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4 THE NORTHERN STAR. , NoTEMBE* M, 1847....
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BOOKS fUBMSUED AND SOLD BI JAMES WATSON, % Qsoea'a HesJ-jrassge, Pater-WjSt6K0W.
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THE NORTHERN STAR, SATURDAY,NOVEMBER 20.1847.
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4 The Northern Star. , Notembe* M, 1847....
4 THE NORTHERN STAR . _, NoTEMBE * _M _, 1847 . \
Books Fubmsued And Sold Bi James Watson, % Qsoea'a Hesj-Jrassge, Pater-Wjst6k0w.
BOOKS _fUBMSUED AND SOLD BI JAMES WATSON , % _Qsoea ' a _HesJ-jrassge , Pater-WjSt 6 K 0 W .
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_MOnSfJIDITIOH OI THB _PUBSATOET 0 ? SUICIDES : with eomttio _* - and _aiditions . To appear ln eighteen _marabtr * , at Twopence each ; ° » " 8 , x parts at _sixpente _eaeh . By Thomas Cooper , the Chartist . The first mnmber and the first part to fce ready oa Wedn-s-lay _, _Ky irember 8 rf , 18 * 7-Bbbud Culile ' s Hamul of Freemasonry , the three parts complete in 1 vol ., eloth boards 6 i . H _« r publishing in weekly ¦ ambers at Twopence , and in monthly parts at Htaepence each , IHE BEA . SONB ** t , andUTILITABIA 5 BECOBD _, a journal of Theology , Morals , Politics , aad Communism . Edited by 6 . J . Holyoake . Tols . 1 and J , priea Fonr shillings and sixpence each are _nowfnhlished . _Hdyoake's Mathematics no Mystery ; _sr _, the beauties and Uses of Euclid . "Witk plates , 1 vol ., price
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GREAT SUCCESS—TRUE RECIPROCITY . _'AllHSBiCH _, AH » _ZiOHfOlAU . '
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JUST PUBLISHED . _PBICE SIXPIHCS . NO . XI . OF " THE LABOURER /' _CONTESTS , * 1 . Death Punishment . A Poem . 2 _. The Insurrection oi tbe Working Classes . 3 . The Poor Man's Legal Manual . 4 . The Bard ' s Lament . 5 . Race versus Nation . 6 . The Romance of a People . 7 . Tbe Law and the Land , 8 . Monthly Review . ' 9 . literary Beview . Letters ( pre-paid ) to be addressed to the Editors , 16 Great Windmill Street , Haymarket , London . Orders received by all agents forthe "Northern Star " and all booksellers in town and conntry .
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Nok- Ready , a New Edition of MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS To be had at the _"Vcrtt'rn Star Office , 16 , Great Wind Dili Street : and ef Abel Heywood , Manchester .
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TO TAILORS . Now Ready , by approbation of her Majesty , Queen Tia . toria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert , THE LONDON and PARIS AUTUMN and WINTER FASHIONS for 1847 and 1848 , by Benjamin Read and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury-square , London , and by tr . Berger , Holywell-street , Strand , London ; a most magnificent and superbly-coloured Print , surpass _, ing everything of the kind , previously published , _aceoai . panied with the most fashionable full size Dress , Riding , Frock , Hunting , and Wrapper Coat-patterns , with every particular part for each complete . Also , the most fash . lonaWe and newest style Waistcoat Pattern , including the manner ef Cutting and making up the whole , with information respecting the new scientific system of Catting , which will be published Jan . 1 , 18 ) 8 , and will supersede everything of the kind before conceived . Price 10 s ; or . post free , to all parts of the kingdom , lis . Patent Measures , with full explanation , 8 s the set ( the great est improvement ever known in the trade ) . Patterns to the
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MR . B . 'JONES'S PORTRAIT . THS Agents and Subscribers ofthe Star are respectfully informed they can ba _sapplisd with PICTURE FRAMBS , suitable for the above PORTRAIT , at thefollowing unprecedented !? low prices : — _s . d . Black frames , very neat , with glass and back ., 2 6 . do . do . with gilt _mouldiag .. „ .. 8 3 Maple or Rosewood , French polished , with gilt moulding , glass aad back 4 6 At Samuel Holmes' picture frame manufactory , St Georges ' s Church Alley , Norwich , where all orders will meet with prompt attention . N . B . An allowance to Agents , and two months' ' credit lif required ) , with a satisfactory reference .
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TO TflE ALLOTTEES AT O'CONNORVILLE , LOWBANDS , MINSTER LOVEL , MATHON , AND _SNIG'S END . Twentt Pounds fib Annoh . WANT ED , on Lease for five or seven years , or a longer period , A FOUR ACRE ALLOTMENT , on any of the above Estates _. for which TWENTY POUNDS PE ft ANNO _M would be paid . The AdYertUer is a paidup shareholder in the National Land Company , and holds a _responsible situation as head Gardener in a family of distinction . Should any fortunate Allottee feel disposed to have his Allotment improved , he will find this a fa . vourable oppportunity . Apply ( pre-paid ) to John Lewis ( Secretary to the Chester Branch of the Land Company ) , Windmill Lane , Chester ,
Suicide.—An Inquest Was Held Before Mr B...
Suicide . —An inquest was held before Mr Bedford , at the King ' s Arms , Bowling-street , on the body of John Wright , aged seventy-nine , a master carpenter , who hanged himself in his own workshop . Mrs E . Kilber , sister of the deceased , deposed that on Saturday last a broker named Cox demanded £ 7 for arrears of assessed taxes , and proceeded to open the door of a lodger . The witness , begged him to desist , telling him those were not Mr Wright ' s apartments , and requested he would go downstairs , where he would find Air Wright and plenty of goods to pay him , and not to disturb or frighten the lodger * . Cox said he should do nothing of the kind , but go where he liked and take what he liked . He then went up stairs into the lodger ' s rooms on the first floor , and
took an inventory ofthe furniture . The deceased , who was suffering from rheumatio gout , became greatly agitated at the conduct of the broker , and frequently exclaimed , I am a ruined man , ' and that had they but given him three hours to pay he could have raised the money . The deceased ' s irritation increased , aHd words ensued between him and Cox . Witness sent for a friend , and in the course of a few _houra the distress was paid out . Some time after , -nnd in the confusion , the deceased was missed , and was afterwards discovered in a workshop , hanging by a rope to a beam . Mr Randolph , a surgeon , who had been sent for , cut the deceased down . The broker Cox , was then called ; he denied baring been guilty of any such conduct as that imputed to him ,
and tbat tbe witness _Kilber's statement was untrue as to requesting bis not going up stairs . He did not know where the deceased's goods were , and had distrained in the first place he could . The deceased waa rer */ much agitated , and said he would be the death of bim and his man ; but witness thought he meant to say they would be the death of him . —By the Coroner : He generally distrained first on the landlord , but conld take any goods found in the house-By a Juror : lie did not receive any instructions from Mr Sawyer , the collector , in cases of distress , or on the point of dying , ' not to levy the execution . At the request ofa juror , Mrs Kilber was recalled , and in tbe presence of Cox repeated her former statement , which was confirmed by Mrs Nicholson .
John Nicholson also deposed to the harsh conduct ot Cox , and bis threat to turn them all out and lock the doors that night . Cox positively denied that the statements were , true , as one artiole alone in the place ( a table ) was more than sufficient for the levy . The Coroner having , summed up , said it was certainly a most melancholy case . Thejury returned a verdict ' That the deceased hanged himself whilst labouring under a fit of temporary insanity caused by the harsh measures adopted by the assessed tax collector in levying a distress for £ 7 . ' The Poor in St Pancras . —An inquest was held before Mr T . Wakley , M . P ., on _ChristinaFitr-gerald , alleged to have died from the want ol nourishment , consequenton the refusal of the Board of
Directors and Guardians of St Pancras and their officers to allow her mother and family a sufficient amount of relief , resumed , for the third time , at the Britannia , Britannia-street , Gray ' s Inn-road . Catherine Fitzgerald the mother ef the deceased , was sworn : She said I am a widow , and reside at Britannia-street . The deceased had been ill about four months . Her illness commenced for the want of proper nourishment . She craved for meat and fish , but I eau / d not supply it . Witness went on to say that she obtained an order for a doctor , who said deceased wanted nourishing food . Mr Popham , the parish surgeon , also saw tho child , and wrote to the workhouse for extra relief . —Mr Thomas Henry Smith examined : I reside at 9 , Liverpool-street ,
King ' _s-cross , and am one of the guardians of the poor of St Pancras . I was present wben the medical officer , Mr Popbara , was appointed . I am not aware that he received any instructions as to his medical duties on that occasion . The administration of the relief of the poor of St Pancraa is vested in the directors , " _* _*" ao are elected by iho vestry . The management of relief generally is vested in a reta committee . Medical men have the power to give recommendations for increased nourishment , but not the power to order it . The recommendation is directed _eithor to the board or to the relieving officer . It is discretionary in the relieving officer to grant such recommendation . I
should say they always would do so . After other evidence , the jury retired , and after some time came into court with the following as their verdict : — ¦ That the deceased , Christina Fitzgerald , died of natural causes , accelerated by the want of sufficient nourishment- ' The Coroner : This , gentlemen , is not a legal _yardict . Whatever accelerates , kills , and thus sucb a verdict would be a contradiction , as the latter part contradicts the former , Thejury again retired , and after being absent about a quarter of an hour , returned a verdict , ' That the deceased , Christina Fitzgerald , died a natural death . ' The inquiry then terminated at a late hour .
Am Elwmht _' s RxvHNas . —Atthe recent _Lutter worth fair , among otber holiday exhibitions a menagerie was conspicuous . A party of young men purchased a quantity of apples , and amused themselves by pitching them into the elephant ' s mouth , apparently to the gratification of both parties . A labouring man , who had evidently been devetingtoo much to John Barleycorn , picked up a stone , which he also threw into the opon mouth of the elephant , but the latter had no _seoner discovered the imposition , tban he raised his trunk , and bringing it down en the offender with great violence , instantly prostrated him . The animal was proceeding still further to mark his sense of the indignity , but assistance being promptly afforded , the party was rescued . A Posi in Distress . —We are sorry to sea the name of James Sheridan Knowles , the dramatic _autla - , in the list of Scottish bankrupts .
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: ' NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . The directors have published , in a neat and elegant form , the able letter of FEARGUS O'CONNOR , ESQ ., M . P ., which appeared in the Northern Star of Saturday last , the 13 th instant , And which was addressed t » the ' ¦ Rich and the Poor . " Price—One penny per copy , or seven shillings per hundred . Each braneh ofthe Land Company ought to order a quantity , and circulate them amongst those who are known to be unfavourable to the cause . Thomas Clark , Corresponding Secretary .
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PORTRAIT OF E . JONES , ESQ ., BARRISTEF AT-LAW .
The Northern Star, Saturday,November 20.1847.
THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 20 . 1847 .
Rally For The Charter ! It Appears To Us...
RALLY FOR THE CHARTER ! It appears to us that the time has arrived when all who profess the faith of Democracy , asemhodied in the People ' s Charter , should make an earnest effort to create a national agitation in favour of that measure . " The times are out of joint , " andit is evident that the ruling faction know not how to " set thera right . " Bankruptcy and pauperism overspread the land , and the sufferers can cherish no hope of remedy at the hands of our rulers , In all probability , the rule of the " incapables" will not continue much longer . Russell is " not strong enou gh for the place , " and mu 9 t make way for some one else—for
Bentinck or Peel . The people can hardly lose by the change , but will they gain that which they have a right to require—social justice and political emancipation ? No ! Neither Peel , Bentinck , nor Russell , will take up the scheme of reform , propounded by Mr O'Connor in his _statesman-iike letter , published in our last . Nor will they do anything effectual for the correction of themonstrous abuses under which the people f * roan . The taxation—national and local ; the monopolies—class and chartered ; the ecclesiastical , colonial , naval , and military abuses will , not one of them , be really reformed by the politicians in power , or those likely tobe in power , so long as the present system of misrepresentation
continues . The triumphs achieved inthe recent general election have sufficiently proved the power of the people . After the Nottingham election , no one can question the potency of moral means . Had the people generally been as " up to the mark" as they were at Nottingham , tke coming Session would have seen the Charter made the law of the land . It is our conviction that the newly-elected Parliament
will not exist one-third of the term to which the life of its predecessor was prolonged . Thus believing , we deem it a sacred duty to impress upon the leading spirits of Democracy throughout the country , the necessity of making immediate and energetic exertions to organise the acknowledged Chartists , propagate Chartist principles amongst those ye _% uninformed of those principles , and , in short , rouse the nation to the assertion ofits rights , and the obtaining of those rights through legislative
action . The weakness of our enemies is our opportunity . Distress and disaffection everywhere abound ; now , therefore , is the time to gather the elements of agitation , and so combine them as to act with resistless force upon the ruling few . Thousands of the Bourgeoisie , who twelve months ago regarded Cobden as a Messiah , are now convinced of the delusion of "Free Trade , " and are eager for some more sweeping change . And- although _^ have no faith in the shopocracy as a class , nevertheless weare
persuaded that even they may be acted upon to the great advantage of the popular cause , pro * vided the Proletarians are imbued with the Nottingham spirit . The unhappy condition of workless , foodless , and all but homeless thousands in the manufacturing districts , must render them impatient for some speedy change . Show them that the Charter may be obtained—as it may be by a year or two ' s hard work—and they will rejoin the Chartist banner with more than their former enthusiasm , tempered by | that il discretion which they have learned in the school of
experience . The agricultural labourers who have never yet been taken proper account of in political agitations , should not be neglected by the new " propaganda . " They have long lost all faith ir . the " squire'' and the " parson ; " they understand that " Laws grind the poor , and rich men rule the laws ;" but they have never yet been taught their rights as men , and their power to obtain those rights . Now is the time to instruct them . Now is the time to teach
them" Why they wear fetters when they might be free . " Again , those formidable masses of men the " _navviea" have been utterly neglected , when they might , and ' should have been , an arm of strength to the Chartist cause—an arm capable of producing alittle " wholesome terror , ' if need be . Thousands of these men are now unemployed , and it has been long foreseen that when the principal railways are completed , the greater portion of these armies of labourers will be at once pauperised : or brigahdised . Were their intelligence at all corresponding with their physical power , they alone might dictate terms to the enemies of labour . Their conversion to Democracy is of the utmost importance . Let the Chartists see to it .
Among the most encourag ing of present circumstances , we must include the friendly disposition of the Irish people . The conciliatory exertions of the Chartists , continue d for many years , are , at length , producing the longwished for fruits . Amongst the Irishmen residing in England , a truly fraternal feeling is springing up , and our last number contained the gratifying assurance from that consider .
able body of Irishmen represented by the Notion , that they were _' willing to enter into an alliance , offensive and defensive , with the people of England , for the recovery of the rights ofthe people of both countries . What obstacle shall stay tho march of Democracy , or prevent the triumph of the people , if Englishmen and Irishmen combine to strike one blow for their liberties ?
We appeal to the Cbartist Execu tive to give us a programme of action . Oneof the mem . _bersofthat executive , Mr O'C onnor , will bt fore these remarks have been publisher fall h ?*? - ? _»•« the House of _CornrJn But to do all that he desires ti do , tho honourable mem pressure from without" _TaEiT y e of the _Hniiso _JvT , ° C 0 - _* eagueB out oi the House , the members of the Chartist _Execut-ve , belongs the honour of Ikinf the initiative in creating that « pre surf ' " _* Let our generak _announce the camp gn Ind w _.
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are persuaded they will find their troops ready for the ' march , prepared for the struggle , and confident of victery . We employ these terms of hopeful confidence , because we sea evidence of a revival of zeal not to be mistaken . The delegate meetings and re- organisation of Chartist associations going on in different localities , exhibit a popular awakening , for which we have long hoped . In London , the metropolitan delegate council give promise of active work . The Fraternal Democrats , convinced , that the people of this country cannot g ive effectual aid to the _nnnrpcspd neonle of other lands until English *
men be themselves free , have resolved to agitate for the Charter , as the best means of promoting the cause of veritable Democracy . If the true Democrats will but work in union , this metropolis may be made what it should be—the citadel of Chartism . A central place of meeting is much needed in the Metropolis . We suggest tothe Chartist Executive that , if possible , a place be obtained at which once a week an aggregate metropolitan meeting shall assemble , to review the Parliamentary proceedings of the preceding week ; when necessary , steps might be taken to bring the power of metropolitan opinion to bear uoon anv _ouestion about to come under
discussion in Parliament . There can be no doubt tbat Mr O'Connor would attend the said meetings , when not prevented by his parliamentary or other imperative duties , and it is not impossible but that the genteel mdml members , who were too " respectable to attend the Crown and Anchor banquet , might before long be brought to see the expediency of exhibiting themselves . The Chartist representatives elected by show of hands , residing
in London , would of course attend . Shut out of the House of Commons they might , nevertheless , in the popular forum , assert the legitimacy , of their claims to represent the people . London has need _; of a " Conciliation Hall , '' divested of the humbug for which that celebrated place has become so notorious . Now is the time to centralise the intellectual power ofthis mighty city , and thereby cause the _roice of its hundreds of thousands to be heard with respect by our class-elected legislators .
Of course " the sinews of war " wiil be wanting , and we trust that any appeal from the Executive will receive prompt and universal response . We have faith that if at this time the leaders exhibit energy tbey will not fail to obtiiin popular support . Now , 'is the time for action . The misgoverned and misguided people , suffering starvation and threatened with a grinding Militia Law , and ( in Ireland ) a new Coercion Bill , are
read y to march for the Charter . Revolution is rapidly approaching in France , and throughout the Continent the signs of the times betoken the coming of _" the war of principles . ' Abroad and at home the English Democrats are regarded as the pioneers of progress , and the advanced guard of Freedom ' s army , " Now ' s the day and now ' s the hour , " for the Chartists to prove themselves worthy of their glorious mission . " Will must ripen into deed !"
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The above article was already in type when we received an Address from the Executive Committee , which will be found in another column . We trust that the Executive ' s appeal will be everywhere taken up with spirit , and that now the agitation will recommence in right good earnest .
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THE CHARTER ' verm NAMBY PAMBY . If knowing right from wrong—if being prepared to make a sound use of that knowledge—if extending the hand of fellowship to the sufferer abroad—if being able ' . to see through the tricks of false friends , and frustrate the designs of open enemies—if freedom from bigotry and love of true religion—if honour to the good and hatred of the evil , are proofs of the popular education necessary for the enjoyment of the franchise , then surely the people have proved a due educational qualification ; and tbat proof was abundantly afforded those gentlemen who spoke at the meeting held at the Crown and Anchor , under
the auspices of the International League , on Monday last , as reported in another part of our columns . We do not quarrel with the ostensible purposes of that League , but we do eschew the attempt to make the democracy of other countries believe , thatthe English people are contented under a system of insult , slavery , and starvation . The working men of London have again nobly done their duty , in frustrating another attempt at middle class milk-andwater Liberalism . The meeting was originally called for eight o ' clock in the evening and changed to one in the afternoon . It was fortunate the
working men were able to attend ,--no doubt our " Liberal"friends forgot how many were out of employment . It is fortunate , we say , they were able to attend , since otherwise , continental democracy , and our own staunch Chartists in the country , might have received the erroneous impression , that a public meeting could have been held in the metropolis , at which a resolution like the following could be I passed : — " That it is our duty , as a _j ? nEE nation , to inform ourselves fully upon all matters bearing on the conduct and the policy of our government whether at home or abroad , & c . "
The sound sense of the meeting was at once expressed in dissent from the commencing words—and a working man mo ved an amendment , tbat we were not a free nation—which amendment was carried without a dissentient voice . It is a remarkable circumstance , that almost every speaker in the meeting professed himself ignorant of the subject given him to dilate upon . Colonel Thompson , talking of Switzerland , said , " he was not sufficiently instructed in their differences . " George Thompson " confessed a large amount of ignorance about foreign politics , " —yet tbis gentleman came there to instruct the people . They must hare been equally ignorant of tome politics as well , if they could designate the slaves of English class-legislation a free nation .
, "As a free nation . " Ay ! indeed , we are free I Free to starve ,-free to perish in Ireland , —free to be exiled from the Highlands , — -free to be cast into beggary in England ( but , even then , not free to begW free to go to the Bastile . But even here there 18 ft qualification , and unfortunately the gaol is the more comfortable of the two . A free nation ! quotha ! if that is the middle class idea of freedom—if that is the dandified drawing-room notion ot liberty , —ii tbat is the conception of their wants , entertained by those men whom the people have raised into power then , we say , happy is it that working men are found to come forward , happy is it that they rely on iJ .. _wj .. _» - withe strength of their
own order , and while willing to extend t he hand of fellowship to every sincere friend , will never bow the neck of servilit y to treason or to despotism . We , too , advocate the fraternity of nations , —but deprecate the attempt to make Englishmen contented with their own lot , by comparing it with Oriental despotism . Were we ten times as free as we are , and could obtain 'still more liberty , tbat liberty we _would _. have ; convinced that with freedom only is peace concomitant , and that hunger , anarchy and outrage are ever the companions of class legislation , We deprecate the attempt to strike aside-winded blow at Republican institutions , and to estrange Ireland from her transatlantic
friend , as made in the words —that America ' s intention was only to propagate personal slavery in Mix ' co . An assertion afterwards contra- 1 dieted by the _n- \ » _ame speaker , when he said , addressing his word * to the Irishmen in the meeting , that it was only a crusade against Catholicism . Are these the principles of universal fraternity ostensibly put forth by this League , when they attempt to create a national animosity between us and America ? They who sbould heal wounds instead of widening tbe breach . Tbey who hunt up a recondite guide-book , written by some crackbrained votary of Polk , talking of hostility to England . They who , with peace and toleration on their lips , try to _suscitate a crusade between the Protestant and the Catholic . Ah , would it not have bee n more " fraternal" to have spoken of the line of battle-ships dismasted to send corn to the . Irish , perishing beneath the care of English class legislation ?
Ah ! We suspect the stumbling block 13 Hot the fefvZr _' if the _haT 8 «? e WA prisoner _!| 8 IM _TY * . _"PwO-we "ther surmise the _SS _ Ti ? - the reP _*» Wican government ofthe United States . Now we heartily concar in a repronation of the Mexican war , but that war has not been caused by republican institutions , it has rather been suscitated by a deviation from the republican pri » - _aple . It i _« a war of money-mongers \ a paradise
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preparing for the tax-eaters . And we would _rem _^? the speakers , such wars are not peculiar to _AmTDear , innocent , _Europeanmonarchies are _nern-J- ? _- _** the same at thia very hour . Witness France A Z _^ Russia , and England ! 'No , the kra _£ _™* 2 beginning to sin , because they are taking a leaf / of the book of kings . But , fortunatel y , there ar * party of Agrarian Reformers , a party of _ChartistiV America , who will rescue the rights of humanity fro the crush of _money-bags-and , instead of _fomentin discord ( as these fraternal Leaguers try to do ? between the two nations , are fostering the Chriatia , spirit of Fraternity between us and our brethren in the West . But these _genHemen breathed fervent philanthropy towards the " poor Hindoo . " _**/ u _^ cotton , " says he , " we shall get from India ! " \ y _« tell them it is not cotton in India , _butcorn in En gland that wo want .
The Indian cotton would be a ussiest glut _j n tl ) market , as the rest has proved to be , whea manufa cturers here have actually sold cotton at a loss , before the price got too low—despairing of ever being able to use it , since they find foreign competition is break _, ing the neck of their tyranny . We tell these gentlemen we are willing to assist them in a good cause—if they really wish the emancipation of the millions , we will aid thera—but none of their namby pamby Liberalism for us . No talk of lights of the people , witbout trying to obtain them I No striving to make an English slave crra * tented , because a foreign slave may be a shade worse off ! While there is slavery , we will struggle against it—while there is luxury on the one hand , and
starvation on the other , we will still call the millioig round the standard of progression , and paralyse their miserable fractions of reform with the one grand watchword of liberty- " THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER ! " On then , Chartists , there is a new parliament ; where is the People ' s Parliament ? Be stirring—organise—combine , and act I You ate worthy of your freedom , but only if yon have the courage to achieve it .
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_MISCBLLANIOUS . A . Four Acbb Shabkboldee wishes one million of per . I _* n * to lodge . _^ 1 each in tho National Land and Labour Bank , as the beginning _« f some plan , te ba hereafter _dareloped , for the regeneration of this country . Tb' Shareholder ' s' own pound is ready . Thb ' _MANcnESTiB Examinsb . '— A correspondent at Blackburn writes as follows :- * The resent exposures ( so-called ) of Mr O'Connor and the Land Scheme , have resulted in the readers ofthe Manchester Examiner becoming readers of the Northern Star . It is no unplea . _sant sight to seo the agents' shops crowded with people bn a" Saturday , anxious "* ' waiting the arrival ofthe Star ; whilst the Examiner is being returned weekly . Oa the 23 rd ult ,, fifty copies ofthe Examiner came here seme of which were returned . The 30 th of October brought a decrease of five ; bnt on the 6 th ofthe pre . _sentmonth the number was only thirty , , _£ /'« en of which
were returned . Those wh _» were once the warmest of the' Whistler ' s' friends , are becoming the readers of the Star . R . C . _Sotion . —Thamks ; hut ire bare aot room . A Subscriber prom tbe first , Manchester Ko . 1 of f thola & _ourer was reprinted , andpresented oralis wit h No . 6 . W . Bi _/ ntov . —No room . We have forwarded your letter to the directors . Hoe and Cm . ' —A correspondent at Chatham writes as follows : —A number of labouring men and mechanics having clubbed a portion of their _nardfearnings , for the last eight months , for the purpose of obtaining each a ton of coals a little cheaper by purchasing a Barge at once , they chose William Taylor shipwright , in her Majesty's Dockyard , as treasurer . The money having . beeR drawn from the Savings' Bank was placed in big possession , when , last Tuesday week , he decamped , with him £ 8168 d
taking . s . ., thereby depriving many poor families of the comforts of a want fire-side during the winter . Taylor is a native of Yarmouth , in Norfolk , where it is supposed he has gone . The O'Connor Tartan . —Several of the Merthyr _Tydvl f .-iends want to know if the O'Connor Tartan can be had in London . They also want to know what will twenty waistcoat pieces cost j and if it is possible to have a specimen of the Tartan sent to Merthyr ia a letter . —D . B . MonoA * _-, Malt _Mill-squaro , Merthjr Tydvil Mb Wm : Emisson , Paterson , New Jersey , 17 . S ., America . Received . Tour remittance pays fer thirty-seven copies , postage included . To A _« ents . —I have to reqmest agents and others not te send me orders for works advertised in tbe Star . I have orders arrive by almost every post . Our business is exclusively confined to the "Vort ' _iem Star , The London booksellers will supply the works _advertued . * S . B . Send monies for the Defence Fund , the Prosecution of the Manchester Examiner , & c , to tbe Directors '
Office , 144 , High Holborn . W . Rideb . Journeymen Steam-Engine , Machine Makers , & c . To the Editor of the Northern Star . Sir ,-. I perceive , in the Northern Star of Saturday last , a letter addressed to the Journeymen _Steam-Engine , Machin . _6 Makers ' , and Millwrights' Friendly Society , and signed ' A Man . ehester Mechanic , ' in which If tter my name is brought into question , to the effect that I had advised the Warrington branch of our society to withdraw their funds from the Savings' Bank , and to place them in the Royal Bank of Liverpool . Now , sir , allow me to give the above an unqualified contradiction by simply saying that it is false . I do not deem it at all neces . sary to give any further proof of my assertion , beyond my word , nntil the writer has the courage to throw off his disguise by using _* his real signature . Tou will oblige Toy inserting the above in your paper of Saturday next . Yours respectfully , Henry Selsby , 64 , Dale-street , Manchester , Nov . 17 , 1847 .
Scotland .-Twoor three communications from Scot ' land , including a lengthy account of flie interesting pr « . ceedings ofour Edinburgh friends , must stand over till our next . Mr J . Motes , Kettle—Post Office Order received . Mr _Baty , Dalston , — Yes . Tou should have sent five . Four won't do . J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt ofthe following sums , for the Defence Fund .-Mr J . Harriot , ls ; Mr Rad . ford , 6 d ; E . H . L ., 6 d . ' mrl > au Fob the Pbwtino _AcconsT .-Collectod at the King's Head , _Chapel-bar , 3 s . Mr Ebnest Jones has _received a Post Office Order for
£ 3 2 s 31 , per Mr Charles Shaw , of Rochdale , viz . —For prosecution of Examiner , «? 3 ; the O'Connor Defence Fund , is ; Sleaford Case , ls 3 d . Mr Jones has handed the above to Mr Rider , and respectfully requests that all monies for such purposes may be sent to the Land Office . Mr _Moobhousk , Netherthong . —All questions concerning tho Land Company must be addressed to the Directors , 144 , High Holborn . Mr Dallkt , Stourbridge—All persons joining the Oompany before the last day ofthe year 1847 , must pay the whole year ' s general expenses , and no secretary can enrol any person as a member who objects to such pay . ment .
George Lees , Ashton-under-Lyne . — The _DirectorswiS not recognise any transaction in which Mr O'Connor returns money on account of shares which have beea taken ovit and paid for . The Directors are aware that Mr O'Connor , when at Manchester and Notting . ham , generonsly offered to return to any dissatisfied member the money which such person may have paid into the fund * of the Company , but the Directors cannot permit Mr O'Connor to do any such thine . True , Mr O'Connor offers t _» pay the money out of his pocket , hut that makes ao difference to the Birectors They oannot permit the transaction , Mr Lees has threatened _tojpubiish the determination ofthe Directors , If they persisted in refusing to allow Mr O'Connor te return his money . Mr Lees will oblige the Directors __ —gw ¦ _uw _A-litiVtVAO by aid " it will
se doing , perhaps be a satisfaction to Mr Lees , to know that he is the only member in the Com . pany , that has attempted to avail himself of Mr O'Connor ' s offer . Thomas Clabk . Aldebson . —The money was received but not the ad . vertisement . Send a copy . W . Baiiei , Nottingham _.-Ne- 'tweek . ' Manchester Paper Stainebs . - In our next . Mr West .-Reports of meetings addressed by Mr West at Gloucester , Exeter , & c , were received too late for insertion in this number . J _3 P We are compelled by the great length of Mr O'Con . nor _* s matter , and the very lengthy report of the Not tingham Festival , to postpone a number of _communications till our nest .
X _>* C « AL . NOTICE—As I haire a considerable number of _enseaon hand , requiring ulterior proceedings , I must , la order to enable me to do justice to my clients , decline i receiving until further notice any more legal _corres- _poadence ( except sueh as relates to oases in hand ) , , whether for the Stab or otherwise . ALL LETTERS CONTAINING NEW CASES ( WILL REMAIN UNNOTICED . « _5 * f * _LlTTEKS ro BE _AODBE-SED IN FOTOB . I to hs c AT 16 , OBKAT _WlNDMUL . iTiui , Hatmabkit , , T L 0 ND 0 N ' Ebnest Jones . L q mIfi n ° S : _T / _7 _T _* 8119 - _"••* -. for the rent in n m «« fE ? i- 6 _w < l l ; but the action , I conceive , _:, must be _broughtm the names of the trustees , to whom n _SlCOnJei'ancl 0 / _t" , e roomwas made ; and _theperaoa te who acted as their agent must prove the lettinK . Thos WaD .-Asto the £ 6 . 14 s . and costsI do not see »
, that I can give you better advice than to pay tho _instal- . 1 . ments as they become due ; and should your late land . 1 . lord do so illegal a thing as to sue you for rent after er his agent accepted the key ( which amounted to an ac c ceptance of possession by the landlord ) , you must prove W the fact ofthe agent ' s acceptance of the key _. and proving ig that , the landlord must be nonsuited wm . _Slatteb , _Coleshill-street , Birmingham . - If the he widow mado a will it must be proved : and with re- _espect to the ' expense , ' that will depend upon tb- be aaount or value of her property , which , I suppose , was as entirely personal . If she made a will , her property ty must , of course , go according tothe will . If no wiU ca » aa bo found she must be considered to have died intestate ; e ; andherchlidren , or some of them , must take out letters _> - » of administration to her effects ; which , after payment mt of her debts , must be equally divided amon gst h"f i _« childron , or should any of them be dead , having In- . eft childron who survived their _f-rAodmnth-r . the children en
of each deceased child will be entitled to tbo share their est parent would have heen entitled to if living . Tou ap- ippear to be a man of some property , and yet , in defiance ace ofthe notices so repeatedly inserted inthe Star , send me me a long case without any fee . CoNDtN , 38 , _Coburne-row , Birmingham . —Tou have _jve written in such a wretchedly small hand that 1 » ul - _* - _* uo means certain that I am correct in eitheryour name me i or address . Several persons have applied to *» e vino iw claim a share of tlie property of the late Mr La * ' " ' ' ' ' of Tlrghla , and who want to know the state of the pi 6 * _ff 6 _* _codings In the cause of Wilkinson t > . Barker . To as- as-. certain this may be attended with a great deal Mil « trouble and expense ; and though I cannot ipend my myi time in making such searches , yet if each of tho parti *» tiesi intorested in Mr Lawrence ' s property , and who b » v ° i » v * written to me about it , will send a Post-office Order tf ; W Ss . or 10 s ., according to hli ability , I will cause tne trie requisite search to be made . , « , * _•*• _»> _S _. —He must continue paying , or an order of a » aw mm mi *? bo obtained _agtdmt Ida , . ~~ _-.- _~
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 20, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_20111847/page/4/
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