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4 THE NORTHERN STAR« February 1,1851.
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m NT BARRFS HEALTH RESTORING FOOD •CHE REVALEXTA ARABICA.
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THE NORTHERN STAB SATVKDAY, FEBBVAKY 1, 1851.
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ISHMAELISM. Industrial insurrections are...
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4 The Northern Star« February 1,1851.
4 THE NORTHERN STAR _« February 1 , 1851 .
M Nt Barrfs Health Restoring Food •Che Revalexta Arabica.
m NT BARRFS HEALTH RESTORING FOOD CHE REVALEXTA ARABICA .
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"lilATJTION . —The most disgusting and in-J J jffrfous compounds being sold by nnscrapolousspecn--atontors upon the credulity ofthe Vubtic , under close imitaiion ion trf the name of 1 > 0 BARRY'S REVALENTA _ARAttlC-SICA FOOD , or wtih « pretep . ee of being similar to thatdeiitioitio _-B and invaluable remedy for Indigestion , _Constipaiks-joB . Nervous , Bilious , and Liver Complaints , Messrs . L » P _HABAKRY and Co _.-e-ution Invalii 3 s _ aga *_ = r . these barefaced Lttetttemiits at imposture . There is nothing i _ the whole _rigeigeubleKinsdum that can _legiumately be called similar to _jju _ju Barry ' s Revalenta Arabica , a plantwhich is cultivated j _jy _Ijy Pu Barry and Co . on their estates alone , and for the _pre-Haraaration and pulverisation of which their own Patent _H _ u __ chinery alone is adapted . Let Corn Chandlers seU their _pjeaoease , beans , lentil , and other meals under their proper _aiamames . aad not trifle with the health of Invalids and In-EBm & nts , for whom DU _BAURTS REVALEXTA ARABICA IjloaloBt : is adapted . don
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SATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATI ON . Office , « , Sonfliampton-street , Strand . THB EXECUTIVE _COMMITTED hereby announce the following mee _^ n g _^ - " ,, _ On Sunday afternoon at three o'clock _^ _tfw ™ meeting _oftfe _Democrauc _C-f _^ _J _^ _Sto _£ _ _£ Coffee-room of the John _^ reet * _£$%%£$ _& % adquence the meeting of tne _Metropomau _¦« < = b journed till Sunday . February 9- _^ _ _ _^ _, _ _,, _ -. On Sunday evening _^" " _^^ _fMarjlebone-Brickp _^ _ve-princess » l ° _^ , _^ _" _*^ t _New-road-Crown and _¥ r cl _^^^ i _^ t _& _TeZ-and Sewflastern _PoSSadk clssiou wilf be opened byMr . A'fred a -m evening at five _o'dack , tbe U nited Dele-- £ _ of the Tower Hamlets will meet at the Woodman Tavern _Nvnite-strtet , Waterloo Town ; and at eight o'clock Mr ! Elliott will lecture at the above tavern . Subject . ' _l _^ _Tslfevekins at the City Hall , 26 , _Goldeu-laue , _RarMran . a lecture wiU be delivered . ___
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ERKEST JONES , ESQ ., will d e liver a course of THREE LECTURES at the SOOTH LUXDON CHARTIST HALL , corner of _WEBBERSTKEET , BLACKFRIARS-ROAD , ou Febbo-aW ora aud 12 th . -ubject : — * The People * their Wrongs and Rights , their Power and Weakness . " To commence at Eight o ' clock . Admission , to defray expenses , Hall , Id . ; Platform , 2 d ,
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NOTICE . THNGLEY .--A DELEGA . TE MEETING - * - ' will be held at Mr Durran ' s , Temperance -Hotel , Bingley , on Sunday , February 9 th , at eleven o ' clock iii tbe forenoon , for the purpose oi _apnontitig a delegate . to attend tbe Convention _abtrnt to assemble in London on tbe 3 rd of March . The following places are _requested to send it-legates : -8 ea > if < ird , Wilsdea _, Haworth , Keighley , Farnhill . Sutton , Shipley , Harden .
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LEEDS ISTRICT . THE COMMITTEE OF THE LEEDS Chartist Association beg to call a delegate meeting otthe fallowing places , viz .: —Leeds , Holbeck , Pudsey , Wakefield , JDevrsbuiy , Batley , and Mrs-all , for tbe purpose of considering and adopting me . sures for the nomination ofa delegate to the Convention , to beheld in London on the 3 rd of March . The number of delegates to be restricted to i wo from each place , aud tlie meeting to be held in tbe Bazaar , Leeds , on Sunday morning at ten o ' clock , February the 9 th . Signed on behalf of the Committee , William Brook , Secretary .
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LAND AND COTTAGES FOR TEETOTALERS . IMMEDIATE POSSESSION OF A -L Four Acres Allotment , with a Four Roomed Cottage , may now be obtained , on _theDiBora Hill Estate , at _Chalfont Saint Giles , Bucks , twemy-one miles from London , and two miles from O'Connorville , owing io a family misfortune compelling tlie occupant to g * ve it up . There is a capital acre of wheat growing , but the incoming tenant will not be forced to take to it The other three acres are at liberty to be planted as the incoming tenant shall think proper . Two acres with a two roomed cottage may be bad for £ 8 per annum . Further information may be tbtained on the spot fr « m Mr . Page .
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TOOTHACHE PREVENTED . Price Is . per packet ; post-free , Is . Id . BRAXDE'S ENAMEL , for FILLING DECAYING TEETH , and RENDERING THEM SOUND AND PAINLESS , has from its unquestionable excellence ,-obtained great popularity at home and abroad . Da curaave agency is based upon a TRDE THEORY otthe cau _* e of _T-oth-acbe , and hence its great _success . By most other remedies it is sought to kill the _uerw , and so stop tbe pain . But to destroy the uerve is itself a very painful operation , and often leads to very sad _consequences , for tbe tooth then brcomes a dead substance in the living jaw , and produces the same amount of inflammatiou and vain as would _result from any other foreign body embodied in a living organ . BRANCE ' S ENAMEL does notdutroi _; Vie _neree _. but by RESTORING THE SHELL OF THE TOOTH , completely protects the nerve from cold , heat , or chemical or other agency , by which pain is caused . By following the directions , INSTANT EASE is pbtaned , and a _LASTINGCUREfoUows . Full instructions accompany every packet AUTHENTIC _TESTIJIONIAL . —SEVESAL PEESO . VS CDKlD . _-- - Romsey , Sept . 17 th , 1850 .
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THE CELESTIAL SCIENCE OF THE STARS . 1 TB . F . MOORE having after years of x sedulous devotion to the study of this sublime science , made himself perfect master of it in all its branches , respectfully offer ' s his " services to a discriminating and enlightened public , trusting that by personal demon _, sfration some may be convineed of its truth and importance . In Horary Astrology . lVfessor M . has been eminently _sucoessfii ' , the accuracy oi bis calculations and the perspicuity of his judgments have caused hundreds , who before considered it to be an imposture and a cheat , to join the ranks of the wise and bear their grateful testimony to its reality and exceeding usefulness ; when legitimately practised by educated and competent persons . This department of the Art ( H . A . ) esteemed the most beautiful , is founded on tbe sympathetic _properties which
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Easier * Cocsues asj > Gkeat _Uvortiibbs Railway _CoKTANlKS . —It » understood that th © directors o ( m above companies have entered into sa _enuitablfi fcsffic arrangement , by -which all com-0 _Utou bet » e _» the tw «? -MBpanies iu avoided .
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_ENURGEWErlT OF THE NATIONAL INSTRUCTOR No . 7 . of tbe New Series ' OJ ?
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The Numbers and Parts of the First Series of the National Listructor that were out of print , have now been reprinted , and may be had on application . Subscribers are requested to complete imperfect cop ies forthwith _. The " National Instructor " is supplied by all the London Agents fo r s imil a r pu b lica t ions : or b y A . Heywood , Manchester ; W . Love , and 0 . Adams , Glasgow ; Robinson and Co ., Edinburgh ; J . Sweet , Nottingham * , J . Ouest , Birmingham .
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Thirty-two pages , price 6 d _., with the MagaaineB on the lst of February , „_ . ___ . THE ENGLISH REPUBLIC . No . 2 , containing the Life and _Tr' _- _' _tgs of _Josaph _Maizini—the History and Official Acts of tlie Central European Democratic Committee—the _Editor ' s Plan for Republican Organisation in England—A Hwtory ef the Three Revolutionary Years , and other articles . Ed ted by W . J . Linton . J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster row , Low * on .
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NOW 1 * UBL 1 SH _1 SG , By Edwin Dipple , _Holywell-street , Strand , London , ( to wham all orders are to be forwarded ) , In four weekly numbers , of twenty-four pages each , Price 2 d . the number , _HANTERBURY versus BOME , V Two Lectures , By ERNEST JONES . No . 1 . was published on Saturday the 18 th ult No . II . was published on Saturday , the 25 th ult . Contents—The Royal Chm _* ch ; its history , from Henry to James—The Gospel v . the Rubric . No . III . the 1 st of February . —Contents-The Legal Church ; its work . No . IV . will be published on Saturday , the 8 th of Feb . Contents—The Legal Church ; its Wages , its Title to its Profit , its Amount , How Derived , its False Returns—The People Plundered .
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BETTER YOUR _ORCUMSTANCES . FOUR METHODS OF OBTAINING a COMFORTABLE INCOME . Send thirteen stamps and a directed envelope to Mr . T . F . Leroy _, Bolton-le-Moors , Lancashire , and the above will be sent sufficiently explicit to enable either sex to obtain £ 3 per week or more , without previous knowledge or risk . The methods stated are respectable , can be learned in one hour , and are very lucrative .
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FU NE RAL O F T HE DECEASED POLISH RE F UGEE , JAN ROSHETSKI . This ceremony took place on Sunday afternoon , according to . the following arrangement . About two o ' clock several thousand people , respectably attired , assembled on Clerkenweil Green , and in the Polish-rooms at TurnmiH-street . About half-past two the procession started in the following order ; —A splendid silk banner with the motto , " What is life without liberty . " Wand bearers , followed by Poles and _Hungarians , marohing abreast and carrying their National Flags . Waud bearers , followed b y th e Tra d es ' Committee , supporting the coffin covered witb a _tri-coloured velvet pall . Two _Bwords crossed , and tho dress and accoutrements ofthe deceased borne by his countrymen . These were followed by the Polish Committee , c a rry ing appropriate banners . Wand bearers , followed by a procession of at least 4 , 000 p e r s ons , who were continually reinforced aa they proceeded ou their route _through _Smithfield , Finsbury , Shoreditch , and Bethnal Green , until they arrived at the cemetery in _"Victo- ; ria Park , where the concourse was immense . The burial service having been performed , several orations , suitable to tho occasion , were delivered by Mr . Brown and other speakers , over the grave . A collection was made amounting to nearly £ 8 . The meeting then returned in procession to the Fraternal Uomr , TurnmiH-street , where a lecture was delivered by Mr . Brown , to a large audience , upon the life and character of the deceased . A portion of the procession stopped on the return home at the Hall of Science , Ciiy-road , and a further collection of between £ 2 and £ 3 was received after Walter Cooper's lecture . BALANCE SHEET OF TIIE BRADFORD COMMITTEE FOR THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES , J a nu a ry 21 st 1851 . ¦ oh . £ s . d . SUBSCRIPTIONS . Per J . Hartley , Bradford 1 13 8 r- J . Hunter „ 0-6 10 — J . Carr , 0 8 6 — J . Hargreaves „ 0 3 3 j _— T . Wilcock „ ... 0 _ 6 — J . Normingtoa „ 0 2 8 _— J * Scott , 0 2 2 — T * Umpleby „ 0 1 _ 6 — W . Cooke „ 0 2 6 _— R . Ambler „ „ o 1 10 } — J . Hudson „ 0 5 9 — Fleece Inn , Great _Horton 0 14 2 } — W . Lofthouse , ... 0 . 9 — J . Walker „ 0 6 10 — A . Shepherd „ . 049 — R . Rbyder , New Leeds 0 1 6 — J . _Waddington „ 0 16 3 — J ; _Watson „ ... 0 3 11 — W . Christian , White Abbey ... 0 6 0 — J . Barrett , Bowling 0 7 2 — W . Fletcher , Burley 0 5 4 Collection at E . Jones ' Lecture ... 1 0 0 Smith and Booth ... 0 10 0 Sundries ... o 0 2 _ £ 9 7 2 CR £ s . d . To LabelB for Collection Books ... ... 0 2 0 £ «" : » ge 0 18 Stationery 0 4 0 Printing Appeals ... 0 12 0 Rent of Cemmittee Rooms 0 7 6 Expenses of Coll ec tion 0 4 0 By C a s h to Lea d er O ffice 6 0 0 Balance 2 16 0 [ Whicli balance has been sent to the Leader office , as passed in a resolution by a public meeting at Bradford . ] £ 9 7 2 Thk Address in the Lor d ' s , in reply to her Majesty ' s Speech , will , it is understood , he moved by Lord Effingham aad seconded by Lord _Orew _^ _cne
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DEATH OF GENERAL BEM . THE OFFICERS AND CITIZEN SOLDIERS will give a grand Musical Entertainment at _Cowper-strtet , on Tuesday Evening , February ! * th , at widen , for this night only , a brass band of twelve per . formers will attend . A number of songs , including the Marseillaise in character , and several English ,-will also be sung , ' Mr . O'Connor it invited to attend . Mr . * ff . Rider will preside . Admission , Hall 2 d . ; Platform Cd , To commence at half-past seven o ' clock .
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The Polish Refugees . —Mr . Thomas AntiU , on behalf of the Metropolitan Trades , desires to acknowledge , with thanks , the sura of £ 2 14 s , being the amount collected at tha Hall of Science , _City-road , after an appeal made by Mr . T . Cooper . Ms . Alcock begs to acknowledge Is from a Manchester manufacturer towards enabling Mr . O'Connor to withstand the attempts now being made to ruin him with expenses . Mn . J . W . Smith , Whitechurch . —It terminated on tbe 18 th January . Mb . _ffiHousoK . —Your notice is aa advertisement . Mn ; Bmbiei , Kendal . —Tn Mr . ll . 's next parcel . Mr , _Sdtciiwb Cbabtbek , ltochdale . —We shall be much obliged by receiving the reports alluded to . Wehave not recently issued any _coutents bills ; when we resume r tiein the wishes of our correspondent shall receive due
attention . Mr . B . Jones .-The numbers forwarded shall be attended to in our next . John Smith , Whitechurch . — "Write to the secretary , Digby Wyatt . Esq . E . G . _AsFeim . —If the landlord pays , the tenant has no status in the vestry . J . MAnoNT , Con ; , ' leton . —Write to the Land Ofiice , 14 * , High Holborn , London . Ma . Martin Jude . — We had prepared extracts from the let'er sent us , but are sorry that press of matter pro-, vents their publication . Mr . T . Beown , _TurnmiH-street , is requested to forward his communications earlier , otherwise they cannot appear until the following week . Ma M'Adam , Gatehouse . —It has always been posted on the Friday evening .
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TO THE READERS OF THE " NORTHERN STAR *" With the commencement of the Session , we purpose to make several important alterations and improvements in the contents , and publication of the Northern Star . A larger quantity of small type will be used than at present , which will materially improve the appearance of the paper , and add to the quantity of . its coutents . The present Scottish Edition will be discontinued , and advantage be taken of the extension of railways , to delay the publication of the First Edition till Friday evening ; b y which our Scottish readers will have one day ' s later
news . By making correspondence as brief as possible during the sitting of Parliament , we shall be enabled to give very full reports of its proceedings , together with an amp le and careful selection of home and foreign news . We shall also issue a Saturday Edition for the metropolis , and the home counties , containing all the news of that morning . This will p lace the Star on an equality with the other metropolitan journals published on the same day , as regards the lateness and variety of its
news . By these changes we hope , that while the Star will maintain its distinctive character as the organ of Chartism , it will also present all the best features of a carefully compiled Family paper . Acting upon what we considered practical advice , we had determined upon altering the shape , and making the Star a sixteen , instead of an eight page paper . Subsequent communications with the leading agents in tlie prov inces ha v e , however , convinced us that such an alteration would be unpopular with our readers ; and we therefore relinquish that portion of our proposed alterations . The Star will continue to retain its present shape .
We trust that our readers and friends will e xert themselves to support these efforts to issue a journal worth y of being the organ of Democracy in this country . Orders , Subscriptions , and Advertisements for the New Series , which will commence on Saturday , February the 8 th , should be forwarded to this office immediately ,
The Northern Stab Satvkday, Febbvaky 1, 1851.
THE NORTHERN STAB SATVKDAY , _FEBBVAKY 1 , 1851 .
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ISHMAELISM . Industrial insurrections are the order of the day . We can scarcel y turn to a single p o int of the compass , in which the war of Capital against Labour is not pushed to open hostilities and direct collision . Our Free Trade and Competitive prophets preach " Peace , peace , " but there is no peace . Yet , according to their creed , there oug ht to be . They have produced as near an assimilation to their predicted millennium as ever they are likely to obtain . Provisions are low in price , work moderately a bundant , an _ , _as yet , there has been no _o-enerai corresponding reduction of wages with food .
Even the Protectionist Editor of the Tory Morning Post avowed , in our hearing , on Wednesday last , that the nation in general , and the great bod y of the working classes in particular , were never so well off , in the recollection of the present generation , as they are at this moment . He added , it is true that this general prosperity was purchased at the expense of the landlords and the farmers , and that he reserved his opinion as to the ultimate results of the system ; but , in the meantime he full y admitted the immediate benefits derived from it .
If any decisive proof were required of the fact , it may be found in tbe overflowing coffers of the Chancellor of the Exchequer . Notwithstanding considerable reductions of taxation within the last two years , that function a ry is a second time astonished with a surplus : this time a larger surp lus than ever before , astounded a Whig Financier . Prima facie , this is evidence of the power of t he masses to purchase an increased quantity of excisable articles , and of the general diffusion of enterprise and employment . Our taxing machinery , however clumsily contrived and unjust in details , is a tolerably accurate barometer of the general industrial and financial condition of the country .
But , in the midst of all this seeming prosperity , swelling even over the congratulations which are exchanged on all hands , we hear the din and discord arising from the clashing of labour with capital . By the existing organisation of Society , these two primary elements of wealth , which ought to be identic a l , are p laced in irreconcileable antagonism . Whether the conflict be open or concealed , it is always waged ; whether we have adverse or prosperous seasons , the intestine strugg le , produced b y theencroachmentofthe master and tho resistance ofthe man , convulses Bociety .
Our civilisation is , indeed , like a whited sepulchre—fair without , but within full of rottenness and dead men ' s bones . The gorgeous Temp les o f Trade , with their massive and tasteful architecture , and windows composed of immense sheets of plate g lass , set in burnished brass frames ; in which light is diffused from scores of expensive , glittering , and elegant chandeliers , and reflected from rows of vast and costl y mirrors , in ornamental g ilded frames—are but the screen to the misery , demoralisation , and crime , which overwhelm the victims of our infamous and deadl y slop system . Behind all this brilliance and
magnificence—that dazzling display of wealth—the revelations of Henry Mayhe _* w show us the producers , condemned to live in unwholesome cellars and garrets—nests of pestilence and fever—upon pittances so utterly inadequate to support the merest animal existence ; that , in tho case of women , they are compelled to eke it out by prostitution—of men and boys , by theft . The home ofthe S pitalfields weaver in which the lustrous aud _richly-tinted brocade which attracts the eyes of admiring ladies , was woven , is the abode of squalid want almost _firelese and _fumitureleBS ; and tbe remuneration for weaving it wan bo paltry that the man , his wife , and _hii children
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have , m many instances , been obliged to cornbide their labour , even on the Sunday , to ensure the scanty fare requisite for sustaining life from one week ' s end to the other . Moses was not a modern Political Economist , ' else he never would have . fixed " six days" as the limit of each week ' s labour . Messrs . Slop , Gammon , and _Cfliu know better than that . Thomas CarlYLB has told u s , that Labour is noble—even relig ious and GoD-like ; and the slop autocrats think their workmen can't have " too much " of such " a good thing ! "•
It is not alone among the slop workers and their tyrants , however , that this irresistible tendency of Capital to crush Labour is manifested . The desire to grow rich , no matter how , everywhere pervades the class which accumulates wealth out of the profits of others ' industry . We have an instructive examp le of the length to which men , otherwise liberal and estimable , will go in the pursuit of this object , in the strike which has been so long pending between Sir Elkanah Abmitage and some of his workpeople , at Pendleton .
Fortunately for the latter , they have secured the advocacy of a talented , humane , and courageous man , in the person of the Rev . T . 0 . Lee . In the numbers of his Ti'ades Union Magazine , now lying before us , we find a full and deeply interesting history of this strugg le , a condensation of which may interest our readers . The origin of the strike is thus described by Mr . Lee , in a letter to Joseph Brotherton , Esq ., Member for the borough , and an intimate friend of Sir Elkanah : —
Sometime during the last summer , the weavers ofa certain description of goods , formed an union among themselves , in order to protect their only property—their labour . The _pe-sons employed in a mill not far from the Messrs . Farrar's establishment , near Radcliffc , having been long in the receipt ofw _^ ges much lower than the gentlemen just , named were giving for the same description of work , a strike of , the badly-paid men at length ensued . The Messrs , Parra , in the most candid and honourable manner , told their own men that if their neighbours did not pay the same price as they had been paying , in order to meet , in the market , those persons who paid low wages , they—the Parra rs—mast , out of justice to themselves , reduce tlieir standard of remuneration . The
men at once perceived that an union must "be formed , and _immediately began to make the necessary arrangements for its _constitution . Soon after the union wa 9 organised , tlie matters of diffVrenco alluded to were amicably adjusted , and men who had turned out resumed their work . One or two other strikes took place , but in those cases also the men succeeded in obtaining the _required advances . The sagacity of tho operatives enabled them to pcrceivo tho injustice whicli was being inflicted on the masters who were paying high wages , while others were allowed to have the same description of work done at much tower prices ; hence , they considered that the proprietors of Pendleton New Mills ought , in all fairness , to pay the same as others in the same _business had lone
been doing . By some means , it is supposeti , Sir Elkanah and Sous became aware that at no distant period they would be requested to raise their standard of prices to the one adopted by other respectable firms . To stave off the apprcheded difficulty , ami , at the same time , to put forth a more genteel aspect to the public , the overlookers were persuaded to relinquish their connection with the union , and better twist was supplied to the weavers . The sudden withdrawal of the overlookers—under the alleged fear of being discharged from their employment , and also of being ejected from their houses—together with their efforts to induce those persons employed under theaa to leave the
union , gave the alarm to the whole of the hands concerned , who resolved , at once , to present to their masters a list of prices paid by other firms , as the standard by which they themselves desired to be remunerated . The men composing the deputation , and who presented the list , were told that as the hands wished to give a week ' s notice , they could , after breakfast , go _thrnuirh the counting-houseas they did when wages were paid—and each act for himself . Alter breakfast the work-people assembled round the mill , but the bell remained silent . and the doors continued closed ; and the hands found that their master had forced them on to a strike ,
The men appealed , in the first place , to the public for support , and were nobly responded to . Finding this to be the case , the Manchester Guardian—an inveterate and consistent enemy of the working classes , and a read y tool of the manufacturers—was made use of to publish an exaggerated and false statement of the average earnings of the hands thus forced out of work , because tbey would not relinquish one of the most preci o us privileges of Eng lishmen—tbe right to associate for common protection and defence . Exaggerated as that statement was , the average amount paid for the three weeks selected , was lis . lid . for each person ! No great thing to boast ofbut which seemed , in the eyes o f the Guardi a n , a most exorbitant and preposterousl y hi gh rate of wageB for mere " weavers . "
Whether it was owing to having been over paid by Sir Elkanah , or the support afforded therii by the public , we cannot tell , but certain it is , he failed in reducing them to starvation , and consequent submission to his own terms . Finding they still resisted , after the lapse of several weeks , the " liberal" knig ht resorted to coercion . One of his " hands " was discharged because ho would not force his wife ( who was formerly empl o yed in the mill on strike ) to go to work ! To an over-looker , who was out of work in consequence of the strike , he refused a character or clear a nce , " which was demanded before other emp loyers would
give him employment . Another man was discharged because his daug hter refused to be dragged back to underpaid work , and because he himself had the audacity to take shares in a Co-operative Mill in Whit-lane , started b y the hands on strike . Not content with coercing his own workpeople , men in the employment of a neighbouring firm—one of the partners in which is nephew to the kni ght—were ruthlessly dischargcd _. _becausethey sympathised with , and supported tlieir fellow work people . The situations ofthe "hands' * forced out of work were supp lied b y persons from Warrington and other places , and these were huddled together in cottages adjacent to the mills , and belong ing to Sir Elkanah , in a manner _calcalculated to destroy all sense of decency in
those thus treated . Prosecutions were instituted against mere children , for having annoyed the "knobsticks , " as they wore called , and the bench , as usual , showed their fellowfeeling with the emp loyer-class , by convicting , on the flimsiest evidence , tliose charged before them . In short , all the recognised and usual methods b y which cap ital is allowed to wreak its vengeance on its recusant slaves wero resorted to , while every overture to arbitrate the matter in dispute , a nd t o pl ace tho relation of employer and employed on an equitable basis iu future , was systematically rejected . After the lapse of many months , the quarrel is still as far from adjustment as ever . The prices paid by Sir Elkanah , according to tables published in the last number of the Trades
Union Magazine , are , iu many cases , twentyfive to thirty per cent , below those paid by honourable employers .- It is clear that the latter must be protected against the unfair competition which this discrepancy occasions , or be forced to lower their wages also . In order to avert this result , we are happy t o learn that the operatives have had recourse to the self-employing and cooperative princip le —they have taken a mill , stocked it with machinery , and we hope will be successful in an enterprise , which will release them from slavish dependence on such " liberal" cap italists as Sir Elkanah Armitage .
The extensive strike of the seamen employed in the North of Eng land , and in the port of L ynn , is another indication of the unsound and unsatisfactory condition of society No body of men are more valuable to our mercantile and manufacturing country , than those who , in all seasons of the year are read y to tempt "the dangers ofthe sea , " either to convey the products of our own skill and industry to distant lands , to bring back in return , the production s of other soils and
climes ; or to transport , from ono part of our coast to another , the raw materials and commodities which keep the mi ghty tide of our internal trade ever flowing . The life of British seamen on board merchant ships is pvoverbiall y one of peril and hardshi p , and the moderation of their present demands is a proof that they have no desire to bear hardl y upon their employers . Yet here , again , the essential antagonism of the two forces _developes itself , and that whicli ought to be yielded to
reason and justice , has to be demanded b y means of a strike , public meetings , processions , and clamour ; with all their fatai tendencies to'discord , confusion , he ? ted _pass _' . bns , col-Moaa , riots , bloodshed , partiaJ trials , impri-
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sonment , and , perhaps , even loss _ofi- _"^ Truly in the best of times we live in a 1 - camp , instead of a well-ordered and w ° _sWe society ! ' uu ai _"icabl No class of operatives are exemnt t London we hare just had a compi ete ' _** out of the whole " Companionship" of P Morning Post , in order to mako way f v ** entirely new set of men from Glasgow * jy . an was the reason assi gned for this act h great "Protector" and advocate of < U } d tive Industry ? " Was it any _deficieno skill or attention on the part of the men _iv rudel y Bent adrift—many of them in t h *" nge , and when years of faithful service l "" incapacitated them from getting enmU aTe elsewhere ? Nothing of the kind T 7 - nager of the Post found that he _ennto Ina * £ 2 , 000 a year , and that was enough * _? other considerations were blown to tlie ' * Do we not live under the dispensation ? i _' modern Gospel—a Gospel which abolish e
lormer coaes ot morals and reli gion and _mands- "Buy in the che a pest , and sell _iat dearest marktt ? ' u li _-e One of the most saddening events conn with this last case , is the fact that a br ? . workmen could be found anywhere who _^ willing , deliberatel y , to supersede their f _? operatives . In ordinary cases , mean m _, ! J ? or avaricious employers , are happy , ifthj _*» catch " knobsticks" _byone ' _sand _S . _T here we have an organised « Companion _^ S openly and calml y treating for the _discli of men living by the same trade , a _ ainst _ _?* no fault was alleged , and for _$£ ? _£ _ployment or future subsistence , no pr 0 vi , £ whatever was either made or cuaranh , !? When the working classes thuf S S other s throats , and play into the bauds of 2 capitalist , the case is gloomy and l amentabl indeed . No external advice or efforts c save a class who , by their own selfishness a shortsig htedness , thus doom themselves to 7 struction . Cannot the Scottish compositor '
now at wonc on tne tost , perceive that the are as much at the mercy of the emp loyer an d of somo other body , willing to take loss _' pav a a the men they have displaced ? Where il the race of ruin to end ?—what lower depths of baseness , oppression and misery , are we des . tined to fathom , if good faith and brotherly feeling are to be thus banished from the ranks of industry , and proletarians turn traitors to each other ? We must reserve a few observations on the remedial aspect of the question for another occasion .
Young Italy. § Anew And Powerful Opponen...
YOUNG ITALY . § Anew and powerful opponent to Cardinal _ll Wiseman has made his appearance in Lon * I don , in the person of Father Gayazzi , an $ Italian Monk , and an earnest believer in the % doctrines of the Romish Church . While the | Cardinal and his abettors are endeavouring 1 to restore the long lost supremacy of tbe I Pope oyer England , and to reconquer for a | titl e d hierarch y the rich and coveted posses . I sions of a rival Church , Father Gavazzi has I
come amongst us , to show the real character of f Popes , Cardinals , and Bishops , and the utter | incompatibility of their pretensions with the ' | civil and reli gious liberties of mankind , in any U country whatever . M The mission of this remarkable man is to his 1 co-religionists . Weekly in the Princess ' s coa- I cert room , crowds of forei gners—among whom 1 it is not difficult to distinguish the preponde * jt ranee of the classic features of sunny Ital y , i assemble t o listen to tho g lowing eloquence of I this gifted and extraordinary priest . His § addresses , delivered in the flowing and niu * 1 _sical language of his native land , are illus * I trated aud enforced by the highest qualities i ofthe perfect and finished orator and rheto * 1 rician , and produce a wonderful effect on the I
numerous and varied assemblies which he 1 has suddenl y gathered around him . The in * | telligent and scholarl y reporter of the Daily % News , to whom we are indebted for the trans . % lation of these stirring orations , speaking of | the scene presented last Sunday , at the fourth A oration of Father Gavazzi on " the Inquisi * I tion , " says : — | The eager and breathless attention with which they _hUDr i
on his every word and the contagious bursts of enthusiasm i which ever and anon saluted his outbreaks of true-hearted 1 sacerdotal chivalry form a spectacle ofa _mtst interesting 1 character . The fearless spirit of the Father senna to revel 1 and triumph m the sympathy of his countrymen . The con . _ _fjealcd and frozen feelings which sad exile seemed to have I pent up mi the breasts of these doomed and devoted men 1 from every province of that fair peninsula thaw and I resolve under the warmth of his passionate and soothing 1 oratory . ° a
It is a fortunate thing that at this moment * the people of England should be . made aware that , in Ital y itself , the temporal authority I and spiritual supremacy of the Vatican is ii questioned by a large , intelligent , and influen * § tial bod y of members of the Romish Church , As far as we understand Father Gavazzi ' s views , he is opposed to the connexion of Church and State iu Italy—his efforts m '
directed to the destruction of the temporal dominion of the Church , of which he is himself a priest—and the work he has set himself to perform in this country is , to point out , by reference to histor y and to present facts , tbat the possession of the temporal sword by tbe Pontiff has ever proved , as it now proves , adverse to the hig hest , the dearest , aud tho holiest interests of humanity .
These views we know , from personal observation and experience , are widel y partici pated in b y Italians . We shall not so ' on forget the exciting spectacle presented by a numerous meeting of Italians in the Metropolis , the express object of which was , to denounce and to abjure the temporal sovereignty , and even the sp iritual supremacy , claimed by the Pontiff , with its consequent priestly rule , as the great , central fountain , from which had flowed the i subversion , the degradation , the _ODDi'ession ,
of their , beloved and beautiful , but enslaved I country . What that country might become , , if the heavy hoof of spiritual and temporal I despotism was lifted from its neck , wo had a i specimen during the short period that the 3 noble Mazzini swayed the destinies of Rome . ' . The glimpse we then obtained of tho spirit t aud genius of the Roman people , unfettered d by the chains of tho Papacy—undimmed by y
the black shadow which it casts over the na-i _* tional character—proved that tho ancient _he-eroic spirit is not dead ; that it but waits time , e _, opportunit y , and worth y leaders , to blaze tt up into a flame of patriotism , aa a light and id a beacon to all nations , and to set examples ei of disinterested devotion lo princip le , _worthylr oi the ancient Roman Republic in its pahnieste days .
How these noble aspirations were crushed , _^ these g lorious efforts made fruitless—how _> v Rome , by the united forces of France (!) _Aus-is tria , Nap les and Spain , was again forced underie the hated yoke of tho _despots puppet , _PuiWi the Nism—we all know . The _retributiorfoi that awaits on that most infamous act of moio derntimes wehaveyetto see _. That it will he avenged we think is _guai'an « w teed by the orations of Father Gavazzi , Mtao less than by the heroic and unremitting exef tei tions of Mazzini , for the attainment of thaha nationality which is the cherished purpose ofe < his life ; and all lovers of liberty will sympaps thise with the efforts of both . We need _notnc
remind our readers , that during the triumyw rate of Mazzini , liberty of speech , write ing , and printing were freel y enjoyed by & l classes . Liberty of religious worship vn equally free . Light was let in upon the _dunlv geons of the Inquisition , and the world wav horrified with the revelations of its ini quities ; With the return of the _Poris and the Cabdir : nals , freedom of speech , action , au d _couo science were stifled , and tho Inquisition re established . What that Inquisition * ffa _* Father Ga y azzi described as an oye _witness when the _Romanfl broke into its long _impels trable enclosure . In the words of tho cobc _< _denued report of the _Diife New : —
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 1, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_01021851/page/4/
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