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    • ¦ STiTE Of Mm GQIJNTJRY,
    • THE ^ OETHERN STAB, . SATURDAY. AUGUST 20. 1842.
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      MiiWCASIli * , —A deltaic meeting fcr the Co- ; nty of ftonimmueriani and adjacent districts -of Durham was held in the Chartists' Hail , Newcastle , on Sunday test ; Mr . John Hebden , of Oaseburn , presided . -Mr . Sinclair \ rzs appointed secretary pro tem . The Secretary took , down thenames of tbe delegates , and read several lett-is from districte at a distance , which conld not be present by delegation , "therein each declared their willingness to co-operate in the procpedines of that day . The several places at which Mr . O'Connor i * to leciure during his week ' s visit ; were then agreed t > n , and a " lengthy discussion took place respecting sending a delegate to Manchester , which endsd in a negative , oa sceonnc of the "vast essence which would be

      necessarily incurred . Mr . Sinclair read a . letter , which he had received in a parcel of Chartist Cir-A culars , From the Hunt ' s Monument Csminittee in Manchester , containing a copy of tie Committee ' s address , whereupon the whole of the delegates present were famished with copies of the address , and pledged themselves to do what they could for ! that trulv bndable object Mr . S . received 2 s . from I X . L . J . H . G . S . for uis , t fund , together with several I <; zher conjrjbntions for the jsne . Some other local j fcs / iiies * was transacted , ssd the meeting ad- j jonrned . iONDON . —Itel 5 GSuM , OXF 0 ai ) -STRSET , STEyXET . —Mr . J . GaBiDbcil lectured here on Sunday evening , ; in nis nsnai effective and brilliant s ^ yle . Mr . Parker j £ ; J&d she chair , aad also addressed the meeting at some length . Sixteen iaembsis were enrolled . -. i i t i i 'i i i ^^ T ^ w I '

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      TO THE SHAK 5 PEREAN BRIGADE- OF LEICESTER CHABT 2 ST 5 . Manchester , Matsden ' s Temperance Hotel , TTednssday morning , Aag . 27 , 1 S * 2 .

      j IT btuys COJIRaDES , —I left yen on Tuesday afternoon , the 9 ' Jk instant , and between that date and tiie present , one cf the mostisportanS periods in the bAs ' . ory of tbe working-mea o 5 tbia . ooTHitiy has commemxL Of tha widely-extended . strips for labour ' s wages , "wmca has besn pretty generally cor / verted into a stand for tee Charter , you will be already aware , by tha daily and Weekly papers . . < .-Whether tint widely Eprssd . Tcsd-eiiaTe entered into yoor , Blinds sndhearta , at tha time 1 am writing this , 1 fael some anxiety to le ^ rn . But 1 nmst hasien ta iebeaifi «_« a $ »; Of the pssgages cf my diveiafied expcriencs tinea the Ja 7 I left yen . -....- . .-,- j .-. I hrxi a good meeting at BIrnurgham , in the Hall . of Science , ; a vary conuaocions bnilding buloagirig to tha S ^ ai ists on the X&esndy CTfcnins I foaad George ¦ buvcu %

      - ; , W'VlUIKbJJ V / ii fc . CAW . * . * fcfr « J * J »» J V t ^ th *** mjr . A -- * « . v «^ w White to ba ¦ what L ' Juut-loo £ i « arA him 7 fcpvrusi to bo —a sotmd-lieaitcd , thn ^ nnr h . ^ nrng democrat . - I enrolled twenty-four 1 at tiro close , cf tha zaec-Ung . I had } ot ? and very mierestisg . convQKaiicna ii ; e ntxfc day ^ critk Whits , and learned xcacii from him respecting the progress of tha movement in mi , sroand Biyraingiam , and the causes -why ii-Birmingham n&fcii , things lor Ecrc . 3 time loeied less Siiiifactory taaa eoiird be ; iriiirr . At rucLt { Wednesday ; ws had a £ ood nieeting oat of « ioors , " Ee « tiie Kiiiwiy Station , cofffithetnniling a fcta ^ y rain . . Oa Tnaisday began a Esrlea of exsitenients , sneb as I Isdhtutrto b ££ ! i ii sttan ^ KT to- I v . as s : t datvn at ¦ jycivc a ; noon .-bythe onmVous- al Wedsea ^ Tirj , ( called of

      ¦ Wcti gebarjbjtbsnariTt ^ jin mils : 30 . 0 C 0 c > l-j Ikrs en Etrika far Tra . c ; e 5 . Tiu-v f ^ rrueJ oae cf the ' Eot'lrsr slzhls I ever ¦ s ^ mtssid . lyiiiney , O Ns ; i , Pear * , s-n . ard c-tberssa ^ resiodttc-m ; c- 'tclnsIrercS&Jat- 'c-iLfl ,, fc'V . diss "he vrhi . l'i sts&sib !? to dc ^ st iltosttifcr Irani i litx-ui nitil tielr just asaiaiids 1 < Kcra coinplied titb ,, ¦ were puz - . n'l cairieu unanimously znd cniliUbliitlCal ^ y . i I thm briiflf sddrssstd ihi ! itniuecsu gathering of : laV .-nT ' s jobs ; a vast assemblagrf oi LutLaa 6 jts , all •' r ^ istii in exr- « ctant intslligence—bravs bosc-uis thrown , cpaa to lbs stn and air , and Etslwart arms asu btout . hands iislfi tip -sruii lostaataiieoTis bear ^ itxtss . Uie very ssomsnt that I pnt-it to thera -srhetiicr laey "srould all j adopt the People's Cnaiter . I shsii not lose tLe ini-: pression made npea nje by the v ' -e ^ r of that meeting as Ion ? as I live . I proceeded in "L ' -xn-sj'ti complex to B . lston . For tvo mortal hcnTsI addressed t ^ e / avonrite ] brigade—the ' bocy guard * " ef oar br ^ Ts chief ,- Fearras , i

      iu Xhz evening . Tnere wsre about 4 Oi 3 present on a : pivce cf gruxind formed T . ke an amphllcratre , whtre ; taey fat in Sxed earnesiEess receiTins- my pl ° in re- j jHarts , 2 cp 3 r = 2 t ! y as enlhnsias ^ c at the ticse , as at the beiinnfeg . The vie w of the massive bands of those litave colliers rsissK in apprcval of tbs Charter , cdhtIscecI : me in a t ^ I& klicc cf O Ccancr ' s shre ^ dnaa sefec ^ cg - the " blacfe bri- ^ sde cf Bilston Ch ar&i ^ " his " bedy j gaard 3 " God h = lp the poor ftllov thit proToies a ; "blow from tha £ l -nlder-of-nmtion 2 st cf a B-Iston ' coaler 1 We eruolit-i ; ct : y meaibcre at 'ba c ' nts of tlis : ¦ Biiston inscYi ^ . L : r ? 3 ey a"SoTc 3 rtc that the wfc oie j legion "was riia ^ sitli GnsitiSva : tlila / baz ± s-- ^ , itidepen- ,. dent , and brrre msii has feeen iiid ? r 2 , tis--bl 9 in his . Jabonr 3 among tils bold &rd siiEiieLearrcl people : j tfc « reisEot a mssla tfce ¦ Rhole rcoT ^ meiit ¦ wLo , in ' iny ; jn . icmfinS , Reserves more highly tie pniss and con- " iv-. ccce cf bis brctber ChsrtisVa tiisr . J-. sep " u Linncy ; ;

      Oa Fii ' . ' -y moin-ug , the 12 th , I talked en to Wcl-Tc-rarunptcn in "; aaJress : d ^ u ; thsr meeting ctlUe ^ rdy toi » tr 3 of tba r "» 2 ct ( iianiOEda "—the "whe ^ e district , for many miles , Lavirg entirely ceistd biboar , ana nothing belnj more tssj tbin to get an out-door meeting of tbtasscfis ' jpon tljossasdB £ t this time o ? £ xc : te-SHjit * . tlia WclTsrlriTi-pton colliers , like tie asEemblage * J had pTeriinsls addresed , he'd cp tbeir mighty h ^ nds ¦ w ; ta one accord , e ^ 3 instantly . vrLen I asked theia if tt ^ y vecvUd espocsi the C 3 nce cf the Cbcrter . la tbe afternc-s-n , I get oa by rii'way to Sts 2 brd . I f m&d Tnsttsrs ia a EDm 2 ^? fcnt critical cocdiaon in this Tory-ridGec br-Ton ; li . Sltson , au-3 his compsnions in tribai ^ tios . -rs cosHned in ths gaol fcers : one bonGKd tni £ f T 7 colliers bad been also lodged in it ¦ within the week—tror-ps of soidiera Lad been marched

      into the tows—scditioiisl rooms were King bails to tbe gad—annoa , it traE said , ' \ r 33 to bsplanted cpon the extreme toners—srd everytLJEg looted so tbrtatfesing , tiiiit ^ ben tie frienda here toofe a b Jl to the priaisr , acEoaneais ay lecture , he dKl boi dare to print it . G- -fc 2 . i ffears wfird tai far talced thst 1 would be apprcLesded if I d ^ rgd to Etand np in the Marketplace , tbi-t niglit HoTi ? c ? £ r , -whtn seven o ' clcck bad straA , there I "was—cvo ^ nted on a famous long bfeccb , prccsred by tha friends . The . superintendent of polios then t&ck his station close by my right elt-ow , tee Tory genty and ladies ihrv ^ r up tbeir vin ^ cwa to listen and tear tee rebel Chart-is : ccnuait tkBfcif , r ^ ed to s ^ e him pounced npou a ^ ii b jr n& a-way ia tbe uirxy claws of tto rorw lobsters . Bi : no ! I sii = -Red b ^ w f xcsileiit it « "as to iave a

      " Swatt Bit ' s sil-rei-Toiced lady , " JLnd J « y our miliica and a qairter yearly to support Lerteif and ber eitiblisinienL I demoastratfcd tJiat lo-al Ceartists tnew the land wonld be mined if the Ci-rii L ^ t . wera n-.-t kept np ? sad ttat "cor ^ irg men ¦ wvuld sli -weep tiifciT- eyes sere if Adelaide Tftre to be bt ' ^ fi of bar £ 100 . 000 a-year . I denonnced any ragged BhcrmaJKr cStsffor-d , like N ^ rtbsapton . yca know , " brave Soaispeaxeans , is a fsTnccs iioemafeiiJg to ? rn . ) as s . fctapid fellow if be dired to tslS =. ^ nt ins aged grandmother belog-in a bastils ini vege ^ tiag on skuiy , vhil 9 tbeT 3 jwag « badttriep-lse ? 3-to liva ia . The aaiire completely blxinted the tiloss of tba V . ios-by . tle ;

      his bard face relaxed , hi « tset-i s = par ; tea , end at length ha giianed outrignt , "while tbe host of sbopoatsa burst ' into iaa ^ fctec ' Well what iras to be fioae ? I could not be taken ] up for treason , for say wires were nitra-loTjii , with a ¦ vriUieES ! TtJ * e v «' . i ^ ic-a 3 red-coats , standing in the j eroTd , soon solTed the difficuhj : thry looked on and list « Gs < -i till tbey s'cre ias ^ ted oat of ccuct-inance , and then tamed tbeir ntteaUon to a coci ,-is of Italians -wHo : hadjostbroagrittiiciriiiaEic intj the Sahara . Deter- j lain ^ on maiing a u-staroaace , oss of tiie icd-coats at i first coaxed , and tbea dragged one of the foreigners i

      amoDjt tbe crowd , aud strove eirnettly to incite tbe j musician to " grind . " Parceiving tbe " scsasclrel ' s Iaten- ' tioa I called on tbe poiicesna to -witaesa it ; but aw , j frcm his locks , ttat fca wciiia not budge cue inch to i put 6 < mn Vile vsoaj ^ cxn , wiaie Be wtoM" glidly 8 t ! zs . ! &B M the pnmrey cinsc . of diEturiance . I ; therefore said , ** I . aa wiUing to go te prison j fur speaking truth ; 1 st tLe ebi& £ pQlicstnsn tu * e in ? , if be will , to speaking trnthi but I Kiil not be j imprisoned far a flirty row ! Ail yon vcho are of cpini&n-i tkat -jte asjoTira to tteCoTa-a-. oc , -wlrere its Esnxtolda ) mrtdcE T ^ ithoal dis » rn > a 202 , hold up jour baada / 'i

      Toe a"j--arnaaect ttos carried , aid I oiJUicnnteuia a ; xaomfcct , p 7 " ^ off ws —ent . tat ? pecv ^ e fullov-irij . us . 1 i eomait ^ cni . singLng " Spreau ths Cluni ^; " tbs bold j C-ispins can « bt the itn-La , ' sad car prc-csssiun to the . i O . unaan was sooa exiled by ihoif ^ ads . We liad a j E- > ixi meetiug ; aad wiea it ^ a 3 Trei- ^ Un dais , started < jt ^ -in for ice town , singing " Spread lh = Charter . " The j pvics wtre passsd , and looked agbast at this novelty , j Th = = 5 . 01 was reached , the soldiers turaed out guard , j an : ! fcoag'ht tie crowd bad come % o make an att . ck ; i bn -, fairly laughed when they keard the tiaging . Three < & 9 er 3 were given for paar ilason , c ' o : 3 nn 2 er his cell , ; in * pita of ths bayonets , and tse rculUtude dispersed . Tii ^ t night will be a meiEorsb 33 o ^ e -siia the Siafijrd Crspina ; an-3 I trost tfcsy will nit neglect Uannor ] tbeir enemies with ammniution bd essily mastered and j zo pleasastiy exoended as a litUe threat music . \ Well rally around bim , " I riioald iava said , be-i eama a favonrite at the places I have already passed , es-j

      -weU as Stafford . _ istme jast say , ere leading Stafford , that Peploir , HnnBiblfi , and other fice yonng fellows , are growing np therg , who will K « n be able- to act an important part inthe moTsaient . .,-- '¦ j - Tii * ferther I wea 6 , iay belored esinradss , lie more thickly I found excitement tindling . 1 reached the Potteries oa ' Sunday ' . afternoon , » d found a spirit I xeaUy was not prepared for . Iabenr had ceased there , ai&o among tl » coiiiers ¦ . and iw > , the itsolutioa nol to / a&oiir I found , » as taking a dedded torn : oil vxrt iKtolon forking no ' inon Ua Oe grxtlslrujgie for ihe riyhis of labour had b : en trie& We bad meetings at zttemoon

      PtnrdS and LMte * cnd , en tne fiundiy , Aug . Htb ^ -and at rilgbt I preached firom " Thfeu sbxlt do no saai ^ r * - on -to large tttea called tbe " Crown-bank , - at HasKj . Tka ttroe 'was Tery exciting , and I gaTe notice thatl wold addrea the celliers oh strike , on the same « j > ot' ths i : ext morning , at e&jbt o ' clock . A iarge awefiBiyspoeared at tmttime ; the Ksoladon that < dl wdfkfr ' g wen . csass labour till 1 he Charter become ihe iawoj thelxk& , -ztzs petard seconded by working men , and camtjd fc luaobaatif , and after a few hearty and sensible trcxdB frcm old daddy Bichaius ( whose heart , God bless Jsimi is as sound as tn scorn in the pscpls ' ^ canse ) the BetUag djjpcrcpd , ir . ib t " D 9 ietsnt ^ on tie part

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      PROGRESS OF THE STRIKE . By the Pope but the League-men reckoned without tbeir host ! They little knew what they were about . They hare raised a deril they will find it difficult to lay !! . They hare goiten the people odt ! How will they get them in again ? How will they allay the excitement they have caused ? And , above all and bafore all , how will they compensate for the loss of life and the personal injuries ; the shootings , and cuttings , and slashings ; the imprisonments , and the transsortiE £ 3 that axe to follow : how will they compensate for thess things , which they , and they alone , hare caused !

      We say again , that the League-men have caused all this hubbub . They are at the bottom of it all . It is a measure they have long had in contemplation . Even since the last General Election means have been constantly used to inflame the public ' mind to prepare it for the master strike . The Globe immediately announced that the battle-cry was to be « BBEAD or BLOOD" ! and the most dishonest and infamous use was made

      byihe whole Whig press , of the fact that "incendiarism" had again shown itself in the South . They paraded the fact most prominently ; dwelt upon it load and long ; evidently doing their best to cause it to s pread , as a means of hampering the new Ministers , and driving them from office . The Morning Chronicle declared "the fires resulted from a feeling p / kkvekge against the bread-taxing landlords ; " and the Globe called them "the beginning of a fearful ORGANIZED SYSTEM . OF DE . 5 TRUCTION" !

      The Morning Chronicle also talked of BARRICADES being erected to force the adoption of the Whig Budget . Here are Ms very words : — v France , in 1830 , according to the oracle of Tamworth , by an example of physical force , disturbed the slumbers of the English oligarchy . Is not France diBiurbing at this moment , the prospective success of a Tory Budget \ " '• We must hare money , says 11 . Humann . — Toulonse answers by a barricade . ^ " „ ¦ -,,, ¦ ¦ n » We must have money , says Sir Robert reel . — Manchester and Bjrmi . ngh . am MAY answer any budget but the Whig one , with jl barricade . " The Globe followed in the same strain . Here are his words : —

      " Whoever else may nave forgotten , the Duke of Wellington has not ceased to remember the French revolution of 1830 , nor the effect ' which the three days events in Paris had upon the publio mind in this country . The same causes which accomplished the downfall of the elder branch of the Bourbon family i ffected also the overthrow of the Wellington-Peel administration , by the impnlse which they communicated to the public mind in favour of legislative reforms . '_ - "' . . .

      | "The popular disorders which have broken out in Toulouse and other towns of France , excited by the attempt of the Government to supply the deficiencies of the state by increased taxation upon the people , Iks liWr to HAVE A POWERFUL EFFECT UPON THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY , under the circuwslances in which they are at present placed . Nor will the resemblance between the present and the past escape unobserved by the plain unsophisticated mind of the Dake of Wellington . " The Examiner , too , had his share in tbe plot . He gave pretty good hmts in the following fashion : — " How soft , how delightful , his new bed of roses , Should Fe&l , undisturbed , by the Chartists , or SWING , Find the Captain *— contented with all he proposes—To-his Rodens and Pereivaia ready to dine I "

      The Sun - published the most ferocious and dastardly article ever penned by a bloody-minded coward against Dj . Hook and the ladiea of Leeds , because some one had told him that they had interfered to prevent the return of Brown-Bread JesE ? H , as M . P . for the Borough . The misoreant said : — " If any ladies , led by a mistaken party zeal , side , like Dr . Hook and others of the clergy , with the oppressors of the people , they must not be surprised should even tbeir claima to nniYeiaal homage fail , in a time of excitement , to disarm the hatred of savage hnnger . - - . - -- _ _ - . ¦

      "It has happened that ladies' heads have been carried abont tne streets on poles , or trailed in tbi dirt ; and it has happened , sufficiently within recollection to SERVE both -FUR a warning and AN EXAMPLE , that a priesthood has been compelled to find safety in flight , aud those who braved the popular indignation forfeited their lives to their temerity . ' These were the teachings of the oegaks op the League 1 These were the sentiments , the horrible , hellish sentiments , they strove to instil into the public mind !

      Contemporaneously with these atrocious incendiary teachings , were theattempts of the anti-Corn Law men , Leagued together under the title of the Daily Bread Society , " toinduoe the people to join them in what they themselves denominated an ORGANISED PLAN-TO BREAK THE LAW . " ! A pamphlet was published in Leeds , in which the plan was detailed . This pamphlet was reviewed and noticed by newly all the anti-Cora-Law press . Did they condemn it ! Did they warn the people against joining in the plot 1 Did they denounce it as Ultgal ? No such thing ! They all lmt recommend thejplan to be adopted ! They spoke of it as O » pta ! nBoek

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      " something startling and novel ? ' but they did not condemn it , nor point out the danger to those who might act on it . And yet what were the recommendations of these Leagued Daily-Bread Men 1 Listen : — - ¦ ' . " . '¦' . ¦ . - . "¦ - \ . - . -, .. , '¦ . V : '' NOW THE WAT THB AMERICANS OBTAINED THE suffrage , and exemption from heavy taxation , fur * nishea us with an example worthy of imitation * Tbe English landlord said to the Americans , We will impose a tax on your tea . ' * No , ' said the Americans , * we shall not be imposed upon ; we are not represented , and we deny your right to tax us / A cargo of tea was seni to one of their seaports ( Boston ) , and an exciseman was sent to collect the tax ;

      THE EXCISEMAN WAS TARRED AND PEATHER t'D" by the Americans , and the tea emptied into the ocean , rather than they would submit to pay a tax upon it . Here , then , we see a practical way of abolishing the Corn Lavas . ' * "That the Corn Law could not be imposed without bloodshed , nor continued without bloodshed , was not admitted as a reason why it should not 6 X \? t j for be it recollected there was Corn Law blood shed in Westminster in 1815 , and Corn-Law blood shed at Peterloo in 1819 ; so that even if it were certain that it , could not be repealed without bloodshed , it by no means follows that it should be Buffered to exist . England has some noble * Romans' who would williDgly lay down their lives ia such a holy

      cause . Oh ! she has sons that never , never WiJl stoop to be tho landlord ' s slaves-While heaven has light Or earth has graves . " "When Barbarous eenfc a message to Marseilles that they were to send him ' six hundred men who knew how to die , ' the call was quickly responded to ; nor would such a call to Manchester be long unreaponded to , though , it is hoped , it may not be necessary i ! " ¦

      The "Bloody Old Times" is now hard at work to fix the getting-up of the strike upon the Gbartists and he talks loudly of the " violent and inoendiary writings in the Northern Star . " Will he be kind enough to point out a single paper in England , aye , one which has denounced all these atrocious attempts to excite tumult aud disorder , excepting the Northern Star ? He cannot find one ! Tne Star alone has exposed the deep laid villainous schemes of the plotters . The Star alone has shown up the atrocity of the doctrines these parties have tried to inculcate . Tho Star alone has regularly watched the attempts of these men , and sounded the note of warning and alarm . The Star alone has done this . It did not wait till now . and then find out

      that these attempts were being made . As soon as ever the incendiary articles appeared , the Star called publio attention to them , and reprobated the doctrines there taught . It is , therefore , a little too bad for the Times and the League papers , ( . for they , too , jjin in the song ) to charge the present state of feeling to the "incendiary teachings of the Northern Star . " Had the press of England shown a tithe of the watchfulness that we have , and spokon out as became it , the anti-Corn Law League would have been shivered to atoms lo . ig ago ! We have had to battle them single-handed ; and , single-handed , we have procured for them the detestation of every honest son of Labour in the Kingdom ; because , single-handed , we have exposed their villany , and torn off the veil that hid their deformity .

      Proceed we now to ^ r the beginning of this Strike , not upon the Chartists , as the rime * and League organs have it , but upon the League men , without mistake or possibility of being gainsaid . There was a Conference" lately sitting in London , composed of Delegates belonging to the an > i-Corn Law League . This " Conference" talked over some queer things . The nature of their talkings and their deliberations will be best understood by the following extract from their own organ . It speaks volumes . It appeared in the Sun only a month ago ! Read it : —

      M The proceedings yesterday at the anti-Corn Law Conference speak for themselves . Gentlkmen WHO declared THEY WILL PAY NO TaXES TILL THE CORN LAW BE REPEALED were vociferously cheered . The recital' that workmen have said it was not words would move Parliament , but force , 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 tbev riot . ' and in tbe metropolis

      the information is received with approbation . To-day and tomorrow it will be spread thronghout the empire , and the ideas of rising , oj' rioting ' andoj ' refusing to pay taxes , will be presented at one and the same timeto many thousand persims . ' The ' sanctity once belonging to the law , ' which prevented such conceptions , is at an end ; the triinds of the people are becoming familiarised with the idea of resistance ; and , if their misery beiiot relioved ^ it will not be long before corresponding DEEDS win . £ FfiIWGFBOM THE IDEA ! J , ¦ : ..

      " In common with many members of the Conference , and with the memorialists from Hidckley , we have become convinced that , it is useless to place before the Parliament and the aristodrdfey evidence of the EufferinK « of the people . Politicians rtjoicb that the unruly workmen of the manufacturing towns are tamed into obedience by hpnier ; bigots eiult that the half pagan , half fre ? -thinking towfl ' s-peoplc are for their sins visited by a judgment which threatens annihilation . To bigotB and politicians , pictures of distress in the manufacturing districts

      are not disagreeable ; and we will not contribute to their pleasure b y repeating them . We turn rather to Mr . Tauuton ' s speech , who said'" It appeared to him that the time Unas 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 at once to appoint a committee of public safety in the metropolis , and indace every delegate from the country to pour in such facts as would organise such » body of publio opinion as would create the utmost odium against those m power , and COMPEL them to vield . "

      Pretty fair this , was not itM Old Bloody ?¦ ' » Where were you then ! Did you denounce the incendiary writing 1 Did you point it out to the publio , and shew the real nature of the League men , in their base and cowardly aitempts to get the working people to * rise" and riot , " while they appeared as " friends of good erder ? and , as magistrates , let loose the military npoh them , for only doing that to which they bad been incited ! Did you do this " Old Bloody V No ! you . left the task to us ! We did it . We exposed the plot . We denourced the concoctors of it . We cautioned the people against the snare laid for them . We counselled to peace and good order ! And yet the " riots" and the " risings" are to be attributed to the " incendiary writings in the Northern Star" ' . '

      While this " Conference" was sitting , Mr . O'Connor happened to meet with Acland , the hired tool and lacquey of the anti-Cora Law League ; the man who is paid £ 10 per week for his services . They , met at Halifax . They had a discussion upon the question of the Corn Law Repeal , After the discussion , Mr . O'Connor and Mr , Acland had some talk . In the Star of the succeeding week ; that is to say , in the Slar of July 16 th , 18 i 2 , Mr . O ' Connor published the following fact , in a letter addressed by him to the Chartist body : —

      " One thing which Acland told me , as he said , in confidence , most not be kept back . No , no ; I am not just the man to keep the secrets of the League . Now , let every man pay particular attention to the following disclosure , coming from the principal spouter of the'PiagueY Aoland said to me , — "Well , Mr . O'Connor , we shall either have a Repeal oi the Corn Laws , or the Charter in three weeks . Mr . O'Connor—* ' Indeed 1 how !" Mr . Acland— " Well , I tell you , in confidence , that the object of the League ' s present meeting in London , is to take into consideration the propriety OF STOPPING ALL THE MILLS UPON A GIVEN PAY ! J ! AND THEY WILL DO IT !! " . ! !»

      This was published near a month before the strike . Now , Acland has never contradicted it . He dare not do it !! Even in the " Conference" itself , so lately as the 29 th of July , one of the delegates , Mr . Finch , Jan ., from Liverpool , ia reported to have said : — " The League and anti-Monopoly Associations , with the astislance of the Colliers (!) nave the power of compelling the aristocracy , in less than one month , to abolish Cora Laws altogether , and to

      compel them also to grant the People ' s Charter . Let the Colliers in all parts of the kingdom cease working fer one month , and the thing is done I ! They have only to insist upon these measurures before they go to work again . This is the most simple and efficient measure that conld be adopted to get all we want without spilling a drop of blood , or causing any commotion of any kind . The city of London would be without fuel , and all other concerns must come to a stand till it was seated . "

      And even so lately as the 2 nd day of . the present month , Ht . Alderman Chappill , at a meeting held in Mancheslsr , said— :

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      " It appeared that the only plan which the manufacturers had to ¦ ¦ ¦ : resort to at present , was . TO SrOP THEIR FACTORIES" 1 U 1 Is it apparent now who were the concooters of the 6 TRIKBI la it apparent ; now who were the -movers to it t ll No /» says the Weekly Chronicle :-f > , Mr . FjeargHS OlConnor Jmaji swear himself black in the faoe before we give the slightest cfedenee to a charge unsapparted by any other evidence ; and utterly irreconcilablei withplaia and palpable faota . "

      Is the charge ' * unsupported by any other evidenpe"' ! , ;/* it *^ utterly irreconcilable with plain and palpable ^ aotr'i j > it irreconcilable / With . 'ihe faotB we have been narrating V Is it irreconoilable with theJnoendiary teachings of the Globe y Chronicle and Sun ? And , by the bye , talking of incendiarism brings to our mind a recolleotioa of the dodges and shifts of Master Weekly Chronicle himself , respecting the Swing incitement * in the begiiiining of the present year . The Weekly Chronicle was , by

      no means , the last in the field at that game . He seemed as if he received a God-send , in the fact of a fcyr fires having occurred in the South , apparentl y the wortt of incendiariem ; andi to make tha most of it , he printed a huge poster , in which the word SWING waa the moat striking line . With these posters he bovercd the entire of his shop window in the 3 trand ; aad the effect upon the passers-by on the other side was , that the word Swing appeared in Bomething like the following manner ;— - . - ¦ ; '; :

      " svyiNG . ^ jn ^ SWING . ^ j ^^^^^ ljlJ ^ SVVIjM < 5 SWIN < 3 . SW ^ The rest of the bill not being readable at that distance from the smallness of the print . : And while the Weekly was doing this outside the window , he was doing his best inside his paper , without committing himseli " , to pdmt ' tint Swing ia a means of annoying and harrassing the new Ministers ! , ' ' : v , v :- ' ¦ ¦ . ' ¦; . . ¦ . ¦¦ V , . ; ' >; . . .- ;• > . . \ - - :. }¦ -- ¦ ..:. . .

      But oaunot the stat « meni ; of Mr . O'Connob be corroborated .- ? Let us see . While the Weekly Chronicle was thus endeavouring to get his patrons out of the mess they have gotten into , another organ of their body was letting the cat out of th ^ bag , and glorying in the deed ! : The Stinddy Times , of Sun » day last , makes the following avowal : — ¦ : " Our readers are > probably aware that the project ofBHUTTINO UP ALL THE ^ VIILL ^ IN ONE DAY originated ^ : ^ ii ^ ; . tiiw : ; g Q ui ^ M | L-. iEmid that we have all along persisted ill considering it as the only means by whieh the repeal of the Corn taws was likely to be obtained . The

      ANTI-0 ORN LA ^ LEAGUE 0 ^ SID ^ fiEB ;^^ : 3 ^( 3 ^ 0 iSri TI 01 NF : ; ; AG } AIN - ^ AND ^ . A ( JAIN ;; allusions ;^ erel ^ rQm :- ; -jS ® ... V |! i )\ 1 ppLe made to it by several speakers ; but it was generally rejected as a thing that would seem exceeding harsh to the operatives themselves . ¦ : " ¦ ¦/¦ : ¦¦ ¦ '¦ "¦¦ ¦ ' ' : ¦ ¦/ '¦"¦ . ¦'¦ : ' :

      They rgeoted the project , after considering it again and < again , because it would seem harsh ¦ . 'to the operativea themselves J Not because it Vras wicked ; not because it was illegal ; not because it was disorderly ; not because it would lead to ' riots " and " risings : ? 'it wasrejected not because of these considerations , but because it would seem harsh to the operatives themselves ! In other words , it would be . an .. - 'bpVn declaration of war against the operatives , and wou Id expose mill property to the fury of a fetarving people , —a peoplemade to ^ starve by the immediate and direct acts of the masters

      themselves . There , was all the difference . in the world between the mastera *• closing the mills , " and the workmen doing it of themselves , and forcing the masters to oomply I And though the Anti-Corn-League rejected the project in the shape put before thorn by the Sunday Times , yet they did not reject it ia the other a&d more feafiible shape of driving the workmen by reductions of wages , to do the thing themselves . They did not ¦ ¦¦¦ " -. xf ject " 7 Ats u project" ! No ; they acted on it ! and the present ohaotio and ; truly awful : state of things is the consequence ! ! -- !\ . ; ' . ; " . ¦¦ ¦ ' . . ' \ :- ^ - ' -: - 'K ¦ ' ¦ '¦ ¦ : ¦ ' : ' :--y-: -- .-

      Let our readers also mark another fact . All the reductions in wages that have been attempted within the last two months in the manufactories , have been attempted by Cfern-Law-Repealirig masters t Point out a Tory or Conservative master who has attempted any such reduction . We believe / it would be impossible . At all events , we have not beard of any such . This fact epeaka volumes ! Refer , too , to the letter of our Preston correspondent , detailing the horrible carnage in tfiat town ,

      and the prior proceedings . Look well at the words there printed in capital letters I Remember that it is two delegates from Ashton , ( the town where the strike first commenced , ) to the Preston lads to get them to join in it , who declare , publicly , that V THE MIDDLE : CLASSES ^ FOUND THEM THE MEANS" ¦ to go to Preston I Note : this fact ! and then ask how it is that that the middle classes He now so fond of shrikes ; as to pay the delegates to go over all parts of the couniry to ^ extend' * them 111 ; ' ¦ ¦ ' ¦' . -: ¦ ¦ ¦ .- ' : : V--.. ; ' ¦ , .: ]}

      The fact is , that the strike did commonoe at Ashton , as has been already detailed j and that the ostensible cause of it was the attempted reductions of wages by the Com Law Repealing MessM . Bailey ; and another fact is , / as eoon as it did commence , eix persons were -dispatched from the towa of Ashton to the other towns in Lancashire ; AND THEIR EX FENCES WERE PAID BY MONEY SUBSCRIBED BY FACTORY MASTERS AND SHOPKEEPJERS BELONGING TO THAT TOWN ;

      And are the Leagoe men to suffer no consequences for these aotsi Are the people , the working people , whom they have induced to riaa' * and" riot ? ' are these to bear all the shootings , all the cuttings to pieces , all the sabreings , all the tramplings to death , all the wonndings , all the imprisonments , all the trahsportings , and , possibly , all the hangings ; are the working people to endure all these things , while the flendibh hatchera of tbe plot escape soathless arid free !! I ? this to be the case ! No ! by heaven ! JUSriCE , ¦ ''¦ O fsome' sort . flr ^ ( Dttfaei ' we ' -wili have . i 1 ! :

      To the working people we say , be wise ! be pru dent t Be not betrayed into collisiona with the military . Present not yourselves beforo them as marks to ba shot ¦ at , ¦•; likV , 6 o many carrion'OrowSj and be laid weltering in the streets . Come not near them . Keep the peace DO not riot . Destroy no propeirty /; " Burn tip mills . Commit no depredationB . Injura ixp . man Be quiet ; be firm : and please yourselves whether yougo to work or Btay away ! ; :: ;

      Oar own opinion of the ^ StrikQ ^ v and its tneritB was diBtinotly registered in lsat , Tveek > , ^ ar , espeeia lly in the twx > artieles in the third edition ^ headed , ^ Progress of ^ tbe S ^ ike , ? and ' ¦« Further Projwess . " Every event which has since transpired has confirmed us in the opinion we then held : and we have now therefore only to reiterata it , aad to request Hoi it all the atteation ^ that the people think it worth . By referenw to the address of the Conference delegates wd thefetter of Mr . O'Cohkob , it will be seen that he and they hold a different opinion . Time wilL speedily decide whose opinion is moat wise . We enteeatohW i tb © Dooule will nnt hi Aia .

      cburaged ; ifc met all , bxwg tried the strike as a meaM for obtwnjna the'Shatter . ^ they ^ find ; « to fall of accomplishing . that object . We entreat them , in that < D * # ey . tp jremeinber . .. that ihey are still no pr « wse . i . that ,: tho . means , to ^ Jhicfr they before . W ^ : ii ^^• !^ M : ^; l ^ : s \•; 4 hai ^ pwiB ^^«•¦ : iMl determmation , patienoe and perBeverance , firmness and moral courage an invincible ; that woxHiwo Ca » WITRBXANP . THEIR CONIINCED EXHIBITION and that by the calUng lntOTequisiMon of these qualities ewiy Kreverse may : ^© : in itseif madaai » uer for advance : the ^ haokles must evefltuaJIy fall from tbeir limbs , - THEY MUST AND SHALL > STAND ERECTA ^ FRBE MBN . " --

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      BELPEB . —On Monday night last , Mr . West delivered his second lecture of his series , " on the evils ' arising from the misapplication of the powers of production , and the capabilities of the soil under just and proper regulations , to supply the wants of all with abundance , '' and was attended with a crowded and an attentive audience ^ Mr . We 3 t enrolled fifty-four members at the close . Wednesday evening , Mr . West visited Swanwick , and addressed a large meeting , and also © n Thursday at noon , addressed a large assembly of colliers ; a number of members wure enrolled at the close of each meeting . Oij T « desday , Mr . Weet visited AjBhover ; : on Saturday , he was at Duffield ; and oh Sunday , at Edge . At all these places he proclaimed the Charter , and enrolled members . ?

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      : :, : : r V \ v--f- . ;; . . HALIPAX . > - ' ; ' . . >/¦ : ¦ , / . / . ; ' The disturbances conneoted with the turn-outs commenced in Halifax on Monday morning last . Their arrival from Lancashire had been expected for Gome time , and the magistrates bad been active in making preparations to receive them . They had issued placards referring to the disturbances in Lancashire , and calling upon ; the inhabitants to assist them in the preservationof peace and order . A very large number of special constables were sworn in , and the regular police , and the military stationed at the barracks , were under orders to be in readiness to act at a moment ' s notice . The '

      military force regularly stationed at Halifax , consisted of two companies of the ' 61 st Regt . of foot , comprising upwards of 100 men , and their nnmbera ; were subsequently aujEjmented by the arrival of two troops of the 11 th Hus 3 ar 8 j one from ^ Leeds where they had passed the previous night on their road front York , add entered Halifax about eight o ' clock on Monday morning , and the other from Buitnley , who entered the tovrn about seven o ' clock ia : the evening . With these accessions , the military in the town on Monday evening , comprised a force of about two hundred men . The immense crowds of turn-outs , who thronged to excess the streets of the town , produced a state of exQitement and commotion almost unprecedented in Halifax , and which

      formed ample employment for all the forces—both civil and military ^ at the disposal of the authorities . So early ^^ as five o ' clock in the morning , f ' tbe people were astir , and assembled in considerable numbers in the Market Place ; they were all peaceable ; however , and so would have continued , till their meeting was over , and then have returned home again in tho same good order they had met . But whilst a person was addressing them , the magistrates , accompanied by the police and about two bnndred special constables , came up . Mr . Pollard , one of trie magistrates , addressed the crowdlor nearly half an hour , and remonstrated with them on the danger of assembling in such meetings , and engaging in such schemes , which must result : in disastrous consequences to

      themselves . The assembled multitude , however , manifesttd no great alacrity to leave the spot , and the magistrates haying ordered the multitude to disperse , loud shouts were raised anibngst theni of V Let ' s away to Luddenden F-jot , " and this proposition , meeting with general concurrence , the shouts became universal , and the multitude , arran « ing themselves into a sort of procession , cleared away and proceeded at once to that placei where a large body of the Lancashire turn-outa were congregated for the purpose of marching into Halifaxl . Betwixt eleven ' -. 'aiid twelve o ' clock the turn-buts from Lancashire approached the town in immense numbers . The grand point of juhotion was at King Cross , on the Burnley Road , where the various

      bodies , each composed of thousands of men , from Hebden Bridge , Sowerby Brdke , Luddenden Foot ^ Todmorden , R johdale , and other places , united together in one immenee procession , filling the whole breadth of the road , and stretohing to a vast length . When they got to the North Bridge at Halifax , the military and police were drawn up , so as to occupy the whole road , and prevent the passage of the people , the cavalry being posted in front , . th'e infantry next , and behind them the police and special const ables . This was above twelve o ' clock . In the pracesaioB were ^ great numbers of women , most of whom were placed in the middle . On their progress being arrested by the military and police , several of the women : went up , and saiztng the bridles of the

      cavalry-jcxclaimibg , " You ^ would not hurt a woman , would you 1 " . endeavoured to turn them on one side . One ot the women coming np in front shouied to the magistrates and soldiery , "We didn't come here ibr bayohets , ; we came rbr bread . " It isssatea that one woman was stabbed in the breast by one of the spldiers with a bayonefc jthoagh not seriously , bit m general tne soldiers did not molest them . ; Soon after a circumstance occurred which caused a diversion of the military , and -opened a passage over the bridgo info the town . It was stated that the mills of Messrs . Norris arid Lister , at the bottom of Fouudry-Btreet , were attacked , and the military and police force gathered m ; the bridge , leaving that spot tor the . protection of the mill * alluded to : in a

      few minutes the entire procession had passed into the heart or the town , and by the time the military a ^ T ed at Messrs . Norris and Listers' mills , the plugs were drawn , and the men turned out . Almost at the very same moment that the Laneashure procesBiona approached the town ; another procession , also comprising immense numbers , from the neighbourhood Qf Bradford , aDproaohed it in another direction . Tne Bradford procession whb preceded by a number of flw : 17 * h Lancers from that town , and on the ^ prooesBion reaching New Bank within » ehort dlfitance of f * ^ . * ne Laneew drew up across the road , and being joiued here by the Infantry and HdtearB t ^ om Halifax , succeeded in anestink the proeresa -of tha

      turn-outs , alongthe main '^^ road * -Tne procession , however , broke up into gronpg and prooeedinealoDK Rands Bank , and different byeroade , evaded themmtary and reached the town , when they immediate }? **?*** . ^^ amalgamated . withVba ^ Lancashire people . After the junction had taken place , they prooeeded to Mesers . ^^ Akroyd ' s mill , at ^^ ^ erHillffor ilje pu ? poso of turning ontthe bandBj bat when they arrived there , the men had gone to dinner , and thef mill was amsequenUy already stopped . idKEdward Akrbvd asked them what they wanted * to wbieh they replied they musVhave the plags out * of the bdi !« rt , ^ A , eaid if tnat was what ? they wanted , they nwsfc . come ,. and ^ do it , and aocordingly / onJ of them attempted to take out the plus , but not being able to saceeed , the engineer , by Mr !

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      V ' ' '¦' _ '[ ' . ' ; , " .. ' . ' " .. ' ¦ ' ' , . ; * ' Akroyd ' s orders , palled it oat for them ; It is siated that Mr . E . Akrpyd gave four ; sovereigns to the men , ^ and told them io bay bread vrith it for the women . They proceeded next to Bowliflg Dyke Mill , and commenced making :- ' cntting through tho mill iam , in order to let off thfr water ; when-just while they were engaged in this attempt , the military came up , and dispersed them , and captured six of the insbrgents . ^ Abouf eleven eoldiera of { tha infantry were detached to escort the prisoners to tia Police-office , and on their road were followed by * large portion of the people , who ^ made repeated attempts to rescue the prisoners , whioh so exasperated the soldiers , that they faced round , and fired npon them . ; A man called Wadsworrtir ^ yfaSji . wo

      understand , wounded in the leg , and was carried : off by his comrades . The spirit of the crowd was atiJI unsubdued . In Well Lane , another rush was made * : arid again the soldiery fired , but we have not heard that any injury was done . When they came in the vicinity of th . e Police-office , the streets , which are there very narrow and crooked , ¦ : were in a great measure blocked up by crowds ; and before the soldiers could force a passage through them they fired twioe , and then charged apon them with their bayonets , wounding a great number , but none of them seriously . They succeeded at length in . lodging the prisoners ia the Police-office . Great apprtheusiona were entertained ? that an attempt would be made to break open the prison arid rescue the

      prisoners , and a number of infantry were stationed inside to garrison the place , v ' ¦ , v > r - ;; At two o ' clock in the afternoon , a meeting of from ten to fifteen thousand people was held on . Skircoat Moor , a fine extensive moor in the immediate neighbourhood of Halifax . The tone of , the meeting was peaceable but firm . Three resolutions were passed , pledging the meeting not to return to work till tha People's Charter became the law of the land ; till their wages Were advanced to the standard of 1840 ; . arid till a guarantee was . entered , into by . jthe employers that they should be kept up to that standard . In the course of the afternoon , the people having gatherrd in great crowds in various places * ' . fiat ntoroparticularly opposite the Northgate ,, IloteL the

      cavalry charged upon them , but the people flying in terror before them ; no injuries were inflicted . WhereVer the crowds became at all unmanageable , or were forced upon the soldiers , the infantry made riot tho least hesitation in pricking them with their bavonets ^ and scores of people in Halifax received in this way slight bayonet wounds on Monday . One poor fellow , who had got pricked throughiis fustian jacket with a bayonet , we saw ; go writhilig ; down the street , in the midst of a number of coajmiseratiiig companions .. The only serious wound was one which . Occurred accideritally to a sergeant in > one of the : regiments , who , while ^ ndling h ^ miiskfitttouflhe , ^ it in such a manner , that the percussion cap ex- i ploded , arid the piece went off , and lodged the ; shot , ' 1

      m one of his arma * He was taken to the iri--firmary , and it is probable his arm will bedisabled , even ifit should escape amputation . ' : ¦ ! The proceed ? nga commenced on Tuesday -with a meeting on Skircoat Moor , at , Bix o ' clock in tfee moming , at which about 2 , 000 or 3 , 090 pedple . were present * - The proceedings commenced by singing a hymn , V Praise Qid from whom all bleaaiDgB flow , " whi ch was followed by a prayer by one of the men , invoking the assistance and protection of the Almighty in their enterprise , and praying that peace and order mightfb » preserved . : After this a man fram Bradford addtftased ; the meeting . He proposed that delegates should' be ' sent to Todmorden , Bradford , and Huddersfield , to induce the men of those placea to march , immediate !*

      upon Halifax . In compliance with the propositioDp three delegates were appointed to proceed to each of the places named , and it waa resolved that another meeting should be held on the moor , at one o ' clock at noon , at which it was expected that their numbers would bo reinforced by the men of Todmorden , Bradford , and Huddersfleld . To lose no time it was also agreed that those present at the meeting shoald immediately proceed to Elland , Cooper-Bridge ; Brighonse , Stainland , and Bukislarid , to stop all the mills there , which it waa thought might be accompliehed before the time of holding tbe ; next meeting , arid in accordance with this resolution , the great bulk of those present , formed into a sort of procession , and filing across the moor proceeded on their mission . Ihia concluded tLe * meeting . ' : > .. ., ' . ¦ ¦' , ] ' . ;¦ ' . ' . '' ' ¦ ; i [ ' - ¦ ¦' .- ¦ ; - y ' ' . ^ ¦ ¦ - [ . ¦¦ ' - ¦ ' . ' ¦¦ . . : ¦

      The prisoners captured at Halifax on Monday afternoon , at ; and subsequently ; to ,--the affray at Afa-oyd ' a mill , eleven in number , were sent off to Wakefleld on Tuesday forenoon . It was determined by the magig ttate « to send them there for safety , provioua to their examination . They wera placed in two © maifcusea , each drawn by four horses and guarded by a 61 ^ ef lha nth Hossara , under the command of an officer , and ; headed by JIr « Brfggs , , a magistrate , ^^^ proceeded at lull gallop to the rallwray statioai at Bllani The Reople of coarse hid very sooa notice of this movement Jn fast it had been anticipated , and considerable crowds bad congregated all down the road on the look out , particularlyatSalter-Hebble , were an attempt was made to atop the road , preparatbry to a rescue . Thia , hqweyer .

      was unsnecessfu !; ' and stones were thrown at the convoy from tne wood which skirt * the road to Elland . At tbe - time theyi arrived in the station at the latter place , tha tiain jtowards Wakefleld was in Waiting , to which the prisoners were at once trabsferred ; and the train was quickly at full Bp ed . Considerable numbers of p ^ tho station , and the pri 3 orier 3 , on thelt departnre , were cheered by their companions , aoin ^ of wkom told them to keep their spiriUnp , for they ehould soon be libsrated . Atthe time these two oranibqsea and the priaonera arrived , there was another omnibrisin the Htation . justaboat to proceed with passengers to Halifax , frorateeda , Maqcheater , Ac After leaving Uio a ^ a ^ ion , it was very e « on evident that there weravery large numbew of people is

      all directions in a state . of tue gr ^ atesV excitement ^ and btfore the conveyance bad proceeded far , stones ia abundarice were a * ainf -ttyrewn fibm " the wopd ' ; ^ new struck the omnibus repe ^ dly ,. but the ; paaaengeH escaped without injury . Oa reaching : ^ altor-Hebblfl , hotvever , Uie danger ¦»»« greatly :, increased , for ai > exasperated hid the people becema at the treat ment they had received , that loud " threats were utter ^ l that not one should escape . The passengers , of course , could not apply this language to themselves j they were conscious of not having done any injury , and bad confidence that the people would sot wilfully inflict damage upon persons respecting whom they conld hava no cause of complaint ; aad ia this opinion they were strengthened by the fact that , as sooa as it became

      known that tbe omnibus contained only railway pas sengers , and no " officials , " a Bafe passage was guaranteed through the thousands who were assembled on the roadside , and along the rocky heightsrof Salter-Hebble—a place of all others calculated for the protection of any party who myht choose to avail themselves of its cover from whence te harass an enemy . A man then took the head of the leader , and , waving his hand , all feat of attack from the aienacing throng seemed to have vanished , and the vehicle was slowly ascendingthehilL But , on a sudden , a cry was raised that the soldiers were advancing , and as suddenlr the apparentcalm wits ; succeeded by an overwhelming tempest , for , in a moment , as it were , a shower of large sconea were hurled from alt parts of the eminence among the

      soldiers who then came up at full gallop , and on t-j the heads of the devoted and Innocent passengers , who thus suffered severely from the accidental dxcumstance of being compelled ^ though only for a few momenta , to be apparently under the protection of the ^^ soldiery ; , Witi fcuch direct aim were these missiles horled , that scarcely a soldier escaped unhurt—aoaie of them receifedsevera cats —three of theni were fairly feltod . ' /^^ firoii . th&ir horses , the animals setting of , and leaving their itite riders to the mercy of the mob . These three-are pti- ; > vates in the 11 th Hua 3 ^ rs : their names are Alexander _ Frazer , John Austin , and Thomas Clarisonrtheyis . were all more or less ^ ibjut ^} but ^ yro ^' i ^ Bfk ^ were for a time made ' priapuer ? . '' .:, 'pt . ^ OB ^ ' ^ e ^^^ ih ^ a devil of a hubtub kicked MP howl ' An ixDre »»!( W *«^ ii

      sent to Ha ifax for the infan t ^ , jM ^ , Ikei L | Js « SW& ^ after charging with ball .: returned , besddd . ^ by , ^ i&ri . Briggs , to toe rescue of th « ijr ^ co | Dpinjl j ffiji , why ^ , ^ t « I effected * During thef ^ affray , '~ mf . ' J # if { gi , ^ Q $$$ \ $ ) ii wound on the arm fram a stone , wh 1 ich . v d ^ isabled r biH »» . and ; he went home ;^^ the s 6 Hl 6 ^;^^ , ; pjr § y | flUjii » received orders to fire , and these orders ^ were / Carrifcd into tffect , we are afraid with ' . 'k fatal result , bqtit this we . cannot speak with certainty ; rip' ti > Tuesday ev «} L « . Ing , two of the soldier ' s horses , had not beet ^ heard , 9 f , the third had been recovered . I ^ tujp V « fcoVjtft Mi « ti . passengers , who bad , ; in good earnesi to | endw * l ^* pelting of a pitiless storm of stone ? . These consisteii of . \ four ox five inside , and about thei sari ^' n ^ rt ^|; buts } jja ^/ t Mr . Barker , reperterfor this paper , wa ^ pneof thei ^ tt ^ r ^ : and ^ faa < i a verj nariow escape ; his ^ ttfew * 8 >! c ?* rp

      street , Leeds , who sat between Mr . Barker and tha driver , received a frlghtfial cut in the head , iwhlck bled , profusely . It is fortabate that' ttie ?* Mariif of B | r bennet , was ? er ? thick ; fbif this doubtless 6 | d 1 *^ --effect of bretWng fiw ; force . ^ it& ^ bM i& ^ ttow * had descended . She was golag onH-a *¦'¦ viiSftJ & >" . | lr . Y ;' .-Cockerham , of Halifax ; and onenquirf th ^ re ^ ^^*^; day afternoon , we I arned that she was not ft ^ W ?? *^ for her iDJary . Agentleman , nwned t » ye » 0 & ^^ : -, v field , we understand , waa very severely 'frit ^ W" *^ 1 ^ ' " •^¦ ™* H " ^ i ^ ' * ^ ' - *^ ' ^ ' ^^ rr ^ a ^ B ? - ' - ' obliged to leaver tbe omniba * , » n 4 rem « of a ¥ jr 96 affside bouse until surgical assistance eoidtite WoMS . He was attended very speedily . bT Mr . 'Etottofrf , ° W Halifax , and after having hia wonndsdrawia proc ^ W on his jonrney . The other pj 5 enjrtft es « ped « ftfa more slight Idjorles . The omnibn « -w «* T much ii > iut « d , andoneofth"hor 8 eswascutinthel «« byasfefl ( i The party after thta got safe to Halifax . > , 3 ;" --T ^ *

      ; This affair having subsided , the people again met m the afternoon , according to arrangement , onSfcircoat Moor . Large numbers were in ' attendancft , and everythinK w » 3 conducted in pea ^ arid perfect order ^ Af ter the meethi < f broke np , ^^ we ; yw , larjse assemblies congregated in the atreets , ' and kw"P 3 of people were seen wending tbeirvay rrom aU directions towards North Bridge , over which ia the road to Mr . Akroyd ' a mill known aa the Shiae ^ which is a power-loom establishmenl ! . About Worth Bridge , the various groups , all going in the- eame direotron , aniting together , formed one immense ^ assemblage . Soon after , a small number of men , who were ia advance of the main body , Btrajsgled one by ouo into

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      TO CJORaBSPONDEN TS AND FBIfiNDS . r-IT * shall feel extremely [ obligedto our Corresptmdenti anA friends in all parts oj'pie Cout ^ rp - if i ^ ^ hke the trouble to forward toWs Office every thing of impqrtatice putt trasrispiTti in their respective localities , as early as possible after the occurrence . From all towns where the Strike is held out , toe sfoulaI like to have a fetter op every' post ^ bringing up the news in a sort of continued narrative . Will sorae friend in each place see to this asd oblige tts 7 : :

      I ^ ry Jones , BtoSTOL . r- ^ munieation , sent ; nor would it serve her if we ; . did . The information she seeks can only be com ' . petted by law proceedings . \ A Constant Reader , London . —Yeu Mr * Pit ' kethly is ; gone to America , but not to stay there ¦' , ' : al present . He isgonefo lookout ?' and to sell his goods . He is inclined to act on the maxim , * ' look before you leap . '' We understand his in ~ tehtions are to go over nearly all the States , and to > make closerobservation and ' inquiryuponthe . points important to emigrants arid settlers . The result of his observat idmt wti expect '\ t& be the

      means of giving to the weirld . All who know Mt . Pitkethly will pronounce him to be * fit man for the purpose . ¦ " -.- ; 'v , \" - " -v / : : ¦' - ' : '¦ ¦ ¦ ¦' ¦ A Chahtist , Carlisle , is thanked for the extracts : from a leper written from Lancaster Castle to ; Ma . \ tf Aiu > EN , of Bolton . They but bear but vohdlwe bejbre knew of the ungrateful man who has done his little best to stingthenaridthai fed him ! Perhaps a Carlisle : Chjtrtist" is not :. - ¦ aware of the fact that the man in question would have starved while in gaol , had it not been for . : the unsolicited bounty < tjf Mr ., O"Connor ; but we can tell him that the factis so , andthat thesum of

      SEVENTY-EIGHT POUNDS was GIVEN : to him by Mr . O'Connor during his imprisonment I and , perhaps , "a Carlisle Chartist" is ¦ not aware that ( the ( grateful return madejor this handsome , nay , generous ,: treatment was the writing of Utters , such as the one he has sentus , to Uihisper : and insinuate away the character of the man upon whdsefree gifts he was existing I JLnd" \ a CarlisleChartist ' may not '; be ' further aware thai so deep-rooted is the malignity oj the unyrateful man , and so bitter , is his animosity , that he declared , soon after his liberation , atthe dmnef-table of one of the most stanch O Connellite-Wliig-Rtdicdls in England , that "Mr . . O'Connor arid the Star people bated him with that hatred , that-h&d he , or they , but courage , they would run a ^ knife th rough his h eart I" We

      are aware of , arid can tell" aCarlise Chartist ' these things ; and therefore we are hot surprised at the character of , the letter he has sent . As for the request he makes respecting the ^ publication oj the document alluded to , all we can ' maketu > promise ; . ' toemustseetitfirst . .: : * A YvRSK , containing a : sum ofnioney , was picked up at the meeting held a fortnight since last Sunday , : and is novo in ike possession of Mr * Isaac Kitchen , BradfordModr \ '• ¦' . ¦¦' .:. ' .. " . ' : To oub Readers and Fbiends . —TAe state of our :. ' . columns this day teill be ^ sufficient apology for Our silenct < about , and non-insertion of , many ; ^ articles , both of news and : observation , received during the : week . Some of these arein type , but obliged to be displ aced , —the notice of Mr . West ' s lecture at Chesterfield amongst ihemi .. ' . '

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      of the colliera , to ask all the workers at the earthenware factorits , & « ., to leave thtlr labour . I remained in Hanley dnring the day ; saw the shops dosed , and all the town become as lifeless as en & Sunday forenoon ; heard of the multitude doing queer things in the town , and also at Stoke , Fentou , and Lane-end ; but saw none of them . The soldiers , nearly dropping with fatigue , I saw pass through the town , in the afternoon , pursuing something which , it seemed , they conld not catch ; but nothing alarming eve / came before my own eves .

      I met the peeple arain at ex at night The Square was crowded ; . I should Bay there were 29 , 000 people there ; several of the gentry , fee ., io conversational knots , being on the verge of the crowd . I protested against the insobriety I saw In tbe persons of a few , — proclaimed the illegality of destroying property . && ; but exhorted the people to hold by their rightful resolves , and to held by them , too , till they bad their rights . I felt sure I might be prevented getting out ef the Potteries , if I dia not make an effort to get away privately , ssd as I was bennd to attend the Manchester Conference , in quality of delegate from the excited district I was leaving , as well as being yonr representative , my darling boys , —why I Bet oat on foot , with two fiearty yonths as companions , at half-past twelve on Monday night

      Tne droll adventures of that night I will record in another letter , for I must now be off to the Confereace . I am , . My brave brigade , Your faithful " General , " Thomas Cooper , Marsden ' s Temperance Hotel , Wedaesday Night , Aug . 17 . P . S . I have scarcely time left to tell you how I got oct of the Potteries . Suffice it to say , —1 "was seized , tafeen before a

      fiie old JuKtioe , examined btfore him as he sat np in bed , told him who I was and all about it ; but they dared not keep me ! This was at Buralem , at two o ' clock on Tuesday morning . I intended , with the two good lads who carried my hag and cloak , to reach Macclesrteld by seven , in order to take the coach for Manchester ; but as we had been detained by the Barslem authorities bo long , we struck do-wn for tks Crewe Station , on the BirnuflgEsm and Manchester lino of railway i and , after losing ¦ birr way twice , we reached CreVe in time to have ' a hearty good breakfast tefore ' the train started . . To my great delight , I got % \ 6 the carriage contain-* ' __ " « f ^ i ~ "n _ lb < it " . >* B * - A *** iMVa 11 * m « % ^ 4 / " * 1 » Bairn ' m beloved Bairstbw and Clirke

      ing my ; CampbeH ; , a I young delegate from Ross , in Herefordshire . ¦ From the S lur you will learn what ' was done at the ' Conference ; I wfll not , therefore , tafce np valuable [ space by saying a word about It . . ! Finally , my brave comrades , I am now about to set ' , oat , privately , from Manchester , after htving just read [ the horrid piece of hypocrisy and cruslty -which the ' Morning Chronicle has choEen to inBert against me , in ; its leaaiog article of to-day . What villains are these i scribblers for the -Anti-Corn Law LeagneJ In order to clear themselves from the charge of originating the [ strike , they strive to Incite the Tory Government to ¦ take my blood , or personal liberty , by pointing me out 1

      as an agent for the Tones . Heaven grant we may be able to turn this strike to our advantage , and thereby have our revenge on the hypocritical League . "When and where I shall see yea , my beloved lads , I cannot tell , until the time comes , Yours , to tbe death , Thomas Cooper .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 20, 1842, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct902/page/4/