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    • THE I0RTHESH STAR SATWKDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, JSSO.
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      TTNITED PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCBS' - _- _BB _^ _MT _^ OCnSTT . U EnroUed pursuant to 10 Geo . IV , c 50 , 4 _ 5 Will . IV . c 46 . & 9 _ 10 Vic . C 27 . -InStltuted , 7 t ! t * eo ., I „ 3 . on . _„ - - _* -- ** _- . - - wtombbd ax im _iwut _o "Bam * - f ¦ _ . classes of _mwhanics and The Society is divided into sue sections , to meet tlie necessities and reqw _*™™^ thousand members , and has a lahourers , from fifteen years of ace to forty-five . This Society consists of ahovc _^ _« . formation : —Sickness , funded capital of 2 , C 22 t . 16 s . 9 d . ; having paid the _followingjums for benefits _^ _smo us _^ _^ 5 , 7081 . Ss . lOd Funerals . 1 _. 382 L Superannuation . 301 . 0 s . id . Fire , 361 . JSs . « > _£ ?• _ toitted and tue remainder can n , _foHowing is the SCALE OP FEES to be paid at entrance : _&*^* JS 2 _£ ? %£ _eSto if desired _:-extendoveraiK'riotiofskmon _^ 6 th section . _•^ _# ? _oo - _^ sec tion . 2 nd section . _Srdsecton . _« hs _« gd £ 0 Ss . 2 d £ 0 2 s . 2 d . From _^ _H " -. £ 0 5 _s . 2 d . .... £ 0 _48 . WL .... X 0 _" _•**• •• " % _?» ,... o 5 2 .... not admitted — 32-36 .... 0 7 2 .... 0 6 8 .... J 6 i .... « " Q g 2 oyer - To ~ _% "" i 01 ? I " \ I 2 "" « 19 S - ' . " _- ' . ' 019 2 .... 0 18 2 .... _tweHtyyears * " — a a i .... _t _. v _^ ~ --- mexbeb ' s death . —wife ' s ok nominee ' s death , HEM [ _AIMWASCE _LV „ C ___ _ASO SDFERiSSOATIOS . Section .... _i 20 0 0 .... £ 10 0 0 5 __" __* m 18 a _*« . _es-M- Secondditto .... 16 0 0 .... 8 0 0 KS ___ Mo J ? ° 1 a Thirdditto .... 12 0 0 .... fi 0 0 5 2 ___ _ ? 1 o Fonrthditto .... 10 0 0 .... 5 0 0 _SgS- _** 10 I 0 1 0 Fifthditto .... 6 0 0 .... 3 0 0 _«•«?» ¦ " " - n none . Sixthditto .... 210 0 .... none MXUi ditto ...... _ i « _^ * aii the Divisions ( with the exception of the Skth ) £ 10 . _Monthly contributions to ensure the above benefits . TT- ; _-i _=. _'in « . » ow-. nficrp Under 40 . TJnder 45 . Under 30 years ot age . _^ 10 Jd _^ 4 g gJ _4 _f _^ _ta _*^ " _? " A ' 1 GeneralExpenses 3 ' 2 i 1 Insurance in caseof fire , 3 V ) _4 d . a month for _Sf" * , _£ * » dW 2 s " 1 can be raised to 151 ., 2 10 1 Medical _SZS _« _'"" 2 0 I _Postase , _A-c , 2 2 f l _$ d . a month extra . 2 5 i f Attendance and _KtUdiUo ... " 1 8 J _ljd . Monthly . 1 10 } or 201 . 3 d . a month . 2 1 j Medicine . b tto .... Tonthfill > Gift , Widow and Orphans' Funds extra , for which , see the rules . _. _V-enciesarc established in many of the principal Towns throughout the Kingdom , and agents are requirea mail _parrtoXurhS _alloivanceumade : _EveryinlonnationcanheoDtainea _;!)? application to the Secretary , at Se Office ofthe Society , 13 , Tottenham-court , . New-road ( thirteen doors from the top oflottenham-court-roaa ; , st P _^ e _^ nsm n theConntry applying for Rules can have them forwarded , by enclosing nrelre postage stamps , and if for wo of application , or information , three stamps must be enclosed . ' , _ " _•^ Daniel William Rufft , General Secretary .

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      _AISO THB DRITISH EMPIRE FREEHOLD LAND AND BUILDING SOCIETI D Ou an Advance your Rent is Saved—you become your own Land and Householder . PATBOSISED BT THE _WORKING MILLIONS . Banters . —The Commercial Bank of London ( Branch ) 6 . Henrietta Street , Covent Garden , Chairman of Directors . _—Seobge W . M . Rev solto , Eso , Xon _* foji qgiee —Yo . 13 , Tottenham Court , >' e < r Road . St . Pancras , London . —Dasiel William _Roffv , Secretary . Abeaxced in Thbee _Sectio-js . —Value of Shares and Paymentfor Investors . Full Share .. .. £ 120—payment ol 2 s . 5 d . per Week , or 10 s . Cd . per Month . . nalfShare .. .. 60 1 2 * 5 o 1 Quarter Share .. .. 30 0 7 J 2 8 . Applicants are requested to state in their form the Section they desire to be a Member of . Ko Scbvetobs ' , Solicitous ' , or Redemption Fees . —The present Entrance Fee , including Certificate , Rules , & c , is 4 s . per Share , and 2 s . Gd . lor any part of a share . Price of Rules , including Postage , ls . OBJECTS . Ist-To enable members tohuM Dwelling Houses . 5 th . —To give io Depositing 2 fem 6 ers a higher rate ofm-2 ni-Toa _ra the means _^ purehasmg both Freehold _^ j _^ f _^ . -. nd Leasehold Properties or Laud , _.,, _.- ,. Children , or Husbands for their Wives , or for Marriage 3 rd . —To advance Mortgages on Property held by settlements _, members . . 7 th . —To purchase apiece of Freehold Land of sufficient 4 th . —To enable _Mortgagers being members to redeem ralue to give & legal title to a County Vote for Members oJ their _Mortsaces . ° ' Parliament . Section _1 ! -Bv joiniug this _seciion every person in town or country can become the proprietor of a Ilouse and Land in his own neighbourhoodrwithout beiug removed from his friends , connexions , or the present means himself and family _^ _SotmvII-S _^ e _- _! _rSi _^ by-shares to purchase Estate ? , erectDwellings thereon , and divide the Land into allotments _fromhalf-an-acre upwards , in or near the towns ofthe various branches of the society . The property to be the bona ids freehold of the member after a term of seven years , from thc date of location , according to his subscriptions . Sectws 111 —Savin" or Deposit section , in whieh members not wishing to purchase are enabed to invest small sums , receiving interest at the rate of five percent per annum , on every sum of 10 s . and upwards so deposited . \ B . — £ 501 ) will be advanced to the members of ihe first Sectiou in November next , when all persons who have and mav become members for shares , or parts of shares , on or before the 4 th of Xovember next , and who pay six months subscriptions in advance , or otherwise , will be eligible for an advance .

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      EMIGRiT I OK . THE BRITISH EMPIRE PERMANENT EMIGRATION AND _COLONISATION SOCIETY , To secure to each Member a FARM , ot uutless than Twenty-five Acres of Land in AMERICA , By Small ' Weekly or Monthly Contributions . Losdox Office - —13 Tottenham Court , _Sew-road , St Pancras . —D . W . Rofft , Secretary . OBJECTS . To purchase a lar * e trac to iLand in the Western States To purchase in large quantities , for the common benefit , cf America , upon which to locate _Xlembors , giving twenty- all necessary live aud dead stock , and other requisites , five acres to each Share subscribed for . supplying each member on location with the quantity re-To erect Dwellings , and clear a certain portion ofthe quired at cost price _, land on each allotment , previous to the arrival of the allottees . .,,. _* _,,.. To establish a depot , from which to provide each family _comJoTa _^^ _^ vith _therequired _quantily of wholesome food , _uutU their collective and separate rights and immunities . . own land produced sufficient for their support . "VALUE OF SHARES . Each Share to be of die ultimate Value of Twenty-five Pounds . To he raised by Monthly or Weekly Subscriptions , as foVows : — A Payment of Sinepence per Week tor Ten Tears will amount to 191 10 * . Bonus , St . 10 s . Ditto Sixpence per Week for Fifteen Years will amount to ML 10 s . Bonus , 51 . 10 s . Repayments may be made to the Society iu Money , Produce , or Labour . Prospectuses Rules , Forms of Application for Shares , and every other information , may be had at the Office as above . All applications by Letter , addressed to the Secretary , must be pre-paid , and enclose a postage stamp for reply , By enclosing twelve postage stamps a Copy of the Rules will be forwarded , post free . Forms of Entrance by enclosing three postage stamps . Agents required in all parts of Great Britain .

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      ASTOUNDING POST-OFFICE REVELATIONS . _ _LAGRAXT MISAPPROPRIATION OF THE PEOPLE'S MONEY . _nPREASURT PATRONAGE THE GREATEST IMPEDIMENT TO ECONOMY X AND RETRENCHMENT . Addressed to all Classes of the United Eingdom . BY A WORKING CLERK , RECENTLY EMPLOYED IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE . Second Edition , Price Twopence . London : W- Hobsell , 13 , Paternoster-row . ' These few facts teU how mischievously the Public Money has heen squandered , and show the amount of tyranny on the Dartof the authorities of the PostOfiice , which would scarcely be credited . * We do not _> sitate to say , that ttc statements before us in this pamphlet , renders it imperative that the administration of this department should undergo a searching parliamentary inquiry ; and we are much mistaken , if such an _exposure as this statement of' Treasury Patronage' makes , will not aid the movement , that will end 111 placing men in authority , who will not regard their inferiors as so many brute beasts , that have nothing else to do than to succumb to their imperious bidding . _' _-JJefl's _IFeeHi--Ve _« er . ger , Oct 27 _tft , 1840 .- __ ' So _impressed have many gentlemen been , who have read this pamphlet , that a Memorial to the Lords ot the _Trea-Eurv has teen got up and numerously sl _^ _axA . '—Bedford Mereurg , Dec . 1 st , 1813 . 1 A full and complete exposure of Post oflSce iniquities : showing how the aristocracy oppress the working clerks , and waste the people ' s money in the management of public oflices . The pamphlet will be of wonderful service to all fiaandal reformers . _'—^ Re ynolds' Weekly Xevospaper , Aug . l & th , 1830 . -V B —The writer ofthis pamphlet ( Mr . Samuel Saunders ) has most handsomely presented to the Executive Committee of the National Charter Association « . ne thousand copie 3 , to be sold ior the benefit of the Democratic cause . The Executive therefore ur _gently 1 MB on the various localities , and the fri _nds of Democracy in general , to aid in its _circule . tion , especiaUy , when it is s ated that Mr . John Arnott , the General Secretary , li , Southampton-street , Strand , will supplv them at Two Shillings peb Dozes , or . Thbeepesce _eaoi . . . _ " 1 * The pamphlet consists of forty-eight ; pages of closely-printed statistical and valuable information .

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      THS BLOOD . Our bodies have been entirely formed , are now forming , and uill continue to be built up during Lfe from the Blood . This being the case , the grand object is to keep this precious fluid ( the blood ) in a pure and heallhy _\ tale , for without iliispurity , disease will show itself in some wav or the other .

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      Brother Cliarlists Beware . ' " of llolves m Slieeps _Clotldnq . " RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED WITUODT A TRUSS !!

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      DEAFNESS . — Important Notice . — Mr . FRANCIS , the eminent aurist , who has devoted his attenlion solely to DISEASES of the EAR , continues to Sect the most astonishing cures _^ in aU those inveterate eases which have long been considered hopeless , and < yf thirrv or fortv years standing , enabling the patient to hear a - whisper , without pain or operation , effectually removing deafness , noises in the head , and aU diseases ofthe aural canal . Mr . P . attends _daDj from 10 until 6 , at Ms consulting rooms , 6 , Beaufort-buildings , Strand , London . Per-¦ oiB at a distance can state their case by letter . Advice to the poor . Monday ,-Wednesday , and Friday , from 6 till 8 in tbe _erenine .

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      EMIGRATION TO NORTH AMERICA . W TAPSCOTT AND CO ., SHIPPING and Emigration Agents , Liverpool , continue to despatch First Class Ships—To NEW YORK-every Five Days . To SEW ORLBAXS—every Ten Days . To BOSTON and PHIL ADELPHI A-e very Fifteen Days . And occasifnally te BALTIMORE , CHARLESTON , SAVANNAH , QUEBEC , and St . JOHNS . _^ ' Drafts for any amount , at sight , on New York , payable in any part of the United States . Tapscott ' s "Emigrant ' s Guide" sent free , on receipt of Four Postage Stamps . _^ f $ _3 _f About twenty-eight thousand persons sailed for the New World , in Tapscott ' s line of American Packets , inl 849 .

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      RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS . THOUSANDS OF _TESTIMONIALS HAVE BEEN . RECEIVED , Beware of copies of them b y knavish quacks , who assume foreign names , and resort to every conceivable mode of _swindling the public and damaging the character of long standing practitioners . DR . BARKER'S REMEDY has been entirely successful in curing manv thousands of cases of Single and Double Ruptures , of every variety ; and has long been recognised by the whole of the medical profession as the only remedy ever discovered for this alarming complaint . All sufferers are earnestl y invited to write , or pay Dr . B . a visit , as in every case he guarantees a cure by his peculiar mode of treatment The remedy is equally applicable to male or female of any age , and is easy and painless in use , causing no inconvenience or confinement , _ c . Sent post free on receipt of 6 s . 6 d . hy post-office order _, cash , or postage stamps , by Dr . ALFRED BARKER , 48 , Liverpool-street , King ' s-cross , London , where he may be consulted daily from 10 till 1 , morning ; and 5 till 9 , evening ; Sundays , 10 till 1 only . Post-office orders to be made payable at the Generel Post-office .

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      A MONO THE MANY DISCOVERIES - £ X tliat characterise the present age , none have contributed so much to the comfort and ease ofthe community , nor couferred * uch a boon upon suffering humanity as the important discovery of Bum ' s Gout and Rheumatic Pills , the efficacy of which has been tested b y the approval and recommendation of many of the greatest men of our day . They are effective for gout and rheumatism in all its various forms , including sciatica , lumbago , pains in the head and _fuce _^ frequently treated as tooth-ache , « fcc . They require neither confinement nor attention of any kind , and iuvariubly prevent the disease attacking tlie stomach , brain , or other vital part . In testimony of which Mr . Blake , Kingscliffe , Northamptonshire , writes : —

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      '' _** - - WEEKLY JOURNALJY ROBERT OWEN ; ]/" On Saturday , tbo 2 nd of November , -will be published the First Number of ROBERT OWEN'S . WEEKLY JOURNAL , PBICB ONE FUNNY . ' A Periodical intended to instruct all classes in the principles and practical measures by which alone the poverty , injustice , and _iriiaery of the existing system can be peaceably superseded b y universal wealth , justice , and happiness . To be had of all Booksellers in Town and Country . THE RECENT WORKsV ROBERT OWEN May be had of Effingham Wilson , Royal Exchange ; Watson , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row ; and Tickers , Holywell-street , London .

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      Education for the Millions . THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED No . XYII . OF " THE NATION _^ _INSTRUCTOR ' PRICE ONE PENNY . The object of the Proprietor , Feargus O'Oonsob , Esq ., M . P ., is to place within the reach of tho poorest classes that Political and _Sosial Information of which they are at present deprived by the Government ' Taxes on Knowledge . " In addition to a serial history of the " Life and Adventures of Feargus O'Connor from his Boyhood , " it will contain Essays by the best writers ou all the leading Questions of the day , written in an earnest , honest , and impartial spirit ; Tales and Sketches , illustrative ofthe working of our present Social and Political System ; Reviews nivl abstracts . of New Books ofa useful and _luaUuuuve cmiracter , and _Miscellaneous Information , suited alike for the amusement and instruction of the fireside .

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      n O O P E R ' S JOURNAL ; \ J OK , UNFETTERED THINKER ,-AND PLAIN SPEAKER FOR TRUTH , FREEUOM _, AND PROGRESS . ( A Weekly Periodical . Price One Pennv . Issued also in Monthly Parts . ) I beg to Inform the readers of the above-named Periodical that the re-issue will commence with Saturday , the 5 th of October next . Tlie Trade can be supplied on Tuesday , the 1 st of October . I have no promises to make of ' great improvements . ' The intelligent friends who kindly assisted me with their contributions before , have intimated their intention to continue their favours . The * Critical Exegesis , ' and other articles , so far as space will allow , shall be duly furnished by myself . Thomas Coopeb . 5 , Park-row , Knightsbridge , Sept . 3 rd , 1850 .

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      THK CHEAPEST EDITION EVEE rUBMSUED . Trice la . 6 d ., A new und elegant edition , witli Steel Plate of the Author , of PAJNE _' S POLITICAL WORKS .

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      Now Ready , a New Edition ot Mr . _O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS Sold by J . Watson , Queen's Head Passage , Paternoster row , London ; A . Heywood , Oldham-street , Manchester , and Love and Co ., 5 , Nelson-street , Glasgow . And U all _Rookscllei-s iu Towu and Country .

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      NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Office , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand . IT HE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE - hereby announce the following meetings : On Sunday afternoon , September 15 th . the Metropolitan Delegate Couneil will meet at _thi-ee o'clock , in the City Charti 3 t Hall , 2 G , Golden-lane , Barbican . On Sunday evening ( same date ) Mr . W . Davis v ill lecture at the King und Queen , Foley-sireet _, Portland-placo . Subject— ' ' Capital . " To commence at halt-past eight o ' clock . On Tuesday evening a meeting will be held at the Literary and Scientific ' Institution , John-street , which will he addressed by Mr . J . Bronterre O'Brien and others . Chair to be taken at eight o'clock . N . B . —Tlie Agents of the various localities are most respectfully and earnestly solicited to forward a return of the number of members enrolled , and also the monies in hand , received for Cards ot membership , to the General Secretary , as early as possible . - Signed , on behalf of the Committee , Joun Aiinott , General _Sesrctary .

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      An excellent opportunity now otters ltbdf to parties desirous of purchasing a Capital "POUR ACHE ALLOTMENT J } AT BROMSGROVE . Ther © are at present on the ground three quarters of an acre of potatoes looking well , one quarter of an acre of cabbages , one quarter of an acre 1 f beans , one third ot an acre of Swede turnips . Thtrc is housed , tbe growth of a half an acre of vetches , and there is stacked a good crop of wheat , the produce of an acre and a half . A bonus of 65 _t , lias been paid by the proprietor of this allotment , of which the purchaser will havo the entire advantage , as rent at the ra'e of four percent will be only charged upon the difference between tlie bonus , and the wholesale cost of the allotment to the Company . Leases for ninety-nine years , and a life iu reversion , are being prepared for the allottees on this estate , and to which tlie purchaser will render himself entitled . The price ofthe allotment , with the detailed advantages , properties , & c , is 991 ., and without the wheat crop , o ' Jl . All applications to be made to Philip M'Grath , Land Offlce , High Holborn .

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      The Gkeat Britain . _^—The negotiations for the purchase of the Great Britain , to carry on a trade between Panama and San Francisco , have fallen through , and this noblo vessel is destined , for a time at least , to remain idle in her present quarters . Subaqueous and Harbour , Telegraphs . —The electric telegraph , if not successful under sea , appears likely to be applied extensively to shipping and other purposes , along rivers and in ports and harbours ; and with this view it is intended to establish one over the Mersey between . Liverpool and Birkenhead . It is also in contemplation to establish a line of wire communicating with tho Custom House and chief shipping stations along the three miles of docks , so . that in foul or foggy weather the owners of vessels may receive intelli-

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      _^~ _ . _„ .,. „ . _- „; . - _^ _T -irrnniiwcr " _^ HAYNAU AND HIS VICTIMS . A LECTURE WILL BE DELIVERED F EAMUS O'CONNOR-ESQ ., M . P . AT - TnB ' ' . ¦ ' ;' _- ¦ INSTITUTION , COWPER-STREET , CITY-ROAD , On Tuesday Evening , September YltJi , ON THE "WRONGS OF POLAND AND HUNGARY . " In the course of the evening the Polish and Hungarian Exiles will sing somo of their patriotic songs ana _^ _. national airs of fatherland ; the proceeds oi , v tho Lecture to be given to the Refugees . Admission to the body oi the Hall , Id , ; Platform , 3 d , Chair taken at Eight o ' clock .

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      PORTRAIT OF SHI ROBERT PEEL This admirable likeness of the Great Statesman , is now ready , and may be bad of any of the Agents , price the same as the previously published Portraits . London Agent , Mr . Pavey , Holywell-street , Strand .

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      Mr. Owen's Letter To Ms Son, Robert Dale...

      Mr . Owen ' s letter to Ms son , Robert Dale Owen , is ,-from press of matter , deferred until next week . R . _Towniev . —We shall give your communication our best consideration . Mrf W . Whitehead , Braco Village . —You arc not in arrears ; " one paper is duo to you . Mi-. Tram , Torquay , —Postage , two-pence each , Yes they will do . The Laoev Fund . —H . Wilks has received the following sums for the above fund : —Stockport , per Mr . Bonfold , second subscription , 3 s . ; monies , per Mr . Arnott , £ 1 18 s . 2 d . ; V . T ., Wood-street , 53 . ; W . B ., Sunstreet , 2 s . 6 d ; Mr . Green , per Farey , fid . ! Mr . Kent , Brighton , Gd . ; Wat Tyler Brigade and Friends , Greenwich , second subscription . 17 s . Id . _CongletoiV . —At a committee meeting of the Ten Hours Bill , it was resolved that the overplus ( 10 s . ) of money in the treasurer ' s hand be paid to Mr . Itider , towards

      defraying the expense of Mrs . Lacey ' s voyage to hor husband in Australia . Wm . Johnston . —Ynuv communication having reference to a matter of fact , and being merely an e * parte statement we thought it our duty to submit it to the managers of the Association referred to . In reply , they state that Mr . Johnston was requested to call , and that they would recompense him if any injustice had been done . Mr . Johnston it appears has not availed himself of that invitation _. The directors request us to state that they have been , and still are , eager to recompense him if they have done him any injustice . S , Sandai , _Widsokcri . —The compound householders bill is passed of Sir William Clay , which enables parties to vote , although they do not pay rates directly , if the rates are included in the vent , Wji . Donnison _, Newcastle . —In answer to your question as to the " Irishman , " we are sorry to say that its

      publication is discontinued . As to the parties you mention , we cannot honour them with our special notice . C . Mowl _, Temple Bar . —Your letter will appear next week . F . Sciiofield , Ashton-under-Lyne . —Write tothe _Superintendant of the Convict Department . The Eastern Division , of tue _Opebative Boot and Shoemakers ov _GjjAsoow . —We have received an answer to the tetter wliich appeared in the Nobtiibb _, v 8 tab ot last Saturday from the City boot and shoemakers , in which they state that " the dispute is not the 201 . borrowed in 1841 , but the 401 . lent to support their wives and families while they were on the strike in 1846 . '' Both societies have broken down since that time . We organised again , acknowledged and paid part ofthe debt ; they are orgaised also ; but they affirm that the act of breaking down cleared them of all debts . Shopmates , is it fair that so insignificant a body , as they say we are , ( not numbering the one hundredth partof the shoemakers of Glasgow ) , should pay this 401 .. which the Eastern division only received the benefit of ? This , and the entering of members who were in debt to our books , ( which is against the rules of all societies , and which we can prove they have done ) , is the only cause of dispute ; and we

      willingly leave it to the shopmates who may read both statements to decide between us . B . V order of the City of GUsgow Operative Boot and Shoemakers Society , Thomas Millar , secretary ; James Sanderson , William lteid _, William Keers _, Peter Kelley , John Hale , committee . Pousn Befdoee Fond . —Next week . Wm . Davis , Secretary . [ The other portion of your notice is an advertisement . ] Marshal _Haynao . —A few friends met on Monday evening at the White Hart , Sugar Lane , Manchester , and , fearing that tho men employed by Messrs , Barclay and Perkins might lose their employment , formed'themselves into a committee , paid their subscriptions , and resolved to meet every Tuesday evening to receive monies for the support of the men so discharged . We are , however , glad to say that not a man has , as yet , heen dismissed by that firm . _, A _Lovek of tub Executive highly approves of ( he address issued by that body , and calls upon the Chartists of Manchester , Leeds , and other large towns to set the example in sending fifty or sixty members to Parliament , to make known their wrongs , and assert their rights .

      The I0rthesh Star Satwkday, September 14, Jsso.

      THE I 0 RTHESH STAR SATWKDAY , SEPTEMBER 14 , _JSSO .

      Educational Eeform By A People's Parliam...

      EDUCATIONAL EEFORM BY A PEOPLE'S PARLIAMENT . In previous articles we have shown , first , the urgent and paramount importance of such a reform . of our representative ay stem as will make it truly the exponent of the wauts , the interests , and the intelligence of tho whole people ; and , secondly , the administrative , financial , and social measures which aPeople ' s Parliament might bo expected to pass , with the view of increasing the efficiency , and

      economising tho expenditure of Government , and of laying , at the same time , a solid foundation for gradually improving the physical condition of the masses . We have now to direct attention to tho Educational and the Civil Reforms which ought to be looked for from such a Parliament . The educational and moral improvement of the people is no Joss urgent and desirable than the physical , and in order to secure the progression and permanency of the one the other must march by its eide .

      We shall confine our present observations to the Educational Reform whicli should be made by a Peoplo's Parliament . It is an universally admitted fact , that no country in Europe stands so low in the educational scale as England . Tho nation , which boasts that it is at the head of modern civilisation , in respect of scientific modes of producing wealth , and unprecedented commercial enterprise , falls far below many of the pettiest principalities on the Continent , in the

      amount and the quality of thc provision it has made for the education of the people . The criminal returns , the reports of philanthropic societies , and of commissioners of inquiry , have made us , and the world , acquainted with the indisputable and too well proven fact , that a large proportion of the children of the poorer classes are growing up without the means of acquiring the simplest elements of human knowledge ; and that the daily lives and habits of these classes exhibit all the inferior and

      vicious consequences which are naturally to be expected from such shocking and disgraceful neglect on the part of those who are entrusted with the destinies of the country . One great cause of this wretchedly low educational state has undoubtedl y been the opposition offered by contending sectaries to all plans of purely secular instruction . While these bigoted and intolerant sects have been at war with each other for the possession of the privilege of instilling their peculiar dogmas into the minds of tho rising generation , they have at all times joined cordiall y to oppose those who proposed to teach all how to perform properly their duties as citizens , without

      demanding they should simultaneousl y he compelled to pronounce the Shibboleth of any creed or sect whatever . The advocates of purely secular education , in addition to the opposition of tlie so-called religious , would have had to ; encounter obstructions ofa political character . Many conscientious and wellmeaning persons , sincerely attached to the greatcause of Democratic progress , have seen , in the proposal of a State Secular Education , merel y a cunningl y contrived aud Jesuitical piece of machinery , by which tba Government would he enabled to train up future generations in that worst of all slavery—mental slavery . We must confess , that we have too much faith in the . expanding and' liberating power of

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      knowledge to participate , in these fears , ' bJt the fact that they exist must not be lost sight of in dealing with this all-important subject . Unquestionably , in conjunction with other influences , it has powerfully contributed to reta ' rdthe progress of educational reform in this country . A People ' s Parliament will , of course , at all times be but the reflex of the preponderating opinions and intelligence of those who elect it . The measures it may pass will be useful and beneficial only in proportion as they carry with them public support an d sympathy . In national progress it is , perhaps , as _i—„ . i _. j __ _-t _. _ _. „ _x-. _;«„ * . _«;„ * h _* , fe * . ra _t b : it

      great an error to legislate in advance ofthe popular mind as it is to lag far behind it . Seeing , therefore , the obstacles to a system of State Secular Education , presented by the combined religious and political feelings of a considerable portion of the people at present ; and seeing , at ths same time , the absolute indispensable necessity for removing the stigma of ignorance , and consequent excessive immorality , debasement , and criminality from our country—a People ' s Parliament ought to frame an educational measure , suited to the exigencies of the time , and containing within itself the germs of future

      progressive expansion . . The sehobl system of the United States of America , perhaps , presents the best model for us . However valuable in themselves , and superior in their organisation , the continental state _systemsmay be , they are adverse tothespirit of English institutions , and of the English people . The American system , on the other hand , secures universality of action by means of local rates , managed by local authorities , and they harmonize with that instinctive love of local self-government which has distinguished the Anglo Saxon race since the days o the great _Alpked . A people ' s Parliament ought to enact _thaj ; a local rate for the establishment and main- *

      teniinco of public schools be levied in ihe same way as the rates or municipal taxes—that the right of access to these schools be given to every child in the realm ; that their management be entrusted to the local representatives of the people , and that tlie interference of ministers of religion , in such schools , be confined to objects of religion , and limited to the children of parents belonging to their own communion . If , to such an organisation of schools for intellectual instruction and moral discipline , there could be attached small farms and workshops for the industrial and physical training of the pupils for early accustoming them to labour , and those regular habits of application , which exercise so powerful an influence on the career and the

      fortunes of the man , these schools would all the more perfectly meet the requirements of a rational ; and national system of education . That term , as we use it , does not mean merel y the exercise of the few mental faculties , called into play by learning reading , writing , and arithmetic , in conjunction with the usual school routine of grammar , geography , and history . True education means the developement and training of all the faculties of our nature progressively ; and in proportion as man is surrounded by the fitting means and appliances for effecting this object , does' he become a superior or an inferior member of society .

      When the people at large become fully aware of the immense and overwhelming importance of rightly educating every child that comes into existence , every other question connected with societarian well-being will be seen to be dependent upon this cardinal and central measure . It is the pivot upon which all society must move . A well educated and orderly community would , even in a material point of view , be a far more valuable and a less expensive one than an ignorant and

      turbulent one . It would , at one and the same time , produce a larger amount of wealth , and waste a smaller proportion , in measures of repressive police aud penal coercion . The millions now squandered in costl y and utterly inefficacious attempts to diminish crime , by the punishment of offenders would be saved , aud the happiness of every individual would be largely increased by the prevalence of a healthy , moral tone throughout all the ramifications of society .

      If the matter was set about properly , such a beneficial measure , so far from adding to the Financial burdens of the country would reduce them . The sum now spent in keeping up our system of Criminal Policy might be converted into an educational rate , with benefit to all parties . There would be no lack of resources in the hands of a People ' s Parliament for so noble a work . One of the first measures to which for such a purpose it should turn attention , would be a just administration of National Trust Property .

      The people of this country are the heirs of estates , set apart , or bequeathed in ancient times for public objects , and now producing a large revenue , not included in the Financial accounts of tho United Kingdom . The full amount of this revenue has not been ascertained , but there is sufficient evidence of its extent to warrant tho conclusion , that if the funds of which it is composed were economically administered and appropriated according to the plan of their original destination , every child in this country might receive a sound education . The necessity of rates for the repair of churches would be wholly superseded , and the burden of the poor rates be greatly relieved .

      In the administration of one portion of these funds , presumed to amount to nearl y £ 2 , 000 , 000 sterling per annum , the reports of the Charity Commissioners have shown the most extensive malversation to prevail and yet , year after year has been suffered to pass away without any steps for its correction , or for tbe prevention of future abuses of trust ; and the inquiries of the Commissioners have been suffered to remain incomplete . Another , and the larger portion of these funds—the revenuo derived from tithes , glebe lands , and rents ofthe confiscated estates of

      ancient monastic institutions—was ori g inall y set apart , in times when the religion of this country was one and undivided , for the repair of churches , the payment , of-the . clergy , and the * relief aud instruction of the poor . It is now appropriated exclusively to but one onl y of these objects—the payment of the clergyand that upon a system of distribution which permits the working servants of the church to linger in poverty , in order that the pomp and state ot

      princes may be maintained for a wealth y hierarch y . By a state juggle , the administration and control of these national revenues , has been surrendered to this very hierarchy , who have so deep a personal intorest in their misappropriation ; and who , therefore on all occasions , resist , most strenuously , every attempt to recover even a small fraction of the public property for the instruction and improvement of the poor , to whom it rightfully belongs .

      A People ' s Parliament would " render unto CjKSAr tho things that are Cjssar ' s , and unto God the things that aro God ' s . " It would take caro that , while tho religious instructors of tho people had their fair and equitable share ofthe funds bequeathed to- the nation , for the three-fold purposes we have named , they took not one penny more than they were entitled to . The other two-thirds would form , probably , an ample fund for the instruction of the rising generation , distributed throug h the medium of local managers , under equitable and efficient central control .

      At all events the people would not require to be kept in a stato of ignorance , and consequent degradation and demoralisation , for want of peouniary means , to raise them from that deplorable position _^ We have indicated sufficiently the _sources from wheuce _^ -without adding any fresh , burden to those which

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      , ( already press upon the nation—am ple _anrf _effectual provision might be made for the __ perior physical , intellectual , and moral edn . " tion of sill the children of Great Britain i Ireland , To that all-important end , as ji as for et fery . other valuable and beneficial p _^ , pose , we _irmsi first have a thoroughly _honeaj and searching reform in our representative system ,, whereby _tiie people , and their legk _\^ tors , wiil be made to become one in sentiment sympathy , and action _* We have yet other _imp ortant work for sncb . a Parliament to do , bub must close for th 9 present . already press upon the nation—amnlA „ -,

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      THE UNITED STATES OF THE AUSTRALIAN _REPUBLIC . To many ears this title will sound as sirange , if not ridiculous , as that of the " Independent United States of North America" did to our ancestors in the early days of •¦ Good King George , " the third of that ilk . Yet the last Australian mail has brought intelligence of 'the beginning of the end , " and we entertain as little doubt , that that end will be the severance of our Australian Colonies , and their erection into a sovereign and independent Federation , as we do that the former North American dependencies of Great Britain now constitute a powerful and _mi ghtv Republic , It is simply a question of time . ' The

      movement has been commenced by the Rev . Dr Lang , well-known for his labours to promote the settlement and progress of these distant Colonies , and who , whatever may be _thought of some of his sectarian crotchets , or his peculiar temper , has shown that he possesses many of the qualifications essential to success . In whatever he has hitherto undertaken he has evinced great energy and perseverance ; and though he is open to the charge of intemperate zealotry , no one can deny he has followed up public objects , according to his conscientious convictions , with great and disinterested devotion .

      At the close of last year , before setting sail from this country in the John Calvin , with several hundred emigrants carefully selected by himself , he published a long letter to Earl Grey , in which he forcibly enumerated the grievances endured by these colonies , and gave the Colonial Minister fair warning , that he left our shores like a new Franklin , to bring about the separation of the Australian Colonies from Great Britain , and their

      erection into a Federal Republic . He has kept his promise . As soon as he arrived at Port Phillip , he commenced the formation of an "Australian League" for that purpose , and delivered a lecture at Melbourne , in which he laid down , in an exceedingl y able and business like manner , not only the organisation of the League itself , but the objects for which it is distinctly and specifically constituted , and the means by which to obtain them .

      Few people have any very definite idea of the enormous extent of territory comprised under theterm Australia . "Did you ever " says a writerou the subject , "know John Brown , who went out to Australia in the 18—3 , " is a common question put to me . I answer "To what part ? " " Oh , to Australia , but I don't know the name of the place , " is the common continuation . Now the Continent , as it is well

      called , of New Holland , or Australia , lies in south latitude abo ut II degrees to 39 degrees , and east longitude about 113 degrees to 153 degrees , or in round numbers 2 , 600 by 1 , 800 miles , exclusive of Yan Diemen ' s Land , or Tasmania , as it is now called . The extent of coast from the extreme settlements on the west , south , and east , cannot be- less than 3 , 500 miles : and " where is John Brown . _*?"

      It will be seen , then , the Continent proper is somewhere about four-fifths the size of Europe . Besides this , there is the large island of Tasmania , lying off the south-east angle of Australia , separated b y Bass ' s Straits ; and the cluster of islands known under the general name of New Zealand , at such a distance as may cause it to be included in any scheme of Federal Government . -Ultimately , however , if ; is probable that New Zealand , from its peculiar position—similar in so many respects to that of our own island home—will become the Great Britain of the Antipodes , and constitute an independent state .

      Dr . Lang , even at present , does not contemplate its inclusion in his "Australian League . " He proposes only to " unite for mutual protection and defence , and for general advancement of the five Australian Colonies of New South Wales , Tasmania , South Australia , Port Phillip , and Cooksland , or Moreton Bay . " Nothing could have prevented the ultimate separation of these Colonies from the mother country . These off-shoots , like children , naturally grow , up into manhood , and as naturally take upon themselves the

      independence and the responsibilities of maturity . But that severance has been largel y accelerated b y the conduct of the present Colonial Minister und hia aide-de-camp— -Mr . Hawes . They have , by their conduct , fanned into flame whatever smouldering embers of discontent existed in any of our dependencies ; and , during the whole oftheir administration , every one of their dependencies has been in a state of open or covert revolt . Earl Grey has broken faith with them repeatedly , on

      most important and vital points . While pretending to give them the power of legislating on their own local affairs , he has contrived to saddle them with governors chosen by the Colonial Office , from the needy relations , or expectant and servile hangers-on of the Whig Cabinet , and has affixed large salaries to their offices , which have to be paid by the Colonists , who have no share in the appointment of tha governors—have , in fact , nothing to do with them , except to submit to the infliction oftheir misrule .

      A movement cannot fail which lias for its avowed objects to make the inhabitants of these distant colonies " feel and know that they are no longer isolated and detached communities , to be governed and oppressed separately and independently by ukases from _Downing-street "— "to encourage and promote , by every legitimate means , the due and full developement of the vast and unexhausfcible resources of the immense territory in their possession , " so that " they may be fitted as speedily as possible for taking the high and influential pl ' a _' ce which they are . evidently destined to hold in tho civilised world as the great leading power of the southern hemis *

      p here . Who can prevent the accomplishment ot this grand design ? Not Great Britain . Australia is too far distant , its colonists too widely spread , for us to dream of holding them in subjection by mere brute force , and if _« _'fl were to try , disgraceful and merited 1 _' ailuro would bo the consequence . With the example of the American Federation before us , however , we do not contemplate that this couutry will ever agaiu be so mad as to waste blood and treasure in abortive attempts to keep-Colonies iu subjection , possessing all the elements for growing up into powerful and prosperous States . The United States , of America are a thousandfold more advant a-

      geous -to us aa a Federal Republic , than em they could have b ' eeu as _dependencies " governed and oppressed by ukases »' Downing-street ; " and we can onl y expre s 3 our fervent hope , thatthe Australian Colonies may speedily achieve a Bimilar independence * We believe , with Dr . Lan g , that " by _w ° means exclusivel y , and with the full appro bation and concurrence of Great Britain * , tho entire freedom . and independence of theso Colonies , and their erection into sovere ' _a and independent States , " may be & oUe )? Towards the production of " a consummat ' " so devoutly to be wished , " it is the duty of »» ta contribute , -who , possessing tofluew 10 _oTO

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 14, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_14091850/page/4/