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    • I THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY. JULY 8, 1843.
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      IEETERS TROU TTTR MOUKTAIlfS . 3 XXHG X SERIES OP IE 3 TEBS TB . OH A 3 S OLD HAM El TITK COUMKT , TO A ' 5 OUKG . HAH IS DTJBLIJt . JF rom ' The Beauties ol tl » 'Press f" osekcium of sr igmal ' Articles , Jbsay * , 4 < it , icfticft originally vzpeartd in the « Priss" Baaarpoper , established is Inland hy Arthur 0 Connor , after Die forcible st&pression vf ihe 2 * orthem Star ** the Govern-« o £ 3

      XKTISB . / III . 2 It dexk Feiesk—The situation of Ireland rince Hx . Pftt eame to tbe head of affairs has been daily grcwing - more critical , and ought jnataraUy to Jiave BKatBd thsiaoa and attention © Ta minister o ? common Bgarity . He might have marked in the hcaZxon the small dond like a man ' s hand , the harbinger of the coming delngej yeil » entrn * teat 6 eeMetgovernmentof this most important , Ihia precious 001111117 , —for such it 5 b to Britain , —atamort important juncture to p&geanta , to puppets , toTttcreal mockeries . How shall "we account ibr . tin * phenomenon ? Why ihonia a minister of

      diaaBgmabedtaleiilB » eekont , Jiie Dogberry in the play tnsmoBt dfirertfess man for ^ office ? Is it that he ia determine in au bis measures to trust to the operation t £ blind chance , -without the employment of rational hmnanmeana ? Ib it that he conceives it to be the Interest of Britain to ruin Ireland , and employs snch persons as he thinks most fit to accomplish this object ? la it that he thinks fools "will he most obsequious to the orders oftke interior British ca&metj Or is it that he snjposa ^ ~ £ he fceadlong temerity of folly and Inexperience msy nob see the danger of critical situations and may he found more ready to engage in desperate experiments ? -

      I hare often asked myself , "Why -was the present Chief Governor of Ireland selected for tbe station ? I cannot divine the cause . I cannot find that he possesses any of Ihe talents cf the "venerable magistrate , his father —I cannot find that he possesses any art of concOistion or of government , except "we -should suppose that a strong head is a perfection in the Ticeroy of a Province much addicted to the pleasures of the table . Apolitical ilentorhas been assigned to this jttcwiife statesman , yonnjerin government and "wisdom than in years . Sat ¦ what can he boast ? Much political craft and sanguinaryrashnets ; ¦ whieh latter , by the courtesy of Ireland , is toie ealled jixroness . The great polity of the present administration has been directed to two objects—resist -soce to the claims of the Catholics , and the depression

      Of the friends of Parliamentary Reform . With these view * the old principle of diiMon "was adopted ; the dissensions which had for some time subsisted between the Protestants and Catholics in the North , not without secret encouragement from certain magistrates , and been fomented , if not by tbe positive encouragement , yet fcy the connivance , or the criminal supinenesa of -other * , had attained snca a pitch of inTeteracy , that the two parses openly resorted to arms and seemed bent on mutual extermination . I will sot positively say that Government vis-wed with secret complacency the mortal and rabia animosity that urged the bigots of contending sects $ 0 an open warfare vittresch other . I win not positively attribute to Government a criminal desire of Tendering the spirit ef rancour and

      yiTiftwfl persecution general , as a means of weaken-3 ng flje- peoole , or of turning them from the pursuit of constitutional objects . Yet certainly these disorders raged without controul during a long period The military when they were called oat , seemed uniformly to embroil matters still mere by their inter ference . I believe , on every occasion , they ranged ihemseJres Kritn tbe Orangemen ; and this scene of dista&et itsi viewed ly those trho had the full power of repressing it mthadegree of apathy that to me appears , on other principles , inexplicable . The outrages of the populace in otherparts of Ireland , were , in like manner , suffered to proceed to great lengths before any measures ¦ were taken by Government to check them . A small number of soldiers , judiciously disposed through the

      country , and under the direction of active and prudent magistrates , would soon have restored good order ; but £ d 0 3 &gxs&Bs -Xffid ^ a ^ w f tti on ^ of frfria gentjy 212 122089 counties "arhere disturbances prevailed icere left for macymantha without any protecfioD , except suth as the exer tions of themselves , their servants and dependants afforded . In fact , it seemed as if Government viewed these illegal proceedings viths secret joy and triumph ; and in a TeSnem&nt of profound , but -cmaxnal policy , -wished to nnrtnre and forward the spirit of outrage , that it might be organized and grow into snch a form of regular insurrection as would furnish ihe pretext far laying aside all farms of the constitution , and for introducing a system cf violent coercive measures and a jagorouB . Government that '* hrmiA comprehend and

      compress toe Innocent -wiilitae guilty , silence tbe public voice , oRaira the advocates Tor freedom , £ 11 Ihe land with twrur and suspicion , and completely extinguish a ll moveme nt s o f th e p e o pl e towar d s the a t tainment of their two favourite el ^ ecta . Perhaps it was hoped and expected that the men of property , and the friends of peace and good order in the country , disgusted by ihe tendency to sot in the Iswer class of people , not only might torow their weight into the scale of Governjnent , hut actually become advocates for an Union of this -country wish Uorland , which has been a favourite y-hama of the British cabinet since the time that Ireland in « rms extorted certain concessions from the necessities and the apprehensions of Britain . This xouch is -undeniaBle ; that we heard some of those -who are tbe most : intimately connected with the present Government and toe > est acquainted with the secrets

      of the cabinent , express the monstrous wish tnrt a whole province , the most considerable in the country in point of population , industry , property , information and . morals , could ie driven to rebeUion , or ¦ were in open rebdlim ; for I do not wish to mis-state or aggravate PTp Ttxanrm * i-n themselves sufficiently abominable- At Hie same time an proposals for an enquiry Into the state of the poor aud the grounds of tbeii complaints and discontent was represented as a factious attempt to inflame by connivance and public approbation the disorders of those who sought for redress through tbe Tnf > riiTrm of tumnlt " The people -ttrtght have grisvances , hut this was not the time — "theconeessiens of justice might he imputed to intimidation . " The arm of Government was at laat stretched forth ; and the system of rigour began t * he developed in all its terrors .

      A noble lord high in military situation seems to have fcef * n the first inventor of 2 measure , which was after-¦ wards sanctionedand imitated by ibs legislatursJ . 1 Tnarn -Hmt of dispersing with ttip usual forzualiiies of Jaw , and transporting suspected persons-from their country under the idea of Tnanning the / fleet . TMs conduct was reprobated in the strongest Tnimimr by a lesxoed Judge , "who succeeded the Noble Lord in a circuit through the country ^ hut the I / egiBlsiure interposed to protect the stretch of pswer , or , as the disaffected might call it , this violation of the law sad constitution , hy a bill cf indemnity . "What bill of indemnity should protect him from the justice of Britain , whose arbitrary act first furnished the precedent for fiUinjfthe navy with ^ faanfT ' tt , for WhWWng the safety of the British Empire to its centre , and rendering , perhaps , ¦ what used to "be Ite protection , its sorest scourge at some future day ?

      Peace he to the manes of toe trial by jury ! If ow came the Insurrection BOL Ton are well acquainted -with Ihe provisions of this most formidable act , which ¦ with £ he earfe-sr , introduced men a sjblew -of jealous rigour as was scarcely ever devised before under the most arbitrary and tyrannical governments . " The act , " it jnaybe said , " was dictated bythe necessity of the times . " Be It so ; thesuMen leap from gross supineness to a degree of severity , which equals anything that the xeign of terror of Bobeq > ierrB exhibited , confounds and electrifies the people .

      * rha magistrates of this country art not universally competent to a situation that in disturbed times-requires prudence and good temper , joined with activity , and a knowledge of the la-ws . Many ecclesiastics have unwisely obtruded themselves , or been thrust by ethers , ^ ntn commissions of the peace ; and they have not been dJEJangtdahed , I fear , by that spirit of liberaUty and mercy which characterises the Christian religion . What tremendous powers were conferred on those men . * ' Any magistrate may send for strangers , and propound to them the alternative of giving sureties for their good hthaviour , oz going to . gaol . " On representation of the magistrates , in a special session , that a-district , ot county , is in a -disturbed state , or in danger of becoming bo , it is to fee proclaimed . The inhabitants then are

      warned , in a petty session , to keep within their dwellings , between sun and sun , on pain of being sent on heard "toe fleet The magistrates may hrsak open bouses , between son snd sm , to find -whether tbe inhabitants are at home—and m&y * end these -who xre a ¥ sent od heard the Seel , when found , unless Qjey can prove , to the salisfad um of the magistrate , Uiat they were absent on their lawful tuBiness . Persons taking unlawful oaths are to be sent on board the fleet . This power of joint transportation and imprisonment , is at the w 31 of a single magistratel It 3 s true the Act-says , that persons coming ¦ within these clauses , may , if they give bail , appeal trcm She single magistrate , to toe magistrates of Sewn on , one of whom must be of the quorum ; but

      there is no penalty on toe magistrate refusing haiL Persons assembling tumultnously in toe day time , opposing magisbste * by night , in their doHucffiaiy searches for inhabitants , anas , ct lodgers ; persons Tending seditious papers , 01 papers imstamped that onght to he stamped , are to he sen t on hoar d th e JUetj ^ and any woman selling papers of the foregoing description , is to be committed to prison , there , to lemain till she discovers toe persons from whom she received them . The magistrates did net suffer this set to remain a dead letter . District after district , county after county , has been proclaimed . We begin

      to apprehend that the precincts of toe Ticeregal xeslaence-will- be the only part of toe kingdom not in a State d distnsbanee , o * likely to become bo . Arrest tiny succeeded to airest—the iingdom is struck "with terror —thedunsreoES are crowded . What . more can be followed ? The suspension of toe Habeas Corpus * ct follows—proclamations sapsrsede the authority of law , and toe civQ administration of toe coustryis handed over to toe military . I donot speak of the decay of trade i-of toe failure of public credit ; cf toe general-dis tress ; toese are toe necessary consequences of the war—I speak , of measures and of mMortunes which might hare been avoided .

      Times of party heat and public commotion are said , to require and authorise a suspension of tie Habeas Corpas act ^ an&a suppresson of tbe trial by jury . I may ie paradoxical ptxhapa , but , in my mind , such times do peculiarly require that those safe guards

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      should be retained and preserved with reverend care to protect individuals from being oppressed and crushed by the strong baud of power and of party . Times of faction and disturbance are full of groundless suspicion and jealous rage ; slight rumours-are received as important information ; the mortidle whisper is heard with avidity . Every man has enemies ; at such' momentsItoey come forward ; they seem like noxioos reptiles m a hot pestilential season . Calumny takes the form of serious accusation , and arms herself with all the terrors of toe law ; toe malice of the private foe put on the vizard of toe public avenger ; even babbling impertinence and prying enrosity wear toe terrific foatnrea ot iaguisitorial authority . Ho iniiocency . of life—no iat ^ griiy of Intentaon—no circumspection in words or conduct , can ensure to- « ny man an untroubled condition , or even safety at such times . In my apprehension , it would be right-, instead of diminishing the constatuHonalieguIaaons for the protection of the

      ciuzai , to add to them new means of security from wanton oppression . Is it consistent-with the safety of the individual , that in . times when men ' s passions are inflamed and party rage prevails , a single person , perhaps , a person ignorant , weak , prejudiced and incapable , should have a power of tearing men from their houses and their families that were ' supported by their industry ; without allowing them any opportunity of defending themselves or confronting them with their accusers , and sending them on board tenders ; while the provision for the protection of toe innocent by an appeal , is eluded , throngh toe impunity In refnsinxbaU , -which tbe act affords to the magistrate T We m = y judge how unfit some of toe justices are to be Invested with these formidable powers , from what has been done by some of them ! men invested with sacred functions , from whom one would look for information and humanity . If ot only the single dwellings of the suspected have been burned , but whele villages have been devoted to toe flamaa JI :

      What is the present state of toe country ? . A system of jealousy and espionage is adopted ; an auction of secret intelligence is instituted ; large premiums are offered for toe encouragement of perjury , by subscriptions for informers ; whole legions of Bpies are enlisted ia tbe service of Government , who are most liberally paid with the mosey of the public . Bnt ay paper xs y x ^ ^ nn ftja ^ , I am yeur s , Montascs .

      I The Northern Star. Saturday. July 8, 1843.

      I THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY . JULY 8 , 1843 .

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      A DAY AFTER THE FAIR . Tre ruinous policy of procrastination , which has ever been t h e dis t in gu is h in g ' characteristic of the class-ministry of this country , is now being sorely felt . Complaint after complaint has been made of grievances which were known to exist , bat & deaf ear has been always turned to those complaints ; until at length the several suffering communities have m ars h a ll e d t hemselves under ihe s t andard o f t h e ir

      respective grievances , and claim from fear what has been refused to justice . The defiance of the Times to the Irish people to represent a single practical grievance of which they complain , and the declaration of the Home Secretary thai all the abases that did exist have been already removed , and that what still remains of complaint must be set down to "treason " , has been answered from Ireland and America by threats of the extermination of that race from which the grievances are supposed to flaw . Upon the other hand , we find jte multiplied injustices imposed by class legislation upon tbe

      Welsh people resounding through ihe hills and dales , ¦ and threatening vengeance for long borne wrongs ; while justice , if seasonably administered , would have stopped the howl . Again , if w e look abr o ad , we see tbe moment of England ' s weakness seized upon as & Stung opportunity to undermine her for e i gn policy by establishing the Bourbon dynasty in Spain ; a joint in onr foreign relations wkich if dislocated may tend not only to the dismemberment of the ** United" empire as regards $ be losg of Ireland , knt to the decline and fail of Britain ' s self &s a nation 1

      The citadel of corruption is now much ia the same situation as the Times described Espvlrtebo to be in a few days back ; it has failed to preserve ihe power of a hal l ow squar e , firing upon all points , a nd i s now as it were the centre , fir e d upon fr o m a ll p oin t s , itself . So long as a majority of the classes of which onr patchwork representative system is composed were satisfied with the mofaio work of onr rulers as a whole , so loDg was the strength general of the party backed b y the' strength local of the classes of which it was composed ;

      by which means the minority of the several classes were held locally and generally in subjection . But now , how changed tbe prospect ! Instead of the sectional strength which the majority of those classes formerly gave to the Government in com * pliance with the implied contract that the majority of each should plunder and live upon the minority , the necessities arising from an expensive system have compelled the Government itself to fall back upon hitherto favoured protected supporters , and , in cons e quence of t his , a majority of each class now constitutes the dissatisfied of its order .

      In England , the Church Hierarchy but yield to Government necessity from a thorough conviction of their own weakness , and upon the principle that a half loaf is better than no bread ; the agricultural interest , though yelling around the minister in appro-ring and acquiescing cheers ^ are growling thronghoutthe nation at bis measures , while he is vain and foolish enough to suppose that a handful of subservient representatives can quell the gathering Btorm ; the manufacturing interest are taking advantage of agricultural inquietude as a means of advancing their favourite nostrums of" Free Trade , " and are using the

      unpopularity of the minister , rather than argument , as a means of pushing their demands ; the middle classes are pining in the midst of goods rendered valueless , and purchased upon " p romises t o p ay , " a nd which bankers are cautiouB in exacting for fear of prodno-5 ng a premature bankruptcy j industry , the * ' teat " from which the several mouths should draw their sus t enance , has been dried xp by the unjust and Impolitic and wholesale substitution of artificial for manual labour ; while , in t he mids t of all , t he chosen few are so glntted with wealth as to make it a drug in their hands , at a time of the greatest national

      distress . Such is the picture which Eng land presents at the rpresent moment 1 If we turn to Scotland , we find the seeds of religious fend and contention , which , though sown in apparent mildness , are likely to mature in war and angry strife : nor aie t he o t her in t eres t s in Sco t land one j o t more sa t isfi e d with things as they are than their neighbours in England . In Wales the picture is still more striking . There we have the fruits of the knowledge of injustice , and the disinclination to remedy acknowledged grievances , vividly depicted . As with Ireland , so with Wales . We heard not of the grieTance of

      excessive tolls , of scanty provision for the poor , of nnreqoiting prices for agricultural produce , tbe low rate of wages , the long suffering and just complaint of the working classes , until " Rebecca" exhibited those . grievances in fire and wrote them in blood . Then , for the first time , does the leading journalist condescend to inform us that those grievances are of long standing , and full y justify complaint . Then , for the first time , do we hear from the Magistrates themselves that their long sanctioning and npholding ef injustice has led to force for its destruction . Then for the first time , upon tbe many

      occasions they are called spon to adjudicate upon the qnestion of tolls , do they discover that the traveller fer many years past has been subject to an extortion of 50 per cent , at the toll bars , the trustees charging 4 £ d . in cases where threepence were only leviable , and ninepence where the payment of sixpence should only be demanded . This longstanding injustice was tamely acquiesced in , and allowed to be practioed with their full oncurrence ; as iheyxanst have had a perfect knowledge of it ; unfil at length they have been compelled by force

      to take cognizance of the abuse . We now hear of Magistrates convened by the Secretary of State for the Home Department admitting the existence of all the grievances complained of j and ! yet do onr rulers stand growling like a dog with a bone in his m o uth , instead of boldly confessing the existence of the several grievances , and justly meeting them . But no ; while these complaints ring through t he land , we find them marring a more reckless nse , if possible , than ever of the national Tesource 3 ! -while their organ proposes , as a remedy , an additional

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      number of Chief Justices as the best means of Hilencing complaint ! How is-it possible that the industrious portion of society can look calmly on , while pauper foreign monarchs are living upon their resonroes , and pauper foreign princes are receiving dower out of their scanty means ?! Parliament , is now drawing near to its Sessional close ; and were we critically to revi « w ite acts we might perhaps once more come under the thumb of the Attorney-General ; but what may be libel ia an individual to disclose may be virtue in a people to resist . If we tarn to Ireland , there we find the

      national industry paraiised by the stand-still policy and procrastination of Government ; until at length the people have been taught the dreadful lesson that a good , to be achieved , must be achieved by threat . They have now before them many practical instances of this sad truth , illus t rated b y oiroumstanoes which iave occurred in our own time . In 1323 , when the exaction of tbe Tithe impost was still levied by the standard-of war prices , tho Irish people rose up in arms and : compelled the Government of that

      day to relieve them of a portion of the tax by plaoing it upon the ; shoulders of their wealthier neighbours . In 1829 ; after twenty-nine years of successful resistance to the claims of tbe Catholics , the Minister of that time was compelled to yield to fear what he had refused to justice . Again , in 1832 , after the incarceration , transportation and death of several Reformers , " the BUI , the whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill , " which had been so pertinaciously refused to petition remonstrance and prayer was granted to fire and sword .

      We would ask our lagging , self-suffioient and timeserving rulers whether they hold power for no better p ur p ose than that of al t ernatel y exhibiting their moral weakness ' and physical strength , and merely to teach the people the most scientific mode of extracting the means for keeping them in subjection ? While we see all these abuses staring us in the face , however , we woild inconsequence the more urgently impress upon the minds of Our readers the fact , that however great , or however numerous the sectional causes of com p laint m a y be , none desire a remedy that would go farther than to correct those abuses of

      which they themselves complain ; while nothing short of the People ' s Charter , whole and en t ire , can make them participants in any advantage to be gained by the : correction of any single abuse : and therefore does it become their duty to look watchfully at p assin g events , and to aot cautiou s l y under existing circumstances . Let them not for a moment buppose tint the threat of violence , nay even to extermination , against the Government is indicative of a fellow-feeling for the working classes . ; Let ; them not imagine that justioe to the Scotch Seceders—justice to the inferior olergy

      of the Protestant Church oF England—justice to the agricultural interest—justice to tha manufacturing interest—justiceto tbe shopkeeping interest , or justice to " Rebecca , " means justice to ( hem . No , far otherwis- ! Justice can only be administered to any single class by doing an act of injustice to the working classes . What does their justice mean ! Does it not imply a remission of some burden which they are now called upon to bear , and which burden if taken from their , shoulders by their representatives must inevitably be placed upon the shoulders of those who arenotrepresented at all !! The Chartists then have no interest in making common cause with those parties who contend for a remission of their own class grievances : but they should take advantage of all

      and every opportunity to strengthen their own hands , for the achievement of that great and holy measure which would at one and the same time administer equal justice to each , and to all . Of this the working classes may rest assured , that all those who are now marshalled under the standard of sectional abuse , would strike their colours to-morrow , and join to a man ia resisting the claims of the working classes ; and for this simple reason ; because all others live and prosper upon their weakness . For these reasons then , we would once more strenuously recommend them to renew tbe motto of " The Charter and no surrender '' upon their banner , and not to strike it until the object is achieved : for then , bat not till then , will justice be done to all classes of the community .

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      ORGANIZATION . We are glad to Beo that this subject is now beginning to occupy ; the people ' s attention ; it has been taken up since the news of our last by the South-Lancashire Delegates , the Metropolitan Delegates , the Sheffield Chartists , and the Halifax Chartists , and each one of these important bodies takes , in some respec t s , a different view of it . The Metropolitan Delegates are for carrying out Mr . O'Connor ' s plan of appointing a General Secretary , and el e c t ing an Executive note . This Beems to us to be beginning a t complete ly the wrong end of the work ; and in

      this view we are supported by the South Lancashire Delegates , and b y t he Sh e ffield a nd H a l i fax Chartists who think with us , that an organization should precede an Executive ; and that an organization to be effective and to give satisfac ^ tion to the people , and to secure efficient protection for the people , must emanate not from a small junto of perhaps very ignorant or very stupid and selfwilled individuals , who may chance to be elected ou the executive , bat from the people themselves , at a national delegate meeting , fairly representing the whole mind and the whole will of the whole people .

      The organization of our ranks is the most important national question that can be debated . It is of first consequence that we bring to it all the talent , all t he research , aU the coolness , all the discrimination and all the legal acumen of which we are master . It will not do to permit it to be marred by the selfwill of any man who may chance to think himself wiser than all the world , or to value his own head bo li t tl e as t o run i t wilf u lly a g ains t a stone w a ll , while he knows : that it cannot go alone but must break all our heads at the same time . It is just this sort of bull-necked-ness which has given us all the

      "backenhigs we have heretofore bad . It is necessary before we have an Exeontive , t hat t he powers and duties of the Executive should be exactl y d e nn e d and laid down ; : that they may know their plaoe and kee p it , and not have it in their power to drag the whole movement into a ditch "on their own responsibility " . Tbi 3 can only be done by the Organization , and hence , the necessity of bringing te vhe discussion of that Organization such a diversity of talent and opinion as shall render it impossible for any one or two to carry it all their own way , and substitute w their own reBpOD 8 ibilit j "

      for a due attention to the safety of tbe cause . We need scarcely say , therefore , that we concur heartily in t he o pinion of our Sheffield friends that the people should have before them , some t ime befor e they elect their delegates , all the various plans of organization which have been elicited ; that they may weigh and consider the advantages and disadvantages of « ach and all of them , and duly and accurately instruct their delegates . This requires time . It is not a work to be hurried about . The people had better by half wait a week or two , and have an organization whUh will work , than patch up one hastily to see it tumble to pieces again in a few months . It is impossible for the

      thing to be well done either on tho 17 th of Jul y or the 1 st of August . There is not time for due deliberation . The 16 th of August has been named . We think that ioo early . The first week in September would be aa soon as , in our opinion , the Na t ional Del eg a t e meetin g could be held wi t h b e nefit and safety to the cause . Between now and then there will be full time for enquiry , inv es ti gation , and thought ; and not a day too long ; the Delegates will come to their work knowing what they aTe abou t , and we ; may txpect the result of their consultation , to be a safe , workable , and f ffibient plan , which shall enable the whole people to co-operate aB one man . Any thing less than tbis will be worse than nothing . We have not been able to get read y the mas s of documents upon the subject which we promised for

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      this weejk's Star . We find it a " stiffar" job than w reckoned on : , they need so much arrangement and re-writing . We regret the delay less ; because we have this week received one or two other communications which we shall give with them , and we are anxious } to place the whole before the people at one view ; for which purpose we request that any other parties who intend sending anything on the subject , will do so before next Tuesday . When we have laid before the people all the hint 8 and suggestions of others on the matter , we shall give them our own . We shall give the whole law of Organization , both as it affects political , religious ,

      and benevolent societies . We shall shew them how they miy make an Organization of the Chartist body to combine all the advantages of all these different characters ; how they may hare an effective , universal , workable , going , organization , which shall not only violate no law , but which shall compel ; the law to guarantee their safety , and to proteet them from aggression . We shall show the people how to have such an organization as shall efficiently help on our move ment and with ordinary care defy any government to break ! into it without coming down to Parliament and asking for a law specifically for that purpose .

      This will , in all probability , occupy as much space as we can spare for it in several successive numbers of the Star . We shall then publish the whole in a pamphlet , to he oalled " Tho People's Handbook of Organization , " so that every man can carry it in his waistcoat pocket , and consult it at his leisure ; and we shall then leave it to the people to make of our comments what use they please . But we implore them not to be too hasty in calling their delegate meeting ; but to give time for the full developement and adoption of an efficient plan ia the several localities before the delegates are elected .

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      AMERICAN SYMPATHIZERS . Elsewhere , our readers will find some rather astounding newa from tho United States . The Repeal movement seems to be making head-way in America at a tremendous rate . The Yankee Repealers , having no fear of the English Attorney-General or the Irish Viceroy , before their eyes , speak out their mind with sufficient plainness ; and faith " they mouth it well" ! They threaten to seiza upon the Canadas ; to shew British ships , or at all events the merchandise contained in them , the shortest , way to the bottom of tha sea . They threaten the British Government with a simultaneous

      attack from America , France , Ireland , and tho Irishmen in England . We commeud this intelligence to ; the especial reading and careful consideration ' of Government . It jjjears not , to be sure , the seal of Congress , nor thflftuthority of the United States government ; but it is yet worth the while of Sir ^ Robert Peel to give it careful and deliberate thought : it comes from those who are masters alike of Congress and of the States Government ; and whom it behoves well any British Government to think twice of , before it hazard the inducing of them to resort to such means as may be at hand for the accomplishment of their declared purposes .

      Doubtless there is about these Yankee "sympathiz a ra " a g o o d d e al of t he exub er anc e of wild liberty . They promise more than they are likely to be able to perform . But they can do enough to tease a government most sadly , if they set themselves to work . ' It would be , for ins t anc e , a terrible thing if they bhould take from us out North American colonies ! We have bought those colonies at a plaguy dear rate ; and they Bhould be worth something . This part of their threat there is no doubt the Yankees could carry out- They can drub us out of America whenever they please . In talking ,

      however , of t he " revolt" of four millions of Chartists , they reokon without their host . The Chartists will do no suoh thing . They are looking for a great constitutional ohange to be wrought by other means t han " revolt " . They seek not to overturn , but to consolidate and to establish on a firm and pure basis the powers of government . When the Chartists were straggling with a tyrant Government for their own liberties and those of Ireland at the same time , Mr . O'Connell insolently threatened to send over to the aid of Government 500 , 000 fighting men , to put down

      the . Chartists . The Chartists will not retaliate this insolence . They will not lend the Government a sin gle man to put down Repeal ; but they will not " revolt " . They will go on steadily pursuing their moral warfare ; taking advantage of all circumstances which may rise to aid them i and , if Repeal is to create the physical tornado which the "sympathizers " threaten , even in the wildness of the storm the Chartists will pour oil upon the waters of contention : they will accomplish by mild means alone , the establishment of those just principles , which will plaoe England and Ireland on a footing of equality , and both upon the plane of right .

      Much as W 3 love , and dearly as we prize , the rights of Irishmen and liberties of Englishmen , we hope never to see them purchased at the price of foreign aid . We like not this ooquetting with the French . We have never yet seen any good of French interference in either England or Ireland . Wo do not expect it . We hope Mr . O'Connell does not countenance ; these appeals to Frenoh " sym p a t h y " . There are ill-natured people who seem to think he does ; who speak of Mr . MooNEr , the agent in America of the Dublin Corn Exchange Club , as the immediate incitement to this outburst of

      American enthusiasm ; who point to the significant allusions to France in several of the "Liberator ' s" s p e e ches , and to the mustachioed foreigners whom he recently introduced at Irish Repeal meetings ; and who from all these things infer that Mr . O'Connell favours secretly the interf e rence of forei gners iu the domestic affairs and relationships of Great Britain and Ireland . We are sot willing to believe this ; because if we could b e liev e i t , we must doubt Mr . O'Conk ell ' s sincerity . Wo must believe that he is not honestly seeking iRepeal ; that is to eay , that he is either not seeking it at all , or seeking it tor the benefit , not of

      the Irish people , but of a middle-class faction . We desire to think better things of him . But we shall see how he receives his new allies . It will now be eeea whether the physical-force overtures—the pikes , muske ts , and firebrands—of America and France are more acceptable to him than the moral , p eaceful , and constitutional aid of the English Chartists which he so lately spurned . Meantime we bid the people—the English people —go on their own way ; turn neither to the right aor left ; persist in looking , by legal and moral means only , for that Charter of right , which shall ensure justice not only for themselves , but for their Irish brethren .

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      " . . ' * m > " * MR . O'CONNOR'S FARMING WORK . The first number of this work has made its appearance , and will be read with universal avidity . It is but " an opening" of the subject—a glimpse , just to show its vastness : bat it points *» an index to a " dealing with the matter" which will set at rest all the yelpers and prosera who have hitherto bespattered it . In an elaborate introduction , he "lays the axe to the . root" of the

      syEfcem now in vogue , both agricultural and manufacturing in such style as he only can . He then opens bis work , not as a treatise on Small Farms exclusively , but as a general work of Agricultural Scienoe , which may serve equally as a text book for the small farmer or the large , the labourer , or the capitalist employing labourers . The chapter upon Rents , alone , is worth all the books upon Agricultural Scienoe ever before published .

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      ASKTON-UNBER-I . YNE . —Mr . JJames Leach , of Manchester , delivered a lecture here on Monday last , hi which he showed the necessity of the Chartist , body uniting one and all , that they might be prepared to take advantage of the ' oomiug crisis ; averring that ihe best time to attack aa enemy vraa when circumstances made him weak ,

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      CALvrwus Minor . — We cannot advise him . The Act he speakJof rce never saw . It is , therefore , impossible for us \ to say whether the official has or has not power to act as he has done , and divert the pension to other parties on the grounds slated , Mb . W . Cooper . of \ We / don , near Wandsford * , -a small benighted agricultural village in Northamptonshire , desires us to say that he is much obliged to Mr . James Cash , of Knutsford , and ot h er frien d s , for their presents of Northern Star newspapers . They will be of essential service ; and he j has a strong desire to get the Star into the hands of the agricultural labourers , that they , too , may know the cause of the grinding poverty to which THE THING has

      subjected them ; and [ join with their brethren in the manufacturing districts to bring about a better state of things , when the labourer will be deemed to be worthy of 'his hire , and have the privilege to receive and ( ENJOY it . That hire being , 14 he that produeeth shall be FIRST PARTAKER of the fruits " Poop Law at WARRiNGroif . — We h a ve r e c eived a communication from some one in Warrington , signed " Washington , " d etai l i ng s o m e atrocious a ; ts of Poor Law tyranny , which he avers to have taken ptace \ in the workhouse at that place . We cannot believe his statements . The whole thing appears to be a hoax ; cunningly got up by some of our good "friends" to get us again

      within the meshes , of the law " for libel on the Poor Law authorities . " The letter is written by a not very good \ penmanist ; but the facts he details are so improbable , and yet so coldbloodedly atrocious , that we cannot credit them . Will any of our friends at Warrington advise us as to the manner \ in which the Poor Law is " adr ministered" in Warrington Workhouse ? Has the " master" died lately ? and have there been any floggings 0 / young females ! The letter in qnestion avers that such is the case : but we repeat that we dojnot believe the story . We fear the whole thing ij an attempt to entrap us . The letter we shall preserve . Wh . Grestv an » John Murray . — We have received

      from these parties an address purporting to issue from Carpenters' ' Hall , Manchester , calling upon ihe Chartist body to assist a late prominent character in the Chartist movement , who is now supposed to . be out of the country . They state that he is in greahneed ; and that they have voted for him £ \ fromj their own funds , and collected £ 2 after their evening ' s lecture for him . We rejoice to see a spirit of liherality manifested by Chartists ; but w [ e think the Chartists of Manchester might have found more blameless objects for its exeicise without travelling so far . We publish this week ] a balance sheet of the expenses of the trial which was entirely brought about by the recklessness of the party for whom our

      correspondents evince so wirm an interest . Thqt balance-sheet does not exhibit a tithe of the actual cost to the Chartists and public generally of that affair ; while it takes no coyniss-ince whatever of the scores of ruirJed families occasioned by it . We thmk some of these have some claim on the sympathies of the Manchester Chartists . We this week publish a letter from one who was left without the means of getting up to London to meet the judgment in the ease , and who pawned Ah toolchest sooner thftn \ be branded as a skulker ; while the parly who seems to engross the sympathising affections of our ^ correspondents meanly shrunk from sharing the risks into which he had dragged better men . Thaf poor f lloiv ' a tool chest is stilt in pawn ; and it would , in our opinion , have been a more legitimate application of their sympathies if the Carf enters , Hall Chartists had devoted some of their money to its redemption . We

      have another letter from a victim to the same recklessness , whose , wife and family are consequently in a bastile . Why are they not Jit subjects for Manchester sympathy ! And why d oes not the party for fohom this appeal is made , go to . his profession and earn his own living 1 Why should an educated man consent to hang meanly on the skirls of a half famished people , with the world l / efofe ftirn for ihe exercise of his own talents and industry , and safe Jram any fear of further consequences from his folly 1 Any man with a spark 0 } manly feeling , rather than condescend to kang \ kitnself upon the people under such circumstances , would sooner hang himself upon a tree . j Holmfirth . — To Lecturebs . —AII letters , for the future , must be j directed , post paid , t o Jo s eph Clegg , boot and tshsemaker , South tone , Holmfirth . \ The Holmfirth Chartists are anxious that Mr . O'Connor should visit them at his first

      conve-, Hull Chartists —A [ U comvmnirations must be adadressed to Mr . tfm . Smith , 8 , West-street-court , West-street , J City Chartists . — The announcement of a concert at Turn-again-Ianeiis an advertisemertf , \

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      Mb . Seed , Worsted Iwspectob , of Halifax , denies having had any hand or part in the apprehension or examination of Mrs . Lassey and her daughter w h en procee d in g homewards with a warp an d weft in a " piece poke " as detailed in a paragraph in our last . It seems thai'there are two worsted inspectors in Halifax : perhaps our correspondent has been mistaken in the name . Wil l h e ex pl ain ? Susanna Inge has sent us a long letter to say that she ** very much questions the propriety or bight of Mr . O'Connor to name or suggest to the people , through the medium of the *» Star , " any person to fill any office whatever . It is not according to her ideas of democracy . " We dare

      say Miss Inge is greatly in love with her own ideas of democracy ; and so she ought , for we fancy they will suit nobody else . A democracy which questions the right of any man to name or suggest what he thinks may be for the general good , is a very queer kind of democracy . Miss Inge thinks the people would sooner elect a man on Mr . d'Connor s recommendation than on their own judgment . We do not think them quite such fools . Wingate Grange Coltiebv . — We have rec e ived a letter from Thomas Webdler respecting the con d uct o f one o f t h e " viewers" at a pit in that locality . It seems that the pit in question is fitted up with a wire rope , which the men deem unsafe

      to trust their lives Upon . The matter has been be f ore the m a g istrates twice ; both times on the a ppl ication o f t h e maste r , for " law " -on the men for refusing to work . The first lime two men were eommitied : the second time the case was discharged on ihe understanding that ihe rope in question should be tested with twenty tons weight . This test hat not been applied . . Some einht tone have been suspended on it ; and our correspondent avers that it caused the rope to sp lit . Still it was not removed ; but the demand is made that the men resume work with it in its present state . The men , having had their fears strengthened by the imperfect and partial lest applied , refuse to comply with the requirement ;

      and warrants nave been issued to bring three of them before the magistrates at Castle Eden . The men have also appealed to the mag istra t es f or protection . Three several times have they applied for summonses against their employers for wages , or compensation , the y al l e g e to be d ue to them , in consequence of the pit being in an unfit state for work , because of the imminent danger to life . These applications have been refused Our correspondent also desires to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums , in a n s wer to an appeal Jor aid to enable the question to be tried : — "Coxhoe Colliery , £ 1 ( this colliery had on l y 18 * . \ 0 d . in their fund , but made out the above sum : they had a trial themselves on

      Saturday last , and defeated their employers >; South Wingate , £ 1 Is . 10 * d . ; Bel m ont , 8 s . Id , ; Haswell , £ 1 ; R a in t on ' s , 4 s . 9 d . ; Newhottle , 7 s . O ^ d ; Shiney Row , is . 6 $ , ; Moorsley , 9 s . ; Shincliff , 5 s . 8 H ; Shotton , 12 s . Id . ; Pittington , 10 * . ; Sherburn Hill , 6 s . ; New Durham , 19 * . ; Pelton Fell , 4 s . ; from two friends , 2 s . 6 d . ; Henton , £ 1 ; and Lumley Colliery , 10 $ .: making a total sum of £ 9 4 s . 7 d ,. collected on Monday evening . Should any of the colliers in Yorkshire , or elsewhere , think proper te lend their support , it will be gratefully received by Michael John Barkhouse , Wingate Grange Colliery , Durh a m , and . duly acknowledged in the S * ar . " Davt Lamp— We have received a letter under this signature from South Helton . The writer describes himself as a pitman , but writes w r y like

      an attorney ' s clerk . He sends a rough sketch tf a scheme for a general strike , which he earnestly commends to our favourable notice . We have no doubt that he is some hired scamp doing the work of the middle classes , in seeking to produce rowchief . We cautioned the people to be on their guard against fellows of this character . There are plenty of them all over the country , usinq a l l kinds of insidious means to raise another striketrap . G . Ball ofHaughall Colliery desires to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums : — £ s a From Leaaingthorn 2 0 6 From Sbildon Adelaides ... 0 14 10 From Copy Crooks ... ... 1 4 3 From Eldon Oil «

      From We&tenon 5 11 S . L . Ambler— We fear we cannot find room for his letters on Toleration , Jordan Chadwick—His fines are declined . W . Fose , BosiONr-Wie do not see that thereshould be any difficulty in procuring the works he speaks of . They are published by Mr . Cleave . All the numhers are in print . If the Bookseller he speaks of has a parcel direct from London , he has pnly to tell his Collector that he wanted the Lancaster Trials , published by Cleave , Shoe-lane , and it should be sufficient loprocure them . — ^ J . M'Lakn . —Enquire at London , we go not know any * thing about it here . A . SHarples , —Say what county if possible . L . Snelling , Tunbridge Wells . —A letter was sent , addressed as above , on June 1 st , and it has been returned . Will Mr . Snelling send bis address ? Liddle , Preston . —Enquire at London . FOR THE GENERAL DEFENCE FUND . £ S . d . From Mansfield , per J . G . Hibbard 0 5 0 „ a democrat , Chepstow ... ... ... 0 16

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      A" Town to Let . "— A l ett er from Workin gt on , from which we make the following extract , gives a melancholy picture of the state of trade in that town : — " The number of empty houses is immense . In the greatest thoroughfare , say Wilson-street , there are several shops and houses closed . The public-house in the , which you sold to Mr . - . has

      been unoccupied for more than twelve months ; in fact , the saying is correct of a town to let . Under these disheartening circumstances , it behoves those who have a trifle not to throw it * away . "—Carlisle Journal . Tailors and Shoemakers . —The two useful classes here al . ' uded t o , are more frequently suffering from ill-health than any others ; this arises from their cramped position during the hours of labour , and the want of proper exercise and fresh air ; but however much these blessings may be desired , necessity compels them to forego their enjoyment ; in their absence nature demands the aid of medicine , and non e more benign or invigorating has ever been offered to the world t han Parr ' a Life Pills , as tens of thousands res to red from sickness to health can tes t if y . Manj letters are published recording themiraculonsbenefita of this medicine , and may be obtained of any of the agents .

      Four Persons Poisoned . —On Monday last inquests were held at Hard way , ne a r G o s p ort , before C . B . Longoroft , Esq ., coroner , on view of tbe bodies of John Lapthorne , a carpenter of Haslar , and Mary , his wife , whose deaths were occasioned under the follow ng distressing circumstances : —It appeared in evidence that , about three months ago , William Wilkins , a labourer , a t flardway , went on board a frigate in Portsmouth harbour that was paving off ( he believed the Blonde ) to bring away the rubbish and sweepings . On thaf . occasion a sailor on board gave Wi | kins a quart bottle containing some liquid , saying there was something for him to drink . Wilkins , t h i nkin g it was a bo tt le ef spirits , on his return home drank about half a

      wine-glass full , and ga ve his wi f e some , and neither of them felt any ill effects from drinking i t ; but i t t as t ing very bit t er , ana not liking it , the bottle- was pat in the cupboard , where it remained until Tuesday , the 16 ; h inst ., exce p t that upon one occasion VVilkins ' s daughter took a small quantity of the liquid in her mouth for the toothache , which she said lulled the pain . Ou Friday eveniDg , Wilkins ' s wife wishing to preserve some g oos e berries , told her daughter to take out of the cupboard all the empty bottles and wash them ; on taking up the bottle containing the liquid , the daughter asked what was to be done with it , when she was told by her father and mother to throw it away and soak the bottle , instead of which she

      unfortunately took it to Mrs . Lapthorne , who professed to have some knowledge of medicine to ask her if she knew what it was , telling her it had relieved her tooth ache . Mrs . Capthorne on tasting it pronounced it to be damaged liquor , and sa ying she thought there was no harm in it , poured ont and drank about half a wine-glass full ; her husband and two women who were present each drank about the same quantity . In a few hour *} they were all taken exceedingly ill , and Mr . Lowes , a medical gentleman , of Gospor t , being called in , after a fatal interval of about thirty hours , found tham labouring under the dreadful effects of some poison . He aminiatered medioines , and used every means in hia power to relieve them . In the

      course of Saturday they were visited by Doctors Allen , Mortimer , and Little , of Haslar , and tho neighbourhood , but all their efforts were without avail as to poor Lapthorne and his wife—she died on Sunday , and he on Monday , leaving eight children to deplore their sudden and melancholy bereavement . The two other women are now lying in a very precarious state , but hope 3 are entertained .. of their recovery . The contents of the bottle , oa being tested by Mr . Lowes , did not appear to have any mineral poiBon init , but proved to be tincture of colchicum , the seeds of which were in the bottle :

      and a label thereon , whicn was with difficulty decip hered , indicated the same . It is not known how the sailor , who was unknown to Wilkins , obtained the bottle , whether from the medicine store of the ship , or from the cabin of one of the officers . It is supposed that when Wilkina received it , the seed could not have been long in the bottle , or , he would have suffered from taking the quantity he did . The taste wa 9 extremely bitter . No blame was attached to Wilkins , his wife , or daughter . The jury returned verdicts of " Died from taking tincture of colciiiaum , ignontnily and without inteutioa of hum . "—Hampshire Telegraph .

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      j TO THE PEQPLE ON MY RESPECTIVE LECTURING TOURS . My Dear Friends , —I wish I could get a few we « ks made up of Sundays and Mondays ; I could then perhaps accommodate you all ; but as I know of no means whereby to compass tbis , I can only suggest to you , as the next best thing , that we should try to make the most and the best tof the weeks and tbe days as they are . It is clear that I cannot be everywhere on Sunday , nor everywhere on Monday ; nor can I permit the other days to remain unoccupied . I shall suit myself to your convenience as nearly , as circumstances will permit ; and I must entreat that where we cannot mould

      circumstances to our wish , you will aid me to govern them to our purpose . I shall , if it [ may ^ please God , be at Bel p er on Friday the 14 th , and [ shall address the people on the present state and prospects } of Chartism , at halfpast seven in the e v enin g , at the Leopard Inn , Bridge-Btreet . I had been given to understand that Saturday evening would suit my Derby Friends ; they how write me tbat it will not suit them , which I regret much , as it will lose me & day . On Sunday , tbe 16 th , I preach twice at Loughborough ; afternoon and evening ; and , on Monday evening , I address the people of Loughborough on the present state

      and prospects of Chartism . On Tuesday , the 1 8 t h , I address the people of Dei by ; and on Wednesday , the 19 th , I proceed to Nottingham . On Thursday the 20 th , I attend the tea party and festival of my good friends at Arnold . On Friday ¦ , the 21 st , I visit my good friends of Sutton-m-Ashfield , which , being within three miles must serve also for Mansfield ; I cannot give a day to each . On Sunday , the 23 rd , I hope to be with my ! own little flock at Hull ; and on Monday the 24 th ; to address the people of

      Sheffield . The Newcastle Friends write that ? they must have me on a Sunday . I will try to accommodate them ; but this will compel me to take their district on my return from Scotland , instead of on my way there . I shall now , therefor e , [ take steamboat , if all be well , from Hull toLeith , on | Wednesday , the 2 nd of August . This , I su pp ose , will land me in Leith some time on Friday , the 4 th ; so that I shall just have time to recover the qtieerness of my stomach and get myself into working prefer for my Edinburgh friends on Sunday . My further movements iu Scotland I shall endeavour to advertise precisely next week , so that my friends iu each town shall have full notice of the exact day when I can be w'th them ;

      while at the same time , it must be always borne in mind , that I accept the invitations of my friends only oa condition tbat ( hey take me " with all my imperfections on wj head . " They , of course , do not expect ranting declamation from me ; whoever does will be disappointed ; I have neither taste nor strength for it . I am no long-winded orator : I have not physical power to make long speeches nor to speak out of doors : and my general health is so precarious , that I can seldom calculate from one day to another upon my ability to do anything : 1 may sometimeB

      se e m moderatel y well one day and the next be unable to leave my room ; and sometimes even a few hours will make all this difference ia my state . H e uce , therefore , my friends , at any particular place who may expect me , must neither be angry nor surprised if I should disappoint them . I promise them that nothing but such physical suffering as may totally incapacitate me shall cause any such occurrence . I hope to be able to attend every appointment punctually ] but I cannot promise to

      overcome nature nor to withstand sickness . It is not necessary for me to say more now . In my letter published in the Star of May 20 th the people have the expression of my mind ; I have not changed since ihen ; nor am I likely to do bo . I am , my dear Friends , Your faithful Friend and Servant , William Hill . Leeds , July 6 th , 1813 .

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      A . THE NORTHER ^ &TAR .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 8, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct940/page/4/