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    • THE i\ T 0ETHER]^ STAR. SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1842.
    • TO MR. JAMES WILLIAMS, SUNDERLAND ¦ 11 ' . '•• - ™ ¦ - ¦
    • ®:o 3$m ^ ComjSjponu^mis*
    • DEATH OF HENRY FROST.
    • State op Trade in Stirling.—In this town and neighbourhood, at present, business of all kinds ia
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      KII 3 DES 2 IIKSTES . CIORIOUS TRIU 3 IPH OF PRINCIPLE OTER MR . SIURGES STIFFKAGE H"DilB"CG . " A pttbl ^ meeting , convened by ihb Complete Suffrage gentry , was held in the layge room of tee White H orse Inn , oa Mund « . y last . The chair v « s annonnced to be taken at seren o ' clock , at a quarter past , t here "being no sign of a chairman being proposed , Mr . CaotcH Tose and said it ib bow considerably past ths time announced , I ¦ will therefore propose tbst Mr . HoiloTray do take the chair . JIf- Shab ? seconded tbe motioBThe metios -was put and carried nEanimomly amid lond cheer ? .

      Mr . SOLWffii , -Gentlemen , having been called by yon , and being - willing to render iny humble services ' in aid of any good cause , I consent to fill the chair , and as far as I am concerned , everybody shall have a f Air snd impartial hearing -who may offer themselves to your notice—( eheers . ) He then read the Bill , convening the meeting , and said he did not know -who vms about to tS&e J > aTt IB . ths proceedings or vhal ths precise basi-11683 "VTSS , but those who intended or had-anything to bring forward -wonld do so . After a long pause , Mr . "W . Cqablton , ex-Chartist leader , rose , and . after a loDg speech , avfeed the mover and seconder cf the chairman if they had sicned the declaration . Both said "Xo . " Mr . C—lly purpose is answered . .

      Mr . Howard then rose and said , he cou ? d hardly "onderstind the matter—he never knew anything like people appointing a chairman as they had dons here .. He was in favour of Universal Suffrage ; but he thought no one ought to take part bus those who had signed the declaration —( confusion , and cries of" Dj you call that Universal SnSlage ? " ) Mr . Quins—To prevent confusion , I will now moTe that Mr . Hollow&y do take the chair . Mr . Day IS seconded the motios . ¦ Ro oeb opp ^ Bing it , it was carritu unanimously . Mr . Howard—Now I should like to know upon Tiisat principles this mesting 13 to be conducted , and for "what special purpose we meet . I cannot conceive that any ose ~ ¦ whs have not Bigned the declaration has any right to take part in the proceedings—( loud shouts of " Oh , oh ! "i

      Mi . Hitchis—I protect against baling a padlock put upon my month . Those gentlemen profess liberality —talk of compiets Suffrage ; and ytt want to prevent tbe people taking any part in the proceedings . I am a man , and a democrat , and claim the right tf a man for myself and my fellow-men—( loud cheers . ) Mr . Dadsttell—I agree in the sentiments of Mr . Howard . ( Lond cries of " Oh , oh" from , all parts of the room , which prevented Mr . Dadswell from proceeding . ) The CHAIfilDLS—I think everybody should be heard , and therefore request you to preserve order .

      Mr . howasd—I should wish my question to be answered as to who are to take part . I came here decidedly in favour of Universal Suffrage . I have read and heard the Chartiit 3 with attention often , but I do not like their proceedings this evening . I think no one should taks a pa ; t unless they had signed tbe declaration . Suppose a few persons assembled in my parlour to sing glees , would yon have any right to go and interrupt them ? ( Loud cries of " That won t do , tsat's private ; this is a pub'ic meeting . ") Mr . W . Chablto *—It is the conviction of my mind thit the purport if this meeting is not understood About eight days ago ( for I knew nothing of it before ) , Mr . Dadswell came to me , and asked me if I should have any objection to move a resolution at such a meeting as this , convened , as it is , fcr the purpose of a reconciliation between the middle and working yitmon J told him the object was good , but we must

      not barter principle , but if I am chesen I will go to Birmingham and serve to the best ef my ability . But before I consented I consulted the Rev . H . Price , I considered it to be an augury of good the middle classes eomicg to me , and who used us so differtntly before 1832 ; they find they cannot effect gooeJ f jr themselves , ( hear , hear , ) so now come and consult with us . I say I look at it as" an augury of gocd . If we can't unite after the Birmingham conference we shall ttand were we did—then why object to allow those men to carry on their metting ? They had a right to carry on their own business . ( He then read extracts from tbe Reverend Humphey Price ' s letter , as f jUows , ' The odds are in favour of your going to Birmingham , aa regards that , that is , and snust be , the consideration with working men , the money , that will be right The stir of ilr . Sturge . like that cf Mr . Biggs at Leicester , will work their effects , and old although I am , I may yet live to » ee the dsy ; of England's liberty datnj . "; la taking

      such a star as Humphrey Price for my guide , T can't sell thyBelf any time for a day ' s wase—for half-a-crown

      do wrong . Bscause certain persons are not able to look into my deep thoughts , they declaim against me . I see five point 3 of the Charter granted here—ipoLnting to the bill convening the meeting laying on the table . ) Mr . Stallwood—That is not tae declaration . Mr . Chab . lto >" , in continuation—A stranger says ¦ fea t is not the declaration ; no , but it is tbe opinion of the gentlemen mooting ths declaration . He then spoke of the principles of the Charter as though toe declaration also contained them . He concluded as follows : — 2 fy respected fellow-townsmen , leave the election of delegates to those who have signed tbe declaration ; let them do their own business , and watch them narrowly ; and if they deceive yon , never trust them again — , ' cbeers from tbe complete suflxagers ) . 3 ir . Sharp moved that any person wishing to speak , ahonld be heard . Mr . Crovcb seconded the motion .

      Mr . Datis moved as an amendment , that none but inhabUacts of Kidderminstsr should be permitted to address the meeting . Mr . Anderson seconded the amendment , which bsing put , about five hands were held up , and all the rest for the original motion , amid tremendous cheering . Mr . Hitchin rose loudly spplanded , and said , the preceding speaker has the gift of double Bight—( loud laughter . ) He speaks if eminent men . Now , we have our O'Connors , O'Briens ; Bairstows , and Gur Chartist agitators in general , all eminent mennone of whom can find more than one point in Sturge's declaration ; yet my predecessor sees five w&ere there is but one—iloud laughter and confusion from the Sturgites . ) Mt . Hitchen—I have a strong voice , and good luc ^ s , and can make mjself heard without the aid of an orange . \ Lond . cheers , and ClieB of go on _> Why , you may bs well cat off my right arm as cut c 2 one angle detail of the Charter . These gentlemen

      talk about tha Parliament settling ths details ^ -a very pretty settling it would be—( hear , hear . ) The property qualification always reminded him of the basket of rotten eggs—you may take which yon please ; yet bat take which , you will , you are sure to feave a rotten one . ( Loud laughter . ) So it was with , these property gentry ; they were all rotten- A true Chartist wonld stick to principle ; they ore sincere or they are DCt ; if they are , let them show it by joining us . < iond cheers . ; Did Mr . Caarlton require CCUUsel ? Why go to Humpherj Price ? True , the eld attage Eays two sheep-heads tre better than one !—( lend laughter . ) but why not come and take eouEsel among and -Kith bis own erusr . iK -. it , hear . ) You have no occasion to tend men to Birmingham , as our own Convention meets next nioni ' a . Ths great mass cf the peop ' . e have declared Srurge ' s declaration to be a eompltte humbug . iChecrs ) Follow trie example of Birmingham , elect so deli gates- ( Timiidera of applause . )

      Mr . SllABP said he entared cordially into the feeling cf ths previi U 3 speaker Who is Mr . Starge ? la he not the greatest com factor in the country ; has he not stores and warehonsiS ~ n Birmingham , Glon&ster , Liverpool , and Bristol tnd finding he cannot get a repeal-of the Corn Laws , goes for complete suffrage ; but can yon be in two rooms at once ?—( no;)—neither can you be in two Convections at once ; the purpose xnusi be division . ( Loud cheers . ) Mr . Sharp concluded by proposing that no delegate be sent from Kidderminstej .

      Mr . Crotch seconded the motion . ilT . Qvisx said the Charter meant freedom to all ; —lhear , hear , and cheers , )—but when he heard pistol , gun , j r » ord . and ays , if be mest say it , murderers , advoatifig Chartisus 1 am cL = gus- . » d . Who sent Frost , ¦ WilliaaiB , asd Jones eeross " the eeas , bnS such " men ? Mr . Starge is a - ? eiy ¦ fcEcevolent man ; witness kis exertions in favour of the black slivrs . I came here with a little prejedice—I came here determined to oppose William Chariton going to Birmingham , but I find hfe is not going to throw overboard the six points , ttien "where is the use of our coming here with a deal of bluster ? bat I was called a black sheep , to 1 thought I would walk by myself , and left the association ; but 1 find the great number wili not let me , they wiilfcno- *

      sad refine to come to my stop because of ray being a Chartist . The name of Feargu * O'Connor hsJB always been dear to me . I like the leaders of the Chartistsmany of them ; bnt while we admit this , we must not » ay we admire Vincent , Lovett , & Co . I Bee no reason why Coarlton should not be sent to Birmingham . I do not see why we ahcu ' . d not have one thing that is good—( cries of •¦ let us hava the six points . " ;—tbe suffrage is no good by itself . I hops you will send Win . Chariton to BiiznirgSam , for I snppcse yon will allow me the privilege of proposing him ; show your respt ct to W . Chariton by electing him . Messrs . Cronch and Howard both rose . The Chairman declared Mr . Crouch first caught his eye . Mr . H . then sat down Mr . Csocch . —You have been listening to some talk

      about physical force , but the speaker forgot to tell you about Mr . Sturge ' a physical force ; he says the Charter eannot be obtained without the sword , and when the country is prepared , my arm Is at their eerviee . As to Universal Suffrage by Itself , yon have had pratings about its advantages , bnt instead of the electors having a coatroul over the elected , the member would coutroul the - ? oter—jhear , hear )—taking fcr instance t ae masters ¦ who employ two or three hundred men , as Silcock had in this town ; he -would say a friend of his was ccming , and I should like you to yole Sac tarn . If Cje men refused they would 1088 ' fo&Xl « mploymftnt , which is so simple that a child , wculdknow It , therefore the Charter , the whole Charter , and nothing less voold prove a remedy for existing evils . —( great

      cheering . Mr . Howasd—What a good thing it is that hard words break no bone * I now address those who have eome here honestly , as I have done , and I hope tbej vriQ . net vote as they cannot recognise this as a meeting of ouw , He desired a corroboration of the BinniBgiam pecple'a ref as 3 to elect < J ? h $ »! ef .

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      Mr . Stallwood being requested , gave them tae report from the Star , amid loud crieB of heat , hear . Mr . Howard then required a proof of Mr . Sturge b physical force . Mr . Crotch read the paragraph from the letter by F- OCannsr , to the Imperial Chartists , from tbe Star , amid loud cheers . After again protesting against any one taking part but tb . 030 who ha- ^ t signed the declaration , and imploring bis own friends to take no part , he sat down . Mr . Stall-wood now rose , which was the signal for great cheering from the Cbartiste , and tremendous uproar from the Sturgeitea . The people having insisted on a hearing for Mr . Stall wood , the Chairman at length obtained aomethine like order . Mr . S .

      eommeneed—Men of Kidderminster , you have decided , although I am not an inhabitant of your town , that I am still your fellow-man . I am equally your brother Chartist—( loud cteeraj ;—and the free traders , although so fond—so clamourous for free trade in com , do not like freedom of speech—( hear , hear . ) The gentlemen , around me are charitably throwing out their dak hints and insinuations : some ask , who am I ? I have been before the public these last thirteen yeara : I have , during that time , been fined and confined , persecuted and prosecuted . I hare jast been elected by the men of London , out of sixteen & member of the people ' s parliament . Let this be my answer—[ Uu'X applause . ) " Mr . S . then showed that it was impossible there conld be a '' full , free , or fair

      representation" of the pec-ple unless the whole Charter was gractid ; and asked , will you allow men to go to Birmingham to settle details , you can now settle for yourselves—( loui cries of "No , no . ") Well , will you allow the first Universal Suffrage Parliament to settle the details ?—( shouts of " i \ o no , "from all parts of the room . ) I emphatically say no ; The first parliament elected by the people will have something else to do . I expect them to find the means of relieving the distress and the miseries of the people , not palliatives but restoratives ; such means as shad put an end to the present state of things , and prevent their recurrence ; in other words , to procure for the people health , wealth , happiness , and liberty—( great cheering ) : —but we have been told that the advocates of the

      Charter are pistol , gun , sword , aye , and murderers , and that those advocates were the cause of the expatriation of Frost , Williams , and Jones—was it not the secret service money thit caused t&eir expatriation , in the employment of spiea like Harrison , who is bow confined for horse stealing ? ( loud cheers . ) Was it not spiea employed by the Whig Government that caused the afiairs at Bradford , Sheffield , and elsewhere ? ( hear , hear . ) He defied any ons to point out , during the last three years , a single ewe of Chartist incendiarism , the slightest particle of Chartist physical force . As to the charge of their being murderers , he repudiated it with indignation and scorn . What and who was it , when the disappointed Corn Law Repealers , Cobden , &c , eotmselled physical force , and exho ted the starving people to -rio ' . ence , that kept them from making the towns a heap of ruins , and laying waste our cities ?—what bnt the columns of the Northern Star and those

      very calummatec Chartist agititors who kept them alive by a well-grounded hope of obtaining , and that soon , the People ' s Charter , the true and only means of removing the many evils under which they now labouir—( enthusiastic cheering ) . We were told of what individuals bad done . He , as a Radical reformer , thanked them for what they had dene . But if it should so happen that they had or should now desert us—( great clamour from the Sturgeitesj . I do not charge any one with so doing , I only say , if they should , we must march on without them—( great cheering ) . Mr . S . then reviewed the various reconciling promises made by the middle classes , and showed the base desertion of them by their propouudera , instancing Manchester ,

      Wolverhampton , ic . and read a paragraph from No . 3 , of the Free Trader , denouncing Mr . Sturge , ic and calling the Chartists by a many pretty names , and asked , are those men what they professed to be—in favour of Universal Suffrage . If they are , le t the m ac t upon i t , and , being the minority , bow to the majority—( great applause ) . —Mr . Staiiwood concluded by exhorting them to fctand firm , as men , to their own Charter . They had agreed to details—( loud cheers )—and consequently required no conference to settle them—( hear , bear . ) Fallow the good example of Bradford , Birmingham , Reading , and London . Elect no delegates ; but be determined as ever to stand by the Charter , details and all . That or nothing—( immense cheering . )

      At the conclusion of Mr . S ' s speech , three rounds of applause was given , three ditto for the Charter . Mr . Quixn proposed that Mr . W . Coarlton be elected a delegate . In so doing , he made a variety cf charges , insinuations , Arc , mentioned Cirdo , &c , when a man in a snow-white smock-frock , stood forward and said , " Why thee has balsnged to all factions , thee would

      ( Loud laughter ) Mr . I > avis seconded the amendment . The Chairman then put the amendment Twentyfive hands wera held up for it , a forest for the original motion , amid the most vociferous cheering . The Chaisman declared tbe original resolution to ba carried . A vote of thanks was then proposed and carried by acclamation to the Chairman ; three cheers was given for Fearous O'Connor and the Slar ; three for W . B . Ferrand , for exposing the Whig humbugs ; three for the direct taxing Budget cf Peel ; three for Frost , Williams , and Jones . Thus ended one of tbe most important meetings ever held in Kidderminster .

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      THE SYSTEM WORKS WELL !—SHALL WE EXTEND IT ! We call the attention of our read era to reports of three coroners' isquest in our columns of to-day . These report 3 add fearful links to the already almost interminable chain of evidence that the whole system of soeiety in one of oppression , cruelty , and blood . Week after week and day after day do scenes resembling in the main facts those to which

      "we now allude occur in almost every county , but the majority of them ne ver reach the public eye , and consequently fail to produce the full measure of their horrifyiDg effect . Yet , the system works well ! and the blood-mongers raise a fearful outcry against any change other than ^ neh an one as might turn to the extension of ic . Judging , indeed , by tbe base rule ef morals of a shopkeepJDg mlddieocracy , the Bybtem has worked well for them . They have had

      their day ; and they have made the most of it . Houses have been added to house , and fields hare been joined to field ; they have taken the toil of the poor without wage 3 j their blood-cemented palaces cover the land . For them the system has worked well ; for it has gathered into their coffer s and their storehouses the wealth of all lands . But how long can it be reasonable expected to continue thus to work , whea scenes like these are of perpetual recurrence ?

      Industry ha 3 made our land the glory of all lands , hut oppressive laws and the dominion of bad principles have crushed the sons of industry Beneath the hoof ; have left them stricken and wounded , to perish in the streets , or to seek Bhelter in a prison from the still more gloomy horrors of a workhouse . Yet are the horse-leeches ill contented to disgorge a single drop of the blood with which their stomachs are distended . They have been warned of their danger . They know the precipice upon which they stand . Again and again have we reiterated cautions meant in kindness . We have but

      provoked their hatred ! The warning has now come from other quarters . Sir Robert Peel has sung the same song to them , though -in a different key . He has practically told them that the cords have bee n al r ead y drawn " around the neck of industry so tightly that another twist mnst strangle . He has warned them that one more turn of tae screw will upset the whole machine , and bring certain ruin upon the oppressor , not less dire than that of the oppressed . This is the plain English of the whole matter 5 and to those who are not determined to close their eyea to facts , and their reason to inevitable consequences , nothing can be plainer .

      The infernal game of oppression and robbery and starvation may be carried out too far . Such facfc 3 as these , and many others recently recorded , will not , and eannot , and ought not , to be unproductive of their natural effects . The system which engenders them must sooo come to its final end . It was bnt the other day that poor Lucas , driven to madness by our diabolical social arrangements , Bought refuge in the horrible alternative of murder , made doubly awful by its violation , or rather profanation , of the dearest and most sacred ties of nature . Then we had

      poor M * p « * - a » nian of colour , found starring , having had but one penny loaf to subsist upon for live whole days , sent by a brute in the Commission to a prison and hard labour for seven days , but released ia twenty-four hours afterwards by death ; more merciful than the living savages who legislated for him . And here we have again a youth of eighteen years , unable to obtain employment , and brought to the most piteous destitution ; yet having once tasted the good thing ? provided for unwilling

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      idleness , declaring that he would rather be hanged than again enter a workhouse ; and yet , so firmly principled in honesty that ; he resists even the loud calls of cold and hunger till his limbs literally rot from his body . In this case the Jury returned a verdict " that the deceased diedjrom mortification PRODUCED BY COLD AND HUNGER . " And this in a land of Christians , exporting coal , and having shops and Etores innumerable , filled to repletion with all manner of necessary comforts

      Another youth , of nineteen , is thrown out of employment by hi 9 services being no longer needed ; the father , out of work too , cannot help him , and he is driven by the well-working system to a state of madness—to a twice repeated effort at self-destruction , and finally to death ! And this poor outcast , all forlorn and wretched as he was , was yet too much a man to brook the iron despotism in which faction and middle-class legislative power has engulphed the wretched victims of its infernal domination by the cursed Poor Law system .

      What a picture of our " glorious Constitution " does this tale , in connection with . thd ' verdict " That the deceased diedfrom the effects of a wound in the throat , inflicted by himself while in a state of insanity , produced from hunger and destitution , " present to an admiring and delighted world ! Bad as our prisons are , it appears by the third of the cases which have called forth these remarks , that they are preferable to our bastiles as asylums , for the destitute . A poor woman aud daughter are in a state of destitution they apply to the "West London Union Workhouse and are refused relief ; they then break a window in order to obtain the shelter of a prison ; in this place the mother dies suddenly , and what is the

      testimony of the daughter ? " We were very civilly treated in prison . " We never heard of any one being civilly treated in a Union Workhouse ! No ; at the gates of the Workhouse these destitute females are refused relief ; they commit a petty offence , for which they are sent to prison ; and there the victims of Poor Law brutality are kindly treated . The coroner , Mr . Payne , very properly intimated to the jury that the charge of refusing relief might form a proper subject for further investigation , and a Guardian was present who , as far as wo can judge from the report , was willing to have lent his aid to elicit the truth ; but no ; the Jury deem any further inquiry on their part unnecessary , and return a verdict of " Natural death . "

      But it may be said this is a solitary case , an extreme case , one that does not often happen . Is it so ? What says the Governor of the prison ! In reply to a question frem a juryman as to the reason why two prisoners vrete permitted to occupy one bed , the Governor said the prison was so full that not only were ihrze persons compelled to sleep in oae bed , but many , who could not be provided with beds , were compelled to lie upon the floor . This was owing to the number committed in a destitute stale , tcho broke tcindows , 4 "c , to get the shelter of the gaol .

      The first inquiry necessarily forced upon the mind by the TeadiDg of these awful recitals is , " How come these things to pass ? What causes destitution to be so frighful and so general ia a land so plentiful ! " The only answer which the query can receive is that the system of society is one of robbery and fraud ; that the produce of the land is swallowed by the "lean kine" —the " locusts" of

      the earth , who , in the shape of tax-imposers and taxeaters , destroy every green thing . Therentmongers , the money-mongers , the profit-mongers eat up the earth till there is neither place nor provender remaining for the poor . Yet this is the system whioh the " Liberal" Reformers are most anxious to maintain and to extend . What Bay the people ? Do they like the symptoms ? Will an . extension of this system "beagood" ?

      Let them ponder well upon it , and remember that the only way in which they can bring about a change is through the acquisition of that power which the Charter only can give them , and which the great object of the factions , maugre all their * Liberal " pretensions , has ever been , is now , and will ever be , to withhold from them .

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      PEEL'S INCOME TAX The people may expect shortly to be called on to give their opinions at public meetings respecting this measure . The middleocracy will magnify its enormities with words of fire and incitements of the fiercest character . Let the working men remember that it is they and they alone who insist on the maintenance of the system which makes this measure necessary . That Peel has declared , after a laborious and minute inquiry into the whole condition of the country , that the expensive system

      cannot be carried on without more money , and that no more money caa be raised directly from the working people , and that therefore this is the alone alternative . Let them not then be bamboozled . Let a steady uniform line of conduct be pursued ; in every place alike . Leave the factions to fight their own battles . Let the people take no part in the agitation of the matter , further than is just necessary to preserve their own position . But let no lying resolutions , petitions , or memorials be adopted in their name .

      The coarse for the people to . take is this . At every public meeting , called for the purpose of considering this Income Tax , take care to be present in your full strength . Remember that every thing there done , is done in your name , and said to be done by you . Negative every proposition against the Income Tas , at once and unmistakeably ; leaving by the largeness of the majority no room for cavil . And follow it immediately with a resolution for the entire Charter as the only just basis on which to rest the power of taxing tbe country . Make no propositions in favour of ( ha Income Tax

      by any means ; but if any one else do bring such resolutions , offer no opposition . And in any case , and above all things , see that no public meetiug ever separate without a resolution for the entire and unmutilated Charter ; and see that no memorial or petition be adopted at any public meeting , without including a prayer for the enactment of the Charter —whole and unaltered . We are anxions that the people should not be taken by surprise we wish to see them fully ready to act when needed , and we bid them therefore to be ready , to be firm , tobe united , and nothing can or shall resist them .

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      Host sorrowfully do we communicate the intelligence that this young man , the son of our beloved patriot Fbost , has been snatched by death from the anas of bis now doubly widowed mother . He died , after a lingering illness , at the home of his widowed mother , in Bristol , on Wednesday , March 22 , 1842 . We cannot , on this melancholy subject , otherwise than cordially re-echo the following sentiment from the Vindicator : — " We hope the bereaved mother will

      not sink under the agony of despair . Let the breasts of Englishmen be re-animated , and their efforts redoubled , to restore the husband to the wife , the father to his children—or it may be , that grief , and the sickness of hope deferred , will consign to the dark tomb a family good and virtuous , that should even now be living in the happy presence of each other , honoured by the good and just , and blessed by seeing th . 3 freedom of their country , and the prosperity of their fellow creatures . "

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      IS MR . FEARGUS O'CONNOR A WORKING ¦ ,. ¦ ¦ \ - : - - 'i-i ' : \ ¦¦ ¦ ¦ - ¦ : ¦ ' MANJ ; ; .: ; . ; ... . - . . ' . ' ;_[ ; . On Thursdayiast , Mr . O'Connor left Brighton at three 0 clock p . m . and returned to Brighton at four o ' clock p . u . oa Saturday ; hariiiff , as he states , stood up man open carriage for nearly three honrs during the march of the procession through Manchester , addressing the people" at considerable length , after laying the foundation stone of Hunt ' s monument ; then attending a splendid rbiree in the blood-stained Hau of Science ; and starting from thence at seven o ' clock to meet the gallant Dr . Fletcberv of Bury . Thus it appears that in forty-nine' hours Mr . O'Connor travelled 5 t'O milea , addressed threo meetings , and joined in a proeession which continued for four hours . Who says Mr . O'Connor is not a working mani

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      Pear Wflliamg . —If my letter of a few weeks ago startled the country , I must pay of your two letters of last week , tkat the one astonished me , while the other must have amused the country . Now just read the first paragraph of your letter to the Editor of the Star , and ask yourself if it is not a complete answer to the remaining portion , to which you ask me to reply ? Let me place that paragraph before-you .-. It runs thus : — "A few-weeks ago Mr . O'Connor startled the country by exposing ; a yillanous tjcheme which had been concocted for the purpose of soducing tbe leaders of the people . It appeared from that letter , that the party hadbaen so fat successful as to have secured four places ¦ which were to be made the grand points of attack , These were Glasgow , Sheffield , Leicester , and Sanderland . ' ¦ - ¦ ¦ .. / : ¦ '¦ ' ¦ ¦ " :

      Now , then , in your second paragraph , you represent yourself and Mr . Biniisas the Chartist leaders of Suuderland ; aurd such you are , and as such I have ever delighted t \) consider you , never losing a single opportunity of holding you up as the Castor and Pollux of Northern Chartism ; Just read these two paragraphs together . 7 In the first , you admit that my letter pointed to ah attack which was to bo made -for the purpose of seducing the leaders while in the second , you admit that you and George Binns are leaders , and you call my announcement an imputation upon one or other , or both of you ; and in the third , you call for' the name of the parties . "

      Now take these three paragraphs together , and road your own letter once more , and ask yourself how ytia could have been so blind as to have seen an imputation where a caution , was ; intended . Don ' t you admit that I merely stated that an attack was to be mado UPON the leaders , and not BY the leaders ; aiid you and Binns being leaders : whether was mine a warning voice TO , or a side thrust AT , you and Biuns , or either of you j You ask , Who are the traitors ? Read my letter of last week , and . .. you will have --the .- answer . The answer is contained in the following passage of that letier : —

      " And now , behold , we are threatened with a junction of all the routed forces under the moat delusive form in which treachery has been as yet attempted . The Sturge move is to include the Whigs generally—the Attwoodites , the Com Law Repealers , the Christian Chartista , the '•• hew movers , " and , above all , the waiters upon that " new move / ' some of whom were among us and professed entire loyalty to our principles , but with leas courage than the originators , thinking it more prudent to remain aud undermine , than boldly to meet us . " ;¦' Does this satisfy you as to the three first enquiring lines of your letter I And how could you have so far misapplied my meaning as to have placed yourself in the very position of those against whom I wished to caution you J Again ask yourself whether or not , my announcement was justified by subsequent facts ?

      In Glasgow , Sheffield , and Birmingham , the other three places to which I sounded the alarm , the attack was made UPON , and not by the leaders ; and were the brave Chartist leaders of these places equally fired with indignation , as you appear to have been ? No ; they in common with the rest of the country were " startled , " were aroused , and prepared and marshalled themselves for the defence of the cause , instead of attacking tbe herald who from the watch-tower proclaimed the traitors

      approach . . My Dear Williams , I think you will believe me , when I asisre you , that had I suspected that treason would have received assistance from you , or Binns , or from any other person associated With Chartism , I should not have gone about the bush , but should have mentioned you or them by nanio . My letter , then , was not in the slightest respect , aimed at yon , or Binns , as likely parties to the plot , but was intended as a warning to you . You have asked an explanation from me , and you have received it . I trust it will be : satisfactory .

      Haying now disposed of your letter concerning myself , I must he permitted to read both of your letters as on © whole ; and -while in the one you manifest great sensitiveness about yourself , in the other you appear to have but a very slender respect for the , opinions of the rest of the Chartist community . I consider your second letter as a very presumptuous disregard of public opinion ; so much ho , that I foci confident had I ventured upon such ; a course , you would have been amongst the foremost of my accusers . You will bear in mind , that in 1838

      you had a sly thrust at me , in consequence , as you stated , of my opposition to Wm . Lovett and the London Working Men ' s Association . In 18-10 , you took another dig on behalf ot those with whose conduct at the memorable Fox and Goose meeting at Leeds the Editor of therSlar found fault ; and now your third encounter—by no means warranted , and very ill-timed—is accompanied by a high eulogium upon persons whose conduct I have not criticised , leaving that to the country , and also accompanied by an attack upon the reporter ; . of the Star . In your second letter you say : —

      " For ray part , I cordially subscribe to tbe propriety of their whole proceedings * as those proceedings are explained in the letter of those gentlemen inaeitad in last week ' s Stair . " New , in answer to the above , I shall only say upon MY OWN PART , that if YOU sign the Sturge Declaration I will surprise and astonish you , by moving a vote of censure upon you myself , as a member of the National Charter Association . I am sure , however ? that your good sense will convince you of the fact , that two agitations entirely differing m their object cannot go on simultaneously with advantage to both . You must be aware that the sole object of Sturge and his party is to create an indirect agitation for a repeal of the Corn Laws and the restoration of the

      Whig faction to power under the falsa light of Chartism . You must be equally aware that every working man in the empire has set his heart and soul upon the Charter , and upon that alone ; and if you , or I , or any other person , shall ; dare to oppose , thwart , or deceive them in their glorious movement , they will , with God ' s blessing , stamp traitor upon our front , and make us araark at whichieatoh passerby will indignantly point the finger of scorn . Believe me , Williams ' ; that those who work hard for a living and yet cannot procure it , ; have appetites so whetted by adversity , and eye-sight so

      sharpened by long watching , that they can now see into every man ' s motive ^ however glossed over . They are honest and single-minded ; and they look for precisely the same qualifications in their leaders ; and , with the blessing of God , whether I live to see the success of l heir glorious cause , or die in its ad FOCacy , I will fight the battle under the flig of pare and unsullied Chartism , not allowing ono tinge of light or shade to be mixed up with the brightness of the fast colours of my order . I am , Your faithful friend , Fjsahgus O'Connor ^

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      Mb . John Watkins , formerly of Aislaby Hall , near Whitby , is , we regret tp : learn , in a state of health so dangerous as to leave little hope of his re-OOYery . He-is , by the advice of his medical attendant , about to leave London for Aislaby , as a last resource , to try the effect of his native air . He has sent us the following valedictory address- to the Chartist body :- — ¦¦ - ¦'¦ " London , March , 1842 . " BaOTHEB . CUAUIISIS , —H&vlcg suffered my zsal for the cause to carry me on regardless of all other conuideratio . a , it has broughtme to a fatal decline ; and I now address you probably for the last time . As the farewell words , then , of a dying man , let me solemnly exhort you to union , for without brotherly love all your efforts wiH do more injury than service to tue cause . As I have sacrificea everything to our

      principles—as I shall die a martyr to them , it ia natural in ^ me to wish that yon who have honoured ni « while living , should respect my memory when dead—that so , living or dying , I m ay still serve you . Though bom and nourished in the lap of class distinction , I gave up all , and thoroughly identified myself with t&e working classes . I married the daughter of a working raw , a mason , ; the " pooieat and prettiest" girl in Yorkshire , and for the houour-of the class to ^ ¦ which aha belongs . I- would record that never man bad a more faithfuL affectionate , anddev ^ ted wife . I must leave htr , with an infant daughter , a most gracious little creature , t » the tender mercies of the " system" which has murdered me ; but I trust that they will be respected for the sake of your dying brother , . ¦'¦"¦¦ ¦' . . ¦ ¦ ¦ : ¦ ; - : : . ¦ ¦ ¦"¦ . " ¦ . : ' .. ¦ : ' . ¦¦' " John Watk ins . " ^ . . _ . . —__^ ... ^» __ . a _ . a-a * ^ ^ ^^^^^^^^^ fc ^ fc ^ ft ^^^ i ^^ j ~ rf" prr ¦ rrfiri '

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      Brief Rules tob . the Government of ¦ a . li . . w . b «» writk JPOR this Papers—1 . Write legibly . Make ai few erasures and infertincations as possible . In writing names of persons and places be more ^ particular than usual to make every letter distinct ^^ and clear— also in using words not . English . ' : : ¦ ' . ¦ . ; . ; ' ¦ ' ¦ " . " ¦ : > ¦ -. : . > v '¦ 2 . Write only on one side of the paper . 3 . Employ no abbreviations -whatever , but write out every word iu full . 4 . Address < 5 oinniunica . tions not to any paiticulai person , hut to " The Editor . "

      5 . When you sit down to \ erite , don't be in a hurry Consider that hurried writing makes slow printing . 6 . Bamismber that we go to press on Thursday ; that one side of the paper goes to press on Wednesday ; that we are obliged to go on ' .. filling up the paper the -whole week , and that , therefore , when a load of matter comes by the last one or two posts ; it unavoidably happens that much of it is omitted ; and that it is therefore necessary to be prompt in your commuriications !

      All matters of news , reports of meetings , &c , &c . referring to occurrences on JFriday , Saturday , or- Sunday , should reach iis by Monday ' s post ; such as refer to Monday ' s occurrences by Tuesday evening ' s post ; Wednesday ' s occurrences by Thursday ' b post ; and Thursdjiy ' B news by Friday morning s pos t , for second edition . Any deviation from this order of supply -will necessarily subject the matters sa received to the almost ' certainty of rejection or serieus curtailment , and we take no blame for it . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦/ h ¦¦' - ¦ " , ' " . ' ¦ ' :

      All personal correspondence , poetry , literary communications , and articles of comment to be here l > y Tuesday , or their chance of insertion for that week will be very small indeed ; if not here by Wednesday we don't hold ourselves bound even to notice them . 7 . Finally , remember that we have only forty-eight columns weekly for all England , Scotland , Wales , and Ireland ; that we have no interest in preferring one town or place to another , because ours ia not a local but a national paper ; that we are bound , therefore , in dealing with the masses of matter whick come to us , to hold the scales of Justice evenly—our first ebject being the promotion and enhancement , according to our . own best judgment , of the success of the great and good cause ; and our second , the distribution of our time and space so as to give least cause of complaint :

      that we are alike bound to this course of action by Inclination , interest , ' and duty ; and that , therefore , it is useless and senseless for individuals to fume and fret , and think themselves ill used because their communications may not always be inserted , or for societies to trouble their heads and waste their time in passing votes of censure upon us for devoting too much space to this , or too little to that , or for inserting this thing which they think should have been omitted , or for omitting the other thing which they'think Bhould have appeared . All these are matters for our consideration , and for the exercise of our discretion and judgment , w hich , we assure nil parties , shall be always used , so far as we are able to perceive ; honestly for the public , without fear or favour to any one , and without being allowed to be turned for one instant from its course by ill-natured snarls or bickerings .

      BOOKS for Review may be left for this Office at Mr . John Cleave ' 8 , 1 , Shoe-lane , Fleefc-street , London . To Agents : —A great portion of the Ordera of our Agents which should be in our office on Thursday , at latest , have for several weeks back come on the Friday ; nearly all the Scotch Agents ' . •• ' - ' Orders - have come on the Friday often . This may be occasioned by tho delays of the mails , owing to the weather , but there certainly is no reason why the Agents at Hull , Liverpool , and even Barnsley and Bradford , should send their Ordera to reach the Office just at the time the papers are goiug out of it . Any Ordebs not in the Office oh Thuksdav 3 cannot ije atxendhd xo : and any papers returned in consequence of orders being late will not be credited .

      Correspondents op the Northern Star . — London—T . M . Wheeler , 7 , Mills Buildings , Knightsbridge . Manchester—W . Griffin , 34 , Lomas-Btieet , Bank Top . Birmingham—Gteorge"White i 29 , Brorasgrova-street Newcastle-rMr . J . Sinclair , Qateshead . Sunderiand—Kt . j . Williams ; Messrs Williams and Binns , booksellers . Sheffield—Ut Q . J , Harney , news agent , 33 , Pampo-laue . Bath —Mr . Q . M . Baitltitt , 8 , Trinity-place , Walnot . Cuartist Addresses .- —The General Secretary— -Mr . John Campbell , 18 , Adderley ? Btreet , Shaw ' s Brow , Mancheator . Chartist Blacking Manufacturer---Mr . Roger Pinder , Edward ' s-square , Ed ward'splace , Pottery , Hull , Secretary to tlte Frost , Williams , and Jones Restoration Committee—J .

      Wilkinson , 5 , Cregoe Terrace , Bell ' s Bam Road , Birmingham . — J . T , Smith , Chartisb Blacking Maker , Taviatock-street , Plymouth . \ NOTICE . ^—Any Slats , or oilier papers , aenit to the Irish Universal Suffrage Association , to be addressed to E . F . Dempsey , No . 14 , N Ann-street , " who has been elected in the room of Mr . P ^ M . Brophy , who has resigned . Derby . ——The friends of thi ? neighbourhood having communications for tfAe ~ Star , or otherwise affecting the Chartist movement , are requested to send them to Mr . Thomas Briggs , care of Mr . John MQss , shoemaker t Plumptre-square , . Dai ley-lane V Derby . Public Funds . —To prevent mistakes , let it be

      especially noted that all monies received by our Cashier for the various Chartist funds are acknowledged by him in the column of " Noticesto Correspondents , " and that he ^ is answerable only for the sumsthere advertisedto have been received . MONEV Orders to this Office . —Our cashier is frequently made io endure an amount of inconvenience utterly inconceivable by those who have not multifarious transactions like his to attend to , by the negligence of parties not attending to the plain instructions so often given , to make all money orders sent here pat / able to Mr ; John Ardill . Some orders are made payable to Mr . O'Connor—some to Mr . Hobson—some to Mr . ITill—some to Star Office : all these require the

      signatures of the person in whose , favour they are drawn before tlie money can be got . This causes an attendance at the post-office of , sometimes , several hours , when a few minutes might suffice if all were rightly given—not to mention the most vexatious delays of payment sometimes caused by it . Several old agents , who < certainly ought to know better , have often thus needlessly inconvenienced us ; we , therefore , beg that all parties / laving money to send to tlie Star Office for papers , by order , will make their orders payable to Mr . John Ardill ; if they neglect this , we shall not hold ourselves bound to attend to them ; if , therefore , they find their neglect to prodtice inconvenience to themselves ^ let them not blame us .

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      A Constant Reader , ? romptqn . — You must give six months' notice , in such sort that you quit at the end of an exact year . To the Chartists of the East and North Ridings . —Those places that have not already sent their amount of Convention Fund are particularly requested to do so immediately , to the district treasurer , Mr . Wm . C ' rojt , joiner ^ £ j ; e . Duiidas-street , York , that the whole amount may be forwarded at the same time to the proper . quarter . Messrs . Campbeix , Leaoh , akp Gabti-edgb particulavly request thai each town in the Northern Division of Lancashire will send ; a delegate to meet them at the dekqdle meeting to be held in

      Accrington , on Sunday , the 3 rd of April , as there will be business of very great importance to be transuded . -. The present Executive came into office on the 1 st of July , 1841 ; and as soon as it meets in London immediate steps will be taken for the election of the new Executive , which wilt come into office on the 1 st of July , 1842 . ; Mr , N . MoRLiNG has become agent for the sale of ¦ J > r . M * Dou , ttlVs medicines in , Brighton . To Mb . O'Connor . —Having heard it stated that you intend to visit Rochdale and tie . surrounding : towns before the Convention meet in London , ihe Rochdale Chartists wish to know if such is the fact ? If you answer by letter , direct "John Leach , Temperance News ¦' : ¦ Boom , Meed Hill ' , Rochdale . ' ' ,, ' /

      Alt . Persons having any cotnmunication with the Chartists of Kidderminster , will please address to Mr . Samuel Hilchen , sub ^ Secreldry Blackwell-street . It is earnestly requested that Devon , Dorset , and Cornwall will sendin their petitions toMr . Smith , bookseller , WestwaU-street , Plymouth . They ^ hiist be all prepaid . , > The General Secretary wishes to state that ag never received Mr . Rainsley ' s official resignation . He also says that he posted twenty-four cards to . George Didiburtf , stocking-maker , Skegby , near Suttonin-Ashjield , and has had them returned . The postage has cost lOrf . He would feel extremelyobligedto any Chartist that could send to him the following twenty-seven Stars : —Nos . 157 , 163 , 4 ; 5 , 7 , 8 . 9 , 170 , 1 , 2 ^ 3 ,

      4 , 5 , 6 , 6 , 9 , 180 , l ; 2 , 4 , 6 , 7 , 8 ,-fl . 190 , 8 , ; ¦ and 201 . : ¦•;• ¦ ¦ , ; ¦;¦ ' ¦ . .. . . ¦ ¦ ¦ ; . ¦ ¦ '¦ , . - ¦¦ . ' . '¦ ' ' : ¦' - , . : Wm . Botd , ¦ : & _ twpORT Pagnell . —Willhe write again and give his exact . address I Some Chartist Friends at Sheffield , recommend a general lum : put of the colliers , to be organised ^ and supported till the Charter be obtained . E . R . —il / r ; O'Connor ' s many engagements preclude the possibilUy of his attending to legal questions . Notice of this appeared some tvhe : agoin the Star , The Editor makes no pretensions to such legal knowledge as may enable him to give an opinion which could be relied on . Jakes Wilson must ( ike a like answer *

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      Mr . West will oblige the friends oj' Hazelgrovei by viriiing to Mr . Joseph Brooks ^ ChdppeU'Street t ¦ ¦ - as to when he can g ive them d call . ; . A Working Man , Kewpokt , Isle of Wiqht .--i You may lecture or preach in your own house ,: and will most likely never be disturbed , if yowr idnguage be at all guarded and orderly . But to make all quite sure , you had better get your house and yourself licensed . The expense is trifling and you are then safe . Hi Powell ^— We must preiume that he never reads the Star : or he would certainly never think of

      asking us whether we think it wise for-the Char * tists to sign the Sturge Declaration . True ; the " Conference" is to be elected by the signers . What then ? why need the Chartists trouble tlieir heads about Mr . Sturge's Conference ? Who does not see that it is meant only to injure and weaken ( he power and influence of the Conven * tion elected by the people ? We cqnnpl afford to divide our energies . There is nothing like concehlration % and none know this better ^ than the factions ; hence their continual throwing but of new " tubs to the whale "

      Dr * M'Douall and Mr . John Duncan . —At the request of Dr . M Doudll we give the following explanation of his reasons for the new channel into which his professional talents are directed : — "I am very unwilling to give Mr . Duncan credit as a man ,-a ChartiVt , and a parson for the malicious intent of destroying the poor prospeet of subsistence which I have before me , and conceiving that ignorance ratheir than malice moves him to fall foal of my p illbox . I will endeavour to give him the reasons -why I have come into competition ' with quackery of all sorts ; : v . " First . The Medical Profession from time immemorial have made a perfect mystery of their profession , hava covered their bottles wi ^ tx fantastic Semes .

      and have spoken , written , and prescribed in an nnknown language , therefore the public in taking . their medicines had to trust to the character , popalarity , or honesty of the profession , and wer e utterly ignorant of the cause of their disease , of the virtues-of the physic prescribed , or of the effects to be made apparent on the constitution . As a natural consequence the public could not and cannot judge and decide between the claims of science or the cures of chance , therefore mystory has bred quackery , tbat has encouraged ignorance and presumption , and botu have preyed upon public creculity . The public mind being totally darkened upon the science of mediciae by one act of medical men , we cannot wonder at 6 t blame them if they

      purchase the medicine which- is most puffad , ot ¦ employ the medical man who is mo 8 t poputar . " Secondly . I am ashamed , to say that which every apo ^ tbecary ' s apprentice can bea * testimony to , that , , under the cloak of mystery , the medical profession do prescribe medicine in large quantities , as much : fur the sake of making up a large bill as for ^ he purpose of cure ; therefore , the quacks have followed such aprofitable example , and have palmed updnthe people the most impudent frauds which ; an enlightened public mind would at once throw : . - . into the streets ,:. ¦ ; : ; ' .. ' :. : V : '' . ' ' . ' . v v ' •/ .. ¦ . ¦ '¦ ¦¦ , . ¦¦ . ' ,-. " Thirdly , the pride and conceit of the Medical Profession have taught them hitherto to look to the law fora remedy , and even at this moment , associations

      are formed to effect by legal means , the destruction * of imposture and fraud . ; " It is needless for me to say that I am utterly opposed to such an antiquated mode of doing battle with a system , which has se seriously impaired the incomes of medical men , who have , like mys . If , paid £ 1 , 000 » for the requisite education and qualifications to practice medicines V . . ; ¦ ¦; " I am opposed to persecution , because that would lead the public , medically ignorant , to suppose the Profession in the-wrong and Quackery in the right . I am an advocate for a wiser course , and in my . humble © pinion a surer and certain one , but one which I regret to say , few Medical men have the ' moral courage to resort to . ¦ . . " I would by the publication of tracta , enlighten fara familiar manner , the public mind on tbe science of medicine . I would by lectures disseminate-without

      dog-latin and absurd technicalities , as much information , as could be conveyed on the practical ' operation of medicines , and the structure of the human frame , ; together with the diseases to which particular classes of men are subject , and the known and admitted remedies . ' - ¦ :- * ' Lastly , I would at the risk of being called quacfe mercenary , or any other names , issueja medicine for a particular class of diseases , and stake name ¦ profession and character , on its efficacy . " If every Medical man would in his own locality , adopt this course , the benefit which the public would derive would be inestimable . I have taken up my position on these grounds , and nought , save abject proverty , wiil drive me from them . I will struggle to gain aa honest living , and strive to do good , whether I am sneered at by Parsons or denounced by Paysicians . "

      Boden and MorleV ' s bobbin-net weavers . —Their address next week . : . ¦ Thomas 1 Dunning . — We have never understood it to be illegal to adjourn a church-rate meeting for twelve montfiiif but toe do hot ' pretendto legal . lore . He had better not depend' o * i our ' opinion . " Citizen Epi tor , —Will you inform A Wool wick Cadet , ' through the medium of your Answers to Correspondents , that the answer (?) which he has ¦ . " " been please-d to give to my remarks on his manworship articles , and about , the presumed

      suppression of which be expressed such uneasiness in the notice to that effect which he had inserted in last week ' s St a r , was inserted in the 20 th number of the National Vindicator for the week ending Saturday , the 26 th ulfc , and that I shall reply to it very shortly in that paper . I remain , Citizen Editor , opposed to every species of man-worship , and every thing approaching to it , respectfully , &c ., HENRY Bow ell Griffiths , Chartist and RepubUcao , No . 11 , Winchester Ro w > Edgware Koad , London . : . . . . - , " - : . ' . - ' - .. :- ¦ ' :: . ¦ -. ¦ : ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ - ., ¦ ...

      Pay up , Pay up : —* ' '¦¦' . .: ¦ ¦ ¦ "' :. ¦' " AIR . EDITOR . —I have freauently seen it inserted in the Star that those Agents who do net settle their accounts when required will have their papers stopped , and that the Subscribers may know where . the f tult lies . But , Mr . E . tttor , I think there is some responsibility rests with the Subscribers ; foe though there are some who pay up honourably , thore are others from whom to get the money requires more labour than it is worth . I hope this hint will be sufficient to cause these parties to be more punctual in their payments , and thus . etable the Agent to pay without having to run up : and down borrowing money to pay fpr their papers . li you will insert this ia yoar paper you will greatly oblige , youra , io ., ROBERT SUTCLIFFE . — BoothTowu , March 29 , 1842 . " ; The Address of the delegates of ths West Midland Districts of Scotland is too long for insertion .

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      D . France , Newcastle . —We have been out of F . O'Connor ' s large portrait for a few weeks past , and could not forward the parcels very well till they came : the whole will be sent off during the next . week . . ¦ ' . ¦ - "¦ /¦ ¦ ., / . ¦ '¦ ¦' ¦ - . ' ; . '" ¦ ; " 'j :,. ' ¦ .. - ¦• - '¦ . •¦' . ' A . Smith . —The cover refers to our quarter end , March : - . 26 th . ¦ ¦ - . '• : : :- . •' " . . ' : ¦ : ' ¦ - . ¦ ' ¦ ¦' ¦ ¦' : ¦ -, ¦ ' •¦ . ' • : - " . ' / Mr . iaalton , Preston , and Mr . Whitblaw , Airdrie , ¦ must' please make their post-office orders payable to John ArdilL /

      A . FuLLER . ^ -Yes . ¦ - - . - . ' A London Chartist should have had two in twelve weeks . Ask the newsman for them , and pay tno . ; . - price .: ' -V- ,- -: -: ' ' ; ¦ ' : ' - ' ¦ ¦ •'•' ¦ : . ' : ' . ¦ ¦ . -. " ' . ' ¦¦" .. J . SkEYiNGTON . —Yes . . . ¦¦¦¦ - ' . T . Walker ; Bermondsey—A letter was sent to the . •' . address he gave . ; . - : ! Ww ^ Vooo-vvakd , Brighton . —The number of medals -were sent to Mr . Cleave for both parties—eightjfive in all . A letter has been sent to him .

      FOR THE MAK CHESTER SUFFERERS . : ¦ . - ' ¦ :- .. ¦ ¦ ¦¦; ' : ¦ ' ' .., £ a . d . ' From the Chartists of Morley ... 0 2 0 ... two muidle-6 las 8 Chartists at ¦ , - Mansfleld , per T . G . Hibbard ... e 1 0 « Armiey . per Lawton ... ... 0 0 8 ^ TOR THE WIVES AND FAMItTElS OF THE INCAKCIJfiATEn CHART / STS . From the Cflaitists of Moriey ... ' . ©'• 10 0 MRS . FROST , MRS . WILLIAMS , AND MRS . JONES From a friend from Swain Green ... 0 1 d FOR THE CONVENTION .

      Frpm a mental slave ; Chepstow ... 0 l 2 ' ¦ . ' w the Chartista cf Hawick , per J . A . Hege ... ... ;¦ .. . ; . h in 0

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      PiNDER s Blacking . —The money due this week to the Executivev from the sale of Pinder ' s blacking , 13 as follows : — ' : .: ' . _ .. : ' --V- ; - ' \ . ¦ : '¦;¦' ¦ . ' . ..:: / /¦ ¦ " ... ; ¦ Mr . Lancaster , Wakefield ... 1 8 Mr . Driffieid , Spikby ... 0 3 Mr . P ^ dgeti HuU ... - 0 3

      ' Air . Tigoit , Gainsboroagh '; .. 0 3 ¦ . r : ^? -, "; - v ¦'¦ ¦ -.- ' V-.- -- ' -: .. _ - ^ ^ : :. ' :.. - / , ; ,:. ; ' : - ¦ - . :, ¦;¦ : ¦ . " :- ¦ : . . - ;¦ :- . ; .: 2 ; 4 ¦ -:-: ; " Due to the Convention Fund * from Wm . Brysford ^ Ghartist blacking maker , -No . 18 , JHojle'Xo ^ t Buraley , March 28 oh , 1842 : — : , , ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ '' ' . ¦ - " ¦ " - ' . - - '¦ ¦ ¦¦ : ' - ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ '¦ - : : ' -- - . " . ¦ ' ' . ' . ¦ "¦ ¦ . ' . ¦ ' ¦ ¦ - ¦ : ¦ ¦' ¦ - ; : -B , \ - d . . ¦ '¦ Mr . Saffiaei MagMn , Myiholmroyd 0 4 h Mr . Henry Wood , $ abdeQ ... a 7 | -,: •• ' . -r . : ¦ •¦ ¦ '¦ ¦ ¦ ' : ' ¦ ¦' ¦ " .. ¦ ¦ . ¦' ¦ ¦ ¦• ¦ : . : / ' 10

      L < jrd Plunkett and Mr . Gordon . —The arrest and imprisonment of Mr . Samuel GordoD , by Lord Plunkett ' s order , has bean brought ; in part , before the House of Commons , by Thomas : puncooabe . Two othej petitions detailiDg more of the case are to be presented by Mr . Dancombe , and Mr . Gordoa intends , when some documents which have been stolen from the pfficra of the ' Court , are restored , to take legal proceedings for malioious and false imprisoament , againBt LordPlunkett . ' ^ mk * ' " - ^ ± i

      The I\ T 0ether]^ Star. Saturday, April 2, 1842.

      THE i \ 0 ETHER ]^ STAR . SATURDAY , APRIL 2 , 1842 .

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      at a lower eoo tnan it was ever known before , and manufacturing , in particular , is at a dead standstill—nobody working above two or three days in the week , and many hundreds idle altogether , and that at a season when , on ordinary occasions , there is usually a good deal of briskness in nianufaoturine . —SlirUng Observer .

      To Mr. James Williams, Sunderland ¦ 11 ' . '•• - ™ ¦ - ¦

      TO MR . JAMES WILLIAMS , SUNDERLAND ¦ 11 ' . ' - ™ ¦ - ¦

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      Homely Tbvth . —A gentleman who was importuned by a sturdy beggar , answered him ,- ^^ My good man , I am nearly as poor as yourself , with only the difference that what 1 hare I work for . "

      ®:O 3$M ^ Comjsjponu^Mis*

      ® : o 3 $ m ^ ComjSjponu ^ mis *

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      4 THE NORTHERN STAR . ¦¦' ^^ K 2 ^^^ k ^

      Death Of Henry Frost.

      DEATH OF HENRY FROST .

      State Op Trade In Stirling.—In This Town And Neighbourhood, At Present, Business Of All Kinds Ia

      State op Trade in Stirling . —In this town and neighbourhood , at present , business of all kinds ia

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 2, 1842, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct884/page/4/