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THE NOBTHERH STAR SATOBOAV, JVX S2 33, IS 19.
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PARLIAMENTARYREVIEW. The state of affair...
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June 33 , 1840 . 4 ta ; THE NORTHF / RK _ STAR . ' ^
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-sm- jsunisjs jkjsjsuujjU . land AND BUILDING SOCIETY . JJ On an Advance your Rent is Saved .-yon become your o wn Land and Householder . P < rfn > n 5 . _ T . i 5 . teoHEE ^ B .. M . P . T . W « rar , & a , lLP . B . B . Cabbixl , Esq ., M . P . L . J : Haksasd , Esq ., M . P . Saiit « rj > . —The Commercial Bank of London ( Branch ) C Henrietta b-Uf rVwi . nVr" »™ 1 .. n ZOrtm C ^« . - ^ o . 13 , Tottenham Conr ^ KewB ^ d , a ^ ^^ Si ^^ SffSSS ^ fe Secretary . AnaAtfGH > cr Thbee Skiiosb . Yalue of Shares and Payments for Investors . Puliaare .. .. f ^ O- ^ ayment of 2 s . 5 d . t §» Weei / or 10 s .- Gd . per Month . fTnlfShare -.. .. 60 J . ' 91 i Quarter Share .. .. 30 _ 0 ?| _ 2 s — Applicants are requested to state in their form the Section they desire to be a Memher o £ KojSravETOBs * , Soucitobs ' , or REDEMPTION Fees . —The present Entrance Pee including Certificate , Rules , & 0 ., is Is . pa-Share , and 2 s . 6 d . for any part of a Share . Price of Hide ' s , including Postage , Is . OBJECT ? . - 1 st , —^ To enable aaanheri to IraM Dwelling Houses . 5 th . —To give to Depositing Members a higher rate of In-2 nd . —To afford the means of purchasuiff Doth Freehold terestthanis yielded by ordinary modes of investment _ and leasehold Properties or Land . Cth . _ To enable Parents to make Endowments for their o ~ i v * . j „™ . ««»»„ -n . , « ,. Children , or Husbands for their "Wives , or for Marriage 3 rdj—ao advance Mortgages oa Property held hy Settlements , members . 7 th . —To purchasa a piece of Freehold land of sufficient 4 th . —To enable Mor ^ agors being members to redeem value to give a legal title to a County Xote for Members of \ eir Mor tgages . * Parliament SEcrnoN I . —By joining this section every person in town or country can become the proprietor of a House and Land in his own neighbourhood , without being removed from his friends , connexions , or the present means himself and famHy may have of gaining a livelihood . Secnos-II . —To raise a capital by shares to purchase Estates , erect Dwellings thereon ^ and divide the Land into allotments from half-an-acre upwards , in or near the towns of the various branches ofthe society . The property to be the b'ma . jide freehold ofthe memberafter a term of years , from the date of location , according ' o his subscriptions . Section IU . —Saving or Deposit section , in which members not wishing to purchase are enabled to invest smaU sums , receiving interest at tiie rate » f five per cent per annum , on every sum of 10 s . and upwards so deposited . H . B . — £ 500 will be advanced to the members of the first Section in July nest , when all persons who have and may become roemhers for Shares , or parte of Shares , on or before the 4 th of July next , and who pay six months' subscriptions in advance ; or otherwise , w 31 be eligible for " an advance . . M ^^ Maana ^ MaaaBnHi ^ Hi ^ BMMB
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iUJOV , - alHE UNITED PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCHS' BENEFIT SOCIETIES . Enrolled pursuant to Act of Parliament Thus securing to its members the protection of the law for their funds and property . Legalised to extend over the United Kingdom , -with fee privilege of appointing Medical Attendants , Agents , & C An opportunity is now offered to healthy persons , up to Forty Tears of Age , of joining these flourishing Institutions in town or country . Loxros GmCt . —13 , Tottenham Court , 2 Tew Boad , St Pancras ( thirteenth house eastward from Tottenham Courfc-roadj . Dffla "Wsxuu Itcirr , Secretary . Patrons . —T . S . Dckcombe , Esq ., M . P . T . Waklet , Esq ., M . P . B . B . Cabbeu ; , Esq ., M . P . F , O'Cosxob , Esq ., M . P . L . J . Hassamj , Esq . In Ihe shor t space of Five years these societies have paid the following benefits to their members . susuuir . of « LAias . £ s . d . Sictnessaud Superannuation .. .. .. .. 8 , 486 14 7 Accouchments .. .. .. .. .. 1 . 0 D 3 0 0 Funerals .. .. .. .. .. .. 904 i 9 Loss by Fire .. .. .. .. .. 55 2 0 £ 3 , 449 1 4 Present Capital funded in the Bank of England .. .. £ 2 , 186 10 5 Thess Societies are hi six divisions or sections , for the Members to reesive the following Benefits according to their Subscriptions : — First Drnsiox . ] Fobbth Division . Entrance according to age , from 5 s . to 10 s . Monthly Con- j Entrance , according to age , from Ss . Gd . to 8 g . Gd . tribuUo-. is for Sickness and Management , 2 s . 7 d . ! Monthlv Contribution for Sickness and Management , I - Is . 4 d , £ s . d . ! _ Allowance , ia Sickness , per week .. 018 0 j j £ s . d . 3 iember \ oPnaerai 20 0 0 ' Allowance in Sickness , per week ., .. 0 9 0 Ditto Fife ' s or Nominee's ditto .. .. 10 0 0 j Member ' s Funeral „ 10 M "Wife ' s Lying-in .. .. .. .. 2 0 01 Member ' s Wife or Nominee ' s ditto .. .. 5 0 0 Loss by Fire , from . «¦ .. £ -5 0 0 to 20 0 0 j "Wife ' s Lying in 10 0 Superannuation , per week .. .. .. 0 6 0 ] Loss by Fire , from .. .. £ -5 0 0 to 10 0 0
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LOHDON LIFE . IfowPahlislihur , Price Id . weekly , and Is . quarterly parts , LONDOK LIFE ; OK , MniKOE OF Mrlb , Ilumour , andFacetia , containing all the racy jnovemanis of the present dav : in short , embracing life in all its varied phases and variety . "London Life" will be splendidly ainstrated with original engravings , designed and executed * Ly the most eminent artists . Sent ( post tree ) , 2 s . 2 d . per ' quarter . Printed ftnd published !> y Wrsnf , Holy well-street , . Strand , and all Booksellers .
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TO TALLORS . By apiirouatkiil of Her Majesty Queen " Victoria and His Royal Highness Prince Albert . Now Ready , TpBE LONDON and PAEIS SUMMER ¦ L FASHIONS fiir 1849 , bv Messrs . BEXJAMIX READ and Co ., 12 , llart ^ trect . mooiushury-square , London ; and by GEORGE JSERGER , Holywell-strcet , Strand ; a splendid PRRTT , elaborately finished , and superbly coloured , the LANDSCAPE , a correct view iu tiie Queen ' s Botanical Gardens , London , ( by special permission , ) the most magnificent place in Europe . This beautiful picture will be accomoanied with the most noveL good fittiuj ; , sad fashionable Uress , Riding , Frock , and Hunting € oa Patterns , hoth double and single-breasted ; Hussar ' s Youth ' s round Jackets , plaiu and with skirts ; single and aonblc-breasted ftress , Morning and Evening "Waistcoats ; also the most- fashionable and newest style Habit Pattern ; every afariandar part of each pattern fully explained , and an fllustraS on of everything respecting Style and Fashion ; price 10 s . fold by Read and Co ., 12 , Har t-street , Rloomsbnry-sqaai * , London ; G . Berger , Holyweu-street , Strand ; and all lso & lsejlcrsiii Town and Country .
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TRY ERE YOU DESPAIR . HOIJiO WAY'S PILLS . CORE OF ASTHMA . Extract ofaLettor from Mr . Benjamin Mackie , a respectable Quaker , dated Creenagh , near LoughalL Ireland , dated September 11 th . 181 S . Bjspecteo Fsffisn , —Thy exceHent Pills have effectually cured me of an asthma , which afflicted me for three years to such an extent that I was obliged to walk my room at nfcht for air , afraid of being suffocated ifl went to bed hy coush and jMegin . Besides taking the Pills , I rubbed plenty of F : y Ointaiwit into my chest night and morning . — ( Signed ) Bssnaar Mackie . —To Professor Hoixowat . CURE OF TYPHUS FEVER WHEN SUPPOSED TO BE
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REGISTER ! REGISTER ! REGISTER ! Now Published , and ready for circulation , by the Xatioxal Election and Registration Oo ^ f \ f IT TK E A C 03 IPLETE BAND BOOK AND GUIDE TO REGISTRATION , compiled from the Reform Act' and other Parliamentary Papers , making the subject of Registration so plain and simple , as to bring it within the capacity of all classes . Published by James Watson , 3 , Queen's Headpassage , Tuteraoster-row , London , and seld by all booksellers in the United Kingdom . Price , only Tiihee Pence . Alayalsobe had ofthe Secretary , James Gbassbv , 96 , Regent-street , Lambeth .
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• CHARTERYILLE . TO BE SOLD , a POUR-ACRE allotment , situate in the Brize Norton-road , in consequence of the present holder having an engagement iu America . The Land is well cropped with wheat , harley , potatoes , polls , vetches , carrots , swedes , mangel-wurtzeL cabbages , & c ., & c , and is equal to any in the county . Apply , for terms , to Tnos . Lutet , Drize Norton-road , CharterviUe , near Witney , Oxon .
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GRAND DEMONSTRATION NEAR MOMSGROVE , ON THE DODFORD ESTATE , ON THE BAY OF LOCATION , MONDAY , JULY 2 xd , 1819 . " Homes for the sons of toil " PARTIES ARE RESPECTFULLY INFORMED that a KAILWAY TRIP will leave the Camphill Station . Birmingham , at Eight o'Clock in the morning , affording all persons desirous , of visiting the Estate an opportunity of so doing . Paees—First Class , 4 s . ; Second do ., 3 s . ; Third do ., Is . 9 d . Tans will he in attendance to convey parties from the Bromsgrove Railway Station to the Estate and back . For Tickets apply to Mr . Bcttbkwice , News agent , 73 , Stafford-street ; Mr . 0 . Goodwin , Darwin-street , and Mr . Au . ES , Smethwick .
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GREAT DODFORD . MR , NIBLETT , PUBLICAN , begs to announce to those persons who may visit the Great Dodford Estate , on Monday , the 2 nd of July , ( the day upon which the Occupants will take possession of their aUotnients ) , that he will have in readiness Refreshments upon the most MODERATE TERMS , and that every attention will be paid upon his part to ensure their comfort and convenience . N . B . —His House is within twenty yards of the Estate , on Bellbroughtou-road .
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TO BE SOLD A BARGACf , FOR £ 12 10 s . THE RIGHT TO LOCATION ON A POOR-ACRE ALLOTMENT , drawn in the November ballot , 18 i 7 . Any person purchasing the same will be entitled to location , or £ 20 compensation money . The reason the present proprietor is parting with it is a sudden change of circumstances . Application to be made to the Directors of the National Land Company , 144 , High Holborn , London .
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A PAID-UP FOUR-ACRE SHARE in ¦ Li the National Land Company . Cheap . Inquire of Joseph Piwday , 15 , Margaret-street , '" Limeliouse . Also , A TWO-ACRE PAID-UP SHARE .
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TO BE SOLD , TWO FOUR-ACRE PAID-UP SHARES in the National Land Company . Price , £ i each . It is very desirable that all applications be made as early as possible to Mr . James M'Farlane , National Land Office , as the advertiser is going ahroad in a few days .
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A FOUR-ACRE SCRIP , DRAWN IjS a . Ballot of August , 1847 . flpnlicatioES to he made to the Directors , at their office 144 , High BTolborn , London .
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INSTANT EASE—LASTING CURE . Price Is . per Packet BEANDE ' S ENAMEL , FOR FILLING DECAYING TEETH , and RENDERING THEM SOUND AND PAINLESS , has , from its unquestionable ex cellence , obtained great popularity at home and abroad Its curative agency is based upon a TRUE THEORY of the cause of Tooth-Ache , and hence its great success . Bj most other remedies it is sought to Mil the nerve , and so stop the pain . But to destroy the nerve is itself a verj painful operation , and often leads to very sad consequences , for the tooth thenbecomesadead substance in the living jaw , and produces the same amount of inflammation and pain as would result from any other foreign body embedded in a living organ . BRANDE'S ENAMEL does not destroy the nerve , but , hy RESTORING THE SHELL OF THE IOOTH , completely protects the nerve from cold , heat , or chemical or other agencv l ) v which pain is caused . By fol lowing the directions , INSTANT EASE is obtained , and a
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XHE CHEAPEST EDITION £ VEB fCULLjUED . Price Is . Gd ., A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of the Author , of' ' " " : PAINE'S POLITICAL WORKS . Now Ready , a New Edition of " M " . O'CONNOR ' S WORK OK SMALL FARMS
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THE DEMOCRATIC REYIEW . NOTICE . , As printing the Review on thin , paper , and without a wrapper , would injure the appearance of the work , copies wiUnot . in future , be printed to pass , through the post . As perfect copies would cost in postage alone 4 d . each , aU subscribers are requested to give their orders to then ' nearest bookseller or newsagent . To ensure punctual delivery orders should be g iven by subscribers ( to . their booksellers , & c . ) a week in advance . iJS * No . 2 will include in its contents the ifanifesto of the German Red Republicans , the speech of Armand Barbes , the Principles and Projects of Louis Blanc , an important Letter from . Paris , and a faithful roview of public events now in progress in France , Germany , Italy . & C On the 1 st of June was puhlished , No . I . of THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW Of BRITISH and FOREIGN POLITICS , HISTORY , nnil T . TTEnATnR-R
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J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums for the Victim Fund { sent herewith ) , viz . —Mr . Lee , Cd . ; Mr . Dalton , 2 d . Mr . J . Mitchell , Jarrow . —They were posted on Friday evening . Mr . CiuscELLOit , Yarmouth . —Twopenoe each , also for carriage . Mr . Bollock , Biggar . —We did not receive the letter you allude to . Mr . CLAVTo . v , 9 IuddersneId . —The address of Mrs . M'Douall is 71 , Front-street . Portland-street , Liverpool . PETEKnoaooon . —B . Scholey begs to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums for the Victim Fund ( sent here , with ) , viz : —Mrs . Ward . Gd . ; Mr . Walker , 6 d . Jon * West ' s Family . —Owing ; to an item in the Manchester Committee ' s balance-sheet , published in a recent number . of the Star , which might cause some misapprehension .
we are requested to state that Mrs . Wcsthas not received any money from the Manchester Committee . T . P . —Mrs . Findlay ' s address is not Gallowgate , Aberdeen . It is Bruce's-court , Loch-street , Aberdeen . Mb . Kvdd and the Leeds Chartists . —We have received aletterfrom Mr . Kydd , ¦ which we are obliged to postpone until next week , owing to press of " matter . The letter thus concludes : — " ! apologise to the Leeds friends for my absence from their meeting on Sunday . The disappointment was inevitable . A mistake occurred in the delivery of letters at P .-idillam , and if I had not gone to Padibam the disappointment would have been immense , as numbers had come a long distance to be present . I am now on my way to Newcastle-on-Tyne , in which district I will begin my labours on Sunday , the 24 th of June . —I remain , yours truly , Samuel Ktdd . Lancaster , June 18 . " - = ¦ -. We ahe unavoidably compelled to postpone several communications for the reason above stated .
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THE NOBTHERH STAR SATOBOAV , JVX S 2 33 , IS 19 .
The Charter. While We Are Prepared To Ad...
THE CHARTER . While we are prepared to admit , the anticipated benefits from Reform and several other changes , made by a reformed House of Commons , we nevertheless defy any—the most enthusiastic theorist—to point out one single benefit that Reform , or any other measure , has conferred upon the working classes . We are aware , as trumpeted by some ofthe middleclass organs , that it was the co-operation of the working and the middle classes by which the Reform Bill was carried ; while the arguments in favour of another co-operation are weak and unsupportable . We are told that ,
while it is an admitted truth that all that might have been effected by Reform has not been accomplished , that , nevertheless , what is now promised by the caterers for workingclass support , is certain to be accomplished . To thisargument we answer—if nothing has been accomplished by the groat political measure which promised Peace , Retrenchment , and Reform , and which was intended as the political means to the social end—we say , if no
benefit has resulted from that measure , beyond the transfer of power from old enemies to new oppressors , what benefit can the working millions anticipate from any measure of which their Voice does n < t constitute the mainspring and essential element ? '' Three removes are as bad as one fire , " POOR RICHARD says ; and those several political moves , which have taken place since the passing of the Reform Bill , have but established one set of taskmasters instead of another .
Is it necessary to furnish , or , if necessary , could we furnish , a stronger proof of the sincerity of the representatives of the middle classes in a reformed Parliament , than the fact that our taxation has increased under this reformed system , by over ten millions a-year , within this reforming period- —the very parties who not onl y acquiesced in , but supported , this extravagance , now catering ibr popular support upon the pretext , not of reducing expenditure below or even to the standard of the old unreformed times , but merely to reduce it to the standard of 1835 , embracing the first
three years of'Reform , and during which time these _ representatives of Financial Reform sanctioned and permitted this enormous increase ? But , if we requiredfurther proof that that Reform , transferred political power from the hands ofthe landlords to those ofthe moneylords , we have only to refer to the Acts of the newest reformed Parliament , and from thorn wo-learn that acts were- ' passed to supply ' s those very associations and combinations , by whose power and . influence the Reform Bill was carried : that the 43 rd of Elis abeth which operated as a barrier to protect , the poor from the sjaingent oppression of th : e rich ^* as
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so altered and amended as to make the heretofore protected poor wholl y dependent upon the"rich ; and that while the Financial Reformers , who * opposed the TEOPLE S CHARTERS- the only possible means ot achieving unadulterated liberty— comp lain , and bitterly , of our enormous expenditure , as regards our naval , military , and governmental establishments , not a voice is heard , not a murmur is uttered , against the prodigious increase in poor rates . And , why ? Because it constitutes , the fund which preserves that unwilling , idle , competitive reserve , upon
which depends the pr ofits of speculators upon the people ' s jealousy , rivalry , and competition . It was not a Tory House that sanctioned the Transportation of the Dorchester Labourers ; it was not a Tory House that squandered Twenty Millions of English Money upon Negro Emancipation : No ; it was a Whig-reformed House ; which now scoffs at the bestowal of any poor pitiful dole to preserve the miserable existence of the starving Irish . It was not a Tory House that passed the bloodiest Irish Coercion Bill , and substituted trial by courtmartial for trial by jury ; it was not a Tory House that took away the rig ht of discussing the petitions of the people from twelve till three o ' clock every day ; it was not the Tory
Government that enacted the most bloody laws against political offenders , and for the suppression of public opinion , upon the flimsy pretext of using the hour of calm , for the purpose of developing the mind ' s progress in enactments in harmony with that mind ; it was not a Tory Government that prosecuted the people ' s only organ , and the people ' s only leaders , with a virulence andabrutalityunequalledinanycountry , in any age it was not a Tory Prime Minister who recommended the administration of justice to destroy the people by " ruining them with expenses ; " it was not a Tory Government that used Tom Young , of the Home-office , as an instrument to excite the people to rebellion , and then hung and transported those people when their threatened rebellion had
accomplished their own ends ; it was not a Whig Government that carried Emancipation ; it was not a Whig Government that carried Free Trade . But , on the contrary , during the occupation of office by the Whigs , for the over fort y years' agitation for Reform , they were the greatest tyrants ever in power . During their administration the most blood y . Coercion Bills were passed for Ireland , and to which the English people assented—or were supposed to assent—upon " the mockery , the delusion , and the snare , ' ' that the Whigs required calm , and a legitimate developement of the popular mind , to achieve that change of which popular freedom was to have been the result , and which they alone could legislate for .
We may be told that Whiggery is defunct ; that these professions were made in unreformed times—when legislation was confined to the aristocratic ranks : but if we are met by such an argument , wo refer to our statistical table of Reform legislation . Then we come to Free Trade , which was the great social benefit supposed to be foreshadowed in the great political change , and we ask what benefit has resulted to the industrious classes from that
measure ? while every individual belonging to those classes who have a monopoly of political power , whether they possess fixed incomes , or make their incomes by speculation in trade , have received an enormous benefit , because the reduction iii the price of corn— 'the staple pro * duce of the nation—has reduced the price of their food , and reduced the price of every other article and commodity , without reducing their profits or fixed incomes , all of which the people have to produce . And now , with these not antiquated but recent professions and disappointments Jbefore us , shall we again be enlisted in the ranks of that retrograde army , upon the flimsy pretext that another sectional Reform , another rung in the Reform ladder , is necessary to complete the Reform machinery ?
If an oft-deceived people , whose little store has been filched from them , in order to base capitalists' profits upon the people's destitution —we say of the same people—no , not the same now , thank God !—for there is knowledge upon every passing breeze—but if THE PEOPLE of this progressive age allow themselves to be enlisted as recruits in this foraging party , we swear by Heaven , that we would rather stand alone ,. holding the old banner of the Charter , although we may be the laughingstock and target of all—even the people themselves—than surrender one bristle of tho animal . '
"'Tis true , and pity'tis , 'tis true , " that that progressive mind has no means of communicating its will to those who are bound to represent it ; and this fact is we think irrefutably established by the following circumstance ;—A petition for the Charter was forwarded to Lord Mahon from Hertford , the borough he represents : he returned the petition upon the plea that lie did not acquiesce in its principles . Let us ask , then , if there is any danger to the privileged classes equal to that which withholds popular will from those called the people's representatives ?
We have frequently declared that tho ignorance of a people is the tyrant's best title to power , and that the true developement of popular knowledge is the sharpest arrow in the popular quiver . Our readers will understand that we address them thus to meet the argument used by middle-class journals , for the purpose of convincing the people that the present middle-class movement is the veritable and only means , from the success of which
the working classes can acquire their rights ; while , true to our text , and rivetted to our principles—strengthened by conviction , and endeared by persecution—and after years of anxious and deliberative thought , we tell them , that no measure save THEIR OWN CHARTER will achieve their own legitimate object , and that let them abandon that , or even an atom of it , to-morrow , and the feathers , every one of them , of the reformed bird , will fly after it the next day .
" To be forewarned is to bo forearmed , " and if tho people are not forewarned the blame does not rest upon our shoulders , but upon their own . We have pointed out the several disappointments arising from past confidence in those classes who would now re-establish that confidence , upon the plea that they have done nothing HITHERTO , but that they arc prepared to do something NOW . We , too , are
prepared to do something—we are prepared to take the lion ' s share in that something , provided the people are prepared' to assist in aiding us in the accomplishment of that something ; but we are not prepared to surrender our own principles for the adoption of minor ones , from which , even if accomplished , it is admitted that the Charter should be the means , and , therefore , our motto is , as it ever has been , and ever shall be —•
THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER . " - - - - - ' !¦¦¦
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THE LAND . We beg to call the attention of our readers to the letter of Mr . O'Connor , which appears in our present numboty and from its perusal the people—if they are not thoroughly blindwill discover that they have it in their own power , not by sacrifices or the denial of comforts ,, but by the abstinence from brutality and dissipation , to accomplish real freedom for thoif order in less than one year from the present timrj ; and one of the circumstances which stvikes us as the most marvellous and inconsistent is , that parties , who denounce Mr . O'Connor ' s plan for establishing real
"FREEDOM FOR THE MILLIONS , " should attempt to establish tjioir freedom upon the same principles , but within narrower , more prescribed , and less defensible limits .
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L 7 S S « EffiJffiX videBur ^ eofihe . ooQnti 7 r ^ ^" i )! ite , . not in that mechanical ^ S ^^ m , for the formation , but . for tbe CODWU "_ * of opinion ^ -while his enemies are m ¦ pp-j ^ sion of an easily recruited staffm ^ h df wt The small capitalists and shopkeepers . W anxious to preserve their social and conven -SSnal acquaintance and alliance ^ tiffined representatives of middle-ca s nnnd , become enthusiastic in a plan which is cafcu latedto confer additional political power upon their order , while their antagoni sm to Mi . O'Connor ' s Plan is based upon the presumpuic - ~*~~^
tion that the achievement ot power oy many , would destroy the exclusive privileges ° F ^ elves , we carebut Uttte ** f * £ j O'CONNOR or his opponents are the ^ tmments by which the value of freelaboui , ap plied to the cultivation of our national resources , is developed , - while we cannot too strongly or indignantly express our rep robation and censure of those who w ould develope the value of dependent labour , as illustrated m their own plan , while they decry the value ot independent labour , as developed in My . O'Connor ' s Plan . However , he has this week most distinctly pourtrayed the value ot Land , as a free labour field , and as the most secure and profitable Savings Bank for parties possessing a little capital and not inclined to
agricultural pursuits . The great difference between the projectors ofthose respective p lans , is : Firstly . —That the one g ives real freedom to the owner , and the other imposes trammels upon the occupant ; as , according to Mr . O'Connor ' s Plan , the occupant of any amount of land becomesits freepossessor ; while , bythe other plan , the occupant who may have paid a portion , becomes dependent on the mortgagee who holds his conveyance ,. until the stipulated amount is paid in full , and who is , therefore , a serf in his hands . ' ' ....
The next , and perhaps the greatest difference , is , that one plan is conducted by many solicitors , none of whom have the slightest interest in its success beyond the amount of money they can crib from the poor and defenceless client ; while , . in the other case , there is no need for the-interference of any solicitor . Indeed , we may carry the comparison further , and observe , that while one plan is confessedly established for the purpose of creating voters , to secure the political pre-eminence of a particular class , the other plan is established for the purpose of securing political cqualiiy for a majority ofthe
people . It is strange—nay , it is p itiful—that men can be so blind and obtuse as to believe that they can support themselves , wives , and families , upon two acres of Land , purchased by one company—a company with enormous legal expenses ; while they are informed that a man becomes a pauper upon four acres of better land , with neither rent nor purchase increased by legal or other expenses , but ,
on the contrary , to the furtherance of which the projector devotes his unpaid service . It is a startling fact , as announced in the document to which we refer , but yet it is an irrefutable one , that tho Avorking classes of this country may possess themselves of a majority of county representation by the investment of three-quarters of a million of money in the most secure and profitable speculation , or , rather , undertaking .
We believe that we uuder-rate the amount of money expended upon the Convention of 1839 when we put it down at 60 , 000 / . ; and that sum , lavished upon " poor gentlemen , " drunkards , speculators in credulity , and vagabonds , would have secured the balance of power in two English counties , leaving the subscribers a large per centage for their money , instead of lavishing it upon idle
rascals . We have frequently called the attention of our readers to the fact , that if they possessed political power to-morrow , the fair application of the Land to the employment and support of the people would be the social end ; and Mr . O'Connor very clearly proves , in his Letter of this week , that this social power , very limitedly developed , may be the political means of establishing the full-length social benefit .
But as our support of tho working classes is based upon love of justice , affection for their order , and the interest of all mankind , and as we have not , and never shall , close our ears against knowledge , from whatever quarter it may come , we would ask this simple question : How is it possible for a machinery-employed people , requiring eight millions a year to sustain the paupers of then ? class , to prevent that griping and desolating competition in the Labour market by any other possible means than opening a channel wide enough to give' profitable employment , not only to the existing population , but to double its amount ?
Now , when that question is satisfactorily answered , and when it is proved to us that any other field but the Land is sufficientl y wide to employ all profitably , and do away with unprofitable competition , we would most cheerfull y abandon the Land Plan , and adopt that which Ave could recognise as its real substitute . If Ave required stronger proof than Ave have hitherto published , ofthe means resorted to by those million liberty professors to destroy the Land Company , could we give a better illustration than the two following letters furnish the one supplying the character , and the other the policy , of Mr . B „ of Nottingham , referred to in Mr . O'Connor ' s letter of last week ? Mr . Wheeler says : —
_ Dear Sir , —I see your notice in the Star of some " Nottingham Booby . " 1 did not see him when here—in fact , such fellows seldom call on me . I have not seen a Review ] or I should probably answer it ; but in case you give him a "bellowsing , " I give you this little information , llisname is Brooksbank . When here he was thinking with Jem Brown , a country chap , that used to work on the estate he worked for me the first week I came here . He told me about this man treating him , and showed me a letter he had had from him since this article was in the Review ( for in tlm letter he enclosed tho slip from tiie jReot ' eio ) . The "sentimental traveller" commences bis letter thus : — " Dear Jem , —You are a good brick . " He then refers to
their drinking bout whilst here , and asks "Jem" to send him word about the poor deluded people here and if he had heard any more about O'Connor ' s doings . "Jem " aslced me to answer It for him , and if I had seen the article , I would have sent him some "startling disclosures •" but "Jem" had lost the slip from tho Review , and I knew nothing about the affair , so I believe "Jem" managed to scrawl him an answer himself . "Jem" said , as long as he continued to treat him , he would tell him as good a tale as he could . I could not see Brown to-day . or I would have sent you the letter , and 1 thought you might be giving him a poke this week . My brother has written to Nottingham for a Review . Yours truly , _ .. J ' Tiios , M , Wheeler .
P . S . —Excuse this scrawl , as I am . very sleepy , and keep nodding as I write ? Why do you not come and see us » Things look well . Now , then , so much for Wheeler's " startling disclosures ; " and now for tho disclosures of a Nottingham man , who appears to have some little knoAvlod ge of this iicav " Whistler , " and Ave think , in the words of this romantic scribbler , we may say oi these hawks— " SUM 'NUM , ARE WORS NCR SUM 'NUM . " Here follows tho Nottingham character of the"Nottinghambooby , " aspropcrl ychristened b y Mr . Wheeler ;—Dear Rider , —The fellow signing himself "B " in tho Nottingham Reyicw is an old Whig hack , of tha ' nnmi . S roohsoanic \
c . xo lias ocon evervthiii" i > v turns nml ,, „ d S . ^ oS ! , li , o S 9 ^ ^ wagngSl SSwSS : dontfovtUe ; tfaunHel , and professed to bo a Republican 2 ? SmS" t tU ° WOrdS 0 f Byroniu nWK "He had written in praise of a Regicide : 1 o ^ t l fevour of aU Kings whatever : An h d Wltte . " for Republics far and wide , wi . „„ i « T . ngfH"st thom hitterer than ever . " mSn , l rstc ? mmonmUho movement for tho Charter ^ T ^ utIb l'ouglit Ins own vritinin 8 otn hnn , , m £
« XZI n V" 8 aUmia wns & ' «« censo his abuse In ? * ^ S & % i ^ ' ^ «* Placejnithopo Jm £ V U T ° , ? loLan ( l Company ehiJSi ° ° " ' , ° / Wh 08 ° eolations a 7 S * "TJ * anda 8 ^ orftdly published , b y tho Press of tho enemy ? \ n conclusion , w
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commend the letter of Mr . O'OoMOB . to th 9 attentive perusal of our readers .
Parliamentaryreview. The State Of Affair...
PARLIAMENTARYREVIEW . The state of affairs in Canada has given risa to animated debates in both Houses of Parliament . In the Commons , the talk lasted two-nights , ' the promised Budget being set aside on one of them for the purpose of finishing it—that is nominally—because the postponement ofthe Annual Financial Statement , from Friday , 15 tb , to Friday , 22 nd , was evidently not required by the Canadian debate . It is more probable , that Sir Charles Woob could not get ready sooner . # In the House of
Lords , the question wa * dismissed in one night by means of sitting till between two and three o ' clock on a Midsummer morning . In the Lower House , Ministers had a majority ot 141—in the Peers , there was a majority against them of nine present , and , in order to neutralise it , they were compelled to have recourse to proxies , by means of which they ultimately escaped defeat by the narrow majority ' of three . The repeated occurrence of such divisions in the House of Lords , proves that the Whigs are by no means strong in that branch of the Legislature .
The policy of the Ministry which has thus triumphed , was , however , that to which every liberal-minded man must give his adhesion . The question resolved itself into a very nar « row compass . . It was simply whether , having granted to our North American provinces a local Parliament , and the full powee of managing their own local affairs , the Imperial Government was to step in and override the decisions of that Parliament . Lord
J . Russell and his colleagues decided against such an unjust and unconstitutional interference with the Canadian Legislature , and declared that the princip le of responsible Government should be carried out in good faith , and by such a course have entitled themselves to the approbation of all who desire io see countries governed on just principles and by popular institutions , instead of the whims , caprices , and selfish views of a small dominant and exclusive class . The facts of
the case are briefly these : In 1837 and 1838 , there was a rebellion in Canada , which was , in fact , a rising of the French population of Lower Canada and the liberal British population in both provinces , against the tyrannical and monopolising policy of a small clique of Colonial Tories , who ruled Canada with a . high hand , and in the genuine spirit of rampant old Toryism . When the rebellion was suppressed , an Act was passed giving pompen ™ sation for losses sustained by inhabitants in Upper Canada during the struggle , and such compensation was duly made under the
provisions of the Act . The Tory party , who remained in power for some time after , admitted that the same principle ought to be extended to Lower Canada , and that compensation should be granted there also to all persons who had sustained losses , and not having been convicted of taking an active part in the - rebellion . It appeal's , however , that no steps were taken to g ive practical effect to this declaration by them . In the meantime , the policy of Lord Durham and of Lord Sydenham , was gradually carried out in the provinces . There was a larger infusion of the
popular will in the election ofthe Colonial Parliament , andthe natural consequence was , that it became a truer reflex of the popular feeling . The Tories , from being the majority under the old close , monopolising system , became the minority . The Governor-General was obliged to select his Ministers from that party which held the ascendancy in the Legislature , and thus it happened that men , whose names some few years ago were spoken of as being either sympathisers with the rebels , or as having actually been among their number , are now- occupying high office in Canada . Of
course such a turning of the tables as this could not be very palatable to the Tories , who had been accustomed to have everything their own way . But it was their fate , and they had no help for it , except to lay by and watch for some act of the Parliament and Ministers , which would give them an excuse for raising an outcry , and attempting a coup d ' etat to regain possession of power . The proposal of a Compensation Bill for Lower Canada seemed to afford them that handle , and they eagerly availed themselves of it . Overlooking the fact that they themselves , when in office , had
admi tted the justice of such a measure , they raised a storm of misrepresentation , and a howl of indignation at the proposal , when made b y their opponents . They described it as being directly intended to remunerate rebels , though the Ministry in proposing , Parliament in passing it , and Lord Elgin " , the Governor-General , in giving his assent to it , explicitly and repeatedly declared , that no such intention was entertained . In the midst of great excitement the Bill was carried by a large majority , and at last the loyal Tories—who are such orderly , peaceable ,
well-conducted people , when they are feed for being so , and have the loaves and fishes of office at their disposal — broke out into open riot and outrage on the occasion of the assent of the GovEuxon-GESEitAi ! being given to the Bill . They set fire to the Parliament House , and burnt it , ' with its Library and Offices , to the ground , and Lord Elgin himself was assaulted and insulted so that he thought it prudent to retire from tho city of Montreal , while the angry and infuriated passions of those soi-disant " loyalists" were at their height . They threaten now " , if the Bill is not vetoed bv the Imperial Government
, that they will throw themselves into the arms of the United States . Let them do so . It will be "jumping out of the frying-pan into the fire . " They wilt find even less chance of regaining that predominancy and exclusive power—the deprivation of which has maddened fehem—under tho Republican Institutions of the Federal Union , than they have under the Constitution of Canada . For our own part , we entertain the belief that ultimate annexation to the States is certain to be the case , and tbe interests of the world of humanity will be promoted by it ; hut we would rather see thatcome when it may—take place in a calm , rational .
and dignihed manner , and with a due appreciation of the solemn and important step , than see in ifc merely the revengeful whim of a spiteful and disappointed clique , because they have been prevented irom longer domineering over their fellow colonists . With respect to the debates on this question , which have ended in sustaining the principle of responsible government , they wore among the most interesting of the Session . It is curious to mark the conduct ?/ , £ ? ,. LlTS section under Present circumstances . Willing to strike , but yet afraid to wound ; " loner . mg for place , and yet , not seeing any immediate chance of having that longinjr . gratified—thev m
compelled to make a show of Parliamentary activity , and to bring forward motions which end in nothing more than keeping themselves before the public . That wo believe is the only thing real about them . Mr . Gladstone , in introducing the question , delivered himself of a speech of neaSv three hours duration , and concluded it without making any mo tion ! His speech WM mere . see-saw and Wspliitmg , and he did not want to push the Whigs into a ° ^ VLhe ? ld I ? ! f > - u / the r ™ tectio ° nist fee * Sji me < - nofc »)» Mft * ith this sham opposition , S ;* ' ™ der Mr . Herbos , they made a real S 11 q —^ ° \ ^ wero beaten > as we have said , by a minority of 141 . Siv XI . v ™ . t ^ v « .. „ .
Snffi " P " b . and ^ lemn adhesion to the ?? w &„* r T , lUe S » T nment ™* representa-?? mSSn 0 n 8 f 0 * , r Colonie 3 > and ^ ministered L \ nS \ Z ? ? the knuckles to his quondam Co-H ^ , cictar )' - Sir RoBERT does not want placo and can afford to do without- ifc ; but that is ? nU . ?? ° Wlth ^ PP ° rt ers . In tho House of Jj uras , tiie opposition to popular s-overnmenfc was ictt by that eccentric apostate Lord Brougham , who now goenis quite at home among " my noble mends on the Tory benches , and who soems to be vei
e on tho eager look-out to do any dirtv job that no imagines will givo them pleasure . His Lordship , however , towards tho conclusion of his speech , told some home truths respecting the views of tho Americans as to Free Trade and Protection , which we recommend to tho careful perusal of our readers . Tho whole controversy , connected with this Bill , is now _ i U . » ^ e British Legislature is concerned . It v ? iU , undoubtedl y , in the first instance , , L *\ x v of 3 U 8 tice t 0 ° long delayed-it willaho snow to the colonists that Parliament and the Ministry are in earnest in maintaining tho principle of loca l-seif-govornmont , as applied to their case : but
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 23, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_23061849/page/4/
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