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Government to base its tenure THE NORTHE...
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TEE LONDON REPEALERS . The clubs ara now...
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THE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS TO THE DEMOCRATS...
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'Equality , Libertt, Fraterxity.'
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Brethreh, Thsre are truths which, like t...
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Mai>a_e Lauabtise.—It is said that Limar...
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A LIST OF BOOKS
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Rational Santi Company *
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Boar.—The Shareholders of the Bury Branc...
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THE NORTHERN STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1848.
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THE REIGN OF TERROR. "' A Special! A Spe...
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EMIGRATE! EMIGRATE! EMIGRATE! " Breathes...
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The _Bs_Vt£I> Ch-Tttjstb—Johh O'Cosmell'...
and _gl ___ ei * . S _« _whsre a few _ehert _^ _months ago little frUtsm-ed cabin stood ; tte mm ¦«<*• ? _"' . J rom Its wicker chimney , and iu little _fonr . pa" _* _»«¦ dow reflecting the rays of the _mornisg sua . _£ a what meets your aching eye-ball .. » e _** " _* f " _?_ _ , borne is _desolate-bU cabin 1 » _^ _™ ns ; the | _jjj been burned or levelled by the ' _«« _£ . _«*^ _K _r _^ _i _^^ _i'Sss _^^ _. _a _# j __ _r-r _?^«^ S _« _S 5 _ti ed , of that on = e snuff , and peaceful , and __ prt-p _2 ««»« home - And what h " Wome _« SM Ah . do not , in mercy , ask that question . What has become of thea ! Where are they gone !
The father and mother , probably , laid _nneofinedand _onshrouded in an anblest grave—for they died of imager , and there was no one to relieve them ; or the lick-ess' _laiahold on them , aud their wretched neighbours _flsd ia terror and _dijgust . And their childrenwh _ t of titm > Probably dragging en a joyless _ex-stence is the district poor-house—if happy enough to find admittance to this grave of living skeletons-or perhaps they have fled to the country _towri , to swell the mass of gnualid _. helpless misery with which every Ir ish town is now infested—or _. lo ! sea that ragged _wrstched-looklng group of children , squatting at the ' turn of the road there , not _placki-s prlaroscs or bluebells , or _chaiing butterfiies . or ' _havrking strawberries , ' as children UBed
to d » la other years , but exhibiting their wretchedness , and stretching forth their shrivelled bands imploring tbat Charitj which few ef tbe passers-by have to bestow . These , probably , are the children of those parent * of whom I have spoken , andthe once joyous , light-hearted inmates of that rained cabin which I have been describing . Ah , yet—and this is no fanej sketch ! Such _gCenCS 6 S thi ! met my view ia many a p » ri _»_—naj , ia almost every village throug h wbicb I passed . The country is half depopulated . In many districts there ts not what ean bs fairly called a * peasantry' at all . The famine took away thousands . The emigrant shipfloated _ way with hundreds . Pestilence shook its dork winover tha decimated villages , whilBt
• Savage men _. _more murderous still than they , r _ s _ ed reeklesaly on the survivors , and the landlord , the agent , and the bailiff put the coup s * e arm on the foul deeds which Ms _foiestsllers , in the work of ruin , had left unfinished . And this is Ireland under fhe Whigs . '
THIS IS OUR CONDITION AFTEIC SBTES HUN D „_ D TEAK 3 OF SAXOK _TVEAXST AXD GLORIOUS « BRITISH COXKEXION !< V Throughout every district which I visited , the crops are most Insurious . The wheat . In particular , is splendid . The oat * and _ ieado ; vi _ g , though healthy , pro . nietd to ba rather ' short , ' bnt the fine showers , whieh fell during the latter days , will be of vast benefit to boih grass and corn . A Urge breadth of potatoes have been planted this year , aad they , too , promise s fine crop _Sjss affirm that tho potato has been planted this year ts extensively ai ever , but such , I am sorry to say , is not the fact . Many of the poor people could not get
teed _saScle-t to plant , _aceerdlng to their wishes , whilst many of those , who might secure seed enough , were afraid te set them in large quantities , dreading a recurrence of tba last two or three years' 'failures . ' However , tbere is a large potato crop planted , and , so far as tie season has gone , there never was a more cheering _prospsct of _s-ocsss . Many fields , indeed , have ' missed , ' Cut tbese partial failures do aot appear to proceed frem the regular ' murrain' or ' rot' of the _bj-gone years . On the whole , there Is good ground ta hope that the potato will again _nanrish in Ireland , and that such of tke peasantry , as may be left on the sal ! , will no more suff r the horrors of hunger , to which they hava been exposed for the last three years .
But , In other respects , the condition of Ireland is mending worse' every hour . To use their own emphstio language , the people now 'have nothing ! ' All is gone ! Cattle , stvine , poultry , all ' seised on , ' and « canted' for rent , ' or sold to buy provision , or stolen and eaten up by those more wretched and more daring than the original proprietors ! Such is the situation of the surviving Irish peasantry ! And , as I said before , this state of things is not merely confined to the peasant classes—those , heretofore In good circumstances , are now as helpless , as naked , and as miserable , a : the common labourers and * qaarler-acre' folk . All are paupers—all clamour for out door relief ; and , in the houses of thoss who are denied this assistance , nothing is heard bnt the wail of hungry children , and the mur . mors and despair of agonised and hopeless parents .
The rural peasantry era thirsting for vengeance , and , no matter hew confident the Whigs may feel , the people are arming—nay , in most cases , they are armedthose , not having means to procure rifles or muskets , being provided with pikes , swords , bayonets , and other more rude , but not less destructive , weapons , Tbey are mad for war . With all tbeir _ir-sence , tbo Roman Catholic clergy cannot subdue the v _* ild rebel lion's fire which bums from shore to shore at this moment . The people only want a leader and ' the call , ' and a million of men would bs ' up' iu for ty-eight hours !
The tide of emigration stiil rolls rapidly . Everybody who csn amass the requisite m « a _ _s , is going away , whilst soma of tbe landlords are driving off tbeir pauper tenantry in cargoes . By and by we will have little cause to complain ef a ' _superabundant population , ' and a year or two hence , if matters go on as at _present , the man who roams over the deBert fields and along the desolate _h'gawajsof Ireland , may truly exclaim , with our own sweet poet Goldsmith' The peasant _twnt , without an arm to save , The eonntry blooms—3 garden and s grave !'
Government To Base Its Tenure The Northe...
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Tee London Repealers . The Clubs Ara Now...
TEE LONDON REPEALERS . The clubs ara now folly organised , and Englishmen and Irishmen are united ia the _dttermiaatio- to obtain for themselves the rights so long denied them by a section of the oligarchic aristocracy . Crowded meetings of the cinb 3 have bsen th 3 result of the arrest of _Frank Looney , and subscriptions bave been freely entered into for the defence of the incarcerated patriots . The 'Davis' Club , oa Monday evening , _acling under the advice of their solicitor , _eipeUtd from the room in which they met all spies . A _csliisioa was the result , for particulars of whieh see police report .
The Fraternal Democrats To The Democrats...
THE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS TO THE DEMOCRATS OF GREAT BRITAIN .
'Equality , Libertt, Fraterxity.'
'Equality , _Libertt , Fraterxity . '
Brethreh, Thsre Are Truths Which, Like T...
Brethreh , _Thsre are truths which , like the fertilising streams of earth , instruct and benefit mankind in the ratio of their circulation . As the flawing streams gather andimpart in their course , the elements which minister to vegetable life and luxuriance , so truths flowing between men conduce to that moral growth , which is at once _^ the essence and beneficence of life . Not the leastsacred of these truths arethose which express' that when one member of the social body is attacked , the whole are outraged , ' and ' that he who permits oppression , shares the crime . ' Oh , that these truths were as readily acted npon as they are tacitly subscribed to ! Then , indeed , would tyrants tremble , ere they outraged the rights , or trampled upon the dignity of men .
The recognition and realisation of these truths are sacred duties . To the performance of these duties we exhort yeu . We invoke your sympathetic aid for those ofyour friends , who have become martyrs to iheir patriotism , and victims of elass misrule . As you love _liberty and hate oppression , we entreat you to render tbat pecuniary assistance to your persecuted friends and their families , which the necessity of the case and your sense of dutv alike dictate .
To the sufferings of imprisonment must not be added the mortification of ihe people ' s callousness . To the torments _arising from the deprivation of personal liberty must not be added the consciousness of those resulting from family privations . Therefore , fellow democrats , we exhort you to contribute , according to your means , for the defence of your advocates , the maintenance of their families , and the honour of the cause in which we are all engaged .
While circumstances do not admit of our con . tributing as an organised body , individually and as _membsrs ofthe Chartist party , we are performing our share of the duty we have appealed to you to discharge . The Committee expect that every memberof this Association , in town and country , w ' ill consider it his bounden duty both to contribute to the Befence Fund , and obtain the contributions of friends and strangers . Oar esteemed , eloquent , and chivalrous brother , Eax _ sT Jokes , has special claims upon our sympathy ; but mindful of the great principle of Fraternity , we appeal to you in behalf of - ' /—all who are nnder the ban of persecution . Let your contributions be sent to the General Defence and
Victim Fund . There is not a moment to lose : to work then at once , and prove to your enemies that you know how to protect your friends , and that you will Rilly around tbem again and again 1 ' By order ofthe Committee , ' G . Julian _Ha-net , Secretary . London , June llth , ISIS ,
Mai>A_E Lauabtise.—It Is Said That Limar...
Mai > a _ e Lauabtise . —It is said that Limartino _' _a wife , who is an _Elfish woman , not unfr . 'quently acts t _ e part ofsab-edittj in preparing her husband's works for ths pres ? , and thst while pages of the iessiiaportant parte are t & _e produetian of her pen . She is alto an excellent _paioter . —Boston Transcript . Chahiit—One whom we deiigat to follow , hut r * ra _ d to facc « Live . —A compulsory journey over a precaviens _roa-J , ou which the _rnsre _luggage you have , the more li .- atly y 0 _ travel . Tt 2 ansy . —Knocking _penple on Iheir knees for the crime of stand" , _snrLjbt . j j 5 3 j 3 5
A List Of Books
A LIST OF BOOKS
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_S'OW POBUSHIKO BT R . D . COUSINS , 18 , _DUKE-STREET _, -IKCOlN'l _IHK-IIEtDI , tOKDOK . THE _SBEP-ER-, by t _ s _Rev . J E . gi _ U _ U . k . Vol . I , price 53 . 6 d . —Vol . II , price 33 . —Vol . HI , prise 6 * . Sd , cloth boards ; or th * three volumes in oho , _ alf-boao _ in calf and lettered , price Its , Refutation of _Owflniim , by O . Radford , of Worcester ; with a reply , by the Rev . J . E . _Bmith , M . A . Is . New Christianity ; or the Religion of St Simon , with a coloured Portrait of a St Sltnoatan _Female ; translated by the Rev . J . E . Smith , M . A . Is . The L ttle Book , addressed to the Bishop of Bseter and Robert Owen , by the Rev . J . B . Smith , M . A . 01 . ; by post lOd . Legends aod Miracles , by the Rcr . J . B . Smith , M . A . Cloth boards , Is . 81 . ThB Universal Chart , containing the Elements of Unlversal Faith , Universal Analogy , and Moral _Goiernment . By the Rev J . B , Smllb , M . A . Price Is . : by post , Is . 2 d . Analytical Chart of Universal Justice , Truth , and Peace ; avoiding the two extremes of Spiritualism and _MattriaUsm—the first of _which specnlate on the Organic FrlHciple , without tho Organism , and the la _' . ter _, on the Org—aitm , without tha Organic Principle—bo th are presented in this Caart . By the Rer . J . E . Smith , M . A . Price Gd . ; by post 81 . ; or , on thick _drawing-japer _, Is . ; by post . Is . 2 d . The World Within ; or a description of the Interior of the Earth : a vision of the Hind ; by the Rev . J . E . Smith , M . A . Price 6 d . ; if by post , nine pen _ y stamps . SHraba _ d " s System of Nature , a neat pocket edition ( two _Tolames in one ) . 3 i . 6 d ., post free . _Volney's Rains of Empires and the _Larr of Nature . Pocket edition , cloth boards , Is . Sd . By post , 2 s . Words of a Believer ; or , Paroles d _' an Oroyant , by l'Abte de la Mennais . For having written which , he was excommunicated and damned for ever by the Pope . Price li . stitched ; or cloth boards , Is . 6 d . post free . Palmer ' s Principles of Nature . Is . Cd . ; Postfree . Good _tranilatedfrom by tbe CuiS
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WAVERLET , TBMPERANCE HOTEL . 43 , PBINCES-STBEBT , _-DINBOBQ-, ( Opposite the Scott Monument . ) ROBERT CRANSTON having REMOVED from 129 , _High-street , to 43 , _Princes-street , begs respectfully to call the attention of his _custcmers to the superior accommodation and more c « ntral situation of hia new premises . R . C . respectfully submits that the WAVERLEY will be found most comp letely adapted to the wants of the Commercial Community . His long __ experience also enables him to assure them that , combined with a strict attention to their comlorts , it shall bo his study to have every article supplied of the very best quality , and that , ia short , while the accommodation and attendance will be equal to thoso of a sib . st . __ t _ hotel , the usual reasonable charges will be continued . R . C . also directs the attention of TRAVELLERS to the tact that THE RAILWAY STATIONS are in the immediate vicinity of THE WAVERLEY . An extensive News Room and Select Library . All the _refreshmentajusually in demand atTemperance Houses . N . B .-No intoxicating drinks sold ner allowed to be u _& ed on the premises .
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Now Ready , a Now Edition of MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS To be had at the Northern Star Office , 16 , Great Wind Dill Street ; and of Abol Heywood , Manchester .
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NORTH BRITISH EXPRESS , AN ADVOCATE OF THE BIGHTS OF L . IBOUB , Published every Saturday Morning , Prico Fourpenco Halfpenny , The Only Democratic Newspaper published in Scotland . WORKING MEN OP GREAT _BRITAIN , THE ' NORTH BRITISH EXPRESS' is the property of working men . It has been established to make known your wants . Its principal mission is to enforce ) your claims , and form a fortress for the protection of labour . Are you misrepresented ? -then , here is a remedy . Are you stigmatised with the foul brand of ignorance ? —then , here is an organ of your own , or channel , through which you can wipe off the foul stain , by making your calumniators feel the truth of-your arguments , and the justice of your cause . Ho you want such an organ ' —then give your _streriuouB mpport to the 'NORTH BRITISH EXPRESS . * It will be tho consistent advocate of the ' People's Charter , * ' Repeal of the Union . ' and the ' Rights of Labour , ' these being the all engrossing topics of the aay , ahd the only real remedies for the existing evlla by which the people of this country are oppressed . The ' Express' is divided into 1 , 000 Shares of 5 s . each , and as some Shares remain to bo taken up , early application is necessary . Published at 279 , High-street , Edinburgh .
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WANTED IMMEDIATELY . SEVERAL PERSEVERING YOUNG MEN , of good address , to CANVASS for NEW PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS in shilling partB . A commission will bo given , and no one need apply , whe cannot enter into immediate engagements . Addre » s ( by lettir only ) , to W . E _., IC , Great Windmill-Street , Haymarket , with postage stamps for _answor .
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TO TBE 2 AD 1 CAL BJEKORMIES OK OBEAT BRITAIN . CARPENT ER'S PEERAGE FOR THE PEOPLE , containing 9 P 0 pages , bound in cloth , is reduced in price , from los 6 d to 3 s , ( sent post free Is extra . ) This work contains historical and biographical sketches of the _members of the irresponsible house , and an account sf the places and _emoluments distributed amongst their families . It shows , also , tho enormous expense of what they please _toaall civil government , under their _corrupS sway , and also some oi the most pbohi-NBHT CAC 8 I 8 OF THS POVIBTT OF THE _COHHONITr . W . Strange , 2 | , Patemoster . row .
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Price One Penny . TRIAL AND PORTRAIT OF JOHN MITC _* JEL , THE IRISH PATRIOT . A full report of the trial of this heroic man , underthe odious Gagging Act . Contain _, ing the speeches of counsel , the summing up of the Judge , and the prisoner ' s noble defiance . Every patriot should purchase this trial and portrait . London : W . Winn . Manchester : Heywood . Love , Glasgow . Robinson , Edinburgh , and all agents ofthe _Nobthebh Stab . Williah Wmn , Bookseller , Publisher , and News Agent , also takes this opportunity of inviting the support ofthe trade in town and country , and assures ihom that he can supply them more satisfactorily than any other person in the trade . His stock contains the best and most extensive assortment of back numbers and parts of all the weekly and monthly periodicals , and saleable works ; and he always secures the new _numbers the first moment th _* y issue from the press . The country trade may rely on their orders being punctually and carefully executed . Cash in advance for the first two months . ___* Please to observe ! -No . 84 , noljwell-strcet , _eitflit doors ( on the samo side ; from Chat office . —Williah WlM „ .
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ALLOTMENTS ON SALE . A FOUR ACRE at Bromsgrove . — A FOUR ACRE drawn in the November ballot- — A THREE ACRE at Lowbands . All of which is cropped . Applications to be made to the Directors , at their office , Ui , High Holborn , London .
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TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert . NOW READY , THE LONDON AND PARIS SPRING AND SUMMER FASHIONS for 1848 , bv Messrs BENJAMIN READ and Co ., 12 , Hart _^ treet , Bloomsbury-square , noar Oxford-Btreet , London ; and by 0 . _Be-geb , Holywell-street , Strand ; and all Booksellers , an exquisitely executed and superbly coloured PRINT . The elegance of this Print excels any beforepablished , accompanied with the Newest Style , and extra-fitting Frock , Riding Dress , and _Hunting-Co 3 t Patterns ; the _mostfasbionablo dress Waistcoat Pattern , and an extra-fitting Habit Pattern of" he newest and most elegant style of fashion . Every particular part explained ; method of increasing and diminishing the whole for any size fully illustrated , manner of'Cutting and Making up , and all other information respecting Style and Fashion . Price 10 s . postfree lis . READ and Co . ' s new scientific system of Cutting for 18-18 is ready , and will supersede everything ofthe kind heretofore conceived . All the Plates are numbered and lettered , and on the scale of Eighteen Inehesi Whole size , never before attempted , containing twenty-three square feet : particulars , post free . Patent Measures , with full explanation , 8 s . the set . New Patent Indicator , for ascertaining proportion and disproportion , illustrated with Diagrams , price 7 s . Patterns to Measura ( all registered according to Act of Parliament ) , post free , Is . each . The whole sold by Read and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Blooms _, bury-square , ' London ; and all Booksellers . Post-office orders , ani Post Stamps , taken as Cash . Habits performed for tha Trade . Busts for fitting Coats on ; Boys ' figures . Foremen provided . — Instructions in cutting complete , for all kinds of Style and Fashion , which can be accomplished in an incredibly short time .
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EMIGRATION . EMIGRANTS can obtain a Free Gift ot Forty Acres of the best Land , in the moat healthy and productive portion ofthe United States . Also , Land tor Sale or Barter , from Ona Dollar per Acre . Passengers shipped to aU parts of the world , and supplied with Bonded Stores , Provisions , ic , on tbe lowest terms . Apply ( prepaid ) to the General Passenger Shipping an- Land Agency Offices , 15 , Eastcheap , London , and 32 , Waterloo-road , Liverpool . It is also the finest part of the globe for consumptive persons to resort to .
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A GOOD FIT WARRANTED at tho Great Western Emporium , I asd 2 , Oxford-street , Ubsdell and Co . are now making to order a Suit of beautiful Superfine Black , any size , for £ l lvs . Patent made Summer Trow _, sers , 16 s ; Registered Summer Over Coats , 2 _fls . The Art of Cutting taught . Patterns of Garments Cut to Measure for the Trade , and seat ( post free ) for Is . 6 d . each , or _eighteen postage stamps . Address , Charles Ubsdell , 1 and 2 , Oxford-street , London .
Rational Santi Company *
_Rational _Santi _Company *
Hrj-_.—A Tea Party And Ball Was Held In ...
Hrj- __ . —A tea party and ball was held in the Assembly rooms , _Jarratt-streot , on the 30 th ult ; , to celebrate the anniversary of the allocation of members at O'Connorville . Speeches were delivered by Messrs Taite and Connington . Dancing was kept up till a late hour , when the oompauj separated , haviBg given three cheera for Mr O'Connor . Bahburt . —At a meeting held at the Butohere ' Arms Inn , on Monday night , June 12 , the _following resolution wan carried , moved by Mr Ilaigh , and seconded by Mr Colman : — 'That tho memberaof the
Banbury branch of the _National Land Company , do approve of tha suggestion of the Manchester branoh , in recommending the Directors to give proper notice to the successful allottee previous to his taking possession of his allotment ; likewise in holding the next Conference in the nearest market town to thelast location ; and for the Directors to giveout the _protamine ofthe business of the next Conference , nnd to give the monthly report of the progress ofthe Company ; also tbat two of the directors shall assist Mr O'Connor on the estates , and the other two attend solely to the _butinesaof the office .
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Boar . —The Shareholders of the Bury Branch ol the National Land Company , are hereby informed that a Shareholders' meeting , on business of _importance , will bo held in their usual meeting place , C ' erke street , on Sunday evening next . To commence at 6 o ' clock . National Registration and Election Commutes . —A Netting will be held at tae _Ausombly Rooms , S 3 , Dean-street , Soho , on Tuesday evening next , June 20 th , at 8 o ' clock precisely . Dsrby . —There will t . o a oounty delegate meetine of lhe Chartists , on Sunday the 25 : h inst ., at 10 o ' clock in the morning , at Mr Belfield ' a , Temperance HouBe , Green-street . When tho following places are requested to send a delegate : Belper , Alfreton _, _Ukistow , Holbrock , DriffielJ , Swanwick , Codnor Park , _Borrowash , Bterton , Teetbury , Church Gresley , Heanor , Melbourne , Butterly _, to organise the above places , and for other important business .
Hull—On Monday last a public meeting was hold in the Town Ilall , when resolutions condemning the ttial of John Mitchel by a packed jury , and denouncing the government suppression of public opinion , were _unanimously carried . The meeting was addressed by Messrs Lake , Taite , Burnham , and Jack _« n _ . A collection was mpde in aid of the fund for the wife and family ofthe Irish Patriot
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F AMILY ENDOWMENT , LIFE ASSURANCE Ar ... _AM ANNUITY SOCIETY . 12 , Chatham Place , Blackfrlars , London . CAPITAL _ 500 , 000 . dibzctobs . William Butterworth Bayley , Esq ., Chairman . John Fuller , Esq ., Deputy Chairman . Bt , Brace Cbichester , Esq . Elliot Macnaghten , Esq . m ' b . Henderson , Esq . Major Turner . c ' u Latouche , Esq . _JoBhua Walker , Esq . Edward Lee , Esq . Majer Willock , K . L . S . BONUS . , Thirty per cent . Bonus was added to tho Society a Foilcie 8 on tho profit scale in 1845 . The next valuation will be in January , 1852 . ANNUAL _PBEMtDStS WITH PB 0 _FIT 8 . -7 g _7 _^ Agey 5 _^ ge _^[ Aie 35 Age _< 0 Age 45 jAg _« 50 / Age 55 _ Td !| fifl . d " . £ s . d . _fs . d , £ s . d . £ _s . d . 6 s . d . £ s . d . * j ; _pf _-a 3 1 ¦ 9 7 2 16 2 3 fi 9 3 1 C _»!* 10 615 7 6 INDIA . The Society also grants Policies to parties procoeedlng to or residing In India , at lower rates than any other Office , the Premiums on which may be payable euher in London or at the Society ' s Office in Calcutta . Annuities of all kinds , as well ae Endowments for Children , are granted by the Seciety . The usual commission allowed to Solicitors and others . John CazenoVE . Sec .
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JUST PUBLISHED , r-ICB _SIXPENOI . NO . XVIII _ OF " THE LABOURER , " CONTAINING & _® _reatige on _tfje * _fLa & _ouv < __} tte 0 ttott , ' Br _Ffarous O'Cosmok , Esq ., M . P . tetters ( pre-paid ) to bo addressed to the _Bdltors , 16 , Great Windmill Street , _Haymarlset _, London . Orders received by all agents for the" Northern Star " and all booksellers in town and country .
The Northern Star, Saturday, June 17, 1848.
THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , JUNE 17 , 1848 .
The Reign Of Terror. "' A Special! A Spe...
THE REIGN OF TERROR . "' A Special ! A Special ! My Kingdom for _ Special l " When the reader remembers the importance that the forlorn Richard attached to the possession of " a Horse / ' when he exclaimed , 'A Horso ! A Horse ! My Kingdom for a _Herse ! " he can well imagine the Queen cf England , on' the 10 th of April , whose " Crown and Dignity " was supposed to depend upon the loyalty of the " Specials , "—exclaiming ,
"A Special ! A _Sp-. clal ! My Kingdom for a Special !" On that fatal day , when the weakness caused hy the corruption of her Government , compelled not only the _British , People , but Foreign States , to believe that England was a nest of traitors , ready to rebel against tbeir Sovereign , to sack the Palace , and destroy her ljfe _ on that fatal day lhe Whigs proclaimed a war of the rich against the poor ; they have armed class against class , and , in their weakness , rely upon the falsely-created terror of their foes , to preserve them in power .
While England hoasts of being at peace with the world—in its present state of convulsion—her Ministers have embroiled her in domestic war . The People , led by their teaching , and by them taught the power that the Constitution conferred upon all , have sought their rights pointed out by that Constitution ; they have humbly petitioned , and their Petition—made obscene'by Policemen , by Excisemen , by Pensioners , by Spies , and hired traitors—has been scoffed at by Parliament . Thev have assembled , according to
the Constitution , to pray Her Majesty to dismiss Her Ministers , and they have been bludgeoned und dispersed by brute force . They have spoken in the language taught to them by Whigs and Free Traders , and they have been persecuted by that law which Whigs and Free Traders relied upon as tlieir protection . They have said , " that Taxation without Representation is tyranny , and should be resisted , " as taught by the Whigs—the Whigs who now say , that the mere threat of resistance is Felony , and that the Felon should be transported .
The Free Traders have headed their articles with " Bread or Blood : " their principal organ , the ' * Morning Chronicle , ' ' reminding the wives of those win opposed Free Trade that ladies' heads were dragged in the gutter aforetime , and that they should be cautious how they resisted the people ' s demand for bread . These are the lessons that the pupils have learned from their teachers seeking power , while the transport and the dungeon are the reward of those pupils for proclaiming their Whig lessons . Butwe would ask our Whig rulers whether , in the present state of Europe , when excitement all but closes the markets of
the world against us—when every other country is nettled by our insolent interference , or jealous of our presumed power—in our present financial state , and in the distracted state of parties , we would ask them if they still hope to preserve the old system of terror , to extract taxes from the fears of those whose rights , they tell them , will otherwise be destroyed , and whose properties will be confiscated ? Do they rely upon the profligacy of their Press—upon the bribe-money of the aristocracy—and upon the intrigues of banished kings , ministers , and diplomatists , to whom we have afforded shelter—to destroy the effect of the French Revolution , and _„ thereby wed the people of . his country more strongly
than ever to the present system ? Are they aware , that although the people of England may be behind other countries in the art of creating emeutes and erecting barricadesthat , nevertheless , the cause of real liberty , and the means of establishing it , and its value , is more firmly implanted in the English mind than in the mind of any other people of any other country in the world ? and are they yet vain enough to hope to stab the mind whicii oppression has made national—to shoot that sentiment which persecution has made unanimous—or to bludgeon that opinion which universal suffering has concentrated ? No * the mind of England , now , is gathered into one volition—a volition which will be realised in
spite of a suborned press—of a corrupt government—its spies , informers and armaments ; in spite _t of this unholy Trinity of a bribed newspaper , a corrupt Government , and an affrighted aristocracy . . The " Times" newspaper , the fears of the aristocracy , and the depression of tradefalsely said to be created by Chartist violence—is now the stock in trade of the
expiring Whig faction , and but for those appliances and the subtlety of Peel , who is urging them on to that point of destruction from which there will be no hope of retreat , they could not hold office for twenty-four hours . Fear and an empty Exchequer is the tenure upon which they hold . When a complaint is made of the brutality ofthe police , the flippant Home Secretary extols them for their forbearance , and he is cheered to distraction .
Chartist violence is held to be the justification for destroying the Constitution , and the Chartists are fancifully told that their cause would better prosper if they confined them selves to a legitimate discussion of their grievances , and the agitation of their political principles . How philosophic—how toleranthow sublime ! Have not the Chartists for now thirteen continuous years discussed their grievances , and agitated their political principles ? And has there been a paper , with one single exception , to proclaim those grievances beyond the limits of
the Chartist ranks r On the contrary , have not Chartist meetings been scoffed at as insignificant and unworthy of notice ; and their petitions mocked , until the Chartists assumed ; i bolder front—until at length , as we propheeied , the silence of the Press would make Chartism one day appear as a monster to those who doubted its very existence ? and that , instead of being met in its progress by reason _^ and timely and prudent concessions , at last it should be met in its giant _strength by forcevuntil at length not only is the " open and advised speaking" oi ' the hungry and the . destitute designated and punished as felop y , _tmtltue Whig
The Reign Of Terror. "' A Special! A Spe...
Government hopes to base its tenure upon pop ular silence , by the total suppression of public * opinion . Like cowards , they are brave where there is no danger—they are crouching where they dread resistance . They dared not interfere with the gathering ofthe whole population of Sheffield and its district , notwithstanding the remonstrance of the magistrates ; while upon Wednesday they showed their vigour by occupying the town of Loughborough and the railway station with police , specials , and dragoons . This is vigour , but Sheffield was cowardice ; and yet they presume to withhold the legitimate rights of the people by armed force , with an empty Exchequer , and declining trade . They imagine that the aristocracy and the middle classes will still furnish the means
of perpetuating a civil war , that an incompetent ministry may live upon its fruits ; while they unwittingly and tyrannically throw every obstacle in the way of the poor to release themselves from poverty , by becoming purchasers and cultivators of the soil . And even this they seek to do by a conspiracy of the darkest , the blackest , and the most hellish nature , but in that they will not only be foiled , but exposed . They were told , in the House of Commons that the effect of the " Gagging Bill" would be the establishment of clubs and secret
societies , and we now warn them that the suppression of public meetings and of public opinion , will be the means of creating a state of things which the best friends of the popular cause and freedom will not be able to resist . They may make martyrs and felons , but from every drop of the martyr ' s blood , and from every sigh of the felon ' s ' heart , will spring ten thousand patriots to avenge the martyr ' s death and the felon ' s sigh .
Is not every man of common sense in the kingdom , aware that the Times newspaper is hired to get up those emeutes , for the purpose of affrighting the enemies of government ; while the Chronicle , the quondam advocate of Free Trade and of Liberalism , and the pro . pounder of Colonel Mazzaroni ' _s system of street warfare , is nibbling with its decayed teeth at the fortress of Whiggery , in the hope
of preparing the country for the restoration of Peel to power . We know not what " Ready Reckoner" this " fascinating financier " may be prepared with to replenish the exhausted exchequer . We know not what further extension of Free Trade he may be prepared to recommend ; but this we do know , that if it is not Free Trade in politics , he will find that the genius of the age is resistless , and has gone beyond him .
As we predicted , thirteen years ago , the bidding between the auctioneers , Peel and Russell , has commenced , and Russell , in the true spirit of competition , has put it up " any price , ' and ' as low as you please , gentle men ; " the abolition of the ASSESSED TAX PAYING CLAUSES inflicted by the Reform Bill — not the rate-paying clauses , which would be a benefit to the poor voter : but
the tax-paying clauses which will be a benefit to the rich voter , and will press hardly upon the non-voter , as he will have to make good the defalcation in the Exchequer consequent upon this boon to the favoured class . In conclusion , we would again warn the Whigs not to goad the people into resistance and then torture them because they do resist ; we -would remind them of the truisms and the follies of their leader . .
When Lord John Russell proposed his J w Bill he said , " that those who bore the burdens should share _' the honours of the state . " In glorifying himself and congratulating the country on the 10 th of April , he said , '' that the people to a man were ready to rally around their Queen and the constitution . '' In supporting the Alien Bill , he declared " that the English working classes were loyal to a man . '' What , then , will foreign nations , who have achieved all the reforms that the English people look for , say to the denial of those rights to so loyal a people , who are ready to rally round the Queen and the constitution ?
He threatened the Irish people with resisting Repeal in " the field of battle . ' ' He advocated the " Gagging Bill , " as necessary to suppress sedition and prevent treason in Ireland , and when its first effect was evident in a temporary lull of politics and sedition , he turned with a sneer to his backers , and , as if in lamentation and sorrow , thriving best upon sedition and treason , he said , tauntingly and contemptuously , that since the en actment of the measure the accounts of sedition and treason from Ireland were " VAPID and UNINTERESTING , " " FLAT , STALE and UNPROFITABLE : " as
though the real object of the minister of England was to goad the Irish people into rebellion , as he mocked them in the House of Commons when his measure failed to produce the anticipated result . But we warn the noble lord of the folly of those undignified taunts , and yet secure threats . We tell him that the trodden worm may turn—'* thatthe generous soul forgives an insult , but never pardons a contempt "— " that the Irish people do not acknowledge his dominion , " and let him beware how he tempts them to rid themselves of it in the , c battle field . ' '
While , as for the English Chartists , he may rest assured that neither the " Times , ' the bludgeon , nor the bayonet—the fears of one class , nor the presumption of the other—can much longer withhold from the English people those rights which are now becoming the basis of the Constitution of all the other countries of Europe ; and let those who dread the result of those measures bear in mind that the ignorance of the Labour Question has caused distraction abroad , in the first instance , and has led to reaction ; _while-the English mind is fully prepared upon a principle — net of
plunder and spoliation , of idleness , dissipation , and dissolution— -but that they are prepared to live in the sweat of their own brow , making the rich richer , and the poor rich ; making idleness a crime , when the Labour field is open ; and this , we believe , they are determined to accomplish , and , in its accomplishment , they shall have our best , our every , our incessant , and untiring co-operation , in spite of the "Times , " the Whigs , and their bludgeons ; and again we caution them not to tamper with a starving people , as , " Hunger , " we are told , " will break through stone walls . "
Emigrate! Emigrate! Emigrate! " Breathes...
EMIGRATE ! EMIGRATE ! EMIGRATE ! " Breathes there a man with soul bo dead , Who never to himself hath Bald , This ( smy own , my natlvo land !" Those are the words of the poet . " Honour thy father and thy mother , that thy days may be long in tho land whicb the Lor , * , thy God , hath gtven thee I " This is the commandment ofthe Lord , OUR God .
AGITATE ! AGITATE !! AGITATE !!! These were the words of Lord Anglesea , the representative of his Monarch in Ireland . Here we have shown the love of fatherland , as described _^ y the poet , and the injunction to abide in it , as commanded by our God . But , so completely lias the -system under which we live destroyed the finest feelings of man ' s nature , and so opposed is it tothe injunctions of the Creator , that the tyrant oppressors , whose luxury presses hardly upon the means of subsistence , would now propose the Emigration of the poor and the industrious as the only re
medy for the evils they themselves _} have created . They have enlisted a foreign Prince , who found shelter in tbis hospitable land , to marshal the emigrant army , no doubt ( giving liiin credit for kindly feeling ) under the impression that all would be Princes , Field Marshals , Colonels , or Pensioners , in the land of their adoption . However , when the realisation of the principles of political economy have puzzled the first writers upon this abstruse subject , it is some compensation to the contributors to find that eur Prince Albert has solved the problem . As an emigrant himself , " and _£ u" 3 uc < sss £ _ l
one , doubtless he antici pates th ? same hann _, reception for others who leave their nativ _ shores . If we tad not an objection to tha principle of Emigration because it is repU o . . nant to the feelings of the emi grant—to the pride of the outcast , and the injunction of hi _ God- ~ what we have seen of late years of tha details of carrying out this system of trang _. portatien would justify our opposition . When we find that speculators in human blood will commit the lives of human beings to frail and shattered vessels to which they would not commit their merchandise ; when we hear of
the disasters that have happened ; of the smo . therings—the sufferings — the wrecks and " starvations—the blood recoils when w e find a prince , a luxurious hierarchy , and professing philanthropists , ih the face of these notorious facts , still urging Emigration as the last means of salvation . But these may be said to be casualties-untoward events—events which frequentl y happen to other cargoes as well a human beings—events that could not be provided against . This argument , however caa no longer be quoted by the philanthropist- aa in Wednesday ' s " Times . " we find a letter ' signed « _Aliquis , _' ' actually recommending the of the
transportation English people in ships of war that have been condemned to be broken up . ' . This writer , like most of the writers in the " Times , " who scribble hurriedly in the cockloft , would lead us to suppose that the emigrants would be transported in ships that are already broken up j but being decipherers of newspaper hieroglyphics , we gather his meaning from his mumping , and give him the benefit of the most humane construction of hig abstruse sentence . But what will the reader tbink of committing human beings to a condemned vessel , not fit to carry guns , and recommending that one thousand emigrantsbesides the necessary crew—should be stowed
away in this floating pest-house ? Is it not monstrous that this doctrine should be preached by idle nonlproducers to industrious producers ? Is it not monstrous that the bone , the muscle , and the sinew of this country , should pine , and wither , and decay , while millions } of dross are hoarded in our bank as the fictitious emblem that is supposed to represent the commercial wealth and specu - lation of the country ? Those objections onl y refer to the dangers of a voyage , while to thera we . may add the despondency , the destroyed
hope . and disappointment , of those who are allured by the anticipation of immediate and remunerative employment , of comfort , contentment , and happiness , when the slaves shall reach the promised land . Who cares for him , —who cares for his wife and little children , — the moment they set foot upon the deck of the condemned cell ? And is not every man of common sense aware , that the humanity of these philanthropists is measured by the calculations of the actuary , showing the profit between the expense of transportation , and the amount of poor rates that it would
require to sustain them at home . But our doctrine is , that when God ' s ordinances shall have been fulfilled , —when the lordly oak that presses hardly upon the means of subsistence shall be levelled , —when the wild and ithe heather , the wilderness and the barren spots , the race course and unproductive common , shall be subdued to man ' s purposes—* when the pampered war-horse and surplus pleasure steed shall cease to press hardly upon the means of subsistence—then , if the English people shall be an over-population for the English land , we , in common with others , will
cheerfully draw lots and take our chance of finding a home in other regions : but so long as we see the profits of one class measured by the destitution of another—and so long as , we see soil enough to give remunerative employment to all—we will hold fast by the principle of God ' s economy , believing in our souls that he has never created a mouth without creating wherewithal to put into it , earned by the sweat of the parent ' s brow , until his offspring is capable of maintainingihimself , and also his parent in old age . That is divine political
economy , and that is what is meant by the command to "Honour thy father and thy mother ; " it means , that as thy father and thy mother sustained thee in weakness and in infancy , thou shalt be the prop of their old age , and support them in return . That is what is meant by God ' s injunction tothe husbandman , when he says , " Thou shalt not reap all the corners of thy field , neither shalt thou gather all the grapes of thy vineyard , thou shalt leave them for the stranger , the widow , and the orphan . "
This was a system of Communism propounded by the Creator , when he intended that hig children should he members of the same family , all equal in his sight , and all partakers of his gifts ; and until those Holy _ordinaaces are religiously carried out , the terms
LIBERTY , EQUALITY AND FRATERNITY , are a ' mockery , " " delusion , '' and a " snare . ' Emancipation was a byword ; _agitation was the means of its accomplishment recommended by the Marquis of Anglesea . " PEACE , RETRENCHMENT , AND REFORM , " was the next bubble ; then HIGH WAGES , CHEAP BREAD , AND PLENTY TO DO , and now come . ,
LIBERTY , FRATERNITY , EQUALITY ; while those , whose courage forced the adoption of the unmeaning motto upon the aristo _* cracy and shopkeepers of Paris , are now partaking of the literal meaning ef these inspiring words in
THE SWORD , T H E M USKET , AND THE BAYONET . Thus we show that all those rallying cries have failed to produce enough of potatoes for the starving Irish—enough of bread for the starving English—or enough of work for the starving French , And with these damning facts before us , whereby we incontestibly prove that fools and ' . dupes have been gulled by some " will-o ' -the-wisp , " got up by designing ** factions , are we now to adopt another Trinity of delusion—the greatest that has been yet propounded—the cuckoo cry of
EMIGRATE ! EMIGRATE J EMIGRATE ? Will any man emigrate from choice ? 3 nd is it just that he should emigrate from coercion r Is the poor man to break up his humble home and drag his family to the condemned hulk , to brave the dangers of the deep and rely upon the philanthropy of those who starved him at home to secure a happy home for him abroad ? torn from his friends—estranged from his native land—a houseless wanderer—an outcast and an outlaw—elected by favour and by choice to be a consumer of the produce of his brother English slaves , produced while they themselves are starving ? Is he , we ask , to be placed in this situation while the land of his birth , upon which his God commanded him to live in the
sweat of his own brow , is calling for his industry , and is ready , in return , to yield its abundance , whereby he may live in the land of his birth in happiness , contentment , and peace ? It is the evil distribution caused by an evil system , that renders this fallacy necessary , and never was it better illustrated than in the dialogue between the childless Bishop of Chester , and Daniel the Chartist Shoemaker . The Bishop would fain impress upon _' the Shoemaker that the destitution of the poor was a
curse irom God , and was a consequence of their immorality , and , he added , " Are you , not aware , Daniel , —are you not aware , —thali God never created » moHth without _creation wherewithal to fill it ? '' " Yea , " replied Daniel—who was . blessed hy God , but cursed l > y man , with ten children— " I know tbat as well as . thee , but the differ lies here , God sent all the mouths to my shop , and the Devil sent all the meat to thine . " Who cany deny that , under a just aad equitable sy ; stem , there may be euo . ugh for all , it all are _allied to , _police
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 17, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_17061848/page/4/
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