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FOR THE WORKING MILLIONS . A HOME FOR EV ERY INDU STRIOUS MAN AND HIS FAMILY . UNITED PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCHSEQUITABLE LAND AND BUILDING BENEFIT SOCIETY , Enrolled and Empowered by Ac t of Parliament to extend over the United Kingdom . Pafrsiif . — T . S . Dckcohbb , Esc , M . P . Tdohas YTaelet , Esq ., M . P . B . B . Cabbell , E »« ., M . P . lend G'ee—tio IS Tottenham Court , New Road , St Paccras , London . —Daniel William Huffy , Secrttery . , _ ¦ i Q Three Sections . Payments In cither Section , 4 d ., 8 o \ , Is ., & c , & o ., per Week , payable either W kl ™ Monthly . Na Sdbveiohs ' , Solicitobs ' , or Redemption Fees . Tbe present Entrance Fee is Is . 6 d Sh * ^ and Si , for any part of a Share . Rales and Card , 7 d . Certificates , Is . per Shale , and Cd . for any part of a share . SrcTios I . Bjjoining this section c very person in tovsa or country can become the preprieter of a House . , ^ jn n , 3 own neighbourhood , without being removed from his Friends , Connexions , or the present means himself and family msy nave of gaining a livelihood . " s ^ cwos II . —To raise a capital by shares to purchase Estates , erect Dwellings thereon , and divide r in Land into allotments frim half an acre upwards . The property to be the bona fide freehold of the raembe sixteen eighteen , or tweEty years , from the date of location , according to his subscriptions . Section III . —Saving " or Dtposit section , in which members not wishing to purchase are enabled to invest small sums , from 4 d . and upwards , receiving interest at the rate ot o per cent , per annus , on every sum of 10 s : and upwards so deposited . , Suo & iptim OJ iof , —i 9 i , NesOxfosp-Stseet , where Meetings ara held , and Members enrolled , every Widsesdat Evenikq , from Eight to Ten o'clock . 2 >{{ Hrt EaU for explaiBiE ? the principles and oljects of the Societj , THE Pabthenidsi ItooMs . ^ St Martin ' s' lane , near the corner of Long-acre . L ctures delivered every Sunday evening at Seven o clock . y B _ Fr 0 m -C 300 to £ 500 will be balloted for by the members " of tbe first Section in J = ly next , when all UEKoVs Who havelffid may become members for Shares , or parts of Share , on or before the 5 th of Jul y next , and who pay six months' suhterip'ioas in advance , or otherwise , will bo eligible for the ballot . ALSO , FOR THE WORKING MILLIONS IN CONNEXION WITH THE ABOVE , THE UNITED PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCHS' BENEFIT SOCIETIES , EnioUtfi pursuant to Act of Parliament . Thus securing to its members the protection of ths law for their funds and property . Legalised to extend over the United Kingdom , with tho privilege of appointing Mscicxl Attendants , Agents , ic Au opportunity is now tffcred to healthy persons , up ta Forty Years of Age , cf joining thtse flourishing Institutions in town or country . Lokdok 0 ? ° ice . —13 , Tottenham Court , N- w Road , St Pancras , ( thirteenth house eastward from Tottenham Court Road ) , — Daniel Williak Rcffy , Secretary . PaTOT * . —T . S Doxcohbe , Esq ., M . P . T . Waklet , Esq ., M . P . B . B . Cabbill , Esq . M . P . F . O'Connor , Es « ., M . P . L . J . Hansabb , Esq . In the short space of fanr years these societies hu » e paid the following benefits to their members . SUMMARY OF CLAIMS . Sickness and Superannuation ... ... .... £ 1905 10 5 Aeeouehtnents C 93 V > 0 Funerals 496 1 S * Loss by Fire ... ... ... — ... 29 5 JJ £ 3125 8 6 Present Capitsl funded in the Bank of England ... £ 1669 10 0 Thos * Societies arc in & ix divieioas or sections , fer the Members to receive the following B . ne 6 ts according to their Subscriptions : — FIRST DIVISION . I FOURTH DIVISION , ntrance-ccoraine to age , from 5 s . to 10 s . Monthly Con- Entrance , according to ape from 3 s . Ed to 8 » . 6 d , ^ tafiraW ictaKS and Management , 2 s . 7 d . Monthly Contribution for Sickness and Management . _ Is . 4 ( 1 . £ s . d . SfST" " " :: :: f \ j ^^^ •• ^ jj DitUW ^ orKomineosditto 1- 0 0 Member ^ ntK . ^ ^ .. .. 10 0 0 Lo LrK om " ^ ' 5 0 Oto SO 0 0 life ' s Lying-in 10 0 inTer ^ auo ^ er wce k I : .. .. 0 6 0 LOMbyWrom .. « 0 0 to 10 0 9 SECOND DIVISION . Superannuation , per week 0 4 0 Entr-nce according to use , from 4 s . 6 d to 9 s . 6 a . FIFTH DIVISION . ilocthly ' Cun'ribution for " Sickness and Management , Entrance , according to age , from 3 s to 8 b . Monthly Con-J " 2 s , Id . tribution for Sickness and Management , is . Id . a 'in Sickness , per vfeek .. .. 0 15 0 Allowance in Sickness , per vreek .. .. 0 7 0 ember's Fu & eial .. " •• Jo 0 0 Member ' s Funeral .. .. .. .. 600 Ditto Wit- ' s or Nominee ' s ditto .. 13 0 0 Ditto Wife ' s or Nominee ' s ditto .. .. 3 0 0 Wife ' s iAiag-iu .. .. •• 1 15 o Wife ' s Lying-in 0 15 0 Loss by * Fire , from .. .. £ 5 0 0 to 15 0 o : Loss by Fire 5 0 0 Superannuation , per week .. .. 0 5 0 Superannuation , per week .. .. .. 0 i 0 THIRD DIVISION . SIXTH DIVISION . Entrance , according to age , frrm 4 s . to 9 s . Monthly Coh- Entrance Money .. .. .. .. 030 h-ibutiou for Sickntss and Managsmeiit , is . 7 d . Monthly Contribution .. .. .. 0 10 Allowance in Sicknefs , per week .. .. 0 11 0 Allowance in Sickness .. .. .. 0 7 0 Member ' s Funeral .. .. . .. l' 2 0 0 Member's Funeral .. .. .. 2 10 0 Ditto Wife ' s or Nominee ' s ditto .. .. 6 9 0 V ife ' s LviuL ' -iH .. .. .. •¦ 1 10 0 Ko Levies in this Division . Loss by Fire , from .. .. £ 5 0 0 to 10 0 0 Superannuation , per week .. .. .. 0 4 0 Levies according to the (" ernands tn eeehdivUioti per quarter . ^ B The oalv difxVrecre'n the : vo Societies is , the Patriots have an Aecoucbmcnt benefit , tbe Patriarchs fa & ve not that benefit , therefor a tionot pay leviti for it . 2 S" Applications for Agencies rtqutsted from all parts of tfce country ; information for appointment of Agencies cin be obtained by letter , prepaid , enclosing a postage stamp . Eiaak forms snd inf . rmtt'on lor ihe odtnissicn cf country members can be obtained by letter , prepaid , enclosing three postage stamps , to Daniel Wiiliah Kufft , General Secretary , 13 , Tottenham Court , New Rotd . St P ^ noras .
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METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and GENERAL LIFb ASSURANCE , Annuity , Loan , and Investment SOCIETY . ( Incorporated pursuant to the 7 th and cth Vic , cap . lio . ) Temporary Offiets , 3 :- , Regent-street , Yt ' aterlon . ilace , London . TRUSTEES . F . ichard Spoor . er , Esq ,, I Spencer Horatio TTalpole , H . F . I Esq ., M . F . Edward Vansittart Neale , Henry Peter Fuller , Esq . Ezi I DIRECTORS . Robert Chalmers , Esq ., Edward Lomas , Esq ., St Thurlow-sauare , Bromp- John ' s Wood . toH . " Samuel Miller , Esq ., Lin . <« emusl Driver , Esq ., White- coin's Inn . tjjlj . Sir Thomas Newley Reeve , Venrv Peter Fuller , Esq ., Ric ' . mond . Piccadilly . Edward Vansittart Neale , Paik Griffith , Esq ., | Esq ., South Audley-street . Iroumonger-hiue , Cheap-1 William A . S . Weftoby , EiQg- j Esq ., Hyde Fark place . AUDITORS . Henry Peach Backler , Esq ., ! Henry Grant , Esq ., Shenley Basinghall-Etrtet , | House , Brighton . MEDICAL ADVISERS . William Henrv Smith , Esq ., ! RobertKeate , Esq ., Serjeant F . R . C . S ., 2 , Fonthiil-| SurgeontotheQueeu . , place , Clapham rise . I Hertford street , May E . W . Faller . M . D . 45 , | Fair . Half-moon-street , Ficca-BANE . ERS . —The Union Bank of London , 4 , Pall Mall , East . SOLICITORS . W . W . Fisher , Esq ., 3 , King- I W . Chapman , Esq ., Rich . street , Cheapsii . ( mond . SuTey . SURVEYORS . Vincent John Collier , E q ., I Richard A . Withall , Esq ., 7 , 3 , Morga-j-strcet . | Parliamentstreet . ACTUARY . —Aksauder Jamieson , Esq ., LL . D . MANAGER . —F . Fearguson Camroux , Esq . The objects of this Society are : — To prant Assurances upon Lives , with or without participation in profits : also Immediate and Deferred Anunities and Endowments . Bv comi . ininj the advantages of Life Assurance with the " business of well-regulated Building Societies , to render a Life Policy an available and economical means of acouiring freehold , leasehold , or other property , by ad-Tancts repayable by periodical instalments , thus : A ptrson desirous of purchasing his lease , or otherwise acquirUs property , will not only obtain a loan nearly equal to its value , but on his death will leave the property discharged fro-j . such loan , in addition to the sum assured to be paid at his death . hree-fourlhs « f the profits will be divided every five e amor . gst the assured intitled to participate , and the 1 mainiug one-fourth will be added to the profits of the areholders . Prospectuses with tables , and every information , may be obtained at the So . ietj ' s Temporary Offices , 3 l > , F . esent-street , Waterloo-place , or of any of its Agents in the country .
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FAMILY ENDOWMENT , LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY . 12 , Chatham Piece , Blackfriars , London . CAPITAL £ 5 ii 0 , 0 u 0 . DIRECTORS . William Eutterivorth Bajky , Esq ., Chairmaa . John Fuller , Esq ., Deputy Chairman . Rt . Bruce C- ichester , Esq . Elliot Macnaghten , Esq . H . B . Henderson , Esq . Major Turner . C . H . Latoache , Esq . Joshua Walker , Esq . Edward Lee , Esq . Majsr Willock , K . L . S . BONUS . Thirty per cent . Bonus was added to the Society ' s Policies on the profit scale ia 1815 . The nest valuation will be in January , 1 S 52 . ANKUAi PEEHIC 5 I 3 WITH PEOFITS . Age i'o : Age ^ oTAgeSii"JAge J 5 jAgelUj Age 45 AgeS 0 ( Age lb £ s . d | S s . d . i £ s . d . ' . S s . d , £ s . d . ifi e . d . £ s . d . ] Ss . d . 117 9 ) ; 3 1 | j 9 7 2 16 ' . ' 1 5 9 J 3 16 2 * 10 P' 5 7 6 ' INDIA . The Societv also grants 1 ' olicies to parties proceeeding to , or residing in India , at lower rates than any other OSce , the Fremiutns on which iaay be payable either in London or at the Society ' s Office in Cab utta . Annuities of all kinds , as well as Endowments for Children , are ^ -ranted by the Seciety . The usual commission allowed to Solicitors and others . Jodk Cazekove , Sec .
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TO BE SOLD . A FOUR ACRE allotment at Great Bedford Estate . The surrounding country is most delightful , and only two miles from the Railway Station , and a few miles from Kidderminster , Dudley , Birmingham , snd Worcester , Wmg first-rate market towns . The land is of the very best qu tlity , and well supplied with water ; the owner having land at Lowbands , does not wish to leave it . Applicationlto be made to G . V ., Post-office , Redmarley , near Ledbury Herefordshire .
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COLLIVER'S COMMERCIAL COFFEE AND CHOP HOUSE AND READING BOOMS , 26 CJ , STRAND , LONDON . J COLLIVER returns his sincere thanks to bis . Friends and the Public at large , for the support he has receivel it their hands during the last ten years , and hopes , by strict attention and civilitv . to nierit a continuance of their patronage . J . C . also ' bess to state , that having lately made extensive alterations and irn uroveiceiits in his premises , he is now enabled to afford additional convenience without extra charge . A Commercial Coffue-room upstairs , with every facility for Travellers and Visitors from the country . The House is situr . ted in the very heart of the Metropolis , in the centre of the Theatres , near the National Land Office , and Public Buildings . Omnibuses pass to aid from all the Railway Stations , to meet the Krains , erery five miuutes . Beds , is . to is . 6 d . per nieht . All other charges eiaahy moderate . KO FEES TO SERVANTS ,
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ONE MILE FROM LINCOLN . ONE COTTAGE FARM of FOUR ACRES , and ONE WITII FIVE AIRES ( both in excellent condition ) , TO BE SOLD , with Immediate Pcsieision . Apply to Mr Ausop , Red Hall , Lincoln .
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THE IRISH LEAGUE . AN AGGREGATE MEETING of tbe Repealers of London will be held in the Theatre , Milton Street , Cniswell Street , on Tuesday Evening next , July 25 th , to express their approval of the formation of tie above bodj . The Chair to be taken at E'ght o'CIock by Edwabd Kesealzt , Esq ., Barrister-at-law . The members of the respective Clubs are requested to be in attendance early . The Boxes reserved for the Ladies . Admission Free .
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ON SATURDAY , August 5 th , 1818 , will be published the First Number of a Weekly Periodical , to be entitled—(<¦ rpHE LABOUR LEA tUE , " or JOURNAL of the I NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNITED TRADES , devoted to the interests of the above Association and the working classes generally . PRICE ONE PENNY ( post free ) . To bo had of all Booksellers in Town and Country . N . B . —Secretaries of Trade Societies are requested to give their orders forthwith to their respective Booksellers ; the Office , 11 , Tottenham-conrtroad , London ; or to the Publisher , 2 , Lord-street , Douglas , Isicof-Man .
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TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert . . NOW READY , THE LONDON AND PARIS SPRING AND SUMMER FASHIONS for 1818 , bv Messrs BENJAMIN READ and Co ., 12 , Eart-street , Bloomsbury-square , near Oxford-Street , London ; and by G . Beboeb , Holyweil-street , Strand ; and all Booksellers , an exquisitely execKted and superbly coloured PRINT . The elegance efthia Print excels any beforepublished , accompanied with the Newest Style , and extra-fitting Frock , Riding Dress , and Hunting-Coat Patterns ; the most fashionable dressWaistcoat Pattern , and an extra-itting Habit Pattern of * " he newest and most elegant style of fashion . Every particular part explained ; method of increasing and diminishing the whole for any size fully illustrated , manner of Cutting and Making up , and all other information respecting Style and Fashion . Price 10 s . post free lis . READ and Co . ' s new scientific system of Cutting for 1848 is ready , and will supersede everything of the kind heretofore conceived . AU the Plates are numbered and lettered , and on the scale of Eighteen Inches : Whole size , never before attempted , containing twenty-three square feet : particulars , post free . Patent Measures , with full explanation , 8 s . the set . New Patent Indicator , for ascertaining proportion and disproportion , illustrated with Diagrams , price 7 s . Patterns to Measure ( all registered according to Act of Parliament ) , post free , Is . each . The whole sold by Read and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury-square , London ; and all Booksellers . Post-office orders , ana Fost Stamps , taken as Cash . Habits performed for tbe Trade . Busts for fitting Coats on ; Boys ' figures . Foremen provided . — Instructions in cutting complete , for all kinds of Style ansl Fashion , which can bs accomplished in an incredibly short time .
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NO MORE PILLS FOR INDIGESTION , Constipation , Torpidity of the Liver , and tho Abdominal Viscera , persisting Headaches , Nervousness , Biliousness , Despondency , Spleen , etc . Published by Du Barry and Co ., 75 , New Bond-street , London ; and to be obtained through all Booksellers-Pr ice Gd , or 8 d ( in letter stamps ) , post-free . A POPULAR TREATISE on INDIGESTION and CONSTIPATION ; the main causes of Nervousness , Biliousness , Scrofula , Liver Complaint , Spleen , etc ., and their Radical Removal , entitled the ' Natubal Regene . xatoe of the DIGESTIVE Obganb ( the Stomach and Intestines ) , without pills , purgatives , or artificial means of any kind , '
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FARMS ON SALE . A FOUR ACRE farm at Bromsgrove . — THREE A FOUR ACRE farms at Minster Lovell , all of which are cropped . — A FOUR ACRE farm at Snig ' s End . Cropped . —A TWO ACRE farm at Minster Lovel . All applications to be made to the Directors , at their office , 14 +, HighHolborn , Loudon .
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FOUR-ACRE ALLOTMENT FOR SALE . TO BE SOLD , a FOUR-ACRE SHARE in the National Land Company , nearly ready for occupation . The Share was drawn in the January ballot , but the advertiser having engagements that prevent his taking possession , he will accept the highest offer . Apply to Mr John Symons , Teignnuuth , Devon . If by letter , a postage stamp must be enclosed .
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THE LAND . FOR SALE AT O'CONNORVILLE , a Four-Acre Allotment situate in the Centre ( the best portion ) of the estate . The Land is in excellent condition , and is well-cropped tbe Proprietor being an experienced agriculturist . The growing crops tonsint of an acre of wheat , one acre and a quarier of potatoes , one acre of turnips , half an acre of barley , and an excellent assortment of carrots , onions , parsnips , < tc . The out buildii ' k'S are very complete , consisting of barn , horse and cow stabling , cart shed , pigsties , < tc . Persons disposed to treat for this valuable Location must apply to Thomas Smith , farmer , 32 , O'Connorville , near Ricimansworth , Herts . All letters must be postpaid , and contain a stamp for reply .
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THE LAND . TWO FOUR ACRE shares in the Land Compai y eligible for the ballot , price £ 4 ifls each ; the parties ' are about to emigrate . Apply , if by letter ( prepaid } to Mr Anthony Scower . Leadgste , near sboHey . bridge . Durham . '
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A GOOD FIT WARRANTED at the Great Western Emporium , 1 and 2 , Oxford-street . TJbsdel ) and Co are now making to order a Suit of beautiful Superfine Black , any size , for £ s li ' s . Patent made Summer Trowsers , 10 s - , ' Rcgistered Summer Over Coats , 20 s . The Art of Cutting taught . Patterns of Garments Cut to Measure for the Trade , and sent ( post free ) for Is . 6 d . each , or eighteen postage stamps . Address , Charles Ubsdell , 1 and 2 , Oxfordstreot London .
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Now ready , prico Twopence , THE RIGHT OF PUBLIC MEETING A LETTER Addressed ( befere Sentence , ) TO LORD CHIEF JUSTICE SIR THOMAS WILDE . By Ebnest Jones . This letter contains the substance of the address which Ernest Jones intended to deliver in the court , but which the judge would not allow to be spoken .
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Also , price Threepence , A VERBATIM RKPOHT CF THE TRIALS OF ERNEST JONES AND THE OTHER CHAliTIST LEADERS . Now Ready , a New Edition of MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS . THE CHEAPEST EDITION EVER PUBLISHED . Price is . Gd ., A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plato of the Author , of PAINE'S POLITICAL WORKS . Now ready , price Sd . A New and Improved , and much enlarged Edition of MR SILLETT'S WORK ON SPADE OR FORK HUSBANDRY . Thia edition is illustrated with wood-cuts of the implements Mr Sillett recommends . ' Watscn , Queen ' a Head-passage , Paternoster-row , London : A Ileywood , Manchester : and all Booksellers in Town and Country .
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THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , JULY 22 , 1818 ,
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ARREST OF DR . M'DOUALL . THR MARTYRS . THE PRESS , 'IRE LAW , AND THE PEOPLE .
In England as well as Ireland , terror is the order of the day . At Bradford and other places , public meetings have been again forbidden and suppressed by the despotic orders cf magistrates , backed up by brute force . Again the people and the minions of the law have come into collision at Bradford . The man who has been christened b y his friends or his foes " Wat Tyler , " having been arrested , was rescued by the people , and of course for this " violation of the law" more victims have been hunted out and committed for trial .
We have to announce the arrest of another leading Chartist . Dr M'Douall has been seized and held to bail for trial upon the charges -of " sedition , illegal assembly , and riot . " Of course when brought to trial he will be convicted . If Dr M'Douall ' s advocacy of the Charter was charged fagainst him as heresy or blasphemy , he would be convicted . If it was known by the jury that conviction would lead to the hanging ' , beheading , or burning of their victim , they would nevertheless convict . Stick up a man in the dock and call him " Chartist , " that is enough ; the brutal bourgeoisie will howl unanimously " Away with him , away with him ! Crucify him 1 Crucify him !"
We base our assertion upon accurate information , that there are hundreds—we have reason to believe thousands—of the shopocracy of this metropolis , who desired before all things that the blood of the working classes might be shed on the 10 th of April , and again on the l 2 thof June . We know that these ruffians are impatient for the Government to let loose the dogs of war upon the Irish people . The daily and weekly journals testify to the sanguinary longings ol these profit-mongering miscreants .
We showed in last Saturday's Star that the Times considered the sentences passed upon the Chartists tried at the Old Bailey , exceedingly lenient ; and that , according to the Chronicle , it was generall y regretted b y its patrons thataseverer sentence had not been passed upon Mr Ernest Jones . The weekly journals have exhibited equal ferocity . That bull y of Fleet-street , the Weekly Dispatch , declares its " honest conviction (!) " that Ernest Jones and his fellow sufferers " have got very cheaply off " . "
The Britannia , after urging the Government to " crush every club in Ireland ; " and , in the event of rebellion , to use * ' the halter'' unsparingly , complains that the sentences inflicted on the Chartists are far too merciful ! It denounces the victims as "idlers , " " ruffians , " « ' rebels , " and " felons , '' for whom gaols are far too good . From this it may be inferred that nothing short of hanging all offenders accused of Chartism is likel y to satisf y the p ious editor of the Britannia !
The Britannia is aTory journal , and proves itself well worthy of the ancient reputation of its party . But the . BnYanniaV bloody-mindedness is , after all , less revolting than the coldblooded sneering of that organ of the enlightened coimier-revolutionists , Douglas Jer ~ rai d ' s Weekly Newspaper . In speaking of the article to which we allude , we need entertain no doubt as to its author . All who have once read Douglas Jerrold ' s writings can be at no loss to distinguish the anonymous productions of his pen . Mr Punch ' s only objection to the sentence is , that it " gives the brawlers a certain fame of martyrdom'' This abortion of a would-be Diogenes exhibits his snarling propensities as follows : —
' ¦ For the men themselves we have but little renpect . Such zealots do mischief to truth . It is such men whoso rashness helps the oppressor in his tyranny , Nor has the bearing of Mr Jones—gtntltman Jones—at the bar stall lifted him , the sufferer , Incur respect . WheHot-ntencsd , he heroically wished that his judge m ' . gV . ¦ ' elrep with the Coarter round his ntck . " A poor and pitiful copy tins of tno bravado of Bomo ignorant wretch who , reared amidst tbe mud of L ndon , picks a pocket as soon as he can reach it , wishes , upon receiving the sentence of transportation , that tho judge " may sit there till he cosies back ! " Sometimes , too , the forlorn creature , in his brutal recklessntsp , to show hia courage , has hurled his shoo at tho bench . Mr Jones , however cither forgot—or mtiguanltnously eschewed—tho emphasis of snch suppTenrmtary daring . After history may possibly explain this : perhaps he wore boots "
Without waiting for " after histo ry , '' we may state , that , unlike the editor of the defunct Shilling Magazine—lately extinguished because the public voted it not worth a shilling —Mr Jones is not intimately acquainted with the practises of St Giles ' s heroes , " Gentleman Jones , ' and , " perhaps he wore boots , " are specimens of Jerroldonian wit ! This miserable cynic is one of tho
humanitymongers who abhor capital punishments , and all that sort of thing ; yet he sneers at men whom tyrants have sacrificed by the hangman ' s hands . Thus'he discourses of the past : — " It must be owned that Radicalism—like the present bugbear , Chartism—suffered grievously at the hands of the knaves and fools who professed it . For Radicalism rode upon a hurdle with Brandreth , at Derby . Radicalism suffered with Thistleweod and
company , at the Old Bailey . Radicalismlike murder and burglary—was associated in the minds of tens of thousands with the gallows . " Observe , not a word of sympathy for Castlereagh ' s victims ; not a word of execration against the employers of Castles , Oliver , and Edwards ; no denunciation of the plotters of the Peterloo butchery . The refined feelings of Douglas Jerrold revolt only against the " fools " whodied for Radicalism . No such " fool " is the Putney Diogenes . We will sav nothing about " knaves . " The phrasemongers or the Punch school are , of course , all » 110-nourablelmen . " Of all humbugs in this humbugged world the , " good-time-coming" and " waiU-littl ^
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longer" progressionists are the worst . Political pedlar s , their wares are word ? , which they exchange for the solid realities of the good time present . Any one who attempts to bring their artful dodging to a close by working , as Ernest Jones worked , to effect the immediate salvation of the people , is denounced by these shams as fool or knave , and , consequently , worthy of persecution on the part of the Government , and unworthy of sympathy oti the part of the people .
We have said that the conviction of any man accused of "Chartism ' 'is certain . This result the Government may always calculate upon—thanks to the brutal prejudices of the jury-class , without being at the trouble of performing the infamous part of selecting the jury , as was done in the case of tbe patriot Mitchel . Still we have reason to believe , that in the recent trials the agents of the Government were not
absolutely indifferent to the composition of the juries- The foreman of thej jury who convicted Fussell—and , we believe , all the other defendants except Ernest Jones—was a person who is , as we are given to understand on excellent authority , master Uuktjr in the Government Victualling Yard at Deptford . lie has a son master baker to the Greenwich Hospital , and a son-in-law enjoying a good birth also in the Victualling Yard .
Equally small are the chances of justice or mercy at the hands of those who sit on the jud gment-seat . The Charter is avowedly sought for as a means to certain ends—one of those ends being the reduction of enormous public salaries , and the sweeping away of unmerited pensions . Our judges are notoriously allied to the aristocracy ; it is as notorious that they are overpaid ; and it is also well known that many of them , directly or indirectly , participate in the abuses of the existing system , by which thousands of pounds of the public money are squandered without any pretence to justice or decency . Chief Justice Sir Thomas Wilde is the
husband of Augusta Emma D'Este , the—according to law—bastard daughter of the late Duke of Sussex and Lady Augusta Murray . There was granted to " Mademoiselle D'Este , '' on the 5 th of March , 1845 , a pension of £ 500 yearly ; and , on the . " succeeding 28 th of July , another like sum of £ 500 yearly . We learn from a little book * of which we shall speak at greater length on a future occasion , that the said Mademoiselle Augusta Emma D'Este was married to Sir Thomas Wilde , now Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas , on the l 3 th of August , 1845 . Very shortly after their union , Sir Thomas Wildewas raised
to the Bench , at a salary of £ 8 , 000 per annum . In addition to this enormous salary , the Lord Chief Justice is reported to possess great wealth , arising from a lengthened course of professional prosperity , notwithstanding which Lady Wilde accepted her second pension , within a fortni ght of her marriage . " It was supposed , " says the book from whi <; h we quote , "by many , that , upon her marriage , her ladyship would have resigned the two pensions . The pensions , however , are still retained by her ladyship , and received regularly every quarter . "
It may be imagined with what feelings Chief Justice Wilde would regard Ernest Jones , when placed before him ! No wonder that " a warning to others required him to pass a severe sentence . " Men who want a Charter that they may , amongst other things , inquire into the grounds of Lady Wilde ' s pensions , and whether eight thousand pounds yearly is not too much to give to a Judge , whilst thousands of those , from whose pockets public salaries are paid , have to vegetate on less than eight thousand pence yearly—such men are , of course , "leniently" dealt with when sentenced to two years' solitary confinement , or the worse horrors of the hellish " silent system . "
Of our incarcerated brethren we have no very reliable information , beyond thei facts that they are clad in felon costume , and subjected to many other indignities , including oakum-picking . They are not allowed to correspond with their friends , and , in reply to applications made by their wives , it has been intimated that no one will be allowed to see them until they have been three months incarcerated . Mr Ernest Jones , and Messrs
Fussell , Sharp , Vernon , and Williams , are confined in the Bridewell , Totbill Fields , Westminster . Mr Looney is confined in the prison at Brixton , Surrey . The Governor of Westminster Bridewell—Lieutenant Traceyhas the reputation of being a just and kindhearted man , but , of course , his place is to enforce the '' regulations / ' which are now , in almost every prison , the most atrocious ever devised to wear out the lives and crush the souls of the victims of " Law . ' '
In our first page will be found some further particulars respecting the victims and their families . The thousands and tens of thousands of Chartists throughout the country cannot mistake their duty . On them has devolved the sacred task of succouring the robbed and wronged victims deprived of their natural protectors . It would gladden the enemies of Chartism to know that the families of the martyrs wanted bread , and were exposed to the cruelties and insults which the heartless
administrators of the accursed Poor Law know too well how to inflict upon those who are at their mercy . The ingratitude of the people , and the consequent misery of the martyrs ' families would be a double source of delight to the relentless enemies of Labour . For God ' s sake ! working men of England and Scotland —for the sake of those whom you cheered on to the dungeon—for the sake of your own interests and your own honour—do your duty , and save your friends from additional suffering , and deprive your enemies of the enjoyment they covet .
If you turn a deaf ear to this appeal , who , hereafter , will jeopardise his liberty in your service ? Many a good man would not hesitate to brave any amount of suffering which should leave his wife and children comparatively scatheless ; but few are those who would possess courage to engage in a death-struggle with despotism , if heart-crushed by the fore * knowledge that in falling themselves they would doom their families to all the honors of want , unpitied and uncared for by the very people for whom they offered themselves a sacrifice .
^ Excepting those totally unemployed , none can be excused from the patriotic and fraternal duty of contributing to the support of the bereaved families , and adding thereto the means of alleviating tho sufferings of the incarcerated patriots , should the opportunity for such alleviation arise . This is not all . There will be more victims ; and to meet the necessary consequences provision should be
made beforehand . To the work , then , every local leader and active partisan of the Charter . An insignificant trifle from each Chartist , weekly , will ensure the proper protection of the martyrs' families , provide means for the help of future victims , and enable the Executive to " nail to the mast" Democracy ' s flag , and keep it flying throughout , and in spite of , the now raging hurricane of persecution .
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# ' ¦ Sketches of Her Marty ' s Housthold . ' Strange , PatvrnoBter-row ,
Ireland's Agony. - " Tho Holiest Cause ,...
IRELAND'S AGONY . - " Tho holiest cause , that tongue or sword Of niortal ever lost or gain ' d . "
Men of England , listen to us ! Seven centuries of crime—conquest , blood , rapine , legal and illegal torture—are chargeable to your account as a nation . Your victim has been Ireland . In your name the people of Ireland have been outraged , plundered , murdered , ilung into misery ' s vilest depths , or goaded to fierce aad frightful dteds of desperation . These crimes have been committed in your name , but not for your profit . Froni Ireland ' sJ-jsubjuga-
Ireland's Agony. - " Tho Holiest Cause ,...
tion , you have derived nothing but the curse and sname that ever follows the commission of crime , When Strongbow and his fellow brigands first invaded Ireland , what interest had your Saxon fathers in the success of those marauders ? None . Your fathers were slaves , without rights or property in their own land . The ravagers of Ireland were of the stock of
banditti who , a century previous , had ' robbed the English people of their country , and , by massacre and terror , reduced them to slavery . In the wars , confiscations and desolating atrocities , under which Ireland suffered in the reigns of the Henries and Edwards , the aristocratical oppressors of your fathers alone benefited by the sufferings of your neighbours .
When , under the pretence of religion * the gorgers of the plundered property of the English Church subjected the people of Ireland to new confiscations and tortures , the English people acquired no broad lands in the sister country . Elizabeth ' s treacherous murders , and Cromwell ' s pitiless massacres , brought to your fathers only the infamy of national falsehood and cruelty . Boyne ' s stream ran red with gore ; Limerick ' s sacred treaty was shamelessly violated ; and the accursed penal laws imposed upon Ireland , not for the benefit of your fathers , but to exalt the power and glut the rapacity of the English faction in Ireland , and the noble plunderers whose thievery and tyranny afflicted both countries .
What interest had the people of England in the assassination of Fitzgerald , the destruction of Wolfe Tone , and the butchery of Emmett ? None . What did your fathers earn by the floggings , bayonetings , shootings , hangings , and pitch-cap torturings of which the unhappy people of Ireland were the victims at the close of the last century ? What did they earn > The und ying hatred of Ireland ' s children , and the curses loud and deep of every other people on the face of the earth .
Instead of reaping benefit in any sense or shape from the oppression of Ireland , the English people have immensel y suffered from that oppression . Well would it have been for the English working classes , if Ireland had never known the curse of English rule . The conquest of England by a foreign foe would have been a blessing , compared with the consequences which have flowed from the immigration of Irish misery , and the competition of Irish poverty . That baleful competition is the natural result of England ' s misgovernment of Ireland .
We caa imagine a state of things in which it would be beneficial to the people of both countries that England and Ireland should be united ; eacli possessing its own government for its own affairs , but federally connected for mutual support and progress . But if such a connexion is impossible—and it can only be rendered impossible by the crimes of our rulers —then , rather than the present system should continue , better far that the union of the
countries should be entirely dissolved . Let there be a fraternal alliance of the peoples , if possible , but no nnion of tyrant and slave , oppressor and oppressed . The sons and daughters of Ireland constitute a people , and if they will their entire independence of this country , it is their right to be independent , and no lying law , no force , nor terror , can set aside that right . The crimes , the cruelties , the horrors of the impending struggle , must be laid to the account of the English Government . It is useless to refer us to the speeches of Doheny or Meagher , or the writings of Duffy or Mitchel . Granted that these men have
laboured to create insurrection , with the avowed purpose of rending Ireland from England , they are justified by the atrocities of English rule . No length of time can sanctify a wrong . After two thousand years of submission to foreign conquerors , we have seen Greece assert her nationality once more . After ages of submission the Slavonic races are again
struggling for the life of independent liberty . Poland has not yet known a hundred years of the conqueror ' s sway , but should it be written in the decrees of fate that her seventy years ' servitude shall extend to seven hundred , at the expiration of that time her right to freedom will be as sacred as it is at this moment . The same rule holds good for the Poland of the West .
But without going back to the times of the conquest , confiscations , or penal laws , abundant reasons exist at this moment to justify the teachings of Mitchel and Duffy . Ireland's representation in the Legislature is a mockery . No measure to protect the liberties , or save the lives of the Irish people can be obtained , except by the goodwill of the English members ; even the minority , who , b y courtesy are denominated Irish membersare elected only by a fraction of the Irish people . The soil of Ireland is monopolised by foreign landlords , or the creatures and
adherents of foreign rule . The most damnable system of land tenure that ever afflicted a nation , exists in Ireland . The pampered Church of a small minority insults the religious belief , and plunders the pockets , of the majority . The miserable cultivation of the soil , destruction of trade and commerce , and the thousands upon thousands of wretched beings who crowd the cities , and languish in the country cabins , proclaim the results of English rule . Scarcely a week passes that human beings—sometimes numbering scores , or even
hundreds—are not driven from their homes to p erish like famished dogs by the way-side , for no other reason than that some rapacious landlord chooses to doom the unhappy creatures to destruction . Within the last two years , a million and a half of people have died of famine , and thousands have been driven from their native land , doomed to lay their bones in the savage wilds of Canada , or beneath the waves of the Atlantic—the victims of famine and fever , created by the villanous landlords of Ireland , and their patrons , the English
Government . It was to put down the hidepus tyranny , which had produced such bitter fruits , that the patriot Mitchel summoned his countrymen to action . A special law was passed to crush him , he was tried and convicted—b y what means all men know—and trial by Jury in Ireland was shown to be "a mockery , a delusion , and a snare . " A few weeks have passed , and others of Ireland ' s patriots are
marked out for a similar doom , and are , at this moment , in the clutches of their jailors . To the prosecution of the proprietors of the Felon , Nation , and Tribune , the agents of English rule have added housebreaking and burglary ; they have had the pitiful meanness to take money for the stamps , issued for the above papers , and the moment of their publication they have plundered the same papers from the publishers , and even from the poor newsvenders in the streets .
I ohce ruffianism reigns in Dublin , and all Ireland is subjected to military law . Lord Clarendon has " proclaimed" large portions of the counties of Dublin , Cork , and Waterford and the city of Drogheda , for the purpose oi disarming the disaffected . Lastly , we perceive her Majesty ' s Ministers are about to demand " additional powers , " for the purpose of annihilating the clubs , and ruling the country by the terror of the sword .
Nations have , before now , revolted against the imposition of Shi p money , or a Tea-tax ; and it would hardly excite wonder if , with such examples , and suffering under the grievances we have enumerated , and hopeless of obtaining justice by praying and petitioning , the Irish people should be driven to try" Tho pathos of a pike-head , And tbe logic of a blow , " But it is no the Irish who are tho rebels
the real rebels are the Whigs . The pledges they gave on entering office have been altogether unredeemed , and , from the admissions of their own journalists , there can be no doubt that they are instigating revolt fov the purpose of suffocating Irif . h discontent i' . i Wood . The Whig journalises boast that the . ' Government are
Ireland's Agony. - " Tho Holiest Cause ,...
fully informed of the plans and most secret intentions of the club * , and the said journalists add that they couiu name the men who will betray the people in the moment of danger . This is sufficient proof that the agents of the Government are inciting insurrection . The journalists , too , exult at the prospect of witnessing the extermination of the patriots . The Press-Gang , from the Times to the Tap-Tub , from the brutal Mail to the pros * titute Evening Post , are hounding on the Government to the commission of the most
infernal atrocities . They recommend that th arrested " rebels" should be brought to London for trial , as were the followers of Charles Ed » ward in 1745-46 . It is calculated that the London shopocracy will convict and hang Re . pealers and Chartists to any extent the Government may desire . The Government are also urged to arm and let loose the two hundred thousand Orangemen of the North to massacre the Repealers . As a specimen of the sanguinary promptings of these ruffianl y scribes we quote the following from the liberal Morning Chronicle : —
WE IMPLORE THE GOVERNMENT TO BE FIRM AND SPEEDY . LET NO VAIN FORMAL ! - TIES , OR CONSTITUTIONAL SCRUPLES , PREVENT THEM FROM CONSULTING THE SAFETY OF THE STATE IN THE SHORTEST AND MOST EFFEC . TUAL WAY . IF THE REBELS GO TO WAR WITH V 5 , IN THE NAME OP OUTRAGED HUMANITY LET US NOT HE SO MAD AS TO GO TO LAW WITH THEM , " Working men of Great Britain , if the blood of your Irish brethren is to be shed , we implore you to wash your hands of the damning crime . Testif y to Ireland , and proclaim to all nations , that you have no share in the wickedness of your rulers . The oppressors of Ireland are your oppressors—the robbers of the soil of
Ireland belong to the class who have robbed you of the soil of England—the heartless tyrants who in Ireland stifle the wail of misery by the policeman ' s truncheon and the soldier ' s bayonet , have only the same remed y for the same ills in this country : they give bullets when they should provide bread , and the popular hatred to their rule is the same on both sides of St George ' s Channel . Manifest , then , your sympathies for the Irish people by employing every constitutional means at " your command to hurl the Whigs from office ; and strive by the same means to put an end to Irish disaffection hy repealing the mischievous and mis-called Act of Union , and securing to Ireland the blessings of self-government .
Frightful Ignorance. Are There No Philan...
FRIGHTFUL IGNORANCE . Are there no philanthropists who will start a society for the better instruction of the rich { Such an association is surely wanted . The ignorance of the College-taught classes is perfectly frightful . The Hon . and Rev . Baptist Xoel has declared , that in this Metropolis there are thousands of unfortunate , uneducated beings , " living without God , and without hope ; ' ' and no end of , f reports , " books , pamphlets , " leading articles , " and speeches , have been published and spoken , to exhibit the ignorance of ths poor ; but nothing has been done to exhibit the still more deplorable—because more mischievous—ignorance of the rich .
Ignorance surrounds the Throne , otherwise the Queen would not permit the existence of discontent . She would insist upon her Ministers preparing measures for the putting an end to popular misery , the fertile cause of discontent . Ignorance is characteristic of the bench of Bishops . Were that not the case , they would not themselves undermine the Church , by their plunder of the community , and their criminal apath y respecting the temporal comforts of the People . The Church is perishing , because the People regard it as the partner of Aristocracy , in the plunder of the fruits of their labour .
Ignorance prevails in the Cabinet and Parliament . The Whigs must be grossly ignorant , to suppose they can retain power on the strength of broken pledges , and the proscription of principles they formerl y advocated . Lord John Russell must be frightfully ignorant to imagine the People have no desire for Reform . The House of Commons must be deplorably ignorant to tolerate the speeches of a Drummond , and a Talfourd . But the most striking proof of Legislatorial ignorance ia shown in the fact , that of 658 Members only 84 could be found to support even a modified scheme of Reform J
Ignorance on the Bench is a sadder sight than ignorance in the dock . In the latter case , the miserable mortal is principally his own enemy , and the mischief he does is usually felt hut by one , or a very few individuals ; in the former case , the possessor of "a little'brief authority , " has it in his power to inflict misery upon hundreds . Ignorance in the dock is punished by the law , but ignorance on the Bench plays its " fantastic tricks in the name of the law , and aided by the terrors of the law .
How thick must be the mental darkness of a Judge who , with unblushing front , maintains that the laws are equal for rich and poor ; that it is beneficial to the working bees that the idle drones should monopolise the wealth produced by the toilers ; that the people were made for monarchs , and not monarchs for the people ; and who imagines , that by imprisoning and torturing the people ' s advocates , the people themselves will be brought to venerate and support the existing system !
Ignorance in Hanover-square matches the ignorance too evident in Seven Dials . The ignorance of the poor is out-Heroded by the ignorance of" philanthropists . '' The Earl of Harrowb y and Lord Ashley must be blind indeed , to imagine that their " scheme of Emigration ( propounded at Hanover-square Rooms a few days ago ) will either satisfy or ameliorate the condition of the people . The Earl of Harrowby complains of the rapidly increasing population . A great evil ; and if the surplus aristocrats would be good enough to transport themselves , we could appreciate and applaud their
" philanthropy . " A Mr Arthur Mills said , " that Landlords and Farmers could not employ their capital in improving the resources of the soil , so long as the workhouses and gaols were over / lowing . " How frightfully ignorant must the said Farmers and Landlords be , not to know that the poor ' s rates anil county rates—judiciously employed—would put an end to pauperism , and go a great way towards extinguishing crime . Gaols and workhouses might be "to let , " if Landlords and farmers possessed common sense , instead ot low craft ; and honesty , instead of rapacity .
# Ignorance , where knowled ge should abound , isasorry sight . Some wag has said , that Oxford is called " the seat of learning , " because every one who goes there is supposed to take with him some amount of knowledge , little or much , but it rarely happens that any one takes anything but an empty head awav from that classic city . That ignorant Oxfor ' d men abundantly abound everybody knows ; but we go further , and assert that Oxford is the seat of ignorance . A farce—performed , we believe , every third year—entitled , " The Commemoration , " came off at Oxford a few days ago , when religious ceremonies were beautifully mingled with balls , balloons , and boat races , concerts and fireworks . The
notorious Guizot and his famil y attended the festival , " and received a most enthusiastic reception , "— "his name was received with deafenintf cheers . " Guizot has devoted his life to the service of Despotism , and has unscrupulously employed faud and force to perpetuate the ascendancy of Privilege and the prostration of La . hour ; concluding his official career by committing his country to the agonies of a frightful revolution . Behold wh y the ignorant creatures at Oxford cheered Guizot ! This conduct of tha ' privileged mob of " nobs ' " and " snobs ' ' is another proof of the impossibility of reconciling the aristocratic classes with the people . Those classes , are the unchangeable and relentless
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 22, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_22071848/page/4/
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