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      rSE EDITOB OF THE " JTORIHERN STAB" TO *^ BIS READERS ¦ vt FSIE 5 DS—On the first page of the present mmha of the ^ o ^ jJonlliTe- aletterfromiI * ' O'Connor , ** fflaBJStter vMeii 3 am"B ^ i 5 t o belier * snn * t have S ^ e toSosdUj distirtefal to you . ^ Z O'Connor Tery property seeks to set iimBelf jj jt . B 3 » snxions » ot to be misunderstood ; i » t to ffj ^ to « ccapy » false pasltJea . Be is right , lam LjnHj aExioiiBtliat , w&r as I canhelp it , neither he ~ xsnj other man should occupy a false position , or a

      - ^ gon to "which he is not entitled . I therefore very ^^ corroborate 3 to . O'Connor ^ statement , that vg bu been D 0 I 131 ^ to * " * syllable that I have —yten npon the conduct of the ExecatiTe ; on the -jutrsry , be has always , in Mb private conversations -5 ft jjjb , &bM a similar tone to that of his letter , ¦ gat -while I cheerfully do this justice to Mi . O'Connor , ^ ajgo require justice for myself ; both from him jbS from yon- * * lalnl the ri ^ ! t of ^ OP * " B P ° a * 1 jjsjten of pnblic interest ; a right which I concede to -aj nun » d -will yieW to ao man . in that

      I Hank 2 fc O'Connor in error , supposing my ^ jsjis npon the proposed appointment 4 if a new -nail secretary irere calculated to placehim at all in gTligbJ i » "which he see ™ to think they might place v 5 m- certainly they were not so intended . 31 i . O Con-5 C met wri a ^ "" ^ ^ Leal 21 ** P ^ mating , , 1 an opponent of the Anti-Corn law league ; and he -BjipSmenied him upon his talent and his honesty . I not »« rs that either the talent 01 the honesty oi Lath , as an opponent of the Anti-Corn law uaos , la » ever baen disputed . Bnt both the talent . jjjj tcaitsty of the Executive , in their capacity

      $ as Executive , hare been disputed ; and they wt 9 been by > Ta 7 ^ S portion of their constituents f $ B& ej « d to resign - but , though the gross charges ^ -jsj * thaa have never been met , twe ef them , ja Bsntenspt of these charges , and in defiance of »* oH ottheJr constituents to "resign , still retain js jj . l £ js 1 boW to *> e utterly incompatible -with Oar tist prbep le ; and it tra 3 in reference to this that I « 5 M | Boim » ic *> uld be expected to associate himself -fcjitfsSB ca She Ex = cnfiTe , until they had first cleared tterda ** 3 * IaJM Biia- Bnt ^ r-1 * " * 1 mfiy be j ^ pgj and very talented as an opponent of the

      ArfrConi I ** League , and yet Tery dishonest end , 37 idbhbp&oi * as a member of the people ' s Executes . Id **» forma capacity , I haTe neve ? said a ¦ wad to Ks disparagement ; in tie latter capacity 1 } bts l « m £ bi bd chaise againit him , indmdnally ; J iireiBStt ^ impeached him as a party to the acts ol { &e JisoitiTe as a whole body . Mr . leach has nerei ffiirtwrnaa kbj of the acts of the Executive as a body ; I jm boond therefore to suppose that be couaented to them all ; and 1 hold ereryman responsible lar-erery wt to which ho consents . I am made te inow , to my cost , that the . law holds a man

      japouBbie lor acts to -which he did mot consent : bnt 1 -tonal sppij tbat doctdae to Mr . I-each ; I charge npon Jam oslj tie things to which he did consent 0 / the njjjSe arts anfl conduct of Qib ExecufiTe , 1 hare not a bj ^ s word to retract of all that I haTe bM . I ba ^ e said nothing without dne thought sad eonndeiatHW . I bare aid nothing for ^ iniJhl hiTe not siTen procsfs as I haTa gone slung-UnTSBMiofiiins'Brhicli 1 un Dot prepared to sabf H-r ^ t ^ before a public meeting , thongh I deny the O&X of asy party to require me to do so . I hare no Tab tointerf ^ Tith 2 Jr . O'Connor ' s judgment : b . e has BiEutb right to his opinion as I have to mine . To his eaacsn on my mode of expressing my opinion of the ¦ Ssscaarb , I baTB no reply tomake : I am a plain

      xsn sad call a spade a spade . Bnt though i respect Mr . O'Cpedot as much as any man ought to respect him , 1 raped tcu asd the eaose of GThartism stSl more ; and Lmu 3 beg thslmthis matter , which is molt essential « d important to your interests ,: you will not permit your jeKaal r ^ ard for bini to blind you to the merits of the o «; tbUyoawfflforHiyQnTownjadgiEentbythefacts aad by the eriuence and not by the opinion of any man . 1 hire 'beteX ssksd you to take my opinion upon any « nb } ect , fnrEhB Qjan I supported my opinion by proofs 1 do not sskyoa to £ o so now . 2 ask yon , as I always bsf 5 do : e , to form your own judgment of the case npon iiz ora ireri % independent of any other consideration Vhsiera ; sod J blame yoa fen not having , long since , Mrrsed that jadgmen . so generally and so conclusively lite prtdnds further Mcierine .

      Sisreisnmch in Mr . O'Connor's letter to which it TsUlie Tery easy for me 50 reply ; but I haTB no de-EifelBepirpthe jar . I haTe nerer had any such Iss . If tie cnarges sgainst the Executire had been X £ £ £ rst by lair srgumEnt , simple explanation , or -Bssa acknowledgment , instead of personal abuse and izs&l fibs counter accusations , there wonld nerer bn been any jar at all ; the whole matter would fca-ye Isb baa sealed rarj speedily and Tery qnietly . 5 s feme of its not haling been so , belongs not to me ,

      teto these who found it more conTenient to keep np SaiEffltfl byattackiDS others , than to settle it by &su £ i 2 g ihEmselTBS . Justice , feowerer , compete as to ssy that I thini Mr . O"Connor * B EfcriclTiT « s on Hl Jtihn ~ W atkin ' s letter much more unnecessarily KTae San anything that Mr . WaQan's has written jpissfcike EtecntiTa Mr . Watkios is a man who has iknj ffiuch Bernce , and endured much -suffering in t > iR Bafc I im > - » no man in the whole moTement who iss Siren more decided evidence ef his thorough de-¦* otedaea to Chartism than John Watkins . 3 know no

      bo m the whole movement more ^ uDy entitled the P&pi&B good cpinion and their thftTitrn . I know no ^ sb in the whole moTement who lias preserved ^ 2 | tDnt lia whole career a more stern honesty , sadamere strict and honourable adherence to principle « na « Hffisteacy tksn John Watkins . I do not Bay that iaophaons are , 1 herefere , entitled to any other weight ^ aa Cat wMth they may have from the reasons ^ oa which they are founded ; bet I do say that fiwetbmgj Bnght to induce ns to pf ^ TniTia those rea-¦ affla veil before we censure him either for the holding ttfiie EXpreswn of his opinions . I am si tired of seeing the discussion in the Star as ^ k-WouBororyoneanbe , I had closed the columns « the Sfcp-against its farther continuance some weeks

      * & 33 us old not writ ths ExteufciTe . Their friends * k * i meforii ; and they themselves procured them to wiwpesed for ij , by applying t # Mr . O * Ck > nnor and ^ s ^ mag his pledge to that effect , at Biimingham . I p » aot Sank that Mr . O'Connor acted wisely , or rightly , ^ P ^ that pledge ; but when informed by himself rai hs fcaa done so , I did not choose to give cause f a "Sni tiionght obstinate or factious . 2 am now anxious , * l 4 l » sjs have betn , to haTa done with it . 1 have fcos isj dntjinit ; and I hare doae no more than my ° ^ - The duty sna a most nnpleasant and a painful ^ 5 ^ it was a duty , and 1 have done it . I cordially r 855 * tt 9 opinion of Mr . O'Connor , thatitiB timefor 3 l , - * - — — w * <¦¦¦ J . V VWMMWA ) fcfc >» fcAfc . AO VHI ^ T f \**

      *» utterly exdndea from theater , and I therefore _ ***! rgiress the pnblicafion of several commnni-~ 7 >~ - * 'n « of thsm a most important ana axgnmoo" - ** letter , which 1 haTe had by me some weeks , and ^^ boi of which has written to me three times , re-S 533 ^ its publication . I will not publish anything *®*^> so the matter from any parties whatever . The 2 aa £ a rf the Northern Star may perfectly rely npon rpraase that its columns shall bs no further occn-^^> Shis subject ; and my chief reason for this ^—^ a&a is that ths continance of * he controversy bjW SOOa " " ^ ^^ S 00 & * hat caD ^ eDB by h waj fioae . Ths people ' s minds hare been directed ^* fbCtSt irnA + > , „— _ - ; il i _ z _» - "' UKSS ; ?; £ 1 jley / 11 &e

      ** ym Be ] x j ^^ JEeaEn ia ^^ fntnre Entenxx- 32 jus , the JTr *^ d the miBciiifif may be prevented ; ana ^ J & that 3 ^ „ T ^^^ ^ ? K > me with haTing beenactnated in thiB tfe ^^ W ^ tioBsby personal motives . 3 declare b ^^ llaT B B&t ; that there never has been a man ^ v ^ *" Cbar&t movement against whom I ever *> h *^^ Bdlltilla rf I > ea 0 ! : iaimfedil « 5 ^ that , liiQ ^^' j ^ efe have been nomorethan three men l *> lc *^ Sf ^ moTemeEt > " » aom I have ever ias » gaj T ^ ttan palitially . One of these three ** ° W « & « r * * ' tte moTement > » ad the oaer ^ Jajam ^? ^^ been eTer £ iBC 8 I inew ttiem ' rft » .-. _ " * Ois . Them tmm fhcnTn « ^^ -. ~ *_ rvii :. _

      ^ Ss ^ J ^^^ l ^ Kmalmo&res , even if my ^^ T ^^ lt > " Mcih 3 1 «? P » ^ *¦ wt ^ ? io al ^ as P ^ the past Execn . 84 ** « wf " ^ * brother 3 and vham J te ^ rw " ^ lipon CTEry ° PP ° tnnity of serving ^ -i ^^ r mjiEflu £ Ilce ' ^ ^ y ^ rd ^ . WJ * " P «* b ' * « ue cried » halt . " This ^^ nS ^ J * " * * £ Teritm ^ ^ lafeTlL * * ng ?? fediBg ' ° ^ I oonot ^ fcts *^ f f- * 3 opMaL Their omeadw " ** " g > lUua c f 3 a ^*> "Kitaout tiq cozxtzt

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      on my part ; for I would mnch rather fcaye been able to think differenfly . However , is I have often said before , I now say again ; the chief thing the people bare to do is to let the past be a beacon for the future , and to watch better hereafter , those whom they install in office , that this disagreeable dutymay not again devolve on me . And now , kefore taking leave of the snbject , a word « r two about the connter accusations . " There has been a great deal said about " plots and conspiracies " against the ExecutivB ; a great deal about Borne letter or letters from leeds , sometime about the time of Cooper "* being here , last summer ; about a letter from Hull , affirming that the Bull Chartists were abont to pass the Balance Sheet , when 1 came into the room and pnt a stop to it ; and abont an extract of

      » lette * from Cooper to Alead , written in July last , which was stolen from Mead , the week before Christmas , at Hnll , by a man named Fraser , and which has been since printed and circulated an over the country as proof of my being concerned in the alleged " conspiracy .- Now , first , as to Ceqper ' s letter to Mead , leach and others are now most industriously affirming this to be one of the letters to which he he alluded at the South Lancashire delegate meeting . Now , in the first place , neither leach nor any other member of the Executive knew of the existence of that letter , any more than I did , nntil the week before Christmas . It was a private letter from Coeper to Mead ; it Vfas shown by Mead , while at Bull , to Praser , who seeing a paragraph of which he thought b Tillanons nse could be made , contrived to steal it j ik was directly after printed , and has made no small

      Etir in a little way ever since . Here is Mead ' s own explanation of the manner in which it waa obtained , —sent to me for publication : " The paragraph which Mr . Praser in such a rerj unhandsome manner extracted from a private , letter without leave or licence , cannot implicate me in any conspiracy ; anfl being written so long back as July last , could not , I conceive , implicate Mr . Cooper in Qie present affair of defalcation , because at that time a knowledge of it did not exist . Mr . Praser came to me as a brother , and as such 1 received him ; and with

      my Chartist brethren I am above suspicion of any mean or sinister designs . I did not then know that be belonrad to the discontented clique in HulL j scarcely knew there was any dispute between "Mr . Hill and Messrs . Padgtt and Co . 1 prized Cooper ' s letters , and those of Oastler , as so many portraits of the minds of their respective writers , and as such I showed them to Mr . Fraser , and so little did I notice the meanly extracted paragraph , even when I received the leiter , that I never evea mentioned itat Nottingham or elsewhere "

      You see , therefore , that this could not have been one of the letters alluded to by Mr . leach , at the South lancashire delegate meeting in November ; because Mr . leaeh could not then have known oi its existence . Bnt supposing it had keen one of them , how does it affect me ? The extract is as foIIowb : — " Ton will see how we have spoken out about the humbug Executive . George and Julian , with the Editor at leeds , and our Generalissimo , alt go with me , I give yon the hint . Joiinny Campbell ia O"Bnenizing , he must be stopped , or we shall ad strike on the breakers together ; get your Notts chaps to approve of the resolutions of our delegate meeting . "

      It qw the only part of this -wbich can affect me ia that which is printed in italics ; and the question is in ichai did I go with ** Mr . Cooper ? Now I have before stated that when Mr . Cooper was at Leeds he named to me his scheme ol an Annual Convention ; and that 1 approved the idea , though I doubted its practicability under existing laws . If Mr . Cooper had meant anything more , or anything other , than simply thiB , when he spoke of my " going with" him , he would have been guilty of gross falsehood in asserting it- As far as this goes , I did " go with" him , bnt in no other way . So far from plotting with him against the Executive , I earnestly urged him to uss his influence with the

      Leicestershire delegates not to make any public attack npon the Executive , but to write to them privately , as we had done at HulL After the factious publication of this extract , I wrote to Mr . Cooper , informing him of the nse that was being made of it , and requesting him , as an act of justice both to himself and me , to write a letter for the Star , stating truly and exactly what it did refer to . For some reason best known to himself , Mr . Ceoper did not think proper to do this . However , when plainly asked the question by Mr . O'Connor at Birmingham , he did giv 9 bis testimony to the truth , as appears by the following paragraph in the report of the meeting called by the Executive : —

      Aye , said Mr . O Connor , that is just the thing . A more dastardly production never appeared . Here stands Mr . Cooper and here am 3 , and now 1 ask him if my scgaiescence or if the acquiescence of " the Editor at Leeds * or of the other parties , in his suggestion amonatsfi to more t £ an this : —Mr . Cooper suggested the propriety of selecting five business men from an annual convention , who should act as an Executive ; he said he did so because not obb half of those who voted knew

      anything about the business habits of the men put in nomination , whereas , sM elected aa delegates , would have the confidence cf the conntry , while the Cnvention would be the best judges of their business habits , and could suggest th % name 3 of such men to the people ^—( hear , hear , and cheers . Now will Mr . Cooper say that my agreement or that of the Editor with him went further than this ? " Mr . Cooper . —Certainly not" —( cheers . )

      I have a letter from Jlr . Cooper now by me confirming the truth , of this statement So much , then , lor the proof which this extract affords of the " plotting and conspiracy" charges against me ; and of the veracity of those who make them 1 Now for the letttr or letters from leeds . Bl these I know nothing . I do not say that there may sot haTB been letters sent from Leeds . I do not say that these letters may not have alluded to some plot or conspiracy against the Executive . I do not £ eny this , because 2 know nothing about it It may or may not have been so . I am no way concerned in it . But here are the words which concern me : —

      " The Executive received letters from various parts , informing us that a conspiracy was being formed against them , and particularly a letter from Leeds , which stated that Mr . Hill and others agreed there in a certain house , to pursue a certain course of conduct Against the Executive , the basis of which was—thai the character of the Executive was to be suffitierdly shaken in private , and then by a simultaneous public assault ! !" * * * Here , then , is the direct charge against me ; and this has been repeated and reiterated again , and again , and again . It is , in fact , the constant theme of invective .

      It is the Executive ' s defence . Ndw I do say that if ; the ExecatiTe have receiTed any letter containing this j statement , the writer of &at letter is a liar . I have not « eased to call for the publication of this letter , and of the writer ' s name , ever since tie statement was first published . And I have a right to demand that after my J solemn denial the people shall refuse to hear tbiB j charge repeated in my absence until it shall have been j sustained by the publication of thB letter , with the j writer ' s name . Then wiUi respect to the letter said to have been received from Hnll ; I must again bring to

      your recollection toe resolutions both of the Council ; and of the body of ihe Hnll Chartists . The resolution of the Councillors contains these words : — 11 That the General CouEcDlors resident in HnlL having seen a statement in the Star attributed to Mr . j James Leach , of Manchester , that in the month of Julylast , the Hull Chartista were about to pass the ; Balance Sheet / when Mr . Hill entered the room and pnt ; a stop to it ; and a friend that waspresent at that meeting wreteio Campbell , stating that there was a plot hatching against the Executive / do most unequivocally and unqualifiedly affirm this statement to be false ; that , there never was any such tiling as far as we know , as \

      any body of ' Chartista beina at that time about to pass the Balance Sheet and beinjr stopped by Mr . Hill on bis j coining into the room ; that Mr . Hill was not by any means the first of the Hull Councillors to start objections to that Balance Sheet ; that the first council , meeting to consider . tbat Balance Sheet was specialiy < convened by Mr . Bobert Jackson , at the suggestion of < seTfiral other councillors , and eTery councillor was present saTeonei that , notwithstanding our juBtdissstts-j faction , there was not amongst ns any plot natcowg j against the Executive / and tfcat consequently no person , could have truly sent to tae Executive any letter «>> that effect ; that we , the councillors of Hull , are not in , hUOk CUAkj WAV W » J WIP VWHUW *** " * - — ' - * "tli ^ M minos

      • the habit oi hatching plot */ bnt of speaking our ; freely npon such subject * us we haTe » *** *? !? S I cognixsneeof ; that we are not in Bjelabit tf . * ^ " I by any individual , whether Mr . Hill ox Mb . ^ £ i £ the formafionofJur opinions , bnt tbat ^ e a 1 ^ ^] to UBe our own judgment ; and , further , tto * »» r 7 »« , B t from Mr . Leach or Mr . Campbell the F *^ " ^ letter which Mr . Leaeh says was received fcom a ¦ JJWJ . who was present at the meeting when flu ajJ ^ Sfey ' Hsts were stopped ftom passing the ^^^ JXt tf Mr , Hill , together with the writer ' s name ; « J «« * : this our demand be not complied with , ve sialTbefcere , this statement of Mr . Leach ' s to hare been invented .

      either by him or CampbelL ' ITbis was pnbli £ hsd in iha lforOiem Star of December loth , and the Star of Decanter 24 th , contained a i * s ~ TUk-, * f the whole ioay " cf the G 3 Ttw » of Hull , ot -whkb the following is part : —

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      "That we , the Hull , general meeting members assembled , have heard with surprise , a statement read from a lat » number of the Star , purporting j to hare emanated from Mr . leach , at a meeting of ' South Lancashire delegates , that ' The Hull Chartisto j were about to pass the Balance Sheet , when Mr . Hill I entered the room , and pnt a stop to it ;* and we hereby declare that that Balance Sheet was neTer submitted to ' the Hull Chartists , except indmdually , through the i columns of the Northern Star . " J I suppose ife needless for me to add anything in refutation of this charge . At the same meeting at which he made these " plotting and conspiracy" statements , Mr . Leach gaTfl a grossly false TerBion of a \ privateconversationbetween him and me , in Mr . Hobson ' s \ kitchen ; manifestly for no other purpose tban wantonly i to injure me in the estimation ot those to whom he spo&e , as a means of lessening the force of my charges against himseif and colleagues . I have publicly charged this ! wickedness npon Mr . Leach many times , and be has not ' ventured eTen to deny it I am sorry that such prac- ; _

      tices have been resorted to . They compel me to a course vfhich I would willingly have been excused adopting . But howeTer others may affect to despise calumny , 1 cannot afford to do so . I calumniate no man . I neTer in my whole life made a charge of any kind against any man without adducing my proofs t& the same time . And I wonld despise myself as the veriest wretch alive , if I could bring a serious accusation against any man and refuse to give my authority for it when called for ^ bnt yet go on repeating the accusation .

      I refer to these matters now because I know that thii is the regular practice wherever the people will tolerate it I haTe a letter from Mr . Leach , receiTed this week , in which he states his intention to bring np these and other such matters at every public metting he may hereafter attend . Now this can neTer hurt me , otherwise than as it seriously hurts the cause by disgusting and nauseating all decent men . I therefore remind the peopJe—more for their own sakes than for mine , " that fair play is a jewel " , and that I have as much right to it as any other man . I ask them

      not to pay me any deference or to giTe me any advantage—bnt to do justice ; and not to permit me to be wantonly calumniated in my absence . In what I have written upon the conduct of the Executive , I have not nsed the language of invective , but of argument I have given proofs for every word . I gave fair and ample scope for reply . I permitted them to say what they pleased in reply , however t / ffsusiTe and whether at all connected with the subject or not I answered their call for public discussion by a fair offer to meet them in their own town of Manchester and prove eTery

      syllable I haTe charged against them . They haTe not accepted my offer . I challenged them to meet me before the public and prove their charges against me . They baTe not accepted my challenge . I now repeat that I am ready at any time ( as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made , as stated in my former letters , ) to meet any man in England , and prove my charges . I am ready , at any time , to meet any man in England who has any political charge to prefer against me ; let him but give me fair notice of his purpose , and tell me beforehand what I haTe to meet

      I haTe now been before the public nearly fourteen years . During that time 1 have preserved , unbroken , my consistency , I haTe neTer yet found it necessary to eat my own words , to shrink from my own statements , or to fly from the consequences of my own acts . I never yet found it necessary to deny , retract , or explain away , any single word that I ever said , or any single line that I ever wrote . I was neTer eTen required to retract an assertion that I bad made . I hope always to preserve the same consistency . I ask

      the people to give me fair play . I aak no more , and I ask that—not so much for my own sake as for theirs . I am tied here at the desk ; I can't run all oTer the country to meetings . I haTe no other means of serving the people than through the columns of the Star . I have no other means of defending myself when unjustly attacked . It 1 b not too much , there ! ore , if when I tell the people that 1 will not hereafter employ these columns , even for my own defence , upon this subject I at the same time require them to see that that circumstance be not taken an unfair

      advantage of . In order that the people may have the whole merits of the whole question of this Executive business fairly before them at one view , I shall shortly publish the whole discussion in a pamphlet In that pamphlet I will deal fairly . It shall not be a one-sided thing ; I will not publish my own comments alone , but I will also gire all the letters , statements , and explanations of the several members of the ExecutiTe that nave been

      published ; so that the whole thing may be seen fairly . My oV . ject and my wish ia that the men should recetoe no iDJustiC 9 ; that they should be fairly known and fully understood , and / airly dealt with , by the people . I have no anger against any of them ; but I haTe a full determination , while 1 fcava any influence with the people , to nse it not only for ths advancement of our principles among those who do not recognise them , but for their enforcement among those who do .

      One more word and I baTe done . Mr . O'Connor says that if the letters of the Bull Councillors had been written for publication , the Executive should haTe been warned of it They were not written for publication : had they been so , they would have been published at the time . Their very style and tone tells that they were intended only as private remonstrances : had they been heeded as such , all this " hubbub" would baTe been spared . It was the subsequent conduct of the Executive which rendered their publication necessary . And now , my friends , I haTe done with this Bnbject The whole thing is in your hands , and you will deal with it as yon please . I am , as I haTe ever been , Your faithful friend and serrant , William Hill . "Northern Star" Ofilce , Leeds . February 1 , 18 * 3 .

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      Metropolitan Victim Committee . — We have received their address , but cannot insert it . Like appeals from every locality having victims would JUlup almost the entire Star ; and , if any should be admitted , we could deny none without rendering ourselves liable to be charged with partiality . The Star is a national organ ; and we think its columns , therefore , a fair channel for general appeals on behalf of all ihe victims , but notjor special and local ones for particular cases ; unless indeed their individual cases have something peculiar about them so as to give them a fair claim to more than common interest . Bibjongham . —Mus . Roberts's Fbkd . —All communications , in future , for Mrs . Roberts' Committee , must be addressed for John Newhouse , secretary . No . 11 . Upper Tower-street , Birmingham ; Mr . Charles Thorp having resigned acting

      as secretary . Wnx M » , Beopht send his address to W . Dove , A ottinpham ? ~ " - wa . Higginbottom , asd othebs . —We nave sent their letter to Mr . O'Connor . A Stanch Oastlekite , Bbadpokd . —Never mind the brawlers : we have no room to waste on them . B . S . —Q'ieries— 1 , Yes ; 2 , No ; 3 , false . Wx . Em £ BS 0 ^ . —It was neither of them . T . M . Wheeler . —The answer to the Enigma next week . Chabtist Addresses . —Wi have received several of these , this week , from different places , and on different subjects . We have not roomjor any of them .

      IL Kmowxks . —No room . A Toos CflABTibT . —'' Don ' t you wish you may yet it ?" 3 . Bbowk . —The case of Mrs . Ellis is sufficiently jcell known to the Chartist public ; it is not eloquence , but money , that is wanted for her . S . J ., Bristol . —His teller on organization was received . One of his recommendations would violate the law ; the other we wish his permission to embody in our next article on the subject . He will see that we have , in our present number , inserted his letter on the Benefit Society . His other letters we shall be glad to receive , and to

      ! insert as we may have room . Thanks for the paper he sent « s , and for similar favours heretofore . Will Mb . Wb . Jones , of Liverpool , send his address to James Atkinson , 17 , Plvugh-courl , Fetter-lane , Holborn , as he wishes to communicate with him 1 Richabd Hawkiks , New Inn Yard , Nottingham , makes the same request . John Skkrbiit , . NoiriSGHAaL . — We never saw ihe notices he writes so warmly about . As Mb- John West is now residing in Hull , all communications for him must be addressed , care of Mr , Seward , Gartoris Entry , Market-place ,

      Hull . Johs RoBKfSOH woidd suggest to the Chartists of Manchester the idea of getting up a phyfor ihe benefy of the Defence Fund , ani offer * tog . ve his persona , auutattce in the geCmq oj it ont .

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      Joseph . —All the fellow wants is tt ? provoke us mto a controversy to bring his paver into ut n Zl We shalln o { ffratifff him . Mobs Middxb Class Sympathy . - We learn from a Correspondent at Martock , in Somersetshire , fAat \ t u > a general etistom among the opulent ofliiat parish to sell coals to the poor , at half price , at Christmas . Friday , January 6 th , was the day announced for the poor to assemble , at the house of one of the contributors , to receive a ticket each to procure the coals , provided the contributor thought them entitled to the same . The wxet f were given to all that made application but two , Samuel Maunder , aged eighty-four years and Hannah Rayson . The reasons being , that isamuel Maunder allowed his grandson , a loartist , to live in his houseand to offer for

      , sale , m his window , such publications as alluded tu-, f edPrinciples" of the Chartists . They felt it a duly incumbent upon them to refuse Samuel Maunder a ticket so long as he eneou raged such wickedness in his house . ™ EE 7 Cob » esp ondence . — We received on Ihursday morning a vast amount of correspondence which use h ive not had even time to read . It is reserved for another opportunity , u-hen such as may be necessary will be inserted , ne wish we could ever get our numerous correspondents to send us their favours a day or two earlier in the week , before the columns of the btar are preoccupied . We have been obliged to curtail all reports so received that we have made any use of . Thomas Clarke , Stockport . —We received his

      request at too late an hour to be attended to . Bolton Chartists . —Send the resolution to Isaac Barrow , by leiter . J . H . —Thanks . Edinburgh . —The long report of the proceedings of a meeting held on the l 9 th of January is of no use to us on the 2 nd of February . Reports , to be of any value , should be sent at the time the meetings are held .

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      Mr . Stkes , Almonddurv . —The letter received , dated January 31 at , and posted at Hudderafleld , February 1 st , waa not prepaid . Mr . N . Gbeaien—Both the last remittances have been bnt 59 . each . Mr . Rowe , Northwicu . —The Patition Plates aTe at Mr . HeywootJ ' s . MR . FLErcHER .- ^ The 10 a . from Col chester shouldhave b 3 en BrightlingBea , riear Colchester . E . Spencer , Melksham . —If the 5 a . has not been noticed , it has not been receiTed at this office . Thomas Holbrook . —Yes . Ddnfermline . —The persons writing from this place can have the Plates by sending 10 s ., and saying who the the patcel is to be addressed to

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      . i FOR THB NATIONAL DEFENCE FUND . £ B . « . From Robert Hutchin , flixdresser , America 0 4 0 « . the female operatives at the Fabric , Boulogne-sur-Mer , Franco ... 0 14 4 ^ „ the Chartista of West Kilbride , proceeds of a raffia for the Petition Plata 0 4 4 J _ T . B Hylton , per J . Williams ... 0 1 6 „ a few f . itnds at Haaington-lane , per J . Hunter ... 0 6 10 J „ J . Williums ( donation ) 0 17 ^ „ J ^ mea Normac , Ltsds . j 0 0 6 "

      FOR SIRS , ELLIS . From the Chartists of Newport , Isle of Wight ... ~ 0 10 0 ~ the Chartists of Leeds 0 11 1 „ a female friend at Bampton , per Mr . Spencer ... ... 010 FOB MRS . ROBERTS . From the Chartists of Newport , Isle of Wight .. 050 " .. the Chartists of Hudvfersfleld , per j . Chapman ... 0 5 6

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      H 0 DDERSFISLB . . RECEPTION OF FEARGU 3 O'pONN 0 R - On Saturday night last we had a yiaifc A oal Mr - O'Connor , when tbe Philosophical Halt , the lar fe « t building ia tbe towa , was procured forj the o « . as ' - At ei « ht o ' clock , Mr . O'Connor accompanied b } ' his friends , and preceded by a splendid band , left the Swan Hotel , and proceeded t& the place of meeti ° SThe gentleman , upon ascending the platform , was tw , st Tociferously cheered , antf shortly after ; that nnwwn ¦ promising T « 66 r » n , Mr . Voveis , was unanimously eaHe < l to the chair ; who after a soul-stirring I appeal to hs *| audience oh behalf of their rights aad liberties , intro-i duced Mr . O'Counor to the meeting . . i

      Mr . O'CONNoa , spoke for two boursand jfortyminutes , i replying to all the f illacies of the Anti-Corn Law lee- j turers . He introduced the question no'jir so promi- j nently relied upoa by the League to shelter themselves , I namely , the immensely increased value giyen to agricoi- ) tural and landed property by the spread ] of manafuc-i tures . This position , said he , I am not going to deny , but I am going to combat and to expose ! the League deductions , namely , that they , the landlords , hivo received this accession of wealth from profitsunjustly withheld from capitalists— - ( bear , hear . ) I am going to admit the fact , tbatj landed property has received great augmentation from the increase of manufactures ; but I undertake jto prove that the increase has come from the pockets of the people , '

      and not from those of their masters —( loud cheers . ) Now the great augmentation to- lauded property consists not in the increased value of farming land—( hear , hear ); the great increase has been derived from groundrents , where new towns have been built ; and houserent in towns which have be 8 n augmented in the number of inhabitants by the rapid increase of manufactures . Well , then , could I select a better spot wherein t « illustrate my argument tban just where 1 now stand ? This town belongs to Sir John Kiunsden . j Before you were drafted here , some ground fo ? which now a large price is paid by the yard , was then let fora mere trifle by the acre—( bear , hear , and loud cheers ) I Now , then , who pays the ground-rent , and the house rent , of every warehouse , mill and shop , and residence jhere ?—( We

      do . ) Of course you do , and for the gas and oil—( cheera . ) Suppose there are four thousand or five thousand , or any number of operatives' cottages let for ten pounds a-year , and worth but six pounds , who pays tbe whole , firstly upon the six pounds , or | official valve —( laughter . ) Sit John has his profit of ground rent , and then upon the house-rent the master has hia profit of fourteen pounds a-year ; and thus I am ready to contend and to prove , that while I admit the fact that Sir John Ramsden ' s property within fifty years has had an increase from the operation of manufactures by at least £ 70 , 000 a year , I will also contend , jthat on this increase the masters have had an increase on this article alone of three times that amount . (' Cheers , and " To be sure they have . " ) This is a branch ot the

      whole question of free trade much relied Upon by the League , who would blind us to their own { active enormities by directing attention to the passive ! process by which landed paoperty h ; ia been increasfl ' d in value ; the fact being , that so long as you could bear tbe burileu of both they never complained , bnt now tbat one or other must be taken from your shoulders , they say , "Oh , take the land-sharks by all means" —( cheers . ) Mr . O Connor then went into the question of small masters , ami showed the injury dona to society byjthe ruin of men whose interests were more nearly identified with those of their men , than those of the leviathan machine owners could passibly be . Twenty years ago , said he , there were 28 small masters in Paddock , an adjoining village ; they made from five to eight pieces

      of coarse kerseys & man , and they employed ; 1 from nine to twenty-five hands or more . Now , where ate they ? —(•• aye , indeed , " and cheers . ) Well , I will tell you ¦ thvee out of tbe twenty-eight are still struggling against Biuoke ; and tbe remnant of tbe capital of the remaining twenty five , driven from the market , bas been , for want of protection to them , transferred with joint-stock bank shares to consolidate a fund for the very mea who broke them to gamble upon—( loud cheers ) . < Crosslaud has swallowed up tbe whole twenty-five , and now with less than half tbe hands makes moTe in a week than all the others made twenty years ago—( land cheers ) . Why , then , do the skopketpers of Paddock wonder at their impoverishment , which must continue till Mr . Cropland ' s mules and jennies and spindles are seen

      going on Saturday night into their shops fur bread and cheese , and bacon , ucd bonnets , and muffs and boas , and tippets and caps , and shoes and beds , and coats , atid gloves , and watches—( laughter and cheeis ) . Now , said Mr . O'Connor , will you hear the plain and simple fact from me ? England is at the present moment like a large hotel in a watering-place or in a race town . It is buik fur tbe accommodation of the casual visitors only , and is empty during tbe recess . The sudden and anomalous progress of manufactures produced , as sudden and anomalous an increase in all those departments in trade and commerce , and from «? hi < : b the ; increased luxuries were to be supplied . The n&w commercial society was an artificial society , and , in facts , like tbe manufacturing department , become , from sudden

      demand , competitive in its transactions . The great improvements in machinery , by degrees enabled the largest capitalists to drive the smaller ones ' , from th . 9 market ; and with every commercial failure , there came a corresponding sectional failure of tbat class ] em ployed in producing or vending luxuries or necessaries —( cheers ) The failure of a bank or of a large manufacturing concern at flrat but presents t $ w single misfortune to you , whereas , taken in all its beariugs , it should present to you the failure of a corresponding portion of that society established for the production and vending of thoHO luxuries and necessaries—( cheers ) . Thus like tbe large hotel it is merry for a moment and dull for an hour . When times ace said to raend , by the receipt of fresh orders from abroad , instead of those orders giving

      a yearly impetus to trade , or requiring more bands , they are perfected , as if by magic , and the hotel ! is again closed —( cheers ) . See how this shakes confidence ; at present the sum of 3 d . is demanded in Huddersfluld for a Leeds £ 5 note before you gt > t change for it . ( aye , 6 d . ); well , say 3 d ., and so of a Huddersfield note in Leeds—( hear , hear , hear . ) Well , then , why ? simply because gambling j has rendered everything precarious and uncertain ; until , for the first time in this great nation , machinery { has compelled the monarch to submit to a tax upon her income . ( Cheers . ) Now , do you understand me ?; ( "Aye , eTery word of it , " and cheers . ) Mr . O'Connor then addressed the meeting upon the services performed by the Evening Star newspaper , and reminded them that Huddersfield had undertaken to raise £ 1 , 500 to enable

      him to establish a daily paper ; and why now refuse their support to one in which he could have no Bellish motive ; one possessed by one of the most honourable , amiable , and gentlemanlike young men he bad ever had the good fortune to meet . Why not rally round him who was losing £ 72 a-week by his advocacyjof their cause ? ( Cheers , and "We will . ") Aye , but do it . After a smasher at the deserters and trimmers , and a defence of his policy in opposing the League , tbe resolutions so often referred to in tbe Evening Star were severally proposed , and unanimously adopted . Tbe man who seconded the resolution in favour of tbe Evening Slar setting tbe example of practice by informingjthe meeting that he and nine shopmates had subscribed to it from tbe time tbat > Jr . O'Connor took it up —( loud cheers followed this announcement )

      After a vote of thanka to Mr . O Connor , and the veteran Chairman , the meeting broke up ; anri at twelve o ' clock Mr . O'Connor departed for Normanton Station , seventeen miles , having spent the remainder of the evening in company with Mr . Pitkethly and bis friends .

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      NEWCASTLE . —Mr . Kidd , of Glasgow , lectured in the Chartist ' s Hall on Sunday evening . Mr . K'dd will deliver a leeture in the same place on next Sunday evening , at half-past six o ' clock . The Chartists of Newcastle and Gateshead held thejr weekly business meeting on Monday evening . The minutes or me previous meeting saving been confirmed and some local business disposed of , it was agreed that the discussion upon Mr . Cooper ' s plan of organization should be postponed until it was ascertained whether it was in conformity with law or not . } STOCKPORT . —Oa Sunday evening last , Mr . Christopher Doyle lectured to the friends in this town , on which occasion the large room was crammed to suffocation . A vote of thanks was passed to Mr . K \ dd and the Sunderland lade .

      HUXSDERSFIEJtiD . —On Sunday last , the asaal district delegate meeting was held in the Democratic chapel , Tiiurstonland . After the usual routine of business connected , with the district bad been disposed of , and tbe business relative the Birmingham Conference delegates settled , a vote of thanks to Feargus O'Connor , Esq . foi his unwearied exertions in the cause of Democracy , and for his promptitude ) in responding to the call of the Chartists of this district , was agreed to . The subject of Cooper's Pian of Organization was deferred until next delegate meeting . — The meeting was then adjourned of that day fortnight , to be held in Mr . Dickinson ' s Boom , Huddersfleld ; chair to taken at twelve o ' clock . 1

      nEWSBTJB . Tr A District Council meeting was held on Sunday , in the large room over tbe Co-opferatWe Store . After the financial business had been transacted , James Fox and WiUiam Bobabaw were requested to hold their respective offices as Secretary and Treasurer henceforward . The next council meeting will be held on Sunday , Feb . 12 th , iu the large room over the Cooperative Stores , Dewabury . j BUCKFASTLE 1 GB . —This is a new locality , to the National Charter Association . Fifty members have been enrolled , and a meeting room engaged . \ Some opposition has been offered , by tho " clergy" especially , but if crowded meetings be any criterion , tbfis neied not be feared : and we may anticipate that nu ^ erousi proselytes to the good cause will reward the . energetic efforts of thti few f : iund 3 who have c&tablUb ' jd the Association in tb . 3 p tea . A coii ! ribu ' . u . ; $ Ji ^ ^ een fyrvyarcied to the Defence Fund . ;

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      Leeds . —On Sunday afternoon and evening , Mr Fraser lectured to Jarge audiences ia the Chartist Room , Cheapside , when 1 la O . Jd . was collected for Mrs . Eilis . Persons who may feel inclined to give anything towards this laudable object , will be kind enough to brinfi ; it to Mr . Brook , treasurer for this fund . It u tho , duty of every Chartist , but mora especially those who by their situation can afford it , to do ' something towards assisting those who have suffered in their cause—let al ! , then , who can , come forward , immediately * so that Leeds may not be behind in thia hply work .

      The Council met on Sunday morning , and by j , djournment m the evening , after tho lecture , when 5 k a sub-secretary brought forward Mr . Cooper ' s pk n of Organization ; he likewise read the article in t ne Star relative to it . A resolution was moved , e&etfi . ling against its adoption in its present form , and b r » "n ^ that the present plan , with a tew im , prorei ients , ( such as the registration , the place appom \ ed where the Executive should meet th transact business , and that printed copies of tee . Bala-aea Sheet should be * transmitted to hca eub-Secrt tary n » the kingdom , instead on the prest "nt method , ) is tho best that cabe had under the present state of the law After some discxit'sion , in which tbe council

      geaorally a » pn » ed of" the resolution , au amendment was moved— ' * Ti , 'at a * comrpitiee of fivs persons be appointed to exanrtie both plans , with a view that she Leeds' Cl'artist v- may submit one to- the consideration of th eir C ' &L't ' m brethren . " The original resolution was withtfra wa in favour of the amendment , which "was . carried snanimousJy . A com- ' mittee was then appvu ^ ed , consisting of Messrs . Jones Praser , Kaowlet ' , Broyshaw , and Brook * A motion was then carried thsst a soirea strtmtd bo held on Monday , Feb . f&t ' vin ths Room , Cheapside , for the benefit of 2 i'JL * ouall . A member cf th » Association , nanW Parker , a hard-working man , then presented iiimsulf Sfefore the Council , to iay agros * charge against . Mr . Dean TayW , lato Chaitisfc lecturer .- He detailed hi 3 case as follows : —After

      Taylor had left the Worii and Esst Riding , he resided at Leeds , and w&v engaged at different times to 1 lecture in the Room , Cheapsido , oa ' Sunday eTenmga ; on on » of theso occasions , Parker and his wife , wfefr regular ] j attended , became acquainted with him ,, and solicited ' him to go and rake tea at their house , which was situated in Hunslet lane . He did bo ; and in the eourse of tbe evening told them that he was in poverty and distress , aatl other pineal tales , Parker , who is a very feeling man , took him into his house , and gave him board aad lodgings fSr more than two months ; after this Tcyior left and took a room , or rather persuaded some one else to-take it for him , to preach in on his own account ; he had it betwixt two and three months , received sH tbe

      collections , and now a poor working man is left to pay the rent . Triis room is situated at the Bank , Marsh Lane . However , on Sunday , January the 15 th , Taylor and Parker ' s wife stript Parker ' s house of every thing they could well take , betwixt four and five o ' clock in the morning ; and both of them left town together . It is suspected they have gone to London . The poor man could hardly relate the above for tears ; he and his wife have always lived happy and comfortable ; his home is now broken up , and a ! l by an ungrateful and unprincipled vagabond . Several persons attested to the truth of the statement . The members of the Council thought they were bound to send this forth to their Chartist brethren throughout the kingdom , so that * they may be on their ^ uard against such vile and deceitful impostors .

      NEWCASTLE . —The pitmen of Kenton Colliery summoned their employer before the Bench of Magistrates in Newcastle , for a breach of agreement . It was ably shown by Mr . Lbckie Harle , ( the solicitor for the complainers ) that according : to the bond the men wore entitled to work at which they could earn thirty shillings per fortnight throughout the year , with the exception of one fortnight , between the 29 th of Dec . and the 20 th of Jan ., which the masters had it in their power to lay them off , whereas the men'were deficient in the amount to which they were entitled "by their written agreement for three fortnights runniiig , and claimed as a matter of justice duo . to his clients that they be remunerated for the loss they have sustained . The solicitor for the defendant in his defence admitted

      that the men had sustained a loss , which he thought they were entitled to have indemnified , but not to the extent that they claimed . The Justices retired to consider , and returned it as their opinion , that the men bad sustained no great loss by the wages being kept off , and therefore dismissed tbe case . The employer sat on the Bench as a magistrate tbat day .

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      CLASS-MADE LAWS HAVE MADE THEIR VICTIMS : LET US ENDEAVOUR TO

      RELEASE THEM . Feluow Working Men , — WHEN I sent the Advertisement to be Published , which has appeared for the last few weeks , and which states that I am willing to give fonr shillings to tbe Executive and one shilling to tho Victim Fund out of every one hundred pounds weight of beverage , I say . my friends , at that timeit struck me very forcibly , that the Victim Fund stood much need of augmenting , and I think eo still , as you may see by their letter ; . and I also think , if I

      may jud ^ e from appearance , that the country evincesbut little disposition to support the cause of Chartism through the Executive ,, inasmuch as neither myself nor Messrs . Crow and Tyrrel have had much to add to their funds for some weeks past . I therefore propose that the whole of the five shillings per hundred pounds be given to the Victims' Defence Fund , and it shall appear as before in Mr . Cleave * * Subscription List weekly , until the assizes are over * when wo cau make fre 3 ii arraagemonta as the tines

      may require . Now , my frienda , it remains with the people , whether those men who have been made victims for no other crime than that of demandiag justicft at the hauds of ouiroppressors be left to the clemency of a merciless judge and a time-serving jury , or whether they shall have funds sufficiently supplied which will secure to thorn justice ; and we must remember that there is only a few weeks to raise the > money in , and- we shoald also rem&mber that we > that are at liberty are only so because the law has not got hold of us , but that we perhaps may have > said and dote more towards the downfall of tyrants than thoso whom it is our dut \? to support . I now leave the matter in your hands , and only haTe to say , that I pledged myself in 181 & never to rest until we were free—I never have nor ever will . Roger Pint > er , Hull .

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      Regi stered , Thomas Emmett Silence , son of George and xvlary Silence , Charlton-street , Somera Town , Lon don . ' Oa Sunday last , the infant 89 a of John and Catherine Rawc !< ff was christened by the Rev . J , Cannell , at the Gatholio Chapel , St . Wilfreds , Preston , John Frost Rawcliff .

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      TRIUMPHANT MEETING OF THE WORKING CLASSES , AND DEFEAT OF THE UN I TED FORCES OF THE LEAGUE UNDIIGUSIED , AND LEAGUE DISGUISED .

      BRADFORD . ( From Vie Evening Star . ) Bradford having responded to tbe general call to send delegates to tbe Conference lately held at Birmingham , and further having resisted , tbe insidious schemes of some of those Chartists into whose eyes a portion of the League gold-duat had been thrown , by refusing to elect a " whole hog , " and two ' sucking pig" Cbartists , Mr . O'Connor visited the town on Friday last , for the purpose of reimbursing the fund out of which the expenses of sanding thoBe delegates bad been taken . The working men having jtieard of Mr . O Connor ' s intended visit , issued circulars challenging the League to discussion .

      At eight o'clock , the time at which business was to commence , tbe Social Institution , an immense Hall , capable of holding from 2 . 000 to 3 , 000 persons , was not only wedged in every part , bat the stairs , staircases , and every avenue was literally blocked up , bo that when Mr . O'Connor arrived at the entrance , it was with difficulty he could be forced through tbe dense mass . In fact , we presume that even our short-sighted friend of the Observer will admit , that so crowded a meeting never has been seen in this town . After Mr . O'Connor bad concluded an address , under the several heads set forth in the bill calling the metting , and having laid bis views upon the subject of free trade and the land clearly before the meeting , and when the resolution passed at Manchester , Rochdale , Ashton , Stalybridge and Bolton was proposed and Kconded . &nd without any previous notice whatever to Mr . O'Connor or the Chartists , a

      Mr . Smedhurst got np , and after attempting for three qnarters of an hour to grapple with the arguments of Mr . O'Connor , he proposed , as an amendment to the resolution , " That a repeal of the Cora Laws would fca a positive benefit to th « ah 9 pkeepingand working classes . " Preserving the latter pat ' c , which went to pledge the meeting not to join in any agitation for a repeal of the Income Tax . Mr . C . Wilson seconded the amendment . Mr . Hodgson , one of tbe four delegates to the first Birmingham Conference , moved , and Mr . FLETCHER seconded , another amendment , 11 That that meeting send rio resolutions to Parliament , for or against the repeal of the Corn Laws .

      In the course of his speech Mr . HODGSON read an artiste from the Evening Star of tbe 17 th of Oct ., which he declared was in favour of a repeal of the Corn Laws , and , as Mr . O'Connor was the editor , of couree he was the writer . Mr . Hodgson and Mr . Fletcher were receiTed by their brother working men with universal and almost continuous disapprobation from the beginning to the end of their appealB . Mr . H . stated , that Mr . O'Connor would not dare to suggest a petition to tbe meeting founded unon the resolutions , and why stop the resolutions , and contended that the people should go on for the Charter , without reference to the agitation for the League . ....

      Mr , O'Connob very brltfiy replied to all the argumeats of both parties . In answer to the charge of having advocated the repeal of tbe Corn Laws , in the Evening Star , or any other paper , he defied any man to show a line having that tendency . " Facts were chiola that winna ding , " as Burns said , and so were datts . With respect to tbe article in the Evening Star of tbe 17 th of October , and referred to by Mr . Hodgson , the date was a fact that " winna ding . " On the 17 th of October , Mr . O'Connor was in his bed , and bis doctor was in Liverpool ready to swear to his incapacity from illness to move ; but that should cot be hia only answer , be would pledge himself to place the as * Barance of the Proprietor in the hands of their &Ser 0 \ MTy , ~ iTi £ t ~ lis ( Mr . O'Connor ) - neither «» r ; wrote , nor heard of the article referred to—( long-continued cheering followed this announcement ) Mr . O'Connor then referred , in no measured

      terms , to the part acted by some Chavliata who had become freetraders fora jab ; and now , said be , let us jnst inquire into the whys and the wherefores of this said resolution : all would admit that the Chartist causa most be kept alive , and before the public All would admit tbat it was not practicable to get np a petition this session , declaring our strength and determination . In this state Acland and Cobden for the League had gone through the country , declaring that tbe Cbartista were down , and had joined the League—( hear , hear ) . The pre 33 re-echoed thiB , and the cause was hkelj to be damaged should the Chartists or the House of Commons believe the assertion . Here , then , was toe only mode of giving a fiat contradiction to the falsehood—( loud cheers ) , —here was the cheapest way of keeping Chartism alive and unsullied , and of defending tne people from the charges that would otherwise be unquestionably made in the House by CobJaa and Co—( renewed cheers ) .

      After the close of Mr . O'Connors address , the several resolutions and amendments were severally put by the Chairman , when about twenty handa were held up for that of Mr . Smedhurst , and a forest against it . The amendment of Mr . Hodgson received precisely a similar fate ; and upon the original resolution being put , the whole meeting , ¦ with tfae iexception of about thirty , held up their bands , and it was declared carried , amid thunders of applause ; and : thua were the machinations of the repealers undisguised and the repealers disguised frustrated in Bradford . . The resolution that the foregoing be transmitted to Mr . Duacooibe , Bigned by the Chairman , as the resolution ol the meeting , and to be presented by him to the House of Commons , was then put and carried ; and that pledging the people to support the Evening Star was carried without a single disse&tient .

      A unanimous vote of confidence in , and thanks to , FearsusO'Connor , was then carried by acclamation ; and after a few words from that gentleman , the meeting separated , auu" at twclw o ' c ^ ck M r . O'Coaaor started for Lvcd *

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      Paine ' s Birthday . —This event was celebrated ia the usual manner at several placea ^ n Monday evening last . We have received Ion ^ f accounts of the festivities , for none of which have' we space , our columns having been pretty welloccupied even before their receipt .

      Just Published, I^Rioa 2d, No. 2, For February, Of The Model Republic,

      Just Published , I ^ rioa 2 d , No . 2 , for February , of THE MODEL REPUBLIC ,

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      DEATHS . On Friday , the 27 th ult ., at Huddersfield , afiera short illness , Mr . Edward Manners , painter , lately of Bradford , and formerly many years foreman to the late Mr . Frederick Wilson , painter , Upperhead Row , Leeds . At the Now Huramums , London , on Sunday , the 22 nd ult ., Juhn Hampton Hampton Lewis , Esq ., of iUuleys aud BoJj . 'r , iu the County of Anglesey .

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      Chartistsin of Goods THE NORTHERN STAR . 1 ^ VntklS ^ i- I— . . — 1 * . !_ * T fy . . .. _

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 4, 1843, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct968/page/5/