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    • TO DANIEL O'CONNELL, ESQ^ M.P
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      To Daniel O'Connell, Esq^ M.P

      TO DANIEL O'CONNELL , ESQ ^ M . P

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      Hereditary bondsmen , know ye no * ¦ ffio-wonld be free ; tiiemiei * e » must strike ttie blow . Xei me hare a petition signed ¥ y fire hundred th&u-md Sg&ting men , -ami let the House of Commons know tha * they viB fi £ hW—Darnel O'CoandJ . We on nuJce a Billion pikes in a -week . — - ~ Thomas Sleeh . Sra , —It ib bow seven yearssincV I addressed a series of -letters to yon upon the subject" of your Parliamentary conduct daring the four previous Tears . That communi cation was dragged from me fcj your own foil j in not wailing yourself of the opportunity that I afforded you to explain some charges youihought proper touring against me in your association of that day . The facts contained in those letters , -which remain unshaken and uncoutradicted to the present momentshould have made you

      cau-, tions in again charging me , directl y or indirectly , with politic *! tarphude . Yon must haTe been aware ihat the improved mind of Ireland had , from that period , constituted & new censorship for the investigation of all matters connected with the character ti politieans ; and my former letters having considerably damaged your reputation in the days of Irish darkness , when your magic power controlled all without-question , it was the extreme of folly to hope in these more enlightened times that yon could convict without trial , Bovrever , it notunfrequently happens that the possession of great power ib uBed as a set-off against- minor disadvantages ; and mayhap yon calculated upon your present position giving you an irresistible dictatorial strength ; and thereupon yon founded a belief either that I would quietly succumb , or that any defsnce against charges brought by yon in yonr present position - would be futile and unavailing . -

      Sir , I am now preparing to reply to your recent ! attack upon me , not so much with the view of de- 1 fending myself , as for the purpose of explaining the general tendency of the mode of making that attack , ! and the object with which it was made . In one of ; your recent speeches , delivered in the Corn Ex- ; change , yon took the opportunity of commenting ! upon some information communicated to you by a ! correspondent of . the Morning Chronicle , in the ' course of -which yon used the following language . ! I shall first selecs those . portions which will best ] serve to connect your reasoning upon the snbJect , J sad I shall then comment upon them as a whole . ' Meantime , sir , do not charge me with any desire to - arraign you upon garbled extracts i for bear

      in-Bund , that yonr whole speech was printed in the ! Northern Star of Saturday last . The first extract ! which I quote is as folIowB ;— " That some hundreds ^ of men , or may be thonsands , did not get drank , did 1 not fall out and fight , and cause general riot on 1 Tara Hill , to which the military and armed police I would have soon been summoned , was not the fault 1 of the persons alluded to , nor the fault of those who paid them to come here ; who have also paid the ! sane men , -and some others , to follow At . Cobden from town to town in England , irom Norwich to , London , from London to Maidstone , from Maidstone ' to Winchester , and several other places to get ' up a > riot , and upset his Anti-Corn Law meetings . " 1

      H is ow this deserved the most serious consideration , j This was a subject that could not drop ; and they ; must know from this gentleman who they were , and J who hired them . Could it be possibly supposed I that they were hired by the British Ministry ! and ! yet if they vrereJEot hired by the British Ministry , j must they not be hired bv some person in the confi-: dene * of the Minister V ' ~ I ** Tbet co » lt > kow see bow tbb cat-se of befobm HAD BEES PUT 1 X > WH Vf XHGLAJO ) BY THE INTER- 1

      JEREUCE .-OF PERSuNS PRETENDING TO ; IE CHARTISTS ; fob the sbeat xsitcikls or ] chastism tea * not to allow any public meeting to take place ¦ undisturbed . " ! " They should work , noi by physical force , but by ! the moral force of public opinion , that electricity that ( KzhIj aii millions of people in one naauimoas seoti- ; jnent Ana ^« jjj tfiis to be throtra away by the acts ' of hired iyggugnn s brought ever xrom jsugiaoa—tor lie , ¦ would call . them assassins ? There was no nation in

      Europe in "Which assassination would prevail to men . > xn extent , or -where such an act ef assassination vonld j be perpetrated as in Ireland if that plan succeeded . It < i could xtot remain as- it -was . They should probe it to i the bottom . He cared not -who they -were—the man j » ho -was at the bottom of snch a plan as that , -was a ^ wretch that should be dragged to tie ectSold —{ load j cheering ) . Fe&rgns O'Connor , when the Chartiats were j sore beset in England , proposed the absurdity of what be called " a saowd month , " by which he meant a month during tts continuance of which all the working ! classes in England were to too v up thettemployments and remain idle . What a notable piece of ingenuity ¦ was this I—{ loud laughter ) . Who , he abonld like to know , \ cas to feed the tradesmen and their

      families during that month ' —{ bear , bear , hear . ) At the end of the mouth the number of the oppressed would no doubt have ataudbly diminished , and for this Tery obvious reason , that many of them in the interim would have gone to another -world . There wenld be but few snrrrf ors at the end of the month—{ bear , hear ) . He { Mr . O'Co&sell } proposed so preposterous "Utopian measure lite that proposed by Fesrgns . He did sot vast a revelation—unless by snch a name an attempt to procure a return to the former tames might properly be so dBsisrnated . He wanted snch a rtvolntMn as that of 1782 , or " that of 1829 —( bear , bear , and cheers ) . It was & bloodless , stainless revolution to "which be aspired ; a political change for the better , brought about -without injury to life or to property . Who

      wonld ssy that the Irish people had sot simcient constitutional resources to fall back upon , evtn if their present plans were defeated ? Supposing a Tery extreme case—supposing that the plans now proposed for the achievement of our national regeneration wen factaously thwarted and defeated , might not the Irish people acknowledge the wisdom of betaking themselvei exclusively to their potato crops , and leaving the harvest of Ireland uncut ? Who would tell "hrrp that the Repealers might not unanimously come to the determination of discontinuing altogether the consumption of all exciseable commodities?—( loud cheers ) . -The harvest vru already cut ,

      bo that when be alluded to that , he was speakiBg a day after the fair—( laughter ) . The resolution for the non-consumption of exeiaeable articles was sot sow proposed , sor would it until a more urgent emergency should arise ; but " then he was very far from saying that it might not be proposed one day or otter—{ hear } He would sot shrink from anything that the laws of God and man would approve for the restoration of bis country ^ rights . He trusted that the meeting would pardon him this digression , but the paragraph which bad given rise to it was of so important a nature that be was cure the Irish people -wonld acknowledge that he 'Was doixg nothing more than his duty in offering these remaita . "

      Having so far , Sir , given that portion of yonr speech which refers to the Chartist body generally , and to myself as one of th& body partieabxly , I shall now proceed to connect it as a whole ; ibus establishing my assertion made at the outlet of the present agitation that ultimately you wonld seek to saddle its faflnre either upon the indifference , or the treachery of the English Chartists . In many of your previous orations you have charged the Chartists with opposing Mr . Cobden and the Corn law League , and further you have charged fiem a 3 * Tory-Chartists , " and " Tory-Spies , " receiving the pay of Government ; whDe yon now State that the Repealers rt could now see how the cause of Reform had heen put down in England by tht interference of persons pretending to be Chartists ; for the great principle of Chartism vas not to allow any public meeting to take place" U presume you meaned jo piocetdj * undisturbed . '

      In the last paragraph yon proceed thus i— They should probe it to the bottom . He cared not who they were , the "ia * i who i 3 at the bottom of such a plan as that , was a wretch that shonld be dragged to the scsfibld . Peargus O'Connor when the Chartists were sore beset in England , proposed the absurdity of what he called a sacred month . " Now , Sir , connect yonr speech as a whole , and eonld any of yoHr hearers haTe come to other conclusion , than thai you meant your hearers to infer that the disturbers of the Tara Hill meeting were Chartists , hired by the government for the purpose of carrying dissension and confusion into the Repeal ranks ; and from the siv and pointed manner in which yen make my name follow "the wretch that fchonld be dragged to the scaffold , " is there a man who heard it—is there a man who reads it , but must come to the conclusion that Peargus O'Connor iB to be offered up . u the sacrifice whereon the present agitation is to be immolated \ - ¦

      ,, , Sir , if the agitation of Mr . Cobden and his de-Bohuing fraternity was calculated to serve the cause of Irish liberty more than the agitation of Peargus O'Connor and the English Chartists , how happens it that in the midst of improved opinion , yon deem it necessary to be silent upon ihe principl es of the former , while you find it indispensible to advocate as nearly a 3 poEsible those of the latter ! Have you at length discovered that the Irish people , like the English , w 31 contend Joi principle alone ! Do you feel sore that the day of juggle and deception has passed away \ Are you mortified at being orWfi ^ onwardsin the conree of liberty , at a speed which you hoped , - feat now find it impossible , to retard Sr , if yon have receiTed a strength beyond your fondest expectation : if yon have embarked m a

      project which you hoped indifference to-nave sanctioned the desertion of ; and if-yon haTe not the aoral courage to move onward with your strength i a God ' s name , rather proclaim your own iuniditj , flan seek lo cover yonr retreat by the fonlest loader and defamation of others ! . WbUeyon have proclaimed jonrself ifcs fcdroeate « f the Irish Catholics , and the defender oi the Irish ^ oreh , -very properly eensnring 1 i 6 high ones of Jonrown creed , who hava degraded themse lves by Pandering to State Church authority * how , 1 ask , did the redoubtable Mr . Cobdea escape yonr censjreforthejrablieation of a book , in -. which , "he waniir God that he was not bora a Catholic I and m wtieh be has the matchless audacity to attnbnte * English filth , English debasement , andEng-Jisb iaanorality , to the mixture of Irish Catholics

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      with the English people" ! 11 In denouncing English prejudice against the Catholic people of Ireland , why had you not the manliness to hold this Cobden up as the reviler of onr country , the defamer of her people , and the denouncer of their religion ? Why ask us to follow at his back , to cheer him in his follies , and to aid him in his projects ' ! Why feel so tenderly towards him and his order , not one of whom that would not resist your agitation to the death ; while to dignify and glorify them , you heap slander upon millions who hs . ve resolved upon aiding the Irish people in their noble struggle for liberty . The fact is , Sir , you court weakness , and dread strength 1 . If 1 felt inclined to reply to vonr charge against

      me for having proposed the "Sacred Month , " I need but turn to a single passage in that speech from which I have quoted ; and there I find you actually urging the possibility of the Irish people having recourse to what , with reference to me , you call aa absurdity . " Yon say—>* Supposing that the plans now proposed for the achievement of our . national regeneration were factiously thwarted and defeated , might not the Irish people acknowledge the WISDOM of betaking themselves exclusively to 'heir potato Crops , XKD LEAVING THE HARVEST OP IRElam » uncut" 1 Here , then , Sir , -we find that expediency changes English absurdity into Irish WISDOM . Tou propose , not o sacred , holiday , but a total cessation op LABouB in Ibeland , for as

      Ireland is wholly an agricultural country . if the harvest of 1843 was left uncut . 1844 would be a year of total cessation from labour . But even this foreboding of another year ' s delay to the great question of Repeal , is not bo ominous as the following : — u The resolution for the non-censumplion of exciseable articles was kdt sow proposed , nor would it until a more URGENT EMERGENCY should arise ; but , then , he was very far from spying that it rmabt sot be proposed OKE DA'S ? O"& OTHEE . " Now , Sir , as an ardent lover of Iribh liberty , anxiously desiring to see the Act of Union repealed , I ask you how I am to reconcile the "URGENT NECESSITY ? snd the " ONE 1 > AY OEOTHEB , " and " THEAILOW-1 NG AXT IRISH HARVEST TO REMAIN UNCTJT , " with > eur solemn declaration

      that this , 1843 , should be the " BJEPEAl » YEAS" ?! . Even yet , Sir , with such strong feelings ot indignation , and such alarming forebodings of retreat , I am not disposed to weaken your hands ; whOe 1 have no inclination to sit tamely under your tyranny , of which the foregoing is bat the beginning . ¦ I defy you to point to a similar instance of resignation under Elander , to that which I have evinced towards you . 1 have allowed you to deal uninterruptedly in Ehallow personal invective . I have allowed the distant yelpings of your cowardly staff to pass by me as the jdle wind . I have endeavoured not only to account for , but to juBtify your devious and meanderin g course ; upon the presumption that

      the end to be obtained being great , it justified even yonr means for accomplishment . But , Sir , when I discover that your intention now is to sow the seeds of dissension more profusely than ever between the English and the Irish people , I cannot longer abstain from pointing out the errors of yonr way , and the folly of such aa undertaking . I am no political v » - « rjf < rvAc' , «» d i >« o « if / u-fl I neither courted nor songnt yoar approval of my conduct ; » iido now , I am justified in asking , if the publication and dissemination of Ireland's wrong was , as you have stated , necessary fox the achievment of Ireland ' s rights , how happens it , disseminatator of knowlege , redreBser of grievances , Liberator of Ireland , " that while the Argus-tye of tout several associations was

      abroad searching the English press for even toleration of your principles , and the admission of your grievances , that it never lit upon a single line in that paper ( the Northern Slar ) which has illuminated the mind of England , and is illuminating the mind of Ire l and , even amid the gloomy atmosphere that yon have cast around ? From the moment that that paper was established , now nearly six years , English prejudice began to fade , until at length Englishmen are as much alive to Irish sufferings as they are to their own grievances . In 1841 , when the whole press of England assailed you , and

      while I was a captive in the felon ' s dungeon , I contended against the English press ; and from that period down to the present , I have never lost an opportunity of advocating the claims of the Irish people to liberty and independence , while since the recent agitation commenced , can you point out amid your enckoo-press & case bo strong , and arguments so convincing , as I have adduced in favour of a repeal of tho Union ! 1 No , Sir , 1 defy you ; and 1 now proudly inform yon lhat the hand that writes this letter has written nearly ever ; single leading article that has appeared in the Northern Slar , upon Irish affairs and a Repeal of the Ue j ob .

      The charge of physical-force made against me m your speech is best answered by the -quotations that stand at the head of this letter . But if I required stronger proof , or if I would condescend to argue against the right of an cppressed people to have recourse to annB for their liberation , I could multiply instances from your recent speeches which , gloss them over as yon may , are threats of physical-force Did not your son , Mr . John O'Connell , in reply to Mr . Connor , say , ** that if the alternative should come , the leaders of your Association should take the lead in a physical encounter" ? I should not for a moment , nor indeed do I now , dwe ll angrily upon those puffk , was it not neci ssary to remind you of the old adage " that one man may steal a horse , while another dare not look over the wall . "

      In the speech , however , to which 1 allude , you charge me and the English Chartists , as you have frequentl y charged us before , with the crime of being Tory spies , in the pay of the Tory government ; and that our opposition to Reform has now extended itself to Ireland . Yes , Sir , you have stated that the Bame men who followed Cobden went to the Tara meeting for thepnrposeof creating confusion . You have stated many times that those men were in the pay of the Tory Government , land that ^ r&s their leader ; you have further connected them with the whole Cnartist body by stating " the Repealers could now see how the cause of Reform has been put down in England by the interference of persons pretending to be Cftartisls : " and you sweepingly add " for the

      • REAT PaiKCTKLB OP ChAKTISM "WAS NOT TO ALLOW AKT PUBLIC MEETING TO TAKE PLACE 0 ND 1 STUKBED . " And then , Sit s as I before obierred , you * lily introduce Feargus O'Connor as " the wretch who should be dragged to the scaffold . " As the good opinion of my conntrymen iB dearer to me than life itself , 1 challenge yon to the proof . You say , "it mnst be probed to the bottom . " For years yon havfl mixed my Dame up with vile transactions , nnt il at length you have associated it withj " the scaffold" . Sir , although I have not many friends in your association , yet have I that firm reliance upon Irish honour and integrity , that I am willing to aid in

      tliis desireable and necessary investigation ; ahd , to that end , 1 DARE YOU TO THE PROOF . I undertake , if your " whistler" or your " correspondent" dare to mix my name up with ench an act of treason , to meet tou as my prosecutor , with your witnesses in y « nr own court , m the Cobj * Exchange , and to submit the question to an impartial Jury oi Irishmen . And upon behalf of the English Chartists , as a body , I undertake that they will give every facility to the investigation ; and that upon their part they will disprove that any one of their body has ever received pay , or been the hired tool of the Government , or any other faction .

      When it serves yoHr purpose to revile us , we are a weak and insignificant body , but when it suits jou to charge us , then every Englishman , as if by magic , becomta a Chartist . Sir , I now propose to meet my assailants singlehand . lDAB . E -yoU , AND THEM . TO PEOVE ONE SINGLE act of tbeachebt against me ; unless indeed there Is treachery in having preserved the consistency for many years , that presentB an unbecoming mirror to those who see their own delinquencies reflected in it . Tou shall not put us down . For yearB we have liannted you as the real advocates of jeal liberty ; while for years you have changed your shape and form into the most fascinating figures , in the hope of seducing and destroying us . 1 commenced the struggle with the poorest of the poor ; I will continne it for their benefit and redemption ,- and neither your tortuous course , nor yet the prospect of dividing the English from the Iririi mind , Bhall will

      arrest us in our progress . Why you give me such triumphs over you ! Did I not predict in the commencement of the renewed agitation , that the loophole through which you _ ' * ould eeea pe would be , opposition from the Engluili Chartists ''! If the Repeal of the Union was mtruth your object , and if English sympathy upon that point was made indispensible , vhy d \ d you etut such Utter reflections upon « y attendance ai the great mryle ^ fneetinTin JulylasU yrmcnl i » * r «„ XVmn KriTPi . mT TO A REP-lSAl * JUX 1 X 1 J . IWW I ssssssas 1 ¦ ¦» *«»*»? gff is Ws political life m « whole f and aow I will lay mmmwfm ^ rtsSt « itaSon . You know that a dead dog can't Eite - vof wore aware of the law ' s persecution to which I and Sy party were subjected j 7 ™/** ? StancS ^ nKn ^ P >« f "g *^ j yon were unacquainted with the informality , of the

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      indictment ; yon calculated upon my further incarg ceration ; you hoped for unopposed sway ; you raised a hope for a concealed purpose , with an ostensible bearing ; and the laxity of the law , which declared my liberation , caused you such discomfiture and consternation , that you seized the moment of my triumph as the fitting one for reaewing your deadly hostility !! Always bear in mind . Sir , that you told the Irish people , in 1832 and 1833 , that it "WAS H 0 PELES 3 TO EXPECT A REPEAL OF THE UNION until the English PEOPLE joined Mf thb demand ; and , mind , that from thai moment to the present you have used your every energy to DEFEAT THE OBJECT which you declared to be indispensible TO TOUB SUCCESS !!!

      Sir , hope not either , to arrest or muoh longer to retard the growth of democracy . You . have had a quiet summer unopposed by legal authority . Godsend that the coming winter may be as calm ! We have had a lifeless summer , and will hare a quiet and a bloodless winter ; and as men mnst be judged by their acts , whatever the spring-yield of your present agitation may be , I pledge myself that by that time , either you will be forced into th > - fulfilment of yonr pledge , ob the whole irish nation

      WILL BECOME CONVERTS TO THOSE PRINCIPLES WHICH you profess to adhire , but which you have lost no opportunity to destroy . ' I Tou have strength at your back , Sir , such as no man of ancient or modern times oould boast of ; and your greatest consists in the sympathy of the Jury class ; while I have no power but that which abject poverty can give me : for the Jury class consider my destruction necessary for the preservation of their order . Beware how ymi ~ trifle with such power ! Build not upon the prejudices of

      former days . Hope for no great lenity , if disappointment should lead to its aspiration I And , above all , do not tarnish your fame by saddling your weakness upon other men ' s shoulders . The nation has given you the support that you asked for . It has proclaimed its willingness as one man to stand by you to the death ; while it has profusely furnished you with all the means-of agitation . Hope not , then , so meanly of Irish pride , Urish hope , and Irish resolution , as that all will bo allowed to vanish as the mere dream of enthusiasm , leaving nought behind ,

      " Bat the wreck of old opinions . " It is now eleven years since I told you at a public dinner in Cork that , like Frankenstein , you had created a monster which , if thwarted , would destroy you . Since then you have occasionally nurtured it , and put it out to nurse : but it has grown in the time ; and ere long you will behold it , terrific in its maturity if opposed , or fond in its embraces if cherished ! but tou cannot DEs-TRdY it 1 And although you have rocked it to sleep now and then , lest in its growth it should interfere with " corporate reform . " M the regiBtratioD , " or " tithe reform , " yet the full grown beast cannot now be lulled to rest uith so poor an opiate as ihi ee or four hired English Chartists , causing confusion amongst a mi / lion and a quarter of thoroughly organized and well disciplined Irishmen , met upon the spot of Ireland ' s former grandeur , and commanded by Ireland ' s present Liberator ! No sir ,

      Lay not the flattering unction to your soul . " Thinz not so badly of onr brave countrymen . I at least entertain no :- fear that a passing rumour " whistled ' at th » kase or Tan mil can divert six noiiiioriD or irishmen from their darling purpose ! 1 Sir , I understand that you have written a History of Ireland . I have not yet read it , but I learn that it is to be sold to the several districts at the low price of twenty poundB . But let me hope that it is not written upon those fake assumptions which are everywhere to be found in your recent speeches . If however , you have erred from your thorough ignorance of the History of Ireland , I trust that those errors are confined to those dark times when mere assertion will go for the establishment of fact . But

      pray do not Beek , as you have in your severa speeches , to convince the Irish people that in 1782 the sun of Ireland rose ; for in reality what yon call " the glorious achievement of the Irish Volunteers " teas the commencement of Irish debasement . I t is but ri « ht , sir , that the History of Ireland , and especially of that time during which the cravings of what i s called her "free Parliament , " furnished the English press with such just cause of vituperation , should be thoroughly understood ; and in order to illustrate that portion of Ireland ' s history give me leave to inform you that the period from the passing of the ociennal act daring the vice-regency of Lord Townsend in 1768 down to the Act of UuioD in 1800 , were the very darkest days of Irish history . Up to 1760

      the price of a seat in the Irish Honse of Commons , was £ 500 per life . By the octenual act a seat was made worth £ 800 for eight years ; a price subsequently raised to £ 2 , 500 ; and afterwards the title was purchased for from fifteen to twenty thousand pounds . The establishment of "free trade , " as you are pleased to term it , in 1782 , having caused the second rise ; while the latter purchase-money was paid as compensation to the borough-mongers for the purpose of carrying the Union . You should tell the Irish people that that freedom of which you boast , in 1782 , consisted in the Increased power vested in the

      hands of the Irish Protestant Parliament by the repeal of Poyning ' s Act , and the triumph of the Volunteers in 1782 , to make themselves , not serviceable to the Irish people , but dangerous to the English oligarchy . You should tell them that as soon as Lord Charlemont , the Generalissimo of , the Volunteers , had achieved all the objects of his own faction , that the Ir ' iBb Catholic Volunteers petitioned him to proceed for " a full , free , aud fair representation of the whole people in the House of Commons" ; and to whioh demand the Generalissimo returned the following answer : —* That however desirable Parliamentary Reform might be . and

      WAS , IT WAS ADMISSIBLE ONLT ON THE BASIS OF PROTESTANT ASCENDANCY . " The Irish people from that moment deserted their Protestant leaders , and established the Society of United Irishmen ; while Charlemont and his faction directed their untiring exertion to spoliation and Parliamentary plunder of every kind , making the most of their own independence of England . Their patriotism was never evinced except for the purpose of evincing that independence on their own behalf ; until at length their peculatious , delinquencies , plunderings , and trOnstant draws upon the temper of the English oligarchy , suggested to the English Minister the plan of gorging them to repletion , the repast to be furnished out of Irish patronage and the Enelish Exchequer .

      Such , Sir . is the true history of those rampant days of Irish aristocratic Protestant ascendancy , when the Irish Volunteers , having achieved the triumph of their Protestant taskmasters , laid down their arms in dipeust , and betook themselves to a combination of " United Irishmen . " Bear in mind , then , the fact , that the first Organization of that body was formed for the purpose , not so much of ridding Ireland of the Biai ? h yoke , as to destroy the domestic corrupticn of the English Eettlera , who never lost au opportunity of taking advantage of the weakness of their own country , as a means of aggrandising themselves npon the spoil in their adopted land . If you expect

      to make the Irish people in love with a domestic legislature , you must not hold out the acts or deeds of any previous Irish Parliament as an inducement ; you mnst tell them as I tell them—that Ireland never had a Parliament , from the first day that the foreign invader set foot upon the land ; and that Ireland never will have a Parliament until the Commons House of the people , is the true reflex of public opinion : and that will be when , but not till , the Irish people are represented upon all the principles contained in the People ' s Charter . I am , S , r , Your obedient Servant , Feakgus O'Connor .

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      respectable audience , and gave great satisfaction . He dwelt at some length upon the New Plan of Organization , ana advised the people to assist to carry it out with all their might , as upon the carrying out of that Plan depended the sucesss of our

      cause . CUTHEROE . —A lecture was delivered in the Chartist Room , York-street , Chtheroe . on Tuesday evening , Sept . 19 th , by Mr . A . F . Taylor , one of the gloriouB 58 , and late Student in her Majesty ' s College , at Lancaster . A vote of thanks was passed to him for his excellent discourse . BXRSTAXv—A tea party was held ia the Cooperative Store Room , on Monday evening last , in honour of J . H . Dewhirst , when 13 © sat down to tea . After tea , the doors were thrown pen , and thepublio admitted . Mr . Holmes filled the chair , and gavt several excellent toasts , wbidrwere aWy responded to by Me * nr » . Lmcksmith , Jforth , and Dewhirst . The sum of seven shillings was oolterte * for the families of Cliflset and Sheldrake , and all were delighted with the evening ' s entertainment .

      BXRMUteBAK .- — -On Sunday morning , Mr . Mason held his usual open air meeting , at DHddeston-Row . On Tuesday evening , Mr . Mason lectured in the Hall of Science , to a numerous audience . All is however Suspense and anxiety , unt il the " New Plan" is enrolled , when we anticipate Birmingham will resume her political activity and former position in the democratic movement .

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      NEWCASTLE . —Mr . Kydd lectured in the Chartist Hall , Goat Inn , on Sunday evening , on " Rebecoa of Wales ; " after entering at some length upon the geographical position of Wales , and the facilities which nature had furnished the Welsh with , to baffle any attempts on the part of their enemies to put them down by brute force . He reviewed Rebecca ' s Charter , as it appeared in a copy of the Northern Star in last July , claiue by clause , clearly proving that no benefit , would aocrue to the labouring classes , if Lady Rebecca was to get all she wanted ia her Charter . It only requested certain immunities to the farmer and middle classes ; but the labouriug class was entirely neglected by her ; there was no protection or immunity urged in that document for * . _

      them . It was true , he said , that Mrs . Rebecca wanted a ohange in the Poor Law Amendment Act ; but that change was expressed with great ambiguity . Mr . K . then went on at great length to show the folly of the working classes expecting aoy amelioration of their condition from such indfinite measures as Rebecca , ( supported by the Whig andJTory press ) , contended for , it would do them no good , and urged the propriety of adopting the Plan of Organization , as agreed to by the late Conference , as a more tangible mode of bettering their condition . An opportunity was then < ffered by the Chairman to any one who might differ from Mr . K . in anything he had said , but was not embraced , and the meeting dissolved about niae o ' clock .

      The Chartists ov Newcastle and Gateshead held their weekly business meeting on Monday evening . Mi . Johnatnno in the chair . The Seoretary having read the minutes vC itiu previous meeting , they were confirmed . Mr . Sinclair said he had received 8 d . more from the weavers work in North Shields , for the Victim Fund , which made 23 . 3 d . received by him for the Victim Fund from that shop . The following resolutions were then agreed to : — lit . "Thai a deputation beoow appointed to wait upon W . P . Roberts , Esq ., to inquire if the current report is true that Feargus O'Connor , Esq . is expected to visit this district poon , as the Chartist

      body have had no official information on the subject . " 2 nd . "That Messrs . Fleming and Sinclair form that deputation , and that they report on next Monday evening . " 3 rd . " That Id . each be henceforth charged for admission to the Sunday evening lectures , &o . " 4 th . " That as Mr . Kydd has expressed a desire of taking a tour to the south , the Chartists of Newcastle and Gateshead do empower Mr . Sinclair to furnish him with credentials , certifying him to be an honest Chartist , and a talented advocate of pure , democracy , as set forth in the People ' s Charter . " After disposing of some local business , the meeting then adjourned until Monday evening

      next . HOLLINWOOD . —Mr . A . F . Taylor , of Royton , delivered a most animated lecture in the Chartist Room , Pew Nook , on Sunday evening last , which gave great satisfaction . The Chartists of this place have lately opened a Sunday school , whioh is rapidly progressing .-Coventry . —At the weekly meeting of the Coventry Chartists , on Monday night last , tho sum of thirteen shillings was banded in for the Victim Fund .

      ASHTON . —A meeting took place here last Sunday , to hear and read the New Plan of Organization ,, which was well attended . After the New Plan had been read , a discussion took place on the Land question , which was carried on very spiritedly by Messrs . Storer , Pilling , and several others for some time . At the conclusion of the discussion , several new members were enrolled , some of them old men from the school of Cartwrjght and Hunt , who had never joined us before , but said , that seeing the New Plan of Organization , was coupled with the Land question , they determined at once to come forward and assist us by every moans in their power . NOTTINGHAM . —At a meeting of the Female Chartists , held on Tuesday last , a resolution was passed , declaring that , in the opinion of the meeting , nothing short of the People ' s Charter would benefit the condition of the working classes of this country .

      GLASGOW . —The weekly meeting of the direc tors of the Glasgow Charter Association was held in the Young Men ' s Academy , College-street , oh Monday evening , Mr . D . Mitchell in the chair . The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed , the " New Plan of Organization" was read by Mr . Adams ; after which Mr . Colquhoun rose , and moved the adoption of the Plan . Several questions as to the bearing of certain clauses were put and explained . Ultimately the further consideration of the question was adjourned to that night week , as by thai time they should have an opportunity of knowing whether the Plan should receive the sanction of the certify ing barrister .

      ABERDEEN . —Mr . Gammage delivered two lectures in the hall , George-street , on Wednesday and Thursday evenings , Sept . 20 , h and 21 st . At the Union meeting on Monday last , a resolution was passed , thanking the members of the Dublin Chartist Association for their unwearied advocacy of the cause of democracy . At the same meeting , all the members present approved of supporting the new scheme of Organization , and a great many names were taken down preparatory to the rules being sanctioned according to law , when Charter cards of membership . &c , will be ordered .

      Balance Sheet of the Metropolitan Deleg ate Meeting , from the Istof Februaky to the 10 th ov bEPTEMBEB , 1813 . —February 1 st . —Balance from last quarter , 8 s . 4 £ d . ; Standard of Liberty , 2 s . 6 d . ; Buck ' s Head , 2 s . 6 d . ; Crown and Anchor , Cheshire-street 9 i . 6 d . ; Finsbury 2 s . j Brompton 3 s . 3 d . ; Somerstown , 14 s . ; . Star Golden-lane , £ 1 14 s . 6 d . j Golden Lion , Dean-Btreet , 12 * . 6 d . ; Camber well , 8 a . ; Bermondsey , 23 . 6 d . ; Bloomsbury , 10 a , 6 d . ; Marylebone , 8- ) . ; Flora , Tavern , Barjisbury-Park , 8 . s ; Clerkenwell , < k . ; Hatters , 2 a . 6 < J . ; Aprsi 9 th—Collections at public meetings , £ 117 s . 6 d . ; April 13 th—Collection at public meeting , 13 s . 5 ^ d , J Receipts for Victim Books , lOd . ; Sale of Addresses , 11 s . 2 d . j August 28 h—Collection at public meeting , 7 s . 6 ^ d . ; Total £ 10 3 s . 1 Ad . Six subscription books , Is .

      Expenditure—Printing Receipts , 2 a . l £ d . ; twenty three weeks rent , £ 2 6 s . ; Secretary ' s wages £ \ Is . ; hire of Hall for public meetingB , £ 3 ; postage and paper , 7 d ; printing bills for public meeting , 16 $ . ; oue dozeu postage stamps , Is . ; advertisement in the Morning Advertiser , as ; printing addresses . Us ; expences attending public meeting , is 4 d , ; Wheeler , for postage , 3 s 2 d . ; bills for public meeting . 14 s ; postage and paper , Is . ; Chartist Circulars , Is . 4 d . — Total , £ 9 6 s . J ^ d . Sept . 10 . —Priming bills for Birmingham Conference 3 .-t . ; postage and paper , Wheeler , Is 10 d . —Total £ 9 11 4 ^ . Balance in Trea : surerahands , 10 a . 9 d . Debts due from Mr . D . V . : ten weeks rent of Hall £ 1 ; thirteen weeks Secretary 19 i , 6 d . —Total debt due , £ 1 19 s 6 d . Audited and found correct . Win . Mathers , Wm . Da » oo * John Simpson , Treasurer .

      9 BRBT . —Balancb-Shbet op Mb . West ' s Defjsnck . —Ineotne .- ^ Derbj % £ 4 0 j . 6 d . ; Ilkestone , 13 s . 6 d . ; Bbrrowash , 10 s . ; Shoemakers of LeicoBter , 6 s . j Belper , per Vickers , £ 3 10 s ;; Swadlincote , per Mr . Hawley , £ 1 6 s . ; Burton , pet Mr * JKall , 18 s . ; &ar Office , 45 s . Total , £ 1119 * . . Disbursements . —Witnesses * expenses , £ 5 5 s . 4 id . ; paid to Mr . West , dnring Trial , £ 1 5 s . 6 d . ; ditto , board and lodgings , 18 s . ; Addresses , 10 s . ; collecting books and pos . age , lid . ; paid to attoney , for drawing up brief , £ 2 7 s . ; paid to Mr . Wild goose , 5 s . ; paid for report of trial , £ 110 s . Total , £ 12 U . 9 . Jd . Income , £ 1119 s . Balance due t ^> Treasurer , 2 s , 9 |? . Auditors , John Moss and Enos Ford .

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      MR . O'CONNOR'S TOtJR . Oa Saturday , the 7 th of October , Mr . O'Connor will address the people of Salford at eight o ' clock precisely . On Sunday , the 8 th , he will address the people of Manchester , in the Carpenters' Hall , to aid in the preparations for the reception of tbe glorious Duncombe on the 9 th . On Tuesday , the 10 th , he will address the men of Huddersfield ; on the 11 th , the men of Bradford ; on tbe 12 tb , the men of Halifax ; and on the 14 th , he will be at Newcastle , to aid In the preparations to receive Duncombe' on the 23 rd . Daring his stay at Newcastle he will address the men of Sanderland , South Shields , and such other localities as the committee shall decide upon ; On the 25 th , he will be

      in Aberdeen to aid in preparing for the grand Duncombe demonstration , on the 26 th . On the 27 th , Mr . O'Connor will address the Chartists of Aberdeen . On the 29 th , he will be in Glasgow , there to aid in preparing for the reception of Duncombe on the 30 tb . Throughout this tour Mr . O'Connor will be provided with lists , and will remain to any hour after each meet-Ing that is necessary foe the enrolment of names fur mem . bers . He will also be prepared with books for the conducting ef the business of the Branches . When his woife in Scotland is done , he -will return by Liverpool , where he will address the Chartists of that town ; and then take his place at tbe Executive Board to aid in tuttlciag tho Now Organization an parfoot as possible .

      Mr . O Connor has again to say that he will not be answerable for any funds that are not sent by postoffice ordsr made payable to ) himself , and addressed to Feargus O'Connor , care of «• John Cleave , No . 1 , Shoelane , Fleet-street , London . " He will not have double entries and complicated accounts ; one at the Norhern Star Office , and the other in London . London . —Golden Liom , Dea » -stxeet , Soho . — Mr . Preston will lecture at this locality on Sunday next ( to-morrow . ) \ London . —The members of the late National Charter Association , meeting at the Black Horse and Windmill , Fioldgate-street , are requested to meet on Sunday evening , October 1 st , at eight o'clock . i

      Somer ' s Town Localitt . —Ou Sunday evening next , Mr . Mantz will lecture at Mr . Duddridge ' s , Bricklayer ' s Arms , Tonbridge-street , New Road . Mr . M'Grath will lecture on Sunday evening , at the Political Institute , Turnagain Laue . The General Council of the Tower Hamlets will meet on Sunday afternoon , at five o ' clock , at the Crown , and Anchor , Waterloo Town . All persons holding tickets tor the late excursion to the Nore , are requested to settle for the same on Sunday morning , at Mr . Knightou ' s , 115 , Blackiriar ' s road . .

      Tower Hamlets . —A i general meeting of the members of this locality will bo held at Mr . Wm . Drake ' s , the Standard of Liberty , Brick-lane , at eight o ' clock on Suaday ' evening , Oct . 1 st , to take steps to form the locality under the New Organization as soon as enrolled , j Bkadfobd . —The Chartists of New Leeds have resolved to hold a public meeting on the 8 th of October , when Messrs . Dewhirst , Hurley , Smyth , and others , will address the meeting , and take names to be enrolled under the new plan of organization .

      Oldham—On Sunday , ( to-morrow , ) Mr . William Dixon , of Manchester , will lecture iu the Chartist Boom . Greave ' s-street , j&t six o ' clock in the evening . j Warwick . —The Chartists of thij locality are requested to meet at the Saracen ' s Head , Parkstreet , on next Sunday , Oct . 1 st ., at seven o ' clock in the evening , to decide upon the formation of a branch under the New Plan of ] Organization as soou as enrolled , and to dispose of the funds in hand . Sheffield . —On Suaday eveaiug next , Mr . West will Draach ihe funeral sermon of James Duffy , in the Figtree-lane Room , at halt-past , six o ' olook .

      On Monday Kvening , ; Mr . West will deliver a lecture on Labour and Capital , real and artificial to commence , at eight o ' clock precisely , after which a now enrolment of members will take place . A Ball every Tuesday evening , and an Harmonic Meeting every Saturday evening , in the above room , under the superintendence of the committee . SifNDERLAND . —Messrs . IChariton and Dobbie will lecture on the Moor , on Sunday afternoon ( to-morrow ) at two o ' clock . ! Pewsbury . —Mr . David Ross , of Leeds , will deliver two lectures in the j large room over the Cooperative Store , on Sunday , October 1 st ' , at two o ' clock in the afternoon , and six iu the eveuing .

      Hetwood . —The Chartists of this place are requested to meet on Monday night next , at eight o ' clock , in tbe Association Room , Hartley-street , for the purpose of taking into consideration the New Plan ef Organization . 1 Buar . —Mr . William Bel ! , of Heywood , will deliver a lecture oa the 2 ad p f October , iu the Gardenstreet lecture room , Bury , at eight o ' clock in the evening . ' Mb . David Ross , of Leeds , will deliver two lectures oa Sunday , October ! 8 . h , at two o ' clock , in the afternoon , aud at six in the evening , in the above room . j Mb . Doyle ' s Route forjthe ensuing week : —Mansfield , Monday ; Sutton-in-Abhfie ! d , Tuesday ; Skegby , Wednesday ; and Silston Ion Thursday .

      Bibmingbam— A lecture i * delivered in the Pecklane Koom , every Sunday evening at seven o ' clock precisely . \ Stockport . —On Sunday next , Mr . Jeremiah Lane of Manchester , will lecture here at six o ' clock in the evening . ! Mossley . —Mr . David Rosa , of Leeds , will deliver a lecture in the Association Room , ou Wednesday , October 4 th . Subject , " . Local aud National Reform . " Admission , one penny , i Macclesfikld . —A tea-party will bo holden in the Chartist Koom , Stanley-street , on Tuesday next , at five o ' clock in the evening , for the benefit of Mr . Samuel Bentole , who is now Buffering for advocating che rights of tbe toiling millions ia August , 1842 , and will shortly be liberated . ;

      Halifax —The Chartists of this place will meet in their room , Pellon Lane , on Sunday ( . to-morrow ) , at two o ' clock in the afternoon , for the purpose of reading and explaining the New Plan of Organization . In the evening , at six o ' clock , a lecture will be delivered by Mr . Hanson ; Coventry . — -The members and friends are requested to meet in the Association Room , on Monday evening next , at half-past seven o ' clock , to arrange for the formation of a branch , in accordance with the New Organization . Hollinwood . —Mr . Thomas Clark , of Stockport , will deliver a lecture in ; the Chartist Room , Pew Nook , on Sunday evening next , at six o ' clock . On Mokdat Everimo next , Mr . Ambrose Hurst , of Waterhead Mill , near Oldham , will deliver a lecture in the above room , on the subject of total abstinence . i

      On Mondat EvEsma' Oct . 9 th , a public supper will be holden in the Chartist Room , Pew Nook , Hollinwood , in honour ] of the liberation of Mr , Joseph Hitchen , who was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment in Kirkdale Gaol . Tickets oca ' es 8 d ., females 6 d ., each , may be had of Messrs . Thomas Surtt , John Taylor , sen ., James Tay lor Robert Wnitebead , and Thomas Dyson . Supper on the table at eight o ' clock . -

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      Honlet . —A general meeting of / the Chnthts of the Huddersfield district will be nolden on Sunday , the 8 th of October , in the Chartist Room , Hoalpy , on matters of the greatest importance to the Char * tistbody . Chair to be taken at two o ' clock , in the afternoon . Huddersfield . —On Monday , ereniag , next , the 2 nd October , a lecture will be delivered in the Gnildhall , Huddersfield , by Mr . David Ross . —Subjectu Local and National Reform . " Chair t-o he taken at eight o ' clock . Honlbt . —A general meeting of ^ fhe Chwtihts of *! . * ITw J J . u £ . tJ JlniJ . i mill Wa ! T ** 1 * 1 j *** AVh CiVvisTaW

      Newcastle , —Mr . Dickinson , of Manchester , will lecture at Walker ' s factory , on Saturday evening at six o ' clock ; and , on Sunday , in the Forth , Newcastle , at two o ' clock in the afternoon , he will preach a sermon on " Baalam and the ass ; " and , in the Chartisfc Hall , Goat Inn , Cloth Market , at seven o ' clock in tbeeveniDg . Subject— "The oneness of true Religion and Chartism . " The South Lancashire , Delegats Meeting will be held in the Council room , 43 , Garret-road , under the Carpenters' Hall , Manchester , on Sunday , ( tomorrow ) , at one o ' clock in . the afternoon . It is requested that those places who have not paid their quota of the expences for sending the delegates to the Birmingham Conference , will bring the same to the delegate meetiug .

      Rochdale . —Mr . James Mills , of Whitworth , wiJl deliver two lectures in the- . Chartist Association Room , Top of Yorkshire-street , on Sunday next , at half-past two o ' clock in the afternoon , and at six in the evening .

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      on Thursday last . Tne deceased whose name was John Parker , aged thirty years , resided at Lofthouse . . Ou Monday he left home to vwit the Leeds Exhibition , aud it is supposed that in returning homewards after dark he had fallen into the river . £ \ 13 ii 4 jd ., to ^ eihcr with a clasp knife and other articles were found in his pockets . The body presented a dreadful spectacle , being swollen to aa enormous size , and shockingly discoloured . An inquest on view of the body was holden at the Robin Hood , East-street , on Friday ( yesterday ) morning , at nine o ' clook , when a verdict of Accidental Death" was returned . The deceased , who was not married , was the principal support of his parents , who will bitterly deplore his untimely end .,.

      Leeds Municipal Elections . —Mr . David Rosa haa ! been leotutiug during the week with great success in the West , North-East , Hunslet , and Holbeck Wards , on the approaching elections on the 1 st of November . At the West Ward meeting , Mr . Councillor Jackson was present , aud expressed his satisfaction at the course adopted by tho Chartist body , and said he would render every assistance iu bis power to get Chartiata returneu to tho Town Council . Committees for conducting the election have been formed in two or three of the Wards . HolbecK must be stirring ; the Chartists in , this ward can win if they like . Let them be but

      determined , and success is theirs . Commence operations immediately . The Whigs have already done so . It is said that they are about to bring forward their big gun , Jas . Garth Marshall , along with a Mr . Tatham . Chartists ! be prepared with your man , aud then make your canvass without delay . Mr . Ross will visit the North-West , East , aud South Wards next week . Further notice wiit be given by placards . We would press on the Chartists ia all the Wards where there is any probability of success to form committees at onoe , so that a meeting of the whole of them may behold , and a plan , of operations laid down for the whole to act upon .

      Hunslet Ward . —Mr . David Ross delivered an able and impressive lecture upou local government t in the Large Room , adjoining the Punch Bowl Inn , on Thursday evening last , to an overflowing audience . -He pictured in the most glowing terms the advantages the werking classes would derive byelecting such men to serve them in the Town Couuoii as would study the strictest principles of economy compatible with the necessary disbursements of the public money , to keep the borough in a state of peace , cleanliness , and comfort . After a vote of thanks had been proposed to Mr . Ross foT his able lecture , and carried with the utmost enthusiasm , the chairman dissolved the meeting .

      HALIFAX . —The Woolcombebs . —Sinca our Ian report several masters have given tho advance and on Monday last , a public meeting was held ia the Odd Felluwa' Hall , when . John Nay lor was called to the chair . The following resolutions were passed : — " That it is the opinion of this meeting that the employers as well as the employed are interested in establidhiug ao equalization of wages , and , there fore , we appeal to those employers who have agreed to the advance , to come forward a id aid us in

      attaining so desirable an object . " " That a memorial be drawn up , pointing out to each employer the necessity of co-operating with us to support those men who ' may lose their employment through the non-compliance of other employ ors with our demand . " On Taefday , a deputation waited upon Mr . HppkinB and Mr . Moriey , of Sowerby Bridge , and solicited the advance , which was refused The men are , therefore , finishing up their work , and will cease their labour , until such time as their just demands are complied , with .

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      CheTjTENhAx& ^ -M ; :. J . Mason delivered two lectures in this town , on Monday and Tuesday evenings . There i 3 every prospect of Cuartiam a ^ aiu flourishing ; in this aristocratic town . Mr . Mason gave the greatest satisfaction to all present .

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      Drowned while Bathing . —The following paragraph , headed as above , has appeared in an Edinburgh paper : — " Mr . Edward Pollin , of Paisley , — late of the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle and Newcastle Courant offioes-r-while on his way to London from the latttr place , ventured to bathe while the vessel was riding at anchor off the mouth of the Thames , and , we regret to add , was unfortunately drowned . The deceased was well known in Paisley , and his death is lamented by not a few who knew his worth . Ho has written a number of beautiful pieces , several of which have appeared in the columns of newspapers , periodicals , and annuals . "The writer of this knew the deceased before his connection with either of the above papers , at a time

      when Mr . Pollin was to all intents and purposes the Pleader" of the Paisley Chartists . In private life he was all that was amiable and endearing to chose who had the good fortune to be ranked amongst his friends ; and the productions of his pen published in the Scottish Chartist Circular , Scottish Patriot , and . other publications devoted to the cause of democracy , testified his ardent love of freedom and bis earliest desire for the restoration of the rights of the millions . As a poet , Mr . Pollin gave promise of a bright future , had he lived to duly cultivate his talents and enlarge his mental capabilities . We know not his age , though hj must have died but young . Most sincerely do we lament the death of one so highly gifted , and so well fitted to—with " pen of fire " , — unfold tbe wrongs and vindicate the rights of the enslaved and suffering people .

      Died , on Tnurcsday , September 21 st , at the very advanced age of ninety-one years , Samuel Roland , of Nottingham . The deceased was a frame-work knitter by occupation , and was the inventor of several important improvements in his trade . These improvements , however , did not enrich him , for he continued to work in the frame down to last February * From 1778 to 1814 , he was rather noted as a "Jacobin , " and was a prominent character in all elections . When the "Anti-Jacobin" fever was at

      its height , Roland was with many others a sufferer for his political opinions . On one occasion he had his window broken , damage being done to the amount of £ 25 . He was also shot at by some of the "King and Constitution" men , who , however , did not succeed in their diabolical intentions . He has left a numerous family of children , grand-children , great-grand-children , and great-great-grand-children to the number of one hundred and Jifty Jive I He was borne to his last home by seven granu-ccildren and one great-grand-child .

      Died , on tho morning of Monday last , at Hull , after a lingering illness , Mr . Holder , chemist , of that place , aged sixty-two years . The deceased was a warm friend to the Chartist cause , his purse being ever open to advance the principles of freedom , or to succour those of its advocates who fell victims in their struggles with unrighteous authority . Hospitable and affectionate , be will long be deplored by a numerous body of friends , and a family by whom he was truly and justly idolized . Death of Sir Matthew Wood , M . P . —This one © highly popular public character died at MatBon , near Gloucester , the eeat of his son-in-law , Dr . Maddy , on Monday last . He had been Buffering for some time past from water on the chest . He was in his

      seventy-sixth year , having been born on the 2 nd of June , 1768 . For more than a quarter of a century Alderman Wood has been one of the most conspicuous members of the London Corporation . After tilling several offices of . ' lesser importance , he was chosen at a comparatively early age an Alderman for his ward , and was twice elected to the office of Lord Mayor . He sat in nine successive Parliaments as one of the members for the city of London , in the representation of which his death , of course , causes a vacancy . On the question of the trial of the late Quean Caroline , the deceased Alderman took an active and decided par in support of the Queen , and

      was in consequence , for a considerable period ,, tha most popular man that had appeared in London since the time of Wilkes . Hia n » me was a popular watchword wit h the " QueenV party , " and many a imp has been sh <> uted applaudingly by those very voices which in the same breath were showering groans and curses on the head of that personification of purity , (!) that "Defender of the Faith , (!) Fnm the Fourth . " Alderman Wood iras a * Reformer . ' * that is to say a Whig , and , as a politician , can only be regarded with contempt ; but the large space he once filled in the public eye justifies this lengthened : notice , which we should not think of giving , to W hi * politicians in general in the columns of the Northern Star .

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      YOL- YI- SO . 307 . SATURDAY , SEPTEMBEl ^ 1843 . PBICE g "'^ Si ^^! °

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      Todmorden.-Mr. David Ross Delivered A Lecture Here On Snnday Night, To A Nhmerohb And

      TODMORDEN .-Mr . David Ross delivered a lecture here on Snnday night , to a nHmeroHB and

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      SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED Female Chartists Bristol , viz . — MONIES RECEIVED BY MB BY MR , CiEAVE Mw , Ann Miles .... 0 1 1 I OCOIVJtfOK . $ J Williams 0 1 1 FOB THE EXEC 0 TIVE . POa victims . Mrs . Rogers 0 11 From ihe ChartiBts £ s d £ sd fc ^ ° V" " 2 ? ? meeting at the Crown Arbro » th ( per Anderson ) 1 7 0 Widow Bnils 0 I I and Anchor , Waterloo A . W . ( per Ridley ) . 0 0 6 ^ / n ^ iV- " V ™ ? ! Town , ! Londou 0 10 0 Mile End Locality 0 1 6 The / ° ( f ) WIW £ per Mm K . Wxl- GeorgeThompeon . Hali-R . W .................. 0 1 6 M '""" sS" ^ . ™* - - , , fax ... ! " . 1 1 0 Mr . Richards , 0 1 0 ' Sr * w-ii * 1118 * 2 \ \ James Moir , Glasgow , 0 10 0 Suttou-in-Ashfleld 0 10 0 m ' ' ™ J 2 I I Ruffey Ridley 0 3 0 Mr . Roylanoe 0 1 0 Sr * o J * 2 \ I George Wood , Coventry 0 11 0 Mr . Mahor .. ^ . 0 0 6 ^ £ $ * ^ 2 } \ Per Mr . ICrott , London 0 2 0 Mr Pike n n a M 1 B 8 S . W . 0 11 1 tit r > iit "' 00 4 MjBR T W rt 1 J POB THK VICTIM FUM ) . MrRathbone O 1 0 JjJJ ^ % —;; - - ° \ j Patrick O ' ri . ggins . tsq vr T " " •••?• " ••••«•••••« 6 0 vn a rTrriTTiTR Dublin 1 0 0 MrHe ?^ - I 1 8 Mr . Henn ? n . f . ™ . 0 1 0 From the Chartists mr . iwnBin o i o Mr WhirfHnn a l n meeting at the Crown A / ew wire weavers ... 0 3 2 m , Galiin 1 J S and Arichor , Waterloo Mr . G . White ( Queen ' s por ' depence Town , jLoLdott .. 0 10 0 j . Whk ^ chy :::::: ill *¦ ' ¦ o , »™ i o -g j-aj- ¦ : j ij ° ° ft&fi ! £ fS 7 0 Nationa ^ Se ^ sT" of J ^» ' Og Political Institute ^ mZ ^ n'ZZLL !! i d ^ ce fund . Greenwinh " « X " w «^ r Go lden Lion Locality , The subscriptions of Greenwich and Wool- Soho » V 0 13 0 seven Cuactist mends Mr H Ru ' f ^ ii n ft « F 0 R w - Williams , op oldham . transmuted by Mr . mJ : whSn ::::::.::::: S ° V s : rw ^^ r sw- Bath ° u ° there , Warren-st ., St . ¦ ¦*¦ ¦ /• for george white . Panoras .... 0 12 0 Per Mr ^ Parker 0 2 0

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 30, 1843, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct821/page/1/