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    • THE rayl'LJa'S VlCroitlES At TUE KECENT PARL1AMESTAUY ELECTIONS.
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    • PORTRAIT OF ERNEST JONES, Eso, ., Barrister-at-Law.
    • TOE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY. OCTOBER 16.18*7.
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      The Rayl'lja's Vlcroitles At Tue Kecent Parl1amestauy Elections.

      THE _rayl _' LJa'S VlCroitlES At TUE KECENT PARL 1 _AMESTAUY ELECTIONS .

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      A PUBLIC DINNER , 18 _OeKMAIWH * THOSE tHB » i _? , WILL BE HEW . AT THE CROWN AND _ANCHOR TAVERN . STRAND ; - O * _UOSJDA ** " E _^ _SSISO , OtJMWa . 25 tH , 1847 . Knn . r * m Tdrto _» t Six o ' Clock pre * i . ely . Tickets , Ss _.-Sd . each . Jfr WILLIAU WXQN . of Manchester , _wffl take thc 'Chair . .. _t , „ ,- * w »"* . en inyited , aad are espected to attend : —T . S . Buncombe , T _liefolla-rim * Members of Parliament J _* _- ™ _^™^ _.,, j ol i W . S . Crawford , _CbarlesSeeley _. _^ _hnWUWSkley , P . O'Connor , _Seorge Thompson , T _^^ _if _^ _TVrin _. r , J . _Hame _, O'Gorman _Mahon , Ralph _Osborne , W . 1 _^ ns , SirJ . Walme , le 5-, C . _» _" _««« , R . J _^ _' _^ SiPB . Hall , Jobn Walter , _andl _^ _d _Robert _^ Orosvenor Schofield , Charles _tRndley _. F . *»« . * - _J _^ _JL _^ Tmdipate 0 _ft , _^^ & e _peopl * . _t fc . tattli . ig . ! -- ! - _Ukewfee ihe _follows _gentUm ™ , who . ***** . _j p E . Miall . J . M . M . _Oobbett , J . Hardy , _MGrath , T Clark E _^ C , Jones 3 . K . _Yarry _« l _^ _Ofiarle 3 Cochrane , W . Williams , J . _Smrge , w . r . iv » , vr -, _,. _% _.. _*«? the _^ _epubVicJbe aamUtea _by ticke _^ _terdinner _. _utachargeoiThreep _^ _each . Tickets _to-bsbad at the xbVbwingplaces : — „ . ... QUelton C _= eil . eonrt St Martin ' _s-lane : Parkes , Little _Messsrs _CdllW Coffee-house , Holj « eU-sireet ; Skelton Cca court , M _ttar ' polaBd < _WindmUl-street ; Milne , 1 , Union-street , Be rkeley- square w van y _^ er , street * A . »** . V- » Agent . Harrow road : _^ J _^^ J _j _^ Z _^ _Zrk ' s Coffee honse , Ml , _"Weston-street , Bermondsey ; Godwin , Great Che ™' : " f V Dear Workman ' s Own Shop , 11 , _Totten-Edgware road ; Staliwood , 2 , Little Vale place . - " -- _^ ™ _*^ . 'JJ- _Sd * S 114 mBh _HoVboro ; of the _Eotnmittee . at their place of meeting ( every Tuesday evenisg ) . Assembly Rooms . 8 _^^«•» _£ e Soho _^ places of _meetinc of the Land and Charter bodies throughout the metropolis ; of the Secretary , m Grassby . 8 . Koab ' s _Ark-court . _Stargate . Limbeth , and at the bar of the Tavern .

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      . Now _readv , in mie tuick _Bvo volume , price o _* ., THB POLITICAL WORKS OF THOMAS PAINE , now first c . _diectrd together , and to whicb are added _teveral pieces nevir before published in England : and an appendix , _cjnuunins the Trial of Tlumuu Paine , at Gnildhldl : with a portrait of the Author .

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      A COLOURED _-DAGUERREOTSTS PORTRAU m best morocco case for los ., which i 3 15 s . less man any other London establishment , and warranted » De equally good , by MR _EGERTON . 14 S , Fleet-street , opposite BonTerie-street , and 1 . Temple-street . *<\ hitetriars . Open daily from nine till four . _Foreign Apparatus Agent to Voigflander and Liribours , a complete Hook of Instruction , price 7 s . & L , by post los rnce _Bstssentpostfree . _LOWBAOTS , RED MARLEY . FR SALE , a FOUR ACRE ALLOTMEST , witb crops planted by the Society , and the amount of money giTentothe aUottee . Apply toW . W „ So . 3 , Fredencaplace , Peckham Footpath , Old Kent-road .

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      TO TAILORS . Kow Ready , br approbation of her _Majesty , Qneen Victoria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert . mHE LONDON and PARIS AUTUMN and _WINTER X _% _"f-A 3 HIO * JSforlSl 7 _andlS'S , _l > y Benjamin Read and Co ., IS , Hart-street , _BloomsWy-square , London , asd "by G . Berger , _Holynell-strcet , Strand , London ; a most magnificent and sup-Tb ' y-coloured Print , surpassing everything ofthe kind previously published , accompanied with the most fashionable foil sire Dress . Riding , Frock , Hunting , and Wrapper Coat pattern-, witb every particular part for each complete . Also , the m-st fashionable and newest style Waistcoat Pattern , including the manner of Cutting aim _making up the whole , with information respecting the new scientific system of Cutting , whirh will be published Jan . 1 , _181 S , and will supersede everything of the kind before conceived . Price 30 s ; or , post free , to all parts of the kingdom , I Is . Patent Measures , w . th full expUnation , 8 s tne set ( thegreatest improvement ever kuovm in tiie trade ! . Patterns to measure , sent post fre _* . t » aU *> a , Yts © I _tUe langdom , ls

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      House Of Iords. — Tcesdat, Ocr. 12.—The ...

      HOUSE OF IORDS . — Tcesdat , Ocr . 12 . —The Xoao _Chakcellok an < l other Peers assembled in the House of _Lords at two o'clock , in pursuance of tbe prorogation of the 21 st September last , f _.-r the purpose of » till further proroguing Parliament nntil the llth of _Jfovember next , as _annoUGced in tbe royal Proclamation which appeared in the Gazette of the 8 ih inst . There were eetweea twenty and thirty ladles _fitting on the benches in the body ofthe Douse , and some six cr seven gentlemen . On theright of the throne a scaffolding was erected , on which the _srtis ' s are carrying on tte frescopainting _ipyHaclise , and which would appear , from the glimpses we caught of it , to be in a forward state . So much of H as conld be seen was ranch admired . There were alto scaffoldings at the ether end ofthe chamber , over the reporters ' gallery , in which also the decorators ofthe House were carrying on their _labaur * . Below thf . hxrsereral of the officers of the Honse

      were ia attendance , as well as the High Bairn of westminster , and other officials . Besides the Lord Chancellor , the Peers present were , the Marquis ef Clanricarde , and the Earl of Auckland . At tiro o ' clock the Lord Chancellor teek his seat on the woolsack ; and trie Yeoman Usher of the Black Bod _Introduced Hr Vf . Ley , the Clerk-Assistant Of the House of Commons , as tbe representative of tbe Lower House . The Loan _Cbmnczllo * - then said , that her _lla ' sst ? had "been pleased to issue her writ , nnder the Great Seal , for the farther prorogation of Parliament which the Clerk wonld read . The writ was accordingly read by the Clerk at the table . The writ prorogued the meeting of Parliament , to Thursday the llth of November .

      TheLoBD _CBtxcELLott then rose tiom tne woolsack , and havins boated to the _othtr P _««* s , retired . Thenroceedinedid not occupy more than a minute .

      Receipts Of Cestui*". Rt-Cisraiiox Asp E...

      Receipts of Cestui * " . _Rt-cisraiiox asp _Elec"DosCoMMmsE , from the _Sta op _Ociobeb . —Darlington Land Branch , per John Macaulay , 5 s . 6 i ; Bethnal Green , per J . Weils , Is . ; / Juddersfield , per " Win . Mossley , 10 * . el . ; Mr _Behan , i 6 d . ; City and Finsbury Land Branch , per T . Saisian , 6 s . ; Tillicoultry , per Vf . _Urawn , 5 s . 6 d ; Boulogne Sur Mer , France , per Gewge Wishatt , 16 s . . 8 d . Total , £ 2 . 5 s . 8 d . James Grassby , Secretary . Ptnist . —Died on Wednesday evenisg , October 6 . Mr William Campbell , of water in thc chest , aged fifty-eeven years , fie was a very intelligent and jnastcncompromisingadvocateofChart _* s _: tprincipie 8 . In the days of the patriotic Henry Hunt , Air Campbell re-echoed and proclaimed tbat gentlemen's

      principles . He had wil thumbed Cobban ' s _Register , and . _hesitated rutin _prm-le , and on ihe platform , to expose tus machinations « fitue enemies of the _peeple . In Mr Campbell , the _Gbaiiistsi . t Paisley , hase lost a _Bincere _advocate of their cfcuse . He was a eaastant leader of the Star , and ae ardent admirer of the course pursued by the indomitable O'Connor . S & reral j _* ears ago when Paisley was _e & ont to elect a member ( i pariiameBt , Mr William Campbell and his nephew , Alt John Campbell , came _fof"cerd to the _husings _., Eldon the da */ ef nomination ths one proposed , aod _ other _Becosded , the Chartist candidate , and byeo deiog , subjected themselves to tbe . usual expenses on Such occasions Amounting to about fifteen pounds He was a kind husband and an _afSsoiisnate father .

      LAscAsnirtE _AliEeEs —The general delegate meeting of Lancashire miners will be held at tbe sign of the Unicorn Inn . Leven , near Boltoa , on Monday test , October 13 th . Chair to be ta _& n at eleven o'clock in the forenoon . Tnere will ako be a public meeting , which will bs addressed by _several ofthe accredited _agents of the Miners' Association . _EisiKGto . t-lase .-A _debate meeting will be held fin Sunday , _October llth , at Mr John _Uynter's , Brick-garth , when it U earnestly requested that _£ very branch in this distriet will send a delegate , as business of importance will be brougLt before the pieeting . I have to remind each branchnot to forget tbe Sleaford tragedy and the General Election Fend , as itis ofthe greatest impirtance these should beattended to .- John Hosier , secretary . Hide . —The members ot tbis branch will meet at the house of W . Hennimj , on Sunday next , at two o ' clock , p si . |

      _Nornxcmu —A meeting of the Land members _feeloDgins to the Nottingham district , will be kid on Monday evning next , October 18 th , at the Seven Stars , when it is particularly requested that each village will send a _delegate , as _business of great importance will be bronght forward . _JfoRittiiiPTy . ' -. —A general _mee-ins * of members of the Land Company will take plaoe © a Tuesday evening , at sev n o ' clock , at the public rooms . Newland , to elect officers . ___ Stiff ' * " )) . —A . highly interesting lecture was delivered by Mr S * _orn , ia the large room Pf the Charter _At-ocjaijon , Bank-street , ou the subject of the _£ anl-, which gave general satisfaction .

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      JUST PUBLISHED , ( Uniform * dth the " Labourer" _Maga-ine , ) Price Gd . 4 _PRACTICAL TREATISE ON SPADE A * HUSBANDRY . bein" tha results of four years' experience . Br J . Sillett . M'Gowan and Co ., 16 , Great _Windmill-street , Loudon and may be had of aU booksellers .

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      JUST PUBLISHED . _fbice sixpence , KO . X . OF " THE LABOURER , " Containing a treatise upon the National Land Company , and the National Land aDd Labour "Bank , as an Auxiliary to that establishment By F . O'Cohsoe , Esq ., M . P Letters ( pra-paid ) to he addressed to tho Editors , lfl Great Windmill Street , Haymarket , London . Orders _received by all agents forthe "Northern Star " and all booksellers in town and country .

      Portrait Of Ernest Jones, Eso, ., Barrister-At-Law.

      PORTRAIT OF ERNEST JONES , Eso , _., Barrister-at-Law .

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      A splendid full-length portrait or Ernest Jone , from the original painting by T . Martin , representing him to the life itself , is now lieinj *; engraved upon a steel plate , and when a sufficient number is printed it will be giveH with the Northern Star to subscribers only , that is , to all subscribers from tlie first week in October until the portrait is ready . All parties who have seen the portrait concur in the opinion that it would be impossible to procure a more perfect likeness . As the proprietor of the Northern Star has lost considerable sums on account of portraits , it must be understood that none but subscribers can receive the plate , as no more will be printed than are required to supply subscribers .

      Toe Northern Star Saturday. October 16.18*7.

      TOE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY . OCTOBER 16 . 18 * 7 .

      Thb Press And The People. A Sure Sign Of...

      THB PRESS AND THE PEOPLE . A sure sign of the progress making by the popular cause is , the increasing venom of the Press . . It is the thermometer by which you can measure the success of the People . When the democratic sun shines , up goes the mercury * ' to fever heat then the factionist and his hired journalists are burning with rage , and they spit their venom at the Charter and Land movement . In the present instance , the time for their . attack was well chosen—when

      Mr O'Connor—the principal object of their mean , lying onslaught—was on the Continent —a circumstance of which they must have been aware , by its announcement in the papers . We promise our readers , however , a rich treat in next week ' s Slur , when Mr O'Connor has promised to devote six columns in reply to the wonderful discoveries of the immaculate arithmeticians , and honourable men , who have attacked the cause he represents .

      We are obliged to them for their attacktruth benefits by being assailed—their venal , truckling praise might throw doubt on any scheme that received it ; their censure and their virulence imply that they fear us , and their fear proves that we are in the right . But let our readers mark the features of their attack , and out of these judge of our progress . At first they affected silently to ignore the _osistence of the Chartist body , and their movements ; when that was vain—when misery spoke iron-tongued across those counters where they were selling lies at so much a

      line , ' . they changed their policy , arid commenced abuse of our princi ples . Thus it was with the Charter—thus it was with the Land . But now lhat the Princiit . es have passed victoriously through the ordeal , now that nobod y ventures to deny the soundness of the Charter , or the desirability of the People , obtaining the Land—now that they are beaten _^ from the higher ground , ' they fall back , in the coarse of their defeat , upon this second line of defence—personal attacks—and cavilling at _thedfcfcit & of the plans , the general justice of n-iuch they are forced to concede . . They

      arees & her the . advocates of monopoly- —and , their ibread depending on its support , are & rced to oppose every symptom of _adwince—or , they make their stock in trade of some little bit of liberalism , which , they think , cannot do much good or harm , fees which serves . to keep up the circulatwa . oftheir venal papers . When , however , they t & nd the working dasses begin to think for tiemselves , and that they will ; no longer take what the Dispatck _/ ai the Manchester _lixaswcr , or the Nottingham ( Mercury and others of tbat ilk writeri forgflspel , y-W _ Keh they find sucfe _reforms advocated as would ' at

      once sweep away ai _ l monopolies , " aad . thus break up their little _stock-in'trad _^ _iof ' cANT , then they get t _& _ewalour of _desperatjoai , arid . launch their pigmy . arrows against _tjiose reforms , thus pr _ovingsaerely the _weakness-oftheir _« rms , and the _stress of the popular _awnoar . I 2 ius , one of their _baiKeries opens after _inotiier , till at last , they will be all in full _playbu _^ alas ! for them , theax balls , innocuous to ue , will but rebound « a their own heads . What shall we say to the men who perform the o $ ce of hired spy , to pry into the private affairs of other men , and then « mie back with lies , siropl y for the reason _hesause the object

      of their attack is endeavouring to do good to the people ? Why do they not attack the great stock-jobbing companies , banking speculations , mercantile bubbles , building societies , or railways ? Wh y do they not condole with th ~ shareholders of the North Western , whose shares have fallen from 280 to 149 ? Or , with those of the Great Western , whose half-shares have fallen from 80 to 55 ? Why do they not inveigh against the monied speculators , who are now breaking for hundreds of thousands of pounds , and offering their creditors seven or nine shillings in the pound ? Why do they not , with their wonder .

      fuPchampionship ofthe popular cause , expose the fallacies of the building societies , whose horses we cannot see—whose houses are nowhere ? Why , just attack the Land Plan , and that only ? No doubt , it is a terrible sore in

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      tl eir eyes , that a _bodj * of working men have < f twenty-three horses" of their own . No doubt , they would have preferred their having to hire the horses at an exorbitant cost j—no doubt , they-would prefer the people being < Beliendent on the pMlanthropy . _monp-ering _money-jobbitjg of others , instead of achieving independence for themselves , —or : else , why let all the bubbles ofthe day go b y unscathed , ; and single but * this •¦ Speculation of the People ?" The Landipian and their attack will , as we have akea & y intimated , be fully dealt -with

      next week * by Mr O'Conisor—while we are happy fcoilearn , that the base calumniee which have boen 'launched against Jiim will be met in a ' court-afJaw , where , we feel sure , they will obtain a "fitting response . But to what lamentable straights the enemies of the People must be reduced , when they are forced * tfcilast from general principles iato sectional detail , and from argument into reckless assertion . When tliey tell us ' ' ' to the public Press and 1 , 0 public fame . Chartism has for some years been dead ; " true , the - ' public Press ' have burked it—but it has been alive

      in the hearts of millions I If dead—we ask the Dispatch , why make such a clamour about _a'dead thing ? When they tell us that "Chartists took the pay of Buckingham . '' Poor fellow ! they ' ve broken bim then ! That was a likely man to take a party in his pay 1 Buckingham and the landlords , forsooth ! When the Chartists have couched the lance against Land Monopoly , and strike at the root of

      aristocratic privilege , in advocating the repeal of the laws of Primogeniture , Settlement , and Entail . ' When the Dispatch is reduced to fill two columns with abuse , without one single proof or argument in support of its assertions . Admits that there never was so great , wonderful , or well-organised a movement as the Cbarter—yet , in the next breath , abuses the men who organised it ! Finds fault with the violent direction the Charter once

      assumedyet PUTS THE BLAME ON THE WRONG SHOULDERS—and now , in the same breath , finds fault with the peaceable direction it is taking . Eschews the "insane acts of useless violence , " yet equally objects to the " spade and the trowel /' What , then , would please them ? Abject submission and inert slavery ? Why does the Dispatch not point out the ri ght way , if others are wrong ? What plan of reform has it ever propounded ? How has it ever shown itself the friend of the people ? Has it not , on the contrary , done its best to vitiate the public taste , and deprave the public character , by treating its readers to records of bloody murders , or beastly obscenities .

      But popular education is progressing with giant strides , and turns to those papers which record and advocate the progression of man , instead of gloating over his vices . The public mind requires proof , and not assertion . It will not do to say of a plan , «• that it will ruin all connected with it , we have no doubt , " Men require to be told WHY it will ruin them . Nay ! lies cannot even be shrouded among legal obscurity . ' No doubt the Dispatch , the Manchester Examiner , and others , relied upon the ignorance of the people as to the laws of the country , when they hazarded their reckless assertions as to the legal right of the Land Company ' s allottees . Tliey forgot , however , that their false constructions could be refuted

      —and that the true state of theuaw would be explained . They have overshot their mark , and their decreasing circulation explains their venom , while it punishes their baseness . But , since the Dispatch is so careful _^ of the public funds , since it is such a protector of the poor , we would ask it to give critical and arithmetical accounts ofthe profits of the divers public companies now swarming around them . We would ask it tn inform us how the funds are

      spent , and _' of what is given to the shareholders —not to the ATTORNIES . And if it is so lamentably ignorant of the state of Chartism as to suppose it dead ; or _ofjthe feelingof the Chartists as to talk ofthe " blind stupidity ofits tag-rag-and- bob-tail , " or to consider them a " mere blackguard , un reasonable rabble "—we would request this " organ of public enlightenment" to look up from its melo-dramatic horrors into the regions of political progression , and to ask the unseated

      ministers , to ask the discomfited Whig candidates , where Chartism is , ' and what it is about . We would further bid then not to show their ignorance , by insidiously saying that the "Land movement had superseded the Charter . ' - Itis but the wall of EAkm _, that , like the Roman legions , the Chartists have thrown round their camp . We would also bid them see first into the truth of an assertion , before they venture its publication , and we wish them a " good appetite" for our next week's number .

      If , however , the reader should require , or wish to _; know , the real cause of the venom of the Dispatch , let him inquire of its lachrymose agents , and their groaning counters , bending under the weight of the rejected addresses oi Sydney Smith , will answer the querist .

      The Commercial And Monetary Panic. ' ¦ T...

      THE COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY PANIC . ' ¦ The pressure on the ' money market and the stagnation in the manufacturing districts , has provoked an outburst of authorship and oratory quite astounding . Everybody who can wield a pen , and everybody who has " got the gift of the gab , " in the slightest degree , are now writing arid , talking about the " Currency question . " The terms " monetary crisis , " . ' ! legal tenders , '" " unconvertible , and convertible currency / '" fixed price of gold / ' " paper

      money , "—and so forth ; are heard on all sides . Never was there known so sudden a creation of currency * philosophers . If practical experience were as plentiful as blackberries inthe season ,. there might be some hope of " safety' ' from , this " multitude of counsellors . " But we very much fear that this is not the case . We have somewhat carefully read the explanations given by various parties of the causes of . the existing unparalleled and alarming state of the money , manufacturing , and mercantile markets : and are sorry to confess with

      , very little of either profit or instruction . From the . almost unintelligible jargon repeated by the advocates of opposing monetary systems , it is almost impossible to extract a single clear of defitiite idea _JAfact which we suspect proves one thing _atJleast ; that the writers have no very distinct or specific notions of the subject tliem 8 felves ; 'and ' con 8 equently : cannpt be fairly expected to instruct ] otHers . _- ' It is very _doubtfuiyKitKjir ' _' _^ those who _presainiB * fa ? write ' on tlie " question , have the slightest notipn _4 ) f > the . first princi ples involved in : iti _ , it \ _iu't' _¦) : ;! tri _uty .-... ; , ¦ . ¦ • •

      'One _/ _jof'thef' _^ sults , / of , the crisis has heen the estab , Usfimeht ; _of _^; fie ' _} r . association entitled the ' Anti-G _& id ' Lav ? League , " Uie object of which , as _weundejstand'ityis'to deprive ' gold of its legal tender capacity , abolish . its fixed mint price of £ 3 17 s . 10 _jd . an ounce , and place it oa the 'footing of all other commodities , thus leaving ; the pound of gold to _, . find its natural pme in the same way as a pound of iron , of indigo , or cotton , ' instead of this metallic money , whicii is so palpably insufficient a representative of the wealth and exchanges of the country , and which , like . the bed of Procrustes , cuts everything down to its own measure ; tbe League propose to issue

      Government money of £ 1 and upwards to the amount of the annual taxation of the country . Such money to he issued on the security of the taxation power of the country , to lie receivable in pavment of taxes , and tobe a legal , tender in all pecuniary transactions within the empire . They say that this domestic money , as it may be termed , being fixed in amount for each year , would not vary in value , that it would always be convertible into taxes ; that it would allow the producing classes to add to the price of the raw material and labour contained in their productions , the enhanced price caused by taxation , and would thus be an equitable _rejiroseritative ofw '

      The Commercial And Monetary Panic. ' ¦ T...

      and ' exchanges among ourselves . ' It . would , un short , possess all the functions and fulfil aU the ' _uses of money . Foreign exchanges would be conducted as they now are by currency , meaning thereby bills of exchange .- and ithe various other descriptions of mercantile papei whieh now represent . commercial transactions . In cases where the foreign merchant or shipowner wanted gold , he would get it ia the market at the natural price , and thus _equity would also be _restored in our foreign tirade .

      Such is a very brief outline of the leading features of the new League . We do not _propose to pronounce any opinion on these propositions , until we have given them more careful < " © _nsideration . The subject itself is an important and a vital one , and « annotbetoomuch studied and canvassed . But in the meantime , we may say thatthe propositions of the Anti-Gold Law League have a method and a reasonableness on their surface , which demand , at all events from those who oppose them , a temperate and a fair discussion .

      From some portions of the Press they have receivedthatkind of _tmitment ; but the Magnus Apollo—the great Thunderer—the organ ofthe 'gold owners / whose voice is most potential on 'Change / ' has attacked the League with all its usual virulence and abuse , and indulged in all iis usual violent misrepresentation wben it has a weak and comparativel y unknown opponent to grapp le with . If the Anti-Grold Law League possesses the seeds of vitality in it , and its prin ? eiples be correct , it willou . live the vituperation ofthe Times , and the "leading journal , " when it finds that it cannot put down the new association will , as in the case ofthe defunct

      Anti-Corn-Law League , discover that it is a " great fact , " and devote the same columns to its support , that are now filled with its abuse . The Times evidently trembles for its _misters —the gold owners . It has recourse to the most absurd and ridiculous statements to account for the present state of affairs Potato rot , defective harvests , and the railway mania , are the . trinity of causes to which it ascribes the overwhelming panic which has seized upon the commercial world , and-broken down some of the oldest-established and most wealthy houses of this proud mercantile empire , whose boast has hitherto been that its merchants are princes .

      The fallacy of these excuses must be apparent to all who give the subject the sli ghtest consideration . Grant all that can be asked , as to the extent of the loss caused b y the failure of the potato crop and the harvest , and still it will not account for the _•' ' panic / ' and the actual loss under _^ the existing crisis . Suppose that we state the loss from defective crops as high as £ 20 . 000 , 000 , ( and we have never seen any statement that exceeded that amount , £ 16 _^ , 000 , ( 100 being the usual estimate , ) that would be the measure of our loss . But the loss of _i' 20 ; 000 , 000 worth of potatoes or breadstuffs will not account for a depreciation in tho Government Securities within

      three weeks , equivalent to a loss of at least £ 90 , 000 . 000 to the holders of that description of property , lt will not account for a depreciation in the value of Railway Property to the extent of at least £ 30 , 000 , 000 more . ' It will not account for the failures in the * _feorn Trade , and in the general Mercantile Circles , to the extent of many _additional millions ; and which , taken in connexion with the losses in the Manufacturing Districts , must amount , in the aggregate , to a loss of upwards of £ ' 200 , 000 , 000 in such a comparatively short time . We repeat , the loss of £ 20 , 000 , 000 worth of provisions will not account for tbis astounding epreciation of property . Jts cause must be _fcund somewhere else .

      . As to the Railways having caused the panic or added to the loss , it is difficult to imagine how any one pretending to common sense can gravely put forth such absurdity . In making a railway , we do not make it either of bank notes , piles of sovereigns , or of bars of gold . Every thousand pounds that has been spent in the construction of railways has been spent in the country , and must have encouraged domestic trade . The engineers , the surveyors , the : contractors , sub-contractors , " navvies , " iron-masters and workmen , carpenters , brick layers ' —all , in short , whose industry has been

      put in motion by these works , have been customers to our farmers , manufacturers , grocers , hat-makers , shoe-makers , and other domestic tradesmen . The money they received in payment was not sunk in the sea , or locked up from circulation . It was paid at once to the retail tradesmen with whom they dealt , and found its way back to the wholesale merchant , miller , and farmer , from whom it again passed into the hands of the banker , to be re-distributed , and run its quickening and fertilising course through the country .

      If we had not had such a mode of employing domestic industry , our difficulties and sufferings would have been increased ten-fold . The fine promises of the great things that Free Trade and foreign markets were to do for us , have , so far , utterly failed . Manufacturing Lancashire stands still , because these foreign markets have no demand for its products . When they do trade with us , they take away

      the gold , not the calicoes , of England . That metal which we have absurdly created the measure of all other wealth , which we have artificially made alljother kinds | of wealth to rest upon , is the kind of commodity mo 3 t coveted by our foreign customers , and for want of the representative , we insanely starve , amidst an abundance of the thing represented !

      There is not , in reality , a pound s worth less of real wealth in the country at the present moment , than previous to the panic which has created such a commercial crash , and such frightful depreciation in the value of property of all kinds . The real wealth of the country consists in its lands , its houses , its ships , its machinery , its roads , its harbours , and its labour . These all exist as before , and are as capable as ever of supplying food , clothing , and shelter to the population . They would be so if every ounce ofgoldinthe country were thrown into the middle ofthe Atlantic ; and an act passed prohibiting for ever the export of another ounce from abroad .

      There is no real loss . The cause ofour sufferings is a false measure of value—an improper representative of the wealth and exchanges of the country . A sound and an equitable currency should possess the following qualities : — 1 st . It should increase as the wealth it represents increases . 2 nd . It should diminish as the wealth it represents din inishes . And 3 rd . It should always itself be unchangeable in value .

      Gold does not _possess one of these qualities' . Its adoption as a legal tender , and as the measure of the value of all other commodities , has been one of the greatest curses inflicted on the industrious classes of England . Ithas prevented the developement of its industrial energies , and compelled the disposal of the commodities it did produce at a price which did not fairly remunerate the artisan for his tolL _/ " ¦ " • - •

      .. Next to-a defective and corrupt system of Parliamentary Representation , a corrupt and defective Monetary System is the monster evil with whichjndustry must grapple .

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      PARLIAMENTARY PROSPECTS . _M-mmmmmt We have reached the time of the year when rumours of Ministerial " intentions , " and indications of Parliamentary policy in the next Session , begin to . make their _appearance , and the meeting of a Cabinet C ouncil' tbis week _. for the first time since the election of i -he new Parliament _,, gives si gn that the Govei 'nment are beginning to prepare forthe nextcam _, *> aign . The _wT ? P re entafl _as > their _indentions , _nZS _^ 'n _^ t _"*** are _concerned , the Ihames wil notbesetonfire next year . The measures said to be in contemp lation an of a secondary , description , though not ; without } _»

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      certain degree of importance , _^ _"t great causes whi _? h lie at the root of the sufferings endured by the industrious classes , will not be touched bj _^ the Whigs . They have as _mstinctn-e a dread of " organic changes / ' as a doglabouring under hydrophobia _lwsof water they are " retail" politicians , and their policy never rises above the email peddling ofthe hucksters shop . The snecific measures pointed out by rumour

      as being likely to be introduced , are tlie _aoontion of the Navigation Laws , and the creation of certain new offices , including one at the head of the Issue Department of the Bank of England . These , with a Sanitary Bill , will constitute the programme for this country . For Ireland , it is said that the abolition of the Poor Law , that weakly spawn of their last year ' s wisdom , and ofthe Tithe Act , ft to

      suffice . The two classes at present professedly provided for by these acts — parsons and paupers—to be in future supported by a sort ol Income Tax on land . As to Foreign policy , Lord Palmerston is opposed to foreign intervention in the affairs of Switzerland , as well as in Italy . Such is all that has as yet oozed out through the various channels which may be _siinnnsfid tn he more or less employed by

      Ministers in sounding the publio mind , or to be useu for the purpose of fore-shadowing tbeir coui _* . e . It is meagre enough to satisfy the most inveterate supporters of homcepathic legislation , and _infinitesimal doses . It will depend on the new members of the House of Commons whether we are to stop at the point indicated by our _Wlii" rulers , or whether the changes they propose , " shall be decided to be in themselves desirable or pressing at the present time .

      The repeal of the Navigation Laws , almost the only vestige left of the ancient and venerable system of protection , under which , somehow or other , England did fight its way up to the position of one ofthe first powers in the world , might have been naturally expected to follow the abolition of the Corn Laws , the corner stone , as it were , of that fabric . The advocates of Free Trade , as they call their nostrum , were certain to press the destruction ot any impediment which appeared to stand between them and their great object , that of unfettered and unlimited exchanges with foreign

      countries . We have no intention , of debating the propriety or policy of the Navigation Laws at present , or say ing more of them than that they date virtually from the period when the _Commonwealth and Cromwell redeemed England from the disgrace of being driven from the narrow seas by the naval armaments of foreign countries , and after sweeping these armaments from our own shores , established the maritime supremacy which has ever since , been England ' s proudest boast . A system which in .

      controvertibly did produce such results , which now maintains the working shipwrights of Great Britain in the enjoyment of wages considerably hig her than are given to the trades who have to depend on foreign markets , and enter into competition with foreign operatives , should not , in our opinion , be lightly tampered with , or changed to suit the views of mere self-seeking merchants or crotchetty theorists . Before proceeding further with our Free Trade policy , it would be only prudent to wait and see how what we have done

      works in future . So far we have received but little encouragement to go on in the same direction . To the argument that we have not yet had a " fair trial" of these measures , we are content to reply : " admitted—take your fair trial , but don ' t ask us to do more in the same way until that trial has conclusively proved that we should do so . " With reference to the abolition of the Irish Poor Law , and the substitution of some other mode of relieving the destitute population of that unhappy and deeply afflicted land , it is impossible to give any opinion , unless some

      details of the new plan were before us . A worse or more delusive and defective measure than that passed last session , it is scarcely possible to conceive , when looked at in the light of a practical provision for the pauperism of Ireland . But it at least did one thing . It affirmed the principle that the land of Ireland ought to support the people of Ireland that above all , and before all claims on the soil , there was that ofthe inhabitants to a subsistence upon it . The landlords struggled hard against the establishment of that great and

      important principle ; they have since thrown every impediment they could in the way of its practical operation in Ireland , and we fear that the proposition , thus speedily to throw overhoard an act passed only last session , is not dictated by any regard for the welfare of the poor . The Whigs have ¦ a peculiar facility in giving way to the pressure of influential classes , and , ' an equally great aptitude for forgetting the claims and interests of the weak and defenceless . " Forewarned is forearmed . ' We shall watch whether the people are again to be sacrificed to the landlords of Ireland .

      The new Parliament , however , must occupy itself with very different business than suc ' b matters as Navigation Laws , or Poor Laws . The time has conie when the means must be discovered and applied b y which the labouring classes of this rich and powerful country may enjoy a fair share of the wealth they create . All legislature must be tried by this test , and if found wantiug , scouted as a mockery . The political economists , landlords , and free-traders , have _mude England a commercial hell , in which every princi ple of justice is

      subverted . Right and wrong have changed places . The idler revels in wealth , the industrious producers , in the best of times , receive a bare subsistence—in seasons of artificially created _distress—created by the classes , who , by means of money legislation and machinery , keep them permanentl y in the bonds of a real and terrible slavery—the working classes starve by thousands , while the idlers are subject , at the worst , to a temporary inconvenience , so slight as to scarcel y diminish their luxuries to any appreciable extent .

      This state of things must not-cannot—shall not—continue . It is a standing libel upon the Christianity we profess as a nation . It is an infraction of the principles of national justice , a violation of the canons of morality , which nothing but long habit could induce the existence lind toleration of . These habits are rapidly disappearing industry has been learning its rights j it has been thinking upon the subject . The day is coming when it will have learned its lesson thoroughly , and "it will then speak in a voice which no legislature will dare to disobey .

      POLICE LAW . There is no branch of the executive _machinery more dangerous to public libert y , if not well managed , than the police . They have , from time immemorial , been subtle agents in the hands of Government ; they are made a body of legalised spies , constantl y on the watch placed at the very keyhole of your _house-door-main taining a secret correspondence down your area-steps-and . hanging in perpetual terror over the poorof the streets , who strive to earn a precarious livelihood in sight of the _glittering shops of the more fortunate capitalists ! When he police force were first instituted in Endund bey acted with caution , and _somethin-r » f fl _ueaiai

      -ce . _graduall y the few good qualities attached tothe system have _diedWWvS but the harsher and injurious features of this unconstitutional and continental system . Their . eftcacy' has been graduall y and ins idiously increased—till not content with havine this vast , organised body of home mercenaries at their disposal , Government have still further n _SpPTr n # i he- and _instituted a DfcrECUVE FORCE . As soon as the strength of this body became consolidated—as soon as it appeared firml y grounded as one of the sacred institutions of our country , "— -the mask was thrown aside , the cloven foot became apparent , and now the dail y press teems with accounts of " ACTS OF BRUTAL VIO-

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      _LENCE , - " _CHAKCriSS OF EXfi _^ OF DUTY /' -or of actual CRIMf 3 § MISDEMEANOURS perpetrated u _^ _i POLICE . i { m These charges the police are able to _<\^ - W > inasmuch As each policeman , when accuse j vfe p lenty of witnesses to produce in the si ' 1 of—other policemen . ' —and if found Kuibn af punishment ofa FEW SHILLINGS i , J » 1 cient atonement for crushing the skull of P man with their truncheons , heating a w , a _* i till her life is in danger , striking a y _^ M g irl over the Joins ; that she may bGcoJ f diseased for life in consequence , and _; _, l mo crippling a child , all of whom were inaocent I any outrage , crime , or misdemeanour of iln , p description , — and who were thus t _reatifl without any excuse , such as could be furnisl ) e j _^ by a disturbance going on around them , j- & personal redress was afforded to the suffere r * i no _' punishment beyond a fine ofa few _shilling to the guilty . ) Thus a body of ruffians are let loose on t } .-public . Their persons are sacred . They may insult defenceless women in the streets ( see police reports ) , they may get up false charges ' they may rob , they may get drunk and _brutiife

      heat inoffensive passers by ; they may n _^ _- ? abusive and insolent language , they may _takeSj whomsoever they like into custody , without' any sufficient reason and there ia no redress ) % They are a privileged class . The ordinary | laws of the country touch them not . Th ' e British' constitution is suspended with _refer-l ence to them . The arrows of justice glance off from the invincible armour of their blue | coats and metal buttons ! We ask our readers 1 to look through our Police Report for this _f week . We ask them to look at the police in . | telligence afforded by the daily papers—for _ex-1 amplification of every one of the allegations | we have made . Let them read the case ofi

      Mrs Perryan—let them read that ol Mr N , Maillard , at Guildhall , who , when _fym ' _e'fy going to the station-house with the policeman , was violently struck , throttled till he foamed at the mouth , and subsequently brutally maltreated at the station-house , WHENCE

      DREADFUL SCREAMS WEEK HEARD TO ISSUE . And this gentleman , it appears , had not been guilty of anything , hut accidentally tearing a person ' s coat-skirt with _hij stick ! Let them remember the slaughter of W . Dodson at Sleaford , and , indeed , we do hope the couutry will assist in bringing the brutal policeman , Sharpe , to justice . As yet , we regret to say , but little has been done _, lt is , indeed , painful to think of the brutality

      to which the poor are subjected in the streets by these " guardians of the peace . " How they are driven like dogs from pillar to post , bandied about like so much lumber . We have seen them driven from the shelter ofa wall ora tree in the pitiless storm , abused and shoved about for looking poor , and daring thus to make a mute appeal to charity , and annoy wealth and magnificence with their aspect . We read daily of men being taken up by the

      Police on some charge which cannot be substantiated—kept , in some cases , thirty-six hours in prison , and then discharged WITHOUT REPARATION . Such is the present law , that a man ' s liberty may be infringed at the caprice ofa Policeman . Is a man to be subjected to annoyance and imprisonment—his family to anxiety—his business to derangement—his health to injury—because a Policeman may owe him a grudge , or he out of

      humour , and wish to vent his spite ? Is this the •< Rights of Englishmen , " " THE LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT . " It is high time that we had the CHARTER , to abolish such laws , and enable us to legislate lor ourselves . The Police ought not to be a branch of centralised power ; those who pay for the support of the Police ought to have their appointment .

      It is the ratepayers and not the Government who ought to appoint , control , and regulate the "FORC E . ' -. Then , and not till then , can we expect to find in them real guardians of the peace , instead of HIRED HUFFIAXS let loose as a pest upon societv , rarely to be found when wanted ; insulting to the poor , and servile to the great .

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      Mlsceuaheotss, Gabiuei, Wishes Jfr O'Con...

      _MlSCEUAHEOtSS , Gabiuei , wishes Jfr O'Connor to u _* e his influence in parliament to aid the putting down of prize-fighting-. 'Gabriel' says , 'I eorr . meiid an individual ivlio stands up manfully in self . det ' . 'nce , but as regards the wretches , who , for the sake of a lew _pieces of sonlid gold , _mest _, and tender edch other , w _. lh heartless hypocrisy _, the hand of fri nd * hii > _, then to attack each other like _timers , their conduct is , to me , so foul a si > i that I am inclined to ask myself , whether r am really in civilised England ? Of what class are the men composed ? Why notoriously of prigs , sharps , la-y ' _jjeiits , ' blackguards , the dissolute and depraved At the _fijht which took place between Caunt ami Bendigo , there was not a jiublic-house in the route of these rutfl . -ns but was laid under contribution , nor a person met but was quickly turned ' topsiturvy and

      ' every farthing skilfully extracted from their pocket-. Now , sir , I think tlmt you have a glorious opportunity of showing the true character of Chartism , that its tendency is to uplift the " _iumnn mind from all that is debasing , servile , and cruel , aud is uttevly oppose ! to tlie _inliuman and dis-| _usii » g practice I have condemned , nnd which I think all good mon will join me iu denouncing as degrading to _curate and country . _' ] ? ate \ ts . —A correspondent ask * , can vou inform me if there is a society for enabling working men to obtain patents for their inventions ? _Nottingiuh Eucno . v Fu . _vD .-J . Sweet acknowledges-I the receipt of the following sums , with thanks .-Man-Chester , per G . Townsley , 4 s id ; do per J . Howarth , ls 3 d : du m small sums , 3 s 7 d ; from _Rl _uvtdford , 6 s 90 . SLEAFOBDMmii ) ERCUsE . -fromE . 11 . h ., 6 d ; Mr Maltbv _. _fid . I ** T 1 TI 0 N CosVESTiON . -1 _'cr Mr Ligget , Is 1 id ; Colle _' _ctedat thu Eagle . Ss 7 ( 1 .

      T . _GlLRoV .-Reeeived . Kobekt Side . -For two reasons we decline to publish your letter , —1 st , its publicatiois in its present form would be impossible , without making vou a laughine stock , and we cannot _afTord time to rewrite lengthy correspondence ; 2 nd , the Star columns can be much better filled , than w . th _side-winded attacks upon the directors of the Land Company . J . _Nisiiett _, Newcastle— Your letter was charged to us twopence for over-wei ght F . P 01 . E .- - U our judgment , the 'Citizen ' s' trash is not worthy of notice ; we have , however , sent your letter , with the enclosure to the Directors . LBFr koj-e , two boys , on _theSrd _' of July last . Theoldest _, _bamuel I urton , aged eleven years , had on a blue cloth cap , small brown plaid fustian coat , brown striped trousers , and had with him a small square basket . The youngest , John Turton . aired nine years , hadou a Wn _«

      cap , and a dark corded suit of clothes . Anypersott _wtio can give information on this _distressing ca _« , tc-Isaac Turton , No . 15 , _Exeter-stveet , Derby , will greatly oblige the bereaved father . . To the Chartists of IoNDoN .-Some time ago Mr T . Clark , of the La nd Company , _ivlien lccturiiw in Aberaeen , obtained the loan of several flags and banner * , among which were a valuable silk _tri-coloured flag , a sp . cndid full _loagth portrait of T . S . Dumcombe _, Esq ., " 4 . r \ , ii banner with the motto— 'United wo _st-nd , divided we f . ill , ' surrounded by a garland , and another banner with the motto— 'May thc _uo'den crowns of _iurope be melted into types to print ' thc rights of man' throughout the rjiiirerse , ' & c As we have al . ready written to Mr Clark , and have got no answer . I have now to request , that if any , or all , of these flags . tsc , are in the possession of any individual , that they be immediately sent to Mr Thomas Clark , Land Company _' s Oihce . The silk tri- : o _! our belongs to the comb makers ot Aberdeen , who have always done their duty to the cause , and the whole are now mmM f ..,. tho

      • _virtucommg demonstration in November . They were lent to be used in a procession to the House of Common-, 1 trust they wil be returned .- D . Whom , Corresponding Secretary , Aberdeen . mn . _?;^ le ,, 8 h _^ ,. re _* M , rlofoIie o-Mr Kydd's lectures must stand over till ovw next . The Men of Kent ' s Catecuish in our next . "" win " _Si ' * r ackn ° « _-e-ll"cs thefollowing sums :-irom Alloa , fur the Election Fund . £ i ; for the _Sleatordcuse . 10 s ; from Kidderminster , for tbe Election fund , " _sGd - for the Holytown miners 2 s ; _tVomS . _M'B ., , for the Election Fund , sd . "' _f * * _, " " —Your offer wa j sent two late . Sueh a report should have been _forivartUd last week . r . J . O BniKx , Exeter . - Impossible this week . i ,, \ _* . _vv . ii ; Aberdeen . —¦ Jndercoiisideration , 1 HB Poets must' remembor Job the patient man . * _Carlisle —The _'Addres . _i'iu our next . Victim Committee . —We are requested to state that all monies for the General Victim Fund must be sent to Mr John Simpson , secretary to the _Aced I _' atriuU _' _,

      widows' and Orphans' , and Victim Committee , Elm _Cottage , W ; jterJo » -s ( ret't , Camberwell . Mr Simpson acknowledges ls 6 d , from Mrs Tanner , Totness . The Land Cosipaxt . —A mass of communications containing _inquiries respecting matters in couueriou witb the Laud Conpany , we have forwarded to the Directors . All such communications should be addressed to ths Company ' s Office , 111 , High Holborn , London . The VaiAOE of Alva his been thrown into a state o * excitement for this tew weeks past , by one of the _uluo bottle gentry _perambulating tbe streot and entering the houses , to the annoyance of the peaceable inhabitants , aud demanding four shillings from some , and two from others , on _nci-ount of what he calls Statute Labour Money , or , if the same is not paid on a certain given day , 1 gal steps are to be taken to force tho same . This is done by tlio order of one John _M'Li'ain , a farmer , wno calls himself collector , and as the inlmbilants are unacquainted with tho Siatute Labour Act , you will much oblige a number of vour reader * , ill At '» > if you will let lliem know how tlie law _stauds in reference to the above .-D . H .. Alva . October Sth 1847 .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 16, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_16101847/page/4/