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J^TABT 18, 1851. THE N0RTHERN gTAft ^ 1 ...
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THE WLVDB'G-IT AND HOXESTI FUXDS. TO IHE...
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Tve ieabs that the Roman Catholics of Gl...
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WINDING-UP OF THE L&NB COMPANY. BECE1VED...
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AGITATION FOR THE CHARTER. Received by J...
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TO FEARGUS O'COXXOR, ESQ., M.P. Respecte...
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The Chcrchwabdess of a parish in Yorkshi...
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THE POLICY OF THE LONDON EXECUTIVE DEFEN...
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Sunday Trading iji Bermohdset. — A gener...
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J^Tabt 18, 1851. The N0rthern Gtaft ^ 1 ...
J ^ TABT 18 , 1851 . THE N 0 RTHERN gTAft 1 7 1 ' ^ ^ r-i- ^ . ^— . —^ - ,
Of One Portion Of The Plan Has Been High...
Of One portion of the plan has been highly ert-• - ' -id as evincing great practical sagacity—S 2 S & * p 2 posal * ^ an existing ¦ h oc " hools un ** * ^ provisions ° * w measure j ; jf- li we assume they mean to ask from Par * ¦ m -oent There may be thrift in the proposal , Mlawjjaw ' onomy jg Tery questionable . Many -ti-these schools are structurally so defective , cc % w ^ gfafi f or purpose , that it would «& & & . & a cteaper to commence a new , well-ar ¦ ired and harmoniously proportioned plan , r ^^ banning . ^ - . - -
V Veeho" a deep and sincere interest m a rim ' which is so intimately blended with t queque ^ ^ p perity of all classes of the \ thethe *» we shall ffatch ^ progresg of ^ ' ^ "S raost anxiously . If the coming Ses-< W Xparluunent adopts the principle of lf ° \ rates and public schools , under the ma-! l > : l > : ai ra > ^ gaperintertdence of the local majnagen ^ without any compulsory doc-; auautn ?^ ' cree instruction , th & foandation 1 ^^ Sfc-t * b een lai d for a ration al and national ^^ -Lm of Education . That is the only per-1 *?*? ni . „ mrantee against the encroachments : S ? ffi 5 * 5 A - the diffusion of Sul iiitious errors among our population . An t
SShVhtened peop le will not ong ne Kept m ££ nda « e eitier by pohticians or priests ; therefore , the spread of knowledge is contem-SS ^ toi & V ^* *^' ' and I he who does most to promote the one , most Struk labours forthe steady progressed the ul ultimate supremacy of thelatter .
Ministebial Changes In Peanue. Victory H...
MINISTEBIAL CHANGES IN PEANUE . Victory has for the moment inclined to the P President . The dreaded and detested C C «^> ojJtxIER ^ no long 6 * " viceroy over tlla- " Louis Napoleon' has asserted his E ! gapreme right to appoint and displace the
C Commander-in-Chief , and consequently his s : supremacy in the capacity of Head of theExecicutive over the army . That he places a high v ; value on this power is evident , from the strenuo : ous and the continuous efforts he has made to a acquire it , and by the dogged obstinacy with m -duett he refused to listen to any compromise c on tlie part of the majority , which fell short of t the removal of the hated General , and the s acknowledgment of his own supremacy , for
i ihe time being , fortune favours the tenant of i tie Elysee . He has kept the best business i men of his own Cabinet , and in M . Droutn * iieL'Hirrsbas secured the accession of a man i of considerable influence and reputation . The l Orleanists and Legitimists are in a " fix ;" i tbev have the power undoubtedly of placing
CniSGAitxiER at the head of troops to protect the Assembly , but they are civilly in' formed hy the President that nobody is : going to attack it . In a city like Paris , where a political blunder is much more fatal to a party than a political crime , such an appoint-; inent would provoke nothing but laughter and i ridicule on all hands . Indeed from what has I already transpired , it is quite evident that f . after a * certain amount of bluster for the sake
I of appearances , the majority will accept the I Cabinet of January , 1851 , as an fait accompli , I and turn their attention to new schemes and combinations , by which 1852 may turn up a p-winning card for their respective parties . i The Republican newspapers have very pru-Identlyand properly supported the PuesideJJT ! against the palpably selfish and dishonestprc-\ tensions of the " Burgraves , " while they have at the same time held aloof from com-Imitting themselves to the support of the new I cabinet . Their strength , they well knew , lies
I to a large extent in the divisions which sepa-\ rate the reactionary and anti-republican ma-Ijoritv . In proportion as they are estranged ilirom " each other , and devote themselves to the I pursuit of their separate party intrigues , the I greater chance is , that the people will resume i that power and predominauce of which they ijliave been robbed . In the Assembly , the ? Mountain will have a difficult and important part to play between the present time and the period for the election of a new President . One thing is certain , that nothing but a
Sepublican form of government is tenable in Jrancc , however much the name and the thing may be hated by the terrorist Conservatives . Any attempt on the part ' of the dynastic conspirators to restore a monarchy , cither Bourbon , Orleanist , or Bonapartist , would be the signal forthe renewal of a state of incipient or open insurrection in France , which would only terminate with the final and complete overthrow of a form of government which can never again take root in that country .
It would be well for it , and for the public men who aspire to rnle it in future , if they could realise this idea fally to their own minds , and adopt their conduct accordingly . If they will look across the Atlantic , they will find that the great statesmen of the Federal Republic exercise as world-wide an Mueuca , receive as much respect , and occupy as dignified and lofty positions in the estimation of other nations , as though they were bedizened with stars and ribbons , or disguised
by nicknames . A frank acceptance of Republicanism in itsletter and spirit , doesnotbar , but rather accelerated tlieir progress to the raost distinguished , influential and commanding positions in public life . Why should it boUjc so in Republican France ? Why should there not arise in that country a new race of public men , whose highest ambition would be to become the servants of the commonwealth , vhose most dearly prized reward and honour , would be the esteem and gratitude of then fellow citizens for havinjr served it well ?
-^ The O'Coxxor Depexce Fl'xd. Loxgtos.—...
- ^ THE O'COXXOR DEPEXCE Fl'XD . Loxgtos . —The friends in this town intend giving ti ben-fit In aid of tbe above fund , on which occasion lie Dramatic Amateurs will appear gratuitously . Tbe pieces selected are the interesting drama , in Eve acts , entitled the Castle Sj > ectre ^ and the Lottery Tichu Several gentlemen of Longton and its vicinity , will sing some ofthe most popular songs of the day , and an efficient quadrille band will attend , la connexion with tbe above benefit , the directors of tbe'Lcngton Working Man ' s Halt haic given the use ofthe hall for the above purpose . TO MR . W . HIDER . De . \ b Sir , —Enclosed you will find a Post-office order for the sum of £ 1 Qs ., made payable at tbe General Post-office , St . Martin ' s-le-Grand , London , tor the defence of that honoured and esteemed champion of liberty , F . O'Connor , E « q ., M . P ., subscribed by a few friends in the cause of human redemption—a cause in which that gentleman has spent his life and fortune , and for advocating which lv and his family have been persecuted and prosecuted—a cause which must ultimately triumph , ia spite of the paltry and contemptible rubbish "which Bradshaw , and his clique , may utter against
tie character of that faithful and unflinching advocate of the working classes . "Wc hope for the future that Jlr . O'Connor will take no notice ofthe supercilious abuse which an v party may utter , or write asainst him , till he can have iustice at the hands of an impartial judge , and an unprejudiced jury , and that will never be until the People's Charter becomes tbe law of the land . Hoping that those who call themselves leaders of the peop le will throw aside tlieir differences , and unite and struggle for the object , instead of leadership ; and that our honest and uncompromising friend may live to see iis efforts crowned with success , is the sincere wish cf your ' s in the cause of right against might , Eeexezer Cisog . Hightown , January 14 , 1 S 51-
The Wlvdb'g-It And Hoxesti Fuxds. To Ihe...
THE WLVDB'G-IT AND HOXESTI FUXDS . TO IHE EDITOR OF 119 SOOTHERS STAR . Sir , —i send vou a Post-office order for ten shillings , for myself and Xoah Shalders ; five shillings Jor the windinc-Tip ofthe Land Company , and five shillings for Jlr . O'Connor ' s lawsuit . I should have ** t before , hut have been expecting to be called upon for it Tours , ic . Somen , Jan . 14 , 1 S 51 . J . P . Bill .
Tve Ieabs That The Roman Catholics Of Gl...
Tve ieabs that the Roman Catholics of Glasgow and neighbourhood propose to start in that « ty a weekly journal , to he called the Thistle , for the . defence and advocacy of their principles . — Q lwnoEeraM .
Monies Received Fob Ihiwmk Esdino Thtosd...
MONIES RECEIVED Fob ihiWmk Esdino Thtosdat , JAxrjiR * IGih , 1851 . THE HONESTY FUND . BECETVXD BI IV , BIDS . Easter Shilbottle , Alnwick .. .. 0 4 6 G . Almnck .. €# .. 050 J . P . B . .. .. 006 VV . Fenwick , North Shields !' . ' . " . 0 0 6 *" ree Brothers , Foston Gate ( 2 ndsub . ) .. 0 3 0 Mary Ann T ., Foster Gate . " . .. 010 Central Rossendale , per J . Ashurrth .. 0 7 8 From Shrewsbury—J . Batho .. .. 0 10 J . Cox .. .. .. 010
J . Price .. .. 0 0 6 W . Hornsey , Easington-lane .. .. 0 10 J . Bell , Murton Colliery .. 0 0 fl Newport , Isle-of-Wiglit , per G . Oliver .. 0 6 C Tiverton , per H . Land ( 2 nd sub . ) .. 0 13 0 A few Friends , Dalton , near lluddersfield .. 10 0 N o rtham pt on , per J . Heymill .. ,. 0 10 0 Three Lovers of Fair Play , Lincoln .. 0 16 A Few Land Members , Xewton Moor , Cheshire 0 5 0 W . Hansell , North Shields .. . .. 0 0 6 Radeliffe Bridge , per R . Hamer .. 0 12 6 E . C . Tutbury .. .. .. 010 Uraintree , perj . Howe .. .. 026 Mes : rs . Hill and Shakiers , Norwich .. 0 5 0 ttotlierham , perJ . Stamfield .. .. 070 From Banisley—per J . Lowe .. .. 0 4 0 1 ' erG . Utley .. .. .. 096 Collected at Mr . TVilccck ' s , Shakespere Inn , ptrD . Lidgett .. .. 066
Nottingham , per J . Sweet .. .. 0 4 10 From West Port , Edinburg h—A Somerville .. 0 2 6 ILBurkett .. .. .. 026 Mr . Hobinson , Green Side .. .. 0 2 6 Mr . Brows , Fountain Bridge .. .. 0 10 B , Dunlop , Liulifhitow .. .. 006 Middleton , Lancashire , per J . Cbnsterdine .. 0 9 C HasUngden , per K . Brierley .. .. 0 7 G Hi ghtown , near Leeds , per E . Cleg ? .. 16 0 Lep t on , near Huddersfidd , per E Lodge .. 0 9 8 K . fiudd , Hockley , Birmingham .. 0 10 S . Hudson , Mahnshnry .. .. 0 0 6 Ossett , near Dewsbury , per J . Archer .. 0 15 3 Preston , per W . Liddle .. .. 0 5 0 J . GodbenandJ . J . W . F „ H yson Green .. 0 16 A Few Friends , Hamilton , per A . Walker .. 0 15 0 Exeter , per H . Fink .. .. 118 0 Salf o r a , per J . Johnson .. .. 0 610 Todmorden , per T . Fielden .. .. 3 6 1
SECE 1 VED AT LAND OFFICE . W \ Arnold - - .. 000 T . Perry .. .. .. 006 C . Owen .. .. .. 006 From Kensington—Mr . YTood .. .. 010 Mr . Wooldridge .. .. 0 1 0 Mr . Beasley .. .. .. 010 J . iiambry .. .. .. 006 ILSnell .. .. .. 006 £ 17 2 10
Winding-Up Of The L&Nb Company. Bece1ved...
WINDING-UP OF THE L & NB COMPANY . BECE 1 VED BX W . BIDES . £ s . d Easter Shilbottle , Alnwick .. .. 050 J . P . B . .. .. .. 006 From Wigton—J . Turnhnil .. .. 006 T . Koper .. .. .. 006 J . Corkhill .. .. .. 0 ° 6 W . Vicars .. .. .. 006 T . Bell .. .. .. 006 From Blandford—T . Saunders , jun . .. 0 2 6 G . P . Saunders .. .. 006 H . Marshall .. .. .. 010 J . P . andW . M . .. .. 020
J . li . .. .. .. 010 T . E . andC . .. .. .. 010 W . lLandT . C ... .. .. 010 Three Brothers , Foston Gate ( 2 nd sub . ) .. 0 3 0 Mary Ann T . F « ston Gate .. .. 010 T . Philli ps , Garndiffeth .. .. 0 0 6 Central Koseudale , per J . Ashurrth .. 0 6 0 J . andW . Stead . Holbeck .. .. 0 16 Shrewsbury , per J . Cox .. .. 0 6 0 Esther Wright , per J . Kershaw , Queenshead .. 0 0 6 J . Kershatv , Queenshead .. .. 0 0 6 New t on Moor , Cheshire , per A . Henderson .. 0 3 G W . Hansell , North Shields .. .. 020 Land Members , Rochdale , peril Gill .. 10 0 Radeliffe Bridge , per R . Hamer .. 0 3 0
G . and W . Goody and \ V . Russell , Braintree .. 0 16 J . Dickens and J . Moorhouse , Huddersfield .. 0 1 0 Messrs . Hill and Shalders , Norwich .. 0 5 0 D . Jones , Carlisle .. .. 0 0 6 W . Gordon , Bradford , Wilts .. .. 0 10 3 . Croom , Bradford . Wilts .. .. 0 2 fl Notting ham , per J . Sweet .. .. 0 4 0 R . Dunlop , Linlithgow . - . .. 006 G . Booth , Middleton , Lancashire .. 0 10 U . Smith , O'Connorville .. . .. 0 1 0 IL iludd , Hockley , Birmingham .. 0 10 Lye Waste , per S . Welch .. .. 0 311 Mahnsbury , per S . Hudson .. .. 0 5 10 Preston , per W . Liddle .. .. 0 5 0 Salford , per J . Johnson .. .. 0 0 fi F . W . Sucksmith , Bristol .. .. 006
SECEIVED ATLASD OFFICE , J . F . Redbura .. .. .. 010 W . Arnold .. .. .. 006 T . Perry .. .. ,, 006 Ur . Wood .. .. .. 010 Mr . Wooldridge .. .. ; 0 1 0 Mr . Williams's Family .. .. 0 2 6 £ 5 5 3
Agitation For The Charter. Received By J...
AGITATION FOR THE CHARTER . Received by Jobs Absoxt . — Dundee , per J . Graham 11—Three Friends , Hoxton New Town 3 s—Four Friends , Westminster 4 s—Jewish Association , Holboru 6 d -A . Docker , Stocl . port Is 4 d—Pudsey , per J . Jackson Is 4 d—Rbyton , ' per J . B . HorsfaU 6 s—Birming ham , \> er W . Rider * 2 s—Hebden Bridge , per J . Mann 0 s—Bradford , per T . Wilcox 11 4 s—Stalybridge , per W . Hill 1 J—Rotherham , per J . Stansfield 3 s—Westminster , per J . Grassby 11 2 s—Mr . G . W . M . Reynolds 11 Is—Woodman locality , Waterloo Town , per II . Bloomfield lis—Collected at John-street 22 Is—Cards at John-street lis—Wat Tjler brigade , Greenwich , per J . Hodges 5 s 3 d—Printers in Great New-street , Fetterlane Sd—Birstall , per F . W . Sucksmith 5 s—Sutton-in-Ashlield , per W . Felkin 12 s 6 d-J . M ., per Mr . Le Blond 4 s 6 d —W . M ., per ditto Ss—H . C , per ditto 3 s 6 d—E . N ., per do . lis Sd-Paisley , per W . Cameron H . —Total , £ 12 7 s . Id .
FOR THE HUNGARIAN AND POLISH REFUGEES . Received by W . Hides . —J . G . S ., Jersey 14 s 6 d—Bad cliflfe BriJ ge , per R . Hamer 2 s—Botherhara , per J . Stansiield 5 s .. Received by Jons Absott . —W . C . M ., per G . W . M . Reynolds Is—Jewish Association , Holborn 6 d—Birstal , per F . W . Sucksmith 5 s . FOR LIQUIDATING THE DEBT DUE TO THE TREASURER Of THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Received by John Absott-—Two Friends , per Mr . Le Blond 4 s Gd .
TRACT FUND . Received bv Jons Arsott . —0 . D ., Hoxton New Town 3 s 2 d .
To Feargus O'Coxxor, Esq., M.P. Respecte...
TO FEARGUS O'COXXOR , ESQ ., M . P . Respected asd much Ixjcred Sib , — "We , the Chartists of Fadibnm , have witnessed the persecutions to which yon have been subject with feelings of-the greatest horror , and your heroic conduct has equally excited our admiration . The Court of Injustice and the Bradshaw banditti have nearly done all in their power to ruin you in circumstances , but let us hope that their vile attempts will never succeed ; tbe expenses which you hare been put to in consequence of your late trial with Bradshaw , of Nottingham , must be very great , we therefore send you three guineas towards the expenses of the trial . Dear sir , like all who have taken a share in the cause of humanity , you hare been the subject of much persecution : the persecution and prosecution
you have undergone irom the government was looked for—expected ; for what spy-employing , libeity-persecuting , freedom-crushing , government has not buried in a living tomb , or persecuted to the death , every soul that had the magnanimity to desire to be free . You , sir , have undergone the prison fetters and worn the felon ' s manacle , —for what ? for aiming- at the birthright of every man , — liberty to breathe the air which God has given , and look upon the skies which God has made , and have a share of common blessings which heaven has bestowed . But there is another species of persecution which you have undergone , —a persecution at once uncalled for , bitter , and unrelenting ; uncalled for , because the best framed schemes , when
opposed by interest , and a corrupt legislative influence , when prosecuted by those that may chance to possess the ruling power , are nullified in action ; bitter , because coming from those whose interests have been the object of your study and the end of vour endeavours ; unrelenting , because no means are left untried that the press or the platform can supply to damage your character ; in such a situation wo deeply sympathise with you , and trust that you will yet rise superior to it , and pour confusion aud dismay on your opponents . 1 Ye have watched your political career—we have marked your stern adherence to the principles of the Charter in good and in evil report ; our eyes have not been closed to the fact that you have fought
singleh anded , in the midst ofthe people s enemies , in the people ' s cause , and for the people ' s rights ; such circumstances require a man of no ordinary stamp , and you have proved yourself the man the circumstances demanded . The battle is not yet fought , — the race is not yet ran , —the Charter , with all its glorious provisions , is yet an object of the future , — you have endured the burden and heat of the day , the hottest ofthe persecution ; go on , noble sir , in the great and good cause , —stand by the helm of the good old ship , with the Charter proudly floating at her mast-head , and let us battle beneath her , until victory ' s gale doth waft us over the wreck of class misrule , and land us safe in the port of happiness , where each can sit under his vine and fig-tree , none darins to make him afraid .
" I am , dear , honoured and respected sir , On behalf of the Chartists of this place , Yours truly , Ben 7 aiii . \ Pilling Grimshaw "Well , Padiham , January Stb , 1351 .
The Chcrchwabdess Of A Parish In Yorkshi...
The Chcrchwabdess of a parish in Yorkshire have returned the following answer to the circular received by them from the National Club :- « The churchwardens of inow their duty too well to require instructions how to perform it from London clubs , and preaching dukes . . Therefore , after reading aMr . Bellamy'f printed circular , they have unanimously resohsil-ta bura it , and have burnt it accordingly . "
The Policy Of The London Executive Defen...
THE POLICY OF THE LONDON EXECUTIVE DEFENDED TO THE EDITOR P THE HORTHEBS STAR . i ^ EARj » IR »—Nothing more admirable than vour leader of last Saturday , entitled " Chartist Policy , " has ever appeared in the Northern Star ; it only required one thing to make it inimitable , namely , tost you should have applied it to your own paper and your own party . How one who could give such excellent advice should fail to make so just an application of it , it is not easy to surmise , as such a course would have made its utility much greater , ana hare saved it from that contemptuous estimate Jt n 0 i J makes ofthe Star ' s readers ; an estimate which does not follow from what is said so much as from what is concealed .
iou describe that volley of epithets your indignant readers are hurling at your head , as " an avalanche of Billingsgate . " Temper thy reproaches , good critic ! Has the Star , before to day , taught them otherwise ? Has it not been for twelve years the great manufactory of Billingsgate ? The " avalanche , " therefore , cannot take the Alps by surprise . When such coals are shot down at your Newcastle you may complain of tbe error in the delivery , out you cannot be shocked at the quality of the coal ; especially , you have no right to disqualify the judgment pronounced against your Manchester advocacy , oecause expressed in language which , ( however erroneous ) , is still the onll they have
y anguage been taught to employ . . a You say that " so-called Councils" asperse parties , of whom they can , in reality , know very littlemeaning the conductors ot your paper . This can easily be remedied—just say who you are ! My colleagues of the Executive may have been in error on this account in attaching so much importance to the Manchester question . We said you were in a minority ; we did not expect to find that you were also unknown . The negation of publicity may not be a negation of worth—perhaps the contrary—but the animus of this controversy has arisen from the supposition ; that particularly known men were at the head of it .
The question of authority between the two Committees involves an element which you obscure ; but if you are serious in assuming to represent the Democracy of Britain , it ought to be your part to distinguish it . There is at bottom a principle of order , which , if not recognised and respected , no Chartist party in this country can over preserve associative unity , or command public respect . You say "' waifs and strays' included , that only 1800 votes were mustered by the London Executive ; " but you conceal this fact , that , " waifs and strays" again included , the Manchester Council have not half that number of constituents . Now Democracy is not a caprice , but a body of defined principles , the clearest of which is that the majority alone can authorise government . For myself , I have no objection to the Manchester Council . If the majority who elected the London Committee choose to elect them , I am willing to obey them . But as the principle of
majority is not one of absolute numbers , but of relative proportion , we are , as Democratic Chartists , bound to act upon the appointment of the greater proportion . Should we refuse in our own society to acknowledge government of the majority , how can we go to parliament and ask for the national election of members , to be placed on the principle of majority , as the Charter proposes ? To call this a ; ieKonaf dispute is simply an unpardonable misapplication of terms on the part of a journalist . It is the vindication of the vital principle of government in which we engage ; and how can the Manchester Council hope to govern their own constituencies if they begin by disregarding it ? If you can concede that we have , in this respect , followed a sense of political duty , you will give the authority of journalist to a rnle of discipline of indispensable value to the people . This point once clear , the Manchester question will subside on our part .
The argument of your article is , " Let there be two Executives without more dispute , " and for this inexplicable reason : that it is great folly to bo quarrelling who shall lead when there is nothing to lead ? which is true enough ; but surely if there be nothing to lead , one Executive is enough to do it . Two need not be set up for that purpose . You very properly expose the nonsense ( of which tbe public are well tired ) of any small party , as the National Charter Association
undoubtedly now is , of " assuming national authority , claiming national obedience , or affecting to lead n national party . " Rut why did you employ all your indignation on us ? In the same article you tell the Manchester Council , —who , at least , are equally insignificant , in point of funds , constituency , and station—yon tell that Council '' to set about its own work of organising a People ' s party . " If it be " preposterous presumption" in us to do it , what is it in them ? Why not apply your advice where so much more needed ?
But is the term " national" ever intended to bear the sole interpretation you put upon it ? Is it not also intended to imply not so much national authority , as an aim at national good , by a policy grounded , as all useful public policy must be , however , small the party , on the considerations of the interests of the whole people ? You send us without any misgiving " back to the first form of democracy , as ignorant of its very alphabet—ignorant both of its principle and spirit . " I have no objection to relearn a lesson I may have forgotten ; but let me hear your qualification for an instructor . Here is your declaration and your first lesson : — " Democrats must recognise the full and unfettered right of every individual to judge for himself on all questions of pnblic and private interest . " Here wc have a dogma , in which prrvate conduct and public policy are jumbled together—where the half which is true has nothing
to do with democracy , and the other half is flatly false . Of course , in all questions of " private interest , " every man must judge for "himself "who else has he to judge for ? But the first element of democracy , and the distinction which constitutes it , is that no man on " public" questions shall judge for " himself , " but for others—not for his private good , but for the public . It is because e \ ery man thinks for himself , and not for others , that the political world is such a bedlam of vanity , ambition , and antagonism . If you set up such a dogma as that I have quoted , you open the gates of disunion wide , and for ever . Your maxim is the maxim of Anarchy , not of democracy . You let in sot only one Manchester Committee , but a thousand . In your leader on the Manchester Conference , Dec . 21 st , you told us the " Chartist ranka were shattered and dismembered . " The rule you can lay down is the rule to keep them so . If this is the A B C of democracy instead of rehearsing such a lesson the sooner we forget it the better .
Your leader , to which this is a reply , is the ablest and best written I have ever read in the -Star , and I trust to the penetration and latent good feeling displayed in it , not to put upon this explanation and defence of democratic principle , the interpretation of being merely another contribution to the justly despised squabble for leadership . Permit me to observe , that if your own objection to the London Committee is not personal—a thing which you deprecate—it ia bard to tell what it is . They share your views even to the narrowness which you recommend , even to the impossibility which you desire . In this respect they coincide with your adopted Manchester Council entirely . Tbey propose to restrict themselves to mere
political agitation , which in these days is narrowness ; and tbey propose to resuscitate a party inspired with Social ideas , by asking them to abandon their public ascendancy , which is impossible . It is impossible to us , it is impossible to you , it is impossible to your Manchester proteges . The previous agitations to wbich you refer , which were founded on one idea , existed only when one idea was in the ascendent among the agitators . You know that when the political idea of Chartism was isolated , that Chartism flourished , an ; l that it was the rise of the Social idea which paralysed it . Now the two ideas are in the field , and over-ride men ' s minds . Chartists are mostly Socialists , and Socialists have re-expanded into Chartists . Do you thmk it possible that the same men can be found to unite for merely political reform , and hold in abeyance their ht be advanced
social claims , when both mig together ? -and , what is more to the purpose , the social changes in our laws , as those of Partnership and the Taxes on Knowledge for insttmce-cau be obtained without waiting for the Charter , llicse are premises in your argument which you omit , forget , or conceal . If the Chartist is to get , as you say ° he should get , foryou say he wants it— ' Social discipline "—bow can he do it without being a Socialist ? and if he be a Socialist and alto a Chartist , as thousands are , why should the same man be taxed to support two organisations , when one would do ? lithe London Committee do not expand their objects , so as to include social as well as political rights , they will necessitate a new party , and the one in embryo at Jolua-street win arise to claim the support your profession of sympathy with them entitles them to expect .
Being involved in your strictures as a member of the London Executive , and not having troubled you before on this subject , and not desiring to do it again , I hope you will accord me insertion ot tnis letter in your paper of next Saturday . Yours respectfully , Geohoe Jacob Holtoake . Jleasoner Office , January 15 th .
[ The preceding comment on our leader of last week has only confirmed us in the opinions there expressed . Mr . Holyoake has great experience as a debater ; his professional pursuits naturally cultivate a power of analysis , and the facility of quickly perceiving tho meaning of other writers , and when he has assumed conclusions so utterly at variance with the truth as those contained , in the second and third paragraphs of his letter , we can have little hope that prolonged controversy , will lead to any beneficial result . If Mr . Hulypake , under the influence which at tne present ; moment induce him to
The Policy Of The London Executive Defen...
ook with a hostile , and a prejudiced eve , upon the policy recommended by this journal , and upon the motives and actions of its conductors , so grosslv misapprehends both , how slender must bo the etiance of a truthful appreciation among those who , not possessing tho same information and abilitv , are more violently prejudiced-and hostile ? Air . Holyoake assumes , that we condemned tlie vituperative and abusive resolutions to wbich reference was made last week , because they were hurled at our heads by our "indignant readers . " This I 8 . . < l ulte , , mistake , and the " smart bits " which lollow the assumption , as a matter of course fall harmless . The resolutions were directed against the members of the Manchester
c 0 UnC i * i ° t against the Star , or its conductors . Mr . Holyoake questions the right of the Star to nnd fault with the use of " Billingsgate , " because for the last twelve years it has been the great manufactory of Billingsgate . " If the accusation be true , it applies to more than one of Mr . Ilolyoakc ' s co leagues on the Executive , who , for a considerable portion of that twelve years , were more or less connected with the management of this journal , and . responsible for its contents : " Our withers are unwrung . ' Since the first moment of our connexion with the paper , we have never written a sentence that could be in the most remote degree personally offensive to any individual connected with the movement . After accepting the office of Editor m August last , wo formally and explicitly announced thatourgreat and guidintrprinci / de , on all occasions , would be to discourage the personal quarrels , and the use of the abusive language ,
wmen naa cast so much disgrace on the Chartist movement in the eyes ofthe rest ofthe community . If Mr . Holyoake will turn to the Star of November last , he will find in the anniversary article , a statement on the subject , which we respectfully submit justifies ns in condemning language which is as discreditable to the parties who make use of ir , as it ia to the cause they profess to have at heart . IF , since the date of that article , we have been unable to keep our columns entirely clear of those personal disputes , and the torrent of invective , which , unfortunately , some people seem naturally to pour out upon such occasions , it is again some of Mr . Holyoake's colleagues and supporters who have been tbe cause . Had we not given insertion to their letters and resolutions , we should have boon accused of partiality , and of desiring to suppress and stifle the expression of public opinion in what has been—even as it is—most untruly call our " Star Chamber . "
Another misapprehension on the part of Mr . Holyoake is , that we send the Executive " back to the first form of Democracy , » fec . " If he will look back again at the passage he will see that it refers to the West Riding resolutions . As to Mr . Holyoake ' s exposition of democracy , and other portions of his arguments , wo do not pretend to controvert them in these notes . Our readers will judge for themselves as to their force and applicability . We desire , once for all , most sincerely , to assure Mr . Holyoake and his colleagues that we have neither personal nor party feeling on the subject . We arc , fortunately , placed in an independent position ; and trust we may add without egotism , that during a long public life we have endeavoured to maintain an impartial tone of mind , and to aim at all
times rather to promote the diffusion and the triumph of great principles , than to subordinate them to personal interests or influences . In this spirit we shall continue to conduct the Star so far as we are concerned . Ir ^ in past limes , "it has been the great manufactory of Billingsgate , " it is our earnest desire , and shall be our unremitting endeavour , to render it in future free from all reproach , in that respect at least . Wo have said , and now repeat it , that the principles of which it is the advocate are noble and beneficient , and thoy ought to be advocated in a corresponding spirit . We feel certain , that whatever may be tho ease in other quarters , Mr . Holyoake will not disapprove of this sentiment , or distrust tho sincerity of our statement , that we mean to act consistently upon it . —Ed . A . S . ]
Tiie Halifax District Delegate Meeting. ...
TIIE HALIFAX DISTRICT DELEGATE MEETING . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Dzak Sin , —On looking over the Star of Sunday last I found I had omitted to mention that previous to the first resolution being put from the chair , it was moved that the " Lower Warlcy and Sowerby localities withdraw from the district . " The reason for so doing was that they were determined to support the Manchester Council . By inserting the above in your next journal you will much oblige , Yours , & c „ January 12 th . Uriah Hixchcliffe .
Sunday Trading Iji Bermohdset. — A Gener...
Sunday Trading iji Bermohdset . — A general meeting of the master butchers of this populous district of the metropolis , took place on Wednesday evening , at the Uorns Tavern , Bermondsey-squaro , for the purpose of taking into consideration the provisions of a bill about to be introduced into Parliament , by Mr . Williams , M . P ., for Lambeth , the object of which is to suppress Sunday trading as far as possible . Mr . Hay man presided , and stated , that from communications which he had with about 300 butchers , he was convinced that they were almost to a man in favour of a measure which would enforce entire closing on the Sabbath . They well knew that if such a measure were passed it
would have a most beneficial effect in preventing the working classes from wasting their money on a Saturday night . The fault of all Sabbath legislation hitherto was , that it was impracticable—a character which would be removed by Mr . Williams ' s bill . He then went through the clauses . The bill bad the merit of being very short and definite in its provisions . There are hue twelve clauses . The first contains a general prohibition against selling , hawking :, crying , or publicly offering or exposing for sale ill any shop , warehouse , market , thoroughfare , or other place within the metropolitan police district or the city or liberties of London , any goods , chattels , effects , matter , or thing whatever ( the excepted articles arc afterwards stated . } Tlie
second clause continues the existing stntutcsas to taverns , steam packets , club-houses , Ac . The third takes away the responsibility of servants . The exempted articles are declared by the fourth clause to be : medicines or drugs for medicinal purposes ; milk , before nine in the morning and after one in the afternoon ; tea , coffee , readydressed food , or other refreshments , in any coffeeshop , « fec ., before ten in tbe morning and after one in the afternoon , or at any period of the day to lodgers or residents ; meat or fish , before nine , between May and October ; fruit , pastry , & c , before nine and after one ; newspapers before ten and after one ; and cigars and tobacco after one . The fifth clause
prescribes the penalties on conviction—5 s . for the ilrst offence ; from os . to 20 s . for the second ; and from 20 s . to 40 s . for the third ; only one penalty to be incurred in a day until the third offence . The 6 th clauses authorises the goods of hawkers to be seized , redeemable on payment of Is . By the 7 th clause , no articles , except meat , fish , poultry , fruit , pastry , or ice , can be delivered after ten o ' clock . The remaining clauses relate to the enforcing of the act , and tho recovery of penalties . It is to come into operation on the 1 st of June . The several clauses were discussed seriatim , and appeared to meet with general approval ; and a resolution was come to , affirming the necessity of some legislative enactment for securing one day ' s rest in seven . " Pkrverts " ro lions . —The secession from tho
Church of England of Mr . Francis It . Ward , son of Mr . Alderman Ward , of Bristol , and a member of the eminent legal firm of Osbornes , Wards , and Co ., of that city , who , with his lady , were last week received into the ltoman Catholic church , has been followed by that of the Rev . J . II . Woodward , incumbent of the large and populous parish of St . James , in that city , who has intimated his intention of immediately placing his resignation of that living in the hands of the bishop . The church was densely crowded on Sunday , it being understood that the rev . divine would preach his farewell sermon , and enter upon a statement of the reasons which had led hitn to secede . This , however , he did not do ; having , in concurrence with some
friends , thought that his doing so might lead to excitement , and possibly to confusion and uproar . The living is vested in trustees , all of whom are of evangelical principles , to which section of the church Mr . Woodward , when appointed as the successor of the Rev . T . Biddulph , belonged . He has for somo time , however , been a Puseyite , and not long since Dr . Pusey preached two sermons in his church in opposition to an intimation by tho bishop that the proceeding did not meet with his approbation . One of the rev . incumbent ' s curates preceded him in the march to Rome . Mr . Woodward was a man of active benevolence , and , apart from his peculiar views , was very much beloved by his parishioners .
FiM . —On Thursday morning , about eight o'clock , a rire broke out on the premises in the occupation of Messrs . M'Corquodale and Co ., printers , situate in the rear of Cardington-street , Hampstead-road , and near to tho Euston station of tho London and North-Western Railway . Censiderable damage was at first apprehended , from the circumstance of the building in which the fire occurred being surrounded by workshops containing property of an inflammable character . The prompt arrival , however , of the engines arrested the progress of tbe devouring element ; but not befone the entire destruction of Messrs . Corquodale's- establishment was completed . Tlie fire is supposed to have originated from a piece of lighted ! paper having accidentilly fallen on the floor daring the- eperasion of lighting a fire in onaof the offices ..
Frost cannoi . peaefcvates through . a thick covering of snow , below . a / aJie ' et of-. ioe ,. or through acovering of grass on p . Mtaaf- , aiiloi winch , ast as non-condtKtors .
National Association 01? United Trades. ...
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 01 ? UNITED TRADES . T , S . Duxcombe , Esq ., M . P ., President . Established 1 S 15 . " FIAT JUSTITIA . " " If it were possible for the working classes , by combilling : among themselves , to raise , or keep up the general rate of wages , it need hardly be said that this would be a tiling not to be punished , but to be welcomed and rejoiced at . " Stoart . Mill .
We are still compelled to keep the Wolverhampton case prominently before our members . Tho aucieut maxim , that " When the breath is out tho man must die , " holds not good with the Porrys , and their co-freres . Although dead beaten at every turn , they seem determined still to maintain a contest , to them utterly disgraceful . Wo inserted last week Mr . E . Perry ' s address of condolence to himself , with the mean and shabby feeler for apuWic subscription , to remunerate him for his heavy sacrifices and losses , incurred by his
desperate efforts to perpetuate the exactions ho has , for the last eight years , been extorting from his men . Our space last week would not permit us to comment upon this mendacious and mendicious document . It sets out with tho expression of a conviction—Mr . Perry ' s of course , and what he has gammoned 102 wiseacres to indorse—that" Trades' Union proceedings have uniforml y proved seriously detrimental to the interests of alb manufacturing towns , & c , in which they have been suffered to prevail . " To this hold assertion we give our unqualified contradiction . Our conviction , founded upon a pretty extensive experience is , that Trades' Unions , with all their imperfections , have , wherever they have
prevailed , exercised a powerful and salutary influence in arresting the downward tendency of wages . That they have not been more effective , is referable to imperfections in their construction and practice , and not the principle upon which they are founded— " To raise or keep up the general rate of wages , by associative combination , is a thing to be welcomed and rejoiced at , " upon the authority of Mr . Mill , a higher authority , wo expect , than tho combined experience and wisdom of Mr . E . Perry and his 102 self-interested condolcrs . We can give plenty of instances in our own practice , where not onl y have wages been maintained , but advanced , and not to the detriment , but manifestly to the benefit of the localities where those successes have been
obtained . And we shall presently bave tho Tin Trade of Wolverhampton to add to our list . He then expresses his "high approbation of the resolute and able resistance he is offering to the attempt now making to subject himself and his brother George , the gentle Fearncombe , and Mr . Thrustau , to what he terms the dictates of tho National Association of United Trades . "
In answer to this equally untrue statement , we beg to say there has been no further dictation in the case than the butcher uses to his customers , or than Mr . Perry constantly uses to his customers . " My leg of mutton is to be sold for so much per pound , " quoth the butcher , " and if you want to buy it , you know the price . " "My tin saucepans and popper boxes , & c , are so much per doz ., " say the Porrys , & c . ; "you know our terms . " Tlie tinmen , upon just tho same principle , have said , " If you , gentlemen , want to buy our labour , such and such , as you will find in this book , being tlie same as your neighbours pay , and two thirds of all the tinmen in Wolverhampton are now receiving , is our price ; you know our terms . "
Dictation 1 dictation ! groans Mr . Perry . Dictation ! dictation ! echosthe 102 wiso-acres who have so inconsiderately suffered themselves to be bamboozled by " the Perrys . " The next paragraph ( without quoting it ) , in general terms , attributes the comparative prosperity of . Wolverhampton to tlie absence of Chartists and Trades' Union Emissaries , and that Mr . Perry has merited a civic crown for his uncompromising opposition to them , since thelatter have made their appearance . Mr . Perry may lay this " ilattering unction to liis soul , '' but it is quite evident that tho burgesses of St . Paul and St . John are of a totally different opinion , as we gather from their unpurchased votes .
Ah I Mr . Perry , notwithstanding this vapour—not all the names ( however obtained , and " thereby hangs a tale' ') of all the manufacturers , and all the factors of the town , endorsing a fulsome address , written at your own dictation , by your paid scribe , and hawked about the town like a " beggar ' s petition "—can heal the wounds inflicted upon your pride aud ambition , during this protracted
struggle . Such a thing never entered your imagination , that the men you had injured and insulted would meet you on tho hustings . A mode of warfare you know , sir , quite in the " legal and constitutional" way , and , considering our "Chartist tendencies , "especially remarkable . Wo will place , sir , these electors against your address , as tho true exponent of public opinion upon your conduct in your present proceedings .
You were driven like a hunted fox from ward to ward ; tind , notwithstanding all your instinctive cunning , and all your doublings , whether fighting in your own person , or behind the ambush of the person and purse of your friend Moore , you were thoroughly and triumphantly beaten . We rather think , with all your well practiced forethought , you little anticipated these and some other results , when you so vaingloriously dared us to a contest . Yes , sir , it is
yon , ana nob us , that in this case has heen tho strikemonger . We offered you terms which an honourable man would have accepted ; but you are the dictator , and wo , in tho name aud on behalf of the Tinmen of Wolverhampton , protest against your usurpation of a power , which , neither by law nor justice , you are entitled to ; and we will continue , as heretofore , our strenuous resistance to it , if it pleases you and your friends to protract this struggle for another twelvemonth—and then will resist you still .
The last paragraph in tho address is a rich piece of egotistical . bombast ; and we think Mr . Winn is entitled to some credit for the truthful delineation he has given of Mr . Perry's peculiar pompous vanity . How Mr . Winn , old stager as he is , must have chuckled in his sleeve when penning the following — " and we feel firmly convinced that you will eventually find yourself abundantly consoled and rewarded , in tlie approbation and gratitude of all intelligent and well disposed persons among your fellow townsmen , and in your own consciousn * is of the signal benefits you will have conferred on tho commercial community generally , by successfully resisting a formidable attempt to array labour against capital , ic . "
What a peculiarly ignorant and badly disposed people , according to this logic , the " worthy and independent Burgesses of St . Paul and St . John must bo , " or how stupidly blind to the immense claims Mr . Perry had on their " approbation and gratitude . " And as for Mr . Perry's " own consciousness of tho signal benefit he has conferred upon the commercial community generally , " how intensely satirical I Think of Haines on the treadmill for two hours' absence—think of tho poor Liverpool man and his dead and unburied child
—think ofthe family conspiracy to entice tho Frenchmen , by false representations and promises—think of these things , and then think of Mr . Perry talking about his " own consciousness of the signal benefits , & c . " Fudge . The Protean Perry having thus addressed himself , in the name of his 102 friends , with the agility of an Harlequin , shifts his position , and replies to his own address . Of course the answer is a counterpart to the address . There is but one sentence we desire to refer to . We | think , forvfilfula 8 Buraace , it" capstheolimax "
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Perry , loquitor : "Next to tho approval of my own conscience , the approval of my principal follow townsmen , " ( what a thrust at the burgesses ) , " conveys tho greatest satisfaction I could enjoy , more especially when tendered spontaneousl y , and after I have been the subject of so much misrepresentation . " Tho crack about " my principal follow townsmen , " and their "approval when tendered spontaneously , " is highly rich . And can Mr . Perry really suppose , that tho issue of this contest can be effected by such a farcical preceding as this ? Does he suppose that wc , or the tinmen , care two straws for the opinion of himself and bis 102 " principal townsmen . " Let him just ask his principal townsmen to make him a gross of tin saucepans , or a good supply of baths , which are likely to bo in great demand this next season . Let him ask them to make him a Town Councillor .
Wc would rather advise him to cultivate the respect and affection of those by whose labour he has realised his present wealth , and by those exertions alone he can expect to increase it . There is , not and never h ,-is been , anything unreasonable required of him . lie is simply asked to pay the same for his labour as his neighbours are paying , and less oven than thcy'havc been paying for some years ; surely tliere is nothing very unreasonable in this . Wo also have tbe opinion of some of the principal inhabitants—tho magistrates to wit—that Mr . P . ought , injustice , to pay the same price as Messrs . Walton and Shoolbred , that being the market price . We hope , and believe he will pay it vet . Wo have received
an " addres issued by the Hammermen of Messrs . Sharp , Brothers , and Co ., of Manchester in the eight week of tlieir strike , to tho trades of Great Britain . " We have also received an application from the seamen of the Port of Lynn , formerly connected with this Association , who also are on the strike in resistance to a most unwarrantable reduction in their wages . We need scarcely say to them , and all men similarly situated , our sympathies naturally extend to them , not from a desire to array labour against capital , but to repel tlie encroachments of capital against labour . If consistently with our laws wo can render any scrvico to the seamen of Lvnn ; tho Central Committee believe it will be their duty , as well as it is their inclination , to do so . But both these questions we must postpone for another week , as we may not encroach too much upon tho privilege so kindly awarded us by tho proprietor and Editor of the Star . Wiuiam Pjsei , secretary 259 , Toltenham-oourt-road .
Bakeweli/S Cofvino Telbonarn.—We, Somo T...
Bakeweli / s Cofvino TELBonArn . —We , somo time since , gave an account of a very ingenious invention , by means of which an individual writing at one extremity of the country can transmit , through a single telegraphic wire , a perfect facsimile " of what he has written , so that it shall appear in the course of a few minutes , though it were a whole page or more , at the other extremity ot the
line , and of course , at however great a distance Wc are glad to perceive that this beau-ideal of tho telegraphic pen is still held to be a practicable invention . Wc had feared that it had turned out to bo more perfect in theory than attainable in practice . But on Wednesday 1 ,-u-t Mr . Bakewell exhibited it at the Russell Institution , Great Coram-strcot , with considerable success . Tho principle , as many of our readers may remember , consists mainly in the windingof an iron point round a cylinder at each extremity ofthe line of telegraph tlie cylinder in the one case being covered with a sheet of tinfoil , written on with a non-comhtctinc
nk , while in the other it is covered with a sheet of paper chemically prepared , so that the iron points in electrical action ( as both cylinders turn simultaneously , regulated in synchronous time by electro-magnetism ) trace their apparent course round the cylinders spirally ; the non-conducting intervals , as they pass over tlie ink in the ono case , being marked and denoted in the other by blank or white intervals , in a blue spiral , so that an exact copy of the writing appears in white characters on a blue ground , and distinctly legible . The paper can also be prepared so as only afterwards to show the writing , and thus to insure sccresy between correspondents . — The Builder .
The Late Pretended Popish Miracle at Lyons . —The Gazette de Lyon contains the following : — " We learn that the Commission .-ippoir . ' ed by the Archbishop of Avignon , to examine into tho facts affirmed with regard to the picture in tho chapel of St . Salumin-les-Apt , has decided unanimously that there aro no grounds for proceeding any further in the matter , as the facts have nothing of a supernatural character in them . A letter which we have just received , and which emanates
from a person as remarkable for his intelligence as for his perfect good faith , announces to us that everything which has appeared miraculous in tho reported phenomenon is only the result of a miserable intrigue , the work of a person of whom some very sad information has been given to us . This conclusion proves how necessary it is on all questions of this kind to wait for the decision of tho ecclesiastical authorities , who are alone competent , and , for our p-, \ rt we cswnoUoonwch applaud ourselves for having followed the dictates of prudence in our reserve on this subject . "
The 'Assault on Mr . Mull . —Our readers will remember that at an Anti-Papal meeting of tlie parishioners of Islington , on the ISth of November last , Mr . Miall was assaulted and pushed off the platform by the Rev . Messrs . Over and Cole , on his attempting to move an amendment . Legal proceedings were instituted against the ltev . delinquents , but as they have publicly apologised in tho Nonconformist journal , and consented to pay costs , the proceedings have terminated . The P / . easukb of Voiso Good . — There is a satisfaction in the thought of having done what we know to be right ; and there is a discomfort ,
amounting often to bitter and remorseful agony , in the thought of having done what conscience tells us to be wrong . This implies a sense of tho rectitude of what is virtuous . There is instant delight in the first conception of benevolence ; there is sustained delight in its continued exercise ; fhere is consummated delight in the happy , smiling , and prosperous result of it . Kindness , and honesty , and truth , are of themselves , and irrespective of their lightness , sweet unto the taste of the inner man . Malice , envy , falsehood , injustice , irrespective of their wrongness , have , ot themselves , the bitterness of gall and wormwood .
A letter from Constantinople of the 2 oth ult ., in tho National Gazette of Berlin , says that the remaining Hungarian refugees who bad been at Schumla , arrived in that city on that day , nnd were about to be shipped off for England " . The government had eiven each of them 300 piastres . The refugees at Kintaya were shortly to be set at liberty , tho government of Vienna having , after much resistance , yielded to the wishes of tho Ottoman Porte . This letter confirms tho news of tho death of General Bom , at Aleppo , and states that tho government greatly regretted his loss , as ho had commenced the introduction of several useful reforms in the Turkish army .
Accessibility takes away , instead of bestowing the zest . Sir Walter Stot ' t admitted that he bad never visited Melrose Abbey by moonlight ; and L . E . L ., who had lived most of her life in London , bade her last farewell to England without having once entered tbe doors of Westminster Abbey . — Morning Chronicle . Tins i'ollowino is the proportion of committals to tho population of the three kingdoms-. —In England and Wales , one offender to 573 persons ; in Ireland , ono offender to W-k persons ; in Scotland , one offender to G 01 persons ; so that by this scale Scotland appears to be tho highest , and Ireland tho lowest in general civilization . —Spectator . Something Behkatii the Surface . —A
Frenchman , conversing in English with an Englishman staying in Paris , on the subject of tho underground concerts in that capital , asked if there were any similar establishments in London . The Englishman quietly replied , that Loudor .. abounded in , Musicsellers . Oh I— Cock ' s Musical Miscellany . A youxo lady , passing from Scotland to England at Christmas , brought with her , openly , a coupla of gallons of whisky , with a permit attached , which , she was told , would keep her all right . Not so . Her whiskv was seized at Berwick—and she , too , was seized . * She was kepi in durance three da y s , and then sit at liberty . Repbksestatiox of 0 ' LA . vossAxsniRE . — A Protectionist candidate , Sir George Tyler , supported bv the Bridgend Agricultural Protection Society , hiis issued an address to the electors . Although no second candidate has yet been formerly announced , it is not expected that Sir George will bo permitted to walk over the course unopposed .
The coon-humour of some people is owing to an inexhaustible fund of self-conceit—Eliza Cook ' s Journal . The recent staterasnt in reference to Dr . Kitto ' s infirmities—that he is both deaf aiid dumb—is corrected , on " the best authority-, " only the former ot these misfortunes is suffered by him . The reduction of the duty on conveyances does not affect cabs nor omnibuses . The stamp on Indentures cf Apprenticeships depends on the number of words , it beii . g thought that , between master aud servant , the fewer words the better . Song fob . Mr . St . Baitsahas Bessitt . — " 1 ' vb been Rome-ing , I ' ve been ltome-ing . "—Punch .
Those who contemplate on the multitude of railroadsthe immensity of hit am power—the improvements in tlie mechanical , manufacturing , and agricultural Knowledge of our countrymen , may truly exclaim , ' This is an Ag" ol Wonders . ' Hut it is not in those extensive « H '» irs only that society is rapidly advancing : the art of medicine nuts in its claim for a stiai-e in producing tli « general anithora . tion . Diseases which , only a few year * ago were most alarmine , are now subdued , ov rendered easy ot cure- tlie small . ppx annihilated by the philosophy of a Jenner . and the gout not feared , seeing there is a speedy remedy in Blair" ! Gout nnd Itheumutic Pills ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 18, 1851, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_18011851/page/5/
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