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T^tATB NATIONAL LAND CONFJ3BBNCE. " ¦ *
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GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR SEPTEM BER.
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(From the IBdland Florist.) In the hardy...
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THE NOKTHEM STAR S ATURDAY , S EPTEMBER 11 ,1MT.
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LOUIS-PHILIPPE. ' God save tbe king 1* a...
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T^Tatb National Land Confj3bbnce. " ¦ *
T _^ tATB NATIONAL LAND CONFJ 3 BBNCE . " ¦ *
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Held at LowbftHds , _Angu t , 1847 , adopted the following tesoluttoaumwimouslj : — 'That this _Ctnfereace recommends the country V » de-Tfosit their fond * _» tbe _'Nattanal Land and Labour Bank ;* sil who wish to follow the _iagfrnctioas of their flnends and representatives , will join that _AUXILIARY TO THE NATIONAL LAND
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A COLOURED DAGUERREOTYPE . PORTRAIT , in best morocco _easeforlOs ., which is 15 s . less than any other London establishment , and warranted'to" be _eouaBy good , by MB EGEBTON , 1 * 8 , Fleet-street , Apposite _Bouverie-street , and 1 ,. Temple-street , White Mars . Open daily fiwn nine till four . Foreign Apparatus Ae _^ ttoToigaand er and Liribo uM , a complete _Eookof _Instruetioa , price 7 s . _frt , by post 10 s Pri e 3 stssentpostfree .
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A GOOD FIT WARRANTED . SUPERFINE BLACK CLOTHES mado to order at the _Gsrat Westkbn _Ekfomuk ; 1 and 2 , Oifosd Stseet , Lobcon _, which neither spot nor change colour . Only £ 2 los the complete suit of any size . These clothes . cannot _beeqnaflsdat any other Tailoring Establishmevat BBSDELLand Co . ' s , Fine Llama Cloth , f _« light over , coats , made to order at £ l i 2 s . The very finest only £ 2 . -which for durability and elegance cannot be surpassed * _Wkhgilk"in 5 flgs , 3 s « tra . Omnibuses to and from the City , stop atthe establish . ment every minute ofthe day .
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4 _& _££ _ZA % _&&* t & fk w WE S T RIDING OF YORKSHIRE : WAKEFIELD ADJOURNED SESSIONS , SOTICE IS HBIffiBYlirfEN , That the Midsummer -General Quarter Sessions ofthe Peace , f o r t he wes t Kding of the County ot York , will be held by adjournment in the Committee-Room , at tho Honse of Correction , at _Wakeheed , on Thtjbsdat , the 1 Sth day of September instant , at Twelve O'Clock at Noon , for the purpose of inspecting the Riding Prison , ( tie said House of Correction' and for examining the Accounts of tbe Keeper of tiie said House of Correction , making enquiry into the Officers and Servants belonging tho same ; and also into tiie behaviour of the Prisoners , and their Earnings . , C . H . BL 8 LEY , . Clerk of thePeace , Wakefield , Clerk ofthe Peace ' s Office , Wakefield , 2 nd September , 1817 .
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70 THE COMPOUND HOUSEHOLDERS OF LAMBETH , AND T HE ME T R O POLIT A N BOROUGHS IN GENERAL . THE NATIONAL REGISTRATION AND CENTRAL ELECTION COMMITTEE having heard that the Whig faction have held out threats and issued notices Of objection against Compound Householders in the "Registration Courts , hare resolved to defend any person so unjustifiably opposed . Any Compound Householder having received snch notice of objection is hereby requested to write immediately tothe secretary , Mr James -Grassb y , No . 8 , Noah ' s Ark-court , Stangate , Lambeth . By order of the Committee , J . _GsAssir ,. Secretary . September 7 , 1847 .
Gardening Operations For Septem Ber.
GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR SEPTEM BER .
(From The Ibdland Florist.) In The Hardy...
( From the IBdland Florist . ) In the hardy department , cuttings of evergreens , such as laurels , _arborvifffis , die . may be pnt in ; also Chinese and Bourbon roses . The former in a mixture of sand and loam , on a shady border ; the latter in sandy soil , under handglasses , where , with a little attention , they will strike root , and make good plants in spring . Should the weather prove damp at the latter end of the month , evergreens , such as rhododendrons , _laurestmus , and arbutus ( the scarlet and double varieties ) , may be transplanted with success and any layers that ma ; have rooted , should be removed from theparent plant , and set out . Gooseberry and currant cuttings should also be _planted . > In herbaceous plants , seedlings which have been raised in pans during the summer , should he set out in beds ; and divisions of the roots of those sorts which it is desirable to increase , may now be
performed very advantageously . Seedling polyanthuses should also be planted out , if not previously done ; and _pansiesmay be struck from cuttings , early in the month , choosing _side-B _hoota , as thin as possible ; these will make good plants , either to send off . or to plant for nextspring ' s blooming . Plant oat seedlings , that they may get well established before winter , We apply the same advice with respect to the layers of carnations and picotees ; as s oon as rooted j take them off , aud pet them singly or in pairs , in _piatpots . Aa there appears to be a promise of much seed this season , every care should be given to carefully collecting it , as the pods arrive at maturity . - ,,. Eirlvia the month sow erysimums , _escholfzias candy ' tufts , & e . These will resist the frost , and bloom finely next _spriug . Cut away and removed -all decayed stems of herbaceous plants _. _' annuals , & e . which have done _flowerim _? .
_Planttthe various bulbs , . _such as narcissuses , & c . Those patches which have got teo large , or which it _isdesirableto separate , may now be taken up , parted , and re-planted . Dahlias must be carefully attended to this month ; iaving been much checked by drought and the smother fly , during the summer , should the weather _prove propitons , we may yet have a splendid bloom . Towards the latter end ofthe month , draw some -earth round the crown of the roots , which will _prevent damage by sudden frosts , and attend to ¦ seed , & c
Tulip beds should be well attended te , and turned over repeatedly , to sweeten ; and every preparation for planting , as far as possible , should be made , by arranging bulbs , removing those which were either of inferior strains , or which are now repudiated , in -consequence of having ' a stain on their character . ' Amateurs should net delay procuring the varieties they may want , as really good tulips are in much _request-In the vegetable garden , the great work of storing all root crops must be progressed with . Carrots aud parsni ps are best put in cellars , in boxes , with layers of dr y sand between them . Potatoes , where there is
convenience of room , should be put together in small quantities . If there be any lurking germs of disease , heating in large heap 3 will probably accelerate its spread . Onions should be pulled early in the month , or as soon as they are ready , and either he allowed to dry en the beds , previous to bunching , or removed to some upper chamber or loft , secure from the influence of wet . Gather tomatoes the latter end of the month . Though not grown generally in cottage gardens , still , as they make a most excellent and wholesome sauce we see ho reason why they should not be cultivated more extensively .
Celery should be watered in very dry weather . Those who grow for exhibition often use liquid manure _, by which means this favourite rootattains a large size . Ssme cultivators allow their plants to obtain a lar ge size before tbey earth tbemnp ; they then fasten the leaves together atthe top with thin pieces of mattine , and give the plants a fuHand only | arthin _» up . If this plan is not adopted , repeated , and careful moulding must be attended to . . _Transnlant cabbages , cauliflowers , lettuces , Ac .,
whenever the plants attain a _sumcienyi ie ; ana propagate all herbs , by cutting . _^ . « di _*^ ons . _E-Xin the month plant out _strawberry runners , and clear between the rotraof plants , 6 c . _Allsorts of seeds must _bepreserved _» theynpen ; and such as nastnrtians _, small cucumbers , & e . for picHing . shouldnotbefoigotten . r . 1-n „ _j In conclusion , lose ao opportunity of toeing and _Btirring the soil between growing crops . Manyr neo pie are not aware of the immense importance ot attending to his point . A Vernenhoe is a most excellent tool for thu purpose .
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_MmntEros .-At a meeting of the Chrutiin Friendly Societv it was resolved , thai , a sum oi no -ev ( twenty pounds ) in the hands of the treasurer _ittioiwutdcd ( Vie _Lxid aad _loioor Bask ,
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. _, JIIST PUBLISHED , - _' HO . - _IXi- OF _* THE LABOURER , " .., * | _«**« " «* . Letters _tpre-pald _» t » be addressed to the Editors , 16 Great _Wiadssill Street , Haymarket , _Lbmdom . Orders reoeived by all agent * for the "Northern Star " and all booksellers in town and _ceuctry .
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Bow Ready , a New Edition of MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS To bohad atfkeli ' crthern Star Office , 16 , treat Wind mill Street ; and of Abel Heywood , Manchester .
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portrait of ernest jonbs , bso _., Babristkb-at-Law . A sp lendid full-length portrait of Ernest Jonei , representing him to the life itself , is now being engraved upon a steel p late , and when a sufficient number is printed it will be g iven with tiie Northern Star to subscribers only , that is , to all subscribers "from the . first
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RATIONAL LAB AP LABOH BAM . In future , all letters intended for this Establishment are to be addressed simpl y , 'To the Manager of the NaUdnaVLand and Labour Ba _» fe , IU , Hig h Holborn , London . '
The Nokthem Star S Aturday , S Eptember 11 ,1mt.
THE NOKTHEM STAR S ATURDAY , S EPTEMBER 11 , 1 MT .
The National Land Company And The Press....
THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY AND THE PRESS . The supercilious silence of the Press , with respect to the National Land Company , has at length been broken . It was impossible , from the extentof its operations , and the rapid augmentation ef its capital , longer to overlook it . At first a few flying paragraphs gave token that '« the best possible instructor" bad become at length cognizant of facts which were fully
known to the working classes of the empire for months previous . These were , however , as is usual in similar cases , mere statements of facts drawn up in newsmen-like style , avoidingallappearanoe of feeling either way . The time had come when it was imperative to notice the movement , but it was not so clear what kind of notice should be taken of it . Time , and the still growing power and influence of the Company , have brought us to another stage of progress . - m The daily press makes it the theme of editorial comment and criticism . The Times
has not yet awoke , as it did one fine morning in the case of the defunct League , te the conviction that the National Land Companv is " a great fact . " Perhaps , instead of £ 80 , 000 or £ 90 , 000 , it must possess a capital of -6250 , 000 , before that impression can be stamped on the sensorium ofthe '' leading journal . " The Chronicle , however , has not waited for that time to arrive , but ; has opened its batteries against the plan . The cause of its impetuousity being clearl y the keenness of its scent for economical heresies , and the innate dislike which it feels against any
plans which threaten to be successful in liberating the labouring classes from their present helpless dependence upon capital . The campaign once opened , other opponents made their appearance . The Daily News , in an elaborate article , endeavoured to prove the whole plan to be based on fallacious grounds , and that , at the best , it was merely a huge lottery in which the lucky few ffould get prizes , while the unlucky many would realise—a loss . These strictures were ably replied to by Mr T . Fbost of Croydon , who , in a letter which appeared in the News of
Wednesday , gave a clear , practical , and convincing statement of the mode of operation by which the Land Company proposes to secure its objects , and at the same time forcibly advocated the principles on which the plan is based . To this defenee , the News made & rejoinder in their leading columns the same day , a column and a half in length . We propose to advert to some of the positions laid down in that reply . The News says it is impossible for it to enter into the controversy , which a complete answer to Mr Frost ' s objections would occasion , and it
continues" Newspaper writers , whos e business i t is t o a ppl y political principles to the changing circumstances ot tbe times , cannot re-open the fundamental questions ofpolitic 8 and economy every time that their general doctrines are disputed . It is absolutely necessary to assume certain propositions respecting capital and labour as finally established , if we are to discuss practical questions in any way whatever . We admftat once , that if political economy is a dream , if an improved system of distribution can supersede the taws which regulate t _* ie creation of wealth ; the Chartist scheme of flourishing on tbe subdivided soil ia , if not exempt from defects , at least secure from any criticism of owes . "
The passage we have marked in italics shows that the writer is fully aware where the shoe pinches . His declining to " re-open the fundamental questions of politics and economy , " in a controversy whicb , irom its very nature , involves these fundamental questions , proves how little faith he has in the doctrines which he assumes , convenien tlyfor himself , to be proved , for the purpose of stopping discussion . Political Economy , or what is now called so , is , we admit , " no dream . " In its present shape it is a great practical error , which must , in
the very nature of things , be superseded by " an improved system of distribution . " The laws which at present regulate the creation aad the distribution of wealth are productive of deep injury to tbe best and most important interests of society . One of the most painful aspects of modern society , and one which is mest frequently lamented by politicians and moralists of all parties and classes , is ,
the tendency of wealth to aggregate in a few bands , while the condition of the masses is constantly deteriorating . The past history of the world shows the fate of other empires , wben sueh a state of things reached its climax ; and there is no reason why this empire should escape that inevitable retribution which ever follows on the track of injustice , unless such a result be prevented by the establishment of more equitable arrangements . '
The introduction of an improved system of distribution is the great want of the age . Political Economy , with its subdivision of labour , and its concentration of capital and machinery , has taught us haw to create wealth upon a large scale , at the smallest possible cost . Aided by the giant , yet do . cile machines invented by modem science , the single labourer of the present times can , in some departments of industry , produce oue , two , and three
hundred times as much in a day as the labourer of a hundred years ago . What use bave political economists made of this fact—this immense increase to the national wealth , and its powers of increasing it ? Look abroad , and you will find the answer in the complaints which come alike from hamlet , village , market-town , manufacturing-town , and metropolis , as to the condition of the poor , and the labouring class . Increase of wealth to the nation , has been to them , ia the / majority of instances *
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_synommous wiih ; longer hour ' s of toil , for less wages , and , of course , a general deterioration in condition . ¦ : ¦¦ - _^ > It is no satisfaction to the operative to be told that this is -necessary to enable us to maintain our supremacy in the markets ofthe world , and support our foreign trade . , The large array of figures , which statistics periodically exhibit , representing our exports to foreign markets , may be _pleMftttt enough in the eyes of those who were concerned in effecting the exchanges , and who have realised , or ire
realising , fortunes thereby . But the operative who escapes on Sunday from the _fever-tainted : atmosphere ofthe narrow back street or blind alley , in which his wretchedly furnished home is situated , finds in the snug suburban villa of the merchant no consolation for his . own deprivation of comfort . The News can , we are sure , conceive that the ¦ merchant and his friends , with the cloth just removed , the dessert placed on the table , and the corks just
drawn from the primest vintage in the cellar , will have a very differ-mt notion of the value of political economy , to that of the denizen of a three-pair back in a narrow street , whose dinner has been of the scantiest description , and whose home is devoid of both furniture , and comfort—although he may have been labouring like the silk weavers of Spltalfields , from sunrise to sunset , aU the week , happy that his " brother worm ofthe earth gave him lea e to toil . ' *
In truth , whatever shape the agitation of the working classes may take , this is the question really at issue . The sense of natural justice is outraged bythe present system ; and no amount of special pleading _. no mere conventionalisms , however specious in themselves , or hallowed by long usage , can hide the gross want of equity , which is inherent m it . The stupid veneration for institutions , merely because they are old , is on the decline among all classes in this : utilitarian age , and the industrious , classes cannot be expected to look very favourably on those arrangements which practically deny that the ' Labourer is worthy of his hire . ''
They may be wrong in their reasoning , and the political economists may be right , but the question is not yet settled as the News assumes it to be . There are two systems of political economy in existence , so far as theory goes , at least . The great bulk of the industrious classes believe that the natural result of an increase in our mechanical , scientific , and manual powers of producing wealth should be an increased enjoyment of . that wealth with a smaller amount ol labour , and , if this result has not hitherto been realised , they believe it is not
because the hypothesis is incorrect but because our distributive arrangements are imperfect and unjust . Capital has , and does , in aU cases , take the lion ' s share . Labour is fed with the crumbs which fall from its table . The object of the Land Company is to rectify this state of things by uniting the oharacter of capitalist and labourer in the same person ; by emancipating labour from the shackles of commercial feudalism , and placing it in such a position as to act independently . That in the pursuit of this great and important object errors will arise through inexperience , unexpected obstructions aud unforeseen difficulties impede the
path , is to be expected . Such are the natural incidents of aU great undertakings . But by union and the increased knowledge arising from increased expenses , there can be no doubt , that these impediments will be surmounted , and whatever may , at present , be defective in the theory , will , inthe course of time , be certain to be corrected by the developement of these defects in practice , and the consequent suggestion and application of appropriate remedies . We must advert to some of the special objections of the News in a future article , but , at the commencement , it was necessary toshow that our difference with it isa fundamental , not superficial , one .
Louis-Philippe. ' God Save Tbe King 1* A...
_LOUIS-PHILIPPE . ' God save tbe king 1 * and kings . ' For If he don ' t , I donbt if men will longer—I think I hear a little bird , who slogs Th e p eo p le by and by will be t be , stronger : , Tha veriest jade will wince whose harness wrings So much into the raw as quite to wrong her Beyond the roles of posting , —and the mob At last fall _siek of imitating Job . At first it grumbles , then it swears , and then ,
Like David , flings smooth pebbles ' gainst a giant ; At last it takes such weapons such as men Snatch wben despair makes human hearts less pliant . Then com e * « the tug of war , '— ' t will come a g ain , I rather doubt ; and I would fain say 'fie on' * , ' If I had not perceived tbat revolution Alone can save the earth from hell's pollution , Bihon .
The entire continent is heaving with the throes which precede the earthquake of political convulsion ; the hot ashes of revolt alread y strew t he streets of Paris and the wilds of Calabria , foretokening the bursting forth of that revolutionary lava which may submerge the thrones of monarchs and utterly destroy the '' time-honoured" barriers of progress . ' How recent the time when this journal stood almost alone as the unmasker and denunciator of that incarnation of craft and crime , Lovi"l-Philippb . Itis not yet three years since the regal
traitor of the barricades landed on the shores of this country , aud was welcomed with the most fulsome flatteries by the English Press . Then the Times hailed EgqUte " } umor as a " king triumphant over anarchy and revolution ; " the Chronicle had a fawning article " wishing for the king of the French a most hospitable and courteous reception ;" and the pious editor of the Standard went down upon his marrowbones and offered up an expression of " sincere gratitude to Divine Providence" forthe
visit of the king who " never in the course of his long life had been detected in one unworthy manoeuvre . " This is all changed now . The Times and Chronicle have almost dail y " leaders " charging upon their former favourite one long , undeviating course of selfish fraud and . dirty intri gue ; imputing to ibis system of government the corruption and criminality which at present pervade so large a portion of French society , and predicting that the upshot must be a fearful revolution and the destruction of
that dynasty which " his Majesty ' s" farmer flatterers were , not long ago , in the habit of lauding as the hope of Frauce , and the pledge of repose to Europe . Yet _Loitis-Philippb is now onlywhat he has been all his life , an unscrupulous intriguer . Even when received in the Jacobin Club as the son of the Duke of Orleans , ( though really , as there is good reason to believe , the son and changeling of the Italian jailor and executioner , C hi _appini ) , * he was the unfledged knave whose villanies after years have broug ht to perfection . Forty years after his enrolment inthe Jacobin Club the worl d saw him placed by a popular revolution on the throne of France—a
throne which he vowed he would " surround with republican institutions . " His first act was to write a secret letter to the Russian Autocrat , in which he hypocritically spoke of the revolution ofthe Three Days as a '« catastrophe , " which he had sought " earnestly to avert ; " and cringingly implored tbe protecting countenance ofthe Tsar in return for ius ( then plotted ) treason against the principles which had placed him at the head of the French nation . Sixteen years later—still consistent in evilthis worthy old gentleman , who once carried a cotton umbrella , and sported a _triculoured cockade , astonished Europe by his audacious thimble-ri gging inthe Spanish marriages ; and , forthe sake of a pro .
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3 v 6 ' chance ; tbronelfor- the youngest of hU hopefuls , C _^ P « _J _^ climax of _^ amy a » tacbed > his name . ' - And .. when he had outwitted _Pal-ME-tsxoK and " barefacedly cheated the gentry- _* - politicai and litera iy-who assume to represent his country , it was for _thirst time discovered , that this paragon of kings , hithertb . _declaired _^ «« The wises t , _virtuotiWw't . _discreetest _, best , was really : a most matchless scoundrel . Yet ' we doubt'if his doings in the Spanish marriages' juggle was not the least of his . frauds . His violation of _ mmmmmm ____ ______ __ _^ . _^^
every pledge he had given to the _French people on mounting the throne j his imposition _op » on that people ofa despotism _athousand-ftld worse than that of Char les X . ; arid his betrayal of the nation's ytbo looked to him for sympathy in their struggles igaint their oppressors ; these constitute the mig hty crftfies of his reign . ¦ Not so thought our honest _journalist in those days '; then they hailed Chiappini junior as "the Napoleon ( of Peace , " "theChampion of Order , " . aid "theConqueror of Anarchy . " His treacheries were applauded as proofs of his "capacity" and " sagacity ! " '
Not scrupling to defend by force what he won by fraud , Louis-Philippe has proved himself quite capable of being " bloody , bold , and resolute . " Th ? scaffold has streamed with the blood of his victims ; and the bombardment ' of Lyons , the massacre at Grenoble , the " assoraeurs" and "fusillades" in the streets of Paris—the grape-shot carnage iu St Mery , and the pitiless butchery in the Rue Transnonain-rall attest the good will of the King ofthe Barricades _^ o ape the butcher of Poland , whose favour he so abjectly sought , and has continued to seek . But these blood-stained acts were at the time
pronounced , by " our best possible instructors , " to be " necessary" for the conservation of "order 1 " Now , these same journalists , " turning , " _| as Castle-REAGH would have said , " their backs ' upon , themselves , " discover that their former favourite ' s reign has been one term of crime—alternating between fraud and force . We have before-time justified the popular protests whicb , directed against Lours-Philippe ' s government , have but rendered the _writhings of the French people under the incubus
which oppresses them , painfully evident ; but , lo ! we now find ourselves surpassed . We but justified insurrections which had occurred , and which had been foreed upon the people , but the Times , and other " respectable" journals , are new preaching Revolution ! day b y day , labouring to excite the French people to throw off the yoke of "the conqueror of anarchy ' . " More power to you , gentlemen _. Set you the ball rolling , we'll keep it moving . The flame of Freedom , wnce kindled , shall illumine the shores of more streams than the Seine 1
We have been considerably amused , net to say edified , bythe comparisons drawn by the London press between the state of morals in France and in England . French society is _dsscribed as almost one sweltering mass of corruption , whilst , on the other hand , a highly refinedpuritanism is set down to the credit of English society . This may be very gratifying to Jo hn Bulls amour propre , but a glance at the history of the past might be of service to John , in inspiring him with a feeling of becoming modesty * France has been but for the past seventeen years , what England was for nearly a hundred and fifty
years , after her second revolution—a land ruled by corruption . Guizot has scarcely yet acquired the shameless infamy of Walpole . The French corruptionist does at least" affect a virtue , if he has it not . " He strongly protests that his hands : are pure , though everybody knows them to be foul . Still the very protesting that he is virtuous , is some homage to the morality of the French nation . England must have been sunk in far lower depths , when her Guizot proclaimed that" every _^ man had his price , " and avowedly and unblushingly acted upon that maxim . Besides , there are other points in favour of France . Louis-Philippe ' s bitterest enemies must
at least acknowledge that he is a clever rased ; and , certainly , a nation is less dishonoured by being cheated of its rights by a" Citizen King , " than by such a crew of ignorant , grovelling , insane , sensual brutes , as were "the fools and oppressors called George . " Again , England basely submitted to tbe sway of her profligate rulers for nearly one hundred and fifty years , but France will not yield to such degradation for even one sixth of that period . We should be sorry to be bail for the solvency of the firm of Philippe , Guizot , and Co ., for even one
year from the present time . If we mistake not the signs of the times , the sooner his citizen kingship sets his house in order , the better . * fl ere he a wise man , not a cunw ng one , instead of seeking a Spanish throne for Montpensibr , he would abdicate his own . But kings do not o ten exhibit the good sense of the well-bred dog , who seeing bis friends preparing to kick him through the window , put his tail between his legs , and quietly walked downstairs . Kings usually need kicking , and we fear that Philippe is not likely to prove oue of the exceptions .
In reminding our own countrymen of their past history , we mi ght add not a little respecting the present , which would show that even now England has but little to boast of ; too little , at any rate , to allow of her playing the part of a _self-glorifying Pharisee . In uttering these wholesome truths for the benefit of our own people , 'we would by no means attempt to palliate the enormities which have of late come to light in France . That country is
evidently fast drifting to perdition or revolution . The latter only can save it from the former . And better so ; better that the vessel of the state drift upon the breakers of revolution than perish in the treacherous quicksands of political corruption , and social profligacy . Were all classes as debased as are the generality of the aristocracy , the government employes , the stock-jobbers and profitocracy , the numberless and shameless hangers on of" the system , " with the multifarious and nameless crew of
wretches , the natural spawn of capitals , with which Paris abounds ; were these the entire constituents of French society , the sooner France shared the fate of the cities of t he Dead Sea and the catacombs opened their sepulchral jaws to receive the last ashes of Lutetia , the better for mankind . But , thank God , the Prasli . vs , the Testes , and the Beauvallons , and the sections they represent , are not France . France has still her brave and virtuous
millions of peasant proprietors and labourers , and intelligent and heroic artisans . Above these there are to be found at least some who have , not given themselves up to the worship of gold , and the pursuit of vice . There are hearts that yearn for a better future , heads of intellectual greatness to give form tothe heart ' s noblest impulses , and hands ready—when the hour of action strikes—to execute the work ofjustice and regeneration .
A word here to our " best possible instructors . " How dare you reproach Frenchmen with that state of things which you have done your best to bring about . You know very well—shameless mouthers that you are—that the corruption now so prevalent in the " higher circles" of French society , and the confusion which awaits'France , are the natural results of the system of government adopted by Louis-Philippe , and which you unceasingly applauded until you found your own government victimised by that duplicity which , when exercised
only at the expense of the people of France you called " sagacity , " and " extraordinary capacity " _Louis-Philippe proscribed freedom of thought iu reference to po \\ lica \ questions , and you , h > _s English admirers , applauded his " sagacitv , " but from that proscri ption must be dated the rise of that licentious lilornture which proceeded , and now _comilonanccs , tho open perpetration and unblushing avowal of tho . worst crimes .. When Louis-Philippe , ' i nstead of surrounding his throne with Republican _. iiistitutions , laboured ., and _succGesfullv to contract
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Ithe Charter / , ' until ha bad reduced the electoral class / to the" ) number of about bne'fonrth : of the Government employes—pu , English journalists , called him " a great and wise'king . " Behold the present ( and think of the future ) fruits of hiB greatness and witdoml When the King of the Barricades shut up the popular elubs ; forbade the right of free _meeting and -association , enacted the Fieschi ordinances , butchered the patriots of Paris and Lyons , and rewarded Republican virtue with chains undjheguillotine—you , base wretches ofthe English Press , shouted _. for joy over ( what _yott thoug ht ) the ruin of that party , called by the Times " a fieVce and desolating faction . " And , now , your , _ __ ; , ,. _, , „ .
" conqueror of anarchy" is menaced with a revolution , not springing from the plots of clubs , but from the indignant and universal determination of the French people to free themselves frem the manacles you rejoiced in seeing placed upon them . When , with _LAMARttUE ' s corpse , the Republican f lag went down into the grave , and the adherents to that flag were mowed down by grape-shot in the . streets of Paris , you , of the mercenary ' . ' race that write , " shouted ' ' Order reigns in Franee l" And now you have the matchless audacity to deplore corruption , denounce tyranny , and preach revolution ! " Oh I Shame . ' whereis thy blush ¥ ¦ '
J We bave said that the present system in France is menaced by a revolution . The extraordinary revelations of political profligacy , the revealment of crimes , of which the Praslin tragedy is but a _speeimenMhe intrigues ' against Spain , so ruinous to the character and the real interests ofthe French nation , and the collusion of the French Government with that of Austria , and other despotic powers , to obstruct the march of Liberty throughout Europethese combined , have caused -such a stateof public
excitement in France , as would produce _, an immediate explosion , but for the laborious efforts t » f the Democrats to quiet the people . The French Democrate know the wily enemy they have to contend with _. and win , therefore , bide their time . But the nightly gatherings in the streets of Paris , which even now will scarcely give way before charges of cavalry , sufficiently show the ' temper of the multitude ; and , as we believe , indicate "the beginning oftheend . " .
The _itfornHtjr _CAnmicfe reminds the French people that they have , at the present time , no definite object in view , and hence argues that , in the event of a revolution , the chances are greatly in favour of either a _strohg-handed despotism or the wildest democratic supremacy becoming the issue of the struggle . To avoid both extremes , the Chronicle suggests the starting of a dodge similar to our "Reform Bill . " which , if obtained , would give increased power to the mass of the middle-class , and at the same time effectually nullify the power of the
democracy . We too , deplore-that the French reformers have no avowed , denned , and fixed object before them . We have no doubt that the interior organisation oi the people , which exists nearly throughout France , has some settled object or objects in view . Still this organisation cannot possibly comprise more than a portion of the people . Had the French an object to struggle for , such as the PEOPLE'S CHARTER of England , we should feel more certain than we do at present that they would turn their coming victory to good account / and save
themselves both from ; the military despotism which the CAronicie affects to dread , and that despotism ofthe shopocracy which the Chronicle desires to see carried to perfection . Why not inscribe The Constitution of ' 93 upon the popular banner ? With a few modifications to suit the altered circumstances of the times , we know of no embodiment of political democracy at all equal to that admirable constitution _. Let the French democracy look to it , and not allow themselves to be again deluded and betrayed by the lying promises and treacherous professions of intriguers and false-hearted leaders .
In this article we have not had space to more than allude to Louis-Philippe ' s treason te the cause of progression in Spain , Switzerland , Italy , and other countries . The events now transpiring in those states , with those which may daily be expected to arise , wiil form subject-matter for future comment . We have preferred in this article to confine ourselves , as far as possible , to the home doings of the crafty tenant of theTuilleries , believing that the hour is not distant when we shall see him
served with notice to quit . We could earnestly desire that any change that may take place in France may be brought about by peaceable means . Independent of other considerations , the mere fact that changes accomplished by the sword are , too often , by the power ofthe sword , turned to evil instead of good , is alone sufficient to induce us to desire peaceable progression , if possible . Above all , we desire that the French nation should be prepared , whenever victorious , to establish the veritable SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE ; to eschew
the lust of military ' glory ; ' leave national prejudices to drift down the stream of oblivion , and show by their _asts that the Fraternity of Na . tions is no mere phrase , but the living principle and guiding star of their mission . If the French peop le be now prepared to play such a part , then are we near the hour" When the monarch and the anarch alike shall pass away , And morn shall break , and man awake in the light of a fairer day . "
THE HOUSE AND THE PEOPLE . After a durationjof unusual length , Parliaraenthas been dissolved and re-constituted—and the growth of public opinion and public power , greatly , " though but partly , manifested in Us _re-construction . We say " partly , " since the people could have done much more than they have achieved , had they been
conscious of the full extent of their power , and had not the Government , _withMacohiavelhan policy , hurried the elections , in order to anticipate the complete organisation of the Chartist phalanx . Yet we say " greatly , " since the power developed , and the progress made , are paralysing the factions ; and , while , confessedly ourstrength was but partly put forth , they cry aghast ; if this was but the SKIRMISH of Chartism , what will the BATTLE be ?
TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-ONE new members have been seated in the House , and the band of the rejected go about asking each other : " What is it thathas wrought this mighty change ?" " What is it that has cost us our seats ? " They had recourse to all the old approved good measures . They were lavish of beer and bribes . They came forward with the most plausible election cries . They shouted , " No Popery ; " "Education ; " " Sanatory Reform ; " " Retrenchment ; " " Taxation . " The old spells failed—the new magic proved powerless . They
omitted the one great _master-requirement of the _age-THE REPRESENTATION OF LABOUR . Every man who has gained his election , with scarce an exception , has bowed in recognition to this pnnciple ; or , at least ; has been forced to bolster up the seat of present misrule , by the promise of future reforms . They all felt the great hand of the public moving at the foundation-stones of their authority ;
and while their seats tottered beneath the mdtive power , they learned it would no longer do to recognise the abstract principle of popular right , but that the time was coming to carry that right into legislative practice . Meanwhile , the Press and its privileged patrons , do not seem aware ofthe mighty change that has taken place in the House , but with strange blindness , or dogged pertinacity , classify members under two distinclive heads—of "Liberals" and
" Conservatives , Liberal , in the conventional acceptation of the term ; means a Whig ; but if Lord John i Russell _couats on the support of all those who are
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i designated ! « u » Lib , his _calculaUon _^^^ _i ¦ _$ ¦ strength will be remarkabl y e * Ton eoa , ° j ava il _«^ _ gory _areset do _% DTOc 6 MB _* - 0 'Co _NNo _^ isc _«« i . and others—to all of whom Mr O'Cok v ' NI _^ . may be applied : " ULib stands fa Rn sJ '{ ** M ' : ' '' ' ' : i the Press presumes that I am to be a feat _J _* * _^ _M--wing of Whiggery , the animal must fall , " _* ' _" wf i Tbns late years have developed the * _j I > progress , and ripened them into action , _? s «' '' gress-and herein lies its strength and it 3 ' !! " _B - j . _.-t _. j > _ . ' _-., '¦ T ii- ' - ¦ i- ! . _^^^^ _^* m _____>^_ ' H
this progress has not been _aebievei * _t ™ .... _* _S-M this progress has not been achieved b y cone 1 not been obtained by contradictory _coalit ' _6 _^ 10 _^ been asserted by turbulence : it is merely _^ . _^ on the performance of those promise , J _^ S popular will extorted from reluctant cla ' sse _'''' S Reform Bill ; it is merely an exemplifi Cati 0 _^ _^ _** great principle laid down by the Whigs the _^ " _^ Taxation without Representaliom , is Ty { S ; ft ____ , _ H ¦ _Mllt . kM / IM KIlL _HthAl mm it . X _% _ 1 . 1 V ' And askwhat is it
, we may , that the R 6 f promised ? Are we not carrying out the _gt M t ? _^ set the naiion ? The fact is , Government ex _^'' ""a spirit they could not lay , when they clly _' " popular element into action , to serve party J It-had long been awaiting opportunit y— _lnit " " _''*'• _^ unfty they afforded-and the question tben n _?^ has ever since been followed up b y the Perm ] . ° _5
unswerving and uncompromising consistency , ti question—the _Re orm question—is , as _^ _^ * —the _Representation o f Labour . All millor r are comprised in tbis one great , _comprehend princip le ; and those minor points cannot be _Carrirt without it ; or , if carried—a result more than hvJ thetical—no guarantee would be afforded ag _^
relapse into those abuses which , tor tbe nonce u caused an alteration . But it is to miner _question of Reform that Government wishes especiall y _[„ j ; rect the attention of the People . And _nstoiaik a It sees that the spirit of the age dema «<" ref 0 ' and it is desirous , since grant it must , o { pan _^ those which shall least affect its own monopolJ and may be easiest diverted back into the old ' _nels of corruption . They are , above all , _reform
which do not affect the franchise . Touch that _. _toi you touch the very heart of _mouopol y-the othec are but as the loose garments that cover its & formity . Thus they will talk of a repeal of e trt _* Taxes-free Trade , up to a certain extent- _^ tioh , ' o / a certain sort—and Sanatory Reform , g the sewer and the kennel—but not in the 00 %
or the means of subsistence for the poor . They a » even glad , seeing that something must be done . seeing that the People are alive to the prompting of common sense—that these questions should _fc publicly agitated . "Noble Lords" and " _moafe _} Gentlemen" take the chair , preside , and spout * meetings on the subject . ; Why ?—IT IS A SAP " . TY-VALVE ! It diverts the public mind from fy
great measure of political Reform , which comprin t all these minor ones . Not that we object to _thes measures being mooted , and directed homil the public good—but , we ask , suppose tbat moths of expediency shall have forced Government to tt . peal certain obnoxious taxes—shall have _coopdleJ aristocracy to divest itself of some of its immuni . ties—should even have constrained the Church t *
stand on its own foundation , and separated hn the State , to be weighed in the balanee of Religion and Humanity ; — suppose , r , say , all these things to have been achieved , what guarantee is there for the continuance ofthe change ! Clearly none—as long as the _representati-j and legislative power is monopolised by thos who have created " these monopolies , and could thus re-cieate them at the first fitting oppor tunity . Popular right can only be guaranteedl ) j
popular power . It is not enough to remove an oppressive law—we must have a surety that such la * will not be re-enaeted—and that security can or "* be afforded by spreading the shield of the franchii ' before the ranks of Labour . This is , _furthermorf _, the only security offered , that public power will lx directed to the public good . The public power it there NOW—the people comprehend their social and their political wants—they also feel that power
and with the knowledge of their requirements , anil the consciousness of their might—it is evident the ; will awaken to its use , and realise their desire * . Ti deny them their legitimate agency _, ' whenaU paitiesait forced to acknowledge the justice of their demand " , is rendering the peace of the country insecure . Therefore , again , the only guarantee thatthe poptito power will be directed to the popular good , is by establishing the rights of the people—or , in oth « words , granting representation to Labour .
We have said all parties concede the rig ht ofthe people to the franchise—on what plea , then , doth" ? withhold it ? Thatit is not time . Why is it not time ? The people would make a bad use of it , andit would lead to turbulence and anarchy . On their own showing , " turbulence and anarchy " are more likely to ensue from withholding the franchise , than from granting it . While , by _teroporistflS and concession , they , themselves , are informing . 4 ? people , when it IS the right time—namely : _trJiw the people are so strong that they can ' »• force it .
The representation of Labour , then , is . the great question of the day—in this all others ate comprised—without this , all others must either _remais unrealised , or Iaek stability and safety when carried into action . It is this question CHARTISM has propounded—it is this principle Chartism is _rapiil'y carrying into practice . It is this , aud only _tfe which will enable the Dissenter to separate Church and State ; the Eree Trader , to complete the _i _*?* ' ning he has made ; the tradesman , to brig hten > .
home trade by creating , in emancipated industry- t _, a fertile source of home consumption ; and the wort- iking man , in the prosperity of his own order _^ , t ' guarantee the prosperity of all . Thus the Chart '' ta embraces the honest Reformers of every abuse ; _* ; ' does not clash with any—bnt , while comprising : _^' " _" it casts the shield of superior protection around th * th ' struggling bands , and , while i t recognises the fi P tice of the Reforms desired , says : I WILL ENAB _^ \ 1 & YOU TO OBTAIN THEM , AND TO KEEPTHEMEJ ! WHEN THEY ARE OBTAINED .
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MISCELLANEOUS . . „ _, t ,. , hi W . Aldeb , Ebley . _ We have handed your Mtor » _JgJ > » J Executive Committee of the National Charter Ass _^ . _»' tion , 144 , High Holborn . w ei « ei « H . _NrjTTAtx , Manchester . ~ Your letter would but g' _^ g' _^ undue prominence to a rag utterly _umvortfiy < w » notice . „ jf All . t Accidents is _Mrass .-Totho _sditor .-Sir _. _-Gai _> 1 < _¦•& f ' _^ auy of your readers , infirm me whether any _™ t _M { tW found out a plan , or Invented a Machine , topre « loss of life , when the rope snaps in tto _teW _^ _fJ and ascending of mine shafts . If so , p l _*» S 6 _SW sw what construction , aid you will much oWig _^ nso _* . so * . _NoiTisanAM Emotion _Fusd .-J . Sweet a * eto _^ l _« g _« the receipt of the following sums , with WaB . **' _iV * « l From T . N . K ., 1 *; from _Parkheml . J _^ VV from _Newcastle-under-Lyne , Staffordshire , f °% , _j 5 pV ) 95 the Central Keglstratlon Ctmmittee , lonuon , * _^ j ; from Loughborough , 4 s 2 d ; Mr IWJm » . »» _° _if e « tor _^ e « toi Thurman . 6 d -, from Trowbridge , la 9 d ; from _« c
Heath , 6 s lOd . , «» , » . « . _PLTHOT _-Tn .-Mr Robertson writes as folio ™ fc u , ti bt Sir _. _-In reply to one assertion _contain" w' , f _/ „ signed by Tremain ( Chartist secretary ) , _»« J " it j , 1 it j , duced Mr O'Connor , I have only to state tfl _^ _Uo ' ati unconditional falsehood , lwas lateh' *» c ° n y an *? id with a party who had joined the Land Co _* _"P » _" _»* . s i jocular rhodomontade , I rela t ed a . !| r : n _toC to narrated by Clark , of Mr O ' Connor ' s i 0 _^ " , " , _^ " . m pose Macaulay at Edinburgh . So _^ , _^^^ 0 fe O'Connor , I have ever , both in public a * W c _rfP _^ fearlessly stood forward i « vindication ot _n » j- _^( if r _^ _oti and asserted tho disinterested integrity 01 m , _w , ippi most especially in reference to tho enuitai » K .. r j . _y _tioa of money paid by the Land Company- as' " oBCcLoBc of _wltaesBes in this town can attest . « " _* _. „ _»» d _"»» 1 the charge ef _settin-f the Chartiste _*"" _™ :,. " , _« C , _v auo o , I havo only to state that , somo time Bin _m v _^ funds were required to jdefray . t 1 "'
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 11, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_11091847/page/4/
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