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      4 BSM * OE EVERY INDUSTRIOUS , K * S _* SP HIS FAMILY . UNITED PATRIOTS' AND PAHMARCHS * _SUITABLE LAND AND BUILDING BENEFIT SOCIETY , _BnTaileu and Empowered by Act of Pa-foment to _« ts u _* 3 «« r the United Kingdom . - _* - _** . - _* . 8 . DimcoiCK , En ., M . P . _Thojui Wakm , -Ess ,, M . P . B . B . _Cismt , Eeq ., M . P . , ' n _^ -So . » . Tottenham Court , Hew Boad , _StPancrai . londoD .-DiNiEi , TfjiiUH Hum , Secretary . _Abbikgm _) w Tmeb _Sec-mowb . Value . of Shares and Payments for Investor-. Foil Share ... £ 120 payment ef 2 _i . Sd . per Week , or 10 s . 63 . per Monti Halt Share ... « 9 - * «* _~ I I Z ttaartec Share ... 39 — ° '* " ~ .. * _. _% _.. _» _Applicants are reques ted to state ia _thsir form tie section « iey desire to be a member of . * NaSraTKIOBS _' _. SoLlCHOM ' _. _OfRWMKIOHFKS . _-fh _. _Meieat Entrance Fee , including Certificate , Kales , te ., is is . per Share , and 2 * . for any part of a Share . OBJECTS . 1 , * _ to _enatte _memDers to build _Dwlltag Houses . | Stk _. _-To gin to depositing members a Wgber rate of Ut , — -to _enaow ¦ " = _""« » Iaterest than is yielded by ordinary modes of investment . Snd . —To afford Ae means of pnrchastag both Free ; _iJb _ _ Q enaDle Parents to make Endowments for hold and Lease & old Properties or _Lind . _^^ CnU 4 ren | or Husbands for their Wires , or for _Mar-Snl . —To advance Mortgages on Property held by _, *«<* Settlements . _Bieotwn , 7 th , —To purchase a piece of Freehold Land of _suf-4 th . —To M » _U _« Mortg « f * or » tRtos members to _wdwin _fictentTatae to give a legal title to a County Vote for fceir Kortgages . j Members of _ParUament . _Sectio * . i . —By joining this section every person in town or country can become the proprietor of a House . ____ fa _{ s owa neighbourhood , withont being removed from his Friends , Connexions , or the present means _Mm-elf and family may have of gaining a livelihood . _^^ Seotioh II . —To raise a capital by shares to purchase Estates , erect Dwellings thereon , and divide . the _TmoH . into allotments fram half an acre upwards , in or near tie towns of the varioas branches of t * * e society . Ihe property to be the bona fide freehold of th * member after sixteen , eighteen , or twenty years , from the date of location , according to his subscriptions . Sectioh HL Saving or Deposit section , in which members not wishing to _purohaseare enabled to Invest ¦ mail sums , from _1 _ L and upwards , receiving interest at the rate oi 5 per cent , per annum on every Bum of 10 s . tn # upwards so _deponted . _Subj-ripfwr . Office . —* 92 . Nzw Oxfo «> -5 tke £ T , where Meetings are held , and Members enrolled , ever ; Wedaesday Evening , from Eight to Ten o ' clock , — _^ _ _jp rom £ _soo to £ 500 will be advacced to the members of the first Section in December next , when JlMMonTwho have aad may become members for Shares , or parts of Shares , on or before the 3 rd of December nextand who pay six months' subscriptions in advance , or otherwise , will be eligible for an advance . . ALSO , FOB THE WOBKIKa MILLIONS IN _CONKEXIOH WITH THE ABOVE , THE UNITED PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCHS' BENEFIT SOCIETIES . Enrolled pursuant to Ao t of Parliament . Thus seeming to its members the protection of the law for their funds and property . Legalised to extend over the United Kingdom , with the privilege of appointing Medical Attendants , Agents , te . An opportunity is now iffereo to healthy persons , np to Forty Years of Age , of joining these flourishing Institutions in town or country . LoxDOH OmcE . —13 , Tottenham Court , New Boad , St Pancras , ( thirteenth house eastward from Tottenham Court Road ) . — _Dakieo William Borer , Secretary . Patrons . —T . S . Dosookbb , Bso _... M . P . T . _Wixuar , Eso _... M . P . B . B . _Csbbsm , _Estfc _, M . P . F . O'Cohhor , Ese _^ , M . P . L . J . _Haksakd , Eso .. In the short space of fear years these societies have paid the following benefits to their members . _SDHUiBT OF CUM 8 . Siekness and Superannuation .... ... _, M £ 2611 1 8 | Accouchments ... ••• ••• ... 930 15 O Funerals ••• ••• ••* ••• Hi 18 _*¦ Loss by Fire ... •¦• ••• ••• •>• 81 1 & O _JE 43 _S 1 7 9 _J Present Capital _foaded fa tte Bank of England ... £ 1789 12 2 Tb . ua Societies ue in lit _diritions or sections , fer tbe Members to receive the following _Ssnefiti according to their Subscriptions : — FIBST DIVISION . FOURTH DIVISION . _Btr-mce accordine to age , from Ss . to 10 s . Monthly Con- Entrance , according to age , from Ss . 6 d . to 8 s . 6 d , tribntion for Sickness and Management , 2 s . 7 & Monthly Contribution for Siekaess and Management . ¦ is . ti . £ s . d . Alewance , in Sickness , per week .. ... 0 18 0 ..... . ¦ ¦ _% ' z _Z Vem * _- ** _- _* * Funeral .. 2 ° ° ° Allowance in _SicknesB , per week ., .. 0 9 0 THtto Wife ' s or Nominees ditto .. 10 0 0 Member ' s Funeral 10 0 0 Wife ' _sLyiris-in 2 0 0 Ditto Wife ' s or Nominee ' s ditto ' .. .. 6 0 0 toss by Fire , from .. .. £ 5 0 _OtoSO 0 0 Wife ' s Lying-in .. 100 Soperannuation , per week 0 6 0 Loss by Fire , from .. .. £ § 0 0 to 10 0 0 SECOND DIVISION , Superannuation , per week 0 10 Entrance , according to age , from Is . fid . to 9 s . 6 d . FIFTH DIVISION . - Monthly _Contribatien for Sickness and Management , Entrance , according to age , from 3 s to 8 s . Monthly Con . . 2 s . Id . tribntion for Sickness and Management , ls . Id . Allowance inSlckness , per week .. .. 015 0 Allowance in Sickness , per week .. .. 6 7 0 "jfembers Funeral .. .. 16 0 0 Member ' s Funeral 6 0 0 Ditto Wife ' s or Nominee ' s ditto .. .. 18 0 0 Ditto Wife ' s or Nominee ' s ditto ., .. 8 0 0 Wife ' s _Ljiag-in - .. 1 15 0 Wife ' s Lying-in 015 0 Xoss by Fire . from .. .. £ 5 0 0 to 15 0 0 Loss by Fire 5 6 0 Snoerannuation . per week .. .. 0 5 0 Superannuation , per week .. ... , 0 4 0 THIBD DIVISION . SIXTH DIVISION . Entrance , according to age , from 4 s . to 9 s . Monthly Con . Entrance Money .. .. .. .. 0 8 0 tribution for Sickness and Management , Is . _? d . . Monthly Contribution - .. .. .. 0 1 0 Allowance in Sickness , per week .. .. 0 il 0 Allowance in Sickness .. .. .. 0 7 0 Member ' s Funeral .. .. .. .. 12 6 0 Member ' s Funeral 2 10 0 Ditto Wife ' s or Nominee ' s ditto .. .. 6 0 0 ... "Wife ' s Ljing-ia 119 0 No Levies in this Division . loss by Fire , from .. .. £ 5 0 0 to 10 9 0 _SttBerannuation , per week .. .. .. 040 Levies according to the demands on each division per quarter . N . B . —The only difference In the two Societies is , the Patriots have an Accouchment benefit , the Patriarch "have not that benefit , therefore do not pay levies for it . f _ f Applications for Agencies requested from all parts of the country ; information for appointment of Agencies can ba obtained by letter , prepaid , enclosing a postage stamp _. Blank forms and information for the admission of country members can be obtained by letter , prepaid , enclosing three postage _atamps , to Dame * . Wixiuh Born , General Secretary , 13 , Tottenham Court , New Boad , St Pancras .

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      JustFablished , price Threepence . THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER : — Averbatim report of a lecture by Saucej . Kydd , in the Milton Street Toeatre . Jaly 19 th , 1849 . Every Chartist shoald po sess himself of this valuable pamphlet . It is the most able and eloquent exposition of the principles of Chartism we have seen . Those whose lot it was to hear it uttered , will not soon forget the event , and we are glad to find so masterly aprodactioa has been published for the benefit of others less _fortunately situated . London : E . Dipple , EVywell Street ; Heywood , Man-Chester ; Love , Glasgow ; Bobinson , Edinburgh ; and at _» _U Chartist lecture rooms , and locality meetings .

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      TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert .

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      DO YOU SUFFER TOOTHACHE ? -If so , use Bsahd £ _* s Enahel for filling the decayed spots , _rendering defective teeth sound and painless . Price One _gaUling only , similar to that sold at Two Shillings and Sixpence . Sold by chemists everywhere . Testimonials . — ' it has given me the use of one side of ffiy month , which luxury I had not enjoyed for about two years . '—E . J . Macdosald , Belford . Northumberland . 'It is the most effective and painless cure for toothache I have ever found . I have no hesitation in recommending it to all sufferers . * —Captain Thomas Wk'ght , li , _Newington-crescentrXoadon . * I have filled two teeth , and find I can use them as jvell as ever I did in my life . I have not bad the tooth _, sushe since . * — Absahas Collihs , _North-brook-place , _Bradferd _, Yorkshire . See numerous other testimonials in . various news . papers , every one of _-wHcn is strictly authentic . If any fiifficnlty in _obtaining it occurs send One Shilling and a Stamp to 3 . Willis , 4 , BeU ' _e-buUdings , Saiisbury . square _, _Xiondon , and you will ensure it by return of pest . —Agents wanted .

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      EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA AND THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . —Th 8 splendid following jship ? will fee _despatched as under : — For ALGOA BAY , November 25 th , the PEBSEYE . BAKCE . 400 tons , F . THOMPSON , Master ; loading in the London Docks . For the CAPE of GOOD HOPE , December 1 , the JULIANA , 569 tons , F . BOWLES , Master * loading in St Katberine Docks , For PORT PHILIP and STDSEY , November 25 th , tho BEULAH , 578 tons , 3 . H . M . _STRUBOX , Master ; loadinz in the London Docks .

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      BIGHT OF LOCATION . a _^ O BE DISPOSED OF ( together or separate ) , . THREE FODB-ACRE SHARES , drawn in the Sbvember ballot , by a family whose engagements render it impossible for them to take possession . As the above frizes were drawn in the second unlocated ballot , the purchaser -rill be entitled to aa early location . Price £ 50 for the whole , or £ 20 each . Applications _tebe made to Mr T . Clark , m , HJgh Bolbora , London .

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      FOB SALE , A _THREE-ACRE PAID-UP SHARE ia tte Hatfanal Land Company , with aU dues clear on the Companj _' _abook . Price £ 2 IBs . « _2 S H _« t _af nr 3 r Houss * ' ConnorTiUe < n _« W Wcfanans-

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      METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE , Annuity , Loan , and Investment SOCIETV . ( Incorporated pursuant to tbe 7 th and 8 th . Vic , cap . 110 . ) Temporary Offices , 39 , Regent _, street , Waterloo-place , London . TRUSTEES . Richard Spooner , Esq ,, I Spencer Horatio 'Walpole , M . P . | Esq ., M . P . Edward Vansittart Neale , j Henry Peter Fuller , Esq . Esa . J DIRECTORS . Robert Chalmers , Esq ., Edward Lomax , Esq ; , St _Thurlow-square , Bromp- John ' s Wood . ton : Samuel Miller , Esq ., Lin . Samuel Driver , Esq ., White- coin ' s Inn . ball . Sir Thomas Newley Reeve , Henry Peter Fuller , Esq ., Richmond . Piccadilly . Edward Vansittart Neale Palk Griffith , Esq ., Esq _., South Audley-street Ironmonger-lane , Cheap- William A . S . We-tohy Bide . Esq ., Hyde Park-place .

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      FOR SALE . A PAID-UP FOUR-ACRE SHABE . —Pri _«\ e _£ U 0 _s , Inquire of P . P _^ Providence Cottage , Hall Park . Paddington , London . All letters to be _prepaid .

      Latest From Ireland.

      LATEST FROM IRELAND .

      Disturbed State Op Thb South—Reported In...

      DISTURBED STATE OP THB SOUTH—REPORTED INSURRECTION . CiAHUBL _, Nov . 9 . —The Times correspondent _Btates that on Wednesday night at about twelve o ' clock , the entire constabulary fores turned out , the 64 th Regiment and the Dragoons with them , and marched off under the directions of Mr W . Ryan , R . M . and Colonel Stretton _. of the 64 th ; the constabulary nnder the command of Captain Cololongh , County Inspector , and Sub Iuspeotora Foaberry and Gernon . They prooeeded to a place called the Mile Tree , and thenoe to the Wilderness , a sort of wood , about a mite and a-half from Clonmel , where they came in view of a body of men numbering from 1 , 600 to 2 , 000 ,

      nearly all of whom were armed with guns , pikes , pitchforks , & o . They were drilling in a large field , divided into bodies , each nnder a separate commander When they saw the military and police they all separated and ran . The constabulary pursued and arrested seventeen men , some of whom were armed . They are not of tho very lowest class , but comprised tradesmen , many from this town . The entire body , it is said , was nnder the leadership of a , student named _O'Laary , preparing for the bar . A man named Miles , and another named Walsh , of this town , are amongst those arrested . They were brought into ou gaol by the constabulary at about three o ' olock thia morning . In tne pursuit , one of the men in trying to escape jumped off a high projecting rook in the Wilderness , and was Hearly killed .

      The military and police are all on tho alert , as it is clear that another season of insurrection and robbery ia again about to aet in . A report bas just been received in town that the people all around this part of ( he oountry and towards Tipperary are rising .

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      FUNERALS . MiR JOHN SHAW , Undertaker , 24 , Gloucester . _-Kreet , Commercial Boad East , begs to apprise his friendsand tke public generally , that , _notwithstanding his present unjust confinement in Newgate , for what is taw is entitled * sedition , ' his Business i » still carried on by Urs Shaw , by wham all orders -rill be executed with dispatch and . propriety . ' Every description of Funeral undertaken in any part of London or its neighbourhood . J . S . guarantees the most efficient attendance , and the very best dresses for mourners , and other . funeral fittings , on the most reasonable terms . ..

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      Now Beady , a New Edition of MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS . THS CHEAK 8 T EDITION BVSB FDBIlflHBD , _Fricels . _Od ., A new and elegant _editloa , with Steel Plate of he Author , of PAINE'S POLITICAL WORKS . Just published , price 3 d ., THE EVIDENCE GIVEN BY . JOHN SILLETT , la hia Examination before tho Committee on tne National Land Company . This important body of _eridsnee forms sixteen _closelv _pristed . pages , and conclusively proves what may be done , to explaining what John Sillctt has done , with Two Acres . No . 23 , OF "THE LABOURER " CONIAIHB TWO AMIOIiM BT MB . BBSBBI J 0 SB 3 i conti is : — 1 1 . ThB System of Land Tenure and _Agticaltt-ie in Guernsey . 2 . The Mardered Trooper , 3 . Kational Literature . 4 . The Era of St . John . Just Published , price Is . U ., forming a seat volume , EVIDENOE TAKEN BY THE SELEOT _MMMITTEE Appointed to inquire into Thb _Naiwhai- _&*«» Compahi ; with a _rerieiroi the _laice _. and ait vatline of the Propositions for amending the Un-. stitntion of the Company , so as to . comply with the Provisions of the Law . Watson , Queen ' s Head-passage , _Pafornoatewow , London : A- Hey wood , Manchester : and all Boonsellers in Town and Country .

      Portrait Of Cuffey.

      PORTRAIT OF CUFFEY .

      The Aboye Portrait, Taken By His Ftllow-...

      The aboye portrait , taken by his _ftllow-safferer , Wm . Dowling , is now ready . Price 6 d . Orders received b y Mr Dixon , Hi , High Holborn .

      Portrait Of Mitchel. Oar Agents In Linco...

      PORTRAIT OF MITCHEL . Oar agents in Lincoln , _Boraoaatle , and Market Raisen , will obtain the portrait , through Mr _Bushby , bookseller , Grantham . Many of onr agents have aot yet instructed as how ire shall forward their parcels , Some few hate sent too lata to be enclosed in their book parcels this week , - __

      Portrait Of Smith O'Brien, M.P. Next Wee...

      PORTRAIT OF SMITH O'BRIEN , M . P . Next week , specimens of a Portrait of Smith O'Brien , taken b y a most eminent artist , and engraved in the most superior style , will be in the hands of our Agents . This Portrait , we unhesitatingl y assert , is as perfect a likeness as Art could Supply , and is a superior thing to any ever given with a Newspaper . . The friends of tbe original , who have seen it , declare that it is the ori ginal to the life , and to this we subscribe our own testimony .

      None but subscribers need apply . In about five weeks the Portrait will be read y for circulation .

      THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE "NORTHERN STAR . " Next Saturday will be the Twelfth Anniversary of the "Northern Star , " and its Birthday will be commemorated b y a review of its past history .

      A Full Report Of The Trials Of The Scott...

      A FULL REPORT OF THE TRIALS OF THE SCOTTISH CHARTISTS Will be given in the " Northern Star " of Saturday next , November 18 th , 1848 . In consequence of the great demand upon our space tbis week , we are compelled to omit the Land , Victim , and other Receipts , which will appear , as usual , in our next . N

      The Northern Star, Satfjkday .Koyeilbeail, 1848,

      THE NORTHERN STAR _SATfJKDAY _. _KOYEilBEail , 1848 ,

      The Victims Of Whitfgery. The Chartist F...

      THE VICTIMS OF WHItfGERY . THE CHARTIST FLAG AGAIN UNFURLED . Last Saturday ' s Northers Stab , contained an aoconnfc of the conclusion of tha trial of Mullins , tho last—( may we say the last ?) of the viotirns of Messrs Russell , Powell . Grey , Davis , Jervis , and _Baldwinson . George Mullins , surgeon , aged twentytwo , was arraigned on the 26 th ult ., in the court of

      the Old Bailey , on the charge of having " wickedly , and feloniously conspired with William Lacey , Thomas Fay , and William Cuffey , and divers other evil-disposed persons , to levy war and insurrection against her Majesty , & c ., & a . " The miscreant Powell was the first witness examined . His evidence was similar to that given on tho former trials ; and on his cross-examination ho again repeated the confession of his infamous oareer , and tho _vilainous means he employed te entrap his viotirns , He waB followed by the equally illustrious Davis , who swore thathe was present at a meeting of Chartists , at the George , inthe Old Bailey , on the day that Ernest Jones was

      tried , at which meeting Mullins was present , who said " itwas a _' shame that the prisoners Bhould go to prison without some attempt being made to reaoue them ; and that he ( _Muilins ) added , that the van would go through _Cow-cross on its way to _Celdbathfields , and that it would be a good place to attai k it , and that he , ( Mullins ) , said he knew a friend , who he understood to be a man named Daly , who would lead out the Irish living in the neighbourhood for that purpose . " This is a repetition of the _evident given on former trials . Our readers may remember a letter -from Mr Daly , whioh appeared in this journa subsequent to those trials , in which Mr ai

      uaiy sr .. eu _uw ar . tae time of Jones ' s trial , he was _™ al . w I * _V 7 lef , i En S land «¦* France five weeks before Mr Jones was arraigned . Can any one doubt that the speech ascribed to Mullins by Davis _isajrosa invention of that " respectable witness ?" Davis , it appears , recommended the Greenwich FA ™ '? t _* *?¦! P " y , de , H ? el 7 ei 1 _**«* half-inch chisels to run into the _bowela of the police ! No wonder the Attorney General was ml Ay 0 rZdof his S _sraws-sssaiiSS

      •¦ _MsfcstfteflaE _^?" - _» j ;» UM _fi"JS * _S- _iKiT 5 * tt * " *» be TR ANSPORTED FORLire 'Si The conduct of Mr Justice Mania » . » * . «» « , » _i _* _-, eWJ 8 siBS increase popular respeot for that I « -oHomSS 3 c * Hia repeated interference with the _wZel for the defence , when cross-examining the * _nv ¦ _ _* ______[ _"STU P _^^^ bn upon 5 _EFST 5 court . When the Judge aunmes the oharStw of a

      The Victims Of Whitfgery. The Chartist F...

      partisan , men may oontinue , to bow to the force of tho law , but assuredly they will cease . to have faith in its 1 The fate of poor Mullins— -doomed in tha bloom of hia youth to life-long misery , must command the sympathy of all feeling hearts . Hia doom will be a warning to tbe people to beware of the vile agents of the viler Whigs ; and , we trust , will also stimulate that popular hostility tb Whiggery , which will , ere long , seal the eternal downfall of that false and cruel Earl y next monthrthe winter _asBizas will commence , and it is to be feared that their termination will see a new list of viotirns consigned to prison torture . That phrase ,. ' prison-torture , " is by no means _bu exaggeration—witness the treatment of

      Dr _M'Do-uatl , who has had bis bait' outolose , is clothed in the prison dress , suffers solitary oonfine . ment , and is only permitted to leave his cell to take _open-airexercise site hour out of the- twenty-four . His food need not be described , suffice it to say , it is , we believe , not worse than that on wbioh the victims of our Poor Law system are sustained . When taking exercise , Dr . M'Douall is placed in the midst of a gang of felons and transports . Such , at least , was the treatment the Dootor experienced day by day , immediately after his conviction , and we havo not heard of any change tor the better , He is to be allowed to write or receive a letter only ones in three months , and the sight of his wife and ohildren will be limited to the same degree of indulgence .

      Ernest Jones , Vernon , and their fellow-prisoners were permitted , during the first three months ef their cap _iivity , to correspond with their familit s once a fortnight . That poor privilege has been withdrawn , and all correspondence cut off between the victims and their families _. The trials of the Scottish Chartists have commenced . On Taesday last _Jaues Cummino was arraigned before the High Court of Justiciary , in Edinburgh , on a oharge of " contravening "tbe "Act lately passed for tbe better security of the Crown and Government . " There are minor charges ol " conspiracy * " and * ¦ ¦ sedition . " The Crown lawyers

      bave taken care to make their net . so wide , that a chanoe of complete escape from their meshes is hardly to be hoped for . Tae principal charge ia preferred under the _recently-enaoted " Gagging Bill , " and if convicted on that cbarge we fear it will go bard with ' the defendant . Mr Cuuuiko ia a man highly respected by his order , and he well . deserves that respect . Some legal objections taken to the indictment atthe commencement of the trial , occasioned an adjournment of the oase for forty-eight hours . A full report of this and the other Scottish trials will be given in next Saturday ' s Stab . We remember to have seen amongst the mottoes on Chartist banners —>

      " Ihe more the oruel tyrants bind is , The more united they shall Sad us . " Now is the time to exhibit the sincerity of those who have so often gathered under that motto . Freshwater sailors and feather-bed soldiers are not mare oontemptib _> e than are those politicians who , when the storm of persecution sweeps over the land , basely cower before the blast , and , intent only on tbeir own safety , abandon the advocaoy of the principles they heretofore professed . The sunshine patriots have , of course , deserted the Chartist colours , since it nas become dangerous , to be known as a Chartist . But there are some men—many , we are happy to > ay—* who are made of sterner stuff , and those men aro rallying round the old standard .

      Wo direct the attention of our readers to a report of a most important meeting held a few days ago at Birmingham , for the purpose of considering the prosent position of the Chartist patty , and the means to be adopted for the resuscitation of the movement . We have not space now to _disouss all that was said and done at that meeting , but we shall return to . the subjeot , most likely in next Saturday ' * Star . For the present , we confine ourselves to an expression of our extreme gratification at finding a spirit of fraternal seal like that exhibited at the meeting in question , yet animatiag men who , in virtue of their talents , and because of their long tried services , _posesis a wide popularity and well-deserved influence over the working classes . We have faith that ourpatiiotio friends will succeed in once again organising the Chartist party , and we do not despair of seeing even a better organisation than has any time existed Bince tlie Charter first saw the light .

      Chartism is not dead ; onr enemies may make up their minds to believe that" greatjfact . " Proofs of the vitality and reviving energies of Chartism might be enumerated at some length , bnt we will limit ourselves to two facts . At the Glasgow municipal elections , which have just taken place , Mr James Moir entered the lists against Whig wealth , power , and influence , and he triumphed . His triumph , too , has been no oommon victory . He was returned at the head of the poll , leaving his defeated rival , Alexander Hastie , Lord Provost and M . P . for tke City of Glasgow (!!!) in the unenviable position of " _lasc on the list . " Thia is a ' great triumphs for the Glasgow Chartists and a mortifying defeat for the Whigs . At Sheffield seven Chartists have been rktubned to ihb _jwtf-cotwen . ! Glory to the good men and true of that old garrison of democracy ! Up then , Chartists of England—up and rally to the cry of your trusted friends and leaders :

      THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER I

      THE NEW QUACK AGirATION . A lachrymose lamentation over the mischief oaused by " perverted agitation , " and a laudatory notice of a " salutary agitation , " appears in the Times of _Thursday . It commences by stating that the peculiar isolation of classes whioh characterises English sooiety , deprives the vast bulk of the population of these advantages whioh a less restricted in . _tercourse between different grades would _ensure ; and asserts , as a consequence ofthe depuration of these advantages , that the multitude , left to the " silent panderings of nninstruoted ignorance , or the blind impulses of . reckless passion , offers a read y instrument of credulous confidence to the presumptions Socialist , or the designing knave . " The people , therefore , " attaoh themselves . to the vain

      promulgators of idle crotchets , or the interested dis . seminators of hireling quackeries . " The Times adds , that ' . ' the mischief already great , bids fair to become more formidable , "unless the eduoated classes will interpose the mediation of their sound judgment . That there may be no mistake as to tbe nature of the "idle crotchets and hireling quackeries" which are condemned , the questions moat generally mooted and discussed in the manufacturing towns , and populous districts of the country , are shovelled together iu a depreciatory paragraph , couched in that peouliar style of elegance whioh places the Times at the bead of the BillingBgate press . A more equitable system of Land Tenure , and suoh an apportionment of tbe soil and labour of the country , as would ensure

      constant remunerative labour , asd a largo _inoreasa of food and raw material upon whioh to support and employ other labour ; a sound and wholesome Currency , based upon the real wealth which it ought to represent , and capable of expansion in proportion as that wealth increased , and of contraction as it diminished : a ohange in the law of Primogeniture and Entail , by which the land would be released from the artificial fetters which now look it up from the people , and be brought into the market in the same manner as any other commodity ; the abolition of class privileges and olass legislation , in order that all the inhabitants of the country may be placed in that equitable politioal position , whioh the constitution abstractedly guarantees . These and similar important

      and at least _reaionably-debatable measures , are decried by the Puddledock Thunderer , in its most approved style . They are " the wildest theories of social ohange , the strangest nostrums of political regeneration "— ' fluent claptrap , " v * hioh sadly imposes on tho ignorant and credu / oua dupes who _listan to their expounders . The Times , however , is lucky , and the people of England more lucky still . Puddle Dook has found an agitation and agitators altogether according to its own heart . We are now able , on this high authority , to assure our readers tbst the oase of Great Britain is not entirely hopeless ; there is yet a chance of our salvation from utter perdition by means of a really intelligent , practical , and salutary agitation , which

      enjoys the distinguished patronage of the Times . These agitatora are the Colonisation Sooiety , and the object for whieh they carry on their agitation is simply to promote the wholesale expatriation of the people from England to Australia and other British colenies . This it is which is to change tbe aspect of British society , aB with a magio wand , and to stand as a substitute for all the social , politioal , and financial reforms whioh are considered necessary by those who have most carefully examined the working of our internal arrangements , and most profoundly studied the science of sooiety ! Truly the Timbs is almost sublime in its andaoity . ' It is difficult to tell which to be most surprised at , the measures it condemns in its own fluent slang , or that it recommends with suoh exaggerated panegyrics .

      We hare one consolation—namely , that it is bo notoriously an unsafe and vacillating political guide , that nobody possessing the least amount of common sense is likely to pay the slightest attention to its recommendations . " It is everything by turns , and nothing long ; " and we _shoald net be at all surprised , before the moon changes into the next quarter , to find that it had cast off and utterly repudiated its new pet and protegee . 1 f a more likely candidate for popular favour was to start up in the interim , the transfer of the patronage of Puddle Dock would be easily effeoted .

      With all deference to the sages of that _classio region , however , we beg to demur as to its twofold argument on this occasion . We do not agree with its summary and flippant condemnation of many grave and vital social and politioal questions , to which pubho attention has been more or less directed of late years ; nor do we think thai « agitation" is likely

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      to be directed into more salutary" ohannels by "the educated classes , " if the agitations patromsed by the _Tiuas , are to betaken as samples . We b 1 ) reaiember how it snubbed the Anti-Corn Law Agitation , nnti \ one morning it . awoke to the perception that the _League was a «« great tact , and commenced an advocaoy of Us principles aid objects , whioh speedily distanced all competitors ! That agitation _suoceeded . We may now , without _presumption , ask —• " Has it turned out to have been . the agitation of' men of intelligence and station , ' who were capable of taking apractieal view of the causes which produce national distress and difficulties , and applying a commensurate remedy V or , has it not _proved to be , indeed , the "hollow quackery-fluent clap-trap , " and "idle crotohet , " which the Timbs stigmatises ? "

      . . . If Free Trade had realised the promises which the Times and its supporters said it would , there _ would now have been no neces dty for their starting another " agitation . " It has completely broken down ; and now , the very party whoso lately deluded the people into the adoption of olap . trap , " and " quackery , " come forward , and with superlative _impudence offer another dose equally delusive , because founded upon the same falsehood . We have before said , and oannot too frequently repeat , that the Repeal of tho Corn Laws , and Foreign Emigration , both rest upon the same af sumption : that is , that Great Britain and Ireland are overpopulated _, and incapable of supplying food to all their inhabitants from tho cultivable surface of both

      islands . Therefore , said the League and the has < , let us bring food from abroad to supply tbe deficiency . That has been tried and found wanting , and now the Times and the Colonisation Society , still assuming the aame point— -say , let us transport the " surplus people , " to provide food for themselves abroad . We have just one reply to all the humb-g that may be spouted or written on this subject . The first proposition , on which all the others are based , is not true . Great Britain and Ireland are capable of supporting a population at least four-fold greater than it is at present . The only way to terminate inconvenient agitations , is for the Legislature to initiate measures which wili permit this to be gradually and naturally done . The true way to perpetuate

      them , is to favour false , _ucsound , short-sighted schemes , which _leavisg the oause ? of social evil still untouched , mutt ' _necessarily fail , _ttud at the aame time iu a thousand ways add to thelmisery they are professedly brought forward to cure . When next the Times talks of "hireling quackeries , " let it remember the gigantioaid costly machinery by whioh the League earned out its quaokery , and deluded the people and the legislature into tbe adoption of a . measure , which it was hoped would not only give wealth more rapidly to the manufacturing interests , but , in the words of John Bright , vest the government of England in Lancashire acd Yorkshire . They pretended , indeed , assuch _quaoks always do , that it was not their own benefit they sought , but that of the country , though they could not deny that they expected to be primarily and

      immediately rewarded for their services by the increased demand for manufactures which they anticipated . Short-sighted selfishness has been disappointed , as usual , in their case . Is it likely to be otherwise in tbat which tbe Times has now taken np ? It admits that the quacks , who are now running about the country crying up Australian Emigration , have an interest in promoting it . That very admission ought to make the poor people ot this oountry _castious and scrutinising . Heaven knows we have eo laok of selfish patriots of this class ; and , above all in conclusion , we do not see that the conversion of two or three hundred thousand emigrants into shepherds in Australia , is to prove a panacea for all the grievances of tbe people of this country , or to remove the burdens from their shoulders , which are now felt by millions to be unendurable . The Timbs has merely "found a mare ' s nest . "

      A JUDAS . On Wednesday , we received the following letter through the post : — Scotland T art , Whitehall . i , Bridge Street , Westminster . November 7 th , 1818 . Sir ., —It has just struck me that Mr Feargus O'Connor must be wrong , when he stated ( with respeot to Mr Ernest Jones , whea elected one ofthe Chartist Executive , and holding a situation oa tho Sta * at one and the

      same time , ) that it was impossible for a man to serve two masters , and Ernest Jones became _thedismlsbed editor . My object ia writing this is to show that the Great O' is wrong , for I have _swved him and the Government well at one and tho same time for months . . Trusting tbat the Great 0 ' will , for the future , have the fear of God before his eyes , and a better reipect ior the law . I am , yours , dso ,, Yeur Dismissed Reporter , ' ( not Mr Stallwood , ) Or otherwise , an Agent 'for the bitter preserve _, tion of Peace , Law , aad Order , '

      In the original the writer has drawn his pen through the _woids" Scotland Yard , Whitehall ; " the second place ef address appears to have been an afterthought . s We suppose the letter to have been written — as professed —by our " dismissed reporter , " one Mr Reading . Indeed the handwriting leaves no room for doubt as to the author . It will be seen that this fellow boasts tbat he was tor months in the pay of the government , at the very time tbat he was receiving Mr O'Connor ' s money as a reporter for the Star .

      We can now understand how ii happened , that not a week passed during the tide of Mr Reading ' s " services" that we had not to cancel one-half or twothirds of bis reports , inconsequence ofthe outrageous sedition they contained . There oannot be a doubt entertained , that this fellow was employed to entrap us into the publication of " seditious" —• and , if possible . " treasonable matter ; " employed too , as he says , BY THE GOVERNMENT 1 Thank God , he now belongs to the government altogether . We wish Lord John Russell and Sir Georqb Grbt joj of their bargain .

      But a word of caution to Lord John _Russklc . We know from the best _authority that Ms friend Mister Reading tried to incite men to assassinate his lordship . Byway of a stimulant he was in the habit of adding , that" but for the fact oi having a wife and ohildren , he himself ( Reading ) would blow out . tbe b——y brains of Lord _JoHxRuiSELn . " We have a variety of such anecdotes , whioh can be woll authenticated , at his lordship ' s service . The above letter is about as cool a pieoaof barefaced impudence as ever was perpetrated even by a Whig spy . Really " the Government agents for the better preservation of Peace , Law , and Order" are a choice lot . Oh that " In every honest band were placed a whip , To lash tbe rascals naked through the world . "

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      P.J. Watson, Paisley.—I Have Nothing Te ...

      P . J . Watson , Paisley . —I have nothing te do with it ; it was _received by S . M'Crae . W . _Kideb . Isaac Jones , Merthyr Tydvil . — We are not informed of the intended number of parts . Each purt ls . _Janes Mebeditu , Monmouthshire . —We have no room . Joseph Saint , Blackhill . —Yes . Address to Clarke and Co ., 278 , Strand , Lendon . Price ls . The Victims . — The Chartists of Greenwich , Woolwich , and Deptford , will please forward aU monies or subscriptions for tha Victims , to Mr Floyd , baker , Church Street , _deptford . Mr Radford , Nottingham . — Send us the full address . Call at the Post Office for the papers . Portraits next week ; T . Fbost . —The letter shall appear in our next . Tiv £ BT 0 ** . —Julian Harney has received ten shillings for Mrs Jones , from a friend , Westexe Ward , Tiverton .

      C , J . Clabe _, Bristol , must communicate with the branches by letter . Z . _Y ., Accrington . — All the money received by the Nstional Land Company , together with several thousand pounds of Mr O'Connor ' s own money , has been invested in land and buildings for the Company ; itis , therefore , quite impossible for the directors to return any sums paid by _membirs . It is strange with '" the rules bf tbe Company In their possession , that members should ask ths directors to refund any part of tho capital ofthe Company . As well might the shareholders ofthe Great Western Railway , ask the directors of their company to pay back the capital wbich is sunk in that line of rail . The National Land Company is no exception to Joint Stock Companies , no such bodies being able to act as Z . Y . requires the directors of the National Land Company to act .

      __ , . , Thomas Ola **** . Several communications are unavoidably postponed till next week . The Victim _fum * . - Swat-veil , per Robert Gardner , Ms 5 d , sent by Martin Jude . J , _Qkassbt . E . Scholey , Peterborough , begs to acknowledge thefol . lowing sums for the Victim Fund , which have been forwarded to Mr J . Merriman : — MrHaddock .. 010 — Ward 0 0 6 — Theobald .. o i 0 A Friend _^ o 0 10

      £ 0 3 4 _$ _~& A _.-J _5 * In consequence of the announcement of forth _, coming meetings , balls , tea parties , & c , having been lately charged to us as advertisements , we have been compelled to _condenso them as much as possible . We hope our correspondents will be brief in their _announcemeuts , aud make a distinction between Land and Chart , _st meetings . Several notices of meetings _« Ih _fJW ? Bent t 0 _" _without tUe date <>«¦ «™ of meeting . We have received one from _Ashton-under . _fe _^ » Weel _^ « _! a _meeting w 11 be he da _half-paat ten o ' clock , omitting the day on which such themselves if their _meetings are not noticed .

      Robbsribaoh Lobd Major's Day. - Numerous...

      RoBBSRiBaoH Lobd Major ' s Day . - Numerous _robbMieti were oommitted on Thursday amongst the orowds of persons assembled in tha streets to witness _theprooession . _Puwes , _pooket-booke , _andwatshes rapidly ohanged owners . No lees than thirty oharges of _pooket-pioking wera entered at tho station in _i- leet Street in the course of the day , and from many other similar robberies were no donbt _commithd . but , from the dexterity ofthe thieves , the _vigilaoca of tho police was _baffled , _^

      To The Members Of The National, Land Com...

      TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL , LAND COMPANy ( Continued from our First page J Mr O'Connor replied , that the fact of u . allotment not having been cultivat ed sin .. * Adam was a little boy , would add _considerable to its value , as old _swafd was the most val ble ground , as he had frequently stated . That " as for the flood , itwas a romance . He had superintended the making of a road through that Very ground during the wet months of November and December , and it was never flooded ; and as to the roots , he begged to tell that in that district mnro MT * Mm * D (! C \ T > mr . _^

      the Conference , , so high was the price of coals , that he could have got every root grubbed , and well grubbed , u the condition that the labourer should have them for his trouble * Mr Doyle was the peN son who superintended that work , and C would be best able to reply to that portion of the question , * but , so far from nothing being done to the allotment , it was every bit _paref but not burned , as the season would not per , mit , and for the most simple of all reasons two deputations of the London members , _•¦ _% had been balloted for Minster , waited upon me and pressed the necessity of being located early in March . Well , now , it appears that

      thaiwas not the fit season . I foolishl y yielded to their application , or otherwise the whole of that land would have been burnt . And now Mr Doy le shall speak for himself . Mr Doyle . — " Why , Gentlemen , tbere never was anything so unfair as Mr Beattie _' s charges . There was a thorn tree here and tbere in Mr Beattie ' s allotment ; the stumps were every one grubbed , but I had not horse power at the time sufficient to remove them and it was an understood thing with him and others that they should have them for remov _. ins them to behind their cottages . ' '

      After Mr Doyle had concluded , a man , of the name of Hall , one of the carters at Min _. ster Lovel , reminded Mr Doyle . _ that he ( Hall ) had removed with horses all the roots behind Beattie ' s house . And now I come to Mr Beattie ' s second onslaug ht Mr Beattie rose again on Thursday _evening and after a repetition of his melanchol y tale ' inquired when he was to receive the 3 / . 15 $ _[ additional Aid Money , for the performance of labour upon his allotment ? Mr O'Connor rep lied , that every day new

      li ght was beaming upon him , and he _now begged to ask Mr Beattie a few questions , The first was—he begged to know whether it was true , or not , tbat Mr Beattie had produced carrots as large as his leg , and as long as hi * . leg , in this Adam ' s Paradise that would grow nothing—and had sent them all over the king , domas samples ? Mr Beattie . —It is quite true . Mr O'Connor .- * -Well , my next question ij , whether Mr Beattie haslet any portion of Mj allotment , and how , much , and at how much rent ?

      Mr Beattie . —Yes , I have let three acres . Mr O'Connor . —At what rent ? Mr Beattie .-13 _f . a-year . ( Shouts of " Oh . " Mr O'Connor . —Now , then , 1 am enabled to show to the Conference this man ' s solemn position , as Powell , the spy , said . . This man , who has told us such a pathetic tale , is now in possession of a most splendid cottage , of one acre of prime land , ; a profit rent of 3 / . a-year , for his rent will not be more than 10 / . Ha

      has had 301 . of tbe Company ' s money , and he wants 31 . 15 s . more . Need I say another word ? ( Cries of " Shame , shame . " ) Mr Beattie . —But there are rates and taxes , ' Mr O'Connor . —Rubbish , sir : 3 / . a-year , a house , an acre of ground , and the loan of 30 l . to pay rates and taxes upon three acre 3 of land witbout a house . Gentlemen , will not the fact of this rent at once establish for you the value of this Plan ? The estate at Minster

      cost 30 / . an acre . Those three acres that ha has let will be struck at an average of about 28 / ., so that three times 28 / . are 84 / . ; therefore for the 84 / , expended—for the man has no house—the tenant pays 13 / . a-year rent , or nearly sixteen per cent ., upon the outlay ; and I warrant he got none of the roots—that his comp laint of the flood will not be listened to , and that he will never be a day behind

      with his rent . I have received an Address , which was published in the " Northern Star , signed , I think , b y over sixt y of the ei g hty allottees , expressing , as you are aware , the strongest possible faith in the Plan , thankful , but not comp laining , while now the stability and practicability of the Plan is to be jud ged by the exhibition you have just seen . ( Hear , hear , ) [ I might have added—but I was not aware ofit at the time—that this Mr Beattieis

      a pensioner , receiving 18 / . 5 $ . a-year from ths Government , and I was told by one of hi * neighbouring allottees , on Saturday morning , that , for every day ' s work Beattie did , he did six , and that he spent most of his money upon SOMETHING more gratif ying than labour , It would be impossible to describe the sensation that Mr Beattie ' s confession created in the Canference . l

      And now let us see the actual position of this much injured man , jugg led b y Feargus O'Connor and the Land Company . He has 3 cottage good enough for any man in Europe to live in—an acre of good ground—received 30 ? i capital—has three pounds a-year , profit rentand 18 / . 5 s . a-year income . How many honest , industrious men , I think I hear earnestly exclaiming , " I wish I had the much-injureilMt Beattie ' s complaint . "

      I now come to a consideration of tbe genera ! charges preferred by Mr Edwards , the member For Devonshire . He opened his _interrogfl ' tories by stating tbat he was compelled to do so by the express desire of his constituentsthat he did so with great reluctance ; but a . the charges had been extensively circulated throughout the whole of Devonshire , by a person who worked at Snig ' s End : and whoif he

      , was employed for the purpose , could not have done more injury to the Land Plan , as he _w a holder of sixteen shares in the Company ; and further , his evidence was corroborated bj another person now located upon that estate He begged to say that he did not believe oneo ; those charges , while at the same time he wis bound to his constituents to bring them for ward : —

      "The first was , that the shareholders \ _ffa worked at Snig ' s En < _J , had seen a ploughman for an hour and a half resting upon the bea fl of his plough , and doing no work . " The second was , that the carters , while en gaged in drawing stones and other thing- ' stopped at the Feathers public-house , am there got drunk , in company with Mr Oil imgham , the overseer . Ci third was , that Mr Lawrence receive " 305 . a week for superintending his own met who were engaged in laying the foundations . " The fourth was , that there had been gre _* waste of the Company ' s property . tn

      " The fifth was , that Mr Taylor , painter , son-in-law of Mr Cullingham , received ol ' week as his wages . And he would now aiM his disappointment at not seeing counsel pre sent at the Conference , as promised by J * 0 Connor , to aid them in their deliber ations His instructions , as regarded the re-electi " of Directors ,. was to vote for the whole boil except Mr O'Connor- and . he was prepare with an estimate , from a builder in Devonsl _»' to build the cottages at a much lower rate . _, Another charge was , that when the _cottag * were finished , and before the occupant s too " possession of them , tradesmen and labourer were put in , and were allowed to burn _w timber and roots that ought to have been p * served for the occupants .

      Mr O'Connor in repl y said , " I will « n 3 , v those several charges seriatim . ' , "Firstly . —With regard to the man resting ' his p lough , it was a mere fabrication . " Secondly , —As regards the carters skul _^ their work and getting drunk atthe Feat _^ : it was an impossibility that they could fl " done so without coming to his ears , anil tP * they could not have discharged their alio" ' day ' s work . Aadas _togettiugdrwnk _withM '

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 11, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_11111848/page/4/