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OLITICAL AND SOCIAL REGE-leader—their in...
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A Land Balloting Society enrolled by Tid»
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Pratt.—EMIGBA.TIOJJ to America.—A lectur...
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THE VICTIMS. This is cold weather, and t...
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THE NORTHERN STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1848.
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OUR ANNIVERSARY. This day we commence th...
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POLITICAL AND SOCIAL REGENERATION. THE L...
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THE LAST ARGUMENT OF KINGS. We direct th...
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THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND MR O'CONNOR. W...
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to fleaim-fli & emTe0ponlttiit0.
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J. Sweit acknowledges the receipt of the...
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RECEIPTS OF THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY, F...
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Friends .. 0 I fi Mr Page .. 0 2 0 Hanlo...
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CENTRAL VICTIM FUND. Receipts of Weok, e...
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DEFENCE AND VICIIM FUND. BECEIVED BY WIH...
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Olitical And Social Rege-Leader—Their In...
THE NORTHERN STAR November 18 , 1848 , ^ — - .... . ' ' ¦ ¦ " i 1 1 .
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MUiS BLASCT 8 RBPLT IO U . IB 11 R ^ V . Sow Ready , price < d .. In a neat wjHjJV wlth * " 1 ^ and Portrait of the Auttor . : COCIALISM-THB RIGHT- TO > J £ ™* « By V . LOUIS BWSO . «*« f rJ 2 mv ' I Te « YeW and The Or ^ 'J ^ f . ^ ffiee , M . - 'Botf PjhBshed at the SriMt «* " omc ' , Court , Fleet ttreet , London . ,
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^ « p «» yuei ! I ; UNDER GOVERNMENT . , Kow SSE 5 S aug * * - «*» «~ wo | GU IDE TO GOVERNMENT SITUATIONS , , eont * ininff Salaries given in eack Office , ioth at ; »/« , « and Abroad-Fatronage , in whom Yested . lrW SXJcf of- Aceountof eaen Offict-Kumoer of Clerks ! iv ^ ea- QuaHflcations— Hours of Attendance Ac ; "" sent < o-i * t . free ) on receipt of twenty-fjur stamps byi fta puMUher , C . Mitchel , Red Lloo , Court , Fleet-Street . londoa . '
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TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her Majesty Queen Victor !* , and H . R . H . Prince Albert . NOW READY , THE LONDON AND PABIS WfNTEK FASHIONS for 184 M 9 , by Messrs Benjamin READ ud . Co ., W . EwrUtreet , BtoomBburj-squaie , London * , and t y G . breecu , Holywell-street , Strand ; ave ? splendid PRIST , raiwrblv crloured , accompanied Trith the most fashionable , novel , and extra-fitti « g Ridiag Drees , Huntinrand Frock-Coat Patterns ; the Albert Paletot , Dress and Morning Waistcoats , both single and doable breasted . Also , the theory of Cutting Cloaks of every description fully est-lained , trith diagrams , asd every tbing respertms style and fashion illustrated . The method of inarHtsmV and diminishing all the patterns , or any otheri « articularly explained . Price 10 s . * HEAD and Co . beg to inform those who consider it aot riirbt to » av the foil price for the n « w system of Cuttins . haxinsr . recently jawhased tke old one , that any persons having done so vithin tho last year , will De cfaanreJ only half p rice for tha « hole ; or any parts of the new system , published I 8 t 8 , which will supersede everytSuic of the kind before conceived . Particulars and terms sent , post free . Patent Measures , with full explanation . 5 s . the set . Patent Indicator , 7 s post-free . Kegivtered patterns to measure . Is , each post-free . Sold bv Read and Co ., 1 ? . Hart-street , Bloomsbury-square , London ; and aU Booksellers . Post-office orders , an 4 Post Stamps , taken as Cash . Habits performed for the Trade . Bast * for fitting Ceate on ; Boys figures . Foremen provided . — Instructions in cutting complete , for all kinds of Style an * . Fashion , which can \& aecomiAiA & A in an inereclbis ahtattisae .
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DO YOU SUFFER TOOTHACHE ?—If so , us Bcasoe's EsjLdZL for filling tha decayed spots , rendering defective teeth sound and painless . Price One Ssiilinjf only , similar to that sold at Two Shillings and Sixpence . Sold by chemists everywhere . Testimonials . —* It has civea me the use of one side cf my ranutb , which luxury I had not enjoyed for about two years . —E . J . Macdo . valo , Belford . Nor thumberland . It is the most effective and painless cure for toothachel hare erer found . I have no hesitation in recommendituutto a'd sufferers . ' -Captaln Thomas Wbiobt , J 2 , Xewingwn-cnsceBt , Iiondon . I have filled two teeth , and find I can use them as well as ever I did in my life . I have not had the toothache since . ' — Ajjbahah Coiiwe , JJorth-brook-place , Bradford , Yorkshire . See numerous other testimonials in various newsrawrs , every one of winch is strictly authentic . K at > y difficnlty in obtaining it occurs send One Shilling and a Stamp to J . Willis , i , Bell ' s-buUdings , Salisbnry-sqnare , London , and you will ensure it hy return of pest . —Agents wanted .
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EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA AND THE CAPS OF GOOD HOPE . —The splendia following ship * will be despat : hed as tinder : — For ALCOA BAY , November tftb , the PERSETERANCH . 400 tons , F . THOMPSON , Master ; loading in the London Docks . For the CAPE of GOOD HOPE , December 1 , the JTJCUNA , 569 tons , F . KOffLES , Master ; loading in St Eatherine Docks . For PORT PHILIP and SYDN'EY , Kovember 25 th , the BEULAH , 573 tons , 3 . H . M . STRD 30 S , Master ; loadins in the London Docks . The above fast-sailing ships are commanded by efficient o'Scers , and are fitted with speeial attention to the comfort and convenience of every class of passengers . They have most specious 'tween decks , we-i ventilated , are fittrdwith lifeboats , carry experienced surgeons , aad are provisioned on the most liberal scale . k Firaiiins can hare their berths so arranged that they can he entirely to themselves , and not mix with the other passengers . These ships will be found most eligible aa they com bine comfort and economy , while they take only a limited number . For fre ' ght or passage apply to r 7 . 0 . Youn » , 1 , iojal Exchange Buildings ; or to W . S . Lindsay , II , Abchorch Lane , London .
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FREEH OLD LAND and COTTAGES , the property of a private Gentleman , with immediate possession , -J miles frosa O'Connorville , may be bought EOfcB-tO confer VOTES for the County of Buckingham , or will be let on leases for any number of years—S 69 , if required . Bent for a ttvo-raomed cottage and garden , Its . 6 d . per quarter ; with one acre of land , in addition S 6 s . per quarter . Persons having a small income , or who can maiinfacture articles for Loudon employers , will do well to attend to this immediately . Twelve families of ¦ weavers , stu-emakers , tailors , & c , & c , were located on thi ; estate through one single advertisement . Applicants who could not then be accommodated should renew their applications , as they may now not , or purchase , from one-eighth of an acre to twenty acres of rich corn , growing , or building land ; the Freeholder contracting in all cases t » take upon himself ths whole of the law expenses . For full particulars , apply ( if by letter , post-paid , and encvodhg a stamp ) to Mr i . Hibeet , modal lodging boose , George Street , Bloomsbnry , London —( and not to Mr Brook stationer , who was referred to last week by Bustske )—who will be « t home from eight till nine in the rooming , November lsth to the 25 th , December 2 nd to the Sth , and every alternate week through the winter .
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OS SALE , A PAID-UP FOUR-ACRE SHARE in the Land Company , free from all demands . As the owner thinks of emigrating , and is in immediate want of the money , he will sell the shore for £ i 8 sld , being a sacrifice of 16 s upon tke whole . Persons desirous of purchasing , may apply to John Gamett , Damside , Keighley . secretary to the branch ; or to the owner , Jonas UUngworth , Harden , near Keighley .
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TO BE SOLD , fPWO FOUR-ACRE PAID-UP SHARES in the - * - National Land Company . Apply , prepaid , to T . B ., 31 , HinsterLovel , near "Witney , Oxford .
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FOR SALE , A PAID-UP FOUR-ACRE SHARE in tbe Kational Lan < Company , with , att dues clear oa the CompmjV book . Price £ i its . Direct , Greenwood Hartley , Grange , Accrington .
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r VO BE SOW , AT O'CONNORVILLE , A J- FOOR-ACRE ALLOTMEST .-This is wort > y the notice of any onedesiroas of locating on the Land , at the present occupier has spared no expense la the improvement Fwu unforeseen circumstances he will part with it for £ K , with the liabilities . For further particulars apply by lettsr ( enclosing a stamp ) to Mr Williahs , No . 12 , O ' Connorville , Rickmansworth . Herts .
A Land Balloting Society Enrolled By Tid»
A Land Balloting Society enrolled by Tid »
Pratt.—Emigba.Tiojj To America.—A Lectur...
Pratt . —EMIGBA . TIOJJ to America . —A lecture was delivered on Monday at the White Conduit House , by Mr W . Coates , in explanation of the Potters ' Emigration Society ' s plan for providing employment for our surplus labour . The lecturer , a working man from the potteries , commenced by reading the pro-pectusof the society : « the operative potters of Staffordshire offers lo their fellow-workmen of the United Kingdom twenty acre farms and an efficient rnea ^ s of protecting the Value of their labour without resorting to ruiuoua and expensive strikes . Contributions to be payable sixpence per week for each share ef £ 1 Is 6 & , giving the right to a ballot for priority of'transmigration to a twentv-acre farm at the cost price of £ 5 10 s ., the sum " of £ i 8 s 6 d being advanced from the society ' s funds , together with the migrating expenses of each member and family to the firm , the cost of erectintt thejeglhouse , breaking up and fencing five acres of the land , and sowing the same with wheat and Indian corn . Credit to be given for twelve months' provisions . The wholeof the sum thus advanced to be repaid in ten years * The lecturer said that from the ruinous consequences to the potters and all other trades from strikes and combinations within the last eighteen years , ai ! f whlc ' 3 had ended in their being compelled to submit to their employers' terms , attention had been turned to the purchase of Iaui abroad , aud it was found iuat in the United States of America they could get possession rfiwenty acres for the cost of one acre in England . A code of laws had been formed , approved by Mr Tidd Pratt , the society enroled , and , notwithstanding g .-eat political and general opposition , they had at length succeeded iu purehasine . tocomtaence with 1 , 600 acres in thestate O Wisconsin : ( he eti & te . was named Poftersville , and upon it fifty families from this country were already located ; these families , previously without a sixpence , and who bad the workhouse staring them in the face , were in good health and doing well ; their latest letters stated that tbey never wished to retorn to England . Of fifty of his friends who had emigrated two or three years since , not one had died , or had any sickness , but enjoyed better health than in this country . Thiibs , Chakgarsieb , and Bvazwo have ben named by several journals as eandidatesf ir the Prerdeney . but a 1 three have declined the contest , neither had a chance of election . Tarsia ia too ttUCh hated by tho wotkiEg classes ; Cbaxgabsw , thougb . aR-. yahst , * too IKtto known even to the tvurgemae ; and BcofAuj is too well known . The "temmator ol the Arafa ,- « ie hero of the butchery inUu RueTransnonain . has retired from the strll ^ JtT L ^^ , ^ ^^ G ^ tsble ' BoZ . i ^? 3 Stt ££ ! 5 itt
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— - .... . How Beady , aKew Edition of 4 I & O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SHALL FARMS T 3 E CBKkTZIT TOITIOIC aVXMniUHCT . Price !« . <& , A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of to Author , of PAINE'S POLITICM WORKS . Just published , price 3 d .,
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THE EVIDENCE . firVBJI BY JOHN SiLLETT , In bis Examination before the Committee oa the National Land Company . This important body of evicanoe forma sixteen closelv prin * ed pages , and conclusively proves what may he done , to explaining what John Silletfc has ¦ done , with Two Acres .
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No . 23 , OF "TIE LABOURER " CONTAIirS TWO ABTICLM B ? MS . XBSXST JOHXS , eonTEw : — 1 . Tha Systxm of Land Tenure and Agriculture in Guernsey . 2 . The Murdered Trooper 3 . Hutional Literature , i . The Eve of St . John . Just Published , price Is . eVL , ibrming a neat volume , EVIDENCE TARES BY THE SELEGT COMMITTEE Appointed to inquire into Ths National Laud Compaq ; * ith a review of the laEe ' and aa n line of the Propositions for amending the tonstitution of the Company , so as to comply with the Provisions of the Law . Watson , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row , Loudon : A Heywood , Manchester : and all Booksellers in Town aod Country .
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PQRTRAITJ / GUFFEY . The above portrait , taken by his fe'low-saffereri Wm . Dowling , is bow ready . Price 63 . Orders ie < ceived by Mr Dixon , 144 , High Holborn .
The Victims. This Is Cold Weather, And T...
THE VICTIMS . This is cold weather , and the p rison is a cold place , but not colder than the fireless heanh of the prisoner ' s family . To say inucli upon their sufferings would be but to wound their feelings and to insult your p ride . You onl y require to be reminded to be roused , and therefore , in God ' s name , in the name of justice and not of charity , ! ask all to give a little , and to furnish the Victim Committee with the means of g iving some consolation to the cheerless families of the imprisoned victims , so that , though they may spend a cheeiless , they shall not spend a cold and hungry Christmas , Feargus O'Connor .
The Northern Star, Saturday, November 18, 1848.
THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 18 , 1848 .
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OUR ANNIVERSARY . This day we commence the twelfth year ' s yolume of the "Northern Star . " Since November , 1837 , we have witnessed changes not a few—some of which we have assisted , and some we have resisted . In both cases the results have satisfied us that we rightly interpreted our duty . We feel no regret for having supported the Ten Hours Bill ; we feel no remorse for having opposed " Free Trade . " In reviewing the past we make no pretension to having exhibited superior political foresight . Both in supporting and opposing public measures
our course has been straightforward , because guided by the common-sense maxim — " Honesty is the best policy . " Within tiie past eleven years we have seen Whigs become Tories , and Protectionists turn Free Traders . We have seen the longcontinued struggle for the Factory Bill crowned with victory , and Free Trade tried and pronounced a failure— " weighed in the balance and found wanting . " We have seen Whig traitors persecuting Irish patriots , and English Liberals marshalled in battle array against their more . liberal countrymen , the Chartists . We have seen the electors of
Nottingham thrust away Treasury hacks to elect the man of all others most hated by the men of Privilege , for his indomitable advocacy of the Rights of Labour . We have seen emptyheaded oligarchs and purse-proud millocrats humbled on the hustings , and defeated on the platform , by the uneducated but honesthearted sons of Industry . We have seen Chartism survive three great persecutions , and prove its indestructibility by the number of its martyrs . We have seen the vast estates of ducal aristocrats brought to the hammer , and poverty-stricken working men , by the power of their united pence , purchasing back their natural herita g e . We have seen , the
beginning of a movement which , based upon the Land , cannot fail to eventuate in the Eocial emanci p ation of the down-trodden masses . Abroad , we have seen thrones overturned and states shaken to their foundations hy the might of unorganised and unarmed multitudes . We have seen the power of a king , reputed to he the wisest and strongest in Europe , vanish like the mists of the morning before the rising sun of Proletarian power . We have seen" Some natuur—like overloaded asses-Kick off their burden .. , vanning the high classes . "
Lastly , we have seen the « Northern Star " maintain the even tenor of its way , in spite of prosecution and persecution ; and year by year grow in power and popularity . in defiance of the assaults of undisguised enemies , and the treacherous plottings of pretended friends . The year now rapidl y drawing to a close , has been one of trial and peril , unmatched by the stormiest times in the previous history of this journal . The extraordinary events of February and March—the astonishing victories gained hy the people of Paris , Berlin , Vienna , Milan , and a dozen minor cities , on tbe Continent , naturally excited popular
enthusiasm in this country . The agitation for the Charter could scarcely be said to exist twelve mouths age , but hardly had a month elapsed from the 24 th of February , when thousands might beseen thronging to Chartist gatherings all over the country . The fiery cross sped from north to south , and multitudes from the mine and the factory , the forge and the loom , responded to the appeal made its the name of the Charter . Unfortunately enthusiasm out-stri pped organisation , and our friends , eager for the contest , pushed on to meet the foe while yet unprepared for the struggle—of course they were defeated . Misdirected enthusiasm ever leads to ruin .
The errors of the " Convention" were enormously multiplied and magnified by the succeeding ?• Assembly ; " and hence , what might have been a temporary repulse became a thorough defeat Division and denunciation completed the sad work of self-destruction . Over ardent men , seeing the chances of victory rapidly disappearing , threw themselves into a hopeless struggle , and were of course sacrificed . Despairing men gave fatal attention to the suggestions of the tempter , and our disasters were crowned by the destruction of Powell ' s victims .
Between friends (?) and foes we have had onr share of abuse and danger . We have been abused for labouring to save the Movement from total shipwreck ; and the Gagging Bill is sufficient evidence that our coarse has been a perilous one . Nevertheless , in the darkest hour of the stormy times we have just passed though , we never despaired of Chartism . Convinced that the principles of the Charter were based on eternal Justice , we defied the tornado of tyranny , and smiled at
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the foam of faction . We have now our reward . At the very time of < eur anniversary we see Chartism rising onoemore to life and action , like a Phoenix sp ringing from its arihes . Prison-gates aMUcaasport-hatches fcfve scarcely closed open the victims ef tS 48 when , lo ! Chartism , like Lazarus , hursts the tomb , and eomee forth once again to trouble the hearts of tie doers of evil , and proclaim to the long-suffering millions ( the coming of that day" When sense and worth , o ' er a' ( he earth Shall bear the gree aa a * that . " .... « ,., .:
The Future demands a few words . Every y ear but adds to the experience of age tlbat the working class hare nothing , in the shape of justice , to hope for at the hands of any other class . Their emancipation both from political bondage and social thrall , must be self-wrought . It is no longer a questionito be argued , whether political or social reform should have precedence . Political reform is indispensable for the obtainment of social regeneration . It is true that Universal Suffrage , unaccompanied by political knowledge almost as universal , will not do much for any people , but it is also true that knowledge without power is necessarily useless . To know how to fell a tree is useless , unless one has an axe to go to work with :
and the mere knowledge of building will not suffice to erect a house , in the absence of brick or stone , mortar , wood , plaster , & c . A man may see how the poverty of the people might be turned to pIenteousness , but what avails that knowledge if the man is unpossessed of power to put his regenerating theories into practice ? Consequently , in the future , as in the past histery of this journal , we shall make the political emancipation of the people the great object © f our labours . We are with all who arefor THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER ; we are against all who are opposed to thatCH ARTElt . Now , as heretofore , our motto is ( and shall be in the days to come , as it was in the days that are gone ) ,
THE CHARTER ! AND NO
SURRENDER !" Though giving our first attention to the enfranchisement of the masses , social reform shall also have our ardent support . But we must explain . We do not intend to engage in a special crusade against drains and dunghills , churchyards and cesspools , we leave that work to the Cholera—the most sweeping and successful of Sanitary Reformers . Nor do we intend to render the " Star ' * particularly notorious by its advocacy of baths and wash-houses , ragged schools , or any other of the usual objects of professional philanthropists . Most assuredl y we shall not be caught advocating Emigration , unless it be the emigration of the
patrons and preachers of Emigration , whose company might be very well dispensed with . We have no objection to the removal of nuisances , the substitution of cleanliness for filth , and the diffusion of education . It is true we hava no liking for " ragged schools , " that is to say , we object to the rags not the schools ; we think , moreover , that the removal of the rags is the first thing necessary . Our great difference with the self , styled " philanthropists" and "social reformers " is , that they nibble at the fag-ends of the system , hut leave the system itself untouched . Ignorance , filth , and rags are the necessary consequences of the system , and as long as the : monster evil is uniformed these minor evils will increase and
multiply , much faster than ragged schools and wash-houses . Such remedies hut plaster the sore—not heal it . We demand a radical cure . We demand the consecration of what our French brethren term , "The Right to Labour . " We demand that the working man shall be placed in a position to earn his bread hy the sweat of his brow . Regarding the Land as the natural home of man , we demand that the exile shall he
restored to his home . " Man lives , therefore he has a right to live , " say our American brethren . We say so too , and we say with them , that te live , man must be put in possession of his heaven-given heritage — his native soil . The population called "surplus , " brought hack to the natural labour of cultivating the earth , cities would gradually be emptied of the miserable thousands whose lives are now
spent in ignorance , misery , and disease . The labourer on the Land , enjoying the full reward of his toil , would be able to educate his children , and dispense with the services of sanitary reformers . The worker in the artificial labour market , relieved from the devouring competition which at present drags down the labourer to the level of the pauper , would also be in a position to reject the degradation of " ragged schools , '' and other nostrums of philanthropists , because he would he able by his own independent exertions to provide for the education , health , and comfort of his family . With these views we shall continue to advocate
the Land Plan , believing , in spite of present discouragements , that that Plan , if carried out , is calculated to make thousands independent of the tyranny of capitalists , and the destructive revulsions of commerce . Nationally applied , the Land Plan would , we are persuaded , Jay the foundation of a new a < id happier state of society ; therefore , in advocating social reform , we mean that before all the Labourer shall be restored to the Land .
As regards the attitude we shall assume towards other parties , our course is plain . Men may preach what social nostrums they please without in t erference from us , except the interference of legitimate discussion . We except the emigration schemers , with them no terms should be kept . They are unmistakeable charlatans , and , as such , should be unmasked , exposed , and driven from the public arena . As regards political reform , we shall judge of every projectbrought before the public on its own merits . If men advocate the Charter , we shall not ask whether
they belong to the "Charter Association" or the " Charter Union , " the object of their advocacy will suffice to command our co-operation . On the other hand , no weight of name or purse shall prevent us opposing schemers of every description . We shall oppose them , however , with the weapons of fair argument and free discussion . When Anti-State Chuich men , Financial Reform men , or Household Suffrage men , attempt by petition—affecting to speak the sentiments of the people—to obtain national sanction for their schemes , it will be the duty of the Chartists to propose the Charter as an amendment . If wiere
is to bea . national agitation , that agitation must be for . justice to all—for the government of all , by all , and for all . Frenchmen have won their Charter at the cost of torrents of blood . Universal Suffrairp has received the same-baptism in Gernianjf ; and at this moment , the Prussian people are engaged in a death-strnggle with their faithless King to maintain their new-born liberties lor a moment the sanguinary hordes of Des- " potismhavesucceededin crushing thegallant r f , f if * i ** thejtrfampli of Z Royal blood-hounds will be short-lived . The commgyear will witness over all the Continent the renewal of the struggle-a « tn « fa wiu
wmen no t cease until the people are finally victorious . Working men of Great Britain , will you alone tamel y hug y our chains ? -Heaven forbid ! Without any bloody struggle you may win your Freed om if you will but make the effort . You havp sufficient power under the pre 6 ent system to . change itfor a better , without having- recourse to the musket and . the sabre . Let then the future redeem the errors of the oast Let 1840 not pass away without your rulers ' being made to comprehend the "m-eat fact , " that THE PEOPLE ARE THF SOURCE OF ALL POWER ™
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POLITICAL AND SOCIAL REGENERATION . THE LAND AND THE CHARTER . Prolixity and repetition often tend to weary the reader , to weaken arguments , and injure a good "Cause ; while , upon the other hand , tke want of exp lanation and connexion , however proliir . the expounder may be , may leave his readers in the dark as to his object or the vsdue of its realisation , and hence we find that the mystery of interested theorists has so entangled -or left unexplained the Labour Question , rinTTHPrnAT ATSJn SOCIAL
REGRas to leave the solution of that great question , a yet unravelled problem . The Rig hts of Labour have been heretofore , and throughout all time , attempted to be based upon such a political basis as would give political power to the propounders of the most fascinating theory , until at length we find the whole continent of Europe convulsed—nay , revolutionised—in consequence ef the most enthusiastic theorists being unable to give a satisfactory solution of the Labour
Questionwhich is the life question—and so long as the working classes are satisfied that their condition should he measured by the comparative scale of comfort , we are enabled to ascribe the present anomalous distress of the working classes to the accumulation of individual capital , which constitutes a destructive despotism . To the possession and command of the monster evil—MACHINERY—we ascribe this fatal error ; and to its unlimited power is to be attributed the present unsettled ' state of Europe .
We have been censured for opposing Free Trade ; we have been censuied for withdrawing our opposition at the critical period , when continued resistance might have enabled the leaders of tho Irish people to persuade tf em , that , but for the resistance of the English Chartists to cheap bread , all those who perished would have been preserved , and all those who were in want would have been in affluence , or at least in comfort . We have been censured
for preferring the Free Trade of Peel , with the timely and prudent concessions which were sure to follow , had he remained in power , to the Free Trade of Russell , which but meant the possession of power ; we have been censured by the Anti-Corn-Law League and their MYRMIDONS , for our predictions as to what the inevitable result of Free Trade must be ; and we have been censured by the most enthusiastic Chartists for having attached a SOCIAL SYSTEM to our POLITICAL CREED .
The Chartists never having evinced much enthusiasm—in a pecuniary sense—towards the cause , reviled the establishment of the Land Company , numbering seventy thousand , and nearly the entire of whom were the oldest , the best , the most enlightened and consistent advocates of Chartism . The enthusiastic who scoffed at the possession of a cottage and four acres of Land , when all other channels of industry were closed against the individual pauper—denounced the Land Plan as the destroyer of Chartism , while those who did not join in the social move were only prepared , upon the depression of trade and bad times , to assist ^ in the Chartist movement , and then only with cheers .
However , if the Land Plan—which is the only possible social plan for the emancipation of Labour—has had to stand the assaults of enthusiasm , the meeting of Land Delegates at the Birmingham Conference , at theShip'i ' ayern , has relieved the social question of the political odium sought to be cast upon it . Here we find that thirty-seven delegates chosen by the Land members , after nine hours' daywoik , devoting their nig hts to the resuscitation of the Chartist cause . We find them outbidding each other , not in mock enthusiasm , but in
sanguine hope ; we find them bitterly denouncing the errors which led to the partial suppression of our cause , and anxiously recommending a system of organisation which nmst lead to its * resurrection , followed , not by empty cheers , hut by substantial subscriptions . And with that discrimination which will ever belong to , and he found ; n , a just representation of the Chartist mind , and which proves their fitness for the selection .. of representatives , we find them appointing—if not the most efficientas efficient a secretary as England could suppl y —Mr Samuel Kydd .
The great , the paramount duty of a Chartist Parliament would be to 'see and know how to equalise taxation , and to decide upon a just and equitable distribution . And here we find a Parliament elected by the poor to look to the equitable application of their funds , giving their most anxious consideration to the revival of their political principles ; a fact which we fondly hope one day to see realised , and which now stands as the GREAT FACT , that Landism and Chartism are not only not incompatible , but are as Siamese twins , that cannot be separated without danger to both .
As long as the working classes confined their agitation to political questions , in which they may be resisted > by the force of law , or which—when threatening danger to capital or monopoly—might be taken out of their hands , and reduced to the standard of middle class necessity—so long was their agitation sneered at ; but the moment the social benefit was tacked to the political change , then did the factions and their organs wage " war to the knife" against the realisation of the system which alone could make Labour independent of Capital , and political power the means of social happiness .
America is already beginning to declaim against the system of Free Trade , which staticians show has paralysed Labour , and caused poverty and destitution to the working man ; while , if the land of America was free , as it ought to be , to all those who were displaced by our present artificial system , universal Free Trade , instead of being a curse , as it now is , would then be a blessing , as machinery woald then be man s holiday and man ' s friend , instead of man's curse and man ' s oppressor . It is a melancholy fact , day after day to read of shipwrecked emigrants , while the land of their birth is calling for their , labour . It is
blasphemy upon the part of our rulers and paid parsons , to hear them preaching emigration with the odds of shipwreck fearfully against the emigrant , while they tell their congregations that man was created of the earth after the image of his Maker , and told to live upon the land in the sweat of his own brow , and that the birds of the air , the beasts of the field , and the fishes in the sea , were given to him as his patrimony . Here is England , in the nineteenth century , with a debt larger than the rest of the world owes , and contracted for tho preservation of her glorious Constitution , the env y and admiration of surrounding nations ,
with her astounding inventions and improvements in the arts and sciences—with her steam navigation—her railways—her incomparable machinery— her penny postage—her electric telegraph—her printing press—and , above all , the new mind created by those changes- —here is England , in this age of progression , hoping to govern upon the old precedents of dead men , whose opinions , while living , were disregarded—and by obsolete laws , made , not for the mere government , but for the subjugation of mind , in the more barbarous ages , when the feudal lord was the maker , the administrator , and the executor of the law .
Here is England still hoping to govern some by the mystery of priestcraft and others by the terror of the sword , while the more civilised countries of Europe , not possessed of those astounding advantages , are proclaiming changes which our rulers vainly hope to resist by the suppression of public opinion . The last session of Parliament was wholly governed by apprehension and fear , and the Ministry was only sustained by those means . It ended its sittings by indulging its Chancellor of the Exchequer with an additional two millions to preserve peace abroad and at home , but the next session will be of a very different character—the Protectionists have ' lost their
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leader—their indefatigableand straightforward leader ; and , under the present system , there is no possible salvation for the landed proprietors , and the GREAT GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND , but the substitution of PEEL for RUSSELL , It may be a source of annoyance to be bitten by one ' s own dog , but it is a greater disaster to be devoured b y your neighbour ' s ; and the Protectionist party may rest assured that there is no possible . hope of escape except in timely surrender , as the alternative now is to preserve their position according to the standard of PEEL FREE TRADE POLICY , or by obstinacy to Jose , not only position , but property—which gives position—by waiting upon the RUSSELL FREE TRADE leader-theirindefatigableand straightforward
PATRONAGE SYSTEM , The Labourer is now the man whose condition requires primary consideration . The Labourer is the man whose toil replenishes the Exchequer , or whose unwilling idleness threatens dinger to the State , and requires more ample means than when in a state ef comfort to make him obedient to the laws . Is it not an anomaly that in the same proportion as destitution increases—does the necessity of increased taxation follow , in order to silence that destitution ?
France has proclaimed its bag of moonshine as its Constitution ; but the power that framed it is yet behind it—is greater than the Constitution , and can remodel it at pleasure . The struggle for a President in that country has yet to come on , and the dangers described by Lamartine , as consequent on the election of that officer by the National Assembly , instead of being confined to the anticipation of patronage and favouritism within its narrow sphere , will now be measured by the most diffuse local , sectional , and national bribery , hypocrisy , deception , treachery , and fraud . . Napoleon elected , and the bag of moonshine has
a most appropriate representative . INapoleon rejected , and the bag of moonshine vanishes into air . Napoleon is as fit to hold the office of President as he is to be Prime Minister of England . Napoleon understands as much about the LABOUR QUESTION—which is the VEXED QUESTION—as an old woman that never saw a field , or heard of a factory . Upon the other baud , should Cavaignac be elected , the seeds of eternal warfare between the adherents of the President and the Bonapartists are sown , and will be watered with blood , while Labour will reap none of the fruits .
Prussia ' s monarch is in his hiding-place , his power depending upon the cast of the die ; but never can be so resuscitated as again to make him the valuable auxiliary of the British monarchy , or a trump card in the British Minister ' s hand . The palace of the Casars is abandoned by its vacillating Emperor . All Italy is in a state of combustion . Sardinia commands its monarch . Hungary , Sicily / Naples , Lombard y , and nearly all the states of Europe , are convulsed . Spain is tottering . Portugal is known but upon the map . Ireland is in a state of incipient
revolution . England is all but bankrupt , and the rallying cry of parties determined to cling by an adopted fiction is— " Down with the Chartists ! " because they advocate the cause of Labour ; while the want of the proper adjustment of the Labour Question has led to every continental revolution ; but , still clinging to hope , our incapable rulers vainly imagine that Labeur can be still kept in subjection at home —that the Chancellor of their Exchequer , like a magician , can apply his charmed wand to the chesti cry— ** Open sesame— ' and that the treasure will jump forth .
Hence we show and hence we prove that the Labour Question must be settled , and that there is no possible mode of settlement except by locating thejunwilling idlers upon the Land , and giving the vote to all to protect their inheritance , when all will speedily possess themselves of the means of defending a Constitution which will THEN be the boast of England and the ENVY AND ADMIRATION OF SURROUNDING NATIONS .
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THE LAST ARGUMENT OF KINGS . We direct the attention of our readers to the news from Germany in oar Seventh Page . Order reigns in Vienna ! The bombardment of that devoted city has been followed up by the daily execution of scores of the patriots . The gallant Messenhauser , commander of the National Guard , has been ruthlessly slaughtered , and the eloquent , high-hearted Robert Blum , deputy from Leipsic to the Frankfort Parliament , has shared the same fate . This last horrible outrage will , however , seal the doom of the Reactionists . War—war to the knife—to the death—will be the cry of the German people . The latestj . ' accounts from Berlin are of the most thrilling interest . The infernal King designs a repetition of the Austrian tragedy . But the Prussians have the fate of the people of Vienna before their eyes . If they yieldwholesale murder will be the order of the day . Behold the bitter fruits of that fatal mercy shown by the people in March last . The Mast argument of Kinds' cannot fail to be henceforth the last argument of the pepole . It is the only argument kings can he made to comprehend . May they be speedily enlightened !
The National Assembly And Mr O'Connor. W...
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND MR O'CONNOR . We have received thirty pages and a half of closely-written matter on foolscap , signed "Robert Cochrane , delegate from Paisley , James Adams , and Andrew Harley , delegates from Glasgow to the National Assembly , " purporting to he the exposition of their opinions of Mr O'Connor ' s conduct in connexion with that body , while , in reality , it contains one huge mass of vulgar names and low denunciation , spreading over a period of time , embracing frem 1839 , when the first Convention sat , down to the present time ; and even the supporters of those delegates cannot for a moment presume that five or six mortal columns of the " Star" are to be devoted to a heterogeneous mass of personal abuse and selflaudation . Every single matter mentioned in this long rigmarole , in connexion with the National Assembly , was brought forward by Mr Shirron at Aberdeen , replied to by Mr O'Connor , and published in the "North British Express . ' ' It has been our custom to allow great privilege to writers , even when the proprietor of the paper was the subject of the most virulent abuse , but we certainly cannot throw open our columns to the extent re * quired by the trio of Gentlemen above named . There was one important iiem omitted in the address , namel y , that when denunciation of Feargus O'Connor could no longer be made the stock-in-trade of Scotch delegates , Mr James Adams was appointed spokesman of a deputation who called upon Mr O'Connor at tiiis office to furnish the needy with the means of returning to their disgusted constituents . The only parallel wt enn furnish for the Scotch abuse , is that of the Solicitor , who , finding that his client had a had case , directed counsel" to abuse the plaintiff ' s Solicitor . "
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J. Sweit Acknowledges The Receipt Of The...
J . Sweit acknowledges the receipt of the fgllowin ir , swn * for Mr * M'Douiul , vis ,: - £ s . d . Mr Meudt .. .. .. „ „ 0 0 2 Mr Broxholme „ „ „ h 0 0 S Mr Shepherd M . 008 Mr Chipindale .. 010 AND FOB . GENERAL YICMM FOND , From New Radford 0 12 £ T Vf e are informed that ia order to raise funds fer the defence of the Chartists , to be tried at Liverpool , on the 12 th of December , charged with conspiracy , Mr . Donovan Intends visiting Rochdale , an Sunday , Kov , UHh ; Todm # raen , Mondty ; Kebileo Bridge , Tue » day ; SoOerby Bridge , Wednesday ; Ellaad , Thursday ; Halit > x , Friday ; Sunday , No ? . 28 th , Dewsbury ; Hudcie . '< ineld , Aloaday ; Doneaster , Tuesday ; Barnsley ' . Wedaesi . ' ay ; Sheffield , Thursday ; Mottram , Friday ' and Sstalj-t ^ ridfte , Sunday , December 2 nd . E . Uobeetsoh ,- Ermington . —We hare sent your letter to toe Land Dirt ^ tow ,
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T . w . O ., Stockport . —Any member may transfer m . shares on the payment of one sbiMlnfr , at the oftWl tbe Company , and liquidating all his local and ew >« L ? dUW .-THOKAS Cham . 8 tuw w & T In oonseqaenoe of the announcement of fe . u , coming meetings , balls , tea parties , & c , h & m ^ r lat » ly charged to us as advertisements , we hare }* compelled to condense them as much as possible w " hopa our correipondents will bo brief in their « u uouncements , and make a distinction batwesn ltt and Chartist meetings . Sevsral notices of meetin hare lately been sent to us witaout the date or tlroe ?? meeting . We receded one from Ashton under LvrS last ( reek , statin ? that a meeting wonld be hjj /„ half-past ten o ' elock , omitting the day on which such meeting was to take place . We have received several announcements similar to it this week , and such oar ties must blaaaa themsslves if their meetings arenr t noticed . n Jvsivs—We are Porry that your excellent letter has bet * excluded from this week's Stab . It shall appear inon , next number . w ^ -. ^ <>• . stoekport-Any member may transfer m .
John Lowet , Carlisle , injacknowledging his election « . one ot the Executive Committee , suggests that the ner sons selected by the Birmingham meeting should be elected by their several constituencies ; such a sten Mr Lowry thinks would ensure confidence in the nj » Executive , M . Jdde , Kewcastle-on-Tyne . —The Land notice is inad . misslble . A Lovbb op Thoth , Blackburn ; J . Whits , Fa : kirk ; jn ( L . M „ Thornton We have no room . 0 . Cavil , Sheffield . —Tbe lines shall appear . J . Putnam Glenister , Cheltenham . — Thanks for the paper , which we hare net yet had time to peruse , it shall have our attention . ^ 22 Mr P . Snaith , Darlinjrton . —You and all agents in the county of Durham , will find their portraits of Mitchel have been seat to the care of Mr J . Turnbull , Side , Newca « tle .
Thomas 0 » mishe & has received £ l ( towards the de . fence of the Manchester Victims ) from John Gilbert , son , of Carlisle .
Receipts Of The National Land Company, F...
RECEIPTS OF THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY , FOR THE WEEKS ENDING THURSDAY , flOYEMBE ft 9 . & U , 1848 . PER MR 0 'CONNOB . IHA » M . £ t , c 7 , Bridgewater , Spur- Bristol ., 2 0 8 way „ 2 10 Leicester , Bar . Nottingham , row „ 0 2 9 SiTeot , .. 0 4 9 Rochdale „ 1 13 & Salford „ 2 5 0 Lynn . Scott .. 0 12 0 Llanelly „ » 8 o Devizes .. 3 15 6 Manchester .. 17 0 Chas Mowl „ 0 2 0
Leigh M 0 18 Thos Crabb .. 0 10 Herninghold .. 050 Wra Bailey .. 016 Merthyr , Powell 1 14 11 Edmund J acksen 0 10 Westminster ,. 0 4 6 Ben ) Cowlishaw 0 10 Birmingham , Ceo Don M 0 1 0 Goodwin „ 0 16 2 Jos Richards .. t 7 ) South Shields „ 4 l ( 0 Thos Davenport 0 7 6 Nottingham , JasBntler „ o l Q Sweet „ 0 11 8 Thos Cork .. 0 5 0 Kacup » 5 0 0 Jas Whiteley .. B 19 0 Blackburn « 0 0 2 John Collison .. 0 10 0 Easlngton Lane 0 0 3 Leamington .. 2 8 0-Leeds „ 4 14 4 Q Comptcn „ OSS Corbridge „ 0 5 0 BR Salmon ., 0 4 ft
£ 38 1 g 1 XPBNSB POND . ' ' Nottingham , South Shields „ 0 6 ft Sweet M 0 8 6 Nottingham , Llanelly .. 0 3 0 Sweet „ 0 9 » Mertbyr , Powell 0 16 Basington Lano 0 5 0 Thos Devonport 0 2 0 I 1 MB ft 11 9
LOAN FVKD . Nottingham , Bristol „ 0 12 10 Sweet .. 0 16 Snig ' s End „ 0 6 7 Blackburn „ 0 6 6 Geo Allison „ 0 10 Y . Rossiter ,. 0 0 4 £ 18 9 BONDS . Birmingham , Netvburg , J ; Goodwin ,, 016 6 Stone „ 10 0 Carlisle „ 10 0 0 Geo Wright .. 0 7 9 12 4 o
Land Fund 38 7 5 ExpenHO Fond ... ... ... 1 11 9 Loan Fund 18 9 Bjuub 12 4 0 _ £ 53 _ 1 UI Wm , Dixok , CBUAIOraES Doili , Tnoa . Ciias , ( Corret , See . ) Paiur U'GBATa , ( Fin , Sso , ) FOR THE EXECUTIVE . BECIIVJJD BY 6 . KTDD . Todmor ^ en , per Collected at Bir . Isaac Hartley 0 16 4 mingham , ' per Nottingham , per J Sweet .. S 2 H i Sweet .. 8 2 0 Leicester , psr \ Y The Byron Coltman M 0 3 6 Ward , Ditto .. 0 3 0 Cheltenham per Witham , per Mr JHemmin „ 0 4 5 Fish .. 0 5 0 Northampton , Derby , ' William Mrs Jones » 0 10 Short ,, 010 0 £ 5 6 3 KECBIYED BY W . BIDE & . Accrlngton , per G Hartley M ., 086 RECEIVED AT LAND OFFICE . Stourbridge « « .. all 6 VICTIM TUND . PER Ma o ' CONHOB . For Kn Jones , From P . W . per Toll Bar Walsh , Bir . Keeper .. 0 1 0 mingham ., 0 5 0 RECEivxo at land office . Thos Browning 0 16 CNippard .. 0 0 6 Ilobt Cole H 0 0 6 W Donaldson , of S C , City ,. 0 0 3 Warwick , and Three Friends 0 4 0 RECEIVED BT S . KTDD . Sunderland , Thre * Northampton ,
Friends .. 0 I Fi Mr Page .. 0 2 0 Hanlo...
Friends .. 0 I fi Mr Page .. 0 2 0 Hanloy and Shel- For Defence of J ton , per Mr West , T L .. 0 10 Bevington .. 0 10 0 Congreave Foul . Sheffield , per G ton & F Lever 0 9 9 CaviU » 0 10 6
FOR MRS M'DOUALL . BECEIVED BY W . BIDES . Brighton , ser W Merthyr Tydvil , FJoiyer „ 0 7 2 per D R Mor . gau ., 0 11 2 Mr Fish , Witham , .. ., 006
FOR MR CUFFAY . BECEIVFD BY W . B 1 DEB . Hartlepool , per M Parkinson H .. 031 FOR WIYES AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . i BECE 1 YED BY W . EIDER , J Gale Jersey M 6 0 6 Cheltenham , per W Rigg , Hex- J Hemmin .. § 19 5 ham M 0 2 6 Carlisle , per J Gorton , near Man- Gilbertson .. 0 10 0 Chester , per T Brighton , per W Ormesbaw ,, 0 7 6 Flower' .. 019 7
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CENTRAL VICTIM FUND . Receipts of Weok , ending Nav . lG . h . £ s , d . Land Offio ? , as per Stab ... ... 3 16 Mr Rirfcr , as per Stab ... . „ 4 0 8 Brunswick Hall , , „ 0 5 0 Nottingham , psr J . Sweet ... , „ 0 8 9 Mr Kydd 12 7 South Shields , per Mr John Kylo , „ 0 5 6 Peterboro' 0 3 * Female Oiartigts , per Mrs Mudle ... 0 7 0 West Bod Shoemakers 0 3 6 Cl'y Ladles' Shoemakers ... ... 0 2 7 Globe and Friends , per Mr KnowJes ... 0 10 6 Dhto 0 9 6 Csrtwritfht ' s locality 0 11 7 Mr T . Wilks 0 2 0 Thomfts Palue locality ,,, ... . „ 0 12 0 Ernest Junes locality ... ... ... 16 * Mr Kendal ... ... ... ... 0 10
Marshall 0 0 3 Cigar Maktw , per Mr Brick ... .. 0 5 0 Diiao Street ... ... ... .,. 0 7 2 Stmera Town ... ... ... 0 8 0 Hoxton ... ... ... ... 0 5 0 Crown autUnobor locality ... ... 10 0 £ 15 18 8 J . J . Msaaisuif , 2 C 6 i Strand , London , Honorary Secretary . Nov . lGcb , 1818 . The oomomtte request that all persons holding tickets fur tho late benefit at the Sitaad Theatre , will settle for tbo game forthnltti , In order that the account ma ; bo at once balanced .
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DEFENCE AND VICIIM FUND . BECEIVED BY WIHIAU EIDEB , Wandswortb . perG . Bake ... ... 0 6 6 Landernean ( France ) Frfrtdresser , per W . Aucbtalolne 1 10 Carllle , Coambers' Warpers , per J . Gilfcertson 0 10 0 * Moamouth , per B . Ellas 0 4 * Nottingham , 'Newton ' sHead , 'por J . Sweet S 2 Birmingham , Ptople'e HaU 0 14 6 Ditto , T . StarMn 0 0 * Thos . C . Ingram «»[ OwenMartiu ° i 2 Cbas . Beamei ... ... ... ° * ? Chas . Williams 0 0 C JohnDa > is 0 0 6 John HanoozTredegar ... ... ° ? £
, Bristol , per W . H . Hyatt „ . ... 0 l \ Brighton , per W . Flower ... . „ e , f Hartlepoal , per M , Parkinson , „ „ . ° ; e Kidderminster , per J . tythall ° * t A few tailors , CoventGarden ... ... e « g Nottingham , per J . Sweet ... ... ° « * Manchester Defence , per ditto ... ... ° » Mr Stebblngs , Old Kent Road ... ... ° 6 I South Shields , per W , Qi ] flUan „ , „ , 0 l 0 J £ 5 18 a
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 18, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_18111848/page/4/
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