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      CHARTIST PILLS . IMPORTANT TO THE AFFLICTED , MR . J . HOBSON , Northern Star Office , Leeds , having accepted the Wholesale and Retail Agenoy of those Pills , is authorised to give Twopenco out of each Is . l ^ d Box , to be divided between the Executive and the Families of the Imprisoned Chartists , i The many i Medicines lately offered to the public would have prevented the proprietor from advertising these Pills ( althoagh convinced of thdr efficacy ) , did he not feel it hia duty to give his suffering fellow Chartists an opportunity ( by thoir affliction ) toforward the cause of Democracy , and assist the families of their incarcerated brethren .

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      PARR'S LIFE PILLS . ; TPHE amawng Cures performed by this Medicine X are truly astonishing ; Instances are occurring daily of persons who were almost at deaths door being restored to sound and vigorous health . The following are selected , from hundreds of a similar nature . Forwarded by Mn MqtterShead , ' Chemist , Market-place , Manqhesteri ; ; v - *» To the Proprietors of Parr ^ Life Pills . 11 Gentlemen , —1 feel it my duty , for the good of suffering mankind , to send you this true statement of tie astonishingeffects which Parr ' sLife Pilish&ye produced upon me , and also upon my wife and daughter . Myself and wife have both been strahgera to good health for nearly twenty years , until we

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      BELFAST . Our meetings in thiB place are coethmed weekly , and , considering the determined opposiBon which -we receive , our principles are mating rapid progress . " Some individuils are joining oar society every "week ; and tbonsands -who stand spait from -jj are deeply interested In 6 M weltare , and heartil y praybg for the ultimate and complete triumph . of our measures over both Whig and Tory . The papers of Belfast which profess to be liberal are banjedlogether to beat us down—not by meeting our armaments , but by ¦ rilifjing our our motives and pouring their Tile vitnpe-T&tions against us , because we wiH not descend from the lefty position we now occupy , and unite with them for a mere repeal of the Com Laws . "We contend for the Charter , and nothing short of the Charter , and

      hence those professed liberators of the people hold us up to public view as the enemies of mankind , rebels against the Government , and disturbers of the peace of society ; while the Tory papers use us as tools in their handi to beat down the Whigs , and in a sort of Iflasive gibing , represent the Chaitists as being able to convert the Corn Law repealers to embrace the doctrines contained in the People ' s Charter , which the Tories Tery justly say , the Chartists " represent as containing more healing virtues than all the Whig-Radicals ever possessed , and better calculated ^ to alleviate the distresses of ths mechanic and labourer than all the freetrade nostrums that had ever yet been propounded / 1 Thus it will be Been tfcat we have to contend every inch of advance we make against the united opposition both

      of Whig and Tory ; for it u clear that the object of the Tories in giving us the preference to the Whigs is merely to show that the power of the Whigs , is so little that it is not able to stand the resistance of the Chartists , and therefore the aristocratic Tory faction have nothing to fear ; but the fact is they do fear us ; they feel the corruption in their own citadel , and they behold their ranks thinning every day , and they perceive also that ours is constantly on the increase , and all the bustle , corf asion , and banter which they are- at present making just reminds us of the cheek of consumption in a dying patient , it often flushes-and looks healthful for a moment ; or it ib rather like the powerful and convulsive pulsations of the heart , after every symptom of life has left the extremities . The

      class-legislators have lost the confidence of the people , and hence Iheyr&ge and famefromthepres 8 , theiiheadquarters > and pour out their slander upon those who would instruct the people in the way of legally ' makini ; themselves tue supreme law-makers in our Commons' House of Parliament . The Corn Law Repealers advertised for a public meeting to beheld in the town of Newtownaids , in the county Down , on the 21 st nit This was the first meetting of the kind held in Ireland since Sir R . Peel irrtrodneed his sliding scale .. I repaired to the place of . muster , and remained a spectator till their resolutions were read and a petition moved and read , -which was to be presented to tie House of Commons by Sharman Crawfoid , E-q ., M . P ., praying the Government to blot ou : and for ever from the Statute Book cf England , all

      taxes upon food- Before this was put to th 3 meeting frem the chair , I ascended the platform and requested a hearing , but the ChairmaB and most of the platform gentry refused to suffer me to speak , although they had been railing all day against intoleration and all monopoly . I insisted upon having a hearing , and a -very ere&t bustle ersned ; the assembled multitade cried out * 'haai him , hear him ! " I was , however , forced from the platform , and compelled to tako my stand on a lot cf timber which was piled up on the side of the large yard where the meeting was held . The whole multitude turned from the platform to hear what I had got to say , and left the platform gentlemen to carry their intended petition to the lower House , without giving their consent or dissent to tha measure . I commenced

      to shew the people the inefficiency cf a repeal of the Corn Laws to satisfy the distress of the nation . I read abstracts from the National Petition , and explained to them the nature of the People ' s Charter . I shewed them that a repeal of the Com Laws only gave ths people a small portion of that debt which the Government jusKy owed the people , and after a long address , which was received with avidity by all present ; I moTed as an amprifimBTit to the business cf that day , ' That tlis whela Charter be eoniended for by the peeple , and the National Petition adopted tor signature , " and my amendment was carried nem , con . ; before I left the place , I received invitations to go to Bangor , Grey Abbey , and Postoferry , to give lectures on the Charter ; and the whola people declared it to be the best measure

      which had ever been proposed for the good of the community . I entered into arrangements that day with the people of Newtownards to retarn to that town on Saturday last , the 5 th inst ., to ho ! d a public meeting , and take with me petition sheets to receive signatures to the National Petition . Reporters from the several papers of Belfast , were at tfee above meeting , and the Tindicaior , which professes ta be the most liberal , niied against me in a paragraph of peifsct libel , but after considerable exertions on my part and the part of my friends together with the fear of a prosecution for libel , the Eli tor published a letter of mine last Wednesday wetk , contradicting the false statements contained in his journal of that day -week . I -went to Xew .

      townards , on lastsitmday , according to appointment . J was a stranger and alon ^ , and the authorities combined to prevent me from holding a public meeting , but I persevered , and in defiance of all opposition , ; I did hold the meeting , and this was the first public meeting which has been held in the North cf Ireland , except our weekly meetings which are always open to ulL After my return from Jfewtownards , I wrote the following letter to the Editor- of the Viniiccdor , but he ref jsed to give it insertion in his columns , and I went to the office and requested my manuscript to be returned from the file of his dead letters . I hereby Bend it to you just as 1 sent it to him , and request its insertion . After this the public will see how the liberals of this place treat us : —

      To the Editor of the P indicator . Sin , —In compliance with the request of the people of Tse-Rtownirds , after the Anti-Corn Law meeting held ¦ there on the 21 st nit . I went to "that town on last Si-, turJay , and having , previous to that time received a . letter from ilr . Matthew Mayas , informing me that my rt address on last Monday week had been misrepresented and my motives belied to a wonderful extent Ifot only the papers but the tongues of envy and slander had been very busy ever since , and he concluded therefore that I could not obtain a peaceable and respectable hearing ;** ¦ and , said he , " I am credibly informed that if you would come t j harangue the people , the police have orders t j apprehend yon . " Ij consequence of this "Mr . Mayes refused to take any part in . convening a public meeting .

      I , however , on Saturday last , repaired to Xewtownards , went to the bellman , engaged him to give publicity to my intention cf holding a public meeting in the Marketsquare , precisely at four o " clocV . I had made all the preliminary arrangements which I considered necessary before I took any steps to convene the meeting . I had , on my arrival , waited on the Chief of the Police , in the Isews-room , and obtained bis liberty to call a public meeting ; int . to do him justice , I must say , he refused 1 j grant me any protection , and told me that he -would tike cart to ' have side person there to -watch what I would say , and if 1 Ehould commit myself he would immediately hold me responsible . "

      Whilr ; the bellman was publishing the meeting , the police authorities came asd told him that he was acting illegally , and rcquettBd him to appear in the office cf Lord Londonderry . In one hour ' s notice , I went with him , and some discussion ensued , which ended in my unalterable determination xi htld a public meeting in the Market-square , at four o ' clock , and if the meeting should turn oui to be illegal , I was willing to abide by all the consequences . About ten mil ules past four , multitudes cf people from all quarters of the town began to assemble themselves in the Market-square , and some individual whom I know not , kindly provided me with a large table , on which 1 placed myself , and began my address by soliciting the assembled multitudes to VehaTe themselves

      "With becoming decorum , and listen to me till 1 had told them cf some of the gr ievances under -which ibe people laboured , and if I should differ from any individual present in my descriptions if "Ireland ' s wrongs an 4 the r = medies for redrrssing those -wrongs , " 1 -would then patiently hear the objection if such individual and then reply to his speech , and put it to the vote ' of the people who was considered more correst . me or my opposcr , and should the people decide against me I -wonld silently sink into the minority , in the cbtrse cf my address I showed the people that we , ( the ; prople of Ireland ) laboured under mistaken notions of the great

      mass of the English people , and often charged the whole of the English people with a crime which -was perpetrated only by the privileged order of ttuit people ; and that in carrying into effect those laws -which taxed the food upon t ' se consumers , and all the " other barl laws under which the nation groaned , they were aided and abetted by the aristocracy of our own land , ani thai it was therefore unjust ia charge Uie -whole people of England with the infamous deeds cf a fsw inaiTiduals , who cared no more for the misery of the mechanic and labourer of England than they did for the same order of individnils in our ewn courtly . I Ehowed them also that it was tha determination of the

      gr * zt majority of tee English people t © aid and assist their Irish brethren , in carrying into a law those measures which would give Ireland her right 3 as well as England her rights ; and I showed them-that Daniel O'Connell at a recent meeting in the Corn Exchanje , Dublin , had advocated Manhood Suffirase , and other four points of the Charter contended for by the English radicals , which would most unequivocally induce honest measures from our legislature . To be brief , I contended for the peopl 9 to have the supreme power in appointing members to represent them in the Commons' House of Parliament , and to make those la ^ s by which the whole empire was governed . -

      I wul not intrude farther , because the limits of a lttttr would not contain a . tithe of the address which I delivered . I spoke upwards of two hours and -was received with rapturous applause . I read the National Petition , which was adopted for signature , and hundreds volunteered to sign that Petition . In short , the people of Newtownards evinced a manly and heroic determination to have Ireland her rights in despite of all the machinations of Tory despotism and aristocratic bigotry , ' ' . ¦ ¦ . ' . Afcerlhai concluded , I challenged discussion , and no person seemed disposed to dispute ought I had Advanced . ' I then concluded by putting it to the vote

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      of the meeting W- jettjei ifc waa ^ j , ^^ I should return to a ^ dre ^ tbem j ^ on Ea 5 ter Monday , assuring them t J&ti uid not wish to impose my services , unless it vu , fl ^ deslre . ^ believe every individ ™ Vesent hailed the proposition with delight . . i - hre « cheers were then given for the Chief of the Police ; three cheers for the people ' s rights ; and the meeting calmly and quietly dispersed . . By inserting the above in yon * journal yon will confer a benefit upon the advocates of liberty to all sects and parties , and would assuiedly place under further obligations , Your most sincere friend in the cause of justice , Hugh Carlile . P . S The Chief of the Police did com * to the meeting and bring his men with him , who were stationed round i the multitude in readiness , providing any annoyance j should be given .

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      DUB 1 XK . —IK 1 SH UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE Association—At the usual meeting on Sunday week , Mr . Rafter in the chair , the venerable chairman , ( who may be justly entitled the Nestor of Chartism in Ireland , } observed that it was with great delight he presided over them on the present occasion . When all looked gloom and difficulty , he and a few others had endeavoured to keep alive the embers of true liberty in their city , which had been nearly extinguished by the venal breath of time-serving and place-hunting demagogues . That smouldering fire had sines been fanned into a flime at once bright , intense , and increasing , by tue energies of their worthy , prudent , Mr . O'Higgina , Many cf those who had come to revile , to mock , and sneer , had their convictions reached , and

      understandings pierced by the arrows of truth in that room ; and , however unpleasant and painful the friendly wound at first , they had found that Chartism was the true political inoculation , which would prevent society from suffering under the dangerous virus of faction , and bearing on its countenance the foul stains and indentions of unreasoning partizinship . ( Cheers . ) He had also to congratulate the meeting on having secured the valuable services of Mr . DyoU as their secretary—( hear , hear , and cheery . ) That gentleman was now well known to them , and equally well known to their enemies—( hear . ) He did not merely confine himself to the reutine business of his office ; but when occasion demanded , be feared not to enter the lists with the political Groliatbs of the Cera Exchange . The Lord

      Mayor ' s clerK , and his " head pacificator , " had lately heard from him in a manner they would not readily forgive , or lightly fjrget—( hear , hear . ) He need not enforce upon them the necessity of decorum and order ; they had got a sounder political training than to interlupt any gentleman , whether he differed from them or not—nor would they lend themselves to the disgraceful violence resorted to by their " non-physical" force assailants—( hear . ) After the minutes had been read , and several new members admitted , Mr . Dyott , in an eloquent and powerful appeal , drew their attention to tae late brutal proceedings of the deluded IriBh Repealers in Manchester , who are paid blood-money by the Corn Law Leaguers , to attack and murder the Chartisti Three hundred of them , armed with iron

      crowbars , hatchets , bludgeons , and paving stones , in compact and captained order , had fallen en a dense and unarmed crowd , severely injured Mr . O'Connor , mutilated the Rev . Mr . Scholefleld , and dreadfully injured numerous others of the Chartist party Here was physical force with a witness ! Will that indescribable nondescript , Tom Steele , now denounce his brother pacificators for their bloody intentions and deeds ? Not he , indeed ! What will Mr . O'Niell Daunt say to this attempt at massacre ? Not a word . Will Tom Arkins glory in the fact that it was a cast clothes man who headed the onslaught ? To be sure he will ! How could a JUpailer do wrong , and « f what value were the lives of poor Chartists ? He concluded by submitting the following resolution to the meeting : —

      "That we , the members of tola Association , have heard with less of surprise than indignation of the recent murderous attack on Feargus O'Connor , E-q ., and the Chartists of Manchester . For the wretched agents in this disgraceful affair , we express pity and sorrow ; we blush at the fact , that the majority of them are Irishmen , and deplore the besotted ignorance in which they must be steeped when they thus blindly raise their hands against their true friends , the advocates of the tights ot labour , and the assertora of the political and social privileges of the poor , and we hereby offer our Btrengest sympathy and support to the numerous victims suffering through the ignorance , and by the violence of our misguided contrymen . " Mr . O'Higgins seconded the resolution . After Mr . Dyott ' s

      speech , he had only to ask them if a few Englishmen had attacked the repealers' idol thus in the Corn Exchange , what would have satisfied hia adherents ?—immolation , and notLing short of it , of their assailants . Had the Chartists arisen in their might , what wonld have become of the handful of repeal ruffians ? But notwithstanding the lying calumnies © f their enemies , the followers of Mr . O'Connor were better instructed and more reasonable than their ignorant and vicious tradacers . The resolution was carried by acclamation . Mr . O'Connell ( not Dan ) made a very sensible and fluent speech ; he said , as a working man , he had the best opportunity of observing the current of the common people ' s thsnghU , and he could assert , from experience and observation , that the people were now pre-disposed to adopt the Charter . It was like the

      temperance movement , they looked on it first with suspicion , because it did not proceed from their immediate leaders ; but the moment one in whom they had confidence took it up , it progressed with miraculous spetd . The Irish acted more from impulse than reason . They were wore volatile than reflective ; but as reading was diffused , thinking would become general ; and when they would think , he had sufficient reliance on the good sense of his countrymen to believe that they would think justly and adopt as true the principles which gave every man the birthright of freedom—( cheers . ) After several other excellent observations from several members , the Chairman received the usual vote ef thanks , and the meeting adjourned till the 10 th of April , in order to allow the more religiously inclined an opportunity of closely attending to their religious duties during the residue of this solemn

      season . TRTJRO , Cornwall . —This locality has sustained a loss in the services of its active and zsalous secretary , Mr . Longmaid , whose consistent adherence to the Chartar , as the only efficient remedy for national evils and eschewing of Whig nostrums , has marked out as an object of persecution by the liberal middle classes—the parties with whom Messrs . Philp and Co ., would now unite the people—that he is compelled to leave the neighbourhood in quest of employment elsewhere . Mr . E . Rowe , of No . 1 , Castte-Btreet , Truro , has been appointed Sftcretary , to whom all communications must henccfoith be addressed . ¦ : EALK . EITH . —Mr . Lowery lectured in the Freemasons'Hull , on Monday in last week , on the necessity of union between the middie and the working classes .

      BANNOCKBURN . —The National Petition was adopted here at a public meeting , on Wednesday in last week . The Scotch Petition-was proposed for adoption . In the discussion , eloquent and convincing speeches were made in support of the great National , by Messrs . A . Duncan and Jenkins . The National wes carried almost unanimously . SHEFFIELD . —At a public meeting on Monday evening in last week , after the unanimous adoption of strong resolutions on the subject of the Manchester outrages , and Mr . Barney ' s letter to the Chartists cf Shtffield , and Mr . Otley ' s reply were read , the

      following resolution was moved by Mr . Edwin Gill , seconded by Mr . Evisson , and carried unanimously — " That this meeting having heard Julian Harney ' s letter to the Chartists cf Sheffield , and Mr . Otley ' s reply thereto , and considering the charges that have been slanderously circulated against Mr . Harney , are contemptible , because unf junded and untrue , wehereby express our perfect confidence in that gentleman , hoping he will pursne the same consistent course he has hitherto done for the attainment of the rights of the people , and we pledge ounelves , that while he agitates . for the Charter and nothing less , to support him , despite of open enemies or covert foe ? . "

      BIRBKNGHAM . —Delegate Meeting . —At a meeting of the council the following resolution was unanimously agreed to : —Re 3 olved , " That a delegate meeting of tee trades in Birmingham be called , for the purpose of nuking the n , any thousands that are favourable to the principles of the People ' s Charter , and that each manufactory be requested by circular to send a delegate to tae forthcoming meeting , to bs holden on Momiay , the Slit of March , at the National Association Room , in Aston-otrcet , the chair to be taken at seven o ' clock precisely . " Brethren in political bondage , the time is at la ^ t come when it behoves you and evtry lover of his country t > stand forward and aid in rescuing the land of his biitb . from degradation and ruin . A nation that conld once boost of being " the admiration

      of the -world , and the en-vy tf surrounding nations ™ is rapidly on the decline , and threatens shortly to become lite Tyre , Sidon , Carthage , Babylon and Rome—linown only by name . At the late mfieting in the Town Hall , ten thousand working men declared themselves Chartists , and if public opinion is so favourable to our views —and we know that nothing ean be done without unity —we hope that you will use your utmost exertions to unite with the mtn who have laboured so long and so hard iu the cause cf liberty , and who are determined , so long as public opinion sanctions their conduct , to stand by them for the People ' s Cnarter to the last . Fellow working men , in 1832 you made the

      Government give you a Reform Bill , which was but a bill ; you have now the Charter , a means to a real reform , surely you have not lost that moral courage you possessed in 1832 , ii you have not , arise , and demand justice for yourselves , your wives , and your children . We therefore earnestly request you t 3 send a delegate to mett the Council of the National Charter Association , at thsir room , three doors below the end of Moland-rtrett , Aston-street , to make such arrangements as will establish & strong union amongst the working men of Birmingham , and for the purpose of obtaining the People ' s Charter . Signed on behalf of the Council , Frederick Corbett , Chairman .

      Fbost , Williams , asd Jones—We are requested by the committee appointed to devise means for the restoration of these patriots to their homes , to call the attention of the country t the recommendation of this committee on the tubject of forming district committees in conjunction with the general committee of Birmingham , for the restoratisn of Frost , Williams , and Jones .

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      To The Chartists Of London.

      TO THE CHARTISTS OF LONDON .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 26, 1842, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct747/page/2/