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    • THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JUNE 0, 1846.
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      A The Northern Star. June 6 Irdfi ^* _^_...

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      On And After The First Of June.

      On and after the First of June .

      / T H W B K I-Lt- N'M Ws,-London Morning...

      / T H W B k I-LT- N'M WS ,-LONDON MORNING NEWSPAPER , AT TWOPENCE HALFPENNY . ___ Xewspaper is the intellectual life of the Nineteenth Century . Sot to ffwk * J }??™ ™* P , ° ™ 1 Safe - ! guards which it . affords , itplaces all , whatever their varieties of ^^^ S ^ 'f its means S S _ y the small capitalist is enabled to contend successfully « P * «* * f * ffl SVl ZS S » ? i °% ° ' \ nffeS , _ ich affect prices . Without the daily Newspaper , a family might 1 be located as « eU in o back settlements of , Canada as wi ^ ten miles ofthe great centre of European Cinhzataon . - Yet it is remarkable , that more than a oentary since , there were Eioni ^ apers published in London , daily or three times a week-while now there are OQlyHTrEEK ' , Of a & ct so startling , what is the cause I—Fines .

      TTiaf * npimbiip know the advantaee of having a London Daily laper is manifest , from the thousands who nay ; « 2 ^ fi ? SSMfl ^ ate ?^« w ? What - then ' are ft ? I ? 0888 S Wch maintain *» S Vrke ? First , ' 1 fa £ _____ trf « P i £ l rearedto beinvested in a Newspaper speculation . Next , the various talent and experience I « MAflnrt Combine * 0 produce the result . The number of the requirements have , in truth , occasioned something ^^^ mnS v-aldmonopolv always commands its own pnee . Thus , whilst capital and competition have IfZ ^ f t ?^«™ i 7 p hi aU oth er things ; nothing has been attempted , in the d irection indicated , for the political » fe &^^ ltoe ^ S ^; Sd a Daily Paper still remains a costly luxury , in which only the Why can indulge . Thp prreriment is about to be tried of establishing a London Daily Newspaper , on the highest scale of completeness Vjhichshall look for support , not to comparatively few readers at a high price , but to many at a loio price ; therefore after the First of June , THE DAILY NEWS

      TOLL BE PUBLISHED IN TIME FOR THE MORNING MAILS , AT Twopence Halfpenny , The Paper will be of the same she as all other journals were within seven years ; it will be larger than many of the luVh-priced dailv journals are now ; and , in every particular of interest , it will contain as much information as the most successrbl ' amongst its contemporaries . But it will be expansive ; and double sheets will be given whenever an important Debate , a pressure of News , or Advertisements require it The marking features ofthe scheme are : 1 st . THE DAILY NEWS will offer to tlie reader , in what it is hoped we _ e a more tystematic form , all that he can find in the most approved of its competitors . 2 ndly . To the reader who pavsHvepence for his paper , the same thing is offered at half the price . It , then , only remains for the public to Justify the experiment Let him who would support it , subscribe at once . "Where even the reduced price is beyond bis means . let him ut once join with a neighbour in subscription . Every Xews Agent will , it is hoped , supply the paper at Twopence Halfpenny , whebe patmeft is made in- advance : the same proportionate allowance as with other papers—somethingmore than twenty-four per cent . —being allowed to the trade . When credit is given , it is a matter of private arrangement , with which the Proprietors have nothing to do . As , however , in an undertaking so hold and so novel it is advisable to guard against possible inconvenience , the Proprietors of THE DAILY 2 fEWS Trill undertake to get aU persons supplied who shall forward a Post-office order payable to Joseph Smth , Daih JfEWS OFFICE , Whitefriars , London . Foe Thbeb Months , 16 a id .

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      TWELVE REASONS why every one should read the LONDON PIONEER : 1 . Because it aims at the greatest happiness of the greatest number , by augmenting social good and diminishing social evil . 2 . Because it both amuses and instructs all who read , and tehds to make all readers the wiser , the better , and the happier for what they read . 3 . Because it gives crood advice to all classes , teaches the ladies how to getgood husbands , the gentlemen how to get good wives , and makes all

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      WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . WAKEFIELD ADJOURNED SESSIONS . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , that the Spring General Qoahteu Sessions of the Peace , for the West Riding of the County of York , will be held by adjournment , in the Committee-Room , at tlie House of Correction , at Wakefield , on Thursday , the Eleventh day of June , at Twelve o'clock at noon , for the purpose of inspecting the Riding Prison , ( the said House of Correction ) aud for examining tlie Accounts of the Keeper of the said House of Correction , making Enquiry into the conduct of the Officers and Servants belonging to the same ; and also into the behaviour of the Prisoners , and their ^ "i" * C . H . ELSLEY , Clerk of the Peace . Clerk of the Peace ' s Office , WakefiehL 28 th May , 1810 "

      The Northern Star. Saturday, June 0, 1846.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JUNE 0 , 1846 .

      The Revolution. While Legislators And Wo...

      THE REVOLUTION . While legislators and working men are enjoying a short respite from their respective labours during the Whitsuntide holidays , it will not be amiss to consider the future work which the new commercial policy of Sir Robert Peel is likely to cut out for the respective classes . The Corn Law question has tended

      more than any , or all others , to create not only political feuds but angry feelings amongst the working classes , while it has also furnished materials for the respective parties struggling for political power whereon to rest their claim for popular support . The candidate who not long since relied upon his advocacy of the ballot , or some mysterious profession of liberal ism or abstract notionsof progression , as an ample hid for popular favour , would now find himself a mere

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      laughingstock if he based his claim for support upon no better pretensions ^ ' ^ - . - . - ¦ ¦ - - ' ^ ,- " - -r : :: " So long as the question of protection was supposed settled , so long were the respective parties compelled to seek some captivating ELECTION CRY as a means of preserving their ascendancy . Not only because the knocking of this crutch from under landed Toryism and exhausted Whiggery has compelled the two parties to assume some defined and intelligible position , but because it will test the

      wisdom and foresight of politicians do we admire it . Should it fail of giving the anticipated satisfaction , which it assuredly will , its promoters and supporters will be compelled to resort to something more definite , something more intelligible , and something more democratic , as the means of acquiring political power , while those who have , opposed it from no other consideration than the damage that it threatens to their order , will gain ifeither character nor honor , as their prophecies of failure were based upon selfishness , not upon foresight .

      It would have been impossible , wholly and entirely impossible , to have combined the industrious of all classes into a league against the MACHINE MONOPOLISTS so long as the gaping mouths and watery teeth of the ignorant shopkeepers and aristocratic trades wore strained to receive the ripening fruit . " High wages , cheap bread , and plenty to do , "inferred more money to be expended with shopkeepers after the support of the working man ' s family , —it promised something more equable to the labour market than partial seasons of activity and long periods of idleness . The " plenty to do" implied never ceasing toil . * ' Cheap bread and high wages " meant the ability to spend a large surplus , after living , with the middle classes .

      We have laboured assiduously to convince the working classes and the shopkeepers that cheap and dear are relative terms ; and that before the labouring man can purchase , at any price , he must first sell his labour to procure tho means . We'have kept the real object of the League incessantly before the eyes of the middle classes ; we have shown that the primary advantage to be derived from free trade was , that by the reduction in the price of bread the master manufacturers may so reduce the rate of wages , as to be enabled to sell the produce of

      English labour at a lower price in the foreign markets than the speculators in slave labour could afford to sell it in their respective markets . And we have proved that of all the hostile interests existing in this class-divided country , that there were no two i nterests so really opposed to each other as that of the shopkeepers who thrive by high wages , and that Of the manufacturers who have brought competition to so disastrous a pitch , that their profits are wholly made up of wages' parings , without any other reference to the value of the marketable commodity . _

      By this time it has struck some shopkeepers in many parts ofthe North of England , that £ 50 , 000 a year divided more equitably than it is at present , between the Two Thousand and ONE , who by their combined capital and labour make so much annual profit , would be better for their order than the present system , which allows THh ; ONE to devour the lion ' s share , while the Two Thousand , subject to strikes , struggles against reduction , casualties , and

      uncertainties , subject the shopkeepers to . h _ creased poor-rates , increased police rates , increased litigation , increased poverty and increased danger . However , the party was rallied by a cry and supposed to be united by a principle , and it mattered but little to the wild expectants whether public opinion had compelled their interested leaders to abandon one or more of their positions ; the promise was made , and its fulfilment depended upon their blind devotion .

      Did they ever turn their attention to the fact , that the whole commercial policy of Sir Robert Peel aims at fixing some ascertainable standard of value between foreign corn and the produce of English labour . And did it never strike them , that this" surplus money , to be so profusely expended at their counters , would become more and more valuable in proportion to the reduction of the price of those two articles ; and did it never strike them , that the parties who command the wealth , the capital , THE MACHINERY , and the government of the country , were not struggling for a measure the effect of which would be to leave them THE CHAFF FOR THEIR SHARE , and to confer the CORN UPON THE

      UNREPRESENTED , which would be the result ofthe realization ot free trade promise . And we are now about to show , that the very shopkeepers who have so assiduously struggled for the emancipation of rich customers from the restrictions imposed upon trade , will be among the first sufferers from the new policy . Perhaps , apart from the consideration ofthe whole question , the present period is the most favourable for the ministerial experiment . Had the measure passed in spring or autumn , the disastrous effect upon the labour market , and consequently upon the shopkeepers , would have been immediate , nay , we go

      so far as to assert that , but for the propitious season , the agricultural labourers would yet combine with the formers and protectionists to overthrow tho measure . The elements are doing more for the minister than the belief of converts in his wisdom . A very wet spring has led , not only to an early , but to an unusually abundant hay time . Last year , the Irish flocked to this country at the usual period of the year for commencing hay and harvest operations , while the inclement state of the weather consigned thousands of them to starvation , in consequence of the lateness to which those operations wore deferred .

      This year , upon the contrary , has acted as an estoppel to Irish emigration , the hay harvest has TUMBLED in , as if by magic—the market is confined to native industry alone—the crop is in together and must be made at once—a circumstance which gives the agricultural labourers the command of the market , and not only weans them from the after thought of free trade , but will actually convey the impression that the increase of wages is a consequence of the measure , an argument which we have no doubt will be fruitfully used by freetraders in their future skirmishes .

      When the hay time is over , then commences the harvest and hop-picking , and with their close will set the sun of the agricultural labourer ' s hope . Then will commence the discharge of hands , tvllO niUSt now be employed at the value that the scarcity in the market gives to them , as , no matter what the price of hay , hops , and corn , may be , they are always worth the last and most expensive process of saving . This millenium may last till the middle of Augustthis spurt will give activity to brewers , shopkeepers , MANUFACTURERS FOR THE HOME TRADE , and to almost every branch of native industry , and will , no doubt , be artfully set down by the supporters of the measure , not to the veal cause but to the blessiHgs of the principle .

      The agricultural labourers not having the same hope of becoming capitalists , shopkeepers , or traffickers , and not having any market open beyond that of labour , are the least thrifty in the season of prosperity , but become the most suddenly destitute by adversity . They have been always taught to look to parish relief , as a last , though a dishonourable resource . The season invites them to dissipation , whilst the increase of wages enables them to become better customers in the market of manufactures . Here then is dangerous ground for a minister , who must look beyond the day .. Here is a dangerous rule by which the Chancellor of thcExchequer has not measured his anticipated revenue . The effect of free trade will be

      a panic in the corn market . Tho effect of the panic will be a reduction in the price of bread , which cannot , under existing circumstances , be accompanied by a cotemporaneous reduction in the wages of the agricultural labourer ; but , nevertheless , those very fascinations which will not only throw protection round , but will add a false lustre to the projector of the measure for the time being , will weave the veil of his future obscurity ; while the failure of the experiment will hold Cobdkn , Bright , and the League , up to the derision of those whose fortunes were supposed to hang upon the success of the measure , and tho disappointed of » H classes will look-round once more tor some resting place from party delusion , and will find

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      ^ t ^ lMuLI ^ FREE , A ^ FAJP ^ REPRE . SENTlTION of the whole people ; in PARLIAMENT-the only means by which | ne enormously increasing national property can be so distributed , as to purge the land of an excess of disgusting luxury on the one hand , and heart-breaking penury upon the other . _ _

      The Dispatch. It Is A Fact That Few Know...

      THE DISPATCH . It is a fact that few know the value of a thing possessed until it is lost . We were sometimes refreshed , and not unfrequently charmed , by the rollicking effusions of the DEPARTED Publicola , whose weekly letter gave a zest to the Dispatch , and whose keen eyes kept such watchfulness over the editorial department , as to reconcile even rank and

      rabid nonsehso to those who are doomed to its weekly perusal . In those days the Dispatch was a national dial , by which public opinion was extensively regulated under poor Publicola ' s management . It not only indulgad in wholesale denunciation of the present system , but he selected the several offshoots for weekly exposure and reprobation . Class legislation was the master evil selected for assault , while the only charge brought against Chartism was , that its professors did not go far enough .

      Republicanism was then the avowed principles of the Dispatch ; but Publicola IS DEAD . The Norwich weaver boy ( Fox ) supplies his place , and has substituted the most damnable principle of

      NONINTERFERENCE WITH THE RIGHTS OF CAPITAL , for the broad principles of Republicanism . Before we analyse Fox ' a article . of last week ( which we have printed entire ) more critically , we shall first devote a word of comment to a consideration ofthe consistency of the writer , ( a candidate for the . support of the liberal constituency of Oldham . ) Fox was editor ofthe Daily News , ( Hudson ' s narrow gauge champion , ) and which , from his maudlin and trashy ' articles he wrote down from 5 d . to 2 _ d . He

      Was a member and spouter of the Complete Suffrage principle , advocating Chartism , and only boggling at the NAME . He was the hired lecturer of the League , and even condescended to fill the office of teacher at the Sunday School ofthe National Hall Association , FOR A CONSIDERATION ; so that , mayhap , the denunciation of this well paid knob-stick clerical mountebank , ofthe 30 s . a week paid to the Chartist BELLOWS BLOWERS arises from the injurious influence that their underpaid labour is likely to have upon his trade as an agitator .

      Having so far glanced at the consistency ofthe pious bladder of wind , we now turn to a more critical examination of the most unscrupulous , false , and cowardly attack ever made upon the rights of labour ; an attack , however , blunted by the blundering ignorance of the writer . After telling us that " apple sauce" is ate AFTER " roast goose" ( we always thought they went together ) , the WEAVER BOY tells us that a Trades Union does not fairly express the thing which the words imply , inasmuch as "it entirely excludes from the LIMITS of its definition the capitalists and masters . " We do not understand

      the meaning of the word LIMITS in the sense which it is intended to convey ; however , we cannot help smiling at the folly of the writer , who had not brains to see that Trades Unions were rendered ne " cessary by the tyranny of the very masters and capitalists whose exclusion from the order The Fox so pathetically laments . Did he not understand that the very admission of those masters to an anomalous power already possessed and abused by them was the very thing that led to the necessity of a restrictive body ? The writer tells us that the combination is uniformly confined to "THE ONE SOLE BODY

      OF WORKING OPERATIVES . " A pretty large class we imagine ; much more extensive than we were heretofore led to believe , and the very class for whose protection the writer advocated the charter as the means of counterbalancing the unjust power of the pitied masters and capitalists . - Though a little out of order , we may here consider the numbers constituting THE SOLE BODY OF WORKING OPERATIVES . Fox tells us that there are FOUR MILLIONS OF THE

      POPULATION PERMANENTLY WITHOUT EMPLOYMENT , AND THAT THEREFORE THERE NEVER CAN BE EITHER OCCASION FOR A PROTECTIVE UNION OF ARTIZANS OR FOR A STRIKE TO REGULATE WAGES . If the word " either" had come after Instead of before the word " occasion , " it would have been English , but as it is we can understand the writer ' s meaning . We are told that there arc " four millions permanently unemployed , " and if we estimate the number employed so low as two millions , wc have six millions , and if we estimate

      those six million families at three instead of five to a family , as infants are included in the census , we have a population of eighteen millions , a pretty considerable SOLE BODY seeking representation ; a number exceeding the whole population of the kingdom by five millions , leaving a small margin less than nothing for the landed aristocracy , merchants , bankers , manufacturers , masters , capitalists , shopkeepers , taxeaters , pensioners , army and navy , police , publicans , sinners , and idle editors , and Sufficiently large to exclude capitalists and masters from the limits of its definition .

      To go back . The Weaver Boy supposes that labour should give up its PROTECTION , because the Peers have been compelled to abandon theirs . A very fascinating argument from a rabid hived free trader , who assured the people of the necessity o leaguing themselves against the monopoly of those very Peers . The ignorant wholesale manner in which the Norwich Weaver Boy now assails the denouncer of class legislation will be met , even by his former friends , with anything but cordiality . It is the shadow ofthe new policy of which Fox is the hired champion . It verifies our very worst predictions of the designs of the masters and capitalists , but we will , nevertheless , overcome , and finally overthrow , the enemy in their new character .

      Wo cannot resist giving the following passage in full , and we feel convinced that , however the struggle may end , every artisan operative and slave , of all greeds and colour , will cherish it as

      THE NORWICH \? EAYE 11 S' LEGACY . This union is a class combination , for class objects , to enforce class legislation by class organization . It is to create a class monopoly in favour of an exclusive class , by that order which was the most vehement in its denuncia . tion of class privileges ; and contrary to the advancing spirit ot * the age , to the impartial and Catholic tendency of modern government and of public opinion , it is not more necessary for the character of the working classes themselves than for tho safety of tho State , aud the security of the public against dictation and exaction , that the con . spiracy should he exploded aud the bubble exposed . It is an Association for practically carrying out an impossible

      object , and which , were it possible , would be pernicious . Wo are , indeed , surprised that the intelligent artizmis ol this country should , in the face of every principle ofpolitiwilecojioiny , « nd every dictate of experience and common sense , yet suiter themselves to bo magnetised by the gesticulations of quacks into the day dreams in which they noiv indulge . They have tried to put down machinery by Actof I ' arliaiiient , to prevent women and children from earning their own subsistence , and musters trom the liberty of making contracts with them ; they have struggled to pvohilit the working of factories for a longer period than ten hours per day , thus confiscating a sixth of

      the- whole income , interest on capital and property ofthe owner , without remorse or compensation—they have limited tho number of apprentices whom masters are to instruct , in order to preserve a monopoly of their trade , and now , at last , they have organised a grand universal National I ' nhni , into the joining of which every working man is to be coaxed , persecuted , threatened , and bribed , in order to lay the nation prostrate at their feet—to place the consumers , masters , and capitalists , at the murey of the working classes , and to dictate to every other order of society whatever conditions they please of remuneration for labour , irrespective of the legitimate demand , and the value ot the commodity .

      Was libel equal to that ever penned by the most bitter and professing enemy of labour ? A libel which proves our assertion , that , until the whole system is altered , the weeds that spring from the labour bed are the foulest enemies of tho order . We have not one single instance upon record ofa working man cheating himself , or mouthing himself , into riches , and above his elaas , that such fellow is not far away the most insolent , overbearing , proud , and intolerant . Indeed , it is by such pranks that the mushrooms seek to recommend themselves to their new associates . This seiiw , of clerical dung reviles the tailors for

      The Dispatch. It Is A Fact That Few Know...

      striking for a share of the masters' profits , and tells us that 303 . is six times as much as I 2 i . J (* < L after lamenting the loss of 'female Work ; : curiously dnough again repines at the increase in this branch . .. The Weaver boy was tried on the True ; Sun , and wrote it down ; he experimentalised upon the Chronicle , and damaged it , Lord Melbourne asked Easthope why he did not get an editor that could write English , at all events ? He began with and finished the now departed Daily News ; he has now got the Dispatch into his destroying clutches , and from the ungrammatical style of the experimentalist , we can now see why he was

      NOBODY'S CHILD . The Weaver boy , like ihe masters , has no objection to local clubs , because the masters can deal with them ; and goes on to tell us that there is a " UNIVERSAL CONCURRENCE IN HIS OPINION . ' ' By the Pops , Weaver Boy , but Mrs . Malaprop was a fool to you for jawcrackers . A UNIVERSAL CONCURRENCE running through a weaver ' s head it something new . However , he has it there , it is a UNIVERSAL CONCURRENCE in his opinions that the present strike was ILL-TIMED . Now , then , what becomes of all the logician ' s general

      reasoning against the principle of clubs , when he is compelled to reduce his wrath to a mere objection to time only . Is not this what we hare shown to labour , that these serpents will always coil themselves around some limb of the slave . The WIND-BAG goes on blowing about the GUILDS of olden * time : would that we had them back ? And thus concludes the most insolent , beastly , ignorant , and cowardly attack ever made upon the working classes . He quotes the letter of hiscomrogue , Mr . Holme , whose name he cannot even spell ; and thus winds up with a panegyric upon Holme , and a blow at Mr . Duncombe and Mr . Roberts : —

      This is the language of justice and common senso . Tho primeval curse sentenced man to a life of labour , and hard labour too—earning his bread only by the sweat of his brow—and every scheme for getting large wages for little work , and all royal roads to leisure , ease , and comfort , and all industrial lubberlands of nothing to do and plently to eat , are the visions of quacks , and the delusions of lmposters . They may find £ 1 , 000 a year for Mr Roberts , a landed estate for Mr , Buncombe , and 80 s . a-week for a score or two of Chartist peripatetic hags of wind , to help to blow the bellows of their disinterested and indignant patriotism ; but their only effect upon the fortunes of the working man must be to help him out of his money , and into a union of a very different kind from what which he has been asked to joinwe mean the Union Workhouse .

      There , working men , the language of Holme , the midnight briber , is the language of JUSTICE and COMMON SENSE . As to the £ 1 , 000 a year for Mr . Roberts , and an estate of Mr . Duncombe , we ask the tramping League bellows , the clerical knobstick , the penny-a-liner , the National Hall £ 4 a-week Sunday teacher , the free trader , the complete suffragist , the candidate for Oldham and assassin of the Dispatch , whether it is more fit that labour should reward its real advocates with honourable distinction , or that it should be fooled with the purchasing of estates for Mr . Thief-catcher Attorney Ex-Alderman Harmeki

      Proprietor ofthe Dispatch , who has purchased many estates by a fraudulent and TIMELY support ofthe rights of labour ; and now hires a renegade pauper to disprove his title to those estates . Our only con " solation is , that , with few exceptions , we have received assurances from our several agents , with the glad tidings that many readers have given orders to discontinue the BEASTLY DISPATCH . Cowards will repeat their boastings until they believe in their own courage , but are humbled at last upon the first appearance , nay by the mere shadow ot resistance ; so with politicians , they assume a position which they vainly hope to maintain , upon no belter title than general ignorance upon the one hand , or a disinclination to controvert their arguments upon the

      other . HIRED PATRIOTS have a strong inducement TO LIE , and are strengthened in their evil propensity / not only by the interest that those who are benefited by their fabrications have in calculating them , but by the fact they are the most profitable FREE TRADE COMMODITY . We commend the Weaver Boy ' s last web to the Liberal Electors of Oldham ; we will meet him there , and we request that it , and our reply , may be read from every Chartist platform in the kingdom . The Times is a privileged ruffian , the Fox is a deserter from labour ' s ranks . The Dispatch is a professing friend of labour's rights , and yet never was a more deadly blow aimed even at the "UNIVERSAL CONCURRENCE in general opinion , than that of

      THE NORWICH WEAVER BOY . The length to which we found it necessary to cut this rampant Fox ' s tail , has precluded the possibility of commenting upon the Trades Conference until next week , when we shall have the whole proceedings before us , '

      Tiie Trades' Conference. We Refer, With ...

      TIIE TRADES' CONFERENCE . We refer , with pride and pleasure , to the proceedings of this body . The Trades are evidently awakening to the true perception of their interests , and rapidly advancing in the path which will lead to a triumphant issue of the struggle , to place labour in its rightful position . The period at which we write precludes anything like lengthened comment upon the policy of the measures they have adopted , which can be more amply done on a future opportunity , but in the meantime we cannot help

      adverting to one great movement made at this Conference , the admission of women and children to participate in the struggle , and to share the triumph we anticipate aa its consequence . By means of this measure the swarming millions in the great hives of industry ; the young tenders of that machinery which ought to be man ' a blessing and has been , perverted into his curse , will be enfolded in the mantle of the young association , whose gigantic capacities are rapidly developing themselves . The renewed struggle for the Ten Hours' Bill wiU be accompanied by an addition of strength , and an organized direction of that strength which must render its advo .

      cates irresistible , and its victory secure . It will no longer be in the power of timid friends or open enemies to delay its passing into a law . The enthusiastic reception experienced by the intrepid and noble-minded man who presides over the Association of confederated trades ' at public meetings , both in Leeds and Manchester , and the bold uncompromising manner in which these meetings declared their determination to have this long-sought measure , are proofs , not only of the sincerity of the working peo pie in demanding it , but also of the powerful support they will give an honest leader and advocate in Parliament . . ~ -

      The large number of trades represented at the Conference , and the intelligence exhibited by their representatives in the discussion of the important questions to which their attention has been directed , is another unmistakeable sign of the growing influence of the association and the certainty of its ultimate triumph . One peculiarity in the constitution of the Conference distinguishes it from all its predecessors . For the first time in the history of the working classes , the aristocratic and the poorer sections of the array ef industry , have cordially held 0 V , t the hand of mutual help and friendship to each

      other . The starved , oppressed and suffering handloom weavers , and the still more miserable slave of competition , the frame-work knitter , had sat down side by side with the joiner , the mechanic , and the engraver . England , Scotland , and Ireland , have sent their representatives to this holiest of Parliaments , and in the temper with which the claims of all classes of trades have been considered , the justice and prudence of the adjudication , and the unanimity with which the decision was arrived at , we see the most cheering prospects of a Union among the working classes themselves , such aa never before existed in this country .

      The ground is almost cleared for the operation of a new great national party . The work of the NATIONAL Anti-Corn Law League is nearly done . The commercial classes have had their reform ; now for the turn ot LABOUR . Let us replace the League by a grander one ; a League that shall struggle not for f « edom of exchange in theinani-

      Tiie Trades' Conference. We Refer, With ...

      , maj £ , prod ^ for the freedom of man Mmself . Let us form mighty confederation of the ' good and true of all classes and sections towage war against an unW and unequal distribution of the products of Uu . and skill , to put down the abuses springing from tha unrestrained power of individual capitalists tQ emanci pate labour from thraldom by making it jta own employer , and to destroy inequality in laws and institutions , by destroying that on which it restsclass legislation and exclusive political powers vested in sections of the community .

      The Whigs hare hug been defunct , the Tories bj their own confession , are destroyed as a party—the League has proclaimed its intention of dissolving as soon aa the Corn Laws are repealed . Now then is the time for The People ' s Partt to take the field and prepare for that contest which must end in a victory over the evil influences which have hitherto placed honest industry at the bottom ofthe scale of society . We shall reYert to this subject more at length , and in the meantime congratulate the Trades and the Conference on the proud position they have assumed . Never was there a better or fitter time for a bold , determined , and forward movement , and led by such a general as Thomas Susgsby Buncombe , the cause of labour and of political freedom will assuredly triumph .

      John Frost. We Eall The Attention Of Our...

      JOHN FROST . We eall the attention of our readers to Mr . Cooper ' s letter given below ; the subject matter thereof is of the most distressing character . John Frost is sick and destitute . The man who sacrifieed his property , position , and liberty to serve the people , is homeless and friendless on a penal shore . The man who risked his life , and has endured suffering infinitely greater than any the executioner could inflict —the suffering of being wrenched from his country , his home , his family , to bear years of bondage , chains , and insult in a felon land ; and who suffered all this for the people , hew demands the people ' s aid . Personally he demands nothing , but his cause , his wronga speak for him . We kemand that sympathy whielfjhe

      has not solicited , but which unasked for the people should rush to afford , Readers of the Northern Star , Brother Chartists , Democratic Friends , Working Men , Friends of the People , Philanthropists of all parties and classes we appeal to fou— -let - not the grievous sin rest upon you of turning a deaf ear to this cry of our good , generous , noble-hearted martyrbrother . We perceive that the National Victim Fund Committee hold a Meeting on Sunday after , noon , to take the necessary steps in this matter , Wherever this paper is read , we trust that means will be immediately adopted to procure pecuniary aid forthwith . Of course we will gladly receive subscriptions at this oiBce . Observe , there must be jk > delay the money must be gotten at once . The case is urgent , therefore to the rescue !

      TO THE CHARTIST BODY . Mv Brethren , —A letter has just been received by Mr . Rogers , from our beloved exile , John Frost , whicn contains matter demanding the instant and earnest sympathy of us all . After undergoing various probations , Mr . Frost was permitted to engage himself as * manager to a large commission-agent in glass and ] earthen-ware , at ay early salary of 21 Z-. with board and lodging . He fell ill—was necessitated to go into an hospital—and his situation having been entered on by another , when he left the hospital , he was constrained to live on the little savings he had accumulated from his brief managership . His scanty fund

      is now spent , he is ill , —out of employment—and destitute . * With that noble independence which has ever distinguished his large heart , he asks that his few books in the possession of his family , be raffled , and the proceeds sent him . He utters no word of request that you subscribe for his relief ; but your own hearts will tell you that it is your bounden duty to fly to his assistance . Tou will not—you cannot—suffer one whose yearning pity for the suffering and oppressed , led him to risk life itself for their rescue—to perish in his necessity ; nor will you consent that his few books —( which the poor exile hopes one day again to open , perhaps , the solace

      of his venerable age)—shall be sold to meet his wants . You will strain every nerve to help him . You will not suffer your generous Frost to pine under the thought that you are ungrateful ! A friend quits England for the place of John Frost ' s exile in the course of one fortnight . There is not a day to be lost . He must be relieved . Mr . Rogers gives two pounds , I give one , Mr . Moore givas another ; and let every workingman who loves John Frost for his benevolent heart , rather pawn a shirt for a week , than neglect to send his mite for

      the exile's relief . You all know my address : Mr . Rogers , tobacconist , 58 , High-Street , St . Giles ' s j or Mr . Moore , carver , 25 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury , —will also readily receive anything that may be sent : or , if you prefer to send your contributions to any officer connected with the Chartist body , —do so , but do not , I conjure you , neglect to exert yourselves—even for one day , — I am , dear Brethren , 134 , Blackfriar ' s Road , Yours affectionately , 2 June 4 th , 1846 . Thomas Coopbb , the Chartist .

      Brother Democrats , —I would have preferred to have given my mite silently and without publicity , hut for the reason that by taking the opposite course I may aid the good example of doing instead of talking . Private and pressing circumstances prevent me at this moment giving more than Ten Shillings towards the fund for the assistance of our noble martyr Frost ; but that small sum I give with sin « cere regret that I cannot give pounds instead of shillings . Fraternally your's , & . Julzax Basset . Northern Star Office , June 5 , 1846 .

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      — v— - ^— ... v .... . ^ . ^ u .... ... j .. v . * . vv ..- 'v .. vv"'v ^ v . ' > 'v' *''' - " — J . S . asks why we did not purchase the Northampton Estate when it was so cheap . Abutter once , who had just entered upon his place , attended table in boots , his master said , John you must wear shoes at dinner , why do you wear boots % "Why , sir , I could give you twenty reasons . In the Srst place I have no shoes . There , there , that will do , that ' s as good as twenty . Then we could give twenty reasons for not purchasing the estate . In the first place we bad not the money . There , there , that wUI do , we hope , for our friend .

      Veteban Patbiots' and Exiles' "Wioows' adto Gnu . dren ' s Fono . —Received , per Julian Harney , a conj tribution , from Ituffy Ridley , of IDs .- —Thomas Coomb , Secretary , 134 , Blackfriais ' . road . . MA OCHWWB , —On Thursday last we received a Post Office order from Mauchline , without any note stating cither the name of the sender or the purpose for which it was sent . Will the person who has forwarded it explain . Mb . JCIilAN H & RNET returns his thanks to a number o £ friends from whom c 6 ples 6 f the Star Of May 23 rd haV 8 been received .

      The German Democrats. In Pursuance Of A ...

      THE GERMAN DEMOCRATS . In pursuance of a good old German custom , the members of the "German Democratic Society , for tlie Instruction of the Working Classes , " took their annual excursion to Hampstead Heath on Sundaylast . The day was beautifully fine , indeed such a summer ' s day as makes the shade of a green tree , ( with a " pot of beer , " german sausages and other et ceteraes ) the most perfect realization of Elysium , we mortals are competent to conceive . The view from Hampstead Heath , with its noble panorama of London , is , take it for all in all , decidely the finest of any in the neighbourhood of the great metropolis . In a shady knoll the pilgrims pitched their

      encampment , where they transacted and enjoyed the Ta " rious duties and pleasures of the day . Immense German sausages , enormous piles of bread , and a jolly-looking butt of beer , almost rivalling the farlamed lleidleburg Tun , were amongst the good things provided for the occasion , and . were done amp le justice to by the hungry and thirsty souls whose eating and drinking capabilities had been not a little invigorated by their toilsome march from the huge Babel of bricks they had left behind them . Of course these grosser delights occupied comparatively but little portion of the time . Speeches were made , and such speeches as would have given Ferdinand , Frederick-William , and the rest of the gang of German tyrants the belly-ache for twelve months

      to come could they have heard them . Amongst the speakers were Messrs . Carl Sehapper , Pfaender , Bauer , Holme , and Julian Harney . Then there was singing of German , ' French , and Italian Liberty-songs , and beautiful the singing was too ; the whole concluding with the inspiring # < " ** seillaise . The society mustered above two hundred strong , but altogether there must have been between three and four hundred persons present , including besides Germans , English , French , Italians , ScaH * dlnavians , Ac . A considerable number ef the \ Ttf £ » and sweethearts of the members were present . A « conducted themselves soberly and decorousl y , « J * altogether the sight was one to gladden the hearw and strengthen the hopes of all who believe in v" ° fraternity and progress of mankind ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 6, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_06061846/page/4/