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    • NEW TALE RY G. W. M. REYNOLDS. An exccUent ovportuiiity nnw presents itself for new subscribers to commence taking in
    • TO THE EDITOR , OF TIIE "XORTHEBS S T A R."
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    • THE HOBTHEM STAR SATURDAY, APRIL T, 1849.
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      Their Lect Or Selfishness Has Apbil 7,18...

      Apbil 7 , 1849 . 4 THE NORTHERN STAR __ _ _..- ¦ — ¦ _= -

      New Tale Ry G. W. M. Reynolds. An Exccuent Ovportuiiity Nnw Presents Itself For New Subscribers To Commence Taking In

      NEW TALE RY G . W . M . REYNOLDS . An _exccUent ovportuiiity nnw presents itself for new subscribers to commence taking in

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      REYNOLDS'S MISCELLANY . Edited et G . W . iL Retxolds . Anthorof the First and Second Series of " The Mysteries of London , " "Faust , " "Wagner , the Wehr-wolf , " "The Mysteries ofthe Court of London , " & c , & . C In No . 3 S . latclj' published , commenced an entirely new and original romance , bj _Geouce \ V . M . Reynolds , entitled

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      TO TAILORS . _, 3 y approbation of Her Majes _^ _Qucenyictona and _Bu Royal ffisJmess Priuee Albert _rriWE _LOTOOX _^ _and PARIS SPRING 1 Za _srilMElt FASHIONS for 1849 , by Messrs . BEX-¦ rTirfVHPAUandCo 1 _*> Hart-street Blooinsbury-square , £ _Sf _amTbv GEOHGB BERGER , _HolyweU-street , _l _^ rand : a splendid PRINT , _elaborately finished , and _su-« _? Mr c « Wd , ti , e LANDSCAPE , a correct view in the _ti-Ws Botanical Gardens , London , { by special pernus-£ _iwi ) the most magnificent p lace in Europe . This beautiful picture wiU be accompanied with tlie most novel , good fitting , and fashionable Dress , Riding , Frock , and Hunting Coat Patterns , both double and single-breasted ; Hussar ' s o-- Youth ' s round Jackets , plain and with skirts ; single and double-breasted Dress , Morning and Evening Waistcoats ; al _*< ' the most fashionable and newest style Habit Pattern ; every particular part of each pattern fully explained , and an illustration of even-thing respecting Style and Fashion ; To-ice ms . Sold by Read and Co ., 12 . Hart-street , Bloomsbuvv-square , London ; G . Berger , _Holywell-street , Strand ; and ' all BookseUers in T < . _mi and Counfcy .

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      TO THE DEMOCRATS OP CREAT BRITAIN . THERE will he llISPOSED OF , by SCBSCRE'TION , on the principle of the Art-Unions , TWO BEAUTIFUL PLAIDS , OF O'CONSOR AND DONCOMBE TARTANS . Thev are of the finest quality , are suited for the wear ol ether * _Iaily or Gentleman -, and wiUUe _^ for inspection , at the sbcp oi Mr . lhciUXD Bcesett , stationer , 177 , Fountain Bridge , Edinburgh . They will be forwarded to the successful subscriber by such conveyance as he may desire . Tlie ubscription Sale win " take place in Boss ' s University Temperance Hotel , 59 , South Bridge , on the 18 th of ApriL at Seven o ' clock in the Evening . Proceeds to he given to tiie Victim Funds of England and Scotland . Scbscbiitioxs : _—Sixpesce each , to be paid or remitted in _JoEtage Stamps or Post-omce Orders , to Mv . Burkett , as above .

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      A BARGAIN . _01 _STB PAID-UP POUR-ACRE SHARE ia tiie National Land Company . Price , £ 3 . Direct to W . O . Baker , 5 * 1 , George ' _s-gwve , Holloway .

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      • TO BE SOLD , A FOUR-ACRE SHARE in tlie National Land Company . Any reasonable offer wiU be accepted , as the holder is about to emigrate to America . For particulars , apply , ( if by letter prepaid ) , to Mr . "John nenicombe , 17 , little Grosvenor-street , Berkeley-Square .

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      WEST RIDING MEETING . A CAMP MEETING WILL BE HELD O- to-morrow ( Sunday ) afternoon , at two o ' clock , at Stanningley , between Leeds and Bradford . Several weUiiwwn advocates of tho Rights of the People will address the meeting . As this is tha _connneneemattof the Summer Meetings it is hoped that all favourable to the Charter will attend . Let it be attended by thousands , and Yorkshire raise its voice for "Tlie Charter and No Surrender . "

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      O'CONXORYILLE . TO BE SOLD , THE RIGHT OF LOCATION of a TWO-ACRE ALLOTMENT in a good situation and much improved , _wlfli a large Oufliouse , Pigsties , Iron Builer , and every other convenience , _yvhii a certainty ofa plentiful supply of water . One Acre of the land is cropped with winter wheat , and the rest is ready for spring operations , with seed , potatoes , and manure . Immediate possession may be had for the sum of £ 1-5 . Further information may be had by applying ( if by letter post-paid and stamp for reply ) to Mr . John Hornby , _3 _fo . 1-5 , Northani's-buUdingSj Sknjner-sbvet , Somers-town , Xondon .

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      _JCO MORE PILLS , nor any other Medicine for Indij-estion , Irr « snlariry of the Intestines , Flatulency , Palpitation of the Heart , Torpidity of the Liver , persisting Headaches , _Nervousness , Biliousness , General Debility , _Uespondeucy , Spleen , & e . Price Cd ., or 8 < L post-free , royal , gilt , 2 s ; or free b y pos t _^ 2 s . Cd . ( in stamps ) , fifth Edition of DU BARRY'S POPULAR TREATISE OS _IXUIGESTIOX and COXSTIPATION ; the main causes of Nervousness , Biliousness , Scrofula , Liver Com-Bhduts , Spleen , & c and flieirRadicalllemoval , entitled the 'Natural Regenerator of the Digestive Organs , " without _joUs , purgatives , or medicines of any kind , by a simple , pleasant , economical , and infaUible means ; adapted to the _gwia-al reader . Du Barry and Co ., 73 , New Bond-street , London ; also , of "W liittaker & Co . ; and aU other bookseUers . Sent post-free at the same price to Prussia .

      To The Editor , Of Tiie "Xorthebs S T A R."

      TO THE EDITOR , OF TIIE _"XORTHEBS S T A R .

      Sib,—Knowing That Tho Columns Of Your Va...

      Sib , —Knowing that tho columns of your valuable paper are open at all times for thc defence of the interests of the poor man—as well as the powerful advocate of those princi ples which would tend to exalt and improve his condition—I have ventured to intrude upon your space , for the insertion of a case of fraud that has been practised upon the members of the Reading branch of the National Land Company , l > y their secretary , Ephraim Rous , who has decamped , and left the branch minus of a great number of pounds—the exact amount it ia impossible to say , as he has received at his own house a great deal of money . He has cither taken the principal books with him , or destroyed them ; but wc find already , from a return from London , that the defalcations

      upon the different shareholders who have not paid up , is shameful , and so flagrant , that we believe such an ingenious mode as he adopted was almost without precedent ; more particularly the transfer department . With shame be it spoken , this indi-• vidual has for some length of time professed himself io be an ardent worker m the cause of human progress . We have—like other branches of thc Land Company—had many difficulties to encounter , and many of our members have had to make many sacrifices , and adopt many and various modes , to enable them to become paid-up shareholders , in order , also , to forward the interests of the Company . You may easily imagine the dismay and confusion that is spread among our ranks .

      We would not have trespassed upon your columns did we not feel that an individual , in * his position , taking advantage ofthe confidence that was placed in Mm , and plundering his fellow-workmen of their linrd earnings—their small tributes that they had paid , in the earnest hope of being the means of carrying out a system that they were watching with intense interest , as calculated tO improve their condition , and elevate them in thc scale of societydeserved exposure , and more particularly as it is the only way we can punish him . Our branch is the first that has been defrauded b y any of its officers , that wc have heard of , and we trust that ourposition will act as a caution to other branches . We believe intemperance , with its attendants , have led him to commit the fraud .

      We would fainly hope that our brother Chartists , andfcUow-workmen , will see the necessity . of endeavouring to bring the weight of their united influence upou society , ia such a manner as to show their good sense and integrity , and honesty of purpose . With such propriety of conduct , and a firm advocacy of their principles , they cannot long fail to obtain such a redress of national wrong , and a speedy enactment of such Laws as would enable every honest man to live by the sweat of his own brow , and become a useful member of society , as weU as ran ornament to a civilised nation , instead of being Steeped in degrading habits , which can onlv serve to

      perpetuate the present system , which is the earnest wish of our oppressors . I hope you will not think _S _^ _Si _* 4100 _^ _^ _k 5 ™ " - _finable journal upon this occasion , and we alsoindulge our-• _selves in the hope _^ that should this indiyiduaf make _itiSESSSELlr _*""** jEm 5 _" 3 £ _wi . uie _iflnu Company , he may meet that cn . < tti < r _< itinn which he so richly deserves and justl y S & In conclusion we trust , we shall be * _enJuritorJt ourforces together again , under the _ILdardl & Chartism , ana * lead on ultimately , till welon _qJe ? notwithstanding some impediments and obstructions may be thrown in our way . On behalf of the members ofthe Reading branch ofthe _National Land Company , H . Eiiis , Sec . _wro . tern .

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      TUE _CUEAFEST EDITION EVEB PUBLISHED . Pries ls . Gd ., A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of the Author , of PAIHE'S POLITICAL WORKS . Now Ready , a _Wew Edition of MR . _Q'OONHOn _' S WOBK OH SMALL FARMS . Just published , No . III . _Pri" Sixpence , OF THE _COMMOHWEALTH : A MONTHLY RECORD OF DEMOCRATIC , SOCIAL & INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS "THE _COMMONWEALTH" will be the Representative of the Chartists , Socialists , and Trades' Unionists , in the MonUily Press . contents : 1 . What is to be done with Ireland ? 2 . The Weaver ' s Daughter . 3 . Extinction , of Pauperism . 4 . Popular Cause in Europe . 5 . Social Eifects of Peasant Proprietorship . 6 . The Hero . 7 . Events ofthe Month . Communications for the Editor , Books for Review , & c , to be forwarded to the Office , 16 , Great Windmfll-street , Haymarkct , London . Sold by J . Watson , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternosterrow , London ; A . Heywood , Oldhatn-stveet _, Manchester - , and Love and Co ., -5 , Nelson-street , Glasgow . And by aU BookseUers in Town , and Country .

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      Mr. K-Cdd,—It Was Stated In Last Saturda...

      Mr . _K-cdd , —It was stated in last Saturday's Star that Mr . Kydd ' s letter was _uhavoidaM _* - postponed . It appears in this day ' s paper . We have received the following : —Sm , —I have had my hand in my pocket for years supporting the cause of Chartism , and yet you have not given me an answer to a question forwarded to you three weeks ago , and for which I paid a penny , it was as follows : _^ - I owe a few pounds to a few creditors , ( one is a loan society , ) I am obli ged to go out of the country : if they ' ascertain this can they stop my goods on board , or arrest me , and how soon could they obtain power to do either ? I Should tell VOU that the paper I signed for the loan declares that the furniture in my house is mine . I am too poor to pay for the information required . I shall feel extremely obliged to you for the answer . Yours , very sincerely , " T . E ., Mile End . , .

      [ The impudent assurance ot the writer oi the above is , we should suppose , almost matchless . He has had " his hand iu his pocket , & c ., " and thenfan he expects us to give Mm legal advice . We haye nothing to do with law matters , and therefore were we disposed to serve him could not do so . But if we knew as much of the law as the Attorney-General is supposed to know , wo would see T . E— - at Jericho before we would give him any other answer than the following : —If T . E . designs to play the swindler ' s game we trust that he will suffer both iu goods and person . We strongly doubt that such a man would put his hand into his pocket to support any good cause . But be that as it may , we tell him that Chartism would only he dishonoured by his support . Rogues and swindlers may call themselves Chartists , but true Chartists will denounce and repudiate all such false friends and real enemies to

      our sacred cause . ] Mr . _Bcekett , Edinburgh . —We have received the list of seventy-one subscribers to the Tartans - _, but it would he impossible for us to find space to attach their names and residences to the advertisement . Messrs . Stses and Locku * , Beeford—Must send copies of tlie advertisements , with 4 s . Cd . each for insertion . Many persons write as though the Northern Star was the property of the land Company , and think we are bound to write advertisements , iusert them gratis , and transact their business by communicating with applicants . They are labouring under very erroneous notions , and must brook disappointment . w _" . SAsmaisoy , Galashiels . —We received it at the office , but did not forward it as directed , l _' oor man I wc pity you , but caunot serve you by delivering your sleepy epistle . Your dream was returned by following post . If " not known among Chartists , " don't rob your employer of time hy looking after other people's affairs . We are sure tlie Chartists will not trouble you , only

      remain in your obscurity . Balaam ' s ass might have a call , but he was more sagacious than you . Jajies Fernet , Netherton . We cannot _' answer your question . You had better search the old Stars in the possession of some of your neighbours . _Gsobge Demai . v , Bradford . —We did not insert your former letter because our columns were otherwise occupied , and for the same reason we cannot insert your present communication . _Roia-nT Keowa _* , and N . _U . C . S . —We cannot answer your questions . Oldham , —All Chartist communications must he addressed to the Secretary , Mr , James Cooper , Ti , Hatcliffe-street , near the Church , Oldham . Johx _ITatton-, Oldham Yes ; but it is seldom enforced if it is not the general occupation by which you live . We have frequently stated that we cannot answer legal ( Uiestions . J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums , sentherewiUi : viz—Foil Defence Foxd . —Air . Knott , 3 d . ; Mr . Perkins , 'Jd Fob Yiciiii Fusd . —Mv . Chipiudale , Ud . ; Mr . Hull , Id .

      Notice To Land Members. Notice Is Hereby...

      NOTICE TO LAND MEMBERS . Notice is hereby given , that every occupant upon the Company ' s Estates , whether lie he tenant or purchaser , and who has not refunded the amount due to the Company upon taking possession , will he served with an ejectment , and will he ousted in the _ajjproaching term , aud no exception whatever will be made .

      The Hobthem Star Saturday, April T, 1849.

      THE HOBTHEM STAR SATURDAY , APRIL T , 1849 .

      " Tlie Folly Of To-Day Is The Wisdom Of ...

      " Tlie folly of to-day is the wisdom of the morrow i " HOPE FOR THE MILLIONS . THE LAND .

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      Never was the maxim , that " the folly of to-day may be the wisdom ofthe morrow , " more aptly or happily illustrated than in the dissipation of that lowering cloud which so long hovered over and mystified tho senses of prominent Free Traders , as regards the Land , its value , and capabilities . "Every dog will have his day , and now for Bull y , " is an old Irish phrase . "It is a long lane that has no turn , " is as old an English p hrase ; and the truth of both has been realised in the ( satisfaction that our readers will derive from , the perusal of the following advertisement , which appeared in the " Dail y News " of last week , as well as in other metropolitan , and several provincial , papers . Here follows the gem .:

      —FREEHOLDS FOR THE MILLION . TWO ACHES OF FREEHOLD LAND FOR £ 25 10 s . NORTHAMPTON AND MIDLAND COUNTIES FREEHOLD LAND _ASSOCIATION

      _rATHON'S . RICHARD COBDEN , Esq ., M . P . WILLIAM SCilOLEFIELD , Esq ., M . P ., Birmingham . Ba _\ -eebs . — The Northamptonshire Union Joint Stock Banking Company . SoMcrroB . —Mr . G . Cooke , Northampton . _SECEETiUtv . —Mr . Frederick Parker , Wood-street , Northampton . " Union is Strength . " " Counties must be won before tlio House of Commons can * be Reformed , and a Cheap Government Established . " Tlie ohjectof this Society is to unite aud procure county _yotes for the middle classes , and to elevate tlie working man to the -suffrage by possessing a freehold of his own . and it is fervently hoped that those who appreciate an extension ofthe franchise and who value a freehold will immediatel y become members . From the liberal politician and free trader the promoters Ofthe Northampton and Midland Counties Freehold Land Association expect every encouragement .

      Arrangements have been made , and near 1 , 000 acres of freehold land secured in a midland county , which it is proposed to divide into 4 S 0 lots of two acres each , of equal value : these lots ( supposing , for instance , tlie first allotment to be 20 U lots or shares ) shaU be offered to the first *" 00 members good upon the books according to seniority of membership , and if any member would prefer to be omitted , the shares to be ottered to the next momber , nntil 200 members are found willing to ballot for the Said lots , and so on until the whole 450 lots are disposed of . The Society wiU he able to seU out two acres of this land to each member for £ 2510 s ., which sum will include the costs of the conveyance . , "

      It is proposed that each member shaU pay 10 s . per month , so that in four years—at that rate of _paymenteveiy memher good upon the books wiU be in possession of two acres of freehold land , upon which he can build a cottage and cultivate the land himself , or he can let it at a rent of £ 110 s . per acre , thus making a good investment , and securing a vote for the county . Any memher may , however , at any time , pay up the whole amount , and have his conveyance handed to him ; or a member having paid a part of his suhscriptiens _, and being anxious to have his two acres , may , by giving a mortgage tothe society , have it conveyed . ¦ The ballot for the lots will be as Mows : —The names of the members will be placed in a box and drawn singly ; the first name drawn will take tlie two acres marked " No .

      1 , the second " Jfo . 2 , * ' and so on until aU are drawn . The deeds will then be made , and tlie mortgage ( if necessary ) executed to the trustees , for the repayment of the amount due upon the lani From practical experience it is known that an industrious man may support himself , wife , and family , upon two acres of land . WORKING _MEff OF ENGLAND . '—To you this appeal is made Your own enfranchisement is within your reach ; be independent and noble-minded . The British Legislature , _5 f _A „ _^ ? . ! -iority » toW Joseph Hume , Esq ., M . P ., you , _"Vol . _"^ _" ? Men of England . " were unworthy ofa ask fni * w _^ _you me to possess it . Cease to the _cansTL > vmch _* _w _*** _bJ' your frugality obtain . To , tna cause of your own freedom you lire invited : tothe

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      brilliant deed of your own political redemption you are now challenged . .,, / ,. The House of Commons will not reform itself ; the work is the people ' s . Counties must be won to wake tlie House of Commons in practice what now it is only in . theory" The House of the People . " No person to hold more than five shares . Applications for shares ( post-paid ) to be made to the solicitor ; Mr Parker , thc secretary ; Mr . James Taylor , tho secretary to the Birmingham Freehold Land Society , NewhaU-street , _Bh-minghnm . Name , residence , and business , to be correctly stated in applications for shares . So soon as the shares are taken a president , trustees , treasurer , and a committee , will be chosen b y the shareholders to conduct the business of tlie society .

      Persons residing in any part of England may become shareholders , as non-residence does not disqualify a voter . Northampton , March 20 , 1849 . Header , what think you now of Bull y and the long lano ? Do you not think that Bull y ' s day is come , and that the long laxe has had its turn ? We give the above , however , not as the text of a violent sermon , or acrimonious criticism upon the propouuders , hut as proof of the fact , that "thefollyofto-daymay he the wisdom of the morrow . "

      So far from treating this project or its projectors with harshness or vituperation , we congratulate them upon thc restoration of their senses , and hail them as co-operators in the great and glorious work of man ' s redemption and their country ' s regeneration . Unlike our contemporaries , we publish the advertisement without charge ; while the absence of newspaper abuse of this plan is based upon the fact , that they will derive benefit from its adoption .

      Let us now analyse the main features of this promised " liberty to the millions , " and let us contrast them with those of the universally reviled Land Plan ; while it must be understood b y our readers , that we are prepared to adopt as a truism , and most easy of solution , every promise held out by the projectors . When the National Land Company was first propounded , the chief objections urged against it were—Firstly . —The impossibility , of purchasing Land in England at 18 / . 15 * . per acre , followed b y the most unmerciful reproaches upon the head ofthe jugg ler who would consign his dupes to bog , rock , or waste Land , to starve or eke out a miserable pauper ' s

      existence . £ eco » d % . —The impossibility o ? the most industrious man supporting himself and famil y upon two , three , or even four acres of the best Land in England , without paying rent , rates , or taxes . . Such were the general objections published b y the Press , adopted and promulgated by philanthropic Free Traders against the National Land Company . But now , alas ! how changed the scene how complete our j ustification , and how enlightened have those philanthropists become , when freeholds for . the millions arc

      necessary to confer political power upon their masters . Now , we find that _Lstnd can be purchased for 11 ? . an acre , as the new Society proposes to sell out and out two acres of enfranchised Land—of " Happy Laud "—for 251 . 10 s ., including the cost of conveyance , which , if we estimate at 3 / . 10 s ., reduces the price of the Land to 11 / . per acre ; while those who were told that Laud could be purchased for 181 . 15 * . an acre , were juggled- cheated , and deceived—in fact , that it was " a mockery , a delusion , and a snare * " but we go farther into

      the consideration of this great and important question , which , as we predicted , is now occupying every mind , and has become the question of questions ; aud what do we discover ? Why , that an acre of Land costing 111 ., will readily secure a tenant at li . 10 _* . a-year , or will pay the lessor a fraction more than thirteen and a-half per cent ., as interest for his moneythat is , the man who expends 99 / . in the purchase of Land at 11 / . an acre , if lie receives 1 / . 10 s . an acre for the nineacres so purchased , will derive an income of 13 / . 10 s . a-year from the D 9 J . thus expended .

      Now , far be it from us to deny the fact , that an industrious man will support himself , his wife and family , and pay 31 . a year rent for two acres of Land , that cost only 11 / . per acre ; but we go further , and assert , that the occupant will be able to g ive continuous emp loyment to a hired labourer , who will be able to support himself , his wife , and . family . And we go still farther , and we defy contradiction , that in ten years the occupant , by common industry and frugality , will be able to buy his holding , out and out j and that the two acres , costing but 111 . an acre , will , at the end of that period , be worth 4 / . an acre , or 81 . a year rent .

      Thc following pithy sentence—vouched for by Richard Cobden , Esq ., M . P ., and William Scholefield , Esq ., M . F . —is the comp lete and irrefutable answer to the revilers of the National Land Company : — " FROM PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE

      IT IS KNOWN THAT AN INDUSTRIOUS MAN MAY SUPPORT HIMSELF , WIFE , AND FAMILY , UPON TWO ACRES OF LAND . " Can the grimmest of our readers , who never smiled before , withhold a horse-laugh , when he reads the above ? Land , be it observed , which has cost but 11 / . an acre ; no house ; tho cultivators ofthe inner allotments having to walk over 250 acres of Land if the 1 , 000 acres constitute a complete square , and if be is fortunate enough to secure lodgings upon the very

      verge ; no house—no home—no aid moneyno cultivation—no cropping—no pump—no water—no road to every man ' s house—no path to every man ' s door—no school-house , to educate every man ' s child—no moans of retail _benefit from wholesale co-operation in the building of houses , as each freeholder is told " he can build a cottage for himself ; " while the very difference between tbe wholesale and the retail p rice of building a cottage , would amount to much more than 221 , or the whole value of the two acres .

      Let us now contrast the position of the dupe of the National Land Company , with that of the enfranchised freeman of the philanthropic Free Traders . The Cobden-Scholefield Society , pays a hundred and ninety-eight pounds for Land , and the occupants are assured , from PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE , that thoy can live , support then . ' wives and families , and pay 2 %

      a year rent for Land which has cost but one hundred and ninety-ei ght pounds ; Avhile the Juggle Company charges eight pounds rent for Land that has cost two hundred pounds ; but , to make the contrast complete upon its ownmerits , the Juggle Company would charge less than nine shillings an acre for the same Land that the Philanthrop ic Company sets down at 1 / , 10 s . an acre .

      As we have frequentl y predicted that the question ofthe Land would one day monopolise the attention ofthe world , we shall not be considered tedious if Ave carry our illustrations and our contrasts a little further ; the Land purchased hy the National Land Company averages 37 / . an acre , which makes 148 / . for four acres ; the expense of Cottage we will estimate at 132 / . , and Aid Money spent in cultivation , 90 / . —making an outlay of 310 / ., and amounting to a rent of 12 / . 8 s . a year ; while , for the same amount expended upon Land our new fledged converts antici pate a rent of 42 / . a year , or thirteen and a half per cent , upon the outlay , and the means of

      support for fourteen families at two acres a family . But there is - an important—nay , an overwhelming—consideration , which must not be lost si ght of it is this ; that we have often told our readers that we would much prefer paying 4 Z . an acre for land worth 31 . an acre , than take a present of land worth 1 / , an acre , and for the reasons we ' have often assigned , viz . j that the good land requires less labour , and less seed , while the crops ' are less liable to casualt y and failure . What , then , must be our confidence in man ' s ability to live like a freeman on his native soil , when ,: notwithstanding the preference we accord- to the better Land at a higher rent , we nevertheless admit the truth ofthe Free Trade propo-

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      sition : that a man . can : pay 1 / . 10 _« . an acre , and support himself , wifer _and family , upon two acres of Land , worth but 22 / . ? Having comp leted the comparison between the National Land Company and the "Million-Freeing Free Trade Company , " let us now turn to a review of the _p-xst conduct of Richard Cobden and William Scholefield , the patrons of the new project . _, Cobden , his myrmidons , and their Press , were loudest and foulest m their continuous and untiring abuse ofthe Jugg le Company ; and Sc holefield was a member ofthe Land

      Committee . The tot objections were that Land could not be had at all ; that Land could not be purchased for 181 . 15 s . ; that no man could support himself and family upon four acres of the best Land , without pay ing rents , rates , and taxes ; that no man would invest his money on mortgage of such property ; and that it would take God knows how many thousand years to locate the members . Well , the Lord hath delivered our enemies into our hands , and their advertisement is our answer . Now turn we to the consideration of the Report of the Committee , of which Mi * . Scholefield was a prominent member . That Committee reported upon the legality and practicability

      ofthe Scheme ; it reported that the Ballotwhether app lied to the selection of members , or the assignment of allotments—was illegal ; and yet Scholefield tho judge , who pronounced this solemn decision , is now Scholefield the patron—who adopts this notable illegality . The practicability of the plan was condemned upon the evidence of Mr , Revans , the Poor Law Commissioner , who declared that the most industrious man in England could not support himself upon the three best acres of Laud in England , even if he was free from rents , rates , or tax _

      that" FROMPRACTICAL EXPERIENCE , IT IS KNOWN THAT AN INDUSTRIOUS MAN MAY SUPPORT HIMSELF , WIFE AND FAMILY , UPON TWO ACRES OF LAND ' . " If the juggle or the jugg ler required a defence , could we furnish one more ample or complete ? and would it not bo superfluous to add another word beyond an appeal to the Patrons of the New Land Company , asking them whether they are likel y to devote their whole time for nearly four years , and to appry over 5 , 000 / . of their own money , to the accomplishment of their own object , the securing

      FREEHOLDS FOR THE MILLIONS ? Will the Free Trade Press abuse these Free Trade p hilanthropists ? or will they advertise their scheme gratuitously as we do ? No ! one of their daily organs is _chaunting its lamentations over the incarceration ofthe FLOGGED SOLDIER ; who , we are informed , is now imprisoned by the printer who printed his ignorant bembastic tirades against the National Land Company , but whose co-operation is now indispensable to the realisation of

      FREEHOLDS FOR THE MILLIONS

      LAW-BREAKERS IN HIGH PLACES . No better illustration of the fact , that rich men may break the law in this country with impunity , can be offered , than the proceedings of that portion ofthe Factory Masters who are now openly and advisedl y violating the provisions of the Factory Act . There is no doubt about the meaning of these provisions . The highest legal and official authorities have decided that point against these millowners . Had the act been a very old one—the motives of those by whom it was passed obscured or rendered doubtful by the lapse of time—or the

      language in which their meaning was expressed of an _equivocal character—thore mi g ht have been the shadow of an excuse for the systematic infraction ofthe statute . No such palliations can be alleged . The framers of the Bill are alive , and have given their version of it . The people who struggled for it coincide with that interpretation ; and the Home-Secretary , Attorney-General , aud 'Solicitor-General ofthe Administration under whom it became law , have unhesitatingly confirmed it . The Act is not yet three years old . It is onl y a few months since it came into complete operation , and previous to that period there was not the slightest doubt as to its meaning

      and intent . So far from that being the case , even the organs of these mill-masters were loud in their condemnation of it ; precisel y because it enacted that which they now evade . A slight revival of trade was concurrent with the period for the law taking full effect , and the consequence was , that a few of the factory owners—eager , as usual , to make riches , no matter at what cost to the community at large—invented a mode of evading it ; and when the Government inspectors—as was their duty—brought the offenders before the magistrates , those functionaries acquitted them . It is said that they are connected with the law-breakers by blood , or are otherwise interested in the

      non-fulfilment of the law—indeed , no other explanation can be offered of the singular and unwonted occurrence of provincial magistrates daring to set themselves iu opposition to the Government and the Law Officers of the Crown , as to the interpretation and enforcement of the law . The class to which these magistrates belong are ever ready to insist on "the majesty of the law" being vindicated , when " a poor sinner" comes before them . In such cases , benevolent constructions and compassionate hypotheses are the last thiugs thought of . They see in the " looped and windowed"

      raggedness before them , only objects of the primitive powers of the law ; and most vigorousl y do they exercise them . Their lenity and mercy are reserved for sinners of their own class . They sympathise with them . They comprehend the motives hy which they are actuated—they have , perhaps , a direct interest , themselves , in the infringement of the law , and hence comes the common proverb , that— "There is one law for the rich and another for the poor . " Even when the Legislature does not positively enact such onesided laws , the administration is of such a partial and class character as to justify the

      axiom . But the Government ought . _"eriousl y to consider in the present state of society , and with the events now transpiring around them , whether this is the best way of upholding the " Supremacy ofthe law , " and of maintaining that respect for it , audits administrators , which is much more efficacious in maintaining "Peace , Law , and Order , " than all the Special Constables or standing armies that can b y possibilit y be gathered together . It la , above all things , a suicidal policy for a Ministry to undermine the feeling of respect for the law ,

      which lies at the very foundation of society . Look what such conduct has produced in Ireland , where tho conviction that England was not their friend , nor English law , arrayed the whole population against the constituted authorities , and perverted the sympathies of the people in favour of the law-breaker . How many columns of objurgation and lamentation on this disgraceful propensity ofthe Celtic race have not been poured forth b y the calumniators ofthe Irish people , fromtho Puddledock

      Thunderer downwards to its puniest echo ? Yet what was the original cause of this fatal alienation of a whole people , but the partial and unjust administration of the law ? . The people will ask , in this country , why Sir G . Grey has not removed those Magistrates who have contumaciously refused to enforce a statute of the land , in the plain sense intended by its framers , and in the sense which he , the Home-Secretary , hacked by the Attorney and Solicitor-General , affixes to it ? They will ask why those officials

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      evinced such dogged _Atonni _^^ J _^ verance in the prosecutionof the _^ _ist who were even suspected of an intention to violate the law ? Why they inflicted the severe _jentencesthe law allowed , when they succeeded _tti obtaining convictions ? And why they now shrink back' from the due exercise of the powers vested in them , and which by their oaths of office they are bound to exercise fairl y and impartially ? The Government talk of introducing a new Bill to explain the state ofthe law . There is not the slightest necessit y for their doing so . We know very well what the law is , and all we want is to see it enforced . If the

      Manchester school of Magistrates will not do so , send them to the rightabout , and let us have others that will . The Factory workers do not ask for any new acts , or new explanations . They do not ask from the Government anything more than that they will see the authority of Queen , Lords , and Commons obeyed . They are quite prepared to submit to it themselves , and they

      hope her Majesty ' s Ministers will not suffer it to be set at defiance b y a band of reckless speculators , and greedy millowners , with the connivance of a few interested magistrates . Let Lord J . Russell—who most eloquentl y supported this law in its passage through the Leg islature— 'bethink himself that it is better to have the esteem and gratitude of the swarming thousands of Lancashire and 'Yorkshire , than a ew renal and interested votes at his

      back . If he will onl y maintain the law he may safel y despise the efforts of any faction of millocrats . If he does not , the scandal , the future mischief that may arise from his dereliction of duty rest upon his own head ! Not less foolish and short-si g hted is the conduct of the mill-masters on this occasion . Of all men in the world they owe most to the habitual deference of . Englishmen to the law .

      Their mills and warehouses are peculiarly exposed to the dangers arising from incendia rism , or sudden outbursts of unpremeditated violence . Their very ascendancy as a class is based upon this almost instinctive feeling . Why will they weaken it ? Wh y p lace themselves , in periods of stagnant trade , widespread distress , destitution , and discontent , in greater danger by their own act ?

      They may depend upon it , that a law which was gained after a struggle of thirty years ' duration , will not be tamel y yielded up , and that if , by any improper intervention , those who took part in this struggle are deprived of its benefits , the state of societ y in these districts must become daily more unsatisfactory as regards the feelings of the various classes of the community towards each other . Into the commercial and political part of the argument we will not enter . We only desire to call the attention ofthe Government , the magistrates , and the millowners to the necessity of enforcing the law . "A word to the wise is enough . "

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      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . Peel ' s Bill fob . Ireland . —The Ministerial makeshift for Ireland has been carried through another stage in the Commons , after a protracted and wearisome debate , in which all manner of questions were introduced by the speakers , who were equall y unanimous in avoiding tho nominal question under discussion . This can onl y be accounted for by the general feeling that it was not worth thought or criticism . The real question debated was the p lan of Sir R . Peel , to which

      we referred last week . On Friday night he returned to the subject , and , in a speech of nearl y three hours' duration , amplified and illustrated with greater distinctness the ideas he had formerly sketched in outline . As a comprehensive and faithful description ofthe real evils requiring to be remedied in Ireland , and ofthe magnitude of those evils , the speech was not to be surpassed ; and there was equal amplitude aud power in the outline ofthe measures proposed to meet the crisis he so accurately described . No doubt the

      ex-Premier may be accused of hesitation and over caution in some of the details ofhis plan , and other portions of it may be open to objections , but , taken as a whole , it embodies a sound principle — it proposes to liberate tho land of Ireland from those feudal fetters which at present makes it valueless , both to the landlords and people , and in the least objectionable manner to bring it into profitable cultivation . Sir Robert showed with great force and clearness , the folly and the fallacy of foreign emigration , as a remedy for the

      present state of _L'eland . He pointed out the fact , that many of the persons who were now emigrating , were taking away capital with them . " Many of them" said the Right Honourable Baronet , " are men who are labouring under the apprehension of the increasing poor rates involving them in the general calamity from which the insolvent unions are suffering _; and every man fFiat you lose from Ireland , who takes away more capital than individuals whom that capital would employ , is a dead loss tothe country" The

      passage we have marked in italics expresses a great truth in social economy , to which , hitherto , few of our statesmen and politicians have attached the importance that is due to it ; and it must certainly be obvious to the most ordinary capacity , that a continuous abstraction of capital from a country where the complaint is , that it is already deficient , must tend to its further impoverishment and pauperism . As Sir R . Peel trul y remarked , " The comfortable farmer who , fearin g the invasion of the poor rate , and possessing some £ 40 or £ 50 , ihos , after selling the tenant-ri ght in his

      holding in the north of L'eland , and transfers his capital , and his industry and skill , on the United States , or Canada , confers no benefit on the country by emigrating . He is withdrawing that capital which might be usefully employed at home . " Sir Robert was equally explciit and decided in his condemnation of that wholesale shovelling out of paupers , in the last stage of destitution and disease , on the shores of our colonies , or upon our own shores , in order that _L-ish landlords mi ght escape the burden of supporting them , Mr . De Vere , a gentleman who took a berth as a

      steerage passenger in one of those floating hells in which these poor wretches are transported to our colonies , describes what is called the voluntary system of emigration from Ireland ; and we quite concur in the opinion of Sir Robert Peel , that there is nothing we have heard of the sufferings inflicted b y the slave trade of a more revolting character . " Before the emi grant was at sea a week he became an altered man ; and it could not be wondered at . Hundreds of men , women and children , of all ages , from the aged imbecile to the infant just born , being huddled together without light or air . Thev o — -. -J

      lived without food or medicine , exeepi as administered by the hands of casual charit y : and what must have been felt as a severe deprivation in tho case of a people like the L-ish , in many cases died without spiritual comfort . Since the period to which Mr . DeVebe refers , improvements have been made , and these emigrant ships placed under a more vigilant superintendence ; but still , in the very nature of things , -with such a mass of destitution and suffering as must , in all . - . cases , be crowded into such ships , it is utterl y impossible to prevent the occurrence of similar scenes of squalor and filth to those we have alread y alluded to . Such an emi gration as this is disgraceful to this country , and deeply ininriona + _« * h _* ¦¦*

      coiomes to which _thp-, \ , ' J— - , - "' «« - transferred . Their remo J _^ i t tcheS are _aencytonernPtii _^ I + _iTv j ' " _^ a teQ -

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      misery their own neglect or selfishness has created , it . is not very likel y that ' they will make any very serious effort to abate the real and radical evils of the country _^ Apart , however from all these considerations , it is quite evident that Land and Labour being the orig _inal elements out of which all kinds of wealth are created , there is no necessit y for exporting ' the former as long as largo portions ofthe latter are uncultivated . The truestatesman will rather endeavour to make the kingdom whose affairs he administers , populous and prosperous—than to convert it into halfpeop led and barren wastes . This was as we

      have said , felt to be the real question at issue . In the recent debate , Mr . Bright in thecourse ofthe best speech delivered during its continuance— or ; we may add , perhaps the best ever delivered on the question—emphatically enforced the fundamental importance of making land marketable in L'eland . We see great reason to doubt the feasibility of some of Mi * . Bright ' s notions as to the way in which that is be done ; but , at all events , it is a gratifying sign of political progress , to find that the idea has got such a firm hold of the minds o so many of our most active public men . The best mode o carrying it out will , no doubt , by and by , suggest itself .

      The bearing of the Liberal party , and of Sir R . Peel , on this important topic , was singularly contrasted by that of Mr . Disraeli and the Premier . For more than two hours the would-be leader of the Protectionists exerted all his ingenuity to decry and disparage what he ironically termed " the revelations of the experienced' mind of the great statesman , " and signally failed in doing so . The pettifogging and spiteful detraction in which he indulged fell harmless ; and , when he concluded ,

      the one idea of a bold , practical , and substantial measure having been proposed by a statesman capable of carrying it into effect , towered above all others . Nor was that idea weakened by the feebleness , inanity , and personal jealousy of Lord J . Russell , who followed . We do not wonder that he should feel sore in tho presence of his rival , and feel humbled also at the thought that he is totall y destitute of any remedial policy . But , in order to cover his failure in that respect , and to account for the non-fulfilment ofthe promises b y which he rose to power in 1846 , he made the astounding

      declaration , that when he used words which bound him to bring in remedial and comprehensive measures , he was not at all aware of what he was saying—that , in fact , he did not mean anything by the use of these words , and that his present and matured opinion is , that an amended Poor Law , and a better drilled Police , is all we can do for Ireland—that is , we must build more workhouses and . more p risons in that country . That is the height of Whig statesmanshi p in the middle of the nineteenth century .

      Failuiie of _Savings _Basics . —A question of great and general interest to the working classes waB discussed on Thursday se ' _nnightnamely , the security afforded by Savings Banks to their depositors . It was mooted b y Mr . Reynolds , who moved for a Select Committee to inquire into the circumstances connected with the failure of the St . Peter ' s Savings Bank , iii Dublin . In the year 1833 , the deficiency in the assets of that Bank , from fraud and peculation on the part of its officers , amounted to nearly four thousand pounds , and

      continued to increase until 1849 , when it amounted to the large sum of fifty thousand pounds . B y the law , these Banks are required to make periodical returns to the Commissioners of the National Debt of then * income , expenditure , and financial position . The Act of Parliament expressl y imposes certain duties on these Commissioners , for tho protection of depositors , which , it appears , they are in the habit of systematically neglecting . In the case ofthe St . Peter ' s Bank , they knew it to be actually insolvent—to be not able to pay ten shillings in tlie pound—as shown b y the periodical returns ofthe annual deficit sent in by

      the Bank ; and yet , so far from g iving any warning tothepublic ef this state ofaffairs , they boldl y violated the law , and neglected the duties distinctly prescribed for them in such cases . The act contains a mandatory clause , in which the Commissioners are " required forthwith to publish in the London _Gctseffe and also in any newspaper published in the county in which the Savings Bank is established , the name of every Savings Bank neglecting or making default" in tho punctual transmission of its annual accounts . Yet for sixteen years they allowed this insolvent bank to go oil unchecked , during the whole of which period the law was not complied with—the balance sheet

      was not transmitted in time in any one of those years ; they were not made out in proper form , and instead of using the printed forms issued by the Commissioners for the use of all Savings Banks , the St . Peter ' s Bank in variably used a written form of accounts , varying very considerabl y from that prescribed . Such circumstances ought to have aroused suspicion , even if the deficit had not been palpable on the face of their fabricated returns . Yet the Commissioners took no steps to warn the public , as they were imperativel y required to do . On the contrary , they never seem to

      have contemplated the fulfilment of this dutv . Mr . Higham , the acting officer of the National Debt office , in his evidence , plainl y stated that the Commissioners have assumed the power of disregarding the distinct requirements of aa Act of Parliament , " Because , " says Mr . Higham , "it would be a » impolitic measure , if I may so term it , to publish the name of every Savings Bank in the Gazette which did not furnish thoso accounts within the time required by the Act . " Iu order to show the extent to which this Wilful disobedience is carried , we shall merel y quote two questions and tho answers of Mi-. Higham .

      Upon that occasion you did not consider it necessary to act as the Act of Parliament pointed out _^ -namel y , to grvo notice in the newspapers of the county ? Certainly not . Is that invariabl y the case with all the Banks ? Yes . " Now be it remembered that the poor people who deposit their small savings iu those Banks , do this under the assurance that they have the guarantee of an Act of Parliament and

      superintendence ofthe Government . The millions which hare thus been invested in the hands of the Commissioners ofthe National Debt , have been obtained on the faith of that guarantee , and the belief that that superintendence was vi gilantly exercised . But now wo have the fact , on the authority of the Actuary of the National Debt office , that the Coznxnunonors have not in any one case done then- duty-nay , that they consider they ought not to doit—and , consequentl y , for all the public knows to the contrary , there may not be a i -. „ 4 7 _""**** _W _X _11 _U , V X 1 VW _vv --single solvent

      Savings Bank hi the _country-, bo far for the safety supposed to bo guaranteed by the protection of an Act of Parliament ; next as to the responsible persons m case of loss : Mr . Reyno lds , after showing _tbat the depositors of the St . Peter ' s Bank , _uutmn , had altogether heen swindled in this manner 0 £ £ 50 , 000 , intimated his opinion to be that the Government were bound te make up the loss . Mr . Herbert moved to add the Cases of Tralee and _Killarney , and of A _** - terarder in Scotland—all of them similarly

      insolvent banks—tothe motion , in order that the Connnittee mig ht inquire into the whole of them ;; whereupon the Chancellor ofthe _Exchequer— himself an officer whose position makes him personall y acquainted with iheso facts—opposed the motion , on the ground that the law has studiousl y refused to recognise Government liability to Savings Bank depositors-, But this plea did not meet the cases ot Dublin and Tralee—the real claim against the Government was not a legal but a moral ono } 'It was argued that the losses to which we h _»

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 7, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_07041849/page/4/