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THB YOBTHERN STAB SATURDAY. JANUARY IS, 1851.
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The Northern Star. ' . Jmm 18 ' -«»*
THE NORTHERN STAR . ' . Jmm 18 ' - «»*
_Tbtislibiisl:--I This Day, By 6. Bcrgcr, Holywell-Street, Strand, 1 Louden (Sixteen Pages 8vo.', Price Hi, No. 3 Of Mn Be O P"R N. A " T I V E,
_ _tbTislibIisl :--I this day , by 6 . _Bcrgcr , _Holywell-street , Strand , 1 _louden ( sixteen pages 8 vo . ' , Price Hi , No . 3 of mn be o p"r n . a " t I v E ,
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IL i A WEEKLY JOURNAL FOR THE FEOPIE . . _JThUThUnsagazraeisconaucteabj some ofthe most active _laembemtwreol the amalgamated society of flie m _« n traces , and _istid is devote , to the promulgation 6 : those great princi-Ides _otes of iniur . rial co-operation , political _entrancntsement , and sad _sozial reform , upon which the welfare of the masses _eepenepends . It also contains tales , reviews , and general _lafoinfoiiu-itiuii , so as to fit it for the women and the home . _STorWorhin _? mea , give jour orders at ence to the nearest OOoksookseHer . for a journal derated to your interests , and Dtmtaouta ; ning , at once , the elements of amasement and inttructructiun .
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IF IP HE LOAD OX CO-OPERATIVE ML L STORES are now opened at 7 fi , Charlotte Stheet , _Frrzaor _Sqcase , nn cm connexion with the Society for Promoting Working _Jlen'Ien ' _s Associations . 1 . —Object of the _Stozes . To To _c-nabiemi-mbsrsoftheabure-uamed Association , and iithe > tber j * r » ons who may desire it . to obtaiu articles , of Llaiyaily use perfectly free from adulteration , of the best _liual-ualitv _, and thelotrest charge , after de f _* rav _* Dgl " ien _ _eci-ssary _E-xpexpeiff-e « f management , distribution , and providing for a resereserve fjtid . Co Co-optraiive stores have been established with r . _iui-h OTCCuccess in different parts of the _-imedom . The benefit to " the she subscribers mav be judged of from the fact that the _ssubsubscril-ers to the I'ioncer Store in Rochdale , _dra-ied in tthe the last -rear £ S 0 tf afterpayment of aU expenses , although ( the the _gneds were charged considerably below the ordinary cprimrice . i' . _ 0 ? r __ noss of the stores .
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THE CELESTIAL SCIENCE OF TUE STARS . MR . F . MOQItE having after years of sedulous devotion to the study of this sublime _icfcacc , made himself perfect piaster _ofif iu all its branches , respectfully offers his services to a discriminating and ealiehtened public , trusting that by personal demon-_ tration " sunie may be couviueed of its truth and importaiice . In Horary Astrology . Professor IT . has been eminently _-uccessfu' / the _acenracs ol bis calculations and the _ptrspicuity of his judgments have caused hundreds , who before _considerc-i it to be an imposture and a cheat , to join the ranks of the wise and bear their grateful testimony to its reality and exceeding usefulness , when legitimately practised _' by educated _and-eoinpeknt persons . This _depart-ncnt of the Art ( IT . A . ) esteemed the most "beautiful , is founded on the sympathetic properties which
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Matrimony made * a . < y ; or how to win a Lover . MISS JULIA BOOTH will send free to JA-l any address , on receipt of fifteen postage stamps , plain _cirec-iens to enable Ladies or Gentlemen to win the _ S _* 4 _i- _ o : i 5 of ; ' _? ramj _«* _£ tlie opposite _si _ as _tlicir hearts may desire , 'flu proposal h simple , and so captivating andenlhralihig tiiat-illniay be married , irrespective of age . appearance , or position ; and last , though not least , it can i , c arranged , with such _easff and delicacy that detection is _farpossible . Address , * _ iss JctiA Boorn , 14 , Handcouri , liolbvrn , Loudon .
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New publishing , in four weekly numbers , of twenty-fou pages each , Price 2 d ., the number , By E . _llipple , Holywell-stveet , Strand , London , ( to wham all orders are to be forwarded ) , f _lANTERBTJRY versus ROME , V Two Lectures , with historical supplements , by ERNEST JONES . No . I . ibis day ( Saturday ) the 13 th inst . No . IL on Saturday , the 25 th inst-Contests of No . IL—The Royal Church—the atrocities of its foundation—The heiress of Lincoln , a romance of real life—The bov-kins and the bishoo- ; Leaf , the apprentice—The mar ' yrology ofthe uncanonised— 'Tuning the pulpits '—The European Japan—The _veU torn , and the sanctuary entered—The Church contrasted with Christianity . Supplements to No . L aad IL complete a condensed history ofthe Anglo-Papal Church aud its leading prelates .
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_NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Ofiice , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand . _qiHE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE X herebyannounce the following meetings : — On Sunday afternoon at three o ' clock the Metropolitan District Council will meet at the City Hall , 26 , Goldeu-lane , Barbican . On Sunday evening next at the Rock Tavern , Lissongrove—Princess Koyat , Circus-street , Marylebone—King aud Queen , Foley-street , Portland-place—Bricklayers ' Arms , Toiibridge-street , New-road—Crown and Anchor , Cheshire-street , Waterloo Town—Globe and Friends , Morgan-street , Commereialroad-east—and New Eastern Literary and Scientifi .- Institution , Morpeth-street , Greenstreet , _Sethnal Green . On the same evening at five o ' clock , the United Delegates of tlie Tower Hamlets will meet at the Woodman Tavern , White-street , Waterloo Town ; and at eight o ' clock Mr . J . B . Leno will lecture at the above tavern . Subject : Texts from the Streets .
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READ THIS . _TiKE COUNCIL OF THE BERMONDi . SEY BRANCn OF THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION beg to apprise their Democratic brethren and the public generally , that they have engaged the Snath London Bail , Webber-street , Blackfriurs-road , for three Wedresday evenings—January 29 th , February 5 th , and February 12 th , when Mr . E . Jones will give a course of three lectures . Subject : ' The People , their Vlrongs and Rights , their Power and Weakness . Chair taken at eight o ' clock . Jo ; ih _PEABCBr , Secretary .
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TO TAILORS . Bv approbation of Her Majestu , Queen Victoria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert .
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TOOTHACHE PREVENTED . Price Is . per packet ; post-free , Is . Id . B RAND'S ENAMEL , for FILLING DECAYING TEETH , and RENDERING THEM SOUND AND PAINLESS , has , from its unquestionable _exceUence , obtained great popularity at home and abrnad . Its curative agency is based upon a TRUE THEORY of the _caufe of T .-oth-ache , and hence its great success . By most other remedies it is sought to kill the nerve , and so stop the pain . But . to destroy the i ; erre is itself a very painful operation , and often leads to very sad consequences , for the tooth then bf comes a dead substance in the living jaw , and produces the same amount of inflammation and pain ns would re : ult from any other foreign body embodied in a living organ . _BRANi"E'S ENAMEL does v . _otdcstroi- tie _neroc , but by RESTORING TnE SHELL OF THE TOOTH , completely protecls the nerve from cold , heat , or chemical or other agency , by which pain is caused . By following the directions , INSTANT EASE is obta ned , and a LASTING CORE follows . Full instructions accompany every packet .
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ENLARGEMENT OF THE NATIONAL INSTRUCTOR Hoe . I . and II . of the New Series ov " THE NATIONAL _INSTRUCTOR " Are now ready . SIXTEEN LABGE ROYAL OCTAVO PAGES , Price One Penny . IT IS THB ADYOCATB OP
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Tho Numbers and Parts of the First Series of the National Instructor that were out of print , have now been reprinted , and may be had on application . ¦ Subscribers are requested to complete imperfect copies forthwith . The " National Instructor'' is supplied by all the London Agents for similar publications : or by A . Hey wood , Manchester ; W , Love , and G . Adams , Glasgow ; Robinson and Co ., Edinburgh ; J . Sweet , Nottingham ; J . Guest , Birmingham .
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The _Poiisn and _Eonoaeian Refugees . —South London Hall , £ 2 13 s . Id . ; Eecture by T . Brown , Fraternal Home , 12 s . Id . ; fatten , Gd , ; Mr . Clancy , Cd , J . Clancy , 6 d . j Belvidere Tavern , 5 s . Cd . ; Smith ' s Workmen , 3 s . 4 d . ; Miller ' s book , 9 d . ; Bee , 8 _ . ; Compositors , Is . 9 d . ; Mark Hall , Gd , ; Rev . Hugh Hughes , Minster , 2 s . Cd . ; T . W * . Arnott , 13 s . ; Mr . Haniball , from King and Queen Concert , Itis . ; Society of Smiths , pei Oliver , 3 s . - , Noble , Gd . , Welshman , Gd . —Any mistake or omission respecting monies , write to T . Brown , Secretary . — [ This _lUt came to hand too late fur publication last week . —Ed . N . S . ] Tue Executive . —Mr . E . Stallwood strongly recommends Mr . Thornton Leigh Hunt , the Editor of the' _Leadeb , ' to the Chartists , as a fit person to fill the vacant seat in the Executive , and that ihe votes be recorded immediately . Nottingham . —J . Sweet bees to _acknowledge the receinfc oi
the following sums , seat herewith : —For _IIonksty Fond —A Friend 2 s . Gd ., a Well Wisher Gd ., Mr . Wild 4 d ,, Mr . _Haddon Is ., Me . W . Brown Gd . —Winding-up Fond—Mr . S . Taylor Is ., Joseph Scothorn Gd ., Jamen Scothron Gd ., John Haddon , Wimeswould Is ., Charles Hall Cd ., W . Brown Gd . David Mobhison , Gallatown by Kirkaldy . —The 'Fife He bald ' has not reached this ofiice . The Potteries . —Mr . Thomas Dickenson , of Manchester , writes a cheering description ofthe Chartists of Hanley and _Sbelton , where he lias lately delivered two lectures . After highly eulogising the members of this district , he states tiiat they have a most comfortable hall , and a Sunday school , which is attended by about one hundred children . S . _Hamx , Bradford , has very much misunderstood us , if he imagines that we desire to give the slightest counte' nance to any _legislative interference with the civil and
religious liberty of any portion ef our fellow citizens . But while we would guarantee the same rights and privileges to them that we claim for ourselves—that is , not tb blind us to the mischief which may be inflicted upon society , by works that enslave the intellect , or produce a morbid and unhealthy state of moral being . We wish to combat error by truth , to meet superstition by knowledge ; and with that view shall , on aU occasions , express an honest , unbiassed , and independent opinion on such works as seem to us calculated to aid in oing so . It is onething to expose what we conscientiously believe to be mischievous , both mentally and morally , and another thing to invoke the aid of the civil power , to put down opinions to which we are opposed . As to the use ofthe term 'Black slugs , ' Mr . O'Connor has been long in the habit of calling things by what he thinks their proper names . With him a spade is simpiy a spade , and we fear he is too old to be cured of his habit , by tho well
meant remonstrances of our correspondent . Mr . E . Jones has sent us a letter , which would occupy about a column of the 'Stab , ' denying the correctness of Mr , Alcock's report of _the'Manchester meeting . We can only repeat that we placed the report of Mr . Jones before the public at the same . time , a _*> d with this we think that gentleman ought to be contented , as far as we are concerned . James Downie will see by reference to the leading article , and our note to Mr . Holyouke ' s letter , how fully we concur in the opinions expressed on behalf of himselt and _fallow subscribers to the * Stab , ' at Campsie . Geo . Habdv , Jd . n ., Sheffield , will perceive by the announce ment in our advertising columns , that an Index and litle "Page to the first vol . of the 'National Instructor , ' will be issued with the number for next week . A . Uendehson _, James Dow . niu ,, and John Johnson , of Leicester . —We have forwarded vour communications to
Mr . O'Connor , f H . _Hamlvn , Hull . —AU Chartist intelligence sent to this office receives our immediate attention , and ia always in-. serted in full , if properly written for publication . Wo sincerely lament that wo do not hear more frequently from the Chartists of this town . Polish and Hdngauian Refugee Fcnd . —Cock and Castle , Elizabeth-street , Hackney-road , is . The Committee meet at 2 G , Gulden-lane , every Tuesday evening , at nine o ' clock . —T . F _ bqd 3 o \ , _secreinry . Mk . T . Fielden , Todmorden , begs to acknowledge the receipt of the follow sums for the Honesty Futtd : —John W . Sutcliffe Is Gd-A . Friend 2 s-J . _Scholfield Gd-A Friend 2 d-J . Law 2 d-J . Lord 3 d-J . Hollinrake 3 d-J . Sutc ! if £ _--2 d-J . Clifte 2 d-J . Daivson 3 d-T . HorsfaII 6 d —E . Marshall Cd—J . Leach ls-J . Howarth ls-0 .
HaworthGd—J . Haworth CI—B . HaworthGd—M . Jackson Gd—J . Wad , worth Gd—C . _UewhirstGd—J . Barker Gd —J . Southwell 2 d—J . Stansfield 4 cUlt . Brook 2 s-J . Haworth Is—J . Marland Gd—J . llobinson Gd—J , Lord Gd —S . StottCd-J . Crosfby _Gd-U . Greenwood lsGd-SWhitham Is—M . _Whittiam Gd—J . Barker Gd—W . Barker Gd-W . Sutcliffe ls-J . Mooney _Cd-S , Whitham Gd—T . Greenwood 6 d—> Y . _Barlcer Gd—T . Fielden 8 d—It . Brook Iss-J . Firth Cd-A Friend 3 d-L . Midgley G-J . Horsfall 3 d—J . Greenwood G-J . Marland U-J . LawGd—T . _AstenCa—W . Barker Cd—W . Proctor Gd—J . Woodkead Gd—W . Barker Gs—Chartist Association 10 s . G . Bateson , Shipley . —The money received for the Honesty Fund last week was stated to be from Shlsbv instead of Siiiplet . Mr . Downie , Campsie . —The present quarter expires in three weeks after this date .
The late Manchester Meeti . no Mr . James Mann , the corresponding secretary of Hebdeu Bridge , informs us thatnonicmhcrof that locality visited Manchester on the occasion of the late meeting . We have also received a letter signed by T . S . Longuottoni , J . Longbottom J , Young , J . B . Horsefall , J . Horsetail , J . Pickering , I . Ficknip , and T . Dyson , stating that no person from their locality went to Manchester with sticks , and that they have confidence in the new Executive , aud are prepared t _» support them . J . Deax , Belper . —We do not know whether the clause you allude to has been repealed , bat leel certain that you cannot hawk articles of foreign manufacture without a license . The bye-laws in some towns prohibit
hawking altogether , and ive have knoivn some cases where the licensed hawker has been fined , a : d forfeited his goods for breaking them . . , T . Frost , Croydon . —The question Is decided , and further discussion would be useless . The Polish , and Hungarian Refugees . —T . Brown ' s List ; —Mr . Lovett 10 s—Suuih London Hall , Collection after Lecture £ 17 s 9 d—Phccnix Hall , Musical Entertainment £ 112 s 8 _ld—\ ir . Wright ' s Bunk Is 3 d—Coventry Gd-Mr . Scames 2 s Cd— W . J . Is—Smith ' s Workman 3 s 7 d—• Welchman Gd —Lecture at _funmiiU-street , per G , Brown 12 s 5 d — Crockett Sd—Noble Gsl — Pruszynski 13 s 3 d . —Any mistake in the money list , application tobe made to T , Brown .
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¦ a n ** -. — . THE REFUGEES . The committee met ou Wednesday last , at _ 1 , Turnmill-strcet , when Mr . Brown said that in consequence of a report having been circulated , to the effect that some of the refugees , ( not livin" at the Fraternal Home , ) were in a destitute conditio n , in qu i r i e s h a d been m ade , and such report was found to be incorrect . At the same time , he stated that the home at Turnmill-street was open to the m a t any t ime , and whatever funds there might be in Land would be fairl y divided ; thi s wa s the arrangement ofa committee of refugees called together for that purpose . Mr . Brown also stated that Mr . Reynolds had consented to lecture at the Home on Sunday next , the I 9 th , when the collection would be devoted to the payment of the rent now due ; and also that a public meeting would be held at tho Literary Institution , Carlisle street , Edgware-road , on Wednesilav , January 22 nd , at which Messrs . G . W . M . Reynolds , F . O'Connor , and E . Jones would be invited to attend .
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TO THE HEADERS OF THE .. Hnnniniinir _nuiin n 1
"NORTHERN STAR ' With the commencement of tlie Session we purpose to make several important alterations and improvements in the shape , contents , and publication of the Northern Star , __ It will , in the first place , contain Sixteen instead of Eig ht pages * , thus g iving greater facilities for filing and binding it , and permitting at the same time of superior arrangements in the classification of news , correspondence , reviews , and original articles . A larger quantity of small type will be used than at present , which will materially improve the appearance of the paper , and add to the antity of its contents .
qu The present Scottish Edition will be discontinued , and advantage be taken of the extension of railways , to delay the publication of the First Edition till Friday evening ; by which our Scottish readers will have one day's later
news . By making correspondence as brief as possible during the sitting of Parliament , we shall be enabled to give very Ml reports of its proceedings , together with an ample and careful selection of home and foreign news . We shall also issue a Saturday Edition for the metropolis , and the borne counties , containing all tho news of that morning . This will place the Star on an equality with the other metropolitan journals published on the same day , as _regards the lateness and variety of its
news . By these changes we hope , that while the Star w iU maintain its distinctive character as the organ of Chartism , it will also present all the . best features of a carefully compiled Family paper . We trust that our readers and friends will exert themselves to support these efforts to issue a journal worthy of being the organ of Democracy in this country . Orders , Subscriptions , and Advertisements for the New Series , which will commence on Saturday , February the 8 th , should be forwarded to this ofiice immediately .
Thb Yobthern Stab Saturday. January Is, 1851.
THB _YOBTHERN STAB _SATURDAY . JANUARY IS , 1851 .
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" CHARTIST POLICY . " Considerable discussion appears to have taken place , in various parts of the country , on the observations contained in our leading article under this head last week . That great difference of opinion should have been expressed on the subject was to be expected—that resolutions condemnatory of our suggestions should have been passed , was quite natural . We are , however , somewhat consoled for this condemnation and rejection of our advice ,
when we glance at some of tho other resolutions , passed at the same time . For instance' . In the Metropolis , at the meeting where we were condemned for speaking out , and suggesting a friendly abandonment of further controversy , Mr . Reynolds was censured for keeping silence on the subject . In another resolution , the report of the Manchester meeting was formally pronounced to be " atissue of falsehoods , " by persons who were upwards of two hundred miles distant from that meeting \ Comment on the value of such resolutions is
superfluous . It is a proverb , that " the man who pleads his own cause has a fool for his client ; " and the law lays down as an axiom , " That no one shall sitasjudge in his own cause . '' Weturn , therefore , from those who are heated by having been personally engaged in this controversy , to tbe Chartists of the country at large for a decision on this question . It is a vital and important one . If we saw any chance whatever of the belligerents being reconciled , a separation ofthe Chartist body into two Associations would be the very last step we should advise . Division of power is , per se _, an evil .
We only recommend it because it is a less evil than tho utter waste of power in internal disputes . However limited the means and the influence , possessed by either of the sections of Chartists , it would be at least directly exerted for their avowed purposes in the one case . In the other , all must agree , that both are not only unprofitably , but most lamentably and mischievously misapplied . It is impossible that Democracy can assume either an organised form , or a progressive position in this country , so long as Democrats are thus rent into factions , and turn their arms upon each other , instead of the common enemy .
Besides , there is this further advantage , as it seems to us , that peaceful separation and the adoption of au affirmative and constructive policy at the present moment , by both parties , present the most effectual and likely means of reconciling and re-uniting them at a not distant period . Let each party have time to sober down and calmly review the points in dispute , ' which now give rise to such bitter animosity and harsh language . The result , we have little doubt , will be that they both will discover they are , to a great extent , fighting with shadows , and that no real
cause of estrangement or quarrel exists between them . In the meantime , tho very insignificance , and almost impalpability of the questions at issue , contribute to protract the dispute , and prevent its settlement . The dust and ths _confusion created by the contest blinds the combatants themselves , and the whole affair presents more of the aspect ol what is generally called an " Irish row " than a controversy , conducted according to the recognised and systematic method of discussion . It has been assumed that in the course we have taken on the subject , we have been
actuated by party' or personal prepossession in favour of Manchester on the one hand , aud personal or party prejudices against London on the other . Nothing can be more void of the truth * There has not ( at the moment we write ) been the slightest personal communication between us and any member of the Manchester Council , save those officially sent to this ofiice ; nor havo wo been in that city for upwards of five years . Of their private views and feelings , therefore , we are utterly ignorant , and the course we have taken has been entirely spontaneous and independent . As to the London Executive there has not been—and
there is not now , any cause whatever that should induce the slightest unpleasant feeling between us . We are not conscious of having knowingly given them any offence . We know of none they have offered to us . The matter has been to us from first to last purel y a public question , upon which we have brought to bear the light of our previous experience of public life , with a -sincere desire to terminate in an honourable and beneficial manner a controversy which we mostdeeply regret .
We do not wish to give either party a triumph , or to keep _alire angry passions . The sole object we have in view , is the organization ofthe Chartist feeling of the country in the best possible mode that existing circumstances will , permit of . We should have much preferred one organization . ; but if that is , foi the time being , impossible , there is , as they say in Lancashire , " no need for crying over shed milk . " Let us adopt the next " best course open to us , and that is , that each
section of the Chartist body shall set about organizing themselves in the manner most consonant to their present views and feelingsappoint such officers as they respectively have the highest _confidence in , and in future confine themselves to the creation of a public opinion in ' favour -of . the enactment of the People's Charter , by all such means as may be available . Even one thousaud pounds a year , wisely and economically expended by the two parties in this way , will produce more effect on the _popular _raind-ldo more towards
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the great object- ? ) n view than _^ 100 , 000 expended in travelling to seek for " votes of confidence in the Executive , '' from meetings , excited by angry _S- * conflicting passions . There is not a sensible * businessman in the Executive that would value such votes at more than the worth of the paper they might be written upon , for practical purposes . Whichever of the versionsof the Manchester meeting may be accepted as the correct one , it . nraat be abundantly evident , that no prudent Executive would either base its power , or its prospects upon such a heterogenous and disunited bodas assembled at that meetingIn order
y _^ that we might not be accused of either garbling or suppressing its proceedings , we gave in extenso the authorized accounts transmitted to us by both parties ; hut so resolute are some parties not to be pleased with anything we may do , that even that has been construed into an offence on the part of the Star . Really , when the so called leaders of English Democracy find fault with our acting on the great maxim , audi alteram partem—when it has become a crime to be English enough to " hear both sides , ' and give that " fair play " for which Englishmen proverbially contend , the chance of a mutual understanding at the
present moment , becomes the faintest that can be possibly imagined . Looking calmly at all that has transpiredlooking forward to the future prosperity and progress of the People ' s Cause—we feel constrained to abide by the recommendations we gave last week . If the policy we suggest be frankly adopted , and earned out in the same spirit as we propound it , Chartism will again become a powerful element of popular opinion .
Our energies will no longer be suicidally destroyed in intestine quarrels , but be turned against the abuses and the practical grievances of our representative system . The concentration of all our available powers on this one vital and fundamental reform , will speedily bring around us those who have been driven from the ranks , disgusted by the acrimony and tho divisions they found in them . It will also enlist in the service of the cause thousands
of warm-hearted supporters , who have never yet been mixed up in any former agitations , but who , convinced of the importance of representative reform , as the only safe foundation for other reforms , would gladly assist any organised body with a definite affirmative policy . In our endeavours to bring about so desirable a consummation , we have avoided—and shall continue to avoid , as far as possible—all allusion to topics that can only tend to keep
alive hostilities on both sides . Much that is asserted is exceedingly provocative of criticism , ' and not difficult of confutation ; but we resist the temptation , for the far higher object of inducing , if possible , the supporters of the London Executive and the Manchester Council , to cease the fratricidal warfaro in which they have been too long engaged—to resolve that , as they cannot agree to act together , they will agree to differ , and each take that course which is most consonant with their own
conscientious convictions , for the promotion of the common object—namely , TO MAKE THE
PEOPLE'S CHARTER THE LAW OF THE LAND ! . We appeal to the good sense , the good feeling , the patriotism of our fellow-countrymen in this matter and trust the response will not only be an encouraging , but a triumphant one , for the PEOPLE'S CAUSE .
Progress Of Absolutism In Germany. The C...
PROGRESS OF ABSOLUTISM IN GERMANY . The Conference of Ministers at Dresden has caused a temporary lull in the storm of politics , which has raged over Germany with more than tropical fierceness for the last three years . The pause affords an opportunity of looking round and seeing what are the natures and extent of the disasters occasioned by this protracted conflict of so many hostile
elements . One general feature strikes the eye in its first survey of the scene of desolation , and that is , the indiscriminating manner in which the storm has spent its fury on every prominent object ; the strongholds of Absolutism aud the hard won harvests of the people , have each in their turn felt the force of the tempest ; and if the one has been shattered hy the lightnings of Democracy , the other has heen beaten down by the heavy hail showers of Despotism .
To abandon metaphor , let us see in what position Germany now stands , after an incipient struggle of thveey ears' duration , between the people and the princes , —between tbe Governed and the Governors . At one period in 1818 , which we may fix at the selfdeposition of the Federal Diet , the people were for a moment the masters , and for a while—however brief—political power reverted to its original source . Up to that time the whole struggle , on the part of the people , had been to wrest from their rulers those rights wliich the latter unjustly withheld , —no more
was asked , and in the very flush of victory no more was taken . From that time the contest assumed entirely the opposite character , and tliose who had been the assailed when defending arbitrary and absolute Government , now became the assailants of those free and liberal institutions which in th e hour of danger they had been themselves the first to promise , aud which , although extorted in _the end , were , after all , the just due of those who enforced their surrender . In 18 . 8 the German
people were virtually in possession of all those ri ghts which had been promised them forty years before , when the victorious career of Napoleon frightened Absolutism from its propriety . A Federal Parliament and National Legislatures , a Free p ress , Trial hy Jury , the Ri ght of Meeting , and many other scarcely less valuable institutions , were won by the German people during that eventful year . What now remains of these spolia opima— these rich spoils of tyranny ? The Dresden Conferences aro a , too sufficient
answer . One by one the people have been either cozened , or openly robbed by the strong arm , of nearly every one of those rights which they had earned with their blood and sweat at the bayonet ' s point , or in tho cannon ' s month ; and now the robbers are assembled in solemn conclave , to divide their booty . This is no-exaggerated descri ption of these meetings , which , though styled " Conferences , " have nothing of a deliberative character about them . The main points were
settled long before even the issue of the notices to the several vStates . Nicholas , the Arch-Pontiff of Absolutism , and his worthy disciples of Austria and Prussia , drew out the programme ; and from that it would be sacrilege for the mer e neophytes , who are called on to give their mere nominal sanction , to depart one hair ' s breadth . The people are to be bound down ti ghter and safer than before in the fetters which they fondly fancied they had burst for . ever . The re-establish ment of the old system which the people of Germany never
ceased their eltorts to shake off for five and thirty years , is the be-all and the end-all of _' the Dresden Conferences , as is plainl y avowed in the Austrian notices , and the only half-repudiated « instructions ' attributed to Prince _Sohvarkekbtjbg ; and _. inpointoffact _, allthat the Ministers there assembled have to confer about is , thebest modeof adjusting the conflicting claims which have grown up since 1815 . Atthat time , Austria was looked up to as tho very incarnation of Absolutism ; aud no other _( xerman power had as yet acquired a sufficient sense of its own importance to enable it to question the right of Austria to supreme-rank
ana preponderant influence in the General Council of the Sovereigns of Germany . Now , however , the case is far different . Prussia has made enormous strides in everything which tends to make up the material greatness of a
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nation ; and in wealth , industry , commere and population , sho now stands nearly level with her haughty rival . She feels h * own might , and , although willi ng to a ( * ?!; Austria as a compeer , she refuses to recor _* nj in her any ono title to superiority . ' Bes */ 6 these two , there has arisen , during the lo *? peace , a third power , scarcely less jealous of its dignity , and basing its pretensions to D l treated with on equal terms on hardl y a \ J . firm conviction of its strength . Two of tho
six monarchies of Germany contend each f or exclusive supremacy , but the other four am far from willing to assume tho part of _passivn spectators of such a contest . Prussia and Austria are each great powers in Europe but Hanover , Saxony , Wirtemburg , ahd Bav rj a consider themselves as being conjointly worthv of equal consideration in Germany . Heuce they have , throughout the whole course n ' f these proceedings , offered , some a tarif
others an open opposition to the W ' pretensions first formed by each of the two leading powers . The consequence is , that ono scheme after another has been proposed and set aside . First , Austria wants to have the old Diet of 1815 restored in all its primitive inte- _* rit bearing with it , of course , her assumption of the presidential office . Prussia very n aturally opposed this very modest proposition , and brought forward the ** dual plan , "„ s it j , been called , by which the supreme authority was to be divided between tho two , or held
alternately . The minor kingdoms then _Hf-J up their voice and put forward their claims Under the old regime they had been too much ' in the position of mere feudatories of _iu- . _tst _fia ¦ and now that circumstances have emancipated them from such a galling tutelage , they are averse to consent to its being reinforced However this delicate point of di gnity may bo ' decided , one of the three rival claimants must be discontented , unless' indeed , the whole question of 'hegemony , or headship , ue dropped altogether . •'
Another moot point , which seems espe _^ cially difficult of adjustment , is the mode in which the central power shall be _cousti . tuted , so as to observe a due regard for the relative weight of the individual states in the confederation . The fate of the last proposition brought before the Conference will illustrate the difficulties with which the settlement of this matter is surrounded . It
was that a council of state should be formed to possess thesupreme executive , and exceptionally also the legislative power , consisting of seven ministers , with nine votes ; Austria aud Prussia to send' each one minister with two votes , and the remaining five votes to be divided amongst the remaining states . The four minor kingdoms at once protested against such an arrangement , by which the two others
appropriated to themselves such an outra > geous share of power , and with equal selfishness each claimed an entire vote for itself as the price of its consent , leaving one vote only for all the other four and twenty states , Brunswick , Baden , tho Saxes , theAimliauKs , ' the _Hessed , the Hanso Towns , and the others ' , of course grumbled at being valued at a ninth part only of the confederation ; and so this mode of making things pleasant has likewise fallen to the ground .
Iu fine , the present position of German affairi seem to be this—that the sovereigns and statesmen are squabbling among themselves to gain as large a share of power in the new confede _« ration as they can , but that all are agreed in one important point—that the people are to be jealously excluded from any participation in the management of their own affairs . One and all the princes represented at these con * ferences , are resolved that the representative principle shall be carefully excluded from the plan , so far , at least , as the popular voice is concerned . There is to be no Federal Legislature elected by the free and g eneral
votes of the people of Germany , nor will any state be permitted to have legislatures of its own in the sense of those created by the various constitutions granted after the increment of March , 1848 . Where they do already exist , their powers will be limited to mero consultive functi ons ; but as to real power , such as the imposition of taxes , the granting of supplies , - or the enactment of measures , they will be rigidly denied them . Reaction is in the ascendant , Russia has decreed the reestablishment of absolutism in its worst and most tyranous forms . Time will show with what results .
More Help. The National Public School As...
MORE HELP . The National Public School Association has already borne good fruit . The Educational Question has been removed from the category of debateable theories into that of practical public measures . Sectarianism is knocked on the head in Manchester , at all events . Tha difficulties which have heretofore seemed so insuperable , have melted like ice in the sunshine .
Churchmen and Dissenters of all denominations , have at last found out that it is possible to teach the rising generation the leading principles of morality , and the ordinary branches of school instruction , without insisting , at the same time , upon their being crammed with any particular creed ; and farther , that to do this efficiently , voluntary efforts are not eno ugh , but that there must bo a regular provision made by a public rate for tho purpose .
_^ All this is exceedingly gratifying , and not a little _suprising . TFe are naturally excited to speculate as to the cause which so unexpectedly brought together tho Dean of Manchester , Church clergymen , Wesleyan Ministers , Independent Preachers , and Unitarian teachers , for this object . Without being too curious on the subject , it is so singular an occurrence that wc may be pardoned for venturing upon a guess or two .
Remembering the course of all other great reforms in this country , then we cannot help suspecting that tho parties alluded to have become convinced that the time for the establishment of a National System of Education cannot be staved off much longer ; and , therefore , rather than permit the enactment ofa broad , sweeping , and comprehensive measure , they mean to forestall it by such arrangements as will lit ihe main preserve and maintain
their influence as a class . This has , indeed , been the practice of the priestly class in all ages , They resist progress and improvement as long as they can , and when the ti de is likely to become too strong for them , tlicy dexterously launch themselves upon it , and _gnMe it as « ar as possible to their own ends an d interests . There can be little doubt but this is tierealfl-u ' _ro-wofthe new movement in Man-Chester , else why propound a new scheme , so like , and yet so much inferior to that so
recently adopted at the Manchester Educational Conference by Mr . Cobden and his friends ? It the new converts to the doctrine that public schools should be secular in their foundation , had no arriere pensee they would never have _dreamt of setting on foot a separate agitation . Having resolved on doing that , however , it will bo the duty of the National Association to see that they do _ ot mar , or prevent the realis ation of a thoroughly m- ' sectarian plan of instruction . It is high ti « _- that the disgrace was wiped away from this country , of being next to Papal Italy , Sp « i ° and Portugal , and to despotic Russia , in the want of any systematised and adequate provision for the education of the people .
So far as we comprehend the plan of the P rt _-V hoare PP ears , to be headed by u ? t p of MaNChesteb , in opposition to the National Association and Mr . _CoBDEft the leading provisions of both are identical , at any rate in words . The differences are , _appf rently , " - the details ; and they ought to be closely watched , lest these details should neu _« _tralise the seeming _adrantages it holds out .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 18, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_18011851/page/4/
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