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    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1850.
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      In Which Ergeant Ofthe Metropolitan Draw...

      THB NORTHERN STAB / 77 , October 36 , 1850 : . : — - _^*~ " _* _" _^^^ ¦ . - ii ¦ ¦ ~ . " ~ " ' 1 k I I

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      Oa Saturday , the 2 nd of _November , will be . . . published the First _Unmber of EOBEET OWEN'S JOUMAL - A Weekly Periodical explanatory of the means to well-place , well-employ , and well-educate , the whole population . Tr ice One Penny ; by post , Twopence . Published by Clayton and Son , 265 , Strand , London MR . _OWEN'siicENT WORKS , THB REVOLUTION JN MIND AND P RACTICE . U . LETTERS TO THE HUMAN RACE . J * _- „ ,. CATECHISM OF THE RATIONAL SYSTEM . 10 . FAREWELL ADDRESS . Id . Are published by Effingham "Wilson , Watson , and Tickers , London .

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      ALL TAXATION ABOLISHED !! Sow ready , price One Penny . T ANV .-COmON PROPERTY Jj _oriOTany-at"er _^ nt _^^ _cefoiwM _* d-shovnn _« also _mwnoXn _isaLandomier-How the Landmay _belle-«« Kd-and How aU Taxation wiU be Abolished . By X _SmTJamcJ Watson , 3 , . _Queen ' s Dean-passage , Paternoster-row .

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      Ready on Tuesday _ntxt for Satnrday , the 2 nd of November , the Krst Number of a Weekly Periodical , Price One Penny , entitled tiie CHRISTIAN SOCIALIST : A JOURNAL OF ASSOCIATION . To be . conducted by several of the promoters of the London WorHng Men ' s Association . London : _Pablished by James Watson , 3 , Queen's _Headmssage , _Paternoster-row ; and by order of all news agents .

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      THE _LONDON CO-OPERATIVE STORES are nowopenedat

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      TO TAILORS . Jfy approbation of Her Majesty , Queen Victoria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert .

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      NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Office , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand . THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE hereby announce the following meetings - . — On Sunday , October 27 th , the adjourned meeting of the Democratic Conference -will be held in the Coffee Room of the John-street Institution . Chair to be taken at three o ' clock in the afternoon . - , On Sunday evening ( same _diteV-the ' Metropolitan Dele--gate Conned will meet at the' Sing and Queen , Foleygtreet , Portland-place . Chair to be taken at seven o'clock ; On tbe same evening a discussion will take place at the above house . Subject : * Can the Middle Classes be _disipensed with V To commence at half-past eight o ' clock . . On the same evening , the Emmett * s Brigade meet at the Bock , Iasson-grove—St . Pancras Locality , Bricklayer ' s _irmt , Tonbridge-street , New-road—Finsbury "Locality . OMDdJplUH , _Oia-street-5 _** , Marjlehone Locality , _Cn-cus Etreet , New-road—and Whittington and Cat Locality , ¦ Church-row , Bethnal-green .

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      BEAUTIFUL HAIR , WHISKERS , EYEBROWS , & c ., may be , with certainty , obtained , Try using a very small portion of ROSALIE COUPBLLE'S PARISIAN POMADE , every morning , instead of any oil or other preparations . A fortnight ' s use will , in most instances , show its surprising properties in producing and curling Whiskers , Hair , & c ., at any age , from , whatever cau = e deficient ; as also checking _greyness , & c , Sent free bj post , with instructions , and & c _, on receipt of twenty-four postage stamps , by Miss COUPl'BLLB , 35 , Ely-place , Holborn , London ; who may be consulted on these matters daily , from two till five . TESTIMOSIAIS . ¦ LjeutenantHolroyd , R . N ., writes : —« Its effects are truly astonishing ; it _*»¦ thickened and darkened my hair very _" _mts . Buckley , Stapleford : — 'Yonr delightful Pomade has improved my hair wonderfully . ' Mr . _^ tes , hair-dresser , Maltoa : — ' The young man has nowa goodpair of whiskers ; I wantjou tosendmetwo pots for other customers of mine . ' _-r _. ™ _n _^™ _.

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      — - _^*~ " _* _" _^^^ Education for the Millions , THS DAY IS PUBLISHED , . 2 fo . XXlI . oi " THE NATIONAL _^ BSSTRUGTOH " PRICE ONE PENNY . The objeot of tbe Proprietor , _Fbarobs O'Connob , Esq ., M ; P ., is to place within the reach of the poorest olasses tbat Political and Social Information of which they are at present deprived by the Government" Taxes on Knowledge . "

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      A SUPPER WILL BE HELD IN honour of ERNEST JONES , Esq ., at the WORKING _MAS'S HALL , 26 , GOLDEN LANE , two doors-from Barbican , City , On WEDUESDAY , October 30 th : Mr . E . _Johes , and other leading Democrats will attend . Several democratic songs and recitations will be given in the course ofthe evening , . .... . Single Tickets , Is . 6 d . ; Double Tickets , 2 g . 6 d , to admit a lady and gentleman , . ' Can be had of Mi * . Arnott , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand ; Reynolds ' s Office , _Wellington-Street North' and at all the localities , & c .

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      The Readers Of The "Northern Star," And ...

      The readers of the " Northern Star , " and the Democratic party generally , are informed , that there is now a re-issue of the various Steel engravings lately distributed with the " Northern Star . " They consist of Kossuth , Meagher , Louis Blanc , Mixchei , Ernest Jones , Smith O'Brien , Richard Oastleb , John Fbost .

      These Engravings have excited the admiration of every one who has seen them . They are faithful portraits , and are executed in the most brilliant style . Price Fourpence each . There has also heen a reprint of the undermentioned portraits , which have been given away at different times with the " Northern Star , " and which are striking likenesses , and executed in the most brilliant manner—Andrew _Mahvei , Wiujam Cobbett , Arthur O ' Connor _^ Henri Hunt , Patrick _O'Higgiks , F . O'Connor , Bronierrk O'Brien , _Ty \ P . Roberts . J . R . Stephens , There is also a re-issue of the two large

      prints , " THE _"NATIONAL CONVENTION OF 1839 . " " THE PRESENTATION OF THE NATIONAL PETITION , by Mb . DUNCOMBE , in 1842 . " To be had of J . Patey , Holywell-street .

      The Portrait Of Sir Robert Peel And The ...

      THE PORTRAIT OF SIR ROBERT PEEL And the Magnificent Historical Engraving , ofthe

      PORTRAITS OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS , Are now ready . If any of pur subscribers have not received them , application should be made to the agent who supplies them with the paper . Agents are requested , when ordering Prints , to state by what means they are to be forwarded .

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      Tux Ttkfodnmbs' Communications Are Unavo...

      Tux Ttkfodnmbs' communications are unavoidably post . poned until next week . J . J . C—Received on the 24 th Inst Mrs . Heath begs to acknowledge ( with thanks ) the receipt of 6 s 9 d from the Emmett ' s Brigade , for the Wat Tyler Brigade , Greenwich . _Thouab Sharp , Oakham . —Send 2 s 6 d worth of postage stamps and the work will be forwarded to you . C . J . Robkso !* . —The parts ofthe Isstbuctob are 4 d each , if you want it forwarded by post ,: send six stamps for postage ; otherwise , order it of some bookseller in yonr neighbourhood , who will procure it through his London agent . . -. ' - Tbe Lacet Pum > . —Sums received since the publication of

      the balance sheet : —Emmett Brigade , is 6 d—C . Young , Folkstons , 4 d . —H . Wiles , Secretary . " - Polish Refugee Fond . —John-street Institution , Mr . Thomas Cooper ' s Lecture , acknowledged last week as 2 s 9 d , instead of £ 2 9 s—Jim Crack , fid—Sundry contributions , per Mr . Feargus O'Connor , £ 3 3 s—Part proceeds of Concert at the Two Chairmen , Wardour-street , per G . Hitching , £ 1—National Reform League , Sheffield , per 6 . "Whittaker , 10 s—Mr . Feargus O'Connor's lecture at Cowper-street , £ 5 13 s _lOd—Bonner's-fields , per Mr . Stokes , £ 1 ls Id—Mr . Miller's Book , ls Id—Calendaryard , per Mr ; Miller , 3 s—South London Locality , per Mr . Egerton , 5 s—Mr . Jones , per T . Brown , la—Given by friends , at Mr . King ' s , City-road , per Mr . _Cnrrie , 2 s fid-Mr . Cuttings , 2 s , placed in Cowper-street Collection . — T . Ferguson , Secretary .

      The Northern Star Saturday, October 26, 1850.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , OCTOBER 26 , 1850 .

      The Crime, Plague, And Quack Doctors. En...

      THE CRIME , PLAGUE , AND QUACK DOCTORS . England , at the present time , approaches tolerably near the millennium of the commercial mind . Exports and imports are largemoney is plentiful—stocks are high—trade healthy—the working classes are generally well employed at wages as good as they have heen for some years past , while , at the same time , provisions are lower in price . Superficial observers wonld , at first sight , he led to the same conclusion as M . XiAiiAitxiNE .

      Dazzled by the surface , they seek to penetrate no lower . There must , according to the popular creed , always he some suffering in the world ; and , seeing that England is so busy , so " prosperous , "somalthy , ii is but fair to presume , that her misery , at lea 9 t , is reduced to the minimum amount . We have reached the apex of civilisation through the instrumentality of Free Trade . Henceforth , we hare nothing more to do than maintain our position . Not so fast . " There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in _yoarphilosoph y , Messieurs Political Economists . There are social and moral faculties , as well as physical and bargaining propensities , in

      man , and the Government thatignores the existence of these faculties is certain to have the fact forced upon their notice in a very unwelcome and disagreeable way . The production and distribution of wealth is not the whole of _the science of Society . It is but a parf- _^ an important , but still subordinate part ofthat science , and those who , in their ignorance , treat it as if it comprised the whole , are certain to be rudely undeceived . " Snpplyand-demand , " 8 aya Thomas Carlyle , in his own quaint and forcible style , "is not the one Law of Nature ; Cash payment is not the sole mean 8 of man with man , how far from it . Deep , far deeper than _Supply-and-

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      Demand are laws , Obligations sacred as Man ' s Life itself ; these , also , if you will continue to work , you shall know , learn , - and obey . He that will learn them , behold Nature is on his side ; he shall yet work and prosper with noble rewards . He that will not learn them , Nature is against him ; he shall not be able to do work in Nature ' s empire—not in hers . Perpetual mutiny , contention , hatred , isolation , execration , ' shall wait upon his footsteps till all men discern that the thing which he attains , however golden it look , or be , is not success but the want of success . " .

      Pregnant words , most cogently and sadly illustrated by passing events ! Murder and burglary are the order of the day . Scarcely has the public recovered from the first shock of one appalling tragedy , than another follows close upon its heels . The eountry emulates the town in criminality . Life and property in the midst of all our boasted securities , all our elaborate and complicated machinery for protecting both , seem practicall y defenceless . Pistols , halters , and arsenic are in full demand . By means of the last deadly agent , lives are put an end to from the most trivial motives , with as little compunction as rats ave poisoned

      by the same coarse method . Murder stalks abroad with impunity . Crimes , accompanied with violence to the person , multiply with unheard of rapidity and audacity . The lonely highway or footpath of the country parish , is not more frequently the arena of these murderous exploits than the most crowded streets in the centre of the metropolis . . . Long Acre , with its gas-lights , its policemen and passengers , was the theatre ofa newly-invented attempt to strangle and plunder , which was executed with as much coolness as if the scene had heen the most deserted dark lane or

      bye-way in the most thinly-peopled district in the country . Trul y the thing we have attained , ' * however golden it looks , is not success " in the higher objects of human government , "but the want of success . " The passion for money-making and bargainmaking having absorbed all the available time and faculties of those who are by the Constitution entrusted with political and administrative power , there has been a corresponding neglect of the classes whose position excludes them from the legitimate marts of trade . They have forgotten that all trade is

      in its essence gambling . The man who hands me a yard of cloth atthe East-end of London , has not in the slightest degree added to its intrinsic value ; that remains the same as when it came from the hands of tho producer . He has a right to'be paid for the trouble it may have cost him to receive it from the producer , and to hand it over to me but beyond that , none . When he makes the yard of cloth a piece of loaded dice , ' wherewith he extracts from me , in the game ef trade , more than a fair remuneration for his actual labour , he robs me ( legitimately

      of course ) quite as much as the more open gambler , who ( illegitimately ) with ivory dice , plunders me in the fashionable hells which stud the purlieus of Leicester-square .. Still more shameless and immoral is the gambling in stocks , shares , public securities , and staple commodities , which constitutes the occupation of so large a proportion pf our " respectable " citizens . They are gamblers in the strictest sense of the term ; and the splendour of their houses , the costl y nature of their entertainments , the abundant command of wealth

      which they enjoy , with all its concomitant power , influence , and pleasures , are not calculated to spread among the less luck y classes any very sincere respect foi * justice and morality , in the abstract . The dishonest spirit percolates through the upper down to the lower strata of society , until the whole is thoroughly soaked and sodden with the pollution . Extremes meet ; the "lower" classes re-produce the crimes of the " upper , " more coarse in their language and accessories ; but the same in themselves . In a world where it

      is believed that life is merely a scramble , in which the strong and the cunning are sure to succeed best , and where there is no ' amenability to any eternal or ever-acting law of jus * tice and retribution , what is there to restrain the unlicensed thieves from plying their vocation ? Only the fear bf a more powerful , more cunning , and better-equipped , physical force , against which they have no chance of successfull y contending . The temptation is perpetual , but the fear is intermittent , in the best of cases . The heaped up plate

      chests of the wealthy citizen , the glittering jewels of ' " my Lady" are accessible at tunes when policemen are absent . Policemen , indeed are not ubiquitous . " They cannot , " as Sir Botlb Roche said , " be in two places at once , unless they were birds , ' ' and we all know that at present they are not " birds of that feather . " When the plate chest is emptied , and the jewel case is cleared of its precious contents , you set the " detectives" on the trail . But there again the retributory principle meets and beats you , The constant stretch of the faculties of the keen

      witted and accomplished thief to obtain plunder , enables him to devise equally clever methods of escaping with his booty . It is a battle of acute and practised intellects , in its way deeply interesting , but leaving no very satisfactory conclusion on the mind as to the efficacy of the "detectives , " be they ever so numerous , or quick and cunning . Ere they have mastered and defeated the last patent new invention of thiefdora , its restless genius , spurred on by necessity , has discovered and

      put in practice another . Some people boast of the immunity of the present age from daring crimes in the days when highwaymen and footpads swarmed upon heaths and high roads , and in the darkunlamped streets of our towns . There is in reality no change ; our " dangerous classes , " have merely accommodated themselves to the changed circumstances by which they are surrounded . The fashion has altered , the thing remains intact , if not rendered more dangerous by the increase of wealth , and the facilities for plunder .

      What with Frimley murders , Doddinghurst murders , Liverpool plate robberies , Birmingham burglaries , Strand burglaries , and such like , -our dail y papers seem transformed into veritable Newgate Calendars . A fresh horror is served up each morning with the muffins and buttered toast , to the comfortable classes . Great is the consternation in May Fair—terrible the fright ia Clapham and Cainberwell , and forthwith the organs of the landocracy , the ' moneyocracy , ahd the profitocracy , rush into print

      with crude schemes for catching and skinning alive , the plunderers who have not the law on their aide ; for this pod reason / that they and theirs had no hand in making it . Some of these plans are simple enough , but awfully despotic . The Recorder of Birmingham has a summary process of disposing of the difficulty ; the police are to apprehend all suspected persons , and upon suspicion , the magistrates are to be empowered summaril y to prevent them from roaming abroad in future .

      Rather a costly , as well as a despotic method Rather a costl y , as well as a despotic method in our opinion . Introduce it once for person ' s " suspected ' ' of " offencesagainst property , " and how soon would i t be perverted and applied to political offenders ? Lettres de Cachette and the Bastile were not more handy to Louis Quatorze , than sucb a aystem would be to the Home Secretary , who wished to put obnoxious political agitators out ofthe way .

      No ! If anything , we have too much " police already . " From time to timo the curtain is raised , and gives us glimpses into its morale , which are frightful to contemplate . Perjury by "wholesale , is not the least that is _suBpeotedof the force , whenever it suits their pecuniary or their professional . interests . -The light in which they look upon the working classes may be . judged of , by _fte deliberate

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      way in which a Bergeant ofthe metropolitan force , assisted by another policeman , deliberately assaulted , and under cover of their authority , killed a poor inoffensive , hardworking tailor named Gear , who had the misfortune to expose the malpractices of their "high mig htinesses . " Stealing plate and jewellery from those who have them may be very provoking—the murder of two or three clergy-• _l-us _.- «• in _>» _n . n 4 . _nfi * _.. » . n _w n ll » _nn

      men and tradesmen , while defending their property , is sincerely to be deplored ; but they are minor evils , after all , compared with handing over the whole people of England to the tendermercies and espionage ofan ignorant , officious , army of policemen , commanded by a general like M . Carlier , and . anxious to merit his approval by hunting down all who might be suspected of being opposed to the p olicy of the Government for the time being .

      That would be a certain evil . The good is much more problematical , or rather altogether improbable . While the present system continues to . prevent tens of hundreds of thousands from obtaining either education , or industrial training , or honest employment : while a low and sordid spirit of avarice , selfishness , and trade-gambling pervades society , the . stationing of a policeman at every ten doors in every street , and at the gate of every farm-house , grange , or " hall" in the country , will not prevent outrage and pillage . The magnitude and difficulty of the obstacles placed in the way ofthe _commission of crime , will merely stimulate the criminal population to have recourse to more ingenious devices to accomplish their ends .

      The system of physical repression and physical punishment is not less costly than inefficient . Society breeds these vermin , and they , in turn , fatten upon the corruption out of which they are generated . If the system which gives them birth is to be perpetuated , notwithstanding these evident and powerful warnings of its hostility , to the laws of nature , and of our common humanity , those who prop it up must , at the same time , make up their minds to endure tlie unerring and inevitable retribution which ever follows the violation of these laws . Not all the police and detectives in the world can save them ¦¦ from that . They may add to , but not diminish the evil .

      There is a simple , straightforward , cheap , and effectual way of dealing with this question —nay , of settling ifc satisfactorily for ever ; but that is so " Utopian , " in an age when men look carefully to their shutters _/ back doors , cellar doors , and under their . beds , before going to bed , that we dare hardly mention it . At the risk , however , of raising a shout of laughter at our visionary , if not revolutionary ideas ; we venture to hint what it is —the political enfranchisement ofthe whole people , by the enactment of the People ' s Charter ; the establishment of a people ' s government , by the people ; and the consequent introduction of measures that would enable every child tobe industriously trained

      to earn his own honest living , on the sou belonging to the nation , and so educated as to think that the most honourable position he could occupy in society . " Impracticable , " you say ? Well , you " practical men " must take your own way . We candidly confess we do not think very highly of your handiwork . It is a miserable botch , which proves you know very little indeed of the way of governing society . Having foresworn allegiance to nature , your footsteps are as Carlyle says , waited upon by "Perpetual mutiny , contention , hatred , isolation , execration . '' From that Pandemonium there is no escape . Until the service of Mammon is renounced , no "police " can help you !

      The Way To Health, Wealth, And Happiness...

      THE WAY TO HEALTH , WEALTH , AND HAPPINESS . Miss Martineau has , upon more than one occasion , "done the State some service , " by her boldness in stating unpopular truths . It seems strange that truth Bhould ever be unpopular . It is always so when first promulgated , and it takes a long uphill fight to get it listened to , still longer to get it acted upon . The interval between the declaration , recognition , and application of new social principles is , however , considerably diminished , when some ore who has previousl y gained the world ' s ear and confidence , has the moral courage to proclaim their belief in it . The common . herd

      bow to authority , and take their opinions at second hand ; when they see those they have been accustomed to hear quoted eminent in any particular walk of life , taking up with new doctrines , they infer that " there must , after all , be something in them " and are brought so far as to listen , whether they comprehend or not . : Upon no one question has the verdict ofthe Political Economists and Free Traders been

      more decidedly pronounced than npon the evils of Small Farming , and the impossibility of certain quantities of food being reared by manual labour from a limited area . Mr . Raven , the Poor Law Commissioner , solemnly and repeatedly assured the Select Committee on the National Land Company , that it was utterly impossible any man could support himself and family , by their united labour , on a farm of three or four acres . Even if they paid neither rent nor taxes , he asserted they must inevitabl y become paupers in the course of two or three , or four years at most . It was in vain that Mr . John Sillexx detailed the successful

      and astonishing results of his own farming on two acres . It was equally useless to point out what had been done upon small plots of land by other persons in this country , and to the large amount of agricultural produce raised wider the Small Farm System of Guernsey , Jersey , and Belgium . The Chairman and the Government witnesses knew a great deal better thaH all that . They believed in the croaking of the Raven , rather than in the statements of those who opened up a way out of our

      difficulties by the simple and immediately available plan of applying more labour to our own soil . Miss Martineau , formerly a high authority with the Political Economy School , haB , with that candour . and superiority to personal corisidorations i which has frequently marked her useful life , came forward to state the results ofher own experiment in Small Farming . Her first letter appeared two or three months since in the Star ; her second will be found in another column of the present

      number . Itis scarcely possible to imagine a more complete and triumphant demonstration of the solid and permanent advantages to be derived from the Small Farm System , than is embodied in these two admirable letters . The whole progress of the experiment , from its commencement to ihe present time , the cost incurred , the mode of cultivation adopted , and the ; results , are all perspicuously and lucidly stated , in a manner that cannot fail to carry conviction to every dispassionate mind . Let us briefly enumerate the facts . By the labour of one man and his wife—who would otherwise have been chargeable on the

      ratestwo cows were m a great measure maintained , and the house supplied with vegetables in the first year of the experiment , from less than an acre and a quarter of ground . Ofthis three , quarters of an acre * or three-fifths ofthe whole , were grass , the most expensive and unprofitable kind of food for cattle . Though not liking , to lose the view of a greensward ' from the windows . Miss Martineau ultimately allowed her faithful and zealous

      labourer to add to his-cultivated area half an acre more , in the early part of this year , making ono acre in all . 'The condition and situation of this additional land was as bad as can bo well imagined . It was overgrown with obstinate weeds ; a great shoe of it injured b y the growth bf a row of ash trees , and , from its rolative position to other properties , prevonted from being properly drained , Tho landlord , taking all these

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      drawbacks into account , onl y asked " the low rent" of U 15 s . a year , or 31 . 10 s . an acre We wonder what the allottees at Minster Lovel , who have paid no rent , would say to such a demand for a piece of foul undrainable ground ? Miss Martineau would have purchased it _gladlyi but , as the landlord would not sell , she was happy to get a lease of it for ten years , at that rent , " And now , " says she , " there it is before my eyes , with six tons of cow food upon it ,, besides a goodly asparagus bed , some grass , and a portion where we : mean to try a growth of lucerne . '? Another year , when the _druvWIni infn _ann / m-nt . nn Iv asked - " th © lOV )

      ground is mellowed and loosened , the expectation is , that ten tons of food will be grown on the new half acre , in spite of the ash trees . The Minster allottees had no timber to fight with , abstracting the manure that should have fed their crops , and occupying with its roots the ground that should have been more profitably filled . From the entire acre now under cultivation ; Miss Mar tineau is abundantly supplied with food for the two cows until next spring , and the house has also , and will continue to have , an ample supply of every kind of vegetable ' for the . table . The cows yield , upon an average , twenty-five quarts of milk a day ; and Miss Martineau , who was driven to Small Farming , in the first instance ,

      by the impossibility of procuring milk , butter , and eggs , now speaks of manufacturing butter , and feeding pigs , upon " skim milk , "' better than the scanty supply Bhe got for " new " formerly . Butter and bacon—home-fed especially*—are , according to Lord Stanley , very profitable articles in the ' market ; so that it would appear ,. Miss Mar * - tineau is likely to find her acre quite a little California in its way . Besides an abundant supply - of milk ; butter , eggs , poultry , ham , bacon , and vegetables , for her own house , she will have some to export , the saleVof which will increase the amount in favour of the little farm . All this ; be it remarked , is done by hired labour at a profit , and the labour is paid with no niggard hand . "Robert" receives 12 s . a week the

      year round , besides a cottage rent free ; and his wife , who also makes herself useful , is equally well paid . The cottage in which dwell these two people , who would otherwise have been paupers , is a scene of plenty and happiness . " They are now so well' and merry , that it is delightful to see them . Robert has been sending money to his old father—a large sum for a working man . He could not possibly be more industrious , but he is in stronger health ,

      and in glorious spirits . ' His pretty porch is grown over with roses , and _' _there are climbing p lants about his walls , and balsams , and geraniums in his windows J" Charming picture Yet , how easily found , the materials of : which it is composed ! . Merely an acre of land , formerly all but waste ; two paupers willing to work , allowed to do so by a benevolent , but , at the same time , thrifty lady ; Ah ! if our great statesmen werenot so great , and would sometimes condescend to take lessons as

      those furnished by ' ' men of low estate , " what a deal of trouble they might save themselves , what a glorious old England they might make ! Why should the nation not do upon a large , scale what Miss Martineau has done upon a small ? Why should millions be spent annually in maintaining paupers in unwilling idleness , and millions of acres . sterile , when _their-. unicfn would so'largely increase the national wealth , give honest and cheerful employment to contented and happy hundreds of thousands , and replace the hateful workhouse with thousands of cottages , their

      pretty porches grown over with roses , with climbing plants about their walls , balsams and geraniums in their windows , and the . light hearted song ofthe independent and contented industry making sweet music at the homely , but happy fireside ! But bur rulers are far too learned , too profoundly , versed in political economy , to do : that . It would violate the canons of that orthodox science . They believe in the assertions of the Raven , rather than the facts and figures of Martineau ,

      Siliett , and 0 ' Connor . The land is cursed with barrenness , discontent , poverty ,, and crime , _becauseitsrulergareblmded _bycrotohets , opposed to facts , to common sense , to common justice . What then ? Why , that , as the rulers are blind the people should help themselves , and do so by adopting plans which have thus been demonstrated as amply sufficient for all the purposes they have in view . The founder of the Land Company will yet see a glorious triumph over all the foes of the great and healing measure he has so long advocated .

      Foreign Politics.. The Rustication Of Mi...

      FOREIGN POLITICS . . The rustication of Ministers has this week been interrupted by the Schleswig-Holstein war . On Wednesday the first Cabinet Council on actual business since the recess , was held in London ; and was fully attended . The' semiofficial Times tells us that it was summoned to consider the request of Russia and France , that England should join them in a peremptory demand , that Prussia shall withdraw the

      support it now gives the Schleswig-Holstein party , againBt Denmark . Greatly to the mortification of the Times , as we have no doubt it will be to that of its congenial friends and allies , Nicholas of Russia , and the absolutist party , and speculators in France ; the British Government have refused to be their cat ' s-paw , or to risk a probable war , in which England would be found fighting the battle of the autocrat for European supremacy . Whatever may be the nature of the quarrel between Denmark and the Duchies , itis surel y , by far too remote for us to meddle with it ; audit is , indeed , strange , to contrast the bloodthirsty eagerness with which the Times would hound on Ministers to

      interference , with their earnest protests against any help being given to Ital y , Hungary , Naples , or Rome , when the gallant patriots in these countries were struggling for freedom . Non-intervention was as sturdil y preached up then as the true policy of Great Britain , as the _contrary its now . It is no secret which way the' sympathies of the " Thunderer" of _Puddle-dock have run during the the whole of the events of the last two years . It has lied , and threatened , and cajoled by turns , to promote the interests of despots and money . mongers , and we can scarcely lay down a safer rule for the people of this country , in foreign politics , than to believe just exactly the opposite of what the _TKmes tells them , and to act precisely contrary to its

      recommendations . In France the schemers and conspirators against the Constitution are as busy as ever . Plot and counterplot , bargain and sale among _the-Vanous pretenders to power , are in full operation . To read the accounts of the various cliques who have their head quarters in Paris , it would appear that nothing is so eaBy as to set up France and knock it down to any Imperial or Kingl y bidder , who may hanker after the bargain . We suspect these Bhamelesa and unprincipled political hucksters reckon without their host . When 1852 does come , there may be found in operation elements which they did not take ' into account , and which will seriously derange their calculations , if not defeat their elaborate plans for the

      violation and ultimate overthrow of the nominal Republic under which they plot , and scheme , and lieV and commit acts of despptism worse than any that ever disgraced either the reign of Charles X . or Louis Philippe . Is it to be believed that the noble people who sent their two discrowned monarchs on their hasty travels , in search of a shelter where thoy might diem strange lands , will long contmue to tolerate the tyranny of a set of W cal adventurers and pedlars , suoh as haw the temporary ascendancy in France at ihe pre-CI _*^ S j _^ _*? _W ° » is toe _ridicu-Ious to be seriousl y stated , _^ _ecamoUwiM

      Foreign Politics.. The Rustication Of Mi...

      but that in due course we shall see the 1 _^ 7 of the flimsy cobwebs which they are _eninuS in weaving , blown to the winds by an UDri J _5 of the veritable people . They know fl , * might ; they know also how to use it a y we know that they _dtf not lack the will , _Vh the proper time arrives . Let ns , _therefor watch with hope the progress of events acrop _a the channel . M ' Pio Nono has assumed ah _extraordinary authority , and parcelled out the realm of Grea * Britain into a series of dioceses , over which ha haB appointed a Cardinal Archbishop ai 3 ( j Bishops , with specific designations , just as if Queen Victoria , and the Protestant Chur ch and State , by law establishedwas a mere fi » hilt that in due COUrRO -ara _ahallaa _^ ¦ n .- _^ _T _*'

      -, . ment , and had no existence except in imagina . tion . Of course , the supporters of the said Church and State are verj- angry at this im . pudent assumption on the part of "HisHon , NESS , " and visions of the restoration of-R 0 . mamsm flit before more fancies than the zeal _, ous and credulous Catholics who believe in Cardinal Wiseman . It ia a hallucination altogether . We are perfectly safe in England from Jesuit censorships , and Jesuitically en . forced ignorance . But the danger is that thia audacious violation of the oath , which declarei that " no foreign prince or potentate shall hava anyspiritualor temporal jurisdiction within thin

      realm , " together with the open declaration of the zealous Romanist party , that they mean to reclaim England to the fold of the true Church , _willhavefthe effect of provoking a reaction , in which many ofthe religious liberties which have , been slowly conquered by Roman Catholics , will be swept away . We should deeply regret to see this ; though we think it by no means unlikely that such will be the practical issue of the course the Pope has taken in the matter . ' It shows that , humbled as the Papacy is at its centre , it is still aggres _. sive in its essence , and it may lead its oppo . nents to the adoption of a stern repressive policy

      that otherwise would never have been thought of . The Times suggests that , as the Pope haa chosen to interfere with England , Lord Pal « merston should give him some work at home , by encouraging the Italian patriots . We trust that , however anxious they may be for the emancipation of their beautiful country from political and spiritual thraldom , they will never become the cat ' s-paw of an oligarchical Minister , ' who stood coldly ' aloof in the hour of their need , and mocked them with barren words of sympathy . Better to wait until they are able to fight the battle of freedom on their own ground , without the necessity for such hollow , selfish , and treacherous support _.

      : The Pressure On Our Columns This Week ...

      : The pressure on our columns this week prevents tis from doing more than to call attention to the important meeting of the United Trades ' Association , held at Wolverhampton , on Tuesday . The circumstances attending it appear to mark the advent of a new era in the history of such movements .

      „ Monies Received Fob Thb Week Ehdimg Th...

      „ MONIES RECEIVED Fob thb Week Ehdimg Thubs & at , Octobbb 24 th , 1850 . ¦¦' " : - FOR THB WINDING-UP OF THE 1 ANB COMPANY , Received by W . Rideb . —Two Members , Clifford , near Tadcaster Is—Nottingham , per J . Sweet 6 d . Received at Laud Office . _—Atheratone 10 s .

      I THE HONESTY FUND . Received by W . Rideb . —Hull , per 6 . Barnett ii 7 d . AGITATION FOR THE CHARTER . Received by Johh Abnott . —Holmfirth , per J . Hirst 10 s —Lynn , per J . _Twatts 5 s-r-Hastings , per E . _Mose 6 s 3 d . FOR THE HUNGARIAN AND POLISH REFUGEES . Received by W . Ridkh . —TV . Smith and D . Camon , Mil . borne Port 6 d—J . Mayman , Ramsgate 2 s—J . Parker , Lan . caster 7 d—Holmfirth Chartists , per J . Hirst 5 s—Rochdale , per R . Gill Ss 4 d—Mr . Carter , Birmingham 6 d—Mr . Fus . sell , Birmingham 6 d—Manchester , collected in the People ' s Institute ( less order and postage ) per T . Ormesher . £ 1 6 s 2 d—From * Higham , Derbyshire—C . Tinley ls—J . Bryan 6 d—A . Milner 6 d—Nottingham , per J . Sweet 2 s 6 d—NewCoundon , per T . Dolphin Bs 6 d . —Received by Johh Abnott . —Part proeeeds of Concert , held at the Two Chairmen , _Wardour-street , Soho , per George Hitching £ 1—National Reform league , Sheffield , per Mr . Whitaker 10 s—Part proceeds of second Concert , heldat the Rock , Lissonprove ( Emmet ' s Brigade , ) per J . Blake 10 s . Received at Land Office . —6 . W . Is .

      THE CASE OF THOMAS JONES . Beceived by W . Rideb , —Mr . Carter , Birmingham 6 d—Mr . Fussell , Birmingham Gd—Sutton-in-Ashfield , per _YT Felkin ls 6 d . — . Received by John Abnott . —F . L . Is . FOR DR . M ' DOUALL . Received byW . Rideb , —Houghton , near Bradford , perlT , Drake 10 s—Sutton-in-Ashfield , per W . Felkin 10 s . TRACT FUND . Received by John Abnott . —Mr . Banister . Burnham ls «

      ¦ - ¦ » !! National Chaeter League. The ...

      ¦ - ¦ _» _!! NATIONAL CHAETER LEAGUE . The council of this body met on Sunday last for the transaction of general business . The chair was occupied by the President , Mr . M'Grath . The secretary , Mr . T . Clark , submitted correspondence from the country , ap « probatory of the proposition of Mr . O'Connor , for holding a Conference at Manchester , for the purpose of constructing a National Asso _« ciation oh the basis of the People ' s Charter , but unconnected with any other theory or opinion , and also urging upon the League , tha propriety of promoting Mr . O'Connor ' s intention . A resolution was unanimously adopted .

      instructing the secretary to write to the council ofthe Manchester Chartist Association , expressing the confidence of the League in tha integrity and patriotism ofthe Manchester friends , and respectfully requesting them to assume the initiative in convening the intended Conference , and also that they should take the arrangement of it under their judicious management . It was announced by Mr . M'Grath , that a comfortable and commodious room for the future meetings of the Leaguei had been secured at a _respectabla Temperance Hotel in Farringdon-street , where the council would meet on the following Sunday evening , at seven o ' clock .

      National .Reform League. At A Full Meeti...

      NATIONAL . REFORM LEAGUE . At a full meeting of the Council of this body , held ori Monday , the 21 st instant , the following resolutions were adopted with unanimity : —• That , earnestly desirous of seeing established a real union of all shades of Democratic and Social Reformers , and believing that Universal Suffrage , with the necessary guarantees for its due exercise , as laid down in the People ' s Charter , is the only practical _hasiB of such union—this Council cannot but

      regret the vote recently come to by the Con « ference of Delegates , representing this and other societies at ihe John-street sittings , whereby the expediency is affirmed of mixing up with the great question of "Universal Suffrage certain Reform measures of detail , which , however good and necessary in their proper time and place , cannot _Ig made the object of a national movement , without causing dissension and divisions in the popular ranks , and thereby retarding the success of our common cause . This Council is , therefore , of the opinion of our delegates , that their further attendance at the aforesaid Conference ia useless and unnecessary , " P . W . M'Neih _* , Sec .

      Siiefpieid. —At The Usual Weekly Meeting...

      Siiefpieid . —At the usual weekly meeting of the National Reform League , held on the 20 th inst ., the following resolution was unanimously agreed tb : — " That we highly appw _^ of the object contemplated by the London Conference of Political and Social _MnMft and we trust that they will be successful i » uniting in one body the whole _Democracy oi the country : we also think the Baid _Coaf _erence is in the beBt position to judge of the tm » and place for holding a National _Coafereae ** .

      Lottib Naromon Has Obtained Afty Fellot ...

      _Lottib NAroMON has obtained afty fellot f _^ from England , for the park of Bt » Claud . - ¦• - _« Thb long vacation tenninat » id ea Thursday ! _<" _* , the affairs of tbe several law . * c «» t 8 have resume *' business , preparatory to Vne _enstttog _. _Micbaeunw Term wmmsnciBg thi | - _^ m _fSatttttoj ) iree _»« . _*— —

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 26, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_26101850/page/4/