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    • ff Bi BARRY'S HEALTH RESTORING FOOD THE REVALESTA ARABIC!.
    • Eastern Couxiies asd Great Xorthbrn Rail-
    • EHLAR6EWEHT OF THE NATIONAL INSTRUCTOR
    • FUNERAL OP THE DECEASED POLISH REFUGEE, JAN ROSHETSKI.
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    • THE NOBTHERN STAB , SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1851.
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      4 The Northern Star, *', February 1, 185...

      4 THE NORTHERN STAR , *' , February 1 , 1851 .

      Ff Bi Barry's Health Restoring Food The Revalesta Arabic!.

      ff Bi BARRY'S HEALTH RESTORING FOOD THE REVALESTA ARABIC ! .

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      & . UAUTION . —Tho most disgusting and injw jurious compounds being sold bj unscrupulous specuurs urs upon the credulitr of the Public , under close imitau of i of the name of DD BARUY'S HBVALESTA ARA"A EA FOOD , or wlih a pretence ofbeing similar to thatdegbk oas and saxaluable remedy for Indigestion , Constipan , Xn , Xerwras , Biliocs . and Lwer Complaints , Messrs . DTJ IKRHtRYand Co . caution Invalids ^ against these barefaced eempempts at imf * " * - ^ b *^ . ** wrtinng in the whole ^ Mb 2 Mbleldn 5 do « i tha t can legitimately be called simhar to :: Ba Barry ' s Kc « alrasa AraHca , a planvwhich is cultivated IDu Banyand Co . on their estates alone , and for the prenratiration and pulverisation *> f which their own Patent utduicUeery alone is adapted . Let Cora Chandlers sell their aase , ase , beans , lentil , and-ether meals under their proper imcsmcs , and cot tiifle wh the health of Invalids and fo-

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      NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Office , 14 , Southampten-street , Strand . . THE EXECUTIVE C OMMITTEE hereby announce the following meetings : — On Sunday afternoon at three o ' clock the ad journed meeting of the Democratic Conference will be new in tne Coffee-room of the John-stree t Institution , and in consequence the meeting of tho Metropolitan Delegates is adjourned till Sunday , February 9 th . t ;« . m . On Sunday evening next at the Rock Tavern , Lissongrove-Princess Royal Circns-street , Marylebone-dlnck li « n-s > Ar-m * Tonbridse-street , New-road—Crown and Sr / fSJ ^ Literary and Scientific Institution , Morpeth-street , Greenstreet . Bethnal Green . OnthesameeveningattheKingandQueen , Foley-stopet Portland-place , a discussion will be opened by Mr . Alfred On the same evening at five o ' clock , the United Dele-« ates of the Toner Hamlets will meet at the Woodman Tavern , White-street , T ? aterlooTown ; and at eight o ' clock Mr . Elliott will lecture at the above tavern . Subject : ' The present crisis . ' On the same evening at the City Hall , 26 , Golden-lane , Barbican , a lecture will be delivered .

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      EKNEST JONES , ESQ ., will deliver a course of THREE LECTURES at the SOOTH LOSDOS CHABTIST HALL , corner of WEBBERSTBEET ,. BLACKFRlAltS-ROAD , on February 5 ra and 12 th . subject : — - ' Tha People •¦ their Wrongs and Rights , their Power and Weakness . " To commence at Eight o ' clock . Admission , to defray expenses , Hall , Id . ; Platform , 2 d .

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      XOTIC / 3 . BLNGLEY . —A DELEGATE MEETING will be held at Mr . Durran ' s , Temperance Hotel , Bingley , on Sunday , February 9 th , at eleven o ' clock in the forenoon , for the purpose ot appo nting a delegate to attend the Convention abautto assemble in London on the 3 rd of March . The following places are requested to send delegates : -Stanford , Wilsdea , Haworth , Keighlcy , Farohill , Sutton , Shipley , Harden .

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      LEEDS .. ISTBICT . TH E COMMITTEE OP THE LEEDS Chartist Association beg to call a delegate meeting of the following places , viz . - . —Leeds , Holbcck , Pudsey , Wakefield , Den-sbaty , Batley , and Birstall , for the purpose of considering and adopting measures for the nomination of a delegate to the Convention , to be held in London on the 3 rd of March . The number of delegates to be restricted to two from each place , and the meeting to be held in the Bazaar , Leeds , on Sunday morning at ten o ' clock , February the 9 th . Signed on behalf of the Committee , Wttiux Brook , Secretary .

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      LAND AND COTTAGES FOR TEETOTALERS . IMMEDIATE POSSESSION OF A i- Four Acres Allotment , with a Four Roomed Cottage , may now be obtained , oafheDiBDEsHuL Estate , at Chalfont Saint Giles , Bucks , twemy-one miles from London , and two miles from O'Connorville , owing to a family misfortune compelling the occupant to g ^ ve it up . There is a capital acre of wheat growing , but the incoming tenant will not be forced to take to it The other three acres are at liberty to beplanted as the incoming tenant shall think proper . Two acres with a two roomed cottage may be had for £ 8 per annum . Further information may be obtained on the spot firm Mr . Page .

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      TOOTHACHE PREVENTED . Price Is . per packet ; pest-free , Is . Id . BRAKDE ' S ENAMEL , for FILLING DEGAYISG TEETH , and RESDERISG THEM SOUND AND PAINLESS , has , from its unquestionable excellence , obtained great popularity at home and abroad . Its curative agency is based upon a TRUE THEORY ot the cause of T « -oth-ache , and hence its great success . By most other remedies it is sought to hill the nerve , and so stop the pain . But to destroy the nerve is itself a very painful operation , and often leads to very sad consequences , for the tooth then becomes a dead substance in the living jaw , and produces the same amount of inflammation and pain as would reiult from any other foreign body embodied in a Bung organ . BRANDE'S ENAMEL does not destroy the MCire . butby RESTORING THE SHELL OF THE TOOTH , completely protecls the nerve from cold , heat , or chemical or other agency , by which , pain is caused . By fallowing the directions , INSTANT EASE is obtaned , and a LASTING CURE follows . Full instructions accompany every packet .

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      TEE CELESTIAL SCIENCE OF THE STARS . MR . F . MOORE liaving after years of sedulous devotion to the study of this sublime science , made himself perfect master of it in all its bran , ekes , respectfully offers his services to a discriminating and enlightened public , trusting that by personal demonstration some may be convinced of its truth and importance . In Horary Astrology . Prrfessor M . has been eminently successful , the accuracy oi Lis calculations and the perspicuity of his judgments have caused hundreds , who before considered it to be an imposture and a cheat , to join the ranks of the wise and bear their grateful testimony to its reality and exceeding usefulness , when legitimately practised by educated and competent persons . This department of the Art ( H . A . ) esteemed the most beautiful , is founded on the sympathetic properties which

      Eastern Couxiies Asd Great Xorthbrn Rail-

      Eastern Couxiies asd Great Xorthbrn Rail-

      Way Uompaxdis. —« Is Understood That The...

      way uoMPAXDis . —« iS understood that the directors of the above companies have entered into an equitable traffic arrangement , by which all competition between the two companies is avoided .

      Ehlar6eweht Of The National Instructor

      EHLAR 6 EWEHT OF THE NATIONAL INSTRUCTOR

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      No . V . of the Kew Series OP " THE NATIONAL fflSTRUCTOB , " Is now ready . SIXTEEN LABGE BOYAL OCTAVO PAGES ,

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      Thirty-two pages , price 6 iL , with the Magazines on the 1 st ofFebruary , THE ENGLISH REPUBLIC . No . 2 , containing the Life and Vr ^ gs of Joseph Mazzini—the History and Official Atlis of tbe Central European Democratic Committee—the Editor ' s Plan for Bepublican Organisation in England—A History of the Three Revolutionary Years , and other articles . Edited byW . J . Linton . J . "Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster row , London ,

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      NOW PUBLISHING , By Edirin Dipple , Holytvell-street , Strand , London , ( to whom all orders are to be forwarded ) , In four weekly numbers , of twenty-four pages each , Price 2 d . the number , CANTERBURY verm ROME , \ J Two Lectures , By ERNEST JONES . No . L was published on Saturday the 18 th ult No . IL was published on Saturday , the 25 th ult . Contents—Thelloyal Church ; its history , from Henry to James—The Gospel » . the Rubric . No . III . the 1 st of February . —Contests-Tub Legal Church ; its work . No . IV . will he published on Saturday , the 8 th of Feb . Contests—The Legal Church ; its Wages , its Title to its Profit , its Amount , How Derived , its False Returns—The People Plundered .

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      BETTER YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES . F OUR METHODS OF OBTAINING a COMFORTABLE INCOME . Send thirteen stamps and a directed envelope to Mr . T . F . Leroy , Bolton-le-Moors , Lancashire , and the above will be sent sufficiently explicit to enable either sex to obtain £ 3 per week or more , without previous knowledge or risk . The methods stated are re spectacle , can ba learned in one hour , and are very lucrative .

      Funeral Op The Deceased Polish Refugee, Jan Roshetski.

      FUNERAL OP THE DECEASED POLISH REFUGEE , JAN ROSHETSKI .

      This Ceremony Took Place On Sunday After...

      This ceremony took place on Sunday afternoon , according to the following arrangement . About two o'clock several thousand people , respectably attired , assembled on Clerkenwell Green , and in tho Polish-rooms at Turnmill-street . About half-past two the procession started in the following order : —A splendid silk banner with the motto , " What is life without liberty . " Wand bearers , followed by Poles and Hungarians , marching abreast and carrying their National Flags . Wand bearers , followed by the Trades' Committee , supporting tbe coffin covered with a tri-coloured velvet pall . Two swords crossed , and the dress and accoutrements of the deceased borne by his countrymen . These were followed by the Polish Committee , carrying appropriate banners . Wand bearers , followed by a procession

      of at least 4 , 000 persons , who were continually reinforced as they proceeded on their route tbrou « h Smithfield , Finsbury , Shoreditch , and Bethnal Green , until they arrived at the cemetery in "Victoria Park , where the concourse was immense . The burial service having been perfonaed , several orations , suitable to the occasion , were delivered by Mr . Brown and other speakers , over the grave . A collection was made amounting to nearly £ 8 . The meeting then returned in procession to the Fraternal Home , Turnmill-street , where a lecture was delivered by Mr . Brown , to a large audience , upon the life and character of the deceased . A portion of the procession stopped on the return home at the Ball of Science , City-road , and a further collection of between £ 2 and £ 3 was received after Walter Cooper ' s lecture .

      BALANCE SBEET OP THE BRADFORD COMMITTEE FOR THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES , January 21 st 1851 . br . £ s . d . SBBSCulPTIOXS . Per J . Hartley , Bradford 1 13 8 — J . Hunter „ 0 0 10 — J . Can- „ 0 8 6 — J . Hargreaves „ ... ... ... 0 3 3 J — T . Wilcock „ 0 4 6 "

      — J . Normiogton , 0 2 8 — W . Scott „ 0 2 2 — T . TJmpleby „ 0 14 0 — W . Cooke „ 0 2 6 — R . Ambler „ „ o 1 10 } — J . Hudson „ 0 5 9 — Fleece Inn , Great Horton 0 14 2 J — W . Lofthouse , 0 4 9 — J . Walker „ ... 0 6 10 — A . Shepherd „ 0 4 9 — R . Rbyder , Sew Leeds 0 l o — J . Waddington „ 0 16 3 — J . Watson „ 0 3 11 — W . Christian , White Abbey ... 0 6 0 — J . Barrett , Bowling 0 7 2 — W . Fletcher , Eurley ... ... 0 5 4

      Collection at E . Jones Lecture ... 1 0 0 Smith and Booth ... 0 10 O Sundries 0 0 2 § . - £ 9 7 2 cs . £ s . d . To Labels for Collection Books 0 2 0 Postage 0 18 Stationery 0 4 0 Printing Appeals 0 12 0 Rentol Committee Rooms 0 7 6 Expenses of Collection ... 040 By Cash to Leader Office 5 0 0 Balance 2 16 0 [ Which balance has been sent to the Leader office , as passed in a resolution by a public meeting at Bradford . ] £ 9 7 2 - ^

      Tub Address Ia The Lord's, In Reply To H...

      Tub Address ia the Lord's , in reply to her Majesty's Speech , will , it is understood , he moved by Lord Effingham and seconded fcy Lord Overstone .

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      Nottingham.—J. Sweet Acknowledges The Re...

      Nottingham . —J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the followinR sums ( sent herewith ) , viz . :-For HoNEsti Fond . — From Messrs . Lawson and McWonough 3 s .- ——Fob Wisdiso or Fusd . —Mr . Christie fid—Mr . w . more Is-Joseph Robinson ls-Moses Mellovs Is—Mr . Gale da -And the following from Carrington . viz . - ^ o hn beg Cd-Benjimin Dowse Od-Henry Ward 6 d- George Moor ( id-Benjamin Sheppard Gd-James Cliff WGeorge Barrows 6 d-wi ) liam l « anHsb , % ^ T « . rf HH 1 C ! d _ Henry Skelton fid-Maria Smith Cd-R ^ on Leatherland fid-Edmund SeweU pd-Edward Palmer 6 d-James Slierlocke Gd-Jolm Porter fid-Thomas Oldfield 6 d-Ambrose Williamson 6 d-Robert Thomas 6 d-Jolin Moss fid-William Sales Gd . . The Polish Refugees .-Mv . Thomas Antill , on behalt ot the Metropolitan Trades , desires to acknowledge , with thanks , the sum of £ 2 Us , being the amount collected at the Hall of Science , City-road , after an appeal mane bv Mr . T . Cooper . Ms . AicocKbegs to acknowledge Is from a Manchester manufacturer towards enabling Mr . O'Connor to withstand the attempts now being made to rum him with

      Mb * J ? W . Smith , WhHechurch .-Itterniinated on thelSth MrJ ^ Bao ' oks , Gainsbro ' .-It may be obtained of Mr . R . Pftvey , Holywcll-street , Strand . Mb . Norman , Wingate Grange . -They will be sent to Mr . Turnbull's , Side , Newcastle , early in the week . Mb . M'Adasi , Gatehouse . -It has always been posted on the Friday evening . Mb Ferguson . —Your notice is an advertisement . Mb ' Emblet , Kendal . —Tn Mr . II . ' s next parcel . Mr SorciiFFE Ckabtkee , Rochdale . —We shall be much obliged by receiving the reports alluded to . Wehave not recently issued any contents bills ; when we resume them the wishes of our correspondent shall receive due

      attention , Mr . E . Junes .-The numbers forwarded shall be attended to in our next . ¦ . „ . . John Smith , Whitechurch . —Write to the secretary , Digoy IV ' yatt . Erq . E . ( J . Asford . —If the landlord pays , the tenant has no status in the vestry . J . Maiionv , Conjcleton . —Write to the land Office , 144 . High Holborn , London . Mb . Martin Jude . —We had prepared extracts from the let'er sent us , but are sorry that press of matter pre . vents their publication .

      To The Readers Of The "Northern Star-" ;...

      TO THE READERS OF THE "NORTHERN STAR- " ; With the commencement of the Session we purpose to make several important alterations and improvements in the contents , and publication of the Northern Star . A larger quantity of small type will be used than at present , which will materially improve the appearance of the paper , and add to the quantity of its contents .

      The present Scottish Edition will be discontinued , and advantage be taken of the extension of railways , to delay the publication of the First Edition till Friday evening ; by which our Scottish readers will have one day ' s later

      news . By malting correspondence as brief as possible during the sitting of Parliament , we shall be enabled to give very full reports of its proceedings , together with 'an ample and careful selection of home and foreign news . We shall also issue a Saturday Edition for the metropolis , and tho home counties , containing all the news of that morning . This will place the Star on an equality with the other metropolitan journals published on the same day , as regards the lateness and variety of its

      news . By these changes we hope , that while the Star will maintain its distinctive character as the organ of Chartism , it will also present all the best features of a carefully compiled Family paper . Acting upon what we considered practical advice , we had determined upon altering the shape , and making the Star a sixteen , instead of an eight page paper . Subsequent communications with the leading agents in the provinces have , however , convinced us that such an alteration would he unpopular with our readers ; and we therefore relinquish that portion of our proposed alterations . The Star will continue to retain its present shape .

      We trust that our readers and friends will exert themselves to support these efforts to issue a journal worthy of being the organ of Democracy in this country . Orders , Subscriptions , and Advertisements for the Now Series , which will commence on Saturday , February the 8 th , should be forwarded to this office immediately ,

      The Nobthern Stab , Saturday, February 1, 1851.

      THE NOBTHERN STAB SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 1 , 1851 .

      Ishmaelism. Industrial Insurrections Are...

      ISHMAELISM . Industrial insurrections are the order of the day . We can scarcely turn to a single point of the compass , in which the war of Capital against Labour ia not pushed to opeaa hostilities and direct collision . Our Free Trade and Competitive prophets preach "Peace , peace , " but there is no peace . Yet , according to their creed , there ought to be . They have produced as near an assimilation to their predicted millennium as ever they are likely to obtain . Provisions are low in price , worlc moderately abundant , and , as y et , there has been no general

      corresponding reduction of wages with food . Even the Protectionist Editor of the Tory Morning Post avowed , in our hearing , on Wednesday last , that the nation in general , and the great body of the working classes in particular , were never so well off , in the recollection of the present generation , as they are at this moment . He added , it is true that this general prosperity was purchased at the expense of the landlords and the farmers , and that he reserved his opinion as to the ultimate results of the system ; but , in the meantime he fully admitted the immediate benefits derived from it .

      If any decisive proof were required of the fact , it may be found in the overflowing coffers of the Chancellor of the Exchequer . Notwithstanding considerable reductions of taxation within the last two years , that functionary is a second time astonished with a surplus : this time a larger surplus than ever before , astounded a Whig Financier . Prima facie , this is evidence of the power of the masses to purchase an increased quantity of excisable articles , and of the general diffusion of enterprise and employment . Our taxing machinery , however clumsily contrived aud unjust in details , is a tolerably accurate

      barometer of the general industrial and financial condition of the country . But , in the midst of all this seeming prosperity , swelling even over the congratulations which are exchanged on all hands , we hear the din and discord arising from the clashing of labour with capital . B y the existing organisation of Society , these two primary elements of wealth , which ought to he identical , are placed in irreconcileable antagonism ! Whether the conflict be open or concealed , it is always waged ; whether we have adverse or prosperous seasons , the intestine struggles , produced by the encroachmentof the master and the resistance of the man , convulses society .

      Our civilisation is , indeed , like a whitcd sepulchre—fair without , but within full of rottenness and dead men ' s bones . The gorgeous Temples of Trade , with their massive and tasteful architecture , and windows composed of immense sheets of plate glass , set in burnished brass frames , in which light is diffused from scores of expensive , glittering , and elegant chandeliers , and reflected from rows of

      vast and costly mirrors , in ornamental gilded frames—aro hut the screen to the misery , demoralisation , and crime , which overwhelm the victuals of our infamous and deadl y slop system . Behind all this brilliance and magnificence—that dazzling display of wealth—the revelations of Henbly Maybsv show us the producers , condemned io live in unwholesome cellars and garrets—nests of pestilence aud

      fever—upon pittances so utterl y inadequate to support the merest animal existence ; that , in the case of women , they are compelled to ' eke it out hy prostitution—of men and boys bv theft . The home of the Spitalfields weaver in which the lustrous and richly-tinted brocade which attracts the eyes of admiring ladies ' was woven , is the abode of squalid want ! almost fireless and fnrnitureless ; and the remuneration for weaving it was bo paltry

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      that the man , his wife , and his children , hare , ia many instances , been obliged to Combine their labour , even on the Sunday , to ensure the scanty fare requisite for sustaining life from one week ' s end to the other . Moses was not a modern Political Economist , else he never would have fixed " six days" as the limit of each week ' s labour . Messrs . Slop , Gammon , and Crib know better than that . T uomas C arlyle has told us , that Labour is noble—even religious and GOD-like ; and the slop autocrats think their workmen can't have " too much " of such " a good thing ' . "

      It is not alone among the slop workers and their tyrants , however , that this irresistible tendency of Capital to crush Labour is manifested . The desire to grow rich , no matter how , everywhere pervades the class which accumulates wealth out of the profits of others ' industry . We have an instinctive example of the length to which men , otherwise liberal and estimable , will go in the pursuit of this object , in the strike which has been so long pending between Sir Elkanah Armiiage and some of his workpeople , at Pendleton . Fortunately for the latter , they have secured the advocacy of a talented , humane , and courageous man , in the person of the Rev . T . Cf . Lee . In the numbers of bis Trades Union

      Magazine , now lying before us , we find a full and deeply interesting history of this struggle , a condensation of which may interest our readers . The origin of the strike is thus described by Mr . Lee , in a letter to Joseph Brotiierton , Esq ., Member for the borough , and an intimate friend of Sir Elkanah : — Sometime during the last summer , the weavers of a certain description of goods , formed an union among themselves , in order to protect their only property—their labour . The persons employed in a mill not far from the Messrs . Farrar ' s establishment , near Rndcliffe , having been long in the receipt of wages much loner than the

      gentlemen just named were giving for the same description of work , a strike of the badly-paid men at length ensued . The Messrs . Firra , in the most candid and honourable manner , lold their own men that if their neighbours did not pay tho same price as they had been paying , in order to meet , ' in the market , those persons who paid low wages , they—the Favravs—must , out of justice to themselves , reduce their standard of remuneration . The men at once perceived that an union must Tie formed , and immediately began to make the necessary arrangements for its constitution . Soon after the union was organised , the matters of difference alluded to were amicably adjusted , and men who had turned out resumed their worlc . One or two other strikes took place , but in those cases

      also the men succeeded in obtaining the required advances . The sagacity of the operatives enabled them to perceive the injustice which was being inflicted on the masters who were paying high wages , while others were allowed to have the same description of work done at much lower prices ; hence , they considered that the proprietors of Pendleton New Mills ought , in all fairness , to pay the same as others in the same business had long been doing . By some means , it is supposed , Sir Elkanah and Sons became aware that at no distant period they would be requested to raise their standard of prices to the one adopted by other respectable firms . To stave off the appreheded difficulty , and , at the same time , to put forth a more genteel aspect to the public , the overlookers were persuaded to relinquish their connection with the union , and better twist was supplied to the weavers . The

      sudden withdrawal of the overlookers—under the alleged fear of being discharged from their employment , andalso of being ejected from their houses—together with theirefforts to induce those persons employed under them to leave the union , gave the alarm to the whole of the hands concerned , who resolved , at once , to present to their masters a list of prices paid by other firms , as the standard by which they themselves desired to be remunerated . The men composing the deputation , and who presented the list , were told that as the hands wished to give a week ' s notice , they could , after breakfast , go throujrh the counting-houseas they did when wages were paid—and each act for himself . Alter breakfast the work-people assembled round the mill , but the bell remained silent and the doors continued closed ; and the hands found that their master had forced them on to a strike .

      The men appealed , in the first place , to the public for support , and were nobly responded to . Finding this to be the case , the Manchester Guardian—an inveterate and consistent enemy of the working classes , and a ready tool of the manufacturers—was made use of to publish an exaggerated and false statement of the average earnings of the hands thus forced out of work , because they would not relinquish one of the most precious privileges of Englishmen—the right to associate for common protection and defence . Exaggerated as that statement was , the average amount paid for the three weeks selected , was lis . lid . for each person ! No great thing to boast ofbut which seemed , in tho eyes of the Guardian , a most exorbitant and preposterously high rate of wages for mere " weavers . "

      Whether it was owing to having been over paid by Sir Elkanah , or the support afforded them by the public , we cannot tell , but certain it is , he failed in reducing them to starvation , and consequent submission to his own terms . Finding they still resisted , after the lapse of several weeks , the " liberal" knight resorted to coercion . One of his "hands" was discharged because ho would not force his wife ( who was formerl y employed ia the mill on strike ) to go to work ! To an over-looker , who was out of work in consequence of the strike , he refused a character or " clearance , " which was demanded before other employers would

      give him employment . Another man was discharged because his daughter refused to be dragged back to underpaid work , and because he himself had the audacity to take shares in a Cooperative Mill in Whit-lane , started by the hands on strike . Not content with coercing his own workpeople , men in the employment of a neighbouring firm—one of the partners in which is nephew to the knight—were ruthlessly discharged , becausethey sympathised with , and supported their fellow workpeople . The situations of the "hands '' forced out of work were supplied by persons from Warrington and other places , aud these were huddled

      together in cottages adjacent to the mills , and belonging to Sir Elkanah , in a manner calcalculatedto destroy all sense of decency in those thus treated . Prosecutions were instituted against mere children , for having annoyed the "knobsticks , " as they were called , and the bench , as usual , showed their fellowfeeling with the employer-class , by convicting , on the flimsiest evidence , those charged before them . In short , all the recognised and usual methods by which capital is allowed to wreak its vengeance on its recusant' slaves were resorted to , while every overture to arbitrate the matter in dispute , and to place the relation of

      employer and employed on an equitable basis iu future , was systematicall y rejected . After the lapse of many months , the quarrel is still as far from adjustment as ever . Tho prices paid by Sir Elkanah , according to tables published in the last number of the Trades Union Magazine , are , in many cases , twenty , five to thirty per cent , below those paid by honourable employers . It is clear that the latter must be protected against the unfair competition which this discrepancy occasions , or . be forced to lower their wages also . In order to avert this result , we are happy to learn that the operatives have had recourse to

      tho self-employing and co-operative principle —they havo taken a mill , stocked it with machinery , and we hope will be successful in an enterprise , which will release them from slavish dependence on such " liberal " capitalists as Sir Elkanah Armitage . The extensive strike of the seamen employed in the North of England , and in the port of Lynn , is another indication of the unsound and unsatisfactory condition of society No bod y of men are more valuable to our mer ! cantile and manufacturing country , than those who , in all seasons of the year are ready to tempt "the dangers of the sea , " either to convey the products of our own skill and

      industry to distant lands , to brine backin return , the production s of other soils and climes- , or to transport , from one part of em-Mast to another , the raw materials and commodities winch keep the mighty tide of our internal trade ever flowing . The life of British seamen on board merchant ships is proverbially one of peril and hardship , and the moderation of their present demands is a proof that they have no desire to bear hardly upon their employers . Yet here , again , the essential antagonism of the two forces developes itself , and that which ought to be yielded to reason and justice , has to be demanded by means of a strike , public meetings , processions , and clamour ; witn all their fatal tendencies to discord , confusion , heated passions , col-

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      lisions , riots , bloodshed , partial trials / i ^ sonment , and , perhaps , . even loss ' of ??* Truly m the best of times we live in a b ft * camp , instead of a well-ordered and am « , society ! uaft iwab ] Q No class of operatives are exem pt r London we have just had a comp lete J . out of the whole " Companionshi p" tfffi Morning Post , in order to make way fL " ° entirely new set of'men from Glasgow , iy , was the reason assigned for this act b r great "Protector" and advocate of if j ? tive Industry 1 " Was it any deficient * skill or attention on the part of the meu ° ' sent

      wiueiy aarin—many ot mem in their i age , and when years of faithful service 1 incapacitated them from getting emplovn elsewhere ? Nothing of the kind . The nager of the Post found that he could ma * £ 2 , 000 a year , and that was enough n ? other considerations were blown to the \ a Do we not Jive under the dispensation of th modern Gospel—a Gospel which abolishes n former codes of morals and religion , — "Bm .-the cheapest , and sell in the dearest market fl * One of the most saddening events connm * with this last case , is the fact that a bodv t workmen could be found anywhere who L willing , deliberately , to supersede their ft-ifo operatives . In ordinary cases , mean , Uu i J

      or avaricious employers , arc happy , if they «¦« catch " knobsticks" b y one ' s and two ' s' b * here we have an organised " Companionship openly and calmly treating for the dischati of men living by the same trade , against whom no fault was alleged , and for whose re-em . ployment or future subsistence , no provision whatever was either made or guaranteed When the working classes thus cut each other ' s throats , and play into the hands . of th 8 capitalist , the case is gloomy and lamentabl indeed . No external advice or efforts can save a class who , by their own selfishness and shortsightedness , thus doom themselves to d »

      struction , Cannot the Scottish compositors now at work on the Post , perceive that the are as much at the mercy of the employer , nuj ] of some other body , willing to take less pay as the men they have displaced- ? Where t the race of ruin to end?—what lower depths of baseness , oppression and misery , are we des . tined to fathom , if good faith and brotherl y feeling are to be thus banished from tho ranks of industry , and proletarians turn traitors to each other ? We must reserve a few observations on the remedial aspect of the question for another occasion .

      Young Italy. A New And Powerful Opponent...

      YOUNG ITALY . A new and powerful opponent to Cardinal Wiseman has made his appearance in Lob . don , in the person of Father Gavazzi , au Italian Monk , and an earnest believer in tho doctrines of the Romish Church . While tho Cardinal and his abettors are endeavouring

      to restore the long lost supremacy of tho Pope oyer England , and to reconquer for a titled hierarchy the rich and coveted possessions of a rival Church , Father Gavazzi has come amongst us , to show the real character of Popes , Cardinals , and Bishops , and tho utter incompatibility of their pretensions with tho civil and religious liberties of mankind , in any country whatever .

      The mission of this remarkable man is to his co-religionists weekly , in the Princess ' s con . cert room . Crowds of foreigners—among whom it is not difficult to distinguish the preponderance of the classic features of sunny Ital y , assemble to listen to the glorious eloquence of this gifted and extraordinary priest . His addresses , delivered in the flowing and musical language of his native land , aro illustrated and enforced by the highest qualities

      of the perfect and finished orator and rhetorician , and produce a wonderful effect on tho numerous and varied assemblies which he has suddenly gathered around him . The intelligent and scholarl y reporter of the Daily News , to whom we are indebted for the translation of these stirring orations , ' speaking of the scene presented last Sunday , at the fourth oration of Father Gavazzi on " the Inquisition , " says : —

      The eager and breathless attention with which they hang on his every word and the contagious bursts of enthusiasm which ever and anon saluted his outbreaks of true-hearted sacerdotal chivalry form a spectacle of a mast interesting character . The fearless spirit of the Father seems to revel and triumph in the sympathy of his countrymen . The con . gealed and frozen feelings which sad exile seemed to have pent up in the breasts of these doomed and devoted men from every province of that fair peninsula thaw and resolve under the warmth of his passionate and soothing oratory .

      It is a fortunate thing that at this moment the people of England should be made aware that , ia Italy itself , the temporal authority and spiritual supremacy of the Vaticau is questioned by a large , intelligent , and influential body of members of the Romish Church , Ab far as we understand Father GAVAZZl ' S views , he is opposed to the connexion of Church and State in Italy—his efforts are

      directed to the destruction of the temporal dominion of the Church , of which he is himself a priest—and the work he has set himself to perform in this country is , to point out , by reference to history and to present facts , that the possession of the temporal sword by tho Poktief has ever proved , as it now proves , adverse to the highest , the dearest , and tho holiest interests of humanity . These

      views we know , from personal observation and experience , are widely participated in by Italians . "We shall not soon forget tho exciting spectacle presented by a numerous meeting of Italians in the Metropolis , the express object of which was to denounce and to abjure the temporal soverei gnty , and oven tho i spiritual supremacy , claimed by the Posin g with its consequent priestly rule , as tlic great ; central fountain , from which had flowed tho ) subversion , the degradation , the oppression , , of their beloved and beautiful , but enslaved i country . What that country might become , , if the heavy hoof of spiritual and temporal 1

      despotism was lifted from its neck , we had a i specimen durin g the short period that the o noble MAzzim strayed the destinies of Rome . i . The glimpse we then obtained of the spirit it and genius of the Roman people , unfettered d by the chains of the Papacy—undermined by y the black shadow which it casts over tho na-1-tional character—proved that the ancient lie- eroic spirit is not dead ; that it but waits time , e , opportunity , and worthy leaders , to blaze zo up into a flame of patriotism , as a light and id a beacon to all nations , and to set examples of disinterested devotion to principle , worthyliy of the ancient Eoman Republic in its palmicBtot . days . /

      How these noble aspirations were crushed , id , these glorious efforts made fruitless-how *' Rome , by tho united forces of France (!) Aus-istria , Naples and Spain , was again forced underlei " the hated yoke of the despot's puppet , Piusus the Ninth—we all know . The retributioftom that awaits on that most infamous act of mo-iO " dern times we have yet to see . That it will be avenged we think is guarannii " teed by the orations of Father Gavazzi , notaotl less than by the heroic and unremitting excr-crtions of Mazzini , for the attainment of tha & at ! nationality which is the cherished purpose ofe oil his life ; and all lovers of liberty will sympa-pa ~

      tluso with the efforts of both . "We need notoott remind our readers , that during the triumviivirate of Mazzini , liberty of speech , vwt-riting , and printing were freely enjoyed by all alll classes . Liberty of reli gious worship watoraS equally free . Light was let in upon the danrtn « geons of the Inquisition , tind the world wafturas horrified with the revelations of its iniquitiesties , With the return of the Pope and the CajUHiU » nals , freedom of speech , action , and caifcam science were stifled , and the Inquisition re ret established . What that Inquisition vaiwai Father Gavazzi described as an eye witncsBjcsBs when the Romans broke into its long impendence trable enclosure . In the words of tlic concern densed report of the Daily News ;—

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 1, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_01021851/page/4/