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    • BOOKS'-PUBUSUED ANDSOLD ' BY JAMES WATSON, £, Queen's Head-paasage, Pater , noster-rot"-.
    • THE MONETARY CRISIS.
    • JUST PUBLISHED pbice sixriNoi.
    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30.1847.
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      O'CONSOR TARTAR GLASGOW . WILLIAM LOVB lias been commissioned agent for the sale ofthis BEAUTIFUL CLOTH IN GLASGOW , and on and after 2 nd of November current , will have a _Iargu supply of vestings , cravats , plaids , shawls , ( tc . It ha * been designed by the weavers of Xilban-han in honour of Mr O'Connor , and they have formed a Joint Stock Company for its manufacture , for the double purpose of supplying the friends and admirers of Mr O'Connor , and of employing a portion ofthe villagers during t '; e winter . These objects , apart from the very beautiful ' ! e _<; ign , and texture ofthe cloth , entitle it to the _patronage of uU classes , particularly the reformers of the country , and the friends ofthe labouring man . _Xorttern Star Office , 5 , NeIson _. 8 treet , Glasgow .

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      LONDON NEWSPAPERS . —Times , Herald , Chronicle & c , posted the day of I _' ublication , at 2 ' _-s . per Quarter . Sent the day after publication , at 10 s per quarter . Other papers equally moderate . Tobe paid in advance . Address to Jas . Bentley , News agent , 15 , _Giltspur street , City , London . A FORTUNATE SHAREHOLDER has a FOURACRE ALLOTMENT TO DISPOSE OF , on the Mathon Estate , near Malvern . Persons _wiahln gto purchase , must apply to A Rice , 4 , Fair Vivw-street , Cheltenham . All letters prepaid .

      The Monetary Crisis.

      THE MONETARY CRISIS .

      The ropo pnt round the neck of our commerce by the act of 1844 , has teen loosened , and the nearly strangled victim is respiring a little more freely . Sir It . Peel , the author of that act , came up from Drayton express . Immediately upon his arrival , the Chancellor of the Exchequer had an interview with him , which lasted nearly lour hours , and did not terminate till midnight . Next morning , Lord J . Russell called eirly upon Sir Charles , ti learn the decision of tbe powerful ex-Premier , and immediately afterwards the Bank were empowered to issue notes

      to any amount on approved securities , at eight per cent—the government guaranteeing to procure them an act of indemnity , if , in doing so , they infringed the provisions of the act of 1844 . This is virtually an _abrogation of that act . It ha 3 shown itself altogether Incapable of doing what it was meant to do , and must * go by the board . There are other quegtions involved in the matter , to which we cannot allude thi * week for want of space , but _asit ia not unlikely Parliament will _s-hortly be summoned to take the subject into consideration , we shall take a a early opportunity of recurring to it . In the meantime , everybody is delighted with the change , except the Times , which has been most decidedly snubbed , and sent to the _rinht about .

      Gusgow.—At Our Weekly Meeting Held In Th...

      Gusgow . —At our weekly meeting held in the Dyers Hall , Charlotte-lone , on Monday , October 25 th arran' -eruents were forwarded for the reception of Messrs O'Connor and E . Jones . The City Hall will he secured , and a public entrance will be given to the people's Wends . _CbotdW . -A general meeting will be beld oo Monday evening . Wembet' 1 st , to nominate the Chartist council and oflicers .

      Just Published Pbice Sixrinoi.

      JUST PUBLISHED pbice sixriNoi .

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      KO . XI . OF "THE LABOURER , " CONTMTS _, 1 . Death Punishment . A Poem . 3 . The Insurrection of the Working Classes . S . The Poor Man ' s legal Manual , ' 4 . The Bard ' s Lament . 5 _. Race versus Nation . 6 . The Romance of a People . 7 . Tht Law and the Land . 8 . Honthly Review . 9 . Literary Review . Letters ( pre-paid ) to be addressed to the Editors , 16 Great Windmill Street , Haymarket , London . Orders received by all agents forthe "Northern Star " and all bookseUers in t _» wn and country .

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      Now Beady , a New Edition of MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS To bo had at the Northern Star Office , 16 , Great Wind mill Street ; and of Abel Heywood , Manchester .

      The Northern Star Saturday, October 30.1847.

      THE _NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , OCTOBER 30 . 1847 .

      The Fricassee Of Editors. Mr O'Connor's ...

      THE FRICASSEE OF EDITORS . Mr O'Connor ' s reply to the extraordinary and virulent attacks made upon his character , in connexion with the tnnd Plan , at a time when the writers of these attacks knew that he was on the continent , and . could not immediately reply to them , has , no doubt , received that full and searching consideration , which the variety and importance of the topics to which it alludes so fully entitles it . From its very nature ' and extent , it was impossible to do more'than as it were improvise a few general remarks on the subject , in our leading columns _, last week . ; Time was required to analyse and

      clearly comprehend the full value and bearings of Mr O'Connor ' s refutation of the calumnies of his bitter and unscrupulous assailants ; and it is but an act ofjustice , as well as of duty , to give the results of that dispassionate examination , in a brief summary of the more salient points of the reply of the hon . member for Nottingham , to the allegations of the halfdozen " we s , _'' to whom he administered' gopowerful and well-merited a castigation . Before entering upon that part of the subject , however , it seems desirable to make a few preliminary remarks , as to the animus of thepar ties who have ascribed the basest motives to Mr

      0 Connor . If the only object of these editorial exertions had been to promote the welfare of the working-classes , and to prevent them from being misled by a well-meant , but unsound plan io promote an improvement in their condition , as is pretended ; there was , surely , no necessity for having recourse to such shameful and infamous personal abuse of one man in the pursuit of such an object . The question at issue , is one partly of tact , and partly of opinion . In the first case , vituperation is clearly of no avail—facts alone are of any value . In the second , we submit , that having recourse to the rhetoric of Billingsgate , is not the best way in the world to make converts of those who

      differ on matters of opinion . , Instead of such , a result , the great probability is , that the disputants , while finding their belligerent propensities considerably and mutually excited , will end b y being more firmly convinced than when they began , of the truth of their respective views . Of course , none of the editors who have made the existence ofthe Land Plan a vehicle

      for p ersonal' { attacks upon Mr O'Connor ' s judgment and honesty , can imagine that these attacks will convince that gentleman that his views ofthe system are wrong , and theirs are right . But though not expecting a conversion in his case , they may have calculated upon convincing those who had shown tlieir confidence in the Plan , by becoming shareholders . Let us see whether their policy was likely even to do this .

      The National Land Company , and the plans which it was formed to carry out , were undoubtedly originated by Mr O'Connor , but the constitution of the ones and the machinery for effecting the other , have passed through numerous stages before they reached their present position and form . At each of these successive stages , the individuals who were directl y interested in the success ofthe project , decided upon the course to he adopted . At successive conferences , the difficulties—legal and practical—were full y discussed by the representatives of the shareholders , and

      their decisions , with the grounds for them , fully reported . The company did not assume its present shape by the fiat of Mr O'Connor , or any other individual dictator ; those who had contributed the funds virtually and bona Me OTdered its affairs . If there was any error , either of judgment or practice in conducting them , or in taking any of the steps that were taken , those errors were participated in by all who concurred in the propriety of taking the course that has been adopted , and the anathemas launched by our contemporaries at the head of Mr O ' Connor , ought also to have

      fallen on all his colleagues . But that would have shown their absurdity , because it is impossible to believe , that any body of men could deliberately set to work to deceive and cheat themselves upon such tangible subjects as those with which the Land Company has to deal . Again : the working-classes have not been induced to put confidence in Mr O'Connor , and the L » nd Company , by any false pretences . The plan of the Land Company , be it right or wrong , is fully and plainly set " forth , without

      either reservation or deception . If the sapient scribes who dissent from that plan , have any reasons , any solid practical reasons to adduce against tlie plan ; if they can suggest any mode by which its defects , as they appear to them , can be remedied , and the object more effectually secured—it is their duty to do so . Had they taken the field in this spirit , and given friendly advice and assistance to the extent of their experience and influence , however small both may be , it would have shown an interest in the

      improvement of the condition of the workingclass , which their actual conduct proves to be only simulated for the purpose of gratifying feelings of personal and political hostility and _vindietiveness towards Mr O'Connor . As far as we can understand the charges of the parties to whom Mr O'Connor replied in so vigorous , effective , and crushing a way last week , they may be reduced into the following : — First . —That Mr O'Connor has uncontrolled sway over the Company . Second . — -That he is ignorant bf the management of such a Company .

      Third .- —That he has wastefullyaf not fraudulently , expended tho ] monies" ! of the shareholders . Fourth .- —That the whole scheme is fraudulently concocted , [ for the purpose of enabling him to swindle the working-classes out oftheir hard-earned money , to make an estate for himself , and then that , having ruined them , he will desert them . The choice flowers of rhetoric , and the varied manner in which these charges

      are made and supported , together with the minor statements and details flowing out of them , can be judged of by the specimens with which the columns of the Northern Star were crowded last week , to the exclusion of more useful matter . One benefit however , must result from their ve-publication , namel y , to enable the members of the Land Company to see in their own words the nature ofthe charges made by these parties , and to judge for themselves oftheir truth or reasonableness .

      To the charge that Mr O'Connor has uncontrolled sway over the Company , or as it is differently phrased in another place , by the same authority , We have objected to the large ehare of power aimed at by Fierce

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      Feargus , '' it . is only necessary to say , that by the laws of the Company / he has no more power than his fellow-directors . If . it be replied , that these laws are not legally binding until the _Registration of the Company is comp leted ; Mr O'Connor replies , ( and the tour upon which he is about to start in company with Mr Jones attests the truth of the statement ) that he is desirous the Company should be completely registered with the least possible delay .

      In another capacity , however , Mr O'Connor does , and if the Company is to succeed at all , must always , possess great powers ; as would also any other person who might be placed in the same position . The purchasing of estates , the erection of buildings , and the formation of small farms , is not committee-work . ' It must be done by one active , indefatigable superintendent , who has a clear and distinct idea of the nature of the work in which he is engaged , and who possesses the faculty of directing the energ ies of all under him to its accomplishment , in the most speed- ** , economical , and

      effective manner . Mr O'Connor is the only person connected with the Land Company who possesses the confidence of the shareholders , to such an extent as is required for the performance of these several duties ; and confidence is a primary and essential requisite . But it is objected , in the second place , that he is ignorant of the management of such a society . Who says so ? The editor of the Dispatch I How does he know ? What does he know ofthe management of societies himself ? Has he had any practical experience in that way ? Or , above all , has he ever been associated with MrO'Connor inthe

      management of any society , that he thus ventures to pronounce so confident an opinion as to Mr O'Connor's ignorance ? . The value ofhis opinion , unless we are informed somewhat more upon these subjects than at present , is clearly very small indeed ; and knowing , as we do , something of the past history and experience of this redoubtable Editor , we have no , hesitation in saying , that if he were to set himself up as manager of a society , and depend upon bis success for his living , a" speed y forced march into the workhouse would convince him at once of his presumption and incompetency .

      Editors are very excellent wordmongers . That is their trade , and so long as they are content to keep by the pen and the inkstand , they are very well in their way ; but were they ( even the erudite , experienced , and most wonderful Editor ofthe Dispatch , ) to present themselves as candidates for the situation of Manager of a Bank or Insurance Office , Superintendent of Railway Works , a Model Farm , or a Model Lodging-house , we have no doubt but that they would be reminded of the old Latin proverb , which has been vulgarly and pithily translated among ourselves— " Let every cob . bier stick to his last . ' '

      Mr O'Connor , from his past career , and the position he has hitherto occupied in society , can , at all events , put forth a greater prima facie claim to the knowledge requisite for the management of popularly-constituted societies , and of practical agricultural and building operations , than a person whose migrations extend from his house to the office in Fleet-street , and from the office back again to his house ; and whose practical knowledge of society is gleaned from the communications of those who are

      actually doing its work . We reject the dictum because we know the'critic is not qualified to give a sound opinion on the subject . The third charge may be said to be based upon , and to flow out of , the previous one , and it helps to show the truth ofour estimate ofthe practical business-knowledge of Editors in general . Mr O'Connor is charged with wasteful , if not fraudulent-application of the funds , and to prove this a number of items ,. having

      reference to the purchase and keep of twenty-three horses , are paraded with an immense show of indignation against Mr O ' Connor , and of commiseration for his poor deluded victims . This is the first specific attempt to grapple with business . It is made b y the Editor of the Nottingham Mercury , and his learned brother of the Dispatch falls into ecstacies with itquotes it in full _^ and grows quite magniloquent over it '

      A breath disperses the flimsy superstructure whicii these practical and pains-taking architects had so carefully raised . The money , so far from being either wastefully or fraudulentl y expended , is proved , in the most conclusive manner , to have been a source of direct profit to the Company ; to have been absolutely required to carry on with the requisite rapidity the plans ofthe Company , and to have indirectly added greatly to tbe immediate fertility of each allotment on the Lowbands estate . Item by item of this " mare ' s nest , " does Mr O'Connor remorselessly turn up and expose , with a fullness , an accuracy , and a clearness , that leaves nothing tobe _Idesired or to be added .

      In fact , these twenty-three horses , which averaged 39 _« . 15 s . a head , together with the carts , harness , & c . required , are as much a misapplication or extravagant outlay of the funds , as the locomotives of a railway company . They are the medium by which the capital of the company is put in motion , and made reproductive and profitable . As to the cant and hypocritical stuff about the expenditure of money in purchasing horses , aiid paying for oats to feed them , while those who contributed it were receiving low wages , aod living upon low fare , it is too ridiculousl y

      disgusting to deserve any lengthened reply . The National Land Company is formed with the view of putting an end to low wages and low fare—in order to do so , its capital must be applied in masses to produce any effect upon a large scale * and the directors of the Great Western might as well sit down to calculate the private income of each ofits shareholders before ordering a new engine or an old one to be repaired , as the Directors of the Land Company enter into similar calculations before purchasing an estate , and proceeding in the most expeditious way to prepare it for

      allottees . The horses , cows , carts , and harness , constitute part of the working plant ofthe Company . They are shown by Mr O'Connor to have already paid for themselves , . ind may be now looked upon as so much added to the capital of the Company . Thus , the very point which looked so formidable in the eyes of Mr O'Connor ' s assailants , " vanishes into thin air . " The figures to which they had recourse for the purpose of crushing him , recoil on themselves— " the engineer ! has been hoisted by his own petard . '' After such an exhibition -ot crass ignorance of practical subjects , and

      the meaning of figures , we apprehend that very little faith will be placed hereafter in any exhibitions of these wonderful " calculating boys '—we mean editors . ; As to the statement that Mr O'Connor has devised the plan merely for the purpose of p lundering the working classes , it needs no refutation . The onl y way by which such an allegation can at the present moment be tested , is to see what colour is given to it by the past life ofthe party whose motives are thus impugned . Tried b y this criterion , the allegation may be summarily dismissed , as equally wicked and absurd . Whatever Mr O'Connor

      may do in future , as yet he is the Only political agitator who has appeared in Hngland whe has steadily and constantl y refused to take a farthing of the people ' s money , an who , while continuall y occupied in their service , has borne all charges from his own funds . The fact } ? merely requires _toj be set against the assertion , in order to judge of the value of the latter . So far as _long-continued , ' unremitting and u-ipaid public exertions can establish a olaim to nublic confidence , Mr O'Connor must be admitted , even by his opponents , to have done so to an extent which cannot be shaken by the united asseverations and nronher . i « a nf

      the whole fraternity of scribbler ? , who have made such an onslaught upon bim s The past life of Mr O'Connor _isia stronger guarantee of his _future integrity _thfi any asser

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      tion to the contrary ;' and ' ; it is notwimm . w « boundary of moral _possibil-ties that a man _sotrusted ~ one ; holding so prominent a position in English politics , andin whose very nature is deeply inwoven an overpowering craving for the approbation of his fellow _beings , without which life would be a misery to him-we say , it is impossible that such a man , for any conceivable amount of wealth , would , even i he had the power , forfeit such a position , ana condemn himself to a life of obscure infamy f That would be ruin , indeed ! compared to which the loss of 2 .. 12 s , 3 Z . l 8 _s ., or 57 . 4 s . by each individual shareholder of the Land Company would be but a trivial affair , and ,

      desp ite all the exaggeration of Mr 0 Connoi s assailants , that is the measure of their loss and ruin , even should all their malignant and foul predictions be verified . But even were there no legal or practical obstacles to the fulfilment of such rascally prop hecies , there is that in the very nature of the case , and in the sacrifice of position , ' fame , and power , which such a course would involve , that it is impossible to imagine any sane person would deliberately make it . The predictions only originate in the baseness of those who make them . They know what tbey would do were they in tbe same osition ;

      p These remarks have extended far beyond what we intended when . they were commenced , and still there are very many points untouched upon which we purposed to comment . We must , however , conclude ; and shall do so by drawing attention tothe fact—a curious and instructive one—that , in the midst of the utter break down of the monetary and trading system , the wretched apolog ists of that system can yet find time to abuse Mr O'Connor and the Land Company . The only way to account for the concurrence of the two facts is , to supnose that thev see in the growing power of Mr

      O'Connor the downfall ofthe social and political . machinery by which the profitmbngers have coined fortunes out of the , blood and sweat of the toiling millions , and dread the advent of the time when the labourer shall not only be " worthy" of , but shall "enjoy' his hire , and become the " first partaker of the fruits . The labouring classes , uuder thefguidance of their adopted , and trusted leader , are laying the foundation for future independence in the midst of an almost unparalleled commercial crisis . _? & To the attempts made to shake their confidence : in that leader they respond by shoals of votes , expressive of the most thorough and entire trust in a man who has

      fought their battles through good ? nd through evil report , and accompany these resolutions by still more substantial proofs of that faith by sending him—thousands of pounds of sterling money . They have lost all hope of emancipation from the wordmongers and profitocracy , ahdSdevoutly believe , that under the leadership of . their adopted guide , and by travelling a different path to that they have hitherto trodden , they will reach at last the goal pf their arduous and continued efforts . The venal press may abuse the leader , but the people know how to appreciate that abuse , and will continue to help on the great work of the Emancipation of Labour , undeterred by the bugbears coined in editorial imaginations .

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      _H _^ _WW _^/^ _JV _^ ' ' - ----- " - _»" - ¦ ------THE GOOD OLD CAUSE . In that famed popular arena , "the Crown and Anchor , ' * wherein so many ablej and some virtuous men , haveatdifferenttimes thundered , as the Vox Fopuli , for Radical Reform , we witnessed on Monday last another and an enormous gathering , to testify in favour of the good old cause—the cause ofthe right against the wrong , the many against the few . The dinner at the Crown and Anchor was provided in honour of the Radical Reformers

      returned to Parliament at the late general election , and those who mean to be returned on the occasion of the next electoral struggle . The invitations to both sections of " the People ' s friends ' had been liberally distributed by the committee of management ; but of the elected , only Mr O'Connor appeared to do homage to the sovereign people : of the nonelected there . was a larger attendance , but limited , with one exception , to the men whose names are linked with the The Charter"Name and at , * .. "

      The excuses on the part of the absentees for non-attendance were of the usual character — " detention in the country , " " unavoidable business , " and " engagements of long standing . Like the persons bidden to the great supper recorded in the 14 th chapter of St Luke ' s Gospel , they all had a reason of some sort—good or bad—for staying away . The cause of absence in a few cases seemed to be honestly set forth ; and , in the case of Mr Duneombe , but one feeling pervaded the breasts of all p resent , that of sincere sorrow that the cause ofhis absence was continued

      illhealth . We may add , that that feeling was accompanied b y the heartfelt prayers of all , that the cause of absence , too truly set forth in the letter of the hon . member for Finsbury , might speedily cease to exist , and that he—the People ' s Champion—might soon , very soon , be restored to health and strength , and thereby be enabled to renew the great work of his mission—that of labouring for the destruction of injustice , and for the triumph of right . ' But the majority of the " letters of apology " were understood by the people to be mere flimsy excuses , invented to cover the real hostility of the invited to the object of the

      meeting—a demonstration in favour of Radical principles , as embodied inthe Charter . In two or three particular instances , the loud and angry expressions of disapproval that greeted the makeshift apologies of loud ranti ng " Radicals , '' showed that the people were fully alive to the real character , and perfectly informed of the real sentiments of their "friends . " The carpet-knights of Kadicalism may learn from the manner of the people , that the masses are uot to be trifled with . Playing with edge tools is dangerous sport , and certain gentlemen may discover too soon , that—*• A breath can unmake , as a breath has made "

      " Faithful among the faithless found " the Chartist member for Nottingham was at his post , and his reception proved how much the assaults of his enemies have added to his power . Denounced and assailed , misrepresented and calumniated by the venal and corrupt pres , he was , nevertheless , received with an amount of enthusiasm truly indescribable . Dr Epps met with another sort of

      reception . The Doctor , who is a kind of universal lecturer on nearly all the " ologies " and " isms" existing , has been for many years before the public , but as a politician , has been known only as one of a very timid character . At the late election he appeared Tat Northampton , as a candidate for parliamentary honours , on Complete Suffrage principles . At the meeting on Monday evening , the _neonle

      exhibited the desire to welcome him as a friend —although , like " Royal Charlie , " he'd been " lang-a-coming _''—but the Doctor contrived to spoil all , by exhibiting a want of modesty and good sense , perfectly intolerable . It was perfectly intolerable to hear a man boast of what he had not done , and sneer at those who were working and suffering , while he was waiting and watching for quieter and safer times , in & £ ° _S & _} 1 ! PP earan ( _* - and reap the harvest others had sown . It was intolerable to hear a new comer lecturing veteran workers upon their policy , their attachment to names , and their ignorance ofthe virtues of the bourgeoisie . When gentlemen like Dr Epps ceme amongst the Chartists , they should modestly set themselves to learn before thev _tamr , tn

      teach . We have hi gh authority for holding , that a man wise in his own conceit is a my _lool . sh fellow , and we imagine that Dr Epps musthavelfelt as he looked , rather foolish , when he found that his ' soft sawder" was met b y thundering shouts of "The Chaetbj .-NAMEAND ALL !" The drivel about conciliating the middle _clanes by abandoning the naughty name ol

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      _unarMst , j » wga . _eu _ituiuoug . Jn _^ n _« , _\ y profess lo adopt our principles , will not scruni to adopt the name , a name which has receiv j the sanction of millions , and been haJJotred i the blood of martyrs . They prove _themselv either dishonest or imbecile , if they adopt an other course . ? We earnestly advise the Chartists no | t » waste their time in attempting to coneiliafa factious dissentients , whose only chance tf notoriety exists in their isolation from the main army of progress . The fantastic tricks and grave grimaces indulged in of late b ? some of these worthies , have afforded _us TO _£ C _siderable amusement . The way they hayQ "soaped " each other at their _tea-and-toaat . __

      turn-outs , has been exceedingly edif ying _. Eaten up with vanity and spleen , their own self-glorification has been the one object of their gatherings . Of course , they _^ never heard of the Nottingham election , " its name was never heard . " They are Radical Reformers forsooth ; but the truth ia , they would have been very glad if Sir JohnuCam Hobhouse had been elected instead of his opponent . "Pale Envy withers at another ' s joy , And hates the excellence it cannot reach . "

      As usual , the press has applied the burking system to Monday's meeting . ; Several re . porters were present , but those virtuous geiw tlemen , of course , gave pen and pencil a hobday . The next morning ' s journals appeared , some with a column , some half a " column , ofa report , and some with not a line . Wednesday ' s Times contained a ¦• leader" devoted to the consideration of the meeting . Seeing that the said article commenced in the usual style ofabuse " " and misrepresentation , we looked

      through it forsome argument against Chartism we mi ght grapple with ; but neither argument nor common sense could we find in the precious concoction from beginning to end . "A little knot of noisy demagogues , who try to make the people discontented . " _<• Red-hot Radicals place no limits on the extravagance of their asinine indulgences . ' ' " Political quacks , " & c , & c . Abuse of this sort , garnished with tap-room , slang . Here is another illustration of the virtues of our

      middle-class friends , so lovingly- recommended by Dr Epps to our admiration . The Times is the great organ ofthe Bourgeoisie , who support it , and such vile journals as the Dispatch and Manchester Examiner- The middle-class rob the people of their rights , and then , through their villanous journals , add insult to injury , Mr O'Connor s colleague , Mr Walter , is reported to be the principal proprietor of the Times ; to that gentleman an . invitation was

      addressed from the committee managing Monday ' s banquet . We give Mr Walter ' s reply : — ¦ • _¦ ¦ 68 , 'Russell-square , September , 28 th , 1847 . Sib , —I fool much obliged by tbe flattering invitatioa whicb you hare beea good enough to present to me , and much regret that in consequence of other engagement * , I cannot hate the pleasure of accepting it . I remain , Sir , your obedient servant , Jobh Walts * .

      Mr Walter professes to have felt much obliged by the flattering invitation , and felt much regret he could not have the pleasure of accepting it . Does Mr Walter ' s letter trul y express his sentimenss , or does he approve of the " asinine" abuse poured by his " sackmug" editor on the ; men whom Mr Walter expressed his regret he should be unable to meet ? These are questions which , perhaps , may be put to Mr Walter the next time he meets his constituents . The Times may discover that it is not exactly safe to attempt the sneering down of Chartism , that is , if its proprietor desires to continue member for Nottim ; ham .

      The way to silence the Times is for the Chartists to exhibit their earnestness by insisting upon having a daily organ of their own , and by making their organisation as a party thoroughly effective . Y / e put a serious question to the Chartists of the metropolis . Shall last Monday ' s magnificent meeting he allowed to pass by as a bubble of the day , to be remembered for a week or two and then forgotten , or shall it be held in remembrance as " the beginning of the end "—the revival of an agitation which shall not cease until the Charter is made the law of the land ? We suppose that all true democrats will

      admit the desirability of making the Chartist movement truly powerful . It is unnecessary for us to advise any peculiar mode of operation to effect that object . The " Executive Committee , " the " Registration and Election Committee , " and the officers ofthe several localities , are the proper parties to advise , and take the initiative in the good work . We must , however , impress upon our friends the necessity of commencing operations forthwith . Let now be the appointed time . Remember that the National Petition has yet to be signed ! Remember ; that four milions of signatures must be appended to that Petition !

      ' Let every man who cheered Mr O'Connor on Monday last bear in mind , how powerless the Member for Nottingham must be , unless supported by the unmistakable voice of public opinion . That " opinion , " to be effective , and respected , must be expressed in more ways than " loud hurrahs , " an A " enthusiastic cheers . " The people must make their power felt through the medium of organisation . The men of London are bound to set an example to their provincial brethren : now is the time to set that example .

      . Recent victories have armed us with confidence , whilst confusion reigns in the camp of our enemies . Now is the time to advance in serried phalanx against corruption ' s citadel . Nw is the time to plant ou the crumbling battlements of privilege the banner of THE CHARTER , AND NO SURRENDER !

      Mr Cobden. The Apostle Of Free Trade Has...

      MR COBDEN . The apostle of Free Trade has returned to his native country , after a continental tour of considerable duration—in the course of which he visited all the leading cities of Europe , from Paris to St Petersburgh . in a kind of triumphal procession . How far the honours paid to liim b y royalty , and the banquets given by the nobility and merchants of various cities , were caused by the national desire to pay respect to a successful public man . and how far

      by aealfor the cause of which Mr Cobden is i the representative , we have no means of judging—but the fact that he did meet with a distinguished reception is undoubted . He left ; England in the first flush of victory . The ap- plause of his admirers , and the more substan- . _tial reward of an almost princel y subscription attesting how widel y and deeply his influence J had spread in English society . He has been i welcomed warmly , and feted magnificently in i all the important towns he has visited , and the e cheers of the merchants of Hamburgh-rich , _., important

      , commercial Hamburgh—must have e been still ringing in his ears when he again set it loot on his native shores . We grudge no man the well-earned meed A ot honour and rewards for long-continued d and zealous public service , and should be less ss inclined to do so in the case of Mr Cobden than in Of almost any publie man who has appeared ; d on the stage of English politics in modern rn times . Whatever may be thought of the phi- lilosoph y and policy of which he wa 3 the leading ig exponent , none can deny that he' exhibited a a rare sagacity inthe management of thehfl League , in the adaptation of means to end , d , and in the calm , searching , and steady _intel- el * lectual power he brought to bear upon the sub- ib « ject . He applied to his work , in short , most of oi

      those qualities which are the very stamina of ol English society . The mainspring of its en * _> n « _terprise , the ; secret of that success which , | in | in spite of all drawbacks or obstacles , natural and md artificial , distinguishes the career of English-ahmen . The nation sympathised with oUCh _» i a man , because it saw its best features , as it were , re , individualised and reflected b y him . And , id , whatever may be the effects , immediate or re-remote , of the abolition of the Corn laws , _on _«> n «

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 30, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_30101847/page/4/