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S.ILXT 57, STHAXD, XOSllON: W**"*®™ BOOTS'Lid. to ^ure OKEGmSEA-Superm. '
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THE JSOKTHERN STAR. . SATUHDAT, DECEMBER 27. 1845. '
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THE CRISIS. IList week, when the hope of...
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The Demonstration on New Year's Day.—We ...
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THE DISTRESSED CAPITALISTS, AND THRIVING...
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In answer to correspondents we beg to st...
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THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE AND CHARTIST CON...
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ARREST OF PATRICK O'HIGGINS, ESQ., ON A ...
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S3T We have in type several articles and...
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RECEIPTS OP TUE CIIAltmT CO-OPERATIVE -L...
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TO THE CHARTISTS OF THE UA'ITED KINGDOM.
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BRETimEx,—The assembling of your represe...
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I UK West Ridito Emotion.—Leeds,- msoxf ...
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* THE NORTHERN : fflA : Bv __ _.- December 27 , 18 _^ 4 ' _.--- -- ¦ -- __ ¦ _¦¦; ,- ¦ - — ¦ _, ___„ , : _^ - , I _,
S.Ilxt 57, Sthaxd, Xosllon: W**"*®™ Boots'lid. To ^Ure Okegmsea-Superm. '
S . _ILXT 57 , STHAXD , XOSllON : W _** _" _*®™ BOOTS'Lid . to _^ _ure _OKEGmSEA-Superm . '
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BOOTS' . _ure _Workma ., sl . ip _ tl . e finest _*^ _F _** _£ * ' * _" ** _SBi _pleasaatfor _^ n . 1 , rfeet-Cash on delivery .
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WEST RIDING OF XOBKSHIRE . CHRISTMAS SESSIONS . NO TICE IS IIEKEBV GIVEN , that the _Chkistjias C-S'iUL _Quam-eb Sessions of the Peace for th . ir _« . Il'din" of die County of York , will be opened _a-™ * e _« _-oi-opch , on _Tckdat , tiic « th day of Januar . _- it at Ten o ' clock in tlie Forenoon ; and by _Ailjourn-~ _e _ [ from thence _™ ll be hcldea at Wakefield , ou _WedyESDAT , _theVtii < W <' ft ,, esa _' _* , _TOnU ' ofJauu : _iri ' ' atTt _* of tlie Gtock in tlie Forenoon _^ and also , l » y further _Ad-, 0 uniiiientfrom _thtm'e , _^ vill * _efaol < Ien at _SHErriELD , 01 . _Vosbat , tlie 12 th day _afehe same month of January , ai Xleveu of the Clock ia < the Forenoon , when all Jurors , Su itor ? Persons hound % y Recognizance , axd _otliert _^ ving Business at the said _several Sessions , ire required lo attend the Court on the several days , and at iht _-cever al hours _afcovemfllJ _& med :
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_COLOSSESDJL—KOTICK-1 PRICE OF _ABMISSIOS MI _-HaSG THE HOLIDAYS !!! Day _Esiiiuirion _.. _~ _.............. »~»« _.... 2 s . Evening-Bo . — . — ... 2 s . Cd . Children under Twelve - _ .. Is . Stalactite Caverns - _ Is .-extra . TIIE DAT . E 5 HIiBIT , KK ? consists of the _Jliiseum of Sculpture , -Grand Picture of London , Alhainbra _C-onserratories , _"Goi-geous -Gothic Aviary , Classic Ruins , Swiss Cottage and . Mont Blanc , with Mountain Torrent , « Vc Ac -Open irom !* n till _a ? OEr o'Clock . _EVEJISG . —The new and extraordinary Panorama of _ osbos _bxSicut , _Musenm-of Sculpture , _Conserratorie _^ , and Gorgeous-GothicAviary , . fee ., brilliantly illuminated ; Swiss Cottage , Mont UIhuc , _jnd Mountain Torrent _represented by Moonlight . Open from Seven till a Quarterpast Ten _o""Clock .
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TO TAILORS . By approbation ofner Most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria and IIislteyalIIi _^ hii-.-ss I _' rinee Albert . THE _ILOSDOX and * PA £ I 3 _FASHIO . VS for Winter , asiii and _If' _« , by READ and Co ., 12 , _Hart-Btreet , _Bloomslrary-square , London ; _Bci-ger , Holy well-street . Strand , London , and may be had of all Book--sellers wheresoever residing ; a very _s-uptrb Print , -represenfi _.. _? the most _yplentlii ! exhibition in Eurepe , an Interior View of the Colosseum _JJegenfs-park , _London , This exquisitely executed and _lieautiSil _' y coloured Print will be accompanied with _fullsize Dress , Freek _. and _Kadmg Coat Patterns ; also , Patterns ofthe Xew Fashionable Polka Frock , and Locomotive
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FUNERAL ECONOMY ! THE _CEMETE 1 U" and _«* EXERAL FUNERAL COMPANY , united with _SIIILLIBEER'S PATEXT FUXERAL CARRIAGES , respectfully invite public _attention to the economic .-ind-c 0 uveiiieut arrangements for _performing every descriptioR of Funerals complete , at charges so moderate as to defy competitioii , an < l no extras , hy which the comfort of _iiereaved families will be materially promoted , and expenses limited . City-road , Finsbury , next Buuhill-fieids Burial-ground ; 21 , Percy-street , Tottenham-court-road ; and tjs , Union-street , _Southwark . ShiHibeefs Patent Funeral Carriage , with two horses , £ 1 lis . Cd . ; Single Horse , £ 1 Is . A respectable Carriage Funeral , combining every charge , £ 4 4 s . Hearses and Mourning Coaches . Catholic Fittings . Four Horse Funerals . £ 12 12 s .
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AXCE If SIC FOR CHRISTMAS . —XEW MUSIC FOR PIAXOFOItTE . § iT _\ UE _PIAXISTA , Xo . 63 , contains _ L "The Royal British >' avy , " aud " Welsh" Quadrilles , now playing at the rrouicuade Concerts . The two sets Is ., charged by Jullien , " s . No . til , contains tlie "Elfin" _Waltxei and two new _sougs for Is . No . 01 , Music iu Marble Maiden , Is . So . 00 , the Mazurka Polka and Quudrille in " The Devil to Pay , " ( Diable a quatre ) now playing at Drury Lane and all the theatres . Is . Xo . 5 ? , contains the whole opera of " Sonnambula , " 2 s . _Jfo . 57 , Ditto , "Fra Dhrolo , " 2 s , or the Xos . from 57 to 62 , in splendid binding , as a Christmas or Nac Year ' s present , for 10 s . Sent carriage flee to any part rf the kingdom for a Postoffice order for 12 s ., in favour of the editor , 67 , Patertioster-iow .
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JUST PUBLISHED , In one volume , foolscap Sro ., neat cloth , price 7 s . Cd ., THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES : A Prison Rhyme : in Ten Books : BT THOMAS COOPER , THE CHARTIST . J . How , Publisher , 132 , _Fleet-street . _f ? W Orders from the Country to be sent through the Booksellers . Also lately published , in 2 vols ., 12 mo ., Price Fourteen _Shillin- 'S ,
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__ . NOTICE TO EMIGRAN 1 S . TH E Undersigned continue to engage _Passengers for First-Cfciss Fast-baUing AMERICAX PACKET SHIPS , which average from 1000 to 1500 Tons , for the folowing Ports , viz .: — NEW YORK , I BOSTOX , PHILADELPHIA , XEW ORLEMJS , BALTIMORE , | BRITISH AMERICA , & c . Emigrants in the country cai engage passage by letter addressed as underneath ; in wh . _eh case they , -need not be n Liverpool until the day before the _Sliipis to sail ; and diey will thereby avoid detention and _-eib . er expenses , besides securing a _^ ' reaper passage , a _« d having the best icrtlis allotted to them previous to their arrival . For further particulars apply , post-paid , to JAMES BaCKEJT & SOX , Sorth End _Princess Dock . Liveraoti
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COALS . PROVIDE FOR ¦ WHETER . PROTTDESra : PAMIIJES , « ubsci _*& inj ; Is . per w _* k U the _MetvtQolitan _Coal'flompang's Shilling _Ctafe , -can obtain _fcm- - _* balf tons _nnacally / _wlSiout further _sraairge _, tines , < _tc _TheOonnwny's _priceouwent-1 _^ Best _ScrecneS Wallsend , 2 * s . ipor fuU ton ; _Se 3 onds ,-31 _s ., 22 s ., and 2 Ss _; Coke , 17 s . Oi . Office ,-S 7 D , High _Ho-foorn .
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ROYAL MARYLEBONE THEATRE . LESSEE , JIB . 3 . DOUGLASS . Magnificent Pantomime— " Harlequin Old Nick in China , or the Railway Prince . Decidedly the best ill London . Extraordinary Changes and Mechanical Transformations , full of fun and hits of the day . T . Lee as Old Nick . Splendid Chinese Costumes . Grand Feast of Lanterns Every Night . _Engagement of the Mori Family . ON Monday , Tuesday , and Wednesday , to commence with "The Deserter . " Supported by the whole strength of the Company . On Thursday , Friday , and Saturday , to commence with a Xew Drama . After which the Wonderful Performances of the Mori Family . To conclude with the Grand Comic Pantomime , entitled , " Harlequin Old Nick iu China , or the Railway _Triuce and the Fairy Queen of the Golden Pagoda . " Harlequin , Mr . Ellar ; Pantaloon , D . Lewis ; Clowns , Messrs . Buck and J . Lewis ; Columbine , Miss Massal . Stage Manager , Mr . Neville . Boxes , 2 s . ; Pit Is . ; Gallery , fid .
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Ofenix g op the Spasisu Cortes . — Ma _* mu » , Dec . 15 . —This day the Cortes was opened by the Queen in person : the following are extracts from the " speech " : — Gentlemen , Senators , and Deputies , During the short space of time that has elapsed since the close of the last session of the Cortes no remarkable alteration has taken place in the relations of my kingdom with foreign poweis . Negotiations are still pending witli the Holy See . # # # # At home , in the Peninsula , order and respect for the laws have been maintained , so that every attempt at treason has been defeated by the vigilance and the firmness of the authorities , as well as by the fidelity of the army , the subordination and discipline of which might serve as a model for the world ; and , in fine , the excellent spirit of the people—tired and worn out by revolt , and anxious to enjoy fully the benefit of peace , under the shade of tiie throne , and under the protection of our national institu-
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Railway Accidekt . —Wigan , Tdesday Mokxixg . —Last night a serious accident occurred on tlie North Union line , about two miles from this town , by which a passenger train from Preston was disabled and several of the passengers hurt , though not dangerously . The cause of the accident was , as is frequently the case , occasioned by the carelessness of some ol the company ' s servants . It appears that some empty coal-waggons have been lying on what is called the " spring-junction , " being a line made by the company to some collieries in the _neighbour ' twod , where they remainedfor . several days on the rails unfastened . The place where they lay is within a short distance of the main line . Last night , about dusk , the wind blew very high and set three of these waggons in motion and carried down the junction , end on , to the
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_, ___„ , : _^ - TO ALL LAND SECRETARIES . The Land Conference having now laid down a distinct andsimple liue of policy , and itbeing of all things , desirable that the accounts of the treasurer , sub-treasurer , and secretary , should be as distinct as possible , the secretary doing his work , and no more , it is not only necessary , but it is indispensable , ihat all monies , from all parties , as well from London as the cou « try , and whether far shares , < arJB , or rules , _sheuldbe transmitted to mc , to the -credit of Mr Roberts . The London men can as easily leave their money at my house , or my office , as anywhere else- ; and I can at all times leave a sufficient amount of -cash in the secretary's hands for emergencies . K this rule , which is very easy , is not observed to the letter , i -shim , kesicn my o _* pkce as _nEPc-rr-TBEASuiiER . Peabgos _O'Conuoa .
The Jsokthern Star. . Satuhdat, December 27. 1845. '
THE JSOKTHERN STAR . . SATUHDAT , DECEMBER 27 . 1845 . _'
The Crisis. Ilist Week, When The Hope Of...
THE CRISIS . _IList week , when the hope of Whiggery was strong , we announced the _difficulty that Lord John Russell would experience in his attempt to re-model a pure Whig administration out of the shattered fragments of the old wreck . We did not base our opinion upon the individual squa bbles against which , itappears _. thc noble lord could not successfully contend . We drew
our conclusions from the fact that he was ignorant of the present state of public opinion , and that he was incapable of _selecting materials from his whole stock of Whiggery capable of representing the improved mind of the country , or able to carry out the statesman-like policy of Sir Robert Peel . We believe that the League itself rather anticipated defeat than victory from the noble lord's appointment ; and hence , while there is no lack of free trade ardour , there has been but slight exultation in the temporary triumph of the OCCASIONAL Whig Government .
We presume that the best informed saw , at the instant , that the restoration ofthe Whigs to power was the very calamity which could arrest the anticipated triumph of free trade—in fact , that it would have been , as it were , a second blight . That Feel would have _givrn them precisely that amount of support that would have damned them , while he would have used them to justify his own altered policy , and as FOES that may one day be converted into
FRIENDS . Upon the other hand , Lord John Russian ' s conversion having been seized aa a triumph by the League , and a vacancy occurring in the West Riding of Yorkshire , where they hope to test the strength of their new policy , forbid any expression of sorrow for the weakness that such an unexpected calamity as the recall of the Whigs had inflicted upon the question of free trade , and hence wc find the triumph marked by the most scanty amount of party exultation possible .
We believe that the free-traders consider their position materially strengthened by the command of their forces being transferred to Sir Robert Peel , while wc cannot shut our eyes to the fact , that the retreatof _Russzll may justify a more moderate policy in a leader who has been forced into power by the weakness of his adversary , than he would have been justified in pursuing as the LIEUTENANT of Lord John . We cannot presume ( notwithstanding the attempted solution of the Times' conundrum , whereby it is attempted to be shown that the 20 th of January is early in January , and that the studied silence ol
Sir Robert Peel is as significant as the nod of LORD BURLEIGH ) , any reasonable grounds upon which we can anticipate Sir Robert Peel ' s support of the whole hog principle . Nay , more ; we aver that Sir Robert Peel and the Whigs in the House of Commons , and the Duke of Wellington and the confiding in the House of Lords , will fail in the attempt to carry a total repeal of ihe Corn Laws . What wc anticipate , then , is defeat , after a vigorous struggle iu the lower house , a dissolution of Parliament , and toleration , if not invitation , for such an exhibition of popular feeling—such a manifestation from
without , as will leave no alternative to the two Houses but that of once more humbly begging pardon , and knuckling down to HIS MAJESTY THE MOB . This is the boldest policy that we expect from Sir Robert Peel , but we are not sanguine enough to believe that he will propose the total repeal at oncc __ In the latter case , how would tlie pressure from with _, out , deal with a new sliding scale , gradually remitting a portion ofa small fixed duty , and stopping at some little figure , such as 2 s ., wliich would mark the triumph of the baby aristocracy , by adding just 2 s . per quarter to what the price of corn would have
been , if regulated by a total repeal . What we Lave so often averred we n « w repeat , that with all the ingenuity and aptness for business which distinguishes Sir Robert Peel , Sir Jambs Graham , and Mr . Gmbstoke , they would not , within the twenty-five or thirty days kterval between their recal aud th » meeting of Parliament , be able to produce suck an altered tariff as would be considered a safe adjustment for the settlement of so large a question—so old , bo ramified , and so cherished an abuse . The question of free trade is the keystone of the arch of protection ; once remove it , and the arch tumbles
down . We know that the glib philosophers , who so disinterestedly agitate tiie question upon the grounds of philanthropy , have fascinating arguments for all whose interests are likely to bo affected by ihe change . To the starving operative they -kindly gay , "Behold the cheap bread of Poland , if jour cruel taskmasters will only allow you to _exchaege your free labour for it ; while , to the farmer , they would balance inability to meet existing contracts ,, and the landlord ' s disinclination to _seduce rents , bv the fascinating prospects of
diminished poor rates , diminished county rates , and the reduced price of ail those articles of life upon which , at present , they pay a tax regulated by the Corn Laws . However , if free trade should ever arrive at tho Russell point , of clothing and all other articles as welJ as food , we should be glad to know what , without a cautious adjustment , is to become of those artificers and tradesmen who have paid the "protection fee for their knowledge , and who , if the flood-gates arc opened , would be swept , by the first flood , into the general abyss of pauperism .
What will become of bootmakers , shoemakers , ribbonmaka . _* s , _glovemakeis , and all those who have yet some protection against foreign competition ' i Will they not become an additional burthen upon the poor-rates , _unkss the new avenues to trade shall be so wide that all may walk in them without the inconvenience of jostling , or the dread of knocking their heads together ? This is the rupture that wo _anticipate—the convulsion , the chaos , that must inevitably follow the destruction of eo old an abuse , by which the fictitious price of everything is regulated ; if not -preceded , or accompanied , by such an
adjustment as will enable the routed pauper , as well as the protected capitalist , to live . What , we would ask , will become of those who will be , presently , setting our words _iv . type when their profit upon a book , that NOW FETCHES one pound twelve shillings and sixpence , shall be reduced to a profit upon the same book , which , _wlusn printed abroad , can be sold iii this market for the small sum of one shilling and sixpence ! Be it remembered that we are now arguing as if the centre " was struck , " and the arch had tumbled in _; as if the entire policy of open competition and no protection , contended for by the League , had been recognised , adopted , and confirmed by law . The farmers , who hoped to raise the price of produce to the famine standard , were hmdest in the
bellowings of deficiency and threatened scarcity ; but now , when the ghost that they have created haunts their own minds , they stagger back affrighted , crying , " A vaunt , there is abundance , there is plenty , there is more than enough ; where there were three stacks last year there aro six stacks' fcliis year , and the quality Is superior . " Alas ! kind yeomen of England , | good bull-frogs of Britain , you fffire false alarmists when the wolf was oh his march ; he is now upon you , and the devil mend you if he devours yo . u . You have supported those prejudices whicli have disorganised society—you have surrendered whatever little intellect you possessed to the keeping of foolsthey have used it for jour destruction , and you are the authors tf your own ruin . Did they not give you notice of the ' confidence that they
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had in your _subserviency , when they transformed you into " £ 50 tcnants- _^ t-will" slaves , to be whipped to the county mart to -regulate the price of corn at Mark Lane . And did you not as servilely assume the chains _tfoat your oppressors had forged for you ? You did . Aud now make the best of a bad Largain . Put your _fcouse in order , whatever becomes of the lanolords * rent , FOB two years' subsistence-mone y until the struggle is over , and then you will be recalled to your previous occupation , discharged of the conditions that . cramp your energies , relieved from tlie obligations that compel you to make tyrants of vour masters . , T- : _J _, cul , corcinnfl _„ h _. n to transformed
The Demonstration On New Year's Day.—We ...
The Demonstration on New Year ' s Day . —We ' - trust that every man , at least every true man , within ten miles of Manchester , will make it a point to assemble in Stephenson-square , on New Year's Day . The Pedigree of the Aristocracy . —Next week the Northern Star will contain the pedigree , root and branch , of the English Oligarchy , and the second dea * h and "finality" burial of the Whigs , with inquest , public funeral , hullagoners , and all .
The Distressed Capitalists, And Thriving...
THE DISTRESSED CAPITALISTS , AND THRIVING OPERATIVES . The highly-lauded resolutions of the bankers , merchants , and others engaged in mercantile pursuits in London , as well as the cuckoo-cry that restriction paralyses trade , and so forth , will bear but sorry contrast with that picture of distress which we are about to present to tlie reader . Throughout the long and tiresome agitation for a repeal of the Corn Laws , we have preserved a manly , consistent , and dignified position . While the philanthropists and humanitv-moneers were making merchandize of the
misfortunes and sufferings of their slaves j and urging their condition as arguments forthe enforcement and recognition of their own principles , we drew a faithful picture of the condition of the respective classes . Wc marvelled that , as masters , men should be tyrants . '; and that , as agitators , they should struggle for such laws as would COMPEL THEM TO DO JUSTICE . We directed attention to the gorgeous mansions and princely fortunes amassed by the unrestricted use of machinery , even under all the disadvantages whicli appear so much to cripple industry and limit trade .
If we could have found but a few honourable exceptions struggling against wholesale wrong , being honest amongst thieves , humane amongst oppressors , element amongst tyrants , and Christians amongst Infidels , we should have looked to their struggle for altered laws as a means of making the exception the rule . The labouring classes , as Mr . West well observed , have turned the Chartist agitation to the profitable purpose of opening up the whole question of labour and capital . THEY LOOK UPON
CAPITAL AS THE CHILD , AND LABOUR AS TIIE PARENT ; words that should never be forgotten , words that should be printed in letters of gold , framed and hung up in every poor man ' s house . The child has revolted , not only against natural feelings and human laws , but against God's holy
word" Honour thy father and mother . " If the agitation for the Charter has presented this _all-iniportant question in an altered phase , it has also ied to the canvass , investigation , and criticism of the conduct of the child , and the question has been asked , how has the child discharged its duties to its parent ? Has it fostered the hand that reared and protected it ? Has it oomforted the offspring that has been the author of all its grandeurthe founder of all its greatness ; or has it taken advantage of the injustice of human laws to revolt against God and its parent ? Labour , in advocating
its own cause , has shown that those who would Benserve their own purpose by enlisting its co-operation , have never lost an opportunity of harshly administering the law , and of unjustly using the power of capital . In discussing the effect of restrictions upon trade , self-interest is veiled , while the workman's goodness , and tenderness for him , is pompously paraded in the foreground . We have always looked with suspicion upon the powerful wealthy contending for the restoration of those rights which thov
themselves had robbed from the poor . We have seen the way , if there was the will , WITHOUT LAW , to do justice to the oppressed ; but we have never seen that justice done . While glib philosophers , while interested manufacturers , speculating merchants , and brainless shopkeepers , have been shouting free trade as a means of benefitting their _respective orders , and themselves individually , we have quoted the simple words of the simple " Yorkshire prophet , " - " THAT ALL TIIE STUFF 'EE THE
WURLD , WOR MADE FOR ALL THE FOLK 'EE THE WURLD . " Upon this sound sense we have written and spoken volumes . Upon these words of wisdom we have based the principle of equitable distribution and new we come to apply it to the most recent case that has been presented for illustration . On Tuesday last there was a gathering of the DISTRESSED AND TOILWORN CAPITALISTS , to take their present hard case into consideration , and to devise means for raising a pauper fund for their relief . At tbis meeting over ¦ £ 60 , 000 was subscribed by the paupers , and
£ 23 , 000 of it was subscribed by as many INDIVIDUALS GIVING £ 1 , 000 each . Monstrous ! horrible !! frightful !!! When have they given that amount to arrest famine , feed tho hungry , and clothe the naked ; and why do they offer it now as a secondary mode of relief , when the application of i ** to ( lie primary purpose would have the more generous effect ? Do they fear the famine that they have created ? for if laws arc just , and if they were humane , the blight that stints the crop would not fall
solely upon him whose industry produced it . But more ; whore did they get it ? . How do they contrive ; after tlieir many bubble speculations of this very _bubbling year , to abstract so much more from the profits upon labour ? Or how cornea it to pass that , notwithstanding the blighting influence of protection , thay have been able to amass fortunes , to boast of being able to pay off the national debt , of living sumptuously , buying land , speculating in everything that offers 4 per cent ., and yet have this PROTECTION FUND to fall back upon .
Will not the working men now believe that restriction and _disibihution must constitute a portion of the elements of any adjustment that is likel y to be satisfactory ; and will they not ask what danger of famine the League stands in , when they have already amassed enough to live upon the dearest dainties and most expensive luxuries , while one in evert * ten ' ot the slave class luxuriates on workhouse fare , iu a prison dress , on this , our Saviour ' s birth-day . Nature is out of joint . All the evil propensities of man have warred against the common feelings of humanity , and system has taken the place of nature .
Will not this SIXTY THOUSAND POUx \ DS , that has been collected in a few minutes for the purpose of benefitting the working classes , open their eyes to , and justify their adherence to , such nobleminded and disinterested patriols ? Or is there a chance that they should discover that their enemies are fighting the battle of self-interest with the pence lashed from labour ' s side . If one eircum stance more than another could have made the people move sceptical as tothe veal intentions ofthe League it is the fact of cruel masters , with famine threaten ! ing , work scarce , and poor-houses full , being able to subscribe £ 00 , 000 , while those who made _itHM'E
NOT SIXTY THOUSAND PENCE . There is another curious document presented to us at the same time , namely tlie balance-sheet of the League , and by this we find that the gentlemen have turned the mercantile term " sundries" to profitable account . Under thfe head we find £ 1 , 300 , or nearly £ 30 A-week charged , while the expense of lecturers has amounted to over £ 2 , 300 . . The only comment that we _shaiJ oiler upon t '? is branch of the subject is , contrast it W'itii the poor _inoaus at the disposal of
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Chartism , and then see HOW MUCH HAS BEEN EFFECTED BY PRINCIPLE-HOW LITTLE BY FRAUD . Chartism , and then see HOW MUCH HAS BEEN
In Answer To Correspondents We Beg To St...
In answer to correspondents we beg to state , that business , preparatory to the ensuing term , will make it necessary for Mr . Roberts to be in town on Tuesday , the 30 th , and to remain there for some days , where all communications may be addressed to him , No . 2 , Robert-street , Adelphi , London .
The President's Message And Chartist Con...
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE AND CHARTIST CONVENTION . Mr . President Polk has spun such a tarnation long yarn , we find ourselves unable to lay it in a digested form before our readers this week . We have given as much , however , of the important features of this important document as will enable the reader to judge of its MEANING . The question of th « Oregon stands precisely where it was , giving to the _British Government ft kind of option , not as to whether the territory in dispute shall be ceded now , but whether
it shall still be _perpstuated , as a nest egg , for plenipotentiaries and future conference . The British Government , however , will very probably see , that every year ' s delay will tend to strengthen the pretensions of the growing Republic , while the same causes may tend to cripple England's resources in the same direction , or , which is the same , to make it more difficult to bring those resources into action . Upon tlie whole the decision of the British Cabinet upon the Oregon question will much depend upon the use that Sir Robert Peel may make of it as the terror or the hope of the landed aristocracy .
If he can make tho question of war , at one and tho same time , palatable to the manufacturing class , and profitable to the landlord class , he would be the very man to send a fleet to Sanby Hook , with a steamer freighted with a Plenipotentiary who understood that it was merely intended as a diversion to attract domestic attention , while the FREbi TRADE TRICK was being done at home . We do not quarrel with this policy but , on the contrary , we admire it ; and only regret that a wise man should be thus compelled to play the child with chi ! dren ,. the fool with fools . Upon the whole the Oregon question does not
appear to us as likely to constitute the casus _fieffi between Republican America and Monarchical Europe . The policy of non-intervention , laid down by President Monro , and now prominently enforced by Mr . President Polk , is the grand feature of his Message . It is tbe first blow at the policy relied upon by Louis Philippe for sustaining the rule of legitimacy against the growing demand for republicanism . Mr . Polk , in his manly dealing with this most important of all subjects , reminds us of the anecdote of a poor Irishman who was to be sentenced to death for _shoepstealing , and when told by the turnkey , in Irish , that the judge ( Lord Norbury _, of course , ) wished to know what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him , as a jury of his
COUNTRYMEN had found him guilty , he replied , " By Jasus , they may say what they like , but I WON'T ABIDE BY IT . " _» ow , Mr . President Polk has told the great powers of Europe , in just as unmistakable language , that they may say what they like , but America won't abide by it . We know of no policy uiore pre-eminently calculated to disturb that heretofore well-managed tranquillity by whicli the King of the French has been sometimes able to govern , using the holy alliance as his administration pro tern . This declaration of Mr . Polk ' s puts the league of European kings and queens , and ministers too , in " a tarnation fix j" in fact , we now see no escape but in the humbling of the proud spirit of democracy , IF THEY CAN DO IT .
The question , as we have often predicted , has really resolved into that , whether kings shall reign and rule , or RULE AND REIGN ; whether they shall reign by right divine , and rule as they please ; or whether they shall reign because they reign justly . Upon tho question of manufactures Mr . Polk is equally clear and explicit . He uses the young mind of the Republic to grapple with the monster ( machinery ) before it becomes too strong for resistance . He boldly declares in favour ofthe labourer , and proposes an ail valorem duty in preference to tlie sliding scale . He shows that the operation of the present tariff
is to make all articles of luxury used by the rich , cheap ; and articles of necessity , used by the poor , dear ; and to rectify this , he proposes an ad valorem duty , the principle which we have always advocated with reference to taxation . Upon the whole , the President ' s Message may be taken as the first declaration of American independence . As the first recognition of the embodied strength of the Republic , and as the assurance that the people are aware of it ; while the great and mighty questions involved in it are not treated with that politic caution which a suspicious Minister would use , but are boldly affirmed with that confidence that national co-operation , national strength , and national patriotism warrants .
It is a glorious Message , and the more so , because the policy of the President is in exact keeping with the _pelicy of the Chartist Conventio n , that recommends centralisation of party strength , and denies the right of factious intervention . There are more sacks upon the mill , and wc fear that our poor friend , Sir Robert , for whose restoration to power we feel thankful , will have enough to do , if he is able to satisfy the landlords that a war price for wheat is preferable to his sliding scale ; and to convince the manufacturers that the interest ofthe cotton growers of the Southern States , in case of Avar , win weigh more heavy in the scale than their patriotism . Upon the whole , his work is cut out , — ' England _expscts that every man will do his duty . "
Arrest Of Patrick O'Higgins, Esq., On A ...
ARREST OF PATRICK O'HIGGINS , ESQ ., ON A CHARGE OF SEDITION . The readers of the Northern Star will recollect that , some time in the month of November last , a paper was published in the Star , entitled" _Landlords _' and Tenants-Tyrants turning Tenants out . " The constituted authorities ( Dublin ) issued their warrant , and Mr . O'Higgins was arrested near his own house at seven o ' clock on Friday , the 19 th inst . _I'le was immediatel y bailed , having been accompanied to the hoad police office by two friends , who became sureties for his appearance , in a sum of £ 200 , and himself in £ 200 , for his appearance at 12 o ' clock , noon , on Monday , the 22 nd inst . However , on that day , the Governmeiit was not fully prepared to proceed , and the case was further adjourned _tillTuesday , the 30 th inst ., and the same sureties accepted . We shall have a good' deal more to say on this subject next week .
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_S 3 _T We have in type several articles and advertisements which we arc compelled to _pospone till next week in coiisequenceoftliegre . it press of political matt « ' in our present number . The letter of John Frost next week , as we wish to ascompany it with some observations B . S ., iliiADFOiiD . _ Let tlie miserable cripple go on abusing the Executive ; he is no Chartist , and the Chartists are perfectly right > have nothing to do with him . lor ourselves we n _<« d only say , that tlie censure ot slaves is praise , and we h _« pe that , iareg wm k 1 wi , censure us . The head that this tits may wear the cap . When caps amongst the crowd are thrown ' llu . se they lit nuy wear them for their own . « Co _,- ge White and theUr . dfi . rd boy ,, keep a sharp N „ k OUt ON OUK FRIEND . l Set ., KoKhi « . -A- sueh song has been received at the _<"> tai- othea .
A «? rv _!^ 4 DEE -K <> _'fcri <* O'Connor is the brother of f , O'Connor . B . I . 1 . 1 . D , T ,. ousTON . -We believe many papers are rctalued and read , prior to reaching their destination He must pay two-pence each with the Start he sends to America .
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GRAND FESTIVAL IH 11 DKOU 11 or T . S . DUNCOMBE , ESQ . AS it is the intention of the Trades and Chartists ef London to entertain Mr . Duncombu at a Tea Fai'tV on Wednesday , the 21 st day of January , 1846 , the night previous to the meeting of Parliament , it is requested that Delegates from the various Trades and Chartist localities will moet at the Partheniuin , St . Maitiu ' s-hme on Wednesday evening next , at eight o ' clock precisely , o make the necessary arrangements to do honour to thtir _fihlnf . _. .
To The Chartists Of The Ua'ited Kingdom.
TO THE CHARTISTS OF THE _UA'ITED KINGDOM .
Bretimex,—The Assembling Of Your Represe...
BRETimEx , —The assembling of your representatives has been called lor by the occurrence of events pregnant with beneficial or disastrous results to the present generation , and even to the latest _posterity . On the issue of the pending struggle , between the belligerent landed and _commercing aristocracy , is based the destinies of the toiling millions of this empire . By a pusillanimous and cowardly policy at this hour , we Jose every advantage , forfeit every claim to national confidence , and virtually surrender every dear-bought victory , enshrined in your hearts , to the tactions whom we have fought so oft and gloriously conquered .
Brethren , after these preliminaries , wc deem it our duty to lay before you a brief statement of our plans fur future operations with respect to our own body , and also that of the Corn haw agitation . Having always the interests of the working classesforemost in our thoughts , we repudiate the notion of merging our agitation into anything short of the People ' s Charter , wholo and entire , But , inasmuch as tlie threatened scarcity of food would place our body in a false position , if they continue their opposition to a repeal of the Corn Laws , that , nevertheless , having no faith in the citicacy of that measure , as a means of bettering the condition of tlio sons of labour , we deem it advisable to abstain from taking any part calculated to mark our approval of the principles of free trade , without political power first being conferred upon the people whose duty and interest it will be to make that change a national , ii . stead of a class benefit .
Fritnds , in the event of a general election , it is our unanimous request that the occasion may be used fit- . the furtherance of our principles , and we call upon every Chartist elector , and non-elector , to render the most strenuous exertions in favour of candidates who shall pledge themselves to support the People ' s Charter in the House of Commons . We rfould , likewise , call your attention to the case of your expatriated friend , Frost , Williams , Jones , and ' Eliis , who have been torn from their homes and families , and have been doomed to endure , in the penal colonies , the degradation ofthe vilest felon ? , and all for tlieir devotion to the cause of humanity and down-trodden labour . We now conjure you , by your love of justice , by your hatred of oppression , at once to exert yourselves in behalf of these champions of your rights . From the other side of the globe they call for your sympathy—your aid . Will you deny it ? Cold must be the soul , and callous the
heart , that responds not in the affirmative . Up , then , ye brave and philanthropic democrats ; . ende ; _--vour to effect the honourable , the holy work _« , " deliverance , That- indomitable champion of your rights , T . S . Duncombe , is ready to plead in Parliament the cause of our exiled friends , lie will , on tbe assembling of Parliament , name a day when he will move for an address to her Majesty , for their immediate liberation . Meantime , if you would be successful , be vigilant . Hold your public meetings , and let the efforts of Mr . Duncombe , on the day on which he makes his motion for their restoration , be backed with petitions from every town in Great Britain . Ii this policy be pursued with energy , we hesitate notto predict that a gale of popular . _imitation will be . risen whicli will wait , in triumph , Frost , Williams , and _Joiius from the land of felons and of bondage to their own loved homes , and the bosoms of their injured families .
We likewise entreat yon earnestly to pour in your petitions at the proper time to the House of Commons in favour ofthe Ten Hours' Bill . The enactment of this most equitable measure would , we are convinced , confer manifold advantages on myriads of men , women , and children , whose very lives are being sacrificed by long * hours and intense toil in the noxions atmosphere of the rattle-box , to uphold the unhallowed luxury and aggrandizement of the mammon-adoring capitalist . Lluinanity , justice , self-interest , imperatively demand an abridgement of the hours of factory labour , Wo would furthermore recommend that petitions be sent to the Commons House of Parliament on other subjects involving the wrongs of the working classes .
always , however , urging your conviction that the existence of injustice is attributable to the _non-representation ofthe people . Friends , judging from the aspect of the political horizon , we venture to predict that a general election will take place ere long . We have deliberated . ind decided on the propriety of presenting a great national petition , in favour of the Charter , as soon as possible after the assembling of the ne * House of Commons . By this policy wc secure not only the popular , but the Parliamentary agitation of our principles . Justice to our cause requires that we should ever keep our princiules in all their beauty , brilliance , and sublimity , prominently before the world . The most effective agency for tin ?
purpose , under present circumstances , is the right oi petition . Through the medium of petitioning , we shall be enabled to force into our service the reluctant aid of the Whig and Tory press , which now calumniates our advocates , nialignc _? our motives , and misrepresents our objects . They will report the debates on tlie Charter iii Parliament , though they effect to snecr . it the proceedings of Chartist meetings , fail not , then , friends , to petition , when the proper time arrives , and thus send to the uttermost regions of the globe a knowledge of the justice of our principles , and the necessity of their legislative adoption . Friends , we have now _briiiiy developed our policy , are you prepared to carry it into effective operation ? We feel assured that tlie
hearty response of all who aspire to the honour of manhood will be " we aro \ " The time for action has arrived . Faction is on the alert ; apathy and iudifference at the present juncture is treachery to the c : _uise of justice . Let every man do a man ' s share in striking the fetters from desecrated humanity . Let him cheerfully contribute his quantum of labour towards the completion of the superstructure of his country ' s liberty . And should his destiny prevent his witnessing the glorious consummation for which he struggled , he will leave this sublunary state with the consolatory reflection that lie Ims done liis duty to his conscience , his country , and his God . _LUere follows the signatures of eveiy member of the Convention . ]
I Uk West Ridito Emotion.—Leeds,- Msoxf ...
I UK West Ridito Emotion . —Leeds ,- _msoxf Evening . —The announcement ofthe death at Lord Wharncliffe produced greatsensation in this town ana every part of the riding on Saturday morning last , t " demise of his . lordship being quite unexpected ' . the Hon . J . Stuart Wortiey , one of the _inwiibp-kn ' the Riding , will now be Lord Whariicii / tb , and _t-ilcc his seat in the House of Peers , an election nuisi shortly ensue to till up his place in the house ot U < S » _- mons . Lord Morpeth , tlie former representative _s--the riding is everywhere spoken of as its future inc ' _- " her . So far as vour correspondent has been ablew learn , nothing publichas been done by cither Liberals or Conservatives to bring forward a candidate . Itis reported that the former party have had a private meeting of its leading members , and they have rcsolvea upon sending a deputation _. with a requisition , to Loro Morpeth . _Thoaeneralnnininn is . that , bis lordship «'» ;
be elected without opposition , in case of an isolate' - election : but , if there be a general election , the Conservatives will start , if not two , at all events one candidate . __ The . third edition of the Times of Saturday , containing tbe important announcement that-Lord John Russell had failed to form a Cabinet , an * that Sir Robert Peel had been sent for by her _Majep to Windsor , was received here at a late hour on W * turday night . The information which it contained was received with modified satisfaction by the _w _* ' servatives , and great regret bv the Liberals , thong 1 ; the latter proclaim their confidence that Sir Kobei _' " will repeal the Corn Laws . —Times . f Sutton Bo . nixcto . _v Weavers . —Mr . J . Warner , 01 Sheepshead , delivered a lecture hero- on _MondajV December 22 . on ' Trades' Unions . " and proved ,
demonstration , the superiority of the Trades' Association over sectional unions . At the conclusion itwas unanimously agreed— " That we , the frameworkknitters of Sutton Bonington , do join , without ne ; lay , . the Sheepshead District of the United _"lrades Association . " _ Alahmlng Fire ix Adam-street , _AnELrni . _—W Sunday night , shortly after nine o ' clock , a fire , intended with a considerable damage , broke out in tlie spacious pile of buildings belonging to Mr . Kd'varii Lewis , a solicitor , situate at . No . 1 , A dam-street , Adelphi . Mr . Lewis , at the time ot the disastci had upwards of £ 2 , 000 worth of property in tn _» building , but , fortunately , what is burnt and damage " will be covered by an insurance in the Suniire * office .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 27, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_27121845/page/4/
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