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    • THE N0ETHERN STAB,. SATURDAY, JULY 16,1342.
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      THE BRIGHTON CHARTISTS AND THE SORTHEBX STAR . TO THE EDITOR . 0 ? ME yORTISERN STAB . DEA . B . Sis . —The enclosed address vas introduced at our usual weekly meeting , tbe Bricttoa Chartists being anxious to fcxpr £ 33 their r-: i :. ion of yonrself * cd cor O'Connor , earnestly rc-qac&iing yea to give it insertion . ¦ We . -whose names are attached to this address , beiD ? Tnenibe ^ cf the General Council , and members of the 3 fat : —nil Oonrter A-= socistion , i « K : d : n ^ 5 n Brighton .

      lisvisg iriEnesESti with deep resxfct tie divisions cai-sea in th ' w town , ana tnronEr-. our the errantry generally , by tfce CDEdtct of Biine men whoo \ we had reason to T ^ spsct for their advocacy of our principles , and being anxious to use onr ir flur :: ce t : > restrain either good or bad men from injuring U . Et cause which is es dear to ns as our UTr 3 , as x 6 ii ss to checfc any " new move " that may " m v . n-i ^ ry intsresttd individuals , have conaltered zz to heonr duty to introduce snd support at oar ¦ wttKJy laeetina the foilo ' -riiij ; resolutiBn , proposed by 24 r . Allen , secoi . ckd by Jdx . Fio-wers : —

      ** That ¦ we , the Chartists of Brighton , earnestly desiling to see that nnion and brotherly attachment exist ¦ between til ibOMs Vfho are striving to obtain political freedom for the psopls , believing it to be essential to tte snr-cess tf tn& cause , hive read -srith deep regret the pampsici tntitled ' A Vindicitioa of Mr . -O'Brien ' s Cv ) v . "u ; t at , idb lite Birmia ^ hsm Cjnftriiica / and containic ? a vsrirty of other ^ rticlea which , in en ? cp ' -idon , nmn iave the tendeccy to cause di&ses-» oa in our ranks , tvs tkertfare respectfully , bat earnestly , request tiat Mr . O'B'ifn , -with every other frisr . a to c-ar cause , " will abi-jjin , areorriins to the resolution z ^ d secoinxi ^ ndalk-n t-f the late Cor-Tenucn , from eitner vrivlns . siiTing , or doir . 5 any ding th . -. t may hava the tfx ^ t of censing disunion amor . ? rhe-Ccariiii body ; t-u : that throach ^ the

      uuiair & ~ cuct E . ~» i abssive Is ^ gruge thc = d -who Yrtre eppor .-d to this ri §¦ >'; alien—Ench aa representing osr xesT ^ wtc-i and venerable friend Flower , as a trailer , aod Tii ' r . g l ; rg ^ ige disgraceful to any bocy cf menihs Chabnian -iissc / md tee meeting , after five tvenings " s Oiicntsion , -wiiuiint patting eitaer the above resoiuti . iu . or their amendment , 'which "WES' an ulquahscd vote of thanks , from all parses . Ar . y sabstqn = iit uroceedlacs ttb havs had nothing to do ivittij Beilelt do v > 3 recognise any ; and we hereby txpreis obt t ^ tira confidence in Mt . Hill , the eaitox cf tta HorJicrn Star , aa-1 FsarsuB O'Connor , E-q ., its noble proprietor , and are f&liy reserved to stand by and suppcit them , to ths nt . iicst of our power , - while they pniine £ ae perieVciing Btraightforvard course they fcave hitherto Cons . "

      John Pace James Agbnrn . George YiC ^ s John Knight Wiiiima Tlj ^ er Join Goddard James Wiliiaais Thomas Pubtr Wiilistn Lewis William Fisber Osorgt ; G-lts Henry Mitchell Jamss Picsman , sen , John Allen John PiUicg - George Ramsey H <^ ry 'fuiett William R-ad 331 * ard Fencer Wiiliani Ee-id " William Stanlty Stephen Burton John Kose Gr ^ rge Tis ^ nison Abram Bnnt H-. nry Bro-s-ne " VViiiiaui Eii j Edmund Paaaflesbnry Jcsej-h Fileman BicLaru Goo&vra ffi ;" ' - " - ! Pttis ; Girr ^ a C ; lis , Chiircia-i . William Flower , suc-Ireastirer

      There are cany exhtrs of the very beft Cliarrlsta in this to-s-n -sho wish to skn it , but wo are afriid cf inakiiig the list too long for your coiurans . Brighton , Jase 27 ; h , 1842 . CThe above t 3 dress "was duly received in accordance •« rith its date ; but "we "were desirous to have done ¦ with the matter to -which it refers . Having been twice "wiitttn to by tha parties , vre give it at tbtir earnest request , and have only now to add to it our own requ- ^ t that , "whatever m ^ y be their opinions respectively 03 matters of 5 nff rier coniegnence , the liOEeit friends of CbartLsm in Brighton -will at least let tbe enemies of freedom knor ? tha : their private disagreements do col rt ; paratc them from tbe

      coadvueacy of public principlts . We thask onr frien-. s for the expression of th- : r c < "iod opinion ; and trust thi-. t ibev will as readily f-.- ^ et the matter of diff « re == i ss tys ha-re slready f : TvoTt ? ii it , iiad forrivsc ilS SBihi . rS . TV = &SH avfaJt- that erery possible eSbrt ia being mads to " keep Ep the steam ; " bnt the iiarcesl £ re -will bam tut , if no futl be E-uppisd : and vre us flvitniined tint the interested pardes to this disgrac ; fal squabW ^—disgracsful oniy t- "> its origin ^ tars—iuall drag jio nitre fuel from us . We recommend a jike course of forbearance to onr fritods . I ^ t us jo straight en enr -way , and treat tue br ^ sisrs -with contempt . Tbi-y v ? iil fea qtuet ¦ whea IL-y £ nd that their voiiferations prufuke eo response . —Ed . 7 fi " . j

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      THE MAXCHSSTER MEETING OF THE NEW EXECUTIVE OP THE NATIONAL CHARTEB ASSOCIATION , On Moec % 7 , Xts ilS day . of July , the Ezecntivs sssiiubi&l to perf ^ rnircr . ae cutVs -which ! 3 ve c ^ volvrd rvpsn tisEni by tie Ec 3 rages cf the membera of the JjajioosJ Cctsrter ^ i 5 sot ; atao 3 r Tae fc-Uorri ^ g t ^ -j-cts -srere diEcnssod , and the snb ^ joined reEsIuticaa unanimously jdiptrd , and rrdered to be printed in tie t-rgin cf the miiveniintr for the conaderaticn and adoption cf the ciciubtra ci ths

      Associa-OFFiCE BEA 2 ERS . It -s-as resolved that James Leach do continue to er-jsUe taa duties of President of tie EAc ; ctive . - It was resolved that John Campbell do art aa Secretary . It -was resolve *? that the thanks of tha F-iocntive be Siren to ilr . H ^ rtrood . Iriascrer ef the Association . It ^ "as res-. lv&d that in ccns = qnetce of tha removal o " the Srcrctary f / em > ls . ~ zbi £ iiz to London , Mr . John Cieavs be appointed Trtasarer to the Association for the ^ -n : n ? v « i-

      ELZCTIOX OF EXECCTJTE COUNCIL . Tt -was agreed to appeal to the jBemben of the Xational Charter As ? ossatioa on the question ci altering tSedats cf tha aanoel -electioa cf the Executive , and to preTent future compisvst . to cava tfc ^ rr sanction to iussrt . in the rules a ^ d TeirilatiDns , Juie , instead of rer-rasjy ; J 21 V , Instead of i JJarch . The Cooscil are thertfjre rcqasated to bring this sutjert btfora the Assi < ciaucn .

      0 PxGA . ^ IZiTI 0 ^ . The aspectot the n-jvemeit and tfc& jtreegth and po--iti-7 i of the Aisc-clAtic-n , trere tsten i : « inr . tnre cw ; =: J * riticn , ar ; l i-: Trai r ^ i 'IveJ to draw up " s , d- L ^ - trict ]^^ for the-trhole ratios , to jrerare a rlan for eectirlr : 2 cr-mtnolious Erctir . ^ boasts , to rtc . --- : iuitnd teajx s ~ :-2 irisaas of drfrsylng ths ^ tcnrlaat ts-: fnct : s . of tl :- ; in-Tcrnisst . aui for tha p-rpose of practlfiUy trrrtine these ruexsn ^ es , nad c 1 i 5 ; assi 22 others of ^ qsa ! iicuort-j ' . se , a . nd of <' . r ? iEir . 2 f ff-ttarj mt-anB if T . r&vcnt-Wg d ! - * fs : ' ons « : d sc ^ sbWfs f-tb ? future Ln ta ^ Xitlonal Cairii _ r A ! s : c -s , ticn , it -s-as rsst-lved to ? u-r : Tnoiid TiliSE GE . EAT CCXPEasNTES .

      Ji--= Oir £ ii iiit cs-ch con / erence ^ o cuniist d =: « T 3 tes rVvm ci : a lccility , tha nnmlKr cf d =-= Uc-s to he * e ^ nJ ^ -- 'd 2 £ Ci . r : ii : g to the resource of rha localitiva . s :. d nch delc- ^ ata to be a member of the General Goonclf .

      THE FIRST C 05 FEHESCE ¦ wH l b =- Jasmonsd to meet in Manchester on ths-16 th ^ ay of Acgust . lilE SHCOSD CO ^ FERESCS "Kill t-e sun ? mo £ tiJ to meet in London on tha presentation c-f the Na ; : ocal Memorial to the Gaeen .

      : ; e thikd coyrET . ESCS VU 11-3 ETusaoned to meet in Biminahain . POLITICAL PRISONERS . The Ex = cnt ; ve ate , frora the general appearance of tie i-onstry . iisd icf-naation received , f > : v sali ^ Sfd that . th = sovcrDTncTi-s b ^ -re le- 'oivsd to prosecul ? , arrest , and JEjpn ^ n tbe leaders of the mi-vt : s- ; nt or . ib = least < > -piir' . 3 T . Iry bticg tS ^ rdecl them . Tr . j Es-.-c ^ tiv : titTifc- ? c-ii :: ion the n : en > b £ r . s of the Aiir-ciatioagsr . si ths idi-ption of si-y secret plsns cf rsistarce , SEf } cd' ^ e th ; : u to < ii ? ct 3 iiitpsisc * sU Ticcnmi 5 Lcat 5 or _ s to the U ££ cf physical fciae . Siv ^ ral cf th-. - siembt-rs

      bare b-.: n airi&c / arrested r-nd imprisoned , ana the Ecscntivt iberdoro ri-ecmmeud a levy to l » e miden-ocn € sch p-. tTibgr o" one penny , to fce paid at tvr < i diSiicnt tim ^ s ; tL « tvaol-j amount r- j coUected to bs ca : l-.-. i tLe Katic-ri ' il Tictiu ; Fund , and to ba spplied to th « sapyort ¦ cf the f ^ tj ; i ; : » -s of aii political-prisoners , and int ; ri . ' « sr ; ecaiiy to its niaintenanca of tie family of the tx-ied Patriots , and of the murdered Ciayton and Holberry 5 Hhe C . UEcil are , therefore , caiied noon to aooDt thi £ ¦ srithuat rislay , ^ nd to forward the amount to the g * neril Treasurer , Mr . John Cleave , specially mentjonin s tiss purpose fcr which-it is sent , £ 0 that distinct acconnta rsr . y be preserved .

      FItOST , WILLUilS , A > D JO ^ ES . The Eiecutiva most earnestly call spon the members cf the >" atioaal Charter AEsociation to tring the Buf » iermsE cf tbe exiits 6 ua tteir unprotected families ? eastsstly btfare ti » notice of the people , and at all jrablie nifcettngg te testify tiieir sympathy for them , not only by the usual Totes , but iiiewise by pecuniary « ontribatioEfc THB SATIOSAL REH 0 XST 3 AXCE TO THE HOCSE OP

      COJIilOSS . Each locality ia requested to prepare their remon-* trsncR 5 , to attach the Chairman ' s nai > . is to each efeeet , and fOT-5 ? sr ^ the same immediate ^ to T . S . Dancombe iLP ., tt& Albany , Lon-ion . THB SiTiOXAi MEMORIAL . Tbe date fixed for ths plantation of tie Memorial i » li'Mrfaj , Sept ember lS : h- Oa that oreasiva , a great procession wiil accompany the memorial to tha Qaeen s P . « ac »; and as the Xosdon a 3 enibers bore rbe tiital expeace attendant npon tbe- prcscctiVon of th * National Fctit-ioa ,-it is tzs'yxmzce * ih 3 ; the country ^ oa . f .-aytneexpeaceattc ^ -l ^ t epen ti 3 nrt sui ' ation « f tie ciesicriaL The Zs « 2 tivc thcrtforc recom-

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      mend each locality to forward , one fortnight previous to the presentation , subscriptions , not less than n ^ e shillings , to the General Treasurer , particularly stating the object far -which the money ista be expended . LECTURERS . The Executive took into tiieir serious consideration the numerous complaints -which have been made eoncerning tke present loose and -unsatisfactory manner in which lecturers are sppointed . They are apprehensive of the danger to be inenrred should unknown and unqualified men be recognised as belonging to ,, and

      holding responsible offices in , ths National Charter Association , and have therefore recommended that in future no person ought to be received as & Chartist lee-Jurer , v ; ho does not bear with him a clear and satisfactory appointment to that office , issued by tbe General Council , and signed by the leading members of the fccaUty in -which he has resided , and -where his character anti principles are best known . It was also resolved , ihat the General Council , after the nominatien of lecturers , do forward a list of the appointed lecturers fcr publication , and to enable the Executive to choose from the whole men , to agitate the

      TJXOKGAMZED DISTRICTS . For which purpose an agitating fund shonld be established , by usvoting the proceeds of one lecture , ball , or soiree for that especial purpose , every G ' nartisi ; lending Ms gratuitous aid for that important end .

      THE CHARTIST PRESS . The Executive are anxious that every encouragement snd rapport be given to tbe organs of the movement , and that the Star , the Statesman , the Trumpet of Wales , and every other publication inserting our documents ted advocating our pri&cipies , should be rend and circulated . The smallsr organs have invariably been allowed to dia , and it is with regret that the Executive perceive that tho English Chartist Circular is almost about to

      expire for want of due encouragement to such a talented , cheap , and instructive sheet . It is important thai a halfpenny publication should belong to our movement , if it were for no other purpose than to enable the poorest to read , and the richer to purchase it , and circulate , by an essy medium , the principles of the Peoples Charter . The Executive therefore call upon the Coccci ] and tho membera to sid them in upholding this the smallest and ch&apist of our Chartist papers , Lot only on account of its merit , bnt of its utility to the cause .

      STATE OF TEE COUMRT . The Executive have seriously deliberated upon the distrt-ss of the people , and deplore the absence of the Suffrage , which could so speediiy exchange co ; tfort for poverty , plenty for starvation , and freedom for submission . They do not see any just cr wise remedy in violence cr insurrection , neither do they Eca Tfisdom in uncomplaining obedience and servile eiltr . ee . Therefora they are prepared to reeonmwnd p-iiceful and constitutioiial

      rLTEJtIOR MEASURES , sis soon as they have gained the legal opinion of an eminent barrister , at the head of the movement , whose jadginent will not be biassed by the fear of government , But whese opinion will be tempered by anxiety for the success of tbe cause , and care for the safety of the people , the leaders and the Charter . The Esi-ccrive -will , therefore , be pTepareti to recom-DlGIld maaynes cf peaceful resistance t » tke assembled conferences of the Association , where they will have the benfcfk of the opinions cf the leading councillors of the National Charter Association .

      FINANCE . The Executive proceeded to examine the accounts of the Secretary , and discovered that every debt of the old Executive was defrayed , and that a considerable sum was due to the present body for cards . IE is to bt ; heped that the Executive of the present body will meet with the same support , and on the termination of their annual term cf office , have as ltttle reason for complaint The strength of tbe Executive lies in tbe command of funds , and their weakness consists in not being supported ; but the experience of the past affords no reason for apprehension in the future ; snd the present body throw themselves entirely upon the judgment of a pt-ople who will hare sagacity enough to protect and suppott them in the performance of a dnty so sacred and responsible . Joh > " Campeei / l , Sec .

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      THE MIDDLE CLASS MOVEMENT AND - THE RIGHT MODE OF TREATING IT . Kothisg can be mcro important than that the people should rightly understand and duly appreciate the disposition now manifested by a portion of tbe middle classes to raise an outcry for extended suffrage . We are quite aware that by some ( it may be honest-minded but we must thick shortskilled ) Chartists , we have been thought a little

      too sceptical of the intentions , and too suspicious of tho motives , of the new-fledged middle class " Chartists-ia-priuciple-but-not-in-name . " It is argued by some that the character of the middle classes is not now what it was ten or twenty , nor even what it was five or seven years ago ; that whereas they were then universally opposed to the granting of the people's rights , many of them , now , acrnit that the people have rights , and ought not to be dispossessed of them ; tbat this is to be regarded as a str-p in the ritht course—as an advance towards the recognition of just principles ^ and that those advances should by no means be repelled , but , on

      the contrary , encouraged ; that we have nothing to do with tkeir motives ; that their sincerity or insincerity is of no moment to us ; that it matters not whether they mean good to ns or whether they only mean good to themselves through onr instrumentality ; that our business is to accept their advances and proffered aid in a frank and friendly ppirit—to give them credit for good intentions while their acts tend manifestly to onr good , and to reciprocate such acts by every means in our power that involves no compromise of principle ; shewing ourselves as disposed to conciliate as to be conciliated .

      Now , vre arc as ready as any not merely to admit bat to insist that whenever their acts lend manifestly to out good , these acts—no matter vrhat may have been their motive—shonld be reciprocated and encouraged . We merely wish the people to make themselves quite sure , before they fly Into the anas of those who profess themselves almost persuaded to be Chart : sis , that their acts do tend manifestly to our good . We have not yet been able to satisfy ourselves that any oT the many " new moves" , which have successively enjoyed the sunshine

      of middle-class countenance , has either had or been intended to hare feis tendency . We Eee nothing in the character acd condnci of tbe middle classes now thatdoessoi designate them clearly as thesame selfish , gra ^ P-ng , erafty , cowardly , dishonest politicians and socictariaiis that they have ever been . Ii certainly is not in such details of injustice , and oppression , and wickedness , as abound in our present paper , and in every honest record of passing treats ; it is not in the locking up cf the white slaves by the Whig millof

      OTm- ^ rs Bmgley , lest they should hear the truth respecMns the cause of their degradation , at the iite visit of O'Cossor to that town ; it-is not in the compelling by the master coal and ironstone miners in Scotland , of their man to sign a- new code of rules—the very first of which is , that they s' all not , duriDg the time of their enqageaent , attend any meeting , by night or by day , above ground or below gronnd , and especially the meetings of the " Coal Miner ' s Association , " besides plundering their labour through the medium of fraudulent weights

      against which the poor fellows are now petitioning ; it is not in the brutally abusing and discharging from bis employment of a good man for attending poor Hoiberrt ' s funeral ; it is not in the thousand different forms unde r which tb . 0 infamous tnick system of robbery manifests itself tbrougaoufc ihe whole of ihe manufacturing and mining districts it is not in th © heartlesEness with which the poor agricnltnral labourers ( decoyed from their own districts daring the transient rampancy of an "increased foreign trade" by lying promises fop the

      sake of keeping down wages ) are now left to die of famine ; it ia not to the devotion , at a single breakfast , of nearly £ 2 , 000 to the carrying of words abroad while their next door neighbours are dying of hanger and robbing swill tubs for ood ; it is not in their reoent exhibitions of sympathy with ns as jnry-men , when onr best men were , by shoals , committed to the dungeon's glaom for the assertion of our principles ; it is not in the judicial murder of Clayton and Holberry , the all but murder of Duffy and Hoey , and

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      the now slowly perpetrating murder of Peddie and Brook , tbrongh the malignity of middle class jurors ; it is not in their utter refnsal to co-operate with us in demanding the recall of the unjustly and illegally expatriated Welch patriots ; it is not in the sufferings of the savagely and cowardly persecuted , and unjustly convicted and expatriated , victims of their own riot in the bull ring at Birmingham ; it is not to

      any of these prominent mai k 3 of middle class character , nor yet to their more recent evidence of sympathy in the case of Mason and his Chartist brethren at Stafford , that we can look for-any ' amelioration of the character which appertained to them in years gone by . It may be that our vision is beclouded , bnt to us , they wear the Fame aspect of dogged , unreasoning , and unreasonable , sordid selfishness as they have ever done .

      W ell , but " vast numbers of them" now , " not only recogaise us as an integral and important part of the body politic , but they have actually , in some instances , paid court to us !" If this had been a new point in their . < character , we might probably have been more easily deceived by it ; but we are old enough to remember that this is not the firBt occasion on which these parties , —not simply the middle class of that day , but the middle class of this day—have thought it necessary , for the attainment of their own objects , " not only to recognise ns as an integral and important part of the

      body politic , but actually to pay court to us" ; and , knowing this , we are the less dif posed to give them credit for any purpose now but that of again playing the same game . While , therefore , we , as well as the advocates of the middle class suffragists , " should deem ourselves criminal in tho sight of the people , and traitors to the cause , if we offered them any the slightest obstruction , when disposedno matter from what cause— -to give a helping hand towards carrying the Charter " , we wi 6 h , before

      lending ourselves to them as tools in their hands ^ to know that they are giving a helping hand towards carrying the Charter ; and that they are not , whilo am using us with talk about the Charter , securing our help for the carrying of their own '' free trade " and "extension" projects , by the attainment of which our bonds would be rivctted more firmly , our poverty and degradation made more appalling , and the carrying of tho Charter indefinitely postponed .

      We have never offered them any obstruction . We have never recommended that the slightest obstruction should be offered to them . We have never repelled any one of their advances in the right course . On the contrary , we have given them every encouragement in our power . We have continually laboured to ehow them that their real interests were effectually bound up with ours , and have invited them to join the people in demanding that universal right which must , eventually , issue in universal good . We have been always most anxious to see the middle

      classes join the people , and nothing could have given us so much pleasure as the consummation of this great good ; but we see a great difference between accepting the aid of the middle classes and suffering ourselves to be used by the middle classes ; and hence we have been just as car , ful to avoid the latter as to obtain the former . For this reason we have watched always , and watched narrowly , the movements of these middle class gentry . We knew that no jot of the full measure which was the object of our righteous contention could be abated ** without a compromise of

      principle , " and that therefore if any honest coalition took place between us and the middle classes , it must be by their coming to us , and not by our going to them . This has always been our doctrine of " conciliation . " Wo know nothing of any "disposition to conciliate " which could induce us to give up one tittle of our full principles , or to slacken one breath of the fulness of our demand for right . Hence our continual warning of tho people againEt the " Ballot , " the " Foreign Policy , " the "Household Suffrage , " the "Short Parliaments , " the "Education

      Suffrage , " the " Repeal of the Corn Laws , " the" Repeal of the Poor Law , " the " Manhood Suffrage , " tha Universal Suffrage , without details , " and all the other crack moves of the middle class men , whether Whig or Tory . We have sung always one song . We have said to the people , " Keep where you are ; stir not an inch ; and when they see that they can ' t' fetch' you , they will come to you . " The event has justified us . The very same parties who have successively tried all these moves have taken the last position prior to an amalgamation with the people . They have admitted all

      the principles for which we contend ; but they still siickle , and would still divide hs on the paltry matters of inferior details—of leadership—and of a designation . This is , to us , evidence of insincerity ; and we must see better reasons for it than we have yet seen from its warmest advocates , before we can consent to regard it otherwise . But it is said that their recognition of oar principles , vrkether Bincere or not , tends to tbe enhancement and confirmation of those principles ; and must , therefore , however it may have been intended , be a great good , if we don't prevent it . Just so . And this 13 just

      what we hare always said ; the very dootrine first preached , and often repeated by us on this subject Immediately on our learning that the Complete Suifragist 3 had admitted all our principles , but yet refused to make common cause with us , we at once stated the opinion which we now repeat , that the conference men had proved to a demonstration their own insincerity , aud that the people ought not by any means to unite with them ; while at the same time we mo 3 t strongly warned them against

      effering any opposition to the new-formed " National " Complete Suffrage Union ; but exhorted them , on the contrary to protect and assist them on allocoasions of their public assertion of our principles . In our , leading article of the 16 th of April , which we wish every Chartist would again read , after reasoning the whole question and proving the insincerity of the new " new-movers , " we gave oar opinion to the people in terms which we now repeat , having carefully reviewed and seeing no reason to repudiate them : —

      " The people should have nothing to do with them . They should leave them alone in their littlenfEF , and laugh at them . The people must not oppose them , for tkc-y profcsB to be seeking the advancement of our principles ; , let them , therefore , go on their own way ; and if they are determined to go alone—if they are determined to make a foot-road for themselves alongside the people ' s turnpike , in God ' s name , let thein walk on it until their ancles ache , and they be ^ in to feel their loneliness ; but support them against the factions in all their assertions of the great principles of liberty .

      If they should be weak enough to take the open field in defence of our principle ? , relying on their own strength , rush to the rescue , lest the enemy should overcome them ; let them not , by any means ' be beaten by the open and avowed advocates of class legislation : on every public occasion when the Complete Sufiragites muster for the assertion of our common principles , there let the Chartists muster with them to a man ; let there be no such division in oar ranks as ihe enemy can take advantage Of j let them be well protected , and by our assistance made triumphant , in every public assertion of our principles which they may attempt ; but never leave them

      without letting them know to whom they are indebted j never leave a meeting without a resolution pledging the people to their old leaders so long as these remain faithful , to their tried friends , who have braved the battle and the brcexa , to their own national organisation , which they know to be legal and efficient , and to the evidence of sincerity to the cause by enrolment in the National Charter Association . This is the advice we give the people ; we give it in * all sincerity and earnestness ; and we tell them , that if it be not heeded , they are likely to have bitter and abundant reason for repentance . " We wish to recall attention to this advice , and to intreat the pe vple never to lose Bight of it . We do

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      so the more particularly , because we hear that during tbe past week a meeting of Cjmplots Suffragists at Bristol , was disturbed and opposed by Chartists . If this was so , it was very wrong . It was affording ^ so far as it went , just cause for tho very complaints of intolerance and violence which the Complete Suffragists urge as a pretext for dividing the strength of pur common body by refusing to unite with ub . Again we say , " the people must not oppose them . " They profesB to assert and advocate our . principles ; and when they meet for that purpose , as seems to have been the case at

      Bristol , they should Bucely be allowed to do so peaceab ly » and in their own way . The duty of Chartists in- '¦¦ r eference .- to the Complete Suffrage union is very clear . It is their duty , while they carefully avoid joining or in any way " : actively assisting the union , to avoid , as carefully , the offering of any opposition or annoyance to them . Attend all their meetings ; and , so long as they assert without compromising our principles , take no part in their meetings ; leave them to do ¦ tb * jir ' 'own--. work , -

      nhaided , but unmolested ; but if any compromise be attempted—any shirking or burking of any ; of our great questions , or any making of them subservient to " Free Trade , " or" Corn Law Repeal , " or "Poor Law Repeal , " or any othe ^ isolated matter—or if either Whigs or Tories take the field in opposition to the Complete Suffragiats , then let the Chartists do their duty ; let every other consideration merge in the great consideration of the assertion and upholding of the glorious principles of Chartism .

      This is the only way in which the Charter movement of the middle classes can be made to subserve the interests of our Cause . Let the Chartists thus act , and , if the middle class be sincere in their movement , they will soon discover their own weakness and the absolute necessity of laying aside their fastidiousnesa and coming to the people J that they may have power to attain their object ; if they be insincere , they will be fast nailed to the pillory Of their own shamo , and compelled either to exhibit their true character , or to go on aiding the work of righteousness against their will . In either case , the people will thus make tho most of the middle class movement , by merely adopting the right mode of treating it .

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      not be glad to sff > rd proof of his thorough attaohment to the demooratio principle by making personal consideration at once bend to public consistency . Let us not be 1 accused of 'denouncing- ' the Executive . We have an opinion on tho matter ; we have a right to state that opinion ; and there it is . Every other member has an equal right to have his opinion ; antf we only wish out ' s to be taken for as much aa it is worth . It is quite competent for the

      people to make the alteration the Executive wish ; but it can only bo done properly and legally in one of two ways-reithar by a general ballot , as in the election of the Executive , or by a National Delegate Meeting ; It is certainly not worth the expencp of a National Delegate Meeting : and a > general Ballot would be just the game trouble and expehce as reelaqtiing the Executive at the right time | so / that nothing would be gained by that , save a perfectly useless alteration , merely for the sake of change .

      With respect to tho " three great Conferences " proposed to be called by the Executive , we really think that ia the present depressed state of the country the people ought to have more information as to the necessity ' . for these ConferenoeB than we have yet seen , before they are put to so tremendous an " expenefe It is a very easy thing to talk ot summoning National Conferences ; but the poor people , who have the money to find , and upon whom there are just now so many , many drags , ought to be well satisfied of the absolute necessity for them before

      they agree to them . Our own opinion is , that there is no necessity at all for these Conferences ; at least we have not yet seen any . If the plan of the National Charter Association be duly acted on , the ExecuUvo can obtain the opinions of all its members upon any subject much more effectually by proposing the subject to their consideration , and requesting a general vote upon it , than by tbemuch more expensive , and innch less general expression of opinion , which might be obtained from a National Delegate Meeting ; because in the former case all could vote , and consequently all opinions

      would bo expressed ; whereas in the latter case , very many localities being prevented , by distance and expence , from sending delegatesi would be utteily unrepresented . We trust , therefore , that if the necessity for these three conferences bo apparent to the Executive , they will make it apparent to the people before calling them , and that if by any means the expense can be avoided-it may be ; that so the people may be all the better

      prepared to uphold the hands of the Executive with funds for lecturiug , publishing , and other absoliflklynecestary purposes . We cordially reciprocate their opinion , that" the strength of the Executive lies in the command of funds , and their weakness consists in not being . supported . " ; We trust to see them much better supported in this way than they have ever yet been ; and for that reason we are very anxious that the resources of the people should not be subjected to needless drains .

      In concluding our remarks , we again beg that the spirit of them may not be either misconstrued or misrepresented . The last Executive , in their valedictory address , admitted their public documents to be fit subjects for observation and comment . We hope the present Executive will not find anything here than fair comment in the few observations we have thought it our duty to make on this their first public document .

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      THE " EXTENSION OF COMMERCE " GENTRY . TEEIR CONFERENCE . THE LATE MEETING OF THE LEEDS SHOPKEEPERS . « NQ POLITICS" ! The " Extension" men of Leeds are sorely provoked at tho romarks we thought proper to make upon the recent meeting of the Leeds shopkeepers ; and more particularly that portion of them where we stripped the " no politics" portion of the concoctors' humbug of its very thin and awkwardly contrived veil . They cannot disguise their chagrin . It peeps out , notwithstanding all the attempts of Mother Goose to smother and hide it .

      It was an adroit attempt on the part of the "Extension men" to turn to their own selfish account tha very distress and privation they have themselvescaused ! and there is no wonder at their grief and rage at being foiled . " Extensions of Commerce" have done their work . They have reduced the working portion of the population to starvatioa and death ! and they have brought the middling , the shopkeeping , class to beggary and ruin . But while they have done this , they have given MILLIONS and ?' HUNDREDS

      OF THOUSANDS" to our Mabshalls and our Gotts ; our Peels , our Abkwrights , our Sxrutts , our Boultons , our Grants , our Smiths , our Gregs , our CoBDENS , our D * ers , our Walkers , and our Dunns . Though they have yeilded such bitter fruit to two entire classes of the community , the above-named individuals and a few others have made " a pretty penny" by thorn 1 " It ia an ill wind indeed that blows nobody good : ' - and the interested in tl Extensions of Commerce" have raked up to themselves immense treasure from the nation ' s rain" ! . "

      Their wealth has given them power . That power they have used , and continue to use , to acquire to themselves more Wealth . To do this it is necessary for them to have further "Extensions of Commorce . " The workings of their own system have brought their twde almost to a stand-still . They have immense sums "invested" in mills and machinery . Unless . theseare " running " , thit "investment" makes n ? return . " To find employment for their machinery , they want "Extension of Commerce * " They have got it into their noddles that a Repeal of the Corn Laws would give thorn such

      " Extension ; " and they , therefore , use every means within the compass of their well-practised art and wile to procure the " Repeal . " One of their means is to pretend to deplore the Buffering they have occasioned ; to " SYMPATHISE" with the starving ; to counsel and advise ; the beggared and ruined ; and to press upon the Government the wretched state of the working and middling classea , with a view to the devisement of measures of relief : they taking good carp that the pn ly measure brought under the notice of the Minister shall bo that one they have determined to carry for their own selfish ends!—Corn Law Repeal !! ¦

      Ever since the dismissal of the Whigs from office , the cue of the Extension men has been to cry up the distress and suffering everywhere abounding . Before that period they denied its existence ! There is lying before us , at this moment , a large " blue book '' of 798 folio pages , crammed with " evidence" taken before the " Select Committee on Manufactures , ( Commerce , and Shipping , ' in the year 1833 . That Committee examined Marshall , of Leeds , Greg , of Manchester , Lewis Lotd , Kirkman Finlay , Joshua Bates , Henry HuGHiis , John Brooke , Timothy Wiggin , George dk H . Larpent , and a

      whole host of other millowners arid merchants ; and the whole point of their evidence was to prove that the condition ef all classes of society never was so good as at that time ! that wages were as good / as they were ever known to be ; and that the workman was able to procure everything that was necessary to enable him to live in comfort and " independence . " Tften % " aever were there such prosperous times , ' was the cue ; and this continued up to the period of the Whiga being thrust out of power ! Noio \ ; - "it is with these same parties , bankruptcy , " " ruin , " " starvation , " " death" !

      [ By-the-bye the ' ' *• blue book" jnst spoken of containssome queer things jsomeTEBTj «« rthings . Amongst others it contains the new mode of dis-TRiBUTioM , under the millowners' system . To make ont their then case , Mr , Prosperity Marshall , ; of Leeds , was imprudent enough , to ' give to tho Committee a list of the respective rales oj wages he paid bis mill " hands , " averring that he had paid according to that rate for more than twenty years previously . This list enables us to see who has had the lion ' s share of the wealib produced in Marshall ' s mill ! ThiB list lets us into the secret of » MILLIONS" of money to the " proprietor / 1 and of paltry pence to the worker J ! Thia list is

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      extremel y valuable . We shall try , some day , to place it before the publio in a , light Mr . Marshall little thought of when he gave it ! In the mean time we just barely mention the fact that the list , as" given in by Marshall himself , gives an averag e of 6 s . 1 l ^ d . per week for the whole ? hands'' ho employs !!!—and that I 63 . ' 7 j . il . is the utmost average he pays to "hands" of twenty-ona sears of age and upwards I just mentioning this fact , and just reminding the reader that this man , who contended before the Committee that his

      menweavers , ( who he showed were only receiving 10 s . 6 d « per week III ! for a whole week ' s work , ) were " exceedingly well off" 1 that "their wages were as high then as during the war ; and that , as provisions were much cheapened , their wages would produce to them more comfort" ! ; jugfc reminding the reader that the man who thus " evidenced" had thed bagged for himself upwards of two millions of money , we leave the subject for the present ; Some day or other we shall hare a pretty expose in connection with it . ] ; ;

      To accomplish their object—the forcing / the Tory Minister either to give them " Repeal " or to quit effice , the IV Extension' * men have what they call a , Conference now sitting in London . This Conference is composed of parties ; selected by the members of the anti-Corn Law League . When this move was determined on , jt was also determined •' ¦ - . to get the ^ ^ Shopkeeping class to squeak out , so M to frighten Peel , if possible , into the demands of the confederated Extensionists . " Ready tools were set to work ; and , under

      the pretextof" serving no party , " " having nothing to do with politics , " " pointing out no remedy , " they succeeded , in one or , two instances , to get the shopkeepera to give mouth . Leeds was one instance . Before that meeting some of its concoctors had departed for London , to sit on the "Conference "; and after the meeting others of them , who had merely been left behind to do tho ' "^ humbugging '' portion of the business ( " no politics !") joined their colleagues , and U 3 ed ; the Squeak so as to forward the ends of , the " no politics" Corn Law Repealing gentry 11

      In another portion of our paper will be found a paragraph descriptive of an interview the confederated humbugs have had with the Minister . THERE they used the Shopkeepers' Squeaks in accordance with their present cue ; and although the poor brokenspirited humble TiLL-ocracy " oould not presume to point out a remedy , " the dextrous pullers of the wires that set the " humble" ones a ^ danting , took care to represent it as " their belief that a Repeal of the Corn Liwa was the only means of relief" ! 1 ! ( 01 how well the " no politics" dodge ! answers I ) Disappointment was the result of tbia interview ; for they found that Peel too "SYMPATHISED ^ with the distress occasioned by *• Extensions of Commerce" J and they deterinined to " continue their sittings , and to use every constitutional { . of coursej meanB for the attainment of their object . "

      Now then , for the " Constituttonal Means" of the confederated Extension men * In their organ , the S'wra , of Thursday , July 7 th we find the following : — " The proceedings yesterday at the anti-Corn iiaw Conference epeak for themselves . Gentlemen who DECLARED THEY" WILL PAY NO TAXES TILL THE CORN LAW" BE REPEALED , wwre wci / er ously cheered . The recital ' that workmen have said it was not words would move Parliament , butforce , and they would have it if they did not change their system , ' was heard with no disapprobation . In the

      manufacturing districts men declare that ' no good can be done until they riot , ' and in the metropolis the information is received with approbation , To-day and to-mprrow- it -will bs epread thTOaghout tbe einpire , and Vie IDEAS d / rising ' , <>/ rioting , and ot ' re / usi ^ g to pay teres , will be presented at one and the same time to many thousand persons . The sanctity once belonjirig > to the law , which prevented such conceptions , ia at an end ; tbe minds of the people are becoming familiarised with the idea of resistance ; andj if their misery be not relieved , it will not fee long befote correspphding DEEDS WILL SPBJWff FBOM THE

      IDEA . ! ¦ : . "; :- .. ¦ : "' : ¦ ¦ ; . •¦ . ' ; - , ' . ! . " - ¦ : .. " In common with many membera of the Conference , and with tUe ^ memorialists f ; om Hinckley , we have become convinced that it is useless to place before the Parliament and the aristocracy evidence of the Bufferings of the people . Politicians rejoice that the unruly workmen of the manufacturing towns are tamed into obedience by hunger- bigots exult that the naif pagan , half free-thinking towns-people are for their sins visited by a judgment which threatens annihilation . To bigots and politicians , pictures of distress in the manufactur-Ingdistricts are not disagra ^ abloj and we will not contribute to their peasu re by repeating them .-We turn rather to Mr . Taunton ' s speech , who said- — .

      •" It appeared to him that the time was past for talking , The time was come to do something , and he would tell them what to do ^—( cheers . ) He thought they ought to proceed ai once to appoint a C 011-SIITTEE OF iPUBLIC SAFETT IN THE METROPOLIS , and iuduce every delegate froin the country to pour in such facts as would organise such a body of public opinion as would create the utmost odium againBt those in power , and COMPEL them to YIELD . ' - 1 - . ; Famous"CoNsfiiurioNALmeans , " gentlemen !

      Excellent ! Most excellent !! One could almost fancy we were reading one of the " Constitutional " speeches of the Reform time ! " Pay no mobe taxes" ! "Rising " . ?• Rioting" . " Committee of public Safety" ! "COMPEL them to yield" ! 0 what " constitutional means" ' . Where was the Queen Groaner ? He ought to have been present ; His absenc ? is unpardonable ! There only wanted Ats one ingredient to make the budget of " Constitutional means" perfect ! Where , 0 where ! was groaning Neddy ?

      Reader ! look over the extract from the Sun once more . Repress tho almost overflowing indignation that arises from the reflection that these things are said arid done by a Bet of the most cowardly and most selfish miscreants the light of day ever shone upon ; and Baid and done for the purpose of completely and utterly ruining the nation that they may have an opportunity of picking up the spoil . Repress the choking indignation that the remembrance of this fact calls up , and contemplate for , a moment ; their ludicrous phrenzy and pitiable antics . Remember- ' . ' that tbe vapouring detailed by ihe Sun is mouthed out by a party who

      dare not call a public meeting in any part of England in support of their measure of relief I Remember that all fchoabovo-reported froth proceeds from those who are obljged to skulk Into holes and corners to do their business ; to " humbug" and deceive even the Shopkeeping class with their " no politics " dodge ; to hire men to sigh their petitions , with vamped up names by thousanas ; to fiend their prowling hireling lecturers over the country , to persuade the people ( where they can meet With any that will listen ) chat another Extension of Commsrce will do all good : reraember that the proposals and threats of " not paying taxes "; of " rising "; of " rioting ?; of "DEEDS springing from the ideaof resistance" : remember that these threats come from a

      party who are scouted from the publip gaza tbe moment they show themselves ! The very day after the above exhibition had been made in " Confererice , " they determined to try , in an ou ' .-afthe way place , tha public mind ; aad ac ( Jordiu « ly appeared before a portion of them as " SYMPA ' ^ HISERS with public distress . Let the reader refer to the report of the proceedings on that occasion . He will find it in the first column 0 ! the second page of our present sheet . He will find too , that the whole ^ herd were routed , Bcouted , - . pbiVei * from public gaze ! Pretty fellows these to talk of : >» rising" ! of *» . riotiDg" ! of ? deeds" ! . of a " Committee ef Public Safety' ? I Moderate ^ your tempors « gentlemen ! Persuade your passion ;! pray do , nP ff > 14 Do not tsar youb SHiBT ! " Take it cooiiy

      "Draw it mild ! I " AH ! but when is the ** rising ^ and the " rioting " to take placet When ia the " Committee ofPublia Safety" to be appointed t And teAo ire they to save ? Let us know these things , pretty ' gentlemen We will find you a band that shall ** save" you from even attemping to put your vaponring threats into execution J Will your * risings * and f © ar " noting ? be , like your meetings , in holes and' corners ! Will yon venture to come forth oat of your hiding places t If you do , the Chartist army shall keep you ** safa enough ! ; ., ' .- ; '¦ ¦ ^ ¦' .. " .- ¦ - ¦ . •¦¦ . -. ¦ : ¦ -: " - . " v- \ ...:-. -::

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      Bhompton . —On Tuesday evening , considerable local business connected wltb the ensuing ball and concert , was transacted ; the sum of sixpence per week was voted to the wives of the StaflTordahiw yictinis . Ibo Committee appointed to draw up the statement regarding Mr . Stallwopd reported , and were ordered to seafl it to the tforttern Star and British Statesman for insertion . This locality will meet on the ensuing Tuesday evenings ( until they have procured * fttitaWe lecture room ) at Mr . WrighVs , t&e Eagle , Ndrtn-Btreet , Kewroad , Chelsea . T

      The N0ethern Stab,. Saturday, July 16,1342.

      THE N 0 ETHERN STAB ,. SATURDAY , JULY 16 , 1342 .

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      THE NEW EXECUTIVE AND THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION . We direct attention to a letter from the Hull members of tho General Council upon this important subject , and also to the first official document of the New Executive , which we now publish . Both these documents are important , and deserving of attention . We are glad to see the New Exeoutive awake to the importance of their position aud the critical character of the times , as evidoncedby the following extract : —

      " The Executive are , from the ge : iera \ appearance of the country , and information received , fully satisfied that the Government have resolved to prosecute ; arrest , and imprison the leaders of the movement on the least opportunity being afforded them . The Executive , therefore , caution the membVrs of the Association agBinstjthe adoption of any secret plans of resistance , and advise them to discountenance all recommendations to the use > f physical force . "

      We know that the Executive have good reason for their apprehensions ; and while we rejoice to see that the brave fellows who lead on the people are not a whit da unt 3 d by the prospoofc , but , maugre the " examplei" ke ' ore them of Frost , Williams and Jones , Clayton , Holberry , Brcok and Peddie , still " hurl defiance at the tyrants' heads ,- ' we should be ill performing'our duty , did we not give such timely and necessary counsel as may tend , if heeded by the people , to make abortive all the efforts of the people ' s foes . And hence our prayer that the well-timed caution of the Hull councillors may be attended to . Our

      organization in its present state is perfectly legal , and Bhould be perfectly adhered to . We havenofearof the people being led , by tho rascally spies of the Government , into physical outbreak . They have had enough of that . But we cannot shut our eyes to the fact , that the Tory laws against political societies—so long and so carefuHy preserved by Whig conservatorsare yet upon the statute book , and that thesame party by whom they were enacted , to put down the rising spirit of democracy , are ttow in power ; and we do feel , therefore , that if our organization be not strictly and perfectly adhered to—which it certainly

      is not , at present—a handle will be given to the enemy , of which they will not fail to lay hold . We purpose next week , if all be well , to call attention to this subjeot at some length . Wo shall reprint the plan of organization , and pvobably some of the comments we made upon it at its first promulgation in the amended form . We shall point theatientfon of v arious localities to practicea existing among them , in direct contravention of its provisions , and show them what might be the consequence . We shall endeavour to givo plain and clear directions to the General Council , to the sub-Secretaries ,

      to tho Executive Committee , and to the General Secretary ; pointing but the 1 lespectivo duties of all these parties . We shall givo all necessary information to the members for the conducting of the eleption and nomination of their ofScers , so as to escape any legal hazard ; and show how , spite of all the canning ofthefaotions , the whole society may with tho aid of a national organ , bo made to work harmoniously and simultaneously as a national body whilo every locality shall have all the briskness and impetus of resident self government and local exertion .

      This , in the present state of the law , is not an easy thing to be bo done as to bid defiance to an Attorney-General ; but it may be done ; and therefore it , by all means , should be done . We never acquit ourselves of duty by encountering heedless danger . Meantime , we entreat the Chartist body to beware of any tampering with their organisation . Restless spirits must be ever meddling , and it is not unlikely that in reference to the *' ' Conferences" recom mended to be called by the Executive , mention may be made by some parties of certain alterations in

      the plan v ? h \ ch they may fancy would work more efficiently and more systematically , Th 8 people must bear in mind that the question is not whether a better plan than the present one could be devised 1 but whether any better plan be safely practicable in the present state of the law ? We say unhesitatingly M No . " Tha amendment of the plan was , the result of the most anxious , careful * and painsful consideration of the whole question , by a large body of intelligent men , selected from the whole nation for the purpose , and having before them every Act of Parliament bearing On the

      subjeot . Let the people be assured that the plan cah ot be again amended , as to any of its main provisions , for active operation without spoilingit . We are anxious to see it in full operation ; and as our Hull friends say , adhered to , to the very letter 5 and hence we should give our individual voice against even the trifling alteration suggested by the Executive : namely , the alterationofthe period of electibn from jyiaroh and April , to June and July . We hope that the next election of the General Council will be made all throngh the country at the proper timei and in due form , as both are specified in ' ;\ Ya Qrganiz ; atidn » and that the election of the Executive will also be taken at the proper time . The members of the present Executive have bad the bestproof they could have of

      the people s confidence in the fact of the re-election of four of them , after their fbrmer period of ser ^ vice ; there pan be little doubt that their services hereafter will be equal ^ r estimable to , and estJmatetl by . the people with their services heretofore ; and there can , therefore , be no reason why they Bhould not submit themselves tore-election at the proper period i though a full twelvemohth may not have expired since their last re-election ; the more particularly as it will be a twelvemonth sihoe the time when the last election ought to have takenplaoe . There .. is , tobe sure , one member of the present Exeoutive newly elected ; and who will not therefore have had his year of ipiffica ; hut we know that member too well to suppose that he will

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      A TH ¦ E ^ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ N ^ R ¦ ¦ ¦ t ¦ H ¦ BV ! R : ^ lf ¦ ¦ ¦ .: S ^ TvA ¦ ¦ Rv ¦ -. - - - ¦ ' ¦ - . - "• ' ¦ - ' - : - . ¦ \ ' - . ¦ ' ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦^ : « ..:- . ¦ .- : ; . ¦¦ - ¦/ . ¦ - ¦ : - ¦ -. : .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 16, 1842, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct897/page/4/