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      4 The Northern Star. .„-. ¦ . August 25,...

      4 THE NORTHERN STAR . _. „ _-. ¦ . August 25 ,: 1849 . .

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      A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of the Author , of _PAIHE'S POLITICAL WORKS .

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      EUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED WITHOUT . A _TJ-USSJ—CAUTIO . V . _-DR . WALTER DE "ROOS , 1 , _Sly-Tjlace , Holborn-hill , London , still continues to _supplv the _afiticicd with his celebrated CCKEfor SlXGLE or IJOUBLE 11 VPTVBES . the efficacy of which is now too well established to need comment . It is easy in application , causes no inconvenience whatever , and will be sent , post free , on receipt of Cs . Gd ., by Post-office Order , er . stamps . Dr . P . ft . has a great numoer of old trusses left behind by persons cured , as troplues of his immense success , which he wiU almost give away to those who like to wear them . Hours—ten _tfll one morning * , and from four till eight evening . " It has quite cured flie person for whom you sent it , and vou wffl he so good as to send two for other persons I tnow" _—Ue v . IL Watson , Ifigham Ferrers . jf B . —Inquiry will prove the fact tliat no remed y is cmploved at any Hospital in England , France , or elsewhere , " _JiiMwIi" - *" " - _** la remedy known .

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      _IA 61 AAT _JJASit-LASTLV-tf CUKE . Trice Is . per Packet . _BRANDE'S ENAMEL , FOE FILLING DECAYING TEETH , and "RENDERING TnEM SOUND AND PAINLES S has , from its unquestionable ex cellence , obtained great popularitv at home and abroad Its curative agency is based upon a TRUE THEORY of the cause of Tooth-Ache , and lienee its great success . Bi _* most other remedies it is sought to kiU thc nerve , ana so stop the pain . But to destroy tlie nerve is itself a very painful operation , and often leads to very sad consequences , for the tooth tlien becomes : i dead substance in the living jaw , and produces tlie same amount of inflammation and -pain as would result from any other foreign body embedded in a Krai ,-organ . _UllAXDE'S ENAMEL does not destrov the nerve , but , by _RESTORING THE SHELL OF THE "XOOTII , comjdetely protects the nerve fi-om cold , heat , or chemical or _oUier agency by which pain is caused . By following tlie directions , INSTANT EASE is obtained , and a XA-T 1 NG CU 1 U 2 follows . Pull Instruction ! - aceon-pany evcry packet

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      HALSE'S SCORBUTIC DROPS . A SURE CURE FOR SCURVY , BAD LF .-GS , AND IMPURE KLOOD _. Anolher _snrprisiiig cure by means of Hake ' s Scorbutic Drops . _DECLAalTIO . V OF TnE ClMEBUXS OF BREST , DEVON * . We , tlie undersigned , solemnly declare , that before Thomas Rollins , ( one of our parishioners ) commenced _taikiBg _"ll-use ' s SiiUYbutie Drops , " he was litera % covered with large running wounds , some of them so large that a person might have laid his fist in them ; that before he had finished tlie first bottle lie noticed an improvement ; and that , by continuing _fliein for some time , he got completely restored to health , after everything else had failed _, lie l \ ad _tvittd various sorts _ni medicines " before taking "Halse's Scorbutic Drops , " smd had prescriptions from the most celebrated physicians in this country , without deriving the least benefit — llalse ' s Scorbutic Drops" have completely cured liim , and lie isnow enabled to attend to his lalnur as well as any man in our parish . From other cures also made ia this part , we strongly recommend "Halse ' s Scorbutic Drops" to tlie notice " of the public . Signed by Jons _Eluott , sen ., Lord of the Manor ; John _"SHis . visc , Willtam Peakse , _IIkxet _Guoimun _, and ABTn . cn _lAxcwosn-nr- —June 21 st , ISIS .

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      BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS . The acknowledged efiicacv of BLAIR'S GOUT AND ItnEUjIATlC PILLS , by the continued series of Testimonials which have been sent to and published by the proprietor for nearl y twenty years , has rendered this -medicine the jiiost popular ofthe present age ; and in corroboration of which the following extract ofa letter , written by John _ilolard Wheeler , Esq ., Collector of Customs , _Jajn-uca , having been handed hy his brother , at Swindon , to "Mr . Prout for publication , will fdly confirm . " I know you have never had occasion to take Blair ' s pais , but let me emplmtically tell you in mercy to any friend who may suffer from gout , rheumatic gout , lumbago , sciatica , rheumatism , or any branch of that widdy-allied family to recommend their using them . In tliis country they are of wonderful efficacy : not only am I _pebsosaiay aware of their powers , but I see my friends and acquaintances receiving' unfailing ; benefit from their use . I would not be without them oa any account . If taken in tlie early stage of disease they dissipate it altogether : if in a later , they alleviate pam , and effect a much speedier cure than

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      On the 1 st of September will appear THE OPER ATIVES' FREE PRESS ; A Montlily Journal of LABOUR , POLITICS , AND EDUCATION . CONDUCTED BV 1 VOKKING MEN * . Price One Penny . Cambridge : J . Mouel ; London : J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row .

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      r rO BE DISPOSED OF TWO FOUR-- * - Acre Shares iu the National Land Company , thc holder being about to emigrate . Price £ 3 . Apply to John Broadhurst , CI , Newton-gardens , Newton Heath , Manchester .

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      _NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE . —Tliis is to give notice tliat the General Quarterly Meeting of tliis Branch will be held on Sunday , September 2 nd , at five o ' clock , when business of importance trill be brought before that meeting . It is also particularly requested that each member of the district pay his Levy of 3 d . per member , as early as possible , to defray the expenses ofthe Delegates to the last Conference , and also it is earnestly requested that all thc Branches in the District will at once come forward and pay tlieir arrears to tlie Conference held in Birmingham , iu October 30 th , 1818 , as the District Branch is a long way in debt in reference to thai Conference . Thomas Forbest , Sub-secretary .

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      RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS !! ! -Dr . GUTHREY having been successful in upwards of 7 , 200 cases of single and double *} RUPTURE , now offers his remedy to the public . In every case of Rupture , however desperate or long-standing , a CURE is GUARANTEED without the use of any Truss whatever . It is easy and simple in use , perfectly painless , and especially applicable to both sexes ofall ages Sent free on receipt of 6 s . by Post-office order or stamps , b yDr . IlESRY GUTnREY , G , Ampton-street , Gray ' s-innroad , London . At home daily , Ten till One . Dr . G . has received testimonials from all the most eminent ofthe faculty , as weU as from hundreds of patients who have been cured , and who have also left their trusses behind them as TROPHIES of his success , which may be seen by any one .

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      HUNGARY and the AUTOCRAT- ! "DO * VOU WISH TO HE ACQUAINTED -fflTn THE _niSTORT OP THE IHSE A ** * *" " _rROOBESS OP THE 1 _HJNOAHlAN STRUGGLE ? Ii ? SO , _BJEAB SOS . HI . ASD IV . 01 * THE " DEMbCKATIC BEYIEW . " _es-So IV . of the - DEMOCRATIC ttETTOW , " which will bo published -early next week , will ceiitain a continuation of the History ofthe War in Han-pry ; also the vemarkaWe Will of Peter the Great , and several other interesting articles on Home and Foreign Politics , Literature , Ac ., _*& c . Edited by G . JULIAN HARNEY . FoKt-r Paces ( in a coloured wrapper ) , Price THREEPENCE . London-: E . Mackenzie , 5 , Wine _Office-court , Fleet-street , and ( on order ) of all Booksellers aud News _Agents in 1 Town and Country .

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      Nauosal Land Co-want . —Any person wishing to purchase a paid-up four-acre share in tke Land Company , by applying to the Directors or to Mr . SutclifTe through Mr . Boonham at the office , wiU receive all necessary information . IIU . NGABT . —TO THE EdITOK OF THE NoBTHEBN _SlAB . —DEAR Sm , —I observe that throughout England the friends of non-resistanee are at much trouble to prove their consistency in holding peace principles , and supporting the Hungarians . I would recommend them to bury tlie word consistency , and substitute the word right . The Hungarian movement is so just that its influence is irrepressible-then why be so delicate ! Say , at once , "Death to the _Cossacks , and ' success to Kossuth and Bem , " and , above all , strive to make England do her duty . I also observe

      that the absolutist journals have published a semi-official reply to Lord Palmerston ' s speech , in which they-put the question on its true merit—to wit , are Austria and Hunfiry to be divided ? Let England , through her Home ecretary , answer in favour of Hungarian independence , then her government will be de facto , what , her people recognise de jure . As the question now stands , Hungary isguaranteed to Austria by treaty , to which England and Russia were parties . Break the treaty ; the step is a bold but a necessary oue . As for that bugbear—the " balance of power" —it is high time that it be re-adjusted . It has been a balance on the wrong side for upwards of thirty years , and cannot be too soon put to rights . —Faithfully yours , S . Kydd . —Carlisle . The Testimonial to the Hu . vgabians—The following appeal was recently laid before the workmen in the Locomotive Carriage and Waggon Department , South-Eastern Railway , Bricklayers'Arms station , Old

      Kent" AH men are brethren . " Englishmen ; Englishmen , Englishmen , Arouse "froni your slumbers ! ; ' - Fifty-five Hungarian loldiers _, who some months ago joined tlie Italian patriots , and turned their arms against the Austrian tyrant , have been by the reverses of war , cast upon the shores of this country , refugees from the vengeance of Radetski , thc fitting instrument of a bloodstained despotism . These brave Hungarians arrived here penniless , friendless , and worn down with hunger , sickness , fatigue , and wounds . Their position made known to tiie public through the press has already elicited considerable evidences of British sympathy , but further pecuniary aid is required to furnish those gallant

      patriots with the means of repairing to their native country , whether they desire to return to give the aid of their good swords to Kossuth and his gallant confederates , who at present are nobly struggling to save their fatherland from the sanguinary and brutalising sway of tlie Russian and Austrian tyrants . To testify your sympathy tor the heroic but unfortunate men cast upon tlie bounty of England , and to thereby express your admiration of the holy cause , in defence of which tlieir chivalrous countrymen are , at this moment , contending against barbarian force . We , therefore , earnestly implore you to contribute your subscriptions , and to do for these men as you would wish to be done for , under the like circumstances .

      The following sums , amounting to £ 1 2 s . 0 d ., were rereceived by Jlr . Osmond Martin , and by him paid over to Jlr . Julian Harney : —Osmond Martin , Is ; A Lover of Liberty , ls ; W . Chapman , Cd ; George Heather , ( id ; T . Drake , 3 d ; John Hughes , Gd ; J . Burton , ( id ; W . Whitehead , Cd ; T . Star , lid ; W . Mitchell , 3 d ; Henry Burrows , 3 d ; A . Heith , 3 d ; John Fearce , 3 d ; C . Fish , 3 d ; C . Harrison , 3 d ; E . Sherrington , 3 d ; C . _Offen , 3 d ; It . Stebbings , Cd ; J . Hornless , 3 d ; AV . Staples , Cd ; W . Frankum , ls ; Henry Feltham , Cd ; G . Frear , 3 d ; C . Barnett , 3 d ; G . Martin , 3 d ; W . Veiling , 3 d ; T . Soles , 3 d ; W . Holly , 3 d ; 5 . Welch , Gd ; J . Feltham , 3 d ; Z . Wilkings , 3 d ; Mr . R . Lec , 6 d ; Mr . 3 . Martin , ls ; B . Searle , 3 d ; E . Deddridge , 3 d ; J . Mcading , 3 d ; W . Soans , 3 d ; L . Casey , 3 d ; R . Burrows , 3 d ; J . Morris , fid ; G . Kelly , 3 d ; C . Barnes , fid ; Thomas Leiieham , Cd ; It . Swinerton , Cd ; James Riddle , Cd ; J . Childs , Cd ; J . Nicol , Gd ; G . Gray , 3 d ; Mr . G . Dummer , Cd ; W .

      Barnett , 3 d ; J . Ward , Gd ; J . Young , 3 d ; Mr . _Aobus , Cd ; W . Dickenson , 3 d ; Henry Knell , 3 d ; £ . Coxon _, 3 d ; W . Feltham , 3 d ; E . Denby , U . ' _igS * The account of £ 1 * Js Odwas paid over to the Sun newspaper by Mr . Harney on the 14 th ot August , and was acknowledged in that paper . HuscuiY Julian Harney acknowledges the following sums in aid of the Hungarian cause : —Collected at a Public Meeting at Berry-Edge , per Marie Dent , 13 s . ; James Powell , Monmouth , ls . ; " Wallace , " Id . J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of Is 5 d from Retford fur Conference expenses . —For Dr . M'Douall , Mr . Smith , Cd . —For Macnamara ' s Action , New Radford , per W . Smalley , 3 s Cd . _Kiukd-Alk Pitiso . vnRS . —Thomas Oiineshcr Acknowledges the following sums : —Fnilsivortli , per James Taylor , Us ; Bury , a Friend , per Mr . Jones , - ' s ; Bury , Victim-box , per Mr . Jones , as . Old .

      Mr . _Hemin has received , fov the Kivkdale Prisoners , fvom Padiham , per Robert Dodson , Os ; also from Hebden Bridge tlie sum of as . To the Editor of the Xoiithers Star . —Deaii Sir , —I am requested , by the Colonel Hutchinson locality , to call your attention to an article in the Nottingham Review entitled , "Work for the Recess . " They will be glad if you will find room in the 5 Iarfor . it . also the following resolution : — "This meeting is highly gratified with thc aforesaid article , it hoing a nohle vindication of the rights ofthe working man , and a just expose of the tyranny of the ruling class , and a noble call on Englishmen to arise and demand their just rights , and that wc feel grateful for such noble conduct . " —Yours fraternally , J . Wall . We are unavoidably compelled to postpone tho publication

      sent by tlie National Association ot trades , and a visit to Charterville , through press of matter . S . _Mooius . —We must persist in our refusal to give publicity to an irritating and useless discussion . J . Wrigle _** . —You cannot reasonably expect us to publish a comment ou an unpublished communication . Mr . Nisox , Lecturer , of Manchester , is requested to communicate with Mr . Enoch Sykes , 15 , Lucas-yard , Newtown , Hudersiield . Mb . _Neivtox , Leeds , has only sent the cost for one insertion of the advertisement . The duty is chargeable ou each separate insertion . Mn . Andrews , Terriugton , St . Clements . —You should have remitted 9 s . for tlie advertisements . E . _Remlap . —Declined . W . Mu . _ndav . —Received . R . Brook , Huddersfield . —Theletter shall appear next week .

      Portrait Of Kossuth, The ' Mgabufi Cheet...

      PORTRAIT OF KOSSUTH , THE ' _MGABUfi CHEETAH . The Portrait of Kossuth will be given with the " Star" of Saturday next , the 1 st of September , to our Lancashire and London subscribers , and on the following week to the remainder of our subscribers . The price of the Paper will be _Eichtfence . Agents must send their orders early .

      MR , O'CONNOR ' S TOUR . Mr . O'Connor will be in Nottingham on Monday , and in Sheffield on Tuesday next , ¦ which will prevent him accepting the invitation ofhis Loughborough and Sutton-in-Ashfiekl friends , but when making his political tour he promises to attend both places .

      The Lobthesf Stae Matskdav, August 25,1s49.

      THE lOBTHESf STAE _MATSKDAV , AUGUST 25 , 1 _S 49 .

      The "Dispatch" And Mr, O'Connor. While I...

      THE "DISPATCH" AND MR , O'CONNOR . While it is an admitted fact that the censure of slaves is adulation , it is equally true that the fair criticism of commentators is not only just , but should bc courted , and we freely grant to the "Dispatch "—not only the privilege , but the right , to criticise and scan severely the acts of every public man , and more especiall y the acts of him who has been so extensively gifted with the confidence of a large and independent class . With this view , and unwilling to snatch mere sentences from the article upon which wc are about to comment , we give in another part of the paper that article full and entire , and to its perusal we invite the strictest attention of our numerous readers .

      Our object has ever been the exposure and not the suppression of public opinion , however its growth or change may militate against our popularity by the exposure of our ignorance ; as nothing can be more essential to the developement of the improving mind , than a knowledge of its results , from a proper direction . The "Dispatch" has criticised Mr . _O'Connor in his political , and in his social character . In its political review he is placed in the same category with _Oastleii and Stephens , with whom he was never politicall y associated , but the fallacy of whose political principles he has

      always exposed ; while ho is made responsible for every act committed by those professing Chartism , whose acts ,. however , in many instances , were based upon sordid and selfish mo tives . But if we desired a perfect proof , and the strongest illustration of the value of that mind which Mr . O'Connor has industriousl y created , could we instance a stronger , a more irrefutable , or more conclusive one , than the fact that the strong party now seeking for political ascendancy is compelled to court that mind , as the only power and means by which its object can be accomplished . But if we required still stronger proof it will be

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      fonnd in thc still greater fact , that thc Representatives of that party , and their Press , _although confident of their inability to carry out their object without the co-operation oftho Chartist mind , are , nevertheless , anxious to jret rid of him who created that mind ; a circumstance most calculated to inspire thc belief that the intention is to pervert it to a class instead of a national purpose . The " Dispatch" tells us : — That we have seen thc end ifnot of the Charter at least of Chartism . It has had a strange and eventful history .

      We confess our inability to solve the meaning or to arrive at any solution of the above sentence—other than that Chartism , however violent it may have been in consequence ofthe tyranny of all opposed to it , is now about to accomplish its purpose , namely , the CHAKTER ; the onl y object of Chartism . Further on we are told : — The Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association has now directed the zeal ofthe misguided into a less tortuous channel , and made the torrent of Chartism to flow m a steadier , and therefore stronger current .

      Well , then , in the two foregoing sentences have we not the strongest laudation of CHARTISM as the means , and the CHARTER as the end . Not that the Chartists have abandoned Chartism , but that the Reform Association has all but accepted it ; and what , let us ask , has been the great difficulty that has haunted Mr . O'Connor in his varied but _consistent political career ? Has it not been the repudiation of the sayings , and doings , and declarations , and principles of those who have taken advantage ofthe hour of excitement and enthusiasm , consequent upon bad trade , to

      urge the Chartists on to physical force , in the hope of making profit by madness ? And what now would be the strength and the power ofthe Reform Association , if Chartism , the master quill , was p lucked from its wing ? And if they have been so weakened by deception and deceit , why this laudation at their union with those to whom they were formerly placed in antagonism ? But if we required stronger proof of the justice of the Chartist cause , will it not be found in the fact , that every speaker at the great Metropolitan meeting in Drury

      Lane Theatre , not only confessed their preference of , but actually contended for , four ofthe principles of the PEOPLE'S CHARTER whole and entire , namely : Vote by Ballot , Equal Electoral Districts , Universal Suffrage , and no Property Qualification . So that we may justly turn upon our former opponents and say , " Thank Cod you have gained wisdom from the past , and have now adopted those principles , the advocates of which , not long since , you not only despised and repudiated , but persecuted as employers and jurors . "

      Has the " Dispatch" ever reflected upon the rugged path through whicli Chartism has had to pass 1 Has the writer forgotten that Church aud State , the Queen , the Lords , the Commons , bishops , parsons , officers , soldiers , policemen , detectives , spies , informers , landlords , money-lords , placemen , pensioners , bankers , merchants , manufacturers , shopkeepers , perfumed Athenaeum tradesmen , judges , barristers , lawyers , jurymen , satisfied labourers , special constables , and , though last not least , the Press , and everv class that lived

      luxuriously upon the unrepresented and unprotected industry of the poor , were , one aud all , placed in the most dire hostility to those princi p les , whose sole and only object was to make the labourer "the first partaker oftho fruits of his own industry ; ' and when those facts are borne in mind , can a greater tribute of praise be offered to any man than to him , who , in defiance of these repugnant and opposingclcmeuts , has so created and organised the reviled party as to make them the terror of one class and worthy the courtship and fraternisation of the other ? And however the Chartist

      meeting of Keiiiiiiigton-common may be now reviled , it was the greatest triumph ever achieved by Chartism , and the greatest blow ever struck , at tyranny : and we would ask what Mr . O'Connor ' s position would have been , and how loud tho " 0 be joyful'' of his enemies would * have been on the 10 th of April , if , instead of sitting in the front ranks of thc Chartist troops , aud passing through thousands aud tons of thousands of policemen , special constables , and soldiers , with the Iron Duke at their head , aud the Treasury at their back , lie had skulked out of danger and allowed his

      companions to be sacrificed to the tyranny of the Government , and the vengeance of their myrmidons , anxious and ready to exhibit English loyalty as a lesson to then revolutionised Europe ? or what would have been the criticism of the Press upon the folly , the madness , andthe cowardice of Mr . O'Connor , if he had brought an unarmed multitude into deadly conflict with armed ruffians pantiug for thoir blood ? It is our triumph and not our defeat , upon thc glorious 10 th of April , that our rulers and their supporters lament aud writhe under .

      We are glad to find that it was the RABBLE and not the PEOPLE , who combined with the aristocracy to crush the Anti-Corn-Law League , aud we would remind the ¦¦ JDtspatch" of thc "Great Fact , " tbat the Chartists' opposition to the League was that it did not go far enough , inasmuch as the Chartists contended that , without Free Trade in representation , the industrious poor , who were tributary to the rich , could derive' no benefit from Free Trade in food , as their wages would bc correspondingly reduced ; and the truth of which is fully established by the fact , that thoso who then contended for mere Free Trade

      m food arc now recruiting thc Chartist force to contend for Free Trade in representation , as the onl y means by wliich the anomalous power of monopoly , of patronage , and the feudal systcm can bo utterly broken down . And has the "Dispatch" forgotten that although Chartists wero expelled from Free Trade meetings , and treated brutally by Free Trade professors , that tho Manchester Chartists , at one of the largest gatherings ever collected in that hive ,

      passed a resolution in favour of Free Trade the year before ifc became law , upon the just and honest principle , that if withheld in consequence of their opposition , it would enable the League to create hostility between the starving Irish , and impoverished English , and the Chartist body , upon the pretext , that but for their resistance they would have had food for nothing . . Tho -- Dispatch" says : —

      It may he conceded to Mr . O'Connor that he had the merit of organising the power of thc labouring classes , and concentrating their strength more effectually and formidably than they had ever been before ; and whatever may he our opinion of the total want of sense and discretion which characterised liis guidance of these elements ofpolitical effectuality , we cannot withhold our admiration from the unshaken fidelity and trustfulness which has been exhibited by his followers , or tlie energy and combining skill which , in his hands , might have better served a better

      cauce . The above is rather a censure upon the knowledge and discrimination of tho working classes , than upon Mr . O'Connor ; but when the working classes still preserve that confidence , as they no , it is a proof that he has not laboured in their cause in vain , for they , over faithful , grateful , and confiding , will cast their eye upon the past and exclaim , "But for the leadership of this unwearying , this disinterested , reviled , and persecuted man , would the day of auction have ever come when empower , our strength , and our resolution , was worthy the strongest competition of all parties , who now find that without us they are powerless , with us they arc powerful ? ' '

      Before Mr . O'Connor undertook the leadership of the industrious mind , it was capable of being seetioually catered for for the mere individual purposes of an interested person ; it was scattered like wild heather over the surface of the earth , but by his influence it is now amalgamated as ihe national mental strength , which no man get of men , can or shall scatter or break up . And those who vainl y imagine , or hope to destroy that mind for the purpose of directing it to some class purpose , will find their mistake .

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      The " Dispatch'' proceeds thus : — He has , as he now informs us , taken his leave of _jmblic life—not until , in our candid apprehension , it has t . iun leave of liitn . liis influence was great—has been abused , and has been lost . No . Never ! audif , paralyscdby ingratitude , grey-headed , and bowed down , with old age , tlie very rejoicings of his enemies at his departure from public life , has invigorated him , as if by magic , and taught him the wholesome lesson , that to his abandonment of the cause his

      enemies attach hope of its frustration . He will show them , before Parliament moots , whether ho has abandoned public life , and notwithstanding the hostility and thc rancour of the Press , there is not a large town in England , Scotland , and Wales , in which he will not develope the mind of the people , and test and prove its adhesion to the present movement , as neither insult , rancour , nor vituperation , shall ever make him an instrument to arrest the onward progress of freedom .

      Here we conclude our political comment upon the article in tho "Dispatch ; " and now turn we to the consideration of Mr . O'Connor ' s much reviled Land Plan . And we think that the following passage upon this Scheme will be as strong a justification for his social principle , as the " Dispatch " has furnished of his political consistency . The writer says : — Yet there is not a kingdom in Europe in which so small a proportion ofthe whole number ofthe people derive any support from the tilling of thc earth as in this realm ; the male adults employed in agricultural pursuits m Great Britain being not quite one-sixth of ths whole male adult

      population St the kingdom . Cottages have been pulled down whenever the peasantry have been wheedled into the union or hounded out of the parish by sham Game-Law prosecutions . The Irish landlords liave helped their clearance system by conspiring with steam-boat proprietor- to carry over the _ll'lx-rman bog-trotters to Liverpool or _Glasgow at nominal fares , and to charge exorbitant fates for the passage back to Ireland again . Small farms have been run into large ones—the rural districts have been desolated and depopulated . The masses ofthe people hare been driven into the large towns , and confined to the pursuit of manufacturing and handicraft industry ; while the few who have been left in the country to cultivate imperfectly the soilhave been reduced to a minimum of wages

      , inadequate to the supply of mere food , and totally incompetent to the acquisition of clothing and other secondary necessaries . These circumstances have resulted in the destruction ofa home trade . The equilibrium of occupation between agriculture and manufactures lias been altogether disturbed , "five-sixths ofthe population have been made producers of clothing and other manufactures . Only one-sixth have been left to bc their customers in exchange for food—aud the impoverished condition of that one-sixth is so great , that they ave all but profitless consumers of the produce of the towns ; insomuch that thousands of the peasantry go without any new purchases of clothing fov many years . Now the object of this Land Scheme is to restore tliis equilibrium . It proposes to

      create a large new class of rural freeholders , who , by the acquisition of county qualifications , shall acquire that stake in the country , whicli is the best guarantee for order , and attain an amount of political power whicli may transfer the representation of tlie country from the peers to the people . It designs to transpose a large proportion of theindustry of the country from tlie pursuit of manufactures , in wliich there is too much competition and too little consumption , to agriculture , in which there is too little labour employed , aud too few consumers of manufactures left . It expects , by drafting oil' the surplus labour of the towns , to raise wiiecs there , and by malting these drafted _, corps

      freeholders , to promote the _' fevtilityof the soil , and increase the number of the poor who are their own employers , and made independent of wages . No end can be better than this . No scheme for the regeneration of society promises more useful results . No . failure lias been more complete—no means less adapted to the object . When , indeed , we hear its projector fi-om Drury-lane promising to every working man 40 s . a day , or £ 7 S 0 a year , we are at no loss to know where the source ofthe abortion is to be found ; and earnestly would wc advise liis followers to hold him to his word , of retiring into private life , or once more going to law and calling himself to the bar , to which he has been too often bronght up already . "

      Let us now , without ostentation , ask our humble readers how often they have road , though , perhaps in different language , every idea developed in the above passage ? Have wc not shown that while the earth is ready to yield forth its abundance , that there is no country in Europe in which there is ' so much idle land , idle labour , and idle money ; and have we not shown that the system is upheld for thc mere purpose of driving the agricultural labourer into the manufacturing town , forthe purpose of reducing wages by competition ? Have we not , over and over again , shown that Ireland ' s groat difficulty commenced with knocking small farms into large ones , when forty-shilling freeholds were abolished ? Have we not shown to

      the English working people that oue of their greatest difficulties was that of being obliged to contend against tlie influx of Irish paupers , disinherited aud driven from the land of their birth by the tyranny of their taskmasters ? And did we not in 1840 , in reply to an absurd anti-Irish tirade published in the " Dispatch , " show- that this Irish clearance system had depreciated the wages of English operatives by at least thirty millions a year ? And have we uot shown that Bel gium , with a population , according to extent of territory , exceeding that of England by from twenty to thirty per cent ., is enabled

      to live and send us immense exports of food , b y thc small farm system , based upon a rotation of crops , and where rent is four times as high as in England or Ireland ? And have we not shown , over and over again , thatthe surplus population wliich now constitutes the competitive power for reducing wages , if placed upon the land , would become better customers to our manufacturers and operatives than if consigned as paupers to the poor law bastile , and better producers of food for those who would then hc bettor customers than any other foreign nation or all other foreign nations put together . Aud have we not shown that there docs exist an

      identity of interest between agriculture and manufactures which must one day be recognised and carried into practice by laws made by all ] Have wo not contended tor a Minister of Agriculture ? Aud have we not repeated to surfeit every word contained inthe above passage , until our folly has become the wisdom of others , and now Mr . O'Connoii , the propounder , is thc only man that ' s not capable of carrying the Plan out successfully . Does not this remind our readers of his inability to carry out Chartism ? And will they not come to the conelusion , that the dread o ? him consists in tho confidence of the working classes , to establish tho political means and the social end which lie has so long and so successfull y developed .

      It is marvellous how newspaper writers , who cater for the morbid mind of a class , will base their opposition to a plan of which they highly approve , upon their hatred , or rather their dread , of him who professes to carry it out faithfully . Tho writer in the "Dispatch " -would , prove Mr . O'Connoii ' s inability to carry out this Land Scheme successfully , upon the mere grounds that he promised that its developement would give 20 s ., 30 s ., or 40 s . a day to every labouring man , whereas what Mr . O'Connor did say—or , what he must have meant to say , was , that the fair developement of the Labour Question would give

      20 s ., 30 s ., or 40 s ., A WEEK— and not a day—to every industrious man , and this is sufficiently proved by the context , as Mr . O'Connor compared it with the . 5 s . and Gs . a , week now paid to labourers , every man _perfectly understanding that 5 * . and 6 s . A DAY is not NOW earned b y labourers . But the commentator , not prepared to take an average or to measure thc aggregate amount by the standard of piety , has forgotten the . Fourth Commandment , and that man does not work upon the Sabbath , and is not paid for it , while ho has taken the amount of wages at thc highest , and made him work 3 ( 55 days in the year , as twice 305 is 730 . '

      There is something very ludicrous in the notion that the agricultural labourer , like the poet , is born , not made . When Adam delved and Eve span , . - Who was then tho husbandman ? We have paraphrased thc line , substituting "husbandmau" for "gentleman . " But Ave would ask the commentator whether it is more easy to teach a man to make a watch , to make a dock , _tom-ikeasteam engine , to make a table , chair , or sofa , to make a candlestick , a musket , or . a razor , or to dig the ground . ? . Now it may be true , and is true , that

      Poeta nascitur , now -fit" a poet is horn , not made ; " so , in a great measure , is the musician and the mathematician—their organs develope a natural taste for those sciences ; but will the commentator—if he is a phrenologist—havo the goodness to point out tho organ tliat developes

      The "Dispatch" And Mr, O'Connor. While I...

      thc tiistc for' gunmaking , watchmaking , chairmakiiig , and candlestick-making ? Wh y thero is not a man with common habits of industry who will not become a gojd practical agricultural labourer in three months , while he would find it difficult to make a watch , or become a mechanic in seven years . And as to tho tailor not being taught to grow * cabbage all at once , CABBAGE is the first thing that the tailor learns . His cabbage grows out of another man ' s coat .

      bnt he would find it more agreeable and profitable to grow it out of his own land . Surely , Mr . O'CONNOR has told his readers , over and over again , that house-feeding aud soiling constituted one of the main features of his Land Plan ; but here , as with his politics , we have the free admission that both aro right ; tlio ono if placed under the guardianship of Free Traders , and the other if consigned to the tender mercies of'KINGHUDSON and a board of HONEST

      DIRECTORS . If they held under such trustees of undoubted responsibility , who would soon swallow up tho funds in expensive management , instead of placing between 6 , 0001 . and 7 , 000 ? . of their own money iu that fund ; then the advertisements in newspapers — no small _itam in the gobbled-up fund—would insure tlie countenance and laudation of the Press ; and if failure , through robbery , was the result , there would ho too many black sheep to cull the real delinquent ; its very developement , though unsuccessful in its infancy , would have been theforeshadowing of England ' s greatness , and

      though all were lost , the mere trial would have been a national benefit , and the jugglers would havo been handed down to posterity , as the philanthropists of their day and the _regenerators of their country . But as the CHARTIST DEVIL has done it , and an not a penny has been paid lor advertising , eveu in the "Northern Star ; " as there is no such item as " sundries , " " ¦ miscellaneous estimates , " or even "travelling expenses , " tho thing is a juggle , and the propounder is the only living man incapable of carrying it out . And yet tlie subscribers are exhorted to exempt the fund from embezzlement or _dilapi dation .

      We hereroprint theconcluding passage from the _" _Disp « ifc / i : "Wc entreat the subscribers to the Land Scheme not to lose heart . Let them continue their subscriptions , talcing proper precautions to secure the fund _. if-ainst embezzlement and dilapidation . While it accumulates and bears interest , it must be tlie object ofthe labouring classes and tlieir friends to bring practical knowledge and business habits to bear upon the proper development of a plan which we are convinced , if properly worked out , bears within it the seeds of the regeneration of the peasantry , and , through their elevation , ofthe relief of the toiling millions , aud of the enfranchisement of the working classes

      through the rapid extension of 40 s . freeholders . It sliall bo our object to prove by the most iucoutvovcrtible evidence , that small holdings are capable of maintaining millions in comfort , aud entire independence upon the caprice of masters , or thc precarious tenure of inadequate weekly wages . Although we admire tlie wise dread which the public _ontcrtiiin of projectors and " provincial Chancellors of Exchequer , " we shall not shrink from also showing how thc scheme of conferring farms of all sizes upon vaiious classes of agriculturists , may be carried into practical effect—and in the meantime we liave but to counsel the supporters of the Land Scheme to be cautious , but not desponding . . There is hope for them yet . wliich prudence and ability may convert into certainty and success .

      We have shown that the object of the political article upon which we have commented , is to take Chartism out of the hands of Mr . O'Connor , and wc could not give a stronger proof thau is 'furnished iu the above passage , ofthe ultimate hope and expectation of grasping the Land Thin , which he has br _* cn the first to propound and honourably carry out , in the hope of making it a stock-jobbing concern for newspapers , money-mongers , and speculators . But with _, the political means and the social end Mr . O'Connor will still keep pace , outstepping his opponents in the race , but not urged to

      opposition to the cause of Reform as propounded by the _Wauisley association—hy _insoloneo , denunciation , or slander . No . All the writers in England will not only find it _difficult , but impossible , to turn him from his course or hurl him from tho watch tower , The ingratitude of thoso whom hc has honestly served may -wound him ; while threat , denunciation , or slander but increases his energy , makes his associates dearer , and confirms his resolve to die in the cause ofthe people rather than abandon their principles , or allow" others to scatter that mental force which all acknowledge he has created , but the legitimate and faithful direction of whicli ALL DREAD .

      An Old Foe With A New Face. : In The Ear...

      AN OLD FOE WITH A NEW FACE . : In the earnestness and sincerity of its desire to promote political and financial reforms of a sound and genuine character , the " Times " has continued its criticisms on the united movemen t of the middle and working classes , and their great demonstration at Drury-lane Theatre . It is reall y very affecting to witness

      thc anxious solicitude exhibited by this consistent , uuswevving _, and trustworth y organ of Reform , lest the movement should fail in consequence of having fallen into bad hands , or because of the difference of opinion upon particular topics , that may happen to exist among some of those engaged in promoting the general objects set forth in thc program mo .

      Most plaintivel y and most emphatically it repeats its lamentations , that "bythe insincerity of purpose notoriously evinced in such proceedings ( as those in Drury Lane ) , what is good in the cause of the Association is so greatly damaged ; " and it proceeds , after the fashion of thc precocious urchin who taught his grandmother how to suck eggs—to instruct Mr . _Cokben how financial reforms ought to bo set about . It admits " wo are now spending too much money ; that , '' it adds , " is admitted on all sides . " Precisely thc reason ,

      wo presume , thatthe ¦• Times" is so _cxtraorrliiiiinly candid and explicit in the admission . But , then , " the question is , how to effect thc largest and most judicious saving ? " and the repl y of the " Times" to that query is , in effect— not . by having recourse to Universal Suffrage . The Ministerial journal lets the cat out of thc bag . The ruling factions would not hesitate to give up two or three millions a year , if sore pressed by the middle classes—much though the sacrifice would grieve them—but they are mortall y afraid of Universal Suffrage , and the formation of a Ilouse of

      Commons really representing , the whole adult population of tho country . They see clearl y that such a change must inevitabl y take place at no distant period , if the middle and working classes continue united , and hence every engine at tlieir command will be set to _WOl'k for the purpose of severing that union . The " Times" insidiousl y asks Mr . CoBden and his friends , " Does Financial Reform depend upon Universal Suffrage ? or do the men . of Manchester reall y think that such a condition of the franchise would promote tbe monetary prosperity of the country , as understood b

      y themselves ? Have none of Mr . Cobden ' s colleagues in agitation ever found themselves opposed to « the masses' whose alliance they now accept ? " and then the worthy-Mentor ot rrmting-house-squaro proceeds to assure his pupils that "the electoral constituencies are infinitel y more amenable to their peculiar ml ueuce as they are at present composed . When th y are indefinitely extended , no demagogic impulse can pervade the vast extent of opinion ; and sentiments more natural and instructive than that ( query , < those' ) of political _toonomy are soon found to supersede and absorb ( he teaching of p l atform itators "

      ag . The _ last sentence sliould be hung up in every Chartist Lecture-room , as the most emphatic exposition that has ever been given of tlio justice and the desirableness of Chartism _, lhe great " Thunderer , " itself , proclaims that a complete enfranchisement of the people would emancipate them from " demagogic impulses , " that " sentiments niore natural and instructive" than those of political economy , an

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 25, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_25081849/page/4/