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THE NORTHERN STAR , SA-TOaDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1848.
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TO TAILORS. iij a ri-:ooauonoi'lier jldjcoy uuc-ii Vicuitlh, and H. R. H. Prince Albert.
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DO YOU SUFFER TOOTHACHE ?—If so , use Bkabde ' s En-axel for filling the decayed spots , rendering defective teeth sound and painless . Price One Sailing only , similar to that sold at Two Shillings and Sixpence . 'Sold by chemists everywhere . Testimonials . — ' It has gives , me the use of one side of my meuth , which luxury I had not enjoyed for about two years . '—E . J . Hacdosald , Belford . Northumberland . 'It is the most effective and painless cure for toothache I have ever found . I have no hesitation in recommending it to all sufferers . ' —Captain ThoXas WaisHX , 12 , Newington-crescent , LoBdon . 'I have filed two teeth , and find I can use them as well as evar I did in my life . I have not had the tooth-Ache siapg £ — Abxahah Coilins , North-brook-place , BradT » rOorlsshire . -. ¦/ i > See ¦ namercnis other testimonials in various news * . ' . -W > teSi ever } one of winch is strictly authentic If any . wScnlty in obtaining it occurs send One Shilling and a 'SSrnp to J . Willis , 4 , BelTe-buildings , Salisbury-square , London , and you will ensure it by return of past . —Agents tranted .
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THRESHOLD LAND and COTTAGES , the X yruperty of a private Gentleman , with immediate possession , 2 $ miles froaO'Connorrille , may . beboueht lOHto confer TOTES for the County of Buckingham or will be let on leases for any number of years 999 if required . Bent for a two-roomed cottage and garden . 18 s . 6 d . per qnarter ; with one acre of land , in addition 36 s . per quarter . Persons having a smallincome , or who can manufacture articles for London employen , willdo well to attend to this immediately . Twelve families of weaver * , shoemaken , tailors , &c , &c , were located on this estate through one single advertisement . Applicants who could not then be accommodated should renew their applications , as they may now rent , or purchase , from one-eighth of an acre to twenty acres of rich corn , growing , or building land ; the Freeholder j »| tractiBgin all esses to take upon himself the whole of the law expenses . ^ For full particulars , apply ( if by letter , post-paid , and enc : osiag a stamp ) to the owner , J . Hisimt , at Mr Brook * , stationer , 421 , Oxford Street London .
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IMMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA AND THE XU CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . —The following splendid Bhjp » will be despatched asunder : — - . - For SYDNEY , November 7 tb , ! the DIAMOND , 573 tons . W . STUAET , Master ; loadingin the londonDocks . For the CAPE of GOOD HOPS , December 1 , the JULIANA , 588 tons , F . BOWLES , Master ; loading in StKatherine Docks . - 6 For POBT PHILIP and STDNET , Novemher 25 th . the BEULAH , £ 73 tons , J . H . M . STBTJ 30 K , Master loadin * in the London Docks . ' The abovefast-saOiiig snips are commanded by efficieat officers , and are fitted with special attention to the comfort and convenience of every class of passengers . They have most spacious 'tween decks , weil ventilated , are fitted wife lifeboats , carry experienced surgeons , aad ere provisioned on the most liberal scale . 1 Families caa have their berths bo arranged that they can be entirely to themselves , and not mix with the other pa . « spui ; ers . Tnese ships will be found most eligible , as they cem . Kne comfort and economy , while they take only a limited number . For freight orpassage apply to W . O . Young , 1 , Bpyal Exchange Bufldiags ; or to W . S . Lindsay . 1 L Abchnrch Lane , London
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MR O'CONNOR AT NEWCASTLE ON-TYNE . -According to htnd-biliE and placards whioh were circulated and posted throughout the town , Mr O'Connor was announced to deliver a lecture on Saturday evening , OctoberSScb , in the Lecture Hall , Ne ' ncm Street . Mr O'Connor arrived at the railway station , by the express train from Carlisle , at twenty taisutes to three o ' clock in the af tern . on . He was weleimed by that staunch and talented-adrocate of democracy—Mr J . West , and the committea of the Chsrti 3 t . Aslociation , who accompanied him ta hb Intel . "' . -
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How Hearty , a Sew ESition of ¦ -U . y'COSSOil'S WORK OS SMALL FARMS . THE CHEAPEST IDITION EVBE JtTBLISHBD , : Price lg . 6 i ,, .. A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of te Author , of PAIME'S POLITICAL WORKS . Just published , price 3 d ., THE EVIDENCE QITEN BY JOHN SILLETT , In his Examination before the Committee on the National Land Company . This important bndy of evidmce forms sixteen clcwely printed pages , and conclusively proves what may be done , to explaining what John Sillett hai done , with Two Acres . No . 22 , OF " THE OURER " COSTAIHS TWO AETICLK 8 BT MB . EBHESt JOHB 3 , eonTiftTs : — Mlrabeau S itional Literature litnerl * System Tne Murdered Trooper The Eve of St . John jN O . 23 , will be ready on November 1 st . Just Published , price Is . Si ., forming a Beat volume , EVIDENCE TAKEN BY THE SELEGT COMMITTEE Appointed to inquire into The National Land Coutabt ; with a review of tke tace , and an Outline of the Propositions for amending the Constitution of the Company , eo as to comply with the ProvhionB of the Law . Watson , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row , London : A Hey wood , Manchester : and all Booksellers in Town and Country .
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PORTRAIT OF CUFFEY . The above portrait , taken by his feUow-snfferer , Win . Dowling , is new r eady . Prioe 6 d . Orders received by Mr Dixon , 144 , High Holborn .
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portrait ; of mitchel . Oarragentain Glasgow , HamiltoB , Falkirk . Kilmarn 0 5 ^_ i een 9 ck ' PailleJ ' Galashiels , Aberdeen , Md _ Dunde « , wiU receive the portrait through Mr W . Love , 5 , Nelson Street , Glasgow . / gents in Edinburgh / Perth , Tillieoultry , Hawiok Arbroath , and Alw , must apply to Messrs W . and U . Kobitison , 11 , Greenside Street . Edinburgh . Agenfa in NewcuUe , Stockton , Coxhoe . Snotlej Bridge , Darham , Sunderland , Bishopwesrmonth , BBrry Edge , Chester-Je-Stwet , Trimdon , Darlington , Middlesbro * . < fec , will obtain them through MrJ . TBmbull , Side , Newcastleon-Tyne Agents in LeedB , Wskefield , Barnsley . Horbury .
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NOTICE . Those Agents who have neglected to settle their Accounts rendered September 30 th , will not receive any further supply of the Northern Star after this date , unless they remit on or before Wednesday next .
The Northern Star , Sa-Toaday, November 4, 1848.
THE NORTHERN STAR , SA-TOaDAY , NOVEMBER 4 , 1848 .
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REVIEW OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LAND CONFERENCE . Receiving a report of the proceedings of the above Conference as we do , by each post , we are unable , till next week , to furnish our readers with a critical digest of the matter , when the business shall have been concluded . For the present , however , we beg to call attention to the most important features of this nationally important matter .
Firstly . —It has been decided that the Company shall be registered under the Joiat Stock Companies Act , and its rules have been unanimously altered to bring it under the provisions of that law , while its constitution remains precisely as it was . Secondly . —Theprinciple of location by bonus has been unanimousl y adopted—the Directors having made the following favourable alteration : —
Namely , that the amount paid as bonus sha ll go to the credit of the located member , whose rent will be reduced at the me of four pe :, ^ L P ° the an > ount of bonus money P 5 ™ ? I I ital Nation , and one which wUl no doubt be cheerfull y received bv the members-that is , if an allotment has cost 4 . 300 , and the occupant has paid £ ioo bonus , instead of paying rent upon £ 300 capital expended , he will only pay rent upon £ 200 , the £ ioo bonus being placed to his credit as capital—whereas , according to former practice , many have given over £ 100 bonus , still paying the amount of rent to which the outUinl
occupant washable upon the amount of capital expended This alteration of itself-presumingthe bonuses to be £ 100-returns tothe Company a third of its capital , only rendering it necessary to mortgage the remainder as I 7 Z ?^^ ani fP rodu « ng the whole of the Company ' s property as speedily as land r an be purchased and houses buUt , while it is the further intention of the Directors to propose that , in all cases were one-third of the outlay has been paid in the shape of bonus , the occupant shall receive a conveyance in fee of his allotment , subject to a rent-cW ™ ,, nnn
two-thirds of the property , thus enabling him to mortgageit for the remaining £ 200 , it being worth £ 300 , and hence , in a majority ot cases , the whole of the Company ' s capital will be reproduced . Thirdly . —It has been decided thafthe unpaid-up shareholders shall be called upon to contribute , at the rate of twopence per share , per week , towards the payment of their shares in fu ll from the l lth inst , and that the Expense Fund shall be abolished . There are other important questions yet to be laid before the Conference , for . the purpose of carrying out this great national object , and we must candidly admit , that what has been done , and what is proposed to be done .
meets with our entire concurrence and approbation , and henceforth the ' practicability of the Plan will depend upon the energy of its members * We are informed that the present Conference is the most business-like and harmonious that has yet sat upon this important question , as if all were thoroughl y imbuedlwith the resolution to beat the venomous foe , and to
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make Right and-Cooperation ' trium ^ V over Might andSeparation ... — r .: ""' ' We are well pleased , to be able to submit so cheering an analysis . Next week we shall devote ample space to an elaborate digest of the proceedings . .
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PARTY MOVEMENTS—FALL OF THE WHIGS . The conviction that the present Ministry cannot long retain power is producing some very significant movements among those who aspire to be their successors . There is little doubt but that ; if the Conservative party were cordially united , and had a definite policy before them , Lord John and his band of Incapables would be driven from office long before the Easter recess of the ensuing Session . But there is the . difficulty . They are not united , and the obstacle to their being so is a strong one . Sir Robert Peel is what the "Times " would ca ll , " a great fact . " Fret , fume , and
disparage as they may , the Conservative organs—monthly , weekly , and daily—cannot ignore the | existeuce of that fact , and the sequence , that'he possesses very considerable political influence—so great , indeed , that , in the present state of parties , he may be said to be the arbiter of the official existence and destiny of both of the two great sections of the Parliamentary forces who muster in St Stephen ' s . Much speculation as to his present views and future policy has been caused by a recent and somewhat prolonged visit to Windsor Castle . Perhaps tbere was nothing more in
that visit than an interchange of those courtesies , and natural feelings of respect , which could not fail to be elicited by the relative position of the Queen and her late Prime Minister for several years . But in political circles " every hair is made a tether , " and the friendly nature of the visit , together with its unusual length , has set all the gossips of the elubs on the quiv ' we , and induced the belief that \ Peel has no objections to try his hand again . The incessant discharge of articles by the " Morning Chronicle , ' either directl y or indirectly laudatory of the peculiar policy and
measures originated by the late Premier—its effective and damaging attacks upon the , present Ministry , and its not less cogent criticisms of the extreme Protectionist party , are looked upon as corroborative evidence of this change of intention , and betokening that Sir Robert has not really made up his mind to retire for ever from public life to the shades of Drayton Manor . To dear away this awkward obstruction is
now the aim of the Protectionists and their organs . All that they ask is the sacrifice of Sir Robert , f hey have no objection to make up differences with the " traitorous" section who followed him in his desertion of the Conservative camp , or evsnto admit his lieutenants in the memorable campaign-of 1846 to high places in the Administration they are desirous of forming , but they caffnot , as yet , endure the idea of again submitting to the leadership of Peel .
The leading article of " Blackwod '• this month is an earnest appeaj to the Conservatives , to combine once more as a compact body , and to take the government of the country out of the hands of the , imb ecile Whigs The appearance of such an article in so powerful an organ of the party , is a si gn tnat the Min ot which it is the exponent , ig ripening rapidly
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! acfion . The ,. wrjjer _ declar « s ~ "that— ' -the danger of aflowing the aflairs . of Britain to be longer administered' by '' a feeble , t stubborn Ministry , has been so clearly demonstrated , that we ( the Conservatives ) cannot any longer afford to remain-inactive , or to indulge in idle recrimination . The safety of the country , " continues the writer , , ' ¦ : Peremptorily demands the adoption of a different poliey , und the resumption of the r « ins of government
by hands that are capable of holding them . It is for the gentlemen oi England te decide whether they shall adopt . such a course by uniting cordially hand , and heart to retrieve us from our present embarrassments , or tit idly by as mere spectators of a fatal course of legitlatlon . The present crisis is by f « r too serious to be viewed with indifference , or through the coloured glass of obsolete party in tereit , The welfare , of the empire is at stake , and that is a Subject ' with which none of ui can dare to dally .
In a subsequent part of the article , the differences which at present separate one section ot : the Conservatives from the other , are d $$ aredto " resolve themselves pimpl y into theadhesionofafew talented ^ but obstinate men , to * leader whose tortuous ' policy has been the main cause of the unhappy position ' * of the Conservatives , as a body ; and the attention of these talented , but obstinate persons , is directed to the actual results of the policy of that leader , as being sufficient' warrant to them to desert him ; because , however much he , as the originator of the late Fiee
Trade Measures , is bound in honour and in pride to stand by them , there is no such necessity in their cases . "Theremay be no disgrace in having consented to an experiment which , when put into practice , has resulted in an absolute failure ; but there is disgrace , ay , and infinite dishonour , in refusing to acknowledge an error , when its' consequences are made palpably manifest , and in persisting to gloss it over for the sake of an egotistical consistency " We have italicised the last two words , because they come rather strangely from the
mouth-piece of a party whose pride and boast it has been , that it was consistent , and whose keenest reproaches to Sir R . Peel and his friends were based upon inconsistency . If Lord Lincoln , Mr Sidney Herbert , Mr Cardwell , and the other clever men who forsook the Protectionist ranks in 1846 , are allowed the benefit of this plea , we do not see why Sir Robert should be refused it . " Blackwqod" earnestly implores that statesman , however , to give up all ideas of ever again leading the gentlemen whose confidence he has betrayed and for ever lost ; and adds , that" within the last few months mueh progress has been made towards a fusion
of the two sections of the Conservative party , upon clear and common grounds . All difficulties would by this time have been removed ! , but , for the scruples of two or three gentlemen who are supposed to possess the private confidence of Sir R . Peel , and who have identified themselves with his fortunes . " When the " difficulties"have narrowed themselves simply to the scruples oftwo or three gentlemen , it seems as if the juncture was in a fair way of being completed . After rapidly and not untruthfully describing the present state of the country under Free Trade legislation , "Blackwood" indicates the composition of the future ministry , in the following sentence : —
With such financiers as Goulburn and Herries in the Commons - with suck eminent statesmen as LordB Stanley , Lyndhurst , and Aberdeen in the House of Peers , there oan be no * oubt of the strength and the success of the Conservative party if once more thoroughly united . ; . We note these political movements , not because we have any sympathy with the party who are now making an effort to obtain possession of power , hut simply because anything which promises , however remotel y , to expel the present ministry from office must be a national benefit . It is utterl y impossible that
they can be succeeded by a more ignorant , incapable , malignant , or tyrannical body of men . They have monopolised all the bad qualities which can distinguish politicians or professed statesmen , and possess them unredeemed by a single political virtue . In prosperity they are arrogant , despotic , and full of blind confidence . In adversity they have neither presence of mind nor practical wisdom . Their only receipt for all difficulties is to spend freel y the money extracted from the pockets of the people j and when , by these means , a deficit is created , to borrow more , and saddle posterity with increased burdens .
But , apart from these strong reasons for wishing their speedy expulsion from po » ver , we have others . The Conservative party hold some . views respecting the Currency , and a foreign trade based upon reciprocal commercial treaties , which we believe to be sound in principle , and we should like to see these views obtain legislative sanction , and be prac tically tested . In <» recent article , we endeavoured briefly to show how the evils of a commercial crisis are aggravated and augmented b
y our present monetary laws , which may be truly said to be the alpha and the omega of almost all the disasters experienced in the commercial and industrial world . On this particilarquestion Peel is obstinately—we will not say , irrevocably— -wedded to the restrictive and Procrustean policy , which has so long arbitrarily and most mischievousl y cramped the energies , and manacled the industry of this country . Therefore , at present no change in this direction can be looked for , and feeling aswe do , that a settlement of this oueRtion
upon sound principles , is essential to the restoration of prosperity to the country , we should glaJly see any parties in power who would make an henest attempt so to settle it . Besides this , it would be well that the Protectionists should have a trial unaided by the personal abilities or assistance of thelstatesman who so long ledthe party . We should then be able to estimate their real strength . andlpractical qualities much better than we do now . The Whigs , bereft of the loaves and fishes of office , would become watchful critics , and eager opponents of .. those who had deprived them of L ~ *~ - 0 0 1 lit .. _ a ¦> these
^ — " good things , " and we should again see something like a-genuine Opposition ; one which would prevent the Government from perpetrating any extreme error , either in political or commercial matters . At present we have no real Opposition . The Whigs are the puppets of those who sit on the Opposition benches—they are allowed to do all the dirty , despotic , and disreputable work their depraved natures can imagine or invent ; but should they , by chance , have a useful idea in their heads , the Opposition can always muster strong enough to prevent its practical developement . For the ' sake of lall parties , this state of affairs
should be terminated as speedily as possible . Let each party take their rightful places , and with them , the responsibilities attached thereto . We shall then know what we have to expect , and with whem we have to deal , and we earnestly hope that the indications of movements now adverted to , will , in due season , result in the downfall of the present Ministryan event which we are certain will be hailed with joy by 999 out of every thousand persons in this country , whether it be effected by the submission of the Conservatives again to the leadership of Sir R . Peel , or by the retirement of that . stateriian , * o allow them to try Government without his assistance . ¦
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^ FREE TRADE rPROSPER ^ Y . Mr Disraeli , in one of t hose brilliant effusions wherewith he occasionally favours the House of Commons , propounded an ingenious political theory based upon the . principle of reaction . According to him , the political tides ebb and flow very mueh after the manner of those of the ocean , and whenever they have reached Qne . extreme , by . a natural and inevitable operation immediately commence a retrograde motion towards the other . We confess that the specious and imposing historical examples by which that theory was illustrated and defended , were by no means convincing to us . fit may be true that occasional retrogression upon a limited scale , may be observable in particular instances , but \ te think that progression—slow but continuoui
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r ** is : the' $ feat characteristic of man , individrit ally , and socially . ' ¦ If , however , the propositian was not true as a general one , there . can be no doubt thafcit is go under certain circumstances , and with reference te particular modes of public action ; It is certain to : be so wherever a nation has been hurried into the adoption of measures , either unsound in themselves , or illtimed as to their application , by means , the fallacy , of which are afterwards discovered . We have lived to see a reaction of this kind in the case of the Free Trade policy , so long advocated by the League , and so recently adopted by the leading . statesmen of the conn .
try . A few . weeks since ,, we presented from the North , "British Mail '! anillustration of the manner in which that policy has injured the great ; staple interests of the country , and of the repentance which these results had already produced among some of its most ardent supporters . Since then , Government returns have made it clear that the melancholy tale of declining trade told by the "Mail" with respect to Glasgow , can be echoeiby ' all the principal marts of industry in GreafSritain . These returns show a diminution of four millions in our exports for the first half of the present
year ; and there is little appearance of a better account being presented after Christmas of the trade for the whole twelve months . This , be it remembered , is after the disastrous year 1847 . Suppose we take the diminution of our manufactured exports for the year at eight or ten millions , and keep in view the extremely depressed state of trade ., in . the previous year , it will easily be seen what an immense number of additional hands must have been thrown oufc of work , by this cessation of a
demand abroad for the articles they have been accustomed to produce . The hundred small non-exporting trades have , in the first instance , been sacrificed , to p lease the huge capitalists who aimed ** supplying all the markets of the world : the millions employed in these trades have been partially or wholly pauperised , in order to subserve this end ; and now it turns out that those who thought to monopolise foreign markets can find even fewer customers than before . '
A significant symptom of re-action in the very head quarters of the League , may be seen in the junction of the " Manchester Times ' with the " Manchester Examiner " last week . The "Advertiser" had given up the ghost some time before ; and thus in the capital of the Cottonocracy—the cradle ; of Cobdenite philosophy—two of the supporters of that philosophy have been extinguished : ' Manchester , that used to support four Free
Frade Journals , can now onl y maintain , two . Coming as this does on the heels of the suppression of the column showing th e number of mill-bands employed from week . to ' week , aind the rumours of short time in sjfeire for " the hands still retained during the winter , it must be owned that dogmatic assumption , confident assertion , and swaggering self-complacency never received a severer blow , or ; were followed by so speedy a fall from the high places where , in the excess of vanity , theyhaS 'impudently perched themselves ; ¦ ¦' "?;> , "' .
The " North British' i ^ tf ^ wasi ^ efcerely taken to task for , 'itg unwelcome facts and commentaries , by some of the ; " big wigs'' of Glasgow , but nothing daunted by this reprimand , it has returned again to the charge with some more ugly facts . , We wiU not / Qali ' them "great facts " becaiise the r 'Times" has not ; not yet condescended to notice them ; Adve | $ ing to the decrease in our foreign trade , recently shown ; by .: statistical documents , it says : — ¦ - ¦ 5 ' " ~ ' ...
The number of unemployed persons , In this and In other manufacturing distriot 8 i"toigHt'leba to assure any party that either our horaeVorfor ' eign ' sales have been greatly re . duced . A large deficiency ; exists in both departments . The deficiency is not apparent ia Glasgow transactions alone , or confined to Scottish manufactures . The trade of Lancashire with the UnltedjStat . es hgs also fallen very remarkably during the current year . The " aggregate exports out of Liverpool to New York , ' Philadelphia , and Boston , from the 1 st of May to the 30 th of September . 18 < 7 and 1848 respectively , have been— •'
. 1847 . . 1848 . ' . Qetfease . Cottons 13 , 665 10 , 316- ¦ 3 , 319 packages . Worsted stuffs 7 , 534 , 4117 8 417 , jT Blankets 3 , 460 678 2 , 482 , ' . « . Woollens 10 , 980 9 , 2 » 3 1 . 717 ' ' , ' Linens 13 . 1 S 7 9 , S 6 i 3 , 488 ,, " Such being the diminution in Lancashire , we are next presented with that in Lanarkshire . The trade of Glasgow during the-last nine months is thus contrasted with that of last
year . The exports from the ports of Glasgow in the spring , BHmraer , and autumn quarters ef 1847 and 1848 respeo . tively wera as follows . . The port of Glasgow embraces att the ports on the upper division of the Clyde ; bnt it does not include Port Glasgow and Gresnock . The exports from both placeo are highly important , and particalarly those from Greenock ; but we have no hope that they will improve the general character of the subsequent account : —
ax « . i . r S 184 V l 848 ' decrease , ending 5 th April £ 788 , 656 £ 499 , 347 16283 , 399 " £ M v 1 O 3 ' > M . 410 „ 10 th October .... 013 , 244 566 , 508 246 , 738 Decrease « n the nine months ...... £ 677 , 4 * 7 This decrease is in the direct outward ' trade oithe Pftrt . It 5 a unconnected with the coasting trade and bears no reference to purchases made kere for export from other ports . It is clear , however , that they had not increased ; and the previous table shows that the reduction in ships and tonnage is not greater than the falling vivuub urbcu ' |
~ - » . u wuv < ww ^ vAp . me uBcreuBeiB equivalent to more than £ 800 , 000 annually , and ; with the exception of the second quarter , is more than twenty , five per cent , on the gross sales—a per-oentage that is considerably exceeded over all the three quarters These facts are better agitators than any theories . They are facts that the manufacturers and merchants of this city and district cannot voluntarily and patiently meet . The deeline of business must be borne . if it cannot be prevented ; but the meat fervent admirers of recent legislation cannot be surprised if its tendencies be now narrowly criticised . , , , j I ,
The Mail" proeeeds to contend that the Manchester system of Free Trade is misnamed , and has no more right to the title ; than a bad shilling has not to be nailed to the counter . It still advocates Free Trade—that is , that the weaver who has a web of cloth to sell , should not be hindered from exchanging it with the farmer who has a barrel of flour to dispose of in the United States . BHt , if the United States ' , , 1 i
farmer refuse to take the weaver ' s web , on the condition that the weaver takes his flour , there can be no reciprocal dealing between them . We wish the Free Trade journals had thought of these practical and business questions a little sooner , and not have tried to shut the door when the steed is stolen . The Americans , as a nation , have refused , and we believe will continue to refuse , to trade with us en the terms offered by the Cobdenite faction .
The American correspondent of the "Daily News , " another Free Trade journal , gave an account lately of an exhibition of American manufactures and produce of all kinds , which is now open in New York , and which takes place annually . He admits the skill and genius displayed in the fabrication of every kind of raw material—cotton , flax , silk , wool , iron , &c—is astonishingly great . He also states that the orators who nightly ascend the rostrum , point to these evidences of the power of the States to supply all their wants , and ask wh y they should displace their own industry by that of any foreign country whatever ? Why America should be dependent on any country for articles which she can plentifull y supply for herself ? To these questions there canbe but one rational answer , and , according to the " Daily News , ' that is supplied b y the people of the Sttes If 1
a . " , says our authority , "it de . pended on the American mechanics alone , Free Trade will never be carried in this country . " Wise and enlightened mechanics , it does depend upon you 1 Preserve your determination —exercise your political power manfully , to prevent the order of Industry from being bound hand and foot to the chariot wheels of one ef the most selfish and detestable factions that ever plundered the Labourer . By opposing a bold and vigorous opposition to them , you will save the operatives and artisans of the States from the deathBof pauperism and misery into the which the masses are now plunged in this country as the quick result of their sordid and grasping scheme for more rapid individual aggrandisement . , V . Yorkshire adds its ; voice to the wail raised by Lancashire and Lanarkshire . Mr William i !/' * Bradf wfl , a Conservative , who in 1845-6 was carried by the tide of poDular enthusiasm into the ranks of the League , where
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he was received with enthusiastic applause and highly boasted of , . has now , it seems , reco . vered from his temporary hallucinations . He thus writeB tq a Yorkshire paper : •—t ; reHrement ; of our highly . wlued meinbtr Larit Morpeth , from the representation of the West rmL J " consequence of the death of his noble father occur &in period when the trade of this important part tfSSkh dom islnamost depr . ssod condition-wC social . & of an extensive and alarming character bars m ™ occasions , disturbed the puoHc w S ^ t to IS P ^? r _^^ J !? i ^ _ ^^ . tte nian ufacturtaVd
. rj « 7 T ™ uur waraaouses are filled with the destitnte and our gaols with the dlsaffected-when thousands are outof work-when the middle classes , the shopkeepers , and other tradesmen , are , in addition to tha almostentire absenceof prefits , absolutely wten Up with poor rates and othw local burdens , in adffltton to tha general taxation of the country . « u « non to tne ^ MrEand adds an emphatic condemnation of the " cheap and nasty" system by which all this has . been brought about , and which has always been , and still continues to be the idolatry of the Leaguers . If the present state of things continues a little longer , we shall bo doubt , have numerous additions to the best of converts , and repentant wanderers ;
The election lor the West Biding , to which Mr Rand alludes , will form a tolerably fair opportunity for testing public opinion on the sub . ject of the so-called Liberals-do not job the opportunity away . With the tuft-hunting and lord-worshipping propensities which distinguish . the whole race of "Snobs , " they have gone {^ begging to a fledgling of the house of Wentworth—and this boy ,, FHzwilliam has magnanimously told them that he has no ob jections to condescend to represent them but then it must bejvithout either pledges or opinions on his part . ; This seryejt the " Snobs "
right . .. Is it not a disgrace to bo vist , intelli . gent , and enterprising a constituency as the Vfest Riding , that any portion of it should be allowed to degrade it in the eyes of the world by such an exhibition ; are there no merchants , or manufacturers , or public men , who know the interests of Yorkshfremen practically , to be found willing to represent it ? . What has become of the party who talked some time ago of bring forward , Richard ; Oastlex ? We should like to see the veteran friend-of the labourer
of labours rights an * native' industry , pitted flgtfnstthe scion of ther'Tordl y Whig house that has so long looked upon the representa ' tive of the . Riding ^ a feudal appanage , and to see whether Yorkshire has honesty and com . mon sense enough Reject the lordling . for * an " honest man , thenoblest work x > f ( M ! " " . rW phall watch the reaction , and re »^ rt froin tin $ ltd : time . W / e mistake the jflflications arouadoufr of a great raoviement for ' the development of home resources , and homeihdffstfy is not about to commence . .
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, TO THE MEMBERS OF ^ HE ' L "NATIONAL LAND COMPAQ . Mr Friends , . . J- ~' r-, ' -, # S % K I sit down to write you an account of 'f ^ S * ' ^' day and ¦ Vy ' ednesday ' sproceedings of ; CSo ( m ^ i , "' - ence . It will be very short ; its main Object ^ ¦ '' being , to call your attention to . the Report . However it is due to the Delegates to say , that the present Conference may be considered as aVfair , honourable , and a virtual repreaentatibn ^ f . theyLand 'Company . > Next week I shall devote five or sbfijolumns , or more , if necesKiryi to the ' feiriip'W . dJyelopement of whathas hee . n done , and . aAlakblMs . . tratiotf ofJh $ 3 ® $ taT that maj ^ te ^ JcalaJted ifflfflp * and live % clingering % istence ,, 4 ntHtp ~ Company haPl&gered since the French Revolution / for it . was that and the high anticipations from iife results , and not the Select Conitmttee of $ e House of Commons , that first paralysed ojte exertions * - but now I live again , because mjsS&nd child ' has t passed the crisis , and because ojScembre I hopft , ? \ to be surrounded by my bailif ? , my carpenf' # ' ters , my bricklayers , masons , aftd labourers . We have withstood much ; ¦ but . we can piesent accounts ; balance sheets ,, and prospects , whjgh no other Company in th $ wo * lo : can pre " . ksfent ; and in spite of the Press ) the ; : Govern | r > : ment , the jealous factions , and speMlatorsJfr ' $ competitive schemes , we can publish ¦§ JB ® g 8 ! L' ~ jceedinfcs to the world . And I ass ^ a ^ Ki ^ . ^ conclusion , that I would rather beft ^ tfi ^ ffi ;^*^ mainder of my life than see our ^ ompjny * /'¦ broken up , for want of my exertionr or-youV ^ confidence . - ¦ r '^ ' ¦'¦ W&Z * - ' ' 4 ' I remain , f : : ' ^ r' 'k Your faithful friend , and unpaid-bail ^ ' ¦ Feakgus O'GoWom-. T
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CHARTISM IN THE METROPOLIS . The conspiracy of the Government against the right of public meeting , and the free expression of public opinion , has been so successful , that for many months the one has been suspended , and the other practically "burked /' To a surface observer , it appeared as though the spirit of liberty had been effectually laid'by these conjurors—and the demands for Reform not only refused , but the claimants utterly " put down . " The hack journals of the Treasury could not sufficiently extol the " vigorous ' and spentall and successful policy of the Whig ministry , and chuckled and boasted over their victory with the utmost exultation . The
meeting between Mr George Thompson and his constituents on Wednesday evening , must have wofully undeceived these worthies . It was the first opportunity since the trials and convictions for the Powell Plot , that public opinion had an opportunity of being fairly expressed , and it was seized with a vigour and determination that must have struck terror and dismay to the soul of every Whigling present . No doubt , in accordance with the Whig policy , there were plenty of spies in the meeting , and they have duly reported to their employers the tone and temper of the meeting . It must have galled them to the quick to learn that all they have achieved by their tyrannica and infamous crusade against the liberty of the subject , has been to cover themselves with everlasting disgrace .
The immense building in * which the meeting was held , was crowded from an early hour , and the enthusiasm which greeted the more extreme of Mr Thompsons declarations and statements , was an nnmistakeable indication of the tone and temper of the immense audience , a very large proportion of whom were electors . Mr Thompson ' s ready response to the question as to his share in the proceedings , with reference to the National Land Company , and the frank and decided manner in which he
avowed his conviction that Mr O'Connor had been caluminated and causelessly abused in that matter , was in the highest degree credittable to him . It is not common to see a public man possess honesty enough now-a-days to stand forward in defence of men and measures , that are every where spoken against , and about whom their is a deliberate and organised conspiracy , not only not to suppress the truth but to suppress the vilest mis-representations , Mr Thompson did that upon Wednesday , and
uoialy avowed his own deep conviction of the honesty with which the affairs of the Company had been managed , a conviction founded upon an impartial and careful investigation of the whole matter . The hon . member for the Tower Hamlets richly deserved the unanimous vote of confidence he received / tendered as it was by her sodb , who while they stated their approval of his general conduct , did not hesitate to tell him at the same time , where they disagreed with him . ,
The speeches of the mover and seconder of the resolution "went the whole Heg '—any compromise of the Franchis Qeuestion , short of a " Manhood Suffrage , " was scouted by both of them , and loudly responded to by the meeting- Mr Brook administered a terrific castigation to Mr Cobden , for having in an un « provoked and unmannerly speech attacked Mr O'Connor in the most gossly offensive manner ' in the House of Commons , thus hounding the Government on to the attack they * afterwards made . Mr Hume also came in for a share of reprobation , for the paltering with principle
exhibited in his celebrated Quadrupedal Motion . The others speakers weie Chartist to the backbone ; and the three cheers for Mr O'Connor , and three groans for Mr Cobden , with which the meeting concluded , are the very best answer to all the folly which Whiglings arid Free Traders of every degree have of late indulged in . We do not recollect anything more fervent and deep than the universal disgust and execration with which the measures of the new Whig Spy System , so ably denounced by
Mr Thompson , were received . Let the Ministry learn from this significant meeting , how feeble have been their efforts to quell the growing determination to achieve organic and administrative reforms ; and let tricksters and trim * mers , and speech-makers of all kinds , under * stand from henceforth that -the people are sound at heart , and , in spite of persecution by the strong hand , or fraud aad cunning , are not to be diverted from the object they have in view , « England for Englishmen , "—not a faction or an oligarchy .
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DEFENCE AND VICTIM FUND . MCSIV 1 D BI WILLUH WDM , £ i Bromsgrove , per M . ffayle" ., ,, o 5 8 Berry Edge , per J . Simpson 0 8 3 Paddock , per S . H . D » vies ,., ... 1 4 « Birmingham , People ' * Hall , per JT . H . Rud . ^* W ... ' ... ... ... 0 3 0 Birmingham , Ship Inn , per J . Newhouie 0 15 0 w . RowoHffa , Tiverton ... ... 0 2 6 Truro , per W . Burridge ,, ,, 0 1 $ W . Cjltmsn , pIsBoforte-tuner , Lelcestsr 0 4 0 , New Eadford , per J . Fletoher .. ,., 0 2 . 3 Derby , per W . Short ... 0 10 0 ' " ¦¦ ' ' " ' . 8 17
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DB M'DOUALL . : 8 a , —Be kind enough to acknowledge the following « um » oa behalf of Dr U'DounU and hli wife — Nottingham , per J . Sweet ' < j 2 } W . Rider , 8 TA « OffloB ... ... ... 0 12 (> W . C . Swiadon , leoandrabicription ... 0 2 t A . few Wends , Newton ; per Thomai Whit-?¦*« 0 7 ( - A female , Newton . ; . ... " ;„ e 1 C " ' ' ' - 6 ! ' Yours leipeotfully , Wi AnsiR ,
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Mr Mead . .. .. ,. „ ; 0 „ ' , MrOreen « » .... « . - „•! M o 0 e MrC . Hall » .. .. „ .. 008 Mr Shepherd M .. „ „ „ 0 0 f Mrs Perkins . .. ¦ .. „ „ o 0 1 MrChiplndale „ „ „ „ 0 o « Mr iKQHAM . Blaokburn , ghouldliaye remitted 4 s 6 d witt hii advertisement . Received , from Birmingham , per J . Newhouse , the son of £ 1 , to exhonerate Mr Fussell from the degrading task of oakum picking . —Thob . Alhohd . ¦ The Vioiik Fond . —Weare informed , that a committet tits at the Hern and Trumpet , ' Bromsgrove , every Wednesday evening , to receive donations . We hear that Mr John West , after lecturing at Heeds on Sunday , intends to lecture in Sheffield on Monday and Tuesday ; Barnsley on Wednesday ; Doncaster on Tlrars . day ; and Wnkefield on Friday ; wben , of course , the . ' . secretaries will make too necessary arrangements . He also intends visiting the Dewsborj district , on the week commencing with the' 12 th , and the Halifax district the week after . NoiiiNOHiic . —We understand that a committee of tha Chartists ¦ meeting at Mr Smith ' s Coffee-house , Low Pavement , have undertaken the sale of the Star , and ether publications , and that they have been so far sue cessful as to be enabled to give twenty shUlin RS to the victims . v . . . - :. ' Several communications are unavoidably postponed tail 0 LDHAM .-We are informed that , " in future , all Ch « rHst communications must be addressed to Ralph Ashworth , Lord ' s Hill , of this town . '
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MINERS' ASSOCIATION ;—; * Tie eounty meeting of the : minus of Lwowbire was held at the Fleece , Sohol « B , WigM , on Monday , October 30 .: MfDMidSwaltow in tha chair . Dele-Wteg were present ! from [ - 'Si Uelehi , Pemberton . Sheyingiwt , Aspul , Blaokrod ; Wigan , Hindley , Dew : Ohuroh , BoHon , . Bury ; Rochdale ? A » hton , Wowlej . Dixou Green , Little Hulton , &o . There was a greai increase of new members from all the dUtriots , am-| e agents ' reports were highly satisfactory . Messrs Dennett , Price , Swallow , and Meadow cros * wer * eleoied a oommUtee to prepare a general formo : statement ! ,- and get them printed against the nex ' . oounty meeting , so that * simultaneous demand for an adTauoe of wagefe might be made on the same day . It was also resolved , 'That it is the duty of every OvlUery and district to organise / and to appoint deputations from amongst themselves , to wait upon thosi : men who may be out of the union , and to invite theni to join immediately . ' The next oounty meeting of chfl miners of Lancashire will be held on Monday caorning ,. November 12 , at the Bowling Gtwa Inn , HalBhim Moor , near Boltoa , at eleven o ' olook .
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4 ; THE NORTHERN gTA | R , . . , ^ M ^ mm ^^ . How Heartya Sew ESition of
To Tailors. Iij A Ri-:Ooauonoi'lier Jldjcoy Uuc-Ii Vicuitlh, And H. R. H. Prince Albert.
TO TAILORS . iij a ri-: ooauonoi ' lier jldjcoy uuc-ii Vicuitlh , and H . R . H . Prince Albert .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 4, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1495/page/4/
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