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    • THE NORTHERN STAE SATTniDAY, JULY 8. 1843.
    • ASHTCN-ONDER-LTNE -Mr. BJames Leach
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    • A" Town to Let."—A letter from Workington
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      1 ETTEBS PBOM THE MOTOfTAIlffl . SEDtG X 2 EBIJES OP SETTERS TKOH A 2 f OLD HAS IH OS COOB 3 mT TO A 1 OHKG MA ' DVSLTS . JTrom "The BesoHes of the 'Press ; * " a sdeeium d cripixal Artides . Essays , 4 *» vMA briginaUs appeared in He ** Press" newspaper , established ** Ireland ly Arthur OConmr , after the forc&le strppression *> f flie 2 f oribeni Slat © y # e -Govern-« est 3 iBTXEfc ID . Mt 3 > : BiK Pbiesd—Ths ataaUon of Ireland since Mr . Ktt "came i © fl » head rf affiuisias been daily srow&jg more critical , and ought natar&Qr to hare rrrstpj the &ara anfi attention of a minister of common saraeSyi -B&jnightisTetnaAea Jn the iorizMi the msll- < 3 ona Wee » maB >\ iaBa , ihe iabisger of tts earning 4 einge ; jetj » entjiiteafl » e eihle ? government o

      Oinaost important , this predonB country , —for sneb it is to BritaiiL , —at a most Important Jnnctnre to pageants , to pnppetsj to -unreal mockeries . H ©» iibaB we account for thiryhenomenon ? Wiry ahonld a minister of diafiDgnisnsdialeiita ^ ek wok like I > ogbeny in the play the most aesertlera man for office ? Is it that he ^ is fleSennittBd in all Ms measures to bust to the operation of Hind chance , -without the employment of rational inmsnmeans ? Is it that he conceiTes it to be the interest of . Britain to nun Ireland , and employs sneb pezsons as he thinks most fit to accomplish this object 1 Is it that he thinks fools -will be most obseqoipns to the orclers of the interior British cabinet ? Or is it that he ropposes Hie headlong temerity of folly and inexperi ence may not see the danger of critical situations and may be found more ready to engage in desperate experi ments ?

      I bars often askea myself , Why -was the present Chief Gorernor of Ireland selected for the station ? I cannot drrlne the cause . I -cannot find "that he possesses any of the talents d the venerablB magistrate , his father —I cannotfind that lie possesses any art of condlis'Soii or of goTHmment , except "we should suppose that a Strong head is a perfection in the Viceroy of a Prorinea much addicted lo the pleasures of the t » fel& Apolitical JMentoi has "been assigned to QasyvcenLe statesman , younger in government and "wisdom than in years . But •* hat can cb boast ? Hncb political craft and sanguin-« ry rashness ; -wMch latter , by the oonrtssy of Ireland , ii 1 » be calledjSrsrcess . The great policy of the present administration has been ^ irected to two objects—resistance to the claims of the Catholics , and the-depression

      of the frtrmUtt of ^ Parliamentary . these Tiens the old principle ol diwaon "was adopted ; the dissatmons Vhich had for some time subsisted between the Protestants and Catholics in the North , not -without secret encouragement from certain magistrates , and leen fomented , if not by the positive encouragement je £ by the connivance , or the prtTfirnai snpineness of others , had attained such a pitch of inveteracy , that the two parties openly resorted to arms and seemed bent on mutual ^ xtsrmination . I will not positively say fiat Government -viewed -witih secret complacency the -mortal and rabid animosity that urged the bigots of contending secis to an open ' warfare "with each other . I-wainoVpositively attribute Ao Govemnrent a criminal desire of rendering the spirit ef rancour and |

      amlual persecution general , as a means of veakeoing the people , or of turning them from the purzmt of constitutional objects . Yet certainly these disorders raged "without contronl during a long period . Tba military -when they were called out , seemed uniformly to embroil matters stiB mm by their Interference . I believe , on every occasion , they ranged themselves -with the Orangemen ; and this scene of disorder "wasTiewed by those who iad the fall power of repressing it with s ^^ ree of apathy that to mBappBars , on other principles , inexplicable . The cutxages ' of the populace in ; other parts of Ireland , ¦ were , in like manner , suffered to proceed to great lengths before any measures 'were taken "by GktVBrnment to check them . A small rnnmber of soldiers , judiciously disposed through the eonntij , and under the direction of active and pmdeni laasistrates , would soon have restored food order ; but |

      the persons and habitations of the gentry in those counties -where disturbances prevailed -were left for - many months ¦ without any protection , except such as the yrwHnrni of themselves , th eir se rv ants a n d depe n dants afforded . In fact , it aeemed as if Government -yle-wed these illegal proceedings with a secret joy and triumph ; and in a refinement of profound , but criminal policy , ¦ wished to nurture and forward the spirit of outrage , gut it might bs organized and grow into such a form -of r ^ niar insurrection as -wonld furnish the pretext fer ^ laying aside aB forms of the constitution , and for in" trodudng a sylstem of "violent coercive measures and a rigorous government that should comprehend and cempreBStheinnooent-witlitkeguilty , silence the public yoke , orerawe the advocates for freedom , fill th e la n d

      "With terror and suspicion , and campletely extinyuisa all movements of the people towards the attainment of their two' favourite objects , Perhaps it was hoped and expected that the men of property , and the friends of peace and good order in ibe country , disgusted'by the tendency to not in the lawex class of people , not only might toxow their -weight into the scale of Government , bat actually become advocates for an Union of ibis country with England , which has been a favourite whemn of the British cabinet since the time that Ireland in arms extorted certain concessions from the necessities *•»«* the apprehensions of Britain . This mnchis "uudeniifele ; thai we heard some of those who are the most intimately connected -with the present Government and the best acquainted with the secrets of the ~ fn }» pf > n % , express the monstrous wish thai a

      ¦ whole province , the most considerable in the country . In ' point , ol population . ^ " ^'" T , -property , iuTuriiiaVkm and . morals , c o u ld ie drinea to Tebdlion , or xxre in open , T 9 bell £ ta j lot I do sot wish to mis-state or aggravate expressions In thsmsalvfis sufficiently abominable . At ¦ fije same time aU proposals for an enquiry into the state of fise poor and the grounds of their complaints and discontents -was represented as a factious attempt to inflame by connivance and public approbation the disorders of those -who sought for redress throngh -the medium of tumult " The people might have grievances , hut J ?»» 'was sot the tame — " the coneessisna of JmtBce might be imputed to intimidation . " - The arm of Government -was &V last stretched forth ; and the hftUwi of rigour began ts he developed in all its llOZTOZS .

      A noble Xord high in mihtsry situation seems to have been the first inventor of a ^ measure , which wbs after--wards EancSoned and imitated by the Legislature . I Tntocn ^ l » t of dispessins "with the -UEual formalities of law , and transporting scspeeted persons from their CtrmiLrj UTTppT ft > V ^ ' » ** ™«™ fag t ^ * * This conduct -was Teprobated in the strongest -mnmier by a learned Judge , -who -xncceeded tbe Soole Iiord in a circait ihxcngli Ihs « onntry ; but the 1-egiaiattcre interposed to protect the stretch of p « wer , or , as she disaffected m ^ ht calTit , tbis-violationof the law and cowtitation , by a bill cf indemnity . "What till " of indemnity should protect him from the justice , of Britain , whose arbitrary act first fuxnlshedthB precedent for filling the navy "With discontent , for »>»» v » ng the safety of the British Empire to its centra , and rendering , perhaps , ¦ what used to be its protection , its sorest scourge atsome fntureda y ?

      Peace be to the manes of the trial by jury . » . Now came the Insurrection 3511 You are well acquainted -with the provisions of thiB most formidable act , which ¦ with the curfew , introduced such a system of jealous rigour as was scarcely ever devised before under themost axbitzary and tyrannical governments . " The act , " it may Desaid , "was dictated by the necesBity of the tames . " Se it so ; ~ £ he sudden leap from gross supineness to a degree of severity , -which equals anything that the reign of terror of Kobespierre exhibited , confounds and electrifies the people .

      The magistrates of Qua country art not universsDy competent to » iituatSon that in disturbed times re-• qnrres prudence and good temper , joined , with activity , asd a fcsDwiedge of the laws . Many ecclesiutics have unwisely obtruded themselves , or been thrust by others , into commissions of the peace ; ~ va& they have not been di s tinguished , I fesz , by that spirit of liberality and zaew ^ which ekaracterisea the Christian religion . What tremendous powers were conferred on those men ! * ' Any mag i s trate may send for strangers , a nd propound to t >> pT ? the alternative of giving sureties for their good "behaviour , ox going to gaol . * ' On representation of the magistrates , in a special ses s ion , that a district , ot county , is in a disturbed state , or in danger of becoming so , it is to be proclaimed . The inhabitants then are

      -warned , in a petty session , to keep within fcbeir dwellings , between nm snd son , on pain of being sent on lxard the fleet . The magistrates may break open houses , between sun an d z un , to find -whether the inhabitants are at home— -and may send those who are absent on board the fleet , when found , unl e ss 1 hey _ can prove , to the so&isfacSm of the magistrate , that they were absent on their lawful business . Persons taking unla-afni oaths are to be sent on board ihe fleet This power of joint transportation and imprisonment , is at the will of a single magistrate . } It is trae the Act says , that persons coming ¦ within these clauses , m a y , if they give -b ail , appeal from the single magistrate , to the magistrates of Session , one of wh o m mus t be o f the o rum ; but

      qu there m jjo penally on the magistrate refusing haiL PersonsaasMnWingtnmnltnonsly in the daytime , opposing magistrates by anight , in their domiciliary searches for inhabitants , arms , ot lodgers ; persons ¦ rending seditious papers , or papers -unstamped that ought to be stomped , are & he sent on board the flset ; sad amy -woman selling papen of the foregoing description , is to be committed to prison , there to remain till she discovers the persons from whom she received them . The magistratea did set suffer this act to remain a dead letter . District after distr ict , ounty after county , bar been proclaimed . We begin ±

      to apprehend Qiathe precinetB of the TiceregaJ real-^ ence -wiS be thB only part of the Idsgoom not in a BtetB of distuibance , or likely to become-no . Arrest has succeeded to arrest—&e kingdom isjBtrnck -with terror —the dungeons are crowded . What . more . can be followed ? _ The suspension of the Habeas Corpus cct follows—prod&mslions supersede the authority of law , and the civil administration of thecouEtry is handed over to the solitary . I do not speak of the decay of trade : of the failure of public credit ; of the general distress ; these are the necessary consequences of the wax 1 speakr of -measures and of misfortunes which might have been avoided .

      Times of party heat and public commotion an said , to require and authorise a suspension of t £ . e . Habeas Corps * act , and a suppression of the trial by jury . 1 xesy be paradoxical ptrtaps . bet , in ssy mind , such Qmesdo peculiarly require tSat those afe guards

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      should be retained and preserved with reverend care to protect individuals from being oppressed and crushed by thestroDg band of power and of party . iTimes of factJpn asd distuxbance are full of groundless suspicion and jealous rags ; slight rumours are received as important information ^ the most idle whisper is beard with avidity Every man has enemies ; at such momenta they come forward ; they seem like noxioas reptiles In a hot pestSenSal season . Calumny takes the form of serious accu s a t ion , and arms herself w 3 th all the terrors of thB law ; the malice of the private foe put on the -vizard of the public avenger ; even babbling impertinence and prying enrosity wear the terrific features of inquisitorial authority . Nolinnocency of life—no integrity of intention—no circumspection In words -or conduct , can ensure to any mas as antroabled condiUen , or even safety at such times . In my apprehension , it would be right , instead of diminishing the constitutional regulations for the protection of the

      citizsn , to add to them new means' of security from -wanton oppression . 1 b it consistent with ; the safety of the individual , that in times when men's passions . are Inflamed and party rage prevails , * single person , perhaps , a person ignorant , weak , prejudiced and incapable , should have a power of tearing men from their houses and their families that were supported by their industry ; without allowing them any opportunity of defending themselves or confronting them with their accusers , and sending them on board tenders ; while the provision for the protection of the innocent by as appeal , is eluded , through the impunity in refusing bail , which the act affords to the magistrate t We may judge how unfit some of the justices are to be Invested with these formidable powers , from what has been done by some of them ! men invested with sacred functions , from whom one -would look for information and humanity . Not only the single dwellings of the suspected have been burned , but whele villages have been devoted to the flames ! T '•

      what is the present state of the country ? A system of jealousy and espionage is adopted ; an auction of secret intelligence is instituted ; large premiums are offered for the encouragement of perjury , ! by subscriptions for informers ; whole legions of spies are enlisted hi the service of Government , who are most liberally paid with the money of the public . But my paper is exhausted . I am yeurs , MONTAJrPS .

      The Northern Stae Sattniday, July 8. 1843.

      THE NORTHERN STAE SATTniDAY , JULY 8 . 1843 .

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      , A DAY AFTER THE FAIR . The ruinous policy of procrastination , which has ever been the distinguishing characteristic of the j class-ministry of this country , is now being sorely felt . CompUBni after complaint has been made of , grievances which were known to exist , but a deaf i ear has been always" turned to those complaints ; > until at length the several suffering communities have j marshalled themselves under the standard of their j respective grievances , and claim from fear what I has been refused to justice . The defiance of the I Times to the Irish people to represent a single

      I practical grievance of which they complain , and , the declaration of the Home Secretary that all the { abases that did exist have been already removed , { and that what still remains of complaint mart be set I down to "treason " , has been answered from Ireland and America by threats of the extermination of j that race from which the grievances are supposed to flow . Upon the other hand , we find the multiplied injustices imposed by class legislation upon the Welsh people resounding through the hills and dales ,

      and threatening vengeance for long borne wrongs 5 while justice , if seasonably administered , would have stopped the howl . Again , if we look abroad , we see the moment of England ' s weakness seized opon as a fitting opportunity to undermine her foreign policy by establishing the Bourbon d y n asty in Spain ; a joint in our foreign relations wkich if dislocated may tend not only to the dismemberment ef the " United" empire as regards the loss of Ireland , but to the decline 4 &d fail of Britain's self as a nation !

      The citadel of corruption is now much' in the same situation &b the Times described Espabtkbo to be in a few days back ; it has failed to preserve the power of a hollow square , firing upon all points , and is now as it were the centre , fired upon from all po ' mtB , itself . So long as a majority of the classes of which onr patchwork representative system is composed were satisfied with the mosaic work of our rulers as ft whole , so long was the strength general of the party backed by the strength local of the classes of which it was composed

      by which means the minority of the several classes were held locally and generally in subjection ^ But now , how ehanged the prospect ' . Instead of the sectional strength which the majority of those classes formerly gave to the Government in compliance with the implied contract that the majority of each should plunder and live upon the minority , the necessities arising from an expensive system have compelled the Government itself to fall back upon hitherto favoured protected supporters , and , is conseqnence of this , a majority Of each class now constitutes the dissatisfied of its order .

      In England , the Church Hierarchy but yield to Government necessity from a thorough conviction of their own weakness , and upon the principle that a half loaf is better than no bread ; the agricultural interest , though yelling around the minister in approving and acquiescing cheers ^ re growling throughout the nation at his measures , while he is vain and foolish enough to suppose that a handful of subservient representatives can quell the gathering storm ; the manufacturing interest are taking advantage of agricultural inquietude as a meanB of advancing their favourite nostrums of Free Trade , " and are using the

      unpopularity of the minister , rather than argument , as a means of pushing their demands ; the middle classes are pining in the midst of goods rendered valueless , and purchased upon " promises to pay , " and which bankers are cautious in exacting for fear of producing a premature bankruptcy ; industry , the teat " from which the several mouths should draw their sustenance , has been dried up by the unjust and impolitic and wholesale substitution of , artificial for manual labour ; while , in the midst of all , the chosen few are so glutted with wealth as to make it a drug in their hands , at a time of the greatest national

      distress . Such is the picture which England presents at therpresent moment ! If we ' turn to Scot * land , we find the Beeds of religious fend and content ion , which , though sown in apparent mildness , are likely to mature in war and angry strife : nor are the other interests in Scotland one jot more satisfied with things as they are than their neighbours in England . In Wales the picture is still more striking . There we have the fruits of the knowledge of injustice , and the disinclination to remedy acknowledged grievances , vividly depicted . As with Ireland , so with Wales . We heard not of the grievance of

      excessive toTte , of scanty provision for the poor , of unrequiting prices for agricultural produce , the low rate of wages , the long suffering and just complaint of tue working classes ,-until " Rebecca" exhibited those grievances in fire and wrote them in blood . Then , for the first , time , doea the leading journalist condescend to inform us thai those grievances are of long Branding , and fully ; justify com plaint . Then , for the first time , do we hear from the Magistrates themselves that their long sanctioning and upholding of injustice has led to force for its destruction . Then for the firBt time , upon the many

      occasions they are called upon to adjudicate upon the question of tolls , do they discover < that the traveller fer many years past has been subject to an extortion of 50 per cent , at the toll bars , the trustees charging 4 £ d . in cases where threepence were only leviable , and ninepence where the payment of sixpence should only be demanded . This longstanding- irjjnstiee was tamely acquiesced in , and allowed lobe practiced with their folltconcarreace ; as they must have had a perfect knowledge of it ; until at length they have been compelled by force

      to take cognizance of the abuse . We ' now bear of Magistrates convened by the Secretary of State for the Horns Department admitting the existence of * B the grievances complained of ; and yet do our xuler 3 stand growling like a dog with a bone in his mouth , in ste a d of boldl y confessing the existence of the several grievances , and jostly meeting them . But no ; while these complaints ring through thB land , we find them making a mere reckless uge , if possible , than ever of the national resources while their organ proposes , as a remedy , an additional

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      number of Chief Justices as the best means of silencing complaint ! How is it possible that the indusfcriouB : portion of society can look calmly on , while panper foreign monarohs are living upon their resources , and pauper foreign princes are receiving dower but of their scanty means I ! Parliament is now drawing near to its Sessional close ; and were we critically to review its acts we might perhaps once more come under the thumb of the Attorney-Generai ; bat what may be libel in an individual to disclose may be virtue in a people to resist . If we turn to Ireland , there we find the

      national industry paralised by the stand-still policy and procrastination of Government ; until at length the people have been taught the dreadful lesson that a good , to be achieved , must be achieved by threat . They have now before them many practical instances of tbia Bad truth , illustrated by oiroumBtanoes which have occurred in our own time . In 1323 , when the exaction of tbe Tithe impost was still levied by the standard of war prices , the Irish people rose np in arms and compelled the Government of that

      day to relieve them of a portion of the tax by placing it upon the shoulders of their wealthier neighbours . In 1829 , after twenty-nine years of successful resistance to the claims of the Catholics , the Minister of that time was compelled to yield to fear what he had refused to justice . Again , in 1832 , after the incarceration , transportation and death of Beveral Reformers , " the Bill , the whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill , " which had been so pertinaciously refused to petition remonstrance and prayer ^ was granted to fire and sword .

      We would ask our lagging , se&sufficient and timeserving rulers ] whether they hold power for no better purpose than that of alternately exhibiting their moral weakness and physical strength , and merely to teach the people the most scientific mode of extracting the means for keeping them in subjection ? While we Bee all these abases staring us in the face , however , we would inconsequence the more urgently impress upon the minds of our readers the fact , that however great , or however numerous the sectional causes of complaint may be , none desire a remedy that would go farther than to correct those abuses of

      which they themselves complain ; while nothing short of the . People ' s Charter , whole and entire , can make them participants in any advantage to be gained by the correction of any single abuse : and therefore does it become their duty to look -watchfully at passing events , and to act cautiously under existing circumstances . Let them not for a moment uuppose thit the threat of violence , nay ; even to extermination , against the Government is indicative of a fellew-feeling for the working classes . Let them not imagine that justice to the Scotch Seceders—justice to the inferior clergy

      of the Protestant Church of England—justice to tbe agricultural interest—justice to the manufacturing interest—justice to tbe shopkeeping interest , or justice to " JRebecca , " means justice to them . No , far otherwise ! Justice can only be administered to any single class by doing an act of injustice to the working classes . What does their justice mean f Does it not imply a remission of some burden which they are now called upon to bear , and which burden if taken from their shoulders by their representatives must inevitably be placed upon the shoulders of those who are not represented at alii ! The Chartists theq have no interest in making common cause with those parties who contend for a remission of their own class grievances ; but they should take advantage of all

      and every opportunity to strengthen their own hands , for the achievement o ! that great and holy measure which would at one and the same time administer equal justice to each and to all . Of this tbe working classes may rest assured , that all those who are now marshalled under tbe standard of sectional abuse , would strike their colours to-morrow , and join to a man ia resisting the claims of the working class ^ B ; and for this simple reason ; because all others live and prosper upon their weakness . For these reasons then , we would once more strenuously recommend them to renew the motto of ** The Charier and no surrender" upon their banner , and not to strike it until the object is aohieved : for then , bnt not till then , will justice be done to all classes of the community .

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      ORGANIZATION . We are glad to see that this subject is now beginning to occupy the people ' s attention ; it has been taken np since the news of our last by the South-Lancashire Delegates , the Metropolitan Delegates , the Sheffield Chartists , and the Halifax Chartists , and each one of these important bodies takes , in some respects , a different view of it . Tbe Metropolitan Delegates are for carrying out Mr . . O'Connor ' s plaaof appointing a General Secretary , and electing an Executive now . This seems to us to be beginning at completely the wrong end of the work ; and in

      this view we are supported by the South Lancashire Delegates , and by the Sheffield and Halifax Chartists who think with us , that an organization should precede an Executive ; and that an organization to be effective and to give satisfaction to the people , and to secure efficient protection for the peop le , must emanate not from a small junto of perhaps very ignorant or very stupid and selfwilled individuals , who may chance to be elected on the executive , but from the people themselves , at a national delegate meeting , fairly representing the whole mind and the whole will of tbe whole people .

      The organization of our ranks is the most important national question that can be debated . It is of first consequence that we bring to it ail the talent , all the research , all the coolness , all the discrimination and all the legal acumen of which we are master . It will not do to permit it to be marred by the selfwill of any man who may chance to think himself wiser than all the world , or to value his own head so little as to run it wilfully against a . stone wall , while he knows that it cannot go alone but must break all our heads at the same time . It is just this sort of buli-necked-ness which has given us all the

      " b&ckeniugB" we have heretofore had . It is necessary before we have an Executive , that the powers and duties of the Executive should be exactly defined and laid down ; that they may kuow their place and keep it , and not have it in their power to drag the whole movement into a ditch " on their own responsibility " . This can only be done by the Organization , and hence , the necessity of bringing to the discussion of that Organization such a diversity of talent and opinion as shall render it impossible for any one or two to carry it all their own way , and substitute " their own responsibility "

      for a due attention to the safety of the cause . We need scarcely say , therefore , that we concur heartily in the opinion of our Shtfiiuld friends that the people should have before them , some time before they elect their delegates , all the various plans of organization which have been elicited ; that they may weigh and consider the advantages aud disadvantages of each and all of them , aud duly and accurately instruct their delegates . This requires time . It is not a work to be hurried about . The people had better by half wait a week or two , and have an organization which will work , than patch up one hastily to see it tumble to pieces again in a few months . It is impossible for the

      thing to be well done either on the 17 th of July or the 1 st of August . There is not time for due deliberation . ; The 16 th of August has been named . We think that too early . The first week in September would be as eoon as , iu our opinion , the National Delegate meeting could be held with benefit and safety to the cause . Between now and then there will be full time for enquiry , investigation , and tbonght ; and not a day too long ; the Delegates will come to their work knowing what they are about , and we may expect the Tesult of their consultation , to be a safe , workable , and efficient plan < wnich shall enable the whole people to co-operate as one man . Any thing less than this will be worse than nothing . Wo have not been able to get rea « ly the mass of documents upon the suVjcoi whjtch we promised fur

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      this week's Star . We find it a " stiffer" job than w reckoned on : they need so much arrangement and re-writing . We regret the delay less ; because we have this week received one or two other communications which we shall give with them , and we are anxious to place the whole before the people at ene view ; for which , purpose we request that any other ! parties who intend sending anything on the subject , will do so before next Tuesday . When we have laid before the people all the hint and suggestions of others on the matter , we shall give them our own . We shall give the whole law of

      Organization , both as it affects political , religious , and ] benevolent societies . We shall shew them ] bow they may make an Organization of the Chartist body to combine all the advantages of all these different characters ; how tibey may have an effective , universal , workable , going ; organization , which shall not only violate no law , bat which shall compel the law to guarantee their safety , and to protect them from aggression . We shall show the people how to have such an organization as shall efficiently help on our move ment and with ordinary care defy any government to break into it Without coming down to Parliament and asking for a law specifically for that purpose .

      This will , in all probability , oooupy as much space as we can spare for it ia several successive numbers of the Star . We shall then publish the whole in a pamphlet , to be called " The People ' s Handbook of Organization , " so that every man can carry it in his waistcoat pocket , and consult it at his leisure ; and we shall then leave it to the people to make of our comments what use they please . But we implore them not to be too hasty in calling their delegate meeting 1 ; but to give time for the full developement and adoption of an efficient plan in the several localities before the delegates are elected .

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      AMERICAN SYMPATHIZERS . Elsewhere , our readers will find some rather astounding news from tho United States . The Repeal movement seems to be making head-way in America at a tremendous rate . The Yankee Repealers , having no fear of the English Attorney-General or the Irish Viceroy before their eyes , speak ' out their mind with sufficient plainness ; and faith " they mouth it well" ! They threaten to seize upon the Canadas ; to shew British ships , or at all events the merchandise contained in them , the shortest way to the bottom of the sea . They threaten the British Government with a simultaneous attack from America , France , Ireland , and the

      Irishmen in England . We commend this intelligence to the especial reading and careful consideration of Government . It bears not , to be sure , the seal of Congress , nor the authority of the United States government ; but it is yet worth the while of Sir Robert Peel to give it careful and deliberate thought : it comes from those who ate masters alike of Congress and of the States Government ; and whom it behoves well any British Government to think twice of , before it hazard the inducing of them to resort to such means as may be at hand for the accomplishment of their declared purposes .

      Doubtless there ia about these Yankee " sympathizers" a good deal of the exuberance of wild liberty . They promise more than they are likely to be able to perform . But they can do enough to tease a government most sadly , if they set themselves to work . It would be , for instanoo , a terrible thing if they bhould take from us our North American colonies J We hare bought those colonies at a plaguy dear rate ; and they should be worth something ! This part of their threat there is no doubt the Yankees could carry out . They can drub us out of America whenever they please . In talking ,

      however , of the " revolt' of four millions of Chartists , they reckon without their host . The Chartists will dono euoh thing . They are looking for a great constitutional change to be wrought by other means than " revolt " . They seek not to overturn , but to consolidate and to establish on a firm and pure basis , the powers of government . When the Chartists were . struggling with a tyrant Government for their own liberties and those of Ireland at the same time , Mr . O'Connell insolently threatened to send over to the aid of Government 500 , 000 fighting men , to put down

      the Chartists . The Chartists will not retaliate this insolence . They will not lend the Government a single' man to put down Repeal ; but they will not " revolt " . They will go oh steadily pursuing their moral-warfare ; taking advantage of all circumstances which may rise to aid them ; and , if Repeal is to create the physical tornado which the " sympathizers " threaten , even in the wtlduess of the storm the Chartists will pour oil upon tbe waters of contention : they will accomplish by mild means alone , the establishment of those just principles , which will plaoe England and Ireland on a footing of equality , and both upon the plane of right .

      Much as ws love , and dearly as we prize , the rights of Irishmen and liberties of Englishmen , we hope never to see them purchased at the price of foreign aid . We like not this coquetting with the French . We have never yet seen any good of French interference in either England or Ireland . We do not expect it . We hope Mr . O'Connell does not countenance these appeals to French " sympathy" . There are ill-natured people who seem to think he does ;! who speak of Mr . Moonev , the agent in America of the Dublin Corn Exchange Club , as the immediate incitement to this outburst of

      American enthusiasm ; who point to the significant allusions to France in several of the "Liberator's" speeches , and to the mustachioed foreigners whom he recently introduced at Irish Repeal meetings ; and who from all these things infer that Mr . O'Connbll favours secretly the interference of foreigners iu the domestic affairs and relationships of Great Britain and Ireland . We are apt willing to believe this ; because if we could I believe it , we must doubt Mr . O'Conkei . l's sincerity . We must believe that he is not honestly seeking Repeal ; that is to say , that he is either not seeking it at all , or seeking it for the benefit , not of

      the Irish people , but of a middle-class faction . We desire to think better things of him . Bat we shall see how he receives his new allies . It will now be seen whether the physical-force overtures—the pikes , muskets , and firebrands—of America and France are more acceptable to him than the moral , peaceful , and constitutional aid of the English Chartists which he so lately spurned . Meantime we bid the people—the English people —go on their own way ; turn neither to the right nor left ; persist in looking , by legal and moral means only , for that Charter of right , which shall ensure justice not only for themselves , but for their Irish brethren .

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      MR . O'CONNOR'S FARMING WORK . Thb first number of this work has made its appearance , and will be read with universal avidity . It is but " an opening" of the subject—a glimpse , just to show its vastness ; but it points as an index to a " dealing with the matter" which will set at rest all the yelpers and prosers who have hitherto bespattered Jl it . In an elaborate introduction , he "lays the axe to the root" of the

      system i now in vogue , both agricultural and manufacturing in each style aa he only can . He then opens his work , not as a treatise on Small Farms exclusively , but as a general work of Agricultural Science , which may serve equally as a text book for the small farmer or the large , the labourer , or the capitalist employing labourers . The chapter upon Kents , ; > alone , is worth all the books' upon AgrictilturaljScienoe ever before published .

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      ot Manchester , delivered a lecture here on Monday last , in which he showed the necessity of the Chartist body uniting one and all , that " they might be prepared to take advantage of the coming crisis ; averring that ihe best time to attack an enemy vvaa whan circumstances made him weak .

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      TO THE PEOPLE ON MY RESPECTIVE LECTURING TOURS . My Dear Friends , —I wish I could get a few weeks made up of j Sundays aad Mondays ; I could then perhaps accommodate you all ; but as I know of no means whereby to compass this , I can only suggeBt to yon , as the next best thing , that we should try to make the most and the best . of the weeks and tbe days as they are . It is clear that I cannot be everywhere on Sunday , nor everywhere on Monday ; nor can I permit the other days to remain unoccupied . I shall suit myself to your convenience as nearly as circumstances will permit and I must entreat that where we cannot mould circumstances to our wish , you will aid me to govern them to our purpose .

      I shall , if it [ mayiipleaJjj God , be at Belper on Friday the 14 th , and shall address the people on the present state and ! prospects } of Chartism , at halfpast seven in the evening , at the Leopard Inn , Bridge-street . I had been given to understand that Saturday evening would suit my Derby Friends ; they now write me that it will not suit them , which I regret much , as it will lose me a day . On Sunday , ' the 16 th , I preach twice at Loughborough ; afternoon and evening ; and ' , on Monday evening , I address

      the people of Loughborough on the present state and prospects of Chartism . On Tuesday , the 18 th , I address the people of Derby ; and on Wednesday , the 19 th , I proceed to Nottingham . On Thursday , the 20 th , 1 attend the tea party and festival of my good friends at Arnold . On Friday , the 21 st , I visit my good friends of j Sutton-in-Ashfield , which , b , eing within three miles must serve also for Mansfield ; I cannot give a day [ to each . On Sunday , the 23 rd , I hope to be with iny own little flock at Hull ; and on Monday , the 2 ^ thf * to address the people of

      Sheffield . 1 The Newcastle Friends write thatff hey must have me on a Sunday , jl will try to accommodate them j but this will compel me to take their district on my return from Scotland , instead of on my way there . I shall now , therefore , take steamboat , if all be well , from Hull to Leith , on Wednesday , the 2 nd of August . This , I suppose , jwill land me in Leith some time on Friday , thb 4 th ; so that I shall just have time to recover the queerness of my stomach and get myself into working order for my Edinburgh friends on Sunday . My further movements in Scotland I shall endeavour to advertise precisely next week ,

      so that my friends in each town shall have full notice of the exact ( day when I can be w < th them ; while at the same time , it must be always borne in mind , that I accept the invitations of my friends only on condition that they take me " with all my imperfections on my head . " They , of course , do not expect ranting declamation from me ; whoever does ' will be disappointed ; I have neither taste nor strength for it . I am no long ! winded orator : I have not physical power to make long speeches nor to speak out of doors : and my ] general health is so precarious , that I can seldom calculate'from one day to another upon my ability to ! do anything : I may sometimes seem moderately well one day and the next be

      unable to leave my room ; and sometimes even a few hours will make all this difference in my state Hence , therefore , my friends , at any particular place who may expect me , must neither be angry nor surprised if I should disappoint them . I promise them that nothing but such physical suffering as may totally incapacitate me shall cause any such occurrence . I hope to be able to attend every appointment punctually , but I cannot promise to overcome nature nor to ! withstand sickness .

      It is not necessary for me to say more now In my letter published in the Star of May 20 th th 9 people have the expression of my mind ; I have not changed since then ; nor am I likely to do so . I am , ray dear Friends , Your faithful Friend and Servant , William Hill . Leeds , July 6 th ] 1843 .

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      C&LV 1 NBS Minor . — We cannot advise him . The Act he speaks of we newer saw . // is , therefore , impossible for us to say whether the official has or has not power to ad as he has done , and divert the pension to ohher parties on the grounds stated . Ma . W . Coopee , of Weldon , near Wandsford , a small benxyhtea agricultural village in Northamptonshire , desires us to say that he is much obliged to Mr . \ James Cash , of Knutsford , and other friends , nor their presents of Northern Star newspapers . They will be of essential service ; and he has a strong desire to get the Star into the hands of the agricultural labourers

      that they , too , may know the cause of the grinding poverty to \ which THE THING has subjected them ; and join with their brethren in the manufacturing , districts to bring about a better state of thingsMohen the labourer will be deemed to be wort h y of his hire , and have the privilege to receive and ENJOY it . That hire being , "he that proUueeth shall be FIRST PARTAKER of the fruits . " Poor Law at Warrington . — We have received a communication j from some one in Warringt'm , signed " Washington , " detailing some atrocious a- ; ts of Poor Law tyranny , which he avers to have taken place in the workhouse at that place

      We cannot believe his statements . The whole thing appears to be a hoax ; cunningly got up by some of our good "friends" to get ' us again within the mexhes of the law " for libel on the Poor Law authorities . " The letter is written by a not very good penmanist ; but the facts he details are soj improbable , and yet so cold ' bloodedly atrocious , that we cannot credit them . Will any of ou ^ friends at Warrington advise us as to the manner in whxch the Poor Law is %% j administered" in ) Warrington Workhouse ? Has the " master" died lately ? and have there been any floggings of young females ? The letter in question avers ] that such is the case : but we

      repeat that we do not believe the story . We fear the whole thing its an attempt to entrap us . The ' letter we shall m-eservc . Wm . Gresty an » John Murray . — We have received from these parties an address purporting to issue from Carpenter ^ ' Hall , Manchester , calling upon the Chartist body to assist a late prominent character in tne Chartist movement , who is now supposed to be ] out of the country . They slate that he is in griat need ; and that they have voted for him £ lfrom their own funds , and collected £ 2 after their evening ' s lecture for him . We rejoice to see a spirit of liberality manifested by Chartists ; but we think the Chartists of

      Manchester might have found more blameless objects for its exeicise ^ without travelling so far . We publish this weefc a balance-sheet of the expenses of the trial which was entirely brought about by the recklessness ) oj the party for whom our correspondents evince so warm an interest . That balance-sheet dyes not exhibit a tithe of the actual cost to the Charfists and public generally of that affair ; while i ^ takes no cognisance whatever of the scores of ruined families occasioned hy it . We think some of these have some claim on the sympathies of the ] Manchester Chartists . We this week publish a letter from one who was left without the means of getting up to London to meet the

      judgmerU in the case , and who pawned '' At * toolchest sooner than be branded as a skulker ; while the party who sterns to engross the sympathising affections of our correspondents meanly shrunk from sharing the rLks into which he had dragged better men . That pnor f , llou >'> tool chest issliU in pawn ; andjit would , in our opinion , have been a more legitimate application of their sym-, pathies if the Carpenter !? Hall Chartists had devoted some-of their money to its redemption . We have anothsr letter from a victim to the sante recklessness , whose wife and family are conse-. quently in a basUle . Why are they not Jit sub-, jectsfor Manchester sympnthyl And why does not the party for whom this appeal is wade , go to his profession and earn his own living ? Why should an educated man consent to hang meem' y

      on tne skirls 0 ) a half famished people , with the . World before ^ him for the exercise of his own talents and industry , and safe jrom any fear of further consequences from hisfolly ? Any man with a spark of manly feeling , rather than condescend to hang himself upon the people under such circumstances , would sooner hang himself upon a tree . > HoLMFiara , —To Lecturebs . —All letters , for the future , must be directed , post paid , to Joseph Clegff , boot anli shoemaker , South-lune % Holmfirth . I ' . The Holmfjbth Chartists are anxious that Mr . O'Connor should visit them at his first convenience . Hull Chartists . —? A U communications must be adadressed to Mr . Wm . Smith , 8 , H ' est-nlreet-court , West-street , | City Ch \ rtis ; s . —The announce n > nit of a concerl at Turn-again-lane is an advertisement .

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      Ms . Seed , Worsted Inspectob , of Halifax , denies having had any hand or part in the apprehension or examination of Mrs . Lassey and her daughter when proceeding Twmetvards with a warp and weft in a " piece poke , " as detailed in a paragraph in our last . It serins that there are two worsted inspectors in Halifax : perhaps our correspondent has been mistaken in the name . Will he explain ] Susanna . Inge has sent us a long letter to say that she " very much questions the propriety or right of Mr . O'Connor to name or suggest to the people , through the medium of the " Star , " any person to fill any office whatever . It is not according to her ideas of democracy . " We dare say Miss Inge is greatly in love with her own

      ideas of democracy ; and so she ought , for we fancy they will suit nobody else . A democracy which questions the right of any man to name or suggest what he thinks may be for the general good , is a very queer kind of democracy . Miss Inge thinks the people would sooner elect a man on Mr . O'Connor ' s recommendation than on their own judgment . We do not think them quite such fools . Wikgate Grange Coltiert . —We have received a letter from Thomas Weddler respecting the conduct of one of the ** viewers" at a pit in that locality . It seems that the pit in question is fitted

      up with a wyre rope , which the men deem unsafe to trust their lives upon . The matter has been before the magistrates twice ; both times on the application of the master , for "law" on the men for refusing to work . The first time two men were committed : the second time the case was discharged on the understanding that the rope in question should be tested with twenty tens weight . This test hat not been applied . Some eignt ^ tons have been suspended on it ; and our correspondent avers that it caused the rope to split . Still it was not removed ; but the demand is made that the men resume work with it

      in its present state . The men , having had their fears strengthened by the impel feet and partial test applied , refuse to comply with the requirement ; and warrants have been issued to bring three of them before the magistrates at Castle Eden . The men have also appealed to the magistrates for protection . Three several times have they applied for summonses against their employers for wages , or compensation , they allege to be due to them , in consequence of the pit being in an unfit state for work , because of the imminent danger to life . These applicdtiQns ^ have been refused . Our correspondent also , desires to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums , in answer to ah appeal Jor aid to enable the question to be

      tried : — Coxhoe Colliery , £ 1 ( this colliery had only 13 s . 10 d in their fund , but made out the above sum : they had a trial themselves on Saturday last , and defeated their employers r ; South Wingat e , £ 1 Is . \ 0 id . ; Belmont , 8 s . 7 d . ; Haswell , £ \; Rainton ' s , is . 9 d . ; Newbottle , 7 . i . Qhd ; Shiney Row , 3 s . 6 ^ d , ; Moorsley , 9 s . ; Shincbff , 5 s . Qd . ; Shotton , 12 s . 7 d . ; Piltington , ids . ; Sherburn Hill , 6 s . ; New Durham , 19 s . ; Pelton Fell , 4 * . ; from two friends , 2 s . 6 d . ; Henton , £ \; and Lumley Colliery \ 10 s .: making a total sum of £ 9 4 s . 7 d , collected on Monday evening . Should any of the colliers in Yorkshire , or elsewhere , think proper to lend their support , it will be gratefully received by Michael John Barkhouse , Wingate Grange Colliery , Durham , and

      duly acknowledged in the Star . Davy Lamp—We have received a letter under this signature from South Helton . The writer describes himself as a pitman , but writes v ? ry like an attorney's clerk . He sends a rough sketch sf a scheme for a general strike , which he earnestly commends to our favourable notice . We have no doubt that he is some hired scamp doing the work of the middle classes , in seeking to produce mischief . We cautioned the people to be on their guard against fellows of this character . There are plenty of them all over the country , usinq alt kinds of insidious means to raise another striketrap . G . Ball ofHaughall Colliery desires to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums : —

      £ b d From Leasingthom 2 0 6 From Shildon Adelaides ... 0 14 10 From Copy Croo&s 1 4 3 Ftom Eldon 0 11 6 From Westerton 5 11 S . L . Ambler—We fear x » e cannot find room for hU letters on Toleration , Jordan Chadwick—His lines are declined . W . Fose , Boston—We do not see that there should le any difficulty in procuring the works he speaks of . They are published by Mr . Cleave . All the numbers are in print . If the Bookseller he speaks of has a pareel direct from London , he has only to tell his Collector that he wanted the Lancaster Trials , published by Cleave , Shoe-lane , and it should be sufficient toptocure them .

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      J . RT'Larn . —Enquire at London , we do not know anything about it here . A . Sharples , —Say what county if possible . L . Smelling , Tunbridgb Wells . —A letter was sent , addressed aa above , on June 1 st , and it baa been returned . Will Mr . Snelling send bis address ? Liddle , Preston . —Enquire at London .

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      from which we make the following extract , gives a melancholy picture of the state of trade in that town i— " The number of empty houses is immense . In the greatest thoroughfare , eay Wilson-street , there are several shops and houses closed . The public-bouse in the , which you sold to Mr . , has been unoccupied for more than twelve months ; in fact , the saying is correct of a town to let . Under these disheartening circumstances , f t behoves tho se who have a trifle not to throw it away . "— Carlisle Journal .

      Tailors and Shoemakers . —The two useful classes here al'uded to , are more frequently suffering from ill-health than any others ; this arises from their cramped position during the hours of labour , and the want of proper exercise and fresh air ; but however much these blessings may be desired , necessity compels them to forego their enjoyment ; in their absence nature demands the aid of medicine , and none more benign or invigorating has ever been offered to the world than Parr's Life Pills , as tens of thousands restored from sickness to health can testify . Many letters are published recording the miraculous benefits of this medicine , and may be obtained of any of the agents . - >

      Four Persons Poisoned . —On Monday last inquests were held at H&rdway , near Gosport , before C . B . Longcroft , Esq ., c oroner , on view of the bodies of John Lapthorne , a carpenter of Haslar , and Mary , bis wife , whose deaths were occasioned under the followng distressing circumstances : —It appeared in evidence that , about three months ago , William Wilkins , a labourer , at Hardway , went on board a frigate in Portsmouth harbour thai was paying off ( ha believed the Blonde ) to bring away the rubbish and sweepings . On tha * . occasion a sailor on board gave Wilkins a quart bottle containing some liquid , saying there was something for him to drink . Wilkins , thinking it was a bottle of spirits , on bis mum home drank about half a

      wine-glass full , aud gave his wife some , and neither of them felt any ill effects from drinking it ; but it tasting very bitter , ana not liking it , the bottle was pat in the cupboard , where it remained until Tuesday , the 16 ch inst ., except that upon one occasion WilkinB ' s daughter took a small quantity of the liquid in her mouth for the toothache , wh ich she " said lulled the pain . Ou Friday eveniDg , Wilkins ' a wife wishing to preserve some gooseberries , told her daughter to take out of the cupboard all the empty bottles and wash them ; on taking up the bottle containing the liquid , the daughter asked what was to be done with it , wh « n she was told by her father and mother to throw it awaj and 6 oak the bottle , instead of whioh she

      unfortunately took it to 2 vlrs . Lapthorne , who professed to have some knowledge of medicine to ask her if she knew what it was , telling her it had relieved her tooth ache . Mrs . Capthorne on tasting it pronounced it to be damaged liquor , and Baying she thought there was no harm is it , poured oat and drank about half a wine-glass full ; her husband and two women who were present each drank about the same quantity . In a few houro they were all taken exceedingly ill , and Mr . Lowes , a medical gentleman , of Gosport , being oaJled in , after a latal interval of about thirty hours , found them labouring under the dreadful effects a some poison . ^ He aministered medicines , and used every means in his power to relieve them . In tb »

      course of Saturday they woto visited by Doctors Allen , Mortimer , and Little , of Haslar , and the neighbourhood , but all their efforts were without avail as to poor Lapthorne and his wife—she died on Sunday , and he on Monday , leaving eight children M deplore their sudtfen and melancholy bereavement . The two other women are now lying in » very precarious state , but hopes are entertained of thbir recovery . The contents of the bottle , ot being tested by Mr . Lowes , did not appear to hart any mineral poison in it , but proved to be tinctttr * of colohicum , the seeds of which were in the bottle !

      and a label thereon , whicn was with difficult deciphered , indicated the same . It is not kno *» hoar the sailor , who wa 3 unknown to WilkiflS obtained the bottle , whether from the medicii " store of tho ship , or from the cabin of ono of $ officers . It is supposed that when Wilkins recei ^ it , the seed could not have been long in the bottk or he would have suffered from taking the quantitf he did . The tasje was extremely bitter . No blafB * WrtS attached tj Wilkins , bis wife , or daught ^ The jury returned verdicts of " Died from tafei ^ tmcture of colehicum , ignorantly aud without inW * tioa oi harm . " - —Hampshire Telegraph .

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      4 ¦ : - THE NORTHERN STAR , _^^_ J ¦

      Ashtcn-Onder-Ltne -Mr. Bjames Leach

      ASHTCN-ONDER-LTNE -Mr . BJames Leach

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      FOR THB GENERAL DEFENCE FUND . £ S . d . From Mansfield , per J . G . Hibbard ... ... 050 „ a democrat , Chepatow . ... 0 1 6

      A" Town To Let."—A Letter From Workington

      A" Town to Let . "—A letter from Workington

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 8, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct809/page/4/