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TO TAILORS . _Bva porobaticn of Her Most Excellent _Majesty Queen Victoria and His Koyal Highness Prince Albert . THE LONDON aud PARIS FASHIONS for Autumn ana "Winter , 1815 and 1816 , ready early in October , by BEAD and Co ., 12 , Hart . steeet , Bloom 3 bury-square , tondon ; Berger , Holywell-street , Strand , London , and "Jiaybe had of aU BookseUers wheresoever residing ; a _Tervsuperb Print , representing the most splendid exhibi-Jjon in Europe , an Interior View of the Colosseum , _J-esent's-park , Londen . This exquisitely , executed and _beautifully colonred Print will he accompanied with _full-^ eDress , Froch _^ nd Biding CoatPatterns ; also , Patterns ofthe Sew Fashionable Polka JFroet , and Locomotive
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TO ALL WHO CAN'T PAY ! IMMEDIATE Protection , _an-1 a prompt and safe final discharge , irithont the intervention of a Prison or an Attorney . A discharge to Debtors is nowimperative , because Imprisonment for Debt is now penal , not remedial . —Debtors ofall grades will be benefitted by applying -forthwith to John 8 . _JBenstead , 22 , _Basmghall-street , sear the Court of Bankruptcy , London .:
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PANKLIBANON IRON WORKS . THE LARGEST STOCK IX EUROPE . _—PUBLISHING IRONMONGERY , Stores Grates , Kitchen Banges _, Fenders , Fire-irons , best Sheffield Plate , ornamental Iron and Wire Work , Garden Engines , Boilers . Aa , Japan Tea Trays . Baths , Ac—PANKLIBA 3 fOJJ IKON WOBKS , adjoining Madame Tussaud ' s , 58 , Bakerstreet , Portman-square . N . B . —Every article is marked in plain figures at the _owest cash prices .
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GREAT BBITAIX MDTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY , 14 , WATEEi . oo-ri . iCE , London . D 1 _EECT 0 BS . The Chishohn , Chairman . - William Morley , Esq ., Deputy Chairman . Henry S . Barber , Esq . James John Kinloch , Esq . John Brightman , Esq . Henry : Lawson , Esq . Francis Brodigan , Esq . Henry Penny , Esq . James Wm . Deacon , Esq . Bobert Power , Esq ., M . D . Alexander R . Irrine , Esq . The Rev . F . W . Johnson John Inglis Jerdein , Esq . Ticker }* , A . M . _ACMTOHS . € . B . Rule , Esq . T . C . Simmons . Esq . G . ThomaS , Esq
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SHEFFIELD AND _LLSCOLiSSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY . WHEREAS . Notices were duly published in the month of November last , in the Zojk ? o » Gazette , the Sheffield and Rotherham independent , the Nottingham Journal , the Derbyshire Courier , the Lincobi , Rutland , and Stamford Mercurg , and the Jincoin Standard Newspapers , that application was intended to be made in the then next ensuing Session of Parliament , for leave to bring in a Bill to incorporate a Company , and to give to such Company power to make and maintain a Railway , commencing bv a Junction with the Sheffield , Ashton-under-Lyne , and Manchester Railway , at or near Oborne-street , in the Township of _BrishtsideBierlow , in the Parish
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TO THE . EMBARRASSED . —IMPORTANT . THERE are thousands of persons who have struggled 7 long against the force of misfortune , but few are aware that hy , a very recent Act all small traders owing debts not exceeding . £ 800 , farmers , and all others owing to any amount , can be entirely raised from their difficulties at a small expense , and without imprisonment or bankruptcy . All such JMr . . Weston begs will apply to him at Moira-chambers , 17 , Ironmonger-lane , Cheapside , by letter or personally . . . . . . . . __ ,.. _; Persons summoned for small debts should apply imme diately , as they may thereby save themselves from frequent and lengthened commitments to prison ;
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MELODIES FOR THE MILLION FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS . § TTxEE MUSICAL BEE . —No . 40 con-J . tains the five celebrated Elfen "Waltzes , and other beautiful and popular Melodies , for 2 d . No . 41 ( ready on Tuesday next ) Musard ' s Puratani Quadrilles , "Love Not , " "Dance Boatman Dance , " with words complete . 6 beautiful New Muzurkas , & c , price only 2 d . Nos . 1 to 41 may be had at 2 d . per No ., instead of 4 d ., as heretofore , until the 24 th instant . The MUSICAL BEE is now published twice in the month , on the 1 st and 15 th . f'My Duett Book" and "Piano Bijou , " in eighteen Nos ., 2 d . each . The _FLTJTONICON , every No . from 1 to 143 , at 6 d . each , instead of 8 d . ; The PIANISTA , froml to 56—every Is . No . reduced to 6 d . —every 2 s . No . reduced to Is ., until the 24 th .
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Published lath November , 1845 , price 2 d ., . SOURCES or MEANS of APPROPRIATION for the Human Creature ' s Property of Pecuniary Possessions or Increasings , now offered in lieu of the Unsound , the Unreal , National Funding System . A Letter to the Editor of "The Times , " by Luke James Hansabd . — August 16 , 1845 . . " ' . _--.. Printed and Published by Luke James Hansard , near Lincoln ' s-inn-fields . London .
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JUST PUBLISHED , In one volume , foolscap 8 vo ., neat cloth , priee 7 s . 6 d ., THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES ; A Prison Rhyme ; in Ten Boohs ; BY THOMAS COOPER , THE CHARTIST . J . How , Publisher , 132 , Fleet-street _, i _^ _r Orders from the Country to be sent through the Booksellers . Also lately published , in 2 vols ., 12 mo ., . Price Fourteen Shillings ,
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UNITED TRADES' ASSOCIATION FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF LABOUR IN AGRICULTURE AND MANUFACTURES . ( Provisionally registered . ) Office , 30 , Hyde-street , Bloomsbury . London . Present proposed capital , £ 100 , 000 in 20 , 000 shares of £ 5 eaeh .
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riui _' n _xinnirnPTiM _ZZZT _77 THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 22 , 1845 _;
The Landlords. Their Duties And Their Ri...
THE LANDLORDS . THEIR DUTIES AND THEIR RIGHTS . There is no theme that has been more exhausted , no subject to which public attention has been more actively directed , than to a consideration as to what are the duties , and what the rights , ofthe landlord class . It is now more than ten yearsi # inc & we ( in our capacity of _gratuitous editor of the _\! Briie- Sun daily newspaper , upon the occasion of . Colonel BnuEK , M . P . forfJarlow , calling the Irish pebpie _^ savages ) ventured to 7 predict that theday would come when the nonperformance of those duties devolving upon the landlord class would compel the savages to inquire into their claim to those rights which they have hitherto held , upon no better title than popular ignorance and savageforbearance .
Since then argument , remonstrance , and threat have been exhausted in anti-landlord agitation . The newspaper press " of every shade of politics has devoted ite columns to caution or denunciation . But advice to the powerful is as _?' pearls thrown before swine . " The : landlords , ' strong in usurped rights , powerful in the Commons , and omnipotent in the Lords , preferred the adoption of the JNewcastle
principle , that they had a right to do what they liked with their own , to the timely caution of their friends , and to the . warning voice' of their _foes _^ They followed '" ' ¦' ' - _¦" . ¦'* ¦ : - 7 . , / ' :: ' . "¦ , ' the easier , but the more dangerous course , until at length the substitution of laws the most savage , and of deeds the most barbarous for their natural duties , has led the public mind to the consideration of the more comprehensive question . < ¦ . -:, , ¦ _-.. _-.-, ... : THE USE OF A LANDLORD CLASS ; S . i _7 " _'>' ¦¦
Before we enter upon this important branch of our subject , let us take a short review of-what the landlords consider their duties to be . If duty consists in giving a Yenal support to the Minister of tlie'day in all his schemes for the subjugation of labour to the will of capital , the landlords' _havj- performed their duty . If duty consists in the harshest administration of the almost obsolete laws of barbarous times , the landlords have been dutiful . Th ? duty consists in the preservation of wild animals and birds that are enemies to the poor , but delicacies to the rich , the landlords have been faithful stewards of _tli-iir trust . If duty consists in after-dinner pot-valiancy , in _wbich therightsof labour are boastfully trumpetted forth , the landlords havj * pei formed their duty . If duty
consists in distinguishing a sow for the number of her progeny with a reward of £ 5 , and the poor man for the hardships and privations that he has submissively endured for thirty years with a reward of ' £% , the landlords have performed their duty . : If , as landlords , to fleece their tenants , anil , aa politicians , to coerce them ; if , aa representatives ,. to tax them _^ nationally , and , as grand jurors , to tax them locally ; if , as jurors , to convict them without trial _^ _s yeomen to cut them down without mercy ; as _magistrates to _commitihemwithouilaw ; and , as guardians ; _tosiARVB them without remorse ; if , as neighbours , to hate them , and , as chbxstu-ss , to mock them , be what is meant by the performance of duty , then have our landlords faithfully discharged theirs .
b , upon the other hand , duly consists In just legislation , and the mild administration of law , in the protection of the lives , the liberties , and the properties of those whose power they have usurped ; in the defence of the weak against the strong ; in ' seeing to the education of youth ; the protection of manhood , and the comfort of old age—have the landlord class performed any one of those duties ? Duties and rights can neither be inherited by birth / defined by law , nor limited by practice , but must be subject tothe varied circumstances , and even sudden _ehanges , to which society is liable ; and hence , what is duty to-day may be a violation to-morrrow , and what is a right one day may be a usurpation the next .
It may be a right , and perhaps a duty , to impose certain laws , conditions , and restrictions upon a population comparatively small ; while it . would be a wrong and an injustice to impose the same laws , conditions , and restrictions upon an increased population ,, upon ivhom they must press with increased severity . Such is precisely the present condition of the . landlord class . They have inherited th » _se duties and rights necessary for , and tolerated by , the unconnected mind of barbarous ages . Their prejudices and uncontrolled abuse of those powers have made them deaf to the loud appeals of present necessity , and the demand for further adjustment of the duties and rights of all .
It may have been a right to impose certain conditions and restrictions upon the uncultivated feudal vassals of barbarous ages . It may have been just , nay prudent , to stipulate that so much land should be arable , and so much pasture . The reservation of manorial rights from tliose who were not likely to discover the hidden treasures of the earth may be one day tolerated as achildish toy or a cherished
heirloom , to be transmitted from father to son , but the prying eye of industry may , as it has don © , ' convert this harmless bauble into national _plunders -Hi olden times conditions , trifling in their iiature _,-were tacitly submitted tb by the untutored public , * while in our ( toy the very enforcement of those conditions has brought us now to the verge of famine , arid at all times subjects us to the tender mercies of Jew jobbers , traffickers , speculators , and foreign diplomatists .
Mayhap the free trade reader has already discovered , in our reasoning , ample cause for calculating upon our future support in aid of his plan for humbling the landlord class ; but , on the contrary , we are thus particular in stamping with our strongest reprobation that policy which has satisfied the working classes with a mere change of masters , with the simple transference of duties and of rights from thoughtless boobyism to calculating ruffianism . If we desire the Upas tree to be felled , it is ' not with the free trade axe , from whose every wound would spring ten thousand tyrants for every fool that it destroyed . Itis by a public opinion that will be wise enough to apply the great change to national purposes , and not by the enthusiasm of frenzied speculators , that we wish the monster crushed .
The working classes have ever been diverted from tbe pursuit of one enemy by being halloo'd upon another , until at length the ground has become so foiled that they lose the scent of the legitimate game . Their game is the possession of power , not its mere transference from the hands of one party to those of another ; andthe question with them , in that struggle which is now at hand between machinery and Land , must be , not which has been the greatest , which the most active / which the most powerful opponent of their rights—but how they can get a just and legitimate control over the one and the other-over the one which starves them by over-production and unjust
distribution , and over the other which starves them by non-production , or what is the same , _insufficient production for the necessities of those for whose only use itwas created .. God gave the Land to the whole people , and not to the landlords ; ' and , therefore , as God , who made the Land , did not create dutieSYfllich may be inherited , or rights which may be usurped , and as upon the proper exercise of those duties and those rights their title is said to depend , and ,, inasmuch as they have failed in the performance , of the one , and unjustly monopolised and injuriously stretched the other , we cannot , for the _lifp . _' of us discover .. ; _< -.. - THE USE OF A LANDLORD CLASS . ,
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THEPEOPLE . THEIR DUTIES AND THEIR RIGHTS . " It is as much the duty of a people to rebel against a coiTupt House of Commons as against a tyrannical monarch . " Such is one ofthe duties of the people , as defined uy Lord Bolingbroke , a courtier . and a Tory . It is , however , but one duty , and one in the exercise ofwhich there are so many collateral , contingencies , such as success or failure _/ liberty or increased tyranny , glorious life or ignominious death , that " we shall not select it for very close consideration or nice criticism ; and for this special reason—because it is a duty that there is danger now in defining . Thus
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much , however , wei-will say yM House _? of . Commons a eorw _$ , m _^^ House of Commons tbat ' im ruled the destinies of this once . great nation , 7 but ; now- starving little island ;' , _^;; - ' . ; ; - ¦ : _' ; " ; ' _^?' : ' _^\ : _/ _Z'J . ' Having , ho _;;& te , _ '' _* _wliafever _^ to ' l ) e hauled before the wind of the nautical Attorney-General , we shall here select for animadversion some of those duties in the performance of which there is less danger than is generally attached to the specific of the courtier Tory Lord . -We shall not introduce any sectarian question , but shall confine our remarks to what are " isan ' s social and what his political " duties . Man ' s social duties are of an individual and national Z ,, _^ hnwAV _^ _^
character . As an individual it is his duty to protect his life , to repel force by force , to disable those who would otherwise hurt or injure him in conflict , and to slay those who would .. otherwise take his life in strife . To see to the education of the youthful , and to secure the comfort and independence of his family . To do noact from selfishness , or for the gratification of his own feelings or passions that would injure the future prospect , or diminish the future comforts , of those to whom he had given existence ; and though last , not least , to recognise no natural distinction whatever between himself , lonely and humble as he may be , and the proudest monarch on the earth ' s surface .:
Such are man ' s social duties asan individual . His national duties are to see . how he can beat secure for himself and all others _theuncontroled power of faithfully discharging his duties as an _individual , and the ruling maxim of his conduct should be—that when any one individual ofthe community is oppressed by the operation of law the whole community is also oppressed . It is his duty to make all requisite sacrifices for the preservation of those rights he does possess , as well as to struggle incessantly forthe repossession of those he has lost ; and" not less for the acquirement of such newrights as change or necessity may render indispensable , for securing to him his
equal position in an altered state of society . It is by the usurpation of new rights that governments control—it is only by the acquisition of equal rights that the people can resist . Reason points out the injustice of a society consisting ef different classes , with the respective rights of both defined , being varied from the original contract by the assumption of new rights by one section . Such is precisely the position of the British public . Their natural , nay , their legal , rights , remain pretty nearly the same upon the statute , book , while the usurped rights of the other sections of society have rendered all popular rights a mere dead letter .
Independently of the natural , the implied , and defined national duties of man , we should hot lose sight of the great auxiliary , Expediency—a term which , though damaged by misuse , is , nevertheless , one of man ' s most powerful allies ; and as we shall presently show , the time has arrived when it ia expedient that each individual of the . community should faithfully discharge , those national duties , for the due performance of which he is naturally responsible . If , as is now generally admitted , there is philosophy in idleness , there is also criminality in apathy when the herald summonses us to action .
The immediate , the most pressing , and the most honourable duty that the working classes can now perform , and tte most fitting time for its performance , is the duty that they owe to those through whose oppression the whole community has received damage . While we consecrate the memory of the departed , let us not forget the sufferings of the living , and , above all , let us not lose the opportunity which now presents itself of releasing them from that bondage into which the laws of oppression , and the non-performance of national duty , has cast them , _; Hopeless as our expectations from remonstrance ,
memorial , and petition on behalf of Frost , Williams Jones , Ellis , and others have-been , we have nevertheless fostered and encouraged that enthusiasm , come when it may , which can alone convince our rulers , that , though absent , they are not forgotten . While we attached but slight importance to the pledges the professions and the promises of men who supposed their Seven years' tenure of power in part depended upon popular will , we nevertheless saw the necessity of jogging their memories upon this allimportant subject , and of reminding them that a
reckoning-day would yet come . We had no hope from a new Parliament vitiated by the pros-pec of a seven years' lease , but we have hope that in the hour of expiration that Parliament will grant to selfish fear what it has refused to stern justice . There were many who had high anticipations from the hustings pledges of those who declared themselves in favour of the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones : we had none , but we have hope , and confident hope , that such a change has come o'er the spirit of their dream as will remind them now of that reckoning day which is at hand .
• Parliament cannot last much longer . Let us test it in its agonies of death , and what in its strength it insolently refused to concede , perhaps , in its weakness , it may ostentatiously grant . To this end , and as Government has evineed considerable embarassment by calling Parliament together at an earlier period than is usual , let us see to the strict and honourable performance of that duty which now devolves upon society—the duty of demanding the restoration of men who would have been hung if , they had been found guilty , and who were transported because they were illegally tried . Now is the time , not for one
unwieldy national petition which requires cumbrous machinery and considerable expense to get tip , but for a flood of national opinion running to the fountain head in tributary streams from every quarter of the land . We will do our duty—we will be prepared with petitions from every section of the metropolis , and , if need be , to follow the shadow with the substance— to tho door of the House . Let the country do likewise . Let the hands of Duncombe be thus strengthened . Let him whose courage is equal to the task , —let him whose eloquence will give it force , and whose resolution will give it effect , be the mediator between our wishes and our rulers .
LGt our petitions be Parliamentary , hut hold ; courteous , but _manlyj and then , sliould those who have been pledged to their restoration forget their duty when the reckoning-day comes , let us not forget ours ; and , instead of placing false hope in dishonest men , let us take vengeance for their misdeeds by hallooing Frost in their ear , and hooting them from the hustings . While we have implicitly obeyed the
injunctions ofour leader , in not again petitioning the present Parliament for the People ' s Charter , we are under no bond , or covenant , not to petition in favour of the Exiles;—and thus will the people have discharged one oftheir most sacred duties—and , should they succeed , they will have re-possessed themselves of one of their dearest rights—the right of appeal from an unconstitutional tribunal to the judgment of the whole people .
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES . . CHARTISM . ¦ Wb have not space this week to do morethan merely direct attention to the report bf the very interesting meeting of London carpenters , which took place on Monday last . When we take the speeches and sentiments delivered at the ahove meeting , in connection with the apprehensions of our _rulers- 'the increasing energy of the Chartist body—the renewed exertion onhehalf of Feost , Wiuiams , and Jonesthe anxious desire now to possess the Land—the
despondency prevailing throughout all classes of speculators-the state of Ireland-and the once more dabk speck visible inthe west , it requires no great foresight to predict from sueh signs that some alteration , if not at hand , is expected . We have always asserted that the calm of Chartism was riotits grave , but , on the contrary , was its school-time . From 1836 to 1843 , in vain did we use the lash of - agitation to bring the carpenters aud other trades into our politi . cal seminary . For eight years we failed , and , as if to prove the value of the principle itself , two yeara ' thought has had a greater effect than eight years ' agitation . We ice that the carpenters are volun-
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teera , and that they . ; _hare-notilm . coercedby . inflamed harangues , but that they have been convinced be reason and reflection ,, ; One such Volunteer is worth ten thousand " crimped" recruits . Wehave little doubt that the creditable example set by this locality of carpenters will have a prodigious effect upon the whole body of trades generally . Again commending the perusal oftheir proceedings to our readers , and thanking them " _for-, their kindly feeling towards ourselves , we beg . to assure them that at all times the Star shall be at their service , while it shall ever be our pride to merit a continuance of their approval , :
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IMPORTANT NOTICE . Henceforth all communications for the Northern Stat must be addressed simply thus : —• To the Editor , _Nortltern Star Office , 16 , Great Windmill-street , London . I request particular attention to the above notice . . _Puabgus O'Connob .
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Oub . Agents will please observe , that it Is only com . muiiieations for the paper that are to be addressed to the Editor . All orders and other matters , not intended for the Editor , are still to be addressed as ; before , Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., Northern Star Office , 16 , Great Windmill-street Haymarket , London . ¦ Ma . Yates , Shelton , has procured his post-office order payable at the Strand Post-office , instead of at Charing _, cross . Mr , Leadley , Bradford , has procured his payable at the General Post-office . All post-office orders for , the Northern Star must be made payable at _Charingcross . ¦ ¦ .
Chines of the Land Robbers . —We find the following in the Cor * , Reporter : —A valued and respected correspondent _, has put us into possession of a circumstance which occurred at Fermoy petty sessions , that in our opinion deserves public notice , and calls for explanation , A poor man , named Michael Leary , kiln labourer , at Clondillane , was summoned last week to the sessions by Edward K , Carry , Esq . ., as a trespasser , because in a moment of exhaustion he entered his field , to take a drink of water at a running stream . This gentlemun is , we understand , himself a magistrate , and sat ou the bench while the case was being adjudicated . The poor man was fined in tlie mitigated penalty of one shilling for his sup of cold water , and iu addition to this he had to pay costs amounting to one shilling and sixpence .
The Potatoe Disease . —when circumstances occur which affect the interests of / soeiety generally , it becomes the duty of every citizen to whom an idea occurs which may tend to remove , or at least partially _elleviate a calamity , to step forward , and communicate that idea for the general benefit . The present state of the potatoe crop is of the greatest consequence , not only to this country , but to the greater part ofthe civilised world , and any step which could be taken to arrest the progress of the destructive disease which threatens , not only a paucity of that important article of sustenance for the ensuing winter , but for years yet to come , would be of incalculable benefit . Many intelligent , practical , and scientific men have given their opinions tothe public onthe subject , and laid down many plans for the security of such portions of the
crop as at present appears to be untainted , and however thoy may differ in their remedies , they generally agree as to the cause of the disease , which they attribute to an excess of humidity . Whether this humidity has generated an insect invisible to the naked eye , as _isjthecase in mildew in wheat ; lam not prepared to say ; but if it be so or not , I beg to suggest the following method , whieh forcibly strikes me as the most likely to succeed in being beneficial : —If the potatoes are upon very wet soils , let the dirt be detached from them when dug up , as much as possible , with the hands , using no scraping instruments , and then carried as soon as practicable to a malt-kiln , upon which let them be spread singly ; then let a proper fire be made with good coke under the kiln ,, the same as for malt ; let the process of drying be carried oh gently and equally , keeping the fire at an equal pitch , and attending to
the turning of the potatoes during the whole process ; and let this he continued till upou examination it is found that the greater portion of the humidity is dried up , or evaporated . When they appear to be sufficiently dry , let them be stored ( if room can be found ) singly , or at least , as thin as possible / upon dry straw , and exposed to the air without " covering , till the approach of frost renders a secure covering of straw necessary for their protection . By these means the superfluous moisture , which not only assists the progress ofthe disease , but produces premature vegetation , will be dried up or evaporated ; and if there be an animated insect , the sulphuric fumes ' , emanating from the ignited coke , would insure its destruction , —T . R . Sham , Markfield , 12 th November , 1845 . Admission of Documents in Evidence . —A very useful Act of Parliament , respecting the admission of certain official and other documents in evidence bas come into
force within a few days . The act is the 8 th and 9 th Victoria , 0 .-113 . ' - - By various statutes now in _beiag , documents are receivable in evidence , provided they be authenticated as prescribed , but the difficulty has been to prove that they are genuine . This difficulty is now removed , and from the 1 st of November , all documents which are now received on authentication are tobe admitted , provided they respectively purport to be sealed or impressed with a stamp , and signed as directed by any act made , or hereafter to be made , without any proof of the seal or ofthe signature thereon . Henceforth , courts , & c „ are to take judicial notice of the signature of equity , or common law judges , attached to any legal document . Copies of private acts , journals of Parliament , and proclamations are to be admissible in evidence . Persons forging a seal or signature , & e .
to be imprisoned or transported . A document , may , on suspicion of being forged or improperly sealed , be impounded . The act is not to extend to Scotland . The Editor of the Northern Star presents his compliments to the secretary ofthe Huddersfield branch of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , and begs to assure him that in those observations of last week , at which he feels hurt , ihat not the slightest reference whatever was _intended towards him , further than as the medium through which subscriptions are received from the shareholders to be paid to the account of the treasurer . Indeed , so far from offering even a slight to Mr . Stead , we had always looked upon bis acceptance of the office of secretary with unmixed pleasure . The fact stands briefly thus : —Mr . Stead having , till lntely , forwarded his remittances to Mr .
O'Connor , and that gentleman finding no entry from Mr . Stead in his list , and not having looked over that of the general secretary , came , as it now appears , to the erroneous conclusion that none had been sent ; and Mr ,. O'Connor ' s only reason for investigating into the matter , at all was in consequence of the following passage in a letter received from Huddersfield of Tuesday ' s date : — " The devil is using his best endeavours to prevent the success of the Land plan and has , for some time , been trying to dissuade the people from joining the Association . " From the notice in last _, week ' s Star , then , and the explanation now given , Mr , Stead will at once see that the impression upon Mr O'Connor ' s mind was not that hehad neglected transmitting the monies , but that the subscribers had neglected to pay up their instalments , and the secretary was merely mentioned as the medium of communication . However , if any , the slightest , affront could be
construed by Mr . Stead , Mr . O'Connor begs to state that he regrets most sincerel y having been the means of causing him a moments pain . To the Scotch Shabeholdebs of toe Chartist Coofebative Land Societv . —As many sums of money are announced in our second edition that do not arrive in time to be published in the earlier one sent to Scotland , it may not be uninteresting for them to know that during the two last weeks the receipts have exceeded £ 432 . AVe though : that this intelligence might be gratifying to our Scotch friends . The Land ,. the Land . —AVe beg to acknowledge many valuable communications from Rochdale , Cheltenham , "Warrington , London , Dewsbury , Huddersfield , _Wootl ten-under-Ed e , Cirencester , and several other places , the substance of which shall bo faithfully kid before the forthcoming Conference , while it would require more time than is at our dispoaalto give a separate answer to each . '
The . _CoNFEBEKCEl _ v cheerfully assent , and we are sure that our brother directors and delegates will also assent , to attend a public meeting at Manchester , on Tuesday evening , the 10 th of December . Jaiies Savoy , Wabrington . —The Poor Law Amendment Act was introduced by the Whig Government , in 1834 , during the administration of Lord Melbourne . - _"Ithky- —We arc Quite alive to all contained in his kmd letter , and he may _reat assured that his 'cominumcation and advice shall not be lost upon us . E . G „ expresses a hope that Feargus O'Connor will be ready once more to take the field when famine aud de .
_pression of wages takes place . Mr . O'Connor has always been in the field , and he trusts that he will find E . G . there also . Thomas Tattebsal . —As there appears to he a desire to learn the true situation of this young enthusiastic and much injured man , I beg leave , forthe information of the Victim Fund committee to state , that I know of no individual in the Chartist ranks who is more deserving of public support . When enthusiasm was valuable , I believe his was real aud _suu > _w-j . _Hesuffeteft more by the betrayal of others than from his own want of judgment . He bore his _incarcsration with fortitude , and
returned with exhausted constitution , but unimpaired spirit , to his political devotions . The poor fellow is now afflicted with a running abscess in his back which renders labour almost out of the question , and his present life a burthen , and yet his devotion to Chartism is _thnow _« _nfededas when ho was its youthful , en-£ ZS ' _, eloquent disc _* * 1 th ° « 6 _M ' ««•* I _nau made a proper selection when I presented him with my paid-up share in the Land Society , and I haveonly to nope tbat his occupation may be one of its earliest fruits , and that till his day comes he will , as he ought to he , provided for out of the fund in hand . Fearqus Q'Connor ,
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Mr . CooPBB ( author of ?" The Purgatory _of-w-T _^ bog * to inform the Manchester friends _l _^ IOde »") . whether he intends to publish his lectures IW e _* n 2 uit « _exception of the factB embodied in them 'C I' h _•'•*' member tiie words in which they are delh _*« T , e * does he think they would be worth printinir W Nor posed , simply , of a plain narration of facts ' ?„* J ? eoa -. witha very few , _e-stremel _^ plair ,, and almost _Z _?' _* dent reflections . Literature is now cheap and » . •» eT > - information can easily be obtained by readinu onc _* _. l Quebt 1—To the Editor ofthe Northern Star—ii , no stickler for the _perpetnation ofthe Corn t-, ' ,. _?* --as Cobden , Brhjht , and Co . are _araioustoina kBElff , , _« "the workshopofthe world , " and eject the _hushn _^ an < 1 from the soil to make way for _double-dX _,. power-looms , I should like to know what ou ¦ Z _h _?* will be , should a scanty harvest and the potatoeai .. pervade the two continents of Europe and Ami ?" particularly if our European _neighbours and _JnS _" - _shouldnot gratify the desire of the League - » £ ES ?* mg their bleach-grounds into corn fields , theirZ _« _^ nery into implements of agriculture , and their 2 ' into barns ? I guess we should be in a pretty fix beC the jaws of famine , and the finger and thumb ' of At- *!? mon ! The League wilfully forget that God gave n ,, ' the ZAND for his inheritance , not wheels and _whZt bands , atfd if we despise that inheritance , famine i « n _, just desert . William Kidbe Joshua Stoweh desires us to inform the members of « , Chartist Co-operative Land Society , that all comnuJ cations must be addressed to him , _King-Uwe , Low */ gate , Clitheroe . ( author oft «« The _Purzato _^ _T _^ f _^
J . D . —we shall have no room for poetry this sideof Christmas . T . Weight , Stocepobt . —We cannot find room to notice his statement concerning the factory system this week _SAtroan . —The report of the weekly meeting ef the Sui t ford branch of the Co-operative Land Society , is eft " badly written tbat it is impossible to understand it . Yeovid . — -Mr . Clark has been lecturing at this place , or some place in its neighbourhood ; we cannot tell which from the report before us . The meeting appears t » have been well attended , Mr , C . _'s lecture well received _Chabtist FctfEBAL—Hacknev . —The committee for managing the funeral of the late W . H . Bain , inform the friends ofthe deceased that they must assemble al the bottom of _Well-stroet , corner of _Wick-street , _« half past two o ' clock . The burial will take place at the Bethnal-green cemetery . J . Gatuabd . —We have no room to notice your letter this week .
Receipts Of The Chartist Co-Operatiyb La...
RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST _CO-OPERATIYB LAND SOCIETY . PEE MB . O ' CONNOB , SHABE 8 . £ s . d . Derby , per Win . Crabtreo .. ¦ .. .. 5 o j Thomas Miller , Lanark .. .. .. .. 0 15 o Exeter , per F . Clark .. .. .. .. 20 s Bradford , Wilts , per 6 . Mansfield .. .. It Oldham , per AVm . Haraer „ .. .. 5 0 j Derby , per Wm . Crabtree ¦ - .. .. .. 2 0 q William _Tell's Brigade .. .. .. .. 50 ) Ovenden , near Halifax , per J . Ashworth .. s IS 5 Lake Lock , per Win . Humphrey .. .. 1 0 0 Leeds , per Wm . Brook .. .. .. ,, 10 0 0 Norwich , per J . Hurry ., .. .. .. 2 0 0 Barnsley , per J . Ward .. .. .. .. 5 0 0
WiUiam Mann , Northampton .. .. .. 2 12 4 Kidderminster , per 6 , Holloway ., ,, 2 0 0 Stockport , per T . Woodhouse ... .. .. 12 0 j Oxford , per J . Bridgewater .. ' .. .. 672 Nottingham , per J . Sweet .. .. .. 12 5 9 _Bulwell , per ditto .. .. .. ., 1 lo 0 Wootton-under-Edge , per R . lacey .. ,. 0 16 2 Alva , per J . Robertson .. .. .. .. 311 2 Rochdale , per E . Mitchell .. .. .. 112 g Halifax , per C . Smith .. .. .. .. _c 18 c Staleybridge , per J . Durham .. .. .. li 13 _g Northampton , per W , Mundig .. ... ., 2 0 0 Bradford , per-J . Alderson _.. .. 10 0 Radcliffe , per T . Bowker .. .. .. 2 0 B Todmorden , per S . Witham .. .. .. 3 IS 0 Birmingham , per W . Thorn .. .. .. 500 Ashford , perA . Doxey „ „ „ „ 1 0 0
Leiccster ,, per W . Dates .. ¦¦ . .. 290 Scarborough , per C . Weadley „ „ _., 2 0 0 Bramsgrove , per J . Heath .. .. .. 0 8 0 Bilston , per C . Powell „ „ „ „ 4 0 0 Plymouth , per E . Robertson .. .. .. 3 5 0 Colne , per H . norsfield 10 0 0 Cheltenham , per W . Wilson .. .. „ 8 15 0 Leicester , from John Oades .. .. .. 0 10 8 Manchester , per J . Murray .. .. .. 22 0 0 Coventry , per G . Freeman .. .. .. 116 3 Ashton-under-Lyne , perE . Hobson ... .. 12 5 9 Brighton , Artichoke Inn locality , per William Flower .. .. .. .. .. ,. 7 _jg 3 Newcastle-upon-Tyne , per M . Jude .. .. 3 4 2 Preston , per J . Brown .. .. .. .. 5 4 0 Carlisle , per 3 . Gilbertson .. .. .. 500 Bolton , per E . Hodgkinson _« . .. .. 3 17 0 William Michell , Selby .. .. .. .. 5 « 0 Greenock , per R . Burrell .. ,. ,. 1 15 0
PEE GENEKAL SECBETABT , SHAKES . £ S . d . £ S . ti . Collumpton , Mr . Eliz . Findlater .. 212 0 Pannell , 9 shares 10 0 Wm . Findlater ,, 4-10 Devizes .. .. 12 15 4 Thomas Dredge .. 050 Lambeth .. .. 12 6 9 Greenwich .. .. 200 George Mills , near Plymouth .. .. 239 Edinburgh .. 0 14 8 St . Ives .. .. 028 John Pritchard .. 014 Warrington .-. .. 530 James Smith .. 042 Ashton ,. .. 213 » Westminster .. 2 IC 4 Sudbury .. „ 1 18 ; 0 Whittington -fe Cat 7 8 10 Colne , per Watson 0 2 8 Alex . Findlater .. 2 12 0 Todmorden .. „ 0 1 * Boulogne .. .. 4 11 0 Fariington .. .. In 13 Bacup 7 0 0
lEVr FOE THE LAND CONFERENCE . PER MB , o ' CONHOB , Thomas _MUler _, Lanark „ „ „ „ 0 0 3 Exeter , per F . Clark .. .. .. .. 033 Bradford , Wilts , per G . Mansfield ., .. 0 0 S Ovenden , near Halifax , per G . Ashworth .. 0 3 0 Lake Lock , per \ V . Humphreys .. .. .. 010 Leeds , per W . Brook ... 018 8 Kidderminster , per G . Holloway 0 1 0 Oxford , per G . Bridgewater 0 0 S Nottingham , per J . Sweet 0 7 3 Lambley , ditto 0 2 3
Wootton . under-Edg » , per J . Lacey .. .. 020 Alva , per J . Robertson .. .. .. .. 0 0 9 Rochdale , per E . Mitchell 0 7 5 Ashford , per A . Doxey .. ,. „ .. 0 1 G Rromsgrove _. perA . Heath .. " „ .. 016 Bilston , per C . Powell .. „ „ ., 010 Manchester , per J . Murrav .. .. .. 2 10 0 Staleybridge , per J . Durham .. .. .. 0 ' 6 8 Coventry , per G . Freeman „ „ ,, 03 * Preston , per J . Brown „ .. .. .. 036 Bolton , per E . Hodgekinson 0 8 3 Greenock , per R . Burrell .. .. .. 0 5 0
FEB OENEBAL SECBETABT . Devizes .. ,, 01-3 Merthyr Tydvil .. 029 Westminster .. 013 Sudbury ., .. 020 Reading .. .. 060 Sheffield .. .. 026 Dalston .. .. 023 Campsie .. .. 019 Norwich .. .. O 1 0 Colne , per Watson 0 3 0 Halifax „ „ 011 0 Todmorden . ' . 0 0 3 Plymouth ., ., 070 Ovenden .. .. 030 U'igan .. .. 0 19 0 New Radford .. 030 Rotherham .. .. 0 6 6 _rijmouth .. .. 006 Blackburn .. .. 086 Farrington .. .. 030
CABDS AND _BULES . Lambeth .. .. 022 Seeretary .. .. 0 1 0 Edinburgh .. .. 0 6 10 Greenock .. .. 0 1 W i-inlitbgow .. .. 042 Vale of Leven' .. 0 3 S Campsie 0 4 . 4 Glasgow ( Colquhoun ) 0 I < 1 Glasgow .. .. 0 14 10 KATIOKAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . White Horse .. 030 Hammersmith .. 0 2 « Whittington is Cat 0 16 EXECUTIVE . Northampton , per W . Munday 0 6 10 _VETEBAN PATBIOTS' AND EXILES * FUND . Kidderminster , per G . HoUoway .. .. .. 021
W . , Tne Land. H E Feel Proud To Eall T...
w . , TnE LAND . H e feel proud to eall the attention ofour readers to tte above list , by which it will appear that the subscriptions have exceeded those of the Repeal rent by tlie sum <*' " £ 142 2 _s . Thus :- ' Co-operative Land Society .. .. £ 317 2 0 Repeal rent .. ,. .. _,. 175 0 0 ¦ . £ 142 2 0 Nor is this a mere casual occurrence , as reference » previous lists will show that while the Repeal rent lias been weekly decreasing , the subscriptions oftlie above _society have been increasiug with a rapidity unparalleled •*• the history of English agitation . Tin ' s speaks vohim -3 for the improved mind of the English working classei , m relation to thi | value ofthe soil , and this society as a practical means of obtaining it . Thomas Martin Wueeleb , Secrctafy .
Death Op The Rev. Dr. Wade.
DEATH OP THE REV . DR . WADE .
Un Tuesday Afternoon Mr. Bedford Held An...
Un Tuesday afternoon Mr . Bedford held _aninqw at the Three Compasses , King-street , Golden-square , upon the body of the Rev . Arthur Savage x \ f > D . D ., lately residing at No . 9 , Clarence place , 1 <• ¦•* tonville . The deceased , who was in his oSth year , was well known in the political world . He was _l- _* rector of a church in Warwickshire , and _independently of that he enjoved a private income of -w , _^ _- per annum . Francis " Butt deposed that he was _" the employ of Nicol and Co ., tailors , & c ., IU . rj gent-street . About ten o'clock on Monday niornuy the deceased gentleman came into the shop , and _lining chosen a pattern , gave an order for a dress con
He then walked from the rear of the premises _»' the door , and while talkiug , his foot sli pped , an" P would have fallen had not witness gone to his _«»^ tance . He immediately exclaimed , "Oh ! I " _»' lost the use of one side . " Deceased attemp _tedW-w . something more , but his articulation was so ind _' _| _- as to be quite incomprehensible . The aid of a nie «** cal gentleman was procured . Mr . Brett , s » gCOIl , Stated that he was called in soon alter ten _w Monday morning , to see the deceased , whom Mi once recognised to be Dr . Wade , having freq _«^ aim
met him at public meetings . Witness found ' a state of collapse , and knowing his singular man y that he would avoid medical treatment ii Pf £ ' assumed a little harshness with him , hut M «» _-. paralysis increasing , bled him at the arm , tlie is ™ which seemed favourable . He was subsequent !) . moved to 29 , Silver-street , where he was again _"* ted by the medical gentleman , at a quarter to | who then found him in a dangerous state . Il" _,, j _| 6 rallied , and expired shortly after four o ' clock _, surgeon attributed the cause of death to aP P ' , ' i , The coroner briefly remarked on the mela _>* _^ nature of tho case , and the jury recorded a yeru _^ in accordance with the medical t estimony , _»
from Appolexy . " . , DiED .-On the 12 thinst ., W . H . Bain , _Cw _^ _" _^ aged 52 , of "Wick-street , Hackney , he has left a * and five children unprovided for . He vas a ster- * _- _" Chartist . nt -.. Died . —On the 8 th November , aged 11 in ""' * Maxia O'Connor Slater , _dautfiter of _^ } _, ) _x _% the parents are both goad _r-jMHrne _Gfcarusw - Tower Hamlets *
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 22, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_22111845/page/4/
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