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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, MAY'l, 1847.
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' Now Ready-a New Edition of I MR . O'CONNOR'S VORK ON SMALL FARM ? .
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To be had at the Nirfhern Star Office . 16 , Great _WindoHl Street ; and of Abel _Haywood , Manchester .
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IMPORTANT TO EMIGRANTS . AGRICULTURISTS and other * may _purchass -ISO ACRES OP RICH TIMBERED LAND , IS ¦ WESTERN TO-INIA , described by . _< hMraVW < _uhfagton asthe Garde * of _Anerie * , f orm toA _^ _g _^> J __ O _. T THREE SfllLUNGS PER ACRE . S K " . only to bepaid down , the remainder in FIVE ANU VAh PAYMENTS . . . _ . For further information apply to CHARtES WILLMER . Amer ican land . _VJpee , ST-KI _^ T BUILDINGS , BATH STREET , LIVERPOOL . Of . bom may be had a Pamphlet on Emigration , in vrt _ -h _ Kse Land" are folly _dewr-bed , and the terms of ¦ ate explained , by sending three postage stamps to free the same .
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NOTICE . The Shareholders of _theKATIOXAL LAND COMPANY are hereby informed that A GRASS DEMONSTRATION Will take place at O'CONNORYILLE , HERTS , On mit Monday , May _M-i , 1817 , To commemorate the Anniversary of the Company . The Directors not having succeeded in obtaining a special train from London for the occasion , the Metropolitan members are recommended to proceed to the estate by van or railway . Say tickets to and £ ro _ i Watford can _* had _ iE _ eton-s __ -i- station for 2 s . 6 d . each . The . ranches _wiUmske their own arrangements immediately . The time and place of _starting for vane and other vehicles will be announced in a future notice . Bt 0 _ d _ i o . THB Dl __ CTOK _ .
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IMPORTANT TO PHOTOGRAPHISTS . AN application was made on the 22 nd _Sipt-mber , to f \ . the Yice-Chancellor of England , by Jlr . Beard who , acting under a most extraordiny _delosu . i , considers nimself the _jofepatentee of the Photographic pro . ess I ) to restrain MR . EGERTON , of 1 , _Temple-str-oi ; _, and 148 , fleet-street , rom taking Photographic Porti . i . _is , which he does by a process entirely _differeat fron . and very Bperior to Mr . Beard's , and at one-half the cl . * rge . His Honour ve *" - * e _ th . app _ c _ Uo ~ _\_ _toto . No license required to practice tbis process , which is taught by Mr . Egerton in a _frw lessons at a moderate charge * AUtho _Apparat-B , Chemicals , _Sc . tobe bad as usual it his DenotJ , Temple-street . Whitefriars .
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AUXILIARY TO TUE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . THE FOUNDER of the NATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE -BENEFIT SOCIETY respectfully f rquai-ts bis brethren of tie Land Company and his Brother Demo-Crats in geneva ' , that his object in founding the Society was to aid and assist tfce National lard Company in its glorious efforts to emancipate the human race , by pouring funds into its exchequer ,-through the means of the NATIONAL LAND and LABOUR BANK ; bnt tbe adoption Of the PEOPLE'S BANK has proved a death-blow to th <* enrolment ofthe Society . . AU enrolled societies since tlie passing ofthe New Friendly Societies' Act , being compelled to deposit their cash in the Batik of England , and thus famish ihe " sinews" to uphold a Standing Army ,
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TO TAILORS . _ff-IE LONDON AND PARIS SPRING AND SUMMER A FASHIONS for . 8-7 , are now ready , by BENJAMIN READ and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury square , London ; and by G . Berger , Holy well-street , Strand . Hay be had of all booksellers wheresoever residing . By approbation of her Majesty Queen Victoria and H . R . H . Princ 9 Albert , " a Splendid _Prints beautifully coloured , and exquisitely executed , the whole rery superior to _anything ofthe kind ever before published . This beautiful print will be accompanied with the most fashionable , fall size , Frock , Dress , and Riding Ceat Patterns —a complete Paletot , much worn in the Spring as an over -coat—and a youth ' s new , fashionable Hussar Jacket , with skirts—tiie manner of cutting them for all sizes—
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BALDNESS EFFECTUALLY REMOVEa A SURGEON" residingri- Cork taring , in the course of his Practice , had his _-tteafloa partic-lailj directed to * r _ niacquirsd great experience In tfc » TREAfMKNT OP CAPILLARY DISEASES , begs to i-fbrm ' _t-sse persons . afflicted with * _BALONES 8 ( whether U yo _ thj _ r » _danceigid . ifepi-ay , by a most simple process , REPRODTJC that necessary ornament ! Parties applyIng . will reqnlroto . _nclosa a small quantity of hair , aad __ fee of five _etni __ gg , by , P _» _at-o _ _ice order , ia * f _ T «_ v ofSu _^ eon * Edw __ _ra _, WlB-U _ s ( lt ,. 'HeBry-8 _treetpCorlut when the _notestaryiastruc-ons will be forwarded by return ofipost .
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A GOOD FIT WARRANTED . SUPERFINE BLACK CLOTHES made to order at the Gbbat W _ stkbn Ehpobiom , 1 and 2 , Oxpobd _St-eet , London , which neither spot nor change colour . Only £ 3 los the complete suit of any size . These clothes cannot be equalled at any other Tailoring Establishment . UBSDELL . nd Co . 's , Fine Llama Clotb , for light over coats , made to order at £ l 12 s . The very finest only £ 2 , whioh for durability and elegance cannot be surpassed . "With silk linings , 3 s extra . Omnibuses to and from the City , stop atthe establish _, ment every minute ofthe day .
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ua _. _aturoaj , _vuoney n ooa vn-, oy me nev . Thompson , John Robinson , a sterling Chartist , and the person who slated the houses on the O'Connorville estate , to Mary Winnet , of Chorley Wood-bottom , youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Winnett . The event created considerable interest ia the neighbourhood , and many friends accompanied the bride and bridegroom to the church ; after which an excellent dinner was served up to a delighted party , and the remaining portion ofthe day was spen tin a very agreeable manner .
DEATHS . Mr Thomas Martin , M . P ., one ofthe representatives for the County Galway , died on Friday last a few days ago at Ballinbahinch Castle , Connemara , from the effects of malignant fever , caught in the discharge of his duty ns Poor-law Guardian ofthe Clifden Union . Lady Alicia Gordon died on Saturday , at her residence , in Hertford-street May . fair . Her Ladyship was daughter of the late , and sister to the present , Earl of Aberdeen . Sib Ch ____ s Price , Bast . — This venerable baronet , -whose name has _bet-n for several years back so familiar in City circles , from being the head of the eminent banking firm of Price , Harryett _, and Co ., expired on Monday last , at his seat , Spring-grove _^ near Richmond , aged seventy-two .
Sin Davids . _Gontn . —We have to announce the death of the senior Admiral of the Red , Sir Davidge Gould , G . C . B ., Vice-Admiral ofthe United Kingdom , without a -truggle and without pain , at his seat in Herts , on Friday , the 23 rd iust He was in his 90 th year , upwards of seventy years of which had been spent in the public service . This _d-jtingni' hed officer served nnder and was tbefriendand messmate of Nelson , Rodney , Hood , Hot-am , Hyde , Parker , & c . The Matpb of Cobk . —Thomas Hackett , Esq ., late Mayor of Cork , died at his residence , in that city , on Thursda v eveniug . Deceased was in his 6-th year . Death * of the Ddke op _Abgv-L . — John Douglas Edward Henry Campbell , Duke of Argyll , died at Inverary Castle , on Monday last . He was in his seventyth vear _iavine been born in 1777 . In early life he entered the arujy ind served under the Duke of York and Sir Ralph Abereromhy in Holland . He is succeeded in his estates and honours by his only son Ge-rge , Marquis of Lorn , wbo _marrie-l , in 1813 , the eldest daughter ofthe Duke of Sunderland . .
_ . The _Hie-t Hon . Lord Cowley , late Ambassador from England It-the Court of the Tuileries who had beep lor soine time ill , died on Tuesday night at his resideuce , in the Place Vendome , Paris . The deceased was iu his 75 th" Tear , having been born in 1773 . He . was a _brothwof tiie Duke of Wellington , whose ' umor he was by four years .
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• " >»• , ipnco va . j THE LABOURER , M-nthly Magazine of Politics , Literature , Poetry , Ac _mtdby _Fb-M-i O'CeMo * , Es « ., and Ebbest Jones , Esq ., - ( _Barristers-at-Law . ) The Democratic Movement in this country being wholly deficient in a monthly organ , the above magarine is esta . _Muhed to remedy this deficiency . Placed bylownessof price within tha reach of all , yet equal to its more _expen-^ _"UnJ _?^ _- ? -H _* -1 embraces _thefollowingfeatnres : — J .-THE LAND AND THE LABOURER , or the progress and position of the National L _. nd Company , and all nteresting facts connected with the culture and produce of the soil , 1 . —THE POOR MAN'S LEGAL MANUAL , tby an emi . nent Barrister , ) giving all necessary legal information for the express use of allottees on the land , and the
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Early in May , price 6 d . ( printed from the Short-hand Writer ' s Notes , ) THE TRIAL OF THE MECHANICS AT _LIVERPOOL on tiie 2 nd and 3 rd of April , 1847 ; witb Narrative , Notes , Cases , & c , and an Abstract of the Indictment . Edited by W . P . Roberts , Ef q . Manchester : Abel Hey wood , Oldham _. treet ; ana all Booksellers .
The Northern Star Saturday, May'l, 1847.
THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , MAY _' l , 1847 .
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THE PEOPLE AND THEIR RULERS . With the better promises of the Past unrealized , but its darker anticipations of the Present verified by Famine and Pestilence , and the- foreodings of the future overclouded by gloomy visions of calamity , it behoves us , like travellers journeying under the shadow of an approaching tempest , to see where we can find shelter before the hour ofits outburst .
The sun of Whiggery is fast setting , amid those clouds which it had long been charging with the fires of a nation . anger over broken promises and _dis-. _ppuiuicd _liupca . it shot up a bright gleam at its last—Free Trade gilded the aspect of poverty with a fallacious glory , but its light has only tended to show the gulf it has failed to fathom , at the brink of which the people are struggling with a faction , and down whose abyss one or the other must inevitably fall . The plague-note has been sounded in Ireland , and the famine-cry is answering it from England
and the Highlands . Some may smile at the thought of English'famine ,-when they gaze on the plenty that surrounds them . That plenty might be seen in Ireland , while the corn ships were leaving the harbours ofthe south aud east , though the dogs were devouring the dead in the churchyards . We say to the Government , you are behind-hand in your legislation , when you let the evil surprise you before you rise to grapple with it—the time to provide against a people ' s wants is not when Che food is gone , but before it goes;—and we ask those who scorn the fears of a famine , to look at its precursors in the empty mills and smokeless chimneys
of our factories , and to recollect , tbat for -every hour in which the loom is silent and the mill is cold , there will be so much less of fire on the cottage hearth , and so much less of food upon the poor man . table . It is bad , indeed , that the sustenance ofa nation should depend upon a turn of trade , the glut of a market , or the speculation of an individual . It is bad , indeed , when the people ' s prosperity has no firmer basis than this it is worse still , when the competitive plan , for which the stability of a country ' s industry and agriculture has been sacrificed , turns out a failure at the moment when its first promises were to be _triumphantly realised .
But our legislators willed it _so , the people permitted it , and they must hear the penalty . Yet they must not bear it patiently—they must not look on their own folly as a visitation of God , or on their own supiueness as a want of power . What else could he expected when home trade was sacrificed to f oreign cor _ petition , and our own soils were neglected , that the foreign corn-factor and English manufacturer might
divide the spoils of labour | between them ? In seeking for a market , our producers closed the best market they could bave had—the most steady aud the most certain—that which is afforded hy the home consumption of our working classes ; they impoverished those classes , thinking , by the ruin of the foreign manufacturer and the English producer , to absorb the wealth of both . Eut the former showed more
forethought than the English working man—for he fathomed the scheme , and Belgium , France , Germany , Russia , and America , refuse to look oh in idleness while we flood the world with our manuture 8 . They are up and stirring too—they are rivalling us in their markets , and the time may come when they will compete with us in our own . The factory lords begin to look with a doubtful eye towards the future , and cannot see their way through its embarrassments ; meanwhile , the cause of the evil is working on unabated—pauperism
begets pauperism , and reacts in its effects upon its cause;—and , still more to darken the prospect , _overglutted as the labour market is already , the population of the country keeps increasing annually by nearly half a' million . The charm of "buying cheap" was to render onr factory lords invincible ; they forgot that " buying cheap and selling dear , " which meant'buying labour at a niggard rate , that its produce might he sold at an usurious one , would , in reality , still further paralyse their resources , should the foreign market fail . And what
is the result ? A pauper population , that , as soon as trade is bad , begins to pull the small capitalist downward with a heavy weight , while the greater money lord is vainly endeavouring to lull the storm , which law-made destitution must inevitably cause . What will be the consequence ? We repeat , that it is beginning to ruin the { middle classeB , the small shopkeeper and the retail tradesman , by withdrawing from them their best and steadiest customers . Thus we learn from the Manchester Guardian of Wednesday , that in Oldham , where tbe cotton trade is notoriously in a less depressed condition than in
any other town , tbe shopkeepers bave in this way lost no less than £ ., 000 since the mills have recently commenced working short time ! What will be the consequence , we ask ? That the proverb of" grasp-all , _lose-all _, " will again be realised ; that the rich monopolist will be hurled off hia money-throne , and whatever consequences may occur , will beon the heads ot those who created the _. _eatitution causing such results . We are not drawing too dark a picture ; the English working mania not an exception from human nature ; were he so , we should think : less well of him . Since tba
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beginning of the world , monopoly , famine , pestilenoe , and insurrection have been successors to each other as by " right divine : " they caused the French Revolution ; it is thty who teaob the Irishman to arm , —it is they who drive the spirit of endurance to rebellion , violence , and bloodshed . It is because we wish to obviate such calamities that we write thus : he is bo friend to a people who remains looking on in silence , and , when the catastrophe arrives , tells you coolly , 1 "foresaw it . " It is our duty to warn in time —and the more so , since we are convinced that the remedy will never come from the Government , but must be sought for at the hands of the people . We are justified in this assertion by the fact of
Government , np matter of what party—( it was always the party of the Rich against the Poor)—by the fact of Government , we say , having proved itself inadequate to every crisis that has occurred . Wben we wanted the education worthy of freemen—they gave as slavery , the parent of ignorance ; when we wanted liberty they gave us State Church forms , and political reforms , the parents of thraldom ; and , how . that strong arms , and men with available though small capital , are required to till and improve the uncultivated soil , they encourage emigration , which , of course , drains away the strongest , and those still possessed of means ; and now , in the eleventh hour , now in the midst of national calamity , now that weare in want of food , they give us "education . "
The remedy is obvious and easy . Create a home trade , by raising the working classes into better eir- ' _cumstances , and this may be done by drawing the surplus from the labour market on to the Land , and by lessening the self-destroying competition for work , in tbe establishment of working men ' s own shops . The Land Company and the Trade Unions are working on towards this end . The necessary tendency must be the raising of wages , as the ' _unwholesome competition dies away—and by the same rule , by which " evil grows by that it feeds npon , "—thus good again engenders good . The fact of working-men being able ,
through co-operation , to set up for themselves as landowners andr _ annfacturers , and of raising by these means the wages of those left in the labour market , creates in . these latter that very class of home consumers without which national enterprise , of whatsoever kind it may be , can bave no sound foundation , and no healthy life . Co-operation being thus the . ever that first moves the machinery—once in motion , it not only sustains but increases its own power , while it is impossible that the capitalist , ean turn tbis new source of wealth to his own exclusive benefit , since , from the very nature of things , the cooperative principle must inevitably
be the death of that which was only created to exist upon monoply . And even in the field of capital •—what individual resources can compete with the accumulating capital ef a co-operating people ?—who can outbid those in the market , who have their labour at first-hand , and feel the interest which reaping themselves the produce of that labour , must give to its completion ? We are justified , then ,. in looking to the people , and the people only , as the source whence political and social reform must emanate ; and we are justified in doing so with a confident hope of success , when we regard the attitude assumed by tbe working _olasses of this
country . Not alone have they conceived and ap . predated sound plans for their guidance , but thej have the enterprise to execute and the courage to defend them . ' Need we again point to the success of the Land Company and Trades Unions ?—or shall we allude to the general-ally for the People ' s Charter , and the stand against oppression whieh the Trades are making in the case of the Warrington Conspiracy ? We are glad to learn thatthe men of Manchester are in the field , conjointly with their brethren throughout the country—and that they are going to rally in
their noble Hall , in behalf of their Buffering fellowworkmen , who have been convicted at the Liverpool Assises . It is necessary that every Chartist and Trades unionist shonld raise his protest against that act of tyranny , and do more than protest—he ' must resist by every legal and constitutional means in his power . No men eould be under better legal guidance than that of Mr Roberts , and we augur confidently of the effects his skill will have in extracting Justice out of lato . No man could exercise his power in a more constitutional way , than by bringing the force of public opinion to bear on those
who magnify the evil of laws that are bad , by an administration ofthem that is worse . We iurther hail with satisfaction the manly and open course adopted by the men of Sheffield , in calling a public meeting for Monday next , to petition for the removal from the magisterial chair of Mr Wilson Overend , who sentenced three respectable men to three months' imprisonment _, fer _attending as a deputation on an employer . True , the conviction was quashed . Would it have been quashed , we ask , were it not for these expressions of tbe public will and feeling ? This is as it should be—the publie eye should watch over a public servant , and call him before the tribunal of public opinion , where , if
innocent , he will find his safeguard in those , laws , which , if guilty , should never for a moment screen him in the wilful exercise of authority . We shall devote all due attention to these important meetings , and open our columns to a full report of them , and the _grades' proceedings . We have only to add , if such should not appear in the "Star , " the fault will not lie with us . We trust these meetings will not be the only ones . A public movement can not brook to pause until its object has been gained ; it loses more in one month ' s inaction than it can regain in a twelve months' energy ; and now that the eye of Power is on us , we must not betray any weakness or instability , or be guilty of the crime of apathy .
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STATE OF THE COUNTRY . The misfortune " , misery , destitution , and disease of Ireland , appear as if they were no longer to occupy exclusively the attention of the legislature , the press , and the public . Tbe evil is at our own doors . We are fast entering upon one of those
gloomy periods of reaction , of panic , and distress , which are inseparable frora the maintenance of our existing commercial , manufacturing , and monetary system . Whether we look at the state of the manufacturing districts , or of trade in the metropolis , the prospect is equally ominous , while the pressure , for the time being , in the money market , is greater than it has been known for the last twenty
years . When the Free Traders vaunted their great nostrum of Corn-Law Repeal , as the panacea for all national evils , the certain precursor of cheap' bread , high wages , and plenty to do , we repeatedly exposed the fallacy of their statements , and the certainty unless that measure was accompanied by other more sweeping and radical changes , that we should again be visited by those periodical stagnations of trade which have so frequently chequered the commercial history of this country . The facts have
justified the prediction , even sooner than we anticipated . The glowing pictures ofthe League orators may now be contrasted with the melancholy realities to be found in all the great hives of our manufacturing industry . According to the last returns , out of the 40 , 000 employed in the cotton trade in Manchester , 7 , 000 are entirely out of work , 14 , 000 _Jare partially at work three days , and 19 , 000 four to five days a week . The spinners and manufacturers of the
neighbouring towns are not a whit better off . I " Rochdale , out of thirty-eight mills thirteen are working full time , nineteen short time , and six are entirely stopped . In Middleton , out of eleven mills five are working full time , four short time , and two stopped . Royton , with sixty-three mills , has eighteen on full time , forty-one short time , three stopped . Whitworth , with sixty-seven mills , twenty are at work full time , thirty-nine short , and eight stopped . At Todmorden ,. Stockport ,
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Blackburn , Ashton , and other places , a similar state of things prevails ; By specific returns , it appears that in six principal manufacturing towns , containing altogether 382 mills , 212 are working little more than half time , and 44 havestopped work altogether , leaving only 172 of the whole number in full work . Of the 71 , 215 hands usually employed when these mills are at work , 34 , 564 are now fully employed , twenty-six thousand Jive hundred and fen are half
employed , ten thousand one hundred and forty-one are absolutely and totally idle , and all still in employment are threatened with a reduction of wages . The papers speak in a tone of alarm as well as de *; spondency . The Manchester Courier says that a very uneasy feeling is abroad ; that former attempts at reductions have always been the forerunners of disturbances ; and itis not surprising , under the circumstances , that it should be so now .
Mere figures , however , though they may convey something like an idea of the extent ofthe evil , can impart no definite conception of the nature of the misery endured by the poor victims ' of our unjust system . We have been horrified by the reports _jn the papers as to the wretchedness of the people of Skibbereen , and the-natural indignation aroused by such appalling relations has been freely poured out upon the heads of the Irish landlords , whose duty it was asserted to be to have preserved those dependent upon them from such extreme misery . We can , however , now find
parallels to such cases in the metropolis of the manufacturing world itself . The Manchester Town Mission has given tothe world facts which strikingly exhibit the _woful condition of those dependent on the wealthy capitalists of that town . Thirty-four individuals were found huddled together in a house consisting of four small apartments , and forty-one in another of five small rooms , nineteen people being in one instance crowded into one apartment . The inhabitants of these miserable pest-houses have not employment , and they have not food . In cellars
hardly fit for the proper lodging of pigs , human beings waste away under the iron-handed ' grasp of Famine . In one , a man , his wife and children , were found without work , the children nearly naked , and nothing to sleep upon except a few shavings spread upon the damp flagged floor . These are specimens of the extreme destitution and suffering which is endured in sight of the palatial warehouses and vast ranges of mills _. ' erected by the cotton lords . The poor artizan and operative is powerless in the matter . He is the helpless _i-Iave of a vicious
system . If markets fail at home or abroad , if moneyraongers find it profitable to speculate in a way which throws them out of work ; or if such a turn in the market takes place as attracts the gold , which is the basis of our currency , te other _complies , the workmen have , under existing arrangements , no means whatever of escaping from evils they have not caused , or the pernicious and direful effects of a system over which they possess not the slightest control . If the downward progress of these districts is not speedily arrested , we may look for a repetition ofthe industrial insurrection of
1842 , under more disastrous influences . The scarcity and high price of previsions must materially add to , and aggravate tbe misery suffered by the poor at all times from a cessation of employment . Nor can it be wondered at , that despair and desperation should be engendered amongst people , who , in the midst of abundance of real wealth , which they have assisted to produce , find themselves lodged in damp cellars , with shavings for their beds rags for their clothing , and empty cupboard to meet the cravings of their own nature , and that of their families .
The stoppage of business m these districts is ascribed mainly to the sudden putting on of the screw by the Bank of England . It has almost entirely refused to discount even the best paper , and the discount charged on the bills it does take is nearly treble the ordinary rate . It is also charged with having hastily and unduly contracted the amount of money in circulation , in consequence of the large sums drawn from its coffers to pay for foreign provisions . This is denied ; and certainly the returns do not show the reduction _« f notes in
circulation asserted , but they do show a very heavy drain upon the bullion in its coffers , to pay for the food we have had to purchase abroad . The Free Traders predicted that our foreign customers would take goods , not gold , from us in exchange for their commodities . Here we have another illustration of the fallaciousness of their reasoning , and a specimen of the manner in which trade may be expected to be carried on in future .
We do not profess to be deeply versed in the mysteries of the money market , or in the use of the slang phrases by which the operations of the ipeculators therein are described ; but there can , we think , be little doubt of the fact , that the sudden curtailing of discounts , and a simultaneous raising of the rate of interest , has had very much to do with the production of that stagnation in trade which now exists , and which threatens to deepen into a regular panic .
' The conduct of the Government on the subject is most suspicious and alarming ; It was mooted on Monday night by Lord G . Bentinck , in a speech of decidedly an alarmist character . The Chancellor of the Exchequer was forced into along explanation , in which he contrived to blink the real fact at issue . Taking advantage of the statement , that the Bank had contracted the amount ofits paper circulation , he went on to prove , elaborately , that it had not done so . Granting that it has not , is the difficulty got rid of ? No ; the complaint ofthe mercantile men
is , that the usual discounting of bills has been sua ; denly and violently remitted . This contraction , or almost denial , of the usual facilities , came upon the mercantile community like a thunder-clap , and has almost paralysed trade ever since . Yet , notwithstanding the necessity for having this subject promptly and decidedly investigated and settled , the Government suffered nearly a week to elapse without the debate being resumed ; frequent Cabinet meetings being held in the meantime . This shows there is " something rotten in the state of
Denmark , " and that the financial blundering , natural to the party , has already " put it in a fix . " ¦» If such things are done in the green tree , what will be done in the dry ? " If at the end of the first year of the Whigs in ofiice we find the country rapidly approaching a state of industrial and monetary disorganization , what may we not expect when they have been four or five years longer in power ? The only consolation under such a prospect is the meagre one , that their mismanagement must , long before tbat time , lead to their ignominious expulsion .
Meantime let the working classes remember that , at the present moment , they are accessory to their own degradation , slavery , and sufferings . The money they have invested in the savings' banks is now being used by the Government for the purpose of keeping up the price of consols . The huge edifice of political oppression aad social injustice is , at this moment of its peril , propped by the oppressed and the wronged . The slaves ave forging their own chains , and putting kito the hands of aa incapable , untrustworthy ministry , ' and the trafficking , gambling speculators , who prey like vampires on the heart ' s blood of the industrious classes , the means by which the whole imposture can be sustained .
In the face of this fact and its disastrous bearing upon the permanent fate of jthe operative classes , we urge upon their attention the propriety , nay , the imperative necessity of . their seeking some other in .
State Of The Country. The Misfortune", M...
vestment for their savings which shall be piore ecure in itself , and more beneficial to them as individuals and to their order . We are delighted to observe that one portion o the working classes are awakening to a perception of the importance of this subject , and showing , . _* . the large amounts now weekly sent into the Land Company and the Labour Bank , their determination-thai they at least will not be accessories to the suicidal policy which has hitherto crushed their class to the dust . ; Let Labour ' s Bank be the rallying point in future , " and the security the broad aeres , welltilled fields and happy homesteads of our native
land , and a great step will have heen taken for ultimate , complete emancipation from the gripe of an infernal system , by which moneyraongers , stockjobbers , capitalists , landlords , mill-lords and traders , all thrive at the cost of honest industry . Let the labourer become his own hanker , his own landlord , his own employer , and the reign of true freedom and independence will be established . Until then the natural result of unsound principles , vicious institutions , selfish gambling , and imbecile rulers , will continue to afflict , society in the fearful shapes of famine and pestilence , political disorganization and moral degradation .
Parliamentary Review. All The Propositio...
PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . All the propositions for amending the Government scheme of Education ( which our readers will find in full on our second page in the Minutes of the Committee of Council ) , shared the same fate as Mr Duncombe ' s motion for referring the whole subject to a committe _* of inquiry V and the measure with all its defects , both in principle and details , has received the sanction-of overwhelming parliamentary majorities . Yet is difficult to conceive on what
intelligible or honest grounds the Whig Ministry resisted some of the amendments—Sir "W . Clay ' s , for instance , which provided that parents who had conscientious objections to having their children taught the creed and ritual of the Established Church , should have the advantages of the new schools , and that their offspring should not be compelled to attend the special religious lessons , was one upon whicli the slightest regard for political consistency should have forced unanimous supportfrom the Treasury Bench . Sir W . Molesworth ' s motion for
justice to our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects , stood upon the same broad and equitable foundation , but it , too , was negatived by the votes of those whose previous speeches—whose speeches on tbat very occasion—bound them to pursue the contrary course . It is quite clear that the Ministry , on this important matter , are prepared to shamelessly abandon all principle whatsoever * for the sake of conciliating the support of the Church and the Wesleyaa Methodists at the approaching General Election . Let them take care that they do
not overshoot their mark . The acceptance of any measure of Education with " thankfulness ' by men like Sir Robert Inglis , the bigoted but honest defender of things " as they are" in Church and State , the conscientious but intolerant worshipper of " the wisdom of our ancestors , " is not calculated to produce confidence in the people at large . However well it may suit the purpose of Sir R . Inglis and his friends to preach up the necessity and virtue of "standing in the old ways , " the masses have not . the same interest ; they feel thata
radical change is necessary for them . A Ministry which openly allies itself with the doctrines of finality and the opponents of progress , cannot expect long to remain in power . In truth , the present Administration ia neither inherently strong in or out of Parliament . Its only hold of power rests upon the peculiar state of parties and the country at the present moment , it is merely a stop-gap . As soon
asthe necessity for progressive action arises , the Whig negation will be swept away witbout ceremony , despite of all the paltry contrivances and tricks by which the Premier and his associates are attempting to retain office . The pressure of other subjects on our columns this week prevents futther allusion to the important question of National Education ; its permanent interest will , however , justify recurrence to it on future occasions .
The Other Business Of Parliament, Up To ...
The other business of Parliament , up to the moment at which we write , has been of a comparatively trivial description , if we except subjects already frequently noticed . The Army Service Bill occupied the Peers , on Monday night , till past twelve o'clock- Ministers had the qualified support of the Duke of Wellington ; and the proposition for limiting the term of enlistment may be now said to be virtually law . In the Commons Sir C . Napier
introduced a bill for improviug the mode of service m the navy , which the Secretary to the Admiralty permitted to be read a first time , though giving no great hope that it would receive the Government support at future stages . Certainly the soldiers and sailors cannot complain that they have been overlooked tbis session . In one shape or another their condition has occupied nearly as much time as the Irish Question itself .
A Short Debate, On A Motion Of Dr Bowlin...
A short debate , on a motion of Dr Bowling ' s , for the establishment of a decimal coinage , incidentally brought out some peculiar features of the English character and of English legislation . It is admitted by all practical men that a decimal coinage would materially simplify accounts , and wonderfully facilitate the transaction of business , whether on a large or small scale . But the Chancellor of the Exchequer , while bearing his own testimony to that
fact , says he dare not Attempt it on account of the blind and prejudiced adherence of the English people to old customs ! Trembling at the idea of a possible revolution if the time-honoured halfpence , pence , and sixpences of tbis realm were tampered with , Sir C . Wood could only assent to one great experiment upon the vts inertia of English prejudices and prepossessions , and promised a new coin , —a two shilling piece—by way of feeler !
The Proposal Of The Government On Monday...
The proposal of the Government on Monday night , to lend . £ 620 , 000 to three Irish Railway Companies , in order to enable them to keep labourers at work , gave rise to a conversation of great importance , as to the monetary state of the country . Lord George Bentinck made a statement on the subject , which called forth from the Chancellor of the Exchequer a long apologetic and explanatory speech , which was , after all , by no means calculated to efface the ominous impressions produced by the remarks of the Protectionist leader . The most singular part of the matter
is , that though the debate on the subject was adjourned till Tuesday , in order that it might be fully and promptly discussed , the Government permitted the House to be counted out at an early period of the evening , and that on Wednesday it adjourned an hour before the usual time , having been occupied by business of far . less importance . In the meantime , Cabinet meetings have been frequent during the week . Itis evident there is a screw loose somewhere . In another column , the reader will find this topic treated at such length as precludes the necessity for further remark here .
An idea of theterrible nature of the crisis may , however , be gathered from one statement of Lord Ashburton ' s in the Lords , on Thursday evening , namely —that such was the extraordinary pressure in the money market on Wednesday , that men of the highest credit had been obliged to consent to give 12 and 13 per cent , for discounts . It is * clear this cannot last long ; and when it is taken in connexion with the statements made , by Lord Brougham the same night , on the authority of letters from the manufacturing districts , complainin very grievously
The Proposal Of The Government On Monday...
of the pressure , " and that , though ag reat many orders were on hand from America , whi « h could not be executed in consequence of the present state of things , it is clear that an immediate change must be made , or we must come to a dead lock . The manufacturers blame Peel ' s Currency Act of 1844 and ask the Government to relax that Act . The Government reply , they have had the matter under serious consideration , but have no intention to mitigate the pressure in that way . It is evident , that after all the doctoring of our State quacks , the Currency Question is as far from set tlement as
Ever. Two Irish Measures Have Advanced A...
ever . Two Irish measures have advanced a stage in t __ Lords : the Bill for facilitating the Sale of Encun _* . bered Estates , and the Poor Law Relief Bill , as a continues facetiously to be denominated . The first was read a second time on Tuesday , of course in the most cordial and friendly way . It is a measure fot relieving the landlords from some of their encum . brances , there fore certain to have their Lordshi ps concurrence : — " a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind . " The so-called Poor Man ' s Bill did not escape so easily on Thursday night . Their Lord _, ships had a long palaver about it , which lasted till nearly half-past twelve o ' clock , and terminated in
the second reading of the Bill , without a division . These sturdy political economists and " _Lotd-loveyou-we're-all-for-ourselves" men , Lord Monteag ie and the Archbishop of Dublin , of course opposed the measure out and out , and repeated the . rainless and iearile _. s objections common to the iron-bowelled school of which they are disciples . Monteagie threatens two amendments ia committee : one to deny the right to out-door relief , and the other to make the bill temporary instead of permanent . Lord Stanley gave the measure a qualified and most damaging support . It is , except
in one or two small things , so perfectly innocuous to the landlords , that he is nearly satisfied with it and if the Government will only yield to hira in one or two more points , as they have already done , the measure will be—good for . nothing ! He indicated that the Bentinck amendment is likely to be pro . posed , but in such bland terms as are very likely to seduce the yielding Whigs into granting the _conces . sion ; or , failing that , to allow Lord Stanley and his supporters the opportunity of backing gracefully out of an invidious , and , at the present moment , a dan . gerous , position .
One thing is gratifying . Selfish as the Aristocratic class may be , not one of thera dared to meet the second reading of the bill with a direct negative . Tbis does not , however , make the measure more safe : it is all the more likely to be strangled in committee .
+T—M——Mm—Am Bowring And Hume Had A Field...
_+ _t—m——mm—am Bowring and Hume had a field night on Thursday all about account-books and ship-building , which we dare say the majority of the members present knew as much of as Sanscrit , or the geography of the planet Saturn . We have no desire to inflict tedium upon our readers , or ring the changes on upright stems and round bows , raking stems and straight bows , and the host of technicalities amidst which "Poor Joe" toiled amain in the most confused , bewildered , and blundering style . The result is , all that need be chronicled—both motions ended in smoke , and another night was equivalent to lost .
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Tw W. Beg To Remind Our Readers Of The N...
tW _w _. beg to remind our readers of the notice which appeared in the Star of April 19 th , respecting a tea-tray embellished with a view of O'Connorville and otber ornaments put up for public ballot at Bilston ; the proceeds to be applied for the benefit of the veteran patriots , and widows and orphans of the political victims ef class-usurpation , The generosity of tha donor of the tea-tray and the patriotic exertions oi the Bilston Democrats should command an equally generous and universal response on the part of tha Chartist public . Ths Ba __ c- _soa thb _O'Co-shoevi _. l _. Tbi . . bat , oa
behalf of the Widows' , Orphans ' , Veterans' , and Fie . _tims * Fund . —To the _Cftortist Publfo . —Friends : We earnestly implore you to consider the object to which the proceeds ofthe above ballet are to be applied , and we f eel confident bat little argument will be necessary to induce you to give it your support . What true De . mocrat but would feel coxsolation and pride ia bavin ; done his share in placing those who have suffered , and are still suffering , for the active part they or their relatives have taken on the battle-field of liberty of comfortable circumstances , and beyond the reach of tyranny end oppression ? How small na effort is necessary to accomplish this desirable object . ' Tbe small sumof 6 d . from each Land member and Chartist
( who can afford it , ) would yield a sufficient amount to place these victims on the Land , where they would enjoy the fruits of their own labour , and possess tbat freedom which they have _labtured to win far ns . We are sorry to say the abovenamed projeot _, altUough responded to by several individuals , has not , thus far , been taken ap by any locality . This unaccountable apatby iu so meritorious a cause we deeply deplore , and earnestly beg of tbe leading mea in each locality to place it prominently before their meetings , and send in their united subscriptions to Mr Linney , High _, street , Bilston , as early as possible , Thomas Alxoisb , Secretary to the Ballot . P . S . —The time of balloting will be duly announced
in the Star . tW We cannot afford room for long lhts ofthe names of subscribers to the above ballot . _Infobmiiio _*** Wanted . —Such of our readers who may know anything of lames Service , a shoemaker , _whopublulled " The Caledonian Herd Boy , " a poem ; " Crispin , or the Apprentice Boy ; " "The Wild Harp , " '_ - c ., ' would oblige by communicating , for tke i- « formation of a correspondent , such particulars as they may know about this individual , or his _norks , and where tbey may be obtained . Address J . O . D ., 80 , Kirby-street , Hatton Garden . Poland ' s B _. q _. h-bation . —Julian Harney has received fid . from Mr G , Cavill , for the fond of the F _. liii Committee . The Cohmittik ot _Enoikeers beg to _aekuowledge tha
receipt of 2 j . 8 d _., for the _. Dafence Fund for our Newton friends , subscribed at thie Whittington and Cat , Loa . dou . — -o __ WooR _ _Branjh _Secretary . P . S . Tbe readers of the Star are respectfully informed _tliat tb- central branch of the Steam-engine Makers * Society are publishing a verbatim report ofthe trial at Liverpool , having engaged a reporter especially for the purpose . Itis in the press , and will be ready for circulation on Saturday next . _ja * r Tha enormous length of the Money List , the re . print of the Minutes of the Education Committee , and . other Io * gthy articles of importance , have so crowded onr columns as to compel us to postpone several no * _ticaa _, & o . till our ne * t . . . Mr ClaB- ' _s letter from Peterborough will be attended to , Ju-iav Habnet has received 12 stamps from Charles Theobald . His w * shes shall be attended to .
--6 A-. NOTICE . —Since the Law Department of the Northern n Star was opened , I have received almost daily com- iplaints from poor men that they have been plundered d either by Pettifogging Attorneys or Advertising Laiv- ¦ offices . It was to save poor men from these harpies , s , that tha Law Department of tho Star was opened . To o give gratuitous Legal advice is one of the principal il objects of that department . In no case , therefore , shall , 11 I take even the smallest fee or remuneration from a a ¦ poor man , except where my professional services shall ill render him a richer man than he was before . Where a a client , through my professional assistance , recovers rs ( property and becomes" richer'than' , he previously ly was , there I shall expect a moderate fee ; but even jn that I shall not take till after the property has been en recovered .
It is no unusual thing for those who bave got fraudu- _ulently or wrongfully into possession ofproperty to set et the claims of justice at defiance on account of the he _f poverty' of the rightful owner . Where ft poor mans is claim to property is believed to be good , his poverty will rill act upon me as an additional stimulus to obtain justice ice for him . Thero is another legal grievance which many people , iie , even in good circumstances , suffer from ; namely , the the heavy expenses they are _put . toabeut Leases , Agree , eements , Conveyances , Mortgages , Marriage Settlements , its , Making their Wills , inc . Alllhese things are comuioiily iily mado longer by three or four times than they need to be ; be ; and the consequence is , the expenses and stamps are are twice or three times as much as they ought to be . l o l o venders
correct this evil a most skilful convey aviccr mo . mo his services , and upon terms so moderate that the _ex _*« expenses of Conveyances , Wills , & c , will bo . less than _ono-on _* half of their usual amount . . _* . _»_ , _„ When clients wish to have papers returned ,, or pnva _* w * a *« answers to their inquiries , it is expected that tbeywaiwa ; send the requisite number of postage stamps . In stating their cases , let clients simply stnto / _... » j ... « , and avoid all remarks and comments of their ¦ own -wn Much ; often , depends upon the time at which a thir . _jhir _. _hapjtened ; as the timo of a person's Birth , Mar rir . geir . gi Death , Date ofhis WiU , tho _DaUof the Probafr _-, _& e . & c therefore in all these , aud similar cases , lot _dr _. tfs btfs I given . _Ebnesx * Po _* . _- _ s . is . Mehbeb of the Lanb . osu ? AN _ _,-... ourr * " _* r _oss f ° r _® or tt wrong done you by _yc-jt partner U by a W . 1 in eq _^ _-eq _**!
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 1, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_01051847/page/4/
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