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    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 18, 1845. . ' '__ _ . ,~*m a w*.
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      - To;Tailors. Just Published,

      - to ; tailors . Just published ,

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      -r nvnov and BABIS FASHIONS for the Autumn L ^ dVinter ^ lMS ; by T . GOOD , 6 ConduiNstreet , ^« t ^ reet , Xondon , The mostsupeib plate ever publfchea-19 igaze * . representing the most fashionable gar-Ments , particularly the mew style paletot orer-coats , both S ttieandoouble-breasted , shi patternsof garments—viz ,, aro sizes of paletot two dress coats , the Parisian style rest with sldrts , and shooting vest ; foil and particular report , & c , Ac Price 10 s . 6 d . for the one season , or 20 s . for one year , including an intermediate report , summer and winter , with every necessary information throughout the year . A splendid Lircry Plate , warranted the most useful in tho trade ; seven patterns of garments , and a book of description , & c . Price only 12 s . Two Juvenile Plates—Ho . 1 for spring and summer , No . 2 for autumn and winter- price ( with the fashions or livery plate ) , 4 s . each . The work on Cutting , in numbers at Is . 63 , each , as asnaL Scientific cutting taught , and garments or patterns cut for the trade . —Observe the address , as above .

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      TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria and His Royal Highness Prince Albert THE LONDON aud PARIS FASHIONS for Autumn and Winter , 1845 and 1816 , ready early in October , by BEAD and Co ., 13 , Hart-street , Bloomsbujy-suuare , London ; Berger , Holywell-street , Strand , London , and may be had of ~ all Booksellers wheresoever residing ; Tery superb Print , representing the most splendid exhibition in Europe , an Interior View of the Colosseum , Kegenf £ -park , London . This exquisitely executed and beautifull y coloured Print will be accompanied with f ullsize Dress , Frock , and Riding Coat Patterns ; also , Patterns oftheXew Fashionable Polka Frock , and Locomotive

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      TO ALL WHO CAN'T PAT ! IMMEDIATE Protection , and a prompt and safe final discharge , without the intervention of a Prison or an . Attorney- A discharge to Debtors is nowimperative , because Imprisonment forDebt is now penal notreme * dial—Debtors of all grades will be benefitted by applying forthwith to John S . Benstead , 22 , Basinghall-street , near the Court of Bankruptcy , London .

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      GEEAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY , 14 , Watzkloo-place , London . - dieectobs . The Chisholm , CJiairman . ¦ W illiam Morley , Esq ., Deputy Chairman . Henry S . Barber , Esq . James John Kinloch , Esq . John Brighmian , Esq . Henry lawson , Esq . Francis Brodigan , Esq . Henry Penny , Esq . James "Win . Deacon , Esq . Robert Power , Esq ., M . D . Alexander R . Irvine , Esq . The Ber . F . W . Johnson John Inghs Jerdein , Esq . Yickery , A . M .

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      SHEFFIELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY .. WHEREAS , Notices were duly published in the month of November last , in the London Gazette , the Sheffield and RoOierham . Independent , the Souingluw . Jouriial , the Derbyshire , Courier , the Ifneoln , Butlaiid , and Stamford Mercury , and the Lincoln Standard Newspapers , that application was intended to be made in the . then next ensuing Session of Parliament , for leave to bring in a Bill to incorporate a Company , and to give to such Company power to make and maintain ' -a Railway , commencing by a Junction with the Sheffield , Ashton-under-Lyne , tod Manchester Railway , at or near Oborne-street , in the Township of Brightside Bierlow , in the Parish

      Important To Working Men Under Forty Yea...

      IMPORTANT TO WORKING MEN UNDER FORTY YEARS OF AGE . •> . -. Look to tha interests of yourselves andfamilies ;* $ astm and join that flourishing institution , the " United Patriots ' Benefit Society , " enrolled and empowered by Act of Parliament to extend over the United Kingdom . THE Society is on a new , yet correct principle , and is the only Benefit Society legalised with the privilege of establishing branches , appointing sub-secretaries , having sub-committees , & c . Look around at the numerous unenrolled societies in particular , ever breaking up , and men , after being members from twenty to forty years , who

      have looked forward in tha hopes of having a something like superannuation motley to keep starvation from their doors , being cast aside to the tender mercies of a Poor Law Bastile . Remember , in the midst of life you are in death , that you know not what an hour may bring forth ; then , working men , join this Society , make it truly a national one , to number not only thousands but millions . Unite , cause it to extend throughout the length and breadth of the laud . The government of the Society is in the hands of the members , every branch being empowered by the rules to manage its own local affairs . The Society is in four divisions for its members to receive according to their payments thefollowingbcnefits : —

      £ s . d . £ s . d . In Sickness per week from ... 0 9 0 to 0 18 0 Death of Member 10 0 0 to 20 0 0 Death of Wife or nominee ... 5 0 0 to 10 0 0 Wife ' s Iying . in 1 0 0 to 2 0 0 Loss by Fire 10 0 0 to 15 0 0 Superannuation per week ... 0 4 0 to 0 5 0 Contributions per calendar ) month for Sickness and > 014 to 027 Management . ) Levies according to the demands on each division per quarter . Entrance according to age , from two shillings and eiglitpence to nine shillings and tivopence . Weekly Meetings at the London Society House , Brown Bear Tavern , Broad-street , Bloomsbury , every Tuesday evening , at eight o ' clock . Persons can enroll at the Society House any day by paying the entrance money . The following is a list of the Branches , Names of the Sub-Secretaries , Places of Meeting , and Counties situated in at present , forming limbs of this growing and gigantic Society , where persons can be entered any time by the Sub-Secretaries at their residence , or af * the Branch Houses : —

      Atherstone , Warwickshire , Holly Bush Inn , Longstreet ; Sub-Secretary , V . Smith , Bingham ' s-row . Alchester , -Warwickshire , Globe Inn ; Sub-Secretary , W . Spooner , Needlemaker , Bristol , Somersetshire , Angel Tavern , Highstreet ; St . Plum p's and Cannon Tavern , Cannon-street , St . James ; Sub-Secretary , S . Jacobs , Bookseller , 18 , Upper Maudlin-street , St . Michael ' s-hUl . Bath , Somersetshire , Grapes Tavern , Westgate-street ; Sub-Secretary , W . Young , 17 , Phillip-street . Bumhain , Bucks , Sun Lin ; Sub-Secretary , B . Brit , tain , Chalvey . Blandfdrd , Dorset , T . Saunders , jun ., Upholsterer , Salisbury-street . Braintrce , Essex , Temperance Coffee House ; Sub-Secretary , T . Handle . Coggeshall , Essex , Chappell Inn ; Sub-Secretary , J . Burrows , TF pper Stoneham-street . Daventry , Northamptonshire , Lion and Lamb Inn , Market-place ; Sub-Secretary , G . " Ashwcll , Cabinet-maker , George-street . Halstead , Essex , White Horse Inn , Parsonage-lane ; Sub-Secretary , R . Payne , Silk . worker , Tan-yard . Hedgerley , Bucks , One Pin Inn ; Sub-Secretary , J . Rose , near Beaconsfield . Norwich , Norfolk , Coffee and Eating Rooms , Princesstreet ; Sub-Secretary , E . Howse , Fellmongers' Armsyard , Oak-street , St . Martin ' s . Pimlico , London , Builders'' Arms , Vauxhall-bridgeroad ; Sub-Secretary , T . Sawyers , Bookseller , 4 , St . Leonard-street , Selgrave-road . Reading , Berks , TVoolpack Inn , Broad-streat ; Sub-Secretary , 6 . w . Wheeler , 30 , Coley-strcet . Rockwell Green , Somersetshire , Clock Inn , Bridgestreet ; Sub-Secretary , T . Hewett , North-street . Slough , Bucks , Rein Deer Inn ; Sub-Secretary , B . Brittain , Bricklayer , Chalvey . Sudbury , Suffolk , Horn Inn , North-street ; Sub-Se-• retary , W . Outing , Tea Dealer , North-street . Sheffield , Yorkshire , Three Cranes Inn , Queen-street ; Sub-Secretary , G . Hall , 8 , Corn-hill . South Ockendon , Essex , Old King's Hea 4 Inn , Highstreet ; Sub-Secretary , W , G . Horncastle , Commercial Academy . WeUington , Somersetshire , King ' s Arms Inn , Highstreet ; Sub-Secretary , W . Bowerman , Bootmaker , Rockwell-greeu . Wellingborough , Northamptonshire , Cross Keys Inn , High-street ; Sub-Secretary , C . Knight , Gardener , East End . Windsor , Berks , Crispins' Inn , Thames-street ; Sub-Secretary , W . S . Badcock , Carpenter , Love-lane . High Wycombe , Bucks , Bell Inn , Canall ; Sub-Secretary , James Chapman , Temple End . Wimbledon , Surrey , Castle Inn , Church-street ; Sub-Secretary , E . J . Holley , Painter , ivy-place . Wenhaston , near Halesworth , Suffolk , Compasses Inn ; Sub-Secretary , Thomas Funnell , Academy , opposite the Church .

      Portsea , Bants , Olive Branch , Dorset-street , Landport ; Agent , Mr . R . F . Pook , Bow-street , Landport . Castle Hedingham , Essex , G ) olden Lion Inn ; Agent , Mr . S . Newman , Landlord . WellsKNorfolk , Lord Nelson Inn Quay ; Agent , Mr . T . W . Howard , Printer , & c , Buttlauds . Coventry , Warwick , the Squirrel Inn , Park-street ; Agent , Mr . D . Smith , Gosford-streel Bridge . Swindon , Wilts , The Georgo , Easteott , Swindon Sew Town ; Agent , Mr . W . Burton , at the Society House . Swansea , Wales , The Wbeat Sheaf Inn , Castle-street ; Agent , Mr . R . Randoulph , 30 , Fisher-street , Swansea . Preston , Lancashire , Old Dag Inn , Church-street ; Agent , Mr . 3 . Brown , 71 , Park-road . Blank forms and Information for the admission of country members can be obtained by applying to the Sub-Secretaries at their residences , or at the branch houses . Information for forming branches , appointing Sub-Secretaries , < tc , can be obtained by letter , pre-paid , enclosing postage stamp for return letter , or three postage stamps for form , & c , directed to D . W . Huff y , General Secretary , London Office , 13 , Tottcnham . court , New road , St . Pancras .

      Important To Healthy. Men From Forty To ...

      IMPORTANT TO HEALTHY . MEN FROM FORTY TO FIFTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE . The United Patriarchs' Benefit Society , including Medical Attendance and Medicine . Enrolled and Empowered by Act of Parliament to extend over the United Kingdom . THE want of a Society of this nature must be evident to every person who may have neglected providing against the calamities of life in their youth . It is in Four Divisions , after the manner of the United Patriots ' , having the same Benefits , except that of Lylngs-in . This

      Society is Established at the same London Office , Central London Society House , Hound Table Tavern , St . Martin ' scourt , Leicester-square , and at the same Country Houses in the same towns . It also has the same Officers for its Agents , & c . The Contributions are oh the same scale per lunar month . Blank forms and information for the admission of country members can be obtained at any time by applying to the Agents , < fec , at their residences , or at the meeting houses . Also information for forming Localities , appointing Agents , Medical Attendants , & c , can be obtained by letter , pre-paid , enclosing postage stamps for return letter , or tbree postage stamps for form , & c

      PERSONS WILL NOT BE ADMITTED ABOVE 40 YEARS OF AGE AFTER CHRISTMAS . Direct , Mr . B . W . Kufly , London Office , No . 13 , Tottenham-court , New-road , St . Pancras .

      To The Embarrassed.-Important. There Are...

      TO THE EMBARRASSED .-IMPORTANT . THERE are thousands of persons who have struggled long against the force of misfortune , but few are aware that by a very recent Act all small traders owing debts not exceeding £ 300 , farmers , and all others owing to any amount , can be entirely raised from their difficulties at a small expense , and without imprisonment or bankruptcy . All such Mr . Weston begs will apply to him at Moira-chambers , 17 , Ironmonger-lane , Cheapside , by letter or personally . ^ Persons summoned for small debts should apply immediately , as they may thereby save themselves from frequent and lengthened commitments to prison . "

      MAN ! THOUSANDS OF POUNDS STERLING TO BE GIVEN TO THE -SUBSCRIBERS TO THE PICTORIAL TIMES . For particulars of this extraordinary undertaking apply immediately to any Bookseller , or Newsvender , in England , Ireland , or . Scotland , or to the Publisher , Mr , C . Evans , Sal , Strand , London , who will be happy to forward a Prospectus . —

      The Colosseum. Grand Orchertral Organ.—T...

      THE COLOSSEUM . GRAND ORCHERTRAL ORGAN . —This magnificent establishment , patronised and visited by her MAJESTY and his Royal Highness Prince ALBERT , has now , in addition to its former alterations , a new Orchestral Organ , erected in the Glyptotheca , on which the most admired pieces of music will be played daily , from Two till Four o'Clock . Open from Ten tiU Halfpast Four . Admittance , 3 s . Children , half-price . The Stalactite Caverns , the most magnificent of all the Temples which nature has built for herself in tbe regions of night , Is . each . The whole projected and designed by M . W . Bradwell ,

      EVENING EXHIBITION . Additional Novelties . The Conservatories brilliantly iHuminated ; Mont Blanc and Torrents represented by Moonlight . A Grand Orchestral Organ has been erected in the Glyptotheca , on which the most admired pieces of music will be played , from Eight till the Exhibition is closed . London by Night : additional atmospheric effects to the most extraordinary Panorama in the world will be represented at Eight , Nine , and Ten o'Clock . Open from Seven till Half-past Ten . Admittance to the whole , 5 s . Family tickets for four per . sons and upwards , 4 s . each , may be had at the principal Music sellers , and at the Colosseum , from Ten till Four . Crildren , half-price .

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      COALS . PROVIDE FOR WINTER . PROVIDENT FAMILIES , subscribing Is . per week to the Metropolitan Coal Company ' s Shilling Club , can obtain four half tons annually , without further charge , fines , & c . The Company ' s price current is , Best Screened'Wallsend , 25 s . per full ton ; Seconds , 21 s ., 22 s ., and 233 . ; Coke , 17 s . 6 d . . I-- "' -.-Office , 279 , High Holborn .

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      N 0 II 6 E TO EMIGRANTS . '¦ - ' ^' . l

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      MELODrES FOR THE MILLION FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS .

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      EXTRAORDINARY ECONOMY TO TEA DRINKERS . THE DESIRE OP ENGLAND . —The PIQUA PLANT , now sold at 3 s . 6 d , per lb ., is three times the strength of tea , and is also equal in flavour , more delicate in taste , nfinitely more healthy , as is proved by physicians and chemists of high standing , also by persons in great nuin . bars with the most delicate lungs and stomachs . It . is most pleasant and invigorating , and is recommended to the debilitated for its invaluable qualities , to advanced age for its strengthening properties , and to the public generally for its moderate price and intrinsic excellency . - . The Test . —The' proof of the efficacy and healthful effect of the plant in preference to tea or coffee : —Let a nervous or dyspeptic patient use two or three cups . of strong' tea upon retiring to rest , and the effect wiU be night-mare , disturbed sleep , and other violent symptoms of indigestions , dsc .

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      JUST PUBLISHED , - In one volume , foolscap 8 to ., neat cloth , price 7 s . 6 du THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES : A Prison Rhyme : in Ten Books : ¦ ~ BY THOMAS COOPER , THE CHARTIST . J . How , Publisher , 132 , Pleet-streot . ^ p Orders from the Country to be sent through the Booksellers . MR . COOPER'S NEW WORK . Just Published , in 2 vols ., l ^ nioi , Price Fourteen Shillings ,

      The Northern Star Saturday , November 18, 1845. . ' '__ _ . ,~*M A W*.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 18 , 1845 . . ' '__ _ . , ~* m a w * .

      Centralisation. The Windsor Election..We...

      CENTRALISATION . THE WINDSOR ELECTION . . We have . done our utmost to foster , to encourage , and enforce , the principle of allowing the privileged and the wealthy to fight their own battles and settle their own disputes ; but when a contest arises between individuals or sections of that order , tbe progress and result of which must have considerable influence over our own lives , our liberties , and our properties , because over the laws to which they

      respectively stand responsible , then indifference would be culpable , silence would be criminal . The consideration as to how far our rulers step beyond the almost boundless limits which the principle of centralisation has assigned to constitutional action and ministerial irresponsibility , is one of paramount importance . We have never so much complained of the constitution of England as of the violation of that constitution by those whose duty it is to preserve it in the state in which it was committed to their charge , and to hand it down unv iolated and uncontaminatcd to their

      successors . Having heretofore abstained from further criticism upon the electioneering tactics of the respective political parties , further than the mere chronicling of them , we must in the outset make the reader thoroughly acquainted with the subject to which we attach so much importance . The facts are briefly these . Mr . Walteb , who professes Tory principles , but whose policy , especially as regards the interest of the poor of England in their condition , their enjoyments , and their rights , is diametrically opposed to the

      policy of the Prime Minister . Mr . Walter , from his connection with , and control over , the most powerful newspaper in the known I world , has , above most other men , the opportunity , as well as the ' will , of perplexing the Government by au exposure of its policy . The Poor Law , in its amended state , has become the basis of the constitution , aud centralisation the principle of the present Prime Minister . To this constitution , as well as to this principle , Mr . Walter has presented , a more continuous , move bold , and more successful opposition than any other man of his class in England .

      Now , considering our hostility towards Mr . Walter of a personal and a public character , these are galling confessions to make ; but when public duty stands in the way , we fling all personal considerations to the wind . Under the circumstances that we have stated , then , a vacancy occurring in the representation of Windsor Castle , as we must now designate the . borough , Mr . Walteb , a professing Tory , offered himself as a candidate . Col . Reid , Colonel of one of her Majesty ' s regiments of Life Guards , and stationed at Windsor , was Mr . Walter ' s opponent . Col . Reid is also a Tory , and a conundrum which we

      shall endeavour presently'to solve , presents itself in this fact , that both candidates were Tories ; the Queen is supposed to be a Tory ; tbe Prime Minister was supposed to be a Tory ; and yet the history of clectioneeiing presents no parallel of equal Government intrigue to that practised at the late Windso election , in favour of the least eligible of the two Tories . Considerable agitation preceded the day of n omina t ion , and , t hroug hout , the Government prints were laud in denunciation of all who dared to hint at such a thing as courtly influence or ministerial interference .

      No doubt Sir Robkht Peel would have preferred the defeat of Mr . Walter without ministerial or courtly aid ; but apart from those powerful , but unconstitutional auxiliaries , he saw so chance of success for Colonel Reid . Under these circumstances we hear of private interviews between Sir Robert Peel and Ms candidate , and of invitations and visits to Windsor Castle , which have the magical effect of changing Mr . Walter ' s all but certainty of success into a dangerous defeat , had he been sufficiently foolhardy to brave the licensed brutality of the soldiers

      of Colonel Reid ' s regiment , her . Majesty ' s Life Guards , as well as the hi gh-spirited enthusiasm of tho touk g gentlemen of Eton College—the constitutional force enlisted on behalf of the ministerial candidate . A special Act of Parliament directs the removal of all military force from the place of election pending the contest ; but from the presumption that the Monarch's body guard must , from their situation , be exonerated even from the suspicion of interference , there is a special exemption as regards them .

      Eton College has ever been the nursery of aristocratic prejudices , and , being contiguous to the royal residence at Windsor , has ever been a marked object of royal favour ; but never , until the principle of centralisation had been substituted for the spirit of the constitution , have we heard of a single instance of the sons of the aristocracy being called upon to do electioneering service in return for Royal courtesy . It ' appears , upon indisputable authority , that courtly influence was used , and we shall not exempt even the Monarch from the good old legal maxim , "Quem facit peranum facit perse "Who acts by another acts by himself .

      It is , we believe , an indisputable fact , that interviews passed between the Prime Mmister and Col . Reid during the excitement of the impending contest ; while it is a fact that the officers of Col . Reid ' s regiment , the body guard of her Majesty , the corps whoso delicate position entitle them to exemption from the provisions of an Act of Parliament , a soldiery paid by the people , and under the hose of the Queen , exerted their influence on behalf of their

      Colonel ; while , it is a fact now upon record , that the soldiers of Col . Reid ' s regiment did , in a state of beastly intoxication , armed with broomsticks , and elubs cut from the hedges for the occasion , commit gross and savage assaults upon her Majesty's subjects within the precincts of the Royal residence . Nor do we so much blame the hired mercenaries , as those whose duty it was to enforce their proper discipline . " Cum Duces talia faciunt quid non milites facient ?"

      When the generals do such , things what will not the soldiers do ? It is a further fact , that from 2 to 300 of the young gentlemen of Eton , no doubt under high authority , and enthusiastically primed by that esprit dv , corps which so closely allies them to legitimacy , did , in the most dangerous and unwarrantable manner , interfere at the nomination of candidates . Such is the history of the most memorable election upon record . Such were the . means resorted to to ensure the return ot the Ministerial candidate ; and such has been the mode by which Sir Robert Peel has succeeded in

      defeating a brother Tory . And now it becomes our duty to offer a word or two , by way of comment , upon this most unconstitutional act—we had nearly called it practice . . It has "been the boast of Sir Robert Peel ' s partisans , that he has governed without patronage , and that he has been independent of the press ! High boasts ,-if true ; but nearly at the same moment that we read of the Windsor election , we are given to understand that since the right honourable gentleman ' s accession to power he has increased his Ministerial patronage fund by a quarter of a million sterling per annum—a good substitute for newspaper support , but rather a novel mode of governing without patronage . This is essentially the very basis ol that destructive principle of centralisation' which

      enables Sir Robert Peel to substitute Ministerial patronage for newspaper criticism and public opinion . This has been the foundation of his apparently prosperous career—this will be the rock upon which his Government must ultimately split . There is no possible contingency on which public opinion has been so jealous and suspicious , as that of Royal , Ministerial or lordly interference with the election of members of Parliament . And there is no force that can be called in aid of this interference , so dangerous to the promoters , or so threatening to monarchy itself , as the use of the British soldiery , and , above all , that soldiery which is distinguished by its intimate connection with tie Monarch . While no example more dangerous can be implanted in the youthful minds of England ' s future rulers , than that which has been re-

      Centralisation. The Windsor Election..We...

      cently set them . Good , ho w e v er , may , and mosj ; probably will , result from this wholesale violation of the Constitution . Clergymen of the Church of England are not eligible to sit in Parliament , lest they should act under the influence of Government patronage , and lest they should neglect their parochial duties . May not the question now arise , as to . whether or not the same influences and reasons may not operate upon a military or a naval officer ! Are they not likely to be operated upon by the magic influence of Government patronage , while , if tbe people pay them for anything , they pay them for enforcing a proper discipline ; the observance of which would , like the parson , require their continuous presence and exertion . ¦ tt _ j _ l _ ___ I" *—» A li / vnrnWAM ' . morr nnd trtriof

      As to the part acted by Mr . Magistrate Blunt , it waa too humiliating , disgusting , atrocious , pitiful , cringing , and mean , forua to trust ourselves with comment , and , t herefore , we shall dispose of that great unpaid , by simply directing attention to Ids conduct during the investigation . Here we find an English magistrate endeavouring to suppress the truth , anxious that the witnesses should be brief in their evidence—where that evidence would make against his clients , hie soldiers—but patient and resigned where it promises to be favourable . Upon the whole we are led to the rational and natural conclusion that

      Sir Robert Peel , to whose headlong policy we are opposed , sees in Mr . Walter something more threatening to the principle of centralisation than ever we have discovered , aud , therefore , in order to discover the jewel in the toad ' s head we shall henceforth be anxious to see the champion of centralisation and the enemy to tha t destructive principle , fairly pitted against each other in the House of Commons . Should the people tolerate such an interference with the remnant of their few remaining rights , upon the first fitting opportunity we may expect to find a Cromwell for our ruler , and his guards for our representatives .

      The Famine. Since We Last Wrote Upon The...

      THE FAMINE . Since we last wrote upon the subject of the threatened famine , communications from all parts of the country continue to give frightful earnest of what the sequel must be . Not only docs it appearthat the potatoe crop in Ireland has failed , but further experience has confirmed our worst anticipations with respect to the condition of the wheat crop all over the world . It appears that other nations , whether from a paternal feeling , or from the fact of the agricultural interest exercising the predominant influence over state councils , are one and all alive

      —even the despot of Russia himself—to the sad necessity that Providence has imposed on them ol thinking , for once , that a starving people is the worst enemy , and , therefore , of compelling them to resist aggression by silencing complaint . In nearly every country except England , precautionary measures have been taken to guard against this universal visitation , but England , unlike other countries , is governed by the wholesale possessors of the soil ; and their traffic being in food , and their Prime Minister being their tool , the people are allowed to stare starvation in the face , while ministerial influence and party power is being balanced .

      England alone pauses until the chemists shall have discovered how much of the respective nutritious elements are to be found in a rotten potatoe . Three apothecaries are despatched to analyse the hope of Ireland for ten months , and so vague , con flicting , complicated , and contradictory are the seve . ral recommendations of the trio , that they but serve to make confusion more confounded . In the outset of the threatened danger there were many shortsighted persons who reli * i apon railway operations in Ireland as likely to mitigate the horrors of famine . It was admitted that the price of provisions would rise , but , as a set off , it was argued that wages would

      proportionately rise also . Let us expose the folly of this flimsy sophistry . Lot us suppose that , by the practical working of the principle oi centralisation , the Government of England was enabled so to balance the provisions and the rate of wages as to raise the latter to the level of the former . So far , so good , for that portion of the community iu aid of whose condition this principle could be enforced . But , then , another and a greater question arises—greater , inasmuch as its consideration involves the condition of that portion of the population in whose behalf the principle cannot be enforced , namely , the great bulk of the working people .

      Let this fact be kept closely in view , and then we shall find that arisein wages , consequent upon a rise in the price of provisions , is only serviceable to that class who are thereby enabled to make both ends meet , while the increased price of provisions doubly , trebly increases the hardship of those over whose wages the rectifying scale can have no effect . Hence it is a delusion to suppose that if a hundred thousand men employed upon railway works in Ireland , receive an increase of wages commensurate with the increased price of provisions , that such an arrangement will mitigate the sufferings of the remaining nineteen

      hundred thousand variously employed ; but on the contrary , the inevitable effect must be to increase the sufferings of those who , from their pitiful earnings , are unable to buy the high-priced provisions , it has ever been the Tory policy to fight the satisfied against the dissatisfied of all classes . Bishops and aspiring parsons were satisfied , and kept their refractory curates and underlings in order . So with the officer of the highest rank in the army and navy . So with the landlords and their tenants at will , and so we regret to say with the labouring classes themselves But this policy must fail before the great leveller hunger , and hence the danger to the monopolists .

      When we contrast the paternal speech of the King of the Belgians with the perfcct'listlessness and apathy of our rulers at home , wc are irresistibly led to that conclusion to which Mr . O'Connor had arrived in his first letter from that country , namely , that the Land being- in the possession of the people , was the foundation of the constitution of the country . And already are the landlords of Ireland beginning to discover that such also must be the rational conclusion to which their serfs must come . The pompous and ostentatious offering of a pitiful portion of that enormous wealth that they have extracted from the sinews oftheirslaves , will be looked upon , not as the result of charity but as the result of fear .

      A famine rages thoughout the months of June , July , and August of every year in Ireland , and yet as long aa the . proud landlords can . rely upon the tranquillity of those who can secure one meal d pototoes for that time , they have shut their pursestrings , and relied upon the old policy of fighting the comparatively satisfied against the abject poor . But now that the degree of comparison ia reduced to superlative suflering . they dread the united howl and the combined vengeance of a starving people , and they are called charitable , and benefactors , forsooth . We tell the Irish people that every man who must

      be a consumer , to exist must also be a producer upon his own account—otherwise they , will have no guarantee against suffering , privation , and want . And ; we ask the would-be liberators of their country how it is that they wish so much professed patriotism , with such machinery for action as is unknown to the world , and with the people confiding beyond all parallel , how , we ask , does it happen that those patriots , who have levied ample funds to redeem a large portion of the usurped lands of the country , have never applied one single farthing of those funds for the purpose of giving Ireland , or any portion of it , to tke Irish people .

      If the patriots had organised a Land Society , for the purpose of giving Ireland to the Irish , their receipts would be over £ 10 , 000 a week , and each year thoy might locate thousands of dependent paupera upon their native soil . Yes , we assert without fear of contradiction , thatthe Irish , banished to England , would , of themselves , subscribe £ 10 , 000 a-week for such a purpose ; but £ 20 , 000 a-year and £ 300 aweek going into the pockets of the patriots is better than a million a-year , of which the law woulDcompel THEM TO RENDER AN ACCOUNT . We have much pleasure in calling the marked attention of our readers to the following extracts from

      The Famine. Since We Last Wrote Upon The...

      the speech o f th e K i n g o f B elgium , on opening the Belgian Chambers , and if they will learn the truth from anything , they will discover from that , that tho POSSESSION OF IHE LAND AND THE PRINCIPLES OF Taj Peoplb ' s Charter can alone insure such a speech at the opening of their Parliament . Gentlemen , —My relations with foreign powers retain a marked character of mutual confidence . - lam happy to communicate to you that a treaty of commerce and of navigation has been concluded with tha United States of America . It will be submitted without delay for your approbation . I have well-founded hopes that negotiations commenced with other transatlantic states will soon have the same favourable issue . Tbus does tbe commercial policy which you have sanctioned continue to bear its fruits ^ J- !*** ~ KMMn 1 > nC ^ hn T » Z ** r + r \ ¥ Unlrrilltrt *\»» **•**** . ?__ j «

      By virtue of a recent arrangement , which will shortl y receive a definitive sanction , Belgian commerce , in ita relations with China , will be placed on the same footing as that of the most favoured nation . Negotiations are pending with several neighbouring nations , in order to secure and to increase the outlets for our produce , Tho results will be communicated to you aa soon as the interests of the country will allow of it . During several years past my Government has been oc . cupied with tha extension of our commercial relations , by means of the establishment of an exporting company . The bases of this institution have just been discussed . I trust that during the session the important questions raised by this project may receive a solution .

      Ihe general situation of commerce and industry is satisfactory . Several branches of national riches have recovered the prosperity which they had lost . The Go . vernment does not neglect any means of attenuating the effects of the mal-aise from which the linen trade is o'tiU suffering . The agricultural interest continaes to be the object ot the constant attention of the Government , The corn harvest lias been on the whole a good one ; and although ens of the most valuable articles of consumption for the poorer classes has been in a great part destroyed , the resolutions which you have adopted during your ' extraordinary session have already led to favourable results . They will alleviate the effects of that visitation , and , moreover , afford the means of providing for the wants of the operative classes , by encouraging useful public works .

      The State , the provinces , and the rural districts , have devoted considerable sums to the formation of roads . The measures proposed by Government for the propagation of the best method of cultivating land , for the cxtcusion of agricultural information , and the reclaiming ot " waste soils , will exert a salutary influence upon that grand national interest . Some projects of law for the regulation of the system of instruction in veterinary science , as well as of the exercise of that profession , will he submitted to jour consideration .

      The exhibition of the fine arts has maintained the Be ! , gian school in the rank assigned it by the administration of the country , and the just appreciation of it by neigh , bouring nations . I indulge iu the pleasing hope that the national exhibitions which will take place in 1817 , will show that our industry has made further progress . The public system of education at the expense of the State has been regulated in its higher and lower departments by the laws of 1812 and 1813 . I desire that that organisa . tion should be completed during the present session bv the vote of the project of law on middle instruction , with which the Legislature is occupied , and to which useful developments , the results of experience may be added . I confidently appeal to the conciliatory sentiments which have always animated you in the examination of those important questions .

      The condition of the poorer classes is the object of my constant solicitude . In the attempt to ameliorate their moral and physical state , my Government will be power , fully aided by the honourable gentlemen whose assistance it has recently claimed . The patronage extended to liberated convicts is re ceiring its organisation , It will be rendered more effica . clous after the passing « f the law having in view the modification of the penitentiary system . The prudont and gradual revision of the laws ij progressing . Some changes in the code of criminal charges , and in the organic law relating to the profession of notaries public , will be proposed to you .

      There—there ' s the best King ' s speech I ever read , and that speech was only and entirely produced by the Land being in the possession of the people .

      Co Fteatter* & Com$Jioitoettt&

      Co fteatter * & Com $ jioitoettt &

      Important Notice. Henceforth All Communi...

      IMPORTANT NOTICE . Henceforth all communications for the northern Star must be addressed simply thus f—To the Editor , Northern Star Office , 16 , Great Windmill-street , London . I request particular attention to the above notice . FfiAKGUS O'CONNOK .

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      Onn Agents will please observe , that it is only communications for the paper that are to be addressed to the Editor . All orders and other matters , not intended for the Editor , are stUl to be addressed as ; before , Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., Northern Star Office , 16 , Great Windinill-streBt , Haymarket , Loudon . To oca Scotch Readies . —Our northern friends will not have received their papers on Saturday this week , the fault was not ours , the disappoiatment being occasioned by the breaking down of the machinery shortly after the paper went to press . Our friends must , meantime , do us the justice to admit , that the arrival of the Star in Scotland , since its removal to London , has been punctual , when it is taken into consideralioa that the post for Scotland leaves London at such aa unseasonable and early hour in the morning . The Weekly Fabce at Conciliation Hall . —In our

      " summary of the week a news ( see page eight ) will be found a notice of the farce enacted on the boards of Conciliation Hall on Monday last . In the course of the speech which the " Irish Moses" directed against the unfortunate ejected " French American , " ™ Moses , " said— " I interrupt my friend , Mr . O'Brien , because 1 Know there arc spies abroad , ( Hear , hear . ) There has been a paper distributed in the northern parts of this county inciting the people to assassinate the landlords . I believe it is before the Castle , because I desired Mr . Arkins to take it there yesterday , but no attempt lias been made as yet by the police magistrates or the police to lay hold of the individuals , who have distributed these papers . " On this candid confession of Dan ' s , that he has renounced the character of " Moses" for that of " Judas Iscariot , " and turned informer on behalf of the Tory Government , our friend , Mr . Patrick O'Higgins , writes as follows : —You will perceive' by the ' Freeman ' s

      Journal , which contains the proceedings at Conciliation Hall , that there is an end of the farce about American and French sympathy , and that one of the political pupils of the O'ConneU confedsracy was kicked out because he learned his lesson—a lesson which the leaders have been dinning iuto Irish ears for the last four years . You wiU also perceive that the Liberator is » t his dirty work again . During Whiggcryhe boasted of his being a Whig informer . There was Tory treason ia every pot that boiled , in every cabia that smoked , unless a sign was hung out for the Melbourne administration . '' The only ministry that ever intended doing justice to Ireland . " A ministry pledged to civil wai > , in their own words , " war to the knife , in preference to a Repeal of the Union . " But I am digressing . Tne Liberator is now a Tory spy , and his man A' * !« ni an informer . The Whig police aud Whig detective are not sufficiently on the alert—O'Connell and Arkins must

      help them to do their dirty work . Mr . 0 'iliggins goes on to request that we will publish the paper which O'Connell asserts " has been printed for the purpose of " inciting the people to assassinate the landlords . " A " mighty big lie , " as Dan very well knows . That paper lias been published in the Star , and we arc at a loss to imagine now Mr . O'Higgins could have missed it . It appeared iu last week ' s Star , iu the last column of the first page , under the head of " Landlords and Tenants —Tyrants turning Tenants out , " requesting the publication of that paper , ( which request was complied with last . week ) . Mr . O'Higgins goes on tosay : — " Its publics ' tion will be an act of charity to let my poor countrymen see the document which Air . O'ConneU , the "friend oc the poor ; " for whose benefit or happiness he has as yc ' done nothing , denounces as an incitement to assassina te the landlords . Let them see with their own eyes whether it is not . an incitement to the landlords to treat

      their tenants with common justice . Let them also see their darliut ; exacting a tribute from a . starving , naked people , in the teeth of a famine . When they sec these things , let them ask each other what did . O'Uonncll ever do , or propose to do , for their good or for the good oi his country , in his place iu Parliament , from the day as ' first entered the House of Commons to the present hour . " Veteran Patkiots' and Exhes' Widows' and Chiidueh ' s Funds . —I beg to acknowledge the receipt 0 ? 6 s . from Mr . Harris , of Mile-end ( being a collection originally for the Miners' strike ); also of ( is . collected at the Henry Hunt supper , Bethnal-grcen , on Nov . Jtu . also of 5 s . from Mr . Markham , of Leicester ; also ot 2 s . from Mr . Ingram , of Abergavenny ( being Is . from John Hancock , 6 d . from T . Davis , of Tredegar , ana 6 d . from a friend ); also of Is . from Mr . Goodlad , bhetiu

      held . —Thomas Cooper , Secretary , 134 , macKinam- ' --The Dixon Pond Committee acknowledge the receipt 0 t the following sums : —Wigan , £ 1 7 s , ; MilniW , 5 s , ; Coventry , 4 s . 9 d . ; Longton , 10 s . To the People or WiOAN .-My dear Friends , —I amhapPJ to hear of the prosperity of the Land Society in W ' It is gratif ying to me to hear that you have at present " eighty shares , notwithstanding the petty » lin ° } ' ? ° * you have received from both fools and knaves ; »"" . " £ advice is , go on in tbe good work regard less of ««"< . and never relax in your exertions until our 8 ' i ; "„ object is accomplished , by which alone the worKj » class of this vast empire can be restored to that posit ° in society which God and nature intended they stl 0 U occupy . With regard to the statements •" a 4 e .,. t Thomas Chadwick , all I have to say is , that there i > » one word of truth in tlipm . Instead of cominj ? t 0 _ .

      Chester for the purpose of seeing' me on the Land 1 ' ¦ the fact is , Mrs . Chadwick was at M » c clcsfiuld ' / hein " came to give her the meeting at Manchester , and o « » a relation of mine , he called to sec me , Hut 1 a » you that the question of the Land was never niei" ™ " -. - As to what he states I said in his house when 1 » aa TVigan , it is equally false . But lest it might be said tn « I had produced no evidence to prove niy hm ? *""' appeal to Mr . Richard Downey , who went w «« ""• Chadwick ' s , remained aU the time I did , 1 , eart A £ l word that was said , and came away at the same w that I did ; and he knows that the statements maue uv Chadwick are false and malicious . My dear menus , i have now answered the falsehoods of Mr . ChadtvicK ,, . in'i I am further compiled , in Justice to myself , to 1 Siau

      that I am ready to meet him before the public of w V '"' in the open air , or elsewliera . —I am , dear fnends , joms faithfully , Wm . DixoN .-Manchester , AV . Ii , mo . The Land .-To the Editor of the Northern S' ^ r ^ 'T as a member of the Chartist Co-operative Land Societj , I feel myself much elated at the unexpected and « " »»

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 15, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_15111845/page/4/