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      Determination And Misery Then* Lect Self...

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      Sew Tale By G. W. M. Reynolds. An Excellent Opportunity Nw Presents Itself For New Sub-

      SEW tale by g . w . m . REYNOLDS . An excellent opportunity nw presents itself for new sub-

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      scribers to commence takinjr m REYNOLDS ' S MISCELLANY . Edited bv G . W . M . Eeyxouis . Author of the First and Second Series of "The Mysteries of London , " "Pnust , " "Wagner , the Wehr-volf , " "The Mysteries of the Court of London , " & c , & c . In Xo . 3 S , latelv published , commenced an entirely new and original romance , by Geoeoe W . 31 . Reixolds , entifled

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      TO TAILORS . . Bv approbation of Her Majesty QueettVictona and His jjy approua ^^ Hfehnesa Prince Albert Sow Ready , T HE LONDON and PAMS SPRING and SUMMER FASHIONS for 1 S 49 , hy Messrs . BENJAMIN I 1 EAO iud Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloransbury-square , iondon - and by GEORGE 1 SEUGER , HolyweU-street , Strand - ' a splendid TRIXT . elaborately finished , and superbly coloured , the LANDSCAPE , a correct view in the Queen ' s Botanical Gardens , London , ( by special permission , ) the most magnificent place in Europe . This beautiful picture will be accompanied with the most novel , good fitfimt , and fashionable Dress , Riding , Frock , and Hunting Coat l ' atterns , both double and single-breasted ; Hussar's or Youth ' s round Jackets , plain and frith skirts ; single and double-breasted Dress , Morning and Evening Waistcoats ; also thp most fashionable and newest style Habit Pattern ; every particular par t of each pattern fully explained , and an aiustranou of everything respecting Style and Fashion ; price His . Sold by Read and Co ., 12 , Har t-street , Bloomsfcurv-squure , London ; G . Berger . Holywell-street , Strand ; and ' aU Booksellers in Town and Country .

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      TO THE DEMOCRATS OF GREAT BHTTAIN . THERE will Be " DISPOSED OF , by SUBSCRIPTION , on the principle of the Art-Unions ,

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      A BARGAIN . ONE PAID-UP FOUR-ACRE SHARE in the National Land Company . Price , £ 3 . Direct to W . G . Baker , 52 , Georgc ' s-grove , Holloway .

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      TO BE SOLD , A FOUE-ACKE SHARE in the National Land Company . Any reasonable offer wiU be accepted , as the holder is about to emigrate to America . For par ticulars , apply , ( if by letter prepaid ) , to Mr . John Denicoinbe , 17 , Little Grosvenor-street , Berkeleysquare .

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      WEST RIDING MEETING . A CAMP MEETING WILL BE HELD to-morroir ( Sunday ) afternoon , at two o ' clock , at Stanningiey , between Leeds and Bradford . Several wellinoTjn advocates of the Rights of the People wfli address the meeting . As this is the commencement of the Summer Heelings it is hoped that : iU favourable to the Charter "ill attend . Let it be attended by thousands , and Yorkshire raise its voice for " The Charter and No Surrender . "

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      O'CONNORYTLLE . TO BE SOLD , THE RIGHT OF LOCA TION ufa TWO-ACRE ALLOTMENT in a good situa-Con and much improved , with a large Outhouse , Pigsties , Iron Boiler , and every other convenience , with a certainty Ofa plentiful supply of water . One Acre of the land is cropped with winter wheat , aud the rest is ready forspring operations , with seed , potatoes , and manure . Immediate possession mar be had for the sum of £ lS . Further hiformationmaybehadby applying ( if by letter postpaid and stamp for reply ] to Mr . John Hornby , Ko . 15 , Xortham ' s-bufldings , Skinner-street , Somers-town , London .

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      SO MORE PILLS , nor any other Medicine for Indigestion , Irregularity of the Intestines , Flatulency , Palpitation of the Hear t , Torpidity of the Liver , persisting Headaches , Jfervousness , Biliousness , General Debility , Despondency , Spleen , & c . Price 6 « L . or Sd . post-free , royal , gilt , 2 s ; or free by -post , 2 s . Cd . ( in stamps ) , Fifth Edition of DTj ' BARRY'S POPULAR TREATISE ON INDIGESTION and CONSTIPATION ; the main causes of Nervousness , Biliousness , Scrofula , Lirer Comtjilaints , Spleen , ic , and their RadicalRemoval , entitled the "Natural Regenerator of the Digestive Organs , " without pills , purgatives , or medicines of any kind , by a simple , pleasant , economical , and infallible means ; adapted to the general reader . Du Barry and Co ., 75 , New Bond-street , London ; also , of Whittaker & Co . ; and aU other booksellers . Sent post-free at the same price to Prussia .

      To The Editor Of The "2s T Oitther3 Star."

      TO THE EDITOR OF THE " 2 s OItTHER 3 STAR . "

      Sir,—Knowing That The Columns Of Your Va...

      Sir , —Knowing that the columns of your valuable paper arc open at all times for the defence of the interests of the poor man—as well as the powerful advocate of those principles which would tend to exalt and improve his condition—I have ventured to intrude upon your space , for the insertion ofa case of fraud that has been practised upon the members of the Reading branch of the National Land Companv , by their secretary , Ephraim Rous , who has decamped , and left the branch minus of a great number of pounds—the exact amount it is impossible to say , as he has received at his own house a great deal of money . He has either taken the principal books with him , or destroyed them ; but we find already , from a return from London , that the defalcations

      upon the different shareholders who have not paid up , is shameful , and so flagrant , that we behevc such an ingenious mode as he adopted was almost without precedent ; more particularly the transfer department . Withshanie ' bc it spoken , this individual has for some length of time professed himself to be an ardent worker in the cause of human progress . We have—like other branches of the Land Company—had many difficulties to encounter , and many of our members have had to make many sacrifices , and adopt many and various modes , to enable them to become paid-up shareholders , in order , also , to forward the interests of the Company . You may easily imagine the dismay and confusion that is spread among our ranks .

      We would not have trespassed upon your columns ' did we not feel that an individual , in his position , taking advantage of the confidence that was placed in him , and plundering his fellow-workmen of their bard earnings—their small tributes that they had paid , in the earnest hope of being the means of carrying out a system that they were watching with intense interest , as calculated to improve their condition , and elevate them in the scale of societydeserved exposure , and more particularly as it is the only way we can punish him . Our branch is the first that has been defrauded hy any of its officers , that we have heard of , and we trust that our position will act as a caution to other branches . We believe intemperance , with its attendants , have led him to commit the fraud .

      " We would fainly hope that our brother Chartists , andfellow-worknien , will see the necessity . of endeavouring to bring the weight of their united " influence upon society , in such a manner as to show their good sense , and integrity , and honesty of purpose . With such propriety of conduct , and a firm advocacy of then principles , they cannot long fail to obtain such a redress of national wrong , and a speedy enactment of such laws as would enable every honest man to live by the sweat of his own brow , and become a useful member of society , as well as an ornament to a civilised nation , instead of being steeped in degrading habits , which can only serve to perpetuate the present system , which is the earnest

      wish of our oppressors . I hope you will not think we have occupied too much space in your valuable journal upon this occasion , and we also indulge ourselves in the hope , that should this individual make his appearance in any town amongst the members Of the Land Company , he may meet that castigation which he so richly deserves and justly merits . In conclusion , we trust , we shall be enabled to rally our forces together again , under the standard of Chartism , and lead on , ultimately , till we conquer , notwithstanding some impediments and obstructions may be thrown in our way . On behalf of the members of the Reading branch of the Rational Land Companv , H . Ems , Sec . pro . tern .

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      Or. K.Tdd,—It Was Stated M Last Oaiuraay...

      Or . K . TDD , —It was stated m last oaiuraays ocar . Kydd ' s letter was unavoidably postponed . It appears in this clay ' s paper . We have received the following : — Sib , —I have had my hand in my pocket for years supporting the cause of Chartism , and yet you have not given me an answer to a question forwarded to you three weeks agO . anaforWiliCttlpiHda penny , It was as follows : — I owe a few pounds to a few creditors , ( one is a loan society , } I am obliged to go out of the country : if they ascertain this can they stop my goods on board , or arrest me , and how soon could they obtain power to do either ! I should tell you that the paper I signed for the loan declares that the furniture in my house is mine . I am too poor to pay for the information required . I shaU feel exfor the sin

      tremely obliged to you answer , Yours , yery - cerely , T . E ., MUe find . [ Tho impudent assurance of the writer of the above is , we should suppose , almost matchless . He has had " his hand in his pocket , & c , " and tlierefore he expects us to give him legal advice . We have nothing to do with law matters , and therefore were we disposed to serve him could not do so . But if we knew as much of the law as the Attorney-General is supposed to know , we would see T . E at Jericho before we would give him any other answer than the following : —If T . E . designs to play the swindler ' s game we trust that he will suffer both in goods and person . We strongly doubt that such a man would put his hand into his pocket to support any good cause . But be that as it may , we tell him that Chartism

      would only be dishonoured by his support . Rogues and swindlers may caU themselves Chartists , but true Chartists will denounce and repudiate all such false friends and real enemies to our sacred cause . ] Mr . Buekett , Edinburgh . —We have received the list of seventy-one subscribers to the Tartans ; but it would be impossible for us to find space to attach their names and residences to the advertisement Messrs . Sixes and Locke , Beeford—Must send copies of the advertisements , with is . Cd . each for insertion . Many persons write as though the Northern Star was the property of the Land Company , and think we are bound to write advertisements , insert them gratis , and transact their business by communicating with applicants . They are labouring under very erroneous notions ,

      and must brook disappointment . W . Saxdebsox , Galashiels . —We received it at the office , but did not forward it as directed . Poor man ! we pity you , but cannot serve you by delivering your sleepy epistle . Your dream was returned hy following post . If " notknown among Chartists , " don't rob your employer of time by looking after other people ' s affairs . We are sure the Chartists will not trouble you , only remain in your obscurity . Baalam's ass might have a ealL hut he was more sagacious than you . James Febse ? , Netherton . We cannot answer your qucstion . You had better search the old Stars in the possession of some of your neighbours . Geobge Demain , Bradford . —We did not insert your former letter because our columns were otherwise occupied , and for the same reason we cannot insert your present

      communication . Boeebt Keow . v , and N . IL C . S . —We cannot answer your questions . Oluuam . —All Chartist communications must be addressed to the Secretary , Mr . James Cooper , 12 , Ratcliffe-strect , near the Church , Oldham . Sous Hattox , Oldham Yes ; but it is seldom enforced if it is not the general occupation by which you live . We have frequently stated that we cannot answer legal questions . J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the foUowing sums , sent herewith : viz . —Fob Defence Fund . —Mr . Knott , 3 d . ; Mr . Perkins , 2 d . 1 'oa Vicxiu fel ) .-Mr . ChipUldale , 00 . ; Mr . Hall , Id .

      Notice To Land Members. Notice Is Hereby...

      NOTICE TO LAND MEMBERS . Notice is hereby given , that every occupant upon the Company ' s Estates , whether he he tenant or purchaser , and who has not refunded the amount due to the Company upon taking possession , will he served with an ejectment , and will he ousted in the approaching term , and no exception whatever will he made .

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      IHE NORTHERN STAR $ AT 17 ISI > AY , APRIL % 1849 .

      " The Folly Of Hwlay Is The Wisdom Of Th...

      " The folly of hwlay is the wisdom of the morrow !" HOPE FOR THE MILLIONS . THE LAND ,

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      Never was the maxim , that "the folly of to-day may be the wisdom of the morrow , " more aptly or happily illustrated than in the dissipation of that lowering cloud which so long hovered over and mystified the senses of prominent Free Traders , as regards the Land , its value , and capabilities . "Every dog will have his day , and now for Bully , " is an old Irish phrase . " It is a long lane thathas no turn , " is as old an English phrase ; and the truth of both has been realised in the satisfaction that our readers will derive from the perusal of the following advertisement , which appeared in the " Dail y News" of last week , as well as in other metropolitan , and several provincial , papers . Here follows the gem : —

      FREEHOLDS FOR THE MILLION . TWO ACRES OF FREEHOLD LAXD FOR £ 26 10 s . N ORTHAMPTON AND MIDLAND COUNTIES FREEHOLD LAND ASSOCIATION .

      TAXBONS . RICHARD COBDEN , Esq ., M . P . WILLIAM SCHOLEFIELD , Esq ., M . P ., Birmingham . Baskebs . — The Northamptonshire Union Joint Stock Banking Company . Solicitor . —Mr . G . Cooke , Northampton . Secbetaml . —Mr . Frederick Parker , Wood-street , Northampton . "Union is Strength . " " Counties must be won before the House of Commons can be Reformed , and a Cheap Government Established . " The objectof this Society is to unite and procure county votes for the middle classes , and to elevate the working man to the suffrage by possessing a freehold of his own , and it is ferventl y hoped that those who appreciate an extension of the franchise and who value a freehold will immediately become members .

      From the liberal politician and free trader the promoters of the Northampton and Midland Counties Freehold Land Association expect every encouragement Arrangements have been made , and near 1 , 000 acres of freehold land secured in a midland county , which it is proposed to divide into 450 lots of two acres each , of equal value : these lots ( supposing , for instance , the first allotment to be 200 lots or shares ) shall be offered to the first 200 members good upon the books according to seniority of membership , and if any member would prefer to be omitted , the shares to be offered to the next member , until 200 members are found willing to ballot for tiie said lots , and so on until the whole 450 lots are disposed of .

      The Society will he able to sell out two acres of this land to each member for £ 2510 s ., which sum will include the costs of the conveyance . It is proposed that each member shall pay 10 s . per month , so that in four years—at that rate of paymentevery member good upon the books will be in possession of two acres of freehold land , upon which he can build a cottage and cultivate the land himself , or he can let it at a rent of £ 110 s . per acre , thus making a good investment , and securing a vote for the county . Any member may , however , at any time , pay up the whole amount , and have his conveyance handed to him ; or a member having paid a part of his subscriptions , and being anxious to have his two acres , may , by giving a mortgage to the society , have it conveyed .

      The ballot for the lots will be as follows : —The names of the members will be placed in a box and drawn singly ; the first name drawn wul take the two acres marked " No . 1 , " the second "No . 2 , " and so on until all are drawn . The deeds wiU then be made , and the mortgage ( if necessary ) executed to the trustees , for the repayment of the amount due upon the land . From practical experience it is known that an industrious man may support himself , wife , and family , upon two acres of land . WORKDH } MEN OF ENGLAND ! -To you this appeal is made . lour own enfranchisement is within your reach ; be independent and noble-minded . The British Legislature , by a great majority , told Joseph Hume , Esq ., M . P ., you , /« tt Y orltm f Men of England , " were unworthy of a Vote , and denied you the right to possess it . Cease to ask for . that which you can by your frugality obtain . To the cause of your own freedom you are invited : to the

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      brilliant deed of your own political redemption you are now challenged . The House of Commons will not reform itself ; the work is the people ' s . Counties must be won to make the IlouBe of Commons in practice what now it is only in theory" The House of the People . " No person to hold more than five shares . Applications for shares ( post-paid ) to be made to the solicitor : Mr Parker , the secretary ; Mr . James Taylor , the

      secretary to the Birmingham Freehold Land Society , Newhall-street , Bimiinghnm . Name , residence , and basilicas , to be correctly stated hi applications for shares . So soon as the shares are taken a president , trustees , treasurer , and a committee , wiU be chosen by the shareholders to conduct the business of the society . Persons residing in any part of England may becoine shareholders , as non-residence does not disqualify a voter . Northampton , March 20 , 1819 .

      Reader , what think you now of Bully and the long lane ? Do you not think that Bully's day is come , and that the long laae has hadits turn ? We give the ahove , however , not as the text of a violent sermon , or acrimonious criticism upon the propounders , hut as proof of the fact , that " thefollyofto-daymaybethe irisdom of the morrow . " So far from treating this project or its projectors with harshness or vituperation , we congratulate them upon the restoration of their senses , and hail them as co-operators in the great and glorious work of man ' s redemption and their country ' s regeneration .

      Unlike our contemporaries , we publish the advertisement without charge ; while the absence of newspaper abuse of this plan is based upon the fact , that they will derive benefit from its adoption . Let us now analyse the main features of this promised " liberty to the millions , " and let us contrast thorn with those of the universally reviled Land Plan ; while it must he understood by our readers , that we are prepared to adopt

      as a truism , and most easy of solution , every promise holdout hy the projectors . When the National Land Company was first propounded , the chief objections urged against it were—Firstly . —The impossibility of purchasing Land in England at 18 / . 15 * . per acre , followed h y the most unmerciful reproaches upon the head of the juggler who would consign his dupes to bog , rock , or waste Land to starve or eke out a miserable pauper ' s

      existence . Secondly . —The impossibility of the most industrious man supporting himself and family upon two , three , or even four acres of the best Land in England , without paying rent , rates , or taxes . Such were the general objection ' s published by the Press , adopted and promulgated by philanthropic Free Traders against the National Land Company . But now , alas ! how changed the scene , how complete our justification , and how enlightened have those philanthropists become , when freeholds for the millions are

      necessary to confer political power upon thenmasters . Now , we find that Land can be purchased for 111 . an acre , as the new Societ y proposes to sell out and out tovo acres of en franchised Land—of "Happy Land "—for 251 . 10 s ., including the cost of conveyance , which , if we estimate at 3 / . 10 s ., reduces the price of the Laud to 11 / . per acre ; while those who were told that Land could be purchased for 18 / . 15 * . an acre , were juggled , cheated , and deceived—in fact , that it Mas " a mockery , a delusion , and a snare ; " but we go farther into

      the consideration of this great and important question , which , as we predicted , is now occupying every mind , and has become the question of questions ; aud what do we discover ? Why , that an acre of Land costing 11 / ., will readily secure a tenant at 1 / . 10 »' . a-year , or will pay the lessor a fraction more than thirteen and a-half per cent ., as interest for his moneythat is , the man who expends dQl . in the purchase of Land at 11 / . an acre , if he receives 11 . 10 s . an acre forthe nine acres so purchased , will derive an income of 131 . 10 s . a-year from the 99 / . thus expended .

      Now , far be it from us to deny the fact , that an industrious man will support himself , his wife and family , and pay 3 / . a year rent for two acres of Land , that cost only 11 / . per acre ; but we go further , and assert , that the occupant will be able to give continuous employment to a hired labourer , who will be able to support himself , his wife , and family . And we go still further , and wo defy contradiction , that in ten years the occupant , by common industry and frugality , will be able to buy his holding , out and out ; and that tho two acres , costing but 11 / . an acre , will , at the end of that period , be worth 4 / . an acre , or 8 £ . a year rent .

      The following pithy sentence—vouched for by Richard Cobden , Esq ., M . P ., and William Scholefield , Esq ., M . P . —is the complete and irrefutable answer to the revilers of the National Land Company : —

      "FROM PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE IT IS KNOWN THAT AN INDUSTRIOUS MAN MAY SUPPORT HIMSELF , WIFE AND FAMILY , UPON TWO ACRES OF LAND . " Can the grimmest of our readers , who nevei smiled bef > re , withhold a horse-laugh when he reads the above ? Land , be it observed , which has cost but 11 / . an acre ; no house ; the cultivators of the inner allotments having to walk over 250 acres of Land if the 1 , 000 acres constitute a complete square , and if he is

      fortunate enough to secure lodgings upon the very verge ; no house—no home—no aid moneyno cultivation—no cropping—no pump—no water—no road to every man's house—no path to every man ' s door—no school-house , to educate every man ' s child—no means of retail benefit from wholesale co-operation in the building of houses , as each freeholder is told " he can build a cottage for himself / 1 while the very difference between the wholesale and the retail price of building a cottage , would amount to much more than 22 / ., or the whole value of the two acres .

      Let us now contrast the position of the dupe of tho National Land Company , with that of the enfranchised freeman of the philanthropic Free Traders . The Cobden-Scholefield Society , pays a hundred and ninety-eight pounds for Land , and the occupants are assured , from PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE , that they can live , support then" wives and families , and pay 27 / .

      a year rent for Land which has cost but one hundred and ninety-eight pounds ; while the Juggle Company charges eight pounds rent for Land that has cost two hundred pounds ; but , to make the contrast complete upon its own merits , the Juggle Company would charge less than nine shillings an acre for the same Land that the Philanthropic Company sets down at 1 / . 10 s . an acre .

      As we have frequentl y predicted that the question of the Land would one day monopolise the attention of the world , we shall not be considered tedious if we carry our illustrations and our contrasts a little further ; the Land purchased by the National Land Company averages 377 . an acre , which makes 148 / . for four acres ; the expense of Cottage we will estimate at 132 ? ., and Aid Money spent in cultivation , 30 / . —making an outlay of 310 / ., and amounting to a rent of 12 / . 8 s . a year ; while , for the same amount expended upon Laud , our new fledged converts anticipate a rent of 42 / . a year , or thirteen and a half per cent , upon the outlay , and the means of

      support for fourteen families at two acres a family . But there is an important—nay , an overwhelming—consideration , which must not be lost sight of , it is this : that wo have often told our readers that we would much prefer paying 4 / . an acre for land worth 3 / . an acre , than take a present of land worth 1 / . an acre , and for the reasons we have often assigned , viz ., that the good land requires less labour , and less seed , while the crops are less liable to casualty and failure . What , then , must be our confidence in man's abilit y to live like a freeman on his native soil , when , notwithstanding the preference we accord to the better Land at a higher rent , we nevertheless admit the truth of the Free Trade propo-

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      sition thai a "K " 1 can P ^ V „ ., an acro ' ?^ w upon IWritt , ;^^ the National Land Coinj * - / „ lion-Freeing Free Trade ^^ J * ™ e now turn to a review ot tUep-W . RICHABP C obden and William M « = field , the patrons of the new projeci Cobden , his myrmidons , and their Press , loudest and foulest in their continuous

      were and untiring abuse of the Juggle . Company ; and Scholefield was a member of the Land Committee . The first objections were that Land could notbe had all ; that Land could not be purchased for 18 ; . 15 s . ; that no man could support himself and family upon four acres of the best Land , without paying rents , rates , and taxes ; that no man would invest Ins money on mortgage of such property ; and that it would take God knows how many

      thousand years to locate the members , wen , xno Lord hath delivered our enemies into our hands , and their advertisement is our answer . Now tnrn we to the consideration of the Report of the Committee , of which Mr . SCHOLEFIELD was a prominent member . That Committee reported upon the legality and practicability of the Scheme ; it reported that the Ballotwhether applied to the selection of members , or the assignment of allotments—was illegal ; and yet Scholefield the judge , who pronounced this solemn decision , is now

      Sciiolepield the patron—who adopts this notable illegality . The practicability of the plan was condemned upon the evidence of Mi-. Revans , the Poor Law Commissioner , who declared that the most industrious man in England could not support himself upon the three best acres of Land In England , even if he was free from rents , rates , or taxes . Upon his evidence , Mr . Scholefield gave judgment against the practicability of the plan ; while Mi-. Scholefield the patron , now informs us

      that—« FROM PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE , IT IS KNOWN THAT AN INDUSTRIOUS MAN MAY SUPPORT HIMSELF , WIFE AND FAMILY , UPON TWO ACRES OF LAND I " If tho j uggle or the juggler required a defence , could we furnish one more ample or complete ? and would it not bo superfluous to add another word beyond an appeal to the Patrons of the New Land Company , asking them whether they are likely to devote then- whole time for nearly four years , and to appjy over 5 , 000 / . of their own money , to the accomplishment of their own object , the securing

      FREEHOLDS FOR THE MILLIONS ? Will the Free Trade Press abuse these Free Trade p hilanthropists ? or will thoy advertise their scheme gratuitously as we do ? No ! one of thou * daily organs is chaunting its lamentations over the incarceration of tho FLOGGED SOLDIER ; who , we are informed , is now imprisoned by the printer who printed his ignorant bombastic tirades against the National Land Company , but whose co-operation is now indispensable to the realisation of FREEHOLDS FOR THE MILLIONS ,

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      LAW-BREAKERS IN HIGH PLACES . No better illustration of the fact , that rich men may break tho law in this country with impunity , can be offered , than the proceedings of that portion of the Factory Masters -who are now openly and advisedly violating the pro visions of the Factory Act . There is no doubt about the moaning of these provisions . The hig hest legal and official authorities have decided that point against these millowners . Had the act been a very old one ^—the motives

      of those by whom it was passed obscured or rendered doubtful b y the lapse oftinu )—or the languagein which their meaning was expressed of an equivocal character—there might have been the shadow of an excuse for the systematic infraction of the statute . No such palliations can be alleged . Tho iramers of the Bill are alive , and have given their version of it . The people who struggled for it coincide with that interpretation ; and the Home-Secretary , Attorney-General , and ^ Solicitor-General of the Administration under whom it became law , have unhesitatingl y confirmed it . The Act is not yet three years old . It is only a few months since it came into complete operation , and previous to that period there

      was not the slightest doubt as to its meaning and intent . So far from that being the case , even the organs of these mill-masters were loud- in their condemnation of it ; precisel y because it enacted that which they uow evade . A slight revival of trade was concurrent with the period for the law taking full effect , and tho consequence was , that a few of the factory owners—eager , as usual , to make riches , no matter at what cost to the community at large—invented a mode of evading it ; and when the Government inspectors—as was then * duty—brought the offenders before the magistrates , those functionaries acquitted them . It is said that they are connected with the law-breakers by blood , or are otherwise interested in the

      non-fulfilment of the law—indeed , no other explanation can be offered of the singular and unwonted occurrence of provincial magistrates daring to sot themselves in opposition to the Government and the Law Officers of the Crown , as to the interpretation and enforcement of the law . The class to which these magistrates belong are ever ready to insist on "the majesty of the law" being vindicated , when " a poor sinner" comes beiore them . In such cases , benevolent constructions and compassionate hypotheses are the last things thought of . They see in the " looped and windowed"

      raggedness before them , only objects of the primitive powers of the law ; and most vigorously do they exercise them . Their lenity and mercy are reserved for sinners of thenown class . They sympathise with them . They comprehend the motives by which they aro actuated—they have , perhaps , a direct interest , themselves , in the infringement of tho law , and hence comes the common proverb , that— "There is one law for the rich and another for the poor . " Even when the Legislature does not positivel y enact such onesided laws , tho administration is of such a partial and class character as to justify tho

      . But the Government ought seriously to consider in the present state of society , and with the events now transpiring around them , whether this is the best way of upholding the " Supremacy of the law , " and of maintaining that respect for it , audits administrators , which ia much more efficacious in maintaining " Peace , Law , and Order , " than all tho Special Constables or standing armies that can by possibility be gathered together . It is , above all things , a suicidal polic y for a Ministry to undermine the feeling of respect for the law ,

      which lies at the very foundation of society . Look what such conduct has produced in Ireland , where the conviction that England was not their friend , nor English law , arrayed the whole population against the constituted authorities , and perverted the sympathies of the people in favour of the law-breaker . How many columns of objurgation and lamentation on this disgraceful propensity of the Celtic race , have not been poured forth b y the calumniators of the Irish people , fromthe Puddledock

      Thunderer downwards to its puniest echo ? Yet what was the original cause of this fatal alienation of a whole people , but the partial and unjust administration of the law ? The people will ask , in this country , why Sir Gr . Gre y has not removed those Magistrates who have contumaciousl y refused to . enforce a statute of the lanxUu the plain sense intended by its framera , and in the sense which he , the Home-Secretary , backed by the Attorney and Solicitor-General , j affixes to it ? They will ask wh y those officials

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      ^ evinced such dogged determination and perseverance in the prosecution of the Chartists who were even suspected of an intention to violate the law ? Why they inflicted the severe sentences the law allowed , when they succeeded m obtaining convictions ? And wh ^ they now shrink back from the due exercise ot the powers vested in them , and which by their oaths of office they are bound to exercise fairl y and impartially ? The Government talk of introducing a tteW Sill to exp lain the state of the law . There is not Jbe slightest necessity for their doing so . We knt fw very well what the law is , and all we want is to see it enforced . If the Manchester school of Mag istrates will not do so , send them to the right about , and let us have others _ ¦ . « 1 J ± ! -. i . ' . H .. Mfl nODDA

      that will . . „ The Factory workers do 2 0 t k f r m ? new acts , or new explanations . ^ They do not ask from the Government anything mo ^ e than that they will see the authority oi Quoeiv Lords , and Commons obeyed . They are quite prepared to submit to it themselves , and they hope her Majesty ' s Ministers will not suffer it to be set at defiance by a band of reckless speculators , and greedy millowners , with the connivance of a few interested magistrates .

      Let Lord J . Russell—who most eloquently supported this law in its passage through the Leg islature— -bethink himself that it is better to have the esteem and gratitude of the swarming thousands of Lancashire and Yorkshire , than a few venal and interested votes at his back . If he will only maintain the law he may safely despise the efforts of any faction of millocrats . If he does not , the scandal , the future mischief that may arise from his dereliction of duty rest upon his own head . ' Not less foolish and short-sighted is the

      conduct of the mill-masters on this occasion . Of all men in the world they owe most to the habitual deference of Englishmen to the law . Their mills and warehouses are peculiarly exposed to the dangers arising from incendia rism , or sudden outbursts of unpremeditated violence . Their very ascendancy as a class is based upon this almost instinctive feeling . Why will they weaken it ? Wh y p lace themselves , in periods of stagnant trade , widespread distress , destitution , and discontent , in greater danger by their own act ? They may depend upon it , that a law which was gained after a struggle of thirty years ' iuration , will not be tamely yielded up , and that if , by any improper intervention , those ivho took part in this struggle are deprived of its benefits , the state of society in these districts must become dail y more unsatisfactory is regards the feelings of the various classes of the communit y towards each other . Into the commercial and political part of ; he argument we will not enter . We only lesire to call the attention of the Government , he magistrates , and the millowners to the lecessiiy of enforcing ' the law . "A word to ; he wise is enough . "

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      flies , after selling the tenant-right in his holding in the north of Ireland , and transfers his capital ,- and his industry and skill , on the United States , or Canada , confers no benefit on the country by emigrating . He is withdrawing that capital which mi ght be usefull y employed at home . " Sir Robert was equally explciit and decided in his condemnation of that wholesale shovelling out of pauper s , in the last stage of destitution and disease , on the shores of our colonies , or upon our own shores , in order that Irish landlords might escape the burden of supporting them . Mr . De Vere , a gentleman who took a berth as a

      steerage passenger in one of those floating hells in which these poor wretches are transported to our colonies , describes what is called the voluntary system of emigration from L-eland ; and we quite concur in the opinion of Sir Robert Peel , that there is nothing we have heard of the sufferings inflicted by the slave trade of a more revolting character . " Before the emigrant was at sea a week he became an altered man ; and it could not be wondered at . Hundreds of men , women and children , of all ages , from the aged imbecile to the infant just born , being huddled together without light or air . They lived without food or medicine , except as administered by the hands of casual charitv : * r . « l

      what must have been felt as a severe deprivation in the case ofa people like the Irish , in many cases died without spiritual comfort , bmce the period to which Mr . DeVeue refers improvements have \> een made , and these emigrant shi ps placed under a more vieiiant superintendence ; but still , in the very nature of things , with such a mass of destitution S a ' nd suffering a * stops , it is utterl y impossible to m-event fnd figrn . simiiar " « £ 5 « pEJ I and filth te those w have already ajmded to . buch an emigration &* +. h ; a ; aU ^ -rfni

      SbS r & iir * taju Tr K * ^ ' -oJ " - £ SL- ^ etuate tte ^ system which has engendered suAjhmassesof destitute and famish . gg panpera If landlords and middlemen can wu . 8 get © asily rid of tho wretchedness , and

      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . Peel ' s Bill for Ireland . —The Ministerial makeshift for Ireland has been carried through another stage in the Commons , after a protracted and wearisome debate , in which all manner of questions were introduced by the speakers , who were equally unanimous in avoiding the nominal question under discussion . This can onl y be accounted for by the general feeling that it was riot worth thought or criticism . The real question

      debated was the plan of Sir R . Peel , to which we referred last week . On Friday night he returned to the subject , and , in a speech of nearly three hours' duration , amplified and illustrated with greater distinctness the ideas he had formerly sketched in outline . As a comprehensive and faithful description of the real evils requiring to be remedied in Ireland , and of the magnitude of those evils , the speech was not to he surpassed ; and there was equal amplitud and power in tho outline of the measures proposed to meet the crisis he so

      accurately described . JJb doubt the ex-Premier may be accused of hesitation and over caution in some of the details of his plan , and other portions of it may be open to objections , but , taken as a whole , it embodies a sound principle — it proposes to liberate tho land of Ireland from those feudal fetters M hich at present makes it valueless , both to the landlords and people , aud in tho least objection , able manner to bring it into profitable cultivation . Sir Robert showed with great force and clearness , the foll y and the fallacy of

      foreign emigration , as a remedy for the present state of Ireland . He pointed eut the fact , that many of the persons who ' were now emigrating , were taking away capital with them . "Many of them" said the Right Honourable Baronet , " are men who are labouring under the apprehension of the increasing poor rates involving them in the general calamit y from which tho insolvent unions are suffering ; and every man that you lose from Ireland , who takes away more capital than individuals whom that capital would

      employ , is a dead loss to the country . " The passage we have marked in italics expresses a great truth in social economy , to which , hitherto , few of our statesmen and politicians have attached the importance that is due to it ; aud it must certainl y be obvious to the most ordinary capacity , that a continuous abstraction of capital from a country where the complaint is , that it is already deficient , must tend to its further impoverishment and pauperism . As Sir R . Peel trul y remarked , " The comfortable fanner who , fearing the invasion of the poor rate , and possessing some £ 40 or £ 50 ,

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      misery then * own neglect or selfishness has created , it is not very likely that they will make any very serious effort to abate the real and radical evils of the country . Apart , however , from all these considerations , it ia quite evident that Land and Labour being the ori ginal elements out of which all kinds of wealth are created , there is no necessity for exporting the former as long as large portions of the latter are uncultivated . The truestatesman will rather endeavour to make the kingdom whose affairs he administers , populous and prosperous—than to convert it into halfpeopled aud barren wastes . This was , as we OTiiftrt * ... + Lnlt * tYCm TIGCr \ nf . i- r \ i » onlAalnnsioa V .

      have said , felt to be the real question at issue . In the recent debate , Mi-. Bright in the course of the best speech delivered during its continuance—or , we may add , perhaps the best ever delivered on the question—emphatically enforced the fundamental importance of making land marketable in Ireland . We see great reason to doubt the feasibility of some of Mr . Bright ' s notions as to the way in which that jg £ e done ; but , at all events , it is a gratifying sign o / political progress , to find that the idea has got » . iacn a firm hold of the minds of so many of ou * ' most active public men . The best mode of pairv-mgi 4 out wil 1 ; no doubt , b y and by , suggest itself .

      The bearing of +-ne Liberal party , and of Sir R . Peel , on * ms important topic , was singularly contrasted by that of-Mr . Disraeli and the PremISK . For more than two hours the would-1 ? leader of the Protectionists exerted all his" ingenuity to decry and disparage what he ironically termed " the revelations of the experienced mind o f the great statesman / 7 ' , and signally failed in doing so . The pettifogging and spiteful detraction in which he indulged fell harmless and , when he concluded , the one idea of a bold , practical , and substantial measure having been proposed hy a statesman capable of carrying it into effect , towered above all others ; Nor was that idea weakened

      b y the feebleness , inanity , and personal jealousy of Lord J . Russell , who followed . We do not wonder that he should feel sore in the presence of his rival , and feel humbled also at the thought that he is totally destitute of any remedial policy . But , in order to cover his failure in that respect , and to account for tho non-fulfilment of the promises by which he rose to power in 1846 , he made the astounding declaration , that when he used words which

      bound him to bring in remedial and comprehensive measures , he was not at all aware of what he was saying—that , in fact , he did not mean anything by the use of these words , and that his present and matured opinion is , that & n amended Poor Law , and a better drilled Police , is all we can do for Ireland—that is , we must build more workhouses and more prisons in that country . That is the height of Whig statesmanship in the middle of the nineteenth century .

      Failure Of Savings Banks.—A Question Of ...

      Failure of Savings Banks . —A question of great and general interest to the working classes was discussed on Thursday se ' nnightnamely , the security afforded by Savings Banks to their depositors . It was mooted by Mr . Reynolds , who moved for a Select Committee to inquire into the circumstances connected with the failure of the St . Peter ' s Savings Bank , in Dublin . In the year 1833 , the deficiency in the assets of that Bank , from fraud and peculation on the part of its officers , amounted to nearl y four thousand pounds , and contiuued to increase until 1849 , when it

      amounted to the large sum of fifty thousand pounds . By the law , those Banks aro required to make periodical returns to the Commissioners of the National Debt of their income , expenditure , and financial position . The Act of Parliament expressly imposes certain duties on these Commissioners , for the protection of depositors , winch , it appears , they are in the habit of systematically neglecting . In the case of the St . Peter ' s Bank , they knew it to be actually insolvent—to be not able to pay ten shillings in the pound—as shown b y the periodical returns of the annual deficit sent in by

      the Bank ; and yet , so far from giving any warning tothepublic of this state of affairs , they boldly violated the law , and neglected the duties distinctly prescribed for them in such cases . The act contains a mandatory clause , in which the Commissioners are " required forthwith to publish in the London Gazette and also in any newspaper published in the county in which the Savings Bank is established , the name of every Savings Bank neglecting or making default" in the punctual transmission

      of its annual accounts , Yet for sixteen years they allowed this insolvent bank to go on unchecked , during the whole of which period the law was not complied with—the balance sheet was not transmitted in time in any one of those years ; they were not made out in proper form , and instead of using tho printed forms issued by the Commissioners for the use of all Savings Banks , the St . Peter ' s Bank in variably used a written form of accounts , varying very considerably from that prescribed . Such circumstances ought to have aroused

      suspicion , even if the deficit had not been palpable on the face of their fabricated returns . Yet tho Commissioners took no steps to warn the public , as they were imperatively required to do . On the contrary , they never seem to have contemplated the fulfilment of this duty . Mr . Higham , the acting officer of the National Debt office , in his evidence , plainly stated that the Commissioners have assumed the power of

      disregarding the distinct requirements of au Act of Parliament , "Because , " says Mr . Higham , " it would be an impolitic measure , it I may so term it , to publish the name of every Savings Bank in the Gazette which did not furnish those accounts within tho time required by the Act . " In order to show the extent to which this wilful disobedience is carried , we shall merel y quote two questions and the answers of Mr . Higham .

      " Upon that occasion you did not consider it necessary to act as the Act of Parliament pointed out—namel y , to give notice in the newspapers of the county ? Certainly not . " Is that invariabl y the case with all the Banks ? Yes . " Now bo it remembered that the poor people who deposit their small savings in these Banks , do this under the assurance that they have the guarantee of an Act of Parliament aud superintendence of the Government . The millions which have thus been invested in the hands of the Commissioners of the National Debt , have been obtained on the faith of that

      guarantee , and tho belief that that superintendence was vigilantly exercised . But now we have the fact , on tho authority of the Actuary of the National Debt office , that tbfl Commissioners have not in any one case done their duty—nay , that they consider they oug W not to doit—and , consequently , for all ihe public knows-to the contrary , there niav not he a single solvent Savings Bank in the country

      bo far for the safety supposed to be guaranteed by the protection of an A ct oi Parliament ; next as to the responsible per * " * in case of loss : Mr . Reynolds ,, after snoW »» that the depositors of the St Peter ' s Ba »« Dublin , had altogether been swindled in » J * manner of £ 50 , 000 , intimated hisop in »» g be that the Government were bound tft l »»» ; ud tho loss . Mr . Herbert moved to am

      cases of Traleo and Killaraey , and of Au ? £ terarderin Scotland—all ofthemsimWj / solvent banks—to the moiion , in order tlwttc \> Committee might inquire into the- wholc them . ; whereupon tho Chancellor of the . J * " chequer— himself an officer whose p ° sf "" makes loam persoaafly acquainted with the * facts—opposed the motion , on the ff ^ co ' the law has studiousl y refused to recognise " veroment HabiUty to Savings Bank dcpoffl »» J But this plea did not meet tho <««» Dublin and Tralee—the real claim ag' ^ i Government was not a legal hut a mora I It was argued that the losses to which we P

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 7, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_07041849/page/4/