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    • CANTERBURY.—On Monday, a lecture wan delivered in the Guildhall of this City, by Mr. J. Campbell.
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      ^ _ -- _ At all tunes nas oeen wj ?/\ Sa before J ™ ™ = 7 resa d *™** 5 ^* « n tojndg > t > fits valne and of my conas-*?? - feet there i 5 BD P 613011 for wiom J haTe * * flUmns b coniemp * than for the maa who ^ iSng of the qne stion of the Exeeniive in ^ jSHilar * Tn ^ aB ? apparent ground , ^ Sho pedand the people had thought that fiSereB eea werehealed te , jtod me in a jouuu

      ^ Ti-i natioa . On 33 onoaj a am m cum-*^ & 7 » mes Leach , acting vrilh him and ^^ Vlim , "I think 13 sservices deserve ; and ^ JSsyhl is represented in the Northern Star ^^^ yrhom ne honest man would he associated * B 38 i cffiosl capacity . I imagine that the ' * ^ of chairman preading over a meeting of **? l 53 an cScial capacity , and I congra-^ "JgjuKtiDg -npon his appointment ; there-^ L « lassodii * d "n ^ h James Leach ; and as I ^ diB& ES 5 ' t 0 ^ co nsistent it now becomes my Pf * l » ¦_« , * Vka t \«» t 4 : tVmt T lna . VA taV * m before joa the pari that I hare taken

      ieljj , ^ Ssputes relative to the Balance Sheet of the ** LJ > jnd the mode resorted to by Mr . HH 1 , in iS *~ *' t £ fr of Editor of the Northern Star , in ^^ Vfiarcondnct before the Chartist body . t as ilwaJ 3 awire of the difficulty of my Lao- To JDterfere capricionsly with the Editor \ jHT 8 been an act of despotism ; and to allow t TZs $ z \ Jo proceed , when , as the Proprietor of f _ - j -jfas not satisfied with the position " ^ jjw ths Editor , would hare been weakness ;

      m pssaaoa . Ths yablie notice was first directed to the "¦ sssSastj * thought that it was done in a be-^ TjanDff > 0 nt t * hen the intemperance of the fSLrr forced the Editor from hi 3 impregnable ^ gja rf-sffiikd and indnce d him to assume the ^ TTjj ^ gC iien I was of opinion , ard remain gal Is iberfoned Ms strong hold . I ? &w the adherence to all the rules of

      ^ g ^ n of at ^ our jwssjafflBi ; Jaw ^ fa al consequences of any a ^ usi labt ' oa of those rules ; 3 read the whole ajks issai * ^ Execntive , and also the cirenm--jj ^ sJ CTidaas from many parts of the country tT ~ * is 6 a charge of neglect was sustained ; and ^ E | h serapolons , I trust , as any man , I never jjn ssl in ihar conduct that amount of guilt , rinrsehil has been eharac : erised . ct

      jj V jrep ^ sed orer neglewould been B EJE 2 ee > B £ > t 0 JdJ * ° ^ ae Chartist body but to 2 iuranrs themselves 5 while to have magnified ~* s Biors iresld be to deal unjustly with them . ims iExirasIbr the correction of the wrong ; and ^ jfcre dearozs trat the deviation from the presibsdnileshosid hsve been laid before the country , 9 this the opinion of the Chartist body might be £ sj used upon the question : and it was because llssaw , in tie manner and language in -which sg cbrge was made , the prCbable frustration of 211 danMeoMeer ., that 1 the more regretted it .

      Hay persons have supposed th 3 t I was not only Ksiast of , bnt favourable to , the course pursued by felorer of the Star ; and , had the contention see £ , 1 shodd have preferred labouring under this ajEsd eeasnre , tore-opening the breach . The time hs now come , however , when I must justify Ejaif ; andiriih that intention I beg leave to state , see" cutset , that so far from being a consenting jcijtothe controversy I was most unequivocally ipjiesed to ii ; in proof whereof I fe « l myself teid to laj bsfore yon the following correspondence nxh passed benreen Mr . Bill and me .

      51 tBfes laace of the matter which appeared repsgjast to nj feelings , I read in the Siarpreceding Hi . Danconibe ^ r vini to Manchester ; and immefiHilj Ttym peroang it I sat down and commnnittted my dis ? at 5 = factipa of the course pursued by JIr . ffiII , ' SBd liiisthe first letter referred to by Ho in iisrepJy . The second letter had referenoe to fbe article in Hik £ hard names were nsed towards & Eieesare , and also to an article upon the

      ^ StncnliBirjDocument , "or the Addrras , supposed aaaieeaissned daring the recentstrtke . I never Ismja of my letters , as I never anticipate the ssesyef using ihem for the purpose of justifying ^?; lowever , in the sulj ^ ined letter you iSstBaple quotations from these letters to Wja to the conclusion that , from ihe first , I was saaiio ihe course pursned by Mr . Hill , or rather IZtBode cf making his charges .

      fe MoTring is Mr . Hill ' s reply to my two tejBpen this subject ; andasihedateis important s ifejJKirattention toil : — Xesds , Siturfay erening , Ifec , 10 th , 1 S 42 . Xl 2 Zis Sia , —I never do anything hastily if I OjMp it , because J generally find things hastily Jwto be ill done . I have therefore taken time to * s * . 2 s feelings of snrprise and astonishment with * & I lead jom last letter it jnbside , before I sat tsa to jifc-wer it 1 liall itt > -g try to answei bo mnch of it as I can ? 1 « Ssca fnlly ; or at least as fnlly as may be neces-^ ib ob flnl y understanding each oth er .

      _ 2 * lnay omit nothing in replying to it , 3 shall ct a& psagrapii as I go on . Iralitjia ttns : _ i . j ^ u ^ j . ^^ j fiTe year 8 ^^ *^> S ^' ^^ ^ friendship , shonld have insnred *« « tta reception for my oiserratiouB . I never « Kaeo the iaugn ^ e of dictation nor o ften of re-*^^« e . 1 should not now -write if I were able ¦ f ? » leeds . But 1 did all in my power to start ¦ 6 J ^?** ^^ ?** ohli gc& , whfle dressing , to Bend te ? " V ? ^^ i ^^ ad of a carriage . For now v £ TJ n been TfeI 7 m ~ dangerously so , other-. « 1 aa « ld ha-ye soouer iEterfered . ''

      & 2 a Snt place , I do feel assured ihat yon will be-^^ ^ ien I ay that the news of jam illness fills to , 4 T *?** * * snd I haTe &e » ncerest hope that by W ^ V 237 fe 2 E £ T"ted . The first part of the S \ «» TK& 7 n ^ ble to understand , as 1 JaE « T ^ *? Tiat " Nervations- yon refer . If ^ i ^ « 1 S cbssrsafioas contained in your pre-^* Ser , 1 nmst Temiiid jou tliat I did not recaive fe ^ wf 015 n Uct did J 1 ™ te ifc > J 12131 af ^ ~> i « Maiaian of the = THrff . » - « , f « rr »^ «•« «^

      Mto ^ l ?^ ^ P TDor of ***» I need bnt refer * 3 i ^ . ° Jf ° * S extracts from it : — " Ab to the &tZS ~ ai * a « litiua-of the Esecaave . I think ShrSJ *** . ** " " ^ e article npon the Exe-- ^ atst 1 do not e xactly comprehend , " It kSrtn vk ^ v " ^^ tfctB ^ y observaaons in this * = aa H * T f ^^^^ d tbat I should defer , in , ^*" « anicej Bp 0 ! 1 -srijjcj , J 0 nj present jg ^ gy «* eb ^^^ " J ^^ neTSI tad f * 0115 7 ° ^ any *«• ll ^ T 5 beric ^ - ^ aU BPon the matters at ^'¦¦ fc tm 7 ^^ ' compelled to think that yon fcsaLr 1 ^ nader seme miEConception arising Stf SairT ^* ' rtcoll' : Ction of facts ; bx I do trast lbl te 7 taiS JCI 1 lMTe iEownmehaa given yon " * ^ vt ^^ -T tbat ^ observatiens froa you ^ . WTSiv * « spect&Uy received by me . I fa . 5 r * . i m - asiCrince mitht ant he necextarv Eiast

      ^ ita a ^? 7 ' ^ ass 076 yon that ^^ "miij biii iLoai I wonld receive ob-^ Cfc a&n ^ . ? 1111 ^^ connoted vnth the interests ** & ! iSti ? ? ^ P ^ tfnl deference 2 nd more S [ -j «« S S ^ v ' " 117 on - ^^ " *«* mncl ' ^ Tii 47 ffii—M yon seem to do—that I ^ tott ebTi ** LfclrIon t" Jonr observations vrhen ^ TTlak 1 ^ - ^^^ ^^ en delivered personally . ^ HftaS t ^' ' - ** ' ^ donbt BOt J ^^ ys ^• " ^ a ^ Tiw Ief ^* e a 3 yoar observations , £ nr ? es-« fettee , i * v , T ™ masi respectfnl and attentive * * tbt fia / T ^ ttdecvi nred in whatever eon-^* " remcr tie ^ ov-msnt , bo to act as to ^' ' « a S ^ '" 1 B 1 B - ! lEi for - A « to " dicta-*^ c * 4 at Z ^ eiC ! 3 ^ b to talk cf that -when it is 2 & ? TZ 2 * _ T » -7 that yon h , ve i 7 BeTer faao 1 ir

      ^ r ^ iB 5 ! T ^ . r ^ 7 "a " ^ 3- J of ^^ totKcV ? 0 * -chara cter that fihonldinduee I ^ to ^ i ^^ bearit . ^^^ » Job is jQne j ^ t that I did hope the T ^ MaT ^* ***** * ° rid be used , as I was not lS ^ - «* A ^ ^ * in it ; bnt I am not to ^^ Srf ° l ^ I ^ i * lat ^ Jni y la £ t > ^ hen I in-* SL ** g ^ f wanmendea to the Hull eoani pn

      • ftj " vflteu ^ ' ' cspressea yonrseu n - ^ l *? -j 55 SS * ianiL I Perfectly remem . jL ^ io jfaT *? * J ° i ° tte jams month of "S ^^ bfci . Tt ** ' ^^ I * ioKt « dnre ^ Tt * » teTTtr ^ 6011186 ' yon again expresstd 5 ^^ ^ that ^^ » onld act on my Sft ^ St ^ r ^! DEI 3 ! ble ° & * ° * * tha man-^ il 1118 Wtfxfff ? »• - ¦»»«» are two « l * Vf ; lo jhi ^ 0111 to my commnnicafeg -with " "*** « that tnae ; and we waited tiu

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      the appearance of another balance sheet to note iU effect However , 1 am to conclude that you are right ; and that my recollections are as wrong as they are strong and clear . It may ba matter of regret to the Hull councillors that they should not have your approbation of their -proceeding ' s ; bnt I have yet to learn that that fact should render their proceedings nngatory , and deprive them , of ttieir rigbt to act on their own j judgment If this paragraph mean that the Hnil councillors ought not to use their correspondence , be-, cause yon are not favoniable to it , I fear yenr enemies ¦ would deem this a very doss approximation to that 11 language of dictation" -which yon affirm that yon never used ; if it do not mean this , I confess that I am j unable to discover any meaning in it

      Ton say that yon are not to me or any one " a false friend . " - God forbid that yon shonld ; I , at least , have suffered enough from false friends without finding one in yon . Ton go on in your letter to say : — " The moment seized for denouncing M'Douall , was he even a robber , -was most unfortunate ; while the terms used in branding tbe acts of the Execntive blamable , though not venal , wer « highly offensive , and pre-eminently calculated to lessen Hie feeling of propel rtjrret which a calm exoosnre would have ensnred . "

      Never were words more adroitly and rightly nsed than yonrs in speaking of those acts . They were , indeed , " blameabU though Sox ve ^ al . " They were " mortalsins against the very life and principle of democracy . 2 Cot ike result ol a hasty and thoughtless indiscretion , but committed deTtoerafc / p after repeated caution ; cloaked over at first wiih as mnch low canning as could have been exhibited by an Old Bailey pici-pocket , &- d afterwards , -when stripped of the disguise , brazened out with an impudence but seldom met with , even in that fraternity . .

      It is not very easy in " branding acts" like these to find terms in which to do it which shall be other than offensive to the perpetrators ; and I trust that no person , save , perhaps , yourself , honestly cisposed to view the snhject . on its merits will think the terms I have used in this matter to be at all stronger than the case regaired . Yfeuproceed : — "The mention of the document and the mods of mYKvng M'Boaall ' s name as part in it was ¦ unfriendly . " ! This , as applied to my remarks on the balance sheet , ! I cannot understand ; for the plain reason , that in none 1 of those have I said a single word abont " the document . " I am not in the habit of thus jumbling things : ; nobedy ever , does who haB not some sinister end to

      serve . Ton go on : — " And good God ! jnst now , while all are under prosecution , t « have lighted such & torch among us I ™ Ton forget , Sir , that it was noi I , but Tom ows pets , the Executive , who lightbd tbe torch . I did all I could to prevent its being lighted . But to sit calmly and see the people robbed and laughed at withont speaking did not comport with my disposition . I envy no man who could . You say *• plunderers , robbers , transportation , and so forth , are scarcely the fit terms to apply to men npon tbe first announcement of their fanlt "

      If the fault be " plunder and robbery , " as in this case it is , I know not -why these shunld not be tbe fittest terms of alL But "withont anjnm ? that point ¦ with you , I ben to remind yon that it iras not in " the first announcement of their fault that those terms were used . Their " fault" had been announced to them by at least three different and separate parties , before the Sta" said a sirgla , -word . The Hull CuUBcillors , the Leicestershire delegates , and tbe Metropolitan delegates had severally annonnced the fault ; and it was not in " announcing the fanlt" ai all , bnt in exposing the impudent " brazening ont" of Campbell , that they

      " expected the « oontry to be deligated" with the robbery , that I adduced the parallel case to show how very " delightful" it might have been under other circumstances . I should not have been surprised to find Gampbell or M'DonaH placing this in the light in ¦ which yon have placed it . It is very natural for them to seek to wriggle oat of the " mess" by all sorts of Hiisrepresentations and quirking falsehoods ; bat I have eo right to expect j > ou to misrepresent "what I say for the purpose of censuring it . From you , sX all events , I have right to expect justi . es ; I ask no more from any man .

      And ih = n again you say : — " And then the allusion to leach's and Campbell ' s shops was in bad taste . " JTow , this is a gross perversion ; and one that from you I had no right to look for . It assumes that I spoke r < f their shops per ss . I did ns such tiling . If yon had taken the tronble to read the article , instead of taking Mr . Campbell ' s version -of it , you would have known that Campbell was complaining that he had no funds to pay the wages of himself , and leach , and Bairstow . I diowed that the Organisation gives them no title to wages when not sitting . They are not sitting now ; and I did ask why we shonld pay them wasjea now -when Leach and Campbell are minding their shops , and Bairstow is getting wages as a lecturer ? 1 ask it yet . I never hinted " that Leach had no right to keep a shop ; though I do maintain that tbe Secretary has no right to do anything , but give his whole time to the du jes of his office .

      Ton •• fear that much private pique will be set down to the account where remonstrance alone should have stood . " There can be no doubt that the feDows will labour hard enough to make it seem as if my honest watchfulness for the people ' s cause and purse was the resu t of some petty personal feeling . That is their gam a But though they seem to have played it successfully npon yon , I don't think they will succeed with the people . And whether they do or not is all the same thing to me . I seek to serve the peoplej not to please them .

      Tour next paragraph is a strange one . It runs thus : — " I have no doubt that the country would have taken a calm remonstrance kindly , while they will , and 1 think justly , look with disgust and suspicion upon matiy of the charges and terms ; especially any reference to the " Executive Document , ' which was Ingged in , head and- heels , without any ostensible causa . How , from you , tlds is most incomprehensibleindeed i t is " too bad . " 1 once more repeat what , if yon have read them , you must know—that in no artide which J hare written upon the Balance Sheet

      fcitsJRfc * or upon the Ejxaiiice at all , have J said one teord about that doacmetit . There was a distinct article npon the " doenment" separ ate from any consideration , of "Executive" matters at all , headed " The last Shift , " and you feed somehow to have jumbled them To that aliicle yon * efer in your previous letter , and yon say : — " The article upon the Executive Document I do not exactly comprehend either the meaning or the utility of , " Now let me try if I can help you to comprehend both its meaning and ita utility . In the Stalesmono ! November 5 tc , ~ &t . ~ 3 . B . O'Brien published the statement , which I send you here inclosed .

      " Talk of spies indeed : of informers too . ' "Way , spies and informers are gentlemen , in comparison with those black-hearted , pefidiens demagognes , who can look on cold-bloodedly while conspiracies are being fortntd to involve icnocent people in ruin , and who , fer the sake of the after-consequences to themselves , can coolly see those conspiracies explode , and scatter min and disgrace all around , while , with a single breatfe , they might have blown the conspiracies to atoss , and thus saved all , without as much as naming or tonching a hair of the head of any of tbe conspirators themselves . Look at the case of Griffin , too ! What occupation wonld there have been for that fellew , had there not been a . perfidious demagogue base enough to draw up a boastful , lying , document with his own

      hand , in which he deliberately tells the country that everything was ready , and that , in eight days , tbe turnouts might calculate on the movement being universal ? Now , this wicked demagogue knew well he was uttering falsehoods ; for he not only took good earn not to father his own cflvpring , for he actually disowned and spit npon it ; and wbiJe in the document of his o wn drawing ( bnt the responsibility of which he took care to throw npon otDersj he undisguisedly invited a general rising of his "' Imperial ' dupes , he had afterwards tbe unparalleled baseness to damn hiB own work in his own newspaper , and to treat as madmen and fools those who might act upon his advice : thus not only making a laughing-Btock of . the people , but , after bringing them into danger , basely deserting them , and denouncing his

      own acts and advice , in order to secure his own cowardly carcase from the consequences . Talk of Griffin , indeed ! God forbid we should be Grimn'a apologist The fellow ' s condnct has been bad as bad could be of tbe kind : bat , nevertheless , it is innocence itself , in comparison with that of the cold-blooded monster who , while he was telling us in Ms newspaper , that the strike could not encceed , and that it would only do damage to tbe cause , nevertheless , did secretly draw up a public anonymotu address , in which he gave the . Chartist public every » BCirance of success , telling them that the whole machinery- was perfect , and that in eight days the

      turnouts would have It all their own way . His dirty tools and fanatic followers may try to gloss orer this conduct as they best an , bnt to men of plain sense and virtaons feeling It admits of but one construction . They will see in it only ihe condnct of a ieartless villain , who carednothing for the dangers in which heinvolred others through his lying address , while he took precious good care-of himself , by disavowing his own actB and bis own policy , in Ms ' oTni newspaper . To that which brought danger on others ha took care not to append his name . To what was intended to provide for bis own safety ' he 100 k good care to appeud ' FearguB O'Connor in full "

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      There is , at all events , no mistaking that ! Its object and purpose are quite sufficiently plain- It was copied the week after into the WetV . y Chronicle , and would , if Dot stopped , have " gone the round . " I wrote that article , " The last Shift , " for no other purpose than to stop it It did stop it It has not baen copied into any paper since . And even your way of thanking me for the service does not make me regret having written it . You remind me that " just now , every spare line should be devoted to the Birmingham Conference . '' I think you must see ( if you lead the Star , which upon my word I begin to doubt if you ever do ) that the Birmingham Conference has not lacked its share of attention .

      You speak of this as " an unpropitious moment for the revival of old or planting the seeds of new controversy . " Once more I must remind yon that these charges do not apply to me ; and 1 protest against your thus applying them to me , for the purpose of shielding those to whom alone they do apply . What may be your reason or motive for thus pertinaciously misrepresenting my acts , and then censuring your own misrepresentation , you best know ; I cannet divine it In my avowed enemies , I can perceive a reason , and a motive for it ; in you I cannot -. so that 1 have the mortification of smarting under effects which I cannot trace to any cause , You next say : —'" I really am more than at £ . loss to furnish a sufficient reason for the mode of attpgdc , and mean to propose the appointment of a committee while at Birmingham , to investigate the whole affair . '

      I really am more than tired of reiterating protestations against this cruel and systematic perversion . I have made no attack upon any one . When the Balancesheet was published , all I dia was to ask the people to read it . 1 did not give an opinion of my own ; I did not even hint an opinion tt my own . The Metropolitan Delegates examined aud censured it Campbell published a letter of explanation . That letter of explauation was a public document , and it was my duty to comment npon it I did comment upon it in such terms as my jndgment dictated to be the most appropriate . It may suit the Executive to call this an " attack . " It is

      their game to divert the people ' s nuuda from the question by making them suppose it to be a quarrel between them and me ; I txpect them to take that position ; but I have no right to expect it from you . 1 have a right to expect that you , at all events , will withheld your censure until yon have made yourself distinctly acquainted with the facts . I don ' t ask from you any more favourable construction of whnt I say and do than I have a right to ask from any impartial person ; but I demand that you shall not do m * an mjustice ; that you shall not misrepresent facts and pervert reasonings , and then censure your own misrepresentatians and perversions .

      You will , of course , do as yon please about moving for the Committee at Birmingham . I can tell you , that I will never recogniaa nor answer to any Buch committee . That is tile very thing they want ! To div . rt attention entirely from their own malpractices , and fix it on " the brutal attack of Mr . Hill on the Executive . " I shall not permit you thus to plBy their game for them ; at all events , I won't help you to do it And , independent of that consideration , the press shall never , in my peraon , be degraded to such a position as you wonld thus place it in . The public at large is the true censor of tbe press . What 1 have written is before the people . They will judge of it ; and I have no fear that the major part of them will judge correctly . I have

      never given forth an opinion for waich I have not given the rexson on which it was founded . They have it all before them . I have given ample room for explanation and defence . They have both sides before them . I take the verdict of the whole people ; not of any individual clique of pprsons . [ Upon reconsideraHon , since my letter was written , 1 retract this paragraphreserving to myself the right of using my own judgment whether I answer the Committee ( if one be appointed ) personally , or refer them to what I have written . In any case , 1 shall deny the right of any such Committee to treat the matter as a personal matter of crimination and recrimination between me and the members of the Exiumtiva—Monday morning—W . H ]

      And now , my dear Sir , permit me to retort upon you yoar own words , " I did think that five years * intimacy —not to speak of friendship—should aaveseenred some better reception for my observations . " You ought by this time to know something of my temper , something of my judgment , and something of my honesty ; bow is it that , whenevar a time of difficulty like the prosent comes—when a storm is to be encountered for the interest and safety of the cause—when duties of the most unpleasant and painful character are to be ¦ performed—not only is tbe guidance and battling of the storm entirely It ft to mr > , but tbe work is made

      harder by throwing into tbe mess your own misconceptions , and your heavy private censures , levelled alwayi at those misconceptions ? It was thus in the case of O'Brien ; it is thus now again . How ia it that your confidence , and your affection , and your kindly regards seem to be entirely reserved for your enemies ; while your suspicions and your groundless censures are equally reserved for these whom you know to be entirely devoted to principle , and to be as thoroughly devoted to you as such men ean be . I have thought much abont . it I am puzzled with it It is a very curious and painful phenomenon .

      I must now bring this long letter to a cl « se . To no other man that lives would I have condescended ths explanations and remonstrances contained in it ; seeing that they would be all precluded by a mere reading of the facts and arguments to which they refer . I do not think that in like circumstances , I shall ever again permit my personal regard for you so far to overcome my natural pride of character . I am , dear Sir , Your ' s , most sincerely and faithfully , WiLLiiM Hill .

      Now , although I am not very ceremoniously dealt by in that letter , I shall not make more comment npon it than ia necessary for my immediate purpose . When Mr . Hill say 3 that he did not receive my first letter until after the article complained of had appeared in the Star ^ he is quite right ; nor could I have written it upon anticipation that such an article would appear . I wrote it on the day on which Mr . Duncombe was at Manchester ; and by reference to the date it will be found that that was on the Monday after it had appeared ; and , therefore , that I did not lose mnch time , nor did I wait for any expression of public opinion to form my own notion .

      The next point on which I would briefly dwell is the correspondence between the Hull Councillors and the Executive . My impression respecting that correspondence was , that it was wise and judicious ; and as a controversy npon the same aubjact was going on in Leicestershire , I recommended that instead of publishing resolutions upon exparte evidence , a similar course should be resorted to by the Chartists of Leicestershire ; convinced that such a remonstrance would have tho effect of correcting any error that had been committed . I do not say that it was intended for publication ; but had it beeu bo , tbe Execntive should have been warned of it .

      It is folly to talk of the virtue of man . We must treat him as a fallible being ; and , at the time , it struck me aa if some of the correspondence and resolutions passed had not the genuine Etamp of virtue upon them . I by no means refer to the lettersof tbe Hull Councillors , which were most judicious ; but I do refer to the long withholding of them from the public , if it tended for publication . I learned from all that was passing & % the time , that there was a disposition to fall foul of the Executive ; I did not gather this from any particular source , but from general obserTation , and I warned the Executive of it .

      As to Mr . Hill's "honest watchfulness" I never , for one moment , doubted it ; but I did doubt , not only the prudence but the justice of the course pursued by him in presenting the conduct of the Executive to the public , and , the more especially , for this reason ; because , I was anxious that public opinion , fairiy expressed , should operate as a warning , if error had been committed , and at the same time , present a recurrence of the evil ; and I was conscious that calm judgment would be led from a consideration of the offence charged , to reflection npon the language used in preferring the charge .

      Aa to the charge in the Statesman relative to the ** Extraordinary Document , " I thought I had answered that fully myself in my letter to Mr . Wm . Brooke With reBpect to Mr . O'Brien , I was at all times averse to any controversy being kept up with him ; bat , of course , 1 did not attempt to sway Mr . Hill ' s conduct beyond mere suggestion ; and I do not thick that I shrunk from zay portion of it , wb . cii I rros forced to it . J have now commented upon some of the passages in Mr , Hill ' s repiy , and from which I imagine tbe

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      readers of the Star will conclude , that , at least , Mr . Hill fa no tool of mine . There is also a letter from Mr . Watkins in last week ' s Star , against the whole import of which I most unequivocally enter my protest , as well as to its publication . The whole is written upon an assumption ; and from that assumption a conclusion is come to . The assumption is that the Executive are guilty ; whereas , I deny that any verdict of guilt has been pronounced against them . It is true , that the Secretary , by withholding the means of judging , has furnished " prima faaie" evidence of guilt against himself ; but I must protest agaiust the " sequitur , " that , therefore , the whole body is guilty .

      Mr . Watkins writes in a very fascinating and impressivestyle ; buthehas not succeeded in convinciug me . He draws a parillel between the acts of our oppressors and those of the Executive : and cites the payment of ten ahilHugs a week to M'Douall as proof of his guilt ; nay , calls him a " swindler . " Here agaia I protest against any such term being used to M'Douall . Nay , I will not allow that man to be called by any debasing name . Here my blood gets warm , and the more bo , because it has been long pent up . What , however ; is the difference 1

      Just this . Tne acts committed by our oppressors wo would not assent to , had our assent being asked ; while some of M'Douall ' s accusers say , " had he made known his wants , the oouutry would have cheerfully acquiesced in the augmentation of his salary . " Would we acquiesce if consulted ia the acts of our oppressors ? No ; certainly not . What then is the difference ? Just this , that M'Douall , without asking , has committed an error , which , had he asked liberty to commit , would have been cheerfully granted ; while our oppressors commit bids to which we could not be reconciled .

      Why appoint a committee of five to examine the books of the Executive , if they have been already condemned ? and is it not a maxim of English law , that " all men shall be held innocent until they are eonvictpd ? " Good God , how can I marvel at t . he slight evidence upon which a middle class jury wouid find me guilty if I am to be no more charitable to men , some of whose characters , are , in my opinion , beyond reproach , however some oi their acts may be highly censurable .

      Mr . Watkins says that the Executive have injured our cause , instead of advancing it . I deny it . I assert that James Leach , Dr . M'Douall , and Bairstow , have materially served the cause . I assert that we had no Organization before the appointment of an Executive ; I contend for it that we have now an Organization . However , I will rather rely upon innocence than presume guilt , when the whole of life speaks in favour of the accused , What , then , has been the character of James Leanh ? Hard working , sober , industrious , and poor . He has , to my knowledge , returned money gratuitously given to him , in more than forty instances . What ! then , are we to suppose that this man prefers gain acquired by plunder to that volunarily given ? Is he such an

      adept in trick and chicane that ho would wish to grow rich by fraud , while he rejects the proferrod bounty ? It is nonsense , rank nonsense . Then Dr . M'Douall ; is he to be branded with cowardice by Mr . Watkins , because he had the manliness to brave torture and separation from his family , rather than eutaii misery upon working men , who went bail for him ? On my soul , I do not understand this refined lotfic ; nor do I see how those behind were to be bettered by M'Douall's swelling the number of victims . I have always said that the difference between Whigs , Tories , and Chartists is this ; that the two former magnify the virtues and throwa veil over the vices of their party ; while the latter , iu general , magnify the vices and throw a veil over the virtues of their friends .

      of opinion , from the first to the last , that a calm judgment could not be expected upon the question , until the sober mind was again brought back to ihe question at issue . The question then is this . —The Executive were eleoted to see the Organiza . tion of the Chartist body carried out under certain rules . They are charged -with having violated those rules ; and are charged in such a way as furnishes them witn an excuse for not replying to the charge in that form . The evidence ia in the hands of the Secretary ; he refuses to give up that evidence until he is paid certain monies , which , he says , are due to

      him . A verdict we mast hate ; and therefore it is the duty of the Executive to force the Secretary to give up the books : and in order to facilitate this desirable object , I propose that the Secretary should hand the books over to Mr . Cleave , with aa undertaking from him ( Mr . Cleave ) that in the event of a verdict being given in favour of the Executive , the Secretary shall receive the monies claimed Should the Secretary refuse such a proposal then ( there will be fair grounds for presuming guilt ; and then the county will not be slow in giving a fair and impartial verdict .

      Mr . Wheeler , in his very judicious letter , declining to act as a juror , merely statea himself to be an accuser , not an executioner . I also am an accuser . 1 accuse the Secretary of mal-practioes . I wish to see how far the other members are concerned in those mal practices ; but I am not going to give my verdict without a fair and impartial trial : neither ha . ve I , from the evidence already adduced , seen any , the slightest , reason to decline the acquaintance of M'Douall , Leach , or Bairstow , or to make me ashamed to meet them aB frieuds and associates , or to deter me from acting with them in an official capacity .

      I have had a friendly explanation with Mr . Hill upon this subject . I told him that his comment of last week would compel me to take this course , and , at the same time , we came to a mutual understanding that not one word , more pro or con , should appear iu the columns of the Star ttpou the subject , until the deoisiou of some accredited body Bhall be reported upon the case . While I was supposed to be an idle spectator of passing events , no ono was more

      alive to the question than I was ; and , in justice to xVIr . Hill , I must say , that while much dissatisfaction was expressed at the nonappearance of resolutions , said to have beeu sent for insertion to the Star , in this case he is not blameable . One instance , particularly , I deem it right to mention . The toast of the Executive , proposed and supported by me at the Duncombe Demonstration at Manchester , never appeared ia the Star ; and for the best of all possible reasons , because it never was sent . The whole report

      without deduction or alteration , was printed as it urns sent . Now , this , I asBert , after having made the fullest inquiry ; and , in fact , Mr . Hill never saw the report , untiL it was in print ; as that is no part of his duty . There are two other persons under Mr . Hill to arrange ail matters for publicatien ; and correspondence from our own reporters goes , generally , at once to the compositor , without his inspection .

      I have now said all that I have to say upoa thw painful subject ; and Bhall conclude my letter , by expressing an anxious desire that the public will suspend its judgment till after a fair and impaits&l inquiry ; and then , if the Executive , or any of them , have been in error , let them be told it iu such language as will convey a proper caution for the future , i But , for Heaven ' s sake , let ua not condemn them first aud try

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      them afterwarJs . For myself , I say I would trust M'Douall , Leach , and Bairatow , with juntold gold ; and would riek my life upon their devotion to the peoples' cause ; aud thank God , I see : Leach overcoming accusation by increased exertion instead of making it a pretext , as many have done , to abandon the cause altogether . I have now " made a clean breast ; " and I trust I feave convinced the world that I am not hypocrite enough to meet James Leach on the public platform on Monday , and wink at , or countenance , censure upon him on Saturday . God knows poor M'Douall haa suffered enough , without tho 3 e who should be his defenders increasing his sorrows ; and I am sorry to learn that throughout the country , too many auch are to be met with , but I nevek will be one

      op them . I am , my friends , Your faithful friend , Fbargus O'Connor

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      TO THE WORKING CLASSES . My Friends , —By the subjoined announcement which appeared in tne Evening Star of Monday , you will learn that I have ceusud to have any connection with that papor . Much and deeply as I jregret the loss of the only daily paper that has ever , within my memory , advocated tha cause of the people , the fact of that paper abandoning the principles upou which its fama was foanded , einnot fail of pointing your attention to tho useful moral—that faction works its way through the press , while you appear to attack bnt slight importance to it . Further , it may furnish my friends with a ready reply to ray denouncers , as they can now say , here then are wo once more thrown back upon our old and only friend ,

      tho much calumniated Northern Siar , still , notwithstanding tho heavy fines and persecutions to iwhich its proprietor has been subjected , standing albne in it # clory to uphold the cause of right against mi ^ ht . Your favour has been courted , and you have been deceived , not by one or two , but by scores of journals- The Statesman , " a real Chartist" paper , paused into Tory hands , and sections of ; roanworshipDer 8 would have still upheld it . The Evening S / arhasbeencutoff ; but , likeother newspaper stock , I have not gone with the type . I trust that'if wo failed in our poor endeavour to push that paper , that we shall not ( ail in our alle ^ iauca to our principles ; and that instead of seeing the long list of | Cufft ; e Houses where it might , while Chartist , have been

      read , thac now no Chartist will read it . While I write thus , my friends , i feel no piquo personally . I never have had one word of dispute with any of the parties connected with the paper ; aud after &ix ] months due attention to it , the proprietor must confess that my gratuitous obligations were mo . ' -t cheerfully discharged ; and that , in the outset , I pledged myself to him that so long as the Evening Slar advocated Charusm , I would coniiuue my uu- i paid services , and that in the event oi the concern becoming profitable , I would not even then accept ' of a farthing for my services , as I never would receive money for the discharge of a p leasing , duty . The proprietor informs me that a loss of £ 3 , 50011 * 8 beeu sustained by the Evening Slur in its advocacy of Chartist ) principles . I can only say that the Northern Star sustained a Iops of £ 3 . G 4 t / before I knew

      where Iwas ; and that then , and subsequently , enticing ; otfers were made to me to sell it , but my answer was then , as it is now , whenever the Northern Star \ ceases to advocate the cause of puru democracy , it , shall cease to exist . It' to-morrow it was out of my . power longer to carry on tho Northern Star , which , ; thank God , it is not , it shuuld perish ; but all the ' money in the kingdom would not purchase it from j me fur any purpose . ' | I mention r . his j u . t now as I am aware that our j disappointment must considerably shake pablic con- j fidence in the press . , j I had arranged with the proprietor , before I left > towu , that iu addition to my daily services , I wpilW ¦ attend the House of Conamons nightly , aud wr . jtd . tti 6 I Parliamentary analysis , to save money . Thus I was ! to have been the principal reporter by night , and , the Editor by day . without pay , and paying my own ,

      ex peaces . Mr . Cleave has told mo , Mr . Hobson has told me , : ind noaily all my agents have told mo , that I was injuring the sale of the Northern Siur b < youd conception by writing , and recommending the Evening Siar . My answer to one and all hasinvariahly been" Well , 1 know it ; but what do I care it I am serving the cause . " I have sent many articles of great importance and matters of news to the Evening Star which I have withheld from the Northern Star , in the hope of giving it a good standing . Such , my friends , has been my connexion , which has now ceased , with the Evening Star . Henceforth , I understand , that it is to be conducted upon high Tory principles , and you will mark the increase of advertisements . ;

      These facts will awaken you to a knowledge of what I have had to struggle against , and convince you of the fact that my crime , from first to last , my only crime , has been that I would neither prostitute nor sell the Northern Star . At this particular crisis the loss to us haa been great ; aud I flittered myself that I could have made the Evening Star a ; really powerful organ , and heace its purchase from my manasement . Therefore , while 1 regret it , it proves that faction trembles at the very thought iof au honest press . Now , my friends , the usual Sessional struggle is about to begin , and never was there such a struggle before £ » ll parties will bid tor the people to use them for their own purpose .

      And now , as there are many , very many , waiters upon Providence connected with our party , and who look to a mixed agitation as the only moans of subsistence ; and , as wo are too poor to pay them , I shall be extensively and systematically denounced for standing betweon tlipm and the gold dust . But 1 will do it , and bear all the cons-cqueix-es . My policy is to keep our party together , as an army of observation ; t © let all other parties fight it out without any assistance from us ; and then , when the Whigs and Repealers fee their own weakness , they will assuredly fall back upon us . But if we ; were mad enough to give them the least countenance ' , they would use us for another Reform delusion ; and then , when we were broken np . 'hey would

      assemble to carry out the details ot : the new Reform , or Free Traie , which would be in character and value precisely as valueless as all forr er changes mide by tho class legislators . I shall take a bold stand a * 1 ever have done , trusting to the triumph of Toryism over Whigg-ry and ( Freetrade . As a Chartist ( recruiting-sergeant , I will not oppose Toryism with the view of restoring Whig-# ery . No policy could he worse . You have now no more to do with policy than you hav . ' to do wich the moon . Machinery , will beat both Whiga and Tories . I de'y them to conqier that all-devouring foe , by any 8 ct short of the Charter , which would develoreall our resources , cultivate our resources ,

      and equitably distribute the produce , thereby n :-gulatiug demand aud tupply , by opeuing a natural market for man ' ri iabour and iestablishing therein a standard rate " of wages , below which the labourers will not work in the artificial market . In the end , you will believe me , that , ] until that is done exchequers , tills , pvckeia , treasuries , and bellies will bo empty ; and strife and civil [ war . and confusion and di * truit , will only ba suppressed by force or fraud—by the force of Government , or by the fraud of ihose who have an interest in upholding injustice . But such means of preserving order in a country are unrighteous as they are unjust , and will fail when the Riff . rers constitute a majority , which ia now being brought about by the operation

      Of MACHINERY . Toryism is no longer your main en *> my , Whiggery is no longer your main enemy . Machinery has rendered all iheir acts comparatively powerless ; and all that Machinery now requires to complete its temporary iriumph , and lo insure a revolution , is au " extension" of its already unbounded power by the establishment of what a called Free-trade , which means neither more nor leas than free - plunder . While I am upon sai / jcets connected with lurown movement , I may hero make a passing comment upon the state of our Organization and the proposed remedies for its reconstruction . I shall ^ lonly speak in general terms . I am , then , decidedly in favour of an Executive ; I think we cannot do without it . I am obstinately opposed to

      an unpaid Executive , and for this reason . ; If you have an unpaid Executive , yoa must havo a purely middle class Exoutive ; because you cannot get working men to live withont wages , and the very moment you elect working men as your officers , that moment every door is closed against them , and at once they are marked , and if ia work are dismissed . Moreover , { the very notion implies the office is to be a sinecure , or that we are to be unpaid . If a eineoure , we do not require them ; if not , ' the labourer iB worthy of his hire , and should haye it . My opinion is , Chat the lice upon the back of Chart * ism have become too numerous and devouring ; and hence much jealousy among them towards a permanently paid body , while twenty times the sum requisite to pay all the expenses

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      ¦ vA /^ — x ;/ of a paid Execntive wonld nob amount , > Y tbe year , to one-hundredth part of what has been snatched up by * Political Pedlars , most of which could have been spared . Besides , nothing can possibly damage our cause more than frequent announcements that Mr . So .-and-FO will be here and

      there upon such and such a day , without Turther notice , and whose expences must be paid , whi ' o his services are rendered unprofitable from a vrau' oi any knowledge of his honesty or capacity . The lukewannness is put down to defection , and ihu ^ we suffer materially by this itinerating system ot Chartist mendicancy . Let us have our paid Executive , our paid lecturers , and our unpaid volunteer ^ confined to their several localities ; but let us have no more of this Bystem of unconnected and disorgaii . zed agitation . I shall be more at liberty now than I hare been for the last six months , and Fhall , as usual , ( idvote

      j my whole time to the reconstruction of oar i machinery . Aa far as J am concerned , my poi . ey , as it ever has been , shall be to keep our \ trty I together , to heal all difFerenca " , to unite the £ t > i <> of j labour into one firm bond of union , and to care Httla who I shall offend in the undertaking , m-rer i needlessly giving cau ^ e of offence , but not I allowing delicacy to stand in the way vrhen j necessary . I shall never exercise more controul j than I have done over the Editor of the i A orthsrn Star ; while I have solemnly swwri , to I mv-Relf that it shall never bo made a means of achieving a triumph of one section of Chartists ever another .

      Before I conclude , I muBt fstate that I receivt-d a letter from Dr . M'Douall , sent by Mr . Cleave to me as Editor of the Evening Star , on ihis morrmit :, afc twelve o'clock , and when 1 had ceased to have any comroul over that , paper , otherwise the letter should have appeared ; however , in justice to Dr . M'Dyuall i I must make a few extracts from it : — He says , in speaking of the 10 s . a week , " what was my dafcy if the 10 s . was objected to ? To resign it . Well , an objection came from Hull . A corespondenca between Campbell and tbo Hull councillors ; the end of which was , as far as I was concerned , the transmission , by Grasby , the s-ecrc '> . ry ,

      of a written resolution , purporting to be thedelib < rate vote of the Hull councillors in which they derUre their perfect satisfaction with the payment ot Os . additional any week to me . That document I Lave in my possession ; and I hereby inform Mr . H P that I accept of his challenge to produce that anJ the letters I showed Mr . O'Counor at NoUidKhira . ' Hers I must observe that the letters shown to rm- at Nottingham did not , as far as my memory .- < . / ea me . rffle t in any way on Mr . Hill , but tber they are . I referred to them in a letter written r 'he time from Nottingham , and from them I w ; , ( onfirmed in my opinion that a cabal was being _ -.-i up against the Executive , but not by Mr . Hill .

      The Doctor goes on— "Now Sir , when I rr . \ pd the Hull note of approval , I informed the General Secretary , that I would notacept of the 10 s . b < . anse an objection had been raised , aud I wrota to Hull offoring to resign it , and my office on the Extci cive , it they would send a written demand to that < ltovt , which I never , to the best of my re « ollection , recene-l . " Again , " on tho Conference at Manchester , at u inch placo I was advised to resign the 10 s . publicly , \ vhh my reasons for receiving it , without any <[ .. estion asked or motion made ; but I was not -aK .-wed to express my reasons I was btopped , Sir , v \ ith , your resolution of confidence n , and thanks iv , the Executive , for our past services , "

      In justice to Dr . M'Douall , 1 give those ex ^> . ts , and the more readily , as it unfovtun ely happened that some . of the Hull corre ^ poi . nee was not forthcoming , in consequence of the prosecution of tho former Secretary . Mr . Grasb * . Tiie Doctor tells me , and the public , that of which I never had a doubt , namely , that his heart is , as it ever was , centred in the people ' s cause ; and I do hopo if he , for a moment , supposed that I had joined in his denunciation—that the devclopemeat I have made this week will show that my conduct with respect to the Executive has been consistent , and hat I have uniformly supported them .

      I mu .-t now say a ward about the approar ' ung trials . Upon a rough calculation , I , as treasurer , have received , as acknowledged in the Evening iN' / r , abour £ 250— £ 132 from Mr . Cleave , and I knov- not how much , just now , has been acknowl dged thr igh the Northern Star , about £ 125 . These suma nuke £ 507 ; out of which I have paid £ 20 Chester f ' ) inmission , £ S 0 diuo Lancaster , £ ( iU ditto Staff rd , £ 71 ditto Queen ' s Bench office-fees , ssnall ? ut ) s a lout £ 30 , outstanding about £ 100 , —making £ 331 : and leaving a balance in my hands of about £ 17 ' , to meet about £ 2 , 000 , to be paid between this and A priL I paid £ 7 yesterday for a SPECIAL JURY 1

      was able lo meet all these expences myself before I made so much profit of the Northern Star ; but now I am not . I have paid in law expenoes , on my "wn account , iu four years , more than £ 2 , 000 ; on yuur account , more than £ 500 . Yoa must begin to pay a little on your own account now . You will , henceforth , send to me , diluted to HammcnmUh , all monies for the DefVnce Fund , by post ; office order , made parole to John Cleave , so that I may know how we S " und . I am Trrasurer for the Defence Fund , Cleave ot the Victim Fund . D > n ' t mix them up . I shall hanJ all orders over to Cleave , but let me know how wa stand , by transmitting all monies to me in the tirst

      ce . Your ' s , ever faithfully , Feaugus O'CoNNca . Wednesday , 1 st . Feb . P . S . —I must state that my first letter to the ttlar was written and nosted ou Tuesday ( yesterday ) , and Dr . M'Douall ' s wa ? dot received till twelve o ' clock this day ; therefore , he will at once see rhafc I , at aJl events , did not require his letter to convince me of his purity in the Chardst cause . I cannot sufficiently express my disgust at the letter of Mr . Watkins . which appeared in tha Star of last week , and which I ' trust will not be received as proof against , the Executive pending any investigation that is to take placo . I only hops and trust that I shall not be further forced into any controversy upon this unpleasant subject . F . O'C .

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      REDD ITCH . —Mr . Mead ' s lectures on Sunday and Monday evenings are uprooting the idle fears of the middle-class men , and removing the prejudices of the saints . His congregations increase in number . On Tuesday night , a crowded tea party and ball were held , in the Chartist Hall , for his benefit . Mr . Mead , and Mr . Weeks , from Leicester , both briefly addressed the meeting . Dancing waa carried on with great spirit till

      ten , when a second tea was served in the parlour of the O Connor Aims , the worthy host good-naturedly presenting a fine American ham for the occasion , and enlivening the company with his racy jokes and truly original t )> que ; : ce . Mr . Mead will lecture every . ^ anduy and Monday evenings during hia stay at Redditch . LONDON—National Association . —On Sonday evcuiug Mr . Parry will lecture in the Hall ; and on Wednesday be -will deliver the second of a COUrstt of lectures , on British Oratory , the Pulpit , the Bar , and the Senate .

      National Association . —On Tuesday evening the members huid their weekly meeting , when the S ^ crdtary reported that tha committee had agreed that the coffee aul reading room should be opened permanently r . u ^ imd&y week ,, rcith a convivial meeting amonsbt the members : and that they intended to call a public meeting on that tiny three weeka , to take tha opinion of the inhabitants of London , on the national remonstrance . 1 . China Wai-k . Lambeth . —At a meeting of member *) in ths locality , a vwy smart discussion took place on tho C > ru Laws . It was agreed to adjourn the thpcus' . iou viil ntxi Sunday evening , at half-past seven o ' clock .

      Hammuksmith . —Pkogress of the Movement . —On Moiuluy evening , January 30 th , a public meeting was helu at the Blacfe Bull Inn , Hammersmith-road . Mr . Cooper a PI \ n of Organization was again brought forward , anrl t ' .: o following resolution vas unanimously adopted— " That tbis meeting are of opinion that the present Plan of Org&u ' zitlon is far preferablo , but it wiil mv rth < - ! uss a ^ mit of amendments by a future CharU 3 ' . Conference or Convention . " BIRMINGHAM , —The ' ttm *! meeting was held at the A- ¦! ' . ciatija room , A ^^ a-street , on Sunday evening last , wIj-ju Mr . Andrew Weeks , of Leicester , delivered an ex .- lien * lecture on tbe principles of Chartism . Kc . veaton . —Tne Chartists of this place have sent ten shillings fur defraying t > ie expenses of the Birmingham Conference .

      T h e Co ¦ n c 1 l elected by the Chartists of Birmingham held their fecund meeting at the Chartist room , Astoustreet , at three o ' clock ,, on Sundty last A motion that the directing committee should consist of nine instead of six was agreed to . Messrs . 1 L'light , E . Muxless , and Blake were elected to tb . o office . Mr . George White read over a code of bye-laws which had been prepared in accordance with the vote of the previous council meeting , and they were ordered to be posted in the room and discussed at their next meeting , —The meeting aujourced to the following Sunday , at three o ' clock .

      Steelhouse-Lane — At the usual weekly meeting it was resolved to take the offer of the Chartist Circular , and that the profits be given to the General Defence Fund . Also , that the Chartists , meeting in this locality , take immediate steps for getting up a dinner in honour of Feargus O'Connor , and that a public meeting be held to carry out his challenge to tbe anti-Cora Law League . Bsoomsgrovb . —A dinner has been givan hereto Mr . John Mason . It took place at the Queen . Inn . Mt . Matthew Hall presided , and the usnal patriotic toasts were given and responded to . We received a lengthy report of the proceedings , on Thursday monMpjfr . Jog ^ which we are sorry we have no room . * hj , . ' ¦ ¦ > SSOTLSY BRIDGE . —Mr . C > n Muei ^ 'J ^ OtarQd in this village on the evening of Satu * day jjjsT .,.-, ' Several t \ names were enrolled . ^ ' " • " ¦ - ' > 7 -J W ;< '• • J& y ^ - :.. - - * . #

      It To Tes -,Wfts Of The National Chaster P**^ Association.

      it TO TES -, wftS OF THE NATIONAL CHASTER P **^ ASSOCIATION .

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      -Jr QZyvJ / " -Jr 7 AND LEEDS GENERAL ADVERTISER .

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      VOL . - TI- NO . 373 . SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 4 , 1843 . " ~ " Plu % » ° ^ g ^ H ^ r ;

      Canterbury.—On Monday, A Lecture Wan Delivered In The Guildhall Of This City, By Mr. J. Campbell.

      CANTERBURY . —On Monday , a lecture wan delivered in the Guildhall of this City , by Mr . J . Campbell .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 4, 1843, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct921/page/1/