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      / vTOKNOB UPON THE ' SUNDERLAKD " * RESOLUTIONS .

      * r fBiEfDS , —I quite agree with Mr . Lowery that jojunUB ^ f the . Sttw would be more beneficially \ L _ jed in reporting those natter * Interesting to the **^^« bm , thsn in inserting matters of " a mere per-^ pl nsfcire . However , thai grounds for departure *^ this role may justify » opposite count , sod that I ^ aal feelings alone a » to judge of those grounds , ETj ] gwrf 1 « wn letter establishes a precedent I thill be ai brief as the nature of the ewe win j jmi ia uaip ^ & * nafcrn « f the three distinct Maggot made igaimt the Star , and reported folly is « t paf « of !**«*•

      And Sn ^ i *¦ P * * ° * "" P ** ' woes tfaeTesoIu-_ ^ gg ^ at Sandsri&Bd , condemnatory of the con-^ rf tfee Editor towards Mx . Deeg&n . I % 1 ** J * W with respect to the decision of working pgn ; but fro 21 tbe Tei 7 resolution * themselves , let me Aether or not the fact of Mr . Deegaa baring im-—raed tbe Editor is not fnlly borne oat j [ r , Kirker , who moved the first resolution , said , in itpporQBg it , that what Mr . Deegan did say respecting ft . 54 m- being promised a report from the Time * , was fff different from the colouring given to it in the Star . & { Hi . K- ! farther asserts , that what Mi . Deegan did ft w , that the Sisr should have had a reporter

      ¦ ga . How , as this involves the character of the Star , , fcT did not any one bear in mind that theLeed * Times p& the Mercury were dependant upon the Star for a gpst of the meeting held by the Chartists on the joar cm Thursday , and for a report of the aoiree held m a » Music Saloon on Wednesday , the two meetings 4 magi importance to the people ? and why were not is peop le told that the Star alone had report * of those { to meetings to get ready for it * first edition , and jai two reporters and several writers wwe engaged in -tang the report up in time ? Does not eTery one know that loch a press of reporting matter u invariably yza&ged by Editors of * U local papers for their mutual ¦ srenieBoe . '

      But wbat contains the spirit of a public meeting ? I gVelday the resolutions and address of all , rather gptbe speeches o ! any ; asd why did it never strike g ^ one at the Sonderland meetin g that the Sta r alone - ^ jjfced th e address and resolutions , which , although ^ p Sifl to the Times , were not published . » The Star Jvr « heA-aU ihemeetings and the address of the delepa ; so other paper did . If the Editor had got the l # i Jiaa report of Mr . Deegan ' s speech , Mr . Deegan ' s pjgb voaldhaTe been pubHahed without any curtailnai , if there had been room and the Editor thought liainNe .

      jk K . further asserts that Mx . Deegan did not jggt the Eiitor with baring placed his name at the jtcaB of the list ; he only said that his name , toj £ s wBh those of Messrs . Mason and Lowery . yst Qsere , but did not say by whom placed there . 5 o » , was there a man in Sunderland so silly as not fcisoT that no ene but the Editor could have placed * a there in the coarse of arranging the matter tor £ t pgpa i Who , then , but the Editor could bare fcaaaat ? Xr . Deagan , he says , did say that it was not doing £ siad his cosstitnents justice not to insert his speech Bai faDj , especially as it was foliy reported in the lisa .

      YtB , what must others feel whose speeches it did Its Kit the Iiaa to report so fully ? so that , in the erafc of the Slar hsvipg got , and inserted , the Times ' isjert , if Mi . Deegas had had more justice , greater case of cpeipMnt would hare been given to others . Mr . WiBiams said , that it was strange tkat no peraot bst the writer of the letter could remember the taroage of Mr . Deegan ; whereupon a disinterested wiaea started np , and said that he would take an ceh that Mr Deegan coBtradieted the assertion of the Edhor of the Star u to the promise of a report .

      Sow 1 Print that say impartial judge will at once admit thai this is the weight of the charge ; the one thing ptrsoxd , which Mr . Williams says , eren admiting It to be tree , did not justify the conclusion that Mr . Deegsa held up tee Editor to reprobation . So then ! it a aa accassnon to call s genueman , who ia not prelecS to defend hinisclf , a liar I and it does not at all fisaet from the usefulness of a journal that ail ihoae tettam interest it is conducted should be impressed Ti 5 a cortiction that the conductor is ¦ onworthy of bjcS . ' C 3 B there be a word implying greater scorn or B&sle this " Jiar ? " aad can contradiction be more bt dan that which Mr . Williams freely admits Mr . Sana to hire given to a plain assertion of the

      He first resolBtion is matter wholly between Mr . teas , asd Hr . B&dley . The second reselation was BJRd by Mr . WiUiania , and seconded by Mr . Austin , BdaufoSowi : — ' That tfca meetiag expresses its surprise , regret , E £ ^ approbation of the cendnct of the Editor of the iriar Siar , ia insert : ng a Utter containing such ^^ p " ! frc-in in individual of whose capacity or

      tsc-tfiiry te tnrw nothing , and foundiug iereon a ^ . Ed usjss : Ktack upon the general and private tzzxtt of Mr . Deegan , iutrodueiBg also charges and ^ jsssia whh whicii the public have nothing to do ; £ ! , J' ^ ea : ioiJ of which -was not only uncalled for , K afeelicg , sad -Bjrsrise , and most seriously calcu-^ to irjare the Chartist cause , without in the least J *« a >§ ,-tfte priToife oi public interest of its proprife"Qieoaaiicuir . "

      r respect to this resolution , I have only to ask ifc , if it wcjuld have beea wise or feeliag to have P * d OTa the part admitted by Mr . Williams to be ^ Bat the principal feature was a remark of Mr . ^» to the following import : — " That the Star flayed a spirit , which , if submitted to , wduM ** : ill iadependence of soul in the leaders of the J ** e ; thit it mi ghi one daybecome a vile heresy to ^ C ! in fallibility , or to differ in the slightest r ** . ^ Ka the manner in which , upon any occasion , IT KI 2 ductee .-

      * - »* proceeds to say , —in a mild spirit of course , — ^ -s emriders that Mr . Deegan bad had less justice t , * M CTCn £ ' * arded to b ± m vpo * bis trial , when ^ » ae fai ] reporters notes produced against him . ' £ * & * ' ^ subject , I must only say that the Star has ^*» off sH that mystery with which other papers _ $ * very mme of proprietor , editor , and all in ^^ vile st ; that its columns , as I shall pre-• ^ s ? w , bive been open as well to all charges ^ Ss « proprietor or the Editor as against Se , ? tera : Clemy of eitber of ^ em ; and if a ary fear of the Star becoming a danw . ^^ rasent , it -will be when the people rason for the

      ^ . ^ doubting veracity of bim ^ * = a k it cemdaeted . The Star has not , lite other feir- *^ ^ ' " its terrific powers " to prepare in ^ -J of the advenisiug cemmunity , or even in the & , 15 * gOod TepoTt of the mos ' comfortable of fe j ^ T ^ ^ f 3565 ' retrea { ^ f 0111 the poorest of ocj ^ Tkf ^'" 15 t 0 the 8 taBdsrd of Jo ^ tiee meted ^ -- Dsegac , as compared to that measured by ^ ^ ppTeaoa to jjj , wmiamSj ie j ^ ^^ g j ^ c u . wciaion of ^ g factj Qat fte Editor of ^ Bw , "iaished with no direct r > ixrve } mk » ufin .

      ^^^ c e ^ ^^^ ^ onl ^ ^ . ^ Tfhich he ^ te ™ L ™ *" ' ' fnU ' ^^ ^ e public , jj ^ f ing it with bis own defence . l **!^** t J do Dot think Mr . Williams has fc ' toi i y ^ ^ caw cf the of the reporter and ^ a " ^ ^ ^ I cannot furnish him with one ^ pS ~!! PP 0 Se ^^ * "wtatwato U » fol-^ * rf '' th : ^!^ isinSftill « lm (} er 5 taD dinf tiiat tlie J ? ***! ' STS ?? ^ Ml VP 0 "**!* ^ porter 25 « * iav rf ^? * ' ¦ " * Sonderland and dSuitt . S ^ ^ ty ^ JX » of ° P ^ n that it was the ^ a seSji i ^ f aid . » Porter to hare attended fe ^ j ^ f 1 * "" wfatabjy absent , to J ^? i tta ? ii ^ L «^ den «; and ^ T ' meet . has

      k" . &t it th ™! £ "Busnon left the editor S ^^ Snd ^ i S 8 eri 0 Ui » iMtS « *<> **» C ^ ^^^ aSSS ?* ' ¦ " * ^^ tea ' ^^ ^ eSL ^^^^ -Mch he ^^^^ zr ***"** **¦ uJ * J contr- ^ irt ! : Kidj to * dmit that Mr . Deegan ^^ hw > & : Deegan informa-

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      tion from the Editor of the Leeds Tuna ; so that the whole appears to be a playing off of the veracity of the Editor of the Star , against the unsupported allegations of && interested party . But as to any danger to be apprehended ; Mr . WiiDams may rest politically satisfletl that no " false doctrine , bsresy , or scbism" in the Star , can do much damage , -while it inserts sueh resolutions , and pays * £ 52 a-year for reporting them , There la not another paper in England that would hare published those resolutions .

      Bat let us now see if this be the first charge of a similar nature against both proprietor and Editor , and from the same quarter , and for the same cause , of not reporting Mr . Daeg&n ; and whether , in giving insertion to the resolutions of the Darbam Delegate Meeting , in December last , the Editor , when eaasured by a resolution of a delegate meeting , evinced any very great pugnacity of disposition . The following ia ike resolution to which I refer : — "The meeting expressed their disapprobation of the non-insertion by the editor of the NorUur * Star of the report of the public tea riven at Sunderland to Messrs

      Byrne , Owen , and Deegan , and of the explanatory re ~ marki furnished by Hr . Xteegan respecting the foreign policy meeting at the ssui « place ; and also of the appointment of missionaries by Mr . O'Connor , or any other irresponsible party , the meeting being of opinion that all such appointments ought to be made by the people themselves , or by the Executive Council at Manchester , who are the responsible servants of the Chartist body ; and that , if Mr . O'Connor be inclined te contribute to the support of missionaries , to land bis contributions over to the Executive Council , to be applied by that body for that purpose . "

      Now here is a vote of censure in the strongest lsnguage , Hi . Dsegan being one of the delegates , for the non-insertion of matter which the parties never even took the trouble of enquiring whether or no it had been received , or whether it had been displaced for inor * important matter ; and because the Editor did not inser t Mr . Deegan ' s explanation , upon a subject -upon which the Star and the Libtrmior were bestowing much attention . - At the same meeting , a rete of censure was passed upon me for giving my own money towards the support f tried men , who were recently enlarged from ^ prison , subject to the approval and application of the voice of

      the people of any district , which may require their services : and bow am I treated ? Why , I am told to send my money to the Executive , in order that they might dispose of it . 2 Tow , I might hare asked if the Executire appointed Mr . Deeg&n , Mr . Mason , 3 Ir . Bairstow , or-any of those whose lectures appear to hare given unmixed satisfaction . Here , then , was a rote of censure upon the Editor for not reporting Mr . Deegan's explanation , and upon the Proprietor for offering £ 4 a week out of his own pocket , subject to the people ' s approval as to thosa to whom it should be expended upon , and not even the short hand notes sent tothe parti as charged , who learn it from the columns of another paper .

      May I not , in- passing , ask whether the nicety of appointment and payment was aa critically scanned in the instance of a whole horde of gentlemen receiving immense salaries from Mr . ITrquhart , and appointed by him ? No ; but I am censured for giving my own money , while the Editor is censured for not publishing a justification for Mr . Urquharfs delegates ; this , indeed , is novel justice . I must now refer to a matter connected closely with the foregoing . I give the following transcript from the letter of 8 person upon whose veracity I have the most implicit reliance . It bears date , Newcastle , February 10 th , and , after setting forth the conspiracy which has been long hatching against the Star in that quarter , it states as follows : —

      "This party , through Mr . , called upon the Council of the working men to pus a rote of censure upon the Star , at the meeting on Tuesday night ; but , to their disappointment , they found the Council unwilling to become their tools , and their demand was indignantly spurned , to the great chagrin of Mr . , who used many arguments to induce them to pass the resolution . Among the many petty charges against the Star is the following : — ' That 3 Ir . O'Connor refused to lend £ 1000 to certain parties , without security , to commence *! newspaper ; ' this , and expecting Messrs . Lowery , D «^ gan , &c , to pay for Start regularly , they represented as being mean , '"

      Now , let me state what my meanness and anxiety about my £ 1 , 000 amounted to . It appears thii I required security ; well , who would not ? "What was tte security , anil wfc&t . tlie interest that I required ? Why . naturally to be paid back my principal with ten per cent , which I am paving for the Star shares . Now would this be unfair ? I say not ; but what was my proposal ? Way to give ^—not lend—my thousand pounds , and never to see it again ; requiring that I should be insured against any greater loss , in order to try the experiment for two years , satisfied to lose tea pounds a week , for that period .

      Now , 1 was nc / t applied to ,- it was a voluntary offer , made in a private letter to ilr . Williams , upon hearing his intention from himself of establishing a paper in the place of the Northern Liberator . He has that letter ; let . every word of it be published . So much for what is expected from me ; and now for the rule which is observed towards me in a precisely similar case . I ws 3 encouraged to establish a paper upon a prsmLse of £ S 00 being raised , to which I was to add £ 400-LStle more than £ ' 300 of the £ 600 was raised , and a

      large portion of taat has been paid off . Two lawyers opinions were taken on the matter ; a stamped deed was executed , and oae . very igaorant attorney , at Halifax , told the shareholders that they would be liable for all the debts » f the paper ; for all paper and stamps ; for all libels of every description , and so forth . Well , in this deed , I am bound to pay ten percent ., and am made personally liable , by my own desire , and against the wish of the shareholders , for the principal , whatever becomes of the Star , which was to have been a joint speculation .

      is ow , I ask Englishmen if this ia English fair-play . That a gentleman is first to be frowned upon by every one of bis class , persecuted , and locked up la solitary coafinement , and then pelted with his own acts of generosity . It is very well to make the insertion or non-insertion of matter the ostensible cause of complaint ; but I think I shall be able to put this question upon its right legs , and to trace it to its origin . This conspiracy , then , has its origin in the discomfiture of the Kus 3 o Chartists , who first nestled in the neighbourhood of Newcastle and district , in consequence of Mr . j&ttwood ' s . local patronage and alliance

      with the party . Tbe Star , most properly , checked the gasconading of a set ot paid parrots , receiving enormous salaries for repeating some rery exciting stuff that they hai . learned by rote about Russia , Constantinople , Circassia , the Ottoman Empire , France , and God only kn » ws what ; ' and of which they knew just as much as a pig does of geometry . They were all Chartists , and somtihing more . Well , they threw ont their feelers , for the support of the Star , iu the greatest piece of political trickery ever attempted to be practised ; the Star would not bite , but exposed the whole

      affair . The consequence of which was , that they had the address to persuade the X or them Liberator , a paper with which the Star had been in strict alliance for three years , that they were strong enough to give strength ia- a journal . They assumed all the mock pageant of a mimic court , and even sent ambassadors to Franee . Well , the Liberator , not knowing how to discriminate between the adopted conclusions of a hired party and public opinion , took the bait , and immediately opened a fire upon the Star , by aa attempt to make the question at issue one of mere Whig or Tory hatred .

      The Liberator said that the Wkigs would be mightily pleased with- an article in the Star , supposing that popular hatred of Whigjery was greater than hatred of Toryism . Now , this was the real test upon which the Liberator relied for success . Well , the Star and the Liberator fought it out like gentlemen , till the Liberator , wbo commenced the battle , surrendered ; and what was the result ? Whj , that the attack upon the Star which ttm to bare re-animated the Liberator ^

      produced its sadden death ; sail so we lost the aid of that excellent paper ^ in consequence of its belief in the strength of a party , which was not even s good faction . Had the Star prostituted its columns to the support of the Russian missionaries , it -would have had & good puffer in each well-paid agent , and , instead of rotes of censure , we should have beard of nothing but " O ! read tie Star . ' read the Star ! " But perish the Star before it sl » dl ever become the tool of faction , or the

      prop of deceit Now , it is all very fine to talk about injuring the cause , and the Star not being denounced by public Epenker . 5 sx meetings of working men . This , is not the

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      game . The real cause of the complaint from that quarter is , that the actors were not Buffidentlf perfect In all their parts to ensure a good performance , beforethe working men themselves began to smells , rat ; and , having learned » lesson in diplomacy , from the Rosso ministers , they , thanks to their honest heart * , net plot by counter-plot , and communicated truly , honestly , and punctually , every jump the cat took , and thus enabled the Star to aip the thing in the bud . Lord B&rrymore has truly said , that " me enemy can do yon more harm than ft thousand friends w > do good ; " ahd the Star wak not Jikely to escape the wrath of highly-paid uUsjionajde * . who had undertaken so diatiagoiahed % ¦ calling ; it is not natural to expect it

      Neither Mr . Williams , nor Mr . Deegas , are even hinted &t in these lemarlu ; they apply exclusively to a set of my friend * in Northumberland and Durham , who hare felt sore at a kick being put in their gallop , sad hare met , like sneaking raecals , eaves-droppers , aa they are , and done all that in their petty wrath they could do , to undermine the Star , and its Proprietor , and Editor ; bat I hurl defiance at them ; I dare them to come oat of their hiding-hole , and face a non-paying meeting of real working men , and there denounce the Star .

      And now they cry out , "Ah . ' what a shame not to allow us to hare gone on nicely and quietly in our own way , to render the Star a truly subservient organ . " In fact , it would appear as if the Star had no character to support , and that its editor was to receive censure with cap in hand ; while any defence was to be met with , " O ; take care , you'll damage the cause . " The Star , since its birth , has had but one Proprietor , one Editor , one Publisher , and one Clerk : and show

      me the man in the kingdom who has beea mixed up with the same conflicting parties , measures , men and opinions , at the Editor of the Northern Star , and who has more studiously avoided giving personal offence to the bosest or the poor , while bis proposed reward for six days of unremitting toil , endeavouring to do the best for all , is to reflect , on the seventh , upon the number of rotes of censure to which his labours hare entitled him .

      If the Editor was capable of being orerawed by rotes of censure for the proper use of a power , of the application of which he must be the best judge , and for which be it responsible to the people , but not to a faction , what must be the result , I ask , if such a precedent was once established f Why that , after all , he could give but one Star , while six would be too few to contain the votes of censure for the omission of speeches , explanations , and letters ; and this would be freedom of Ihe press ! Let me now show that I have , at all events , be « n consistent upon the subject of expensive national agitation , and that the Star was not governed by any whim , caprice , or personal feeling , in its opposition to the Rosso humbug .

      In August , 1838 , I declared in the presence of Messrs . Attwood , Muntx , Douglas , Moir , Purdie , Lovett , Vincent , Salt , Hetherington and others , at the house of Mr . Munts , that the National Rent scheme would have precisely the same result which a similar system had produced in Ireland , and which rendered that country the laughing stock of nations , the scoff of honest men , and a prey to political charlatans . Now attend to this evidence , direct and

      circumstantial . I am ready to prove that one of my most constant personal friends ; one of the people ' s most zealous and unflinching leaders -, was offered to name bis own terms far writing me down , upon his liberation from prison . I give , not the substance , but bis rery words . I am prepared to prove that many provincial agitators of influence , have received letters from head-quarters , containing advice upon many subjects , and concluding with the declaration that " above all O'Connor and the Star must be put down . "

      Now , couple this direct testimony with the following circumstantial evidence . Mr . O'Connell , in his letter to the Leeds Reform Association , insists , above all , upon the paramount necessity of what the " li / iny ' Editor of the Star truly designates as a " knowledge depot , " the members to be elected upon the principles of the Association ; and he says that the Irish of Manchester or Liverpool will elect him . God help his foolish , head . Mr . Hume says that " the leaders of the working classes , generally , bave agreed to join in an agitation tor ids definition of Household Suffrage ;" Air . Roebuck aays that " an Asjocistion , ready to act in

      concert with the Leeds Association , is being hatched in London , " and is almost ready to leave the shell . Now , then , couple the direct evidence with the circumstantial , and can any man in bis senses for a moment doubt that we were to be sold , neck and crop , aud purchased with our own money ! What was to have been the process ? Wbj , first , " O , there ' s no difference between us and the Chartists ; we ' re all Chartistsbut we are practical men , and we dont wish to frighten the timid ; but just let us get strength enough once , and then see how we ¦ will make ministers step out . " Well , O'Connell says , you would get immense funds ;

      now it matters not a farthing whether you did or not ; for such an association the treasury would bleed most freely . The favourites of your order would get their own price , as missionaries ; they would be paid out of the secret service fund , with your money . ; and when the pressure from ¦ within had so far operated upon the pressure from without , as to get a large majority ef men , all agreed upun the principle , you wonld have seven years of the most corrupt parliament , even worse than the present ; and then the few stage mountebanks ,

      having made their party sufficiently independent of a few votes , would now and then make a grand annual splatter ; would denounce ministers ; bring forward extreme questions ; divide pretty strong , but always join to keep the Tories out This " depot" was to have been the main-spring of pressure ¦ without , while a set of mountebanks , were to form the nucleus of the pressure within—the one , the only , object being to keep the iron hoof of Toryism off yuur necks to leave more ro » m for the iron hoof of Whiggery .

      Well , the poor Star cannot be very popular with the swell classes—the top-sawyers— " the working men , wot dont work , " to have snapped such , a morsel from them . If the Leeds attempt had succeeded , a good deal of the machinery was arranged , and , I hear , some of my friends won ' t forgive the disarrangement . However , I started with the poorest , and with them I am fully resolved , come what will , to die or conquer .

      In justice to some of the very best of men , I deny Mr . Hume ' s assertion , that the leaders of the working classes , generally , had agreed to join for his definition . I assert , upon behalf of two of tbe most leading men in London , that an appeal was made to them , and that they unhesitatingly , unequivocally , and indignantly refused to join in any agitation which had for its object , directly or impliedly , the establishment of any other principle than that obtained in the People ' s Charter . Now , I state this upon authority , and th « y were two who drew up tbe Charter !

      Great merit is made of not openly denouncing the Star ; but to whom is the merit due ? whether to those who are obliged to abstain for want of cause , or to the Star , which furnishes not even a pretext . O ! if the Star gave but a handle , what a hue and cry my friends would set up . Here is the plan of nibbling at the Star , and praising the speaker : — Mr . Chairman , — " I believe every man in thiB meeting will at once admit that I am tbe rery last man in England who would wish to injure the Star , and that I have made as large personal sacrifices ns any man of my class in pushing that paper . ( Hem , hem . )

      But , then , it is our duty to point out its errors in a mild and forbearing spirit , as tbe best means of preserving its usefulness to the people ; and I think we cannot do so in a more friendly manner than commencing by telling the editor that he ' s a liar , and the proprietor that he ' s a mean and spiritless fellow for having limited his losses , ia the establishment of a paper , to the paltry sum of 41 , 000 , and in daring to give £ 21 tor six weeks' pay to two missionaries , if the people wished for their services . Such acts , Sir , are eminently calculate / 2 to sow dissension in the Radical ranks—to injure tb e character of our tried friends , —and , finally , to destroy the erer-glorioas cause of democratic liberty . "

      Now , what Is the real feeling in the min 4 of every lan , calling b imself Chartist , who denounces the Star ? ust this— "D n that Star ; but for it , I could do a it of fancy -work in the trade , but that devil keeps me 1 the old road , like a horse in a mill j and if I step nly an ir xb aside , it bellows out , come back here , Mr . » I say come back , yon ' re on the wrong read ;

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      there ' s a great H-o-u-s-e—« Parliamentary H-o-u-s-ebuilt across tha $ road . " s : ' ' ,. . , f . ' , , - .., ' . ¦ ' '¦ There oerer Wb a paper which bo simplified the cause of the people as the Slar , and those who now fight with it ; andirhom it has kept ia the gtraj ^ t wad , will , ; ere long , blesa i ^ , and pray fortt , when ' they , in the natural course ef events , shall be called upon , which they will , - very speedily , to take a » hareiii the administration of the Skate * * sffaiw . t ^ n wflj they « ay , " Bless tlte Star' that sustained me Ip the days of my pilgrimage . I ca& . aew undertake mj office , pu »« and spotless , Md without the heavy chain of aposwey hanging round my neck . " '

      The CBartlaU are hearer power than they imagine , and no man , as long as Hire , shall protract ti » period by stepping one inch out of the old Charter road , without being called after , by name , and warned of hi « danger . ' I wa » sent here as a cock-shot for erery blackguard who wished to pelt me , from Fox Maule to the rery lowest ; and therefore it is not likely that the opportunity should be thrown away . There cannot be a better mask than tilting the Star first , as that is my foundation ; and that being gone , my head would come in for the next blow . But I hurl defiance at open foe and candid FaiEifp . I h » Vo left around my name a shield of poor man ' s lore ; a barrier of the pauper ' s rich affection , which neither open villany nor secret plot can break through . '

      You Russian rump f you set of rlpers t wheneret you hare anything to say , give notice like men . Call my friends together , after their day ' s work , and then charge , and charge , and charge away , till you ara black in the face , and I defy you . . ¦ :. I am not the only man in this kingdom in soljtaiy confinement for nothing . No , no , my hands were not tied and my tongue gagged for nothing ; and I am not to be choked with butter . No maa ever eries " stink-Ing fish , " or offeTS a bad horse for sale ; and , of course , no one could do such a thing as abuse , for abusing sake . No , no its all for lore . It appears rery odd thai ; erery such attempt has the effect of enhancin * . the people ' s love : but so it Is . * ¦?? ' .

      I am , Your faithful friend , Fjeabous O'ConttOR . P . S . Jf Tery many inaccuracies occur in this letter , I beg to state , that although I hare thought it an imperative duty to write it , I hare done so against the express order of the surgeon , who , in consequence of my sight b ^ eing much impaired , has ordered me not to read or write at all ; I hare thought it my duty , however , and for this reason : —Lord Coke has said that ,

      " be who undertakes to plead his own cause , has a fool for a client ; " bad tbe cause been my own , I should bare left it to my friend , Mr . Hill , to defend me ; but knowing that bis time will be sufficiently occapied , in bis duties to the public , I hare thus , at all risk and pain , come toward to discbarge a duty which can be better performed by an advocate than by tbe accused ; and , in conclusion , I hare only to say , tbat very many resolutions , complimentary to my excellent friend , hare been to my knowledge displaced by him to make room for matter which he considered to be of more

      importance ; while he appears to hare gone to some inconrenience to give immediate insertion to the only resolutions of disapprobation which , after many years of a well tried political life , have been passed upon him . He can well afford it , I am prevented from replying to many letters in consequence of my sight being much impaired . F . O'C .

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      ~^ m WAKEFIELD HELL . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . SIR , —Some of your readers may perhaps feel squeamish , about the beading of these letters , but when they have read the statement contained in this , they will perhaps agree with me that the title is rery mild , when compared with th e atrocities of the " system . " In my last letter it was clearly shewn , that the ' ¦ rules" of the place are sheer humbug , drawn up for tbe purpose of imposing upon that portion of the pub-Lie , who are sufficiently respectable , and have curiosity enough , to inspect that abode of misery and torture . I will now gireafew specimens of the effects produced by the " silent system , " which will fully justify you in using tbe term mad-house , »' . e . a house for making men mod , not for curing them . 1 know of nothing better calculated to cause idiotcy or madness than the discipliue of Wakefleld prison .

      I wish that some of our humanity mongers would demand an inquiry into the vroikings of the " silent system , " ( but it would not answer their purpose unless it took place at Jamaica , or the Cape of Goed Hope , ) if such inquiry took place it would be found , that huudredshave been totally lost to their families-. mil friends on account of the cruel treatment they have received whilst in that prison . I was personally acquainted with , two woolcembers at Bradford , as strong healthy men as were to be found in tbe town , who had been sent to Wakefield for some trifling assault , ; one of them a man who weighed about fifteen stone , came out a living skeleton , covered with bruises from head to foot , and raving mad , in which state he died shortly after . The ether when I last saw him , was a drivelling idiot ; hundreds of men in Bradford who read this will know who I mean . Although I was not allowed to look either to the right or left , nor to- converse or mako slgna t » any

      of the prisoners , yet with this drawback upon my means of observation , I counted about 30 in a state of idiotcy through close confinement , want of ait , ( being never allowed into the yard ,, and continued silence and starvation . There is no denying this ; asd I am confident , that if the governor , chaplain , surgeon , keeper , and clerk , were examined , they would at once admit it ; at least , a majority of them , for they have frequently done so when I conversed with them on the subject . The surgeon has told me that be would state what I hare already advanced , if examined before a Committee of tbe House of . Commons . The chaplain bas told me several time * that six months of such ' treatment would send bin to his grave ; I would , therefore , reeommend my friends , at Barnsley , Bradford , and Sheffield , to get up a petitiw to the Honourable House , praying for an inquiry isto the treatment of prisoners , and the effects produced on their constitutions by the ' silent system , ' as practised at Wakefleld and other Houses of Cor

      rec . As an illustration of its effects , I will mention the case of a man from Sheffield , confined for felony ; his number was 33 * . He applied to the keeper to wr . Ue a letter to his wife , at the same time that I was w rfting in the office . Toe k « eper asked him how long he had been in the prison ? as the rules state " that , no man shall be allowed to write until if has beea sj x months in tbe prison and only once a month aftarwr « rds . " He answered that he did not bunr , but h » tiw agbt he had

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      been three months ; he wat then ortfered to asfe the iclerk . When he returned , he « aM , ' that the clerk toM him he had been there eight months . I remarked ; that . it was very strange a man' could not tell how long he had been suffering sueh misery . Tbe keeper replied , . ' / . That it was a common thing there for men to lose theur recolIertioivftnaliarB no knowledge of how their time passed . " I bare frequently seen men pulled from their seats , when their time of imprisonment had expired , although , their number * had been called several times . ( All thii can be proved , and will be admitted , by the principal officers of the den : in short , none but those wbo hare experienced it , can hare the slightest idea of the cruelty sad torture ! inflicted en both mind and body , in tbat infamous place , the very existence of which proves the brutality and bUodthirstiness of the " powers that be . " , ¦ ¦ " , I ant , Sir , yours , truly , George White . Ho . 3 Court , Essex-street , Birmingham .

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      PUBLIC MEETINGS AGAINST THE POOR-LAW AMENDMENT ACT . —MEETING IN EITTLE BOlTON . . ( From the BelknChronide . ) A public meeting of leypayera , convened by the orerseers , in consequence of a requisition numerously signed , was held in the Town Hall , Little Bolton , on Wednesday evening last ; to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning both Houses of Patiament against the renewal of the Poor Law Amendment Act The room Was crowded to excess , but was very orderly . On the motion of Mr . Thomas Myerscough , Mr . Gilbert Wballey , one ef the overseers , was called to the chair . The Chairman briefly opened tbe proceedings by desiring the meeting to be orderly , and give every speaker an impartial hearing ; baring read the notice convening the meeting .

      Richard Marsden , a wearer , rose to more the first resolution , and said any old man present would not hare bettered thirty or forty years ago that a poor man , applying for relief , in ease of distress , could not obtain it unless he went to the workhouse , like a prison-house , surrounded by walls , separated from his wife and children , and fed on gruel and food too scanty to preserre health and life . ( Hear , hear . ) In times like these too , of the severest distress , to be separated from their families was a double infliction of injustice ; it was in times like these that nan and wife required each other ' s presence , in order that they might afford each other more comfort and consolation ; but the bare idea of having their children taken from them was maddening , and made the brain to whirl . If he were wealthy , and

      separated from his children , the hope of reward might influence their conduct in some degree , but not being no they would be reckless of the future , and require hia protecting aid . * Let the Hoo Union afford an example as to the manner in which children were treated . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) It was ia evidence that in that Union the Governor flogged girls of fourteen aud sixteen years of age on the bare back , and what rendered it still worse , women were . compelled to hold their aims while fee performed the act of fligellation , ( cries of shame ); a woman was separated from her child , and she said rather than be so she would cut her own throat ; but they enforced the order , and next morning she left the place , and having no means of sustenance and no prospect but the horrid hostile , she put a

      period to her existence . ( Hear , hear . ) As a woman said to him on Monday , " blessed is the womb that never bears / ' The inuaWt&nta of Bolton had formed a committee which they called the watch committee , whose duty it was to inform the public when their rights or liberties were likely to be assailed . This meeting emanated from that committee ; and they told the public to petition , but would Government attend to their petition . ' he feared they would not , from the thousands which had been already sent without avail . The committee saw the position in which they stood ; they felt alarmed aud pointed to the public view the object about to destroy them . Could the people , however , avoid the calamity ? If they could not , it was not tbe fault of the committee , but the circumstances under

      which we were placed . Suppose a man was bound hand and foot to a tree ; a person placed at a short distance from him to warn him of danger ; and if a lion or some other ferocious animal were to approach , and the man set to watch made an alarm what would it avail the captive who was bound hand and foot to a tree , and could not move ? ( hear , hear , and cheers ) , why then inform him of his danger for " sufficient for the day is the evil thereof " unless it were in his power to afford him some relief ? And it was not less absurd to pray and desire the lion or other beast not to hurt him than it was to petition the House of Commons not to renew the New Poor Law Bill ; they knew the lion would seizs upon the man , frem past experience ; and the knowledge they had ol the House of Commous taught them

      what to expect from there . Then , he said ,-why come there ? He was asked not to come there to petition Parliament ; but to awaken the energies of the people , and tell them boldly to bid dtfnuce to thosa Who would trample upon them . ( Cheers ] Let them only look at their real position . They hud been contributing for years to a fund for their relief in case of sickness and distress , and yet they had no power over their own money ; it must be left to the management of others . For tbat he would not have cared one straw , if he must have had justice ; but he had not If the money was appropriated to its legitimate purposes , instead of being squandered away , he would have been satisfied ; but ho found , in the first place , that upwards of sixty thousand pounds a-year was paid to the

      Commissioners and their minions , who were distributed all over the country , and were shamtfully making away with the public money . These men , too , had exclusive power , and could deal with the public as they thought proper . Suppose , in the case of a benefit society , which had a committee acting for it who did not do their duty in a proper manner , the society were to appoint otheia in their stead , yet still the old committee refused to give up , and exacted tho usual sums from the members , what would be done with them ? Why , they would be taken to a court of justice , and punished for fraud : but if they should fail in obtaining justice , they could leave the society . This Poor Law Committee , however , resolve that we shall not leave it ; that we must remain members ; but , be it understood ,

      ouly paying members . ( Hear . ) What must they do in a case like this ? Why , if they found they could not pay without distressing their families , and they forced them to it , say " do it at your peril . " ( Cheers . ) Did they think there was any other course ? He liked not violence , but he would say either give us the power to choose our own guardians , and deal with our funds as v / e like , or else give us the privilege of leaving the society , or " we will not pay as usual . " ( Loud cheers . ) Their energies were great for the well-being of society , and in return they claimed the privilege of being well fed and well clothed . The speaker here showed how rich men , aa in the case of the members of the old corporations , would filch out of other people ' s property when they had the p » wer , as under the old system . Tiie old corporation of Bristol let the walls and quays

      of the Fronie and Avon to the society of merchants for £ 10 , and they let them again to a sub-contractor for £ 1 , 400 a year . ( Hear , hear . ) Again , a gentleman had occasion to go down to his vessel , which was unloading at the time , on account of delay , and found , from inquiries made , that the parties who contracted for it only received 3 s . ( id . for what he had to pay 16 s . He urged them either to insiBt upon having justice done to them , or no longer pay any rates . They must not suppose they could gain everything by a petition . It was like the waggoner in the mire , whe lifted up his eyes and prayed to Jupiter to be extricated , whereas , if he had placed his shoulder to the wheel and done it himself , he might have been successful . After some further observations , he concluded by moving the following resolution : —

      " That this meeting bavins had notice of a Bill brought into Parliament by Lord John Kussell , to continue and extend the unhappy operations of the Peor Law Amendment Act for tbe period of ten years , takes this opportunity of expressing its determined opposition to the said Bill , as being unconstitutional , anti-Christian , oppressive , and unjust . " Mr . Thomas Myerscough , in seconding the motion just made , observed that he read ia the resolution that the Bill of Lord Tohn Russell was unconstitutional : that it was so must be evident , because it took away from , the people the privilege of managing their own local affairs , and vested them in the hands of three men called Commissioners , who had power to make rules , orders , ami regulations , having the force and

      effect of statute law . Every writer on the Constitution had clearly held that a trust cannot be delegated , se that few , if any , tore the effrontery to declare that the powers conferred by the Heuse of Commons on the three Commissioners are right ia principle . It was said , when the Bill wa » first passed , that the poor were eating up the land , and that the rates amounted to £ 7 , 800 , 060 . He stated , some time ago , the amount collected in Little Bolton U be , in 1838 , the sum of £ 1876 12 s . 2 d . ; but < d this £ 1121 17 s . 4 d . went to other expences , so that . £ 754 is . lOd . was all that was applied t « the poor . The Commissioners had boasted that in one year they bad made a saving of £ 2 , 400 , 000 ; but if Littlo Bolton was any criterion to go by , of what the poor cost throughout ihe country , they never receired more than £ 3 , 240 , 000 , as the remainder went in payment of county rates , church-rates , constables , and otU'jr things , bo that , if the account of the Commission era were true , the poor had o » ly received about

      £ &i , i ) fjO . The ides that the poor coat this amount frightened tha Pariiamenl , bo they set to work in establishing the new law , which had cost upwards of £ 6 P / , 000 a year to carry it into operation , and it renewed , would next year coat more than £ 100 , 000 . ( Fiear , hear . ) When one ot the assistant Commissioners Traa before the House of Commons , Mr . Power , he believed it was , who was formerly in thi s distridt , but we had now another called Mr . Mott ; when the former was before a Committee of the Honse , Mr . D . W . Harvey asked him how much he received per year , and his reply was six or seven hundred pounds , and when he questionedhim with regard to expences , it appeared that those were six or seven hundred , pounds or more also This seemed anextraordinarysum . andMr . Harvey wished to know how it was spent . and was about to obtain an answer * when he was » toppod by the Chairman , this question being considered rather too close , because he knew it was rather too keen a hit for a commissioner to explain how he expended six or seven hundred

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      pounds a year and only allow a poor man Is . 6 ^ d a week to Htfe upon , ( CBeers . ) . It was said this law was to l « saeiitbe ? xpences of Wie different unions , but he Would show them , by an average . taken three years preceding th « operation of the old i » V , and three yean afteit words , that this was incorrect 'The average expences in the Bolton Union , for three years , ' under the old law , was £ 9 , 365 per annum , and the expences for the first quarter , after the new law came into operation , wer « £ 2 , 816 ; the second quarter , £ 3 , « 8 »; third quirtet . £ 4 , 759 ; fifth , £ 5 , 1 « 2 ; and the iMtodt was for-e 6 , ««< H which was at the rate of £ 2 M 00 a year . ( Hear , bear ) This was a beautiful sort of deortMB , to-De wre J an * it was a question for their consideration , whether , with all tibese stated amendment ! , the poor were any better

      fed and clothed than before ? It was quite certain they were not , and he had this from undoubted authority , for he had a petition in his pocket , about to be sent to Parliament , by the Bolton Board of Guardians , which clearly stated " th * t the rates are heavier and the poor not better prorided for . " ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Aahworth . and others in the town , ( if it were true , ) had stated that tbe people , from inquiries made , were In a truly deplorable state , and wu it net monstrous that they should be so , at a cost , too , of £ 24 , 000 a yeartotb Union ? ( Hear , hear . ) The clerk to the board had stated tbat there was a saving of £ 800 a year oul of £ 1 , 290 formerly expended in the salaries or officers . But how this could be was a mystery to him , when ho found that the different officers , including medical

      gentlemen , registrars , &c cost the Union £ 2 , 613 in om year . He was not against men being properly remunerated for their labour ; buk by the new law their duties were so mixed up , one township with another , that it was impossible they could attend to them without considerable low to the township * How Was it possible that thirty-two , or thirty-three townshi p * could be properly managed by fire overseen ? B » found , on examining the books of Little Bolton , tbat the last rate paid by . Mr . Dawson , in 1839 , * fc sixpence in the pound , amounted to £ 1 , 083 , and the loss , in empty houses , removals , 4 c , amounted only to £ 74 Is . id . The next rate was ninepenco in tbtt pound , from the 24 th of June , 1839 , to 21 st March , 1840 , amounting to £ 1 , 592 11 s . 10 * d ., an * the amount

      or loss in arrears , empty houses , removals , &c ., waa £ -288 7 s . lid . The next rate was one shilling in the pound , from the 21 rt March to the 25 th September , 1840 , amounting to £ 2 , 389 3 s : « jd ., and the loss , ineluding arrears , in this instance , was the enormous nm of £ 782 16 s . lid ., which waa more than all the money paid to the poor in 1838 . { Cheers . ) He called this monstrous , and although termed by its supporters tbe perfection of wisdom , yet such weieitv results ; and , further , he believed that if the accounts were examined , it would be found that a number of people ( he could give names , but would not do so at present , as tb « matter would unquestionably undergo investigation ) whose rates had been forgiven—people who were better able to pay than himself , and there were other

      matters which , when brought to light , would excite their astonishment The new Bill had been put into his hands on tbat day only , and therefore he had not had sufficient time to peruse . it , to point out fully its iniquity ; but from beginning to end , it appeared to extend the power of the Commissioners . By on * clause he noticed that , however poor a person might be . there could be no forgivemesa of rates , not even by the magistrates , unless by the . Guardians . This would be all right if the Guardians were left to themselres ; but it so happened that they could do nothing in opposition to the will of the mighty Commissioners—every thing to be left to the three kings at Somerset House —( hear , hear );— without their approbation , the Guardians had not tbe power of turning eff « ven a

      delinquent servant , and to suppose that the . present men in office would not carry the measure into full effect was next to impossible . He bad been told confidently that no or two members of the Board of Guardians were in constant correspondence with the Commissioners , and were advising them to introduce the law quietly , step by step . ( Hear , hear , and " Shame . " ) Now , if this were true , it only seemed still more strongly to manifest the disposition of Mr . Mott , who had , of late , visited Great Bolton workhouse , and found fault with everytbing . ( Hear . ) They wer « living there at the rate ef 2 s . o ^ d . per head per week , how much lower Mr . Mott ' s dietary table would be he could not say , but it was quite little enough . Ml . Mott ' s next movement would ba to enlarge the work *

      house ; and this new bill-not only gave the commissioners power to do so , but also to classify the paupers . ( Hear , hear . ) What was still worse , whatever had created their poverty , no matter whether by crime or misfortune , they were all to . sbare the same fate , and this was not to be doubted , because Lord John Russell himself hod made the assertion ; and in some parts , even now , this beautiful system of separation was going on , and in Kensington the workhouses—for , men , women , and children were distinct , in fact , were three miles apart , to prevent communication or intercourse between them : so that a . man was prevented from seeing his wife and children . ( A voice here called out " let ' em take one of mine and I'll fire into ' em . " ) H » held a document in his hand , the whole of which bo

      should like to have read , but it was too long . It waa headed in the following curious manner , — "Selling English Children . —SelliBg the bodies of the poor . — Incendiary fires . " He found , by this document , that there was a society , in London , calling itself tbtt " Children ' s Friend Society , '' which had been for a considerable period , trafl \ ckin ' g in poor destitute children out of workhouses , and sending them to the Cap * of Good Hope and other distant colonies , and openly selling them in the market like cattle . ( Hear , hear , and shame . ) The fact was , they first taxed the people so as to make them poor , and then punished them for being so . To show the dislike parties entertained for tbe bastiles , he might mention an instance which ha had seen in the papers the other day , of a Woman , who

      was brought before the magistrates charged with breaking a window . Mr . Wightman . found she was in a distressed state , and ordered her to the workhouse . Shethen stated that she had" been in the workhouse , but had escaped from it to get into prison , in order that she might receive better treatment . Mr . Wightman , however , refused to convict her , and sent a policeman with her to the workhouse ; but on their way Bhe took up a stone and threw it' through another window , and was again obliged to be brought up . Mr . Wightman then informed her that he should be obliged to commit her for three months . She replied "the longer the

      better "—and was committed . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Wakley also had stated in a * speech in the House of Commons , that numbers had" died from starvation , rather than go into a union workhouse , and related a number of instances that had come under his notice as coroner of Middlesex . And were we to have laws like these thrust upon us ? ( No , no . ) One great evil waa , the amount of taxes we had to pay , as would be found by Cobbett ' s Legacy , a work which erery man . ought to have : for ia the same proportion as the Government taxes increased , the amount of poor rates increased and poverty along with them . He found in this work the following statement : —

      Poor-rates . Govern , taxes * Reign of James II 160 , t 00 1 , 300 , 000 1776 1 , 499 , 906 8 , 000 , 000 1780 2 , 250 , 000 1 6 , 000 , 000 1833 .... 6 , 700 , 000 ; ... 52 , 000 , 000 When he was before a committee of the House of Commons , on the Question of a minimum of wages , and which he could not agree to , he was asked if he had any other plan to propose , he replied tbat he had , to reduce the taxes from SO or 69 millions to something like ten or twelve millions ; and he also informed them that Mr . Preston had stated the truth to the House of Commons when he informed them that , out of eTery 18 s . earned by the labourer 18 s . cither directly or indirectly went in taxes ; but if instead of that they would call at poor

      men's bouses and here and there cut a piece of bacon , the people would not stand it . Along With their poverty also they had rural police , because it was necessary to keep the pour quiet ; but the only and safe way to quieten then * was by giving them plenty of bread and cheese . ( Cheers . ) The overseers of Great Bolton , a short time ago bad sent a petition to the magistrates against the new police here which he would read . [ The petition which we have before published waa then read . ] This was an important document , ' , and shewed them that the public were not able to pay . - These facts shewed that the New Poor Law did not , nor could it

      Work well , and that it was Anti-Christian as stated in the resolution , no one would attempt to deny ; for he defied them to produce any passage from tbe beginning to the end of the Bible , which ' did not call upon them to support the poor and needy , and net 10 rob the hireling of his wages ; aad yet the measure was calculated to produce those direful effects which Mr . Marsden had detailed . It was unnecessary , to enlarge upon this subject , for any one who had taken up a newspaper , must have seen evidence of its direful " eflfects . The bastardy clauses which had been spoken upon , had operated very unfavourably in that township , for they left unprotected the weaker party , and did not punish the guilty .

      Mr . Myerscough again rose and read a communication which had been received , by Mr . Dawson , and accompanied by a copy of the same act , which stated that he should be happy to receive any instructions or suggestions as to the course best to be pursued when the bill was ineouimittee , Tbe Chairman then put the motien , which was carried unanimously , amid loud cheering . Mr . William Thiklwind , seconded the adoption of the rosolution and petition , which were carried wits acclamation . . Mr . Daniel Diggle , and others afterwards spoke , but not in accordance witth the object for which the meeting was called . Meeting in Great Bolto » . — -On Thursday evening a similar meeting was held in the Sessions Room , Great Bolton , which was not quite so numerously attended as that in Little Bolton . Mr . Naisby was unanimously called to the chair .

      The Parishioners of St . George , Southwark , met on Friday at the Grapes Tavern , Suffolk-street , and passed resolutions calling oh the Members of the Borough to oppose the clause in the New Poor Law Amendment Bill giving plural and proxy-voting for Guardians , several speakers , condemned the bill altogether . —The parishes of St . Paul , Co vent Garden , and St . Luke ' s , Middlesex , aUo passed similar resolutions on Friday .

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      THE WANT OF "MOTHER GOOSE" AND

      THE WANTS OF OTHERS . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sib , —In your last , I sawan article headed " Wanted , a Horn Book for Mother Goose ; " on reading which I could not ( from motives of pure charity ) do otherwise than make an attempt to supply that desideratum . [ , therefore , went to work on the Lord ' s day , thinking it no sin to do an act of kindness on that day ; particularly , as I cannot devote much time to Dame Goose , save on St . Agnew ' sday . In this Horn Book , Methcr Goose will find the Chartist alphabet , which she never yet learned . There she will find some short words , frequently used by her , but of the signification of which , she is entirely ignorant , and Bhe will also meet with some short lessons adftpteti to her wants , and the improveiuenv of her scarcely unshelled charge . Thus , Sir , Mother Goose and her littleuns , may cease their whimperings , and rely upon tha promise of their wants being speedily supplied .

      I don't ask you , Sir , to insert any portion of the little " wanted" in your columns , because there are other wants . Some want to do good by exposing the villanies of those in power , and by pointing out the way of escape from the bondage iu which tbe people are now held . Some want to bewilder the people witti inexplicable nonsense about old H-o-u-s-e-s , and undefined definitions of Household Suffrage . Others want to fill your columns with censures for not catering to their whims . Others iri . tke cart-rope speeches , and want you to give them to the public verbatim , because they want the public to call tbem clever .

      And others , who are paid for spouting , want their lectures 1 ?) to be on every table , imagining that the produce of their brains is most delicious fruit , and ought to be tasted by all ; and , moreover , they want you to place them on a pedestal , and to conjure the people to -fall down and worship these gods . Yes , gods—they dont want to be known as hired crotchetmongers , or as Sappers and Miners in the Whig army , though they labour ( under cover ) to sap the foundation of the Charter , and undermine your lirmlyestablUhed journal . But I know they do not want me to write in this style ; and , I suppose , you do not want me further to trespass on your space .

      Should your " devil" want something to light the Sre , and you think proper to accommodate him with this , I shall not want my friends ( though they amount to twenty-three J to pass a vote of censure upon you , and say it was agreed to by the men of Leeds . You know your own business , and ua scribes and paid parrots should not want to dictate to you , and sing in your ears " ME first—don't place HE at the bottom of the list ; " for I am , Your ' s , truly , An Old Radical . Leeds . Feb . I 6 tb , 1841 .

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      . ' ¦ ! : i i 7 ¦ : ¦ " ¦ • ¦ ¦ . ' j ; -. ¦/;• ¦ ' . ¦ : __ . _ T H E N 0 B T H E R N a T A R . • ,-,, , ^ ^ ¦ . . ^\ z .. . - - ¦ - ¦¦ - f ;¦ f

      To The People.

      TO THE PEOPLE .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 20, 1841, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct844/page/7/