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TDRITISH EMPIRE FREEHOLD LAND AND BUILDING SOCIETY If On an Advance tout Rent is Saved.—you became your own Land and Householder.
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THE NORTHERN STAB. SATURDAY, JSJNJE 9, 1S49.
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Matrons . — T . S . Dcxccmbe , Esq ., 2 LP . T . Wajoef , Es « ., 2 LP . B . B . Cabbsll , Esq ., M . P . L . 3 . ExssiSD , Esq ., M . P . Ai > a « rs . —The Commercial Bank of London ( Branch ) , 6 , Henrietta Street , Corent Garden . London Office . —So . , Tottenham Court , Xewlload , Si . Pancras , London . —Da-niel WnxiAM Knrr , Secretary . Aerasged is Thbee Szcnoss . Value of Shares and Payments for Investors . Full Share .. .. £ 120—payment of 2 s . - 5 a . •§ Week , or 10 s . 6 d . per Month . HalfShare .. .. 60 — 1 2 J _ 5 3 — Quarter Share .- -. 30 _ O 74 — 2 8 — , Applicants are requested to state in their form the Section they desire to be a Men > i « r ot . - * —**• * 3 S 3 sS 3 ? . 5 £ 5 : = ' !^ r fei . ia "SsK ? . ' , t ! MM ' ** ¦ * a- * , «^ . ™^ , o Ih . » . 72 s ^ s « , s ^ sss , sa ^ - 2 nd . —To afford the means of purchasin « : both Ireehom 6 tJj _ To enaD j e parents to make Endowments for their and Leasehold Properties or Land . - Cluldren . or Husbands for their Wives , er for Marriage Si-d . —To adrance Mortgages on Property held fcy Settlements . . _ _ . members . 7 th . —To purchase a piece of Freehold land of sufficient 4 iiu " -To enaDle Mortgagors Treu * men * - to re **** ^ to ^ ealegal tiaetoaCounty Vote for Members of their . Mortgages . . ' , _ „ ... . .. „ ,-. „ -vervnerson In torni or country can become the proprietor of a HoHSe and Land ^ S *« g 2 Z ? - ^ S ^« maylate ofgaiiiMgaBvdSiood . . ^ hMCS t 0 purchaseEsfcites , erect Dwellings thereon , and « iriae the Land into SechosIL-To raisearap ^^ The prope rty be allotments ^^ J ^ S ^ L ^ er after a term of years , from tlie date ef location , according ' o his subscriptions . fiie ^ 5 UIJl"e , * eea r" ^^ Deposit sec tion , in which members notwishingtb purchase are enabled to invest small sums , -ri ^^ tOTStSt thexa te « ffire per cent , per annum , on every sum of 10 s . and upwards so deposited . - v Ti - " mo -win he advanced to the members of the first Section in July next , when all persons who have and may ¦ hM-maOm mbers for Shares , or parts of Shares , on or before the 4 th of July next , and whe pay six months' subscripiiAn = ^ n advance , or otherwise , will be eligible for an advauce .
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THE CnEiXEST EDITION" EVEK TCBLISHED . Price Is . 61 , A new and elegant e < Mon , with Steel Plate of the Author , of PAIHE'S POLITICAL WORKS . Sow Beady , a New Edition of JP . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS .
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THE LABOURER MAGAZINE . Yols . 1 , 3 , 4 , may still db liacl , neatly bound , price 2 s . Cd . each Xo . 4 , the Xtunber containing Mb . O'Cossob ' s Treatise on the ^ National Land Company ;" Ko . 10 , the one containing Me . O'Cossob ' s Treatise " On the National Land and Labour Bank connection ivith the Land Company : "Have lately been reprinted , and may Tie lad on application , Trice Gd . each . Impenfocfions of the ' Labourer Magazine' may still he had at the Publishers .
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In a neat Volume , Price Is . 6 u . " Tiie Evidence taken by the SGJect Committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the National Xand Company . " Tiiis VoJnme ongfct to be in the hands of every Member of the Company , as it strikingly illustrates the care and economy that have been practised in the management of the Punds of tlie Company , and proves , beyond contradiction . The . practicabiliiy of ' the Plan which the Company was established to carry out .
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Just published , Kos . I ., H ., and Iir ., Price Sixpence Each , of THE OOfuHOHWEALTH . Soldbv J . ITatson , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternoster " rovs-, London ; A . DTeywood , Oldham-street , Manchester ; ana ' tore and Co ., 5 , Xdson-street , Glasgow . And bj all Booksellers in Town and Country .
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JIEGISTER ! REGISTER ! REGISTER ! Ucw Published , and ready for circulation , by the XATIOXU . UiBCTIOX SSD EeGISIIUXIOX Committee , A COMPLETE HAND BOOK AND GUIDE TO HEGIST 11 ATIOX , eompiled from the Reform Act and other Parliamentary Papers , makinar the subject of -Registration so plain and simple , as to bring it within the capacity of all classes . Published l > y James "Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Ileadpassa ^ o , Paternoster-row , London , audseldbyall booksellers in the United Kingdom . Price , only Three Pence . ' j&iy also he had of the Secretary , James Giussbt , 96 , lCcsent-street , Lambeth . Jf . S . 1 ' anies reading in the country can hare the Hand Book seat bv post , by liicloang five postage stamps , to the secretary , aiidanv number they may require free ofcarriasc at ' flie retail price . As many parties have written to inoiv « n what terms they can he supplied , we give notice that the above are the arrangements of the committee . Parties wanting tl . em at trade price , can be supplied by any bookseller in town and country , JiMES GllASSBr .
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CHARTIST SILK FABRICS . MESSRS . CLARK AND WARREN beg most respectfully to call the attention of the De . mocrais of Great Britain to the following splendid assortment of . Neck and Pocket Handkerchiefs , Black Satin Vcstpiecos , Ladies' Chartist Coloured Satin and Tabby Dresspieees ; also a splendid assortment of Ladies' plain and figured Xcck Ties , which have just come to hand from their manufacturer at Hacelesfield , and it is their intention to forward them ( carriage free ) to all parts of Great Britain and Ireland at the following prices : — £ s . d . Xadics' Dress ^ pieces , fourteen yards to the dress , 3 s . i « rjard 2 2 0 Gentlemen ' s Extra Strong Black Satin Vesting , per Vest .. .. .. .. .. 0 10 0 Ditto . Neckerchiefs , Itich Oporto Ducapas , Plain and Plaided .. .. .. .. 5 C Ditto , ditto , Satin Ducapes , Plaided .. 0 5 0 Ditto , ditto , Napoleon Blue Satin Brussels , Crimson Borders - - ' - - 0 4 G Ditto ,. ditto , Extra Ilicli Slack Satin Turk , Heavy .. .. .. .. 043 Dits © , ditto , Black Brussels , Plain .. 0 4 0 IKtti , ditto , ditto , iri-COlouted . Borders ,. .. .. .. 040 IHHO , - ditto , Green Satin Ducapes , Tricolonred Borders .. .. .. .. 040 Ditto , ditto , Turn-up SatinBrnssels in greatrarietv .. „ .. .. 0 " 3 6 Ditto , ditto , Bich Gala Plaids . 0 3 6 Ditto . Pocket Handkerchiefs in great varictv , from 2 s . fid ., aud upwards .. .. 0 2 G ladies'Plain and Figured Neck Ties .. .. 0 18 Ail communications to he addressed to Mr . Thomas Cm r , 144 , lOgh Holborn , London , to whom all Post-office orders must be sent made pa vable at the Bloomsbury l'ost-• fikc The trade supplied on advantageous terms . All orders in tonm and country punctually attended to .
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THE CHARTISTS OF THE WEST BIDING OF YORKSHIRE are hereby informed , that a West-Biains Delegate meeting will be held in the Democratic Seucol-room , Croft-street , Tfakefield-read , Bradford , on Sckdat , Jcse 17 th , at eleven o ' clock in the forenoon , for the purpose of preparing a Lecturers' plan * jr tlie ensuing quarter , and other important business connected with the movement
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ON . SALS , ^ PWO FARMS AT MINSTER LOVEL ; L . a FOUfi-ACRE , and a TWO-ACHE . -Aliapplicafiois to be addressed to the Directors of the J < au « nalLandGjnipany J at tbeir Offic ? , lit , High Hoi twrp-j -Lonson . -
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NOW READY , WITH THE JUNE MAGAZINES . Just published , No . L of » TIHE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW X Off BRITISH and FOREIGX POLITICS , HISTORY , aud LITEHATUllB . Edited by G . JULIAS HARNEY . CONTESTS : L The Editor ' s Address to the Working Classes . 2 . Letter to the Trades . 3 . Oar Inheritance : The Land , Common Property . 4 . The Trench Elections . 5 . Political and Historical Review—Domestic and Foreign . 6 . Louis Blanc and Armand Barbes . 7 . literature : —Prentice ' s America ; Louis Blanc's 4 pj )« rt to . Honest Fwyte . 8 . Correspondence : —The Sheffield Election , &c , &c . FORTS' PAGES—PRICE THREEPENCE ! London : 5 , Wine Office -court , Fleet-street To be had of all Booksellers and News Agents in Town and Country .
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NOW- PUBLISHING , PRICE ONE PENNY , THE HOME JOURNAL , AND COM--L PASION FOR TIIE FAMILY CIRCLE . No . I . Amongst the principal original articles are—The Yeoman ' s Daughter , a Tale of English Country Life—Tho Conquest of Pride , by Madame Iloybauu—China and the Chinese—A Traveller ' s Tale of Wonder—Position and Prospects of the National Drama—The Influences of Cheap Literature—The Famine , a Poem . &c ., ie ., &c . The contributors to the " HOME JoOTSAI . " are ladies and gentlemen of eminence in periodical literature . It contains sixteen large quarto padres of amusement and instruction for the family circle , Published weekly , at the office , 10 , Red Lion-court , Fleetstreet , and soldby allhooksellersand dealers in periodicals . Price One Pennv . The largest Weekly literary Journal .
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On Saturday , June ICth , will appear , No . 1 of THE PENNY PUNCH , A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK , with all his Father ' s youthful strength and racy humour , devoid of that weakness and imbecility—the result of dotage—which has so recently characterised the conduct » f Ms worthy Sire . For particulars see Prospectus . For convenience of parties in remote parts , the Penny Punch may be sent per post , on receipt of two stamps , or two shillings and twopence per quarter . W . Winn , 34 , Holynell-street , Strand , and all booksellers .
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TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her JIajesty Queen Victoria and His Royal Highness Prince Albert . Jf ow Ready , THE LONDON and PARIS SUMMER FASHIONS for 1819 , by Messrs . BENJAMIN READ and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury-square , London ; and by GEORGE BERGElt , Holywell-street , Strand ; a splendid PRINT , elaborately finished , and suyerbly coloured , the LA 2 VDSCAPJG , a correct view in the Queen ' s Botanical Gardens , London , ( by special permission , ) the most magnificent wlace in Em-ope . This beautiful picture will be accompanied with the most novel , good feting , and fashionable Dress , Riding , Frock , and Hunting Coat Patterns , both double and single-breasted ; Hussar ' s Youth ' s round Jackets , plain and with skirts ; single and double-breasted Dress , Morning and Evening Waistcoats ; also tlie most fashionable and newest style Habit Pattern ; every particular part of each pattern fully explained , and an illustration of everything respecting Style and Fashion ; price 10 s . Sold by Read and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Blooinsbury-square , London ; G . Berger , llolywell-street , Strand ; aud all Booksellers in Town aud Country .
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FOR SALE , ONE FOUR-ACRE PAID-UP SHARE in the national Land Company . Price , £ 410 s . One TWO-ACRE SHARE for £ 2 . And ONE SHARE for any reasonable price . Also , TWO FOUR-ACRE SHARES , 12 s . being paid thereon , and ON £ SHARE having 10 s . paid thereon , both for 143 . "Apply ( prepaid , ) if by letter , to ifr . James Powell , Maddox-court , North-parade , ilonmoutli .
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T 5 UPTURES CURED WITHOUT A XX ) TRUSS . De . Gdthbei' having been eminently successful in the cure of Single and Double Ruptures without a truss , now offers his remedy to the public , never having known it to faiL It is easy and painless in application , is applicable to both sexes , and certain in effect . Sent free , on receipt of sk shillings in postage stamps , or otherwise , by ]) a . llESKYGuTnREr , No . 6 , Ampton-street , Gray's-Innroad , London . At home daily from ten till one . " I am happy to hear-testimony to your almost miraculous cure of my rupture , being of twenty-nine years' standing . I rcaUy never expected it . —John Cwy , Tiverton , Devon . "
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FOR SALE , A T O'COIfNORYILLE , AFOUR-ACRE ix ALLOTMENT , desirably situated in the central part of the estate , -with barn , stable , cart shed , pigsties , « fec . The crops consist of one and a-quarter acres of wheat , half an acre of barley , three quarters of an acre of French wheat , three quarters of an acre of potatoes , quarter of an acre of clover , and the remaining portion peas , beans , carrots , parsnips , mangel wurzel , onions , < kc . ; the whole of the crops are in luxuriant growth , not to be surpassed by any in the neighbourhood . The occupant having entered into another engagement , will either seR . or let the above excellent little homestead ; the growing crops to be taken at a valuation . For particulars , apply to Thomas Smith , 32 , O'Connor-¦ ville , near Rickmansworth . All communications to contain a postage stamp for reply .
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- TO BE SOLD , fTHREE FOUR - ACRE PAH ) - UP -L SHARES in the National Land Company , at £ 2 5 s each share , or £ 610 s . the three shares . The proprietor emigrates to Australia in ten days , which is the sole cause of his disposing of them . All applications to be made , by letter , to Mr , James Jenkin . Land Office , 1 * 4 . aicn Holborn ,
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PORTRAIT OF ! t MfiAfifiEE . This splendid portrait will be issued along with our present number . Of its value we will not comment , as the patriot himself has said to Mr . O ' Connor : — " To many claims , however , upon my grateful esteem , you have lately added one more , which to my mind possesses a peculiar wei g ht and value . You have ' brought out' the very best likeness that has appeared of me . All my friends are delighted with it . The execution of it , too , is very beautiful , and has been greatly admired . "
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NOTICE TO LAND MEMBERS . The Directors of the National Land Company hereby give notice that the Bonus Fund for location on tho BroinsgrovG Estate will close on Thursday nest , the 13 thof June ; and in the following week the names of the successful candidates will be published in the " Northern Star . " By order of the Directors . Thojias Clark , Cor . Sec .
Tdritish Empire Freehold Land And Building Society If On An Advance Tout Rent Is Saved.—You Became Your Own Land And Householder.
TDRITISH EMPIRE FREEHOLD LAND AND BUILDING SOCIETY If On an Advance tout Rent is Saved . —you became your own Land and Householder .
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J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums , sent herewith , for the Victim fund , viz . : —Mr . Dalton , 5 d ; Jlr . Jlall , Id ; from the " Balloon , " 2 s Gd ; Mr . Caunt , 2 dj Mr . J . Ki » g , Id ; Prom the "Colonel JIutchinson , " 5 s . Fob Defence Fund . —Mr . Cuipindale , Gd . . The Caubbrweli axd Waxwokth resolution ( vould he chargeable with advertisement duty . Mr . E . Ddsicax , Dunfeiinliue Your letter was properly addressed . We forwarded it . Mr . Auchteklonie , Landernau . —Received " . W . Peel , Manchester . —Yes , we shall be happy to do so . The Kjukdaie rinsoxEBS . —Thomas Orniesher has receired tlie following sums : — Bacup , per James Wilson , 5 s ;
Stockport , Thomas Wooahousc , Ss ; Middleton , William Hates , 8 s ; Hull , II . Hancock , 7 s ; London Victim Committen , £ 2 10 s ; RocJidale , William Balie , 10 s ; EUand , Darid Hirst , 4 s ; Manchester , John JA'Keown , 2 s 6 d ; Stockport , Jones Silvester , 13 s 7 $ d . The Manchester Victim Committee liave decided upon sending the late victim , W . Nixon , through the following districts : North Lancashire , Yorkshire , Leicester , Derby , Nottingham , and the Midland Counties , Birmingham , Staffordshire , Cheshire , and all other localities desirous of his services as a lecturer , for the support of the Kirkdale prisoners . All correspondence must be addressed to the Secretary of the Victim Committee , Thomas Ormesher , , Bridgcwater-street , Manchester .
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THE COUNTRY'S DANGER . "We have proclaimed it to surfeit , that the ignorance of a people is the tyrant's best title to power , and we may add , that the ignorance of their rulers constitutes the country ' s greatest—nay , only danger . If the mind is the element to be represented in Parliament it is not only right but indispensable and politic that its true state should be conveyed to , and developed by , its presumed representatives ;
while the withholding of that mind not only induces but justifies a people in using other means of communicating the nation ' s will . The rulers of a nation are not only censurable , but highly criminal , if they are ignorant of the state of public feeling ; -while they are doubly so , if , cognizant of it , they withhold its true state or misrepresent it for one of two purposes ; to justify oppression or withhold timely justice . When it is necessary to cater for Ministerial
support , and to base confidence upon dire necessity , then the very air is hugged to bursting , and in every bubble blown by the imaginative genius of spies , informers , and detectives , the Minister sees danger in the distance , which , FOE . THE TIME , not only justifies him in withholding timely and prudent concessions , but compels him to apply to Parliament for a temporary suspension of the Constitution , to produce that calm in which the law may be moulded to suit the real exigencies of the state , but which time never arrives . " It would not bo
prudent in him to divulge to the HOTJSE the strong , the undeniable , and irrefutable evidence of the existing or threatened danger with which that RED BOX is charged to explosion , but relying upon the loyalty of that HOUSE , he felt it his duty thus faintly to foreshadow the coming danger ; and , as to be forewarned , was to be forearmed , he relied upon the loyalty and good sense of that HOUSE to arm her Majesty's responsible
advisers with those powers necessary—nay , indispensable—to the preservation of the peace of the country , and to preserve her Majesty ' s loyal subjects against the plots , designs , and machinations of artful and DESIGNING DEMAGOGUES , who meditate treason and confiscation . " ( Hear , hear , and loud cheers . ) This is the channel through which the House and her Majesty ' s Ministers receive their knowledge of public opinion , and the COUNTRY'S ONLY DANGER , consists in the
IGNORANCE OF PARLIAMENT , the HYPOCRISY OF MINISTERS , and the
PROSTITUTION OF THE PRESS , all constituting rough elements of danger , which , if not corrected and controlled by sound popular judgment , will assuredly , and ere long , add this country to the melancholy catalogue of revolutionised states , and for which the Press Anil one day have to answer ,
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Let those who would few dem » l of n % i upon popular ignorance , vhiP th ° severa towns of England , and behold *<» newsshops , the cheap publication stands , a the one thousand and one channels through which knowledge is disseminated ; and it is no answer that those are , for the most part , marts for the dissemination of visionary and inflammable nonsense . " They constitute the only source through which the working millions can acquire knowledge , or mental
recreation , whether right or wrong ; and , if wrong , the Government alone is responsible for the error , because , with an immense fund justly applicable to the instruction of the people , it is theduty . of the Government to see to the just , the profitable , and national application of that fund , Ayhich could be beneficially applied to the sound education of the people , instead of being piously lavished in millions , as a FEUD FUND ,, upon , the idle sons of those pliant gentlemen who receive thepeopie's
money , and in return aid the Minister in perpetuating misrule upon the plea of presumed ignorance . Of the many changes which may be brought—and unequivocally sustainedagainst the English Government , none is more heinous than that of popular ignorance . Schools have been established and colleges endowed with the people ' s money ; but to those seminaries the people not only have not access , but in them are taught , fostered , ingrafted , and perpetuated , the strongest aversion and antipathy to the natural rights of the poor . And why ? Simply because the ignorance of the people constitutes their rulers' best title to power , and
upon the perpetuation of that ignorance depends aristocratic title to monopoly of the people ' s education fund , as well as all other funds . This class gleans its knowledge of men and things from the fanciful authors of exploded times , while the rising mind and rapidly growing genius of the age , are framed and modelled according to the necessities of the age . Which of those MENTORS , from whose fanciful genius the scions of aristocracy receive their education to qualify them as rulers of a . great nation ,, has written upon steam navigation ,
railroads , the printing press , the electric telegraph , or steam power , as a substitute for manual labour ? Was not the knowledge of all , of one and all , devoted to the adaptation of existing things to the existing and not to the anticipated state of society ? . And yet , in this revolutionary age of progress , when mind is upon every passing breeze , and when the genius of the morrow may turn the accepted wisdom of to-day into folly—is it , we would ask , rational to hope to -govern , coerce , and contro that mind by the exploded almanac of an ex ploded age ?
Let us now point out the continuous and systematic error into which all Governments have fallen . They have invariably persecuted the pioneers of order , while they have as invariably been driven to accept their principles at a ruinous expense , and after a tyrannical opposition , thus goading the enraged multitude , until popular strength has assumed that commanding attitude which enables it to reject with scorn that which , if granted in time , would have been cheerfully , yea , gratefully , accepted as a boon . However , we glean no slight consolation from the assurance of Lord John Russell and Sir Geokge Gbey , both of whom ; in their speeches upon Mr . Hume ' s motion , admitted the necessity of Reform , and a large extension of the Suffrage , while we derive no small pleasure from the progress of
our DAY SCHOLAR OF PRINTING HOUSE-SQUARE , in political as well as in social science . From the following comment of our pupil , upon Mr . Hume ' s motion , the reader will learn that not only Russell , but the pugnacious " Thunderer" has abandoned all thought of FINALITY , and that our old opponents are preparing for a morning airing with their CHARTIST FRIENDS . Not that they will have the courage , constitution , or strength to go the whole journey with us , but they will condescend to accompany us a part of the way on our long and tedious journey . Well , our pupil says : —
The division last night proved the danger felt by mqs sensible persons in a theoretical reconstruction of the legislature . It did not commit the majority against practical and gradual reform ; and , if we read aright the . Minister ial speeches , such a reform Is in contemplation . Of its nature we are ignorant , but as hints of this sort have the invariable effect of stimulating agitation anil weakening resistance , we presume that no such hint would _ have been given but for some corresponding design . It is very certain that the last Ueform UiU would never have been introduced into the House , much less passed into a law , but for the obstinate resistance made to reform for so many years , and by so many great men . It took a long time to fill up
the measure of public indignation ; and it did not overflow tillit was full . The fatal obstinacy of Canning , of Peel , and of Wellington accumulated those arrears , which it took n " revolution" to discharge . Without going to the projects of Mi . Hume , Mr . O'Connor , or Mr . Bright , it is easy to point out various emendations , and enlargements of the constituencies , purifications in the electoral system , and substitutions of the most populous for the most reduced boroughs , which would reform the House pari passu . with the changing circumstances of the times . Unless some such gradunl reform is early initiated by the government , it may possibly find itself deserted by moderate men , aud left to tight its own battles with extreme and revolutionary reformers .
Header , there is a mouthful of hope for you , and no small consolation for us , as we learn that we have not laboured in vain , when we have converted such a profligate old prostitute to the path of virtue . Let OUR ' READERS bear in mind , that while spouters and scribblers are NOW predicting that EMANCIPATION , REFORM , and FREE TRADE , might have been indefinitely p ostponed , if timely and prudent concessions had been made , we predicted the same of Emancipation and Reform twelve years ago ,
and of Free Trade nine years ago—in 1840 . But let the reader also mark , and mark well , too , that there is no vengeance so great as that of the ruling power against those who , by continuous and unswerving resolution , extract changes , which otherwise would never have been conceded ; and gaining wisdom from the past , we now warn the people that a coerced Government , no matter how pitiful its dole , will seek to wreak its vengeance upon those who extracted it from their fears , as justice is out of the question .
A word to the wise and we have done . " To be forewarned is to be forearmed , " we caution the people not to allow the Government to base its refusal or postponement of the . promised boon upon popular folly . Beware of spies and informers ; be steady ; be resolute , but in God ' s name be wise and peaceful .
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— of some " popular and wealthy borough , ' ! is —nd ^ as a substitute forJ ^ g-gjJ swe'W measure of reform ? , ihe ' » S / r ^ ore prudence-being the organ of that noSv w ho are looked to for some organic P iLI ^ nounds hope with mist , upon the assulSTw the libe ? al breath of Ministers 3 HSdav < h > olve the mist , and present to will one « k + » / fol
aay , * . ; - „„ , mn i z ^^^ f ^ J ensure ! fair representation oi'lfour . NeveifhPlPss the " Times" of to-c ?» y , Me the » TSi ' * ofyorerSgret 8 thattheignorance of the working classes would justify the applicatim nf vAr * narrow limits , within which the
new reform should be pr oscribed . We have frequently illustrated ' the fact , that neither danger nor an ignorant Parliament would be the result of conferring the franchise upon the most ignorant peop le—that is , when the body of electors was too large to be bribed , and when the selection of representatives imght bei safely trusted to the most ignorant , acting under the influence of the wisest and most discreet of their order . It is not to be supposed that TOM , and Bill , and Harry—all ignorant and illiterate —would vote for Mr . Snooks in preference to
Mr . Good ' child , if Mr . Goodchild possessed those qualifications necessary for a representative , and in which Mr . SNOOKS / may be wholly deficient . No ; but , on the contrary , the votes of Tom , and Bill , and Harry , would be given upon the recommendation of Mr . Wiseman ; one of their order , to the candidate best qualified to do justice to that order , and such a representative , apprehensive that future defeat may be consequent upon the misdirection of this ignorant mind , would turn his thoughts to the best mode of destroying that ignorance , the present pretext for disqualification and , perhaps , the means of his own future defeat . Let us . most
clearly and irrefutably illustrate the little danger that would be likely to result , —or , rather , the no danger , at all , —from the enfranchisement of a class wholly ignorant . We do it thus : —Suppose that the power was conferred upon every incarcerated criminal to send two or more members to Parliament , for whom would such criminals vote ? Why , not one of themselves , nor for a man who had ever been suspected of . crime , but for one wholly untainted by crime ; if for no other purpose than to establish either their innocence or their love
of virtue . So with drunkards ; if all the drunkards of England were conglomerated into one electoral district to-morrow , with the power of returning two or more members , the jest qualification for a candidate presenting himself to such a constituency would be confirmed tectotalism !—But if ignorance could be looked upon as a justifiable cause of disqualification , let us in justice ask , who is chargeable with the crime—na \ , the sin of popular ignorance ? Why , who but the privileged classes who apply theNationalEducationFund to their
own sole use , behoof , and benefit . However , we see coming events in the distance , from the profession of Ministers and the etching in of the " Times , " although we are left in glorious uncertainty as to the extent aud form of the animal which is to gobble up and for ever destroy the " quadruped"' and the " sexipede . " We cannot conclude this article without calling attention to the concluding portion of the speech of Mr . O'Connor , delivered at the Milton-street Theatre , and that of Mr . Page Wood , on the motion of Mr . Hume . Mr . O'Connor declared that he was a
complete nonentity in the House of Commons , and that the very fact of his proposing a motion , which might otherwise have been unanimously adopted , would upon his proposition be as unanimously rejected , lest its adoption migh , give him additional influence with the people . Well , we do not think that it would be possible to furnish a stronger illustration of the fact than the speech of Mi . Page Wood supplies . That hon . gentleman not only admitted , but boasted , that he voted for Mr . Hume ' s motion merely from antagonism to that of Mr .
O'Connor ; and yet there are few more honourable or independent members than Mr . Wood and hence the people will learn that an affrighted individual will jump from the top Of a house upon the alarm of fare , and thus crack his neck to save himself from the flames . But we beg to assure Mr . Wood , that the best mode of saving himself from both jump and flames . is , by putting his house in order in time , and then he need dread neither jump nor fire . "A stitch in time saves nine ; " and we would now recommend to her Majesty ' s
Ministers so to stitch and repair their old tattered constitution , a 3 to render further patchwork unnecessary ; and to rest assured , that this can only be effected by judicious use of the CHARTIST NEEDLE .
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PRESS REFORM . If we required any proof of the influence exercised by the Press over the Ministers of the Crown , or rather if we required proof of the presumption of such power , we need not go beyond the definition of Reform , as portrayed by our consistent Radical physical force Whig , Tory , Conservative , everything-and-nothing contemporary—the "Morning Chronicle . " As to politics the " Chronicle" maybe considered
a very imperfect reflex of the " Times ; as we generally find the opinions and policy of the latter constitute the theories of the former . Hence , while the "Times" of Wednesday rather chuckles , over the anticipated Ministerial Reform , the'" Chronicle" ofThursday treatsus to a full , a powerful , able , and comprehensive developement , of the means— -the only meansby which our representative system can be based upon a sound , a solid , and satisfactory foundation . And to our mind the proposition of the advocate of Colonel Mazzaroni ' s system of street warfare , as the peaceful means of effecting reform , is the only one that would be accepted by the people ;—Here it is : —
"For our own part , " says our contemporary , " we see no reason why he should not make a beginning at once , by finding a popular and wealthy constituency for the tivo seats vacated by the disfrauchisement of Sudbury—a measure which no rational Conservatiyo could seriously object to , and which far-seeing Reformers would hail as a fruitful constitutional precedent , " Now then , brave Chartists of England , what say you to the effect of progress upon the Press , when the enfrauohisement
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The discussions on the Miscellaneous Estimates which preceded Mr . Hume ' s motion for Parliamentary Reform , were most appropriate , and forcible illustrations of its necessity . The scandalous and disgraceful character of many of the items in these estimates , made even the " Times " blush—a thing , by the way , which seems a moral impossibility , but which , on this occasion was nevertheless a fact . In two articles , it dwelt with as much unction on the enormities of annual charges for triennial silver
trumpets , and similar specimens of Governmental swindling , and modes of " obtaining money upon false pretensions , " as could the plain-spoken and candid Mr . Osborne himself , to whom the public are , in the first instance , indebted this year , for calling attention to a host of iniquitous charges . These Estimates , in fact , exhibit more clearly the frightfully extravagant way in which these sums—annually wrung from the people—are squandered , than any other part of the yearl y expenditure . . The total amount included under the head of "Miscellaneous Estimates" is
about four millions , but a largo portion of the jobbing , corruption , waste , and rascality indulged in by the ruling powers , finds its record in them ; and so multifarious are the items , that it is a tolerable safe speculation to print them , few caring to wade through the mass of figures and details which show how the money of which the people are plundered , is shared by the plunderers . It would carry us too far to enter upon any detailed comments upon tlie nature of these Estimates ; one sample shall suffice for the manner in Avhich the public money is wasted , and the spirit in which that waste is regarded by official members of the Government .
Most of our readers are aware that "Fum tiik Fourth" was , or considered himself , a great patron of the arts , and especially prided himself on his taste in architecture . In Windsor , Brighton , and London , he indulged his predilections for putting bricks and mortar together upon a large scale , which was all the easier to him inasmuch as he had not to pay
the bills . It was only necessary to present them to an obsequious Parliament , and they were duly cashed . Of his architectural efforts , at Windsor and Brighton , it is onl y requisite to say , that his successor , William the Fourth , pulled down that at Windsor , and that the Chinese toy at Brighton has been disposed of as so much useless lumber . Buckingham Palace—the metropolitan residence of the
Sovereign—cost an immense sum of money . It was intended especiall y to illustrate the taste and enlightenment of the Monarch , under whose orders it was erected—and it certainly aid bo . Itwas , in the first place , builtinaswamp , and , in the next , was constructed in a style of architecture which added to , rather than neutralised , the disadvantageous appearance inhe-
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rent to its bad site , There are now scores 0 ] streets in London infinitely superior to it in al that constitutes a claim to architectural beauty . To put the finishing stroke to this badly-situated and feadly-constructed edifice , a marble arch , which cost nearly £ 100 , 000 , was placed in the centre of the opening in front , though for what purpose we never could see , inasmuch as the exits and entrances were always by a side gateway . When the . present Sovereign began to have a family rising about her , it was diacorered that her uncle had built the house for a bachelor , not for a married couple , and
two years ago more room was asked for . Some people said then , that it would be better to build a new house at once , than to throw more money away upon . one . that was incurable both as to its site and its original structural defects . It was suggested that Buckingham Palace mightjbe approprj ated to the purposes oi& new National Gallery , which it is pretty certain we shall want ere long , and the people would thus get something in exchange for an additional expenditure on the article of Palaces . This view was
not adopted . £ 150 , 000 was granted for additions to the Old building , which even when completed will not admit of a drawing-room or levee being held in it , and which extending the whole length of the front formerly left open , will prevent that free access of lig ht and air to the interior of the building so peculiarly required from its low and swampy position , and must materially increase the evils and inconveniences arising from its position . In the progress of these alterations it has become necessary to remove the marble arch , and this year the sum of £ 2 , 000 was charged in the
estimates for that p urpose . Mr . . Osborios asked where it was to go to ? Sir Charles Wood replied laughingly that he could not tell ; but one thing was certain—that it could not stop where it was : whereupon other hon . members laughed also . No doubt this playing at ducks and drakes with the public money is very funny to those who pocket it , but we opine it is not so pleasant to those who have to pay it . In the words of the frogs in the fable to the naughty boys who pelted them with
stones and enjoyed the fun amazingly— "It may be sport to you , but it is death to us . " The one hundred thousand pounds thrown away upon this marble monstrosity , which is now to cost £ 2 , 000 more in pulling down , would have placed / o 2 « r hundred families upon threeacre freehold farms of their own , each , with a comfortable cottage and outbuildings , aud an ample supply of implements , seed , and capital to cultivate the soil for their own sustenance and the increase of the national wealth .
Taking the four hundred families at an average of six persons here would have been twenty-four thousand men , women , and children rendered independent for life , and a source of continually increasing wealth to the community , by the money which was squandered by a profligate monarch upon a heap of useless rubbish . It would be easy to extend our remarks , and multiply examples as to the recklessness with
which the money wrung from an oppressed and suffering people is expended , but it is an necessary ; the two factious who share between them the powers of the Government , and who turn out and in when such changes appear to them t » be required to cheat the people at large into the belief that they have really , some control over Parliament , have , it is quite clear , made up their minds to back each other in maintaining a financial system which plunders the industrious classes for the sake of the ari £ >
tocratic idlers of society . Any real retrenchment can only be effected by a radical refoi ' m of the so-called House of Commons . It holds the purse-strings , and by the exercise of that recognised , undoubted , and all-powerful privilege , could put an end to these abuses at once , no matter what mi ght be the disposition of the monarch and the aristocracy . It is the perception of this fact which rallies both factions , and makes them lay aside , for the time being , their selfish struggles to obtain the mastery of the public purse , in order to oppose any change which would really invest the
people with the power of imposing their own taxes , and directing the way in which they Shall be applied , Mr , Hume , in introducing his motion , forcibly showed the direct pecuniary bearing of the question , when he said that iu _ 1702 the whole annual taxation of the country was but sixteen millions , of which one million was applied to the Sinking Fund—in other words , to the gradual extinction of the National Debt . Our annual taxation is now sixty millions , and we have apparently g iven up all idea of ever reducing the mighty mass
of debt which hangs like a millstone round thr neck of the nation . During the last half century , population has scarcel y doubledtaxation has been quadrupled ; so that taking the mere nominal money amount of taxation , each man , woman , and child , has to pay twice as much for the support of the Govertment , as they did in 1792 . But this , is an inaccurate test of the amount really paid . In the interim , a great change has been made in the purchasing power of our currency . Under the paper currency , which prevailed up to 1819 , the producer could add the amount of taxation to the
cost of new material and labour , and thus make the non-producer and consumer pay something like a fair price for the article . But Peel ' s bill at once inverted this state of things , and at least doubled the purchasing power of every sovereign in the pocket of the consumer ; and of course took from the producer double the amount of labour for the same amount of money . In that way , therefore , it may bo said that every man , woman , and child , is now paying four times as much in taxes as was paid in 1792 . It is no wonder ,
therefore , to find that the country bristles with barracks , bayonets , and cannon , in order to repress tho discontent caused by such a monstrous practical oppression and tyranny as this . The " Times'' and " Chronicle" may sneer at motions for the amendment of our representative system , as being theoretical , ill-timed , uncalled for b y anything in the present circumstances of the country , and so forth—but , as long as the tax-gatherer is thus seen to stand by the table and the bedside of every poor man , and filch away the bread , the meat , the sugar , tea , furniture , and bed clothes he would
otherwise possess , no amount of brazen-faced , impudent assertion will make the people believe that they have not an interest in an immediate and sweeping reform of the House o £ Commons . The debate on Tuesday was a triumph for Chartism . The members who supported the motion laid down principles , adduced facts , and brought forward arguments , all of which tend irresistibly to the conclusions which form the political creed of tho Chartist body . When Mr . Hume and Mr . Bright complain that , out of the six millions of adult males in
this country , less than one-sixth are enfranchised , and describe the remaining five millions as " slaves , " they mean—if they mean anything at all—that every one of these five million political slaves ought to be emancipated . There is no valid reason whatever that can be given for stopping short of that point ; because , if you enfranchise , say two millions and a half of the five , you will only have made the chains of . the iinemancipated slaves more galling and more unendurable than before .
But , in fact , all the arguments of the supporters of Mr . Hume ' s four-point Charter carry them beyond the point where they arbitrarily take their stand . Mr . Hume's elaborate exposition of the inequalities of the franchise , and his demonstration that a small minority of the nation , in consequence of that unequal distribution , return the majority of Parliament , is a direct and conclusive argument in favour of Equal Electoral Districts . Mr . Hume , however , halts / and oontents hvmselt with an indefinite proposition , instead . In like
The Northern Stab. Saturday, Jsjnje 9, 1s49.
THE NORTHERN STAB . SATURDAY , JSJNJE 9 , 1 S 49 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 9, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1525/page/4/
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