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      CHRISTMAS " . ; , TtTOTICE IS 11 EKEBV GlYEH ^ tlnrt theCmisTSUS JN ^ O & iSU . QCAKE * StsstoKS of the Peace for tfe Wcst-lUffing of the Goanty of York , vriW Deoptne da , XsiariBORoron , on Tcesdat , the Gtu day of Jwinaij next at Ten o ' clock in the Forenoon ; andby A . ljoummentfrom ther . « AviU be holden at mKEFiEtD , on > . £ » - 3 SESDAT , ' th " e 7 th day of the same mon th of January , atTei « f tfie Clock in tlicForcnoon ; and also , by further Adjom ^ men tfrom thence , wilt beholden at Sheffield , ok Hosoat , the 12 th < I « y af the same month of January , ci Seven of the Clock in the Forenoon , whin all _ Jurors , Suitorr Persons bound by Recognizance , av . d other * ImviaB tiosinessatae said several Sissiou-S * re required -to attend . tlie Court on the several days , aud at tht several hoursafesvementioned :

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      THE COLOSSEUM . G naxd-oKCffESTKau ORGAN . —This magnificent ' establishment ^ patronised and visited by her JHAJEST f aad his Royal Holiness Prince ALHE 11 T , 1 is now , in addition to its former alterations , a new < -ckestnd Organ , erected in the Glyiitotheca , on which 1 e most admired pieces of music will be played daily , i sm Two tiU Four o'Clock . Open from Ten till Halfj , astFour . Admittance , 3 s . Children , half-price . The stalactite Careras , the most magnificent of all the Temp les which nature has built for herself in the regions of night , Is . each . The whole projected and designed bj JI . YT . Bradwcl ! .

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      TO TAILORS . ByapTohation of Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria and His Itcyal Ifijrlmtss Prince Albert . TEE LONDON and P * ARiS FASHIONS for Winter , lSi 5 andl ? ' « , by READ and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury-siinare , London ; Btrgtr , Holyu-ell-streat Strand , London , and may be had of all Rooksellers wheresoever residing ; a very superb Print , rcpresetiti . ij : the most splendid exhibition li Europe , an Interior View of the Colossaum Itegent ' s-park , Louden . This exquisitely executed and heautiful ' y coloured Print ' will be accompanied with fullsize Dress , Froek . and Hiding Coat Patterns ; also , Patterns of the New Fashionable Polka Frock , and Locomotive

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      FUNERAL ECONOMY ! The ccMETEnraud tn ;> ' £ KAL FUNERAL COMPAXY , umted with SHILLIBEER'S PATENT FUXEUAL CAKUIAGES , respectfully invite public attenjioij to the economic una convenient arrangements for pcribnning every desciiption of Funerals complete , at charges 50 moderate as to defy' coaipetitio : i , anil no extras , by which the comfort of in-reaved families will he materially promoted , and expenses limited . City-road , Finsbury , next ISuuhill-fieids Burial-ground ; 21 , Percy-street , Tottenhara-comt-road ; and 1 * 3 , Union-street , Sonthwnrk . ShilliuKr ' s Patent Funeral Carriage , with two borees , £ 1 lis . Cd . ; Single Horse , £ 1 Is . A respectable Carriage Funeral , combining every charge , £ i 4 s . Hearses and Mourning Coaches . Cathelic Fittings . Four Horse 1 ' uuerais , £ 12 lis .

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      DAXCE JI SIC FOR CURISTJIAS . —SEW JdUSIC FOR PIAXOFORTE .

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      JUST PUBLISHED , tn one volume , foolscap Sro ., neat cloth , price 7 s . 6 d ., THE PURGATORY OP SUICIDES A Prison Bhyme : in Ten Books : BV THOMAS COOPER , THE CHARTIST . J . How , Publisher , 132 , Fleet-street . * t & " Orders from the Country to be sent through the booksellers . Also lately published , in 2 vols ., 12 mo ., Price Fourteen Shillings .

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      HOTI 6 E TO EMIGRANTS , — . i - ' mi- ' •" " - — »» -. ¦*¦ ' ~«—*«*— .- »— .- ' ¦ -i

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      COALS . PROVIDE FOR WDfTER . PROYTDEXT FAMILIES , subscribing Is . per week t « the Metropolitan Coal Company ' s Shilling Club , can obtain four half tons snnually , without further charge , tines , -to . Th-e Company ' s price current is , Best Screened 'Wallsend . 25 s . per full ton ; Seconds , 21 s ., 22 s ., and 23 s- ; Coke , l 7 s . Gd . Office , 27 D , High Holborn .

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      ^ ust { published , price Is ., tlie Fourth Edition ( Translated from the Nineteenth French Edition ) , CONSTIPATION DESTROYED ; or , Exposition of Narural , Simple , Agreeable , and Infallible means , not only of overcoming , but also of completely destroying ha ' iitual Constipation , without using cither purgatives or any artificial means whatever ( discovery recently made in France by M . Warton ) , followed by numerous certiticatcs from eminent physicians aud other persons of distinction . Free by post . Is . Cd . Sold by James Youcns ami Co ., Tea Dealers , 4 n . Ludj' .-ite-liill , Loudon , and by nil bouksvllers iu tlio Ihiitcp Kingdom .

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      DAGUERUKOT \ TE AND CAI . OTYPE . THE APPARATUS , LENS , CHEMICALS , PLATES , CASES , and every other article used iu making and mounting tha above can be had » f J . Egcrton , No . 1 , Temple-street , Whitcfriars , London . Descriptive Catalogues gratis . LEREBOURS celebrated ACHROMATIC TRIPLET LENSES for the MICROSCOPE , sent to any part of the country at the folloivin ^ price : —Deep Power , COs ., Low Power , 25 s . Every articlo warranted .

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      TO ALL WHO CAN'T PAY ! pXIMEDIATE Protection , aud a prompt and safe final L discharge , without the intervention of a Prison or an Attorney . A discharge to Debtors is now imperative , because Imprisonment forDtbt is now penal , not remedial . —Debtors of all grades will be benefitted by applying forthwith to John S . Benstead , 22 , " Basinghall-street , near the Court of Bankruptcy , London .

      Openixg Op Tiie Spaxisu Cohtes. — Madrid, Dec. 15.—This Day The Cortes Was Opened By The

      Openixg op tiie Spaxisu Cohtes . — Madrid , Dec . 15 . —This day the Cortes was opened by the

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      ( £ ueen in person : the following are extracts from the " speech " : — Gentlemen , Senators , and Deputies , Daring the short space of time that lias elapsed since the close of the last session of the Cortes no remarkable nlterotion has taken place in the relations of my kingdom with foreign powers . Negotiations are still pending with the Holy See . # * * # At home , in the Peninsula , order and respect for the laws have been maintained , so that every attempt at treason has been defeated by the vigilance aud the firmness of the authorities , as well as by the fidelity of the army , the subordination and discipline of which might serve as a model for the world ; and , in fine , the excellent spirit of the people—tired aud worn out by revolt , and anxious to enjoy fully the benefit of peace , under the shade of the throne , and under the protection of our national institutions .

      In order to consolidate tho pregress of advantages so precious , wc have , by virtue of the authority which you gave to my government , established organic laws . I bare to congratulate you on the fact that these measures have fully justified our expectations . The nation now finds itself endowed with Iawf , the want of which had been felt during so many years , and tlie establishment of which laws has been effected without .-uggesting any difficulty ; on the contrary , the establishment of those laws is beginning already to produce the fruits of the good order and government of the state . Sly Government will present to you a project of law with the important object of endowing , in a permanent aud solid manner , public worship and the clergy .

      At present it devolves on you to examine the results of your former resolutions , and to introduce such further improvements and reforms as shall appear to you called for and necessary—a task which , though less brilliant , is not the less useful and glorious . Your zeal and perseverance will be necessary to aid my government in the laudable task of regulating the finances and administration of the state , which necessarily felt the eifects of previous great and fatal disorder . 1 feel convinced that this task , if undertaken , will not ! lie found greater than your capacity . This I hope for , at feast , confiding in the protection of divine Providence , 1 aud with an ardent desire to add this new sevice to the many which you have already conferred on the throne and the country .

      The West Riding Election.—Leeds, Monday ...

      The West Riding Election . —Leeds , Monday Evening . —The announcement of the death of Lord Wharnclilfo produced great sensation iu this town and every part of the riding on Saturday morning last , the demise of his lordship being quite unexpected . As the lion . 'J . Stuart Wortiey , one of the members for the Riding , will now be Lord Wharnclifie , and take his seat in the House of Peers , an election must shortly ensue to fill up his place in the house of Commons . Lord Morpeth , the former representative of the riding is everywhere spoken of as its future member . So far as your correspondent has been able to learn , nothing publichas been done by either Liberals or Conservatives to bring forward a candidate . It is reported that the former party have had a private meetins of its leading members , and they have resolved

      upon seuding a deputation , with a requisition , to Lord Morneth . The general opinion is , that his lordship will be elected without opposition , in case of an isolated election : but , if there be a general election , the Conservatives will start , if not two , at all events one candidate . The third edition of the Times of Saturday , containing the important announcement that Lord John Russell had failed to form a Cabinet , and that Sir Robert Peel had been sent for by-her Majesty to Windsor , was received here at a late hour on Saturday night . The information which it contained was received with modified satisfaction by tho Conservatives , and great regret by the Liberals , though the latter proclaim their confidence that Sir Robert will repeal the Corn Laws . —Times . Railway Accident . —Wigan , Tuesday Morning .

      —Last night a serious accident occurred on the North Union line , about two miles from this town , by which a passenger trainfrom Preston was disabled and several of the passengers hurt , though not dangerously . The cause of the accideut was , as is frequently the case , occasioned by the carelessness of some ot the company's servants . It appears that some empty coal-waggons have been lying on what is called the " spring-junction , " being a line made by the company to some collieries in the neighbourhood , where they remained for several days on the rails unfastened . The place where they lay is within a short distance of the main line . Last night , about dusk , the wind blew very high and set three of these waggons in motion and carried down the junction , end on , to the main line , but , coming into a deep cutting where

      they were sheltered from tlie storm , they stopped , and were unobserved by ihe workmen , The train which leaves Preston at six o'clock reached Wigan about halt-past , where it stopped to take up and set down passengers . It was again set in motion and got to its lull gpeed , when the engine came in contact with the waggons with fearful violence . The cokeussion was terrific , and had it not been for the presence of mind displayed by the engineer , tlie result must have been attended with great sacrifice of human life , lie immediately ehuC of ? his steam and stopped the engine , not , however , before three of the passenger carriages were thrown off the line and three of the luggage waggons shattered to pieces . Fortunately none of the paisengers were . so injured as to prevent them from proceeding on their

      journey . Distressing Accident . —A few days ago Mr . J . Lewis , the coroner for the city of Rochester , held an inquest on the body of Edward Chidlcy , a , very intelligent boy , ten years of age , who lost his life oh board the steam-boat Lily , on Saturday last , by falling into the river . It appears that the deceased wu with his father on board on Saturday last as the boat was on its passage to meet the down train of the Rochester and Grave-send Railway , at half-past four o'clock p . m ., aud on the boat arriving in Liniehousereach , the deceased was observed by tlie helmsman to take up the bucket and immediately drop it into tiic water as he was standing on the starboard side , and , before the helmsman could call out , the lad was overboard ; the steamer at the same time was going at the rate often miles an hour . The boat was almost

      immediately stopped , and the deceased and the bucket rose to the surface on the larboard side , both having passed under ihe vessel ; and the boy was seen struggling at the top of the water for about five minutes , when he sank . The party on board could render no assistance , as there was neither a boat-hook nor rope on board ; and , although the accident occurred opposite to one of her Majesty's ships in ordinary , the party in charge could render no assistance , not being provided with a boat . The body was picked upon Sunday morning last , about eleven o ' clock , near to the spot where the deceased lost his life . The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death , with a recommendation to the owners of the boats to provide things necessary for the preservation of life m case of accidents . In this caso , if a bnat-hook bed been on board , the life of the boy would have been saved .

      ,..- ...,-~ Tqjal Land, Secretaries - Th...

      ,..- ...,- ~ TQjaL LAND , SECRETARIES - The Land Conference having now laid down a distinct and simple line of ¦ policy , and it being of all things , desirable that the accounts of the treasurer , sub-treasurer , and secretary , should be as distinct as possible , the secretary doing his work , andho more , it is not only necessary , but it is indispensable , that all monies , from all parties , as well from London as the country , and whether for shares , cards , or ^ rules , should be transmitted to me , to the credit of Mr Roberts . The London men can as easily leave their money at my house , or my office , as anywhere else ; and I can at all times leave a sufficient amount of cash in the secretary's hands for emergencies . If this rule , which is very easy , is not obsevved to the letter , i shall kesign my office as DEroxY-TitEAsimEii . Peargos O'Conkor .

      Ihe Northern Star. Saturday, December 27,1815. .

      IHE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , DECEMBER 27 , 1815 . .

      Tiie Crisis. Last Week, When The Hope Of...

      TIIE CRISIS . Last week , when the hope of Whiggcry was strong , wo announced the difficulty that Lord John Russell would experience in his attempt to re-model a pure Whig administration out of the shattered fragments of the old wreck . We did not base our opinion upon the individual squabbles against which , itappoars , thc noble lord could not successfully contend . Wo drew our conclusions from the fact that he was ignorant of

      the present state of public opinion , . and that he was incapable of selecting materials from his whole stock of AVhiggery capable of representing the improved mind of the country , or able to carry out the statesman-like policy of Sir Robert Peel . We believe that the League itself rather anticipated defeat than victory from the noble lord ' s appointment ; and hence , while there is no lack of free trade ardour , there has been but slight exultation in the temporary triumph of the OCCASIONAL Whig Government .

      Wc presume that the best informed saw , at the instant , that the restoration of the Whigs to power was the very calamity which could arrest the anticipated triumph of free trade—in fact , that it would have been , as it were , a second blight . That Peel would have given them precisely that amouat of support that would have damned them , while he would have used them to justify his own altered policy , and as FOES that may one day be converted into

      FRIENDS . Upon the other hand , Lord John Russell ' s conversion having been seized as a triumph by the League , and a vacancy occurring in the West Riding of Yorkshire , where they hope to test the strength of their new policy , forbid any expression of sorrow for the weakness that such an unexpected calamity as the recall of the Whigs had inflicted upon the question o f free trade , and hence we find the triumph marked by the most scanty amount of party exultation possible .

      We believe that the free-traders consider thenposition materially strengthened by the command of their forces being transferred to Sir Robert Peel , while we cannot shut our eyes to the fact , that the retreatof Rus ^ ll may justify a more moderate policy in a leader who has been forced into power by the weakness of his adversary , than he would have been justified in pursuing as the LIEUTENANT of Lord John . We cannot presume ( notwithstanding the attempted solution of tho Times' conundrum , whereby it is attempted to be shown that the 20 th of January is early in January , and that the studied silence of

      Sir Robert Peel is as significant as the nod of LORD BURLEIGH ) , any reasonable grounds upon which we can anticipate Sir Robert Peel's support of tho whole hog principle . Nay , more ; we aver that Sir Robert Peel and the Whigs in the House of Commons , and the Duke of Wellington and the confiding in the House of Lords , will fail in the attempt to carry a total repeal of the Corn Laws , What we anticipate , then , is defeat , after a vigorous struggle in the lower house , a dissolution of Parliament , and toleration , if not invitation , f or such an exhibition of popular feeling—such a manifestation from

      without , as will leave no alternative to the two Houses hut that of once more humbly begging pardon , and knuckling down to HIS MAJESTY TIIE MOB . This is the boldest policy that we expect from Sir Robert Peel , but we arc not sanguine enough to believe that he will propose the total repeal at once Iu the latter case , how , with the pressure from with , out , deal with a new sliding scale , gradually remitting a portion of a small fixed duty , and stopping at some little f igure , such as 2 s ., which would mark the triumph of the baby aristocracy , by adding just 2 s . per quarter to what the price of corn would have

      been , if regulated by a total repeal . What we have so often averred we n « w repeat , that with all the ingenuity and aptness for business which distinguishes Sir Robert Peel , Sir Jamks Graham , aud Mr . Gladstone , they would not , within the twenty-five or thirty days interval between their recal and tho meeting of Parliament , be able to produce suck an altered tariff as would bo considered a safe adjustment for the settlement of so large a question—so old , so ramified , and so cherished an abuse . The question of free trade is but the keystone of the arch of protection ; once remove it , and the arch tumbles

      down . We know that the glib philosophers , who so disinterestedly agitate the question upon the grounds of philanthropy , ' have fascinating arguments for all whose interests are likely to be effected by the change . To the starving operative they kindly saj' , " Behold the cheap bread of Poland , if your cruel taskmasters will only allow you to exchange your free labour for it ; while , to the farmer , they would balance inability to meet existing contracts , and the landlord ' s disinclination to reduce rents , by the fascinating prospects of

      diminished poor rates , diminished county rates , and the reduced price of all those articles of life upon which , at present , they pay a tax regulated by the Corn Laws . However , if free trade should ever arrive at the Russell point , of clothing and all other articles as well as food , we should be glad to know what , without a cautious adjustment , is to become of those artificers and tradesmen who have paid the protection fee for their knowledge , and who , if the flood-gates opened , would be swept , by the first flood , into the general abyss of pauperism .

      What will become of bootmakers , shoemakers , ribbonmakers , glovemakers , and all those who have yet some protection against foreign competition ? Will they not become an additional burthen upon the poor-rates , unless the new avenues to trade shall be so wide that all may walk in them without the inconvenience of jostling , or the dread of knocking their heads together ? This is the rupture that wc anticipate—the conclusion , the chaos , that must inevitably follow the destruction of so old an abuse , by which the fictitious price of everything is regulated ; if not preceded , or accompanied , by such an

      adjustment as will enable the routed pauper , as well as the protected capitalist , to live . What , we would ask , wiiliecomeof those who will be , presently , sotting our w < i * rds ia type when their profit upon a book , that NOW FETCHES one pound twelve shillings and sixpence , shall be reduced to a profit upon the same book , which , when printed abroad , can be sold in this market for the small sum of one shilling and sixpence ! Be at jenienibered that we are now arguing as if the centte " was struck , " and the arch had tumbled in ; as" if ihe entire policy of open competition and no protection , contended for by the League , had been recognised , adopted , and confirmed by law . The farmers , who h . " » ped to raise the price of produce to the famine st . indard , were Itudest in the

      bellowings of deficiency and threatened scarcity ; but now , when the ghosts tHat tuc ) liave created haunts their own minds , thej ' stagger back affrighted , crying , " Avaunt , there is abu . idancc , there is plenty , there is more than enough ; wl . , erc tuerc were . three stacks last year there are six s tacks tIl ! s J ' » a"d the quality is superior . " Alas ! ' k ! nd yeomen of England , . " good bullfrogs of Brita " * » J ' 011 wcre fals « alarmists when the wolf was on his n ' ul *' ch > ue iS now upon you , and the devil mend you if 1 ^ devours you . You have stipported those prejudices w u ' ^ hare disorganised society—you have surrender ea" whatever little intellect you possessed to the keepii . 6 ° f toolsthey have used it for jour destruction , Rm ] you are the authors of your own ruin , Did * ue not give you notice of the confidence tha / ' tf

      Tiie Crisis. Last Week, When The Hope Of...

      had-iti ^ yow subserviency ; when' they - transformed you into " £ 50 tonants-at-will" slaves , to be whipped to the county mart to regulate the price of corn at Mark Lane . And did you not as servilely assume the chains that your oppressors had forged f or you ? You did . And now make the best of a bad bargain . Put your house in order , whatever becomes of the lanclordY rent , FOB two years' subsistence-money until the struggle is over , and then you will be recalled to your previous occupation , discharged of the conditions that cramp your energies , relieved from tiie obligations that compel you to make tyrants of vour masters .

      The Demonstration On New Year's Day.—We ...

      The Demonstration on New Year ' s Day . —We trust that every man , at feast every true man , within ten miles of Manchester , will make it a point to assemble in Stoplienson-square , on New Year ' s Day . The Pedigree of the Aristocracy . —Next week tins Northern Star will contain tho pedigree ,. root ami branch , of the English Oligarchy , and the second death and "finality" burial of the Whigs , with inquest , public funeral , liullagoners , and all .

      The Distressed Capatalists, And Thriving...

      THE DISTRESSED CAPATALISTS , and THRIVING OPERATIVES . The highly-lauded resolutions of the bankers , merchants , and others engaged in mercantile pursuits in London , as well as the cuckoo-cry that restriction paralyses trade , and so forth , will bear but sorry contrast with that picture of distress which we are about to present to the reader . Throughout the long and tiresome agitation for a repeal of the Corn Laws , we have preserved a manly , consistent , and dignified position . While the philanthropists and

      humanity-mongers were making merchandize of the misfortunes and sufferings of their slaves , and urging their condition as arguments for the enforcement and recognition of their own principles , wc drew a faithful picture of the condition of the respective classes . Wc marvelled that , as masters , men should be tyrants ; and that , as agitators , they should struggle for such laws as would COMPEL THEM TO DO JUSTICE . We directed attention to the gorgeous mansions and princely fortunes amassed by the unrestricted use of machinery , even under all the disadvantages which appear so much to cripple industry and limit trade .

      If we could have found but a few honourable exceptions struggling against wholesale wrong , being honest amongst thieves , humane amongst oppressors , clement amongst tyrants , and Christians amongst Infidels , we should have looked to their struggle for altered laws as a means of making the exception the rule . The labouring classes , as Mr . West well observed , have turned the Chartist agitation to the profitable purpose of opening up the whole question of labour and capital . THEY LOOK UPON

      CAPITAL AS THE CHILD , AND LABOUR AS THE PARENT ; words that should never be forgotten , words that should be printed in letters of gold , framed and hung up in every poor man ' s house . The child has revolted , not only against natural feelings and human laws , but against God ' s holy

      word" Honour thy father and mother . " If the agitation for the Charter has presented this all-important question in an altered phase , it has also led to the canvass , investigation , and criticism of the conduct of tho child , and the question has been asked , how has the child discharged its duties to its parent ? Has it fostered the hand that reared aud protected it ? Has it comforted the offspring that has been the author of all its grandeurthe founder of all its greatness ; or has it taken advantage of the injustice of human laws to revolt against God and its parent ? Labour , in advocating

      its own cause , has shown that those who would now serve their own purpose by enlisting its co-operation , have never lest an opportunity of harshly administering the law , and of unjustly using the power of capital . In discussing the effect of restrictions upon trade , self-interest is veiled , while the workman ' s goodness , and tenderness for him , is pompously paraded in the foreground . We have always looked with suspicion upon the powerful wealthy contending for the restoration of those rights which thev

      themselves had robbed from the poor . We have seen the way , if there was the will , WITHOUT LAW , to do justice to the oppressed ; but we haye never sei ; n that justice done . While glib philosophers , while interested manufacturers , speculating merchants , and brainless shopkeepers , have been shouting free trade as a means of benefitting their respective orders , and themselves individually , we have quoted the simple words of the simple " Yorkshire prophet , " - " THAT ALL THE STUFF 'EE THE

      WU 11 LD , WOR MADE FOR ALL 'EE FOLK IN 'EE WUBLD . " Upon this sound sense we have written and spoken volumes . Upon these words of wisdom we have based the principle of equitable distribution ; and now we come to apply it to the most recent ease that has been presented for illustration . On Tuesday last there was a gathering of the DISTRESSED AND TOILWORN CAPITALISTS , to take their present hard case into consideration , and to devise means for raising a pauper fund for their relief . At this meeting over £ 00 , 000 was subscribed by the paupers , and

      £ 23 . 000 of it was subscribed by as many INDIVIDUALS GIVING £ l , O 0 G each . Monstrous ! horrible !! frightful !!! When have they given that amount to arrest famine , feed the hungry , and clothe the naked ; and why do they offer it now as a secondary mode of relief , when the application of it to the primary purpose would have the more generous effect ? Do they f ear the f amine that they have created ? for if laws are just , and if they were humane , the blight that stints the crop would not fall

      solely upon him whose industry produced it . But more ; whoro did they get it ? How do they contrive , after their many bubble speculations of this very bubbling year , to abstract so much more f rom the profits upon labour ? Or how comes it to pass that , notwithstanding the blighting infkence o f protection , thay have been able to amass fortunes , to boast of being ablt to pay off the national debt , of living sumptuously , buying land , speculating in everything that offers 4 per cent ., and yet have this PROTECTION FUND to fallback noon .

      . Will not the working men now believe that restriction and distribution must constitute a portion of the elements of any adjustment that is likely to be satisfactory ; and will they not ask what danger of famine the League stands in , when they have already amassed enough to live upon the dearest dainties and most expensive luxuries , while one in every ten ot the slave class luxuriates on workhouse fare , in a prison dress , on this , our Saviour ' s birth-day . Nature is out of joint . All the evil propensities * oi man have warred against the common feelings of humanity , and system has taken the place of nature .

      Will not this SIXTY THO USAND POUNDS , that has been collected in a few minutes for the purpose of benefitting the working classes , open their eyes to , and justify their adherence to , such nobleminded and disinterested patriots ? Or is there a chance that they should discover that their enemies are fighting the battle of self-interest with the pence lashed from labour ' s side . If one circum stance more than another could have made the people more sceptical as to the real intentions of the League it is the fact of cruel masters , with famine threaten * ing , work scarce , and poor-housos full , being able to subscribe £ 00 , 000 , while those who made it HAVE

      NOT SIXTY THOUSAND PENCE . There is another curious document presented to us at the same time , namely the balance-sheet of the League , and by this we find that the gentlemen have turned the mercantile term " sundries" to profitable account . Under this head we find £ 1 , 500 , or nearly £ 30 a-week charged , while the expense of lecturer ' s has amounted to over £ 2 , 300 . The only comment that we shall offer ' upon this branch of the subject is , contrast it with the poor means afc the disposal of

      The Distressed Capatalists, And Thriving...

      Ciiartrtmjand then see HOWMUGH- HAS -BEEN EFFECTED BY PRINCIPLE-HOW LITTLE BY FRAUD .

      In Answer To Correspondents We Beg To St...

      In answer to correspondents we beg to state , that business , preparatory to the ensuing . term , will make it necessary for Mr . Roberts to be in town on Tuesday , the 30 th , and to remain there for some days , where all communications may be addressed to him , No . 2 , Robert-street , Adelphi , London .

      The President's Message And Chartist Con...

      THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE AND CHARTIST CONVENTION . Mn . President Polk has spun such a tarnation long yarn , we find ourselves unable to lay it in a digested form before our readers this week . We have given as much , however , of the important features of this important document as willenable the reader to judge of its MEANING . The question of th « Oregon stands precisely where it was , giving to tlie Briti-h Government a kind of option , not as to whether the territory in dispute shall be ceded now , but whether

      it shall still be perpetuated , as a nest egg , for plenipotentiaries and future conference . The British Government , however , will very probably see , that every year ' s delay will tend to strengthen the pretensions of the growing Republic , while the same causes may tend to cripple England ' s resources in the same direction ; or , which is the same , to make it more difficult to bring those resources into action . Upon the whole the decision of tho British Cabinet upon tho Oregon question will much depend upon the use that Sir Robert Peel may make of it as the terror or tho hope of the landed aristocracy .

      If he can make the question of war , at one and the same time , palatable to the manufacturing class , and profitable to the landlord class , he would be the very man to send a fleet to Sandy Hook , with a steamer freighted with a Plenipotentiary who understood that it was merely intended as a diversion to attract domestic attention , while the FREtt TRxiDE TRICK was being done at home . Wc do not quarrel with this policy ; but , on the contrary , we admire it ; and only re gret that a wise man should be thus compelled to play the child with children , the fool with fools . Upon the whole the Oregon question does not

      appear tous as likely to constitute the casus belli between Republican America and Monarchical Europe . The policy of non-intervention , laid down by President Monro , and now prominently enforced by Mr . President Polk , is the grand feature of his Message . It is the first blow at the policy relied upon by Louis Philippe for sustaining the rule of legitimacy against the growing demand for republicanism . Mr . Polk , in his manly dealing with this most important of all subjects , reminds us of the anecdote of a poor Irishman who was to be sentenced to death for shcepstealing , and when told by the turnkey , in Irish , that the judge ( Lord Norbury , of course , ) wished to know what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him , as a jury of his

      COUNTRYMEN had found him guilty , he replied , "By Jasus , they may say what they like , but I WON'T ABIDE BY IT . " Now , Mr . President Polk has told the great powers of Europe , in just as unmistakable language , that they may say what they like , hut America won't abide by it . Wc know of no policy more pre-eminently calculated to disturb that heretofore- well-managed tranquillity by which the King of the French has been sometimes able to govern , using the holy alliance as his administration pro tem . This declaration of Mr . PoLn ' s ^ puts the league of European kings and queens , and ministers too , in " a tarnation fix ; " in fact , we now see no escape but in the humbling of the proud spirit of democracy , IF THEY CAN DO IT .

      The question , as we have often predicted , has really resolved into that , whether kings shall reign and rule , or MULE AND REIGN ; whetherthoy shall reign by right divine , aud rule as they please ; or whether they shall reign because they reign justly . Upon the question of manufactures Mr . Polk is equally clear and explicit . He uses the young mind of the Republic to grapple with the monster ( machinery ) before it becomes too strong for resistance . He boldly declares in favour of the labourer , and proposes an ad valorem duty in preference to the sliding scale . Ho shows that the operation of the

      present tariff is , in all articles of luxury used by the rich , cheap ; and articles of necessity , used by the poor , dear ; and to rectify this , he proposes an ad valorem duty , the principle which we have always advocated with reference to taxation . Upon the whole , the President ' s Message may be taken as the first declaration of American independence . As the first recognition of theembodied strength of the Republic , and as the assurance that the people are aware of it ; while the great and mighty questions involved in it arc not treated with that politic caution which a suspicious Minister would use , but arc boldly affirmed with that confidence that national co-operation , national strength , and national patriotism warrants .

      It is a glorious Message , and the more so , because the policy of the President is in exact keeping with the pelicy of the Chartist Convention , that recommends centralisation of party strength , and denies the right of factious intervention . There arc more sacks upon the mill , and wc f ear that our poor friend , Sir Robert , for whose restoration to power we feci thankful , will have enough to do , if he is able to satisfy the landlords that a war price for wheat is preferable to his sliding scale ; and to convince the manufacturers that the interest of the cotton growers o f the Southern States , in case of war , will weigh more heavy in the scale than their patriotism . Upon the whole , his work is cut out , — " Snglaud expects that every man will do Ills duty . "

      Arrest Of Patrick O'Higgins, Esq,., On A...

      ARREST OF PATRICK O'HIGGINS , ESQ ,., ON A CHARGE OF SEDITION . The readers of the Northern Star will recollect that , some time in the month of November last , a paper was published in the Star , entitled" LandIords ) and Tenants-Tyrants turning Tenants out . " The constituted authorities ( Dublin ) issued their warrant , and Mr . O'iliggins was arrestid near his own house at seven o ' clock on Fridav ,

      the 19 th inst . He was immediatel y bailed , having been accompanied to the head police office b y two friends , Wll . O became sureties for his appearance , in a sum of £ 200 , and himself in . £ 200 , for his appearance at 12 o ' clock , noon , on Monday , the 22 nd inst . However , on that day , the Government was not fully prepared to proceed , and the case was further adjourned till Tuesday , the 80 th inst ., and the same sureties accepted . We shall have a good deal more to say on this subject next week .

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      4 ®* We Have In Type Several Articles An...

      4 ®* We have in type several articles anil advertisements , which we are compelled t- > pospone till uext week , in consequence of the great press of political matt * In our present number . The letter of John Frost next week , as we wish to accompany it with some observations . E . S ., Bradford . —Let the miserable cripple go on abusin the Executive ; he is no Chartin , ana the Chartists are perfectly right to have nothing to do with him For ourselves we need only say , that the censure of slaves is praise , and we hope that slaves will always censure u ? . The head that this lits mav wear tho cap . Yt hen caps amount the crowd are thrown , " Those they fit may wear them for their own . George White and the Bradford boys , keep a sharp look out OS OOK I'll [ END . Setk KoRtis . —Xo such song has been received at the Star ollice . A Constant Header , —Roderick O'Connor ig the brother of F . O'Connor .

      h . Lord , Tkorntok . —We believe many papers are retained and read , prior to reaching their destination . He must pay two-pence each with the Stars he sends to America .

      Receipts Of The Chartist Co-Operative La...

      RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETI " . ' SKARIIS . rea am , o ' connor , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , per If . Jude < f o d n J ? Sw 2 t ° ' Todd ' -vow > Kir , 'y . Knott ., p « Sxe ter , per F Clark " , ' , 2 . ' J A piSr ° .. l ,, n 1 CCaIitL Bi' ]^ n > P <* William pewsbui-y " ate , perJ . Rouse ' . ' . " " I ir r Derb y . per Wm . Cabtree I ) ;; - J X J »

      Receipts Of The Chartist Co-Operative La...

      'Yeovil ; per J . ( J . Abbott . * . "; . „ . Norwich , per J . Murrey .. , .. „ " 2 » " Alva , per J . Robertson - ; , .. .. " > ! J ; * Oldham , per W . Ilamcr .. .. . " . "in Bradford , per i . Aldcvson .. " -. ? . ° 0 Stockport , per T . Woodhouse .. .. " : ° » Dundee , per It . Kidd " | J ° 0 . Manchester , per J . Murray .. " a , ° u Rochdale , per E . Mitchell .. „ " " [ J ° 1 « Bolton , per E . Ilodgkinson .. , \ " . * - I Ashton-iinder-Lyuc , per E . Hobson « , i ° " Cockerniouth , per G . feat .. , \ " .. « LEW FOR THE LAND CONFERENCE , '" " " TEH MR . o ' CONNolt . Dewsbury-gate , per J . Rouse .... NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE . ' Newcastle-upon-Tyne , per AI . Jude .. .. FOR the chartist COSVENTIOx . " ' Merthyr Tydvil , per D . Morgan .. « " „ ft o

      To The Chartists Of 'Me ~ D\Irprt Kingdom. U ^"Td

      TO THE CHARTISTS OF 'ME ~ D \ irprT KINGDOM . u ^ "tD

      Brethrkn' ,—The Assembling Of Your Renrn...

      Brethrkn ' , —The assembling of your renrn « tives has been called for by the occurrence ol ' * ? pregnant with beneficial or disastrous result * fi ts present generation , and even to the latent JJH -r On the issue of the . pending struggle betuo /' belligerent landed and eommerciiil a ' wstot-, e based the destinies of the toiling millions of \ v '' ^ pire . By a pusillanimous and cowardlv pulicv il ? i " - " hour , wc lose every advantage , forfeit cverv cl ' imf national confidence , and virtually surrender T dear-bought victory , enshrined in your hearts hT ? factions whom we have fought so oft and sio ' rioi- ^ conquered . ° UUUU : > 1 y Brethren , after these preliminaries , we deem : r our duty to lay belore you a brief statement of our plans tor future operations with respect to our own body , and also that of the Corn Law a « itati , „ Having always the interests of the working dS £ foremost in our thoughts , we repudiate the notionZ merging our agitation into anything short of X

      ,. ? r S , T ' WIK »« ? nd cnt » -e . But , inasmuch as the threatened scarcity of food would ,, i n « Tbody iu a false position if they continue their « 1 pos tion to a repeal of the Corn Laws , that , never theless , having no faith in the cfh ' caev of tl a ? n » fnn' f * , nea " 1 k . ton ' ngthe condition of the sons ot labour , we deem it advisable to abstain from aking any part calculated to mark our approval of tleprnicplesot tree trade , wiihout polit c-1 Joi-er first being con erred upon the people whose duty ml interest it will be to make that change a natfona ir . stead ot a class benefit . ' Friends , in the event of a general election , it ; « our unanimous request that the occasion may be used for the furtherance of our principles , and we call upon every Chartist elector , and non-elector * render the most strenuous exertions in favour of candidates who shall pledge themselves to support the People's Charter in the House of Commons '

      We rfpuld , likewise , call your attention to the cam of your expatriated friend , Frost , Williams , Jones and Mis , who have Iwen torn from their homes aiui families , and have been doomed to endure , in {] lc penal colonies , the degradation of the vilest felon ? and all for their devotion to the cause of humanity and down-trodden labour . We now conjure vou b " y your love of justice , by your hatred of oppression' at once to exert yourselves in behalf of these ehampioi < s of your rights . From the other side of the dohe they call for your srmpatiiv—your aid . Wilfvou deny it ? Cold must be the soul , and callous the heart , that responds not in the affirmative . Un then , ye brave and philanthropic democrats ; endeavour to effect the honourable , the holv work „ . '( !< .

      liverance . Uhat indomitable champion of vtmr rights , T . S . Duncombe , is ready to plead in PnVli . v ment the cause of our exiled friends , lie will , on the assembling of Parliament , name a day when ' lie will move for an address to her Majesty , for tlieirimmeduitc'iibcratio !) . Meantime , if ' you would be successful , bo vigilant . Hold your public meetings , and let the efforts of Mr . Duncombe , on the day on which he makes his motion for their restoration , " be backed with petitions from every town in Great Britain . ] f this policy be pursued with energy , we hesitate not to predict that a gale of popular agitation will be risen which will waft , in triumph , Frost ,. Williams , aw ! Jones from the land of felons and of bondage to their own loved homos , and the bosoms ' of their injured families .

      We likewise entreat you earnestly fo pour in your petitions at the proper time to the lio «? e of Commons in favour of tho Ten lfour » ' Bill . The enactment of this most equitable measure would , we arc convinced , confer manhold advantages on myriads of men , women , and children , whose very lives are being sacrificed by long hours and intense toil in the noxious atmosphere of the rattle-pox , to uphold tho unhallowed luxury and aggrandizement of the mammon-adoring capitalist . Humanity , justice , self-interest , imperatively demand an abridgement of the hours of factory labour , We would furthermore recommend that petitions b sent to the Commons House of Parliament on other subjects involving the wrongs of the working classes , always , however , urging your convietion that the existence of injustice is attributable to the non-representation of the people .

      triemis , judging from the aspect of the political horizon , wc venture to predict that a general election will take place crc long . We have deliberated awl decided on the propriety of presenting a greatnational petition , in favour of the Charter , as soon as possible after the assembling of the new House of Commons . By this policy we secure not only the popular , but . the Parliamentary agitation of our principles . Justice to our cause requires that we should ever keep our principles in nil their beauty , brilliance , and sublimity , prominently before the world . The most effective agency for this purpose , under present circumstances , is the right of petition . Through the medium of petitioning , wc shall be enabled to force into our service the reluctant aid

      of the Whig and Tory press , which now calumniates our advocates , nialignes our motives , and niisrepresents our objects . They will report the debates on the Charter in Parliament , though they effect to sneer at the proceedings of Chartist meetings . Fail not , then , friends , to petition , when the proper time arrive . * , and thus send to tlie uttermost regions of the globe a knowledge of the justice of our principles , and the necessity of their legislative adoption . Friends , we have now briefly developed our policy , are you prepared to cany it into effective operation ? We feel assured that the hearty response of all who aspire to the honour ,. i '

      manhood will be '' we arc ! " The time for action has arrived . Faction is on the alert ; apathy and indifference at the present juncture is treachery to the cause of justice . Let every man do a man ' s share in striking the fetters from desecrated humanity . Let him cheerfully contribute his quantum of labour towards the completion of the superstructure of his country ' s liberty . And should his destiny prevett his witnessing the glorious eonsummation ' for which he struggled , he will leave this sublunary state with the consolatory reflection that he has dune his dif . y to his conscience , his country , and his God . [ Here follows the signatures of every inemlwr of the Convention . ]

      Sunos Boxixcros Weavers.—Mr. J. Warner, ...

      Sunos Boxixcros Weavers . —Mr . J . Warner , of Sheepshead , delivered a lecture hero on . Moiula > V December 21 , on ' Trades' Unions , " and proved , ;» demonstration , the superiority of the Trades' Association over sectional unions . " At the conclusion it was unanimously agreed— " That we , thofraaiewi * - knitters of Sutton Bonington , do join , without delay , the Sheepshead District of the United Trades ' Association . " Aurmisg Finn ix Adam-street . Adklimiu —0 : J Sunday night , shortly after nine o ' clock , a lire , a > tended with a considerable damage , broke out in Ihe spacious pile of buildings belonging to Mr . IWivam Lewis , a solicitor , situate at aNo , 7 , Adam ^ tivet , Adelphi . Mr . Lewis , at the time of ttio disaster , had upwards of £ 2 , 000 worth of property in the building , but , fortunately , what is burnt and damage , will be covered by an insurance iu the Sun r ireoffice .

      CiiAiiGE of Mukder . —During the last two wee . ® some excitement has prevailed in the ntigiib ' iu- t ' < f ) of Dagenhariii and the western portion of the coun-X of Essex , in consequence of a rumour having w ' - ' very extensively circulated that a respectable tradesman , named Thomas Dunsdon , a potatoe salesman residing at Ghadwell Heath , had murdered his w : e , by cutting her throat . Tho wife died as Ion ? suite as the -20 th of October , from the effects of a srveve wound in her throat . A coroner's inquirv was 80 ! lC into boforc C . C . Lewis , Esq ., the county co roner , and a verdict was returned that the deceased colli ' Iflitted the act whilst labouring under temporal' ) " ii > sanity . A few days after the inquest was held , a

      report was spread by some of the witnesses who were examined before the coroner , that the act «» s « 0 ' ' done by the deceased , and that the husband liad « her throat , and that they had been prevented iron } aiving such evidence be ' fore the coroner : « woua have fixed Dunsdon with the commission of the « ' »!* of murder . This report reached the tare » l }& husband , he threatened to take legal proceeding * against the originator of the scandal , a poison nana * Banham . On the 10 th of the present month aa w formation was made before Octavitis Massitcr , a *] ¦« one of the county magistrates , on the oath of G <^ Banham and Rachel Summons , that Thomas m- * don , of Ghadwell Heath , in the narish of H . uicni'j !! 1 ) '

      in the county of Essex , did , on the 20 th of Uctoiier , feloniously and with malice aforethought assault Mj » i > Dansdon , and with a certain razor indict a w' «" ' , . '„ i her t ' rr . iut , of which she then and there died . l ' ^ magistrate at once issued a summons against V ^ - ' don , and on Saturday last the prisoner underwent- . i lengthy examination before William Cotton , *> and a full bench of magistrates , at the Angel inflf Ilford , when the whole of the case with regard to i ;* prosecution was gone into . The result was thai W prisoner was committed to take his trial at the «?*» sessions , the magistrates deciding upon »•"" ' the him to b . iil by finding two sureties to be bound i « ^ amount of £ M each .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 27, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_27121845/page/4/