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a THE NORTHERN STAR. April 26, l*n .
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THE J0RTHERN STAR SATVBD ' AY, APKIX. 8G, 1851.
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A The Northern Star. April 26, L*N .
a THE NORTHERN STAR . April 26 , l * n .
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I have found it to he a simple , though very efficacious and pleasant food , doing cool in my own and other functional disorders . ( Kev . JfJiiAM . ES Kxirn , TVinsloiv , Backs , Jan . 22 nd , 1848 . Gentlemen , —I am happy to be able to inform you , that the person for whom the former quantity was procured , has derived very great benefit from its use ; distressing symptoms of long standing have been removed , and a feeling of restored health induced . Having witnessed the beneficial effects in the above-mentioned case . I can with confidence recommend it , and shall have much pleasure in so doing whenever an opportunity offers , < tc . I am , gentlemen , very truly yours , James Shorland , late Surgeon 90 th Regt , 3 , Sydney-terrace , Reading , Rerks , December
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TOOTHACHE PRBYESTBp . . Price fa . per packet ; post-free , Is . Id . BEAKDE'S ENAMEL , for FILLING DECAYING TEETH , and RENDERING THEM SOUND AND PAINLESS , has , from its unquestionable excellence , obtained great popularity at home and abroad . Its curative agency is based upon a TRUE THEORY oftuecattseofT « oth-aehe ; and hence its peat success . By most other remedies it is sought to I ' M the neree , and so stop the pain . But to destroy the nerve is itself a very painful operation , and often leads to very sad consequences , for the tooth then becomes a dead substance in the living jaw , and produces the same amount of inflammation and pain as would reiult from any other foreign body embodied in a living organ . BRANBE'S ENAMEL does not destroy tftetteroc . butbv RESTORING THE SHELL OF THE TOOTHv completely protects the nerve from cold , heat , or chemical or other agency , by which pain is caused . By following the directions , INSTANT EASE is obtaned , aud a LASTING CURE follows . Full instructions accompany every packet , AUTHENTIC TESTlilOSIiL . —SEVERAL PBRSOSS CORID . '
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Perfect freedom from Couglisin Ten Minutes after use , and instant relief , and a rapid Cure of Asthma , Consumption , Coughs , Colds , and ail disorders of the Breath and Lungs , are insured l y DR . LOCOCK ' S PULMONIC WAFERS . A few facts relating to the extraordinary success of Dr . Locock ' s Pulmonic Wafers , in the cure ot Asthma and Consumption , Coughs , Colds , and Iafluenza , Difficult Breathing , Pains in the Chest , Shortneses of Breath , Spitting of Blood , Hoarseness , & c , cannot fail to be interesting to all , when it is borne in mind how many thousands fall victims annually to disease of tho cllSSt .
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Jfewsp-anais , Shuts , asd ADVETiSEMEJiis . —The total number of newspaper stamps issued in the year 1850 in England aud Wales , was of penny stamps , 65 , 741 , 271 ; and of half-penny , 11 , 094 , 423 . In Ireland 6 , 302 , 728 penny , and 43 , 358 half-penny ; iu Scotland 7 , 643 , 045 penny , and 241 , 264 half-penny . The total number of advertisements inserted in the 159 London newspapers , was 891 , C 50 , atttl iba duty atls . 8 d . each , amounted to £ 66 , 873153 . in the 222 English newspapers , there were 875 , 631 advertisements inserted , which , yielded £ 65 , 672 . Iaine 102 Irish newspapers ^ there were 236 , 128 advertise-™ -nn' yieldin £ a duty at Is . each , of £ 11 , 806 ; and in 110 Scotch newspapers , the advertisements numjg * y ® « . » mi * he duly amounted , to £ 18 , 085
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"FAMILY MEDICAL ADVICE . r BY DR . P . M . M'DOUALL , Park Parade , Ashton-under-L yne . On Saturday . May 3 rd , will be published , price One Penny , the first number of this instructive work , with illustrations on wood , when requisite . The issue to be limited . Hobson . Ashton-tmder-lyne ; Heywood Brothers , Manchester : Dipple , London .
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No . XYIi : of the New Series OF " THE NATIONAL IBISTaUGTOR . " Is now ready . Contents of No . XVII , 1 . Rich and Poor . 2 . Much ado about Nothing . 3 . Republican Liberty in Prance . 4 . New Books . — Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania , & e , 5 . National Evils ; their Causes and Remedy , e . New Proof of the Earth ' a Rotation . - 7 . Poetry - — " there was a Time . " 8 . labour and Co-operative Record ,
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PROSPECTUS OP A NEW IVUBKLY DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL TO BE ENTITLED THE ^ FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE ;" TDEAS propounded , discussed ,-accepted—J . behold the only enduring foundation on which Revolutions in Government and Society can be securely based . The most glorious struggles to destroy oppression have resulted either in total failure , bitter disappointment , or fearful re-action , because the long-suffering millions have lacked tho knowledge necessary to enable them to distinguish between pretended and real reforms , between their true friends and those political charlatans who ,. masquerading in the guise of liberalism , traffic ia the misplaced confidence of the people . ' The ad vocates of Democratic Reform , and Social Degeneration can hope fr-r real andperma'ient success only through the general adoption of their principles . ' To exnound and movueate those principles , democratic journals
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' NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Office , 11 , Southampton-street , Strand . THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE hereby announce the following meetings : — , On Sunaaj afternoon , at three o ' clock , the Metropolitan Delegate Council will meet' at the City Hall , 2 ( 5 , Goldenlane . Uarbicari . At tlw same time the Lambeth locality will wieet at . the South London Hall , and Mr . Pattiusoii , the sub-secretary , will be in attendance to envoi members . On Sunday evening next at the Princess Royal , Circusstreet , Marylebone—Bricklayers' Arms , Tonbridge-street , New-road—Crown and Anchor , Cheshire-street , Waterloo On the same evening at tho Rising Sun , Calender-yard , Long-alley , a lecture will be delivered . And the Members are requested to meet for busintas . On the same evening at the Ship , High-stvett , Whitechape ) , Mr . J , J . Bezer will lecture . Subject : 'Clouds and Sunshine of Democracy . ' On the same evening at the City Hall , 26 , Golden-lane , a lecture will be delivered . . ..
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NOW PUBLISHING , DOEMS and NOTES to tho PEOPLE , t . ' ¦ ' BY ERNEST JONES . In Weekly Numbers of Twenty . four Paijes each , twelve of which will consist of double columns . ( Price Twopence the number . ) No . I . will appear oft Saturday , the 3 rd of May . Contents of No . I . The New Wobid , a . democratic poem , dedicated to tho ' People wi the'Onitca Queendom and of the United States . Notes to the People . The Hisxobv of a ijemocbatic Movement , showing its rise , progress , follies , and probable resul ts . No . II . will appear on Saturdny . tho 10 th of May , and will ¦ contain : — Beldacjo . v Choecit , with notes on all the Beldagons—and continuations of Notes to the People—and the Confessions of a Demagogue , . . ¦ Published by II ; Pavey , 47 , Holywell-street , Strand , London , and to he had through all Booksellers .
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"THB HOME , " EDITED BY RICHARD OASTLER . Office ; 2 , York-street , Catherine-street , Strand , London Os Saturday , the 3 rd of May , Will be Published , : No . I . OF THS PENNY WEEKLY PAPER CALLED ¦
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THE J 0 RTHERN STAR SATVBD AY , APKIX . 8 G , 1851 .
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THE DAILY PRESS AND THE LATE " CHARTIST CONVENTION . . We feel deeply indebted to the Times > . aud hasten to acknowledge the favours it has conferred upon the late Convention , and the Chartist body in general . - Knowing that the exchequer of the Chartist Executive is rather low at present , the -IVni . es , on Wednesday last , generously inserted the whole of the ' . Programme agreed , to by the Convention , for nothing . It . has not even , charged eighteen
pence , the advertisement duty , for giving the benefit of lis world-wide circulation to a document whack its composers would have vainl y attempted , py any othar inteans , to bring so effectually , . under , the notice ,: not only , of . all classes of the home community , hut of those also , in every . part-of the globej who ' take an interest in peilitical moyemeats , This is , indeed ^ a' favour of . the greatest ma gnitude , ? artd we can scarcely too-warmly express our gratitude for it . The Chartists will , we -trust ; in all time coming , hear it in grated ipi / lMn *
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branco , even when , with the usual inconsistency of the Times , it may abuse and misrepresent them , or ; hound on the Government to prosecute them , for ente rtaining the opinions to which it has given publicity . The mere money value of the insertion of the document cannot be estimated at less than one hundred guineas—the political value is incalculablefor the Times is not only generous itself , but it is the cause of like generosity in others . The Morning Adoerliser , of Thursday , cop ied i t s examp le , avowedly quoting the Programme
from its powerful contemporary . The Daily News inserted it on the same day , but without acknowledging whence it was taken . This , we presume , may be regarded as only the first fruits of the " Thunderer's" liberality . No doubt other papers—both provincial and metropolitan—will join in the discussion of Chartism , now that the Titan of the Press has led the way . The Convention which has already achieved such results , may well be proud of its labours . Theywhave given an imr petus to the movement as powerful as it was unexpected .
In acknowledging the value and importance of the service done to Chartism by the Times , however , we by no means wish to mislead our readers into the belief that " The Leading Journal " meant it in that light . It is proverbial that "We ought not to look a-gift horse in the mouth , " and , therefore , we shall not scrutinise too closely the motives which actuated the managers of the Times in giving the Programme to the world . We may partially guess at them , from the leading article with which they heralded its publication , on Tuesday . The first article of that day , about
a column and a half in length , was meant as a resume of the principles and policy of the Chartists , as defined and agreed to by the Convention ; and , we presume , must have been intended to appear simultaneously with the Programme . That it did . not do so , however , adds to the favour conferred , because it called attention to the subject two days successively , and gave tho readers the opportunity of comparing the resume , and running commentary with the original . Into the discussion thus commenced other journals have already entered . The Glohe , criticising the " Little Charter" movement , declares
that Household Suffrage would satisf y nobody , and that Universal Suffrage would speedily follow to the ruin of everybody . The Daily News—aa the organ ofthe " Little Gro "thereupon takes the Globe to task , and lectures it severely , for representing the oligarchy as " a garrison , " who , in times of Social agitation , would have nothing to do but " defend themselves against their natural enemies " - — the people . Such statements as these , in the opinion of tho middle class- and shopkeeping organ , give the " manhood party" one chance which otherwise , we presume , i t wo u ld no t have . Tho Globe i . s rapped smartly over the knuckles for being so indiscreet in its
revelations . Truly it is talk of this kind that may one day render the position of the few , perilous in tne extreme . 16 may be safe , however selfish and silly , to hold this sort of language ia West End clubs and at snug family parties of the politie . il monopolists . Rut it is worse than silly to tell the working world at largo that it is regarded by its taxing-masters as a " natural enemy . " It is suicidal . Having thus rebuked its incautious and short-sighted contemporary , for placing the " garrison" in such an exposed and perilous position , the middle class mouthpiece proceeds to develope the Machiaveliau policy by which it would strengthen the garrison : —
Measuring the matter by the meanest standard , that of mere numerical power , is it not in fact clear that just in proportion as " the garrison" is strengthened , the hazard from without is diminished , and the probability of serious conflict removed ? The inner circle ¦ cannot be extended without encroaching just so much , upon the region ofthe outer ; and the more the limits of enfranchisement comprehend , the more powerful is of necessity the resistance which may at any moment be called into activity to any unjust inroad from without . Now , it is precisely this invidious , unjust , extension of the system of Class Government , which has excited tho opposition of a large section of the Chartist body to tho middle class movement . If Sir Joseph Waimsley
and the leaders of tho Parliamentary Reform Association hold the same sentiments , and seek for Representative "Reform with the same view , namely , to enable the newly enfranchised portion of the population to resist all the more powerfully any further extension ofthe suffrage , then we say , that the Chartists , instead of occupying a neutral position , with reference to that Association , ought to oppose it , as being in reality , much more dangerous aud obstructive of Radical Reform than the open and undisguised opposition of the Times itself , or any of the other organs of the aristocracy and moneymongers . We can understand how to deal with " the
erect , the manly foe , " who tells you , as the Times does , that the result of his cogitations on the Chartist Programme is , that it would soon lead to " national , social , individual , industrial , political bankruptcy . " In such a case , the difference is iiofc only of detail but principle , and we can argue the question fairly out ; but , in the other , we have an apparent advocacy of the-justice and necessity of Parliamentary Reform , behind which is
concealed a deep antipathy to a really popular suffrage , and a desire to subjugate the masses to the tyranny of capital still more effectually than at present , under the guise of free , but actually class institutions . There can be no question as to which is the most' dangerous opponent to national justice , and the progress of society towards the establishment of equal rights and dutieo , which ought to be the ultimatum of all political and social action .
En passant , the process of reasoning by which the Times arrives at the conclusion thai national , and individual bankruptcy would soon follow the practical adoption of the policy outlined by the late Convention , appears to us to savour strongly of the ' ad captandum . It is briefly this : ' the rental of England , and the products of land and industry , as these are at present cultivated and directed , would not be equal to the demands made upon them by the Chartist Budget—ergo , we must come to bankruptcy . But this conclusion is based upon an assumption which leaves out
onehalf of the premises . The Chartist Budget provides the means for sotting thenew national machinery in motion , by a previous re-distribution of the land , and a new organisation of industry . Prom the improved exploitation of both , under these altered and improved arrangements / they anticipate a largely increased amount of real : wealth , both for national and individual purposes . The dilemma is , therefore , one of the writer ' s own manufacture . He has recourse to the old device of setting up men of straw , in order that he may have the pleasure of knocking
them down again . He evades the question with which he appears to grapple , and conjures-up phautoras to terrify -. silly people , who' are unable to reason upon such subjects themselves . This , however , is so important a question , that we canhotdiscussit incidentally , and shall return to it in a separate article , merel y remarking , . by the way , ' that it is the junction of Chartism with Socialism which appears so incongruous to the : Tiwies , that gives it / in our opinion , a firmer foundation ' than it ever had
before . . So ' far from " , " Socialism " - being " utterly incompatible with political freedom , under any name whatever , ' ? it is the last and highest manifestation of / political freedom . Even taking the description given by the Times of " . the main . idea of Socialism , ' ' it willbo seen that the one is inseparable from the other , unless ithe Times means that freedom is in all cases opposed to order , and synonymous , with licentiousness , strife , and anarchy . ' Socialism , says the Times : ^— i ' Embraces the idea « f-a £ * eat industrial compact
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which is to give every man a dun ' . ! - ^^ ill f risks , of common n ^ lfi ^ Si There is nothing in all this opposod t * ' W t cal freedom , any more than the ftff > P * f de of the programme is " imJSS ?^ I the principles of co-operative £ . *> th $ which the Times seems to think itt , ? Cl ! , t S , I That industrial schools bo estiblio ) i * " *" the young may be taught the ^ Sf , * H r 1 professions , thus graduall y superseS ?<* nn % of apprenticeshi p . m S the sj- , , r /; Why , these « industrial schools" u . „ „ ' $ . come one of the greatest and mL ° Ul ( l be . \ M agencies in carrying out the prinninl ° ' Verf 11 W operation aa applied to overv 8 ni of <*• W dustry . my 6 Pccies of jg It is- quite evident that the vriu . ' H ZWrenot « up » i these ouSh n « ie l | we do not blame them for it C , ons > and M (! nmii ! ii'ii . Hmil » «&» i- n ... ' . " ey must i . ' . H
excused for stumbling before the 7 > ^ 1 alone . One great step has been Si . ? *^ I c withering % nea ? 0 g ; - % I which . Chartism has been So j ? ^ 1 has given , place to publicity an T ^ I Welcome the change , et ^ if ^*^ I pamed by abuse and misrepresent ?? - accoiu' fl Chartism , in its new plla 5 c b ^ J atl 0 »! If it must come outof thedisclissl * £ l ! S I if it is in any portion unsound w « ni ? K' ffl permanent interests of the aSoW . S Pt trust , be abandoned as soon ™ i 'i * Vlli < n ll We fight not for victorS tir ? , 1 , S r (! ^ I a party , but the people . Uth " ^ for M
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IRISH L & NDLQR J ^ r ' m T > T ? PTTDrV ISM ?/ . Dpn Sm . REPUBLifj AtfT Si | £ - litD m lied RepublicanisrrTiTa veyv t « H According to its oppo nents , itfi th" ! * % S nationof social and politiealevS Sri ^ 1 Ucar- S the upper hand would be sjSjSj ? , ^ 1 conversion ofthe nation intoa sort of £ « , !? d H iiium , and the commission of all kinds of fi ! ' W iah atrocities . But the people who doXr M imaginary horrors , resolutel y shut thrir H afia
iinnn flranAs nf minnm , J ~„~ i .. i' . " C V 5 S upon scenes of misery , desolation , and ifl * sale murder , which rival , if not exceed thfictitious descriptions . Irish Landlord !^ what it is said Red Republicanism , 3 T * and yet scarcely a voice is lifted in , Wirl ; tioD . Within the last three or four S * have hoard of hundreds of families 4 ^ from their humble homos-their scantylJ n | ture dragged out into the road , and then Z buildings rude and humble as they * to deliberatel y demolished before their eye , ' leawng fceWe infancy , infirm old an Z in the
patient agonies offerer , and the mother « weak from recent confinement—onl y the she | % tor to be gathered by the ditch-sido . These § ' razzias " were not carried on by an mvadino Ifand hostile army , but by the " civil » po « -erf f armed with ike law , and backed b y militarv ' ' to overawe and put down any natural attaint I at resistance . Tho landlords were only el $ forcing their rights . That the tenants l , i % any rights never entered into the brains of ; 1 anybody concerned in these legal forays In- - & deed , what right can a poor man have to stand ' 4
in the way of a rich one ? What right cm " a man , whose sole claim upon society consists '~ H in his ability and willingness to labour , have , H compared to the man -whose highest boastis ' i § that he and his race have been idle consumer ! if of other men ' s industry ? That is a kind | | of legalised conventional brigandage , which If is sanctioned by custom and common opi - if nion , and dignified with rank aud title . M Unjust—horribly unjust—at bottom , no doubt , m andleadingtothomosfcmoiistroussocia ] auoma- II
lies and evils-hut what of that ? Has not the 1 Imo , made by those who profit by tho injustice , ( declared that it is right ; and what beggarly W lacklander will dare to deny the assertion I m Those who do , are forthwith assailed by a tor- § rent of invective and Billingsgate . By 3 I strange perversion of language , those who 1 argue' for the practical recognition of the i Scriptural and Christian injunction , "The 1 labourer shall rinsi bo partaker of the fruits , " ' 4 are accused of being thieves and spoliate , anarchists and murderers ; while those who
take from tho labourer the fruits cfhis in . ' dustry , who level his home with the dust , starve him to death , 01 kill his class wholesale , t by means of artificially engendered diseases , i aro lauded to the skies as the perfection of * human virtue . The world is sadly out of joint , 4 I in which such appalling monstrosities arc the X common growth of our anti social and unjust . ;* arrangements . < l Ireland has been largely depopulated under V this frightful system . The landlords have \ made a desert and called it peace . Prom the " shores of an island , blessed with all natural
capabilities to make a numerous population , rich , prosperous , and happy , the people have been flying in tens of tho usands , eager to cs- !! cape from the withering , blighting inihtence of \ "" landlordism , which has converted the best | " blessings of Providence into curses . Those | j , who have been unable so to escape , have found ||| premature deaths in the so-called union work , m houses , into which they have been turned by m the landlords to die like rotten sheep . JJ
The disclosures as to tho mortality in tha || Kilrush and Ennistymon unions , rightly 33 looked at , arc far more horrible aud revolt- ' f-i ing than any of tho massacres by the Tor- • rorists in tho first French devolution , over i i which Royalist writers love to gloat , and ;; to exhaust their highest powers in depicting ; ;
most repulsively . True that , death by steel , pistol , the guillotine , or by drowning , en mff ^ t as at the so-called " Koyades , ' was attended by far more striking accessories than the ' ' quieter mode of poisoning , and starving to . death . But guillotine , pistols , daggers , and boats with holes in the bottom of them , were ; not more certain in their murderous result ,
than the quiet methods adopted by landlordism to extirpate tho human vermin who swarm upon their estates / inconveniently large in numbers and necessities . The one method has the excuse of hot blood , and active strife ; the other perpetrates murders with cool and deliberate malignity . But the victims are dispatched in such a way that " none dart * call it murder . " During the last winter-by no means an inclement one—at a time when neither famine nor nestilcnce ravaged the land ,
dead bodies were carried out of Kilrush Vnm Workhouse , for weeks together , at the rate ol ; one body for every hour of daylig ht ! How was this brought about ? The process is *» [ easy one . The Guardians refuse to g ive reh « to any person who will not submit to v » » "workhouse test . '' What that is we new 1 not explain . Keenly as many of the app j cants arc suffering , they shrink from t »» c * dread altermifive . and 1 rv tn rret aloil £ t < t lltt ! e
longer outside of - the hated worMon-J .. Perhaps theyjdie without beinff moreheavj oj , or if at last driven to accept the mwW ] of relief , they enter its portals only w « J die , and to be carried forth again to a pa"P J grave . Weak and enfeebled by long bW'ffg g and hardships , they are crowded together MS . , and day . in apartments that give them M more air each than the Indians allowed English soldiers in the Black hole of Calcnnj »• Thus , over-crowded , pent-up , and depn * JL L fresh air , they aro next scantily and luuUt" ' ously fed , and the effect soon becomes apj * P rent . The maladies sown by hunger gr o » . pace'in ' the noxious atmosphere iu whicli 1 £ £ are confined to be poisoned , with as mucn taintyaaif a dose of prussic acid were a *» w
mstered to each of them . , . . ue ' . nle-Such is the last invented method of » WJ w sale slaughter , introduced by . Landlordism » Ireland . Its efficacy for the purpose in w v may be judged by the fact , that tho ^^ " J was at the rate of one hundred and a » i t t cent , per annum ; in other words , that p | ceedmg at that rate the whole of the ^/ Za eo caught , caged , and poisoned would be vm w x
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 26, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_26041851/page/4/
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