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    • NO MORE MEDICINE ; NO MORE DELICATE CHILDREN. -Dyspepsla (Indigestion) and
    • THE CHOLERA.
    • TO THE FRIENDS OF FREEDOM AND HUMANITY.
    • THE NORTHERN STAR, SATURDAY. JANUARY 6. 1819.
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      Hthe Found The Northern Star. , January ...

      THE _NORTHERN STAR . , January 6 , 1849 . A .. __— - ' ;¦ ¦ . ' I' I i i ¦ _—m—*¦¦*¦ ' ~ mmmmmmm ' - ¦ -- ¦ - " ** — - _————~——— -mmmmm _~ _mm——^ _m—mm—M _—mm——*—m _*—*—m _** mm -mm mmWmmmmWmm mmmmmmm \ Wm _^ mmmmmmm- —— _ _, _, . _' ¦¦ ¦ ¦ - -.- - ¦ _..- _¦¦ .

      No More Medicine ; No More Delicate Children. -Dyspepsla (Indigestion) And

      NO MORE MEDICINE ; NO MORE DELICATE CHILDREN . _-Dyspepsla ( Indigestion ) and

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      _Irreeularitrcf Intestines , tne main causes-oi _diuous . _aess Xervouf . ness . Ursr Complaints , Flatulency . Palpitation of the H eart , Ferrous Headaches , Koisss in the H « ad and Ears , Fains in almost every part _« _f'the Body , Astbma . Gout , _Bheumatism , Scrofula , Consumption . Dropsy . Heartburn , Nausea after eating _ttrsx sea , Low Spirits , ' Spasms , Spleen , be , effectually behoved irom the system , as also Constitutional Debility , by a permanent restoration ofthe digestive fanetions to their primi . tire vigour , without purging , inconrenienee _, pain , or expense , by

      The Cholera.

      THE CHOLERA .

      - On Thursday Dec. 28 H Tbe Board Of Hea...

      - On Thursday Dec . 28 h tbe Board of Health received reports of the _following fresh cases : —St Olave'a Union 1 ; Cross Street , Newington , 1 fatal ; Battersea , 1 fatal ; Berwick-upon-Tweed , 7 ; Norhamsbire Hundred , 1 : Liverpool , 1 fatal ; Sunderland 2 . 1 fatal ; Oid Kilpatrick , 1 fatal ; _Maxwelltown 6 . 2 fatal ; Jedburgh , 1 fatal ; Edinbureh 6 , 5 fatal ; Old Cumno-k , 2 fatal ; Glasgow 118 . 64 fatal ; Dumfries , 2 _fatil ; Eocles by Cjldstxeam . 1 : _Strathblane , 1 fatal . Total new cases , 152 ; 82 deaths .

      On Friday weak , the _Bsard of Health received reports of the following fresh eases : —Whltechapel , 1 ; Commercial Road , 1 ; St George ' s parish , 1 fatal ; Reading , 2 fatal ; Chesterfield , 1 ; Glasgow . 133 , 64 fatal ; Eastwood , 3 ; Dambarton , i , 1 fatal ; _Ciat ]*; bridee ( from the 25 th nit . } , 64 , 15 fatal ; Oid Kilpatrick , 4 fatal ; Durrisdeer . 0 , 5 fatal : Tarbert _, 1 fatal ; Edinburgh , 4 fatal ; _Biantyre ( 18 ' . h to 24 ft ) 9 , 6 fatal ; Dumfries . 3 ; Maxwelltown , 2 fatal . Total new cases , 242 ; 105 deaths . Oa Saturday , the Board of Health received reports of the following sew cases . It will be seen that not one occurred in the metropolis or its vicinity . Berwick upon-T weed , 1 fatal ; New Monkland ( from D jc 9 ) . 44 , 26 fatal ; Edinburgh 7 , _Sfatal ; Stranraer , 1 ; Greenock , 1 fatal ; Old Monkland , 13 . 10 fatal ; Bathgate , 1 fatal ; Hamilton , 4 ; Glasgow . 262 70 fatal ; Cumbernauld by Glasgow , 1 fatal ; _Ulaxwlitown _, 1 fatal ; Damfries , 3 . Total new cases , 238 : 113 death ? .

      Ceoleba , —On'Tuesday the following fresh ea < es were reported to the Board of Health : —Walwortb , 2 , fatal ; Chelsea Workhouse , 1 ; Stanton , near Bury St Edmund ' s . 1 ; Carlisle , 2 , 1 fatal ; _Edinburgh , 11 6 fatal ; Glasgow , 177 , 76 fatal ; New Monkland , 22 . 7 fatal ; Old Monkland , 15 , 9 fatal : Bones , 3 fetal ; Greenock , I fatal ; MaxwelltowR and Damfries , 3 fatal . Total new cases , 234 ; 107 deaths . On Wednesday the followim * fresh cases were reported to tbe Board of Hea'th ;—St JohnV , _Sauth--wark , 1 fatal ; Sunderland , 2 , 1 fatal ; Norhanuhire District , _Berwick-on-Tweed Union , 4 ; Edinburgh , 2 , lfatal ; Glasgow , 184 , 78 fatal ; Dumbarton , 4 ; Dumfries 4 ; Old Monkland , 23 6 fatal ; Cardross , 3 , 2 fatal ; Crail , 1 fatal ; _Campsie , 1 fatal ; Jedburgh , 20 , 6 fatal . Total new esses , 249 ; 97 deaths . The cases reported on the lst inst- as haying taken place at Leamington , occurred in the village cf Offchurch , in the district of Radford .

      On Thursday the Board of Health received reports of the following fresh cases : —Orphan Asylum , Too ting , 60 . 16 fatal ; Wandsworth , 1 fatal ; Bethnal Green . 1 ; Carlisle , 2 ; _Ediaburgb . 7 . 1 fatal ; Glasgow , 202 71 fatal ; Cairnbrae , Glasgow , 75 26 fatal ; Dumfries and Maxwelltown , 3 fatal ; Motfatt , 2 ia al ; Roth-ay , 12 , 5 fatal ; Wishatown , I fatal ; Old Monkland , 7 . 4 fatal ; Carham , Coldstream , 1 fatal ; Kilsyth , 7 . 5 f-tsd . Total new cases . 380 : 136 deaths . On Friday , tbs Board of Health received reports of the following fresh cases : — r 7 hitech » pel , 4 , 1 fatal ; D oart's establishment for pauper children , _TfcOiing , 15 . _lOfaUl'OJFoburon , near Leamington 3 , 1 fatal ; Sunderland , lfatal ; Holyhead , 1 fatal ; Selby , from 13 hNov . to 4 th init ., 25 , 15 fatal ; Greenock . I ; Shotto , 1 , fatal ; Old Monkland , 18 , 1 fatal ; _Cumnock . 2 fatal ; Bothwell , 19 , IS fatal ; Edinburgh 4 , 3 fatal—Total naw cms , 9 S , 55 deaths .

      Ceouba . ai th * Ihfakt Pacts '" Astldm _Tootiko . —On Thursday , upon _inquiry at Mr Droaet ' a _esta _blishment _, _Tooting , it wae found that the cages of oholera mon- _. et the pauper ohildren amounted to no lees a number tban 118 . That 35 bad prored fatal and that about 15 mors were in snch a condition that death was expected . New cases were also hourly occurrinz . _Theieudent medioal officer hu drawn up a report , in wbich , after referring tothe fast tbat 93 eases are s . ill under treatment , he says *— 'The strong and healthy , as well as the delicate , have been indiscriminately attacked , the fatality being as great among the _faeeltby , and as sndden , as among the delicate and previously diseased . He further

      declare * that in almost _eyery instance , instead of the nsnal premonitory' symptoms of cholera , the first indication ot attack has been the sndden vomitine of the patient , and imtrediately after the symptoms of confirmed eholera ecsae . The indication in each oase of approaching death is a plaintive cry on the part of tbe child attacked for water , whioh , after being administered , the _pa-i-nt apparently goes off into a _soend sleep—a sleep from which he or she ( as the oase may be ) never awakes . A portion of the matter vomited was sent for analysis to Professor _Taylon who haa certified that it contains no _poiiou expressing his faeliaf that the coses aro epidemic uolira . He recommends * oim * l food dai y ; ' ess pet Md _'i-juid ' 00 ' , _wd i » lati 0 B of thaa attack-d , *

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      DO YOU SUFFER TOOTHACHE . ' —If so , use _BaaHM ' s Bna * ex . for filling the decayed spots , readeriag defective teeth souad and painless . Price One Shilling only , similar to that sold at Two Shillings and _SkjMT-oe . _Seld by chemists verywhere . __„ , Amnf Testimonials .- ' It bas given me the use of toe : side m my _met-th _, whieh luxury I had not enjoyed for about two _Je _ars . -E . J . _Macdona ' , Be _* ford Northu _* nberiand . It is She most effective and painless cure for _^ tooin ache IW ever found . I have "ohe-toM _^ in recom . mendiflKitto all snfferers . ' _-Captata Thomas _Wbioht , 12 , _Newington-creBcent , London . IhswefiUedtwoteeth , and fin * I can use " _» em u » _weJu-aalflUiiii TO-if ?* Ib _^ M * 8 £ : ache _eince . ' - _Amahah Coiiiss , Nortti . broofcplace , Bradford , Yorkshire . > . _M _j- _ . ,, „ , _« See namerous other testimonials in various _» _" «• papers , _« erj o ne of which is strictly authentic . If any _SiffieSyinobtainini _C it occurs ' send One Shilling and a 3 taia $ . toJ . WUUs , * , _Bell'e-buildinge , _Salisbury-nquare , London , and jou wijl ensure it by return of _pest .-AgentB wasted .

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      METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and GENERAL ill' LIFE ASSURANCE , Annuity , Loan , and Invest meat SOCIETT . ( Incorporate * _f « _rsuant to the 7 th and 8 * Tic ., cap . Ho . ) Temporary Offices , 3 * , _Hegeotitrwt , Waterloo-place , Loidon . * TRUSTEES . Rlekard Spooner , Esq ., I Spencer Horatio Walpole , M . P . s I Esq .. M . P . _Bdward Vansittart Neale , Henry Peter Fuller , Esq . Est , I ' DIRECTORS . Robert Chalmers , Esq ., Bdward _loniax , Esq ; , St _Thurlow-square , Bromp- John ' s Wood . ton . - Samuel Miller , Esq ., _lin-Samnel Driver , Esq ., White- coin ' s Inn . hall . gir Thomas Newley Reeve , Henry Peter Fuller , Esq ., Richmond . riccadilly . Edward _Tansittart Neale Palk Griffith , EFq ., Esq ., South _Audley-street _Ironmo-tger-lane , Cheap- William A . S . Westoby tiflfl . Esq ., _Hjds Park-place .

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      On the Third Saturday in 1819 ( January 23 th ) , will be published , No . 1 of 1 _IHE PLAIN SPEAKER * To be Continued Weekly—Price One Pbnnt . Edited by Thomas Coo per , Author of ' The Purgatory o f Sukides . ' The poUtical rights of the whole people—the fiscal and industrial grievances of the classes who produce , whether by the hand or the head—wiil be the subjects of discussion ; and moral and _intelligent means for obtaining the one and redressing the other , will oe proposedin Mother English , ro tbat ' Be WBO _BDKS HAT BEAD . ' No . 1 will contain a Letter to Richard Cobden , M . P ., and the Speech which tha Queen ought to deliver at the opening of Parliament . —Beth by the Editor . Published by B . Steii , l , 2 D , Paternoster-row , and all Booksellers .

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      WHITTINGTON AND CAT BRANCH OF ' 1 HE LAND COMPANY .-A public meeting of members will be held oa Tuesday next , January 9 tb , at eight o ' clock in the _evening , to transact matters on local affairs , and other important business . The persons are also requested to attend who have subscribed on account of shares to establish the daily _peper , when the money will be returned , and the surplus handed over to the Victim Committee .

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      TO BE SOLD , a PAID-UP FOUR-ACRE SHARB in the National Land Company . —Price , £ 3 5 s . Apply to S . Beichbr _, 16 , Church Street , Kensington .

      To The Friends Of Freedom And Humanity.

      TO THE FRIENDS OF _FREEDOM AND HUMANITY .

      Favvow Countrymen,—Fidelity To Our Saore...

      _Favvow Countrymen , —Fidelity to our saored cause and persecuted brethren now suffering iu the common gaol , demands our united < _fF-rt _% ? a order to alleviate tbeir sufferings , aud those of their distressed families . Wp , the committee eleoted by tbe Chartists of Manchester , appeal to all ••/ _mpathieinj * de mocratB to display a generous response to this _ca'l by subscribing as liberally as their means will _sfford . Let it not be said that our friends who bave been _lrng struggling for the common yet just rights of all mankind , shall be basely _iacrinW , together with their families , io the cruel hardships of want and poverty . We know , fellow countrymen , jou will aid and help ns to preserve thera and their bereaved families from unmerited famine . Tbe Chartist council have already expended nearly £ 200 in various ways io protecting them , and the duty we owe to the cause and our ininred countrymen , pointed out to us this course . We have fall authority for

      requesting all monies on behalf of these victims to be sent to Manchester , as the ChartUt Executive deem it expedient and essentially neoessary . Those who hate collecting books are requested to bring them to the committee immediately , aud eo _beoks but such as are issued by ub , with printed labels , will be genuine . In conclusion , we trust this appeal will be promptly and epeedily _attended to , especially as the claims are imperative and pressing . 1 Those who permit oppression , share tbe crime . * Yours in the cause , & o „ Thomas WmirAKBR , _Whmam Sfbxmkbmnb , Johh Smith . Henrt Ellis . THOMAS _Obmmhir , Secretary . Thomas Roberts , Treasurer . Thomas Fildbb , Chairman . P . S . —All money ordera ts be sent to Thomas Ormesher . 32 . Bridgewater St'eet , Manchester ; made payable to Thomas Roberts , 25 , Mount Street , Hulme .

      Tbe Victims. Jo Ihe Emwb Of Thb Horthsr*...

      TBE VICTIMS . JO IHE _EMWB OF THB _HORTHSR ** STAB . Sib , —I am unused to the task of writing for thc pubic eye , yet tbe lamentable condition to which the families of our worthiest champions are reduced , the _exhausted state of our Victim fund , tbe feebleness our agitation exhibits , and . above all , the apathy—I had almost said the criminal ind _. fference—evinced by my countrywomen , constrains me to take up my pen , in the hope that I may succeed in rousing , to some extent , their dormant sympathies . This would Eeem a forlorn hope , when it is considered that the eloquence of the ablest advocates of . Chartism has almost entirely failed in producing each results .

      A few months seo there flourished in this metropolis _eereral female localities , and amongst them those of Bethnal Green and Somers Town stood Tery prominent , in vain I seek them now ; yet never , _rarefy , wat a time wben female associations were more needed than the present ; never , indeed , so badly , Let me then entreat my sisters in the holy cause of human emancipation to arouse themselves , aad form again into _localities diffusing in their respective spheres a knowledge of our principles , collecting monies for Executive and Victim purposes , and lending aid in the thousand ways that woman alone ean do in the causa of progress . _En _* u D . somen Town , January S , 1849 . ••

      Death Op Lord Auckland.—The Close Of The...

      Death op Lord Auckland . —The close of the old year has been signalised by the sndden death of a leading member of the Cabinet . The Earl ef A uckland rose on Saturday morning , apparently in good health , at tbe Grange , iu Hampshire , where he was spending bis Christmas holidays with . Lord _Asbburton . He seemed to te in high health and spirits , and went out to enjoy the amusement of shooting . On a sudden the earl staggered and complained of severe illness , and before he oould be _canvtyed to Lord _Aahburton ' g residence , he waa taken with a fit of apoplexy . The earl continued in the _san-e _dangerous condition up to half-past seven o ' clock on Monday morning , when he expired without having rallied or exhibiting tbe least consciousness of his

      alarmingstate . Ls . rd Auckland occupied , _suocesgi vely , several important offices under Government . When Lord Jobn Russell sucoeeded to office , he was ap . pointed First Lerd of the Admiralty , whioh tffice he held at the time of his death . In 1835 he waB _Goveruer-GMeTalof India . It , was while he presided over the Government of IndiaAbat the _nnjustifiabie _invasion of _Afghanistan took place . It resulted in _reverees which eventually Jed to its evacuation by the _Lnglish forces . He is succeeded in the barony of _Auckland—the original family title—by his only brother , the present Bishop of _Scdor and Man , and lata Vicar of Battersea , better known by his name of tha Hon . and Rev . Robert Eden , who is ia his 49 ih i oar _.

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      __ . \ Wm _^ mmmmmmm- —— _ _, _, . _' ¦¦ ¦ ¦ - -.- - ¦ _..- _¦¦ . LITERARY INSTITUTION , JOHN _BTRBBT , FITZROY SQUARE . SUBJECTS OF FOUR ORATIONS to be delivered by _Tuohas _Coopei , author of ' The _Purgatory-ef Suicides , ' On Tuesday Evenings , during January , . 1819 , In aid of the National Vicrm Fund , for whioh purpose Mr Cooper presents his gratuitous services . Jan . 9 th . —Life , Writing * , and Character Of TBQXAS PaiN £ * 16 th . —Lite . Writings , and Character o ( Wiu . uk Co »« tt . 23 _'ra . —The English Commonwealtht Spirit of Its Founders , andthe causes of their struggle : lawless despotism of Charles I . ; death of tbe patriot Eliot , in the Tower ; Charles ' s last

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      Now Ready , a Hew Edition of UR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS TOE _OaEAKBT EDITION EVflR POBLISBID . Price is . 6 d ., A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of he Author , of _PAINE'S POLITICAL WORKS . JC 3 T PUBLISHED , No . 24 .

      The Northern Star, Saturday. January 6. 1819.

      THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY . JANUARY 6 . 1819 .

      Bull Week. The Week, Nay—We Believe—The ...

      BULL WEEK . The week , nay—we believe—the _fortnight _preceding Christmas , is termed Bull Week by the Sheffield workers . They work double time during that period to enjoy their Christmas leisure more heartily . And what Bull Week before Christmas is to the _Sheffielders , the month before the meeting of Parliament is to the Press—their BULL WEEK . The Press of both factions is now measuring its strength , canvassing for support , and trying up the materials , with which the approaching battle is to be fought , and in truth no pantomime or raree-show ever furnished a more extensive heterogeneous , and varied a stock . The POPE —the SPECIAL , —

      CALIFORNIA — NAPLES - AUSTRIA — PRUSSIA — HUNGARY — ITALY — CHARLES ALBERT — IRELAND - EMIGRATION —Poor Laws - China-India—the United States—Health of Towns ' Bill—M'Gregor— Cobdeii—Louis Philippe—Navigation Laws—Free Trade—Endowment Of Catholic Priests—Godless Collegesi—Area of Taxation— Trial by Jury in Ireland—Trial by Prejudice in England—Financial Reform— - Army , Navy , and Ordnance—Expenditure and

      Retrenchment—Lighter Coats and Knapsacks for Soldiers — New Hats for Policemen — Dockyards—Arsenals—Excise and Customs Dutiesand Reduction of the Royal Household—are presented to the eye ofthe labourer in the great political kaleidescope . John Bull looks , and squints , and strains his eyes to discover his share of the several proposed alterations ; but , as in the pantomime , with a touch of the manager s wand , the object of his admiration vanishes as if by magic , and he discovers that all is a dissolving view .

      Why will not the caterers for the Christmas holidays furnish , us with a good pantomime from this extensive stock ? Howheit . it is but the just licence of the Press . The " Times , " as the organ ofthe existing Government , is . playing its puppets , and the M'Gregor Budget and its notions of Free Trade , against the " Chronicle , " the Cobden Budget and its notions of Free Trade ; but we much mistake the character of John Bull , if he does not insist upon a more important character than that of Harlequin being assigned to him in the pantomime _, _r

      The Pope , the Devil , and the Pretenderthat is , Pius IX ., the Czar Nicholas , and Prince Louis Napoleon , constitute the foreign materials of the Press ; while Emigration , Ire land , and . Reduction of Taxation furnish the domestic stock-in-trade : but we grievousl y err , and sadly misunderstand John ' s temperament , if he will allow his representatives to amuse him with such foreign and domestic moonshine . We are quite ready to admit the power and the influence of the Press , and we can now peruse , without laughter , the communication from

      " OUR OWN CORRESPONDEiYf . " The term we implies—and , of course , confers —diversity , multiplicity , and ubiquity , and , therefore , we can well understand the foreign correspondent of our daily coteraporaries being at , seeing into , and hearing all that passes in the retreat of the Pope , the palace of Charles Albert , and the cloisters of the Quirinal , at one and the same time . Nor d » we now marvel at the fact of

      •• OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT '' taking stock of the toys and baubles sold in every shop in the Palais Rayak , and , at the same time , lamenting over the failing off of traffic in the heavier and more expressive articles , being present at the several Cafes , hearing the mutterings of the advanced guard , the shouts of the populace , arid cow X _7- _^ r _™™ 2 f 0 f ty I 8 Dman t 0 *"*™ NAPOLEON'S Imperial Guard at one and

      , the same time . These gifted individuals see all , hear all , and understand all ; but , curious to say , each puts that construction upon what he sees , hears , and understands , that will best suit the taste of those for whom he is hired to translate . Hence we find that the " Times" will give its version ; and the " Chronicle" will give its version , of the same act , word , or look , and both differing widely as the poles , ¦ ' * _;

      Now , it is not by Parliament but it is by the Press that this country is governed , and the very same causes which led to the levolution in Vienna are now manifesting themselves in . this country and in Ireland . The English Press informed us that it was the rabid and blasphemous matter published by the Jews in Vienna that led te the revolution in that city , and it reproached the authors of those publications with ingratitude , inasmuch as the several disabilities under which the Jews formerly laboured , were being graduall y removed . Silt is precisely with Ireland ; the several disabilities under which the Catholics of _ibnt country have so long suffered are nominally removed , but still the brand of inferiority and

      Bull Week. The Week, Nay—We Believe—The ...

      the badge of conquest remain * and , ss with the Austrian Jew so it is with the Irish Catholie—the brand of inferiority still remains , the sting is deeply implanted , ascendency is yet perpetuated , and those who feel it require but the opportunity to take satisfaction for centuries of galling oppression and degradation . And as it is with the Austrian and the Irish so itis becoming with _the'English . The question of religion and race may- in the olden time , have furnished the factions with ample materials for mustering their forces and

      perpetuating their power ; but those days of bigotry and ignorance have passed away , the progress of mind has established a different standard of representative qualification , and now the most imposing bigot cannot rally the lean bodies of starving Protestants to the cry of "The Church is in danger , " and , therefore , the several parties have adopted a new " CRY , " more in accordance with the taste of John Bull , but which will prove as incomplete and unsatisfactory as that of bi gotry , which they have abandoned .

      Every working man in this country should understand that the approaching contest will be between Russell and patronage , Peel and retrenchment . And we already glean from the new programme , that Russell is about to marshal the Irish landlords under the specious pretext ofgivihg them a Committee upon the Poor Laws , thus keeping this stiff together until their votes shall have bee * secured upon his grand financial policy , and of which they will be hopelessly ignorant , and for which they care not a farthing , so long as they car * relieve themselves from the burden of maintaining their own poor , and so long as they can secure the aid of the military and police in the collection of their rack rents ,

      _Meanwhile , the English working classes must keep their minds steadily and _stedfastlyfixed upon the Labour Question , and the application of domestic industry to the soil of the country . We have frequently told our readers , that too long a preparation generally destroyed the effect of its object , and that when the mind is prepared , the sooner action follows resolve the better ; and although it is not our intention to recommend any , the slightest , infraction of the law- —even with its present narrow limitswe are , nevertheless , determined that while the factions are mustering their forces for the approaching campaign , that the Chartist phalanx shall also exhibit its strength , its unity ,

      and its purpose—and , therefore , on Saturday next we shall propound our defensive system . A . nd let the working classes of England rest assured , that it is in their power to secure for themselves the full fruits of their own industry if they are but true to themselves , while they become an easy prey to the enemy so long as they measure their condition by the comparative scale of indifference , the more fortunate , who may happen to receive a pound a-week , despising , contemning , and scoffing at the less fortunate , who may work harder for ten shillings a-week—while the latter measures his situation by the destitution of the unwilling idler who may be consigned to ihe Bastile .

      The Whig Cabinet will find itself so perplexed with foreign questions of importance , as to render it impossible to refuse concessions to domestic demands . Prince Louis Napoleon , as we predicted , has already assumed the Dictatorship , and our contemporaries , who lauded him when they expected to make him a trump card , now talk of the vanity and folly of the vain man ; while poor John O'Connell is obliged to abandon the scene of his former glory , and accept of a menial situation in the countinghouse of the Saxon .

      In the midst of these several foreign and domestic changes—both political and commercial— -which have taken place , and notwithstanding the several new 'CRIES' and mottoes that have been invented and adopted by the several classes , it should be some consolation to our readers that , in this , the first number for the present year , we adhere to our old principles , both social and political , which are , THE LAND AND THE CHARTER ; while

      we derive no little satisfaction from the fact , that all other countries inEurope are now beginning to adopt our social and political creed . And , in the beginning of the year 1849 , we tell our readers that we would not give a single _stravr for any change that Government may make , until the labourer can select the representative of his own interest , * and that so largely and intricately commercial has this country beeome , that there is no possible field for the exercise of free rabour but the Land .

      The New Poor Law has made it impossible for the industrious cottager—now without the raw material—to compete with the speculating capitalist , and , therefore , every surplus labourer disinherited by machinery must be located upon the Land of his birth , then the labour market will be regulated by the requiting wages standard ; and the monopolisers , forestallers _, and regrators can no longer speculate in human misery , because they can no longer secure a representation of a majority of their order . Therefore , as ' it was with is in the beginning so it shall be to the end , —our motto shall be , "THE LAND AND THE CHARTER . "

      A Pill For Peel And The Usurers. Among T...

      A PILL FOR PEEL AND THE USURERS . Among the many memorable events which will _cfiuse the year 1848 to stand boldly out in history , not the least astonishing is the discovery of a country , as large as the whole of England , which throws into shade the classical stories of the golden sands of Pactolus , and realises the dreams of an El Dorado , or land of gold A tract of land , at least 500 miles in length , has been discovered in Upper California , the soil of which

      is saturated with the precious metal , which is also found in lumps among the rocks , sometimes in pieces weighing as much as thirteen pounds , The territory is part of that recently acquired by the United States from Mexico , and the excitement caused by the discovery of its almost incredibly abundant stores of the precious metal , among all classes of our transatlantic neighbours , is unparalleled . The anxiety , to be off to the happy valley , where gold may be _p-cked up with as much ease almost as pebbles b y the sea-shore in other placesi amounts to a mania . Ships am

      chartered for the port of San Francisco by the dozen ; and in the territory itself every other kind of occupation is abandoned . The field and the workshop are alike deserted . The { soldiers desert from the garrison , und leave the governor to cook his own meals—the . sailors abandon their vessels the moment they reach the coast—in short , all ranks and conditions of men are off and away to the " gold digg ings . " Rumours of the metallic riches of the

      district have for some time past been rife , both in this country and in the United States ; but it seemed so improbable that a metal , which all past experience bad shewn to exist but sparingly even in the richest mines , was tobe found profusely scattered over such a vast extent of country , that few believed it . It was said , that some parties had analysed the so-called gold , and found it was nothing but a yellow glittering sort of mica of no value ) and this seenied so much more like the truth that it was generally credited .

      There can , however , be no doubt whatever ofthe fact thai a region has been found , in which gold abounds to an extent never before known . The President of the United States , in his last _mess-. ige , has annexed an official report from the military commandant of California , which leaves no doubt of the existence of very rich and extensive veins in the mountains of the northern part of the Peninsula . Colonel Mason visited San Francisco on the 20 th of June last , and found the town almost deserted , nearl y the whole of its male _inhabitant having gone to the mines . On arriving at Sutler ' s Port , where the _treasuret were

      A Pill For Peel And The Usurers. Among T...

      accidentally brought to . light , he found a scene of excitement and business of the most startling character . It had been previously the residence of a very few inhabitants , but there were . there then _upwards offour _thousand men at work , and though the apparatus for washing the gold was of the most crude and primitive description , the quantity of gold obtained in about three months was very _large , 50 , 000 or 00 , 000 dollars' worth being obtained every day ! from three to four pounds sterling being a common price for a day labourer . The specimens of the gold sent to the President of the States have been ana-« % * . A 1 1 J 1 __ A ? J — _* _..-.. » - » . . *

      lysed at the Mint , in Philadelphia , and Mr Paterson _, the director , reports that it possesses an average fineness of 894 , which is slightly below the standard fineness , that being 900 . It is estimated that there is sufficient ore to employ 100 , 000 persona for generations to come . In the whole district in which it is found , and which—so far as yet discovered—is about 500 miles long and 150 broad , it is most abundant ; no particular portion seems more productive than another . In the river and on the flat lands the gold dust is found . In the high lands it is got in lumps , from the size ofa

      man ' s hand tothe size of an ordinary duck shot , all of which is solid , and presents the appearance of having been thrown up by a volcanic eruption . The climate is salubrious , so much so that the hastily-congregated population at Sutter ' s Fort were sleeping under the trees , the all-absorbing gold-finding leaving no time even for the erection of tents , or " shantiea . " As a consequence of the neglect of all other pursuits and the plentifulness of gold , the price of all kinds of provisions , clothing , and other necessaries waa enormously high ; and , no doubt , a very large portion of this golden harvest will find its way into the pockets of the

      traders who resort there to supply the wants of the gold seekers . The discovery of this region of treasure cannot fail to have a powerful influence upon the industrial and financial position of every nation in the world , and especially upon Great Britain . This is the only country in which a gold standard of the currency has been established , and from that circumstance , combined with its immense mercantile transactions , it is probable that a very large proportion of the new gold will find its way here . If so , a revolution of a more important nature than that of France , Austria , Prussia , or Italy will take place—a rerolution in the exchangeable value of gold .

      We are of those who believe that the Act of 1819 committed an extensive and unjustifiable robbery upon the productive classes , for the benefit of money owners , tax eaters , annuitants , and all persons with fixed incomes . The tendencies of that Act have been more full y developed , and the screw which it puts upon industry , tightened by the Act of 1844 , which expressly enacts that , in proportion as gold leaves the country the paper circulation shall diminish , thus cutting off the power of purchasing from both ends at once . The result ot the scarcity of gold has been , to give to all persons of fixed incomes at least double the commodities for their money that

      they would otherwise have procured , or than were procurable by them previous to the Act of 1819 , under an expansive currency . Every attempt to loose the strangling hands of this system of currency from the neck of industry has been stoutly and successfully resisted by Sir R . Peel and his abettors , in the financial policy of which he may be called the founder . They have laid it down as an axiom , that the only real standard of value is gold of a certain weight and fineness , and the infallible mode of preventing _fluctuations in that standard is to keep the price of Minted gold at 31 . 17 s . 10 __ d . an ounce , neither more nor less . To the facts which showed that

      gold , like all other commodities , rose and fell in price , according to demand and supplyand the argument based upon these facts , that a thing which fluctuated in its own value , could not , therefore , be an invariable standard , by which to measure everything else , they have retorted by ingenious theories and puzzling sophistries , which have sufficed to maintain their ascendency . We trust , inthe " good time coming * " that , having had the advantage of their scheme while gold was scarce , they will stand by it when it becomes plentiful . We must keep them to their bargain . The twenty-eight millions of interest , in what is called the National Debt , if paid in gold—when we hav e double the amount of that metal ia

      circulation to what we have now—will only purchase half the wheat , beef , clothes , tea , wine , and other comforts and luxuries they now do . But the fundholders have had their turn , and they must not grumble when the turn of the producer of wealth comes . The Judges , Bishops , Ministers of State , and Placemen of all kinds , who had their salaries raised under the old system of an expansive Currency and high priceB , but who forgot to have them cut down again when we reverted to a restrictive Gold Currency and low prices , must not complain when the circumstances under which

      their present salaries were granted come round again . It is true , they will have to pay more for the frujts of honest labour , and , perhaps , be thereby unable to accumulate such immense fortunes as they now do , but their loss will be the gain of the whole community . The real wealth of all nations must be augmented in proportion to the increase of the precious metal , so long as that shall continue by common consent to be the Currency of nations . Its own value may fall in consequence

      ofits abundance . The possessors of gold may find the value of their hoards diminishing , as cargo after cargo from the new El Dorado is poured out upon our shores—but the producers , the tillers of the soil , the swart and sturdy artisans and labourers in the workshops , will know no diminution of their resources , with markets opening for their labour , and increased remuneration , er , in other words , the power of keeping a larger portion ofits products for their own use .

      This view of the general tendency of an in * crease of money , to act as a stimulus to industry , may appear to some of our readers to be fanciful or overstrained . But we believe all experience is in its favour . The money need not he metal coin to produce this effect . Mr _Huskisson , -in his speech upon Mr Tierney _' _s Currency motion , in 1818 , distinctly asserted that the facility then enjoyed by England of extending her paper circulation , had produced the most beneficial effect , not only upon this country , but also upon all the Continent of Europe , b y setting free a large amount of gold for European use , which otherwise would have been required by us . He said— " It was

      like the effect that had been found to arise from the discovery of the mines of America ; for , by increasing the circulating medium over the world , to the amount of forty millions , it proportionably facilitated the means of barter , and gave a stimulus to industry . " And , by way of showing the specific effect of an increase of money , he stated that " from the year 1658 to 1754 , there had not been one Bill of Enclosure , and this country imported corn . There were , from 1754 to 1796 , during which time there had been a rapid increase of the circulating medium b y imports from the mines of America , Bills of Enclosure to the number of 3 , 500 , and this country became an exporting country . " _i

      We anticipate a similar stimulus to industry from the discovery of the new mines in California , - and it should be the dutv of the leaders of the people , and the people themselves , to see that they reap the full advantage of that discovery . Providence has put in their own reach that which our legislators denied us , an increase of the commodity which represents wealth our means of producing that wealth are almost iUimitable-and if things were rationall y arranged , our power _1 WT _. T _^ _W * be « _A expansive . But a restricted Currency fetters enterprise and industry . It holds down the industrial energies of a country , inflicts artificial & te .

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      .. _!¦!* .. ¦• . _¦«*¦•* * _lks-t nsntl # 11 * 1 / 1 _It / _llf A ft XT lltl / lfl _FflA rilitjr upon the soil , and poverty upon tha people . We care little whether the money of a nation be paper or gold , ' so that it be issued under proper regulations , and be sufficiently abundant for the purposes of production and distribution : But , as the great mass of mankind seem to have made up their minds that gold is the best material to use as a standard , we are very happy to find that , in future years , that commodity will become more plentiful . It will do more io set mills at work , to re-kindle the blown out furnaces of ouir iron works , to restore cheerful activity to now - silent workshops , and to promote _agricultural improvement , than the great panacea of th « Free Traders , which has , indeed , proved " a meckery , a delusion , and a snare . "

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      We beg to call the attention ot the reader to the following STATE OF IRELAND , and from it he will be able to draw a distinction between tlie management of Mr Charles Colthurst , as published in Mr O'Connor ' s Letter ; and that of those landlords who , from neglect of duty , have allowed the amount necessary for the support of idlers , who might have been profitably employed , to exceed the whole rental of their " estates ; and a very wholesome lesson may also be gathered from the frightful catalogue of incendiarism im Ulster , the Protestant , and heretofore most tranquil and best satisfied province of Ireland * _, and from these conflagrations , and from the fact that the mortgagee , the Jew-jobber , and

      griping solicitor have now superseded the landlord , the loyalty of this heretofore magistrate , grand juror , yeomanry captain , loyal Protestant Orangeman , and good subject , will henceforth be measured by a very different ; standard . His protection being gone , his allegiance will very speedily ooare out of his fingers ' ends ; whereas , had he faithfully discharged his duty , his estate , instead of being unable to pay his quota of poor rates , would have been in the same condition as Sir Nicholas Colthurst ' s , as described by Mr Charles Colthurst . And as Irish land has heretofore been cultivated according to the standard of patronage and pride , and not by the science of agriculture , we do not feel any great regret at the serious lesson dear-bought experience has taught them ; while we do feel sorrow

      that their recklessness and negligence has reduced the poor to such an unparalleled state of destitution . However , we shall no doubt be again glutted witb the " area of taxation , " individual exertions of honourable members _,, and their strong desire to do all that lies in their power to support the Government in their loyal and praiseworthy endeavours to make the suppression of rebellion and restoration of peace the precursor to remedial measures . As Grattan _s-iid- " Three million Irish slaves will rivet Britain ' s chains ; " and we much doubt that the number is not now exceeded , while we learn that , at this inclement season of the year , no fewer than ten transports , capable of STOWING AWAY 2 , 500 slaves eacb , are rapidly securing their cargo in the Cork river .

      _"AIbbI poor country , Almost afraid ( 0 kaow itself !" Your little leader has fled*—your friends are entombed in dungeons or consigned to banishment , while Saxon land is threatened as the scene of future Irish agitation by . your absconding chief .

      _cosriBcmoit . The _Cosx ExAatiKEB of Wednesday says—* ThiB lathe only term that oan be applied to ithe present perilous condition ofthe Ban ' - ; union . _Po-itirely _, sad _itltfcoat exaggeration . Its property U on the Tery _rergs of _ceuS-cstion , To clear off _present * debts , and strike a rate sufficient for the support of its 9 , 000 paupers , the cases for tbe next twelve months will tqaal _, if not exceed , tho entire _raluaiion of the union ! Tbis is a cheer . iBg _proipect with a Vengeance . But it le what might bave been expected in a distriot where landlords refused to give leases , would not allow compensation for tm . proretnents , declined giving employment , and were never la _earncBt attempting any useful or _benovolent undertaking . ' And reall y , from the following statement , descriptive ofthe state of ths union , the term ' coatisctttioa * U not much misapplied : —

      ' There are in the B-ntty _worfebouse over 2 300 _individuals ; of tbese , tbere are of children , 1 , 200 ; of ablebodied men 393 , aod of able-bodied women 600 , leaving the class of old ana infirm at a very low fignre indeed . _Batides these in tbe house , there sre out-door recipient * of union relief , as I have already Btated , about 6 , 700 , wbich will give you a _to'al ef p « _npers _ip tbe Banlry anion , amounting to 9 , 00 ) , or thereabouts . This is a frl _f _httnl amount of pauperism Id a union much smaller than that oi _Skibbereon , and much less able to support such a mass of _mendicancy than perhaps any union ia trelan * . By contrasting the valustioa of the Bantry union with that of Skibbereen , aad tbe present amount of paupers relieved in each , vou will instantly perceive

      that , bsd ss is the oondltion of the Utter , that of Bantry is worse . The valuation of the _Skibbereen union is £ 91 , 000 , that of Bantry is but £ 37 , 000 ; the number of paupers in the former is _something over 12 000 , whilst that of the latter is 9 , 000 . Here , then , In Bantry yoa _bBTepaupere equal to _threcfourths of those in Skibbereen , whilst the property taxed for their support is valued at but little more thin one-third . You can from this form an opinion of the burden the ratepayers of the Bantry Union will have to benr in tbe ensuing year ; and , be . forel proceed to show you how very badl y prepared the landholders of that district are to meet the fearful amount of taxation likely to be levied on them , I will first refer to the present state of the finances of the

      union . ' Perhaps , in Ireland , there is not a union , not excepting that of _Westport , whose finances are in a more deranged _' eondition than those of Bantry . It is difficult to _kscertain the exact amount of debt incurred and due by this union ; but when I put it down at £ 16 , 000 , 1 am confident , from aU 1 could learn , that I am under the figure . _Aureat deal of this is said to be owing to the bad ma . _nngementof the old board , who were _princ pally landed proprietors , and as sueh , were atixious to save t _' _jelr own pockets by striking smail and insufficient rates . I am able to state , on the best authority , that there are due by the Bantry guardians , or actual pressing debts , and for the greater portion of which decrees have baea Obtained against thsm -. bout £ 7 , 0 _W , to meet which there remains uncollected of the last rate struck a sum of £ l , 5 oe or £ 1 , 680 , whilst their weekly _expvuditure exceeds £ 300 , with a very strong probability of its increasing ere loner to £ 400 . **

      ' I will now endeavou" to show you as accurately as I ean the amount of r » te which it will be necessary t » raise off the property of tho Bantry Union for the next twelve months . The poor rate for the past year amounted . " to £ 13 , 209 , to raise which , on a valuation of _^ ' 37 , 000 , would require a rate of something over 6 s 6 d in _tfit poxmd . But as 1 have before me , in a more accurate table , the cost of the Skibbereen Union for the past year and the ra _<« being there a general union one , and not struck on the electoral division rately , as iu Bantry it will be , 1 think , more simple if , by inquiring into the expenses of that union I can give jou anything like an accurate idea of what those of Bantry will be . I will reckon the _Skibbereon Union paupers for the past year at Its present number of 12 , 000 , and take the expensesfor that period as sufficient to support even the present in .

      _creasea number of persons dependent there on the poor law for sustenance . The poor-rate for tbe last year amounted , in the Skibbereen Union , to over _-f ? 30 _, U 00 -you will keep in mind that , though it was necessary to strike this amount of rate , the number of paupers was not at all so great as that from which I draw my deductions . If , then , for the support of 12 , 000 paupers it is necessary to strike a rata amounting to je 3 n , 000 , it is very evident that the support of 9 , « 0 in the aame proportion _, will amount to _£ ii , o 0 j . Again , the Tithe Kent Charge and County Cess increased the _tnvatlon of th «

      _SKtbbereen Union to £ 47 . 0 ' 0 ; the increase , yoa will _hercsive , being about £ 17 , 000- The valuation ofthe Bantry ? , * ¦ _£ ? teing 8 l > nietbing more tban one-third of that of Skibbereen , I think I shall not be over the figure when I put down those taxes in this union at £ c , ooi > _, which , added to the above poor-rate , will _amOBUt to £ 28 , 508 , t » wi ich add the £ 7 , 000 amount of actual pressing claims on the union , and you will have a total of £ 35 , 500 , very nearly the amount of the value of the property of the entire union . * * Sow as to the condition , ofthe landlords of the union , and the utter _impos'ibiiity of t eir being able to meet this taxation , 1 will lay before jou a short statement . Nearly the entire of tbe landed property situated in the Bantry Urion is owned by some five or six large proprietors . With scarce an exception , alltheseproprietors are , to speak in the mildest terms , a « little embarrassed '

      just now . As an instance—a friendly mortgagee , as inthe case of Mr R . H . _Bscher _, is about to foreclose a _mortgnfeheldon one of the estates of these proprietors , by which one half the entire _[ jroperty will be brought to the hammer . Another of this class is said to be non est , and a receiver is about to be placed o * er his ancestral estate _, _i-rora theie you may ima . ine the present position of the other proprietors , which , if tbe 'truth werp knOWn _. 'iS perhaps not vary much better . Tou can also anticipate the eriect vrlnck rates , amounting for the next year to withm a fraction of tweuty shillings in the pound , * will produce on the present very critical state of their finances . The wiseacres who say that the present system of Poor Law will have the effect of changing tht » proprietary of the country will , it is thought , hud thoir _anti .-ipqtSuns very nearly correct , as far as this uu _' on ik concerned . '

      ISCKNDUK 1 BM IS Ul . STEIt . The Belfast Cukonicle of yesterday says , —« Wehav «> been inlormed that several acts of' mccndKi-ism were committed on Saturday evening in various places in the county of Down , by which property to a large amount bas been _destroyed . This cirwamaauce is to be muoh regretted , particularly on account of thehitherto quiet and peaceable _character of this county . The names and plaees of abode ofthe parties whose property has thus been consumed we subjoin : - Hr Boyd , Bloomfield , one m « p ™ : _* n ? » CaWn HiU ' « tMk * of hay , Mrs Urson , near Dandouald , a corn stack ; Captain

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 6, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_06011849/page/4/