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TO ALL LAND SECRETARIES. The Land Confer...
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TBE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1845.
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THE DISTRESSED CAPITALISTS, AND THRIVING...
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-WEST RIDE ? G OF YORKSHIRE . CHRISTM AS _SESSIONS . _-UTOTICE JS HEREBY GIVES , that tlie Christmas [ \ Gen-bat . Qoaotek Sessioss of the Peace for tl * -ffest-Bidmg Ofthe County of York , -mil be opened a . _RSBOBonoH _. _onTnEsr _. AT , the Gth day of _January _^ _. flt Ten o ' clock inthe Forenoon ; andby _Adjournment from thence will be holden at _Waeefiei . _t > , on _Wxn-^ _SDAT _. _theTtU day of thesamemonth of January , atTen „/ the Clock in the Forenoon ; and also , by further Ad . Ionr _» n . entfrom thence , w ! _U beholden at Shefm _ i __> , oi . _Sosdat , the 12 th day afthe same month of January , ai _Eleren of the Clock in the Forenoon , when all Jurors , Suitor" Persons bound hy Recognizance , and others _lundD" Business at the said several Sessions , are required to attend the Court on the several days , and at the several hon rsahovementioned : . ' _,. _ , _Noticethat the Order
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COLOSSEUM . —NOTICE .-PRICE OF _ADMISSION DURING THE HOLIDAYS !! Day Exhibition 2 s . Evening Do . ' . _^•• .. _•••; . . « _...... « . 2 s . 6 d _.-Children under Twelve Is . Stalactite Caverns . Is . extra . TH E DAY EXHIBITION consists of the Museum of Sculpture , Grand Picture of London , Alhambra Conservatories , Gorgeous Gothic Aviary , Classic Ruins , Swiss Cottage and Mont Blanc , with Mountain Torrent , ic . & e . Open from Ten till Pour o'Clock . EVESISG . —The new and extraordinary Panorama of Losdon st Night , Museum of Sculpture , _Conservatories , and Gorgeous Gothic Aviary , < S _ c , brilliantly iUumiuated ; Swiss Cottage , Mont Blanc , and Mountain Torrent represented by Moonlight . Open irom Seven till a Quarterpast Ten o'Clock . A grand Orchestra Organ , on which the most ad . _miredJOvEBTUBES , & c , are played , from Two to Four and iromtigh . _ttfllHalf-pastTeiio'Glock . The whole projected and designed by Mr . William _Sr _ Ldwe __ L
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TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria aud His Royal Highness Prince Albert . THE LONDON and PARIS FASHIONS for Winter , 1815 and 18 _'fi , by READ and Co ., 12 _, _Hart-street , Bloomsbmy-sguare , London ; Berger , HolyweU-street , Strand , London , aud may be had of all Booksellers wheresoever residing ; a very superb Print , representing the most splendid exhibition in Europe , an Interior View of the Colosseum _Regents-park , Londen . This exquisitely executed and heautifully coloured Print will he accompanied with f idlsizeDress _, Frock , and Riding CoatPatterns ; also , Patterns ofthe New Fashionable Polka Frock , and Locomotive
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FUNERAL ECONOMY ! TH E _CEMETERT and GENERAL FUNERAL COMPANY , united with _SHILLIBEER'S PATENT FUNERAL CARRIAGES , respectfully _invitepuhlicatten lion to the economic and convenient arrangements for performing every description of Funerals complete , at charges so moderate as to defy competition , and no extras , by which the comfort of bereaved families will be materially pro . moted _, and expenses limited . City-road , Finsbury , nest _Bunhill-fields Burial-ground ; 21 , Percy-street , Tottenham-court-road ; and 136 , Union-street , Southwark . Sbillibeer ' s Patent Funeral Carriage , with two horses , £ 1 Us . 6 ( L ; Single Horse , £ 1 Is . A respectable Carriage Funeral , _combining every charge , £ i 4 s . Hearses and Mourning Coaches . _Cathelic Fittings . Fonr Horse Funerals , £ 1212 s .
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ANCE M SIC FOR CHRISTMAS . —NEW MUSIC FOR PIANOFORTE . mHB PIAUI 5 TA , Uo . 63 , contains 1 " Thc Royal British _fc . avy , " and "Welsh" Quadrilles , now playing at the Promenade Concerts . The two sets Is ., charged by Jullien , 7 s . No . 6 * 2 , eontains the "Elfin" Waltzes and two new songs for ls . No . CI , Music in Marble JIaiden , ls . No . 60 , the Mazurka Polka and _Qaudrille in "The Devil to Pay , " ( Diable a quatre ) now playing at Drury Lane and all the theatres ., ls . No . 59 , contains the whole opera of "Sonnambula , " 2 s . No . 57 , Ditto , "Fra Diavolo / ' 2 s , or the Nos . from 57 to 62 , in splendid bindin * , as a Christmas or J _^ _ia Year ' s present , for 10 s . Sent carriage free to any part _«* _-f tbe kingdom for a Postoffice order for 12 s ., in favour of the editor , 67 , Paternoster-row . TO FLUTE PLAYERS . ANCEM
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JUST PUBLISHED , In one volume , foolscap 8 ro ., neat cloth , price 7 s . Cd ., THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES : A Prison Rhyme : in Ten Books : BY THOMAS COOPER , THE CHARTIST . J . How , Publisher , 132 , Fleet-street . _ S _^ Orders from the Country to be sent through the _Booksellers . Also lately published , in 2 vols ., 12 mo ., Priee Fourteen Shillings ,
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NOTICE T _« EMIGRANTS . THE Undersigned continue to engage Passengers for _FirstClass Fast-bailing AMERICAN PACKET SHIPS , which average from 1000 to 1500 Tons , for the following Ports , viz .: — NEW YORK , BOSTON , PHILADELPHIA , NEW ORLEANS , BALTIMORE , BRITISH AMERICA , & c . Emigrants in the country ca _ * engage passage by letter addressed as underneath ; in _wluch case they need not be ia Liverpool until the day before the Ship is to sail ; and they will thereby avoid detention and other expenses , besides securing a c'leaper passage , and having the best berths allotted to them previous to their arrival . For further particulars apply , post-paid , to JAMES BfiCKETT & SON , North End Prince ' s Dock , Liverpool
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COALS . PROVIDE , FOR WINTER , PROVIDENT FAMILIES , subscribing Is . per week te the Metropolitan Coal Company ' s Shilling Club , can obtain four half tons annually , without further charge , fines , & c . The Company ' s price current is , Best Screened Wallsend , 23 s . per full ton ; Seconds , 21 s ., 22 s ., and 23 s ; Coke , 17 s . Cd . Office , 279 , High Holborn .
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Just jmblished _, price Is ., the Fourth Edition ( Translated from the Nineteenth French Edition ) , _CONSTIPATION DESTROYED ; or , Exposition of Natural , Simple , Agreeable , and Infallible means , not only of overcoming , but also of completely destroying habitual Constipation , without using either purgatives or any artificial means whatever ( discovery recently made in France by M . Warton ) , followed by numerous certificates from eminent physicians and other persons of distinction . Free hy post , ls . Gd . Sold by James Youensand Co ., Tea Dealers , 45 , lud-• _jate-hiU , London , and by all booksellers in the Umtep Kingdom .
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DAGUERREOTYPE AND CALOTYPE . THE APPARATUS , LENS , CHEMICALS , PLATES , CASES , and every other article used in making and mounting tha above can be had _« f J . Egerton , No . 1 , Temple-street , Whitefriars , London . _Deseriptive Catalogues gratis . LEREBOURS celebrated ACHROMATIC TRIPLET LENSES for the MICROSCOPE , sent to any part of the country at the fallowing price : —Deep Power , 60 s ., Low Power , 25 s . Every article warranted .
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TO ALL WHO CAN'T PAY ! IM MEDIATE Protection , and a prompt and safe final discharge , without the intervention of a Prison or an Attorney . A discharge to Debtors is non-imperative , because Imprisonment for Debt is now penal , not remedial . _—^ Debtors of all grades -will be benefitted by applying forthwith to John S . Benstead , 22 , _BasiughaU-street , near the Court of Bankruptcy , London .
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ROYAL MARYLEBONE THEATRE . . LESSEE , MB . 3 , DOUGLASS . Magnificent Pantomime— "Harlequin Old Nick in China , or the Railway Prince . Decidedly the best in London . Extraordinary Changes and Mechanical Transformations , full of fun and hits of the day . T . Lee as Old Nick . Splendid Chinese Costumes . Grand Feast of Lanterns Every Night . Engagement of the Mori Family . ON Monday , Tuesday , and Wednesday , to commence with "The Deserter . " Supported by the whole strength of the Company . - . 'On _~ f rl » _ttrffd- » _y ,-. J ? Hdoy . nn _< 3 _Saturday to . co _ nn : CMCC with a New Drama . " After which the Wonderful Performances of the Mori Family . To conclude with the Grand Comio Pantomime , entitled , "Harlequin Old Nick in China , or the Railway Prince and the Fairy Queen of the Golden Pagoda . " Harlequin , Mr . Ellar ; Pantaloon , D . Lewis ; Clowns , Messrs . Buck and J . Lewis ; Columbine , Miss Massal . - Stage Manager , Mr . Neville . Boxes , 2 s .: Pit , Is . ; Gallery , 6 d .
Opening Of The Spanish Cortes.—Madmn, De...
Opening of the Spanish Cortes . —MADmn , Dec . 15 . —This day the Cortes was opened by the Queen in person : the following are extracts from thc " speech" ;—Gentlemen , Senators , and Deputies , During the short space of time that has elapsed since the close of the last session of the Cortes no remarkable alteration has taken place in the relations of my kingdom with foreign powers . Negotiations are still pending with tho Holy See . * # * # * At home , in the Peninsula , order and respect for the laws have heen maintained , so that every attempt at treason has been defeated by the vigilance and the firmness of the authorities , as well as by the fidelity of the army , the subordination and discipline of which might serve as a model for tha world ; and , in . fine , the excellent spirit of the people—tired and worn out by revolt , and anxious to enjoy fully tlie benefit of peace , under the shade of the throne , and under the protection of our national institutions . ' . In Older to consolidate thc progress of advantages so precious , we have , by virtue of the authority which you guve to my government , established organic laws . I have to congratulate you on the fact that these measures have fully justified our expectations , The nation now dnds itself endowed with laws , the want of which had been felt during so many years , and the establishment of which laws has been effected without .-uggesting any difficulty ; on the contrary , tbe establishment of those laws is beginning already to produce the fruits ofthe good order and government of the state . My Government will present to you a project of law with the important object of endowing , in a permanent and solid manner , public worship and the clergy . # * * * At present it devolves on you to examine the results of your former resolutions , and to introduce such further improvements aud reforms as shall appear to you called for and necessary—a task which , though less brilliant , is not the less useful and glorious . Your zeal and perseverance will be necessary to aid my government in the laudable task of regulating thc finances and administration of the state , which necessarily felt the effects of previous great and fatal disorder . I feel convinced that this task , if undertaken , will not be found greater than your capacity . This I hope for , at least , confiding in tlia protection of divine Providence , and with an ardent desire to add this new sevice to the many which you have already conferred on the throne and tho country .
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_ R . jilw . at AccinEsr . —Wigan , _Tuesday Morning . —Last night a serious accident occurred on the North Union line , about two miles from this town , by which a passenger train from Preston was disabled andseveralof the i _« issengershurt , though notdangerously . The cause of the accident was , as is frequently the case , occasioned by the carelessness of some of the company ' s servants . It-appears that some empty coal-waggons have been lying on what is called the " spring-junction , " being a line made by the company to some collieries in the neighbourhood , where they remained for several days on the rails unfastened . The place where tbey lay is within a short distance ofthe main line . Last night , about dusk , the wind blew very high and set three of these waggons in motion and carried down the junction , end on , to the
main line , but , coming into a deep cutting where they were sheltered from the storm , they stopped , and were unobserved by the workmen . The train which leaves Preston at six o ' clock reached Wigan about half-past , where it stopped to take up and set down passengers . It was again set in motion and got to its foil speed , when the engine came in contact with the waggons with fearful violence . The concussion was terrific , and had it not been for the presence of mind displayed by the engineer , tlie result must have been attended with great sacrifice of human life . He immediately shut off his steam and stopped the engine , not , however , before three ofthe passenger carriages were thrown off the line and three of the luggage waggons shattered to pieces .
Fortunately none of the passengers were ( so injured as to prevent them from proceeding on their journey . JDistkesslvo Accident . —A few days ago Mr . J . Lewis , the coroner for the city of Rochester / held an inquest onthe body of Edward Chidley , a ' very intelligent boy , ten years of age , who lost his life on board the steam-boat Lily , on Saturday last , by falling into the river . It appears that the deceased was with his father on board on Saturday last as the boat was on its passage to meet the down train of the Rochester and Gravesend Railway , at half-past four o clock p . m ., and on tho boat arriving in Limehousereach , the deceased was observed by the helmsman to take up the bucket and immediately drop it into the water as he was standing on the starboard side , and , before the helmsman could call out , the lad was overboard ; the steamer at the same time was going at
the rate of ten miles an hour . The boat was almost immediately stopped , and the deceased and the bucket rose to the surface on tbe larboard side , both having passed under the vessel ; and the boy was seen struggling at the top ofthe water for about five minutes , when he sank . The party on board could render no assistance , as there was neither a boat-hook nor rope on board ; and , although the accident occurred opposite to one of her Alajesty ' s ships in ordinary , the party in charge could render no assistance , not being provided with a boat . The body was p icked upon Sunday morning last , about eleven o clock , near tothe spot where the deceased lost his life . The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death , with a recommendation to the owners of the boats to provide things necessary for the preservation of life in case of accidents . In this case , if a boat-hook had been on board , the . life of the boy would have been saved .
Incenbiabt Fibe , —A fire , supposed to be the work of an incendiary , broke out on the premises of Mr . Thomas Heard Mortimer , tanner , Andover , on Christmas Ere , Two building * were destroyed , together with at least 500 tons of bark , with a large number of hides . The loss will amount to at least £ 4000 .
To All Land Secretaries. The Land Confer...
TO ALL LAND SECRETARIES . The Land Conference having now laid down a distinct andsimple line of policy , and it being of all things , desirable that the accounts of the treasurer , sub-treasurer , and secretary , should be as distinct as possible , the secretary doing his work , andno more , it is not only necessary , but it is indispensable , that all monies , from all parties , as well from London as the country , and whether for _shares , cards , or rules , should be transmitted to me , to the credit of Mr . Roberts , The London men can as easily leave their money at my house , or my office , as anywhere else : and I can at all times leave a sufficient amount of cash in the secretary ' s hands for emergencies . If this rule , which is very easy , is not observed to the letter , i sham , _besign my office as deputy-treasure !* .. Pra _» cu 9 O'Connor . ¦
Tbe Northern Star. Saturday, December 27, 1845.
TBE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , DECEMBER 27 , 1845 .
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THE CRISIS . Last week , when the hope of Whiggery was strong , we announced the difficulty that Lord John Russell would experience in his attempt to re-model a pure Whig administration out of the shattered fragments of the old wreck . Wc did not base our opinion upon the individual squabbles against whieh , itappears , the noble lord could not successfully contend . We drew our conclusions from the fact that he was ignorant of
the present state of public opinion , and that he was incapable of seletting materials from his whole stock of Whiggery capable of representing the improved mind of the country , or able to carry out the statesman-like policy of Sir Robert Peel . We believe that the League itself rather anticipated defeat than victory from thenoblo lord ' s appointment ; and hence , while there is no lack of free trade ardour , there has been but alight exultation inthe temporary triumph of the OCCASIONAL Whig Government .
We presume that the best informed saw , at the instant , that the restoration ofthe Whigs to power , was the very calamity which could arrest the anticipated triumph of free trade—in fact , that it would have been , as it were , a second blight . That Peel would have given them precisely that amount of support that would have damned them , while lie would have used them to justify his own altered policy , and as FOES that may one day be _cwiYerted into
FRIENDS . Upon the other hand , Lord _Jonrv Russell ' s conversion having been seized as . a triumph by the League , and a vacancy occurring in the West Riding of Yorkshire , where they hope to teat the strength of their new policy , forbid any expression of sorrow for the weakness that such an unexpected calamity as the recall of the Whigs had inflicted upon the question of free trade , and hence we find the triumph marked by the most scanty amount of party exultation possible ,
We believe that the free-traders , consider their position materially strengthened by the command of their forces being transferred to Sir Robert Fuel , while we cannot shut our eyes to the fact , that thc retreatof _Russell niay justify a more moderate policy in a lc & _'ler who has boen forced into power by the weakness of liis adversary , than he wonld have been justified in pursuing as the LIEUTENANT of Lord Jons . We cannot presume ( notwithstanding tho attempted solution of the Times' conundrum , whereby it is attempted to be shown that the 20 th of January is early in January , and that the studied silence of Sir Robert Pbbl is as significant as the nod of LORD
BURLEIGH ) , any reasonable grounds upon _whicE we can anticipate Sir Robert Peel ' s support of thej whole hog principle . Nay , more ; wo aver that Sir Robert _PnELandthe Whigs in the Douse of Commons , and the Duke oF Wellington and the confiding iu the House of Lords , will fail in the attempt to carry a total repeal of the Corn Laws . What we anticipate , then , is defeat , after a vigorous struggle in the lower liouse , a dissolution of Parliament , and toleration , if not invitation , for such an exhibition of popular feeling—such a manifestation from without , as will leave no alternative to the two Houses but that of once more humbly begging pardon , and knuckling down to HIS MAJESTY THE MOB .
This is the boldest policy that wc expect , from Sir Robert Peel , but we are not sanguine enough to believe that he will propose the total repeal at once Inthe latter oage , hoir would the pressure from with _, out , deal with a new sliding scalo , gradually remitting a portion of a small fixed duty , and stopping at some little figure , such as 2 s ., which would mark the triumph of the baby aristocracy , by adding just 2 s . per quarter to what the price of corn would have been , if regulated by a total repeal . What we have so often averred we n _« w repeat , that with all the ingenuity and aptness for business which distinguishes
Sir Robert Peel , Sir James Graham , and Mr . Gladstone , they would not , within the twenty-five or thirty days interval between thoir recal aid tho meeting of Parliament , be able to produce suck an altered tariff as would be considered a safe adjustment for the settlement of so large a question—so old , so ramified , and so cherished an abuse . The question of free trade is the keystone of the arch of protection ; once remove it , and the arch tumbles down . We know that the glib philosophers , who so disinterestedly agitate the question upon the grounds of philanthropy , have fascinating arguments for all whose interests are likely to be affected by the change . To the starving operative they kindly say , ¦• Behold the cheap bread
of Poland , if your cruel taskmasters will only allow you to exchange your free labour for it ; while , to the farmer , they would balance inability to meet existing contracts , and the landlord ' s disinclination to reduce rents , bythe fascinating prospects ' of diminished poor rates , diminished county rates , and thc reduced price of all those articles of life upon wliich , at present , they pay a tax regulated by the Corn Laws . However , if free trade should ever arrive at the Russell point , of- clothing and all other articles as well as food , we sliould be glad to know what , without a cautious adjustment , is to become of those artificers and tradesmen who have paid the protection fee for their knowledge , and who , if the flood-gates are opened , would be swept , by the first flood , into the general abyss of pauperism .
What will become of bootmakers , shoemakers , ribbonmakers , glovemakers , and all those who have yet some protection against foreign competition ? Will they not become an additional burthen upon the poor-rates , unless the new avenues to trade shall be so wide that all may walk in them without the inconvenience of jostling , or the dread of knocking their heads together ? This is the rupture that we anticipate—the convulsion , the chaos , that must inevitably follow the destruction of so old an abuse , by which the fictitious price of everything is regulated ; if not preceded , or accompanied , by such an
adjustment as will enable the routed pauper , as well as the protected capitalist , to live . What , we would ask , will become of those who will be , presently , setting our words ia type when their profit upon a hook , that NOW FETCHES one pound twelve shillings and sixpence , shall be reduced to a profit upon the same book , which , when printed abroad , can be sold in this market for the small sum of one shilling and sixpence ! Be it remembered that we are now arguing as if the centre " was struck , " and the arch had tumbled in ; as if the entire policy of open competition and no protection , contended for by the League , had been recognised , adopted , and confirmed by law . The farmers , who hoped to raise the price of produce to the famine standard , were _lsudest in the
bellowings of deficiency and threatened scarcity ; but now , when the ghost fhat they have created haunts their own minds , they stagger back affrighted , crying , "Avaunt , there is abundance , there is plenty , there is more than enough ; where there were three stacks last year there are six stacks this year , and the quality is superior . " Alas ! kind yeomen of England , [ good bull-frogs of Britain , you were false alarmists when the wolf was on his march ; he is now upon you , and the devil mend you if lie devours you . You have supported those prejudices which have disorganised society—you have surrendered whatever little intellect you possessed to the keeping of foolsthey have used it fer jour destruction , and you are the authors of your own ruin . Did tliey not give you notice of the confidence that they
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had in your subserviency , when they transformed you into" £ 50 tenants-at-will" slaves , to be whipped to the county mart to regulate the price of corn at Mark Lane . And did you not as servilely assume the chains that your oppressors had forged for you ? You did . And now make the bejt of a bad bargain _, put your house in order , whatever becomes of the landlords' rent , FOB two years * subsistence-money until the struggle is oyer , and then you will be recalled to your previous occupation , discharged ofthe conditions that cramp your energies , relieved from the obligations that compel you to make tyrants of your roasters .
The Demonstration on New Year ' s Day . —We trust that every man , at least every true man , within ten miles of Manchester , will make it a point to assemble in Stephenson-square , on New Year ' s Day . The Pedigree of the Aristocracy . —Next week the Northern Star will contain the pedigree , root and branch , of the English Oligarchy , and the second death and "finality" burial of the Whigs , with inquest , public funeral , hullagoners , andall .
The Distressed Capitalists, And Thriving...
THE DISTRESSED CAPITALISTS , AND THRIVING OPERATIVES . The highly-lauded resolutions of the bankers , merchants , and others engaged in mercantile pursuits in London , as well as the cuckoo-cry that restriction paralyses trade , and so forth , will bear but sorry contrast with that picture of distress which we are about to present to the reader . Throughout the long and tiresome agitation for a repeal of the Corn Laws , we have preserved a manly , consistent , and dignified position . . While the philanthropists-and humanity-mongers were making merchandize of the
misfortunes and sufferings of their slaves , and urging their condition as arguments for the enforcement and recognition of their own principles , we drew a faithful picture of the condition of the respective classes . We marvelled that , as masters , men should be tyrants ;; and that , as agitators , they should struggle for such laws as would COMPEL THEM TO DO JUSTICE . We directed attention to the gorgeous mansions and princely fortunes amassed bythe unrestricted use of machinery , even under all the disadvantages which appear so much to cripple industry and limit trade .
If we could have found but a few honourable exceptions struggling against wholesale wrong , being honest amongst thieves , humane amongst oppressors , clement amongst tyrants , and Christians amongst Infidels , we sliould have looked to _their-struggle for altered laws as a means of making the exception the rule . The labouring classes , as Mr . West well observed , have turned the Chartist agitation to the profitable purpose of opening up the whole question of labour and capital . THEY LOOK UPON
CAPITAL AS THE CHILD , AND LABOUR AS THE PARENT ; words that should never be forgotten , words that should be printed in letters of gold , framed and hungup in every poor man ' s house . The child has revolted , not only against natural feelings and human laws , but against God ' s holy
word" Honour thy father and mother . If the agitation for the Charter has presented this all-important question in an altered phase , it has also led to the canvass , investigation , and criticism of the conduct of the child , and the question has been asked , how has the child discharged its duties to its parent ? Has it fostered the hand that reared and protected it ? Has it comforted tho offspring that has been the author of all its grandeurthe founder of all its greatness ; or has it taken advantage of the injustice of human laws to revolt against God and its parent ? Labour , in advocating
its own cause , has shown that those who would new serve their own purpose by enlisting its co-operation , have never lest an opportunity of harshly administering the law , and o l * unjustly using the power of capital . In discussing the effect of restrictions upon trade , self-interest is veiled , whilo the workman's goodness ; _J « tenderness for him , is pompously paraded in ; the foreground . We have always looked with suspicion upon the . powerful wealthy contending for the restoration of those rights which they
themselves had robbed from the poor . We have seen the way , if there was the will , WITHOUT LAW , to do justice to the oppressed ; but wehave never seen that justice done . While glib philosopher . ) , while interested manufacturers , speculating merchants , and brainless shopkeepers , have been shouting free trade as a means of benefitting their _respective orders , and themselves individually , wehave quoted the simple words of the simple " Yorkshire prophet , " - " THAT ALL THE STUFF 'EE THE
_WURLD , WOR MADE FOR ALL THE FOLK 'EE THE WURLD . " Upon this sound aenae we have written and spoken volumes . Upon these words of wisdom we have based the principle of equitable distribution ; and now we come to apply it to the most recent case that has been presented for illustration . On Tuesday last there was a gathering of the DISTRESSED AND TOILWORN CAPITALISTS , to take their present hard case into consideration , and to devise means for raising a pauper fund for their relief . At this meeting over £ 60 , 000 was subscribed by the paupers , and
£ 23 , 000 of it was subscribed by as many INDIVIDUALS GIVING £ 1 , 000 each . Monstrous ! horrible !! frightful !!! When have they given that amount to arrest famine , feed the hungry , and clothe the naked ; and why do they offer it now as a secondary mode of relief , when the application of it to the primary purpose would have the more generons effect ? Do they fear the famine that they have created ? for if laws are just , and if they were humane , the blight that stints tlie crop would not fall
solely upon him whose industry produced it . But more ; where did they get it ? How do they contrive , after their many bubble speculations of this very bubbling year , to abstract so much more from the profits upon labour ? Or how comes it to pass that , notwithstanding the blighting infkence of protection , thay have been able to amass fortunes , to boast of being able fo pay off the national debt , of living sumptuously , buying land , speculating in everything that offers 4 per cent ., and yet have this _PROTECT ION FUND to fall back upon .
Will not the working men how believe that restriction and distribution must constitute a portion of thc elements of any adjustment that is likely to be satisfactory ; and will they not ask what danger of famine the League stands in , when they have already amassed enough to live upon the dearest dainties and most expensive luxuries , while one in every ten ol the slave class luxuriates on workhouse fare , in a prison dress , on this , our Saviour ' s birth-day . Nature is out of joint . All the evil propensities of man hare warred against the common feelings of humanity , and system has taken the place of nature . Will not this SIXTY THOUSAND POUNDS , that
has been collected in a few minutes for the purpose of benefitting tlie working classes , open thoir eyes to , and justify their adherence to , such nobleminded and disinterested patriots ? Or is there a chance that they should discover that their enemies are fighting the battle of self-interest with the ponce lashed from Labour ' s side . If one circum stance more than another could have made the people more sceptical as tothe real intentions ofthe League it is the fact of cruel masters , with famine threaten ing , work scarce , and poor-houses fall , being able to subscribe £ 00 , 000 , while those who made it HAVE NOT SIXTY THOUSAND PENCE
There is another curious document presented to us at the same time , namely the balance-sheet of the League , and by this we fin . d that the gentlemen have turned the mercantile term " sundries" to profitable account . Under this head we find £ 1 , 500 , or nearly £ 30 a-week charged , while the expense of lecturers has amounted to -over £ 2 , 300 . The only comment that wc shall offer upon tliis branch of the " subject is , _contrast it * t f ' ith the poor means at the disposal of
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In Answer To Correspondents We Beg To St...
In answer to correspondents we beg to state , that business , preparatory to the ensuing term , will make it necessary for Mr . Roberts to be in town on Tuesday , the 30 th , and to remain tliere for some days , where all communications may be addressed to him , No . 2 , Robert-street , Adelphi , London .
The President's Message And Chartist Con...
THE PRESIDENT S MESSAGE AND CHARTIST CONVENTION . Mr . President Polk has spun such a tarnation long yarn , we find ourselves unable to lay it in a digested form before our readers this week . We have given as much , however , of the important features of this important document as will enable the reader to judge of its MEANING . The question of tho Oregon stands precisely where it was , giving to the British Government a kind of option , not as to whether the territory in dispute shall be ceded now , but whether it shall still be perpetuated , as a nest egg , for plenipotentiaries and future conference . The British
Government , however , will very probably see , that every year ' s delay will tend to strengthen the pretensions of the growing Republic , while the same causes may tend to cripple England's resources in thesame direction , or , which is the same , to make it more difficult to bring those resources into action . Upon the whole the decision of the British Cabinet upon the Oregon question will much depend upon the use that Sir Rodert Peel may make of it as the terror or the hope of the landed aristocracy . If he can make the question of war , at one and the game time , palatable to the manufacturing class , and
profitable to the landlord class , he would be the very man to send a fleet to Sandy Hook , with a steamer freighted with a Plenipotentiary who understood that it was merely intended as a diversion to attract domestic attention , while the FREE TRADE TRICK was being done at home . We do not quarrel with this policy ; but , on the contrary , we admire it ; and only regret that a wise man should be thus compelled to play the child with children , the fool with fools . Upon the whole the Oregon question does not appear tons as likely to constitute _thecarcw belli between Republican America and Monarchical Europe . The
policy of non-intervention , laid down by President Mokro , and now prominently enforced by Mr . President Polk , is the grand feature of his Message . It is the first blow at the policy relied upon by Louis Philippe for sustaining the rule of legitimacy against the growing demand for republicanism . Mr . Polk , in Ms manly dealing with this most important of all subjects , reminds us of the anecdote of a poor Irishman who was to be sentenced to death for shoepstealing , and when told by the turnkey , in Irish , that the judge ( Lord Norbury , of course , ) wished to know what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him , as a jury ofhis COUNTRYMEN had found him guilty , he replied
" By Jasus , they may say what they like , but I WON'T ABIDE BY IT . " Now , Mr . President Polk has told the great powers of Europe , in just as unmistakable language , that they may say what they like , but America won't abide by it . We know ot _' no policy more pre-eminently calculated to disturb that heretofore well-managed tranquillity by whicli the King of the French has been sometimes able to govern , using the holy alliance as his administration pro tern . This declaration of Mr . Polk ' s puts the league of European kings and queens , and ministers too , in " a tarnation fix ; " in fact , we now see no escape but in the humbling of the proud spirit of democrac , IF THEY CAN DO IT .
The question , as we have often predicted , has really resolved into that , whether kings shall reign and rule , or RULE AND REIGN ; whether they shall reign by right divine , and rule as they please ; or whether they shall reign because they reign justly . * Upon the question of manufactures Mr , Polk is equally clear and explicit . He uses the young mind of the Republic to grapple with the monster ( machinery ) before it becomes too strong for resistance . He boldly declares in favour ofthe labourer , and proposes an ad valorem duty in preference to the sliding scale . He shows that theoperation of the present tavift
is to make all articles of luxury used by the rich , cheap ; and articles of necessity , used by the poor , dear ; and to rectify this , he proposes an ad valorem duty , the principle which we haye always advocated with referenco to taxation . Upon the whole , the President ' s Message may be taken as the first declaration of American independence . As the first recognition of the embodied strength of the Republic , and as the assurance that the people are aware ofit ; while the great and mighty questions involved in it are not treated with that politic caution which a suspicious Ministor would use , but are boldly affirmed with that confidence that national co-operation , national strength , and national patriotism warrants .
It is a glorious Message , and the more so , because the policy of the President is in exact keeping with the palicy of the Chartist Convention , that recommends centralisation of party strength , and denies the right of factious intervention . There are more sacks upon the mill , and we fear that our poor friend , Sir Robbrt , tor whose restoration to power we feel thankful , will haye enough to do , if he is able to satisfy the landlords that a war price for wheat is preferable to his sliding scale ; and to convince the manufacturers thatthe interest ofthe cotton growers of the Southern States , in case of war , wiii weigh more heavy in the scale than their patriotism . Upon the whole , his work is cut out , — " Sugland expects that every man will do his duty . "
Arrest Of Patrick O'Higgins, Esq., On A ...
ARREST OF PATRICK O'HIGGINS , ESQ ., ON A CHARGE OF SEDITION . The readers of the Northern Star will recollect that , some time in the month of November last , a paper was published in the Star , entitled " Landlords _. ' and Tenants-Tyrants turning Tenants out . " The constituted authorities ( Dublin ) issued their warrant , and Mr . O'Higgins was arrested near his owu house at seven o ' clock on Friday , the 10 th Inst . Ho was immediately bailed , having been accompanied to the head police office by two friends , who became sureties for his appearance , in a sum of £ 200 , and himself in £ 200 , for his appearance at 12 o ' clock , noon , on Monday , the 22 nd inst . However , on that day , tha Government was not fully prepared to proceed , and the case was further adjourned till Tuesday , the 30 th inst ., and the same sureties accepted . We shaU have a good deal more to say on this subject next week .
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_%% - We nave in type several articles and advertisements , which wc arc compelled to pospone till next week , in consequence of the great press of political _matter in our present number . The letter of John Frost next week , as we wish to ne « company it with some observations . E . S ., Bbawobd . —let the miserable cri pple go on abusing the Executive ; he is no ' Chartiat , and the Chartists are perfectly right > have nothing to do with him . For ourselves we need only say , that the censure of slaves is praise , and we h _» pe that Blares will always censure us . The head that this fits may wear _tlmcap . When caps amongst the crowd are thrown , Those they fit may wear them for their own . George White and the Bradford boys , keep a sharp lsok out ON OCR FRIEND . _Seth Norms . —No such song has been received at the Star office .
A Constant _Reaueb . —Roderick O'Connor is the brother of P , O'Connor . B . Loan , Thornton . —We believe many papers are retained and read , prior to reaching their destination _, lie must pay two-pence each with the Stars he sends to America .
Receipts Of The Chartist Co-Operative La...
RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY , SHARES . _rEE ME . O _' COKNOB , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , per M . Jude .. „ * j "J H _^^ b 0 _^ _^* . _^ _-V . _»«) ttg _p- ! r Exeter , per F . Clark " ' . ' . " " ! _, ! _? A _$ _tt e nn l 0 Cality ' & hton * Per _William j . loner ,. lt _Dawabuvy-gate , per 5 . B _. OUSB .. ' . ' * ' 3 18 8 Derby , per Wm . Crabtree „ .. "lot
Receipts Of The Chartist Co-Operative La...
Yeovil , per J . G . Abbott ,. „ ,. _.. 5 o < i Norwich , per J . Hurrey hi .. .. .. 2 0 n Alva , per J . Robertson .. „ .. .. e l o Oldham , per W . Hamer .. „ „ i ! 5 a * Bradford , per J . Alderson ., „ " _^ Jf _JT Stockport , per T . Woodhouse .. .. " = ! J Dundee , per R . Kidd !! 2 1 _? n Manchester , per J . Murray .. „ ' ft _~ JJ Rochdale , per E . Mitchell .. .. " _e 12 I Bolton , per E . _Hodgkinson lo n » Ashton-under-Lyne , per E . Ilobson .. .. 9 13 „ Cockermouth , per G . Teat 3 1 n LEW FOR THE LAND CONFERENCE , PER 3 CR . o _' coMNOB . _Dewsbury-gate , per J . Rouse .. „ . 0 1 n NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIAT ION . EXECUTIVE , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , per M . Jude .. .. 027 FOR THE CHARTIST CONVENTION , Merthyr Tydvil , per D . Morgan 039 _" — " - " - " .... _.. * <
Gkand Festival In Honour Op T. S. Duncom...
GKAND FESTIVAL IN HONOUR OP T . S . DUNCOMBE , ESQ . AS it is the intention of the Trades and Chartists _«(• London to entertain Mr . Duncombe at _u Tea Part on Wednesday , the 21 st day of January , _isjfl . _ l _ _* , j { previous to the meeting of Parliament , it j requested that Delegates from the various Trades aud Chartist localities will meet at the Parthenium , St . Martin _' s-lane on Wednesday evening next , at eight o ' clock precisel y , \ q make the necessary arrangements to do honour to tL ' . _ Chief .
To The Chartists Of The Tjniteet Kingdom...
TO THE CHARTISTS OF THE _TJNITEeT KINGDOM . Brethren , —The assembling of your representatives has been called for by the occurrence of events pregnant with beneficial or disastrous results to ths present generation , and even to the latest posterity On the issue of the pending struggle , between the * belligerent landed and commercial aristocracy , ig based the destinies of the toiling millions of this empire . By a pusillanimous and cowardly policy at _thla hour , weJose every advantage , forfeit every claim to national confidence , and virtually surrender every dear-bought victory , enshrined in your hearts , to the factions whom we have fought so oft and gloriously conquered .
Brethren , after these preliminaries , we deem it our duty to lay before you a brief statement of our plans for future operations with respect to our own body , and also that of the Corn Law agitation . Having always the interests of the working classes foremost in our thoughts , we repudiate the notion of merging our agitation into anything short of the People ' s Charter , wholo and entire . But , inasmuch as the threatened scarcity of food would place our body in a false position , if they continue their opposition to a repeal of the Corn Laws , that , nevertheless , having no faith in the efficacy of that measure , as a means of bettering the condition of the sons of labour , we deem it advisable to abstain from taking any part calculated to mark our approval of the principles of free trade , without political power first being conferred upon the people whose duty and interest it will be to make that change a national , instead of a class benefit .
Friends , in the event of a general election , it k our unanimous request that the occasion may be used for the furtherance of our principles , and we call upon every Chartist elector , and non-elector , to render the most strenuous exertions in favour of candidates who shall pledge themselves to support tha _Pesple ' s Charter in the House of Commons . We ivould , likewise , call your attention to the casa of your expatriated friend , Frost , Williams , Jones , and " Eliis , who have been torn from their homes and families , and haye been doomed to endure , in the penal colonies , the degradation ofthe vilest felons , and all for their devotion to the cause of humanity and down-trodden labour . We now conjure you , by your love of justice , by your hatred of oppression , at once to exert yourselves in behalf of these champions of * your rights . From the other side of the globe they call for your sympathy—your aid . Will you deny it ? Cold must be the soul , and callous the
heart , that responds not in the affirmative . Up , then , ye brave and philanthropic democrats ; endea _. vour to effect the honourable , the holy work of deliverance . That indomitable champion of your rights , T . S . Duncombe , is ready to plead in Parliament the cause of our exiled friends . He will , oa the assembling of Parliament , name a day when lie will move for an address to her Majesty , for their im . mediate liberation . Meantime , if you would be suecessful , be vigilant . Hold your public meetings , and let the efforts of Mr . Duncombe , on the day on which he makes his motion for their restoration , bo backed with petitions from every town in Great Britain . II this policy be pursued with energy , we hesitate notto predict that a gale of popular _agitation will be risen which will waft , in triumph , Frost , Williams , and Jones from the land of felons and of bondage to their own loved homes , arid the bosoms of their injured families .
We likewise entreat you earnestly to pour in your petitions at tlie proper time to the Ilouse of Commons in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill . The enactment of this most equitable measure would , wo are convinced , confer manifold advantages on myriads of men , women , and children , whose very Jives are being sacrificed by long hours and intense toil in the noxious atmosphere of thc rattle-box , to uphold the unhallowed luxurjr and aggrandizement of the _mammofrauoring capi « talist . Humanity , justice , self-interest , imperatively demand an abridgement of thehours of factory labour . We would furthermore recommend that petitions be sent to the Commons House of Parliament on otlier subjects involving the wrongs ofthe working classes ,
always , however , urging your convietion that tlie existence of injustice is attributable to the non-representation of the people . Friends , judging from the aspect of the political horizon , we venture to predict that a general election will take place ere long . We have deliberated and decided on the propriety of presenting a great national petition , in favour of the Charter , as soon as possible after the assembling of the new House of Commons . By this policy we secure not only the popular , but the Parliamentary agitation of our principles . Justice to our cause requires that we sliould ever keep our principles in all tlieir beauty , brilliance , and sublimity , prominently before the world , The most effective agency for tliis
purpose , under present circumstances , is the right ot petition . Through the medium of petitioning , wesliall be enabled to force into our service the reluctant aid of the Whig and Tory press , which now calumniate ** our advoeates , malignes our motives , and misrepresents our objects . They will report the _debates on the Charter in Parliament , though they effect to sneer at the proceedings of Chartist meetings , Fail not , then , friends , to petition , when the proper time arrives , and thus send to the uttermost regions of the globe a knowledge of the justice of i our principles , and the necessity of tlieir legislative adoption . Friends , we have now bricllf developed our policy , are you prepared to carry it into effective operation ? We feel assured that tue f
hearty response of all who aspire to the honour o manhood will be " we are ! " The time for action lias arrived . Faction is on the alert : apathy and indintf _" ence at the present juncture is treachery to the cause of justice . Let every man do a man ' s share in striking the fetters from desecrated humanity . L _« him cheerfully contribute his quantum of laoo _**' towards the completion of the superstructure of Ins country ' s liberty . And should his destiny _preiw his witnessing the glorious consummation for whicn he struggled , he will leave tliis sublunary state _mta the consolatory reflection that he has done his duty to his conscience , his country , and his God . LHere follows the signatures of every memucr of the Convention . !
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-Tub West Rimxe Eluction _.-Lkeds , Mond ay _EvEsiNG .-Tho announcement ofthe death ot wro Wharneliffe produced great sensation in this town m every part of" the riding on Saturday morningiast , i »» demise ofhis lordship being quite unexpected . . _£ _» the Hon . J . Stuart Wortley , one of the members _, W the Riding , will now be Lord Wharncliftc , and tawhis seat in the House of Peers , an election wm shortly ensue to fill up his place in the house ol w »» mons . Lord Morpeth , the former rcpresentawu * " the riding is everywhere spoken of as its future rutm ber . So far as your correspondent has been _nw-j * . learn , nothing publiehas been done by either LiDei . " or Conservatives to bring for ward a candidate . I " ' ported that the former party have had a private mew ui £ ui 110 le _uwiiiuershhu
aning _, w"y ""' - . i () upon sending adeputation _. with a requisition , to * _- « . Morpeth . The general opinion is , that his _lordslnPA be elected without opposition , in case of an isow election : but , if there be a general election , the _< - > servatives will start , if not two , at all even ts « candidate . The third edition of the Times _SM _^ day , containing the important announcement "' , Lord John Russell had failed to form a Cabinet , that Sir Robert Peel had been sent for by her JW _* to Windsor , waa received here at a late hou _** _" . . turday night . The iniormation which it coi _" "' was received with modified satisfaction by tne y servatives , and great regret by the Liberals , tarn * the latter proclaim their confidence that Sir i «* will repeal the Corn Laws . —Times . 0 { Sutton _Bosisoiom _Weaveus . —Mr . J . « _* f . „ , j « y Sheepshead , delivered a lecture here on _» 10 _T \ g Deceniber 22 . on «« Trades' Unions . " and P > ' 0 VC _« . '
demonstration , the superiority of the _Prades _A . _^ ciation over sectional unions . At the conclusion was unanimously agreed— " That we , _thelrapiew knitters of Sutton Bonington , do join , witto « . lay , the Sheepshead District of the United _n _™ Association . " __ on _Alarminc Fire in Adam-street , _A-pEirm * _^ Sunday night , shortly after nine o ' clock , a me , > tended with a considerable damage , _broise out in _^ spacious pile of buildings belonging to Mr- _tu ' et ( Lewis , a solicitor , situate at JS ' o . 7 , Adam ** Adelphi . Mr . Lewis , at the time ol the _disas had upwards of £ 2 , 000 worth of property » _^
building , but , fortunately , what 19 burnt anu » _** ., _^ will be covered by an insurance in the ou " office .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 27, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_27121845/page/4/
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