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THE NORTHERN STAR SATf/KDAY, APRIL 17, 1347.
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CiCTton.—The various Chartist and Land L...
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THE MECHANICS. Our readers will perceive...
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THE '82 CLUB. After pouring the grossest...
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW. The Commons resume...
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Mr Walpole has obtained leave, without o...
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>v ednesday was a grand field-day for th...
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4 The Northern Stafl _ Apbit I7 > *W.
4 THE NORTHERN STAfL _ ApBIt I 7 > * W .
Just Published, No. T, (Price 6d.) Of The Labourer , Monthly Ifagazine Of Polities, Literature, Poetry, 4c
JUST PUBLISHED , No . t , ( price 6 d . ) of THE LABOURER , Monthly Ifagazine of Polities , Literature , Poetry , 4 c
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Edited by FSiious O'CeHHoa , Esq .., ajto Ebhest Johsb , E # « ., ( Barriiters-at-Law . ) The Democratic Movement in this country being wholly deficient in a monthly o ^ an . theabore "f ^ f . " "" ^ Wished to remedy this deficiency . ?!?«* *> y J ?™ , ? price within the reacb of all , yet equal to itt moreeipen . & ve c * mpctito « , it embraces tom *™ $£ » £ «' 1 —THE LAND AND THE LABOURER , or tne progress aXsition of the National Land Company , andall n"Sn g facts Connected with the culture andpro-2-WE VwihAX-S LEGAi MANUAL , jto an endn « , t Barrister driving all necessary legal information to the ^ slS allottees on tbe land , and the S HE HISTORY OrTHE WORKING CLASSES CoiiVoiled . " rom sources hitherto carefully hidden from thenublic eye , narrating the encroachments on their rfcrhts . and the wild and daring insurrections , by which they endeavoured to regain them , —being a lesson for the future , derived from thtpast . # —PO LITICS OF THE DAY , comprising tbe state of ' England and Ireland , the Chartist and Trades' Movement , an analysis of proceedings in Parliament , and a rommarv of news at home and abroad . 5 —POETRY AND ROMANCE , since these are impor tact branches of educational progression ; and some of tbe first democratic authors have undertaken to furnish narratives of intense and vivid interest Such publications will be reviewed as deserve the atten tion of the People . "THE PORTRAIT of an eminent Chartist will accompany every sixth number . CONTESTS . A TREATISE ON THE SMALL PROPRIETORY SYSTEM , AXD NATIONAL LAND AND LABOUR BANK . Shewing the mode by which every Working Man may become possessed of a comfortable cottage , with a suffi-• cient quantity of Land to occupy him in producing all the . comforts and necessaries of life for himself and family . Kos . I . and III . are now re-printed , and may be had on . application . No . II . is reprinting and will be ready next week . betters ( pre-paid ) to be addressed to tbe Editors , 10 rest Windmill Street , Haytnarket , 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 . 'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS To be had at the Nirthern Star Otbce , 16 , Great Wind mill Street ; and of Abel Hey wood , Manchester .
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notice : UNITED PATRIOTS ^ AND PATRIARCHS ' BENEFIT SOCIETIES . Patron . —T . S . Dukcokbe , Esq ., M . P . IN answer to the numerous inquiries of Agents , Members , and Correspondents , Notice is hereby given , that the Prospectus of the LASD and BUILDING BENEFIT SOCIETY requested , by them , to be brought into Co-operation with the above Institutions , is now ready for circulation . Within a few days the Rules will be submitted to the Certifying Barrister for Enrolment . Further information , prospectuses , Ac , can be obtained at the office , or by letter prepaid , enclosing two postage stamps , directed to tbe Office of the Institutions , 13 , lotteaham-court Xew-road , St . Pancras , London . Agents required in every part of Great Britain . ( Bj Onlen Dan'UL Wiuias Rcffy , Secretary . N . B . —District Secretaries and Jfcm & m of the Chartist Land Company , are requested to obtain information , ( which can be obtained by sending a stamp for postage , ) retpecting the National Co-operative Benefit Society , of tchich Messrs Stallwood and Wilcox are joint Secretaries , before they in ana way connect themselves icttit it .
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IMPORTANT TO EMIGRANTS . AGRICULTURISTS and others mav purchase 150 ACRES OF RICH TIMBERED LAND IN WESTERS VIRGINIA , described by General Wash , iagton as tlie Garden of America , for £ 23 8 s . 8 d . Steriing , ABOUT THREE SHILLINGS PER ACRE . « 2 12 s . only to be paid down , tbe remainder in FIVE ANNUAL PAYMENTS . For further information appl y to CHARLES WILLMER , American Land Office , STAKLET BCILDIVOS , BATH STREET , LIVERPOOL . Of whom may be had a Pamphlet on Emigration , in which these Lands are fully described , and tbe terms of sale explained , by sending three postage stamps to free the same .
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IMPORTANT TO PHOTOGRAPHISTS . A N application was made on the 22 nd Siptjmber , to f \ . the Vice-Chancellor of England , by At . Beard who , acting under a mostextraordiny delusi jn , considers iimseif the sole patentee of the Photographic pweess . ' ) to restrain MR . EGERTON , of 1 , Temple-strict , and 148 , Fleet-street , rom taking Photographic Porti . uis , which I-e does by a process entirely different frot » . and very cperior to Mr . Beard ' s , and at one-half tbe cl / rge . His Honour refused the application in toto . No license required to practice this process , which is taught bv iir . Egerton iu a fi-tv lessons at a moderate charge * Alt tho Apparatus , Chemicals , < tc . to be bad as usual V-hU Deior-. l , Temple-street , White & iars .
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AUXILIARY TO THE NATIONAL LAxVD COMPANY . THE FOUNDER of the NATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE BENEFIT SOCIETV respectfully acquaints his brethren of the Land Company and bis Brother Democrats in general , that his object in founding the Society was to aid and assist the National Land Company in its f ; Iorious efforts to emancipate the human race , by pouring ondsinto its exchequer , through the means of the NATIONAL LAND and LABOUR BANK ; but the adoption of the PEOPLE'S BANK has proved a death-blow to the enrolment of the Society . All enrolled societies since the passing of the New Friendly Societies' Act , being compelled to deposit their cash in tbe Bank of England , and thus furnish the " sinews" to uphold a Standing Army , Police , Pensioners , ic , instead of aiding to regain the Land for the People , and famishing "Happy Homes for Honest Industry , " . —the Founder believes his Brother Democrats will " join with biui in infinitely preferring the latter ; he has , therefore , with the full consent and approbation of the Directors , resolved to issue the Rules unenrolled , and although they may lack that protection which the "Registrar ' s" signature is presumed to give , Joe flatters himself the foUow ' mg securities will he sumcient to inspire confidence in the bosom «; f every Democrat , aud gain for the project that support which will cause this little tributary stream ultimately to swell into a mighty torrent , flowing freely into The Great Land Biter : — First , —lis monies will be Banked with a duly leistered Company , through the National Land and Labour Bank . Secondly , —Its Directors and other officers are men enjoying the full confidence of the people , and whose probity and honesty have been duly tested by the members of the "National Land Company , " of which they are officebearers . Thirdly , —Its Secret-lies and other officers will be etected annually by its members . Fowthlv . — The Founder ,-ind General Secretary ( Mr Staliwoodi has been for eighteen years past , and still continues , the popular servant of the people , in addition to which he has for several years past , and still is employed as Pitpwter to the h ' ortliern Star , and Collector of Monies , by Mr FeaBcls O'Cosxon , to whom he proudly refers for Testimonials of character for honesty and integrity . The Society is now fairly launched and sent forth to the world . Hules , Cards , d ; c . are now ready to beissued , and those Agent * , & c . who have not already obtained them , are requested to inform the General Secretary what quantity of Itules , At ., they nil ! require , and by what convenience they shall be forw .-irded . The Secretary orjhis Assistant will be in attendance at the Assembly Rooms , 83 , Deanstreet , Soho , every Wednesday Evening , from eight until tea o ' clock , to enrol members and transact other busi ness . —AU Persons desirous of immediate answers wi'u much oblige by addressing their Letters ( pre-paid , with Stamp for answer } to the Secretary , Little Vale-place , Hanmiersraith-road , London . Tbaubicg my Brother Landsmen and Democrats fur the very wann , pr . 'inpt , and tfficrent manner in which they have espoused my bumble project , I am , Brother llemocrats , Respectfully yours , Edmund Staliwood . Assembly Room ? , S 3 , Dean-strcet , Soho , April 7 th , 1317 .
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TO TAILORS . THE LONDON AND PARIS SPRING AND SUMMER FASHIONS for 1817 , arc now ready , by BENJAMIN READ and Co ., | 2 , Hart-street , Blooiusburv square , London ; and by G . Berger , Holywell-streir , Strand . May be had of all booksellers wheresoever residing . By approbation of her Majesty Queen Victoria and H . R . U . Prince Albert , a Splendid Print , beautifully coloured , and exquisitely executed , the whole very superior to anything of the hind ever before published . This beautifulprint will be accompanied with the most fashionable , full she , Frock , Dress , and Riding Coat Patterns — a complete Paletot , much worn in the Spring as an over coat—and a youth's new , fashionable Hussar Jacket , with skirts—the manner of cutting them for all sizesfull explanation for variation of style aud method of mating-op—with five diagrams , clearly illustrated-and all necessary information respecting style and fashion . Price 10 s ; post free to any part of England , Ireland , Scotland , and Wales , lis . Post-office orders , or post ttamps received as cash . Bead and Co . ' s System of Cutting , price 25 s . —Patent Measures , 6 s the Set—Patterns to measure , of every description , post free to any part of the kingdom , Is each . The Method for Cutting Gaiter Trousers , with twelve plates , price , post free , ifs dd . —Busts for fitting Coats on Boys'figures . —Foremen provided —Instruction in Cut ting complete , for ail kinds of style and fashion , which can be accompliihed in an incredibly short time , but the . pupil may continue until he is fully satisfied .
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BALDNESS EFFECTUALLY REMOVED . A SURGEON residing in Cork having , in tbe course of ms Practice , had his attention particularly directed ^ t r » m ? . ir ^ lFSr tei Perience in the TREArMEXT C r ^ h ^ yj , 1 ?!^ 8128 ' «**« to inform those per-** /^ . ^ , , vitn BAL ° XKSS ( whether in youth or ad-¦ XSZ . * i ? ilf e ) ma y' by a most simple process , REPROBCC that necessary ornament . Parte / app ^ ing » iW-• qmreto enclose a small quantity of hair , Mdage of five shaiings , by post-office order , in favour c . rSimrPnn Edward Williams , 13 , Henry-strcet , Cork " benSue « e » ary instructions iviU be fvvwaraed by ' wtS JJjfc *"
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A GOOD FIT WARRANTED . i T & H & t ™*«»«» PWliim , L and 2 , Oxford-street . A TjbsdeUand o ., pracbcal tailors , are now making a beautiful smt of superfine black for £ 3 los any she : splenmd waterproof over coatamade toorder for 29 s each WKSSaCA £ ndoadai , Se rs
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SS 2 SS to ^ ™ t SoAD ^« U b eS eSLi 1 ti f . i ! S ^ bv L fricnds nnd tne Public in SSSKvk hat ? U ^ CheaP Periodicals may be had at his S mE & q , ° . ? . t U , e , ay of Publication ; also the „ T ™ Star "the "Labourer , " "O'Connor ' s Work on Small I arms , ' * and all the London Daily and Weekly newspapers supplied on the usual terms .
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Just published , in demy 8 vo , Price Two Shillings , BROUGHAM versus BROPGff AM , on the NEW POOR „ , > ., > with an APPENDIX , consisting of a LETTER to LORD JOHN RUSSELL . Dedicated to the Duke of WEtiiKQTON . By Richard Castles . London : W . J . Clearer , Baker-street , Poitman-square .
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In a few days , price fid . ( printed from the Short-hand Writer ' s Notes , ) THE TRIAL OF THE MECHANICS AT LIVERPOOL on the 2 nd and 3 rd of April , 1817 ; with Narrative , Notes , Cases , * c , and an Abstract of the Indictment . Edited by Yf . P . Robebts , Ekj . Manchester : AbelHeywood , Oldham-street ; andall Booksellers .
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"MARTIN , THE FOUNDLING , " COMPLETE T HE ^ FAMILYHEBALDof this Week contains the conelusion of tbe above extraordinary Tale , by Eogehe ™ rV 8 * ^ V . } ° ? 28 ; < " Parts 39 to 48 . ANEW VOLUME of the Family . Herald will commence the first week in May . This is the most entertaining , the most useful , themostpopular . and unquestionably the best periodical ever published for One Penny . All booksellers sell the Family Bcrald . A siaglo trial of this meritorious work will be a sufikient test .
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IMPORT ANT TO BREWERS .-Now discovered a new System of Brewing from Sugar and Molasses , which produces a first-rate article of Ales , Porter , and Stout . The process is very simple , and effects a saving of Fifty per Cent , over that brewed from Malt . The Ale , < tc , will be bright in a few days , and retain its superior quality and flavour to tke last . It prevents acidity ; it is the best and only system that can be depended on to enable the Brewer to brew throughout the year , without risk— Full instructions will be sent Free , by return of Post , on the receipt of" a Port-office Order , or otherwise , for 21 s ., addressed to Mr Jon . f TaxXOB , 8 , F & re . street , City , London .
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A GRAND DEMONSTRATION In Commemoration of the Establishment of the NATIONAL LAND COMPANY , Will take place at O'CONNORVILLE , On Whit Monday , May 2 ith , 18 * 7 . Particulars will appear in tbe " Northern Star" of Saturday next .
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O'CONNORVILLE . NOTICE is herebv Given , to those Members of tbe National Land Company who » re entitled to location upon O'Connorville , tbat tbey may forthwith make arrangements to take possession of their several Farms on Saturday , May 1 st , in accordance with a Vote of the last Conference . Bj Order of the Board of Directors , Philip M'Ghath , Corresponding Sec .
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14 th line from bottom , page 157 : — "Say £ 5 an acre ; " should be " £ 5 for his four acres , " the words AN ACRE , between £ o and for , should be omitted , and then the sentence would read thus , " say £ 5 for his four acres . " Pare 165—7 th line from the bottom . The figures " £ 120 , should be £ 20 . " The sentence would then read thus , " £ 20 a-year out of the sinking fund ; *' the £ 20 being less than 2 s . 4 d . in the pound on the sinking fund , and the whole sentence should read thus : — " And surely 2 s . 4 d . in the pound , or £ 20 ayearoabolthe sinking faad , coald not be better , more justly , more prudently , or judiciously bestowed , than in agricultural premiums . "
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Tuesday ; reports of meetings held on the Monday must be at the office by Wednesday . This rule is for " Trades , " as well as " Chartist" and " Land Company " meetings . Notices of " Forthcoming Meetings , " and correspondence requiring answers , must be at the office by Wednesday , at the latest . •' Letters" commenting on public questions , intended for insertion in full , must be at the office by Tuesday . The communications of correspondents not attending to the above regulations will stand over .
The Northern Star Satf/Kday, April 17, 1347.
THE NORTHERN STAR SATf / KDAY , APRIL 17 , 1347 .
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THE PAST , THE PRESENT , AND THE FUTURE . TO THE MEMBERS OF THE LAND COMPANY .. My Fr iexds , I regret exceedingly that Mr Perry ' s incapacity to work , and his disinclination to speak the truth , should have compelled me to devote so much time and space to so useless a purpose , but you must always bear in mind that it has been my invariable practice to cut the groun d from under all cavillers and a moment ' s reflection will convince you that I
am right , as the breath of discontent , if not checked , would soon increase to a hurricane of general dissatisfaction , and the dissatisfied would soon become tbe heroes of Lloyd ' s , the Manchester Examiner , and the Advertiser press . But now I have doue with this gentleman , and devote this wet day—Tuesday—to the consideration of more important matters . I find it indispensable to keep your minds alive to tbe GREAT FACT that for years I have been engaged in inculcating NEW NOTIONS about OLD THINGS , of which you were sedulously and
purposely kept in a profound state of ignorance , and I am about to quote my own opinions from my printed works , upon some subjects , as well as the opinions now circulated by the press of the factions in this day . I have made it my life ' s study to bring the Press , the ADVERTISING PRESS , the REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM , the NATIONAL CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT , the ABUSES OF MACHINERY , the ABSURDITIES OF THE LANDLORDS , the POWER OF CAPITALISTS , and the mode of APPOINTING MAGISTRATES and JURIES , into NATIONAL CONTEMPT , and I have proposed the Chatter as the political remedy ,
and the possession of land as the social remedy , for one and al ! of those grievances . Famine ' is the present consequence of all those abuses , and continuous suffering , dissatisfaction and discontent , ate the never-ceasing results of the system based upon them I have nearly exhausted the whole-vocabulary of words in endeavouring to make you keep these subjects ever present to your mind ; but , alas ! when you were comparatively well off you were indifferent , and when sudden change made you positively miserable , you had not time to think , | or to reason . What I now require of you to believe is , that all tbe trausactions which enable the few to
plunder and oppress the many , are worthy of your consideration , as they constitute the causes of your inferiority , as we 'l as of their superiority . I have asked you to think seriously of the anomaly of the idle never wanting food , while the industrious are frequently starving ; I have asked you to turn your attention to the difference between SLAVE LABOUR and FREE LABOUR ; and I have kept the subject of PRODUCTIVE and NON-PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYMENT constantly before you , showing you that you were , in reality , when best employed , victims to a system of non-productive
labour ; I bave shown you the difference between five millions worth of com aud five millions' worth of manufactured goods ; and I have explained the difference , individually aud socially , between TASKWORK performed for yourselves and SLAVE WORK performed for your masters , and of all men living I have been the most consistent opponent of the CORN-LAW LEAGUE , and now I would direct your undivided attention to our present monetary position , wholly arising from a disregard of those several subjects and matters of which you have been kept in culpable ignorance by those whose duty it is to instruct you . You recollect how often I have
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complained tbat the portion of the Press which opposed Free Trade from party feeling , was ignorant , wholly ignorant , of the effect that it would really have upon your comforts and means of living . Well , just read tbe following letter , which appeared in the Morning Post ol Saturday last , and from it you will learn , that it is only now , WHEN TOO LATE , that the disciples of that paper are asking for the solution of a CONUNDRUM , which 1 have a thousand times solved for you . Here is the letter : —
THE PRICE OF BREAD . TO THK EDITOR OF THE MORNI . VQ POST . . . Sir , —As you seem not averse to economical inquiries that relate to the condition of the poor , perhaps you will favour your readers with some explanation of a circumstance of much importance to the poorer classes—the price of bread . It seems difficult to account for its being somewhat higher here than in Franco ; though iu that country the price of wheat ia at least 25 per cent , higher than in this ; nevertheless , the pain de 4 livres which weighs at least 4 ilbs . imperial , is nowhere in France higher than 20 sols ., which is about 9 Jd . of our money ; our loaf being nowhere less than 9 ld ., and in London
lOd . When we consider the greater value of money , as well as the vastly higherprice of wheat in France , this difference seems very unaccountable ; but I am n «) t aware that it has ever received the notice of the press , still ought it to remain unexplained ? The character of the trade , if this difference can be justified by a fair regard to their interests , and the interest of the public , if this difference cannot be justified , both call for explanation , and to pursue that explanation seems not unworthy of your efforts . ' I am , Sir , your obedient servant , April 9 , 1847 . Scrutator . Now , here is a philanthropist , asking a question , of course for the BENEFIT OF THE POOR , after
Free Trade has been achieved , and is ignorant of the fact , which I have so often proclaimed , " that no STATUTORY ENACTMENT could regulate the retail price of bread , when the merchant , the importer , the factor , the miller , the flour factor , the baker , and the huckster , had each a WHOLESALE SLICE out of the RETAIL LOAF . " You must , in tbe end , open your eyes to these things . I told you , last week , that , on the 7 th , the Bank of England had returned the major part of FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS' WORTH of the ROTHSCHILDS' PAPER , and would not discount it , and I announced to you , that a great monetary crash was at hand . Now , read the money market note of the Times of last Monday , and the rise in the price of YOUR BREAD , which has since taken p lace . Here is the article from the Times : —
MONEY-MARKET AND CITY INTELLICENCE Saturday Evening . In the English market this has been the most gloomy day which has occurred during the present pressure—a circumstance amply to be accounted for by the Gazelle returns of the Bank of England for the week ending the 3 rd inst . Consols opened at 85 £ to I . and declined to 853 to J . From this a reaction took place up to 80 $ , but the improvement was only temporary , and at the close of tbe business they had again fallen to 85 | to j for money , and 85 i to 86 tor the May accoun t . After the ordinary hours of business the decline still continued , and the money
quotation was as low as 85 | to $ . The weekly accounts of the Bank published to-day justify to the fullest extent the apprehensions with which they were awaited , and the fact that they are of a character to excite serious alarm arises not so much from the actual circumstances of our monetary condition as from the apparent absence of all prudent control , or of any reference to correct principles in the management of the business of that establishment . Five millions of bullion have been drawn away during the present year , and this has been effected , not by the pubiic paying in Bank-notes to
that amount , which would have been cancelled , nor by diminishing the deposits , but by their discounting an additional quantity of bills with the Bank itself , whose conduct in permitting such an enormous increase in its securities has thus been absolutely suicidal . The strong expression of public opinion has at length compelled a tardy and evidently a reluctant adoption of some precautionary measures , and these , late as they are , may still , it is to be hoped , go far to arrest the evil , without the necessity of applying them with a stringency which would seriously jeopardize the state of commercial credit . If this should
prove to be the case , it must be clearly borne in ninid that we are indebted for our security , not to prudence , to foresight , or to firm adherence to principle by the Bank , but to the improved intelligence of tlie public , which has resulted irom their free access to a knowledge of the state of the Bank accounts , aud to the positive restriction placed upon the possible amount of issues by the provisions of Sir Robert Peel ' s bill . The Bank Directors , notwithstanding this absolute limitation of the amount oi notes which they may put forth , have persisted during three mouths in continually increasing their investments insecurities , while their bullion and their banking reserve were at the same time undergoing an
enormous reduction . Under these circumstances , therefore , it is easy to judge what would have been the result if the disci etionary powerof issuing notes without any absolute restriction of the amount by law had still remained with them ; the spirit in which it would bave been exercised and the extent to whicli it would bave been pushed can be plainly estimated . The drain of bullion would have gone on unchecked by any restrictive measures , the securities would have been further increased by extended discounts for the so-called relief of commerce and the support of public credit , and tbe community would have been left unwarned , and therefore unsuspicious , of the crisis in which such a course must inevitably have terminated .
Now read the following TRADE REPORT from John Bright ' s FREE TRADE PAPER ; and bear in mind , always hear in mind , that if our FREE
TRADE COULD HAVE A FAIR START , it was when we required such an immense importation of FOREIGN CORN , for which OUR MANUFACTURED GOODS WERE TO BE TAKEN IN EXCHANGE .
HERE IS JOHNNY'S TALE . STATE OF TRADE . ( From the Manchester Examiner . ) Manchester . —In few instances can any but a trifling advance be established upon the recently current low prices of goods and yarn , notwithstanding the late advance in the cotton market . Prices are tolerably htm—firmer , undoubtedly , than they would have been but for the advance alluded to . There has been , however , very little business doing since Tuesday , partly from producers being under the necessity of askingslightly increased rates , and also from the obvious effect of the two recent ^ bank measures to curtail mercantile operation and induce the exercise of extreme caution in forming new engagements of every description . There are fair orders in the
hands of buyers , and should no material advance in prices take place , a moderate extent of business must ere long be transacted . The chief demand at present seems to be for medium qualities of shirtings , of whioh there were but light stocks in the market , and for other goods suitable for the American and eastern markets . The present state of matters will have a direct tendency to increase short-time working aud thereby keep down production to a level with the present diminished demand , and thus prevent any undue enhancement of the price of the raw material , which , under existing circumstances , would only add to the difficulties in which spinners and manufacturers are placed . The reaction in the food markets , both in England and the continent , wo are glad to say , still continues .
You have , now , the lucubrations of the Press upon many subjects connected with Free Trade and the monetary system . " After the steed has been stolen they would now shut the stable door . " Now , attend to the reasoning of tbat COMICAL GENIUS , Feargus O'Connor , upon those several points . And firstly , as regards the AFTERTHOUGHT OF SCRUTATOR , taken from the "MORNING POST" of SATURDAY last . " I tell you , my friends , not to be deceived about the omnipotence ot Parliament ; as no measure that it can pass will regulate the price of the loaf upon your table , when the foreign speculator , the importer , the corn merchant , the miller , the flour factor , the baker , and the huckster , shall each have had their REPRESENTED SLICE out of it . '' Now , how many thousand times have you heard me repeat that ?
Next for the crash threatened for the demand for gold to buy food . 1 have to' . d you that foreigners would please themselves , and would make merchandise of our necessities , and would not give food for goods , if they could get gold and purchase goods with the gold upon better terms . And now I republish the following extract from the very preface of the COMICAL GENIUS'S work on Small Farms : — I , upon the contrary , while tadmitthetaitnue and indissoluth connection which exists between those ^ vet al interests , vrouiu make agriculture the source ,
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and all others tributary streams flowing from it . Indeed , if I would rest satisfied with basing the argument upon a mere sweeping assertion , I could establish my position from . this one fact : that , although under even the present limited and vicious system , agriculture is treated as a mere secondary consideration , and although the difference between the value of a good and a middling harvest is . in point of amount , comparatirely insignificant , and positively ; so when compared with the year ' s produce of machinery , yet do we find that the prospect of a good or a bad harvest has a much more powerful effect upon the other three , interests unitedly than any other consideration could possibly have . It gives the standard value to real money because artificial money cannot be successfully used in the natural [ market . Thus , if twenty millions' sterling worth of British goods were sunk to the bottom ot the sea , it would be a great
advantage to 999 in every thousand , whereas if the difference between a good and a bad harvest required five millions sterling to supply the deficiency , the necessity for such a drag would paralyse all other interests which are regulated by the artificial standard . If , then , our present artificial system merely opens a narrow market for speculation in human labour to the great injury of a vast majority of society , and , if this injustice can be only checked by opening the natural market so wide that all may be enabled " to buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market , " I think the working classes are justly entitled to demand the fulfilment of this principle of political economy , the justice of which is admitted by all , and the immediate necessity for acting upon which is so loudly advocated by those who demand "high wages , cheap bread , and plenty to do for the working classes . "
So much for the very exact amount mentioned in the market note oi the Times ol Monday , the very FIVE MILLIONS that I wrote about in ; i 843 . And now for John Brig ht's lamentation , which the COMICAL GENIUS predicted in the 8 th and 9 th pages of his work on Small Farms . Here it is : — Much that I have written in newspapers upon this subject has had its weight with the factory slaves , and , as I . intend . this work to form a complete compendium , I shall here condense from those publications the social and political bearings of the landed question . Socially , then , it will be admitted , that of late years the bulk of the population have been starving in the midst of a surplus capital created by their industry , and so reduced in value by the substitution of
machinery for their labour ; and whereby they have ceased to be wholesome or profitable consumers , as not to be worth more than one per cent . Remedy alter remedy has been proposed for this great national disease , as power has passed from the hands of one party to the other : the landlords arraigning the savage tyranny of the manufacturers without having the courage or the honesty to place the peeple in a condition successfully to contend against their atrocities ; the manufacturers , upon the other hand , contending for an extension of that trade , the overstock of which has already brought ruin upon the country , and each extension of which will but add new miafortunes , untilatIength , SHOULDTIIEYBE POWER FUL ENOUGH TO SUCCEED , THEY WOULD
BECOME BANKRUPT IN THE MIDST OF AN ARTIFICIAL ABUNDANCE . Now , what will John think of that prophecy in 1843 ? I have now one more extract from this comical work , upon a subject on which 1 have been frequently questioned ; and the reader will see that my prediction on that point has been also realised , or in course of realisation . The following extract is from pages 13 and 14 of my work on Small Farms : — The question may here arise , then , as to which of the changes that I contend for should have the priority : —the establishment of the small farm prin ciple , or the enactment of the People ' s Charter , by
which the land would be stripped of its political qualification ? I was engaged for jsome years with the working classes in their struggle for political emancipation , before I ventured to introduce tbe subject of the land for their consideration , well knowing that a time of artificial commercial prosperity was not the post fitting for the entertainment of so large a question . Perhaps , therefore , I may be pardoned if , in the course of the remarks that I am about to make , I shall be guilty of a usual error , that of estimating the forwardness of the public mind upon this subject by the amount of thought which I have given to it myself , in answer , therefore , to tbe question that I have propounded , I should say , that without political power the system never could be made so general as to be of national benefit ; while ,
upon the other hand , I do not believe that any other inducement , save that of the practical result of the plan of small farms , ever will be sufficiently strong to produce such a public feeling as will bring into moral action such an amount of mind in favour of both changes , as neither minister or party would dare to resist . Therefore , f rom this reasoning I incline to think that the possession of political power is indispensable as a means for making the plan of free labour a national benefit ; while I am further of opinion , that no writing , no talking , no reasoning , no declamation , no exaggeration , can have the effect of enlisting , in support of the small farm plan , the one hundredth part of that thought and mind which the practice , if seen to a considerable extent , wouli produce .
I will now give you , from page 149 of that book , my reasons for enforcing the small proprietory plan ; and from all these quotations from a work written four years ago , when the anticipations from FREE TRADE were so high , and when the public mind was so indifferent to those subjects to which I was endeavouring for many years to draw attention , you will say whether or not I have been at least CONSISTENT . Here is the extract : — Firstly . To create certainty in the labour market . Secondly . To establish an unerring standard ot the value of labour in the free labour market , whereby its value in the artificial market maybe ascertained .
Thirdly . That the capitalists who make fortunes by other men s labour shall henceforth hire that labour in the free labour market , wherein every man will have arrived at a knowledge of its full value , instead of , as at present , hiring that labour from the reserve of a system-made surplus population , and which is regulated wholly and entirely by the amount of system-made paupers in the market . Fourthly . To insure some wholesome regulation as to demand and supply , whereby the capitalists will be prevented from drugging the markets of the world with the produce of cheap labour . "Fifthly . To enable the legislature to make laws for the promotion of morality instead of living upon depravity . Sixthly . To enable us to dispense with that heavy load of taxation now said to be requisite for keeping the dissatisfied in subjection .
Seventhly . To create a feeling of self-respect in the minds of the working classes , by making such a component part of the human family , and thereby attaching nil to those institutions which render them protection in return for their support of them . And Eighthly . To destroy my own and all other demagogues' trade , by enabling the people to do for themselves that which they now rely upon political traffickers to do for them . One of these days , I shall BE ABLE to refer to other predictions—such as the abandonment of
EXPENSIVE COLONIES , THE CONFISCATION OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH PROPERTY , and the addition of a MINISTER OF DUNG to the Cabinet . And now for my principal reason in reminding you of these things . Some weeks ago I told you that I would not receive payment of LAND MONEY IN BANK ORDERS ; and yet many local secretaries continue to send remittances iu that way , which puts mc to POUNDS' EXPENSE , to save the Locality pence . ONCE FOR ALL , THEN , I WILL NOT BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR MONIES SO SENT , UNTIL THE PRESENT GLOOM IS GONE . 1 also requested all secretaries to send an
account to the office of all monies paid to my credit through banks , since the 12 th December inclusive , but not one has answered . Now , as I shall be held responsible for those monies , I have a rig ht to DEMAND INSTANT COMPLIANCE with this moderate request : that is , that all secretaries who have transmitted their monies by BANK ORDERS , for the week ending 12 th December , and every week since , will INSTANTLY TRANSMIT A CORRECT LIST OF DATES AND AMOUNTS to the LAND OFFICE . There never has been a large NATIONAL CONCERN so creditably managed from the commencement , and it must not be matted now by neglect .
I have now g iven you the full benefit of two wet days this week , so that , as I spend no idle time , those for whom I work must work for themselves , Your faithful friend , Feargus O'Connor .
Cictton.—The Various Chartist And Land L...
CiCTton . —The various Chartist and Land Localities are hereby warned against having any connection with a person named Samuel Marston , professing to have been lecturing at Neweastle-on-Tjne ; be has already succeeded In uupvoj ; parties In London , Croydon , Brighton , and other places , to a considerable extent , and is doubt , lots prosecuting bis scheme * in other districts , ^^
The Mechanics. Our Readers Will Perceive...
THE MECHANICS . Our readers will perceive , by an announcement in another column . that MrRoBswrs is about to publish a verbatim report of this most important trial . We trust that every working man in the kingdom will read it from end to end , and more than once , so that when brought b y a " Jones" before a " Lyon and Stuhbs , " he may know where to lay his finger on those particular points of law , and liberty and comraon sense which those distinguished characters are doomed to be ignorant of all the days of their lives .
We had intended to give the summing up of the learned judge in this week's Star , but Mr Roberts ' announcement renders this unnecessary . When we have the whole trial before us we shall be able to comment on the principles involved in it . In the meantime , we are happy in being able to state tha * the most beneficial effects have already resulted . Several men on picket—walking up and down and
talking to strangers and to each other—who , before the trial , were constantly molested by the police , are now suffered to follow their peaceful and honourable avocation withdut any disturbance or interference . We are glad of this , not only as it shows that constables are not above learning the law , but that they are capable also of reading the Northern Star . It they will continue this commendable practice , they will be all the better for it .
The '82 Club. After Pouring The Grossest...
THE ' 82 CLUB . After pouring the grossest insults upon the Repealers who dared to exhibit anything like mental independence , or a love of fair-play , John O'Connell , at a recent meeting at the Hall of Humbug , proposed Union once more , and whined out a piteous appeal to the secessionists to return . John and his gang , not forgetting " the warm-taced patriot , " the g lorifier of the " august leader , " find that the game is UP ; hence their new-born toleration , and fraternal advances towards the men they formerly so filthily abused and so brutally insulted . But this
holding out of the " olive branch' on the part of " my son John , " is not likely to excite the desired response . Of the society named at the head of this article , one member dares to be honest and bold . The following letter does the writer of it much credit : — Raheny , Dublin , March 27 , 1847 . Sir , —I avail myself of the approaching meeting of the ' 82 Club , ( the first tbat has been called since the secession of July last , ) to request you will remove my name from the listof members . In taking this step , it is due to the gentlemen of
the ' 82 Club to state my reasons for withdrawing from an association , for very many members of which I entertain respect and esteem . It must be fresh in the recollection of the members of the Club , that in the month of October last a portion of my fellow-countrymen elected me chairman of a meeting held for the purpose of remonstrating against certain proceedings of Mr John O'Uonnellin the Repeal Association , in July last . A remonstrance was adopted , and , as chairman , I had the honour and pleasure of signing it . That remonstrance was presented to the Repeal Association , and ordered to be "flung into the street , " by Mr
John O ' Connell , in a manner as petulant as it was disgraceful to him as a public man . What was equally disreputable , Mr O'Connell sanctioned this unworthy conduct . Under these circumstances , I feel assured that every member of the ' 82 Club will admit the propriety of my withdrawing from a society of which Mr O'Connell is president , and his son still a member . 1 have the honour to remain , Sir , yours , & c , William Rtan . To Andrew Russell Stritch , Esq ., Secretary , ' 82 Club . Uow many members of the ' 82 Club will follow Mr Ryan ' s noble example ? All but knaves , sycophants and cowards will do so .
Parliamentary Review. The Commons Resume...
PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The Commons resumed their sittings after the Easter recess on Monday ; and , jud g ing from their proceedings during the week , up to the time we write , have felt very much like masons and joiners on Monday morning after a day ' s cessation from work " : they have not yet got rid of the stiffness ' aud warmed fairly to their work . Notwithstanding the rumours that it is the decided intention of
Ministers to push business on as rapidly as possible in order that Parliament may be dissolved early in June at the latest , with a view to a new election , the practical progress of the week has been small . The Irish measures remain where they were , with the exception of the fever Bill , which has passed through another stage on its way to the Upper House . The Waste Lands Reclamation Bill , which again made its appearance on the business paper for Tuesday night , was postponed till Tuesday next , when , if some fresh excuse or obstacle , real or pretended , does not present itself , we indulge in the anticipation that this suspiciously delayed measure will at last make its appearance in a definite shape .
The naval , military , and economical members had all the talk to themselves on Monday . The motion for going into a committee of supply brought out "hon . and gallant members , " with a long catalogue of grievances , in both branches of our service . Sir De Lacy Evans was the mouthpiece of the soldier , Sir C . Napier of the navy ; and between them they made a tolerably lengthy inventory of faults , blunders , and evils ; while , on the other hand , Messrs Hume aud Williams—those Siamese economists—were equally voluble and lengthy in their arithmetical criticisms on the various votes submitted
to the committee . We wish that the working man , who has to pay the piper for both branches of the service , had people in the House who would bring his case as often before the Legislature as " gallant " gentlemen have recently been doing in the instance of the Army and Navy . But , apparently , his only duty is to work and pay—his highest virtue in the eyes of modern legislators , patient and silent submission to a state of things which wrings from him the uttermost farthing , for the support of institutions which he alone must not reap any benefit from . One curious and notable point about these
discussions is , the wonderful unanimity with which all " hon . and gallant" legislators , whether in red coats or blue , agree in declaring tbat we must have an increase of our forces by land and sea , and the defences and fortifications of our harbours and shores multiplied and strengthened . The Times has become an alarmist on this point also , and not long since had a mysterious and dreadful article , which must have half killed with fri ght all the nervous old ladies and timid bachelors of the empire . It appears that some-time , from somewhere , a general inroad is to be made by the combined
armies of the Continental Nations , who , though not by any means loving each other , are each and all cordially united in hating ( Great Britain ) : that this host may , any fine night or morning , b y the aid of steamers , land upon our shores , and without let or hindrance march straightway to London , dethrone "our most gracious Soverei gn , " p lant anew d ynasty in her place ; send the Lords aud Commons in Parliament assembled to the ri ght-about ; confiscate lands , goods , and chattels , ia tbe ttue conqueror
style ; and finally establish a Northern despotism in free England ! Very frightful—horribly alarmingisn ' t it ? But the song is so very different from that sung by the same minstrel only a few months ago , that it puzzles plain , straightforward-going folks to know what is meant by all this blowing hot and cold . When the agitation for Corn-Law Repeal was going on , the Times , in concert with the whole band of Repeal papers , chaunted in chorus , that the true way to make peace , uaivqr ^ l and en «
during , was , to make nations mutually dependen t for their bread , hats , shoes , coats , wine , beer , & c & c . Free commerce was to be the great ctoiUze r ' and knit all peoples together in bonds of eternal and enlig htened amity . What can so soon have changed these dulcet notes into those of war—fierce war ? After long study we can find but one answer—Lord Palraerston is Foreign Minister ; and the Timet with its usual versatility , has abandoned the digni . fied pacific policy , of Lord Aberdeen for that of « nobleman who , as Mr Roebuck says , " shakes Europe to its centre . " It is a curious thing that wars and
rumours of wars should always be contemporaneous with the accession of Lord Palraerston to power . He is not only pugnacious himself , but the cause of pugnacity in others ; and having hitherto not had an opportunity of having a regular campaign , he has seized upon the quarrels in Portugal as a capital chance for a side blow , and in connection with France is to act as" armed mediator" between the belligerents . What right we have to interfere in the matter it would be difficult to say : it is et
quarrel which the Portuguese ought to fight out among themselves . But this sound preliminary of tbe war trumpet , blown by the 2 Vi » e * is , perhaps , meant to prepare for the general continental war in which we may find ourselves involved , in consequence of the restless , mischievous , and meddlesome nature of our warlike foreign Minister . It is comparatively easy to prophecy , when one holds in hia own power the means of fulfilling the prediction . A little closer watching of the noble lord to re .
' train his belligerent propensities , and of tbe natural tchof naval and miUtary officers for more public money , fresh additions to the already largo , and burdensome naval and military forces of this country is very desirable at the present time .
Mr Walpole Has Obtained Leave, Without O...
Mr Walpole has obtained leave , without opposition , to introduce a bill amending the registration of voters . The bill principally applies to electors already registered , and is meant to protect them from vexatious objections by imposing penalties upon the parties who raise them . It is a " small go / ' but , in its way , another proof of the imperative necessity for a complete overhaul of that modern anti quity and obsolete enactment , the Whig Reform Act . B y the way it may be noted , with reference to the larger amendment on that measure intended by Mr Duncombe , that two of the most obnoxious clauses the Act contains were not in the Bill , as introduced by Lord John Russell . The £ 50 tenant-at-wili clause
in counties , and the ratepaymg clause in boroughs , were each of them the handiwork of Tories , and in defending the Act Lord John is opposing his own Bill . He has , in fact , abandoned his own . "finality" and gone back to that of the , then , Marquis of Chandos , now Duke of Buckingham . We venture to predict that a somewhat different fate will attend Mr Duncomhe ' s bill than did his motion . A dissolution is near , and the supporters of the disgraceful machinery by which the constituency of England and Scotland are virtually disfranchised at the pleasure of tarf-gatherers and parish officers , will be masked . The fear of the hustings sometimes has a wonderfully virtuous effect when everything else fails .
>V Ednesday Was A Grand Field-Day For Th...
> v ednesday was a grand field-day for the Protestant bigots . All the old women who live iu constant fear of the Lady who sits on the seven hills dressed in a scarlet robe , and who is designated by them ia language more forcible than polite , mustered iu the House that day to Meat the repeal of sundry obsolete and nerer-enforced disabilities on Roman Catholics from the Statute Book . Lord Lyndhurst , last session , at " one felt s woop" cleared away a heap of this foul and filthy rubbish . Mr Watson ' s bill would have followed up efficiently the moral scavenging , but the Inglises , Plumptres , Spooners—we were going to add " spoonies "—of the true old Protestant breed , rushed to the rescue . Dear to their pious and tender souls " is the wisdom of our ancestors ;"
and , no doubt , m their inward spirit , some of them , groan heavily over the departed glories of Smithfield , when the faggot blazed merrily around nonconforming limbs , and sent up a sweet-smelling savour from that holy sacrifice offered to a God of Love . The victory they achieved on Wednesday must have proved some consolation to them , as showing that , though they have fallen upou degenerate days , the cruel spirit of religious intolerance
is not dead , but only sleeping . If favouring circumstances come together , man may yet be roused , by the fierce slogan of a priestly chief , to do battle to the death against the citizenship , ay , even the life , of his fellow-being , because his opinions are different upon a subject on . which neither can de . monsirate anything , and to quarrel about which is as insane as about the colour of their hair or the shape of their noses .
The Dissenting Agitation Against The Gov...
The Dissenting agitation against the Government scheme of Education presents too many features in common with the preceding melancholy exhibition of bigotry and intolerance , to carry with it our sympathy , however much we may dissent from the scheme itself upon other grounds . We are glad to see that the whole question will be opened on Monday night by the motion of Mr Duncombe , and till then defer any further remark on what is undoubtedly the most actively agitated out-door question of the moment .
On Thursday Night The Peers Resumed Thei...
On Thursday night the Peers resumed their sittings . in that portion of tbe New Palace set apart for them : by the Queen . It is almost impossible by mere > words to g ive any idea of the truly regal maguiti- - cence of this splendid Hall . It is conceived in the : true spirit of artistic genius , and the mediaeval stye . :. avowedly set up as the standard , has been faithfully , , but not servilely followed . The exquisite manner in a which the colours have been harmonized and A Wended , causes the mass of gilded carvings , deep p and brilliant hues , and gorgeous draperies powdered d
with gold , to fall upon the eye with a subdued , I , chaste , but inexpressibly rich effect . The glance : e wanders from object to object without once en * n * countering anything harsh or abrupt , but rather er . finding all melt into each other in beautiful grada- atton , and the boldest contrasts harmonized by the tie skill of the consummate artist . It is , in short , a , a magnificent specimen of the art and skill of the 19 th tit century , and will long stand , we trust , as a proud ud monument of the ability of the artizans whose labour mr has reared it .
The Lords were as proud of their new Hall as a s a boy of his first Easter suit , and mustered in great eat numbers . Conspicuous amon g the rest was the the Episcopal bench , which had a great number of lawn- «»» sleeved and silk-aproned occupants . Several peer jetesses were also present in the body of the House . use , and the side gallery , appropriated to members of the the i House of Commons , was visited by most of the the > leading members of that House in the course ode of ! their lordships' short sitting of an hour and a quarter . rter .. The business transacted was very trifling ; in fact , no-, no- body had settled down to business , the facultiesiltiess
were all absorbed by the spacious and brilliantlyintly ^ decorated apartment in which they were as aembledJiled .. The only person who seeraecVto have at all an apt appetite for work was Henry , Lord Brougham anoi an ^ Vaux , and he threatened to have the House cleareiiearedd if less noise was not made—a hint which onlj onljj terrified the talkers for the remainder oj oi his lordship ' s observations . Whether it w & ' warn owing to this natural excitement ant anw the consequent buzz of many voices , or tha thai the Hall itself is , notwithstnndinj } all its other ater ait tractions , deficient in its acoustic construction , w ( sn , w «
do not pretend at present to say , but certain it h it ias that , of the speeches of the greasy number of Peer Peen who addressed the House , scarcely one word in flttin fittt could be heard in the reporters' gallery . If this bthis bb a permanent defect , it will be a serious one , thoufthougg we trust that Mr Barry , tbe able architect , will t will M able to devise measures for obviating it , as far , « far , a least , as the Press is concerned . This we conceitimcei ' . « might bo effected by lowering the gallery a few fefcw few and projecting it farther into tbe body of the Hous Houss Its large dimensions would thereby be praetpraebt cally diminished , ' and this great , inconvcoiwcoien'i teoiOY ^ .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 17, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_17041847/page/4/
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