SHOPKEEPERS OF BURNLEY. TO THE UoTANi cAtf Gabdeks.—On Thursday evening; a GEKTLrMEN,—Neyer, in the whole ooutbb of my sporting event came off here. Mountjoy, the life did I receive a bit of political mtelligenes -with pedestnan, undertook, for a sum of money, to run one mile oae half ihai pleasure that 1 experienced upon ,walk one mile forwards and one mile baok- Wards, trundle a hoop half a mile truly patriotic, virtuous, and manl , Wheel a barrow xeading7our y half a mile, hop on one leg two hundred yards, run resolutions. 0, how the heart of every honest man backwrarda two hundred yards, pick up forty e«jga will leap for joy when reading the glad tidings that placed one yard apart, with his mouth, With hia hands tied appear in thiB week's Star. Snch a nnion is what l , and bring each egg in his mouth, arid deposit the' whole in a bucket of water without have been long wishing for ; and its reception breaking ; run five milea, walk one mile forwards, will confirm my oft-repeated assertion—that tie half a mile backward?, and leap : over one handred AND LEEDS GENll^t hurdles, (fifty with an egg in his month), being a working classes were not o&ly not averse to, but distance were sincerely anxious for a onion with the mid- ofupwards of fourteen miles. This task he ^ accomplished within two hours, and only just, having classes opon principle. :r dling VOL. 7. NO. 345. SATURDAY, JULY g3y had only fi ve or six seconds -to spare; ^-;/ ' - , had not onr manly bearing, oht M^M' ' Gentlemen - ^- Another " S(i0AKiNGM MEETisa.—0a Monday perseverance, iniomitablo courage, and strict another gt Sntellmence . air of derision j but the little fellow gave him a shaving EA.ST LEAivE.—A camp meeting was held at this : Whig-agiUtion-for'repeal-of-th adherence realized our real value in the poli- IMPORTANT MEETING Cftattt . with;a far worse razor than that with which he shaves placed on Sunday last Messrs. Duff sugatr-; duties -and- further - extension -of ¦conamerce- /, Pepper, and meetihgi was tical market, when would you have con- OF hia. Chartiat customers ; 'Neptune's razor, used when Jarratt attended. held in the Council; Room at SADDLEWORTH delivered l the -Court House. It was called by a scanty sidered a onion with ns to be valuable ? Nerer ! .—Mr. P. M. Brophy ibbers pasa the equinoxial line, is a fool of a thing to SHEEPSiiEAD.r—Mr. Duffy lectured here on Monday, a lecture in the Charter Association Room, Saddle-, that with advertisement published in the last number of no, never 1! I; Had we allowed ourselves to be made which Jemmie shaved hi8 biovher shopocrat; Severity-six members were enrolled. shopkeepers; worth , on Tuesday evening, July 19ta, to a large Our friend Sweat ia -a Uttle man, but 3£r. Yarduxma tho Leeds Mercury alone ; by which " the Bank- the sport of every passing breeze, and a toy in the tho lec- BlJDEPdR».—-North Devok,—Mr. Powell lee- ers, Merchants, Manufacturers, and ofchera ," were AT BVB.KZEY. and respectable audience. At tne close of soon found, oat his mistake. Big as he tfobuebb himself, : hand of each new inventor of a political creed, you ture, several members, both male and female, joined our little Chartist barber fairly took him by the cose tared hete vdth great success, on Wednesday and Thurs- invited to attend, " irrespectiye of party; ' Thi3 the Association. and lathered him day ovonings. : saving clause appears to hav e produced very little would, and properly,bi te left us to that fate which THE CHARTER UNANIMOUSLY CARRIED. like winking, then af ter.three or four (ff J SAL 1 R.D. lain bitterly, strokes of hia democratic gapped iron-hoop-rBZor, fieut APPLEBORE.—Mr. Pow«ll lectured here on Fri- ct. Not only were there no Tories present, but sooner or later is snre to await the " sli dins-scale" The most important meeting ever held in England— S - —The friends here comp of local his customer in to soothe bis agonioa with the pity day eyeniDg. very few leading Whigs ; and although the " Bank- patriot. Bat alas ! Gentlemen, how the deserters important in its composition and more important in ind with much reason, of the neglifcenco , , have and kisses of his wife and a pipe of Virginia. Mr. ers" were requested to lend their assistance, its results—wos held at the spirited town of Burnley lecturers to attend their orappointments. They BAR,NSTAPZ.E.—Mr. Powell lectured here on of all complexions from our hardy ranks mast, now disappointed nine times but are yet, S weet then read the memoiial ,andthe resolution, which not one/ of them appeared to the call, either on Monday evening last It was called by Juhn been ei^ht ; Saturday evening. Whig blu&h, and especially ihe objectors to our name* thanks to their own spirit, progressing well. was as follows :---:« Resolved; that as the sovereign ia or Tory. In a word, the attendance Spencer, Esq., constable, on the following requisition WEOKESBtiaV. , for was VQiy thin, and the oratory Was still tniuaer ; when they find you magnanimously and bravely - On Tuesday evening, the members held a meet the rountain-head of British justice, or aupoosed to be —A funeral sermon Holberry fceing presented to him :— consideration the so, arid that we kave no hope whatever from tho self- was preached here on Sunday, and lla. 43. collected for The Mayor presided. The orators were Mr. Hold- adopting our principles, and under the very name ins; in their room , to take into forth,'Mr. Stansfeld " To John Spencer, Esq., Constable of Burnley. propriety of building a Chartist Hall, whon a com- elected House of Commons, as a last reaource we are the TWidow. (Haraer, of course), Mr; Jamag by which they have gained strength, and been determinGd Garth Marshall, and Mr. J. Wm. Tottie, (son of the ¦ ¦ "Sir,—We, the undersigned, do respectfully re- mittee of eleven persons were chosen to take some to aiake an appeal to the Qaeen, arid do STASSY BRIDG^.-On Sunday evening last, Mr, Etamped on our hearts. What force can now effective measures for that purpose. adopt the memorial agreed to by the National'Conven. Alderman,) by whom the resolutions inserted among quest tbat yon will call a meeting of the Shopkeepers . Danitl Dunavon, from Manchestei', delivered a most our . advertisements were brought forward. The aff right ns 1 What foe cau now vanquish of Burnley and Habergham-Eavea, on an early day, lo The plan we have taken of dividing the town mto tlon of the working classes, and that our Cnauutian be energetic and argumentative lecture in our Koom, to a authorized " result was, that Parli&iuent is to be petitioned , and us! Just for one moment turn your attentbn to the take into consideration the dittreE3 which prevails districts, and appo inting a collector to each district- to sign the same; on behn,lf of this meeting;" larga audience, aud when the lecturo was conclude'! a the Ministers aro to ba memorialised. The Mayor amongst that body generally, an-.l to consider tlie pro- works well ; and we earnestly recommend it to all Mr. Gaorge Harrison, late member of th& National Con- misTibfcr of men caci8 forward ajjd esrotted their names. sad havoc which the monopoly of avaricious masters vention 46 and Mr. Holdforf h wore named " delegates ; they priety of uniting with the shopkeepers of Manchester CjUt Ghanist brethren throughout the country. , t.grey-beaded" votui Aii deaiocviit, ros^ aecond A vota of thanks was passed to the lecturer ami '^ 1 made of your order iu the Potteries ; hght tha rssolution. are to go to London and join other " delegates' ; and has 1 and ether towns in sending a deputation to London to IiK:rsTo>-B.—Mr. West lectured here on Thursday He said it was the forlorn hope of the the^ chairman, and the meeting retired very highly peop representations are to be made, not to a single Minis- thousand men on strike,baldly resisting the tyrants wait upon the Slemoers of the Gj'Veinuient, id urge so 'anight, to an attentiro and admiring audience. le—tho last time of asking. He suppuaed the satisfie d. The bsnns ter, but Ifo/ the^ united Cabinet. Chartists, of EiiQfcft , is profit stolen from yon on tb.9 full amount upon them the necessity of adopting means for afford- Oa Tuesday, at the weekiy nieetiiig, six aew members would be forbidden. Well, what . then ? After tho peop XAKCASTER.—Mr. Mitchell delivered an. able couYS*, did not attend. The meeting was a com- wages they shoali receive. Was it not time, ing immediate and permanent relief." were enrolled. ' le had tried all constitutional and le^al, of the moral and peaceable means, without avail , then they and instructive lecture here on Friday last, July the plete failnre ; there was not a single now point ad- then, that you should have cast one glance at the William Lomas, grocer Wm. Hughes, ironmonger Lamdkth.—Mr. Sewell lectured here on Sunday, at 15 th, to a large and attentive audience, and gave vanced by any of the speakers. Tho whole farce Thos. Slater, pawnbroker R. Wood , clothier wuat fight, if they could do no ather; but the appeal to destitution which machinery and class-legislation No. 1, China Walk. the Crowtt the; last thing. a passivt general satisfaction to all that heard him. Was gone through in an hour. Thomas H in die, draper Oates Sagar, draper fWos not ^—CouM n°t were creating around you ! and now that you have Old BASvoED.-^Mr.