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    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, JTJNE 25, 1847.
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      ON THE FIRS ? OP JDUF , 1817 Will be Published , SO . I . ( PRKS SlXlffiSCE , ) OP

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      Just published , price € d . ( " printed from the Suort-hanrl "Writer ' s Notes , ) THE TRIAL OF THE MECHANICS AT LIVERPOOL on the 2 nd and 3 rd of April , 1817 . , Edited by W . P . Robests , Esq . London : AbrtAern Star Office , Ifi , Great Windmill Stre r , Haymarket : and at the offices of Mr Roberts , 2 , Robert-street , Adelphi . London : and 3 , Essex Chambers , Manchester : aud Abel Ueywo ^ d , Oldhaui-street , jM an Chester : aud aU Booksellers . *

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      TO TAILORS . B . Read ' s Xew Patent Indicator for finding proportion and disproportion in all systems of cutting . Caveats granted . April * 22 nd , 1817 . signed by Messrs Fool and Capmeal , Patent Office , i , Old Sqanre , Lincoln ' s Inn . De-« laration of same , signed by Sir G . Carroll , Kut , Lord IfayorofLoudon . THE LONDOS AND PARIS SPRLVG AND SUMMER FASHIONS for 1817 , are now ready , by BENJAMIN READ and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury nquare , Loudon ; and by < S . Berger , Holy well-street , Strand . May he had Of flll booksellers wheresoever refiidicg . By approbation of her ilajestj Qn . een Victoria and . H . R . U . Prince Albert a Splendid Print , beautifully colouFCd , and exquisitely executed , the whole very superior to anything of the kind ever before published . This beautifolprict will be accompanied with the most fashionable , full size , Frock , Dress , and Riding Coat Patterns—a

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      THE TAILOKS * TRADING COMPANY . - A STJA 1 BEE OFJOVRSEYUES TAIbQBS ( Members of the N ' at . onal Association of UnHM Trades } tiavimrformed a fJom |> any to release themsefces from the baneful in & Jcnce of ; . unprincipled ompctitors respectfully inform tbe operative . clisses , generally , that they have . opened a * , establishment at No . 7 , ff'ICTOKIA-STREET , MANCHESTER , where they caa be supplied with every article of clothing as cheap andbetterirjade than at any ol the < 60-called cheap establtfibigents . WORKING £ EX , SUPB 0 RT YOUR OU'JV OSDER in this attempt ^ dcvioiutnete Out benefits of ASSOCIA TIVE LABOUR .

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      A COLOmtED BAGfJESCBOTTPJE PORTRAIT in best morocco ca « e for las ., which it 15 s . less than any other Loudon establishment , and wawaiited to be * g « mlly good , by MR ECEftTON . 148 , Fleet-street , opposite Louverie-street , aud j , Temple-stceet , White-£ 6 a ? s . g P en da " i' froni nine till four . Esreign Appaiutos Agent to Voigtlauder and Liribours , a complete Hook of Instruction , price 7 s . Gd ., by post 106 Pri e Bsts sent post free .

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      THE LAND ! THE LAND ! THE LAN J TUE ADVERTISER , nnder the name of Mrs Winuett , of Cftoriev wood , begs to inform her numerous correspondents that immediate possession , may now be had of a few shares of SUPERIOR LAND of two descriptions < within threesjtort miles ofO'Cox-voaviiXE , late Ilerriugsgarei vis ., tea ihotisand square fee % , and £ 30 towards building a cottage , for ten shillings and tenpenceper quarter , or forty thousand square feet of Land without the jt' 4 Q for the sarns rent , on a iW 9 years' lease , at an expense of twenty shillings for lease and counterpart , both on parclmvnt and duly stamped . No one to have more than 93 , 00 ' squarefeet Apply to Thomas Key ( thefirst tenant onthe estate ) Dihdin HiU Chalfont , Saint wiles , Bucks .

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      BALDNESS EFFECTUALLY REMOVED . A SURG EON residing in Cork having , iu the course of his Practice , bad his attention particularly directed to , and acquired great experience iu the TREATMENT OF CAPILLARY DISEASES , begs to inform those perrons afflicted with BALDNESS ( whether in youth or advanced in life ) may , by a most simple process , REPRODUCE that necessary ornament . Parties applying will rcquireto enclose a small quantity of hair , aud a fee of live shillings , by post-office order , in favour of Surgeon Edward Williams , 13 , Henry-street , Cork ; when the nefeHaiT ruction , will befi / warded by returnofpost ^

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      AUXILIARY TO TilE NATIONAL LAND THE NATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE BENEFIT SOCIETY . . . Patron—T . Wakley , M . P . . Dtratore-Messrs P . M'Grath , T . Clark , and C . Doyle . JBanfc—The National Land and Labour Bank . Sccretary-llv E . Stallwood . Central Offices , 83 , liean-street , Soho , and 2 , Xittlc Taleplacc , Hammersmith road . THIS Society presents greater advantages to the I ndustrious Millions than smy similar Institution er « established . Rales and every information required can he obtained at the following places ;—Mr Lawrance , Whittingtoa and Cat , Church-row , Bethnal Green ; Mr Jeffrey , Tanners ' Arms , Bermondsey-road ; Mr J . SimpsDn , Harrison ' s Assembly Rooms , East-lanc , Walworth i Herbert ' s Temperance Coffeehouse . Exeter-strcet , Sloane-street

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      Now Reedy , a NewlEdition of MR . O'CONNORS WORK ' QN SMALL FARMS To be had attheXsrfntm'Sferr Office , 16 , Great Wind ok ( 1 Street ; and of ATiel Hey wood , Manchester .

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      TBE liJkND ! ^ A N ALLOTTEE "havingThree or Four Acres on any of f \ the Estatesiballoteil for- to dispose of may hear of a purchaser by applying to-doseph Goody , baker , Sudbury , Suffolk , stating price , Ac . The party wishing to purchase has four dhares iniibe Third Section .

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      JiUST iFCBLISIIED , A POLL-LENGTH iPORTRAlT of FEARGUS O'CONA NOR , Esc Lithographed in the first Style of Art , from an Original Painting bj T . Maktih . s . d . Print * „ ... 2 6 On India paper - ... ... ... 4 0 Coloured to life ... ... ... 6 0 Frames and Masses from 5 s . to ... 20 0 " We have seen specimens , both plain and coloured , and mustpronoance Mr Martin ' s work an unmistakeable likeness ot the brcatbiBgoriginal , the worth of which the tens of thousands who know Mr O'Comor can decide when they sea the Engrasvimr . We have not met any one who has ^ hesitatedto say , * That is the man . *"— Northern Star . Agents aad Land Secretaries may be supplied on wholesale terms ; 20 percent , discount Enclose Post-office Orders or Stamps for '' Thomas Martin , 83 , Dean-street , Soho , London , " or " Star office . "

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      Northern Star Office, On. Thursday, 1st ...

      Northern Star office , on Thursday , 1 st July , WITHOUT FAIL .

      The Northern Star Saturday, Jtjne 25, 1847.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , JTJNE 25 , 1847 .

      The House And The People. The Time Is No...

      THE HOUSE AND THE PEOPLE . The time is now coming to make a sfand against Monopol y and " Finality John . " The Whigs are afraid to dissolve Parliament—thev are equally afraid to let it die a natural death ; they are unpopular now—they fear to become mors so—the latter alternative is scarcely possible . The "Whi gs have earned a notoriety of infamy ; they have crippled Reform , by contaminating it with their advocacy ; they have pretended to take up the cause ofthe people , whenever they saw reason to believe it was getting into honest bauds ; they

      have quarrelled with their old allies , the Tories , hut the country has not gained by the quarrel . Like two hostile armies making their battle-field in a strange country , they have ravaged with their contentions the patrimony of England ; they have preyed upon their mutual enemy—Democracy . Their " ins" and " outs" have been like two alternate buckets going to tbe well of tbe people ' s labour—when the one was out , the other was sure to he in , draining it of its wealth . The time is now at hand to break the balance of their power , not by giving either a fatal

      preponderance , but by supplanting both by THE CHARTER . What we have to expect from Whigs has been taught us by the juggle of the Reform Bill ; by their conduct relative to the repeal of the Ratepaying Clauses ; by their New Poor Law Amendment Act ; by their liish Famine ; by their treachery to the English , inscribed in bloody characters along the manufacturing North ; b y their sordid money-grasping policy in advocating mock-restrictions , grourd down the earnings ofthe poor beneath the golden grasp of the monopolist ; by their

      trudfling to 0 Connell , while they were murdering his countrymen ; by their showering gold on the landlords , while they were employing troops to take the food from their dying tenantry ; by their cringing to a Bright and Cobden , while they were offering office to their Tory opponents ; by their treachery to Poland , and their sycophancy to the sanguinary-Tsar ; by their indifference for Mexico , and their slaughter of the Portuguese ; by their pretending friendship with tbe people , while they were abetting the cause of tyranny ; by their holding with

      the hare , and yet running with the hounds . Under their recent misguvernment half a million of Irish have perished ; trade has stagnated ; agriculture has languished ; the Bastiles cannot hold all the poor , while the palaces parade in unaccustomed splendour . And now they come before us with mock concessions on their oily lips—promising largely sgainst the day of Election—with their secret-service money , and their" high wages " and their " low bread , " and their " foreign trade" and their home distress . With their Bishops'

      thanksgiving for slaughter—and their accusations of Divine Providence for famine—they come , asking the people once sore to give them a septennial lease of power . And , an tbe other hand , the Tories are asking the country to give them the lions' leavings . They advance under the banner of feudalism and Bentinck , who rainly hopes that he will yet be Allowed to walk over the course . These parties form but the double-face of tyranny : a political Janus , with his Whig aspect and his Tory aspect . Against them a double interest is arising rapidly the interest of civil aod religious liberty . Espoused bv two great parties ia the country , who , united ,

      are capable of subverting monopoly , tiiese parties have held aloof from each other—indulging in mutual recriminations and suspicions . They do not meet in their political views , but they have that in common , that they desire to subvert some of the same monopolies ; and the political opinions of the one do not clash with the religious bias of the other . It is clearly mo : e to the interest of the Dissenters to assist in returning a Chartist candidate , than either a Whig or * Tory ; since , besides the members of iheir own body , none but a Chartist is prepared to subvert the Church monopoly , that makes the conscience of the Dissenter a taxable

      commodity . We have alluded to this phase of politics inasmuch as we believe re % ious and political liberty to be intimately united ; but , if the duty of theNonconformist is plain , no less pkin is that of the Chartist . It is an old adage , that a divided house can never stand . The divisions amongst our opponents are bringing them to the brink of ruin . We shall delay their fall and our fitnancipation , if we side with either . In lb £ t case , any check received by the party we embrace w ^ uld

      be a check to ourselves , while a victory gained won . '' strengthen the faction we had aided , without assisting us in tbe obtainment of liberty . Our inteiest , therefore , clearly is to STAND * UP FOR OURSELVES . It was not b y being the weathercock of party that the Tory or the Whi g rose into power ; it is not by voting for one of these that we shall gain a Chartist Parliament . What can bt clearer than the course to pursue ? it is to form the nucleus of a party in the . House of Commons . A few men will doit ; they will rally others ; a Chartist

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      bench will d jsturb the balance of factions—once established oi / . such afootihgi the minority'Jmll increase to a majority that will be enabled'to enact the Char' ieras ti , e j aw 0 f the ' land . ' -But to effect this , the ; beginning must be made- ^ and to make it , the po < rer is already there . : Nottingham , Halifax , Norw ich , Derby , and several other iplaces are doing their , duty nobly—but . the country 'mast assist them . Th are so many battle fields— ' ^ ie country must sfArl in its contingent supplies . Not only these

      / aces , but the whole working-class community are vitality interested in the result . Every Chartist member represents the interests of all . And it is not only this effort , and another seven years' pause * N «! Their representatives orcc in the House , the ptweT of the Chartist body will grow ten-fold . The Press must give publicity t « their principles ; the Wihig and Tory leaders will 'have to meet us face to fece ; they can no longer deal their secret Mowstihey can no longer stab * a the dark—nor will the Chartist members have to-struggle unaided against

      a-combined house—there will be the pressure from without , which they will marshal on , While they are perplexing the councils of the enemy in the very camp , they will be beckoning on the phalanxes of progression from without ; and beneath the united assault the enemy must sink in tbe dust . Onward then ] Noiv 'is the time ! But the opportunity will be lost , unless the people go undivided for the Charter—the whole Charter—and nothing but the Charter . Compromise is ruin— " expediency"' is treachery . " The Charter and No Surrender" is the cry ! The watchword is , "NOW OR

      NEYERNOW AND FOR EVER . ' ?

      The Irish Confederates. • The Patriotism...

      THE IRISH CONFEDERATES . The patriotism of the Irish has stood many a test , hut it has ever shone the brighter ; they have had their country trodden under foot—their rig hts outraged ; they have been decimated over the four quarters of the globe ; they have fought for foreign countries as soldiers and sailors ; they have lingered in foreign climes as emigrants , but true as the magnet , their hearts have turned to home ; they have longed for old Ireland in their days of adversity , they have cot forgotten her in the hour of prosperity .

      Thus we find the co-patrioted Irish in the United States contributing more munificently from their hard earnings than tbe Irish landlords . Thus we find the Irish Confederates in London still struggling for their country—not like the alien aristocracy , lost amid the glittering vortex of Saxon life ; not forswearing their land and their name under Saxon titles ; hut" true men '—brave men—who ventured to hold up their heads , though liberty is silenced around them—who vindicate the noble character of their countrymen , despite the calumnies of Whig

      legislators , and the libelling lives of absentee landlords ; men who will do more to cement a union between the working-classes of England and Ireland , and procure a repeal of the legislative union , established by the oppressors of either , than the rnoekphilanthroputs , whose utmost kindness has been to extend the scourge of an English Poor Law to a plundered nation . We trust to see the lime when there will be " Ireland for the Irish , " and " England for the English "—not only in a national , but in a social sense ; for little do the English PEOPLE

      own of England . They are but the slaves of landlords , factory-lords , and stock-jobbers — the conquerors of the nineteenth century . The Irish Confederates are doing much , to break down the fatal and absurd prejudices which have estranged the working classes of either country , and to reveal to them their true interests . These are the pioneers in the cause of Repeal , who now manfully hold up their hands for the great cause . They felt their country degraded , the voice of freedom stifled under the old dynasty—yet they despaired not ; and now that the

      horizon is brightening with hope , we find them , like gallant veterans , at their post—with a storm-beaten , but an unspotted front . Surely our English lire , thren will join in the holy cause ; surely association with such men will tend to elevate both parties ; surely political consistency like this , now that it is directed to a great practical object , must meet its reward in success . Now , we ask whether the Saxon repudiates association with the Irish Confederates , when they are truly honest , national IRISH—when they ate seekers of

      liberty and not followers of sycophancy ? We fee ) it needed but this to unite the people of either country , not in a LEGISLATIVE union , but in sympathy ; not in famine and chains , but in rallying for the cause of freedom . It has been said " when the monarcha of France and England are united , they can enslave the world . " We may truly parody this by saying — " When the working men of England and Ireland are united , monopoly must fall P It has been the game of the mutual

      enemy to screen from each the good qualities o either—to prejudice their minds against each other , and though they yearned to unite , to sever them despite of reason . The CONFEDERATES are breaking down these barriers—they are withdrawing the veil of prejudice ; we call on our English friends to march by their side , shoulder to shoulder , and to them we say : " Go on and prosper ! " The sympathies of England shall be with you ! and we will join yeu in the mutual cry : " The people shall have their own , and DOWN WITH THE LEGISLATIVE MONOPOLY !"

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      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The sooner " My Lords and Gentlemen" are dismissed by the Queen from attendance on their legislative duties , the better will it be for their legislative characters , and the less damaging to the official reputation of the ministry . If there be any more " supplies" to be voted , or " ways and means" to he considered , let that be done at once , and the curtain fall upon proceedings which would be farcical , were they not so dull that they fail to excite any kind of

      laughter , except that of contempt . No doubt there is important and pressing business requiring immediate settlement , but there are " difficulties" in the way , and for that to be the case is tantamount , in the present ministry , to its not being done . Real statesmanship consists in the discovery of the means to surmount " difficulties . " The genius of Lord J . Russell and his Cabinet lies in their discovering the " difficulties " only to succumb to them . Scarcely a single measure of importance introduced by them during the session has not been either entirely

      withdrawn , or so seriously mutilated as to be made useless , in consequence of their nervous fear of encountering '• difficulties . " Looking back to their whole career , it seems to be one continued exposition of " difficulties , " os tentatiously paraded as an excuse for the nonperformance of every promise , direct or indirect , which they gave on faking office . One of the most prominent of these pledges wasi thorough Sanitary Reform . A bill having that object in view . was brought in by Lord Morpeth at an early period of the Session , and supported by him in

      amosteloj quent speech , expository ot once of the appalling ex-/ tent of the evils which required a remedy , and of I the nature of the remedy he proposed to apply . We must do the Whigs the justice to say , that on that occasion they did depart from the peddling , huckstering style of policy , and for once in their Ii . , e P r se a broad general measure , in some degree co mmensurate with the objects in view . To the merit 0 / o « g ' '' ly tttey have no claim , because they found in tue om ° ^ Woods and Forests a bill similar in s ^ " 0 anu < intention , which had been prepared by the lW ministry but they did propose a

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      sweepirig and comprehensive measure . 1 here , how ever , their courage ' stdpped : ' it / evaporated in mere words and empty declamation . The conservators ol social abuses , the municipal and parochial guardians of « filth , stench , and death-dealing pestilence , " took alarm at the provisions of a bill which threatened to extinguish their local importance , and introduce a

      strict inquiry into the best means of promoting public health , as well as create the requisite machinery for effecting that object . We do not mean to say that that machinery was unexceptionable—we believe that in many respects it was most objectionable , and in nothing more so than that it proposed the election of the commissioners for / j / e , a system which , wherever it has been practised , has been found to be destructive of all improvement ,

      and obstructive of all progress . Into commissions thus formed it is utterly impossible to infuse fresh blood , or to make them march with the wants and wishes of the people . There was also another objectionable point in the constitution of the new commissions , namely , the mixture of elective members appointed- by the ratepayers , and ex-offipio members appointed by the Crown . The true mode of getting work well done in each locality is , to intrust it to those locally interested in the matter . Throw upon them the responsibility of doing itmake them strictlv accountable for the

      non-fulfilment of their duty , and provide the means o ' enforcing it when they fail . These objects mig ht have been effected in the passage of Lord Morpeth ' s Bill through committee , but it was no sooner proposed , as we have said , than that amiable but chicken-hearted Reformer took alarm at the hostile attitude of the Corporation of the City of London , and consented to drop the city from the bill . The

      parochial authorities of Marylebone next raised a din about his ears , and tbey ,, too , were successful . District after district of the metropolis was , in succession , omitted ; and , at last , we have a mere apology—a skeleton of the orig inal measure before Parliament , which only meddles with the " small fry , " leaving the mammoth towns-the real abodes of " filth , stench , and death-dealing pestilence " is almost untouched . It is even doubtful that this

      miserable remnant of the original Health of lowns Hill will pass this session ; and it would be better that it should not : it is full of imperfections and errors in its machinery , which there is no chance now of calmly considering and amending . The exclusion of the whole of the metropolis from its provisions , on the pretence that London vis sufficiently important to have a special bill for itself , is equivalent to an intimation that " filth , stench , and deathdealing pestilence , " shall continue to mow down their annual armv of victims , unchecked in London

      If the metropolis had continued to be included 111 the hill the country would have aided the Ministry against its corporate and parochial opponents ; but if once they are specially excluded , and have to he dealt with by a separate bill , the whole proceedings will be of an invidious description . The Ministry will have to embark in a direct personal war with the metropolitan anthorities—all the usual means of influencing votes will be resorted to by those authorities , aud the great object in view will most probably be either entirely defeated , or indefinitely

      postponed . Ministers have no excuse whatever for taking this course , either by the facts of the case or their own position with reference to Parliament . The returns of the Registrar-General show that London , instead of being ( as was generally supposed ) rather healthy . hasavery high average mortality 5 and in the debate on the second reading , almost every member who spoke condemned the exclusion of the metropolis from the provisions of the bill . It was

      quite clear that had the Ministry not truckled to the local authorities , Parliament was prepared to have passed a sweeping measure . But the base spirit of subserviency and compromise , even in matters ol the hig hest public importance , is too deeply engrained in the present occupants of office to permit the hope of any real reforms being effected ; so long as they are permitted to cumber the Treasury benches .

      Another curious illustration of the facility with which the Cabinet yields to difficulties , was afforded by the abandonment of the bill for the Better Management of Railways . The curiosity did not consist in the abandonment-that is common enough , but in the manner in which it was abandoned . Mr Strutt , the Railway Commissioner , for two mortal hours addressed a crowded house in explanation ol the changes made in the bill since it was first introduced , showed the necessity of the bill , the importance of the bill , the reasonableness of the bill ,

      and all the other virtues of the bill , and then concluded by announcing that ( query therefore ?) tbe Government did . not intend to go on with it , and that he would move—not the second reading of the bill , but that " the order be discharged ! " It was no wonder that an irrepressible shout of derisive laughter arose from all parts of the house at such a lame and most impotent conclusion to a laboured speech , in which the orator successfully kept his secret to himself , and most completely deceived the

      bouse into the belief that he intended to go on with the bill , until the very moment that he made the announcement to the contrary . But 110 one who knew anything of Whig human nature could be surprised at the actual result . Seven railway potentates , with King Hudson at their head , had declared war against the measure—that was a " difficulty . " We all know now what Whig ministers do In a " difficulty . " As was tersely , if not elegantly , said in the house the other night , they " cut their stick . " To other heads and hands must be left

      the task of grappling with that gigantic monopoly , which is now entrusted with almost uncontrolled sway , over the lives and properties of the people of Great Britain . One peculiarity of this proceeding may also be noted . Ministers press for morning sittings , and profess to be most anxious to get through the business . Mr Strutt ' s speech on a bill which it was not intended to proceed with occupied in reality all the sitting on Monday night—a Government night—so far as public business was concerned . The house rose immediately afterwards , and one night was thus wantonly thrown away .

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      ' he ll ' juse of Lords was a popular question , and truly their general conduct there has . by no means ten ded to raise them in popular estimation ; as promoters of public liberty . They have much more frequently obstructed than aided the people in their struggles for improvement . Latterly , however , they have accommodated themselves a little better to the spirit ofthe times ; and the conduct of the bench generall y , with reference to the Ten Hours ' Bill , was moit creditable . The new bill introduced the thin end of a wedge , however , which , when

      driven home , is calculated to make an immense change in the political position of the bishops . With the exception of the diocesans of Canterbury , York , London , and . Durham , none of the bishops will have a certain right to seats ; the oUvrs will be called according to seniority , and two junior bishops will always be excluded until vacancies occur . When the country finds that bishops without seats in the House are quite as good bishops as those who have them , it will perhaps come to the conclusion , that it would be as well to make them all alike , and exclude . the spiritual peers altogether !

      The Law of Settlement was the subject of a debate and division on Wednesday , in which the " country parly , " led by Mr Bankes , pressed the Ministry so hard , that they only escaped defeat by the narrow majority of three . The subject is a complicated one , and the existing law is by no means satisfactory . Ministers have , however , succeeded in staving off the question , in common with all other important matters , " until next Parliament . " A week or two more will see ihe death of the present .

      Thursday was the first ni ght tin ' s week of real hard work . The Poor-Law Administration Bill gave rise to protracted discussion , in which the opponents of the New Poor-Law exhibited their usual energy and earnestness , and Mr Roebuck more than his usual waspishness , in its defence . Minister , however , sustained an actual defeat , and that by so unimportant a personage as Mr Peter Borthwick ! In future , aged couples above 60 years of age are not to be separated from each other in the Union Workhouses . Lord John was willing to give way to the extent ,

      that guardians might have the option of permitting aged couples to live together ; but Mr Borthwick stuck to his point , and the House had so little faith in the humane discretion of boards of guardians , that it sided with him , and defeated the Maltlmsian ? . There is evidently a great change in popular opinion on this subject ; and this division and defeat is merely an indication of still greater alterations in the spirit of our laws affecting the Poor , and their treatment , when unfortunate enough to be compelled to have recourse to public charity .

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      Members seem to be as anxious to avoid work as the Cabinet . With the exception of a renewal of the personal squabble between Mr Christie and Mr Villiers , as to the conduct of the former iu the Andover Union Committee , nothing was done on Tuesday nig ht which is a members' night , Mr Munls ' s motion on copper duties was cushionedand the house , at half-past seven , was counted out on Mr Scrope ' s important motion with reference to the propriety of making the waste lands of Ireland available as a means of immediate employment and future maintenance of the people of that country .

      The . house and the ministry , seeing the lamentable failure of their legislation for Ireland this session , perhaps wisely let the matter drop . Whoever may be reserved for the great and glorious work of regenerating that country , and constructing out ol her fertile soil , mines , fisheries , and other resources , a prosperous , rich , and happy nation—it is evident the task is not for them . They have blundered enormously in every step they have taken , and in the face of ten millions uselessly squandered , and a population decimated by hunger and disease , it is better that they have the modesty to let the evil alone , which they , at least , cannot mend .

      One Subject Incidentally Involving A Que...

      One subject incidentally involving a question once considered of some importance , came before the Peers this week—the bill for the creation of four new bishops without giving them seats in the Peers , except under certain contingencies . There was a time wheu tbe total exclusion of the bishow from

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      Miscellaneous. Tuk Arrnoachixg Ballot Fo...

      MISCELLANEOUS . TuK ArrnoACHixG Ballot fob the O'Connorville Tea TaAY .-CIiarti . st Urethral , —Our object in starting the above project was , if possible , to purchase a four-acre sliare in the National Land Company lor each of the Chartist victims during their life . It is our opinion that the property ought to revert to the directors to be disposed of . for &/ i » e Vtmevoleut or worthy purpose according as their discretion may guide them ; however , these are matters for your after consideration . . Many localities aud private individuals have done their duty nobly ! but more , many more , in which zealous , sterling democrats reside , have not as yet responded to the various calls we have made !! To such we say , there is yet time ; it is not yet tod late ; much may yet be done ! The victims may yet , by a little exertion , bepluml in sin independent mid comfortable position , Then , let

      every man , who professes to be imbued with Chartist principles , set himself to the good work at once ! Let us eradicate the stsw-thc disgraceful stain which our former criminal neglect nf the victims has fastened upon us ! We earnestly anticipate the time is not far distant when the political exile ' s will be restored to the bosom ot their families in their native land !! Ave the helpless offsprings of the lioblc-mindeil expatriated Ellis to be neglected ? Forbid it , Chartists ! Your united efforts can prevent it . An opportunity is now opened whereby t'iey may be placed iu comfort , plenty , and independence !! Should the exiles , when they return , find their families placed in independence and comfort , they will be armed with encouragement to renew their exertions in behalf of our rights ! whereas , should they return to find their families imprisoned in a " Union Lastile , " or the recipients of parish relief—they will be unmanned !

      their energies will be depressed ! their courage will fail them , and we shall be disgraced !! fonder over these ti . ings well ere you refuse to give your aid to so laudable an object . Remember that every penny spent in dissipated habits , would do something towards ameliorating the condition of the victims . As much good has been done in some localities by various appeals b-jing read at both their Land and Chaitist meetings , we suggest that the plan lie adopt ! d in every locality . As some time will be necessary to arrange the names , & c , for the ballot-box . we shall be obliged to all parties to forward their lists of names and monies on or . before Saturday , July 3 rd . All post office orders to be made payable to Thomas Almond , at the Uilstoii Fost-olKcu , and addressed to tiio cure of Joseph Linney , White Horse , High street , liilstoti . T . Almond , Secretary .

      The ballot will take place on Tuesday , July the 6 th . l ' . S . No letters will be answered unless a postage stump is enclosed . Continuation op SiiBsciiiptions . —J . Heaton , Giggles , worth , 3 s ; W . Brinkworth , Smethnick , lis ; G . Shaw , Leeds , is ; W . Median , Georgie Mills , 5 s ; S . Saunders , Radford , 3 ; T . Almond , Dudley delegate meeting , 5 ; J . Rogers , Plymouth , 3 ; Thomas Taylor , Stoke Subhanidon . S ; T . M . Wheeler , 83 , Dean-street , Soho , 12 ; W . Hurry , Grimstead Green , Hulstend , 8 ; S . Saunders , Bradford , 2 , in last Star , should have been Radford . J . S . is informed that John Arnott , 8 , Middlesex-place , Somers Town , will supplj him , or any other friend in the neighbourhood of Tottenham-court-road , Eusron . square , or King ' s-cross , with the Northern Star , La bourer , Periodicals , 3 : e . E iikatum . —The person desirous to know the present ad .

      dress of Mr Hairstow is John Willcy , Newbegiu , Jlalton , Yorkshire . This was stated incorrectly in our last . John Richakdson , late treasurer to the Greenwich district of the National Luiujl Company , is requested to send his present address to S . Brewerton , No . ti , Little George-street , Greenwich . Mr T . Clauk has received from G . J . Ilavney £ 10 from Stockport , on account of tho Registration aud Election Committee . Mr Sherwood , East Sutton . —See advertisement . Mr C . Benjamin , Wclton . —Wo do not know anything ab' » ut the paper . Gateshead . -- Your " respectable friend" should open his mouth about what he knows , and nut auout thiturs of

      which he knows nothing . Tho compositors tin the Northern Star receive full wages , according to the scale of Loudon prices . There is not a printer in Gateshead , or the North generally , hut would be glad to have the wa ^ es p iid to the men employi d at this office . W . Sykcs , Hnlbeck ..-Next week . No room this week . Rochester . — The lines are not "poetry . " Loughborough—Hext week . W . Greaves Thanks . Wo shall make use of your note . 'i ftoma « 0 ™ es / icr ..--YYedonot understand why tho "address" is wanted in the " notices . " H" . Xueji , Clevkhenton . Arrived too late for this week . Isaac Howie .- Next week . No room this week . W . Scott Wortley—Thanks i ' or your kind wishes . We have inserted Air Barker ' s ( 'Address . "

      LLGAL . IT IS REQUESTED THAT NO LEGAL COMMUNICATIONS , 1 'lUVATE OR OTlIERWISE . guE FORWARDED DURING THE ENSUING WEEK , as the space of this paper is limited , tuul thu number of letters so great , that even most of these will have to bo answered privately . NOTICE . —I am daily receiving communications from persons requiring givUttitous legal advice in the Star , whose very letters prove them to be men of property . The space of this paper is not to be monopolised by tho rich to the detriment ofthe poor , whose cases shall always ( btain tho first consideration . Rkh ' a men requiring advice shall in future receive piuvatk answers

      upon remitting a fee of from live shillings to half a soveretell according to tho length of their cases and their ability to pay . Ebnest Jones . A . 1 ) . C—Your great grandmother , Mrs Wilson , took an absolute interest in the real and personal property given to her by her husband's will , and has tbe power to dispose of it to whom she pleases . To give it to the children of her second husband by his former wife to the exclusion of her own descendants might be a very objectionable disposition of the property , but would nevertheless be valid in law , provided she was of sound mind when she made her will , and free from undue in . finance .

      A I'ME . ND roTHE"STAR . " -Youmust sue the parties who placed the child with you in the Small Debts' Court . I suppose your demand does not exceed if 20 . W . S . Jee , Horneastle . —The proposed meeting cannot do any possible good . I should think your friend had much better allow his debtor a reasonable time in which to pay tho debt , and give up all thoughts of UuttillL' tin . pour man in prison . 8 WE . IlucKEttuv .-Givcme tho nrnne nnd address of the " daughter that was . with the old lady" and I will see if I can do anything for you . " R . SrECKE .-App ! y to a magistrate , and he will punish w V l ^ tl l ti f , ctre ! atil , S to 11-0 '" ' ta * Pers . W . W .-If the husband had access , or might have hail to his wile

      access , h .-must bo considered to be the lather ot the child , and must support it . If the wife admits her unfaithfulness to her husband , and can prove that the putative father has admitted that he is the tath r , she may apply to a magistrate , who will make an order of tiliivtion , A . M ., Hexham , —Rcfore I can advise on your caso I must soo a copy of tho will of Gilbert Milburn ; or , at any rate , a copy of so much of it as relates to the pro . perty in question . RiciiMtn Wilde . —Not knowing on what grounds vour sou ' s goods were detained by his master , it is impossible for me to advise on your son ' s case ; but if vour sou ' s muster had no legal right to detain them , your son must bring an ueUon of trover for them .

      J . II . —I am not a Scotch lawyer ; but according to English law ( and , I dare say , according to tho Scotch law also ) the " writer" ( writer to tho signet , I presume ) may be compelled to give up the title-deuds to yourself and your sister ,

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      J ames Wjixsoy . —The master has no rienrtTT ^^ . clothes , or her wages ,. or the £ 2 15 s . AddIv C ta 'i hi * I tnite . •¦¦¦ -- . - ¦¦• ., ^ jij cr J . P . MABsnEK . —Give me the name and add ,. j attorney who has theftitle-deeds ofthe c ' otta of Dm will write to him . . . Kes anj j ' WittiAM Lambert , Stockport . —The pawnbrokei . | pellcd to make good your loss . 5 ^ n A Constant Header , J . T ., Bristol It heW ?„ since the death of Lady Darrell there can be t J 'S hope of recovering the property given by hg « . "' lis Jane Slmpkhis , unless the property was nrp ^ '" to given for life or in tail to some other person " "' s .-iy Lady Dnrrall ' s will was proved in Doctor !!' ' , ^ 1 mons . If you wish to have it examined anil f '" me in or about what year it was proved , una tv **" worth your while to pay 5 s . for the search and . . '' it tion , I will make them . Are you sure the prnpo , ' , " ' * - given to Jane Simpkins by "that name" ( which . " * he her married name ) , or by her maiden name ? '" ' ^ AiWoitKiNo Man—If the fence is your nciglhWj the horses ar ddonkeys get into your garden , you ^ impound them till he pays you reasonable damin .., t replevies . If the brick-kiln is a recent one antt a * sauce , ' you may prosecute the briuk-makcr . ""i-Joseph Mees . —As you are suspended for non-payment . arrears , the Mth rule deprives you of the b . -nefits of * society till you pay up and are re-admitted . l " Joseph Smith . —Tho steward was not bound to tab- . l is . 6 d . Ke '"f t ^

      H . H ., ffoudsivorrh . —A memorandum signed by thefith ofthe child agreeing to pay the father so much a «? v for the support ofthe child will do very well . This case in which a ftfe ( 5 s . ) ought to be paid , and the fflth * is the proper person to pay it . ^ William Milford -Give me Mr Bascomb ' s address-mi I will write to him . Can you prove what you , C stated about destroying , the will , drawing themontv Z of the Bank , & c ? In whose bank was the m 0 ,, l lying ? K i K . —The note seems to be quite correct , and the admini * trntorot the creditor may sue the debtor for allthT instalments that have become due . In November next the last instalment > i th the exception of £ l and tha interest ) will be due , and the administrator must judne for himself whether to take irocecdings now for thp

      instalments actually , or wait till November . James Bastow . —His wife being named Executrix and not Wiglesworth executor , makes all the difference possible . You must now tell no "in what year" ti ) c money was lent byyour father , and whither Mitchell and Uat'g , or cither of them , proved your father ' s will , "Poor Man . " —As the husb'ind has no proof of his wife ' s , adultery , he cannot get rid of her , and she may compel a restitution ! of conjugal right-, but that could only b & done by an expensive proc-ssin the Ecclesiastical Court Should the husband refuse to take her into his hou ? e an > l she should apply lor parochial relief , the husband might be compelled , by the overseers ofthepoor . to con . tribute to her support ; but his wages being so small it probably would not be inoro than a couple of shillin jjs n week

      Yklof , Manchester . —There is no law , that I am aware of which requires the finder of lost property to advertise ' it ; though an honest man always does so . ' Advertised however or not advertised , the owner , upon sufficient proof , may recover at any time within six years . N . Etici-ESTON . — Persons who issue prospectuses , He . with . a view to the formation of Joint Stock Companies ' mustiest " provisionally" register the company , other ! wise they render themselves liable to penalties . John NEwnv , Thornby Colliery . —Your brother ' s tenancy having commenced on the 23 rd of November , he can only bo turned out at the same period at which his

      tenancy commenced ; and that only upon givhvsix months' previous notice to quit ; unless there is a ° cus . torn iu the neighbourhood making a shorter notice sunt , cient . The notices that have been piven are both bad ; nnd should tbe landlady ' * steward touch the furniture , unless by way of distress for airear of rent , if any , he will render himself liable to an action . Abraham 15 * i . l —I can give no opinion on your case without knowing in lohat year Ann Lister died , and how long Mrs Walker has been in possession of the property . Are you sure Miss Lister did not leave the property by will to Mrs Walker' ?

      A 15 . S— Iiyourcreditor proceeds against you , she mu > prove this delivery ofthe goods , sind to proceed against you , without first giving you the particulars of hor demam ? , though not illegal , is very unusual . You may , however , compel her , after the action is commenced , to furnish you with the particulars . If you cannot prevail upon her to indulge you with time , you must state the hardship of your case to the court , and it ( the court ) will most likely allowyou to p . ij by easy instal . ments . E . Hemming . —Your friend got his hand injured in

      something very like a " quarrel" or " affray , " and certainly from his own folly . I think he is not entitled to any relief from the society . "L . and Plan . "—Being in possession of the furniture be . longing to her late husband , the landlord can sue her , as " executrix de son tort ; " but she is not bound to p » v beyond the value of the assets ; the money received from the Burial Society forms , I conceive , no part of the assets of her late husband . N . IV . —If the proposal tin writing ) to insure , specified the amount of the debt , the . case is clearly taken out ofthe statute of limitations .

      M . Chamiieklaiv . —D . can , even without the consent of B . and C , borrow money on his life estate in remain . ' er , but the probability is he ivould have much difficulty iu obtaining money upon such a security . Thediffieiilty , however , would be much lessened by B . and C- joining in the security and charging their life estates with the principal interest and premiums of the . policy of in . stintuce wh ch the lender ofthe money would , l ' should suppose , expect to be effected on D . ' s life . With respect to the expense ofthe security it will depend , partly upon the sum secured and partly upon the length and difii . ctilty ofthe title . J . W ., Devouport . —If you can prove that the money placed in the saving ' s bank by your wife , in the name ' s ufhir former husband and her sen by hrn , is your money , you may claim and takcit ; but it would appear from your own statement that as to a part of the uionev

      you made her a present ol it ; and therefore , as to ihat part , you will no doubt feel yourself bound , in honour and conscience , to allow her to keep it . You cannot i ompel your wife to live apart from you , as there seems to he no sufficient cause . As you appear to be a man of property , you ought to have sent a small fee with your case . I beg to draw your attention to the notice inserted ; it the head of the " legal" article . A SuiiSciiusEit , \ Vellingbo ! o\—Yes , he can . W . Uetts , Ilamiistead-road . —W . B . may sue J . M . in the Small Debts' Court on the promissory note . The parties being relations makes no difference , An Old Chartist . —Without knowing on what ground they refuse to repay you your £ 1 18 s ., I cannot advise you how to act ; but assuming that they retain your m » uey without sufficient cause , I should think ( asyuor

      society was never enrolled ) that you might maintain an action in the Small Debts' Court against the treasurer or other person to whom you paid the money . G . F . —Without seeing a copy of Jonas Field ' s will , I cannot possibly answer your question . John WmoiiT . —Your landlord has made a false distress ; . md you may either replevy , or allow him to sell , anil then bring an action against him for a false distress . You had , however , better settle the matter and keep out of law . If , however , your landlord will not listen to reason , give mehis address and I will write to him . Ma Wiuiam Buhto . v , near Castle Donington . —Get your friend Mr Sweet , of Nottingham , or some one or other who can write an intu . ligible lettei to statcyour case for you . I cannot make it out at all , from the letter you have addressed tome .

      Vernon' .-- ! our case has been mislaid by the compositor . Please to write again , Samuel Moselev . —You may proceed against the farmer . under the Small Debts'Act for damages , provided jou ( lu not lay them at morn than j ;> JQ -, but should ' the farmer be able to prove that your crop was totally destroyed by the flood you possibly wi . uld not recover anything . As , however , the farmer lias taken possession of the laud , he cannot , I conceive , compel you to pay any rent . William IIavelock . —If you will give me the address of Mr Hodge , your solicitor , I will write to him ; and ho probably may put me iu the way of obtaining the information you wish for . James Waud , t-ilk-strcet , Macclesfield .-1 have written to the gentleman in Ireland , and hope he will send you the £ -20—if ho does not within a reasonable time , let ; me know .

      W . Henderson , Kilmarnock . —A four-acre share with all expenses is £ 5 6 s . id ,, which can be sent by bank * note and postage stamps , or by money ordei payable to Mr Feargus O'Connor , at the General Post-office , London . ¦

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      WORSHIP STREET . — An Attobnei ' s Domos - A master bootmaker , carrying on business in the immediate neighbourhood of the court , requested Mr Broughtou ' s assistance to procure redress from an attorney , in the occasional habit of practising at this and oilier police couiis , and against whom wilier complaints of unprofessional eondttc ' - and practices have been preferred upon previous occasions . The applicant , who appeared to bo suffering under extreme mental distress and anxiety , stated that after struggling hard for a length ef time past to obtain n suhauunnco for h > o irife and ten children , he had lately found himself involved in pecuniary difficulties , from > vhich it was impossible to extricate himself , and having , by the advice of his principal creditor , resolved upon obtnining a fiat in bankruptcy , he was recommended to apply to a solicitor to adopt the necessary proceedings on his bthulf ., He accordingly waited upon that person , who told him that the expenses of working tho commission would comu to A'lP , tvml that £ 3 of that amount must he paid immediately , before any steps whatever ould bo taken . He was iu sueli a penniless state that it was only with extreme uiffi- 'ulty he could raise even that amount , but he succeeded in borrowing it , and W & ndedit to the attorney , upon wham he impressed Chi ) necessity of immediate

      pro ceedings being talten , as sevoral actions had already been commenced against him in the Countv Court , and one of which was to be adjudicated upon on the following Saturday . The attorney promised that , prior to thatduv , the hut should be struck , and he accordingly on the Saturday attended at the County Court and explained to the judge the course he had beeu compelled to adopt , tvlun a week ' time was given him to obtain the necessary vouchers in authentication of his statement . After repeated applications to the attorney , however , without any satisfactory result , he at leng < h vf cat to the Bankruptey Court , and there found that not a single step had been taken in the matter , nnd the attorney himself , upon bein , ? closely pressed , admitted tho fact , and put him iff with un indefinite promise his Koney should he returned . The result of this conduct was , that judgment had been entered up against him in three separate

      actions , which had been previously temporarily suspended on the faith of his representation as to his bankruptcy being correct , and he was now" in ' momentary expec ta . lion that the whole of his goods would be seized in execution , and his wife and family turned bouselt'SB into the strcuts . Mr Broughton said that it was certainly a very cruel case , and he greatly regretted that he wasiinuble to render the unfortunate applicant nny tliuctive assistance , but he would direct ono of the officers tosse tho solicitor upon the subject , and endeavour at least to induce him to refund tho money , which 1 m had received for rendering a service which it was evident he had not performed . ^ The applicant expressed his thankfulness to the magistrate , and quitted the court , accompanied by Haywood , the warrant . officer , who afterwards returned- and stated that his attempts to obtain an interview with tho person alluded to had been as jet unsuccessful ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 26, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_26061847/page/4/