , on Tuesday , May 30 th , for the purpose of raising a fund towards defraying the expenses of a great demonstration , to be held on Hampstead Heath , on Whit- Monday , to memorialize her Majesty on behalf of the above named patriots , and all who are now suffering in exile and in dungeons for their advocacy of the cause of the people . Admission sixpence each . Rotunda , Blackfriar ' s Road . —Mr . C . J . Smith will lecture here on Monday evening , at eight o ' clock . Members afe particularly desired to attend on business of importance .

      The General Council of the National Charter Association , resident in the Metropolis , will meet on Sunday afternoon , at three o'clock , at the City of London Political and Scientific Institution , I , Turnagain-lane . Mr , Parkes , of Sheffield , will lecture on Monday evening , at the Commercial Coffee House , Clerkenwell Green , subject—Will a repeal of the Corn LaWS produce permanent relief ! A general meeting of the Shoreditch locality will be held at ihe Gloster Coffee House on Tueftdaj . Stab , Golden-Lane . —The members are requested to attend on Sunday ( to-morrow ) for the purpose of electing councillors , and on other business of in * portance ..

      Silk Weavers . —Mr . M'Grath will address this body at the Weavers' Arms , Pei . ham-street , SpiUlfields , on Sunday evening next , at eight o ' clock . A concert will take place on every Saturday evening , at eight ©' clock , for the benefit of the victims . On Monday Evening a meeting of the Metropolitan Tailors' Trade Protection Society will be held at the Political and Scientific institntien , 1 , Turnagain-lane , Skinner-street , for the imrpose of laying a report before the society and electing a general secretary .

      Mr . Parkes , of Sheffield , will lecture ou San * day morning , at the City of London Political and Scientific Institution , on " The Origin and Conse quences of Kingoraft ; " to commence at eleren o ' clock precisely ; admission free . In the evening Mr . Parkes will lecture " On the necessity of the people keeping in remembrance the fate of Froet , Williams , Jones , and the other martyrs , to political freedom , and of their exertions in returning them to their father land . " Lambeth . —Mr . Stallwood will lecture here on Sunday evening at eight o'clock . Subject—The Corn Laws .

      Paddington . —Ruffy Ridley will lecture at the Charter Coffee-house , Edgeware-road , on Monday night at eight o'clock . A Chartist Camp Meeting will be held on Sanday afternoon , at Studley Pike , adjoining the monument that was erected in commemoration of ffi « peace of 1815 , which is situated centrally between Todmorden , Hebdenbridge , Sowerby , and Rippondes ; the friends residing at the two last mentioned places are most earnestly requested to attend . Mr . J . West and other friends will address the meeting , which will commence at two o ' clock .

      Mr . R . G . Gahmage will leoture at the following places during the next week : —Dewrfmry , Monday ; Huddersfield , Tuesday ; Lockwood , Wednesday ; Honley , Thursday ; Holmfirtk , Friday and Sunday . Bradford . —The Chartists of Little Horton will meet in the School Room , Park-place , on Sunday morning at nine o ' clock . The Chartists of the central locality are requested to meet on Sunday morning , at nine o ' clock in thfl council room , Butterworth ' s-builfliugs . Thb Chartists of Wapping will meet on Sunday morning , at nine o ' clock , ' at the usual plue of meeting . The Chartists of Bowling Back-lane , will meet in their , room , on Sunday morning next , at tea o ' clock .

      The Chartists of Middleton-fields will meet at the house of George Sedgwick , on Saturday even * ing at eight o ' clock . On Sunday evening a lecture will be detirered in the Large Room , Butterworth ' s-buildiugs , at seven o ' clock . Subject ,-Will a Repeal of the Lepslatiw Union between England and Ireland , based on souna principles , be beneficial or injurious to the lnnawtants , of the British Empire ! Free adm ission-o cussion invited . On Monda y evening at eight o ' clock , Mr . Condrou of Halifax , will leoture on the past and WBeti *? dition of Ireland , at the house of Michael lWi Broad-stones . Free admission .

      On Sunday , the 28 th of May , a camp meeting w be held at Underoliffe , at ten olclock , and at App « 'J Bridge at two o ' clock in the afternoon . Nottingham . —A lecture will be ff i ^ b / i £ Elizi Blathmvick , in the Democratic CttaP el ' . ™ r place , on Monday next , at eight o ' clock . S ^ V / The distressed state of the . country , its causes w remedy . Admission free . At the close a collect will be made in aid of the school fund . Newington . —The Council and . ° ll ) eI L ( S requested to meet at the Crown and Anchor , w ^ street , on Tuesday evening next . Hyde . —A Camp meeting will be held on SunW afternoon , on Golden-green . Mr . W . Bootti , w " Newton Heath , and also Mr . G . B . Candwet . oM the Conspirators , " will be in attendance , a » lection will be made in aid of the defence fund .

      Salford . —The Chartists of this locality h * ^ changed their night of meeting from the Bma * L t - , the Monday evening . There will be a memw meeting next Monday evening at eight 0 ««*• =, *• , all friends to the cause in Salford are speflw invited to attend . ^^ Colne . —A lecture will be delivered in the wg tist news room , Windy-banks , on Sunday , w » J 28 ih , at half-past two o ' clock , in the afternoon . Nothngham . —Mr . James Simmons will I * on Nottingham Forest next Sunday , attw ° o ^ in the afternoon , and six in the e '" 5 rh »» weather be favourable , and , if not , in tto v , b »> Rice-place . , ^ A Meeting of delegates from the ww ^ J ^ tinghain , Derby , and Leicester , will be now Monday next , at the Shoulder of Mat » n , B j £ » gate , Nottingham , at ten o ' clock in the * ° renoo * enrr ^ rrri . / " >»» < 5 » nHaV fiVffllillZ ( tO-tHO "

      Mr . G . J . Harney will address the ch f' ^ sembling in the Figtree-iane room , uau seven o ' clock . . . jj » . On Monday evening a public discussion w held in th same room , to consider the repe * J Legislative Union existing between thiscounkj ^ Ireland . The discussion to commence at o »" seven precisely . - yjs Oh Tuesday evening the usual bail place . ijg * i On Wednesday evening the weekly metthe members will beheld . ^ f . OLDHAM .-On Sunday ( to-morrow ) , Mr- m Taylor , of Royton , will deliver an addre ^ rf Chartist Room , on the Proceedings in the w ^ Queen's Bench , on the 4 th of May last , < J » p necessity of re-organizing the Cnartast JW ^ g leoture to commence precisely at six ° *> iu « ^ W evening . After the address , a collection w . made in aid of the Defence Fund . $ Mossley .-Mt . Thomas Clark , of Stockpofa deliver a lecture in tbe Association room . d £ day eveninK next . Subject- " Ihe Una ^ capabilities ! ' A collection will be made exciu > for the Defence Fund . ^ J LivBaPOQL .-The Coutcil aro reauK' * » JsU » a meeting at their usual room , on ^ . ^ \ V take into consideration the subject 0 . ^ nor ' s plan of Organisation . ^

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      Turn-out of Colliers . —The colliers in the employ of Mr . Sparrow , at Longton , have again turned out , in consequence of a proposed red notion of wages . The men having received the usual fourteen days ' notice of the intended drop , the time expired on Saturday se ' nnight , when ihey all ceased labour , and are now out . The number who have turned out , inoluding boys , is about 260 . The reduction is at the rate of 3 d . per day on each man ' s earnings . A large meeting of colliers was held in the Town Hall , Longton , on Monday evening , in reference to the strike . A number of resolutions were passed , in which they determined to resist by all lawful means the reduction of their wages , and called upon the colliers in employ , and the public in general , to assist them ; at the same time pledging themselves not to commit or countenance any breach of the peaco . —Birmingham Gazette .

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      The Northern Star. Saturday, May 20, 1843.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , MAY 20 , 1843 .

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      TO MR . K . RIDLEY . Sir , —Althongh I have been remiai In the payment of money matters , to my sorrow , in a few Instance * through having been tyrannically deprived of my work , for having been seen in the Petition procession , of last May , but , in the instance of being a defaulter , as you have in last weeks' Star been pleaaed to represent to tbe amount of 5 s . for dinner tickets , 1 will hero remind you , that I told you that a man named Teeton , owes yon that sum , and not me . You premised me that y » u would call on him for it , for he stilJ persists ia it , that he wili not pay me that sum , bat -when yon call on bim in your official capacity as Secretary , he will pay you . David Cater . 32 , Fleet-lane , City of London , May 16 th , 1 S 43 .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 20, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct651/page/4/