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CNDEE THE HASAGEHEST OP THE METROPOLITAN...
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NATIONAL PETITION IN SCOTLAND.
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The Executive Committee have appointed D...
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NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNB DISTRICT. Mr John West...
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JUST ellbLlfcSH'iiD, f Uniform with the " Lmiodk&k" Magazine,)
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THE NORTHERN STAK, SATURDAY. JANUARY 22. 1848
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THE METROPOLITAN CHARTIST HALL. We have ...
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JUVENILE CRIMINALS. Up on no great quest...
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THE INCREASING DISTRESS. A short time ba...
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Co iUa&ra ^Coirajjonfl ni &«
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PUBLIC MONIES. We request all Sob-secret...
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- Tiie Foeand J " « January 22, 18-18. >...
January 22 , 18-18 . _> 4 THE . NORTHERN __ STAR _« . — - _. " ~ -
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Cndee The Hasagehest Op The Metropolitan...
CNDEE THE HASAGEHEST OP THE METROPOLITAN CHAKTIST COUNCIL , WILL BE HELD \ T THE NATIONAL HALL , 242 , HIGH HOLBORN , _O . V WEDNESDAY EVENING . FEBRUARY 2 nd , 1848 , i v . _uro'T S ' DUNCOMBE , M . P ., T . WAKLEY , M . P _., gad F . O'CONNOR , M . P ., for their able and _patrtafc « _ivic « " la « _f C 8 U _' lhe pe 0 IJle * Ernest Jones , _Barrist _rnt-Law _, Author of the ' Wood Spirit , ' « M y LU , '' Romance of a People , ' & c , & c „ will preside . Tea on the Table at ha ? _f-past Five o ' clock precisely . T-krW 1 » . _% 3 . each | may De 0 Dtainei 3 Bt , he o 85 ce of , he _National _£ and Company , IU , High Ilolborn ; at the office of tiie _N ' _ostherk Star , 1 G . Great Windmill-street , Ha ) market ; or at any of the meeting rooms of the _xaemb rs of the _Xational Charter Association . At half-past Seven o ' clock the public will be admitted to the Hall at a charge of Twopence each , when the Meeting mill be _adsresfed by th : above
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GREAT SUCCESS . —TRUE RECIPROCITY . ' all rest EACH , akb ea « _h r >* AU . ' TO TUE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . _PBIE--I-S . The propriety of _establishing a _Natiokal Benefit _Societt hag been frequently urged upon our _atten--tloB , aa- a Atrong de » ire eipmsed that we should originate _onu , in order to afford an _opportunity to those of our friends w . _^ o hare a desire of _joiaing an _institatiaa noder the _auspices of the movement party , aad established for the _purpose of aiding the okward march of _Democracy . With the desire of our friends wa cordially sympathise , and were it not that oar tim * it fully and completely occupied in _atteuding to our present engagements , we sbeald feel great p i . a _« ure ia complying with their wishes . We hate long been of opiuion that the cause of the people _% veuia be mueh swved hj the estnblnhiv . _ent of such _bu Association : At _preieat there are thousands who join other societies who weald prefer _becaminir members of one composed of person * whose epinions harmonise with their own . and _whsss funds instead of being placed at the _disp-sxl of their enemies , would be applied to benefit them * , _lvrs . and the cause which they have at _heur :. We must , however , decline _estering _upoa tha organisation ef such a body , but , at the suae lime , would _recommend all who _fetrl interested in tke matter , to join the NATIONAL CO-OPERATI \ 'E BENEFIT SOCIETY , "Which has been Ferae time iu existence , and which was _estebliihed for the _parpoies above enumerated . The actual m nagecnent of it derolrcs _uaonits indefatigable founder , Mr _Stallwsob , a man in whose honour and _probity we have the grestMt reliance—so much _coaSJtnce do we repose in him , that we have consented to become the _directors of th * societj—ilr Stallwood undertaking to Wo the work of secretary , our part of the _busiaess being to Bake « periodical _esaniination of the accounts , and other monetary transactions , which all parties may rely upon being done by us . The Chief recommendations of this society are—that the subscri ptions are liberal ; its government _dem-.-cratic , and its fuads will be deposited ia tke National Lamd asd _Lab _. c * Bans . We sincerely recommend this society to the con « ider * rion _•/ oar friends . All communication * on the _sublet to ho addressed to the _SMTdtary , ilr Edmund Stallwood , ' 1 , Littls _Yalo-ylace , Hammersmith , Loudon . _Christopher Dotle , Th _^ kas Clark , _FniLir _M'Gbatb . TIIE LATE KATIO . VaL _LAN'D CONFERENCE , _Heia _atT-owbaRds , August . 1 S 4 " . adopted the foll »« in ( r resolution _unauimously : — « That this Conference recommends the country to _drpesit their funds in the * Natioual Land and Libour Bank-, ' all who _wUh to follow the instructions of their friends and _rei-reseatatives will _j-n ' n that auxiliary 10 the Nutioual Lsnd Company . TUE NATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE _BhNEFIT SOCIETY . Patron— T . Waklet . M . P . Directors — Me _« bs . P . M _Gbath . T . Clabx . an » C _Doius JJoa * r . -TFE _Katiohal Lan » and Labour Bask . Secretary —Ms E .- StaLLWOob Central Office—2 , Little Vale . j _« Iace , Hammersmith . This society presents greater * dvanta K _es to the industrions milli _. ns than any similar institution ever established . Thebsnefits reeultinc from joining it arela Sickness , per week from 7 < to 18 _i Member * * Dece & f . e , £ 6 „ JEI'O Wife ' s Ditto .. r if £ l 0 Wife ' s A _^ _-c-uchemeat ... ... ... . „ , „ f > _j 5 _^ £ 2 _SuperannuatiHii _, per week f 4 _« _Gi - A G . _'t Fund and Youth Burial Fund , and the _Investare of its _Surplns Funds in L-ind _, for the mutual advantage _« f its members . _EHtraice Fee , according to Age , ac follows : — Years . Years . Tea r * . Years . Firft Seevioo , under 25 ... S _« Od — S 5 ... 4 s fid — 45 ... Ss Od — 50 ... 7 s 6 d Second Sec : iun ... 1 ! 5 ... 2 s 6 d— 85 ... 8 < Od — 45 ... 4 s Cj ~ . AU 6 s id Third Section ... 25 ... 2 s Od — 85 ... 2 s 6 d _ 45 ... Ss 6 d ¦— 59 .. . 48 $ 1 Fourth Section ... ' 25 ... Is 6 d — SS ... ' J * Oi — is ... Ss 9-1 59 . * " is Cd If mre convenient to _mtmters the cctrance fe « can be paid by instalments , so that the whole U paid within three mea tt _e . The _following persons have already volunteered their services as agents , ef whem ru _! es and _svsry information _ean be obtained at the following places : —ilr Lanrcnce , _Whittington and Cut . Church-row , _Bethual Gr « _ien ; Mr Jeffrey , Tanners' Arms , _Bermondsey-road ; Mr J . Simpson , Harrison ' s Assembly _Roelns , _Eait-lans , _Walnonh ; Herbert ' s Temperance Coffee-house , Exeter-street , _Sloane-street ; Mr _Walford , Temptnince-h » ll Broadway , _Westminstet ; MrL . F . Brown , Silver-street , Kensington ; Mr II . H * jter , F r . _^ mure , Vf _.. ndsworth Mr J . Pare , 115 , Livery street , Birmingham ; Mr T . Shepherdson , _Town-gate , _Armley , near L ? eds ; Mr G . WhoeUr Dunkirk , near _Bevis ¦ .- ; Mr Maaday , Northampton ; Mr Wesley . Caanon-street , _Wellingborough ; Mr B Morgan Merthyr Tydvil HrJ . J . B _; aver , _Gandiftl-th , Pentypool ; MrSkevington , Loughborough ; MrT . Chambers , L . ice . _ter-street , _Bilston ; Mr J . Reddis , Button Latimer , Higham _Ferrars ; MrJ . Gregory . Irourille , _aear Nottingham- Mr H . Piercr , Fleur-de-lis _Inn . _StMAry-street _, Bridgewater ; Mr W . H . Wether , 8 , _Fareham place , Coxside Plymouth ; Mr Westoby , Duppa _' s Hill , Croydon ; Mr H . Ingham , _Michison-square , _ScholeF , Wi gan ; Mr James Fink Talbot Iun . Jchn-nrcet _, Bridgewater ; Mr _Thomw Flood , _Holland-street _, Barnstaple ; Mr Martin , artist , and Mr D » vid Morrison , B _* th-street , N w Swindon ; Mr H . Tooirer , _Commercial-street , Newport , Monmouth- Mr A . Packer 78 Harrow-r . _ia < l , M \ rjiebotie ; Ur Eilis . _Baktr , West street , Crowland ; Mr Neesham , near the _Wesieyan Chapel ' WilleHhall ; Mr H . Foste'Yates , Temperance Coffee-house , _MileB Batik , Potteries ; Mr G drill 30 _Queeu-street Sh . ffi _. _ld ; Mr DjnaWson _, Warwick ; Mr C . Goodwin . _Rea-street _, Birmincbam _; Mr Nicholas Canning Stuart-street , Wigan ; Mr James Chappie , " eechen Cliff , Bath ; Mr J Grimshaw , _Hdmes , _Donuaser ; MrG . Giles . Victoriastreet . Brighton ; ilr J . Fraz .-r , 8 Cjtherine-str < _: et , Aberdeen ; Mr D . Robertson , Cast ' e . st ' reet , Allea Mr Joseph Hill , 8 . Spa , Southampton ; Mr W . _Grsgory . _Eceles , near _Manchester ; Mr E . Jones , _Oreen-gate _, Salford ; Mr _Joseph Hewitt , Chapel-street , Leeds ; Mr W . Liddle , Preston ; Mr Israel Arj _.-yle , Osk . _street , Abingdon Mr " James _Reshitt , 6 , _GibEon-street , _Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Mr Edwin Scholl y , Midgate , _Peterborough Mr Ewe- _Heskith , Landend Cnurch , Oswaldthistle , Blackburn ; Mr Joha Why , Great Glean ; Mr A . Taylor ' _. 'Stow . iii-the ' Wold ; Mr J . Pugh , Kihcton , Hereford ; Mr W . Fai : burn , Wedneshury ; Mr G . Timbrel ] , jun ., Wln _' chcomb- Mr T . Goodv , Sadtury ; Mr A . Walker , 16 , Bailies _Causeway , Hamilton ; Mr William Ctmeron , 9 , Store . _Btrtet , _PuiBlej ; _Ifrfl . _Barrell , News Agent , Greenock ; Mr John Douglass , 49 . King . _street , Gosport ; Mr John H <* warth , _Ktngetrett , Leich ; Mr J . G _^ rrod _. News Agent , Ipswich ; Mr Joha Hunter , Brick Garth , _Eisington Lane Mr William _Roomes , _Chaple _Cmage « , Dorking ; Mr D . Scrim _^ gour , Crieff ; Mr J . Morgan , Butcher row , Deitford Mr W . W . Pickvance , IS , _Dancan-street , Bolton ; Mr M . Whittingham , _Russell-street , Wolverhamp ' ton Mr Thon . _as , 88 _Bevon-street , Liverpool ; Mr W _Furaival nolIo _« ay . huildings , Bilston ; Mr H . _Carmau , Rjau ' _street _^ _VTiBbettCh ; Mr T . Potter . _OifWd-street , Stockton ; Mr S . Martin , Bri htlingsea ; Mr Edward Payne _Spital-gate Cirencester : Mr Joseph PiUs , 17 , _Higbtr Umon . strret , Torquay ; Mr Cross , Bungay ; Mr J . Rouse , Battly _Carr-road , Dews _, bury ; Mr H . M . Aungier . _Fore-hill . Ely ; Mr C . C _irter . Newnham ; Mr W . Rankin , _Campole-street , Budley ; Mr Eonald Watt _. _Kmghorn ; Mr W . W . Rogers , Royal Oak Inn , Chelmsford ; MrS . Robirts , _Hind-hill Heywood ; Mr "W . Nicholson , Gainsborough ; Mr G 0 urge Cudip . _Swansea ; Mr VT . Carlten , Darlington ; Mr Samuel Sander , _Kew Radford ; Mr P . A . Love , _Lavington ; Mr T . _PkkerigiU . S 3 , _Dcan . _street , S „ ho ; of all Secretaries of the Land Company , and of the Secretary , Mr E . Stallwood , 2 , Little Vale-place , _Hammersmith-road , to whom all _applica-« ohs for _Agep-cies , & c ., must be addressed , and all Post-office orders made payable at the Hammersmith Postoffice . _Secretaries , agents , and others , are informed that the _re-lssue ef rules , & e ., is now ready , together with a ne _^ t show card , and can be obtained by application as above . EoHasD Stallwood Secretary .
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METROPOLITAN CHARTIST HALL . Capital , £ 10 , 000 , IK TES SHILLISG SHAKES . Committee of Management . Feargus O'Connor , Philip M Grath . William Tapp , Richard _Mathew-c . Henry K- tt . Jam-s Grrsby , Thomas Cla rk , George Juiian _Harney . Erue-t Jones , John Milne , _Joseph _Cbspman , John MiUward , George yewson , James j Slater , Vt _iliiam Uixon , John Savage . Luke King , _Christo-1 pher Doyle , Thomas Lucas . William Cufftiy , William Ltc John Skrlton , John Fusse ' _il , Charles Turner , John Shaw . Robert Cummin * . William Allnutt , Elijah Nobbs , Thomas Antil , George Fox , 'Thoraas Clancy , John Sewell , Samuel Bre-. verton , John Cartwright , Jolm Ford , John landou . reargue O'Connor , E . _'q , Treasurer . _Phi ' ip M'Grath , Sub-Treasurer . Wil . him Tapp , Secretary . Auditors . Mr William Rider . | Mr John Cartwright . Solicitor . James Ma-n _^ mara , _E- q ., _S , Cleveland-row , 5 t James ' . _BaiiX- - — National Land and Laoour Bank . Cffice . —Hi , High Holburn . ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE TO THE PUBLIC . The Chartists of the metropolis , after a period of < _juieseence induced by an unmerited confidence in the promises of government , and by a desire to give the rocalled remedial measures of political Economists a fair trial , and finding that nothing is to be expected at the hands of privileged factions and f . iith . breaking cabinets but that tbe people must be the champions of their own _^ auso , art rc-sulred no longer to depend on others for that which they can do themselves , but to use every exertion in farthering the cause of the Charter . As _thi ' ineiropolis ou _^ ht to be the centre point of th » national moveimnt , so it is requisite that ia the metropolis there should be one recognised centre of _-icitation . This it is _propoi-ed to create in _theahuvf-namtd Hall . The _ComT-i'te-, therefore , invite the _co-operation of the public , on the following grounds : — That such a Hall will bea powerful means for strengthening and rallying Chartism , inasmuch as it will thu 3 be brought prominently before the public eye , be no longer exclusively consiirncd to the obscure locality , and the reproach be obviated , thatit is housed in tha tavern and _intspable of rising to the loftier arena of national agitation . That it will prevent a period of apathy and disorganisation from ever overtaking the metropolitan movement , _« rnreit will bind its various elements together and _conc » ntrate them in one _democrats centre . That it will make proselytes to the cause , as it is propased to erect the Hall in someleading thoroughfare , and thO !» e will be attracted to enter , who either never hear of , or are disinclined to join the locality meetings as at present held . That , as an Investment , the committee , bearing in view the frequent failures of similar _undertakinjEE _, can _confidently _recommend the present one , as it is intended to erect an edifice capable of accommodating several _thousand _iiersons ; aud such a Hall , in a central situation , has long been a desideratum in the _metropolis , there heinjr no structure of adequate ' dimensions , for many sSentific , pictorial , mechanical and other purposes . The Committee , therefore , earnestly call on British 5 _* gj _31 einocracy to support this undertakine ; to reflect on the •' _-jStstidingand position similar establishments haTe _conferrei on other parties ; oil the necessity for centralising _t _» r movement , to frustrate the _centralifiog policy of mo-H _^ pniy ; and on the facility with which funds way be tflitained for such a purpose , where the tangible reality end the certain return are evident , and in which the monetary advantage is combined with the political . investmeat . The committee _be _^ to call the attention of the public , to the strict measures adopted in the rules , for insuring { _Insecurity of the funds and the correct application efthe money , and to state , further , that they have been duly appointed by the metropolitan delegate council , the representatives of the entire Chartist body in the metropolis . Rally , then . Chartists ! Rally , all true Democrats ! to raise a temp le for liberty and justice , where the princij des of democr « cy may be gathered in one focus and thence radiated over the country at large ; whence the Jiand of fellowship will be extended to all real friend ? , irrespective of creed or class , but in which no compromise will he entertained with the enemies of equal lights and equal laws , By order of the Committee , William Tapp , Sec
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_LAJTD . TO BE SOLD , at Snig ' s End , a FOUR ACRE ALLOTMSST . Persons trilling' to treatfor the same , are requested to apply to J . B . Crews , Newton Abbott , Devon , _ttattBg tbe highest amount they will give .
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\ V . rll _& * - THREE OR FODR ACRE ALLOT . Jnt » , ? r _Z . 7 ' or wlli '' 1 ' the . tenant trill pay four per _«™ _frfn ? i , _? _M * ! totn _Plncea to the _credit of the . AyflSto Mr JaroiFam -j _, _Cawe _^ treet , Liverpool ,
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Just Published , Price is 6 d per dozen . 4 LETTER , addressed to the Trades Orders , and to T » R rrrfS _^ o _^ _fS . _^* ' on the PRINCIPLES OF Ivf » _vixT _Jv . ' I _? NATIONAL LAND COMPANY , _iJit ? _t lVA _f - _^ nd labour bank with f" ° _** " _utte character and objects of the'Whistler , ' by iv . B . Robinson . May be had of Mr Thomas Mather , Agent , 51 , He > rod . street , Ancoats , Manchester . b ' _»" _- _'
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PORTRAIT OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR , Esq ., M . P ., r MARTI !* * informs his friends and the . Chartist body A generally , that he has reduced the price of his lithographic full-length portrait of their Illustrious Chief to the _foUowius _j-riee : —Prints Is ; eoloured ditto , 28 . 6 d . PEOPLE'S EDITION . To be had at the _Noethesk Stak office , lfi , Great _Windmill-street , Haymarket ; Sweet , Goose Gate , Nottingham ; Heywood , Manchester , and all booksellers in the United Kingdom .
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IMPORTANT NOTICE , THE LONDONERS HAVE ~ BEGUN A HOME FOR HONEST INDUSTRY . Patrons .-T 8 .. Duncombe , Esq ., M . P ., T . Wakley , Esq ., MP ., B . Bond Cabbell , Esq . M . P . Have you read the Tract oa the Land and Building Society tor the Working Millions ! If uot , get it . read it . I rice only One Penny . Published far the Society , by G . Perger , 19 , Holywell-street . StvaAd . Sold by all cheap . ' , H , * , _" "' , aild the Society ' s agents : also to be had , with full information , of Daniel William Ruffy , secretary , offices of the Society , 13 , _Tottenhara-coart , New-road , St _r-uncras , London , by sending three _postace stamps .
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BIRTH D AY OF THOMAS PAINE . A PUBLIC TEA PARTY ' , to commemorate this evant , will take place at the _HALI . of SCIENCE , Commercial-place , City-road , on Sunday , January 3 _i ; th . Mr G . tale , <* iitor of the sew Yobk _Beacon _, will preside as chairman oui lhe occasion , Messrs Hetherington . Holyoake , Linton , Moore , Watson , and other friends , will address the company during the evening _. Tea on the table at half-past five o ' clock . Tickets niaepence each , to be had of J . Watson , 3 , _Queen'n Head-passage , Pat « _rnoster-row ; _Httherington , 57 , Judd-slreet , _Ncvr-road ; atthe Hall of Science , City-road ; and ofG . J . Holyoake , 15 , _Riclnnond-Grore , Barnsbury-road , Islingten .
National Petition In Scotland.
NATIONAL PETITION IN SCOTLAND .
The Executive Committee Have Appointed D...
The Executive Committee have appointed Dr M'Douall as the representative of the National Charter Association in Scotland . The mission of the Doctor to that country will be to forward the National Petition , which is fo he presented in May next , and it is hoped that the Scottish Chartists will aid him in every possible wav , so that the petition may be truly the voice of the nation , demanding a nation ' s rights . Dr M'Douall will i ) e in Glasgow ia time to com menee Ins labours there on Monday , January 31 st , and the Glasgow Council are requested to make the necessary _arrangements to secure the efficient application of the Doctor ' s services .
Newcastle-On-Tynb District. Mr John West...
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNB DISTRICT . Mr John West will commence his labours in furtherance of the National Petition an < * the National Charter Association , at Newcastle-on-Tyne , on Monday , January 31 st . All parties iu the North requiring the services of Mr West , to communicate with Mr _Jusbett , No . 10 , Gibson-street , Newcastle-on-Tyne .
MIDLAND DISTRICT . Mr Samuel Kydd is appointed by the Executive Committee to agitate the Midland counties , in support of the National Petition and the National Charter Association . Mr Kydd will commence his labours at Northampton , on Monday , January 31 st . Localities in the Midlands requiring the services of Mr Kydd , to comeiunicate with the Executive Committee at their Office , No . 144 , High Holborn , London . LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE DISTRICT Mr Daniel Donovan , of _Maafftefiter , . beea appointed by the Executive Committee to further the National Petition , and strengthening tbe National Charter Association .
Mr Donovan will commence his labours at Mac clesfield on Sunday next , January 23 rd . _CHHiBTorai _bJ Dons , Secretary .
Just Ellbllfcsh'iid, F Uniform With The " Lmiodk&K" Magazine,)
JUST ellbLlfcSH'iiD , f Uniform with the " Lmiodk & k" Magazine , )
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l'rice ua . A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON SPADE HUSBANDRY , _bektg the results of f « ur years' experience , Bv J . SlLLEIT . _M'Gowan and Co ., 16 , Greut Windmill-street , Loudon and may be hud of all booksellers .
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Just Published , price _Oaa Penny , A LETTER by _Fkaboos _O'Conmoe , _liso _... M . P ., 'TO THE RICH AND THE POOR ; To those who Live in Idleness Without Labour , and to those who are Willing to Labour but Compelled to Starve . ' Price ? s . par 100 . or 18 * . per 1000 . ( _"OTHAT MAY HE DONE WITH THREE ACRES _« V OP LAND , ' Explained in a Letter , by _FeaboCs O'Commob , Esq ., M . P . To be had at the Office of the National Land Company HI , High Holborn .
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Now Ready , a New Edition of MR . O'CONNOR ' S WORK ON SMALL FARMS To be hao . at the Mjrlftern Star Office , 16 , Great Wind will Street : and of Abel Heywood Manchester .
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JUST PUBLISHED . PBtCB 61 XPENCB , NO . Kill OF " THE LABOURER , " _con-tekis , 1 . The Funeral of the Year and its Epitaph , } Ernest . I _oiu-s . 2 . Our New Year's Address . 3 . _iBsurreetions of the Working Classes . —The Men ' of Kent asid Essex , 4 . The Scotch Critics and tho Laud Company . 5 . The Romance of a People . 6 . The Poor Man ' s Legal Manual .-7 . National Literature—* The Infernal Comedy . 8 . Our National defences . 8 . Literary Review . Letters ( pre-paid ) to be addressed to the Editor ' s , 16 Great Windmill Street , Hay-market , London . Orders received by nil _ageats for the "Northern Star " and all booksellers in town and country _.
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THE PORTRAIT OF MR JONES . This portrait will be in the hands of our Seotch agents in time for issue on the 29 th instant . Our agents in or near Edinburgh will have tlieir parcels forwarded to the care of Messrs \ V . and H . Robinson , 11 , Greenside-street . Parcels for other parts of Scotland to the _cate of Mr VT . Love , 10 , Nelsonstreet , Glasgow . Our Yorkshire , Lancashire , Lincolnshire , Nottinghamshire , Derbyshire , Cheshire , Leicestershire , Northamptonshire , -Warwickshire , and Gloucestershire agents will receive the portrait in time / or issue on Saturday , February 19 th . The more southern counties , Yfales , and Ireland , on the following week . Agents in the county of ; Durham must apply to Mr j . Turnhull . Side , Newcastle . Yorkshire , to Mr J . Cooke , G 7 , Meadow-lane , Leeds . Lancashire and Cheshire , to Mr A . Heywood , 58 , Oldham-street , Manchester . Those agents having weekly hookparcels from London will have the portrait sent in their own parcels .
The Northern Stak, Saturday. January 22. 1848
THE NORTHERN STAK , SATURDAY . JANUARY 22 . 1848
The Metropolitan Chartist Hall. We Have ...
THE METROPOLITAN CHARTIST HALL . We have already attracted the attention of our readers to this important subject , and in our present number the Committee of Management have issued an Address , embodying their views and objects . The necessity for a Metropolitan Hall , dedicated to our principles , must long have been apparent , and . we consider the plan essentially and eminently good , both as a political and pecuniary investment . We trust that all good Chartists who can afford to take' one or more
shares , will be influenced by the first consideration—and , indeed , anything that strengthens the political power of-the people IS a good pecuniary investment , since where popular power and popular laws dominate , labour would receive its due , and trade no longer be one great cheat , by the wholesale dealer of the retail dealer , aud by the latter of those he employs , and by either of the public . There is , indeed , something eminently practical in those political combinations and agitations , which some shallow thinkers designate as " abstract
theories , or as " froth , " and " noise , " and " mere excitement . '' These organisations—these combined movements—aiming directly , without subterfuge and circumlocution , at the power of legislating on the abuses of the age—on the bad laws that engender the misery , the want , the oppressive features of a wretched social state—are by far more practical than those which merely endeavour to alleviate the sufferings of the afflicted . The former is applying remedies to the root of the evil ,- the latter is merely alleviating the symptom .
Now one of the chief beauties of the Land Company is , that while it alleviates the symptom , i . e . relieves the condition of some , it at the same time stimulates the energy of all , and strengthens the Chartist party in tlieir political organisation . Thus it will be with the intended Metropolitan Chartist Hall . Jt must not be regarded merely in a speculative point of view— -merely as a monied speculation , in the direct sense of the _word—though as we have said , highly promising as such—but as a means to an end—as an evidence of the power , which , by evidencing
some , creates more—as , in itself a powerful lecturer , predicating the cause of Chartismsaying , the movement shall be permanent , for here is its permanent home—here is the home within which we are sheltered against the passing frosts of apathy , the blasts of faction , and the storms of opposition—here is the battery whence we can direct our artillery against the ranks of those who , like a wary , but cowardl y besieging force , have undermined by double-faced laws and insidious attacks , the rights of labour and the property of the people .
There may be some who think that the money , intended to be raised , mi ght be more advantageousl y applied for the purposes of agitation . It IS applied for those purposes . For what else is the Hall to be raised ? It merely remains to be seen whether the means are adapted to the end . Now , we believe , that a better step in a g itation could , at tbe present moment , not be taken , or one more calculated to be lasting in its effects . We all know what Conciliation Hall did for the party who started it—we all know * the importance of a " local habitation'' as well as a " name' '
—we are aware of the great expense entailed on the Chartist body hy the desultory meetings , now held , in getting Halls , for which great difficulty exists , arid fur which Halls most exorbitant prices are ] j charged ; and , moreover , we believe , that most of the money paid in shares for the Hall , would not be spent for other purposes of political _agitutioi . _f We confidentl y hope to see a National Chartist Covention sitting when our great Petition is presented—and we hope that such Convention will sit for as long a period as practicable , to watch the proceedings in Parliament , and guide and time the movement in the country .
We wish to say a few words as to the organisation of the Committee . It is no body , self arrogating power—it has been dul y app ointed by the metropolitan Chartists , as represented by their Delegate Council , and with complete ' unanimity . We understand one-third of the Committee are to retire annually—and we consider this a very wise measure—since , under a general re-election , it is possible that a majority of those elected might be even hostile to the immediate objects of the undertaking , or , at least , unacquainted with the management .
In conclusion , we have but to observe , that we see all the elements of success herald the commencement , and we doubt not that this augury will be verified by a prosperous completion of the Chartist Hall . ? We call , therefore , on the Chartists of London to rally for this glorious object—to rescue thegmetropolisfrom the sti gma of not being
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able to raise aH . il—of not having a _ncognised centre of Chartist agitation—; inl _wj _, furthermore , exhort the Chartists of the country to suppo rt their London brethren , th . it they , too , may be worthily represented in the capital .
Juvenile Criminals. Up On No Great Quest...
JUVENILE CRIMINALS . Up on no great question has the slow ripening" of individual conviction into collective action , been more forcibly illustrated than upon the means for the prevention of Crime . The injunction ** Train up a child in the way he should go , " followed by the assurance that " When he is old , he will not depart from it , " is not more venerable in its antiquity than it is universally assented to ; and in practice , no precept is more generally or conHtantly neglected . It is no stretch of the fancy to say that hundreds of thousands of children annually
_er ow up amongst us utterly ignorant of all that fve term law and morality , and whose only intell igence is of that vicious kind which enables them to break the one , nnd to violate the other . Is it to be wondered at they are so , when it is remembered that the circumstances in which they are placed from infancy , preclude the acquisition of any other kind of habits and _intelligence ? Take the case of a destitute child of this description . To form a correct estimate of the influences hy which he is moved , we must not merely look at him when he is brought under the cognisance of the tribunals
for dispensing' _* justice , "butfollow him from the beg inningofhis career . In order fully to comprehend the operation of these influences , it is neces - sary that we should , as far as possible , divest ourselves of the opinions and feelings which have been created by the enjoyment of greater advantages , and try to realise to our minds the condition ofa cfu'Id horn in one of those courts , lanes , or alleys , in which the physical and the moral atmosphere are equally impure and corrupt . The squalid and miserable aspect of all external objects upon which the infant eye can alone rest , is only paralleled , in its vitiating
influence , by the pollution of the sensualism ot the adults who surround him . As soon ns he is able to use his limbs , he is cast off to provide as far as he can for himself , and a new epoch ot his life begins . He passes his time chiefly in the streets with , associates more advanced in age , and more deeply initiated in vice—and this at the very time when the mind and feelings are expanding to receive with conscious " ness the impressions of the surrounding world ; and where , from the susceptibility of his being , the nature of these impressions is almost
finally decisive of his character and pursuits . The fitarrip of criminality i _« thus almost inevitably fixed upon him . In this manner he may grow up * to the age of seven or eight years , without _coming into contact with any but the associates we have named ; and if occasionally a police officer penetrates into the world of vice , for the purpose of executing the law , the only result upon the imagination ofa child so trained muKt be a ghastl y fear of the delegates from a mysterious power , which inflicts suffering upon _tlwse whom lie knows , but why or wherefore
he is ignorant . His onn experience , however , soon gives him more distinct notions of the nature of that power . His petty p _ilferinge or importunate begging bring him at last under the notice of the State . It has suffered the poor victim to grow up neglected and ignorant , so _1-jng as he did not meddle with property , or disturb the repose of the " easy classes ; " but the moment that takes place , the juvenile " criminal" is pushed to the bar of the police office , his head scarcely reaching to the level of the rail , and spectators and magistrates hold up their hands , turn up their e \ es , and utter
exclamations of horror at the extent and virulence of juvenile depravity ! Why the whole previous existence of the little culprit has feeen leading him silently , but smrely , into that position . The consequent imprisonment and whipping to which he may be sentenced , neither enlighten his mind , nor diminish iiis evil propensitiesp erhaps add to the latter the feeling of revenge . He comes into contact with older graduates in the College of Crime—learns from them , and is then turned out into the streets without character or friends , to practice the lessons he has been taught . His inevitable fate is a course of immorality , in which he is interrupted again and again bv the arm of the law . To what
end ? To save him from destruction ? No ; but to avenge more and more cruelly upon him the consequences of that state of destitution and degradation , of which , culpable as he may be , by far the greater guilt rests upoii society itself . Thus he is driven on in the career of delinquency ; step by . step , till he is at length ripe for that last act of barbarity which the community perpetrates upon its abandoned members , to which it has never stretched out a hand of love . The Penal Colony , or such an exhibition as was given the other day in front of the Old Bailey , finishes the dismal tragedy . _Putting out of sight , for the moment , the moral and social monstrosities involved in this
by no means imag inary sketch of the career of a criminal , it is worth while to look at it briefly in a financial point of view . " The breeches pocket argument" is one which all parties can understand and appreciate . It is _estimated that , apart from the kiss caused by the plunder of each convicted thief , before he arrives at that stage which is considered tojustify transportation , he has cost the community from 150 / . to 200 / . in law expenses alone . But that is wholly inadequate to give a clear idea of the
burdens which we have to bear in consequence of our neglect of the proper and obvious means of preventing crime . The sums annually expended for p olice establishments , prisons , houses of correction , and similar institutions , are enormous , and there can be no doubt but that a large portion of the amount now expended under the head uf , Poor-rate _., is attributable to the fact that large masses are saf _> fered to grow up ignorant alike of industrial and moral habits ,
These considerations show the absolute necessity for the adoption of some efficient measures for the prevention of those crimes and vices , which we now vainly endeavour to suppress by retaliating evil upon their instruments . Instead of institutions for the apprehending , sentencing , transporting , ov hanging , those criminals who are , after all , but the victims of the present system , establishments ought to he generally formed in _whielvthe children of the destitute , the vicious , and the criminal may be educated to a contrary course of life , and under different circumstances . The means at present expended upon measures of public vengeance ought to be by degrees appropriated to measures of public utility , by which
the rising generation would be preserved from growing up in the midst of deep ignorance , corruption , and vice . Although this might , in the first instance , require a larger outlay , it would in the end amply repay itself ; so that , ns we have said , even on the mere ground of economy such a course recommends itself . It is a delusion to think that society has the choice whether or not it will provide for all its members . Each individual that grows up in it must find a livelihood some way or other ; if he be not put in the way to earri it in a lawful manner , he will seek it by unlawful means . If society refuse to take notice of him as an , object of its care and protection , he will force it to notice him as an object of its self-defence and its vengeance .
Such being the case , would it not be wiser that society should g ive the attention , and incur the expense involved in the adoption of the correct system , at a time when it has it in its power to make them available for the proper _education of the individual to an honest and sober life , and to a useful particip ation in the labours which society lequires , than , in the vain hope o _. evading such an expenditure of attention and money , leave the individual in a condition in which he must infallibly beeome an enemy ? Would it not be wiser to attach him at an early period to society , by the ties of gratitude , than to punish him , when it is too late , for an || alienation which is but the natural consequence of his destitution ? j
We are aware of the triteness of these observations ; but such is the snail-like progress of the most important truths towards efficient practical realisation , that it becomes a duty to urge them frequently upon public attention . In doing this , we by no means forget tfiat local and voluntary efforts , based upon these /• rounds , are now making- in various parts of the country . The « Ragged Schools —an ugly title , by the way , and , so far ns we have seen them , after being a short time established , not at all applicable—are an exemp lification of the fact , and an illustration of the
truth , of the importance , and of the beneficial results of the practical application of the prin cip les ve now advocate . They have excavated some small portions of the dense mass of ignorance , destitution , and criminality , which exist among the densely peopled lanes and alleys of our great cities . They have shown that there in truly a " soul of goodness" to be found among these victims of evil influences , which it only requites the kindly heart , the friendly word , and the helping hand , to evoke ; but—and it is with regret we notice the defect—the good is seriously impaired .
the charity damaged , by being associated with sectarian dogmas and the communication of a number of theological abstractions , which it is impossible the poor little help less victims of past neglect can at all comprehend , or which can he of the slightest use to them . They are , in fact , looked at more in the light of auxiliary aids for obtaining recruits for sects , than making industrious , honest , and brotherly citizens . No effective or adequate p lan to meet the requirements of
the case , can be carried out by voluntary or isolated efforts . The power of the whole peop le must be brought to bear upon it , through the medium of the Legislature and the . Executive Government . Cut , in the meantime , these voluntary efforts have their value , as showing , by practical example , what can be done . Tbey take the case out of the category of " theories , '' and p lace it in _-ihat of facts . They point out the path on which it is necessary to travel to ensure success .
This has been most clearly done by those Institutions which have acted in the most rational , comprehensive , and unsectarian spirit . The first of these Schools was that established some years since at Aberdeen , by Sheriff Watson . He speedily discovered that industrial as well as intellectual training was required by the poor outcasts for whom he laboured in so benevolent and enlightened a spirit . He has just published an interesting
report on Juvenile Crime in that city , in which he proves triumphantly , hy statistics of the most valuable and suggestive description , the decrease of committals since the introduction of Industrial Schools . In preference , however , to _givinp any of these _figures , _w-e quote two cases , whicii affectingly and graphically delineate the unhappy , and helpless condition of the class who annually contribute their quota of recruits to the ranks of the standing army of criminal * .
A _remarkab'y hopeful , truthful girl , of twelve yearn of nge _luayp the sheriff ) Vaus lold her story to the matron ofa prison : — ' * I used _togonbwit with athcr to ask for a piece of bread or a bawbee . I ran awnyfrora him because he beat me . My mother died wheu I was a wee bairn . She is the only person I can remember who ever told me what was _riijht . I could not read at all when I came to prison , bnt I could say the prayer mother taught me before she died . I have no other relation than my father that I know of . but a _s > ister . I suppose she must be going wrong , because we never had anybody to care tor us and teach us to do Went . " And the poor motherless bairn was sent to prison to learn the elements of _useful knowledge , and receive the first lessons in morality and religion . Again :
A very little girl , of nine or t < w years of a _^ e , ap . penred to bo one of tho most unfit objects for prison that could ba well imagined , till her poor deformed sister , smaller than herself though a year or two older , was pointed out in another cell . They were the _danphtors ofa _maimeddisabled sailor , who in _asserting Britain ' s glory had lost both his legs , and ( random ! the countrj in a cart sceompanied by the children , _begging as they went . They had b _.-en
sentenced to twelve mnnths imprisonment for stealing apples . The _youngest was an industrious child _, willifl _; . ' to ide & sc , and finishing her daily task of oakum-picking lung before _evening . The eldest child was more than ordinarily intelligent , and quite -vware of her desolate situation . She cried bitterly a * she _s'lid ** Our life has heen a viry _sair one . I lme _hea-d say , my mother killed herself with drinking ; and I have just heard that father haB died since we lave been here , and now we have no friend to
care for us ' Sheriff Watson ' s remedy is the Industrial School , not only for young beggars but for voung thieves at the beginning of their career , and all experience proves him to be right in his suggestion . We must repeat , however , our own deep conviction that the ' evil is of too great a magnitude for any individual efforts to cope with it , while , as we have attempted to nhnw , nut only the highest moral and social interests of the community demand an effectual remedy , hut also that the nation would gain largely—in a pecuniary sense—b y the devising and application of such a remedy , Lookinir at the fiscal difficulties of the
present Government , and the _preponderance of the mere shopkeeping mind in Parliament , we , much fear that the time has not yet come for the adoption of such a radical and rational course , with reference to this pressing and important question . But , in the meantime , it is the duty of all who have any influence over public opinion to keep tbe subject before society , and to endeavour to awaken that universal and vital interest in its success , which can alone lead the way to its final and satisfactory settlement .
The Increasing Distress. A Short Time Ba...
THE INCREASING DISTRESS . A short time back fallacious hopes were being raised , that trade was becoming better , that the Free-trade promises would be realised , because , forsooth , a few mills commenced running full time . It has , as we predicted , proved but one of those fallacious gleams that make misery mora keenly felt by renewing disappointment . We now receive reports of fresh calamities befalling the operatives with every day—and of fresh aggressions on the part of their- employers . , At _Ashton-under-Lyne , several mills are again expected to commence forthwith running short time .
At Blackburn , the notice recently given by the millowners of a reduction of ten per cent _, in wages , has raised the greatest excitement among the operatives , who are on the very verge ofa general strike . At Bradford , the destitution continues unabated , and the emigration-bait is being continuall y held out to the starving . Poor-rates are beginning to weigh heavily on tho small shopkeeper , and the millowners , themselves , burdened with the mass of misery they have
created , are now endeavouring to crown robbery by banishment . The people themselves are unwilling to emigrate—they still cling to the dear land of their fathers—and when they go , it is with a broken spirit and a desponding heart ; . Some say , _iudeisd' * We can't be worse off , than we are now . '' Possibly so j but their absence will not relieve the Poor , it only relieves the Rich of the poor rate , and we advise them to stay in their native land , and to hang the dead weight of their misery on the sinking institutions _ of _ monopoly ,
EMIGRATION RELIEVES THE OPPRESSOR AND NOT THE OPPRESSED . Stay at home , working-men ; you have want and misery at home , it is true—the same awaits you in the Colonies . Remember the letter we published from the Governor-General of Canada to the Colonial Office , sometime since . Think of the re erds of Colonial _f-imine and fever reaching us daily , of non-employment and competitive labour . By staying at home you perplex monopolyyou strengthen the power of your "fellow sufferers—and , with due energy and wisdom , you will infallibly lay the foundation for _abetter state ol things . It is not b y running away that the battle is won—it is not by flight you can escape the ruin that _awaite the cowardly—but
The Increasing Distress. A Short Time Ba...
by boldly facing - tiie foe , and joining j tne general ' cry for redress that , deepening every hour , may grow into a thunderburst if timely rec _ognition of the People ' s Rights be not obtained . The same destitution alluded to above ig general throughout the country . From Manchester to Norwich—from the Humber to the Wye—behold one scene of misery , while London itself is no ?• xception . Well mi ght the Judge , in summing up at the Middlesex Sessions , on the case of the six men indicted for stealing a loaf of bread to save their lives after they had not tasted food , nor heen in bed for eig ht-and-forty hours—well might he s ay
" It was dreadful to contemplate , that in thisgreat and wealthy metropolis so many unfortunate men should be walking about the streets in a state of starvation , and committing robberies to satify the cravings of nature . _'" Yes , ye great ! Yes , ye privileged robbers ! and it is your work ! See what you have brought this country too — once merry England— - fertile , fruitful , and abundant ; now one great edifice , part palac _? , p art bnstile . You have so changed it , that _' ye recommend banishment to save its people from starvation ; and by your commercial measures , abuse its energies togrow gold for the rich , instead of food for th & poor . And now that , like all liars , you are ever forced to fly to a fresh falsehood to screen tbe
last ; now that you have paraded measure after measure promise after promise , till all fail , and the flimsy garments fall away , leaving your naked deformity apparent ; now you have recourse to coercion , the last barefaced argument of despotism . Is it , then , not high time to rally for the Charter—that practical and glorious measure that shall sweep away this mass of destitution ? For admitting , as all must , the capabilities and resources of our ountry _, what in wanted but to take the incubus of bad laws off its
breast , that it may breathe the pure air of a strong and healthy life ? How plain , how apparent would be the result , that wealth , lavished in the _superflHOus luxuries of the rich , locked up in wasted lands , ( we do not even allude to the " waste" ) , wrung in taxation , to be squandered in prodigality—drained from one part to be accumulated in another , am' then the
RETURNING CHANNELS INTERCEPTED , this wealth alone , equally distributed , would gladden the whole country with one tide of comfort . What prevents it ? Bad laws , class legislation . Who pass the laws ? A privileged few , whose interest it is to oppress , since tbey reap the benefit . Break down the system , then—raise the Charter , and that which is declared the object of all good government will be obtained : " the greatest possible good _,, for the greatest possible number "—for the " great number ; " the people would then govern , and self-interest would make them seek
to obtain " the greatest possible good > " while the enlightenment which even Lord John Russell has so recentl y recognised , would ensure their embracing the right means to the desired end . Rally for the Charter , then—every measure that has not this great _object in . view , is mere political tinkering . The Charter and the Land . And we would say to the men of Blackburn and the destitute districts , "Let not passion get the better of your judgment—do not struggle for a mere rise in wages—which , if yon gain , is but nn April-gleam , that a fresh cloud will overcast as soon as seen-but strive forthe
Charter and the Land ! Then you will live on the fruits of your labour , and by your political power secure its continuance , its safety and enjoyment . Be no longer shuttlecock between the battledores of Whig and Tory , of Freetrader and Protectionist . Do not struggle for a mite added to your scanty pittance , but fo the command of the resources which you , and you onl y , created—for the right of your o w thoughts , and the control of your own musc ] es and sinews : in short , strive for independen instead of an ALLEVIATED SLAVERY . " _'
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Public Monies. We Request All Sob-Secret...
PUBLIC MONIES . We request all Sob-secretaries , and other _pers-ns who may have occasion to send public monies to the Metropolis , to pay attention to the following directions : — Monies for the understated purposes must be addressed as follows : —
Payments for the Northern Star , ' _Fearguo O'Cmuor , E < q ., M . P ., 16 , Great Windmill . Rtreet , Haymarket . National land and _Labour Bank . ' The _Minayer of the National Laud sad LabcUP Back , Ko . 493 , N « w Oxford Street , London . ' Rational Lxnd Coinpwy . ' The Directors of the _Na'ional Land Company , No » li * , High Holborn , L ¦ _adon . * National Charter Association . Mr Thomas _Clirk , Nd . 114 , _Hijjb Holborn , London , Cen ' ral Regislra'ion and Election Committee . Mr J : uii ( ii QrAwby . W 8 , _Njati'a A . rlt-uoutt , S . U _& - sate , _Lanibt-th , _London . '
National Viettm , and Wid *< es and Orphms Fund . Mr Julia Simpson , Eltn Cottage , Waterloo-street , _Cambsrwell _, London . ' For Mrs W Jones . Mr John Simpson , Elm Cottage , Waterloo-street , _Camberwell , _London . ' Metropolitan Chartist HM , 'Mr — Tapp . No & i , _Finsbury Market , _L-rndon . ' Def nee of Mr . _O'Connor ' s Seat in Parliament . ' ilr _Tiionua Ciark , No . 144 , High _llolb . rn , London . PrOSMution o / t _* ie Jfiiii «? i « ter J 5 x : imis « f . Mr Thomas Chirk , No . H 4 _High ilolborn , Loudon , * The Sleaford Case . Mr Thomas Clark , No . 144 , High Holborn , LondOB , The Fraternal Democrats , ' G , Julian Hnrn-y , No . 16 , Great Windmill-street Haymarket , London . '
United Trades' Association . 'Mr Barratt , No . 11 , Tottenham Court Road , L » ndon . ' < _ggr Monies sent con ' rary te the above directions wm not be acknowledged .
_MtSCELLAKKOUS . J . Wood , Tiverton . —We do not remember to have seen t _^ e Hiic _^ . C . Boom , Almondbury . —May be inserted some day . Poetry . — ' A Chartist Father to his Infant Son '— ' Tbo Land , '— 'Short Tiiue , ' - 'The Ileal O'Connor Tartan , an * ' Song to the men of Scot _' and _'—not admissible . The Belfast Man . — We have received copies oftho Hanneb ok Ulster , containing two jioeticul p ieces by ' The _lltl _ast Man , ' which we will , as soon . is possible , transfer to our columifs . Sto 6 kpokt Election Committee . —Will Mr J . F . M'Cormai-k , late ct * Stockport , _s-.-ud His address to JJr T . IIij ; litoii , No . 7 , Little _Egcrton-street , Heaton-lane , Stockport . C . Seorave . —The first part ufyour letter has been for .
warded to Mr O'Connor . As _regards the Poles , thero are bad as well as good , just as there are plenty of bad Englishmen . The Polish cause is quite independent of the good or bad conduct of individual Poles . Public Monies . —A metropolitan reader has sent ns a letter complaining of the non publication of the receipt of niynies contributed by him to various public objects . After _enumerating several items , our _correspondent says : — ' In Augu ;> t last , I contributed 2 s 6 d to the General Election Fund , ' nnd expressed a particular desire that it shouUl be properly accounted for in the name that if iwij picen , _howtvur I see that it is not accounted for m the balance _flieet of t e General Election Fund , _at « _ciren in the Northern _Stah of January l * t . Xo oneoai * reasonably suppose that the sums given by me are _thu only monies that nevvr reach the object they are
intended for , but it is quite reasonable to believe , from mp estperienee , that there are hundreds of pounds annually subscribed for the various branches of the Chartist Movement , that aro not applied to the purposes intended by the giver . ' Wo niu 6 t express our eutire dissent from the opinion entertained by our correspondent ; concerning the honesty of the collectors of Chartist monies . We believe that so . far from hundreds of _pjuiuls bting _mlSRjiplhd by the collectors , there _arenot even hundreds of fat-things that are applied in any other way th _.-m that dictated by , the donors . If onr corre » i < ondeiit ' s 2 s 6 d has notbeen acknowledged in the Registration Committee ' s _^ balance sheet , it does notfollow that his subscription was not paid to the committee . _Tt is preposterous to expect that _everj item contributed to a fund by thousands of subscribers can . appear iu a printed balance sheet . Why may not the maun ho gives sixpence or a penny equally insist upon
seeing his subscription iu the Stak ! -and if that were granted would it be possible that we could burden the-Star with a balance sheet , whicii would cover perhaps two or three pages ) The fair course we consider tote this : —A committee is formed to raise a fund for a certain purpose . That committee from within and without its own ranks appoints' collectors , ' each furnished with a _properly-authenticated book . Eaeh collector pays over to the committee the amount collected by him ; the committee examining tho several itvme and giviDff a receipt for the whole . Of courso no man would give his money to a collector of whose honesty he entertained doubts . Should doubts subsequently arise , the contributor should demand of the collector to see las book . If the ' amount' acknowledged by the _oc-ramittee's receipt , Included the sum given by the contributor , of course he would be sati-lied ; if not , U would be _hiis dut , v to apply to tho committee for iuueiry aad -
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 22, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_22011848/page/4/
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