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    • TO TAILORS. . r ,. • . •.-.-"::-¦"" jiistpnblisdicfl. Autumn
    • THE NORTHEBN STAH. SATURDAY, NOVB1IBEK 8,1345.
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      TO TAILORS . . r ,. _. _.-.- " ::- ¦" " _jiistpnblisdicfl _. Autumn

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      TO ALL WHO CAN'T PAT ! IMMEDI ATE Protection , and a prompt and safe final _discharge , without thc intervention of a rrison ov an _Attorney- A discharge to Debtors is now-imperative , became _Iiimrisomneat forDebt is now penal , not remedial . —Debtors of all grades will be benefitted by applying *) r » 3 iirUli xo John S . _Bcnstead , 22 , Baaingliall-strcct , near ths Court of Bankruptcy , London .

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      G 1 REAT _ 62 UTAC < MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE [ SOCIETY , 14 , WAT . EaU ) 0-ri . iCE , Losdox . _DISECTOBS . The Chisholm , Cftoerman . _TiVilliain Morley , _Esq _.,-0 _

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      SHEFFIELD AXD LINCOLNSHIRE -JUNCTION RAILWAY . " 1 ]| 7 "IIEHEAS . Notices were duly published in the f T _lU ' . ith of November last , in tbe London Gazette , the Sheffield and _Rotlierham Independent , the _Xottinghaa Journal , the Derbyshire Courier , the _Lineoliijllazhnd , ond Stamford Jlercury , and the Lincoln Standard Newspapers , that application was intended io be made in tbe then next ensuing Session of _Parliament , for leave to bring in a Bill to incorr porate a Company , and to _giveto such Company _potver to j _ - __ ik « and maintain a Railway , commencing by a _Junetlon _trith the Sheffield , ABhton-uuder-Lyne , Hid Manchester Railway , at or near Obornc-strect , in the _TavTnship _' of BrightsideBierlow , in the Parish

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      . _^ . THE COLOSSEUM . GRAND ORCHBRTRAL ORGAN . — This magnificent establishment , patronised and visited by her MAJESTY and his Royal Highness Prince ALBERT , has now , in addition to its former alterations , a new Orchestral Organ , erected in the Glyptotheca , on which the most admired pieees of music will be played daily , from Two till Four o'Clock . Open from Ten till Halfpast Four . Admittance , 3 s . Children , half-price . The Stalactite Caverns , the most magnificent of all the Temples which nature has built for herself in the regions of night , ls . each . The whole projected and designed by M . TF . Bradwell .

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      TO THE EMBARRASSED .-IMPORTANT . THERE are thousands of persons who have struggled long against the force of misfortune , but few are aware that by a very recent Act aU small traders owing debts not exceeding £ 300 , farmers , and all others owing to any amount , can be entirely raised from their difficulties at a small expense , and without imprisonment or bankruptcy . All such Mr . Weston begs will apply to him at Moira-chambers , 17 , Ironmougei-Ianc , Cheapside , by letter or personally . Persons summoned for small debts should apply immediately , as they may thereby save themselves from frequent and lengthened commitments to prison .

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      METROPOLITAN SEWAGE MANURE COMP A NY . ( Provisionally registered . ) Capital £ 1 , 500 , 000 , in 30 , 000 Shares of £ 50 each . Deposit £ 1 per Share . THE object of this Company is to supply ( at a quartet of the cost of stable or farmyard manure ) the sewage water of the Metropolis to the surrounding _country as manure by mechanical means similar to those employed by the "Water Companies . A careful and moderate calculation has been made of thc annu _ -I outlay and income , from which it can confidently be stated that tho undertaking will realise a net profit of at least 15 per cent . Prospectuses , containing full parliculars of the plan , and extracts from the reports and authorities upon which the estimates are based , may be had on application atthe temperary offices of the Company , No . 5 , Bernors-strcet _, or will b « forwarded to any address .

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      MANY THOUSANDS OF POUNDS STERLING TO-BE GIVEN T O THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE PICTORIAL TIMES . For particulars of this extraordinary undertaking apply immediately to any Bookseller , or Newsvender , in _England , Ireland , or Scotland , or to the Publisher , Mr . C . Evans , 351 , Strand , London , who will be happy to forward a Prospectus .

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      BEST AND CHEAPEST MUSIC IN THE WOIlLD-GltEAT SUCCESS .

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      JUST PUBLISHED , In one volume , foolscap Svo ., neat cloth , price Is , 6 d „ THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES A Prison Eliyme : in Ten Books : BY THOMAS COOPER , THE CHARTIST . J . How , Publisher , 132 , Fleet-street . t _& i' Orders from the Country to be sent through the Booksellers . MR . _COOPER'S NEW WORK . Just Published , in 2 vols ., 12 mo ., Price Fourteen Shillings ,

      The Northebn Stah. Saturday, Novb1ibek 8,1345.

      THE NORTHEBN STAH . _SATURDAY , _NOVB 1 IBEK 8 , 1345 .

      The Famine. «• Where There's A Will Ther...

      THE FAMINE . _«• Where there ' s a will there ' s a way . " Theblunder 3 ofabench of country Shallows—the immoralities ofa State " Church parson—the peculation and brutality ofa Bastile overseer—the _insolenee of a Poor-law Commissioner—the turpitude of a Secretary of State—the tyranny of a landlord—the absurdity of a judge—the subserviency of a Legislator—the corruption of Pavliamcnt— the tortuous windings of a Prime Minister—the pliancy of his

      reckless supporters—the plunder of railway directors —the _remorselessness of griping attornies—the cruelty of employers—the venality of the public press —the tergiversation of agitators—the neglect of a noble lord who overlooked a money letter—thc apostacy of politicians—and the whimsicality , of monarchs , areone andall incidents of daily occurrence , and may constitute the political stock of journalists , to be served up as convenience requires , with scasoningsuitingtothepalateof their respective customers ; but famine , the topic upon which we write , is a subject to which all others must be deferred .

      It is one that cannot be seasoned to ' any palate . It is one which indirectly affects those who are not in immediate fear of its consequences . Like thc malignant contagion , it is no respecter of persons , and , therefore , it is for the same reason dreaded by the wealthy . It is a huge devastating epidemic that traverses the land , and against whose march no " cordon" can beopposed . It is worse than pestilence . The progress of _jpesfilence may be arrested , but famine "breaks through stone walls . " This is the position to which the landlords oi England and of Ireland , backed by their Ministerial tools , have brought this country , and they alone are responsible for the

      result . Wc will not , with the same littleness of mind that characterises the Times newspaper and many of its correspondents , attribute the evil to , and saddle the consequences upon , Sir Robert Fuel and the Sliding Scale . The evil , has existed almost from time immemorial , aiid would , bad it not been for Sir Hobem Fuel ' s measures taken in the bulk , not capriciously p icked for factious purposes , he now felt with ten-fold , twenty-fold , a hundred-fold severity ; yea , if the cheap bread Whigs were now in office , instead of * allowing inquiry to precede action , they would jump to . some fill-belly conclusion , and leave the responsibility of failure as a legacy to their opponents .

      As we anticipated in the outset we learn from the Irish Commissioners that the Irish people cannot be expected to live for ten months noon starch , aad , that

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      hope having failed , the said Commissioners announce to his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant , tliatotlier means of salvation must be devised . It is then our duty to consider the several plans recommendod bv the respective parties . When ever a great _nationacalamity becomes threatening to faction , we find that all minor differences are merged "for the present'' ' in the paramount consideration as to how their order may be preserved from the consequences . This is the real English of thc charity and philanthropy of

      I the wealthy when any event occuis which is of right placed to their account . By words of high-sounding patriotism and niggardly action they not only divert public opinion from a consideration of their own misdeeds , but they gather laurels and reap profit from national suffering . Hence we find the Loinsters , ' the Cloncurrys , the O'Connells , the Fitzimons , with a sprinkling of Orangemen , jumbled into a heterogeneous Protective Society to mitigate a malady of which ' they themselves are tho authors .

      To meet this national malady two sweeping prescriptions are proposed ; the one thc repeal of the Corn Laws , and the other a plausible appeal from the agitators , who thrive upon poverty , to the Irish landlords to permit their tenants to overbold their stock of corn . We shall , firstly , deal with thc repeal of the Corn Laws , and we cannot even enter upon a . consideration of the question without a passing comment upon Mr . O'Conxell ' _s timely change of opinion .

      When there was not the same necessity for the proposed alteration ; the Liberator , to tickle the ears of his English Free Trade audience , over andover again declared that the primary object of Government and of all classes sliould he to give the people cheap food . What , said he , can be more _ftartling and affecting than the infant appeal of the child who says to its mother , * ' Mammy , I am hungry , give me some bread V ' : md what more conclusive condemnation of the

      breadtare than the answer of the mother who replies . " _Whis't , agra , Ican't , there ' s a tax upon it . " If tliere is pity due to the appeal , and truth in the response , surely there never was a time when tliey , would be more applicable than at the present moment . And yet Mr . _O'Coskkll now fears to press the question lest he should lose the support of Ms committee . Such , however , is not the real motive for his opposition . He knows full well that the repeal of thc Corn Laws was only resorted to as a clap trap-cry to strengthen agitation . He knows that if the effect of a repeal of- the Corn Laws would be such as the advocates of the measure anticipate , namely , an astounding fall in the price of wheat , that the Irish farmers

      thus saddled with all the penalty of famine _, would be converted into his most clamorous opponents . He knows full well that the Irish farmers are a brave , a dangerous , although a confiding and easily managed class . He knows that thc very anticipation ofthe change would causo them to button up their pockets upon his rent-day , and , therefore , for the present , he places what he once considered the most important of all measures in abeyance . We tell Sir Robert Pekl that the reduction in the price of corn consequent upon a repeal ofthe Corn Laws would be followed by a bloody and disastrous revolution in Ireland , and that , so far from arresting the progress of famine , it would but tend to increase its severity .

      The Irish landlords , the usurpers of the soil , are proud and tyrannical because suspicious—from their position ; while they are for tho most part needy , luxurious , and unthrifty , la any measure involving thc price of produce , the interests , or rather the unhappy connection , of landlords , tenants , and labourers , cannot bc separated . No casualty whicli promises to be merely temporary will induce them to abate any portion of their claim upon the tenant , while the doubtful position of the latter invariably imposes certain ruin upon the labourer ! Let wheat fall to that standard to which panic alone would reduce it , not five per cent , of tke landlord class will

      commensurately reduce their rents , and not ton per cent , of tbe tenant class will expend a single shilling that can be avoided in the payment of wages . The landlords , so far from being softened into contrition , wili become more pompous , proud , and oppressive . The tenant class will become more _.-. maddened and excited , while the labouring class , so unhappilyie _* pendent upon both , will become exasperated , reckless , and revengeful . All will be given up to despair , and hopelessness will be seen blazing throughout the country . Thus we dispose of recommendation number one ; and now wo turn to tbe second— -the modest appeal from the agitators to the landlords , to allow their , tenants to reserve their corn for

      provision . We have given the Irish landlords their just character ; nor shall we withhold the same from the Irish farmers . If then the landlords should follow up this recommendation , the labouring people , who are the most numerous class , would not be benefitted tothe extent of a . fraction of a farthing , as far as regards the price of grain . The world does not furnish a single instance of greater oppression , tyranny , and fraud , than that practised by the Irish farmers towards their labourers . Not a single petty sessions takes place , not a single quarter session is held , at whieh the great majority of cases are not appeals of the labouring classes against the broken

      contracts , the violated promises , the chousings , and the cheatings of labourers by their employers . And so far from the possession of a large supply pf food being placed at tlieir discretion alleviating , the present distress , on the contrary , every holder will become an extorting usurer and a jobber , and will screw the highest farthing out of the pocket of tlic _unfortunate labourer . Thus we show , from a more intimate knowledge of the several classes than even Mr . O'CoNNELL ' possesses , that neither of thc proposed remedies will have the anticipated effect '; while any fund which may be raised by charity , will be reduced by at least fifty per cent , before it reaches the object for whose relief it waa meani ..

      We remember a famine before—we recollect the amount subscribed ; and we also recollect that more than one country squire fed his hounds upon the people ' s store of oatmeal . While we justify the judicial enquiry upon a subject on which some contrariety of opinion exists , we demand , upon the part of tho whole people , that that enquiry should bc as prompt and searching as possible , and the execution of salutary measures should follow without a moment's unnecessary delay . It has ever been our complaint , that if changes , however sweeping , are required for the purposes of faotion , that no intricacy stands in thc way of consummation . " Tho

      change is made at railway speed ; but when any demand is made upon the part of the people , searching enquiry is considered requisite . Committee and commission follow each other' in quick succession , until the fever of excitement has passed away , and a complex and voluminous report is all they receive for their pains . Such , however , cannot be the C _3 SC now ; wc must have something more than the starchy recommendations of chemical commissioners ; something more than " the frothy ebullition of begging patriots ; something more than the philanthropy of tyrant landlords ; something more than the alms of strained and ostentatious charity . .

      Does Sir Robert Peel know , that , estimating the number of horses employed in our service , in cavalry and artillery , at 20 , 000 , four pounds of corn subtracted from the daily allowance of each , would grind into oatmeal that would furnish ample food for 150 , 000 human beings for six months ? As , then , there is no difficulty in procuring information when a people are to be taxed , or when changes arc to be made for the benefit of factions , Jet us forthwith have a sweeping commission to take stock of even *

      man ' s means , and let CoYcnuaent , whose duty it is , lay a graduated tax upon the wealthy in aid of tlie starving and unprotected poor . We tell him that the people , who produce all , will not tamely look upon the pampered , idle menial , the bloated lord , the gouty squire , the bursting war-horse , the sleek _poliaeman , and the well-fed soldier . It is not in nature that they should do so . Again we conclude , under this painful head , by once more reminding the selfish and oversecure , that "hunger will break through stone walls . "

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      THE _RESPONSIBILITY ' OF _GOVERNMENTS I If the only duty of a Government is to bow suppliantlyarid crouch to the strong , and to _takeven-» eance ' for . its . humiliation upon the weak , our rulers arc pre-eminently distinguished for the performance of those functions . But , upon the other hand , if another and a higher duty devolves : upon them , that of faithfully holding a balance between all classes , they have egregiously failed in the application ef their power , and the discharge of their several

      duties . While we are unwilling to saddle all the r esponsibility , of a great novel calamity upon Sir Robert Peel , we may , nevertheless , fairly use the occurrence for the purpose of creating a belief in jus mind that au altered system may lead * , if not to immediate correction , at least-to . a-successful prevention in future , and we doubt not but such a step would heal ' much of ( that animosity which at present the working people cherish towards Government , the aristocracy , and the middle classes .

      For a very long-time the press has teemed with strictures upon the war that has . been raging against authority . We have stood alone in justifying the aggressive and offensive position assumed by the people , and we have proved to deiu nstration that the War was a war of wealth , of power , and of coercion , waged against poverty and helplessness . We have argued that thc resources naturally , equitably , legally ; morally , and legitimately belonging to all , were usurped by . a class . . Wc ¦ havo

      stated , and cannot be contradicted , that whilo thirteen millions under a bad Government may be an over-population , that , under a just distribution of national , wealth the same country would furnish ample means for the comfortable support of a hundred millions . We early , foresaw , and as early denounced , tho effect of centralisation . We cautioned thc people , and toldtheui that it was the new principle adopted by Sir Robert Pebl to insure the amalgamation of political parties into a class of privileged plunderers , and legalised freebooters .

      To this novel mode of action , as thc mainspring of Government , we opposed the principle of individuality , proving incontrovertibly that the greatness of a natiou must ever depend upon individual comfort and satisfaction . Our boasted victories in Central Asia—our unjust triumphs in China—our magnanimous appeal to arms in defence of Mr . Bagman Commissioner _Piuiciiard — our boastful threats to Republican America—our paper skirmishes with France—and our domestic security in the bravery and patriotism of 50 , 000 Chelsea pensioners—were one aad all urged as a proof of

      England ' s greatness—were placed to the account of increasing civilisation—a consequence of which , wc were insolently informed , was a corresponding and simultaneous increase of poverty . The difference between the two principles , centralisation and individuality , are , however , now about to be tested ; and if centralisation would establish any equitable claim , iU title will be best proved by convincing the people that the holders of wealth , however procured , look upon themselves in the character of stewards , and that in thc day of need they hold themselves _xesponsible for the just and oquitable distribution of those resources wliich the new principle recognised by Government has enabled them to amass . What is every man ' s business is nobody ' s business ; and

      hence wc shrewdly apprehend that this law of distribution will not be administered ; and , if . not ,, will not the working classes say to themselves , " What has been , may be . " We have bteu visited by a great _calaiaity—a calamity , the effect of whicli might have been wholly and entirely averted by a just application of the country's resources . WiU they not travel through the country , arid ask themselves how it comc 3 to pass that Land , by which alone food is produced , should be in a state of barren unproduc tiveness ; while they , if allowed to cultivate it , would have been either wholly saved fromithe horrorsof famine , or in part reconciled to it by the balmy reflection that it was the work of God aloke , and that eai . li , from the , Queen to the peasant , were equally sufferers by the visitation .

      Will they not enquire why a people with land of surpassing richness , and with a genial climate , 3 hbuld be'dependent / upon foreigners for their very existence ? Willthoy not ask for good cause why the price of the foreigners , productions should affect the price of their labour . . And when they discover that all ; those anomalies exist , and are upheld and perpetuated by that golden link which bind the few . together , will thoy not then sec the glorious result that must follow union . Will they not , as a class with inseparable interests , merge all their minor _difference

      into the grand principle of centralisation . If the centralisation ofthe power of the few has been followed by . the plunder of the many , nothing but the consolidation of the many can compel the few , if not to _^ disgorge the already ill-gotten gain , at least to arrest the further plunder and check its progress for the future . The cold political apathy that has followed the new tactics of Sir Robert Peel has equally affected all _clases of society . The boiling bubble on the surface has disturbed the waters to their lowest depth .

      lhe Tories are confident—the , _Wliigs are deadthe Corn Law League is slumbering—the Irish Repealers are amused by the ravings and thc antics of _apbuters and showmen — the Complete Suffragists have evaporated—the landlords are paralysed—the parsons are quaking—the Dissenters are watchingthe farmers arc desponding—and thc Chartists , partaking of the national malady , have become apathetic . It is to arouse them that we now write . We invoke them , by the name of him whose birth-d 3 y it i 3 ( the

      immortal HUNT ) , to shake off their lethargy , and once more rally round tlie standard which he raised and uevcr deserted . While usurpers are deliberating upon statues of butchers , tyrants , and hypocrites , to decorate thc walls of what is ludicrously called the * ' House of Commons , " let us pay a more honourable devotion to thc departed great ones , by making another and more vigorous struggle to establish their principles in the most honoured statues that can be erected to their memory .

      Seeing what the usurpation of the Land by the few has led to ; seeing what the want of just Government has brought upon us , let us from henceforth renew our covenant to struggle to the death for the People ' s Charter and the Land . Do this , or walk like spectres into the parks of the wealthy—follow the sports of the idle—and when you see the prancing horse , the bloated hound , and tho pampered official defying that famine that has reduced you to beggary —crouch and sneak away without a murmur ; you are ( he forger of your own chains , the willing abettor of your tyrant ' s supremacy . Where there ' s a will there ' s a way , and for a nation to be free , her people need but" to will it .

      The Potatoe Crop..Wis. Beg* To Direct Tl...

      THE POTATOE CROP . . Wis . beg * to direct tlieattcntion of our readers tothe lamentable accounts of the potatoe crop selected from all parts of the United Kingdom , anil to remind them that , insignificant as the failure may at first sight appear , it is the principal food of _nineteen-twentietlis of the Irish working classes , and also much relied upon as . an article of food by the poorer classes of England . In addition to what , we select from other sources , we beg to add what we have witnessed ourselves since wc last wrote upon the subject . Since then we havo visited several largo and small farmers hi Surrey , and thc following was the resultof our enquiries -. —One farmer , who holds 300 acres of land ,

      In tlio parish of Nuffield , informed us that that portion of the crop which , a week before he esteemed safe , had gone . Another farmer , in the same parish , who occupies 113 acres , showed us his store where he liad classed tho potatoes iu three heaps . In tlic one were those wholly gone , in another were those / partially tainted , tbat had been ' selected for the pigs , in thc third were those which were supposed to have escaped . Wc turned the good heap over and selected those apparently the . most sound , atMi having cut them wc found tliat , without a single exception , all were irrevocably gone , and this from Wednesday , the day upon which they were stored , to Sunday . Another farmer , occupying seventy acres iu the

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      parish of Home ; informed us that they were all gone in his district . On Monday we examined three heaps that we had grown ourselves . Thoy promised to be the best in the county ; a very careful gardener had the week before selected what he'thought liad escaped , but , to his astonishment , when we cut several of those he esteemed to be the most sound , tliey were every one gone . On Tuesday we dined with a friend , and after dinner we enquired of his housekeeper how she found _thepotaboes in London—her answer was , that , if she laid in two days' provision , she found on thc second day that if the potatoes had touched each other , they were unfit for use . This touching is altogether nonsense ; the disease is , wo believe , in ' : __!_ _^ . C TTn « nn _'iMftwiYtArl lift -Mi fit * , _f . _nir-w w _*» _ii' nil noun

      every potatoe , the fact of which will bc discovered by the following operation . It is quite evident that thc blight struck the leaves and stalk , and that the infection was communicated through the stalk , as the potatoes upon the continent and elsewhere that were struck at a certain stage of their growth , immediately ceased to grow , and perished . If then , the curious will take a potatoe , cutting it from the heel , or large eye by which it is appended to thc stalk , to the nose or point , where a cluster of eyes appear , he will discover a purple tinge running in the first instance between , the skin and the potatoe , and a pale green scam running aU through in . the centre . He will also find that the whole appearance , when cut ; presents the elements of decay .

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      Inportant Notice. Henceforth All Communi...

      INPORTANT NOTICE . Henceforth all communications for the Northern Star must be addressed simply thus : — : > To the Editor , Northern Star Office , IS , Grout Windmill-street , London . I _recast particular attention to the above notice . Feargus O'Connoh .

      Fbost, W Ilhams, And J0nz6.—In A Letter,...

      Fbost , W ilhams , and J 0 NZ 6 . —In a letter , received in Newport this week from _H-ibart Town , the writer states that he has seen Frost , who _wiss in good health , but was looking very many years older , and with hair completely whitened . He calmly mademany inquiries respecting the members of his family and former acquaintances in this locality , and stated tliat he was reconciled to liis situation , that of clerk In a store . The writer adds that Williams is overseer of a colliery , and Jones guard of thc lauiiceston mail . —Monmouthshire Merlin The Polish Cause and me Infamous French Government . —To the Editor of tlio Northern' Star . — Sir , — On thn eve of the fifteenth anniversary of the Polish revolution , when thc Poles made tlie most

      extraordinary and unparalleled cftorts to throw oft * the Russian yoke which oppressed , and yet oppresses them —that is to say , on the 29 th of November , 18 D 0—it ma j- be interesting to very many of your readers to be made acquainted with the innumerable obstacles whieh the Polish exiles havo to _contend against in their attempt to _commemorate that glorious day in France , under a " constitutional government "—Prance , which lias had her two great revolutions of 1789 and 1830 . Last year the French Government prohibited , not merely certain Poles residing near Paris from going there ou thc 29 th of November , where the anniversary was to be celebrated , but the Government also expressly interdicted , through tlio intervention of the police , every Frenchman from speaking at this

      commemoration . "Will it , can it be believed , that though no article ot the French laws , not even those of " September _, " forbid Frenchmen speaking on such occasion ? , and though the public meeting for the celebra - tion of the anniversary was permitted by the French authorities , not ono Frenchman dared to express liis sentiments in favour of hapless Poland ? Ths police interdict gagged them . Ho Frenchman spoke ; no Frenchman dared to speak on the occasion ; and what occurred last year I confidently predict will be repeated this year . "What can we , as Englishmen , think of our noighbours across tho Channel ? Yet France is "free , " aiid Frenchmen are " free , " even when they submit to these things , if they can only chatter and swagger about _"Perfida Albion , " and the glory of "La belle France . " Of course , in these allusions , in these well-merited strictures , J restrict myself to the mere tools

      of the existing Government . There are good men in all couutries j but there arc , unfortunately , also , everywhere too many swaggering fools and specious heartless knaves , aud these are the tools which tyrants use to _achieve and perpetuate theirinfaiuous and diabolical designs against the rights and liburties of mankind . I think you and your readers , sir , will agree with m _<_ , that it' wc Englishmen , in the nineteenth century , after eighteen centuries have elapsed since Ghirat proclaimed the _priuciple of liberty , equality , and fraternity—if we Englishmen were thus ignominiously circumstanced , _> ro should blush to boast cither of our "freedom" or of our " country ; " we should groan beneath our yoke , and proclaim , in the face of Heaven , our degradation and debasement , and our determination to speedily emancipate ourselves from our thraldom . —I am , sir , your obedient servant , John Bull . —October 30 th ,

      1845 . Tub Land and its Produce . —As an admirer of the Chartist Go-operative Land Plan I beg , through your _columus , to submit to the public a statement of what the laud will produce when properly cultivated . I rent eight roods , that is about the sixteenth part of an acre , which I work mysolf , this finds me employment in summer from four o'clock in the morning until eight ( the other portion of thc day being devoted to my business as a manufacturing cutler ) . For this lond P pay £ 1 per annum , and spend about 3 s . more in the purchase of manure . I have cultivated thc same plot of ground for the last seven years , and have now on it two dozen of black , white , and red currant trees , two dozen of gooseberry trees , and four score of raspberry trees ,

      planted in hedge-rows . My crop for tlie present year is as follows : —500 head of coleworts , 100 head of sugar loaf cabbages , i score of gos lettuea _, ' 3 score of cabbage lettuce , 9 bushels of spring and winter spinach ; I have already gathered as many peas as measured when shelled S 3 quarts , and have as many remaining on the ground as will more than suffice for seed for tlie next year , 3 score of cauliflowers , 4 score of purple brocoli _, 27 bundles of spring onions , 4 bushels of winter onions , 6 bundles of rhubarb , Gib . of Italian shalots , 6 pecks of ash leaf kidney potatoes , 52 quarts of gooseberries , 23 quarts of currants , 37 quarts of raspberries , 0 pecks of turnips , 7 bushels of scarlet beans , 3 dozen of vegitable nuirrow Jerusalem artichokes , 2 score of Scotch kale , 1 score of savoys , 200 head of celery , and

      a plentiful supply of line curley parsley . My mode ot culture is as follows : —I plant my sugar loaf cabbages 10 inches apart and a foot in tho alleys ; in February I pluck every otlier row which leaves 20 inches , this mode produces a fine cabbage for table . My spring spinach I sow in the dwarf pea alleys which are _*_ . feet i inches apart ; my large Russia marrowfats I SOW * 2 feet 8 inches apart , the haum of these grow upwards of 10 feet high , and invariably produce two crops ; I make it a rule to chop up my old raspberry canes and cabbage stumps very short , and dig them in . and lino it helps the manure ; I also plant as much celery as I require early , changing its locality every _SeOSOll , tllUS my ground gets well trenched all over ; this in a great measure accounts for its being so exceedingly prolific .

      I shall bo most happy to exhibit my little plot of land to any friend who may think it worth his while to inspect it , upon receiving a short notice of his intonded visit . Most heartily wishing that every success may attond the land project , —I beg to subscribe myself your fellow labourer , and a Sheffield cutter , - Geor g e _RinuAnDsoN , 1 , High-street , Kensington , _Imbpotant to Merchant Seamen . —The following ; notice , which is of very considerable importance to owners and masters of vessels and all persons _mcje or less connected with the mercantile and shipping trade of the country , has been posted in conspicuous places at the Custom-house and the several dock

      establishments in London ; and copies of the same have been transmitted , by directions of the commissioners , to the principal officers of thc revenue at the several ports and other places along the coasts of tho United King _, dom , for the information and future government of themselves and tliosc under their jurisdiction , andall other parties concerned : — " By the Commissioners for managing and causing to be levied and collected Her Majesty ' s Customs and other Duties —Notice is _heroi . y given , tliat the restrictions of an act of Parliament , passed in the Sth and 9 th years of the reign ofherpresentMajesty Queen Victoria , entitled ' An Act for the Protection of Seamen

      entering on Board Merchant-ships , ' will come into operation on tho 1 st day of November next , and that from and after that day uo person , except the owner , part owner , master , or person iu charge of a merchant ' s ship , or the ship ' s husband , will be at liberty to hire engage , supply , or provide seamen to be entered on board mercliant _' _s-ships , without a license first obtained from the Lords of the Committee of Kcr Majesty ' s rrivy Council , appointed , for the management of trade and plantations ; and further , that _application for such licenses must be made by . letter , addressed to ' Thi . Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for _Tnife wi _. uMmii t _„ ,., i _„„ i -a .. .... . . * "" ¦ " •« " . _iraue , WhitehallLondon' order

      , . By ofthe c .. _ . „__„• ra : „„ ji A r- i , _«»>• " ui »¦ - * - > omu _ . _issioners : ( Signed ) O . ocovell , secretary . CustoaU . outt London October 25 , 1845 . '' This important cn _ ™ _' , ti ? ' its Object the protection of a _' veiy _nCS'Sd _^ _S body of persons , who are proverbially notorious & r _^ eir improvidence and carelessness with _espect to afhurs in which most . pw « m . more _orlesstWnkit prudent or necessary to _becareful vi _* « , tion of themselves from the wii . i ' ' _^ P _** " _* - _haik-d by them with thn " , , " , f , S ' andsnoulabe which _iJ _^^ ST _^^ satisfaction _P-onnotdnlyl _^ S _^ _ir _^^ » Mi > _suiinw i That , l ° l ' erson interested inthe 1 SUaU kn _*" » nsly receive seamen hired coalnin * to

      Fbost, W Ilhams, And J0nz6.—In A Letter,...

      the provisions of this act .. A penalty of JKt . w * H u _» Inflicted in each case of nnd infringement of these " .. * ' provisions of the act . Unlicensed persons are ~ not bo omployed for thc purpose of engaging seamen I \ any licensed person knowingly employing am * ' < ..,.. !_ person for the purpose stated will forfeit a sum o ' f fan and , in addition thereto , forfeit and lose his licens No owner , part owner , master or person in charge of any merchant-ship or ship ' s husband , is to pay or _-irt Vance , nor . give any note in writing or oilier wise in the nature of , and purporting to C an advance-note for any part ot * the wa « _es of any seamen hired , & c ., on board a certain ship ° _untii sis hours after the ship ' s articles havo been ' d » w signed by the said seaman , and also by the master or owner of the shi p , and then only to the said seaman himself , unless such wages or advance of wages be ** fr 7 in Tirnvic 5 * anci nf thi a ont- A _«_>«_ , _!_ ... . n .....

      pa in money , in winch case the payment thereof may be made to the seaman himself at any period most coti venient after the signing ofthe ship ' s articles ; aud _i \\ payments of wages contrary to the provisions ofthe act will be null and void , and the amount thereof recover _, _abla b y the seaman ns if tlicy had not been paid or advaneed at all . Any person demanding or receiving from any seaman , or from any person other than _thosa authorized , requiring seaman , any remuneration wliat " . ever cither directl y or indirectly , furor on account Of the hiring , ic , any such seaman , will forfeit for everv such oftence a sum not exceeding £ 3 . Persons are not to be admitted on board merchant-vessels before ... eir arrival in dock or at the place ' of _discharge , without the permissiou and consent ofthe master ur _yg K 011 _j n charge of the vessel . A penalty of £ ' 20 will be inflicted for an infringement of this matter ; ami for the better '

      securing the person of such offender , the master or person in charge of the vessel is authorized ami em . powered to take any person so offending into custody , and to deliver Uitn up forthwith to any constable or Peace-officer , to be by him taken _Lcfors a magistrate and dealt with according to law . If any person oa board any merchant-ship , within twenty-four hours o £ lier arrival at any port , solicit any seaman to become a lodger at the house of any person not properly _licenced , and letting lodgings for hire , and shailranovcfrom tbe ship any chest , bedding , or othcrcll ' ects of any seaman , except under the personal direction of such seaman , ami without having the permission of the master or person in charge of tlic ship , he shall bc liable to forfeit aud pay for each offence ofthe kind the sum of £ 5 .

      The last , of any immediate importance , is , that if any person shall demand and receive of and from any seaman payment in respect of his boavd and lodging in the liouse of such person for a longer period than such seaman shall have actually resided or boarded therein , or shall receive or take into bis possession or under his control any monies , documents , or effects of any seaman , and shall not return the same or pay the value thereof when required to do so by the seaman , after deducting therefrom wliat is justly due and owing on his part , he shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding £ 10 over and above the amount or value ot sueh monies , documents , or effects , after such deductions as aforesaid , which shall be adjudged to be paid to the seaman so defrauded .

      Mil . 3 , Sweet , Hottingham , acknowledges the receipt of lis . for the Executive , from ficeston _, Notts . The Dundee _Pklss and the Dundee _MatocaATS , — To the editor of the Northern Star . —Mr . Editor , —The regard you testify for tho working classes , " whose pliysical and moral condition you are constantly endeavouring to ameliorate , is one of those rare and glorious exceptions which renders still more conspicuous the baseness of the press in general . Tliere is , sir , in Dundee , no less than three newspapers , one of them published twice a week ; not one of them has the straightforwardness to expose the villany practised by some of the miiiowncrs here . Atthe Hillbank works , one ofthe largest esta . blislmients of flax spinning in this quarter , it has beeu . the practice for : v long time past , notwithstanding the Factory Act , to keep the hands working a long time beyond what the Act allows . For this violation of the

      law Mr . Ulackie was lined the sum of £ - ! 0 . But , sir , not one word of this appeared in thc local newspapers , True , the editors reported a similar case tliat happened about l ' cturhoad , but Peterhead being sueh a distance from Dundee , the master of a woollen factory there cou'd not be likely to say to a Dundee editor , " Come , Mr . Editor , you and I must spend this evening together , over a bottle of wine . You , I trust , wUl keep this unpleasant affair of mine out of join * paper . " There s anotiicr totai violation of principle committed by a liax spinning company hero , that has been left unnoticed by the Dundee editors . A rise of wages has heen obtained by the spinners in a number of works . Those employed by Baxter and Brothers refused to work , unless they had a like rise . What think you , sir , was the consequence ? Six girls , varying in age from 1-5 to 20 years , were , without even the form of trial , treated astclons ,

      without a friend being permitted to visit tliem . The Messrs . Baxters ' pretend to be very religious . Ifthea 1 is a meeting or lecture for missionary purposes , Mr . Edward Baxter is thore presiding , and liis name stands high in the list of subscribers . If Mr . Edward Baxter is a light of religion , — 'Tis such a light as putrefaction breeds , In fly-blown flesh whereon the maggot feeds ; Shines iu the dark—but when usher'd into day , The stench remains , the lusture dies away . Mk . _Eobkkts and the disappointed faction who could not t turn the distress occasioned by the late strike ofthe Colliers ' of the north to their own especial 6 ene _ rtf . —IVe have received many angry denunciations of the honest working Colliers in answer to the foul and malicious attacks levelled at Mr . Roberts , whom they yet call their great legal adviser and protector , in answer to an anonymous piece of slander published in Lloyd ' s paper last month .

      The following notice of Mr . Martin Jude , however , who was more conversant with the facts " of thc case and with tho feelings and opinions of Hie Colliers themselves , and which wo copy from Lloyd ' s paper of last Saturday , we substitute for the cream of the many other communications we have received—all breathing , honourable vengeanco against tlie Durham Chronicle , and the factious , and disappointed would-be leaders of the Miners . Mr , Jude says— " Sir , —Being a constant reader of your excellent Journal , I was surprised to find , in last week ' s paper , a statemeut headed " Lawyers and Strikes , " in which was Bet forth the amount of money paid to Mr . ltoberts by the Miners of the Tync and Wear , and the county of Lancashire . . Now , sir , as treasurer to the Minors' Association , lam enabled , and I feel it my duty , to contradict the statement as set forth in your Jo rnaf , and I begto state that the amount conditioned for , and

      the amount paid Mr . Roberts by me , for the Miners of the Tync and Wear , was £ 500 for twelve months' salary ; £ 500 for removal of establishment from Bath to Newcastle ; and liis bill of expenses for the twelvemonths was only £ 750 , making the total paid by the Miners of the Tyiie and Wear , £ 1 , 730 , and not £ 2 , 570 , as was erroneously stated by your informant . Again , with regard to the Lancashire Miner 3 * . he did not receive £ 1 . 81 ) 0 for a half year , but only £ 307 fov a year ; thus making a difference of ( according to ratio of your corresponds : !!) £ 3 , 2 : 13 . What monstrous false statements some people send to newspapers . —Maktin Jude ( Newcastle-upon-Tyne ) . " —Could there be a more creditable refutation of tlio ravings of the bitterest enemies of Mr . Roberts and the Miners' . At all times , arid especially at the present , Mr . Ro berts' character is of importance to the working classes , and , therefore , we notice the matter here iH

      compliance with the request of numbers of them , and the more especiall y ,. because , as a professional man , Jlr . ltoberts , hy the custom of his profession , is precluded from publicly noticing them himself . We know better _tliau any other person living what Mv . Roberts endured from a strike into which the folly of others precipitated the Miners ; and we mention without his knowledge or consent the following fact : —That Mr . Roberts waited upon U 5 in London in the heat of the strike , and proposed to raise £ 1 () 00 on his own _secm-itv for the support of the men . Wc told Mr , Roberts candidly that if he did so it would paralyse the _subscriptions then on foot ; it would give a handle to his enemies , and the enemies of tlie men , and though last , not least , that he must be propared to givo it as he never would see a fraction of it again . Our last reason had no great weight with Mr . Roberts , while the advice of one of the best friends that

      ever thc Colliers had so far accorded with our own upon thc two other points that he was very reluctantly dissuaded from the undertaking . Although it is 110 part of our province to give any opinion upon thc transactions between solicitor and client , we do volunteer to assert that the amounts stated by Mr . Jude ashaving been paid to Mr . Roberts were insignificant , wholly insignificant , as compared with the labour he performed . > Ve wish some of our protective friends would just give us a call and look over our attorney ' s bills of costs , and perhaps when they found that tho insertion of about forty lines in the Northern Star , which wc had never seen , cost us £ 360 without going to trial at all , they would then understand'liow much costs _jro to swarms of idlers standing between the Crown and the solicitor . The cowardly poltroons who thus assail an honourable gentleman , and a useful public servant , are fully aware that the custom of Mr . Roberts ' s profession , as well as the end *

      less controversy into which notice of such fabrications _, wouldlead him , closes his lips , and renders it impossible for him to notice such assaults . We conclude by tendering cur hearty thanks to Jlr . Jude for his gentlemanly , lus timely , and satisfactory refutation , of thc anonymous slanderer , and the more especially as we have reason to know that the meanest endeavours have been resorted to to win Mr . Jude to forward the purposes of Mr . Roberts ' s enemies . Sterling virtue , and especially to the absent , is a very rare quality , and canuot be too " highly appreciated when exercised , as in the case of Mr . Jude . \\ hen have the working classes had a friend whom faction would not destroy . We rejoice to think , however , that the nails of faction have been pared by the sharpened illteUoet of an i mproving people . Feargus _O'CoNNoa , Deputy Treasurer , in account with t " V _„ ° . tB ' , easurer of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , Irom August 10 th to October * 23 ' . U ,

      inclusive : — Dr ., as per acknwled gment * in the Northern Star . £ s- d . £ s . d Sept . 6 , Cash Ui 7 7 13 , " 112 11 •_> 2 _« _, " 133 17 11 n 'X , " 76 19 0 Oct . 4 , 97 U 8 11 . " 60 19 1 : 18 , " 105 3 7 25 , " 82 12 Cash received from Secretary 77 10 o

      £891 4 2 £891 I 2 Cr. Paid On Account Of...

      £ 891 4 2 £ 891 i 2 Cr . Paid on account of Treasurer , Nov . 1 , 8 ? l 4 * -

      _, ,. Espences O 0 O Balance 0 0 0 1 He ...

      _ , ,. _Espences o 0 o Balance 0 0 0 1 he Deputy Treasurer begs to announce to tit * sharo holders that he is not rich enough to make up ioficienees occasioned by the irregularity of District secretaries , ati'l . tliat While he lias lodged the whole amount on tU _» first day of the month , in order that the Society may be entitled to a month ' s interest , he lias now in his possession French drafts upon London Bankers , and I _' _ostoffice orders irregularly transmitted , for which he cannot procure cash while it occupied the grea ter portion of three days in . running from one Post-office to the other , to get the ; orders cashed , being made payable at the Strand , Charing-cross , London , Old Cavendisnstreet , Oxford . _' street , ' and Piccadilly , when all the trouble might have , been spared by making the orders payable at the Post-office , Charin g-cross . When one person undertakes the gratuitous performance of labour for thousands , it is but right and just that that labour should be made as _lii-jHt as possible , The above account does not include monies paid by tin * _ueneral Secretary since tho 2 Dth of _( _blober , to lvlncli

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 8, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_08111845/page/4/