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4 THE NORTHERN STAR, January 10, 1846.
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COLOSSEUM.—NOTICE.—PRICE OF ADMISSION DURING THE HOLIDAYS I!
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THE NOKTHERN STAR. ' .., SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 184C.
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THE PRESS OF IRELAND. "When such restrai...
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4 The Northern Star, January 10, 1846.
4 THE NORTHERN STAR , January 10 , 1846 .
Colosseum.—Notice.—Price Of Admission During The Holidays I!
COLOSSEUM . —NOTICE . —PRICE OF ADMISSION DURING THE HOLIDAYS I !
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Bay Exhibition . 2 s . _EreningBo . ...., 2 s . 6 d . Children under Twelve Is . Stalactite Caverns ls . extra . THB DAY EXHIBITION consists of the Museum of _Sculpture , Grand Picture of London , Alhambra Conservatories , Gorgeous Gothic Aviarv , Classic Ruins , Svsiss Cottage and Mont Blanc , with _Mountain Torrent , & c . & c . Open from Ten till Four o'Clock . EVENBfG . —The new and extraordinary Panorama of London _» r Night , Museum of Sculpture , Conservatories , rand Gorgeous Gothic ATiaiy , _ fcc „ brilliantly illuminated ; Swiss Cottage , Mont Blanc , aud Mountain Torrent represented by Moonlight , Open fiom Seven till a Quarterpast Ten o'Clock . A cbasd Ohchestsa _Osgav , on wbich the most admired Overttoes _, & c , are played , from Two to Four and from Eight till Half-past Ten o'Clock . The _whole projected and designed by Mr . "WflKaro _BradireJL i
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DAGUERREOTYPE AM ) _GALOTTPETHE APPARATUS , LENS , CHEMICALS , _PLATEb , CASES , and every other article _usedinmaldnffand mounting the above can be had ef J . Egerton , ho . 1 , Temple _^ treet , Whitefriars , London . Descriptive Catalogues gratis . LEBEBOURS celebrated ACHROMATIC TRIPLET lENSES for the MICROSCOPE , sent to any part of the country at the following p rice : —Beep Power , 60 s ., Low Power , 253 . Eveiy article warranted .
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TO TAILORS . 3 > y approbation of Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen "Victoria and His Royal Highness Prince Albert THE LONDON and PARIS FASHIONS for "Winter , lSi 5 andl 8 ' € , by READ and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbnry-squar _^ London ; Bcrger , HolyweU-street , Strand , London , and may be had of all Book _, sellers -wheresoever redding ; a _-reiy superb Print , representing the most splendid exhibition in Europe , an Interior View of the Colosseum Begenf s-park , London . This exquisitely executed and beautifully coloured Print will be accompanied with fullsizeDress , Frock , _andRidinsCoatPatterns _* , alSO , Patterns
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HONOUR TO LABOUR'S CHAMPION . A PUBLIC SOIREE win be held atthe CROWN and ANCHOR Tavern , Strand , in honour of T . S . DUNCOMBE , Esq ., M . P ., who will be present , on Wednesday evening , January 21 st , the night previous tothe opening of Parliament . The foUowing gentlemen are expected to be present on the occasion : — Captain Pechell , R __ N _ , JLP . ; J . T . Leader , M . P . ; J . Fielden , M . P . ; W . D . Christie , M . P . ; W . Williams , M . P . ; R . Blewitt , M . P . ; T . Wakley , M . P . ; Admiral D . Dundas , M . P . ; E . G . Barnard , M . P . ; H . Elphinstone , M . P . ; A . _Aglionby , M . P . ; and W . P . Roberts . Also the _foHowieg eminent literary men : —Eugene Sue , Charles Dickens , Douglas Jerrold , J . 1 Ta 77 ini , and Thomas Cooper . Tea on table at half-past fire for six o ' clock precisely . Several other well known advocates of the People ' s Rights will attend . Tickets 2 s . each , can he obtained at the following places : —Mr . T . Barratt , secretary to the National United Associated Trades' forthe Protection of Industry , Trades ' Office , 30 , _ ffyd _* e-street , Bloomsbury ; Mr . James Harris , secretary to the _National United Trades' Association for the Employment of Labour , SO , Hyde-street , Bloomsbury . Mr . George Hogget , secretary of the Westminster Reform and Registration Society , Essex-street , Strand .
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NEW MORNING PAPER . I On the 21 st of January will be published No . I . of THE DAILY NEWS , A Morning Newspaper of Liberal Politics and Thorough Independence . The leading features of the Paper may be briefly stated under the following heads : — Its CITY NEWS and _COHMERCIAIt INTELLIGENCE , collected from the highest sources , will he _KTOpulovBlj _mP KsVciENTIFfcand BUSINESS INFORMATION on every topic connected with RAILWAYS , whether in actual operation , in progress , or projected , will be found to be complete . An extensive system of FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE in all parts of the World , has been for some time , and is bow , m course of _organiMtion . Its PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS , its LAW REPORTS , and every other item of such matter , will be furnished by gentlemen of the highest qualifications . Among the Writers of its LEADING ARTICLES , its Criticisms on BOOKS , the DRAMA , MUSIC , and the FINE ARTS , are some of the most distinguished names of this time . The LITERARY DEPARTMENT of THE DAILY NEWS will he under the direction of Mr . CHARLES DICKENS . Asa Journal addressing itself to MEN of BUSINESS in all parts of the World , particular attention _wUl be paid to the arrangement of its ADVERTISEMENTS . J _^ _? i i n Ece fW Adver & ements intended for insertion in THE DAILY NEWS , will be at No . 90 , _Fleet-strect , _Condon . All Communications for the Editor should be addressed to the Publishing Office , Whitefriars .
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DANCE MUSIC FOR CHRISTMAS—NEW MUSIC FOR PIANOFORTE . § _ri"lHE PIANISTA , No . 63 , contains __ L "The Royal British __>" avy , " and "Welsh" Quadrilles , now playing at the Promenade Concerts . The two sets Is ., charged by Jullien , 7 s . No . G 2 , contains the "Elfin" Waltzes and two new songs for ls . No . 61 , Music in Marble Maiden , ls . No . 60 , the Mazurka . Polka and Qaudrille in "The Devil to Pay , " ( Diable a quatre ) now playing at Drury Lane and aU the theatres , ls . No . 59 , contains the whole opera of "Sonnamhula , " 2 s . No . 57 , Ditto , "Fra Diavolo , " 2 s , or tbe Nos . from 57 to 62 , in splendid binding , as a C 7 irishnc _ s er A * eio Year ' s present , for 10 s . Sent carriage free to any part ef the kingdom for a Postoffice order for 12 s ., in favour of the editor , 67 , Paternoster-row .
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FUNERAL ECONOMY ! THE CEMETERY and GENERAL FUNERAL COMPANY , united with SHILLIBEER'S PATENT FUNERAL CARRIAGES , respectfully invite public attention to the economic and convenient arrangements for performing every description of Funerals complete , atcharges so moderate as to defy competition , and no extras , by which the comfort of bereaved families will be materially promoted , and expenses limited . City-road , Finsbury , next _Bunbill-fields Banal-ground ; 21 , Percy-street , Tottenham-court-road ; and 136 , Union-street , Southwark . Sbillibeer ' s Patent Funeral Carriage , with two horses , fil Us . 6 d . ; Single Horse , £ 1 Is . A respectable Carriage Funeral , combining every charge , £ 4 4 s . Hearses and Mourning Coaches . Catholic Fittings . Four Horse Funerals , £ 1312 s .
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EXTRAORDINARY ECONOMY TO TEA DRINKERS . THE DESIRE OF ENGLAND . —The _PIQUA PLANT , now sold at 3 s . 6 d . per lb ., is three times the strength of tea , and is also equal in flavour , more delicate in taste , nfinitely more healthy , as is proved by physicians and chemists of high standing , also by persons in great numbers with the most delicate lungs and stomachs . It is most pleasant and invigorating , and is recommended to the debilitated for its invaluable qualities , to advanced age for its strengthening properties , and to the public generally for its moderate price and intrinsic excellence . Thb Test . —The proof of the efficacy and healthful effect of the plant in preference to tea or coffee : —Let a nervous or dyspeptic patient use two or three cups of strong tea npon retiring to rest , and the effect will be night-mare , disturbed sleep , and other violent symptoms of indigestions , itc .
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THOMAS COOPER . THS CHARTIST'S WORKS . THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A Prison Rhyme . In Ten Books . ( One Vol ., 7 s . 6 d . ) " The most wonderful effort of intellectual power produced within the last century . "—' She Britannia . "We hail fhe writer as a new power in the world of poetry , the ruler of a new domain , as yet but little known , but which the public cannot fail to recognise , when its kings of thought shall put on their singing robes , and with fresh voice and soul speak its praises to the world . "—Sentinel . " The book possesses mind—mind which make itself felt and understood , and which , therefore , demands respect . —Athenasum .
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CHEERFUL AND INSTRUCTIVE FIRESIDE COMPANION . ; THE WELCOME GUSST OF EVERT HOME ! THE FAMILY HERALD is not only the cheapest but the most popular and amusing literary Miscollony ever published . It is a compilation of Wit , Humour , Fietion , Truth , and Knowledge , adapted for all classes , tastes , and ages , grave or gay , rich or poor , and contains something of everything , facts and philosophy for Gentlemen , hints and entertainment for Ladies , questions
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COALS . PROVIDE FOR WINTER . PROVIDENT FAMILIES , subscribing is . per week te the Metropolitan Coal Company ' * Shilling Club , can obtain four half tons annually , without further charge , fines , & c . The Company ' s price current is , Best Screened Wallsend , 25 s . per full ton ; Seconds , 21 s ., 22 s ., ami 23 s Coke 17 s . Cd . ' ' Office , 279 , High Holborn .
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PORTRAIT OF PATRICK O'HIGGINS , Bsq . Jn order to dignify and commemorate those who boldly defy the law , the approver , and the tyrant , when our princip les are at stake , we will , as soon as the work can be
The Nokthern Star. ' .., Saturday, January 10, 184c.
THE NOKTHERN STAR . ' .., SATURDAY , JANUARY 10 , 184 _C .
The Press Of Ireland. "When Such Restrai...
THE PRESS OF IRELAND . "When such restraints are laid on the press that the people are held in ignorance , and from that ignorance know neither their own duty as members of the State , nor yet the duty of those who are set over them , or , to speak more properly , those who have set themselves over them , it may be fairly concluded that the country where such restraint prevails is fast verging to vassalage . "When a man knows what his duty is , he would be more apt to perform it than if that knowledge be withheld from him . But knowledge of it is a duty , and ignorance , of course , becomes a crime . Those therefore who check the
communication of knowledge make themselves accessories in the guilt of him that sins from ignorance , or sins without a due and distinct knowledge of his duty ; and even with the principle on which it _> was founded . It was better , both in a moral and political sense , that men should act properly with a knowledge and a sense of duty , than not err by accident , or even act right , not knowing what to do . In the one there is a virtue , in the other none , or at beat a virtue of the negative kind ; a virtue from which no praise flows , and for the practice of which no reward follows : there having been no motive to the action , no known PRINCIPLE to guide or govern it . On a truth so evident it is unnecessary to enlarge : we shall therefore proceed to its
application , and by trying it as it affects Ireland at present , endeavour to show that an immediate and radical reform of the restrictions laid on the Irish press becomes absolutely necessary to the existence of the country as a free and independent state . We have observed that to insure the right of obedience of the people , they should be made acquainted with the principle on which their duty is founded . This , however , as parties are now constituted in Ireland , it may not always be safe to do ; for it has sometimes happened that those who exercise a power over the press , having no principle of their own , are very little anxious what thc principles are that are promulgated through the press , provided the present convenience he answered .
When Governments become completely wicked their first object is to screen their crimes , and , as with governments , so witk individuals ; the exposure of those crimes would tend to shake their power and precipitate their downfall . Thus in all despotic states , the press , where it has found a footing , has ever been an ongine of terror formidable to the tyrants . But if vice be the bane of every state , that which tends to enlighten the human mind and make men honest , instead of being checked should be protected and freed from restraint . By laws states are preserved ; that , therefore , which promulgates and
preserves the laws should not be restrained . The will of government is promulgated by the press , but the will of the people , from whom all governments proceed , and to whom they must return , shall not be promulgated or made known lest the power of the source may become too strong for tlie stream that flows from it and becomes corrupted . Hence , to publish the slow murders ofa landlord class , the extortions of privileged patriots whose dark deeds arc cautiously withheld from public notice—the injustice of a judge , orthe folly ofa Whig-made police knight , is a wicked scandal , as we learn from modern interpretation , for the greater the truth the greater
offence in letting that truth be known ; lest if truth be divulged and rendered familiar to the ignorant , the corrupt may fall into contempt and lose their authority ; which means , that it were better that mankind should be governed by church tyranny , confederated with blood and rapine and a sufficient amount of toleration to those who denounced the system but dare not shake it , than that honest men should question the integrity or even the motives of those who would discipline them out of their feelings and persuade thom they had none . The errors taught to a mob are less formidable to liberty than the toleration of the prejudices of their rulers or their leaders , upheld by a venal and corrupt press .
What demolished at a blow the throne of France , and erected on its ruins the most formidable government that ever "perplexed monarchs ? " Not the sudden fury of a mob , but the commanding power of the press , before whose voice the Bastile fell like the walls of Jericho at the sound of the trumpet . Let thoso , who , by restraining the press , would keep the multitude in ignorance , and then abuse them for their want of knowledge , say that the people of France had neither virtue nor understanding when they hurled despotism from its throne , and proclaimed the people ' s rightful ownership in the land . Let the conductors of tho Irish press cast their eyes on their own un worthiness , and confess how limited is THEIR virtue , how humbled THEIR , pride of
talents , and wisdom to govern , while they are contending tor what they insolently term self-government and by which we are to understand the licentiouB rule of its licentious conductors . The press alone made France what she was , it made her free , it made her great , while the despots of ignorance trembled at the warning of its voice , and stooped in their littleness to its awful authority . It was not France that terrified the nations of Europe , it was her press , whose sound went forth into all lands , and shook tho thrones of darkness . No wonder that corruption stands appalled , and would stifle the expression ot truth when the detection of guilt would lead to knowledge and denude hirelings of their impositions .
If men bo honest and puro of offence what have they to dread ? Well , indeed , may the wicked tremble , for though thoy are seldom ashamed of their crimes , they yet have cause to deprecate the publication of their guilt . Louis , tlic fourteenth tyrant of tiie name , used to say ho moredreadod the Amsterdam Gazette than the armies of England . For these reasons tyrants have always endeavoured to destroy the press , and aro sure to put it down while they arc proparing some new tyranny for the slaves of tlieir rule . But if thc press bc the herald of public virtue and the record ef illustrious actions , then is the silencing of its voice tho murder of freedom and glory : if it bc thc champion of innocence and thc guardian of _scnius , its destruction is the abettor of crime—the
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nurse of night and ignorance . One maxim will be found universally true , that if the laws be good , and the peoplehappy under them , no excesses of the press can make either the one bad , orthe other discontented ; but it is observable , that , as the Irishpeople are most unhappy under avicious government , the Irish press becomes more licentious , but not more formidable to the tyranny-its licentiousness is but that aid which the crafty require from the innocence of ignorance .
Having said so much upon the general topic , now turn we to the more immediate consideration ofthe present state of the Irish press . Of latter years Mr . O'Connell has ' . been alternately denouncing and flattering Whiggery and Toryism . He has defied and crouched , he has resisted and yielded , as it served liis purpose , * but never has he used his strength , which is the nation ' s voice , for diminishing tlie lewd power of either the one orthe other . In his own personal conflicts with those who would check his progress he . used the press as a tool , but never as a national engine to achieve national greatness . He has whispered and lisped the wrongs of Ireland in the narrow sphere of personal ambition , but his soul ,
that cowers before democracy , has ever shrunk from the destruction of the abettors of wrong . He has denounced the Whigs , while he has aided them with his might in their © very act of oppression , and shielded them from the only power which could destroy them . That power , however , although withheld from the knowledge of the Irish people by the corrupt and slavish press of the country , has overthrown silence , stripped mystery of its magic , and exposed the viuany , the corruption , and trickery of those who _lookfd upon the ignorance of a people as their own best title to power . The man who would use tbe press to achieve the triumph of Saxon law should close his mouth against all Saxon abuses . The man who would make a criminal of him who
fearlessly exposes error should stand at the bar of justice as the assassin of truth , the destroyer of virtue , the murderer of his country ' s liberty . What but the press could have placed jugglery in the ascendant over principle , and especially in such a liberty-loving country as Ireland ? and what but the press can hurl the monster from its throne ? Had it not been for the virtue of the Irish press , at tho close of the last century—that press , to preserve whose purity one patriot has endured nearly half a century of exile—Ireland would now be in a state of even worse bondage than she is . The vigour , the
courage , tlie power , and the purity of that press , taught tyrants that Ireland would one day be a nation , and only required a free press to make her so . That press dreaded not the promulgation of landlord tyranny , of the law ' s oppression and the tyrant's rapine ; that press did not sanction the principle of aiding Saxon law by inviting tlie Irish people to become approvers and informers ; that press was virtuous , and its founder became a victim ; the press is now licentious , and its abettor may one day share the same fate , but not the same laurels . The one has lived honoured , and will die regretted ; the other
has lived fraudulently , aud will die unmasked . The historian should be able to note a country ' s improvement in the increase of its people ' s virtue ; and what , we should be glad to know , would be the feelings of a _Saarsfielo , a Harvey , a Fitzgerald , or an Emmett , if the sanctity of their honoured tombs were disturbed by the whisper , that Irish patriotism was measured by Irish subserviency , and that the surest road to popular favour was turning APPROVER to the Saxon government . Thank God , ~ thosc departed heroes sleep secure from the infamy of that press which dares to commemorate the greatness of their times , but shudders at the mention of their
names . "Who fears to talk of' 98 ! "Who dares to lisp Lord Edward ' s name 1 Who dares to utter Emmett ' s slaughter ? Who dares to mention Harvey's fame _? "Who dares to talk of Curran ' s daughter ? Out upon you , you base , degenerate vermin—you foul destroyers of your country ' s liberty ' . —you prostitutes , you bastard Irishmen , you things that write for hire , and fear the very . " sight of the impress of your Irish feelings ; if such by chance should find a place in your breasts , you must smother them .
Are you not hirelings ? Poor priceless slaves , with measured conscience , bated breath , and fettered hand ? You profess to loose the chains that bind your country , while you tighten every rivet and forge such bondage as freemen blush at . Yoa have hoped , by your silence , to procure the downfall ofthe man whose bravery you should have honoured , in whose intellect you should have taken pride , in whose veins ran tho pure stream of liberty , and whose triumph will but mark your impotence . You will live but as speculators in thedaws of forbearanoe , while O'Hiogins will triumph over the foul coercion lo which you hoped to have consigned him . you are a set of servile slaves !
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THE LAND . The Rufea of the Chartist Co-operative Land Association are now perfected and ready for enrolment , with the opinion of counsel , that they are , in every way , conformable to the statute , and we hope , " by next week , to communicate the glad tidings that we have achieved , for all the members , that amount of protection which will secure their funds against
the DISHONESTY OF THEIR OFFICERS ; and thus silence the wily and disarm the suspicious . The great value which all the movement parties in the state are now either directly or indirectly compelled to attach to the tend , not only at home but abroad , should induce every man ( and the very poorest has the means under the Chartist Co-operative Association ) to secure for himself as much of the soil of the country as will make him independent of the capricious wages of the casual employer and the starvation wages of the permanent slave-owner .
However the advocates of free trade and protection may attempt to colour the question of free trade , tbose , lor whose benefit the measure is contemplated , are beginning to see the question of labour , nay , of existence , in the grotesque group presented by the various artists . It matters but little to the slave who toils tlirough the week , whether he is governed by protectionists or _anti-monopolists _, provided each place an equal burden upon his back , and the only question with the toiling millions should be , how , at one bound , and at the . same time , they could rid themselves of the incubus of landlords and the
nightmare of cotton-lords . How they can destroy the usurped privileges of the one class without becoming subjected to the new and more tyrannical dominion of their successors . We have more than once used the past as a caution for the future . "We have shown how , fiom the proclamation of American Independeace to the Revolution of France , tlte popular voice became smothered in thc craft and wiles of faction . France gained more by her revolution than America by her independence ; for America , with a twenty years' start of France , is only now struggling fo _* r * what France has already partially achieved—the sub-division of her laud . And however lewd tyranny may have been under thc restoration , and however the scions of the house
of the murdered Bourbon may have been anxious to take vengeance on a people who limited monarchy , and stripped the crown of some of its isosfc _valmd prerogatives , yet neither they , nor tlie king of the barricades , whoso desire for reassumption is as great as tliat of his predecessors , yet have not one or all been able to retake a single acre of that broad domain , which constituted the only triumph of the Revolution . Upon the other hand , it would either appear that land for want of population was useless when America declared her independence , or that the voice of American knowledge was lost in tlie exultation of her triumph , inasmuch as it is only now that tlic people of that country are beginning to turn their attention from the shadow to the substance ,
from tlic protection of others to THE LAND FOR THEMSELVES . In every instance of which history makes mention , tlie people ' s share in every change where tlic possession of tlio land has not followed , has been a tightening of their chains , Who can turn to Ireland , and
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behold a conquered country with , -scarcely a foot of ground for het * own , ' people to rest upon ; who can witness the supremacy of jugglery and the prostration of common sense in that country , without being irresistibly led to the conclusion that the mind requires something solid to rally round ? In England there is a kind of safety-valve for labour in its capricious employment and in its own noble struggles for its share in its own productions ? In England the absurd law of primogeniture is only tolerated by the several outlets that are at the command ofthe aristocracy ? Were it not for church patronage , army patronage , and all the patronage at
the disposal of Government , and the great safetyvalve of an extensive commerce , added to the new respectability assigned to trade , the junior branches of each aristocratic house would long since have waged war against their elder brothers and their parents ; as , like Ireland , a country without trade , and cursed by the law of primogeniture , would have led to an ECONOMICAL surplus population—that is a population of young idlers who are , fortunately for thc peace of the country , reconciled to their disinheritance from the land , so long as thoy can speculate in trade , or be quartered as State pensioners , or wor 3 e than useless lumber upon the taxes paid by the industrious .
In reflecting upon the state or" Ireland , to which nature and a longing for her liberty not unfrequently compels us , we are forcibly struck by the fact , that all the power of the national will , so concentrated , harmonious , and brave , has never once Seen applied to the destruction of that monster evil—art evil , the destruction of which is now but seldom hinted at , because , if destroyed , it would have a prejudicia l effect upon the _monopolists of labour . Through life , it has been our darling object to create a class of husbandmen who should be masters of their own
time , and whole , and sole , and unrestricted possses * sors of the produce of their own industry , but in our way to this holy consummation , the law of _primogeni , ture stands prominently foremost . The working classes of this country require but the chance of transforming themselves from hired slaves to independent labourers . That chance , by the rules of the Association , we can offer sectionalJy , while destruction of the law of primogeniture would accomplish it nationally .
The free traders , like the Irish juggler , were wons to mention this monster in their catalogue of _grievances , but the strict reading of the grammar of political economy has taught them that trade , with a blighting restriction imposed upon it by protection , is preferable to the opening of a free labour market ; and , like O'Coxxell , who to-morrow would refuse the Repeal with a free Ilouse of Commons , the free traders , if they had the option , would spurn from them the long _wished-for measure , if it was to be accompanied by the destruction of the law of
primogeniture , of settlement , and entail . To this land plan of ours we attach surpassing importance , the more especially from the confidence that all now seem to repose in its good working ; and , we trust , before many weeks are over our head , to see such a staff of free labour advocates agitating the several rural districts as will teach the especial objects of free trade protection , the clodpoles , the difference between free labour expended for themselves , and labour expended either for the monopolists or antimonopolists .
The question of free trade , and especially the ability of its advocates to raise a quarter of a million of money in the midst of threatened famine , and without the danger of diminished luxury , has , in truth , resolved the question into its proper dtmensions — namely , the position that Labour should hold in the present struggle . That question is now argued in England with surpassing truth and eloquence , and , however long-suffering may be paraded by the advocates ofthe labouring _clwa i & the columns of tbe press , we hold it to be an utter impossibility for that press and the League united , longer
to make the question of labour a mere stalking-horse for their own party purposes . And the labourer cannot disassociate the question of labour and capital—• the consideration of monopolist _andantimonopolist —< without taking into account the material ingredient , MACHINERY , which is equally used and encouraged by both parties—by the one that they may SELL CHEAP , and by the other that they may BUY CHEAP . This is the great SALESMAN that regulates the price of wages—this is the awful
competitor which makes its slavish attendant more obedient to its will than even to the terror of the bludgeon , the sword , or the law . It is this monster that creates strife amongst men who ought to be united . It is this disturber that destroys the peace of families , and that prematurely relaxes filial duty and parental authority : _ and neither monopolist nor _antt-monopolist _wi'llend their aid in its destruction , nor would wc wish to destroy it if it could be made MAN'S HOLIDAY instead of MAN'S CURSE :
but it must be destroyed , or its injustice and ineequality must be curbed by the possession of THE LAND .
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However childish it may appear to threaten to resign my office , as Deputy Treasurer , I now tell the sub-secretaries that I will not longer be made a fool of for their pleasure . It matters not whether the orders are transmitted to Mr . Wheeler or to me , but I do insist upon all being made payable to W . P . Roberts , and at Charing-cross Post-office . Itwas my intention to have balanced the whole account up to the end of the year , by placing ali the monies received since I furnished my last balance-sheet into the bank to the accouut of the treasurer , and it
will scarcely be believed , after the frequent notices given , that post-office orders have come payable at the General Post-office , at Charing-cross , the Strand , Oxford-street , Old Cavendish-street , and Piccadilly , and that my nephew has been nearly the whole of this week engaged in getting them cashed , and on presenting £ UQ in orders at the General Post-office yesterday £ 40 was refused , £ 20 being made payable to Thomas Martin , principally from Bacup , and £ 20 not advised . Now these have to go back to the country , whereas observance ofthe simple rule would
have saved all this trouble . My nephew , my secretary , aud myself are employed a large portion of every day in transacting your affairs gratuitously , but I will not longer undertake the labour of correcting blundera that need not be made . I have now a large sum of money which I wish to be placed to the treasurer's account , and the simple rule of which I request future observance is this—all post-office orders to be made payable to W . P . Roberts , and the name ofthe person procuring the order to be legibly signed in the letter containing it . Feargus O'Co . vxor .
N . B . I thank those persons who have sent mo notice , of estates to be sold , and I wish them from all districts to continue sending such information , as we shall very speedily be in a situation to make a large purchase . p __ _q'C
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TO AGENTS AND _SUBSCRIBERS . All agents and subscribers who have had their accounts * rendered , aud do not discharge them by _neit week , will have their papers stopped ; and their readers must understand that the fault is not with us .
Manchester. — New Year's Dai—Neither The...
Manchester . — New Year's Dai—Neither the Executive nor Mr . O'Connor were pledged to attend the meeting in _Stephenson's-square , on New Year ' s Day . Had tha Executive attended the meeting , they must have remained from the ' - ' 3 rd of Deceniber , the night wheu the convention closed , till Friday , the Slid of January , in Manchester and its neighbourhood , instead of attending , as they havo done , to the enrolment of the rules which are now completed , and are this _dty _submits by counsel to Tidd Pratt for enrolment , and of whieh there is not now the slightest doubt . The Executive by
remaining in Manchester would have entailed , an erpence of £ 1110 s . in salary alono , which would not hare given general satisfaction , Mr O ' Connor was pledged to attend the _Kersal-moot . meeting , had it taken place , but he begs to assuv e _his friends , that whatever they may think , he is no ' , rich enoug h to run to Manchester and back again er cry _wcek . He attended thc confereneo and the _conversion , and was obliged to yost to Warrington on Mo _* aaay night after the conference , merely to gain fl vo | l 0 " s at Itis daily work , Now tho people should , clearly understand that Tues .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 10, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_10011846/page/4/
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