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THE PEOPLE'S VICTORIES AT TUB RECEKT PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS.
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THE. . NOETHERN STAK SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16,1847.
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The People's Victories At Tub Recekt Parliamentary Elections.
THE PEOPLE'S VICTORIES AT TUB RECEKT PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS .
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A PUBLIC DINNER , IH OEHMAHOS 6 P THOSE MIOBPH * . Wilt BE HELD At THE CROWN AND ANCHOR TAVERN , STRAND ; On MOSDAY EVESING , Octobs * 2 & th , 1847 . . Knner « n Table at Six o'Cloc k-precisely . Tickets , 3 s . 6 d . each . Mr WILLIAM DIXON , of Manchester , wBl take the Chair . * ii •« v « mw . « f Parliament havebeen invited , awl are expected to attend : —T . S . Buncombe , T t « io " ^ ^ " e Spson , T . P . Thompson , W . J , Fox , W . S . Crawford , Charles Sedey . John Wll-^ ' ^\ 0 ^ n ° lZc rlrsJs . Gardner , J . Bowring , J . Hamc j O'Gorman Mahoa , Ralph Osborne , IT . ST - ?? nl i miidlevG F Mnnts . J . Brothwton , Sir B . Hall , John Walter , and Lord . Bobert Grosvenor . Scb ., E .,. d , Chariea Bina . / ,.. a 9 candidates , vindicated the cause of tbe people at the hustings :-P L * - J « ' «« £ ** | e JaneS ) j . H . Parry , H . Vincent , J . Fielden , E . Miall , J . M . M . Cobbett , J . Hardy , Si * CodiS ? Wwuliauu . 3 . Sturge , W . P . Roberts , Dr Epps , S . Kydd , and G . J . Harney . re- Hie will be admitted by ticket , after dinner , at a charge of Threepence each . Tickets to be had at the ** " i ! l ° ^ ra 5 s Cofe--ho « se . HolyweU-street ; Skelton , C-cll-conrt , St Martin ' s Jane ; Farkcs . Little w ^ r *^ X et Milae . 1 * nnion . gtreet . Berkeley-gguara ; W . Cuff * y . Portland- street , Poland . / T i Paicr , ^ ew ' » Ageat , Harrow-rOad : B . Ro ^ er , cooper , Lambetbvwalk ; Edwards , jeweller , Wrt-Is street Bermondsey ; Godwin , Great Chesterfield-street . Marylebone ; Clark ' s C * ffee honae , 141 , Efcware road ' - Stallwoo * . 2 , Little Tale place . Hammersmith-road ; W . Dear , Workman ' s Own Shop , 11 , Totten . fcaci Court-road ; Northern Star Office , Great Wiudmill-street ; National Laud Office , 114 , High Holborn ; of the Committee , at their place of meeting ( every Tuesday evening ) , Assembly Rooms , 8 ? , Dean-street , Soho ; and all places of taeetin ; of the Land and Charter bodies throughout the metropolis ; of tho Secretary , Mr James Gcasicv , 8 , Koah ' s Arfc-coart , Sf argate , Lambeth , and at the bar of the Tavern ,
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fr-w readv , in one thick 8 vo volume , price 5 * ., TH E POLITICAL WORKS OF THOMAS PAINE , vox first collected together , and to which are added teversl pieces never before published in England : and an a ^ pundix , containing the Trial of Thomas Paine , at ¦ Guilds-ill ; with a portrait of the Author . Complete in 2 vols . 8 vo . price 13 »„ TOi-TAIRE' 3 PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY , Wi . 'h two well-finhhed Portraits of the Author . In 2 vols , price 5 «„ pablifdied at 9 s ., ? HE DEVIL'S PULPIT , By the Rsv . Bobekt Tatlob , B . A . la one han 3 some rnloTBe , price 6 s ., JCABLILE' 3 MAHUAL OF ? ftEEMA 30 MY , Originally published at 15 s . Complete in 1 vol ., price 5 s ., THE DIBGB 3 IS , By the Btv . Robert Tamos . A complete set of COBBBTT'S POLITICAL REGISTER , For sale , 83 vol * ., kalf-calf . W . Dngflale , 16 , Holywell-street , Strand .
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* COLOURED DAGUERREOTYPE PORTRAIT in ' J \ 1-at morocco caseforlos ., which is 15 s . less than « ny otter London establishment , and warranted to be equal -. good , by MR EGERTON , 148 , Fleet ^ treet , « ppc »» - e Bouverie-street . and 1 , Teuiple-street , Whitetriars . \» pen dailv from nine till feur . Foreign Apparatu-iAgenttoYoigflandcramdLiribours , a complete fiook < f Instruction , price 7 s . 6 d ., by post los Price Bets sentpost free .
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lO ^ BASDS , RED MARtET . FOB SALE , a FOUR ACRE ALLOTMENT , wiflj crops 1 iantedby the Societv , and the amount of money given n- the allottee . Apply to W . W .. No . 3 , Fredericaplace , i'eckham Footpath , Old Kent-road .
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TO TAILORS . KowReady . byapprobadoaof her Majesty , Queen Victoria , and n . K . H . Prince Albert , mH £ LONDON and PARIS AUTUMN and WINTER J . V A 3 HIOS 8 for lSii and 1 S 48 , by Benjamin Read and C > ., 12 , Hart-street , Bluomsbury-square , London , and by G . Berger , Holywell-street , Strand , London ; a most magnificent and suporblj-coloured Print , surpassing evtryt'iing of the kind previously published , accompanied with tha most fashionable full size Dress , Riding , Frock . Hunting , and Wrapper Coat-patterns , with every particular part for each complete . Also , the m « t fashionable and newest > tyle Waistcoat Pattern , including the manner , of Cutting and making up the whole , with information respecting the new scientific system of Cuttins , which will be published Jan . 1 , 1813 , and will supersede everjUnDg of the land before conceived . Price 10 s ; or , post fres , to all parts of the kingdom , lis . Patent Measures , wish fuU explanation , Ss the set ( the greatest improvement ever known in the trade ) . Patterns to measure sent post frea to all parts of the kingdom . Is each . NEW PATENT INDICATOR , for ascertaining proportion and disproportion in all systems of cutting , the method of using iti and manner of variation clearly illustr » ted—Caveat granted to B . Bead for the same , April 22 , 1317 , signed by Messrs Foole and CapmaeL Patent Oifice , 4 , Old-squaro , Lincoln's-inn , London . —Declaration signed by the Right Honourable Sir G . Carroll , Lord Mayor of London , May 1 st , I 8 i 7 . Price , with diagrams clearly explained , 7 s ; or , post free , 7 s fid . Sold by Messrs Bead and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury-square , London ; G . Berger , Holywell-street , Strand , London ; and all booksellers in the kingdom . Post-office orders and post stamps taken as cash . Habits H . H . L . performed for the trade . Bustfor fitting Coats on Boys' figures . —Foremen provided . —Instructions in Cutting complete , for all kinds « f Style and Fashion , which can be accomplished in an incredibly snort time , but the pupil asay continue until he is fully satisfied .
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House Op L0rd3. — Tnssdav, Oct. 12 .—The...
HOUSE OP L 0 RD 3 . — TnssDAV , Oct . 12 . —The Losu CoAKCEixoa and other Peers assembled in the House of Lar £ s at two o'clock , in pursuance of the prorogati-nc-f the 2 lst Sepieaberlast , for-the purpose of Still further proroguing Parliament until tbe llfh of Korember next , as ancoaaced in the royal Proclamation which appeared in the Gatette of tbe 8 : h ins :. There were ietweea twenty and thirty ladies sitting on the lunches in the body of the isoase , and some six or seven gentlimen . On ihorightcf the throne a scaffolding was erected , on which the s . rtis ' 3 are carrying on tie fresco painting by Maeiise , and vhtck would appear , from the glimpses we csu ^ ht of it ,, to be in a forward state . So much of it as could be s « n ita roach admired . There were also scaffoldings at the ether end of tha chamber , over the reporters' gallery , in which also the decorators of the House were earning oa their labours .
Below tbe bar several of tbe officer * of the Hoass were in attendance , as will as tha High Bailiff of West , minster , and other officials . Besides the Lord Chancellor , the Peers present were , tha HarquU of Clanricarde , and the Earl of Auckland . At t « o o'clock the Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack ; and the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod introduced Mr W . Ley , the Clerk-Assistant of the House of Commons , as the representative of the Lower Haus ? . The Loan CHASCELioa then said , that htr Majesty had been pleased to issue her writ , under the Great Seal , for the farther prorogation of Parliament which the Clerk would read . The writ was accordingly read by tho Clerk at the table . The writ prorogued the meeting of Parliament , to Thursday the 11 th of November .
The LuED CHAKCELLoa then rose from the woolsack , and haviaj bowed to the othtr Pe = rs , retired . Tlie proceeding did not occupy mor « s than a minute ,
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Receipts of Cesium , Registhatiow asd Elec-Tics Committee , kk-u i . hk 8 ih of October . —Darlington Land Branch , per John Macaulay , 5 s . 6 d ; Bethnal Green , ner J . Wells , Is . ; Huddersfield , per Wo . Mossley , 10 s . 6 d . ; Mr Beban , 6 d . ; City and Finshaiy Land Branch , per T . Salman , 6 s . ; Tillicoultry , per W . Brown , 5 s . 6 d ; Boulogne Sar Mer , France , per George Wishait , 16 s . 8 d . Total , £ 2 . 5 s . 8 d . James Gbasebt , Secretary . Paelbt . —Died ou Weduesdayev ^ nin ^ , October 6 . Mr Wiliiam Campbell , of water in the chest , aged fifty-seven years . He was a very intelligent end most uncompromisingadvocateofCuartisiprinciples . In the days of the patriotic Henry Hunt , Mr Campbell re-echoed and proclaimed that gentlemen ' s
principles . He had w-ll thumbed Cobbeti ' s Register , and he-itattd n-. t in private , and on the platform , to expose tbe machinations of the enemies of the pe-ple . In Mr G' smpbeil , the Chartists << f Paisley , have losta Binc ; re * 'lT (> catft of tbeircau-c . lie was a constant reader of tb « Xfar . and an ardent admirer of the course pur » ur . d by tbciudomiub ' e O'Connor . Several / ears ago when i'a ' niey wax about to electa member cfparliament , Mr William Campbell and his nephew , MtJohn Campbell , came forward to the busings , acdon the day of nomination the one proposed , and other seconded , the Chartist candidate , and by so < fting , subjected themselves to tbe usual expenses on aucu occasions amounting to about fiftcou pounds . He was a ki d husband and an affeetienate father .
Laxcasuike Mixers . —The general delegate meeting of Lancashire miners will be held at the sign of ( he Unicorn ion , Lsveo , near Bolton , ou Monday next , October 18 th . Chair to bo taken at eleven o ' clock in the forenoon . Tsere will also be a public meeting , which wiil be addressed by several of the accredited agents of the Miners' Association . Easi 56 I 05-lane . — A debate meeting will be held on Sunday , Oatober lftb , at Mr John Hunter ' s , Brick-gartbi when it ia earnestly requested tbat every branch in this district will send a delegate , ss business of importance will be brought before tbe meeting . I have to remind each branch not to forget the Sleaford tragedy and the General Election Fund , aa it is of the greatest importance these should be attended to . — Jobs Hosier , secretary . Hide The members ot this branch will meet at the house of W . Henning , on Sunday next , at two O'clock , p . u .
KoirrsoHAH . —A meeting of the Land members belonging to tho . Nottingham district , will be held oa M-jiiday evening next , October 18 tb , at the Seven Stars , when it is particularly r > quested tbat each village willsend a delegate , as buaiuess of great im-|» rMnce wiil he brought forward . N ; nTaAUPToa . —A general meeting of members of tk- - 1-amt Company will take p ' ace en Tuesday evening , ni rtv ,-a o ' clock , at tbe public rooms , Newlar »* i . to pjec t ' . 'iiiocr ? - Salp-jbo . —A highly interesting lecture was delivered b « iir SiorK , in the large room of the Charter Association . Baiik-street , ou the subject of the Risk , which gave general satisfaction *
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JUST PUBLISHED , ( Uniform with the " Labourer" Magazine , ) Price 6 d . A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON SPADE HUSBANDRY , being tho results of four years' experience . Br J . Silleii . M'Gonan and Co ., 16 , Great Windmill-street , Loudon and may be had of all booksellers .
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JUSTPUBLISHED . PBICE SIXPEtJCi . S 8 . X . OF " THE LABOURER , " Containing a treatise upon tbe National Land Company , and the National Land and Labour Bant , as an Auxiliary to that establishment By P . O'Cokkob , Esq ., M . P Letters ( pre-paid ) to be addressed to the Editors , 16 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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Now Ready , a New Edition of MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS . To be had atthe Northern Star Office , 16 , Great Windmill Street : and of Abel Heywood . Manchester .
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LON DON NEWSPAPERS . —Timet , Herald , CltronUle , & c , posted the day of Publication , at 2 i ) s . per Quarter . Sent the day after publication , at 10 s per quarter . Other papers equally moderate . To be paid iu advance . Address to Jas . Beutley , Kens agent , IS , Giltspur . street , City , London .
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WANTE D TO MARRY , by a Successful Allottee , a good-tempered , industrious Female , about forty , five years of age , and possessed of about £ 90 in cash . Any one answering the above description , and desirout of entering Into a Matrimonial Contract , must address , -Post-paid , to T . Y . Z ., 5 , Cornelius-place , Brook-street , New-road , London .
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PORTRAIT OF ERNEST JONES , Eso ., Babmster-at-Law . A splendid full-length portrait of Ernest Jonc , from the original painting by 1 \ Martin , representing him to the life itself , is now being engraved upon a steel plate , and when a sufficient number is printed it will be given with the Northern Star to subscribers only , that'is , to all subscribers from the first week in October until the portrait is ready . All parties who have seen the portrait concur in the opinion that it would be impossible to procure a more perfect likeness . As the proprietor of the Northern Star has lost considerable sums on account of portraits , it must be understood that none but subscribers can receive the plate , as no more will be printed than are required to supply subscribers .
The. . Noethern Stak Saturday, October 16,1847.
THE . . NOETHERN STAK SATURDAY , OCTOBER 16 , 1847 .
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THE PRESS AND THE PEOPLE . A sure sign of the progress making by th e popular cause is , the increasing venom of the Press . „ : It is the thermometer by which you can measure the success of the People . When the democratic sun shines , up goes the - ' mercury * ' to fever heat ; then the factionist and his hired journalists are burning with rage , and they spit their venom at the Charter and Land movement . In the present instance , thetime for theirattack-was well chosen—when
Mr O'Connor—the principal object of their mean , lying onslaught—was on the Continent —a circumstance of which they must have been aware , by its announcement in the papers . We promise our readers , however , a rich treat ia next week ' s Star , when Mr O'Connor has promised to devote six -columns in reply to the wonderful discoveries of the immaculate arithmeticians , and honourable men , who have attacked the cause he
represents . We are obliged to them for their attacktruth benefits by being assailed—their venal , truckling praise might throw doubt on any scheme that received it ; their censure and their virulence imply that they fear us , and their fear proves that we are in the right . But let our readers mark the features of their attack , and out of these judge of our progress . At first they affected silently to ignore the existence of the Chartist body , and their movements ; when that was vain—when misery spoke iron-tongued across those counters where they were selling lies at so much a line , jthey changed their policy , and commenced abuse of our principles . Thus it was with the Charter—thus it was with the Land .
But now that the PniNciPLEshave passed victoriously through the ordeal , now that nobody ventures to deny the soundness of the Charter , or the desirability of the People obtaining the Land—now that they are beaten , from the higher ground , they fall back , in the course of their defeat , upon this second line of defence—personal attacks—and cavilling at the dcttiils of the plans , the general justice of which they are forced to concede . They are either the advocates of monopoly—and , their bread depending on its - support , are forced to oppose every symptom
of advance—or , they make their stock in trade of some little bit of liberalism , which , they think , cannot do much good or harm , bnt which serves to keep up the circulation of their venal papers . When , however , they find the working classes begin to think for themselves , and that they wUl , no longer take what the Dispatch , or the Manchester Examiner , or the Nottingham Mercury and others of that ilk writen for gospel , —when they find such reforms advocated as would at once sweep away All monopolies , and thus break up their little stock-in-trade of cant , then they get the valour of desperation , and launch their pigmy arrows against those
reforms , thus provingroerely the weakness of their arms , and the strength of the popular armour . Thus , one of their batteries opens after another , till at last , they will be all in full play but , alas 1 for them , their halls , innocuous to us , will hut rebound on their own heads . "What shall we say to the men who perform the office of hired spy , to pry into the private affairs of other men , and then come back with lies , simply for the reason because the object of their attack is endeavouring to do good to the people ? Why do they not attack the great stock-jobbing companies , banking speculations , mercantile bubbles , building societies , or railways i Why do they not con . dole with the shareholders of the North
Western , whoxo shares have fallen from 280 to 149 ? Or . with those of the Great Western , whose hair-shares have fallen from 80 to 55 ? Why do they not inveigh against the monied speculators , who are now breaking for hundreds of thousands of pounds , and offering their creditors seven or nine shillings in the pound ? Why do they not , with their wonderful championship of the popular cause , expose the fallacies of the building societies , whose horses we cannot see—whose houses are nowhere ? Why , just attack the Land Plan , and that only ? No doubt , it is a terrible sore in
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t * eir eyes ; thata body of working men have ¦ ¦ " twenty-three horses" of their own . No doubt , they would have preferred their having to hire the horses at an exorbitant cost;—no doubt , they would prefer the people being- dependent on the philanthropy-rhongeringT money-jobbing of others , instead of achieving independence for themselves ,- —or else , why let all the bubbles of the day go by unscathed , and single out this "Speculation of the People ? ' ' The Land Plan and their attack will , as we have already intimated , be fully dealt with
next week by Mr O'Connor—while we are happy to learn , that the base calumnies which have been launched against him will be met in a court of law , where , we feel sure , they will obtain a fitting response . But to what lamentable straights the enemies of the People must be reduced , when they are forced at last from general principles into sectional detail , and from argument into reckless assertion . When they tell us <{ to the public Press and to public fame Chartism has for some years been dead ; " true , the " public Press" have burked it—hut it : has been alive in the hearts of millions 1 If dead—we ask the Dispatch , why make such a clamour about a ^ dead thing ? When they tell us that
"Chartists took the pay of Buckingham . " Poor fellow they ' ve broken him then ! That was a likely man to take a party in his pay ' . Buckingham and the landlords , forsooth ! When the Chartists have couched the lance against Land Monopoly , and strike at the root of aristocratic privilege , in advocating the repeal of the laws of Primogeniture , Settlement , and Entail ! When the Dispatch is reduced to fill two columns with abuse , without one single proof or argument in support of its assertions . Admits that there never was so greatj ' wbnderful , or well-organised a . movement '' iis the Charter—yet , in the next breath , aBuses the men who organised it ! Finds fault with the violent direction the Charter once
assumedyet PUTS THE BLAME ON THE WRONG SHOULDERS—and now , in the same breath , finds fault with the peaceable direction it is taking . Eschews the "insane acts of useless violence , ' ' yet equally objects to the " spade and the trowel . " What , then , would p lease them ? Abject submission and inert slavery ? Why does the Dispatch not point out the right way , if others are wrong ? What plan of reform has it ever propounded ? How has it ever shown itself the friend of the people ? Has it not , on the contrary , done its best to vitiate the public taste , and deprave the public character , by treating its readers to records of blood y murders , or beastly obscenities .
But popular education is progressing with giant strides , and turns to those papers which record and advocate the progression of man , instead of gloating over his vices . The public mind requires proof , and not assertion . It will not do to say of a plan , •¦ ' that it will ruin all connected with it , we have no doubt . '' Men require to be told WHY it will ruin them . Nay Mies cannot even be shrouded among legal obscurity ! No doubt the Dispatch , the Manchester Examiner , and others , relied upon the ignorance of the people as to the laws of thecountry , when they hazarded their reckless
assertions as to the legal right of the Land Company ' s allottees . They forgot , however , that their false constructions could be refuted —and that the true state of the law would be explained . They have overshot their mark , and their decreasing circulation explains their venom , while it punishes their baseness . But , since the Dispatch is so careful £ of the public funds , since it is such a protector of the poor , we would ask it to give critical and arithmetical accounts of the profits of the divers public companies now swarming around them .. We would ask it to inform us how the funds are
spent , and of what is given to the shareholders —not to the ATTORNIES . And if it is so . lamentably ignorant of the state of Chartism as to suppose it . . dead ; or ofjthe feelingof the Chartists as to talk of the " blind stupidity of its tag-rag-and- bob-tail , " or to consider them a " mere blackguard , un reasonable rabble "—we- -would request this "organ of public enlightenment" to " look up from its melo-dramatic horrors into the . regions of political progression , and to ask the unseated ministers , to ask the discomfited Whig candidates , where Chartism island what it is about . We would further hid then not to show their
ignorance , by insidiously ^ saying that the " Land movement had superseded the Charter . " It is but the wall of eaUth , that , like the Roman legions ; the Chartists have thrown . round their camp . We would also hid them see first into the truth of an assertion , before they venture its publication , and we wish them a " good appetite" for our next week ' s number . If , however , the reader should require , or wish to \ know , the real cause of the venom of the Dispatch , let him inquire of its lachrymose agents , and their groaning counters , bending under the weight of the rejected addresses of Sydney Smith , will answer the querist .
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THE COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY PANIC . The pressure on the money market and the stagnation in the manufacturing districts , has provoked an outburst of authorship and oratory , quite astounding . Everybody who can wield a pen , and everybody who has " got the gift of the gab , " , in the slightest degree , are now writing and talking about the " Currency question . ' ^ ., 'J The . ^ erms " monetary crisis , " " legal tenders , ' * "unconvertible and convertible currency , ' '" fixed price of gold , " f paper money , "—and so forth , are heard on all sides . Never was there known so sudden a creation of currency philosophers . If practical
experience were as plentiful as blackberries in the season , there might be some hope of " safety " from this " multitude of counsellors . " But we very much fear that this is not the . case . We have somewhat carefully read the explanations given by various parties of the causes of the existing unparalleled and alarming state of the money , manufacturing , and mercantile markets ; and are sorry to confess with very little of either profit or instruction . JProm the almost unintelligible jargon repeated by
the advocates of opposing monetary systems , it is almost impossible to extract a singlef'clear or definite idea ; a fact which we ^ uspeo ^ . ' proyes one thing at least ; that the writers have no very distinct or specific notions of the / subject themselves , and consequently cannot be fairly expected to instruct others . It is very doubtful whether one in a hundred of those ; who presume to write on the question , have-the slightest notion of the first principles involved in it .
One of the results of the crisis has been the establishment of a new association entitled the " Anti-Gold Law League , " the object of which , as ire understand it , is to deprive gold of its legal tender capacity , abolish its fixed mint price of £ 3 17 s . 10 £ d . an ounce , and place it on the footing , of all other commodities , thus leaving the pound of gold to find its natural price in the same way as a pound of iron , ol indigo , or cotton . Instead of this metallic money , which is so palpably insufficient a representative of the wealth and exchanges of the country , and which , like the bed of Procrustes , cuts everything down to its own
measure * , the League propose to issue Government money of £ 1 and upwards to the amount of the annual taxation of the country . Such money to be issued on the security of the taxation power of the country , to be receivable in payment of taxes , and to be a legal tender in all pecuniary transactions within the empire . They say , that this domestic money , as it may be termed , being fixed in amount for each year , would not vary in value , that it would always be convertible into taxes ; that it would allow the producing classes to add to the price of the raw material and labour contained in their productions , the enhanced price caused by taxation , and would thus be an equitable representative of wealth
and exchanges among curves . 11 , would , ir short ,-possess all the functions andfulhi all the uses of money . Foreign exchanges ; " * ouId be conducted as they now are by currency } meaning thereby bills of exchange , and the various other descriptions of mercantile paper which now represent commercial transactions . In cases where the foreign merchant or shipowner wanted gold , he would get it in the market at the natural price , and thus equity would also be restored in our foreign trade .
Such is a very brief outline of the leading features of the new League . We do not propose to p ronounce any opinion on these propositions , until we have given them more careful consideration . The subject itself is an important and a vital one , and cannot be too much studied and canvassed . But in the meantime , we may say that the propositions of the Anti-Gold Law League have a method and a reasonableness on their surface , which demand , at all events from those who oppose them , a temperate and a fair discussion .
From some portions of the Press they have received thatkind of treatment ; but the Magnus Apollo—the great Thunderer—the organ of the gold owners / whose voice is most potential on 'Change , " has attacked the League with all its usual virulence and abuse , and indulged in all hs usual violent misrepresentation when it has a weak and comparatively unknown opponen t to grapple with . If the Anti-Gold Law League possesses the seeds of vitality in it , and its principles be correct , it willouilive the vituperation of the Times , and the "leading journal , " when it finds that it cannot put down the new association will , as in the case of the defunct
Anti-Corn-Law League , discover that it is a great fact , " and devote the same columns to its support , that are now filled with its abuse . , ; The Times evidently trembles for its masters —the gold owners . It has recourse to the most absurd and ridiculous statements to account for the present state of affairs . Potato rot , defective harvests , and the railway mania , are the . trinity of causes to which it ascribes the overwhelming panic which has seized upon the commercial world , and broken down some of the oldest-established and moat wealthy houses of this proud mercantile empire , whose boast has hitherto been that its merchants are princes ,
The fallacy of these excuses must be apparent to all who give the subject the slightest consideration . Grant all that can be asked , as to the extent of . the loss caused by the failure of . the potato crop and the harvest , and still it will not account for the " panic , " and the actual loss under the existing crisis . Suppose that we state the loss from defective crops as high as £ 20 . 000 , 000 , ( and we have never seen any statement that exceeded that amount , £ 16 , 000 , 000 being the usual estimate , ) that would be the measure of our loss . But the loss of £ 20 , 000 , 000 worth of potatoes or breadstuffs will not account for a depreciation in the Government Securities within
three weeks , equivalent to a loss of at least £ 90 , 000 , 000 to the holders of that description of property . It will not account for a depreciation in the value of Railway Property to the extent of at least £ 30 , 000 , 000 more . It will not account for the failures in the Corn Trade , and in the general Mercantile Circles , to the extent of many additional millions ; and which , taken in connexion with the losses in the Manufacturing Districts , must amount , in the aggregate , to a loss of upwards of £ 200 , 000 , 000 in such a comparatively short time . We repeat , the loss of £ 20 , 000 , 000 worth of provisions will not account for this astounding epreciation of property . Its cause must be found somewhere else .
As to the Railways having caused the panic or added to the loss , it is difficult to imagine how any one pretending to common sense can gravely put forth such absurdity . In making a railway , we do not make it either of bank notes , piles of sovereigns ,, or of bats of gold Every thousand pounds that has been spent in the construction of railways has been spent in the country , and must have encouraged domestic trade . The engineers , the surveyors , the contractors , sub-contractors , " navvies , " iron-masters and workmen , carpenters , brick layers—all , in short , whose industry has been put in motion by these works , have been
customers to our farmers , manufacturers , grocers , hat-makers , shoe-makm , and other domestic tradesmen . The money they received in payment was not sunk in the sea , or locked up from circulation . It was paid at once to the retail tradesmen with whom they dealt , and found its way back to the wholesale merchant , miller , and farmer , from whom it again passed into the hands of the banker , to be re-distributed , and run its quickening and fertilising course through tbe country . If we had not had such a mode of employing domestic Industry , our difficulties and sufferings would have been increased ten-fold . The
fine promises of the great things that Free Trade and foreign markets were to do for us , have , so far , utterly failed . Manufacturing Lancashire stands still , because these foreign markets have no demand for its products . When they do trade with us , they take away the gold , not the calicoes , of England . That metal which we have absurdly created the measure of all other wealth , which we have . artificially made all other kinds £ of wealth to rest upon , is the kind of commodity most coveted by our foreign customers , and for want of the representative , we insanely starve , amidst an abundance of the thing represented !
There is not , in reality , a pound ' s worth less of real wealth in the country at the present moment , than previous to the panic which has created such a commercial crash , and such frightful depreciation in the value of property of all kinds . The real wealth of the country consists in its lands , its houses , its ships , its machinery , its roads , its harbours , and its labour . These all exist as before , and are as capable as ever of supplying food , clothing , and shelter to the population . They would be so if every ounce ofgoldinthe country were thrown into the middle of the Atlantic ; and an act passed prohibiting for ever the export of another ounce from abroad .
There is no real loss . The cause of our sufferings is a false measure of value—an improper representative of the wealth and exchanges of thecountry . A sound and an equitable currency should possess the following qualities : — 1 st , It should increase as the wealth it represents increases . 2 nd . It should diminish as the wealth it represents diminishes . And 3 rd . It should always itself be unchangeable in value .
Gold does not possess one of these qualities . Its adoption as a legal tender , and as the measure of the value of all other commodities , has been one of the greatest curses inflicted on the industrious . classes of England . It has prevented the developement of its industrial energies , and compelled the disposal of the commodities it did produce at a price which did not fairly remunerate the artisan foi his toil .
Next to a defective and corrupt system of Parliamentary Representation , a corrupt and defective Monetary System is the monster evil with which Industry must grapple .
Parliamentary Prospects. We Have Reached...
PARLIAMENTARY PROSPECTS . We have reached the time of the year when rumours of Ministerial " intentions , " and indirations of Parliamentary policy in the next Session , begu . to make their appearance , am he meeting of . a Cabinet Councils ^ week fo 12 — n e the e !^ ion of the newParbSKi £ " ¦« % ***» Comment . « rumo S ] repar f ° V thenext wmpnign . The hSf P f ntafloHtas to their intentions Ihl . ' M , ° far aS tkev ar « concerned , the lhames will not beset on fire next year . The measures said to be in contemplation are of a * ecoiulaiy description , though not without »
Parliamentary Prospects. We Have Reached...
Certain degree of importance , ' But the great causes which . . lie at , the root of the sufferings endured by the industrious classes , will not be touched by the Whigs * They have as instinctive a dread of 1 ' organic changes / ' as a dog labour tog under hydrophobia has of water ; tbey are " retail" politicians , and their policy never rises above the small peddling of the huckster ' s shop . The specific measures pointed out by rumour as being likely to be introduced , are the abolition of the Navigation Laws , and the creation of certain new offices , including one at the head of the Issue Department of the Bank of
England . These , with a Sanitary Bill , will constitute the programme for this country . For Ireland , it is said that the abolition of the Poor Law , that weakly spawn of their last year's wisdom , and of the Tithe Act , is to suffice . The two classes at present professedly provided for by these acts - — parsons and paupers—to be in future supported by a sort of Income Tax on land . As to Foreign policy , Lord Palmerston is opposed to foreign intervention in the affairs of Switzerland , as well as in Italy . Such is all that has as yet oozed out through the various channels , which may be
supposed to be more or less employed by Ministers in sounding the public mind , or to be used for the purpose of fore-shadowing their course . It is meagre enough to satisfy the most inveterate supporters of homoepathic legislation , and infinitessimal doses . It will depend on the new members of the House of Commons whether we are to stop at the point indicated by our Whig rulers , or whether the changes they propose , shall be decided to be in themselves desirable or pressing at the present time . The repeal of the Navigation Laws , almost
the only vestige left ot the ancient and venerable system of protection , under which , somehow or other , England did fight its way up to the position of one . of the first powers in the world , might have been naturally expected to follow the abolition of the Corn Laws , the corner stone , as it were , of that fabric . The advocates of Free Trade , as they call their nostrum , were certain to press the destruction of any impediment which appeared to stand between them and their great object ; that of unfettered and unlimited exchanges with foreign
countries . . We have no intention of debating the propriety or policy of the Navigation Laws at present , or saying more of them than that they date virtually from the period when the Common wealth and Cromwell redeemed England from the disgrace of being driven from the narrow . seas'by the naval armaments of foreign countries , and after sweeping these armaments from our own shores , established the maritime supremacy which has ever since been England ' s . proudest boast . A system which
incontrovertibly did produce such results , which now maintains the working shipwrights of Great Britain in the enjoyment of wages considerably higher than are given to the trades who have to depend on foreign markets , and enter into competition with foreign operatives , should not , in our opinion , be lightly tampered with , or changed to suit the views of mere self-seeking merchants or crotchetty theorists . Before proceeding further with our Free Trade policy , it would be only prudent to wait and see how what we have done
ivorka in future . So far we have received but little encouragement to go on in the same direction . To the argument that we have not yet had a "fair trial" of these measures , we are content to reply : " admitted—take your fair trial , but don ' t ask us to do more in the same way until that trial has conclusively proved that we should do so . " W | th reference to the abolition of the Irish Poor Law , and the substitution of some other mode of relieving the destitute population of that unhappy and deeply afflicted land , it is impossible to give any opinion , unless some
details of the new plan were before us . A worse or more delusive and defective measure than that passed last session , it is scarcely possible to conceive , when looked at in the light of a practical provision for the pauperism of Ireland . But it at least did one thing . It affirmed the principle that the land of Ireland ought to support the people of Ireland ; that above all , and before all claims on the soil , there was that of the inhabitants to a subsistence upon it . The landlords struggled hard against the establishment of that great and important principle ; they have since thrown
every impediment they could in the way of its practical operation in Ireland , and we fear that the proposition , thus speedily to throw overboard an act passed only last session , is not dictated by any regard for the welfare of the poor . The Whigs have a peculiar facility in giving way to the pressure of influential classes , and ; an equally great aptitude for forgetting the claims and interests of the weak and defenceless . " Forewarned is forearmed . " We shall watch whether the . people are again to be sacrificed to the landlords of Ireland . The new Parliament , however , must occupy itself with very different business than such
matters as Navigation Laws , or Poor Laws . The time has come when the means must be discovered and applied by which the labouring classes of this rich and powerful country may enjoy a fair share of the wealth they create . All legislature must be tried by this test , and if found wantiug , scouted as a mockery . The political economists , landlords , andfree-traders , have made England a commercial hell , in which every principle of justice is subverted . Right and wrong have changed
places . The idler revels in wealth , the industrious producers , in the best of times , receive a . bare subsistence—in seasons of artificially created distress—created b y the classes , who , by means of money legislation and machinery , keep them permanently in the bonds of a real and terrible slavery—the working classes starve by thousands , While the idlers are subject , atthe worst , to a temporary inconveni . ence , so slight as to scarcely diminish their luxuries to any appreciable extent .
This state of things must not-cannot—shall not—continue . It is a standing libel upon the Christianity we profess as a nation . It is an infraction of the principles of national justice , a violation of the canons of morality , which nothing but long habit could induce the existence and toleration of . These habits are rapidly disappearing ; industry has been learning its rights ; it has been thinking upon the subject . The day is coming when it will have learned its lesson thoroughly , and ' it will then speak in a voice which no le gislature will dare to disobey .
Police Law. I There Is No Branch Of The ...
POLICE LAW . I There is no branch of the executive machinery more dangerous to public liberty , if not well managed , than the police . They have , from time immemoriaLbeen subtle agents in the hands of Government ; they are made a body of legalised spies / constantly on the watch , placed at the very keyhole of your house-door-main taining a secret correspondence down your area-steps-and hanging in perpetual terror over the poor of the streets , who strive to earn a precarious livelihood in sight of the glittering shops of the more fortunate capitalists . When the police force were first institutedin England they acted mth
malm , and something Sf forbearance . Gradually the few good qualities attached to the system have died away , leaving but the harsher and injurious features of this unconstitutional and continental system . Their efficacy" has been gradually and insidiously increased—till not content with having this vast , organised body of home mercenaries at their disposal , Government have still further taken example by Fouche , and instituted u DETECTIVE FORCE . As soon as the strength of this body became consolidated—as soon as it appeared firmly grounded as one of the " sacred institutions of our country , "—the mask was thrown aside , the cloven foot became apparent , and now the daily press teems with accounts of " ACTS OF BRUTAL
VIOLENCE ;" - " CHARGES OF EXCJ E ^ OP DUTY , "—or of actual CRIMES iti Misdemeanours perpetrated \> yj
[ POLICE . 1 These charges the police are able to de sp ^ inasmuch as each policeman , when accused , | J p lenty of witnesses to produce in the siw of—other policemen . ' —and iffound guilty » punishment of a FEW SHILLINGS is /„ ' , £ cient atonement for crushing the skull of man with their truncheons , beating a woman till her life is in danger , striking a y 0 Un ? girl over the loins , that she may beco me
diseased for life in consequence , and almost crippling a child , all of whom were innocent any outrage , crime , or misdemeanour of any description , — and who were thus treated without any excuse , such as could be furnished by a disturbance going on around them . No personal redress was afforded to the sufferers , nolpunishment beyond a fine ef a few shillings to the guilty .
Thus a body of ruffians are let loose on the public . . Their persons are sacred . They may insult defenceless women in the streets ( see police reports ) , they may get up false . charges , they may rob , they may get . drunk and brutally beat inoffensive passers by ; they may use abusive and insolent language , they may take whomsoever they like into custody , without any sufficient reason ; and there is no redress They are a privileged class . The ordinary laws of the country touch them not . The British constitution is suspended with reference to them . The arrows of justice glance
off from the invincible armour of their blue coats andmetal . buttons ! We ask . our readers to look through our Police Report for this week . We ask them to look at the police intelligence afforded by the daily papers—for exemplification of every one of the allegations we have made . Let them read the case of Mrs Perryan—let them read that of Mr N , Maillard , at Guildhall , who , when quietly going to the station-house . with the policeman , was violently struck , throttled till he foamed at the mouth , and subsequently brutally maltreated at the station-house , WHENCE
DREADFUL SCREAMS WERE HEARD TO ISSUE . And this gentleman , it appears , had not been guilty of anything , but accidmlalhj tearing a person s coat-skirt with his stick ! Let them remember the slaughter of W . Dodson at Sleaford , and , indeed , we do hope the country will assist in bringing the brutal policeman , Sharpe , to justice . As yet , we regret to say , but little has been done . It is , indeed , painful to think of the brutality to which the poor are subjected in the streets by these " guardians of the peace . " How they are driven like dogs from pillar to post , bandied about like so much lumber . We have seen
them driven , from the shelter of a wall or a tree in the pitiless storm , abused and shoved about for looking poor , and daring thus to make a mute appeal to charity , and annoy wealth and magnificence with their aspect . We read daily of men being taken up by the Police on some charge which cannot be substantiated—kept , in some cases , thirty-six hours in prison , and then discharged WITHOUT REPARATION . Such is the present law , that a man ' s liberty may be infringed at the caprice of a Policeman . Is a man to be subjected to annoyance and imprisonment—his family to anxiety—his business to derangement—his health to injury—because a Policeman may owe him a grudge , or be out of
humour , and wish to vent his spite ? Is this the ' Rights of Englishmen , " " THE LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT . " It is high time that we had the CHARTER , to abolish such laws , and enable us to legislate lor ourselves . The Police ought not to be a branch of centralised power ; those who pay for the support of the Police ought to have their appointment . It is the ratepayers and not the Government who ought to a ppoint , control , and regulate the "FORCE . "—Then , and not till then , can we expect to find in them real guardians of the peace , instead of HIRED RUFFIANS let loose as a pest upon society , rarely to be found when wanted ; insulting to the poor , and servile to the great .
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Miscellaneous. Gabsibl Wishes Mr O'Conno...
MISCELLANEOUS . Gabsibl wishes Mr O'Connor to use his influence in par ' liiiment to aid the putting down of prize-fighting . 'Gabriel' says , 'I commend an individual who stands up manfully in self-defence , but at regards the wretches , who , for the sake ef a few pieces of sordid gold , meet , and tender each other , with heartless hypocrisy , the hand of frit ndship , then to attack each other like tigers , their conduct is , to me , so foul a ain that I am inclined to ask myself , whether j . am really In civilised England ? Of what class are the men composed ? Why notoriously of prigs , sharps , lazy ' gents , ' blackguards , the dissolute and depraved At the fight which took P'ap ? between Caunt and Bendigo , there was not a public-house in the route of these ruflhns but was laid under contribution , nor a person met but was quickly turned ' topsiturvy' and every farthing sWWully extracted from their pocket ? . Now , sir , I think that you have
a glorious opportunity of showing the true character of Chartism , that Its tendency is to uplift the human mind from all that Is debasing , servile , and cruel , and is utterly oppose * to the inhuman and dis . Suating practice I have condemned , and which I think all good men will join me in denouncing as degrading to our age and country , ' Patksts . —A correspondent asks , can you inform me if there is a society for enabling working men to obtain patents for , their inventions 1 Noxtinoham Ettcnov Fcnd .-J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums , with thanks . —Man . Chester , per Q . Townslcy , 4 s 2 d ; do per J . Howarth , Is 3 d : do in small sums , 3 s 7 d ; from Blandford , 6 s 9 d . SLKAroH > MoBDKttCASK . -frora E . H . L ., 6 d ; Mr Maltby . ad . mmos Convention . —Per Mr Ligget , Is lid ; Collected at the Eagle , Ss 7 < L T . GuitoT . —Received .
Robert Side . —For two reasons we decUne to publish jour letter , —1 st , its publication In Its present form , would be impossible , without making you a laughing stock , and we cannot afford time to rewrite lengthy correspondence j 2 nd , the Sfar columns can be much i better filled , than with side-winded attacks upon i the directors of the Land Company . J . Nisbett , Newcastle . -Your letter was charged to us I twopence for over . wei ght P . PoLE . -Jn our judgment , the ' Citizen ' s' trash is not : worthy of notice ; wohav ? , however , sent your letter , . with tho enclosure to tha Directors . Lbst homb , two boys , on . the 3 rd ' of July last . The oldest , , fcaniuel Turton , aged eleven years , had on a blue clotb . i cap , small brown plaid fustian ooat , brown striped I trousers , and had with him a small square basket . The j youngest , John Turton , aged nine years , bad on a blue 3 cap , and a dark corded suit of clothes . Any person i who can give information on this distressing caie , to > Isaac Turton , No . 15 , Exeter-strect , Derby , wUl greatly y oblige the bereaved father . To tub Cbaktists or LoN » oK .-Somo time ago Mr T . . Clarkf thLand
, oe Company , when lecturing in Abcr- - deen , obtained the loan of several flags and banners , i , among which were a valuable silk tri-coloured flag , a a splendid full length portrait of T . S . Dumcombe , Esq ., „ MP ., a banner with the motto— 'United we stind . i , divided we fall , ' surrounded by a garland , and another r banner with the motto— 'May the Roldencrowns of ) f Europe bo melted into types to print ' the rights of > £ man' throughout the Universe , ' < fcc As we have al-1-ready written to Mr Clark , and have got bo answer , 11 have now to reijuest , that if any , or all , of these flags , 8 , & c , are in the possession of any individual , that they iy bo immediately sent to Mr Thomas Clark , Land Com-Qpany's Office . The silk tricolour belongs to the combib maxers of Aberdeen , who have always done their dutyty to the cause , and the whole are now required , for theae ; forthcoming demonstration in November . Theyweraroi lent to be used in a procession to the House ofCom-nmons , I trust they will be returned D . Weigbt . it , Corresponding Secretary , Aberdeen . Dundkb . —Alonghtyreportofone of Mr Kydd ' s lectures-esi must stand over till our next . The Men or Kbst ' s Catechism in our next .
Julian Haknet acknowledges the following sums :-:-From Alloa , for the Election Fund , £ \; for the SIcm * - fordcase , 10 a ; from Kidderminster , for the Electionion Fund , 4 s 6 d ; for tho Holytown miners as ; fromS . WB . fi ., for tho Election Fund , 3 d . J . BiisAix .-Your offer was sent teo late . Such a reporlorl should have been forwarded last week . P . J . O'Bbihn , Exeter .-Impossible this week . Puo PiTRU , Aberdeen . —Under consideration . Thh Poets must' remember Job the patient man . ' Cabusik . —The' Address'in our next . Victim Committee . —We are requested to state that all all monies for the General Victim Fund must be sent U it Mr John Simpson , secretary to the Aged P » tnota > ta Widows' and Orphans' , and Victim Committee , ElnSln Cottage . Waterloo-street , Camborwell . Mr Siaipsoisot acknowledges Is fid , from Mrs Tanner , Totness . Tub Land Company .-A mass of communications comon
taining Inquiries respecting matters in connexion wKlrWl the Land Company , we have forwarded to tbe vtiecxec : tors . All such communlcoUons should bo addressed tto t « the Company ' s Office , lit , High Holborn , London . The Tillage of Alva has been thrown into a jtate ^ eq excitement for this lew weeks past , by one of the "' uoiu * bottle gentry porambal . iting tho street , and e ? ^ " tho houses , to the annoyance of the peaceable lnnaMamn tant » . and demanding tour shiUings from some , aw ant two from others , on account , of what he calls atatUMUii LabourMoney . or . ifthosaroelsnot paid on a ccrtavtau given day , legal steps are to be taken to force the saineittm This is done by the order of one John M ' L , . rn Lf { : farmer , who calls himself collector , and as the » DU ^*? tants are unacquainted with tho Statute ^ ato . ur ., ' , „ , you will nmoh oblige a number of your readers » u A" *"' if you will let them know bow the law stands in rewtewr cucq to tho above—D . H ,, Alva . October 8 ft 13 » ' «
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 16, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_16101847/page/4/
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