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      Lnvnnv _»„< _1 JPABIS FASHIONS for the Autumn _" _V _S by T . GOOD . 6 . Conduit-street , _o * r _£ _L _^ 2 te _? The _mostsupeib plate erer _pub-S _sffi _^ r _^ _CSeW the _mit _^ ouable _gar t _^ _SulSy the new stylepaletotover-coate _. _both _S _aKble-breiutei _sUpatternsofgwments- _^ Test _^ _m-m « _» 5 - ootin * ; _i P * _£ ? « Dort , & e- ic Price 10 s . « d . for the one season , or 20 s . _foTonevear , including an intermediate report , summer and winter , with e » ery necessary information throughout A splendid livery Hat _^ warranted lhe most useful in the trade : seven patterns , of garments , and a book of description , & c . Trice only 12 s . Two Juvenile Plateslio . 1 for spring and summer , No . 2 for autumn and winter " ; price ( with the fashions or livery plate ) , 4 s . each . The ' work on Catting , in numbers at ls . GcL each , as usual . Scientific cutting taught , and garments or patterns cut for th » trade . —Observe the address , as above .

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      TO TAILORS . _Bvapr-robadon of Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria and Bis Royal Highness Prince Albert . THE LONDON aud PARIS FASHIONS for Autumn and Winter , 1845 and 1846 , ready early in October , by HEAD and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloom 3 bury-square , Xon-loa ; B . rser , Holywell-street , Strand , London , and maybe had of all Booksellers wheresoever residing ; a Tory superb Print , representing the most splendid exhibition in Europe , an Interior View of the Colosseum , _JBcgeut ' _s-park , _londwi . This exquisitely executed . and beautifully coloured Print wiU be accompanied withfuUsizeUress * Frock . and Ridius CoalPatternS ; also , Patterns ofthe New Fashionable Polka Frock , and Locomotive

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      TO ALL WHO CAN'T PAY ! IMMEDI ATE Protection , aud a prompt aud safe final discharge , without the intervention of a Prison or an Attorney . A discharge to Debtors is nowimperative , because Imprisonment forHebt is now penal , notreme . dial Hebtors ofall grades will bebenefitted by applying forthwith to John 3 . Benstead , 22 , Basinghall-strcet , sear thc Court of Bankruptcy , London .

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      _G- . REAT BF . lTi . IX MUTUAL LIFE ASSURAKCE _T SOCIETV , 11 , _Watebloo-w-ace , Loxdo *»* . sibectoss . The Chisholm , Cltairman . William Morley , Esq . .. Deputy Chairman . Henry 3 . Barber , Esq . * James John Kinloch _, Esq . John Brigkunan , Esq . Henry Lawson , Esq . Prancis Brodigan , Esq . Henry Penny , Esq . James Win . Beacon , Esq . Robert Power , Esq ., M . D . Alexander K . Irvine , Esq . The Eev . F . W . Johnson John Ingiis Jcrdein , Esq . Vickcry , A . M . ADDITOItS . C . B . llule , Esq . T . C . Simmons , Esq . G . Thomas , Esq .

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      SHEFFIELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY . WHEREAS . Notices were duly published in the month of November last , in the London Gazette , the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent , the Nottingham Journal , the Derbyshire Courier , the j £ mcoln , liutlaad , < md Stamford _Atercurv , and the Lincoln Standard _Xewsp & p & _ts , that application was illtended to be made in the then next ensuing Session of Parliament , for leave to bring in a Bill to incor porate a Company , and to give to such Company { over to makeandmaintain a Railway , commencing y a Junction with the Sheffield , Ashton-under-Lyne , ¦ nd _Manch-istcr Railway , at or near _Oborne-street ,

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      THE COLOSSEUM . GR AND OHCHER . TJRAL ORGAN . —This magnificent establishment , patronised and . Visited by her MAJESTY and his Royal Highness Prince ALBERT , bas now , in addition to its former alterations , a new Orchestral Organ , erected in the Glyptotheca , on which the most admired pieces of music will be played daily , from Two till Pour o'Clock . Open from Ten till Halfpast Four . Admittance , Ss . Children , half-price . The Stalactite Caverns , the most magnificent of all the Temples which nature has built for herself in the regions of night , ls . each . The whole projeeted and designed by M . W . BradweU .

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      TU THE EMBARRASSED . —IMPORTANT . THERE arc thousands of persons who have struggled long against the force of misfortune , but few arc aware that by a very recent Act all small traders owing debts not exceeding £ 300 , farmers , and all others owing to any amount , can be entirely raised from their difficulties at a small expense , aud without imprisonment or bankruptcy . All such Mr . Weston begs will apply to him at Moira-chambers , 17 , Ironmonger-lane , Cheapside , by letter or personally . Persons summoned for small debts should apply immediately , as they may thereby save themselves from frequent and lengthened commitments to prison .

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      METROPOLITAN SEWAGE MANURE COMPANY . ( Provisionally registered . ] Capital £ 1 , 500 , 006 , in 30 , 000 Shares of £ 50 each . Deposit £ 1 per Share . THE object ofthis Company is to supply ( at a quarter - of tbe cost of stable or farmyard manure ) the sewage water of the Metropolis to the " surrounding country as manure by mechanical meaus similar to those em . ployed by the Water Companies . A careful and moderate calculation has been made of the annual outlay and income , from which it can confidently be stated that the undertaking will realise a net profit of at least 15 per cent . Prospectuses , containing full particulars of the plan , and extracts from the reports and authorities upon which the estimates are based , may be bad on application atthe tetnperary offices of the Company , No . 5 , Berners-street , or will be forwarded to any address .

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      MANY THOUSANDS OF POUNDS STERLING TO HE GIVEN TO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE PICTORIAL TIMES . For particulars of this extraordinary undertaking apply immediately to any Bookseller , or Newsvender _, in England , Ireland , or Seotland , or to the Publisher , Mr . C . Evans , 351 , Strand , London , who will be happy to for . ward a Prospectus .

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      BEST AND CHEAPEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD-GREAT SUCCESS . ¦ _^ - _^ milE MUSICAL BEE for October , , <@ _IQ > V X No . 39 , all gone by twelve o clock _fi y _^ y « on publication day . Thrice the _quanfNLlME Hi _tity could hare beeu sold . Second _Edi-ESJB _^ _3 j | tion now ready . Nos . 1 to 39 may be had V 4 _-WryTf at 2 d . per No ., instead of 4 d ., as _here-** _W _-jtJG y tofore . All future Nos . same price . The _^ W g _$ _? MUSICAL BEE is now published twice _^ _zzz _^ in the month , on the 1 st and lath . No . 40 just out . "My Duett Book" and "Piano Bijou" same price . ~ The FLUTOXICON _, every No . from 1 to 143 , at 6 d . each , instead of 8 d . The PIANISTA , from 1 to 56—every Is . No ., reduced to 6 d . —every 2 s . No . reduced to Is .

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      ' JUST PUBLISHED , In one volume , foolscap 8 vo ., neat cloth , price 7 s . 6 d „ THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES A Prison Rhyme : in Ten Books : BY THOMAS COOPER , THE CHARTIST . J . How , Publisher , 132 , Fleet-street . _$ F . Orders from the Country to be sent through the Booksellers . MR . COOPER'S JS EW WORK . Jii 3 t Published , in 2 vols ., 12 mo ., Price Fourteen Shillings ,

      The Northern Star. Saturday, November 8.1815.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 8 . 1815 .

      The Famine. •* Where There's A Will Ther...

      THE FAMINE . Where there ' s a will there ' s a way . " The blunders of a bench of country Shallows—the immoralities of a State Church parson—the peculation and brutality of a Bastile overseer—the insolence of a Poor-law Commissioner—the turpitude of a Secretary of State—the tyranny of a landlord—the absurdity of a judge—the subserviency of a Legislator—the corruption of Parliament— the tortuous

      windings of a Prime Minister—the pliancy of . his reckless supporters—the plunder of railway directors —the _remorselessness of griping attornies—the cruelty of employers—the venality of the public press —the tergiversation of agitators—the neglect of a noble lord who overlooked a money letter— -the apostacy of politicians—and the whimsicality of monarehs , are one and all incidents of daily occurrence , and may constitute the political stock of journalists , to be served up as convenience requires , with seasoning suitingto the palateof their respective customers ; but famine , the topic upon which we write , is a subject to which all others must be deferred .

      It is one that cannot be seasoned to any palate . It is one which indirectly affects those who are not in immediate fear of its consequences . Like thc malignant contagion , it is no respecter of persons , and , therefore , it is for the same reason dreaded by the wealthy . It is a huge devastating epidemic that traverses the land , and against whose march no " cordon" can be opposed . It is worse than pestilence . The progress of { pestilence may be arrested , but famine " breaks through stone walls . " This is the position to which the landlords ot England and of Ireland , backed by their Ministerial tools , have brought this countrv , and they alone are responsible for the

      result . Wc will not , with the same littleness of mind that characterises the Times newspaper and many of its correspondents , attribute the evil to , and saddle thc consequences upon , Sir Robert Peel and the Sliding Scale . 'Ihe evil has existed almost from time immemorial , and would , had it not been for Sir Robert Peel's measures taken in the bulk , not capriciously picked for factious purposes , be now felt With ten-fold , twcnty-fol _^ a hundrcd r fold severity ; yea , if the cheap bread Whigs were now in office , instead of allowing inquiry to precede action , they would jump to soma 'fiE-belly conclusion , and leave the responsibility of- failurea _* j a legacy to their opponents . ' - ¦ :-- ¦ : *

      - Ax \ we _^ anticipated in the . outset we learn from the Irish Commissioners that the Irisb people' cannot be expected to live for ten months upon starch , and , that

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      hope having failed , the said Commissioners announce to his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant , that other means of salvation must bo devised . It is then our duty to consider the several plans recommended by the respective parties . When ever a great nntiona * calamity becomes threatening to faction , we find that all minor differences are merged "for the present " in the paramount consideration as to how their order may be preserved from the consequences . This is the real English of thc charity and philanthropy of

      the wealthy when any event occurs which is of right placed to their account . By words of high-sounding patriotism and niggardly action they not only divert public opinion from a consideration oftheir own misdeeds , but they gather laurels and reap profit from national suffering . Hence we find the _Leinsters , the _Cloncurrys , the O'Connells , the Fitzimons _, with a sprinkling of Orangemen , jumbled into a heterogeneous Protective Society to mitigate a malady ofwhich they themselves are the authors .

      To meet this national malady two sweeping prescriptions are proposed ; the one the repeal of the Corn Laws , and the other a plausible appeal from the agitators , who thrive upon poverty , to thelrish laudlords to permit their tenants to overbold their stock of corn . We shall , firstly , deal with the repeal of thc Corn Laws , and we cannot even enter upon a consideration of thc question without a passing comment upon Mr . O'Co . well ' _s timely change of opinion . When there was not the same necessity for the proposed alteration , the Liberator , to tickle the' ears of his English Free Trade audience , over andover again

      declared that the primary object of _Government aud of all classes should be to give the people cheap food . What , said he , can be more etartling and affecting than the infant appeal of thc child who says to ! its mother , '' Mammy , I am hungry , give me some bread ?" and what more conclusive condemnation of the breadtax than the answer of the mother who replies " Whis't , agra , _Icau't , there ' s a tax upon it . " If there _is-pity due to the appeal , and truth in the response , surely there never was a time when they would be more applicable than at the present moment . And yet Mr . _O'Conxell now fears to press the question lest he should lose the support oi Ai * committee .

      Such , however , is not the real motive for his opposition . He knows full well that the repeal of the Corn Laws was only resorted to as a clap trap-cry to strengthen agitation . He knows that if the effeet of a repeal of the Corn Laws would be such as the advocates of the measure anticipate , namely , an astounding fall in the price of wheat , that the Irish _farmer-s thus saddled with all the penalty of famine would be converted into his mo 3 t clamorous opponents . He knows full well that the Irish farmers are a brave , a dangerous , although a confiding aud

      easily managed class . lie knows that the very anticipation ofthe change would cause them to button up tlieir pockets upon his retit-day , and , therefore , for the present , he places what he once considered the most important of all measures inabeyance , We tell Sir Robert Peel that the reduction in the price of corn consequent upon a repeal of the Corn Laws would be followed by a bloody and disastrous revolution in Ireland , and that , so far from arresting the progress of famine , it would but tend to increase itsseveritv .

      The Irish landlords , the usurpers of the soil , are proud and tyrannical because suspicious—from their position ; while they are for the most part needy , luxurious , and unthrifty . In any measure involving the price of produce , the interests , or rather the unhappy connection , of landlords , tenants , and labourers , cannot be separated . No casualty which promises to be merely temporary will induce them to abate any portion of their claim upon the tenant , while the doubtful position of the latter invariably imposes certain ruin upon the labourer . Let wheat fall to that standard to which panic alone would reduce it , not five per cent , of the landlord class will

      commensurately reduce their rents , and not ten per cent , of the tenant class will expend a single shilling that can be avoided in the payment of wages . The laudlords , so far from being softened into contrition , will become more pompous , proud , and oppressive . The tenant class will become more maddened and excited , while the labouring class , so unhappily dependent upon both , will become exasperated , reckless , and revengeful . All will be given up to despair , and hopelessness will be . seen blazing throughout tlie country . -Thus we dispose of recommendation number one ; and now we turn to tbe second—tiie modest appeal from the agitators to the landlords , to allow their tenants to reserve their . com for

      pro-. We have given the Irish landlords their just character ; nor shall we withhold the same from the Irish farmers . If then the landlords Bhould follow up this recommendation , the labouring people , who are the most numerous class , would not be benefitted to the extent of a fraction of a farthing , as far as regards the price of grain . The .-world does not furnish a single instance of greater oppression tyranny , and fraud , than that practised by the Irish farmers towards their labourers . Not a single petty sessions takes place , not a single quarter session is held , at which the great majority of cases are not appeals of the labouring classes against the broken

      contracts , the violated promises , the _chousings , and the _cheatings of labourers by their employers . And so far from the possession of a large supply of food being placed at their discretion alleviating the present distress , on the contrary , every holder will become an extorting usurer and a jobber , and _frill screw the highest farthing out of the pocket of the unfortunate labourer . Thus we . show , from a more intimate knowledge of the several classes than even Mr . _O'CoMKEu / _posscsses , that neither of the proposed remedies will have the anticipated effect ; while any fund which may be raised by charity , will be reduced by at least fifty per cent , before it reaches the object for whose relief , it was meant .

      We remember a famine before—we recollect the amount subscribed ; and we also recollect that more than one country squire fed his hounds upon the people ' s store of oatmeal . While we justify the judicial enquiry upon a subject on . which some contrariety of opinion exists , we demand , upon the part of tho whole people , that that enquiry should be as prompt and searching a 3 possible , and the execution of salutary measures should follow without a moment's unnecessary delay , it has ever been our complaint , that if changes , however sweeping , are required for the purposes of faction , that no intricacy stands in the way of consummation . The

      change ifl made at railway speed ; but when any demand is made upon the part ef the peoplo , searching enquiry is considered requisite . Committee and commission follow each other in quick succession , until the fever of excitement has passed away , and a complex and voluminous report is all they receive for their pains . Such , however , cannot be the case now ; we must have something more than the starchy recommendations of chemical commissioners { something more than Ithe frothy ebullition of begging patriots ; something more than the philanthropy of tyrant landlords ; something more than the alms of strained and ostentatious charity . .

      Does Sir Robert Peel know , that , estimating the number of horses employed in our service , in cavalry and artillery , at 20 , 000 , four pounds of corn subtracted from the daily allowance of each , would grind into oatmeal that would furnish' ample food for 150 , 000 human beings for six months . ? As , then , there js no difficulty in procuring information when a people are to be taxed , or when changes are to be made for the benefit of factions , let us forthwith

      have a sweeping commission to take stock of every man ' s means , and let Government , whose duty it is " , lay a graduated tax upon the wealthy in aid of the starving and unprotected poor . - We tell him that the people , who produce all , will not tamely look upon the pampered , idle menial , the bloated lord , the gouty squire , the bui _* sting war-horse , the sleek policeman , and thc well-fed soldier . It is not in nature that they should do so . Again we conclude , under this painful head , by once more reminding the selfish . and overi secure , that " hunger will break through stone walls . "

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      THS _RESPONSIBILITY OF GOVERNMENTS . --If the oniy duty of a Government is to bow suppliantly and crouch to the strong , and to take vengeance for its humiliation upon the weak , our rulers _arepre-eminently distin guished for the performance of those functions . But , upon the other hand , if another and a higher duty devolves upon them that of faithfullv holding a balance between all classes , they have egrcgiously failed in the applicafron of their power , and thc discharge of their several

      duties . While we are unwilling to saddle all the responsibility of a great novel calamity upon Sir Robert Peel , we may , nevertheless , fairly use the occurrence for the purpose of creating a belief in his mind that an altered system may lead , if not to immediate correction , at _least . to a successful prevention in future , and we doubt not but such a step would heal much of ; that animosity which at present the working people cherish towards Government , the aristocracy , and the middle classes .

      For a very long time the press has teemed with strictures upon the war that has been raging against authority . We h ave stood alone in justifying the aggressive and offensive position assumed by the people , and we have proved to dern nstration that the war was a war of wealth , of power , and of coercion , waged against poverty and helplessness . We have argued that the resources naturally , equitably , legally , morally , and legitimately belonging to all , were usurped by a class . We have

      Stated and cannot be contradicted , that while thirteen miliums under a bad Government may be an over-population , that , under a just distribution of national , wealth the same country would furnish ample means for the comfortable support of a hundred millions . We early foresaw , and as early denounced , the effect bf central isation . We cautioned the people , and told them that it was the new principle adopted by Sir Robert Peel to . insure the amalgamation of political parties into , a class of privileged plunderers , and legalised freebooters .

      To this novel mode of action , as the mainspring of Government , we opposed the principle of individuality , proving incontrovertibly that the greatness of a nation must ever depend upon individual eomfort and satisfaction . Our boasted victories in Central Asia—our unjust triumphs in China—our magnanimous appeal to arms in defence of Mr . Baginan Commissioner _Piutchard—our boastful threats to Republican America—our _paperskirmishea with France—and our domestic security in the bravery and patriotism , of , 50 , 000 Chelsea _pensioners-r-were one ap . d all urged as a proof of

      England ' s greatness—were placed to the account of increasing civilisation—a consequence pf which , we were insolently informed , was a corresponding and simultaneous increase of poverty . The difference between the two principles , centralisation and individuality , are , however , now about tobe tested ; and if centralisation would establish any equitable claim , its title will be best proVcd by convincing the people that the holders of wealth , however procured , look upon themselves in thc character of stewards , and that in the day of need they hold themselves responsible for thc just and equitable distribution of

      those resources which the new principle recognised by Government has enabled them to amass . What is every man ' s- business is nobody ' s business ; and hence we shrewdly apprehend that this law of distribution will not be administered ; and , if not , will not the working classes say to themselves , " What has been may be . "' We have been visited by a great calapiity—a . calamity , the effect of which might have been wholly and entirely averted by a just application of the country ' s resources . Will they not travel through the country , and ask themselves how it comes to pass that Land , by which alone food is

      produced , should , be in a state of barren ' unproductiveness , while they , if allowed to cultivate it , would have been either wholly saved from the horrors of famine , or in part reconciled to it by the . balmy reflection that it vyas the work of God alone , and that each , from the Queen to the peasant , were equally sufferers by the visitation . Will they not enquire why a people with land of surpassing richness , and with a genial climate , should be dependent , upon foreigners for their very existence ? Will they not ask for good cause why the pried oftlie foreigners , productions should affect the price of their labour . And when they discover that all those anomalies exist , and are upheld and

      perpetuated by that golden link -which bind the few to * gether , will thoy not then see the glorious result that must follow union . Will they not , as a class with inseparable interests , merge all their minor differences into tho grand principle oi' centralisation . If the centralisation of the power of the few has been followed by the plunder of the many , nothing but the consolidation of the many can compel the few ; if not to disgorge the already ill-gotten gain , at least to arrest the further plunder and check its progress for the future . The cold political apathy that has followed the new tacties of Sir Robkrt PeblIuw equally affected all _clases of society . The boiling bubble on _the-surface has disturbed the waters to their lowest depth .

      The Tories are confident—the _. _Whigs are deadthe Corn Law League is slumbering—the Irish Iiepealers are abused by the ravings and the antics of apoutere and showmen — the . Complete Suffragists have evaporated—the landlords are paralysed—tho parsons are quaking—the Dissenters are watehingthe farmers are desponding—and the Chartists , partaking of the national malady , haye become apathetic . It is to arouse them that we now write . We invoke

      them , by the name of him whose birth-day it is ( the immortal HUNT ) , to shake off their lethargy , and onco more rally round the standard whichhe raised and never deserted . While usurpers are deliberating upon statues of butchers , tyrants , and hypocrites , to decorate the walls of what is ludicrously called the '* House of Commons , '' let us paya more honourable devotion to the departed great ones , by making another and more vigorous struggle to establish their principles in the most honoured statues that can be erected to their memory .

      Seeing what the usurpation of the Land by the _fewhasled to ; seeing what the want of just Government has brought upon us , let us from henceforth renew our covenant to struggle to th © death for the People ' s Charter and the Land . Do this , or walk like spectres into the parks of the wealthy—follow the sports of the idle—and when you see the prancing horse , the bloated hound , and the pampered official defying that famine that , has reduced you to beggary —crouch and sneak away witliout a murmur ; you are _Hieforger of your own chains , the willing abettor of your tyrant ' s supremacy . Where there ' s a will there ' s a way , and for a nation to be free , her people need but to will it . _

      Tiie Potatoe Crop. We Bog To Direct The ...

      TIIE POTATOE CROP . We bog to direct the attention of our readers tothe lamentable accounts of the potatoe crop selected from all parts of the United Kingdom , and to remind thera that , insignificant as the failure may at first sight ap . pear , it is the principal food of nineteen-twentieths oftlie Irish working classes , and also much relied upon as an article of food by the poorer classes of England . ' In addition to what we select from other _sources " we beg to add what we have witnessed ourselves since we last wrote upon thc subject . Since then we have visited several large and small farmers in Surrey , and the following was tlio resultof our enquiries : —One fanner , who hold 3- 300 acres of land ,

      in the parish of Nutfield , informed us that that portion of the crop which , a week before he esteemed safe , had gone ... Another farmer , in the same parish , who occupies 113 acres , showed us his store where he had classed the potatoes in three hea ps . In the one were those wholly gone , in another were those partially , tainted _, that had beeu selected for the pigs , in the third were those which were supposed to have escaped . We turned the good heap over and selected those apparently tlie ' iuost sound , and having cut tliem we found that , without a single exception , all were irrevocably gone , and this from Wednesday , the day upon which they 7 were stored , to Sunday . Auother farmer , occupying seventy ' acres in thc

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      parish of Home ; informed us that they were all gone iri his district . On Monday we examined three heaps that we had grown ourselves . They promised to be the be 3 t in the county ; a very careful gardener had the week before selected what he thought had escaped , but , to his astonishment , when we cut several of those he esteemed to be the most sound , they were every one gone . On Tuesday we dined with a friend , and after dinner we enquired of his housekeeper how she found the potatoes in London—her answer was , that , if she laid in two days' provision , she found on the second day that if the potatoes had touched each other , they were unfit for use . This touching is altogether nonsense ; the disease is , we believe , in

      every potatoe , the fact of which will be discovered by the following operation . It is quite evident that the blight struck the leaves and stalk , and that the infection was communicated through the stalk , as the potatoes upon the continent and elsewhere that were struck at a certain stage of their growth , immediately ceased to grow , and perished . If then , the curious will take a potatoe , cutting it from the heel , or large eye by which it is appended to the stalk , to the nose or point , where a cluster of eyes appear , he will discover a purple tinge running in the first instance between the skin and the potatoe , and a pale green seam running all through in the centre . He will also find that the whole appearance , when cut , presents thc elements of decay .

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      Important Notice. Henceforth All Communi...

      IMPORTANT NOTICE . Henceforth all communications for the Northern Star must be addressed simply thus ;—To the Editor , Northern Star . Oaxcc , •¦ 16 , Great Windmill-street , London , I request particular attention to the above notice . _Peaegos O'Connoe .

      Faost, Williams, And Jones.—Ina Letter, ...

      FaosT , Williams , and Jones . —Ina letter , received in Newport this week from II Jbart Town , thc writer states that he has seen Frost , who was in good health , but was looking very many years older , and with hair completely whitened . He calmly made many inquiries respecting the members of his family and _formci * acquaintances in tliis locality , and stated that he was reconciled to his situation , that of clerk in a store . The writer adds that Williams is overseer of a colliery , and Jones guard ofthe Launceston mall . —J / omno « _tnjfiirc Merlin

      The Polish Cause and the Infamous French Government , —To the Editor of the Northern Star , — Sir , — On thn eve of the fifteenth anniversary of the Polish revolution , when the Poles made the most extraordinary and unparalleled efforts to throw off the Russian yoke which oppressed , and yet oppresses them —that is to say , on the 29 th of November , 1830—it may he interesting to very many of your readers to be made acquainted with the innumerable obstacles which ' the Polish exiles havo to contend against in their attempt to commemorate that glorious day in France , under a " constitutional government" —France , which has had her two great revolutions of 1789 and 1830 . Last year the French Government prohibited , not merely certain Poles residing near Paris from going

      there on the 29 th of November , where the ' anniversary was to be celebrated , but the Government also expressly interdicted , through the intervention of the police , every Frenchman from speaking at this commemoration . Will it , can it be believed , that though no article of the Fronch laws , not even those of " September , " forbid Frenchmen speaking on sueh occasion ? , and though the public meeting fur the celebration of the anniversary was permitted by the French authorities , not one Frenchman dared to express his sentiments in favour of hapless Poland ? Ths police interdict gagged them . No Frenchman spnke ; no Frenchman dared to speak on the occasion ; and what occurred last year I confidently predict will be repeated this year . What can we , as Englishmen , think of our neighbours across the Channel ? Yet France is

      "free , " and Frenchmen are "free , " even when they submit to these things , if they can only chatter and swagger about _"Pertids Albion , " and the glory of * ' La belle France . " Of course , in tliese allusions , in these well-merited strictures , / restrict myself to the mere tools of the existing QwenaaenL Thera are good men in * all countries ; but there are , unfortunately , also , everywhere too many swaggering fools and specious heartless knaves , and these are the tools which tyrants use to achieve and perpetuate their infamous and diabolical designs againBt the rights and liberties of mankind . . I think you and jour readers , sir , will agree with me , that if wo Englishmen , in the nineteenth century , after eighteen centuries have elapsed since Chirst proclaimed the principle of liberty , equality , and fraternity—if we Englishmen were thus ignominiously circumstanced , we should blush to boast either of our " freedom" or

      of our " country ;" we should groan beneath our yoke , and proclaim , in the face bf Heaven , our degradation and debasement , and our determination to speedily emancipate ourselves from , our thraldom . —I um , sir ; your obedient servant , Johk Bull . —October 30 th ,

      1845 . ... ' . The Land and its Pboduce . —As an' admirer of the Chartist . Co-operative Land Plan I beg , through your columns , to submit to the public a statement of what the land will produce when properly cultivated . I rent eight roods , that is about the sixteenth part of an acre , wliich I work myself , this finds mc employment in summer from four o ' clock in the morning until eight ( the > other portion of the day being dovoted to my business as a manufacturing cutler ) . For this land I pay £ l per annum , and spend about 3 s . more in the purchase of manure . I have cultivated the same plot of ground for the last seven years , and have now ou it two dozen of black , white , and red currant trees , two dozen of gooseberry trees , and four score of raspberry trees .

      planted in hedge-rows . My crop for the present year is as follows : —500 head of coleworts , 100 head of sugar loaf cabbages , 4 score of _gos lettuce , 3 score of cabbage lettuce , 9 bushels of spring and wiiitcr spinach ; I have already gathered as ninny peas us measured when shelled 38 quarts , and have as many remaining on the ground as will more than suffice for seed for the next year , 3 _Score of cauliflowers , 4 score of purple brocoli , 27 bundles of spring onions , 4 bushels of winter onions , ( J bundles of rhubarb . 61 b . of Italian _shalots _, 6 pecks of ash leaf kidney potatoes , 02 quarts of gooseberries , 23 quarts of currants , 37 quarts of raspberries , 6 pecks of turnips , 7 bushels of scarlet beans , 3 dozen of vegltable marrow Jerusalem artichokes . 2 score of Scotch kale , 1 score of savoys , 200 head of celery , and

      a plentiful supply of fine curley parsley . My mode ol culture is as follows : —I plant my sugar loaf cabbages 10 inches apart and a foot in the alleys ; in February I pluck every other row which leaves 20 inches , this mode produces a fine cabbage for table , My spring spinach I sow inthe dwarf pea alleys which aro i feet 4 inches apart ; my large _Kussia marrowfats I sow 2 feet 8 inches apart , the haunt of these grow upwards of 10 feet high , and invariably produce two crops ; I make it a rule to chop up my old raspberry canes and cabbage stumps very short , and dig them in , and find it helps the manure ; I also plant as much celery as I require early , changing its locality every season , thus my ground gets well trenched all over ; this in a great measure accounts for its being so exceedingly proline .

      I shall ba most happy to exhibit my little plot of land to any friend who may think it worth his while to insped it , upon receiving a short notice of his intended visit , Most heartily wishing that every success may attend the land project , —I beg to subscribe myself your fellow labourer , and a Sheffield cutler , Geoiioe Ridhardson , 1 , High-street , _Keuaington . IMRFOTANT TO MERCHANT SEAMEN , —Tile following notice , which is of very considerable importance to owners and wasters of vessels aiid all persons more or less connected with the mercantile and shipping trade of the country , has been posted in conspicuous places at the Custom-house and ¦ the several dock establishments in London ; and copies ofthe same have been transmitted , by directions of the commissioners , to the

      principal officers of tho revenue at the several ports and otlier places afang the coasts of the United King _, dom , for the information and future government of themsolves and those under their jurisdiction , andall other _pwties concerned : — ¦ ' By the Commissioners for managing and causing to be levied and collected Her Majesty ' s Customs and otlier Duties —Notice is here _* y given , that the restrictions or an act of Parliament , passed in the Sth and » in years of the reign of her present Majesty Queen Victoria , entitled An Act for the Protection of Seamen entering on Board Merchant-ships , ' will come into operation on tha 1 st day of November next , and that from and after that day no person , except the owner , part owner master , or person in charge of a merchant ' s ship , or the ship ' s husband , will be at liberty to hire engage , supply , or provide seamen to bc entered on board merchantVships , without a license first obtained from tke Lords of the Committee c-f Her Majesty ' s Frivy Council for

      . , appointed the management of trade ' and plantations ; and further , that application for such licenses must be made by letter , addressed to ' The _wTv _\ n t r ? lt , SB ° fp _* vy council for . Trade 5 eh , _ft _^ ° xx " By 01 ' der Ofthe Commissioners October . o _Mo . 11 ns important enactment has for its object tho protection pf a very numerous « , d _ZV _< ! x body of persons , who are proverbial ; _noSS their improvidence and _carelessnegg 4 h resZk to affiiirs m which most per 80 n 8 morc _^ _J _?* _* prudent or necessary to be careful viz t _£ L tion of themselves from the fan ™ '• . ' ¦ preserviu and evil-disposed »„ 1 & °° ot _fraudu 1 _^ hailed b y them wUh t ? "J _™^ B , «» n 8 , aild 4 houUbe _Mbich h em _^ nt _^ _ST'Sll _^ f _^ person , not duly licensed ll _x _2 * _V _^ ? that no

      Faost, Williams, And Jones.—Ina Letter, ...

      the provisions of this act .- A penalty of £ 20 . trill be inflicted in each case of and infringement of these said provisions of the act . ' Unlicensed persons are not to be employed for the purpose of engaging seamen , aud any licensed person knowingly employing any such person for the purpose stated will forfeit a sum of . £ 30 ., and , in addition thereto , forfeit and lose his license . No owner , part owner ; master or person in charge of any merchant-ship or ship ' s husband , is to pay or advance , nor give any note ' in writing , or otherwise in the nature of , and purporting to be an advance-note for any . part . of the wages of any seamen hired , & c , on board a certain ship , until six hours after the ship ' s articles have been duly signed by the said seaman , and also by the ma 3 ter or owner oftlie ship , and then only tothe said seaman himself , unless such wages or advance of wages be paid __ _- _« , < i .

      iu money , iu which case the payment thereof may be made to the seaman himself at any period most convenient after the signing ofthe ship's articles ; and all payments of wages contrary to the provisions ofthe act will be null and void , and the amount thereof recoverable by the seaman as if thej had not been paid or advanced af all ., Any person demanding or receiving from any seaman , or from any person other than those authorized , requiring seaman , any remuneration whatever either directly or indirectly , for or on account of the hiring , ( fcc , any such seaman , will forfeit for every such ofteuce a sum not exceeding £ 5 . Persons are not to be * admitted on board merchant-vessels before their arrival in dock or at the place of _discharge , without the permission and consent ofthe master or person in charge of the vessel . A penalty of £ 20 will bo inflicted fo » an infringement of this matter ; and for the better

      securing the person of such offender , the master or person in charge of the vessel is authorized and empowered to take any person so offending into custody , and to deliver him up forthwith to any constable or peace-officer , to be by him taken befora a magistrate and dealt with according to law . If any person ou board any merchant-ship , within twenty-four hours of her arrival at auy port , solicit any seaman to become a lodger at the houseof any person not properly licensed , and letting lodgings for hire , and shall remove from the ship any chest , bedding , or othcreil ' ects of any seaman , except under the personal direction of such seaman , and without having the permission of the master or

      person in charge ofthe ship , he shall he liable to forfeit and pay for each offence of thc kind the sum of £ 5 . The last , of any immediate _importance , is , tbat if any person shall demand andreccWe of and from any seaman payment iu respect of his board and lodging in the house of such person for a longer period than such seaman shall have actually resided or boarded therein , or shall receive or take into his possession or under his control any monies , documents , or effects of any seaman , and _shalluot return the same or pay the value thereof when required to do so by the seaman , after deducting therefrom what is justly due and owing ou liis part , lie shall forfeit and pay n sum not exceeding £ 10 over and above the amount or value of sueh

      monies , documents , or effects , after such deductions as aforesaid , which shall be adjudged to bc paid to the seaman so defrauded . Jin . J . Sweet , Nottingham , aeknowledgos'tlie receipt of is . for the Executive , from Bcestoti , Notts . The Dundee Priss and the Dundee _Millociuts . — To the editor of the Northern Star . —Mr . Editor ,-TUe regard you testify for tho working classes , whose physical and moral condition you are constantly endeavouring to ameliorate , is oue of those rare and glorious excep . tions wbich renders still more conspicuous the baseness of tho press in general . There is , sir , iu Dundee , no less than three newspapers , one of tliem published twice a week ; not one of them has the straightforwardness to expose the villany practised by some of thc millowners here . At the _Hillbank works , one of the largest establishments of flax spinning in this quarter , it has been

      the practice for a-long time past , notwithstanding the Factory Act , to keep the . hands working a longtime beyond what thc Act allows . For this violation of the law Mr . _Ulacl'io was lined tho sum of £ 20 . But , sir , not one word of this appeared in the local newspapers . True , the editors reported a similar case that happened about Peterhead , but Peterhead being Fuch a distance from Dundee , the master of . a - woollc , n factory there could not be likely to say to a Dundee editor , " Come , Mr . Editor , you and I must spend this evening together , over a bottle of wine . You , I trust , will keep this unpleasant affair of mine out of your paper . " There is another total violation of principle committed by a flax spinning company here , that has beeu left unnoticed by the Dundee editors . A rise of wages has been obtained by thc spinners in a number of works . Those employed by Baxter and Brothers refused to work , unless tliey

      • had a like rise . What / think you , sir , was the consequence ? Six girls , varying in age from 15 to 20 years , were , without even the form of trial , treated as felons , without a friend being permitted to visit thein . Tlio Messrs . Baxters ' pretend to be very religious . If there is a meeting or lecture for missionary purposes , Mr . Edward Baxter is tliere presiding , and his name stands high in the list of subscribei' 3 . If Mr . Edward Baxter is a light of religion , — 'Tis such u light as putrefaction breeds , In fly-blown flesh whereon the maggot feeds ; Shines in the dark—but when usher _* d iuto day _. The stench remains , the lusture dies away . Mr . Roberts and the disappointed faction whocoxtld not turn tke distress occasioned by tke late strike of thc Colliers of the north io their own especial benefit . —We have received many angry denunciations of the honest working

      Colliers in answer to thc foul and malicious attacks - levelled at Mr . Roberts , whom they yet call their great legal adviser and protector , in answer to an anonymous piece of slander published in Lloyd ' s paper last month . The following notice of Mr . Martin Jude , however , who was more conversant with " the facts of ths case and with the feelings and opinions ofthe Colliers themselves , and which we copy from Lloyd ' s paper of last Saturday , _ wo substitute for the cream of the many other communications we havo received—all breathing honourable vengeance against the Durham Chronicle , and the factious , and disappointed would-be leaders of the Miners . Mr . Jude says— " Sir , —Being a constant reader of your ex . cellcnt Journal , 1 was surprised to find , in last week ' s paper , a statement headed " Lawyers and StrikOB , " in which was setforth the amount of money paid to Mr , Roberts by the Miners of the Tyne and Wear , aud the

      county of Lancashire , xfow , sir , as treasurer to the Miners' Association , lam enabled , and I feel it my duty , to contradict the statement as set forth in your Jo : rnal , and I beg to state that the amount conditioned for , and the amount paid Mr . Roberts by mo , for tho Miners of ths Tyne and Wear , was _jEJOO for twelve months ' salary j £ 5 oo for _removalof establishment from Bath to _Newcastle ; and his bill of expenses for the twelve months was only £ 750 , making . the total paid by tlie Miners of the Tyne and Wear , £ 1 , 750 , and not £ 2 , 570 , as was erroneously stated by your informant . Again , with regurd to the Lancashire Miners : he did not receive £ 1 , 800 for a half year , but only £ 367 for a year ; thus making adifference of ( according to ratio of your correspondent ) £ 3 , 233 . . What monstrous false statements some people send to newspapers . _—Maktin Jude ( Newcastle-upon-Tyne ) . "—Could there be a more creditable refutation

      of the ravings of the bitterest enemies of Mr . Roberts and the Miners ' . At all times , and especially at the present , Mr . Ro berts" character is ofimportance tothe working classes , and , therefore , we notice the matter here iu _compliaiicu with the request of numbers of them , and the more especially ,. because , as a professioual man , Mr . Roberts , by the custom of his profession , is precluded from publicly noticiir _^ them himself . Wo know better than any otlier person living what Mr . Roberts endured from a strike into which the folly of others precipitated the Miners ; and we mention without his knowledge or consent the following fact : —That Mr . Roberts waited upon us in Loudon in the heat of the strike , and proposed to raise £ 1000 on his own security for the support of the men- Wc told Mr . Roberts candidly that if he did so it would paralyse the subscriptions then on foot j it would give a handle to his enemies , and the enemies of the

      men , and though last , not least , that he must . be prepared to give it as he never would sec a fraction of it again . Our last reason had no great weight with Mr . Roberts , while the advice of one of tho best friends that ever the Colliers had so far accorded with our own upon the two other points that he was very reluctantly dissuaded from the undertaking . Although it is no part of our province to give any opinion upon the transactions between solicitor and client , we do volunteer , to assert that the amounts stated by Mr , Jude as having been paid to Mr . Roberts were insignificant , wholly insignificant , as compared with the labour he performed . We wish some of our protective friends would just give us a call and look over our attorney ' s bills of costs , and perhaps when they found that the insertion of about forty lines in the Northern Star , which we had never seeu , cost us £ 360 without going to trial at all , they would then understand how much costs go to swarms of idlers standing between the Crown and the solicitor . The cowardly poltroons who thus assail an honourable gentleman _.

      and a useful ' pubhc servant , are fully aware that the custom of Mr . _lloberts ' s profession , as well as the endless controversy into which notice of such fabrications wouldlead him , closes his lips , and renders itimpossible _; for him to . notice such assaults . We conclude by tendering our hearty thanks to Mr . Jude for his gentlemanly , lus timely , and satisfactory refutation of the anonymous slanderer , and the more especially as we have reason to know that the meanest endeavours have been resorted to to win Mr . Jude to forward the purposes of Mr . Roberts's enemies . Sterling virtue , and especially to the absent , is a very rare quality , and cannot be too highly appreciated when exercised , as in the case of Mr . Jude . When hiive the working classes had a friend whom faction would not destroy . / We rejoice to think , however _, that the nails of faction have been pared bythesharpened intellect of an improving people . F w llr ; , T , 0 , CoNN 0 _2- P uty Treasure ? , in account with t V ? . _; - _* _- .. Treasurer of the Chartist Co-operative . Laud Society , from August 30 th to October 25 th , inclusive : —

      Dr . ' , as per acknwled _gmeut in the Northern Star . • ¦ £ S . d . P e d Sept . 6 , Cash Hi 7 7 " 18 , " 112 11 3 2 U , " 133 17 n n 27 , « 76 19 o Oct . 4 , " 97 14 8 . 11 , " 60 19 1 18 , « 105 3 7 .. _*» . . " - ' M 1 J - _'¦ _tash received from Secretary 77 10 9

      Cr. ' 3 - * 2 .. £891 I • Paid On Accoun...

      Cr . ' 3 - * 2 .. £ 891 i Paid on account of Treasurer , Nov . 1 , 891 _H 2 _,,. T . _„„ f r } . lCeS ° , ° ° ¦ ¦ ¦¦ Balance 0 O 0 u _Ti"eil . SUVC 1 , bogs to . announce to the sharenomers that he is not rich enough t 6 make up _deficiency occasioned by the irregularity of District secretaries , aniithat . _whilehe'li- is lodged the whole amount on tiie _S _™ ? - ' ?? ' ? V tho month , in order that the Society may be entitled to a month ' s interest , he lias now in his possession French drafts upon London-Bankers , and 1 _' ostoiiiee orders irregularl y transmitted , for which he cannot procure cash ; while it occupied the greater portioii ot three days . in running from one Post-office to tha ° " . , ' * 2 get the orders cashcd ; 'beh ' g made payable . it the _fetrand , _Clianng _. rjross / London ; Old _Cavemiis ) _' - street Oxford-street , and ' Piccadilly , when all the tiouble might have been . spared by making the orders payable at the Post-office , _Chariug-cross . When one person undertakes the gratuitous performanc e ? i _r'V ° _" , ° . « sanas , H is but rislit and just Mint that labour should - bo _madeiis _IMit as possibleihe above account does not include monies paid by the _uenerul _Secretary since the 25 th of October , to which .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 8, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_08111845/page/4/