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that OF THE BALLOT JaxvaRY 15, 1848. 1 T...
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. \ ,w ic-aiiy. iu .-».- li.lv.iv 6>u. Klute, i>riCc O-.. THE POLITICAL WORKS OF THOMAS PAINE, now-first collectvd together, and to which are added
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HE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TO THE CHARTISTS.
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THE NORTHERN STAR, SATURDAYJANUARY 151848.
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MJSCELLANEODS. O'Coskobvilis.—I desire t...
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That Of The Ballot Jaxvary 15, 1848. 1 T...
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several pieces never before published in Banana ; au <* an appendix ; containing the Trial of Thorns Pa \ ne , at Goildhall ; with a portrait of the 4 uthor . : Camplefe in 2 vol " . Sro . price &* ., TOLTAIRE'S f hilosophical dictionary , Wiib two well-finhhed Portraits of the AntflOr . In 2 rob . price 5 s , published at 93 ., THE DBYIL'S PULPIT , Bj the R « r . Bckket TaTLOB , B . A . Is one handsomo volume , price 6 s ., CABLILE'S MANUAL OF FREEHASOSBT , Originally published , at 15 s . Complete inl Tel ., price 5 s ., THE DIEGE 31 S , By the R « v . Robebt Tatloh . A complete set of COBBETT'S POLITICAL REGISTER , f For sale , SB vols ., half-calf . "W . Bngdale , IS , Holywell-strset , Strand .
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PORTRAIT OP PEARGUS O'CONNOR , Esq ., Jf . P ., T MARTtt' informs his friends and the Chartist body . generally , that he has reduced the price of his litho * rapbic full-length portrait of their Illustrious Chief to the following price : —Prints , Is ; coloured ditto , 2 s . 6 d .
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Just Published , price 2 s . 61 , Cloth , Gilt , POEMS ANfiD SOtfGS , Bv Pbakcis Davis , the' Belfast Man . ' ' His muse has an untaught trumpet-note of her own . — Athenamm So purer spring than this , bursting from the Sacred iriU , has sung of freedom through the listening island . 'yatton . ' Francis Dsvls , and his poetry , remind us of Robert Burns . Somewhat alike in condition and circumstances , they exhibit the same independent originality of genius . ' —Cork Examiner . 'There is a soul in every line , that proclaims the mthor a poet' — Vindicator . ' His opinions are uttered in the fiery language with rfuch genius appeals at once to the sympathies andimajination . *—Dublin Evening Packet . ' It is impossible not to be struck with admiration of he strong , nervous , and manly character of his writings -the vein of impassioned feeling which runs through nem . The author is a true poet , in the best sense of the enn . '— Commercial Chronicle . 'Emanating , astbej do , from one of the working milions , we warmly admire the free and lofty genius which D-Spired these numbers . *—XhiHin ireefctj Register . ' Francis Davis is only a muslin weaver , by trade ; by lature , a poet . '—Banner of Ulster . 'Exquisitely beautiful , and highly poetical . '— Glasgow Examiner , ' We consider him little , if at all , inferior to his late mmasake , the ' Hinstrel of Msllow . " — Belfast Newsj & tter . Belfast , John Henderson ; Dublin , James M"Glashan ; iondon , James Gilbert , Paternoster-row ; Edinburgh , ) Iiver and Boyd .
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LASD . A Iff PERSON having the RIGHT OP LOCATION !\ . TO SELL , or cultivating two or three acres , and illing to part with it , may hear of a purchaser , by apilying to Mr Taplin , St Clement ' s , Osford .
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THE LAKD . A HOLDER of a PAID-UP FOUR ACRE SHARE , - ri . eligible for ballot , is desirous of DISPOSING OP T . Price £ i . Apply , if by letter prepaid , to G . B ., 12 , 'lough-court , Fetter-lane , Holborn , London .
He Executive Committee To The Chartists.
HE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TO THE CHARTISTS .
Friend?,—The Present Time Calls Upon Ns ...
Friend ? , —The present time calls upon ns fo relonble onr energies for the advancement of that ause , which , will alone secure to us our civil anvl potties ! rights . We therefore feel it a duty which we iwa ourselves , and oar country not to allow Chartism o sink into apathy , bat to arouse the dormant , trengthen the wavering , and by a vigorous agitaion , not only secure the position we have gained , nit such a one as our number ? , and the justness snu urity of our piidclplee . expect and - demand . Jrowded meetings are "being held sfgh 9 y in the meropolis by year leader ? fer this purpose , and we iave secured MrS . U . Kjdd , Mr J . West , and Dr * . M . NTJC-ssJlas lecturers for the National
Char" . Aawrrtwn to agitate the out . try . The Execuiva have determined upon having a Conference , to issemble in London , in tie first week in May , for he purpose of agitating the metropolis , and preparng the great National Petition for presentation . Che localities will therefore see the neee-sity which jsists for them te arouse themselves , and strengthen ie hands of their Executive with the necessary r unds to carry this movement t ? a successful issue Dace for all , then , let every man who considers liberty ^ orth struggling for , be up and doing ; md let the rallying point from north to south and xom east to wei .. bs . THE CHARTER , AND NO SURRENDER- !—Chskt-pher Doyle , Secretary .
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CssrnAi E-egistratios and Election Committee . —Thfi following sums have been received since the iccounts were audited , and could not therefore apsear in iiie balance sheet . — Macclesfield £ 1 , W i ? mer , Oldham , £ 1 ; Susderland 12 < . ; Blyth 10 a . ; ^ rtnley , 3 * . 2 d . ; Bishop Wenremouth . Ss . 6 d . ; Mr iiniDSon ' s book , Is . 6 d- ; Tredegar , 61 . ; Preston , 3 . - Exeter , 10 s . ; Mansfield , lid . ; Bath , 2 i .: Jan-: ary 12 th , from Thomas Clatfc , for Willinsbro , 9 i . 3 d . In answer to the parties writing from Deedhurst Sram , and Winchester . I have to say the sums they mention vera received , bat as they were sent by adividuals , they are put down in the miscellaneous mount in the balance sheet , bat where properly cknowledged in theSiA'R at the time . To placeeacn terson's namein the Stir balance sheet woild fill one :: de , as ihe items , sent by individuals vary from 2 d . to 8 H . There has also been tcany sums acknowledged in
ihe Stab , by parties they have been sent to , wita no ; ame at all , bat merely for the Election Comnittee , and it has cost ten times the labour to trace the sum * , than it would have done in postage , if sent iirect to the proper parties ; and some of such sums save never yet been traced . The committee have , iherefore , resolved : — 'That , for the future , they rail not take any notice , or give any answers about my names that may be sent otherwise than through their secretary , and m * de payable to him at the « ambeth posi-office , if above ten shillings—if under , mey may be sent in postage-stamps . ' If our country rriends were aware of the trouble and annoyance ! hey cause by sending monies to so many parties , md how often their communications are lost through eeing mixed up with other matters , they would see ft once that tbe saving of the postage would be but trifle . —James Grjssbt , secretary , 8 , Noah's Arkoourt , Stangate , Lambeth .
Foethccmisg Meetkgs . — Northumberland and Durham district delegate meeting , at Wm . Gilcoy ' s , Cross Key ? , West Holborn , South Shields , liunday , 26 th inst . —Newcastle-upon-Tyne , at M . iude ' s , Sunday evening next , eight o ' clock . —Manchester , People ' s Institute , Sunday next , 2 p . m ., » lr Donovan will lecture at 8 p . m . —Stockport , in hhe Lyceum , on Sunday next , 8 p . m . —Salford , Sunaay next , in the room in Bank-street , Great Georgeittreet , on Monday evening ; same place , Mr W . P . Ittoberts will lecture on the legality of the Land Comaany . —Berry Edge , on Sunday nest , at Mr James bead ' s Painter . —Carlisle , on Tuesday next , at 8 : ui ., at the Association-room . 6 . . John-street . —Wol' eeraampton , Sunday r >? xi : < j p . m . —Sheffield , Sun-M . ynext , 6 i p . iii ., at the Democratic Reading-room , : !•!• , Q , oeen-street .
! Potiep . ies District . —The delegates of the above iisitrict are hereby requested to attend a specfal naceting to be held at Mr Yates' , Miles Bank , Sheldon , on Sunday , ( to-morrow ) , the 16 th inst ., at hall-; mfc two p . m .
] Death Pbom Starvation.—Before Mr J. C....
] Death pbom Starvation . —Before Mr J . C . Cartunr , at the Royal Oak , High-street , Deptfbrd , resieecting the death of Thomas Sturges Nichols , aged [) J , The evidence adduced showed that the deceased It t the period of his death was in an extreme stage of 383 titution > as indeed the appearance of his body fully armfinned . He was known as a jobbing labouring naan , and when in the service of the General Steam Navigation Company , at the works in Deptford , he tsst three fingers frt > m his right hand . He then : > ecame aninmateof the Greenwich union , which he Mt about four or six months since . How bs mainitatned himselfdid not appear . The parish allowed » . i . and a loaf of bread a week , which was evidently his : ririncipal support . He was frequently seen wander-» ntir Qhonfethe streets in search of emnlovment . in a
Sffiplorable state of distress , and ofetn when 3 a received the parish loaf he was in so famished cicendition as to devour it at one meal . On the tit ! inst . he was in so reduced a state thata person b bo had humanely given him lodging-determined on Jriking the unfortunate creature to the house of Mr " a ' arman , the relieving officer of the district , irith a teiew of obtaining an immediate attendance to his reretehed condition . He was carried to the door of ee relieving officer , and on being put down on the jtteshold , it was noticed that a great change had Jkvken place in his countenance , and it socn was evi-Kntnt that he was dying . Mr Arthur , the parish
sursoson quickly , saw him , aud he was taken into the usissage of the hoase . The deceased was then quite isesenSble , and iome brandy and water was adminisirered to him . The pelice were instructed to procure s \ stretcher to remove him to an adjacent lodging Dtause , but of little use , however ,, for in a tew uininutes he breathed his last at the ' door . Mr Arwwema . de a post mortem examination of the body . Ituhere were no symptoms of disease , and death was ueie result of the want of nourishment and exposure » fa the weather . The Jury returned * verdict' that us is deceasied had died from the want of the common Eeoecessanesollife . '
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MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS , To be had at tho Ntrihirn Star Office , 16 , Great v 7 ind mill Street ; and of Abel Heywaod . Manchester .
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JUST PUBLISHED . PSICS SIXPEHCS , HO . XIII OF " THE LABOURER , " cosTEHra . 1 . The Funeral of the Tear and its Epitaph , Ernest Jones . 2 . Our New Year ' s Address . 3 . Insurrections ot the Working Classes . —The Men of Kent and Es » ex . t . The Scotch Critics and the Land Company . 5 . The Romance of a People . 6 . The Poor Man ' s Legal Manual . 7 . National Literature— ' The Infernal Comedy . 8 . Our National Defences . 9 . Literary Reriew ^ Letters ( pre-paid ) to be addressed to tl / e Editors , 1 G Great Windmill Street , Haymarket , London . Orders received by all agents for the " Northern Star and all booksellers in town and country .
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THE PORTRAIT OF MR JONES . This portrait will be in the hands of our Scotch agents in time for issue on the 29 th instant . Our agents in or near Edinburgh will have their parcels forwarded to the care of Messrs \ Y . and H . Robinson , 11 , Greenside-street . Parcels for other parts of Scotland to the caie of Mr W . Love , 10 , Nelsonstreet , Glasgow . Our Yorkshire , Lancashire , Lincolnshire , Nottinghamshire , Derbyshire , Cheshire , Leicestershire , Northamptonshire , Warwickshire , and Gloucestershire agents will receive the portrait in time for issue on Saturday , February 19 th . The more southern Counties , "Wales , and Ireland , on the following week . Agents in the county of Durham must npply to Mr J . Turnbull , Side , Newcastle . Yorkshire , to Mr J . Cooke , 67 , Meadow-lane , Leeds . Lancashire and Cheshire , to Mr A . Heywood , 58 , Oldbam-street , Manchester . Those agents having weekly book parcels from London will have the portrait sent in their own parcels .
The Northern Star, Saturdayjanuary 151848.
THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAYJANUARY 151848 .
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COMMERCIAL AND MANUFACTURING PROSPECTS . The news from the manufacturing districts is gradually becoming more cheerful in its tone , and week by week , the number of mills which resume full time jis increased . After the protracted period of depression and stagnation through which we have passed , it is but natural to expect that the old stocks are b y this time nearly cleared off , and that the spring and summer trade will cause , at least , a temporary revival of what is accepted under our present system for prosperity . " The money market is also reported to be in a more healthy condition . Discounts are more
easily obtained , and at a much lower per centage than they were a few weeks ago . The stock of bullion in the Bank—that great thermometer by which , under our present monetary arrangements , the market rises or falls , — is steadily augmenting , and the tide of gold still sets steadily into this country . We do not mean here to comment upon the tremendous and unparalleled sacrifices , the wholesale destruction of property of all descriptions , and the total prostration of our domestic trade , wLichhas been made to ensure this result , but merel y to note the fact , as another of the indications which show that we are at the
commencement of what is termed '' a season of prosperity . " It is well , however , that we should not be deceived as to the real character of this , so called , prosperity or its probable duration , and we propose , therefore , to offer a few remarks on these points , the result of long and careful observation of the working' and tendencies of our present manufacturing and monetary arrangements . From the moment that the restoration of
peace gave to other nations time to recruit their energies , and the opportunity of becoming possessors of tbe machinery which England had during the war almost entirely monopolised , the manufacturing supremacy of this country , was virtually destroyed . True , the start it had in the race ; its possession of those powers which other nations had to create , and the peculiar advantages arising from its insular position , and its iron and coal mines , were sufficient to protract the time at which it could be overtaken by any rival , or be thrust into a secondary position . The Political
Economists were , however , fired with the ambition that Britain should be the " workshop of the world . " Some of them , in the height of their enthusiasm , declared that it would be a blessing if its whole surface was incrusted with a coat of lava , and it never grew a blade of grass or an ear of corn in future . "We had , in our mines and manufactories , the means of supplying all other nations at such a rate that the rarest and richest products of nature would be sent in return to us most abundantly , and at a fer cheaper rate than we could produce them ourselves . The theory was an exceedingly simple one ; if not very true . We were designed by nature to be a manufacturing nation , while other countries were designed by the
same power to be purely agricultural . "Ne siitor ultra crepidam , " thereFore , said the Political Economists— "let every one stick to his own last . " We can make hardware , broadcloths , and calicoes cheaper than anybody else . Let us confine ourselves to that alone , and take our corn , wine , and oil , from those who have richer soils and brighter suns than ours . Theories and systems are very beautiful things in the eyes of their projectors , and look nicely upon paper ; but unfortunatel y for them , very frequently there exist obstructions and elements in nature not at all taken into account by the system maker , and when collision ensues , the system gets shivered to pieces , and not the natural and indestructible obstacles with which it comes in contact .
So it has happened in this case . It was presumed that the people and government of every other country would be satisfied to let us continue in undisturbed and exclusive possession of the new powers which modern science had brought toaid production . The reverse , as might have been expected by any but a mere theorist , has proved the fact . It is natural and proper for every nation to develope to the utmost the
industry of its population , and its territorial capabilities . Commerce and manufactures are as necessary and natural phases or stages of society as the pastoral , hunting , and agricultural stages which precede them . In expecting that for our profit and benefit this law of nations would be suspended , we were guilty of a mistake which could only . have been made by the most consummate egotism , and the grossest selfishness .
Continental nations generall y endeavoured to supply themselves with manufactured goods by means of their native capital and labour . Notwithstanding our superiority at tbe outset , they have succeeded in doing so ; and , in some instances , in doing more—manufacturing goods which compete succeasfully with us in neutral markets . Every country which was enabled to supply itself with the goods we formerly sold , lessened the effective and profitable demand for these goods ; and it was only by convulsive and ruinous efforts to produce cheaper and cheaper still , that we could for a few years longer
maintain a precarious footing in markets from which we were in the end certain to be driven out . If the table of exports to the densely peopled countries of Europe—our nearest markets—be looked at , this fact will be seen by the most cursory observer . Year by year have our exports diminished . We havej tried to change the current by reductlonsjin the duties levied upon their goods , in hopes that they would reciprocate the compliment . In vain . Each successive reduction in our tariff has been met by the imposition of additional duties upon our British manufactures . Nobod y is now silly enough to talk of our supremacy in continental
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markets , or to look to them for the customers who are to make this " the workshop of the world . " The United States of North America , however , for many years prevented the mistake from being found out . They sent us their raw cotton , and took back our textile fabrics in return . They were our best and largest customers . But with the growth of copulation and capital , came again the natural desire to employ a portion of their own industry in manufacturing pursuits . It occurred to them that it was at the best but a round-abound way of doing business , to send the cotton which
grew at their own doors , two or three thousand miles away to be spun and woven , bleached and dyed , and then sent back again for them to wear , and so they resolved to have mills of their own ; and forthwith up sprung Lowell and other manufacturing towns . The whiz of revolving spindles began to be heard , beside " melodious waterfalls , " all over the country ; In these they found an almost inexhaustible supply of natural and cheap motive power . Geological and mining explorations were made in every direction , which were richly rewarded by the discovery of all the raw material necessary for an almost illimitable manufacturing business . What is the consequence ? The
States , instead of being our customer , has become our rival . In " domestics , '' as they are termed—cotton cloths in which quantity is more a matter of consideration than quality —they have for many years been a-head of us , and the rapid improvement which is taking place in their machinery , the greater economy in their various processes , and increased skill in every department , which constant practice and enlarged experience is sure to give , must , in a very short time , place them on an equality
with us as to the production of all the finer description of goods .- As soon « s this is the esse , and the States are prepared to supply other markets to any great extent , they will , in consequence of their natural and indestructilbe advantages , inevitabl y drive us out of them . That this state of things is rapidly approaching , and distinctly aimed at , as well as clearly toreseen in America , the following extract , from a remarkable article in the New York Herald , forcibly proves ;—
We bold within our limits the greatest and most important elements of wealth in the world . Our cotton and corn will at all times command the precious metals of Europe , which will How iu from the east ; and while we bold possession ol tbe mines of Mexico , tho precious metals will flow in from the west , in one steady , unbroken current . The effect of this addition to our currency ot gold and BiWer , must ba of the moat favourable charactvT . It will give us , in the first place , a more valuable currency than we now have , It will give us . In exchange for our products , the only recognised evidenco of wealth in all parts of the world ; it will finally give us the power of regulating the prices of our exports , both at home and abroad , and give ua a position in tbe
commerci . il world never before enjoyed . We hove , heretofore , almost entirely depended upon-foreign Coun . tries for any material increase to the national wealth . Prices for our principal exporting staple in oar own markets have been regulated entirely by foreign capitalists . Wo have been in their power so much , that they have been able at any time to depreciate the value of our cotton crop millions of dollars . Prices of broad » tuffs have even been controlled by them , and wo hare suffered something by being so dependent . The tlnles hiiva experienced a wonderful change . We now consume more than one-fourth of our entire cotton crop . The domestic consumption of breadstuff ! is so large , that a very slight foreign demand puts up prices rapidly , and
foreign consumers have to pay a high price for our products . The increased consumption of cotton within our own limits plaeea the manufactures of Europe in a position where they will be less able to compete with us in manufactured goods , and eur markets will be ¦ applied to a great extent with our ovra fabrics . It operates with twofold effect upon foreign manufactures , as it reduces their supply in times of scarcity , and cuts off markets for their goods . The manufacturing interests of the United States were never in a more prosper ous , promising condition , and the increase in the number is more rapid than man ; have any idea of . In every section of the country , mills are springing up as
if by magic . The eastern stoles no longer monopolise this business ; in the south , and at the west , the consumption of cotton is already large , bat we have no official returns showing its extent . - The consumption officially reported is of the section of country north and east of Virginia . Now . that is a very small section of the country , and if the contumptien in it reaches six hundred thousand bales , the consumption of the re . mainder of the country cannot be less than two hundred thousand bales , making an aggregate of eight hundred thousand bales , As extraordinary as this may seem , It will -be realised la 1848 , We arte approaching Great Britain in cotton ' manufacturing much more rapidly than is dreamed of even in this
country . Years ago , we foretold this result , and this statement of the actual and prospective position of the United States , fully confirms eur anticipations . But the picture would not be complete if we did not give the description of Great Britain by the same hand : —• The recuperative energies of Great Britain are nothing compared to those of this country , and they are by no means sufficient to raise her to the position she has fallen from . When our revulsion came upon us we had no public debt ; it is true the states were heavily indebted , hat that had nothing to do with the general government . England has a debt of more than eight hundred millions sterling , upon the interest of which
thousands depend tor thtir daily bread . Whatever affects the revenue of the Government , endangers the incorne of this large class , and the failure to pay the interest promptly would ruin thousands . The famine in Ireland , the increased number of operatives out of employment in the manufacturing districts , almost in a starving eendition , are sufficient to create the moat alarming apprehensions relative to the preservation of peace asd good order . Tbe seeds of political revolution are generating among a starving people ; they take root and acquire strength , where everything else is droop , ing aid djing- . We cannot conceive a more terrible stats o ! things than what exiata at this moment in Great Britain , and we look upoa any attempt to improve them as weak and airortive , compared with the depth and extent of the evils experienced .
Such , then , is the position in which we Stand with reference to Europe and the United States . What are our prospects of finding large , constant , and remunerating markets elsewhere ? There are India and China open to us , and at one time the mercantile world went into extaciesof joy at the bare idea of their being so . We remember when Mr Silk Buckingham went about lecturing on the great benefits that would result from destroying the monopoly of the East India Company , and throwing the great Eastern market open to all traders . The golden stream of Pactolus , according to him , would henceforth flow through the whole land and enrich every household . We have abolished the monopoly—where is the Utopia it was to
produce ? Then , again , the heads of merchants , manufacturers , and traders , were completely turned two or three years since by the opening of the Chinese markets , effected by Sir H . Pottmger . Banquets , pieces of plate , and honours , were showered upon him , and he was eulogised as a national benefactor , whom it was impossible to thank too warmly , or to reward too highly . Disappointment has again followed . The high-wrought expectations of those who expected that in that quarter would be found the means for employing our manufacturing capital and industry , have melted into thin air . The Chinese market , which looked so tempting at a distance , has crumbled , like Dead Sea fruits , into ashes at the touch .
Yet the Free Traders and Political Economists are not satisfied . Repeated failures and disappointments , instead of causing them to doubt the correctness of their theory and to examine it afresh with a view to the dis covery of the truth , and the means for wisely and profitably directing the national resources , only excites them to renewed attempts of the same kind as those which have heretofore so lamentably and wretchedly failed . In the forthcoming session of Parliament ,, the
same insane policy will be urged b y them with as much confidence as if all the predictions which they formerly made had been realised , instead of being falsified in every instance . China having failed us so far , we should not wonder to hear suggestions as to forcing it into more extensive dealings with us , though why the Chinese , if they make their own clothes , and are content to do so , should not be permitted , to supply themselves , we cannot imagine . Japan has been looked at with si greedy eye by these speculators . The millions of people it contains , the numerous markets
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which mig ht be opened up in it have all been calculated , and the cupidity of our traders has been highly excited by the g littering visions thereby conjured up . But , Hnfortunrtely , Japan is even more exclusive than China . Its policy is completely and thoroughly self-supporting and independent , and , except by an armed invasion , there is no chance of our compelling it to deal with us , or to make larger markets in either of these countries , unless we employ the musket and the cannon to clear the way for the civilisation and cottons of Manchester .
But supposing this were done , what then ? Could we keep , the exclusive possession of these markets , allowing them to be worth powder and shot ? Would not our great rivalyoung , fresh , and unincumbered , with all its gigantic energies—enter the market along with us ? If it did , would it not inevitably beat us , and how , upon the fashionable Free Trade policy of the day , could it be prevented from
doing so ? There is evidently as little hope in this direction as in any other . The manufacturing system of Great Britain has culminated . Henceforth its ascendancy must be spoken of as a thing of the past . The new circumstances which have grown up around us within the last twenty-five years have totally altered our mercantile and manufacturing relations to other countries . It will be impossible in
future , by means of our present arrangements , to ensure work and wages to the operatives in the manufacturing districts , Fitful and brief glances may now and then illuminate the darkness ; but—and we say it advisedly—the time has come for statesmen and legislators , for capitalists and operatives , to look this state of things fairly in the face , and alter the industrial arrangements of the country in accordance with it .
For our own part we look forward to the decline and ultimate extinction of our manufacturing system without dismay . The pulse of the nation has beaten feverishly during the whole of its existence . The delirium of a paroxysm , or the feebleness of a collapse , have followed each other in succession , and the sooner the country is saved from such alternations the better . The millions who now depend upon that
system for subsistence must , however , be provided for in time by some other means . Wise and prudent statesman will not imitate the mere merchants , whose views are bounded by the walls of their counting-houses . They will take into consideration all the circumstances which bear upon the case—present and prospective , —and gradually introduce into operation those new elements , which may be requisite to meet exigencies actual or foreseen .
While the misapplication of the enormous productive powers of modern machinery has generated excessive toil , and spread destitution among the masses , it has , at the same time , by Stimulating the individual trader and manufacturer to greater exertions , and to . fresh improvements , put into the hands of society the means by which , under a rational and intelligent system of national policy , all the
great objects of human association may be , With certainty , constantly secured to every individual . ! The phase through which we have passed , was , perhaps , necessary to enable us to understand clearly the proper use and application of these powers . We have thoroagbly mastered one department of political economythat of "Production . We have now to begin the study of a not less important one—Distri bution .
In view of the important facts to which we have cursoril y adverted , we earnestly hope that both Government and people will with all earnestness apply themselves to the studyof this department . If so , we have every faith in the soil , industry , skill , and mabhinery of England She was great long before a self-acting machine was constructed . She will be greater than ever after the false direction of her large
resources , and the fallacious policy of her rulers , shall have been superseded by arrangements to provide natural and just channels for the distribution of wealth , and give the whole people an equitable interest in the joint production of the labour , skill , and capital of the country . To do this we must reverse our past policy , and instead of looking to foreign markets for salvation , begin by creating , developing , and sustaining a good HOME MARKET .
Death From Starvation. Fearful Words Are...
DEATH FROM STARVATION . Fearful words are those of our prefix . Fearful under any circumstances , but doubl y so , when realised in a land of wealth , and in those who are unwilling idlers ! Yet Deaths from Starvation are not only occurring , but of frequent occurrence , in a nation that has concentrated more wealth than any other—that boasts ( boasts ?) of the enormous amount of its Poor Laws , and the extent and splendour
of its " Charitable Institutions . " Nor are these lamentable proofs of misgovernment confined to some out-of-the-way corner of our Island , where the arm of legislation and the watchfulness of the most paternal Government might only reach with a weakened effect—no ! this occurs at the very fountain head of power , at the very seat of Government—beneath the walls of the Palace—beneath the shadow of the
Cathedral—within earshot of Downing street So faulty is the distribution of wealth , that starvation and luxury walk side by side—that a pane of glass separates famine " from repletion ! There is no point of view from which such discrepancies can be excused in a social , moral , or religious sense ; and there is but one in which it might be pardoned in a political sense—namely , if the resources of the country
were inadequate for the employment and support of its inhabitants . In a well-organised social state , the superfluity of the one ought to supply the necessity of the other . If the one has no land , he who has too much should surrender part of his ; if the one has more produce than he requires , he should satisfy the want of him who has none , always provided the lacklander and the destitute were not landlest
and foodless through their own faults . Indeed , even where there should be no superfluity on the one hand , we are prepared to assert , and common-sense will easily verify the assertion that it would bo better if the rich were even deprived of a com / bit , than that the poor should be exposed to actual suffering—it would be better that all should be placed on half rations , than that some should have their full meal while others had ([ scarcely a crust . Bat we are not driven to this extremity , for the resources of the country are adequate
( and notoriously so , ) to the comfortable maintenance of all its inhabitants , and more too ; therefore the unpardonable fault of government—thence the broad distinction that turns misfortune into vmrder . The able-bodied and unwilling idler dies of hunger , while his waning eyes rest on half-cultivated fields , or the waste lands of parks , preserves , and commons j or the lavish expenditure of pro duce in frivolous , ephemeral , but constantl y recurring luxuries . While he-hears the tramp of the hunter and the racer , or listens to the
bay of the pampered pack—while he reflects that in . the keep of horses and hounds alone sufficient food is wasted to support many millions of his fellow-beings . And the excuse —the frivolous excuse that is urged in extenuation of such murderous extravagances It will be said , these studs , these kennels , find employment for many trades—for many men . The sadler , the harness-maker , the farrier , the labourer , the groom , the coachman , the carriage builder , and all the various category of trades and services
employed in connexion with equipage and stud . But the argument though plausible , is untenable . In a thickly populated country , the resources of which are confessedly yet far from developed , every man taken from productive employment and turned snto a consumer is an injury to the community . Thus the grooms , footmen , & c . above alluded to , are but consumers , while , they might have been producer * , and live upon the general stock instead of having added
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to it . The same with a standing army , that by consumption and taxation adds to the burdens , without ministering to the resources ot the country . The same with the cattle that , like horses , form bo article of our food . It may be said they find employment to the agriculturist , in the growth of oats , grass , & c . oo they do—but they consume the food produced to the detriment of man , the producer—who wanders about starving , while the sleek-coated horses of the rich are pampered with the food of the poor . The trades , too , employed in relation to the luxuries of the idle , would be as well , nay ! more fully employed in ministering to the wants of the industrious—nay ! their profits would be more rapid andl more steady . "" ¦ ,.. _„„„„ *] .., .
When , therefore , we findfmen in countless numbers , ( in Ireland a million . ' ) dy ing of starvation in a fertile land , with such luxuries , magnificence , and waste , ; piled around their miserable graves , we no longer accuse an inevitable necessity , we dare not murmur against Providence—but we arraign an unwise and destructive Government , that may justly be said to grow fat upon the misery it creates ; and we arraign the apathy and servility of a people , that can see the laws of God and nature frustrated by privileged robbers , whom they make great , whom they make ' strongbut whose artificial strength might be cut off like the waters of a canal , when its supplies are diverted to another channel .
We this week record melancholy instances of death and destitution . We may refer to that of a poor man named Nichols fifty years of age , who for a long series of years had worked for a public Company , and lost three fingers in their service When turned out of the hospital , what was his reward for nearly forty years labour—one shilling and one loaf of bread per week from the parish , and no other means of subsistence .
Why , ; a young sprig of ; the aristocracy , a young scion of the counter , who bad received a scratch in the " service of his country , " would be honoured , loaded , and soothed with a large pension . But this man , who has really served his country during nearly forty years of active labour—this man' was frequently seen wandering about the streets in quest of employment n a deplorable state of distress , and often , when he received the parish loaf , was in so famished a condition as to devour it at one meal . "
On one occasion a charitable individual gave him a night's lodging , / md took him next morning to the Guardian . " He sunk down on the threshold—his face was seen to change—he was a dead man , and the jury ' s epitaph was , " Died from starvation . " Did they not feel in their hearts he had been murdered , and slowl y —cruell y ? For it was cruelty to give the loaf and the shilling that served no other purpose than to protract his suffering . Yes!—it served another end—it screened the murderers—for it
made the victim " JWe so slowly , none dare call it murder . " But we will brand it by its right name . It was murder to let him wander in quest of employment , and not receive it , while millions of acres were lying waste in England , It was murder to give him the slow death of their mock-charity , while his privileged tyrants were feasting in his sight . It was murder to let him die in the streets , while a palace was building for the over-housed !
And then , men dare talk of our "Charitable Institutions , " of which most are vile cheats on the credulity of the people , and the intentions of the founders . It is not long since some of these were exposed , in which the revenues had risen from a few pounds to many thousands per annum ; the poor still got the few pounds , but the many thousands—the improvement monies—were pocketed by the managers . Charitable institutions ! say ( with very few exceptions , ) blinds for ) robbery , where a few servile panders of the great are housed , when past the age for doing their dirty work .
So demoralising—so vile is our social system , that crime is treated better than industrythat the gaol is better than the the workhouse , and that the destitute commit some offence against the laws , as ensuring them a lighter doom than " going in quest of employment , " and earning " death from starvation . " In this week ' s Star we record an instance of either , but one out of countless numberswith which we might weekly fill our columns . When will the men of England put an end to such a system ?
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Mjscellaneods. O'Coskobvilis.—I Desire T...
MJSCELLANEODS . O'Coskobvilis . —I desire to return my sincere thanks to the friends and members of the Land Company of Carrington , near Nottingham , for the benevolent and handsome present of a hundred and eleven fruit trees , consisting of apples , gooseberries , currents , and rasp , berry trees , besides a choice selection of early seed potatoes , consisting of five different sorts . Chables Tawes . J . Gir-BEBTSOK suggests that in every locality the shareholders of the land Company should form themselves into co-operative localities , to purchase and retail out every article of provision , clothing , furniture , con . sumed by themselves , and which others would purchase from them . The profits arising therefrom to he employed for the paying up tho shares of those who are
not already paid up . Tliose who bare paid up , to place their profits either in the deposit or redemption department of the Land and labour Bank . Mr G . adds I am , myself , a member of a co-operative establishment , which has existed sixteen years , and is doing well , yielding upwards of £ G per annum to each shareholder . There are seven localities in this town , all of Which are doing equally well . It is not necessary for me to enter into the advantages of co-operation , as I would expect thoy are sufficiently known , and so clearly demonstrated by the working of the National Land Company . Hoping that this hint will be sufficient to arouse you to a consideration of the advantages to be derived from teepingyour own profits to yourself , and applying them to effect your complete emancipation , and that the shareholders in each locality will
set about forming such rules as they consider would best carry out the principle , I remain , yeur obedient servant , John Gilbebtson . —Broad Guards , Carlisle . Mr J . Carter , Bowbridge . —No . Mr C . SpnisiOAiL , Norwich . —Received . It shall be forwarded along with our other papers to NewYark . A MaMKEP Mam , who has read the several questions in the last week's Dispatch , begs to ask one simple one in return—Who is tho Sodomite ? Mr Sidawat—If Mr Sidaway considers himself fully capable of shoeing horses , I & hall find work for him at Snigs End , but otherwise not and I beg once more to state , that no person , whether shareholder or otherwise , will receive employment from me , If not fully capable of discharging his duty ; and that I will not any continue the
longer practice o : giving or lending money to those who are recommended to me for employment , to bear their expenses back again . And I also beg to state , that in every locality that I go to I find a super , abundance of labour of all sorts , and that I hold it to he an injustice to the Company , and injustice to the applicant , anddishonest to me , to keep continually sending men for employment . F . O'Connor . The METRoroMTAN Chartist Ham ; . — In answer to several applications , Mr O'Connor begs to say , that not only is lie favourable to the project of thR Metropolitan Chartist Hall , but thtvt he views it with great pleasure , and purposes being a largo shareholder himself . Ma M . Smith , Alloa . —The papers were posted last week , when your order arrived . Send early in the week .
Sevkbal CoMMomcATioNS are unavoidably withhvld through press of matter . Aucuterardeu . —Julian Harney has received from Mr O'Connor the following sums sent from Auchterarder : For the defence of Mr O'Connor ' s seat 5 s ; for the National Charter Association , 5 s ; for the Trades' Union , Sa ; far the Fraternal Democrats , 5 s , Our Auohterarder friends' wishes shall bo attended to , Mb Domsshib , Manchester , —Nest week , J . Skebihit , —Next week , Glawi & w . —Jvsli & a Hwacy n & araeWen 5 s , for thePrs . teraal Democrats , from Mr Daniel Paul . The docu . ments sent by Mr Paul , shall havo our attention next week .
L , Bboobes , Durby , —Nesstweok , Wobcmtsb —Julian Harney lias received 2 s , from H . Merrick , for tho Fraternal Democrats . Mr . Dahieus , hie of Man Next week . Mr . Dewucrst , Snig'a-end . —Your papers ore posted on the Friday In time for the evening's post . Mr . Sdcksmith , Blrstal . -Remit 4 s . 6 d . to the Express emce , and It will ensure you one quarter ' * supply . The Victim Comkitteb ' s balance-sheet shall appear next week .
LEGAL . NOTICE . —As I have a considerable number of cases on hand , requiring ulterior proceedings , I mint , tn order to oaablo mo to do justice to my clients , decline receiving until further notice any mors 1 * gal correspondence { except tueh at relates to eases in hand ) , whether for the Star or otherwise . ALL LETTERS CONTAINING NEW CASES WILL REMAIN UNNOTICED . ^ T LXTTEBS TO BB ADDRESSED IU FUTURE TO KR AT 16 , 0 r « AT WlMDMIM , - BTRBRT , HATMA & KKT , Even should fresh cases be accompanied by few ' they will not be attended to . ' < K % Erwbst Jones ,
Postponement Of The Ballot. In Consequen...
POSTPONEMENT OF THE BALLOT . In consequence of many of the branch secretaries not having made a return of the members who wish to have their names placed upon Family Tickets , the Ballot is postponed until Tuesday , the 25 th inst ., and it is specially requested , that all such returns may be sent to this ofBce oo or before Thursday 20 tb , so as to afford time to compare the balloting tickets with the returns , such course being absolutely necessary to secure correctness in the Ballot . nnoT . nnwrjMfNT OF TI 1 K RA'f . r . OT .
New Land Company. A Great Desire Having ...
NEW LAND COMPANY . A great desire having been expressed , in commu . nications received from all parts of the country , that the National Land Company should continue open , in order to afford to persons who have only recently become acquainted with its principles an opportunity of joining it ; and the Directors not wishing to violate the resolution of the late Conference for closing the Company , but at the same time being most anxious to make the movement for the Land really National , they have resolved to Open Another Company , so that no check may be given to the growing feeling among the labouring classes for the possession of the Land .
The principle of this Second Company will be similar to the present powerful confederacy ; some alteration will be made in the price of shares , but the principles of both companies will be alike . Price of shares and other particulars will be published in the Northern Star of Saturday next . The money » f the New Company will be entrusted to the keeping of Mr O'Connor who will be the Treasurer . Mr O'Connor ' s acceptance of that office is a sufficient guarantee for its security and rightful appropriation . By order of the Directors , Thomas Clahk , ( Corres . Sec . ) Office , 144 . Hig h Holborn , London .
The Balance Sheet. The Balance Sheet Ot ...
THE BALANCE SHEET . The balance sheet ot the last quarter has been delayed beyond the usual time , in consequence , firstly , of the adoption of a different system of arranging the accounts , which necessarily consumed much time ; and secondly , because of its great magnifn 8 e as compared with former sheets . It is now , how * ever , ready , and copies will be immediately forwarded to the different branches .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 15, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_15011848/page/4/
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