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¦ J . RE AND LITE ASSURANCE , A 3 SD ANNTJI TIES POE THE INDUSTRIAL CLASSES . ENGLISH AND CAMBRIAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY : OBITBE , LIFE , AMJDITHS , AND ENDOWMENTS , 4 c Capital £ 150 , 010 with power of increase to Oke Umaox . ( Incorpora ted hy Aet of Parliament . ) CHIEF OFFICES :-So . 9 , Uew Bridge-street , Blackfriars , London . JKstrut Offices . No . 65 , Sun-street , Bishopseate-street , City ; No . , Ckarlottwtreet , Rteroy-sqnare - ; # <> . 6 , Trimty-streeti Trinity-square , Borough ; Ko . 12 a , Cannon-rew , Bridgestreet , ¦ Westminster . Medical OJUer . ' Dlirm WUTS . Esq ., IU ) ., G 7 , « harlotte : » ^ S square ( on MondaT )/ and 6 , Trinity-street ( on Thursday ) , iromlOtoS .
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THE LWD LTSTEIAL , AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE AND DEPOSIT COMPANr . Capital £ 100 , 000 , in 40 , 000 shares , of £ 210 s . each . 2 , TTA WW-oo-PhACB , Tall Mah .,. Loxdon ; ... AND . ' . 27 , COHFOIUTIpS-SIBESI , MANCHESTER . Registered pursuant to Act 7 and 8 Vict . c . 110 . Directors , William Carter . Esq :, "William Colling , Esq ., M . P ., J . B . Elmore , Esq ., John C . Kingston , Esq ., Kev . Charles Lowndes , HA ., Win . Bewicke Lynn , Esq .., Rev . J . B . Reade , M . A ., F . R . S ., George Selby Esq ., George . Thompson , Esq ., JT . P ., William Thos . Woods , Esq . Bankers , The London Joint Stock Bank , Consulting Surgeon . John R . BImore , Esq ., MJ ) ., 27 , Tfarley-street . Consulting Avluary . - Francis G . P . Nelson , Esq ., F . L . S . Btsident . Director . ' _ William Thomas Woods , Esq .
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MR . THOMAS CLARK , General Agent to the "Industrial and General Life Assurance and Deposit Company " for the Tower Hamlets , intimates his willingness to communicate with persons in any part of the country who may be desirous of assuring their lives under any of the tables of the company . He will supply information to theCommitteesor Members of Benefit or Burial Societies respecting assurance , and the term j U" 0 n which the "Industrial and General" will admit them to participation in the advantages of their society . To his Brother Odd Fellows he willfeel specially bound to attend , as they , more than any others already iu societies , have au interest in Life Assurance . AU letters requiring answers or prospectuses , must contain a postage stamp for reply . No . 2 , East Mount-terrace , Whitechapel-road , London .
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riALD WELL'S NEW , ' SPACIOUS , U AND ELEGAUT ASSEMBLY ROOMS , Dean Stbeet , Sobo . Ma . Caidwell avails himself of this opportunity of returning his grateful acknowledgments to his Patrons , Pupils , and the Public for the liberal support they have hitherto honoured him with , and begs most respectfully to announce that his Extensive Premises have been entirely rebuilt , under the saperintendance of an eminent Architect , and are now replete with the most scrupulous regard to accomodation and comfort , which artistic skill , combined with experience , could suggest . The whole comprehending , it is presumed , the chef-d'ouvrc Terpsichorean Establishment at the West-end , which
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TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her Majesty ,. Queen Victoria , and JT . R . II . Prince Albert .
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Education for the MiUions , THIS MT ; JS PU 3 LISEED , No . XXTII . of . " THE NATIONAL ^ INSTRUCTOR , " PRICE ONE PENNY . Tha object of the Proprietor , FEARaug O'Connor , Esq ., M . P ., is to ' place witbin the reach of the poorest olasies that Political and Social Information of whiok they are at present deprived . by the Government Taxes on Knowledge . " SIXTEEN LARGE OCTAVO PAGES , Price One Peany .
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pANTERBUEY versus ROME , \ J AND CHRISTIANITY IN RELATION TO BOTH . ERNEST JONES Of the Middle Temple , Barrister-at-Law , WIH < WCIDEE OK THE ABOVE ' SUBJECT , IN THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTION , SOTJTHAMPTON BCILDINGS , CHANCERY-LANE , OK Monday Evening , December the Second , ASP Mohdat Evening , December the Jfiwrn . Admission : —Boxes and Platform , One Shilling ; Pit , Sixpence ; Galleries , Threepence . To commence at Eight o'clock precisely . Entrances to Boxes and Platform , 29 , Southamptonbuildings , Chancery-lane ; Pit aud Galleries , Northumberland court . Southampton-buildings , Holborn , and Tenniscourt , Middle-row , Holborn : , The Parochial Clergy will he solicited to attend . Discussion Invited .
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LAND AND COTTAGES FOR TEETOTALLERS . A WEALTHY GENTLEMAN , most anxious to promote the cause of total abstinence , has resolved , as vacancies occur on his estate , to accept no new tenants unless they are piedged teetotallers . Any such persons , with good characters , and a little capital , may have immediate possession of a small three-roomed cottage , with two acres of most fertile land attached to it , on a perpetual lease , at £ 14 per annum , with a clause enabling them to purchase the freehold for £ 350 , on a perfectly voluntary pbinciple , and by instalments as small as half-a-crown each , if they think proper , and when they think proper . To view the property ; and obtain further information , apply on the premises , to Mr . Page , Dibdin Hill , Chalfont , St . Giles , Bucks , twenty-one miles from London , and two miles from O'Connorville .
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npHE LONDON CO-OPERATIVE X STORES are now opened at 76 , CHAHLorra Stkeet , Firmer Squabb , In connexion with the Society for Promoting Working Men ' s Associations . 1 . —Object of the Stoks . To enable members of the above-named Association , and other persons who may desire it , to obtain articles , of daily use perfectly free from adulteration , of the best quality , and the lowest charge , after defraying the necessary expense of management , distribution , and providing for a reserve fund . Co-operative stores have been established with much success in different parts of the kingdom . The benefit to tho subscribers may be judged of from the fact that the subscribers to the Pioneer Store in Kochdale , divided in the last year £ 800 after payment of all expenses , although the goods were charged considerably below the ordinary price . 2 . —Operations of the Stores .
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NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Office , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand , THE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE ber « by announce the following meetings : — On Sunday evening next Mr . J . 3 . Berer will lecture at the Globe and Friends , Morgan-street , Commtrcial-roftd East . Subject ; ' The Church of Rome versus the Church of England , ' ¦ On the same evening , Mr . Wheeler will lecture at the Whittington and Cat . On the same evening a lecture will be delivered at tho City Hall , 26 , Golden-lane , Barbican , and the Princess Royal , Circus-street , Marjlebone . On the fame evening , the Emmett ' s Brigade meet at tho RockTavsrn , LiiBon-grove—the Washington Locality at the King and Queen , Foley-street—St . Pancras Lnrai ' itv Bricklayers' Arms , Tonhrldge . gtreet , New-road JJUtauiy » . On Monday evening next the memlwrg of the WostminS " ter Locality are requested to meet on important business at the Three Compasses , Kinglet , Re gKreet , Shjhed on behalf of the Committee John Abnott , General Secretary .
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Will be ready for delivery with the Northem Star on Saturday next , an authentic , highly finished , and beautiful Steel Engraving , Two Feet Long , from the contractors ( Fox and Henderson ' s ) own Drawing of th eJJ
CRYSTAL PALACE : Or Great Building in Hyde Park for the Grand Industrial Exhibition of 1851 . No expense has been spared in obtaining a correct and finished Engraving of this gigantic undertaking , andwe feel assured our , Subscribers will admit , on seeing impressions , that the Plate is only- second to the Building
itself in its extraordinary novelty and dimensions . Price of Prints 6 d , ; Proofs Is . each . Post Office orders for the number required , muai be forwarded by the Agents , to the Northern Star Office , 1 @ > Great Windmill Street ; or to Mr . Pa vey , Holy well-street , Strand , or they may be obtained through their respective London Booksellers . The usual allowance to the trade .
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The West Rimnq Deusoate Meeting We have received a letter frem Mi . Christopher Shackleton , in reply to , and ¦ contradictory of , the assertions put forth in a letter by Mr . Lawson , which was published in the '' Northern Star' of last week . Acting upon our general rule of re . fusing insertion to all personal vituperation we must decline tbeinsertion of Mr . Sknckleton's letter . Any state , ment of facts ,, written in a proper spirit ,: shall have prompt attention . . Nottingham , —Mr . J . Sweet acknowledges the receiptor the following : sums ( sent herewith ; : — Uefuoee Fund—A Ladies' Boot Binder 6 d—froniCarrington 7 s Od—from the Eagle Tavern 2 s Gd . ; . Tocmoeden . —To tho Editor of the Northern jStar . —Sir , —
You will much oblige me by correcting an error made by the omission of the surname ' Kyddi' Samuel Kydd was the person nominated to serve in the present Executive , in the place of Mr . Thomas Brown .: I have ' . committed the oversight myself ; it is in last week's ¦ - ; $ ( ar . — -Yours , most respectftdly , James MooNSY , Sect ; . . ; John Hehmin , Cheltenham . —Your proposition would ntver ';¦ be adopted , and could not give satisfaction'if it was , to ' the numerous parties interested in the question . 'Under ; these circumstances the publication of your letter-would fee useless . G . B ., Sheffield . —Much better . Try again . To CwiKESPOMi ) E » xs . —We ' are compelled , through press of . matter , to postpone several communications . . Polish Refugee Fond . —A few friends to Democracy , D . Snellins ; , per Douglass , Is , —Per John Arnott , £ 2 , — .. Thomas FErcmoK , Secretary
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THE fORTHERH STAR SATURDAY , IVOVEMBJEU S 3 , 1850 .
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A BRITISH MINE OP REAL WEALTH . Mr , Ferranb ' s " Wool and Flax League " involves a sound idea . There can be no measures of more primary and permanent importance , than the profitable development and application of the latent resources of your own soil , and the means of increasing remunerative employment for our industrial population . A brisk and healthy Home Market must always , from its very nature , bo more advantageous to all classes than any amount of Foreign Trade ; and the true policy of a wise Government would be to make the one , in all cases secondary and subsidiary to the other . The sudden rise and equally sudden fall of all states that have depended mainly upon commerce for their wealth and greatness , is the best practical illustration of the folly of the opposite course .
Indeed this country appeared as if it would speedily add another to the list of these illustrations . Within the last half century an enormous and unparalleled trade has grown up among us , resting entirely upon the supply of a material grown in far distant regions . To promote the success of that trade , and avocations connected with it ,, the whole commercial and fiscal policy of the country has been
gradually altered and adapted by successive statesmen . Manufactures asumed the supremacy , and the tables of Exports and Imports became of much more importance in the eyes of our rulers , than the . condition of the people . It is , to be sure , assumed , that when Exports and Imports are largo , the other must neces * sarily be of a satisfactory nature but that is a mistake which needs no
rectification to those who are practically conversant with tho workings of our present system . How often large Exports are made at ruinous prices , which leave neither living wages to the workman , nor fair profit to the employer , in order to force sales , we need not say . How often a large portion of our boasted Imports merely go to add to the already numerous conveniences and luxuries of the wealthy classes , is equally evident . The stream of riches flows far away from the dwellings of . the poorbecause industrious classes . They may see , but they taste them not .
Feverish , fluctuating , and partial , ' however , as was the prosperity produced by our manufacturing and commercial system , the system itself had grown to be , in the meantime , one of the natural necessities . Millions of capital were embarked in mills and machinery . Millions of individuals , directly and indirectly , depended upon the supply of cotton for a subsistence . Hence it was , with no small degree of alarm , that reflective men looked to the impending danger of the supply of that material being cut ofij or so materially diminished as to be inadequate to supply the wants of the population hitherto employed in working it up . This danger arose from Wo causes—one
accidental , the other essential . The last cotton crop was an exceedingl y bad one , and , in consequence pf the defective supply , prices had risen to such a height as to check purchases , except under strong compulsion . The present year's crop , it is now understood , will be at least equally scanty , so that a short supply and high prices must be the rule for some time to come , from this cause alone . If , however , the occasional failure of the cotton crop was all that had to be feared or endured , it is clear that the evil , however severe , could only be temporary in its durations . With more favourable seasons , more plentiful supplies would have been poured in , and the wheels of our gigantic manufacturing machinery once more set in
motion . But a more serious danger menaced us in the growing demand for American cotton by American manufacturers . They do not see any reason why they should not work up into textile fabrics the raw produce of their own States , and sell them to other nations , as well as Eng land . No more do-we . It is . very na ? tural , and very proper . Nay , more , if they can manufacture it in the midst of the very plantation where it is grown , so much the better , because the finished fabric will , be produced all the cheaper , and cheapness being
the sine qua non of the age , they will achieve the high destiny of driving everybody else out of the markets of the world . But what is to become of us if this takes place ? If , instead of sending us raw cotton to be spun and woven into shirts and dresses for people in every quarter of the globe , they keep the cotton to themselves , and supply our old customers , what are we to do ? A grave and serious question . Manchester set about answering it in its own way . Pirst it tried to persuade Government to send out a commission to sc-e what could be
done for procuring a supply of the raw material from British India . After careful inquiries as to the various places from whence a supply could be drawn , Manchester came to the con elusion that British India was the only place . But Government refused to bo at the expense or trouble of doing this . . Accordingly , Manchester has taken both upon herself , and , by a subscription of some three thousand pounds , has sent a Commissioner of its own to spend two years in India , with his notebook and pencils .
When he returns with the information he has collected , what then ? All the political and material obstacles he may discover will " . have to be overcome , and that will tea task of no slight difficulty and duration . Many , very many years , will certainly elapse
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before Indian can auppty the placr of American Cotton ; and when it does , we shall find ourselves driven to desperate and direct competition , with a powerful , energetic , and acute rival , who finds the cotton at his own door , while we shall have to draw our supplies from the remote provincea of a Continent many thousand miles distant . ^ Truly , we see no very cheering prospect , in all this , Even if Manchester succeeds in all it proposes to do , it will fall short of the requirements of the age—work , wages , and comfort for the toiling millions I
But while Manchester , as usual , has been looking abroad . for the means of meeting immediate , and averting remote difficulties , we are happy to learn that wiser people have had the common sense to lOok at home . They have been richly rewarded . for doing so . If we are to credit the Morning Chronicle , a series of discoveries have been made and perfected , which , in the most ample and satisfactory manner , meet the exigencies of our present position . Not only do they supply an immediate and adequate stock of raw material to the British manufacturer , but , provide at the
same time , a profitable occupation to the agricultural interest , which is Buffering under such deep depression from the recent commercial policy of the Legislature . For the first time in actual life , it appears that . manufactures and agriculture are to give and receive mutual support and strength . The old game of see-saw , one up and another down , is to ceane . The boast of the manufacturing towns , that they are in a high state . of
prosperity , is no longer to be answered by the wail of misery from the agricultural districts , and visa versa- At last the prosperit y of both are to be truly identified , and labour , both in town and country , is to be set in , motion , profitabl y . 'for all parties . If all tnese ' promiaes should be realised ,-it will mark one of the most important eras in our history . ; In order that our readers may judge of the . probability of their being so , we will condense the detailed statement of our
contemporary on the subject . It is stated , firstly , that a new mode of preparingflax for the manufacturers has been discovered , ' by which the dilatory , costly , and wasteful process of steeping is altogether avoided . The present method of preparing the plant for use , whether according to the ordinary mode , or under Shenck ' s patent system of steeping in hot water , involves a serious loss of time and labour , and is very detrimental to . the quality of the fibre . The flax receives various impurities , which have afterwards to be removed by the no less tedious and
pernicious operation of bleaching j and the consequence is , that , by the time it reaches the manufacturer ' s hands , it is both enhanced in coat , and deteriorated in strength and substantial value . This formidable hindrance to flax manufacture , it is stated , is now completely removed . By the simple and ingenious invention spoken of , steeping is entirely dispensed with , and no chemical agents being employed in the process , the fibre is handed over to the spinner in a perfectly natural and unimpaired condition , free from dirt and discolouration , and retaining all those oleaginous
properties on which its strength so much depends . That is step the first in these discoveries , and is invented by Mr . Donlan . The next , invented by Chevalier P . , Claussen , is more extraordinary and more important . He has obviated one of the main obstacles to the extended use of linen fabrics—namely , their cold feel , and has succeeded in manufacturing the unsteeped flax into various descriptions of
material , which possess respectivel y all theioarmth of wool , the softness of cotton , and the glossiness of silk ! " and -which , " adds the Chronicle , " so closely resemble these several fabrics , both to the eye and the touch , that we should neither credit the fact ourselves , nor task the faith of our readers by the assertion , had we not before us actual samples of the result produced ,, exhibiting , in one and the same bundle , of fibres , the raw flax at one end , and the quasisilk or cotton at the other . ' ' . The cost of
converting unsteeped flax into " cotton " is only seven-sixteenths of a penny per pound , and the difference between the price of the flax when thus prepared , and that of raw cotton , is estimated as being from one-third to onehalf in favour of the former . The crowning discovery has still to be mentioned . Many admirable inventions are either lost altogether for practical purposes , or are but slowly adopted in general use , " because they require a totally different kind of machinery from that which exists for producing the articles . When we think of the immense
capital sunk in the mills , factories , and workshops connected with our present cotton and silk manufactures , it is obvious , that if the new material had required new machinery , it would have interposed a formidable , if not insurmountable , obstacle to its general use . But it has been happily ascertained , that the existing machinery of our cotton mills is adapted to the new material . The same invention which dispenses with the steeping , render the flax suitable for a process which adapts it to the present machinery . The inventor took a quantity of his " flax cotton" to Manchester ,
placed it in the hands of a spinner , and the spindles , it is stated , took to it as kindl y as if it and they had been made expressly for each other . We observe , by the Chronicleof Wednesday , that Chevalier Claussen again proceeded to Manchester on Tuesday night , with introductions to the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce , and Messrs . Ashworth and Shuttleworth , extensive manufacturers , for the purpose of testing the matter still farther , by carrying out , upon a large scale , a series of experiments , with respect to the adaptation of flax to the cotton machinery . >
Should these experiments terminate successfully , and the other inventions turn out to be in extended practice what they are described to bo in experiments , it is impossible to exaggerate their importance , and their beneficial bearing at the present moment . The doubt and anxieties as to the source from whence our manufacturers may , in future , draw their supplies of raw . material , will be at once dispelled ; whibj at tho same time , a new and highl yprofitable occupation will be opened up to our agricultural population . The principle of Mr . Ferrabd ' s . League will have triumphed , though without that gentleman ' s hatred to the "blood-stained cotton" system .
The extent and value of the market which will he opened to our agriculturists may be judged of from the fact that , even with our limited linen manufactures , we import upwards of eight millions' worth yearly of foreign flax . The substitution of flax for cotton will , of course , enormously increase the demand , and the experience of Mr . Warn es , at Trimingham , in Norfolk , demonstrates the numerous pecuniary and social advantages to be derived from cultivating this crop . The results of that experience for many years may be summed up
as rendering the farmer independent of foreign cattle , food , and manure ; ensuring tho main- j tenance upon the same space of double or treble the number of cattle usually kept ; the keeping of the land in a profitable state of cultivation , and preventing the possibility of its deterioration . In addition to this , its effects are to he traced in the increased employment and wages of persons of both sexes , aud all ages , the promotion of industry , frugality' and contentment j a reduction of poor rates and diminution of crime , and an increased consumption of articles of food and clothing .
In addition to tho £ 0 , 000 , 000 worth of foreign flax imported , there is also yearly broug ht from abroad five hundred thousand quarters of linseed , for sowin g and crushing * the value of which exceeds Jl , 000 , 000 sterling , and the whole of which might also , with perfect ease , be raised at heme * " We observe thftt entexpr ^ ia already a . foot
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in taiff direction . A company has bee nformfi (» for the purpose of promoting . the growth of flax on a large scale in Ireland * and the Board of Trade , in consideration of the importance o f the object , have determined to relax a ge . neral principle , and to grant a charterof incorporation to the company . The example will be certain to be followed i » other quarters greatly to the benefit of Ireland as well as this country ; and we are sure that every w « U . wisher to his country will join with us in the expression of an earnest hope that the anti . cipations excited by these statements may be realised . ^ . _
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POLICE ESPIONAGE . We know not whether our Police authorities mean to introduce into this country the system of M . Carlier or not , but an occurrence this week appears as though they meditated something of the sort . Now , having no desire to be subjected to a Republican regime like that existing in . France , we have to request of Sir Geor e tar and his Police subordinates , that they will leave us in possession of our common and well established rights as Englishmen , There ia , as far as we know , no law whatever ¦
J . T __ __ . . J t •_ ' 11 . _ I . _ J at the present time , that empowers them to ea « tablisha Police Espionage , or to interfere with the proceedings of open public meetings , called for the discussion of public questions , and for the consideration of public grievances . Theseare rights sacredly guaranteed to us bythe constitution , and neither Home Secretaries nor Police Commissioners shall be allowed to trample upon them with impunity ... The . attempt of the . two disguised Policemen to ' sneak into the meeting , in Turnmill-street , on Tuesday night , was as ill-timed as it is
unjustifiable . There never Was a period in the history of this , country when the people were more quiet and brd » Iy-than the present . In fact , we may say ,, that political apath y is the prevailing charact » r of popular opinion . The pretext , therefore , : afforded by seasons of excitement and turbulent agitation for stepping over the strict limits of the Iaw ^ do not now exist . If . the authorities believed that there was anything dangerous or improper in the meetings at Turnmill-street , they ought to have sent their Officers openly in their regular uniform , not disguised as spies .
Having done that " they cannot be surprised that irritation . was the consequence . The melancholy results of the Police hatched plot , which sent ' CUFPEY and his colleagues from our shores as convicted felons , for life , are too fresh , for men to feel cool when they see the commencement of what appears a similar conspiracy to entrap them within the meshes of the law . The Whi g Cabinet have acquired inefaceable infamy for the disgraceful manner in which they encouraged , and took
advantage of a few men who had been ensnared into connection with plans that were far more foolish and contemptible than they were dangerous or criminal . The partrons of Powell and Davis are not likely soon to lose the character that attaches itself to such a connection , and it is to be feard that use has hardened them in the practice . Henceforth it would seem that we must regard Police Espionage as one of the means of government habitually employed by our liberal loving and constitutional Whigs .
We cannot understand the decision of the Magistrate . Supposing that the assault charged against Mr . Fuzzen had been full y and incontestibl y proved , the . ordinary course , in such cases , is , to impose a fine , proportioned to tho violence of the assault , and the nature of the circumstances under which it took place . Mr . . Cosibe , however , apparently thought there was something more to find out , and therefore bound over the defendant in
sureties to appear on a future day , and answer any charges which may in the meantime be hunted up or concocted by his Police prosecutors . We ' should not be surprised , if by the time Mr .. Combe has the matter again brought before him , a full-sized plot is hatched , with all th « usual blunderbusses , drums , thunder , raw head and bloody bones , usual on such occasions .. ' We all know , to our cost , that policemen are only human , and , of course , when their employers set them on the watch in plain clothes at Chartist meetings they understand what is wanted . What more natural than that they should find it ? Wo call upon the . middle classes and the
community at large , to stand between a calumniated , maligned , and oppressed class , and this most improper and dangerous use of the Police force . They are bound to exert themselves to put a stop to it from a sense of selfpreservation . Who knows how soon the same weapon may be turned against other agitations unpleasing to those in power ? The sole safe guard of the rights of all classes consists
in their uniting to uphold , in all their purity and strength , those laws which guarantee the right of free thought , speech , and action to all Englishmen . That right has , in this case , been most grossl y and carelessl y violated ; nud , we trust , that while it is met by immediate resistance and exposure , it will also be made the subject of Parliamentary inquiry at the opening of the Session .
In conclusion—without knowing anything of the facts of the case further than appears in the police report—we would say to all parties who profess to be Chartists , that anything approaching either to violence or to secresy can onl y have the effect of damaging and retarding the cause they ostensibly wish to promote . The People ' s Charter embodies objects , and rests upon principles so noble and so just that they , are certain to be carried if their advocates act in consonance with both , Wo feel confident we have the superiority equally in principle and argument . Wh y
should any one throw away that advantage b y having recourse to less worthy weapons ? Above all , we say , the man or men . are enemies to democratic progress , who play into the hands of those in power by forming organisations , or agitating in a manner that tends to the inference ; there are concealed objects in view , or secret agencies at work . Let us have everything fair , and above board , and fight the battle for the Charter in the honest , open , and manly manner which . distinguishes our name and nation .
[ A press of other matter compels us to withhold several articles which had been pre * pared for insertion this week . ]
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MONIES RECEIVED Fob the Week Ending Tbprssat , . November 21 st , 1850 . FOB THB WINDING UP OF THE LAND COMPANY . Received by W . Ridkr . —John Little , Sunderi" - * OJ—0 . Payne and J . Stephens , Red Marloy is—Wakefield Branch , par H . Blackburn 1115 s—Stalvbridge Branch , per J . Wpolley 12 s—Messrs . J . H . and W . Owen , Sheffield , perG . Cavil Is 6 d-lIaworth , thirteen Members , per W . Greenwood < 5 s Gd—J . Hemmin , Cheltenham Gd-E . Self , Great CheTDrill Cd-Rjiflcliffe-briilM . P <> r R > IIamer 3 . , , j Received at Land Office . — A . Simpson Od-B . Smith w —J . Wttinot , Croydon Is—G . W . Cd .
THE HOUESTY FUND . Received by W . RwEa .-Jo hn Litue , Sunderland 2 s ( 34 —T . Fawdon , Sunderland Is . FOR THE HUNGARIAN AND POLISH REFUGEES . Received- by W . Hides . — J . Booth , Lincoln 2 s Id-Rochester aud Chatham , per II . Willis 10 s lOd-Preston Onanists , per'J . Brown ll-Ship Inn , nirmuiRuaTO , p « J . Newhouse Cs 4 d—Nottingham , per J . Sweet 10 s 60—Haworth , per W . Greenwood lis 3 d—Bolton-le-Moors , per G . Ednard 1 / 2 a 6 d—Hanley Chartists , per J . Bftfflforu WJ . Cooks , Shincliff Colliery 3 d-Messrs . Chandler , U < rJ »™ Perry , Brown , and Hawken , Camelford . Cornwall a [ W . — -Received by Jobs Arnott .-G . P . Is—Sutton-nvASUfield , per W , Felkin lOo-Stalybridge , per W . H ill 10 s .
AGITATION FOR THE CHARTER , Received by . John , AhnottI-A Rochdale Chartisti « - Arbroath , per J . Y . Fair-weather 4 s Id—G . P . lS-BnSWli per W . H , Cottle 5 s—Leicester , per W , Buzzard 10 fc V EXPENSE FUND ) . ' Received at 1 ^ Omcs ;—HiuT 4 » . . i "''" . ' VicfiM FUN Oi Received at IiAHtt 9 witE ,-e . lTiW « JS ••• ¦• •*
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 23, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_23111850/page/4/
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