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    • STATE OF THE COUNTRY
    • THE SORTHERJif STAR. SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1842.
    • 2To 3S?ajt*V0 ar t* <?Con^0^o«V ents .
    • BEtPEH.—On Monday night last. Mr. West
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      NfcWCASii ^ . —A dels ^ i ' . a iLetihig f ^ r tt » t Conntv of Ncrihunsberlani and aejieent districis of Durham was held in the Charti-ts' Hall , Newcastle , on Sunday lasi . ; Mr . John Habden , of Gcseborn , presided . Mr . biaclalr was appointed secretary pro tern . The Secretary took down the names of tue delegates , and read several letters from districts at a distance , which could cot be present by delegation , wherein each declared their willingness to cc-operate in the proceedings of that day . The several places at Which Mr . O'Connor is to lecture duiiuf ; his week's yisis wars then agreed on , acd a lengthy discussion took place rerpt-rtic . 2 sending a delegate to Mancnesi-cr , whicil ended in & negative , on acsonnt of the vast especcs which wonld be necessarily incurred . Mr . Sinclair" read a letter ,

      • which he had received in a parcel of Chartist Circulars , from ti . t ? Buas ' s Monument Committee in Manchester , containing a copy of the Committee ' s addrefs , wierenpen the wboJe of the delegates present were famished with copies of the address , * nd pledged themselves to do what they coald for tbat trn : y laudable object Mr . S . received 25 . from L . L . J . H . G . S . for that fund , together with several other contributions for the same . Some other local business was transacted , and the meeting adjourned . LON 3 CN . —Rl 3 ISGSCK , OXF 0 BI > -SXRKET , ST £ P-VET . —Mr . J . Cain obeli lectured here on Sunday evening , in his usual effective and brilliant style . Mr . Parker £ -lsd the ebsir , and also addressed the meeting at somo length . Sixteen members were enrolled .

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      TO TEE SHAKSPESEAN BRIGADE OF LEICESTER CHARTISTS .

      Manchester , Matsdea ^ Temperance Hotel , Wednesday meming , Ang . 17 , 1 S 42 . 31 y bhavs Comrades , —I left you on . Tuesday afternoon , toe Sth instant , and "bstr-ejn that date and the present , one cf the most important periods in the his ' ory of tie working-men of thi 3 cotrotry Ins cosiiBecc = - d . Of- the ¦ wi&elj-exlevdeS striis for labour ^ ¦ wages . TThicii has besn pretty gensriUy ccrvsrtcd into a Eta ^ a r-jir tfca Charter , yon -will be alrcad j a ^ Ere , by tie c ^ y ar . d weekly papers . WfcHiiTr tiu ^ t "widely , spread rvi .- !* e cave entered into your ininda and hc-aits , at the t T-r- I am writing this , I feel sonio anxiety to lerjn . Bzz I must hasten to rehearts sr-me of the passes of ay diversified « xper 5 fcEC 9 tires the Joy I left

      you-I hii a cood mefiHsg « i Blrrurgnain , in the Hull of Sclcr . ce , ia very commodkras buihKng "fceloaglng to " the S » c . a-iiti , on tfee Taeiday evening , r foraS George "W feite to 03 what I hid lot ? fctsid him reported to bo —a sotrnd-hearted , thorcngh-joiEg democrat . I enrolled 1-a-enty-fc-nr at tfc . 9 elc 9 e of fna raeitirg . I Sad l&ns and vtry ictereatiiu ? converrsticss the next day ¦ w ith White , and ltsmed much from him rcsr > ectins the progress of the ni 3 V ? roent in an- / . ' woan 5 B : rmlrghsni , &udlha csnses why la B-rnji ^ ci'am nsflf , tiia / rs lor x--n : 3 tisEB ii-c&fcd Ies 3 satisfactory teas c ^ uM be ^ ij K , ! . At Loait : WeJnssdsy ; we hsd a cood irtrctiiig ohi of . i ^ ors , cear the Rsil-ffsy Siatioa , notwithstanding & Lra ~ y rein . -

      Oa T-. urs-iay berm a ceries of excitements , snea as I tad i . t " . frto bsea a strafe ? to . I vres set da ^ n 3 t twelve st noon , hjihe oanjiina . at Wed'itabury , irailed "WetLrbary r > y tha rtfrvts . jin the im-Ut of 3 D . O 0 O colliers > .-r . lir ' . ke for -wsse ? . T ; i ? 7 i > rn ; ed cTie rt tie Bob ' - ^ r iirbta I ever TSimeswd . i , rt ; TLey , O"Ke 51 , Pear-* - - -a . s . ~ 2 f . hers sd ^ Tcsed than ; Cv-cinsivere 5 o 2 ut : i--xi 3 , b ndi s : h 9-wliv . 'l 2 sss £ ^ blv to dtsi&t t : Uxr'tiier fram Jabviij a-. tij tieirjsss dfn ; sads p- . re ccEplicd t ? fth , trere v ^ t ? . i , ' 1 c&tri ^ l nn ^ raKson ^ y r ^ id fEihu > : ii . ticai : y . I tfc-n brifflf addreisad this IraR : ense eathtriEg of lib 32 T " 3 t-- > r ^; a vast cEsemols ^ e o : Lun-r ^ a eyts , all j&is > i . - i in txp = icv 5 ai iiit = Ui § £ ncc—1 ) T 2 to bstciiis thro-m ¦ c-pEnto thii niD sTid air , a ^ d stalwart trras and fctont

      bands h-M up witli instactaneons heaTfeeEs , the very TEomect rtat I pat it to them whsthtr they -conld ail adopt the People ' s CharUr . I shall not Isse the impression made npoa ms by tee 're ^ cf tint meetin ? as Jong as I l : rs . I proceeded fn t 3 n ? y * s con 3 i « r < y to IMston . For two moTta' henrs I auiiiessed tbe fnvcur . te "brigade—the " bor . y guard" ef oar brsve cbief , Fearers , ia tte evening . Tasre wsre about 4 Of 9 present on a pitca of grccad formed like an amphitbtatte , -where tbsy tat xa 2 sed eameatsess rec « i" 7 inz my plain remarks , appaJe'atly as ealinsisstic ct the ciese , as at the besianisif . The view of tae inasE-ve h- ^ n dB of those

      fcire colHurs raises in approval of the Charter , convicctf d Bis in a t-snakiias ; of O Cortacr ' s shrewdness in sslec'Jng the " tlack brizsde cf Bilaton CharfeU" as bis " bedy jtroards" G-i hrlp tha psor fellow tkr . t praroies a Kaw from tie Eir . Tstder-of-mutton fist oi a Biiston eo -lier ! "We enrollrct 5 viy memfctrs s . i the doaa cf the-Bllstoi meeii ^ s- Linaey assured mo taat the whole XKicn was i : fe with Cnaitisra : tis « Loae ^ t , independent , ani " oniTfi man has ^ sfcn iciefatirib ' s in hh labonre sinoiig this bola and s ! xB ^ e-b « artf 1 people - Sxre i 3 not a inaa in the srhoife moT = ni £ i 3 t ¦ wli o . in niy jEdgment . dtss : ves more liichly tba pniss r . nd ccn-£ dcr . ca t * t . s brotbtr CL 2 rtv >* 3 tli ^ n Jc-Eepa L"iiir : ^ v .

      Oa F : iH ; iy aomi » , Ibe 12 th , 1 waited en to Wolr Teriiznip' . oa . aal addressed anotbsr meeting of thshiroy toUtr 3 of Uis ' - black diauionda *? —tLa wbc-is liiitrict , Tor rRau ^ snlles , h-Ting entirfcly ceased litoar , and Bothiug hsliii ! niora easj than to get aa out-door xnttlfcj ? of thoa . « ards cpoa tbousasds at this time cf excita-» txit : thaWoiTiihiniptcncoll-crs , 3 -ke 'Jm asstmMages I bad previously tddresed , held np tbeir mighty Laads with one tccotd . zed . instantly , whsn I -isked then if fihty wculd espouse tho cause cf the Chs-ster . In tte afreT 2 c . on , I get on by railway to Stafford . I fescd miners in a ssmswnat crUical condition in this Tory-ridden biroaglu Mason , and bis companions in tribulation , ere conSeed in tha gaol btre : one handrtd snd Sity coiiiers had teen also lodged in it within the "sre ^ k—tro ^ p 3 of soldiers had been marched

      into the towc—additional rooms trera bsipg bailt to ite g » cl—^ sronon , it vas said , was to ba planted npon 2 se extr ^ nie toners—srd eTcijtaicg Ioo £ ed so threatadflg , thz % whtn t ' za friends here took a bill to the arinter , announcing my Iectare , he did no : dara to swat it Gres : fear 3 wera entertained tbat J wonld je apprehended if I dar « d ta Etand np in the Marketoiaee , thai Eigtii . lio-ffc-rer , -wiien ssren o "< doc 5 tad itonck , thi-ia I WSi—mcrmted oa a femous long j « jch , prccared by tLs frksds . The anptrutendent cf police tL ^ n took his stiticn close rj my ri ? h $ elbow , the Tory ger . try and ladies fasw up their wind-.: W 3 to 1-sten and hear the rebel Sharust cornn . it hiniseif , i-td to &ro Lizi ixjncc-ed npon iqg b ^ jrne avsy in t £ a dirty dsnrs of tiis raw iobststa . Rat no ! 1 si-ssrsd how cscdlijtii w < is to have a

      . " Swset liit'e siivay-voiced lacy , " 1 b& pay oar aiUiioa eud a q ^ irjer yeariy to support ierseif and Lt = r ettailisiimtiit . I dememtrated that ojai Cnartia-B knew the kad wonld be rainsd if the StU I- ? st tFere n -t feept cp ? and tfcs . t working men Fcnl « i all weep their eyes eore if Adelaide were to be jercf : c-f hei £ l 00 , O 00 a-year . I denoasced any ragged fiioeinaker iiiaSord , like Korthanipton , yon Izncw , isy B 3 ve S ts »? t « . '> - r 3 an 3 , is a famous shoeniakiag tosrn . ) ns i ^ 22 D ' : 5 itrlloz ? if he dars-1 to tzYn =. bvat bis = ged jrandmotLer bting in a oasiile end vegttatiag on akilly , fiUethe I > 2 W 3 gerli 3 d tnrsBpil 3 . e--3 to live in . The atire couipktdy blnnted the t ^' ons of the Hue-bottle ; lish&rd i =-cs relaxed , his te-sth s .-paritcd , and at itn ^ Ui ie grinue-i cuiriiht , while the host of shoi-tsiies burst oto laaebter . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to be doas not be

      - ^ y i 2 shzt -was ? I conld taken 5 > Tor treason , for my words were nitra-lojEl , ¦ with a rtoff 5 2 Th ?? fi V . lianoas red-saats , Etasdrng in the r © -wd , soon solved tb . e diffi-aky i \ ht-j lecktd en and Btened till tLey were la ^ juei out of ccn ^ tiiKiEoe , and hen tamed tJeir att ^ n'ior . to s caaiIt of Italians who ad j Jit broa ^ at their iuts' _ 3 iato tha S < v = sre . Defcerained on mating a disturbance , one of the red-coats at irt cosxid , and tbsn dragged one of tie foreigners mong the cro-sd , and strove eircectiy to incite tbe jasci&n to " grind . " PerccivLng tbe scoandrel ' s intenk > n I c * = i * l on tbo poiicesisxi to "witss 23 n . \^ rj ^

      romhisiocks , tiat hs wonld not bnfiga one inch to « t down the anspyrjeoe , -wfcile ae -srorila glidly Belz ; ie 3 S tha priinmy caucc of Gi : C « rbaacei I fcertfore faid , * ' ! ' sta wiliini : to ga prison » speaking truth ; let tbe chief pjiici-niiin tike w , if he will , for apeakir-g tmth , fcac 1 -wul not be npriso-ied for a oTrty row . ' Ail you who are of c-pinion 3 st - ^ e r * -y ; -nrn to ibe Common , vrhero . -stj csa isoid a iee * j > - * -c ' : tiiot : j ' disturbance ., h '> Vi tip yosr hauds . " tie a - " jiBrnmtrt , ' was cirri ^ i , HSd I tiu : ^ jnttd in a » oui = n - , = nd off •* = -snt . the p ?^> f . jiloai : ig no . 1 3 inm * : E « 5 sinking " Sr-rtai uis iTaiTitr ; - " " lao bold

      aiyDihs canzht the stri-a , aad « u .- pr ^ eest . -. a to tco ¦ cniiEwn ^" a 3 & 3 on EWilled by thons-i ^ ds . We had a ood m ^ tisg ; s ^ d -prbers itrra ^ wsii-zi ^ b rf ^ i ^ :. siartcfi p , in fot Yfce town , Krg =. ng " Sprea \\ tti- * t : i . aitfeT . " The ^ jc = j w . re pi ? sed , and looke > i agliast at tbis novaity . be caol 'sraa reached , the soldiers Inrntd out gu ^ l , n . ^ t ; on . -ijt the crowd had come to Jna £ e an att . ck ; as fairly laughed when they hsod th « sinking . Three isera were given lor poer Mzson , c ^ ojs nnder his c-i-il , i spiic cf ii = biyonet 3 , and tiSTncltriace Gispersca . Tiw . t tigbt 'wiii be s tufcincrafcla o = e w . a tee Stafford rlsokis ; and I trsst th&y T ^ ill s ^ t u ^ lsct t » simoj leii enfciaiss -with omsranition so easily mnstsrsd and > pitasaatty expended as a HUlo threat nitric Weil rally aroend him , " I Ehoold Lava said , beuaa afc . vc . nrit * at the places I have aireadj passed , as « U as Stiffjrd .

      Letmejustsay , era leaving Stafibi-d , that Peplow , iicnible , and other fine yoang fellows , are growing np iere , who will aooa be able to act aa important part i tbe movement The farther I weat , my beToTeS comrades , tha more gc ^ lyl fosnd exdtemeat MaHIcg . 2 'reached the otterie * on Sunday afternoon , and found a spirit 1 ally was net prepared for . Labenr had ceassd there , o anion ? the coKsra ; and xov > , the resolution not to bow I found , was taking a decided turn : all were

      ton tm vorkixg no more tUl His great sL ujfie for the yha of tofour had 6 *» j tried . We bad meetings at sotoa and Iiine-wnd , ca t * Sunday Enernoon , Aug . ith , andatnighklpreaehedfrom . "ThsuEbaltdono BKJer , " on the large area called tie " Crown-bank , - at selej . Tha time was very exatJnjr , and I gave notice at 1 would address the celliers on « trike , en the same ¦ > ot , tbe ntxt mornii ;^ . at eight o'clock . A Isige sembiy ^ ppaarsd at zszi use ; ibe resclution that I iccriir ^ mot ctaae iatwrr tiii the Charier become the vb or the Lai , ¦ c- os putf _ acso isdedby working men , and

      m » d t : iu -ipiiaaUy , and sf cer a few neatty and sensible ards from old daddy Richards { whose heart , God bless jb ! is as sound as an scorn in the pecpla ' d cause ) e setting disperasd , wiUi the intent , on . tie part

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      of the collieM , to ask all the workera at the earthenware factories , &c , to leave tbtir kbour . I remained in Hanley during the day ; saw tbe shops dosed , and all the town become aa lifeless as on a Sunday forenoon ; heard of the multitude doing queer things in the town , &ad also at Stoke , Fenton , and Lane-end j bat saw none of them . The soldien , nearly dropping frith fatigue , I saw pass through the town , in t&e afternoon , pursning something which , it seemed , they conld sot catch ; but nothing alarming eve / came before my own eyes .

      I-mei tbe peeple again at s x at night The Square was crowded ; I should sty there were 29 , 000 people there ; several of the gentry , fcc , in convarsational knots / being on the verge of the crowd . I protested against the . insobriety J saw in the persons of a few , — proclaimed tbe illegality of destroying property , &c . ; bnt exhorted the peonle to bold by their rightful resolves , saS to neld by them , too , till they , had their rights . " i felt aura I might ba prevented getting out « J the Potteries , if I did not make an effort to get away privately , and as I was bsund to attend the Manchester Conference , in quality of delegate from the excited d istrict I tras leaving , as -well ca T > eing your representative , my darling boys , —why I set out on foot , with two kearty youths as companions , at half-part twelve nn Monday night . The droll adventures of that night I will record in roiother latter , for I must now be off to the

      Conierence . , Ky brave brigade , Your faithful " General , " Thomas Cooper . Marsden ' s Temperance Hotel , Wednesday Night , Aug . 17 . P . S I have scarcely time left to tell yon how I got oct of the Potteries . Suffice it to say , —I was seized , taken before a £ ue old Justice , examined before him as he sat np in

      bed , told him who I was and all about it ; but they dared not keep ice ! This -vraa at Barslem , at two o ' clock on Tuesday mornicz . I intended , with the two good lads who carried my bag and cloak , to reach Macclesfield by seven , in order to tske the coach for Manchester ; but as we had been detained by tbe Bur 3 lem authorities so long , we struck down for tke Crewe Station , on tbe BirmiEgham and Manchester lino of railtray : ttnd , after losing out way twice , We reached Grewo hi tims to have a hearty good treakfast before the train stated .

      To my gwat delight , I got Into ae earriaga containing my feeloved Baiwtow , CampbeH , « nd Clarke , a yonn ? delegate from Boss , in Herefordshire . " Prom the Slur you wiil learn what was done at the Conference ; I -will not , therefore , tafce up valaable spaea by ssying a word abcut it . Finally , my brave comrades , I am now about to set out , private ' . y , from Manchester , after having just read the borriA piece of hypocrisy and cruslty which the Homing Chronicle has chosen to insert against me , in itsleaaine article of to-day . What villains Me these EcribMenffor the Anti-Corn Law Leagne . ' In order to clear themselves from the charge of originating the strike , they strive to incite the Tory Government to take my blood , or personal libeity , by pointing me out as an agent for the Tories ! Heaven grant we may be able to torn this strike to our advantage , and thereby feave oux revenge on the hypocritical League .

      When and where I stall Bee yen , my beloved lads , I cannot tell , until Iho Vrae coaaes , Tours , to the death , » ' ' ~ Tusmas Cooper .

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      ¦ PR 0 GBE 55 OF THE STRIKE . By the Pope but the League-men reckoned without theii host ! They little knew what they were about They have raised a devil they will find it difficult to lay ! ! They have go ' . ten the people out ! How will they get them in again ? How will they allay the excitement they have caused ? And , above all and before all , how Trill they compensate for the loss of life and the personal injuries ; tbe shootings , and cuttings , and sla £ iang 3 ; the imprisonments , and the transportirgs that are to follow : how will they compensate for these thines , which they , and they alone , have

      caused ? We say again , that the League-men lave caused all tnis habbub . Thsy aro at the tnttom of it all . It is a measure they havo long had in contempla tion . Even fiace the last General Election means have been constantly used to inflame the public mind to prepare it for the master stroke . The Globe immediately announced that the battle-cry was toba

      " BKEAD or BLOOD" ! and the most dishonest and infamous use was made by-the whole Whig press , of tbe fact that "incendiarism" had again shown itself in the South . They paraded the fact most prominently ; dwelt upon it loud and long ; evidently doing their beat to cause it to spread , aa a means of hampering the new Ministers , and driving them from office . The Morning Chronicle declared / Ad ? fires resv 2 led from a feeling of Revenge against the bread-taxing landlords ; " and the Globe called them "the beginning of a fearful ORGANIZED SYSTEM OF DE . STRUCTION'M The Morning Chronicle alsa talked of-BARRICADES being erected to bica &q adoption of the Whig Budget . Here are his very wordB : —

      K France , in 1830 , according to the oracle of Tarnworth , by an example of physical force , disturbed the slumtera of the English oligarchy . Is not France disturbing at this moment , tho prospective success of a Tory Budget ? " "• We must ha ? e money , ' says M . Hnmann . — TonJo ' nse answers by a barricade . " ' We mast have money , ' fays Sir Robert Peel . — JLiKCHESTER and Bjbjii . vgham MAY aj ? sw £ B any budget but the Whig one , with-a bab-bicade . ' The G . We followed in the same strain . Here are his words : —

      " Whoever else may have forgotten , the Duke of Wellington has not ceased to re member the French revolation of 1830 , nor tha effect which tbe three davs events in Paris had npon tho public mind in thfs country . The same causes which accomplished the downfall of the elder branch of the Bourbon family iffected also the overthrow of the Wellington-Peel administration , by the impulse which they communicated to the public mind in favour of legislative reforms .

      "The popular disorders vrhich have broken out in Tonlouse and other towns of France , excited by the attempt of the Government to supply the deficiencies of the state by increased taxation upon the people , xke xiKELY to HAVE A POWERFUL EFFECT UPON THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY , under the circumstances in whieh they are at present placed . Nor will the resemblance between the present and the past escape unobserved by the plain unsophisticated mind of the Duke of Wellington . "

      The Examiner , too , had his share in the plot . He gave pretty good flints in the following fashion . — " How soft , how delightfnl , his new bed of roses , Should Peel , undislurb'd , by tha Chartists , or ¦ SWIKG , Find theOap / ain *—contented with all he proposes—To his Boden 3 and Peroivals ready to diug 1 " The Sun published the most ferocious and dastardly article ever penned by a bloody-minded corrard against Dr . Hook and the ladies of Leeds , because some one had told him that they had interfered to prevent the return of Brown-Bread Joseph , as 3 I . P . for the Borough . The miscreant

      eaid : — , " If any ladies , led by a mistaken party zeal , side , Ilka Dr . Hook and others of the clergy , with the oppressors of the people , they must not be surprised should even their claims to universal homage fail , in a time of excitement , to disarm the haired of savage hunger . " It has happened thai ladies' heads have been carried about the streets on poles , or trailed in the dirt ; and it has happened , sufficiently within recollection to SERVE both FOR a warning and AN-EXAAtPLS , that a priesthood has been compelled to find safety in flight , and those who braved the popular indignation forfeited their lives to their temerity . ' *

      These were the teachings of the oegans ov the League ! These were the sentiments , the horrible , hellish sentiments , the ; strove to inst il into the public mind" ! Contemporaneously with these atrocious incendi ary teachings , were the attempts of the anti-Corn Law men , Leagued together under the title of tho " Daily Bread Society , * to induce the people to join them in what they themselves denominated an

      "ORGANISED PLAN-TO BREAK THE LAW . " ! A pamphlet was published in Leeds , in which the plan was detailed . This pamphlet was reviewed aao" noticed by nearly all the anti » Corn-Law ptess . Did they condemn it ! Did they warn the people against joining in the plot ! Did they denonnee it a 3 illegal 7 No snob thing 1 They sll bnt recommend the plan to be adopted ! They spoke of it as O » ptais Bock

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      " something startling and novel- " but they did not condemn it , nor point out the danger to those who might act on it . And yet what were the recommendations of these Leagued Daily-Bread Men 1 Listen : — . •¦ ¦ ¦ \ ' _ : ... " ' . ¦'¦ ' ¦¦" ' " ¦¦ ' ¦ ¦ :: . ; . ¦ " NOW THE WAT THE AmEBICANS OBTAINED THE supfhaGe , and exemption irom heavy taxation , furnishes US with AN EXAMPLE WORTHY OF IMITATION ' The English landlord said to the Americans , * W « will impose a tax on your tea . ' * No , ' said the Americans , *• we shall not be imposed upon ; we are not represented , and we deny your right to tax us . ' A cargo of tea was sent to one of their sea-ports ( Bostun ) , and an exciseman was sent to collect the tax |

      _^^ — K « . mj —^ ^» 4 » ^^^ ^— , ~^ — fc ^ ^ m _ & a v ^ r ^ ft fV vtfto ~» ^^ ^ p ^ ^^^ ^_ - ¦ a * M THE EXCISEMAN WAS TARRED AND FEATHERLD by the Americans , and the tea emptied into the ocean , rather than they would submit to pay a tax upon it . Here , then , use see a practical way of abolishing ( he Corn Laws . " ' That the Corn Law could not be imposed without bloodshed , nor continued without Woodshed , was not admitted as a reason why it should not exist ; for be it recollected there Was Com Law blood shed in Westminster in 1815 , and Corn-Law blood shed at Peterloo in 1819 ; so that even if it were certain that it could not be repealed without bloodshed , it by no means follows that it should be suffered to exist . Ehgland has some noble ' Roja&ns' who would willingly lay down their lives ia such a holy

      cause . : Oh ! she ha 3 sons that never , never Will stoop to be the landlord ' s Blares "While heaven has light Or earth has graves . " " When Barbarous sent a message to Marseilles that they were to send him * six hundred men who knew how to die , ' the call was quickly responded to ; nor would such a call to Manchester be long unrespouded to , though , it is hoped , it may not be necessary ! \"

      The "Bloody OlS- Times '' isno \ r hard at work to fix the getting-up of the strike upon the Chartists and he talks loudly of tho " violent and incendiary writings in the Northern Star . " Will he be kind enough to point out a single paper in England , aye , one which has denounced all these atrocious attempts to excite tumult and disorder , excepting the Northern Start He cannot find one ! Tho Star alone has exposed the deep laid villainous schemes of the plotters . The Star alone has shown up tbe atrocity of the doctrines these parties have tried to inculcate . Tho Star alone has regularly watched the attempts of these men , and sounded the note of warning and alarm . The Star alone has done this . It did not wait till now , and then find out

      tbat these attempts wero being made . As soon as ever the incendiary articles appeared , the Slar called public attention to them , and reprobated the doctrines there taught . It is , therefore , a little too had for the Times and the League papers , i ^ ox they , too , join in tbe song ) to charge the present state of feeling to the " incendiary teachings of the Northern Star . " Had the press of England shown a tithe of tbe watchfulness that we have , and spoken out as became it , the anti-Corn Law League would have been shivered to atoms lojg ago ! We have bad to battle them single-handed ; and , single-handed , wo have procured for them the detestation of every honest son of Labour in the Kingdom ; because , single-handed , we have exposed their villany , and torn off the veil that hid their deformity . of

      Proceed we now to ^ Jj beginning this Strike , not upon the Chartists , as the Times and League organs have it , but upon the League men , without mistake or possibility of being gainsaid . There was a Conference" lately sitting in London , composed of Delegates belonging to the an'i-Coru Law League . This Conference" talked over some queer things . The nature of their talkings and their deliberations will be best understood by . the following extract from their own organ . It speaks volumes . It appeared in the Sun OKLY A MONTH ago ! Readit : —

      " Tbe proceedfDgs yesterday at the anti-Corn Law Conference speak for themselves . Gentlemen who declared THEY WILL PAY NO TAXES TILL THE CORN LAW BE REPEALED were vociferously cheered . The recital that workmen have said it tvas not words would move Parliament , but force , and they would hare it if they did not change their system , ' was heard with bo disapprobation . In the manufacturing districts men declare that ' no good can be done until thev riot / and in the cdctropolis

      the information is received with approbation . To-day and to morrow it will be spread throughout the empire , and the jdeas of rising , of rioting , and of refusing to pay taxes , will be presented at one and the same lime to many thousand persons . The sanctity once belonging to the law , which prevented sucn conceptions , is at an end ; the tninda of the ; people are becoming familiarised with the ipea of resistance ; and , if their misery be not relieved , it will not bo long before corresponding DEEDS will SPRING FB 0 M THE IDEA . '

      " In common with many members of the Confer ence , and with the memorialists from Hinckley , we have become convinced that it ia useless to place before the Parliament and the aristocracy evidence of tho sufferings of the people . Politicians rejoice that the unruly workmen of the manufacturing towns are tamed into obedience by hunger ; bigots exult that the ha'f pagan , half free-thinking town's-people are for their sins risited by a judgment which threatens annihilation . To bigots and politicians , pictures of distress in the manufacturing districts

      are not disagreeable ; and we will not contribute to their pleasure by repeating them . We turn rather to Mr . Taunton ' s speech , who said"' It appeared to him that the time was past for talking : the time was comb to i > o something , and he would tell them what to do— ( cheers . ) He thought they ought to proceed at once to appoint a committee OP PUBLIC BAFETY / IK THE METROPOLIS , and induce every delegate from the country to pour in such facts as would organise such a body of public opinion as would create the utmost odium against those in power , and COMPEL them to yield . "

      Pretty fair this , was not it" Old Bloody V Where were you then ! Did you denounce the incendiary writing ! Did you point it out to the public , and Ebew the real nature of the League men , in their base and cowardly attempts to get the working people to ii 8 Q" and riot , " while they appeared as '' friends of good order ; " and , as magistrates , let loose the military upon them , for only doing tbat to which they had been incited ! Did you do this " Old Bloody r Noi you left the task to ub ! We did it . We exposed the plot . We denounced the concoctors of it . We cautioned tbe people against the snare laid for them . We counselled to peace and good order And yet the " riots" and the "risinga" are to be attributed to the " incendiary writin&a in the Norih ernStaf'U

      While this ?• Conference" was Bitting , Mr . O'Cosnob happened to meet with Acland , tho hired tool and lacquey of the anti-Corn Law League ; the man who is paid £ 10 per week for his services . They met at Halifax . They bad a discussion upon the question of the Corn Law Repeal . After the discussion , Mr . O'Connor and Mr . Acland had some talk . In / the Star of the succeeding week ; that i 3 to say , in the Slar of July 16 th , 1842 , Mr . 'O'Connor published the following fact , in a letter addressed by him to the Chartist body : —

      " One thing which Acland told me , aa he said , in confidence , must not be kept back . No , no ; I am not just the man to keep the secrets of the League . Now , let every man pay particular attention to the following disclosure , coming from tho principal Bponter of the * Piaguo \ Acland said to me , — " Well , Mr . O'Connor , we shall either have a Repeal of the Corn Laws , or the Charter in three weeks . Mr . O'Connor— " Indeed 1 how !" Mr . Acland— "Well , I tell you , in confidence , that the objtct of the League's present meeting in London , is to take into consideration the propriety OF STOPPING ALL THE MILLS UPON A GIVEN DAY II ! AND THEY WILL Do 1 TJ 2 J !"

      This was published near a month before the strike . Now , Acland has never contradicted it . He dare not do it !! Even in the Conference" itself , so lately as the 29 th of July , one of the delegates , Mr . Finch , jun , from Liverpool , is reported to haye saidi"The League and anti-Monopoly Associations , with theasnstance of the Colliers (/) have the power ot compelling the aristocracy , ™ fess than one month s to abolish Corn Laws altoAether , and to

      compel thorn aiso to grant the People ' s Charter . Let the Colliers in all parts of the kingdom cease working for one month , and the thing is done 11 They have only to insist upon these measurures before they so to work again . ThiB is the most simple and efficient measure that could be adopted to get all we want without spilling ft drop Of blood , or causing any commotion of any kind . The city of London would be witijout fuel , and all other concerns must come to a stand till it was settled . "

      And even to lately as the 2 nd day of the present month , Mr . Alderman Chappkll , » t a meeting held in Manchester , said—

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      " It appeared that the only plan which the manufacturers had to resort to at present , was , TO STOP THEIR FACTORIES" J !! l Is it apparent how who were the concocters of the BTajHEIs it apparent now who were the movers to It ? M No / ' sayathe Weekly Chronicle ¦ : — ¦; ¦ c Mr . Feargns O'Coniior may swear himself black in the faoe before we give the slightest credence to a charge unsupported by any / other evidence , and Utterlyirreconcilable with plain and palpable facts "

      ¦ is the charge :. " unsupported by any other evU denco"l Is it " utterly irreconcilable / with plain and palpable facts ' { Is it irreconcilable with the facts we have been narrating i Is it irreconciiabla with the incendiary teachings 01 V ^ GlobeiChrontcle and Sun ?¦"¦/ And > by thebye , talking of incendiarism brings to our mind a recollection of the dddges and shifta ¦ <[^; -Mastet / : ;^ % ' ;< % oBicfe himselA respeotirig the Swijjo incUemenU in the beginning of the present year . The Weekly Chronicle waa , by

      no means , the last in the field ; at that game . He seemed as if he reoeived a God-sendi la the fact of a few fires having occurred in the Southy apparently the work of incendiariHnl ; and * to make tha moat of iti he printed a huge poster , in which the word SWING was the most striking line . With these posters he covered the entire of his shop window in the Strand ; and the effect upon the passers-by on the other side ^ was , that the word Swing appeared in sometWng like the following manner : —

      " SWINGS priNa sVV ^ G . ^ ii ^ jl ^^^ j ^ i ^ SWINQ . ^^ ^^ The rest of the bill not being readable at that distance from the smallnesa . ' ^ of t he print . And while the Weekly was doing this outside the Wiadow , he was doin £ his best inside his' paper ; without committing Bimself , to point out Swing as a means of annoying and harrassfng the new Ministers' ¦ ' : ¦ ' - '¦ " •'' . : ' : " r ¦¦"¦ '<¦¦ : . ¦ ' ¦ . ¦¦¦ : ¦ ' ¦ ¦¦' - ¦ - "¦ . /¦ ¦''"''

      But cannot the statement of Mr . O ' Connor ; be corroborated I Let us see . While the Weekly Chronicle was thus endeavouring to get his patrons out of the mess they have gotten into , another organ of their body was letting the cat out of the bag , and glorying in tho deed ! The Sundgi / Times , of Sunday last , makes-. the followingsvowal - ; ± ~ . " 0 ur readers are probably aware thattlre p ^ ect of BHU TTINGr W

      ALL THE MILLS mOFE DAY originated with this j ournal , and that we have all along persisted in considering ^ it as the only nieans by which the repeal of tfte Corn Law $ was likely to be obtained . The ANTI-CORN tAW LEAGUE CONSIDEEEB THE PROPOSITION AGAIN ANB AGAIN ; allusions-werei irom time to tinie made to it by seyeraL speakers ; but it was i generally rejected as a tiling that would seem Exceedingly harsh to the operatiyeig themselves . " -. -- ; : - ¦ .: ¦ ¦ ¦;¦' : : " , s-. - '" , - - ; ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ / . ¦ ¦ . - = '¦¦; ¦ ¦ : ;¦

      They rrjocted the project , after considering it again and a ^ ain , because it would seem harsh to the operatives themselvesl Not because it waa wicked ; not because it was illegal ; not because it » va 8 disorderly ; notbeoaase it would leod ^ to «' ilot ^ and risings : '? it was rejected hot because of these considerations , but because it would seem harsh to the operatives themselves ! In other words , it would be an open declaration of ';¦ war ' against the operatives ^ nnd wculd expose mill property id the fury of a etarving people . —a people mide to starve by the immediate and direct aets of the masters

      themselves . There waa all the difference in the world between tho mastjera closing the millsj " and the workmen doing : it of themselves , and forcing ' the masters to comply | And though the Anti-Com-Lcague rejected the project in the shape put before them by the Sunday Times , ^ yet they did not reject it in the other and more feasible shape of driving the workmen i > y reduotionB ot wages ,: to do the thing themselves . They did not " reject"this " prc ^ eot" ! No ; they acted on it ! and the present chaotio and truly awful £ ta te of things ia the consequence I T ! . '" . v ';' : ' ' ^ / ' - . ¦ : . ¦'¦ ...: ¦ ' ; . '' .: , ' -. '¦ " . / . ' . ¦ ¦

      Let our readers also mark another fact ; All the reductions in wages ; tbat have been attempted within the last two months in the manufactories ; have been ( s / tewp ^ by Corn « Law-Repealing masters ! Point out a Tory or Conservative master who has attempted any soch reduotion . We belieye it would be impoBsibie . At all events , we have not heard of any saoi . This / fact speaks volumes 1 Refer , too , to the letter of our Preston oorrespondent , detailing the horrible carnage in . that towni and the prior proceediBgs . Look well at the words there printed in capital -letters !} Remember that it is two delegates from Ashtonj ( the town where ihe stbikb firBt commenced , ) to the fteston lads to get them to join in it , who declare , publicly , that

      u MIDDLE CLASSES FOUND THEM THE MEANS" to & to Preston ! ^ ioto thia faot I and then ask how it is that that the middle classesi are now so fond of stBiKEs as to pay the delegates to go over all parts of the country to " extend" them i \ i ¦;/" - ; '' .. "' ¦ ¦ . ^¦ ¦ y :: ; ¦ ' > ' ¦ : h " -: '¦ : "' The fact 13 , that the strike did commence at Aehton , as has been already detailed ; and that the O 8 ten 9 ible cauBe of it was the attempted reductions of wageB by the ^ ^ Corn Law Repealing Messrs . Bailey ; and another fact is , aa soon aa it did commence , six persons were dispatched from the town of Ashton to the other towns in Lancashire ; AND THEIR EXPENCES WERE

      PAID BY MONEY SUBSCRIBED BY FACTORY MASTERS AND SHOPKEEPERS BELONGING TO THAT TOWNv And are the Leagne men to suffar no consequences for these acts 1 Axe tbe people i the working people , whom they bave induced to " rise" » nd" riot f are these to bear all the shootings , all the cuttings to pieces , all the sabreings , all the ^ rainplings to death , all the woundiiifls , all the imprisouments , all the transportings , and , possibly , all the hangings j are the working people to endtire all these things , while the flendibh hatohera of the plot escape scathless and free f ! I- > this to be the case ! No ! by heaven ! , JUSTICE , of some sort or other we will have !! ! ' / ,, v -, ¦ / : : ^' v . ¦ ¦" : ¦ '¦ ' '¦¦ : r -- : : . y > .-- %

      To the working people we say , be wise ! be prudent t Be not betrayed into collisions with the military . Present not yourselves before them as marks to ba shot / at , like ; so many carrion-crows , and . be laid weltering in the streets . Come not near them . Keep the peace Do not riofci Destroy no property . Burn no mills . Commit no deproda tions . Injure no man . Be quiet ; be firm : and please yourselves whether you co to work or stay away ! \ ; : 1

      pur own opinion of the S trike * and its merits was diatinctly registered in last week ' s Star , especially in the two articles in the third edition , headed , M Progress of the Strike / ' and " / Further Progr «» . " Every event which has since transpired has confirmed us in the opinion we then held : and We have how therefore only to reiterate it , and to request tor it all the attention that the people think it worth . By reference ; to the address of the Conference delegates , and the letter of Mr . O'Connor ^ it will be seen that he and they hold a different opinion . 3 ?« n © will speedily decide whose opinion is most wise . We entreat only tbe people will not be dfe

      oottraged if , after all , banng tried the strike as a means for obtaining the Charter , they find it to fail of accomplishing that object . We entreat them , in that case , to remember that they are still no worse ; that the means to which they before looked » r » fitm . at hand ; that pnidenofl and determination , patienee and pereeveranee , firmness and moral courage an invincible | that nothing can WITHSTAND THEIR CONTINUED EXHIBITION and that by the calling into requisition of these qualities every rejeree may be to itseif K made matter for advance ? the snaekles most eventua'ly fall from g ^? k S M ^ -& * & * m .

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      COBass ^ ONDBNTS AND FKIBNpS .---JfiS « ft «^ feei extremely oUiged to our Correspondents and Friendi in all parts of the Country , if they will take the troubleto' forwardto ' the \ Offa every iking of impor . iance that transpires in their respective localities , as ] , : \ : ' ;' edrlyi ; as _ , possible after ihe occurrence . From all ytdums where the Strike is held out . w ihsvld liketc have a letter by ' every past ^ bringing tip the news in a sort of continued narrative . Will some friend in each place see to , this and oblige > as ? /' ¦ ¦'

      Mart Jones , BniSTOt . —We ' cannot insert the com iniinication sent ; nor wouldit serve her if we : did . Them formation sheseeks can onlybecome pelled by Iqto proceedings . ^ /¦ : < ; . '" . " ¦ A CousTANT Reader , ^ ^ London . — -F «» . Mr . Pitkethly is gotie to Amerwdibxiinot to stay there at present . He is gone to ** look out" and to sell his goods . He is inclined to act on the maxim , " look before you leap . '' We understand bis'in * tendonsare ' togoovernearly allthe States , and / to make ' close observalwn and inquiry upon the points important to emigrants and sett / ets . The result of his observati&ns we expect to he the means of giving to the w&rld . AU who know Mi .

      Pitkethly tcill pronounce him to be a fit mari for i' the purpose . ''; —' . ¦; ¦ "¦ ¦ V . ' . ¦ . ¦ - 'V : ' .: ; / : ¦ ¦ : ¦ " ' '¦ . A Chartjst , CABLieLB , is thanked for the extracts from a letter written from Lancaster Castle to Me . Warden , of Dollon . They but bear , out what we beforeknewof ' theungratefulman who Acts done his little best to sting the hand that fed him ! Perhaps " a , Carlisle Chartist * i « not aware of the fact that the man in question would have starved while in gaol , had it not'beenfor the unsolicited bounty of Mr . O'Connor •; but tee ¦ ¦ ¦¦ can tell him thai the fact is so ; arid that the sum of SEVENTY EIGHT POUNDS > csCrIVEMr id him by Mr . O'Connor during his

      imprisonment ! aiid , perhaps , " a Carlisle Chartist ? is not aware that thegrateful return madeJor this handsome * nay , generous , treatment was the writing of Ictiersi such as the one he has sent its , to whisper and insinuate away the character of the man upon whose free gifts he teas existing / And ';** a CarlisleChartist [ may not be further aware that so deep-rooted is the malignity <> f the unyfateful man , arid so bitter is his animosity ; that he declared , soon after his liberation , at the dinner table of one of the most stanch O Con * ncl / ite- Whig-Rkdicals in England , that >¦ Mr . O'Connor and the Star people hated him with that hatred , that had he , or they , but couiuge , they would run a knife through ' -his heart i" We are aware of , and can tell " aCdrlise Chartist "

      these things ; and therefore ice arenotiurprised at the character of the letter he has [ sent . As for-the request he makes respecting the publication of the document alluded to , all we can ¦ makenopromise : we must see it first . A Purse , containing a sum of money , was ; picked up ¦ ¦ ¦ '• ¦¦ ; - at the meeting held a-forInighisince last Sunday \ and is new in the possession of Mt > . ' Isaac Kitchen , BradfordMoor . - ; ¦ To ODH ; Readers and FaiENDs .- ^ 7 / fe state of our columns : this day will be a sufficient apology for our silence about , and hon-ihsertioh of , matiy articles , both of news and observation , leceived ¦ during the week . Sdme oj these are in type , biit obliged to be displaced , —thet notice of Mr . West ' s ; lecture at Chesterfield amongst ihemi x :

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      delivered his second lecture of his series , on the eVil 8 arising from the misapplication of the powers of production , and the capabilities of the soil under just and proper regalaiions , to supply the wants of all With abuudancej" and was attended with a crowded and an attentive audience . Mr . West enrolled [ fifty-four members at the close . Wednesday evening , Mr . West visited SwanwiCk , and addressed a ; large meeting , arid also on 1 hursday at noon , addressed a large assf mbly of colliers .. "} a number of members wAre ehrplled at the close of each meetiBg . On TiiUESDAY , Mr . West visited ABhoyer ; on Saturday , he was at Duffield ; and on Sunday , at Edge . At all these places he proclaimed the Charter , and enrolled members . ' ¦ . ' : '¦ v-

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      ' '' ;;¦ : _;; : //; ¦¦ ¦ . - ; HALIFAX . V / / , ;/¦ : : ¦ ;/ : , . ' / '; The disturbances connected / with the turn-outs commenced in Halifax on Monday morning last . Their arrival from Lancashire had been expected for fipmetiaio , aad : the magistrates had been active in making preparatians to receive them . They had issued placards referring to the disturbanqea in Lancashire , and calling upon the ' / inhabitants to assiat ithem in the preservation of peace and order . A very large number of special constables were sworn in , and the regular police , and the military stationed at the barracks , were under orders . i to be in readiness to act at a moment ' s notice . The military force ragularly statjpned at Halifax ^ co nsiBted of two companies of the 6 lat Regt . of foot ,

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

      So early as five o ' clock in the morning , the people were astir , and assembled in considerable numbers in the Market Place ; they were all peaceable , however , and so would have continued , till their meeting was over , and then have returned home again in tho same good order they had met . But whilst a person was addressing them , the magistrates , accompanied by the police and about two hundred special constables , came up . Mr . Pollard , one of the magistratea , addressedthe crowd for nearly half anhour , and remonstrated with them on the danger of assembling in such meetings , and engaging in such schemes , which must result in disastrous consequences ^ to themselves . The asBembled multitude , however , manifesttd no great alacrity to / leave the ; spot , and the magistrates having ordered the multitude to disperse ; loud shouts were raised amongst them of "Let ' s away to LuddendenJ ' oot , ' * and this proposition , meeting with general : concurrence , tbe shouts

      became universal , and the multitude , arranging themselves into a sort of procession , cleared away and proceeded at once to that place , where a large body of the Lancashire tura ^ outs were congregated for tho purpose of ntarching into Halifax . Betwixt eleven ; and twelve o ' clock / the turn-outs from Lancashire approached the town in immense numbers . The grand point of junction waa at King Cross , on the Burnley Road , where the various bodies / each composed of thousands of men , from Hebden Bridge , SowerbyBr'dge , Luddendeh Foot , Todmorden , Rochdale , and other places , united togetherin one immense procession , tilling the whole breadth of the road , and stretching to a fast length . When / they got to the North Bridge at . Halifax , the military and police were drawn up , so as to occupy the whole road , and prevent the passage of the people , the cavalry being posted in front , the infantry next , ; aad behind them the police and special constables . This was above twelve o'clock . In the

      precession were great numbers of women , most of whom were placed in the middle . On their progress being arrested by the military and police , several of the women went up , and seizing the' bridles of the cavalry , exclaiming , "You would not hurt a worn Wfculdyoui" endeavoured to turn them oh one side . One ; of the women coming up in front shouted to the magistrates and soldiery , " We didn ' t come here for bayonets , we came for bread . " It is stated that one woman was stabbed inthe Dreast by one of the soldiers with a bayonet , though not seriously , bnt in general tho soldier ? did not molest them . Soon after a circumstance Ooourred which caused a di-Tersion of the military , land opened a passage over the bridge into the town . It was stated that the

      mills of Messrs . Norm and Lister , at the bottom of Foundry-Btreet , were attacked , and the military and police force gathered on the bridge , leaving that spot for theiprotection of the mills alluded to ; in a few minutes the entire procession had passed into the heart of the town , and by the time the military arr ived at Messra . Norris and Listers' mills , the plugs were drawn , and the , men turned out . Almost at the very same moment that the Lancashire prooessipns approached the town , another procession , also comprising ; immense riumbere , from , the neighbourhood of Bradford , approached it in another direction . Toe Bradford procession waa preceded by a number of the 17 » h Laacers from that town , and on the procession reaching New Bank within a short distance of Halifax , the Landers drew no aoross the n » d . and

      being joined here by the Infantry and Hoasars from Halifax , succeeded in arresting the _ progres 8 of the turn-outs , along the naio road . The proceeBioo , however , broke up into groups and proceeding along Rands Bank , and different bye roads , evaded the military and reached the town , when they immediately became amalgamated with the Lancashire people . After the junction had taken place , they proceeded to Messrs . Akroyd ' a mill , at Haley Hill , for the purpose of turning out the hands , but when they arrived there , the men had gone to dinner , and the mill was consequently already stopped . Mr . Edward Akroyd asked them what they wanted , to which they replied they must have the plags out of the boilers . Mr . A . said if that was what they wanted , they mast come and do it , and accordingly one of them attempted to take oat the plug , bat not being able to succeed , the engineer , by Mr .

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      Akroyd ' a orders , pulled it oat for them . It j $ stated thit Mr . E . Akroyd gaye four ^^ abvepBiiina % - tEo men , and told them to buy bread with it for thewomen ; They proceeded next to BowHog ' Dyke Mill , and commenced making a cutting through the mill aam , in order to let off the water ; when jiast while they were engaged in this attempt , the military came up , and dispersed them , and captured six of the insurgents . About eleven soldiers of the infantry were detached to escori tho prisouera to the Police-office , and on their road were followed by a > large portion of the people , who made repeated attempts to resent the prisoners , whioh so exasperated the soldiers , that they faced round , and fired upon them . A man called Wadsworth was , wa

      understand , wounded in the leg , and was carried off by his comrades ; The spirit of the crowd was still unsubdued . In Well Lane , another rush was made , and again the soldiery fired , but we have nofc heardthat any injury was done . When they came in the vicinity of the Police-office , the streets , which are there very narrow and crooked , were in a great measure blocked up by crowds ; and before - / the '¦ , > soldicrscould force a passage thronoh them they ; ' fired twice , and then charged Hpon them with thejr bayonets , wounding a great number , but none of LI them seriously . They succeeded at length in lodging f the prisoners in the Police-office . Great apprchen-i sions were entertained that an attempt would , bo made to break open the prison and rescue the

      prisoners , and a number of infantry werestationed inside ¦ . to garrison the place / . ' . ¦¦ . „ ¦ ¦ '';¦ ---. i-y ^ ' ' ' / -.: ' -M ., ; ' a-k : At two o ' clock in the afternoon , a meeting of froni ; j ten to fifteen thousand people ; was held on Skircoai Moor , a fine extensive moor in the immediate ¦ neighbourhood / of Halifax . The toneiof the meeting wa » peaceable but firm . Three resolutions were passed , pledging the meeting not to return to work till tha People ' s Charter became the law of the land ; till their Wages were advanced to the standard of 1840 ; and till a guarantee was entered , into by the « ia-, F ; ployers that they should be kept up to that etandard . In the course of the afternoon , the people havingi gather , d in great crowds in various places , but mor © parfioularly opposite the Nortbgate Hotel , v . fiiekjf cavalry charged upon them , bat the people Qvideia

      terrtir before them , no injuries were inflicted .. Whei > . everthecrowds became at all unmanageable , or , wefepi forced upon the soldiers , the infantry made not they least hesitation in pricking them with thei > Kayonets ,, and scores of people in Halifax received in thia / Way slight bayonet wounds on Monday . Oner poor . fel ^ V " low , who had got pricked through his fustian jacket ' with a bayonet , we saw go wrUhii » g down the- ; street , in tae midst of a number of commiserating companions . The only serious wound waa one whichv occurred accidentally to a sergeant in one of tho regiments , who , while handling his musket , touched it in ' such a manner , that the percussion caftex ^ ploded , and the piece went off , and lodged the shotin one of hia arms . . He was taken to the

      infirmaryV and it is probable his arm will b » disabledj even if it should escape amputation . The proceedings commenced on Tuesday wita a meetiBg ; oh Skircoat Moor , at six o ' clock in tbe morn " iagi at whichi about 2 , 000 or 3 . 000 people were presenti The proceeuings coinmehced by 8 ingli «{ a hymn ; " Praise-Gad from whom all blessings flow , " which was followed by a prayer by one of the men , invoking the assistance and protection of the Almighty in their entetprise , and praying that peace and order might t » preserved . After this a man from Bradford addressed the meeting . ; . He proposed that delegates should be sent , to Todmbrden , Bradford , and HuddersfieM , to induce the men ot those | places to march immediatelj upon Halifax . In compliance with the proposition .

      three delegates were appointed to proceed to each of the places ^^ named , "and it was resolved that another meeting should be held on the moor , at one o ' clock at noon , afc which it was expected that their numbers would be reinforced by the men of Todmprden , Bradford , an * Hidderafield . To lose no time it was alao agreed that those present at the meeting should immediately proceed to Biland , qooper-Bridge , Brighquse , Stainland , and BaTkiBland , to stop all the milla there , which it was thoagbt migUt be accomplished before the time of holding the rieict meeting , and in accordance with this resolution ,, the great bulk of those present , formed Into a-sort of procession , and filing across the moor , proceeded on their mission . TluV . coiuluded tLe meeting . ' ;¦ ' . ¦ . '' — . ¦ . ' : ' ' : ' -v /; :.- " ' ['¦ ¦ ¦'¦ ' ; . ¦ . - . - ¦ ¦ : ' : ¦ ' . - , •'

      The prisoners captured at Halifax on Monday afternoon , at ,: and 8 nbsequ 8 ntly to , the affiay at Akrdyd ' a mill , eleVea in number , - were sent off to Wakefield on Tuesday forenoon . It was determijied by the magia tratea to send them there for safety , previous to their examination . They ^ wer « placed in . two imniBUses , each' drawn by four horses and guarded by a file « f \ h . & 11 th Husfiars , under the command of an officer , and , headed by Mr , BriggS , a magistrate ^ proceeded at full gallop to the railway station , o , t Elftind . , the people of coarse had Very soon notice 6 £ tMa movement j in faafc it had been anticipated , and considerable crowds hid congregated all down tb-o -too . d- " . on . tbe look : out , particularly at Salter-Hebble , were aai attempt was made , to stop the road , preparatory to a rescae . This , however ,

      was unsucce 8 sfal , and stonea were thrown at the convoy froni ihoP wood which skirta the roaid to Elland . At : tiie ' Hme they arrived in the ststioa at tfee latter place , the train towards WtikeQeld Wa 3 in wa ' . iing , to / which tie prisoners were at onca tradsferred ; and the train was quietly at fnlt a ^ ed . Considerable numbers of people had , gained access to the station , and the prisoners , on their departure , were cheered by their companions , some of whom told them tofcaep . tbjei * sphitsup , foitheyBhqnldao ^ n be iib « ratfid « Atthe time these two omhibuses and thoprisbner ^ aBtiv ed , there ¦ was another om nlbna In tue station , just pooat to proceed with passengera to ^ Halifax , from ' Xt ' ed ? , ' jaaa-Chester ; &c . After leaving the s ^ tiph ^ ilj was very ^ on , evident that there were very large numbers tf aeqplein directions

      all ^^ In " : _ a ^ state of . the ^^ gwatesi cxcitemenli , and bt fore the conveyance had proceeded far , stoaea ia . abundance were again t&rewn from the wood ; ties struct the omnibus Kpeatedly , but the pasaengeM © scaped withoutlnjary . On wa ^ iD | Sal % ^ ebhie , hoffever , the danger was greatly increased , > for bo exasperated had the people become at the treatment they had received , that loud threat * were uttered that not one should escape . The passengers , of course , could not apply this language to themsalTea ; they wexa conscious of not having done any Injury , and had confidence that the people would not wilfully ^ inffici . damage upon persona respecting whom they could ! have no cause of complaint ; and in this opinion they were strengthened by the fact that , as soon as it becama

      known that the omnibus contained only railway passengers , and no offidala , " a safe passage was guana ., ¦ ; teed through the thousanda who were aiisembfed-pifc ; the roadside , and along the rocky heights of Salter-Hebble—a place of all dthera calculated for Il £ e pro- ,, tectfon ot .- . / ohy party ^ wad mi ^ ht choose ^ to ^ av »^ them- v ; selves' of its coyer from whence to harass an enemy . A . -i man then took the head of tbi leader , and ^^ waiyuigf ^ . - = his hand ; all feat of attack from themenacing ^ throng . ; ^ seeinedto have vanished , and the vehicle wat slowly as > j ^ w cendingthehilL But , on a sudden , a cry was raised thai , ' j the Boldiera were advanolng , and as suddenly tbe appa-V rent calm was sneceeded by an overwhelming ttinfteafc % for , in . a moment , aa it were , a ahower of large stdneSi . ; were hurled from all parts of the eminence among tne .

      soldiers who then came up at fall gallop , and on ta the ; / ' heads of the devoted and innocent passengers , who thus suffered 86 vcr 8 ly from the accldeutal circuimstanc 8 ; of being compelled , though only for a few moments , to bo apparently under the protection of the soldier ; . ' Wftl » " , such direct aim were these missiles hurled , that scarcely a soldier escaped unhurt—some of them received severa cuta—tLree of tbetu were fairly felled from their '¦'¦ ¦ horses , the animsls setting of , and leaving their late . riders to the mercy of the mob . These three are privates in the 11 th Huasara : their names are Alexander ;"' Frez «; Johu Austin , and Thomas Clarkaon : they were all : more or less i njured ; bub two of them were for a time made prUonera , Of course , there waa ' . I . a devil of a hubbub kicked up now ! An express wasi

      sent to Ha lfax for the infantry , and the Hussars * \ after charging with ball , returned , headed by Mri % ¦ , ; :. !; Briggai to the ;» sscue of thoir companions , which thiy effected . During the affray , to . /;^ i ^/ ' : ; riB ^ v ^ # 8 i ^ j j wound on the ainj frenv a Btpne , ^ which dlsatled him ,, !' and he . went home ; the soldiers ' haH previously [ i received ordera to fi > e , and thesa orders were i « r > lia" ^ into effect , we are afraid with a fatal KBulti bni . « f . tjjia " -- ;; we cannot speak ¦ with certainty ; up to Taesday even- ; ing , two of the soldier ' s horses' bad not been beard 0 % , - the thifd had been recovered . Rsturn we no # . to ifie , ^<[ - passengers , who bad , in good earneat . to end 4 re . $ ha ' ^ ' pelting of a pltUesa htoim of stone ? . Tbeaeconswtedbf / fonfor five inside , acd about the eame number oataide . Mr ; B arker , reporter for this paper , was one of thelattei ^ " £ and hart a very narrow escape hfs hat waa . cni coui- , ¦ pletely through behind .-. with a large abiu , ' and } a ^ : ; received one or two severe wounds and several oontttsions , Ayoung lady , Mis * Machih , of Whitelock-

      street , leeds , who « at between Mr . Bwlcer and " tta driTer , received a frightful cut in the head , which bled . profusely . . It ia for tunate that the ^ wadding of -Bei ; V bonnet , vtaa very thick ; for thia donbtless- had ' trie e effect of breaking rhe force with whicb . the etono had descended . She was going on a vfiit to 5 it . Cockerham , of Halifax ; and on enquiry there oh Tties * day afternoon , we 1-arned that she was not maebrvQrse for her injury . Agentleman , named Layceck . fwmSntf- " "v "' field , we understaod , waa very aeTerel / out abont' ta ^ r- ' ;' - ' : legs and in Othef parts ; he bled very njuch , "« n 4 Tira « ' - obliged to leave the omnibus , and remain at ' ft ^ To ^^ - aide boose until surgical assistanee eonld be" proeiliredl . dy r - ' He was attended very speedily by Mr . Holwjd ^ W ' Halifax , and after having hia wounds drewed prbcyeifM ^^' on his joora « 7 . The other pausengera ewsapodwttll' " more slight iDJuriea . The bmnibuat was maefctejat ^ ¦ nd one of th « horaea "W » cut in the l « tby !' ni itom ^ 'Kie '' party after thfa got safe to Halifax . ' ... » & ? ¦ " '• ' ¦; fi

      • ¦ '¦ ^ *? ai * hanasnbsjded , the people again met in tne . anernoon , according to arrangement , on Skir-Cpat Moor . ; Large numbew were in atienaa ^ toi and evervthin « was conducted in peace antf TJetfefo orderv . . After the amtiug , broke a Prhowever ? S asBemblies congrepfed in the streets , and itfouMM people were seen wending their ^ -ay from art d « eetiona towards ^ ottit Bridge , over which is afFoad to Mr . Akroyd ' s mill , known as the Shaded which ia a power-loom establishment . About North Bridge the yanoua groups , all going in the game diroeiion , uniting together , formed / one immense assemblage Sooh after , * small nxaabet of meni who were ia advance of the main body , etrawded one by one into

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      The Sortherjif Star. Saturday, August 20, 1842.

      THE SORTHERJif STAR . SATURDAY , AUGUST 20 , 1842 .

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      Betpeh.—On Monday Night Last. Mr. West

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 20, 1842, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct767/page/4/