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_«« x _i » AKIS TASHIONS for the Autumn LOSrON and _PABia x _ConduiWtreet , " _StSSSf Se _mort _^ _bpW _ever _pubjt _^ _goit-strMfi _•^ °°° _* eMntini . _^ most feshionable gar-« _tf 22 _SS 55 _R *« orer-coats , both _^ _Soub _& a . _^ _-nxpatternsofgMments-vu . _^ 1 _£ ta rf naletot , two dress coato , the Parwan style _. _^^ _S anl _shoots vast ; _fo _^ and _partic-Jar _^ o _ _T & c , & c Price 18 s . 6 d . for the one season , or 20 s . _^« eieaV , induding an intermediate report , summer _mdvrintBr _. _witheTefy aecessaryinformation throughout
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TO TAILORS . By a _pprobation of Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria and His RoyaHfighness Prince Albert . THE LONDON aua PARIS FASHIONS for Autumn and "Winter , 1815 and 1846 , ready early in October , hy READ and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbuiy-sguare , _Irondos ; Berger , Holywell-street , Strand , London , and maybe had of all Booksellers wheresoever residing ; a very superb Print , representing the most splendid exhibition in Europe , an Interior View of the Colosseum , _Begenfs-park , Ironden . This exquisitely executed and heantifully coloured Print will be accompanied with _ftulazeDress , r * rock , and Riding CoatPatterns ; also , Patterns ofthe Sew Fashionable Polka Prock , and Locomotive
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TO ALL WHO CAN'T PAY ! IMMEDIATE Protection , and a prompt and safe final discharge , without the intervention of a Prison or aa Attorney . A discharge to Debtors is nowimperative , because Imprisonment for Debt is now penal , not remediaL—Debtors of all grades will be benefitted by applying forthwith to John 8 . Benstead , 22 , Basinghall-strect , near the Court of Bankruptcy , London .
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GREAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY , 14 , "WATE 3 LOO-M . ACE , LOSDON . DlEECrOBS . The Chishohn _. Chairman . William Morley , Esg .., D « putj ; Chairman . . Henry S . Barber , Esq . James John Kinloch , Esq . John Brightman , Esq . Henry Lawson , Esq . Fi _* anc _ £ Brodiga _ i , Esq . Henry Penny , Esq . James Wm . Deacon , Esq . Robert Power , Esq ., M . D . Alexander R , Irvine , Esq . The Rev . F . W . Jobuso * John _IngBsJerdein , Esq . Tickeiy , A . M .
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SHEFFIELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY . WHERE AS , Notices were duly published In the month of November last , in the London Gasette , the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent , the _Nottingham Journal , th . Q Derbyshire Courier , the ifncdhi , _Jutland , and Stamford Mercury , and the Lin coln Standard Newspapers , that application was intended to be made in the then next ensuing Session of Parliament , for leave to bring in a Bill to incorporate a Company * and to give to such Company power to make and maintain a Railway , commencing by a Junction with the Sheffield , Ashton-under-Lyne , end Manchester Railway , at or near Oborne-street _, in thc Township of _BrightsideBierlow , in the Parish
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IMPORTANT TO WORKING MEN UNDER FORTY TEARS OF AGE . Look to tht interests of yourselves and families ; hasten and join that flourishing institution , the " United Patriots' Benefit Society , " enrolled and empowered by Act of Parliament to extend over the United King dom . TH E Society is on a new , yet correct principle , and ii the only Benefit Society legalised with the ' privilege of establishing branches , appointing sub-secretaries , having sub-committees , & c . Look around at the numerous unenrolled societies in particular , ever breaking up , and men , after being members from twenty to forty years , who hare looked forward in the hopes of having a something like superannuation money to keep starvation from their doors , being cast aside to tho tender mercies of a Poor Law Bastile . Remember , in the midst of life you are in death , that you know not what an hour may bring forth ; then , working men , join this Society , make it truly a pational one , to number not only thousands but millions . Unite , cause it to extend throughout the length and breadth of the laud . The government of the Society is in the hands of the members , every branch being empowered by the rules to manage its own leeal affairs . The Society is in four divisions for its members to receive according to their payments thefollowing benefits : — £ s . d . £ _s . d . In Sickness per week from ... 0 9 0 to 0 18 0 DeathofMember ... ... 10 0 0 to 20 0 0 Death of Wife or nominee ... 5 0 O to 10 0 0 Wife ' s Lying-in 1 0 0 to 2 0 0 Loss by Fire 10 0 0 to IS 0 0 Superannuation per week ... 0 4 0 to 0 6 0
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IMPORTANT TO HEALTHY MEN FROM FORTY TO FIFTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE . Tie United Patriarchs' Benefit Society , including Medical Attendance and Medicine . Enrolled and Empowered by Act of Parliament to extend over the United Kingdom . THE want ofa Society of this nature must be evident to every person who may have neglected providing against the calamities of lifeiu theiryouth . It is in Four Divisions , after the manner of tha United Patriots , having the same Benefits , except that of Lyingg-in . This Society is Established at the same London Office , Central London Society House , Rouud Table Tavern , St . Martin _' _s-
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TO THE EMBARRASSED .-IMPORTANT . THERE are thousands of persons who hare struggled long against the force of misfortune , but few are aware that by a very recent Act all small traders owing debts not . exceeding £ 300 , farmers , and all others owing to any amount , can be entirely raised from their difficulties at a small expense , and without imprisonment or bankruptcy . All such Mr . Weston begs will apply to him at Moira-chambers , 17 , Ironmonger-lane , Cheapside , by letter or personally . Persons summoned for small debts should apply immediately , as they may thereby save themselves from frequent and lengthened commitments to prison .
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MAN ! THOUSANDS OF POUNDS STERLING TO BE GIVEN TO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE PICTORIAL TIMES . For particulars of this extraordinary undertaking apply immediately to any Bookseller , or Newsvender , in England , Ireland , or Scotland , or to the Publisher , Mr . C . Brans , 351 , Strand , London , who will be happv to for * ward a Prospectus .
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THE COLOSSEUM . GR AND ORCHERTRAL ORGAK . —This magnificent " establishment , patronised aad visited ly her MAJESTY and bis Royal Highness Prince ALBERT , has now , in addition to its former alterations , a aew Orchestral Organ , erected in the Glyptotheca , on which the most admired pieees of music will be played daily , fr « m Two till Four o'Clock . Open from Ten till Halfpast Four . Admittance , 3 s . Children , half-price . The Stalactite Caverns , the most magnificent of all the Temples whiqh nature has built for herself in the regions of night , ls . each . The whole projected and designed by M . W . Bradwell .
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GOALS . PROVIDE FOR WINTER . FROTIDENT FAMILIES , subscribing Is . per week to the Metropolitan Goal Cunpwy ' i Shilling Club , oan obtain four half tons aaauaUy , without further charge , fines , dec . The Company ' s price current is , Best Soreened TVail _& end , 25 s . per full ton ; Seconds , 21 a ., 22 s , and 23 s .- ; Coko . 17 s . « d . Ofliee , 279 , High Holbarn _.
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i—i _» ii ¦ _>*—^¦ _'w—_—^———^ w « m _^——NOTICE T _» EMieRANTS . THE Undersigned continue to engage _Passengers for First-Class Fast-Sailing AMERICAN PACKET SHIPS , wliich average from 1600 to 1500 Tons , for the following Ports , vix .: — _„„_ .. _ , _« , NEW YORK , BOSTON , PHILADELPHIA , | NEW ORLEANS , BALTIMORE , | BRITISH AMERICA , & c . Emigrants in the country cai * engage passage by letter addressed as underneath ; in wh . _sh case they need not he In Liverpool until the day before the Ship is to sail ; and ihey wiU thereby avoid detention and other expenses , besides securing a cheaper passage , and having the best berths allotted to them previous to their arrival . For further particulars apply , post-paid , to JAMES BfiCKETT & SON . North End Prince ' s Dock , Liverpool
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MELODrES FOR THE MILLION FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS . _-eg . _nPHE MUSICAL BEE . —No . 40 _conx _^ _xp 3 _^* \ _ JL tains the five celebrated Elfen _ffS ff _^^ Fvl Waltzes , aud other beautiful and popu-Lhmc _ M Melodies , for Sd . No . 41 ( ready on Ij § S | 8 sg 9 j Tuesday next ) _Musard's Puratani Quaf _'lTW * Tl _| drilles , " Love Not , " "Dance Boatman y ! _% __ _tJaH Dance , " with words complete . 6 beautiful _^ _gfo _jfcpy New Muzurkas , itc ' ., price only 2 d . _^**^ Nos . 1 to 11 may be had at 2 d . per No ., instead of 4 d ., as heretofore , until the 24 th in 6 tant . The MUSICAL BEE is now published twice in the month , on the 1 st and 15 th . "My Duett Book" and "Piano Bijou , " in eighteen Nos ., 2 d . eaeh . i ¦ ¦¦ ¦ . ¦ The FLUTONICON , every No . from 1 to 113 , at 6 d . each , instead of 8 d . The PIANIST A , froml to 56—every ls . No . reduced to 6 d . —every 2 s . No . reduced to Is ., until thc 24 th .
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EXTRAORDINARY ECONOMY TO TEA DRINKERS . THE DESIRE OF ENGLAND . —The PIQUA PLANT , now sold at 3 s . 6 d . per lb ., is three times the strength of tea , and is also equal in flavour , more delicate in . _tastc , nfinitely more healthy , as is proved by physicians and chemists of high standing , also by persons in great numbers with the most delicate lungs and stomachs . It is most pleasant and invigorating , and is recomm ended to the debilitated for its invaluable qualities , to advanced age for its strengthening properties , and to the public generally for . its moderate price and intrinsic excellence . The Test . —The proof of tho efficacy and healthful effect of the plant in preference to tea or coffee : —Let a nervous or dyspeptic patient use two or three cups of strong tea upon retiring to rest , and the effect will be night-mare , disturbed sleep , and other violent symptoms of indigestions , < fcc . . . .
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JUST PUBLISHED , In one volume , foolscap 8 vo ., neat cloth , price 7 s , 6 d _,, THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES : A Prison Rhyme : in Ten Books : BY . THOMAS COOPER , THE CHARTIST . * J . How , Publisher , 132 , _Fleet-street . t _^* Orders from the Country to be sent through the Booksellers . MR . COOPER'S NEW WORK . Just Published , in 2 vols ., 12 mo ., Price Fourteen Shillings ,
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"' '" centralisation _, the windsor election . We have dene ourutmoBt to foster , to encourage , and enforce , the p rinciple of allowing the privileged aad _' tho wealthy to fight their own battles and Bottle their own disputes ; but when a contest arises between individuals or sections of that order , the progress and result of which must havo considerable
influence over our own lives , our liberties , and our properties , because over thelaws to which they respectively jtaad responsible , then indifference would be culpable , silence would be criminal . The consideration as to how far our rulers step beyond the almost boundless limits which the principle of centralisation has assigned to constitutional action and ministerial irresponsibility , is one of paramount importance . We have never so much complained of the constitution of England asof the violation of thatconstltution by those whose duty it is to preserve it in the state in which it was committed to their charge , a / id to hand it down unviolated and uncontaminated to their
successors . Having heretofore abstained from further criticism upon the electioneering tactics ofthe respective political parties , further than the mere chronicling of them , we must in thc outset make the reader thoroughly acquainted with the subject to which we attach so much importance . Thc facts arc briefly these . Mr . Walter , who professes Tory principles , but whose policy , especially as regards the interest of the poor of England in their condition , their enjoyments , and theirrights , is diametrically opposed tothe
policy of the Prime Minister . Mr . Wamkr , from his connection with , and control over , the most powerful newspaper in the known > orld , has , above most other men , the opportunity , as well as the will , of perplexing the Government by an exposure of its policy . The Poor Law , in its amended state , has become the basis ofthe constitution , and centralisation the principle of the present Prime Minister . To this constitution , as well as to this principle , Mr . Walter has presented a more continuous , more bold , and more suocessful opposition than any other man of his class in England .
Now , considering our hostility towards Mr . Walter of a personal and a public character , these are galling confessions to - make ; but when public duty stands in the way , we fling all personal considerations to the wind . Under the circumstances that we have stated , then , a vacancy occurring in the representation of Windsor Castle , as we must now designate the borough , Mr . Walter , a professing Tory , offered himself as a candidate . Col . Rkid , Colonel of one of her Majesty ' s regiments of Life Guards , and stationed at Windsor , was Mr . Walter ' s opponent .
CoI . _'Rbidis also a Tory , and a conundrum which we shall endeavour presently to solve , presents itself in this fact , that both candidates were Tories ; the _fyieen is supposed to be a Tory ; the Prime Minister was supposed tobe a Tory ; and yet the history of olectioneeiing presents no parallel of equal Government intrigue to that practised at the late Windso election , in favour of the least eligible of the two _TorieB . Considerable , agitation preceded the day of nomination , and , throughout , the Government prints were loud in denunciation of all who dared to hint at
such a thing as courtly influence or ministerial interference . No doubt Sir Robert Peel would have preferred the defeat of Mr . Walter without ministerial or courtly aid ; but apart from those powerful , but unconstitutional auxiliaries , he saw no chance of success for Colonel Reid . Under these circumstances we hear of private interviews between Sir Robert Peel and his candidate , and of invitations and visits to Windsor Castle , which have the magical effect of changing Mr . Walter ' s all but _eertainty of success into a _dangeroiisdefeat , had he been sufficiently
foolhardy to brave the licensed brutality of the soldiers o _£ Colonel Reid ' s regiment , her . Majesty ' s Life Guards , as well as the high-spirited enthusiasm of _theiouHG oentlembn of Eton College—the constitutional force enlisted on behalf of the ministerial candidate . A special Act of Parliament directs the removal of all military force from the place of election pending the contest ; but from the presumption that the Monarch's body guard must , from their situation , be exonerated even from the suspicion of interference , there is a special exemption as regards them .
Eton College lias ever been the nursery of aristocratic prejudices , and , being contiguous to the royal _residenoe at Windsor , has ever been a marked object of royal favour ; but never , until the principle of centralisation had been substituted for the spirit of the constitution , have we heard of a single _friatance of the sons of the aristocracy being called upon to do electioneering service in return for Royal courtesy . It appears , upon indisputable authority , that courtly influence was used , and we shall not . exempt even the Mon arch from the good old legal ( maxim , _•* ' f _jr- ; .- _;•¦ . " Quem licit per aliumfacit perse "' Who acts by another aots by himself .
; It is , we believe , an indisputable fact , that interviews passed between the Prime Minister and Col . Rbid during the excitement of the impending contest ; wliile it js a fac _^ t that the officers of Col . Rum ' s regiment , the body guard of her Majesty , the corps whose delicate position entitle them to exemption from the provisions of an Act of Parliament , a soldiery paid by the people , and under the nose ofthe Queen , exerted their influence on behalf of their
Colonel ; while , it is a fact now upon record , that the soldiers of Col . Reid's regiment did , in a state of beastly intoxication , armed with broomsticks , and clubs cut from the hedgeB for the occasion , commit gross and savage assaults upon her Majesty ' s subjects within the precincts of the Royal residence . Nor do we so much blame the hired mercenaries , as thoso whose duty it wa 3 to enforce their proper discipline . . " Cum Duces talia faciunt quid non _milites facient V
When the generals do such things what will not the soldiers do ? It is a further fact , that from 2 to 300 of the young gentlemen of Eton , no doubt under high authority , and enthusiastically primed by that esprit du corps which so closely allies them to legitimacy , did , in the most dangerous and unwarrantable manner , interfere at the nomination of candidates . Such is the history of the most memorable election upon record . Such were the means resorted to to ensure the return ef the Ministerial candidate ; and such has been the mode b y which Sir Robert Peel has succeeded in
defeating a brother Tory . And now it becomes our duty to offer a word or two , by way of comment , upon this most unconstitutional act—we had nearly called it practice . It has been the boast of Sir Robert Peel ' s partisans , that he has governed without patronage , and that he has been independent of thc press . High boasts , if true ; but nearly at the samo moment that we read of the Windsor election , we are given to understand that since the right honourable gentleman ' s accession to power he has increased his Ministerial patronage fund by a quarter of a million sterling per annum—a good substitute for newspaper support , bat rather a novel mode of governing without patronage . This is essentially the very basis of that destructive principle of centralisation which
' enables Sir Robert Peel to substitute Ministerial patronage for newspaper criticism and public opinion _, ' / thishas been , the foundation bf his apparently prosperous career—this will be the rock upon which his Government mustultimately split . There is no possible contingency on which public opinion has been so jealous and suspiolous , as that of Royal , Ministerial or lordly interference with the election of members of Parliament . And there is no force that can be called in aid of this interference , so dangerous to the promoters , or so threatening to monarchy itself , as the use ofthe British soldiery , and , above all , that soldiery which is distinguished by ita intimate connection with tlie Monareh . While no example more dangerous can be implanted in the youthful minds of England ' s future rulers , than that which has been re-
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centiy set them . :. Good ,: howcver ,:. may , and most , protebly will , _resultfromtniawholesale violation of the Constitution . Clergymen of the Church of England are uot eligible to ait in Parliament , le _& t they should act under the influence of Government patronage , and lest they should neglect their parochial duties . May not the question now arise , as to whether or not the same influences and reasons may not operate upon a military or a naval officer ! Are they not likely to be operated upon by the magic _iafluence bf Government patronage , while , if the people pay them for anything , they pay them for enforcing a proper discipline ; the observance of which would , like the parson , require their continuous presence and exertion . —» H . _r ant f . bom .. . _ftftftd _ViftWfiVer . ffiav and _mnsfc
Aa to the part acted by Mr . Magistrate Blunt , it was too humiliating , disgusting , atrocious , pitiful , cringing , andmean , for us to trust ourselves with comment , and , therefore , we shall dispose of that great unpaid , by simply directing attention to his conduct during the investigation . Here we find an English magistrate endeavouring to suppress the truth , anxious that the witnesses should be brief in their evidence—where that evidence would make against his clients , the _solmeus—but patient and resigned where it promises to be favourable . Upon the whole we are led to the rational and natural conclusion that
Sir Robert Peel , to whose headlong policy we are opposed , sees in Mr . Waltbr something more threatening to the principle of centralisation than ever wc have discovered , and , therefore , in order to discover the jewel in the toad ' s head we shall henceforth be anxious to see the champion of centralisation and thc enemy to tha t destructive principle , fairly pitted against each other in the House of Commons . Should the people tolerate such an interference with the remnant of tlieir few remaining rights upon the first fitting opportunity we may expect to find a Cromwell for our ruler , and his guards for our representatives .
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THE FAMINE . Since we last wrote upon the subject ofthe threatened famine , communications from all parts of thc country continue to give frightful earnest of what thc sequel must be . Not onl y docs it appear that thc potatoe crop in Ireland has failed , but further experience has confirmed Our worst anticipations with respect to the condition of the wheat crop all over the world . It appears that other nations , whether from a paternal feeling , or from the fact of the agricultural interest exercising the predominant influence over state councils , are one and all alive
—even the despot of Russia himself—to the sad necessity that Providence has imposed on them of thinking , for once , that a starring people is the worst enemy , and , therefore , of compelling them to resist aggression by silencing complaint . In nearly every country except England , precautionary measures have been taken to guard against this universal visitation , but England , unlike other countries , is governed by the wholesale possessors of the soil : and their traffic being in food , and their Prime Minister being then * tool , the people are allowed to stare star- ' vation in the face , while ministerial influence and party power is being balanced .
England alone pauses until the chemists shall have discovered how much of tho respective nutricious elements are to be found in a rotten potatoe . Three apothecaries are despatched to analyse the hope of Ireland , for ten months , and so vague , con flicting , complicated , and contradictory are the several recommendations of thc trio , that they but serve to make confusion more confounded . In ihe outset of the threatened danger there were many shortsighted persons who relied apon railway operations in Ireland as likely to mitigate the horrors of famine . It waB admitted that the price of provisions would rise , but , aa a set off , it was argued that wages would
proportionately rise also . Let us expose the foUy of this flimsy . sophistry . Lot via suppose that , by the practical working of the principle of centralisation , the Government of England waa enabled so to balance the provisions and thc Tate of wages aa to raise the latter to the level of the former . So far , so good , for that portion of the community in aid of whose condition this principle could be enforced . But , then , another and a greater question arises—greater , _inasmuch as its consideration involves the condition of that portion of tho population in whoso behalf the principle cannot he enforced , namely , the great bulk of the working people .
Let this fact be kept closely in view , and then wo shall find that a rise in wages , consequent upon arise in the prico of provisions , is only serviceable to that class who are thereby enabled to make both ends meet , while the increased price of provisions doubly , trebly increases the hardship of those over whose wages the rectifying scale can have no effect . Hence it is a delusion to suppose that if a hundred thousand men employed upon railway works in Ireland , receive an increase of wages commensurate with the increased price of provisions , that such an arrangement will mitigate thc sufferings of the remaining nineteen
hundred thousand variously employed ; but on the contrary , the inevitable effect must be to increase the sufferings of those who , from their pitiful earnings , are unable to buy the high-priced provisions . It has ever been the Tory policy to fight the satisfied against the dissatisfied of all classes . Bishops and aspiring parsons were satisfied , and kept their refractory curates and underlings in order . So with the officers of the highest rank in the army and navy . So with the landlords and their tenants at will , and sowc regret to say with the labouring classes themselves . But this policy must fail before the great leveller hunger , and hence thc danger to the monopolists .
When we contrast the paternal speech of the King of the Belgians with the perfect listlessness and apathy of our rulers at home , we are irresistibly led to that conclusion to which Mr . O'Connor had arrived in his first letter from that country , namely , that the Land being in the possession of tho people , was the foundation of the constitution of tho country . And already are the landlords of Ireland beginning to discover that such also must be the rational conclusion to which their serfs must come . The pompous and ostentatious offering of a pitiful portion of that enormous wealth that they have extracted from the sinews of their slaves , will be looked upon , not as the result of charity but as the result of fear .
A famine rages thoughout the months of June , July , and August of every year in Ireland , and yet as long aa tho proud landlords can rely upon the tranquillity of those who can secure one meal of pototoesfor that time , they have shut their , _puraestrii-ga , and relied upon the old policy of fighting the comparatively satisfied against the abject poor . But now that the degree of comparison is reduced to superlative suffering , they dread the united howl and the combined vengeance of a starving people , and they are called charitable , and benefactors , forsooth . We tell the Irish people that every man who must
be a consumer , to exist must also be a producer upon his OWU account—otherwise they will have no guarantee against suffering , privation , and want . And we ask the would-be liberators of their country how it is that they wish so much professed patriotism , with such machinery for action as is unknown to the world , and with the people confiding beyond all parallel , how , we ask , does it happen that those patriots , who have levied ample funds to redeem a large portionpf the usurped lands of the country , have never applied one single farthing of those funds for the purpose of giving Ireland , or any portion ofit , to the Irish people .
If the patriots had organised a Land Society , for the purpose of giving Ireland to the Irish , their receipts WOUld be over £ 10 , 000 a week , and each year they might locate thousands of dependent paupers upon their native soil . Yes , wc assert without fear of contradiction , that the Irish , banished to England would , of themselves , subscribe -610 , 000 a-week for such a purpose ; but £ 20 , 000 a-year and £ 300 aweek going ' into the pockets of the patriots is better than a million a-year , of which the h \ W WOULDCQVPKL
IHEM 10 BENDER AN ACCOUNT . We have much pleasure in calling the marked attention of our readers to the following extracts from
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the speech of the King of Belgium , on od _^ _TT Belgian Chambers , and if they wiU learn tw _^ froB anything , they will discover from that thi _t POSSESSION OF THE LAND AXD THE PBINCIP _^ j _^ PEOPia ' a Charier ean alone insure such _aJl _^ the opening of their Parliament . _" at Gentlemen , —My relations with foreign p .-,,. a marked character of mutual confidence . t 8 tai « I am happy to communicate to you that a _ commerce and of navi gation has been _conclude _^ •' United States of America . It will be submE _^ delay for your _approbation . wu , lt > _ti . I have _well-foundedhopesthat negotiationj Comm with other transatlantic states will IOon hall T _* en favourable issue . Thus does ' the comm 4 _^? which you have sanctioned continue to bear _ifcfr _i' _^ By virtue of a recent arrangement , which _wift , receive a _definite . auction , _Belgian commerce i * ' _* relations with China , will be placed on the sZl ' _e Ws as that of the most favoured nation foot ! n 8 Win arnKwli ApfcliA _Ifinrt r . f * D _ . 1 _ .: r ~~ " —~ _-3 _ S- '
Negotiations are pending with several _neighbor nations , ™ order to secure and to increase the _outfe our produce . The results will be _commumX * _assoon as the interests of the country will _aUo _" of * Vn During several years past my _Government ha . if _cupiedwhhth . _tension of our corniceL l _< 57 _°° ' by means ofthe establishment of au _exoort nl 0 n , < _Thebes of tU , in , HtatIoal _ a" £ t _^ _te _?* V . trust that during the session the h _ _SSfS * * raised by this project may receive a solution * ° The general situation of commerce and indus ( . _rsatisfactory . Several branches of national _i ? l * _" recovered the prosperity which thev had lost Mo _vernmentdoes not neglect any means of _atwUSA ' _SSug . _' _^ from whichthe ] i " _S 3
The agricultural interest _continnes to be _theobiecnf the constant attention of the Government . The cor , ' harvest has been on the whole a good one ; and _although one of the most valuable articles of consumption forth , poorer classes has been in a great part destroyed , the « solutions which you have adopted during your citraor " _dmary session Lave alread y led to favourable results ' They will alleviate the effects of that visitation , and moreovor _, afford the means of providing for the wants of the operative classes , by encouraging useful public works . *
The State , the provinces , and the rural districts , hare devoted considerable sums to the formation of roads . The measures proposed b y Government for the propagation of the heat method of cultivating land , for the exteu-SlOn Of agricultural information , andthe reclaiming of waste soils , Kill exert asalutaryinfluenccupoathatcraad national interest . Some projects of law for the regulation of the system of instruction in veterinary science , as well as of thc ex . ercise of that profession , will be submitted to _JOU 1 ' C'OIISU deration .
The exhibition of the fine arts has maintained the Bel . gian school in the rank assigned it by the administration ofthe country , andthe just appreciation ofit by uci gh . bouring nations , I indulge in thc pleasing hope that the national exhibitions which will take place in 1847 , wi ll show that our industry has made further progress , Ti 19 public system of education at the expense of thc State has been regulated in its higher and lower department } by the laws of 1842 and 1843 . I desire that that _organisa . tion should he completed during the present session bj
thc vote of thc project of law on middlo instruction , with which the Legislature is occupied , and to which u seful developments , the results of experience may be added . 1 confidently appeal to the conciliatory sentiments which have always animated you in the examination of those important questions . The condition of the poorer classes is thc object of my constant solicitude . In the attempt to ameliorate their moral and physical state , my Government will be power . fully aided by the honourable gentlemen whose _assistance it has recently claimed .
The patronage extended to liberated convicts is re . ceiving its organisation . It will he rendered more efficacious after the passing of the law having in view ths modification of the penitentiary system . The prudent and gradual revision ofthe laws is pro . gre _ssing , Some changes in the code of criminal charges , and in the organic law relating to the profession o . notaries public , will be proposed to you . There—there ' s the best King ' s speech I ever read , and that speech was only and entirely produced by the Land being in the _possession of the people .
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Our Agents will please observe , that it is only com . _raunieations for the paper that are to be addressed to tho Editor . All orders and other matters , not intended for the Editor , are still to be addressed ai * before , Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., Northern Star Office , 16 , _Grett Windmill-street , Haymarket , London . To oua Scotch _Readekb . —Our northern friend , will not have received their papers on Saturday this week , the fault was not ours , the disappointment being occ _* _. _sioaed by the breaking down of ths machinery shortly after the paper went to press . Our friends must , meantime , do ui the justice to admit , that the until of the Star in Scotland , since its removal to London , has heen punctual , when it is taken into consideration that the post for Scotland leaves London at such aa
unseasonable and early hour in the morning . Thb Weekly Fabcb at Conciliation Ham ,. —In our " summary of the week ' s news" ( see page right ) will be found a notice of the farce enacted on the boards of Conciliation Hall on Monday last . In the course of the speech which the " Irish Hoses" directed against the unfortunate ejected "French American , " ¦¦ Meses , " said - " I interrupt my friend , Mr . O'Brien , because I know there are spies abroad . ( Hear , hear . ) Thewhas been a paper distributed in the northern parts of this county inciting the people to assassinate the landlords . I believo it is before th e Castle , because I desired Mr . Arkins to take it there yesterday , hut no attempt has been made as yet by the police magistrates or the police to lay hold ofthe individuals who have distributed these papers . " On this candid confession of Dan ' s , that he has renounced the character of " Moses" for that of V Judas Iscariot , " and turned informer on behalf of the
Tory Government , our friend , Mr . Patrick _O'Higgins , writes as follows : —You will perceive by the Freeman s Journal , which contains the proceedings at Conciliation Hall , that there is an end of the fares about Americas and French sympathy , and tliat one of the political pupils of the O'Connell confederacy was kicked out because he learned his lesson—a lesson which the leaders have been dinning into Irish ears for the last four years . You will also perceive that the Liberator is at his dirty work again . During Whiggery he boasted of his being a Whig informer . There was Tory treason in every pot that boiled , in every cabin that smoked , unless a sign was hung out for the Melbourne administration . " The only ministry that ever intended doing justice to Ireland . " A ministry pledged to civil war , in their own words , " war to the knife , in preference to a Repeal of the Union . " But I am _digressing . The Liberator is now a Tory spy , and his man Arkins
an informer . The Whig * police and Whig detective aro not sufiiciently on the alert—O'Connell and Arkins must help them to do their dirty work . Mr . O'Higgins goes on to request that we will publish the paper which O'Connell asserts has been printed for the purpose of "inciting the people to assassinate the landlords . " A " mighty big lie , " as Dan very well knows . - That paper has heen published in the Star , and wo are at a loss to imagine how Mi * . O'Higgins could have missed it . It appeared in last week ' s star , in the last column of the first page , under the head of ' . 'Landlords and Tenants —Tyrants turning Tenants out , " requesting the publication of that paper , ( which request was complied with last week ) . Mr . O'Higgins goes on _togay _* _- — " Its publicationwill be an act of charity to let my poor countrymen see the document which Mi * . O'Connell , the "friend of the poor , " for whose benefit or happiness he has as yet done nothing , denounces as an incitement to assassinate
the landlords . Let them see with their own eyes whether it is not an incitement to thc landlords to treat their tenants with common justice . Let them also see their darling exacting a tribute from a starving , naked people , inthe teeth ofa famine . When they see these things ! let them ask each other what did _. O'Couucll ever do , or propose to do , for their good or for the good of his country , in his place iu Parliament , from the day he . first . entered the House of Commons to the present hour . " V 2 tj . b 4 n Patriots' and Exiles' Widows' ahd Cmsdbbn ' s FoNDS _.-rl bog to acknowledge the receipt of 6 s . from Mr . Harris , of _Mile-end ( being a collection originally for the Miners' strike }; also of 6 s . _coUectou at the Henry Hunt supper , Bctlmal-green _, ou Nov . otn ; also of 5 s . from Mr . Markham , of Leicester ; also of 2 s . from Mr . Ingram , of Aborgavenny ( being ls . from John Hancock , 6 d . from T . Davis , of Tredegar , ana GoodladShef
6 d . from a friend ); also of Is . from Mr . , - field _, -THOMAS Coopsh , _Secretary 134 , _lilackfriars-roao . Thb Dixon Fond Comhittee acknowledge the receipt of the foUowing sums * . —Wigan , £ 1 7 s , * , Jlilurow , os . ; Coventry , 4 s . 9 d . ; Longton , 10 s . To the People of WiQ _ m . -My dear Friends , —I am happy to hear of . the prosperity of the Land Society in Wigan . It is gratifying tonic to hear that you have at present eighty shares , notwithstanding the petty annoyance you have received from both fools and knaves ; and tny advice is , go on in the good work regardless of either , and never relax in your exertions until our g lorious object is accomplished , bv which alona the working class of this vast empire can be restored to that position . in society which God and nature intended tlicy shouw occupy . With regard to the statements made By Thomas Chadwiek , all I have to say is , that there is not one word of truth in them . Instead of coming to Man-Chester for the _dutoosb nf « pi > ii _<» mo _ m the Land 1 Ia _ »
the fact is , Mrs . Chadwiek was at Macclesfield , and he came to give her the meeting at Manchester , and being a relation of mine , he called to see me . But I assure you that the question ot the Land was never mentioned . As to what he states 1 saidiu his house when I _«' "J Wigan , it is equally false . But lest it might be said mat I had produced no evidence to prove my innocence , i appeal to Mr . Richard Downev , who went with m _« l » Chadwiek ' _s , remained aU the" time I did , heard ever / Word that was said , and came away at the same time that I did ; and he knows that thc statements made dj Chadwiek are false and malicious . My dear fnennM have now answered thefalsehoods of Mr . Chadwiek , aiio I am further compeUed , in justice to myself , to state ¦ that I am ready to meet him before the public of Wigan , * P . _**» _5 ° Pen air , or e _ sewb . ere .-I am , dear friends , your * faithfully , Wm . _Dixo . v .-Manehester , Nov . U _, M « . The Land .-To the Editor of the Northern _SU y " - _**' As a member ofthe Chartist Co-operative Land oocieij , l feel myself much elated at the unexpected ana "f "
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 15, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_15111845/page/4/
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