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UOBTHEEK UNION . . tor Advertisi&g Cohrams ,, it will be found 4 t ^ opTndt-Tw » te 7 v *» eeds means to throw off dieTold man and jut © a the new . yte have slept too long ; oar -Northern neighbours are op and ioW ; shall "vre then tamely bear * our chains ? I * t every . man be at his post , and every "banner fiy ia the biee * e of naUowed liberty , ~ upon that £ ay ^ whea -the n * w Charter of oar Bights shall be proclaimed npon Hunslet Moor . Let us , good men , show our strength and our Union on "Wbit-Tuesday . .
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THE BUDGET . On Friday week , the little Chancellor brought forward bis big Budget ; and not that we can glean jBuehhonour from an agreement with a false prophet , jet we most refer our readers to an anticipatory article which appeared in the Star of the 13 th , upon the arguments which the Bight Honourable Gentleman would nse . Canada- ^ -over-specn latioDj and the Savings' Banks—we laid down as IDtely to form the principal stock-in-trade of the great financier . In these days of wholesale plunder
and systematic gambling it would- be more than foolish to attach any great importance , to financial ¦ peculations , but really there is something so intestifigly ludicrous in the past , the present , and the fixture , as recounted , described , and pourtrayed ty the "West Briton" Artist , that we cannot resist the temptation of a comment Spring Rice was a false prophet in 1836 , on the right side ¦} Tie was a fake prophet in 1837 , on the "Wrong side ; so multiply the negatives and you have tbe affirmative , and he pledges himself to be a trne prophet in 1838 .
But a year to his capacious grasp is as nothing , so ie embraces the whole space of time , tiH 1867 , for Hhe exercise of his prophetic genius , and , ia order to satisfy us with the present , he sajs Oh J well wait till 1867 , and there will be £ 5 , 000 , 000 of available money ! that is , should the man who is now thirty live to be sixty , he will live to see ( should the system continue ) £ 3 , 000 , 000 divided among "whore-masters , wine-bibbers , . prostitutes , pimps , bastards , anl government backs . — * live , horse , and you'll get grass . " So much
i > r the future , now for the present . We have always told our readers , that money , being the life and tbe spirit of our rulers , the factious , upon both sides , would agree upon the necessity of voting it the one to the other , for fear of introducing so unwholesome a precedent as stopping the supplies ; « nd tbns with a passing observation from Mr . Goulburn , to the effect that his party would have made a betcer use of the cash , and some " vulgar arithmetic" from Jjjrown Bread Joseph , the farce nded . But how do the London journals handle
the question ? "With much temper and moderation . This is not a subject to create alarm upon . It is not the Church in danger ; it is only the State in danger . And there they are moderate in their criiicisms . One paper , the Morning Advertiser , goes * o far as to laud the Hon . Gentleman , and has the effrontery to say we are to have no Joan . So , so , no loan , Eh . ' Now , how does the Chancellor intend to maie up the deficiency ? Why , by a fictitious principal , which must be . paid , with real interest . The whole debt is a fiction ; but the
interest is a reality . We are to have more Exchequer Bills , and as that is no loan , we presume that Spbix g Rice , like the drunken Beadle in the Wreck Ashore , will borrow the Exchequer Bills from ene pocket , and take the interest from the other . The importance to tbe people as to the state of the Exchequer is not great , because they know that if there ¦ prasa surplus , it would either be applied to a reduction of taxation upon the luxuries of the -rich , or be Converted into a fund for the prostitution of the poor representatives and their friends . In short , for
every £ 1000 there would 2000 mouths open to receive it . But let us see the value which we receive lor those items which seem to . puzzle the Brain of the great arithmetician . £ 1 , 000 , 000 in aid of murder , despotism , and tyranny in Canada ; £ 600 , 000 for the payment of the apprenticed misery of the Slave , who is more aserf than ever , as his life is no loneer of importance to the flesh-merchant—to which add an indefinite sum , arising from the spirit of gambling -which the system has engendered at home . How , often have we told our readers that all were
"but specks compared to the great domestic contagion ! How frequently have we informed them that with a wholesome and well-regulated labourmarket , the pay of tbe army—the navy—the pensioners , and all the drones would be as nothing ; bit with unrestricted power in the masters to dabble with labour as they find it convenient , no reduction in expenditure can in the sli ghtest degree benefit -the million ? , inasmuch as the sating is sure to be directed into the representative channels to keep up corruption and limited delegation . Do away with
[ Pensioners and you have Commissioners ; educate Prince Geobgb and you have aDuchess of Kent ; in shor t , bury lie whole lot to-morrow and jou would not get one farthing more wages , or pay one farthing less in the pound for any article you consume ; nor have a single day ' s more employment . Yet , notwithstanding the clouded appearance of the financial lorizon , Spbikg Rice has hope , —and whence does it spring ? Why , from that very source which is too i gnorant to be intrusted with political
power ; "but which is sufficiently powerful to save the state . O ! read it , every man in Engl and , lead it twice over ! The gambling of the master tubs tbe country into ruin , and the poor savings of the needy , amassed by unheard of privations , and up-husbandtd in dread of the Bastile , rescues the sute from bankruptcy ! Ye ? , you who are idle , lazy , ignorant , and not worth y of a vote , "have saved the . nation . " The increased deposit * m the Savings Banks ' gives hepe to the Chancellor , that the oppressed operative will save the
country from die gambling master ! - This , for a season , may be flattering , but can it last ? . No , a mail deficiency may . be made up , hut an unemployed community , or a badly paid community , cannot go to the shopman ; the shopman cannot go to the exciseman ; and the exciseman cannot go to the Treasury ; and , therefore , as employment ceases , depo its will cease , and draughts commence . So far from any reason existing for the hopes of the Chancellor , we tell you . and tell 'him . that
• nnfcl the supply is regulated by the demand , and until . the proaocing power is made generally profitable ; ; and applied to the benefit of all , all his cbeines and his projects will he moonshine . On Friday , the Chancellor received the benefit of the Poor law Amendment Act , which , as we have frequently told you , must henceforth be considered as 1 he basH-ef , the Constitution of this country . The ^ m aU shopkeepers : are daily feeling the effects of wholesale monopoly : and . usurpation . The great ahopkeeper has but iaonnally -the mortification of
declan . ng- the state of njs tilL \ If there 4 s a surplus the nehreeeive ^ ifc—ifthere > Ia a deficiency the peor pie jay it .- The ; capital in the ; SavingS ' Banks is composed cftbe ttflsey of rthnee-elasses . Firstly , of fte * mall c ap } taJLj « rf jaen wfc ^ by jnjK&nery have ¦ bee % jW «? v from , , fte marked—secondly , of * er-, Taob t' wages , " aaa-i&rdl y , t > f a miserable absfcrac-^ s ffFQ ^* . ^ W&rts . of the poor , who loring Bber ^ yj $ * n families and . their home * , unjustly . «^^ nS ^ e / flja | i ineet the ty ranny of the Hell-bo rn Si # 4 kl « ftfr . « bt : who ' > y . theInfereit of &e ^ egfesits ? Why , not the servants , - -tot the . poor , - » boiavej and who have not money there . ~
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A LITTLE LORD—A GREAT SLATE . The debate on Sir E . Wilmot ' s motion for the immediate emancipation ef the "West Indian . Slaves , furnishes little of novelty , save the rash and presumptions declaration of Lord John Russell ^ but we trust that the friends of freedom will not allow tbe vote to remain , like the appropriation clause , as a dead letter upon the books of the House . If we have not recently taken so prominent apart in the discussion upon the slavery question a * we formerly did , it was simply because we saw no hope of immediate
relief upon the one hand , and did not upon the other hand , wish to disturb the Radieal force from the acquirement of Universal Suffrage , by which alone Slavery of every kind can be effectually abo lished ; but now that we have the encouragement of a majority of three , we feel some slight revival of hope , even under present circumstances . Lord John Russell tells the House imperiously , that the vote is an infringement of an act of Parliament . "Fool" why what is any vote ? What was the "Reform Bill" but a wholesale repeal of the
Constitution ? What w _ m the vote upon the Catholic question , but the repeal of several Acts of Parliament ? What is the title to the Bedford property , but the repeal of an Act of Parliament ? But then , pay the Ministers , "You break faith with the planters . " / No such thing : the planters and the servile Magistrates have broken faith with the country , zdd have violated the Act of Parliament . " Wait , " say the cold-blooded politicians , " for twenty-four short mouths , and emancipation will be complete . " "We say no aueh thing-:
for the hourly aggressions practised by the planters and the Magistrates will debase the minds of the slaves , and make them more unprepared for freedom , and then we shall hear of the ignorance of the blacks ; or mayhap , an Administration unfriendly to the freedom of the slave would be in office , or that some mighty foreign or domestic consideration may dirtct public attention to matters of apparentl y more moment , and thus would slavery still curse the land and enrich the flesh-merchant . Is it because England , in her lov e for freedom has
been disappointed with the Emancipation project ^ that , therefore , we are to rest satisfied with abuses which we dreamt not of ? No , back we cannot go , stand stilt we must not , and therefore , with a long pull , a strong pull , and a pull altogether , let us pull down this temple of abomination , and in our own misery let us test our love of freedom , by administering the sacred ooon to others . We were always of opinion that the condition of the apprentice would be worse than that of tbe entire slave , because we know that most men evince a
more tender feeling towards the beast they own , than to the beast they hire ; and mournful lo say , the white owner looks upon his black slave as his beast . But to come to the point . Will the nation bear this trifling , or will thev not rather insist upon the completion of the vote ? It was well to repeal the Malt Tax upon a Monday , and to rescind it upon a Tuesday ; but let the Government pause ere it ventures thus to submit its bead to the double blow of black and white slavery at oi ; ce . Is this Government sufficiently popular thus to brave publicopinion ?—or does it not hang upon the breath oi
those very Dissenters , who vow vengeance against the system , and whose greatest admiration of the Whigs has been their supposed tenderness to the unprotected ^ Negroes ? If an abuse is proved , and no man will dtny that asuses are increasing under the present system , why allow them to continue for a day , nay an hour ? This ridiculous atumpt , upon the part of the Whig ? , to withhold relief till custom sanctions error , is the fatal rock upon which they have split . This little Forty-loot Russell is a greater SU-rc , In mind , to the Planters , than any of the afflicted ISe-roes
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THE DEVlL-KIIs'G LAW . We rejoice to see that the spirit of the people yet sustains them in all the vigour of determined opposition to the odious , infamous and unconstitutional Poor Law . 'Tis to no purpose that Little Lord John and his c lique set their faces to force this law on the " people of England—they won ' t have it . They have reiterated their determination not to suffer its infliction again and a ^ ain , and they are not yet weary of coming to the charge . The brave men of Staleybridge are preparing for a decided
demonstration on Monday , and Bradford is rall ying her forces against Wbit-Tuesday . Much will depend upon that meeting , and we do hope that the men of Bradford will not be found sleeping at their post . They have placed the question on a good basis for discussion and for eliciting the honest opinions of lie people—there is no part in which people are so extremely sensitive as in the breeches pocket The Bradford ratepayers very properly wi ? h to know for what crime they are to be deprived of a just and honest controul over the
expenditure of their own money . Every ratepayer who fails to attend that meeting , and to register his protest against the injustice and the dishonesty of tbiB law , is a traitor to himself , hw wife , and his country . Again and again we have reminded the people , in all parts of the country , that this law will never be repealed by any House of Commons constituted like the present , unless the rate-payers of the whole country take the matter into their own hand ' and convince the legislature of their sincerity by buttoning up their pockets ..
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TO TFE EDITORS OK TBE NORTHERN STAR . London , May 23 rd , 1838 . My dear Sirs , —Knowing that you feel deeply interested in the destiny of our Irish brethren , I shall make-no apology for once more inviting your readers' attention to the desperate experiment about to be tried on that ill-starred country . I allude , of course , to the " Poor Relief ( Ireland ) Bill , " now in progress through the Lords . The monstrosity , you will have perceived , was read a second time in that House on Monday night ; but though the second
reading was carried b y 149 against 20 , the " debate " shows clearl y that the monstrosity is destined to undergo another metamorphosis in the Lords' Committee , as complete as the original Bill underwent in the Commons' Committee . In what shape it will eventually wnerge fro m the e ddying gulphs of the two Houses , or whether it is to be swallowed up and altogether lost , Providence alone can tell ; but if we are to prognosticate its fate from the sentiment avowed in the Lords on Monday night , we shall either have no Bill at all , or such a Bill as the world
has never J > een the like of before . I am extremely anxious that those sentiments should be known to the whole country . They are of vital interest to the whole labouring p-rpulation . They concern every Englishman and every Scotchman , as well as every Irishman ; their direct tendency being to exclude all three , for ever ,. " . from all hope of happiness on this side the grave ! -They are , in fae ^ so many anathemas—so many sentences of political and social
excommunication , dooming " every man who ix poor , and consequentl y , all who have only their own industry to ^ subsist on , to irremediaWe misery and despair .- l ^ t- our rolers only sneceed In carrying t out ^ bose- ^ entfjaCTifc , and evtrj cottager may write on tie door of his honse what Dante ' s p oetic fancy inscribed on the gktes ' of a certain namelg »' p l «! e— " ' hope never enter * AjreJ " - But ean thjjy ^ fe ; fe * ni 6 a out ? _ Forbid it , eternal justice I ^ of ' ^^ ng is nripoaslDtei Let the nebi once
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recognize those sentimento ' as joiiticai axion ^^ let them only attempt to make them the basis of legis * lation , and that moment , the reign of anarchy'is restored , and society is at an end ! Let us now see whether I interpret their Lurdshipa aright . The Premier Minister of . the Kingdom , pur de facto Chief Governor Viscount Melbourne ( of Criro-Con , Calthorpe-8 treetn 6 t <> nery ;) in moving the secona reading , developed the theory <> f society aaifollows • '
.--" Ptfrerty wan the generil condition ( if mankind ; it belonged to % W nations , all rliinw , » 11 situations , and circumstances of society . Labour and poverty were die ' original dennnciatiun ; anfl tie whole biitory of th $ world bad onl y tend « iI to prove the unchan £ e » bl ; -neiw of the dirine institute . With , wealth and prospen . y came inordinate deaires , great luxury , an unwQIingneas in m * n to emaui in their original situations , a passionate eagemras for lnerdinate . wealth , wild and reddens speculations , and then of necessity again wide-apreadine ruin and poverty . Poverty , then , being an evil jn alf countaM , in all climes , and in all situation * , the qne » tion was , how the Legialstare ¦ hould deal with it , and how it should diminish that front which under any circumstances it could not thoroughly escap * ? Some said—bold and speculative men .
lookin * only fcr > the inference * of reason , and utterly fonretful of individual angering—aomf a » id , "Well have no Poor Laws . W « do not mean to « ay that poverty is crime , but it ia a state nf thuiCT generated by crime—it ia the reiult of error , i of vice , of indulgence , - f Inxnry , of negligence , of improvidence , ef want of forerght , and if you wish society to exercise its own energie * , and individuate to exert their own abilities , you must leave poverty to its own punishment , and most make no provwion bylaw for the stole of suffering which-it produce * . " ( Hear , hear . ) It might be well to say All this ; but the fact was that yen could not dp it ( Great cheering . ) The nerves of man could not go through witk U- ^ heaT , hear ;) --and inconsequence the general practice of all European nations had been to institute tome provision for the relief of the poor . "
The obvious meaning of all this , ( if it have any meaning ) if , —that God made man to be poor and miserable!—that to attempt to remove poverty and misery , ia to fly in the face of Providence !—that wherever there is poverty , it is either the fault of the poor themselves , or else nobody ' s fault!—that , as to attempt to remove poverty altogether , would be to oppose the decrees of the Almighty , the utmost we ought to try to do , is to diminish it a little !—that the "inferences ef reason " as well as of revelation , would warrant us in " leaving poverty to its otvn punishment , " but that * he nerves" &ni sensibilities
of aristocratic rulers are too delicate to carry out the severe injunctions of reason and scripture!—that , accordingly , whatever relief the poor may receive , they are to consider themselves indebted for it , —not to reason or scripture but to the sympathetic lenderness of the rich /—that Malthusianwm is the climax of . political wisdom , but that it is too wise to be applied with safety , until we can find " nerves " strong enough " . to go through with it !"—that meanwhile we are to make the best use we can of the " nerves" we have , by carrying out reason scripture and Malthusanjsm to the fullest possible extent , compatible with the fact uth attce cannotdoit !
And lastly , that whatever woes and tribulations the poor may have to suffer during the process ,, they are ro bear them meekly and resignedly , seeing that "labour and poverty were the original denunciation , " and that their sufferings are no more than a compliance with "the divine institute , '" I defy the records of even the British Parliament to furnish the parallel of this passage , for blasphemy , folly , and wickedness ; unless it he sought for in tbe speeches of some of the other Noble Lord ? who followed Melbourne in this "debate . " But let us hear another Noble Lord—another Whip , too , and no less a personage than the liberal Earl
Fitzwilliam : — " ¦ It was a gratuitous assumption in the Noble Vwconnt to attribute any part of the unexampled wealth anil prosperity of this conntry at the commencenient of the 17 th century to " the original enartment of a pystem of Poor Lavs . // alirai / i appeared lo Aim tint those bitrt endtarourni to rob the supreme Governor of the Uniterm of some of his attribute * , their object being to overturn the decree promulgated immedinU-htafter-the fall , that man tho'ild eat bread by the sweat ofhisbroie "
Here is a broad , naked , unequivocal avowal that to relieve the poor is to wage war against the Almighty ! And by whom is the avowal made ? By a man who never earned sixpence-worth of bread "by the sweat of his brow" since he was born !—nay , not a halfpenny-wui th of broad : —by a man who draws sixty thoxisand a-year in rents put of Ireland , without ever contributing the value of sixpence , by " the sweat of his brow , " or otherwise , to the riches of that country . This man , who never handled a spade or a plough eince he was born , does actually
receive more of Ireland ' s produce than 6 , 000 families on bis " estates ^ ' yet he can see no cause for poverty in Ireland other than " idleness , " w hich he says Poor Law * Vould encourage and augment ! And when he is asked to contribute a small fraction of his p lunder to save from starvation those whom he has so largely helped to make desolate , he turns round upon us and tells us we want lo rob the Supreme Governor of the universe of his attributes ! " Ah ! my Lord Fitzwilliam , the day is gone by when blas phemy of this sort could consecrate spoliation—when aristocratical versions
of senpture enabled ' " religion " and robbery to walk arm in arm over the prostrate bodies of their duped victims . Bitter experience , my Lord , has taught the people to quote scripture for themselves , and not to take your versions . '¦ of texts for the true ones . They know that if God decreed , after the fall , — " that man should eat bread by the sweat of his brow , ' ¦ —he meant his decree to apply to all men not to any particular class or classes of men—for God is no respecter of persons , and God had nothing to do with creating Vow /* or title * , which are only of human manufacture . The only distinction he created was male or female , and when he allotted them the earth for their u » e , he said nothing about rents or landlords .
Thus , my Lord , you see how dangerous it is to quote scripture rashl y . The text you have thoughtlessly cited bids you , yourself , ( aa well as your tenants and your tenants' labourers , ) to eat bread by the sweat of your own brows but there is not one passage throughout the whole of scri pture which authorizes you to live on the sweat of other men ' s brows much less to grasp to yourself * ix thousand \ times as much as you allow to each of those who comply with the divine injunction . Remember this version , my Lord , the next time you cite your favourite text , and remember , at the same time , that " the bread of the needy is their life : he that defraudetk them thereof is a man of blood f "
It would be amuBing , if it were not atrocious , to see how adroitly these noble lords twist and torture Holy "Wri t to their own ends . " Labour mi poverty " says Loud Melbourne , «' were the original denunciation . " Softly , softly , my good Lord—there is a slight mistake there . Labour u > a * ybrit poverty was not , the original denunciation . God commanded all men to labour , but he commandtd none to be poor , except those who will not work , and of them he says , " they that will not work neither shall they taU" YThat strange changes we should have , my Lord , were this text to , be rigidly enforced ? What huge and long faeeB it would make amongst the "higher ordere . " What joy and justice it would spread amongst the "lower . " Oh my Lord , have
nothing to do with that text , for it is downright revolutionary : it would turn the world upside down ! A * mjr Lords Melbourne , Fitzwilliam , and Co ., can discover no other reasons for poverty than such as are either of divine institution , or the work of the poor ^ emselvei , I think it would be very desirable to enlighten their minds upon the subject , by an article or two upon ' the relationshi p which our . " laws" have estab&ned between "properly " and poverty . It i » a ^ rery ticklish'lubject I know , and . would be painful to many , but the experiment is wortii trying for the jake of the end in view I haye almost a mind to trymyvhand at it for your next Bomber , bot as I doubt mj own competency to the taskj . I «^ ould prefer seeing it , in your or otijer hahiis . At any rate w «^ haU * eeU ; : ! ' --. ;; t . > v ! : V ^ - ? - - ^ . ; ^/¦ ;?««^^ , ^ : ^; h ' v ; l BEONTERRE /
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Theteturnjtotow ^ r ^ of : the number of St ^ p » fahushed 4 o the ¦ various Newspapers in Great Britain and Ireland , from 1 st of Pec . l 83 r ^ to ; the > 31 « t o ^ IVIarc 1 ^ 1838 ; reached us last week ; but onl y in timie for * part of ^ r impress 4 on ; and as yve knpvr the anxiety with ^ which ttiis Return baa been looked for * by : mai » y ; friends t ) f the yorthernStary ever since ^ the firet > mhouiicementpf iU being orderedjwer give beloyr the number of 5 tamps furpished to the Yorksbiri& Papers , in the aggregate of four months , and the average number foreachweek . - " .
Stamps furnished Weekly ; ¦ ¦; ¦¦¦ . ¦ . ; . ¦ ¦¦ . . ¦ " ¦'' ; » n four months . Average , JTORT ^ BK ^ S TAR ^ 7 « * 800 ^ Sw ' Leeds Mercury .. w ....-.. 170 , 637 9 , 480 Leeds Intelligencer ........ 150 , 000 3 , 333 Leeds Times .... ' ..... ; .... 48 , 000 2 , 666 Bradford Observer ,. ........ 16 , 000 888 Doncaster Gasi : ette ; V . \ ...... 36 , 000 2 000 Dencaster Chronicle ......... 9 , 000 5 Q 0 HalifaxGuardian ...... ; .,. 5 , 000 277 HaHfaxExpre 88 > . i ........ 6 , 600 361 Hull Rockinghauh > ... / ... 10 , 000 555 HuHTime « ,.. i > ...,....... 10 , 000 — Hull Saturday Journal ... i . 6 , 000 277 Hull Advertiser ............ 30 ^ 00 1 , 666 Hull Observer .,......... ' ...: 5 , 000 277 , Hull Packet ............. 20 ^ 000 1 , 111 H arrogate Advertiser .... . ... 130 - ^ Sheffield Iris ..... ........ 12 , 000 666 Sheffitld Mercury ..... « . * .. .. 31 , 975 1 , 776 Sheffield Chronicle ; ....... 6 , 000 333 Sheffield Independent .. 22 , 900 1 , 272 West Riding Herald ...... 8 , 500 472 York Herald . .. v ... / . V .... 33 , 600 1 , 866 Yorkshire Gazette . » .-. * . « . 35 , 000 1 , 944 York Chronicle . ....... 10 , 000 555 YorkCQurant ............ 23 , 300 1 , 294 Yorkshireman ............ 22 , 750 1 , 264 . Yorkshire Racing Caleflder . 500
-It has been well said that few things done in a hurry are done well . In the hurry of stopping the press to announce the receipt of the Stamp Returns , last week—we were very unthinkingly led into an act of injustice both to ourselves and onr neighbour t ^ Leeds Mercury ; both of which , mistakes , and espe * cially the latter one , we must now beg to rectify . On referring to the few hasty words with which we prefaced the Returns , last week , it will be seen that we say " The Northern Star ? although not more than six months old , leads the Leeds Merdury , ^ ^ which has been in existence more thuna Century , » pwariisof 400 [ Copies a Week !! Its weekly average Circul « itiou beiug 9 , tS 2 iJl "
This is incorrect . The weekly excess of the Northern Star over the Leeds Mercury , as given by the Return ? , is 342 . Our Contemporary will perceive that we had no intention wilfully to mislead ; because a glance at the relative numbers which we gave then , as how . would be sufficient , at once , to point out the error . The other error lies in our stating that the Northern Star was " not more than six nionths old . " These ^ Returns come only to the 31 st of March , 1838 . The Northern Star commenced on the 18 tu of November , 1837 . Consequently , at the time which theie Returns embrace ,
the Aorthefn Star wm no more-thpn- four months and two vwefes old . ' We have thus endeavoured to place the facts of the matter , so far as the Returns are concerned , fairly before our readers , and we so thoroughly detest every thing which savours of Commercial speculation , where Principle alone ought to be concerned , that we should not have said another word about them , had it not been rendered necessary by the manner in which our position on these Returns , has been spoken of by some of our Contemporaries , Upon one of these notices we must be permitted to make a few remarks . The Leeds Mercury
says—¦ " Our young neighbour , the Northern Star , baa apparently consumed u lew inore Stamps within the lour mouths than ( lurst-lve * ; burtbls iawt quite certain , us lh . e return of stamps / iii : nis / ieii by . the btanip : Uliicu does not exactly indicate the uuunuiy consumed Witnin the particular period /' True ; the Stamp Office returns do not exactly indicate the q , uatttity consumed by any particular newspaper in a given period . Aa a proof of this the Jliei'cury , with a diwinteredted honesty of purpose , which , however little imitated by some other papersj will eveutiially prove to have been the beat policy , states , in a marginal note , that though the average of stamps furnished and appearing on the return is 9 , 450 , the actual consumption of stamps by the
Mercury during the period embraced b y the return , shews an average of 9 , 002 . As our neighbour intiinatest that our majority of stamps consumed is only " apparent ; "it becomes necessary , to make the matter " quite certain , " to give the actual consumption of stamps by the Northern Star during the four months included in the returns . During the month of November , 1837 , we recei ved 22 , 000 stamps , of which rodOoiily were consuined iti that month , so that we had on tiii first of December , 1837 , which is the
commencement of these returns , fifteen thousand stamps on hand , which , of course , are not included in the returns . Add this 15 , 000 to the 176 , 800 in the returns , and you have a total of 191 , 800 ; from which must be deducted 12 , 000 , the number we had on hand at the end of March 1838 , and the remainder shews the number of stamps actually consumed by the Northern Star , in the four months , included in the return , to be 179 ^ 800 , which , divided by 18 , the number of weeks included in the returns , leaves a clear weekly average of
9 , 987 ! VVe hope this will satisfy our neighbour , that we have reallyV as well as ? ' apparently , " consumed a few more stamps than the Mercury . In his next paragraph , the Mercury says , " The sale of the Northern Star , however , as suddenly obtained aa it iB exiensivirt , must be allowed to be very surprising ; and the inore go , as it appears to have produced scarcely auy perrapdblts ettect on the circulation of any 01 ' the elder yorkshirt ! NewspapKH . "; ! None can rejoice more cordially than ourselves that tb . 6 extensive " sale of the Northern Star should have produced scarcely any perceptible effect on the circulation of any of the older Yorkshire Newspapers , " This proves in the most conclusive manner
that which we knew to be the fact , and that which was our first inducement to light np the Northern Star in the pdlitiQal hemisphere i it proves that the " working classes , ' , for whonj ^ ^ the Northern Star is " avowedly written , " had , previously toits existence , no single provincial organ through which their wants aud wishes could be adequately expressed , and b y whicb their rights could be duly asserted and their interests mamtainedi it prov «»; that we " have discovered or created an entirely new class of readers . The writers in , and the conductors of ^ the Northern Star , glory in the knowledge that , while they have produced food for the minds of these wtio lacked it , they have not interfered with the " speculations" ol others .
iThe next part of this paragraph is very courteous , but singularly fallacious , both in its reasonings and the conclusions drawn from them :- — " VVe abould be sorry to do our contemporary tihe slightest injustice ; but we believe he will not contend that the regular circulation ol ' . the . Slar . eqnuU that of the Mercurd . Calling iu to his aid a . wriea of ' > Splxndid Poriruilt , " one of whicu ia published every six weekH , and gioen gratuitously , hot only to regular custumera , but to every ytrsun who chovuea to buy tne paper of that day ; th «^ le of the Northern Star- ia swelled by '
several UtovsanU copie * each week that thu reuiurkable tempu .-tion is ottered . As w « only deal in news , which we *«« , add not m pictures , gtvin away , we never riae , an the Star has declareathiitijUflwen , t > an occasional sule of 12 ^ 1 ) 0 ; aud thu being the « aue , it fulluws thatuur regular circulation , unassiatetl as it i 8 bythe « JexiRi 8 uI | . 8 of ueyemi tnoubandu , muubveonttderably higher than that of the Star . For the extra sale of otUi picture , week . would nearly uiake the oiffehsuce between the staukps furnuhed to the Star and those funuaheO- . to the Mwcuni within the lour months . " . . .. ; . \ . . ; . "
The ; fanciful manner ill : whicbi - Parliamentary returns iare rejeoted or relied on ; disparaged or approved , according t 6 * the caprice of those who call for them * is exc ^ sively anivirfjig ,: ^ e iav ^ mdre than once , when applied to , btated our circula ' tiou ou the authority of our paper-rnanufaoturers . Thij would hot do . ; ^^ it ^ r : thereMni 8 , ' ^ a ^ Well , the pe ^^ b ^' 00 ^ di ^ Pic ^ eti \ PK ' t ow * is theanawer , when Jtbe Northern Star appears atthe head of the Provincial Press of the ^ Empi re ; Npwy witb ; T e ^ e ^; . tq : ^««;^ i ^ e : »* . jP |^«)^ y >;^ Rres ^ ine ' ti& b } U $ ^ ia ^ iBij ; tq teU , auyliody that « ne ^ apefi vcnitoo )^^ meaM being taken to iriaike it tmbli ^ IPli ^ x ^ ilii
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practice is to issue large quantities of posting-bjlli ,, hand-bfllsj newspaper ^ ver ^ m ^ ti ^^^ j . : yf $ \\ iLvt . known instances of , many hundreds of pounds being spent ^ thw wayi- " mthe ^^ fiwtqna ^ pfa year , to bring i new paper into note . ^ thtw expended on the Northern iSfer , ( including even . aecir eulte the paper ) , falls greatly short of £ 25 . Instead of thus expending our money , we have chosen to expand a portion of it in providiug for . our readers
something that may remain with them , as a teitimdny of oulr respect and gratitude ^ : in after time * , Onr conternpprary ^ deals only in news , wiiicu be sells . " \ Ye ! also " sell ;'' bat we endeavour to give our readers value for their money , and if we occasionally add a portrait to dor " news , " ^ tis oniy fio much the better a bargain ^ for our friends , while to us it is now nearly all dead loss , as the portraits do not affect pnr circulation in the weifks they are given near so much a » out neighbour seems to . think . ¦¦ ¦ .- ; ' . ' •¦¦ ' . ' ' " :. \ ' :- ¦¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ . - ' . ' : - ¦ :- ^ . -- "¦' ¦ : . r
We cannot leave this ! paragraph without remarking that though- , ' « we should be sarry to do bur cohfempprary ^^ the slightest ^^ injustice / ' a regard for that justice whicu is diae to ourselves compels us to " contend that the regular circulation of ttie Star !' now , not only " equals , ' / biu greatly exceods that of the Mercury , We might content ourselves , for ' the-proof of this , to point to tne fact , that in the four months , from thie : 1 st of ^^ Pecemberj 1837 , to theSlst ' of Alafcli , 1838 ^ the actual consumption of Stamps by the Northern Star shows a weekly ( excess'over that ^ of the Mercury of 985 ; and though wefadmit that our cirQUlatiph on portrait weeks usually exceeds that of other weeks , we must remind oor contemporary
that his circulation was settled and established to begin the four months with ; wnereas ve , at the beginning of that four months , had been only one fortnight in existence , and have , therefore , had to take into the account of this average all the earl y weeks of our career , when our circulation was of necessity comparatively very small . This will more than account for the overplus of the portrait weeks . We cannot ' suppose that pur neighbour meant us any injustice , but we think be mustnow see that he did us one in naming the extra circulation of the portrait weeks as increasiug the average of our circulation , while he kept back the fac t * thatwe must necessarily in that average include several weeks of our early age , which would tend materially to lessen it . ' . ' ¦'
In tbe next paragraph , the Mercury does justice to one great fact connected with the Northern Star which we wish to be constantl y borne iq mind . The Northern Star is not , nor was ever in tended to he , & mere Leeds paper . 'Tis a nationat organ ; devoted to the interests of Pemocracy in the fullest and most definite sense of the word ; and it is , consequently , supported by every true Democrat in every place where it has become known . And , inasmuch , as these abound in Lancashire , the Northern Star lias a larger circulation in Lancasbire thaii any other
newvpnpe ^ , save one ; indeed it may be questioned whether even any Lancashire paper circulates so many in Lancashire as we do . Still , however , our neighbour greatly exceeds the mark when he talks of more than half our Circulation being in Lancashire . Our greatest Sale is in Leeds , Bradford , Halifax , and Huddersh ' eld . In Halifax , our Circulation exceeds the whole Circulation of both the Halifax papers put together ; in Bradford , our Circulation exceeds the whole Circulation of the Bradford paper ; and in Leeds , we have before stated that it averages more than 1 , 500 weekly \
W u now come to the last paragraph in our Contemporary ' s article : — "In saying these things , we mean not ' to derogate from out contemporary , but lnerely to state the facts as " they are . II we mbi-state any tiling , weholdouTselvei bound to correct the error . The Slui-b y no means interferes with us : our liit . e planet moves in a different orbit , nay , belongs to a difltrent system , and therefore will hardly come into collision with our contemporary . But he will nut . question our ri ght to point out thelact , that the regular circulation of the LEEDS MERCURY ts considerably higher than that of any other Provincial Aetespaper . " , :
Nothing can be more fair aud gentlemanlike than this paragraph , and as we apprelieud that we have now very clearly shown that , howeveruninlentiondlly our Contemporary certainl y has greatly mis-stated the relative position of the regular Circulation of the Leeds Mercury and the Northern Star—we can have no doubt , therefore , that he will "hold himself bound to correct the error . " We feil ou rseives fully justified in adopting our contemporary ' s words , and
in supposing that he will not now "question bur right to point out the fact that the regular Circulation of th * Northern Star i « considerably higher than that of any other Provincial paper . " There are only four weekly papers in the three kingdoms whose Circulation exceeds that of the Northern Star . Many of the London daily papers do not Circulate so many . It is much above any paper in Ireland or Scotland , with , the single exception of Saitiidcrs ' News Letter which is a Dublin adverting paper *
It is true that the greater part of our readers are to be found in the humble and useful claases of society . We rejoice to think that it is so . Wetdaim no alliance with any other " system "—we wish not to move in auy other " orbit "—the Northern Staria their luminary , and sincerely do we thank them for having made it shine so brilliantly .
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Church Rates , Crompton * We have received another letter from Veritas-. on this subject , in which the statements of J . Butterwortb in our last are controverted , and the previous letter of . Yeritas maintained to be correct . This controversy is becoming so completely personal , thatwt cuniiot further occupy our columns with it . injustice , however , to Veritas , we give the yiost important of his contradictions to J . Butterworth ' s statement . The
assertions arc ^—That " the notice remaLied ' onthe chapel door a / lthe time of service : ¦'— That" Milne . Travis , and Milne ' s clock had struck eleven before Veritas went to the chapel : —That the ' motion for a chairman was put lo the ineeting in . the chapel : "That " Veritas heard Mr . Milne say , that any person ( no doiilt , meaning any lay . payer ) might hate access to his books , and Veritas was more than two yards from him . " Wethink itr + ghl , visa , to give thejollowing paragraph ; after which we must take leave of this controversy entirely : ¦ .
" In my last , I gave it as my opinion only , that the bulk of . the inhabitants of Crprhpton . ' were either in favour ofthe rate , orwere exceedingly apathetic in th « ir opposition to it ; ' X did not then particularize my ^ reasons for so conclude ing , but will now state one or two , or remaining of that opinion . On I he . i / thult ., a meeting was called on the subject , at which only about a dozen persons attended ; anpther meeting was callel on the 30 th ult ., in the Independent preaching room , iu which tbe Political Union formerly
met , at whicb from thirty to forty ley-payers were present . At this meeting it was agreed to put sut placards calling another meeting of the inhabitants in the same room , on Monday evening May 7 th , at whicb meeting there were from " ninety to one hundred persons present , rn <) not more than fifty were ley-payers , the ^ . rest beingvybunR lads apparentl y congregated for mere curiosity : These , then are some of my reasonH for still remaiuing of . thesame opinion .- If , after calling two public meetings , and , issuing an iuflammatorv
nlacaw calling a third-if , after agitating , and r *~ agitating only fifty ley-payers could be ^ called together in such a densely populated township as Crprnptpn ^ what becomes of the great demoiihtration of public feeling in opppsitiW to the rate ? It is all mobn . * hin ^ . " ' ;¦ T - : ; ' " JvButterworth ^ ives a resplution which he said . passed at this last meeting ^ > widi ^ oply ^ Sre &S ~ , sentiDg voices ^ a ^ id t , hpse five were jrieinbvrs of the ,. i Conservative Club , itf Sha ^; Here ; again , jMr . Butterworth happens to be wide of the mark . : •;! 1 have made inquiries from a friend who- waB presentatth ^ saWmeeti ng ^ ia ^ niethe narnea \ of \ tiirie rthpjvo ed " againkt it |; andf im i further inquirleit ,.- ! find that only- one put ; Pf tife nine is a member " o £ the said Club-- ^ so much for
the ^ veracityVof J . Butterworth ; VU ' : i ^ .- ^;' - ; ^ , ; >/ ym . puckmJmtoD ; . \ -4 W ^ 'fy ( V ?' r ° * e * vHA $# pf from this ' indiviitxinl i ^^ otn p ^ nmg ^^ hoping ^ sv 0 hv ^ t ; ii& ^ > - Ipaffe 0 i j $ trt ' . t ^ ia 8 i ^ \ j # iis We ;^ now ; mt ' ^^ i ^^ McaMfi ^ i ¦ - ' :- \ hiin . lf-ine , pfirji ^ cn ufhf / se . evidence , fa K < i « 0 i $ kdwer { £ 0 $ tfftoeiwv ^^ i indict them . '
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Change Rmgen . The Liveriedge Chante Rim-Sw peal r catled ^ Cuftd ^ n 4 &ercfc ha ^ ^^ reientedjn /^ K ^ KU ^ emge RitiS ^ i The ^ lion ifmmighfy ^^ :,: correct .- ^ -:-- ; ' . \ : ;< : fr : ; :- ; ; . -v .: . v- ^\ - - . u ¦ - . ¦ ; ,. ; : ' . T ^^ , : thoiniw Cli ^ : Bis ^ eltey a ^ no ^' jMti u ^^^ cientit ^ a ^ pmmtibn ^ Mr . Q'Cdrinor Ml have ihucti » & «*«*> fe ¦^ Li ^ fM '
^ % iMitaiioaj ^ m ^^ mittafw ^ angv ^ & Dinner , intended !? be given totfidt ejecel ^ nn ^ Johhfielde *; on WM ; miday . - ?? r ** £ : Mr ^ O'Connor ^« te >^ ^ «^ e rmwn /^ he tannot have the pleasure bj' visit ™ x £ frtends-at S «»^ to ^ «« TPA ^ S ^^^ f that prior arrangement * will prevnt hiulfj ^ fxing Htihetneeiingyto Ad ' m ^^ \ next , at Staley Bridge ; but nobody i * rSS ' where Stephen * and his flock are , ~ % ^?;
Mr . O'C . will shortly accept of the Hull oit > ifti ^« V and endeavour $ o rouse the steeping spirit . ^* for the " Northern Siarr muit in juturTj addressed to the Editor and > Post-paid , or thfc will be Returned - S ana * all Utien ^ intended W Mr . O'Connor mitst&e addressed toAmtclf . - : VOur paper has not been mgood as we could viA lately , but tbe pay the-tame money for it , aS upon ^ complamng to Mr . Wrigley he , ati *^ impossible to send as good paper as tee had when our Circulation was not scigreat . Me hatasturUus , however , that he has niade arrangements f » thefuture , which will be perfeeily taiis / adon L our readers . * T
The Prdpietor of the Northern Star has received - man y letter * relative to communications whkfe he has iiol seen . Allcfhnmuicatiohs , and a 0 letters haying : any reference to ; eommunication » for the Northern Star ought to be addressed to th « " Editor , who will always furnish any explanation that m ty be necessary . v ; ; ' s ; The Parties at Dumfries who paid our former " Glasgow Agent in advance fir the Star , shtff ¦ | iwi / ttitfv
— . ' . ¦ ' , 'a /' ' » ' ) : 1 " ** we iftuZf / lgM should have paid the postage ' of their application . Many l ersonacomplain ^ their being inserted . We should rather they would pomt : outw / a cj itld be omitted . If we were to print nil the communications that we receive wt should sorne weeks , want six or seven ^^ Northern S tai *^ Truth to say ¦; it would be themost cruel thin * we could do to our cotraspondents thau to ex . hibit them . , >
W e did not receive Mr . Stalwood * letter of tkt 19 M April , till Thursday : last . We shall be happy to avail ourselves of his services , and beg to inform himi thai ther Star can be delivered in London , on Saturday evening . We shall bt glad to hear from him . ; J . Butterworth . —We have received a letter / row Whitioorth , with this signature attached . Wt cannot publish it . . Alfred . —There are tome good points in his cmmunication , but it is much overstrained . We nut * perhaps insert it . y ' :
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James Bennett should apply to all those in hit neighbourhood , and have his former character for regularity stated He may apply to the overseers of other Hamlets , but he should mttki all those in his own assign a reason - for their refusal ; it will strengthen his case . Should any improper opposition be offered , the Northern Star will ie at his service . He shall not bt tram pled upon . - : J . W . wants to trick his creditors ¦' , and break hit bond . No redress at this office . * We wish to make men honest , and to protect them in their poverty ; A must either p-ty the money or defend the action , it he has grounds ; but it appears he owes the money . Hehadbetteraskfortime .
Homo . The heir of the blood can cjaim possession , but the expenses would be great / he may eject the lands and try his title in that way ; but it appears he is too poor , and his adversary in possession too rich . , The person who seems inclined to purchase the a freehoUl ground for building upon y had better have the conveyance : regularl y done by an at or-£ ney . A subscriber . / A . Z . The wid ( ko must account from the date of the death of her husband * A , B . cannot now make over his property , as U was liabfe to the enaction before he could makt the transfer , but the case is a most scandalom one . Weshould hear of those things before thi the mischief is done , and we would endeavour to prevent it . ' : , '"'' . '' . ' ' ' . ' - ' :: ' . / " '' . ¦
A . The creditor had no right to take possession of the farm , he should be summoned before the magistrates as a trespasser / and should that fail , the widow should lodge information againri him for having taken fweible possession . "¦ , Robert Lord should summon his employer before the magistrates , they ikust awardhim the amount . We are in sad want of a Mvofund to meet such cases ; we must have it . B . D . should apply to the Rev . Mr . Stephens of Ashlon . It is one of ' thepiratingcases , hewill attend to it and see justice done y the brute had no right to stop the goods of Bi D . ¦ The flesh merchant ' must be summoned before the magistrates : ' ' ¦ . .: '¦• . " -. " ¦ . * " .. ' ¦ ' ¦ .. ¦¦ ¦ . ' :. '" . ¦;¦; ¦ -.. : ;'
A reader must pay for the seventh year , JV P . L . willget possessionof hischild , andmay < r ' e . fuse to pay any thing till he does , provided he has treated her properly , and is likely tobehavt kindly to her * Charles O'Connor . The Magistrates Act was not justifiable , but the law is too expensiveto leaer auerist any hope of redress . It was a falte imprisonment ; ¦
A . S . P . 1 st . The coal under the lane , belong * to the proprietor of the lane , if it be private property if not , to the public , as the prop of ihe common way . The Lord of the Manor has by the Inclosun Act a right to the lane , 2 nd . No particular claim in consequence of the proximity of other coalpits . 3 rd ; Querist has a right to free ingress and egress to the coals , as the law altoayi obliges a man who sells property to insure a right of passage fa it if it be in his power i and tht former proprietor having such right , it must bt continued to the present owner or occupant . The plan is preferable to any other evidence if it is correct , and has been legally acknowledged . The time of registering will be in Octobery and sufficient notice of the coming of the Barr ' atet will be given . Mary Thompson . " ' ¦ -
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tolls . The magistrates , under these circumstam *^ . declined to bind the apprentice . ¦ : ' . ¦ ¦¦¦ 5 - ? : ' : BRicKiiAYEBs' Turn OuTfe-Allthe Sp * a layers of Leeds , connected with the ^ Union , tBrtiW " . ' put on Monday morning last ^ ' for itf advancer : « £ . " ' sixpence per day . Tbeir ^ fageV at ' present areite'C ' per week , arid for their ; ovey time they r re paji ^? -j proportion . -In the' winter season their 5 time is m&fll ' brpkeny and when in fall : employment tbeh ' Wii ^ W ff usually amount to twentyipne shiHiflgs . -jfc ? ? i * i . ! j ^ ; ; IxJfitJESTi—Oh Monday : inorni ^ an in ^ *)^^ taken at the Court ffouie , Deforp JBr ^ J ; 'SliciUmrji ^ i > 6 ^ view of fte ^ 6 dt ; pi-S ^ Mra > B Xenan ^ aged imh
years , an infirm individuai ^ whb riiided in lJ « w ^ V iBlreet , Jat tHe ^^ Ne % ^^ Eoad ^ ndV 3 ncl Wbty [ in&fb& ii appeared . to hate be ^ at times def ective . ' pn-1 f $% MoT *\ t $ fVih * ii the > iffitf Hone totm ? work ^ ifflefgbiWot b ^; tboi :: aitam I out of * heJeupT » ard . ' and gayehiargelf a vibWn't 4 Pmi U * \® «!^ n ^?^^« h ¥ faniiiy AetuTne ^ 'tb . bwfc f # i tbey -t ebservWlie . fin % n ^ > with-. W «« ^ a nd pfe ^ aWttatittn / teund'tBf ^^ fe ^ 'Medical aid was prppjptly ^ procured ^ , and' 78 D ? 3 W ? reBfoVifd ^ tb ^ e ^ Ififinff # ft ? ^ k ^^ r e ^^ psli san ^ day . i 'Itwa ^^ e- ^ nibn ^ flht ^ j ^ jt aKeinafd ^ een-bPa-jgobtf " c ^ am ^ maW -wH » .-tMPfit ' j wonfa-ripfr' haTCpWvew t&i ! & i $ mJm $ eFeiWW & apd ^ ejnaoiated ce ^ o 1 tiob ^ t ^ aij ? B « . ^^' aji «^( r irited her deaih /^^ Ve ' rdiet ^ "W'S aB ^^ v : cause ^ ' - ' ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ '"¦ ' ' - ¦ ¦ - '¦ ' . ' . ' : ' , ¦ : ¦ ; "¦ ' : : ' ; " ; " •;;;¦
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 26, 1838, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1007/page/4/
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