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10 BEBT OWEH'S JOTOSAL A "Weekly Periodical explanatory of the means ; to well-place , well-employ , aud well-educate , the whole population . Price One Penny ; by post , Twopence . Published by Clayton and Son , 265 , Strand , London MR . OWEH'slicEHT WORKS , THE REVOLUTION IN MIND AND PRACTICE . Is . LETTERS TO THE HUMAN BACE . Is . -CATECHISM OF THE BATIONAL STali ^ aq . IMffiWELL ADDRESS . Id . Are published by Effing ham TfuSOD » Watson , and Vickers , London .
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ALL TAXATION ABOLISHED !! Now ready , price One Penny . T AND - COMMON PROPERTY . Jj Oridnaliy ^ t Present-H ^ ncefomard-showing als o jp w ng ^ t ' J Landowner—How the Land may be He-SSS no ^ air Taxation ^ mi * Abolished . Bj " ^ dmi ^ Jajiies Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row .
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Reaav on Tgeday next for Saturday , the 2 nd of November , ^^ the First Number of a WeeUy Periodical , Price One Penny , entitled the CHR ISTIAN SOCIALIST : A JOURNAL OF ASSOCIATION . To be conducted by several of the promoters of the London "Working Men's Association . London : Published by James Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Headpassage , Paternoster-row ; and by order of all news agents .
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THE LONDON . CO-OFEKATIYE STORES are now opened at
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TO TAILORS . Hy approbation of Her Majesty , Queen Victoria , and H . R . H . Pnncc Albert .
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JS'ATIOXAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Ofiice , 11 , Southampton-street , Strand . rriHE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE » L hereby announce the following meetings : — On Sunday , October 27 th , the adjourned meeting of the Democratic Conference will be held iu the Coffee Boom of the 3 olm-street Institution , Chair to be taken at three O ' clock in the afternoon . Ou Sunday evening ( same date ) , the Metropolitan Delegate Council will meet at the King and Queen , Foley-Street , Portland-place . Chair to be taken at seven o ' clock . On the same evening a discussion will take place at the abDve house . Subject : * Can the Middle Classes be dispensed with V To commence at half-past eight o ' clock . On the same evening , the Emmett's Brigade meet at the Rock , Lisson-grove—St . Pancras Locality , Bricklayer ' s Arms , Tonbrid ^ e-street , isev . -road—Finsbury Locality , Old Dolphin , Old-street—St . Aisrylcbone Locality , Circusstreet , Xew-road—and iVhittington and Cat Locality , Church-row , Betlmal-srcen .
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BEAUTIFUL HAIE , TFHISKERS , EYEBUOVrS , & c , may be , with certainty , obtained , by using a very small portion of ROSALIE COCPELLE'S PABI 3 IAS POM ADS , every morning , instead of any oil or ¦ otj-r preparation * . A fortnight ' s use will , in most in-F v : . ? , V " ; lU s ? r ; 'r : VS Properties in producing and « S : - ,: " "hi--kws , uair Ac , at any age , from whatever cnv . - x . ..:-: vii .-, asaUochevkmg grcynes 3 , & c , «¦• -. ' . iK-c * S V ft . to * instructions , and £ ,. ., on rodi-: -f wv itvf ., « r postage stamps , by Miss COOPPEI . L ! .. &> - ftly-i-liee . Holborn , London ; % ho may be cc :: sull : ; d on Uicse meters daily , fioa two till five TE > TIMO . NliLS . Xicutenantllolroi'd . U . X ., writes :- ' Its effects are truly a ? ionishing ; it has thickened and darkened my hair very . airs . Buckley , SJapltford : — ' Your dcKghtful Pomade has improved my hair wonderfully . ' Mr . Yates , hairdresser , Slaltou : — Theyonng man has now a good pair of whiskers I want you to send me t « o pots for other customers of mine . '
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Education forjhe Millions , THIS DAT IS PUBLISHED , No . XXII . OF " THE NATIONALINSraCTOIL " PRICE ONE PENNY . Tho object of the Proprietor , Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., M . P ., is to place within the reach of the poorest classes that Political and Social Information of which they are at present deprived by the Government" Taxes on Knowledge . "
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The readers of the " Northern Star , " and tbe Democratic party generally , are informed , that there is now a re-issue of the various Steel engravings lately distributed with , the "Iforthern Star . " They consist of Kossuth , Meagher , Louis Blanc , Mitchel , Erxest Jones , Smith O'Briejt , Richard Oastler , Johx Frosi . These Engravings have excited the admiration of every one who has seen them . They are faithful portraits , and are executed in the most Brilliant style . Price Fourpence each .
There has also been a reprint of the undermentioned portraits , which have been given away at different times with the " Northern Star , " and which are striking likenesses , and executed in the most brilliant manner—Andrew Marvel , "William Cobbeit , Arthur O'Conxor , He . vrt Host , Patrick O'Higgins , F . O'Cokxob , Broxterre O'Briex , W . P . Roberts . J . R . Stephens , There is also a re-issue of the two large
prints , " THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF 1839 . " " THE PRESENTATION OF THE NATIONAL PETITION , by Mr . BUNCOMBE , in 1 S 42 . " To be had of J . Pavey , Holywell-stveet .
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the PORTRAIT OF SIR ROBERT PEEL , And the Magnificent Historical Engraving , of the PORTRAITS OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS , Are now ready . If any of our subscribers have not received them , application should be made to the agent who supplies them with the paper . Agents are requested , when ordering Prints , to state by what means they are to bo forwarded .
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J . J . C—Received on the 24 th inst . H . Hubke . —AVe are not in possession of documents to answer your questions . J . Tatlbb , Siona Provost . —We cannot answer legal questions . Mr . J . Sweet , Nottingham , -will find the sum of 13 s acknowledged on the 19 th inst ., in the proper place . In the ' Notices to Correspondents * the compositor omitted the 2 s Cd from Mr . Lygo , making the sum total only 10 s Cd . Mr . Beewick , Abhcy . street , St . Andrews . —How shall we send them ? We have not got the portrait of Bern . The cost of the portraits will be 5 s 3 d . The postage will amount to 2 s Gd extra . Nottkoham . —J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums , viz : —Fob Kefcgee Fund . —Mr , Lygo , sent np last week hut notacknowledged , 2 s Gd—Newton ' s Head , per Mr . Roper , sent herewith , 2 s 5 d—Mrs . Perkins , Id . Fob Winding-up Fond . —Mr . lloper , Cd . Mrs . Heath begs to acknowledge ( with thanks ) the receipt of Gs 9 d from the Emniett ' s Brigade , for the Wat Tyler Brigade , Greenwich . Thomas Shabp . Oakham . —Send 2 s Cd worth of postage
stamps and the work will be forwarded to you . C . J . Roue-sow . —The parts of the Libtrvctou are Id each , if you want it forwarded by post , send six stamps for postage ; otherwise , order it of some bookseller in your neighbourhood , who will procure it through his London agent . Tde Lacet Fosd . —Sums received since the publication of the balance sheet : —Emmett Brigade , 4 s Gd—C . Young , Folkstons , 4 d . —H . Wiles , Secretary . Polish Refugee Fran . —John-street Institution , Mr . Thomas Cooper ' s Lecture , acknowledged last week as 2 s 9 d , instead of £ 2 9 s—Jim Crack , Gd—Sundry contributions , per Mr . Feargus O'Connor , £ 3 3 s—Part proceeds of Concert at the Two Chairmen , Wardour-street , per G . Hitching , £ 1—National Reform League , Sheffield , per G . Wiiittaker , 10 s—Mr . Feargus O'Connor ' s Lecture at Cowper-strect , £ u 13 s lOd—Bonner ' s-ficlds , per Mr . Stokes , £ 1 Is Id—Mr . Miller ' s Book , Is Id—Calendaryard , per Mr . Miller , 3 s—South London Locality , per Mr . Bgerton , 5 s—Mr , Jones , per T . Brown , Is—Given by friends , at Mr . lung's , City-road , per Mr . Curric , 2 s Gd—Mr . Cuttings , 2 s , placed iu Cowper-strect Collection . — T . Feegcsqx , Secretary .
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TEE CRIME , PLAGUE , AND QUACK DOCTORS . England , at the present time , approaches tolerably near the millennium of the commercial mind . Exports and imports are largemoney is plentiful—stocks are high—trade healthy—the working classes are generally well employed at wages as good as they have been for some years past , while , at the same time , provisions are lower iu price . Superficial observers would , at first sight , bo led to the same conclusion as M . LAMARTINE .
Dazzled by the surface , they seek to penetrate no lower . There must , according to the popular creed , always be some suffering in the world ; aud , seeing that England is so busy , so prosperous , " so wealthy , it is but fair to presume , that her misery , at least , is reduced to the minimum amount . We have reached the apex of civilisation through the instrumentality of Free Trade . Henceforth , ive have nothing more to do than maintain our position .
Not so fast , " There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy , '' Messieurs Political Economists . There are social and moral faculties , as well as physical and bargaining propensities , in man , and the Government that ignores the existence of these faculties is certain to have the fact forced upon their notice in a very unwelcome and disagreeable way . Tho production and distribution of wealth is not the
whole of the science of Society . It is but a part—an important , but still subordinate part of that science , and those who , in their ignorance , treat it as if it comprised the whole , are certain to he rudely undeceived . '' Supplyaud-demand , " says Thomas CarlYlb , in his own quaint and forcible style , "is not the one Law of Nature ; Cash payment is not the sole means of man with man , —how far from it . Deep , far deeper than Supply-and-
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Demand are laws , Obligations sacred as Man ' s Life itself ; these , also , if you will continue to work , you shall know , learn , and obey . He that will learn them , behold Nature is on his side ; he shall yet work and prosper with noble rewards . He that will not learn them , Nature is against him ; he shall not be able to do work in Nature ' s empire—not in hers . Perpetual mutiny , contention , hatred , isolation , execration , shall wait upon his footsteps till all men discern that the thing which he attains , however golden it look , or be , is not success but the want of success . "
Pregnant words , most cogentl y and sadly illustrated by passing events ! Murder and burglary are the order of the day . Scarcely has the public recovered from the first shock of one appalling tragedy , than another follows close upon its heels . The country emulates the town in criminality . Life aud property in the midst of all our boasted securities , all our elaborate and complicated machinery for protecting both , seem practically defenceless . Pistols , halters , and arsenic arein full demand . By means of the last deadly agent , lives are put an end to from the most trivial motives ,
with as little compunction as rats are poisoned by the same coarse method . Murder stalks abroad with impunity . Crimes , accompanied with violence to the person , multip l y with unheard of rapidity and audacity . The lonely highway or footpath of the country parish , IS not more frequentl y the arena of these murderous exploits than the most crowded streets in the centre of the metropolis . Long Acre , with its gas-lights , its policemen and passengers , was the theatre of a newly-invented attempt to strangle and plunder , which was executed with as much coolness as if the
scene had been the most deserted dark lane or bye-way ' m the most thinly-peopled district in the' country . Truly the thing ive have attained , " however golden it looks , is not success " in the higher objects of human government , but the want of success . " "' . . . . . .-. ; . . ' The passion for money-making and bargainmaking having absorbed all the available time and faculties of those who are by the Constitution entrusted with political and administrative power , there has been a corresponding neglect of the classes whose position excludes them from the legitimate marts of
trade . They have forgotten that all trade is in its essence gambling . The man who hands me a yard of cloth at the East-end of London , has not in the slightest degree added to its intrinsic value ; that remains the same as when it came from the hands of th « producer . He has a right to be paid for the trouble it may have cost him to receive it from the producer , and to hand it over to me , but beyond that , none . When he makes the yard of cloth a piece of loaded dice , wherewith he extracts from me , in tho game ef trade , more than a fair remuneration
for his actual labour , he robs me ( legitimately of course ) quite as much as the more open gambler , who ( illegitimately ) with ivory dice , p lunders me in the fashionable hells which stud the purlieus of Leicester-square . Still more shameless and immoral is the gambling in stocks , shares , public securities , and staple commodities , which constitutes the occupation of so large a proportion of our " respectable " citizens . They are gamblers in the strictest sense of the term ; and the splendour of their houses , the costly nature of their
entertainments , the abundant command of wealth which they enjoy , with all its concomitant power , influence , and pleasures , are not calculated to spread among the less luck y classes any very sincere respect for justice and morality , in the abstract . The dishonest spirit percolates through the upper down to the lower strata of society , until the whole is thoroughly soaked and sodden with the pollution . Extremes meet ; the "lower" classes re-produce the crimes of the " upper , " more coarse in their language and accessories ; hut the same in themselves . In a world where it
is believed that life is merely a scramble , in which the strong and the cunning are sure to succeed best , and where there is no amenability to any eternal or ever-acting law of justice and retribution , what is there to restrain the unlicensed thieves from plying their vocation ? Only the fear of a more powerful , more cunning , and better-equipped physical force , against which they have no chance of successfully contending . The temptation is perpetual , but the fear is intermittent , in the best of eases . The heaped up plate chests of the wealthy citizen , the glittering
jewels of " my Lady" are accessible at times when policemen are absent . Policemen , indeed , are not ubiquitous . " They cannot , " as Sir Boyle Roche said , " be in two places at once , unless tbey were birds , ' ' and wo all know that at present they arc not " birds of that feather . " When the plate chest is emptied , and the jewel case is cleared of its precious contents , you set the "detectives" on the trail . But there again the rctributory principle meets and beats you . The constant stretch of the faculties of the keen witted and accomplished thief to obtain
plunder , enables him to devise equally clever methods of escaping with his booty . It is a battle of acute and practised intellects , in its way deepl y interesting , but leaving no very satisfactory conclusion on tho mind as to the efficacy of the " detectives , " he they ever so numerous , or quick and cunning . Ere they have mastered and defeated the last patent new invention of thiefdom , its restless genius , spurred on by necessity , has discovered and put in practice another . Some people boast of the immunity of the present ago from daring crimes in the days when highwaymen
and footpads swarmed upon heaths aud high roads , and in the dark unlamped streets of our towns . There is iu reality no change ; our " dangerous classes , " have merely accommodated themselves to the changed circumstances by which they arc surrounded . The fashion has altered , the thing remains intact , if not rendered more dangerous by the increase of wealth , and the facilities for plunder . What with Frimlcy murders , Doddin ' ghurst murders , Liverpool plate robberies , Birmingham burglaries , Strand
burglaries , and such like , our daily papers seem transformed into veritable Newgate Calendars . A fresh horror is served up each morning with the muffins and buttered toast , to the comfortable classes . Groat is the consternation in May Fair—terrible the fright in Clapham and Camberwcll , and forthwith the organs of the landocracy , the moneyocracy , and the profitocracy , rush into print with crude schemes for catching and skinning alive , the plunderers who have not tho law 011 their side , for this good reason , that they and theirs had no hand in making it . Some of these plans are simple enough , but awfully
despotic . The Recorder of Birmingham has a summary process of disposing of the difficulty ; the police are to apprehend all suspected persons , and upon suspicion , the magistrates are to be empowered summarily to prevent them from roaming abroad in future . Rather a costly , as well as a despotic method , in our opinion . Introduce it once for persons " suspected" of " offences against property , " and how soon would it be perverted and ap . plied to political offenders ? Lettres de Cachetic and the Bastile were not more hand y to Louis Quatorze , than such a system would be to the Home Secretary , who wished to put obnoxious political agitators out of tho way .
No ! If anything , wo have too much " police already . " From time to time the curtain is raised , and gives us glimpses into its morale , which are frightful to contemplate . Perjury by wholesale , is not the least that is suspected of the force , whenever it suits their pecuniary or their professional interests . The light in which they look upon the working classes may be judged of , by tho deliberate
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way in which a sergeant of the metropolitan force , assisted by another policeman , deliberately assaulted , and under cover of their authority , killed a poor inoffensive , hardworking tailor named Geary , who had the misfortune to expose the malpractices of their "high mightinesses . " Stealing plate and jewellery from those who have them may be very provoking—the murder of two or three clergymen and tradesmen , while defending thenproperty , is sincerely to be deplored ; but they are minor evils , after all , compared with handing over the whole people of England to
the tendermercies and espionage of an ignorant , officious , army of policemen , commanded by a general like M . Carlieh , and anxious to merit his approval by hunting down all who might be suspected of being opposed to the policy of the Government for the time being . That Avould be a certain evil . Tho good is much more problematical , or rather altogether improbable . While the present system continues to prevent tens of hundreds of thousands from obtaining either education , or
industrial training , or honest employment while a low and sordid spirit of avarice , selfishness ,, and trade-gambling pervades society , the stationing of a policeman at every ten doors in every street , and at the gate of every farm-house , grange , or " hall" in the country , will not prevent outrage and pillage . The magnitude and . difficulty of the obstacles p laced in the way of the commission of crime , will merely stimulate the criminal population to have recourse to more ingenious devices to
accomplish their ends . The system of physical repression and p hysical punishment is not less costly than inefficient . Society breeds these vermin , and they , in turn , fatten upon the corruption out of which they are generated . If the system which gives them birth is to be perpetuated , notwithstanding these evident and powerful warnings of its hostility to the laws of nature , and of our common humanity , those who prop it up must , at the same time , make up their minds to endure the unerring and inevitable retribution which ever follows the violation of these laws . Not all the police and detectives in the world can save them from that . They may add to , but not diminish the evil .
There is a simple , straightforward , cheap , and effectual way of dealing with this question —nay , of settling it satisfactorily for ever ; but that is so " Utopian , " in an age when men look carefully to their shutters , back doors , cellar doors , and under their beds , before going to bed , that we dare hardly mention it . At the risk , however , of raising a shout of laughter at our visionary , if not revolutionary ideas , we venture to hint what it is
—the political enfranchisement of the whole people , b y the enactment of the People's Charter ; the establishment of a people ' s government , by the people ; aud the consequent introduction of measures that would enable every child to be industriousl y trained to earn his own honest living , on the soil belonging to the nation , and so educated as to think that the most honourable position he could occupy in society .
"Impracticable , " you say ? Well , you " practical men " must take your own way . We candidly confess wo do not think very highly of your handiwork . It is a miserable botch , which proves you know very little indeed of the way of governing society . Having foresworn allegiance to nature , your footsteps are , as Cabltle says , waited upon by "Perpetual mutiny , contention , hatred , isolation , execration . '' From that Pandemonium there is no escape . Until the service of Mammon is renounced , no " police " can help you !
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THE WAY TO HEALTH , WEALTH , AND HAPPINESS .
Miss Martineatj has , upon more than one occasion , "done the State some service , " by her boldness in stating unpopular truths . It seems strange that truth should ever be unpopular . It is always so when first promulgated , and it takes a long uphill fight to get it listened to , still longer to get it acted upon . The interval between the declaration , recognition , and application of new social principles is , however , considerably diminished , when some oie , who has previously gained tho world ' s ear and confidence , has tho moral courage to proclaim their belief in it . The common herd
bow to authority , and take their opinions at second hand ; when they see those they have been accustomed to hear quoted emiueutin any particular walk of life , taking up with now doctrines , they infer that " there must , after all , be something in them ; " and are brought so far as to listen , whether they comprehend or not . Upon no one question has the verdict of the Political Economists and Free Traders heen
more decidedly pronounced than upon the evils of Small Fanning , aud the impossibility of certain quantities of food being reared by manual labour from a limited area . Mr . Raven , tho Poor Law Commissioner , solemnly and repeatedly assured the Select Committee on the National Land Company , that it was utterly impossible any man could support himself and family , by their united labour , on a farm of three or four acres . Even if they paid neither rent nor taxes , he asserted they must inevitably become paupers in the course of two or three , or four years at most . It was in vain
that Mr . John Sillett detailed the successful and astonishing results of his own farming on two acres . It was equally useless to point out what had been done upon small plots of land by other persons in this country , and to the large amount of agricultural produce raised under the Small Farm System of Guernsey , Jersey , and Belgium . The Chairman and the Government witnesses know a great deal better than all that . They believed in the croaking of the Raven , rather than in tho statements of
those who opened up a way out of our difficulties by the simple aud immediately available plan of applying more labour to our own soil . Miss Martineau , formerly a high authority with the Political Economy School , has , with that candour and superiority to personal considerations , which has frequentl y marked her useful life , came forward to state the results of her own experiment in Small Farming . Her first letter appeared two or three months since in tho Star : her second will
be found in another column of the present number . It is scarcely possible to imagine a more complete aud triumphant demonstration of the solid and permanent advantages to be derived from the Small Farm System , than is embodied in thoso two admirable letters . The whole progress of tho experiment , from its commencement to the present time , the cost incurred , the mode of cultivation adopted , and the results , are all perspicuously and lucidl y stated , in a manner that cannot fail to carry conviction to every dispassionate mind
Let us briefly enumerate the facts . By the labour of one man and his wife—who would otherwise have been chargeable on the ratestwo cows were in a groat measuro maintained , and the house supplied with vegetables in the nrst year of the experiment , from less than an acre and a quarter of ground . Of this three quarters of an acre , or three-fifths of the whole , were grass , the most expensive and unprofitable kind of food for cattle . Though not hkmg to lose tho view of a greensward from the
wmdows Miss Mamlvea u ultimately allowed her faithful and zealous labourer to sdd to his cultivated area half an aero more , ' in the early part of this year , making one aero in all . The condition and situation of this additional land w \ ns as bad as can bo well imagined . It was overgrown with obstinate weeds ; a great slice of it injured by the growth of a row of ash trees , and , from its relative position to other properties , prevented from being properly drained . Tho landlord , taking all these
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drawbacks into account , only asked " the low rent" of 1 Z . 15 s . a year , or Zl 10 s . an acre We wonder what the allottees at Minster Level , who have paid no rent , would say to such a demand for a piece of foul undrainable ground ? Miss Maiwineau would have purchased it gladly , but , as the landlord would not sell , she was happy to get a lease of it for ten years , at that rent . "And now , " says she , " there it is before my eyes , with sis tons of cow food upon it , besides a goodly asparagus bed , some grass , and a portion where we mean to try a growth of lucerne . " Another year , when the _
ground is mellowed and loosened , tho expectation is , that ten tons of food will be grown on the new half acre , in spite of the ash trees . The Minster allottees had no timber to fight with , abstracting the manure that should have fed their crops , and occupying with its roots the ground that should have been more profitably filled . From the entire acre now under cultivation , Miss Martineau is abundantly supplied with food for the two cows until next spring , and the house has also , and will continue to have , an ample supply of every kind of vegetable for the table . The cows
y ield , upon an average , twenty-five quarts of milk a day ; and Miss Martineav , who was driven to Small Farming , in the first instance , by the impossibility of procuring milk , butter , and eggs , now speaks of manufacturing butter , and feeding pigs upon " skim milk , " better than the scanty supply she got for " new " formerly . Butter and bacon—home-fed especially— 'are , according to Lord Stanley , very profitable articles an the market ;
so that it would appear , Miss Mar-TiNEAtr is likely to find her acre quite a little California in its way . Besides an abundant supply of milk , butter , eggs , poultry , ham , bacon , and vegetables , for her > own house , she will have some to export , the ; sale of which will increase the amount in favour of the little farm . All this , be it remarked , is done by hired labour at a profit , and the labour is paid with no niggard hand . " Robert" receives 12 s . a week the
year round , besides a cottage rent free ; and his wife , -who also makes herself useful , is equally well paid . The cottage in which dwell these two people , who would otherwise have been paupers , is a scene of plenty and happiness . " They are now ; so well and merry , that it is delightful to see them . Robert has been sending money to his old father—a large sum for a working man . He could not possibly be more industrious , but he is in stronger health , and in glorious spuits , Bis pretty porch is
grown over with roses , and there are climbing plants about his walls , and balsams , and geraniums in his windows ! " Charming picture Yet , how easily found , the materials of which it is composed 1 Merely an acre of land , formerly all but waste ; two paupers willing to work , allowed to do so by a benevolent , but , at the same time , thrifty lady . Ah ! if our great " statesmen were not so great , and would sometimes condescend to take lessons as
those furnished by " men of low estate , " what a deal of trouble they might save themselves , what a glorious old England they might make ! Why should the nation not do upon a large scale what Miss Martineatj has done upon a small ? Why should millions be spent annually in maintaining paupers in unwilling idleness , and millions of acres sterile , when their union would so largely increase the national wealth , give honest and cheerful employment to contented and happy hundreds of thousands , and replace the hateful workhouse with thousands of cottages , their
pretty porches grown over with roses , with climbing plants about their walls , balsams and geraniums in their windows , and the light hearted song of the independent aud contented industry making sweet music at the homely , but happy fireside . ' But our rulers are far too learned , too profoundl y versed in political economy , to do . that . It would violate the canons of that orthodox science . They believe in the assertions of the Raven , rather than thefacts and figures of Martineatj ,
Sillett , and O'Coiwon , The land is cursed with barrenness , discontent , poverty , and crime , because its rulers areblinded bycrotchets , opposed to facts , to common sense , to common justice . What then ? Why , that , as the rulers are blind the people should help themselves , aud do so by adopting plans which have thus been demonstrated as amply sufficient for all the purposes they have in view . The founder of the Land Company will yet see a glorious triumph over all the foes of the great and healing measure he has so long advocated .
Foreign Politics. The Rustication Of Min...
FOREIGN POLITICS . The rustication of Ministers has this week been interrupted by the Schleswig-Holstein war . On Wednesday the first Cabinet Council on actual business since the recess , was held in London , and was fully attended . The semiofficial Times tells us that it was summoned to consider the request of Russia and France ,
that England should join them in a peremptory demand , that Prussia shall withdraw the support ' it now gives the Schleswig-Holstein party , against Denmark . Greatly to the mortification of the Times , as we have no doubt it will be to that of its congenial friends and allies , Nicholas of Russia , and the absolutist party , and speculators in France ; the British Government have refused to be
their cat ' s-paw , or to risk a probable war , in which England would be found fighting the battle of the autocrat for European supremacy . Whatever may be the nature of the quarrel between Denmark and the Duchies , it is surely , by far too remote for us to meddle with it ; and it is , indeed , strange , to contrast the bloodthirsty eagerness with which the Times would hound on Ministers to interference , with their earnest protests against any help being given to Italy , Hungary , Naples , or Rome , when the gallant patriots in these countries were struggling for freedom . Non-intervention was as sturdily preached
up then as the true policy of Great Britain , as the contrary is now . It is no secret , which way the sympathies of the "Thunderer" of Puddle-dock have run during tho the whole of tho events of the last two years . It has lied , and threatened , and cajoled by turns , to promote the interests of despots and money-mongers , and we can scarcely lay down a safer rule for the people of this country , in foreign politics , than to believe just exactly the opposite of what the Times tells them , and to act precisely contrary to its recommendations .
In France tho schemers and conspirators against the Constitution are as busy as ever . Plot and counterplot , bargain and sale among the various pretenders to power , aro iu full operation . To read the accounts of the various cliques who have their head quarters in Palis , it would appear that nothing is so easy as to set up France , and knock it down to any Imperial or Kingly bidder , who may hanker after tho bargain . Wo suspect these shameless and unprincipled political hucksters reckon without their host . When 1852 docs come , there may be found in operation elements account
which they did not take into ^ , ^ and which will seriously derange their calculations , if not defeat their elaborate plans for the violation and ultimate overthrow of the nominal Republic under which they plot , aud scheme , and lie , and commit acts of despotism worse than any that ever disgraced cither the reign of Charles X . or Louis Philippe . Is it to be believed that the noble people who sent their two discrowned monarchs on their hasty travels , in search of a shelter where they might die in strange lands , will long continue to tolerate the tyranny of a set of political adventurers and pedlars , such as have tho
temporary ascendancy in France at the present day ? The supposition is too ridiculous to be . flfitfffiwly stated . We cannot doubt
Foreign Politics. The Rustication Of Min...
but that in due course we" ' shall see the wlTT ot the flimsy cobwebs which they are mr > Ci in weaving , blown to the winds by an unriJ of the veritable people . They know tb - might ; the y know also , how to use it . , we know that they do not lack the will , 'J ! * the proper time arrives . Let us , thereto watch with hope the progress of events ^ rJ ' the channel . TOi * Pio Nono has assumed an extraordin authority , and parcelled out the realm of fj , Britain into a series of dioceses , over which 1 has appointed a Cardinal Archbishop J Bishops , with specific designations , just as 'I Queen Victoria , and the Protestant Church and State , by law established , was a mere fi » ment , and had no existence except in imaein tion . Of course , the supporters of the ^ i 5 v Kl
nt , 1 , a D 1 . 1 __ . . « Church and State are very angry at this im pudent assumption on the part of "His Holt " ness , " and visions of the restorati on of nj " manism flit before more fancies than the zeah ous and credulous Catholics who believe in Cardinal Wiseman . It is a hallucination if together . We are perfectl y safe in England from Jesuit censorships , and Jesuiticalfv en forced ignorance . But the danger is that this audacious violation of the oath , which declare that " no foreign prince or potentate shall have
anyspintaalor temporal jurisdiction within this realm , " together with the open declaration of the zealous Eomanist party , that they mean to reclaim England to the fold of the true Church , will have the effect of provoking a reaction , in which many of the reli gious liberties which have been slowl y conquered by Ilomau Catholics , will be swept away . We should
deeply regret to see this ; though we think it by no means unlikel y that such will be the practical issue of the course the Pope has taken m the matter . . ' It shows that , humbled as the Papacy is at its centre , it is still aggressive in its essence , and it may lead its oppo nents to the adoption of a stern repressive policy that otherwise would never have been thought of . The Times suggests that , as the Po ? e has
chosen to interfere with England , Lord Pal . jierston should give him some work at home , by encouraging the Italian patriots . We trust that , however anxious they maybe for the emancipation of their beautiful country from political and spiritual thraldom , they will never become the cat ' s-paw of an oligarchical Minister , who stood coldly aloof in the hour of their need , and mocked them with barren words of sympathy . Better to wait until they are able to fight the battle of freedom on their own ground , without the necessity for such hollow , selfish , and treacherous support .
The pressure on our columns this week pre vents us from doing more than to call attention to the important meeting of the United Trades ' Association , held at Wolverhampton , on Tuesday . The circumstances attending it appear to mark the advent of a new era in the history of such movements .
- Monies Received Tor The Week Ending Th...
- MONIES RECEIVED Tor the Week Ending Thursday , October 24 tii , 1850 . FOB THE W 1 KMG-UP OF THE LAP COMPANY , Received by W . Rideh . —Two Members , Clifford , near Tndcaster Is— Nottingham , per J . SweetGd . Received at Land Office Atherstone 10 s .
THE HONESTY FUND . Received by W . Rider . —Hull , per G . BametUs Td . AGITATION FOR THE CHARTER . Received by Jons Arnott . —Holmfirtli , per J . Hirst 10 s —Lynn , per J . Twaits 5 s—Hastings , per E . Mose Cs 3 d . FOR THE HUNGARIAN AND POLISH REFUGEES . Received by W . Rider . —W . Smith and D . Camou , Mil . borne Port Cd—J . Mayman . Ilamsgate 2 s—J . Parker , Lancaster 7 d—Holmfirtli Chartists , per J . Hirst 5 s—Rochdale , per R . Gill 5 s 4 d—Air . Carter , Birmingham Gd—Mr . Fus . sell , Birmingham Cd—Manchester , collected in the People's Institute ( less order and postage } per T . Ormesher £ 1 6 s 2 d—From Higham , Derbyshire—C . Tinlev ls-J . Bryan 6 rl-A . Milner b"d—Nottingham , per J , Sweet 2 s Gd-New Goundou , per T . Dolphin 5 s Gd . Received by John-Absott . —Part proceeds of Concert , held at the Two Chairmen , Wardour-street , Soho ; per George Hitehins £ 1—National Reform League , Sheffield , per Mr . Whitaker 10 s-Part proceeds of second Concert , held at the Rock , Lissbngrove fEmmet ' s BrigadeJ per J . Blake 10 s . —Received at Land Office . —G . W . If .
: THE CASE OF THOMAS JONES . Received by W . Rideb . —Mr . Carter , Birmingham Cd-Mr . Fussell , Birmingham Cd—Sutton-in-Ashfield , pel W . Eelkin Is Cd . — . Received by John Ausott . —Pr ^ K Is , FOR DR . M ' DOUALL . Received byW . Rider . —Houghton , near Bradford , per'T , Drake 10 s—Sutton-iu-Ashfield , per W . FelMn 10 s . TRACT FUND . Received by John Arnott . —Mr . Banister , Burnham Is .
National Charter League. The Council Of ...
NATIONAL CHARTER LEAGUE . The council of this body met on Sunday last for the transaction of general husiness , The chair was occupied by the President , Mr . M'Grath . The secretary , Mr . T . Clark , submitted correspondence from the country , approbatory of the proposition of Mr . O'Connor , for holding a Conference at Manchester , for the purpose of constructing a National Association on the basis of the People ' s Charter , but unconnected with any other theory or opinion , and also urging upon the League , tho propriety of promoting Mr . O'Connor's intention . A resolution was unanimously adopted ,
instructing the secretary to write to the council of the Manchester Chartist Association , expressing the confidence of the League in tho integrity and patriotism of the Manchester friends , and respectfull y requesting them to assume the initiative in convening the intended Conference , and also that they should take the arrangement of it under their judicious management . It was announced by Mr . M'Grath , that a comfortable and commodious room for the future meetings of the League , had heen Secured at a respectable Temperance Hotel in Farringdon -street , where the council would meet on the following Sunday evening , at seven o ' clock .
NATIONAL REFORM LEAGUE . At a full meeting of the Council of this body , held on Monday , the 21 st instant , the following resolutions were adopted with unanimity : — " That , earnestl y desirous of . seeing established a real uniou of all shades of Democratic and Social Reformers , and believing that Universal Suffrage , with the necessary guarantees for its due exercise , as laid down in the People's Charter , is the only practical basis of such union—this Council cannot but
regret tbe vote recently come to by the Conference of Delegates , representing this and other societies at the John-street sitting ? , whereby the expediency is affirmed of mixing up with the great question of Universal Suffrage certain Reform measures of detail , which , however good and necessary in their proper time and place , cannot he made the object of a national movement , without causing dissension aud divisions in the popular ranks , and thereby retarding tho success of our common cause . This Council is , therefore , of tho op inion of our delegates , that their further attendance at the aforesaid Conference is useless and unnecessary . 'i . P . AY . M'Neixi , Sec
Sheffield . —At tho usual weekly mooting of the National Reform League , held on the 20 th inst ., the following resolution was unanimousl y agreed to : — " That we highly apprjfj of the object contemplated by the Lon *> Conference of Political and Social Reformers , and we trust that they will be succes sful 1 uniting in one body the whole Demo cracy the country : wo also think tho said Contoven is in the best position to judge of t he o () and place for holding a National Conference .
Louis Napoleon Has Obtained Fifty «!«* D...
Louis Napoleon has obtained fifty «!«* from England , for the park of St . Cloud . ? ^ The long , vacation terminated ou Thursday .. . the affairs of the several law courts have « H " business , preparatory to tha ensuing MwJ >»«» ^ Term commencing this dax ( Saturday ); weeK . — -
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 26, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_26101850/page/4/
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