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    • fHE SOUTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1841.
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    • DURHAM COUNTY MEETING.
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      -w .., « . — - I ...... . - _ _ I FRANCE . The best news h the introduction of a legislative Bill for the protection of Factory Children . The object of the bill now before the Chamber of Deputies ib to protect children against both masters and parents where ther « is aa absence of proper feeling inboth , * nd also to protect parents who love their offspring , from being compelled by hard taskmasters to allow their children to work beyond their fair troBgth , as a condition of their being themselves esapkyed in factories . Another great object of the bill is to make edacation in all the manufacturing -districts indispensible as a means of employment . Children are not to be employed if under a certain mge , nor can thty be received at all without c-rtifi-.-« ates © f their having received a certain degree of education , and masters are to be compelled to set aside a eertaia period of ihe day in order that the children wh » si they employ may receive moral instruction , aid an education Sited at least to their i position in society . SOUTH AMERICA . Accsunts from Montevideo and Buenos Ayres exhibit a very extraordinary state oF things , even in that iong-d := tracted and much- divided country , i Under ti ? e absolute government of Rosas ha * sprung lip a power nure mischievous , because les ? resp jumble , tb * n that of the * ' Msfclwrca Club , " which by h 8 Beeret murders his alarmed every mac of property or conseouence in Baenos Ayros for his personal -safety . With the dangers which before threa- tened them , from the eapricioosact- ; oi" ; be Governor , and the probability of a bom bare item aJdsd 10 the blockade of the French fleet , they have now joined i a third , of a still more terrible de > iT ; ption . j The Lonaon papers contain the following -extracts i fwsn priTate letters recently received ;— ]

      Montevideo , Sept . 2 S , 1840 . —It b said here j to-day , thai a messenger arrived here from Rivera to tho government , wivn intelligence thai Echaque j had invaded the province of Corr ^ euies from Eutre j Eios , at the head of 3 , < K > 0 men . and teat R . vera ' iiad sent for reinforcements oi" men and arms , j Another report is current , ihat the French soldiers "who came out with the late exposition are to bs i l * nde > i at the Island of ilsruu Garcia ; and one rumour gives out , that a ; re » tv has been entered i into by this government ( Munievidro ) , and that of j France ; the latter advancing i 5 , 000 , 000 f ., to be ' repaid in so many years , and in : ho interim the j French are to occupy Colonia ! j

      Buenos Ayres , Oct . 1 . —The French resident ? , are one and all making eg as fast as possible . Every day since the Railing of the packet there is a \ hi of , names asking passports of twenty aii-i upward * , and j tha : of this morning is lorsg-r Una any preceding , j The French are perfectly right in so doing ; they { ought doe to stay here now , and ii is probable iVw j foreigners of any nation wili remain , unless seme I great change lakes place . Aii are very much \ lamed , and not without cause ; up to the present i the persons of Englishmen have no ; been molesu-a , j bat certainly not their propcrry , when required by ' the Government . Imprisonments and assassination ' s j proceed ; not a day pa- ^ cs but we htar of one , two , i or more persons bVing jV und -with their thrca : s cut . j

      Of conrse it is quite too evident whu : : ? the mezuiaj , of all this , for in no instance has it been atteuJod with robbery ; the money , wa : ch , & . <• ., have b ? en in-j rariably found upon lie bcsiie ^ , a ^ a aii ui them well ; and respectably dressed people . It wa > currently re-1 ported yesterday that Lavslle had settled Lopez , and was on his return here a * : am . Oa Saturday last , about 1 twenty shops were embargoed by the Government , ! belonging to persons considered UnUarics , but the same evening it was taken off , owing , some say , to the wind having changed , which has an effect upon © ur lord and master ( Kcsas ); oth r =, on account of % letter sent by Mr . Ma-ndeviile ( the British Minister ) , after an interview with an eminent English merchant , relative to some hides , on which he had advanced a large amount , a ; d cu which an embargo had been laid by the Governor Rosas .

      On the 13 th of this month ( October ) i : is expected that Rosas will be agaia re-elected Governor . October 3 , 8 A-Jt . —I have now to communicate continued scenes of barbarities . Yesterday morning five or six persons were found with their throats eut ; two were shot at tho Cuartel dti Sere :. os . Poor ^ , 'iesada , formerly a colonel , ha- been murdered by them . This is most horrid work ! Not an hour passes without hearing of some one bsiu ? a ? sa ^ si-B * ted . Numerous families daily most baroarou > ly treated , the poor defenceless women hashed unj nercifully , and their clothing torn and cut all to pieces , and every article of their farmrure broken tip and completely smashed to atomd ThewLjh town is completely at the m-ercy of the Masborca « lnb , which has now become very numerous ; nei . her the chief of police nor Avara e .-. M say anything against the aevs of thfse men , nor can they tiercuc any authority over them .

      1 p . x . —I am now to'd : hv . Colond Quesada W 3 ~ btst night takes a lirtle way ou : of to . vn , and haii his throat cut . This is dreauul ! 1 am toid eleven others were found this jnormr g in the neighbourhood of Rivadavia ' s quinta . Some say as many as thirty suffered last night . I can write no more : these doings quite unman me . When shall we see an end of such dreadful atrocities \ October 5 . —Horrors and assass ; naiion = increase everything is m the hands ox the Mxishorea : Arans and the chief of police have iiot u vrurd to r-ay . Quesada ' s mirrdeT has excited much disgus : agaiai" the Government . Mr . Msisdevute , the British Minister , when he applied to Avana on behalf of the Tictim , was assured ha had beeu misinformed ; tha " . < Jnesada had no : been appTehecdtd ; an j now that the melancholy fact is established , Mr . iiatidev-Vie is greatly enraged at havint been deceived by Ava ^ a-All the British merchauts are off by this packet .

      I have a ^ ain heard Minister strongTj xemonstrated with me Government . 1 Iosxevid £ 0 , Oct . 13 . —The American commodore went np to Buenos Ayres on the lu : h , and , as he is a humane and gentlemanly man , asc ; much shocked at the perpetration of such nnhsarc-o ? cruelties , be lias promi 3 £ Q to use every innuei .-. * * his station ntay invest him with to induce the Government to pat down the merciies 3 perpetra-. ors oi ' iutse barbarities . The instructions of Admiral MaJkau have n ^ t been pronmlgited . He embarked on Saturday eveuiag , the 10 ; h of October , and immediate j se : not to

      Buenos Ayres . The opinion amiutr the French residents is general thai he wiii trea ; with Rosas . The admiral has given orders to have all the laming companies and three-fifths of the sailors on board « ach vessel exercised daily for six . hoars , and certainly is preparing for war , thciigh he oay su ? for peace . The British frigate Stag , bearing the pendant o : Commodore SaDivan , in company vriih tne Cur ^ cou and Grecian , sailed for Eaenos Ayres ia ^ i u'ght . We have , therefore , some protection : o British subjects . Tae Southampton , 50 , is daily expected vrna Admiral King ' s Hag .

      EGYPT AND TURKEY . The affair of these countries are once more ? lid to be " secticd . " And they are " se :: ied " ' as mo .-i British " settlements'' are made , by irand an ^ treachery . The solemn Convention condud'id by the English Commodore ha ? been ? et at nouch by Ad m iral S ropford , who declared that the Comj nodore had exceeded his powers . Many personblamed Mehexnet Ali for having placed -o muc ; .-confidence in the Gauunouore , and feared that h- - would become the victim of his candour . But a :-ttough the Viceroy is a Turk , ho C 023 no * doubv a person who speaks to him in the language of 3 : 1 . honourable matx , &rd he woula rave surrenderee ihe Turkish Sees to the Comaaodore witaoiit any ¦ Other security but his word o : 'honour . Contrary to every expectation , tlr . a newattick has Dot shaken his courage . When he read Admira : Siopforu ' s letter be retained his usual presence oi

      jnind . I am pained , saia ixe to nis inen&s , at ithis proceeding , beciuse : t proves tha " - xay charac ' . vr ia not apprecia ^ d . leered luiig since r ^ tjre ihe Sultau ' s fleet , bes the manner in which I havt-^ een treated proves tba ; my word is not believe- ;; , and this fact wousd ? mj feeiings . " We see by the offica . 1 documeais that M _ hemet AH is obliged to sunender at diseretioa , mcAilieJ Pewers only engaging to secure him the Governing .. fEgypt on coooicion tiat the Di ^ m woald makt dob . a concession ; but ^ . t the sains time i ; mus ' - be observed , that in tie eondiiions proposed by Admiral Stopford there is not oiie wurd * of " nereditax } goveramenu " Feeing himself too weak to continue the . uneqaal contest , the Pacha wisely . concedes ail that is degt % pnffii of him . Bat they inuit know lit tie oi 'human > oature , who -can sxipfae that It will forget the manner in which he has been atused , inaukfciij ? rifled -with , and betnj-ed .

      MOROCCO . ( Fr « m a Corresj * ndent of the Times . } It appears that the Freoch are trying to get up a mexttl- witk the Eapecor of iforuc ^ -o ( a second -edition of that at Aigitrs , and no doabt with tha . same ultimate intentions ) , * conquest of whose fertile ^ osiiiuons wocid amply repay theei for thecr expeaees and losses in Algeria . T&e pjsse& 4 &Q of "Tangiers and the adjacent coast < acd why uot ji 1 k > Cent , notwidistaading its being now garrisoned by

      -Spaniards ^ , would give them the coEinand of t .. e Tery entrance to the Mediterranean ; a :: d in ti * j »? sit of a futnro war , it wonld prevent thos « supplies which during the lart war we constantly received from Tangier and Tetuan for the girrisun of -Gibraltar , and , what was even of greater iniportance , for the fleet then blockading Cadis , under Xord Coiliagwood , without which our ships could not hare continued there , as they did , and bnt for which the glorious victory of Trafalgar mi ^ ht not l * re been achieved . Aa for the cosu * belli of the French with ^ loro --co , icoofil>e ibeiz <** n s » tement , as pubhshid in The , Type * of the ^" in 6 l % ' < was , buI a l J' ^ S afitt , » d if the Gn ^ zfun . / of ^ pjigT had , cfn-

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      sented to bastinado the Moor who struck the French merchant U Jew by tho bye ) in front of tho Consul house , as unreasonably demanded , instead of on ibe p pot , as he ( th « Governor ) offered to do , the Consul would have been at a I 063 to have found cause for further complaint .

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      FBOM OUB LOSDO . N CORSESPOWDENT . Wednesday , Dtcembet 30 fA . PaEPARXTioxs . —There ba 3 been considerable bustle among the household troops this weeK , owing , it is eaid , to an expectation of their services being required on New Year ' s Day . A movement of some artilltry also took place yesterday , at Woolwich , aud the ordinary leave of absence among the police , which has heretofore been granted as a matter of course , upon a brother constable undertaking to of&tvate as substitute fer the party requiring the leave of absence , has been strictly refused . Rumours are current of the disturbed state of several rural districts , and of constant communications between the Horse Guards and the Home Office : but beyond

      the fact of a few official messengers being dispatched during this week to various parts , nothing can be known of the cause of this alarm , in high quarter ? . It is quite certain that the men of London have not caused it ; for nothing can be more peaceable aud prudent than their recent meetings , or than th'j temper of tho resolutions which are to guide the grand demonstration on Monday next , which , in point of numbers , thould the woatherprovecongenial , is expected fully to equal the grand and memorable disp lay of the Trades' Union procession some years Mace , when they petitioned for the restoration of the Dorcflester labourers . The various collections , up to last night , continued to report favourably as regarded the state of the finances .

      The Dbcnkem Marqcis Acai ^ J—On Saturday evemug last , the Maiquis of Waterfoi-d might be se-n iu the vicinity of Dniry-lane , accompanied by a kost of ignoble comrades , of both sexes , and attended by a hackney cab , which slowly followed his Lordship , as he reeled and staggered through the greets , playing such "fantastic tricks" as to elicit the peculiar applause of his admirers . This nobic spcim ^ n of Hereditary legislation could not be seen by the police , who managed always to be out of the way of the numerous blackguard stoppages made upon lcspectable passengers at . the early nour of nine in tLu evening . Had this been alaboura-, % ¦ month at the treadmill for him—and no mistake .

      Ihe Tasks and the Ice . —Christmas Day and Sunday , the ornamental grounds in Regents ' , St . James's , aud Hyde Parks , presented an uuusuaiiv gay anu animated appearance , considering the season ; while the reservoir and the Serpeniine sustained their respective thousands of sliders , skaU-rSj m u , and mongrels . There was the usual display ef " iiuinanity " -mongers ; bnt several accidents occurred , notwithstanding their precautions , and the exhibition of the warning-boards—" Dangerous . " i \ r mor ? dangerous was it od those days , and throughout the week , to perambulate some of ' -he sireets of the metropolis , on account of the frozen state of the pavement , and the snow having hidden the slides oi schoolboys , whom the i . olioo oug ht to prevent from thus endangering the limbs of ptdestria-ns .

      7 Apphehensiom op more Coiners . —Information h . vi ;; g been received by the poiico that a gang ot coinerB were in the habit of assembling at a house situate No . 3 , Church-mreel , S * . Giles ' s , where they carried on an extensive trade , yesterday afternoon a party of constables proceeded thither , aud burst iato the house , waen , on proceediujj to the first fljor front room , they discovered a man and woman seated before a large clear fire , which had a crucible and pot upon it , and they were in the act of melting a quantity of metal . They were surrounded by metal spoons , moulds , and implement for mauufacturing counterfeit coin . On the officers entering the apartment , the man upset the pot ou the fire , oa which -. he female exclaimed " Jim , you break it ; " when Jim threw down a mould of planter of Paris and

      trampled upon it , but the officers collected tn

      wnom they met with some rough usage ; but at length the coiners were plaoed in a hackney coach , and conveyed to the bar oi' Hatton Garden policeeffice , before Mr . Combe , where they give their na m e * John Parkins and Maria Wicks , ai : d tho officers protiur-ed the whole "f the property which they Lad found inthepiac ^ . T ^ e prisoners ( theman abtut 22 , ai : l the woman , a aiiniuutive person , 20 ) treated me matter with tbegreates : indifference , aDd said nothing in their dtfenee . They were reminded umil communication couid be haa whh the solicitor for the mint , ana uhimateiy committed to the New Prison . Clerkenwcll .

      singular Case op Ide > tttt . —A * . > v orship-ttrett office , yt ^ ierday , Win . Saint , a weaver , was charged vrith having -, on the 10 th March , 1339 , in company wi-. h ai . otLer man , v » ho ha ? not beeu apprehended , cut out of the Iwm cf James Pratt , silk weaver , CiaVrcw , Spitalfields , twenty-lour yards of silk . i . r . d with }" ii ~ iii . ; : ou tLat occasion cut the arm 0 ' El-zibet "; : Djj ( Pra . t ' s sister ) vr ' . iii some sharp iasirnmr . it . janu ^ s Pratt proved mat ihe silk w ^ s cut fT ^ vr , the U « m : and his si .-ter that , after she revived the cut , ^ e fainted f rom ioss of blood . The wound vis on her luft arm , and sbe has since lost tho u ? e ' . fit . She wa , ~ not able to identify trie prisoner ; but a neighbour , nau ^ ed Fowler , who heard the disturbance , was positive ti ; e prisoner

      was one cf ' .:-. t two men , having known him twelve ytfsrs previously . This witness had a kuife with flics , and while lie wa ^ trying to secure one of the prisoners , his knife struck against something , an ¦ on iookinu a : it after , he ibuud is smeared with blood . The prisoner had a scar , as from a deep wound , under his lef : eye , and it wa . 3 proved th'it he haa acknowledged receiving it in a scuffle in Cut - row . Mr . Bin ^ Lam thought the chain ui cvideuc-i incomplete , aiid the recognition of the prisoner ait-er a jjpse of twelve years he considered too weak to justify him in sending the prisoner for trial . Ketvas . therefore , discharged ; but imme diatr . ly apprcbended " r-y the parish officers f ^ r derurting his vriie and iamily since the period above referred to .

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      Is compliance with ihe resolution of the Dnvham County X ) tle ^ ate Meeting , published in our . ' ast , and in consequence o { the demise of the Xor'hern Lilerclor , we hereby give notice , that on Monday licxt , the 4 th inst ., an Agent from the Norlher ? : Star office , will attend at the Office tf A [' , -sirs . Fhance < v Co ., News Agents , Ncvrea * - .- tic-, at Twelve o'Cluck , for the purpose of

      appointing a fit and proper person as correspondent for Newcastle and District . The appointment must be confirmed by a Public Meeting of the Working Clashes , before finally approved of ; we take this step as a guarantee against being hereafter taunted with the insertion of bad reports . The bame agent will attend at the office of M essrs . Williams and Bin . ns , Sunde r laod , on Tcesday , the 5 r . h , at Twelve o'Clock , to appoint 3 . Corresrondtnt for Durham .

      Fhe Southern Star. Saturday, January 2, 1841.

      fHE SOUTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JANUARY 2 , 1841 .

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      HOUSEHOLDERS , LODGERS , HUTSTERS , AND VAGRANTS . Ir is not enough for the present enlightened state cf society that one party shall proclaim this Suffrage , anoiher party that Suffrage , and a third party the other Suffrages ; the people now require the wh > and the wherefore of all questions connected with their interest ; and , we much doubt , ignorant a : they are , ihit they could be held toother , us tht Cim Law Repealers are , by the hoiiow found 0 : u cheap bread , cheap bread , " or , as the practical

      gentlemen , by the bellowing of " practicability , " and '" progressive Reform . " A flash in the pan does for those vrho only fire blank cartridge ; the report , is enough for the ears of those who are satisfied with things as they are ; but , as we are expected to hit the mark , aud to bring down the game , we must load with Lall . We have challenged the imperial press to a controversy upon the Suffrage question ; we hive had no foe worthy of contending with ; but , anxious for battle , we will multiply all their argument * as an opposing force , and level them with a single blow .

      Let our maxims be borne in mind ; here they are . Universal Suffrage is the only fair standard , because i t w oald disfranchise Uie vicious , and enfranchise the the virtuous of all classes ; no other suffrage will . A cad man may live in a fine inieliectuaJ h-o-u-s-e to v ^ te out of , while the best may exist in a h-o-u-s-e t-o live in . Let this be borne in mind , and never lost sight of , ; &at Universal Suffrage alone will maka die . . AiTvj-iarse of each vieiaus htudred blush and - orpuch b . "ifore the xenaiaiflgf ^ aixtj . saven

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      Let it be Temembered that labour can more equitably represent all other species of property than al l others unitedly can represent labour , because tho large majority of tho labourers will fiad it their interest to protect equally with their own labour , th&t capital which but a small minority of their body could ever hope to acquire , bo as to make themselves wholly independent of labour ; while it is the interest of capitalists , exclusively representing themselves , to reduce the price of labour . ThuB capitalists have an interest in upholding th « ir capital by the capricious and destructive

      syBt « m of reducing labour , while labourers hav « an interest in upholding and protecting the capitalist ; that labour may be also thereby encouraged and protected . Household Suffrage is , in every way , vicious . It is vicious in its agitation , which is a mere decoy from the real game ; ( there is no Household Suffrage party in the kingdom ) . It is vicious , because it would unite the two present antagonistic factions into one body of rich oppressors , while it would sever the party of the people into four classesof the poor oppressed ; dependenthouseholder ? , lodgers , hut-holders , and houseless vagrants . It is

      vicious , because the h-o-u-s-e to be voted out of would be let to those alone who would bo " reasonably deemed" sufficiently dependent upon the landlord , the master , or the employer , to vote as directed by his Parliamentary agent . It is vicious , beciuse the very persons most independent in principle would be disfranchised by being excluded from the tenancy of a Parliamentary h-o-u-s-e . It is vicious , because the occupiers of Parliamentary houses would be a new and hungry brood , obliged to live on tbo industry , and by the p lunder , of lodgers , hut-hoiders , and houseless vagrants , because an exclusive part \

      must always have a " qu i d pro quo , and the exclusive electoral body could not bo made subservient to the commands of the great plunderers , if they were not allowed their own little goes . If tho wealthy play for heavy stakes at the natioual gambling table , their supporters must be allowed to play " chicken hazird" at the little hells . Household Suffrage ii vicious because it would disfranchise all soldiers , sailors , domestics , and policemen , which classes , although now rightly disfranchised , yet , when controlled by the national will , made subservient to the nation ' s laws , and taken from the

      national ranks , would , by Universal Suffrage , constitute one of the most valuable combs of the natioual bee-hive . Household Suffrage would disfranchise many Parliamentary houses , or ( if the objectors to Universal Suffrage are as just as they profess themselvess to be ) it would throw the representation of large numbers oi" men , in many instances , into the keeping of one woman . Thus , if women are excluded , as of right they should be to preserve harmony , all tho ^ e largo lodging houses throughout the empire , in most instances kept by widows and elderly yo un ^ ladies , would be

      disfranchised ; so would all hotels and alehouses occupied by women , and they are numerous . Thus Mrs . Lawrence , who can trim Ripon with a Tory selvage , together with her vast retinue , would be nothing bettered by Household Suffrage . Household Suffrage would make a compact slave-class to the rich oppressor ' s hand , to be directed with ease and certainty ; it would make a poor hut-classfor the slave clasB and their masters to live upon , while it would increase the honorable and Rev . Mr . Battist Noel ' s staff of royal aud aristocratic gin drinkers , living without God and " without hope , " while royalty and

      aristocracy drew the revenue of luxury from their judiciously taxed vicea , aud the masters held them as a reserve from whence to draft recruits for the hut-class . Household Suffrage , as regards Ireland , would either be a delusion or a pestilence ; a delusion by the Parliamentary h-o-u-s-e qualification , such as white front ; green door and brass knocker ; gable seventeen and half feet high ; h-o-u-s-e , twenty feet by forty-five in the clear ; twenty couple of rafters ; double collar beams ; wall plates nine inches by three ; two stories high , with a slave in the middle . and always a Protestant one to support the Land and the

      Church . If not a delusion , and if shelter constituted suffrage in Ireland , in such case one million of the sitve class would be ( as the one million and upwards which constituted the -4 U 3 . freeholders and their families were before ) swept from the face of the land and sent to augment the hut-class and Mr . Battist Noel ' s , " without-God-and-without-hope-class " in ihi 3 country . Household Suffrage would turn Ireland mti 2 . sheep walk and grass ground for fatting oxtn , or feeding dairy cows , unuer the management of Protestant voters , who would support Church and State . When a ten pound beneficial

      interest derived from a lease cannot stop the aggressions of the blood-6 ucking , life-destroying , Protestant landlord ; when such a class has no guarantee for a tenure which constitutes a vote ; what guarantee would a poor miserable creature have who hok ' s from day to day upon mere slavery and subserviency to a tyrant ' s will ? Whiia ouo man ' s property constitutes another man ' s franchise , the property-man will have both rent and vote ; but does ai ; y fool , in his folly , suppose that a rich jobber , lifirg upon what he can rilch from labour , would make tho odds a thousand to one against

      his trade . Let us have one instance , a happy one , from Fox Marshall ' s position , in such a case . We take his slaughter-house , in which is to bo represented , on the 20 th and 21 st , for the thousand and fii-3 t time in this county , the tragi-comic-melodramatic popular extravaganza of the " Foxes at Fault ; or Humbugs' Labour Lost . " We ltarn that one-third of this playhouse , with seats and scenery , stage , pit , gallery , aud boxes , will accommodate ei (; ht thousand persons comfortably , that is , that the whole would accommodate twenty-four thousand . Now , supposing machinery for working to occupy much more space thau that for playing , and say that the

      whole will afford room for four thousand slaves , W 3 would ask if Fox Maksuall i 8 just the man to reserve for himself but one voice in four thousand and one , and upon the question of questions , the question of classlegis' . ation , by which ho has made his all ? Our answer ia " Fudge . ' —Apropos , we must glean what we can from the prospectus of the Goosery , and from that we learn that the interior is divided into sixty-six squares , and as the object ib to take fair opinion upon the subject , how many , in the first instance , do our readers suppose have been reserved for the Fox and Goose Club ! Only twenty-four squares , or two-fifths of the whole . Modest creatures !—while tho

      remaining three-fifths are to be filled up by working men thus , stage 03 , boxes 2 s , pit Is 6 d , gallery 6 d . This is a good earnest of the point at which Household Suffrage would stop . Fivepeccc halfpenny under will be wholly unrepresented in the extravaganza . Well , but we go a little further , and we find that the ' chop sticks , work alone upon the coop will cost £ 500 Now this will not be all ; but supposing it is , we put it down at £ 500 , and then the twenty-four squares sure to be filled with guest j , to contain 3200 , and pay at the average of Is . 6 d . ; this makes £ 240 . Now

      multiply these sums together , and oivide Fox Marshall ' s known love for the poor into them , and the quotient will give yon the full value of Household Suffrage , which will be " Every man doing what he likes with his own . " Before we proceed further , let us have a specimen of the practical man's " practicability . " Daniel , in his last letter to Fox Marshall , Esq ., and tho Fox and Goose Club . Esquires , speaks thus , and we pray the attention of every reader to the practical manner in which humbug has been systematically carried on by this incomparable juggler ; he says : —

      "It would in a practical point of view be absolutely necessary for even the supporters of generaC suffrage ; commonly , though very erroneously , c alled Uniuenal Suffrage : I mean for the reasoning portion of the geiiera ' . Suffr » ge men to adopt the Household Suffzago in the first instance as the basis of the new distribution of electoral district * . It would be easy to move mss .-ses of our manufacturing population from one ¦ istrict to another to bu enunieratud in a particular lucsr . ty , and bo to gain unfairiy a greater number of representatives . This fr . iud could be prevented only by the enumerator requiring proof of a particular length ofresidenoe before he took down any name ; but then

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      the giving ot that proof would afford an opportunity for partiality and for false testimony , and at all events would open a door to extensive fraud , and necessarily create great delay . Whereas tho enumeration by houses in each district could be done rapidly and accurately ; coald be checked and made perfectly right without any other evidence than that of the eye of the enumerator . There the bouses stand . Thoy could not be removed , nor could they multiply their appearance by means of the rail way or tne coach . "

      Now , in the first part , Dan abandons our plan of Universal Suffrage , because he chooses to make it a spurious thing between Universal and Household . In speaking of a check upon vast masses moving to different localities ,- he says :-r" That it could be only be prevented by the enumerator requiring proof of a particular length of residence before he took down the name . " Was ever such nonsense 1 Why this proof of residence would constitute a Household , and not a Universal , qualification , Master " Practical . " Now then for the consummation of consummate ignorance , folly , knavery , and " political ' practicability . " Dan adopts the Household basis , for the following reason : —

      "WHEREAS THE ENUMERATION BY HOUSES IN EACH DISTRICT COULD BE DONE RAPIDLY AND ACCURATELY ; COULD BE CHECKED AND MADE PERFECTLY RIGHT WITHOUT . ANY . OTHER EVIDENCE THAN THAT OF THE EYE OF THE ENUMERATOR . THERE THE HOUSES STAND . THEY COULD NOT BE REMOVED , NOR COULD THEY MULTIPLY THEIR APPEARANCE BY MEANS OF THE RAILWAY AND THE COACH . "

      This beggars practical description of practicability It ' s even too funny to laugh at , but as we must eat our peck of dirt , we may as well have a good gulph add get this largo proportion down at once . Firstly , then as to the general question of " practicability , " we seldom fiad auy difficulty in the way of taxation even when the " without-God-and-without-hope-class " are to bu ciught in the " gin trap ; " where profit is thoro will taxation in some shape make its appearance . But 'now for Dan's " rapid and accurate enumeration without railway or coach . " Here then is indeed justice brought homo to every man ' s door , and here we have the enumerator going from house to house , to qualify each householder ; aud this Dan calls " rapid aud accurato ; " while we

      imagine that instead of railway or coach , Mr . Enumerator would require the help of a balloon . We should like to Fee Mr . Enumerator , or a score of them , after a " rapid and accurate" euumcration of Manchester and district , or a portion of London , but more especially after an agricultural survey ; for , mind , his own eye is to do the job . Now we have Dan upon the hip ; he objects to Universal Suffrage , because a man may feign residence , and we presume he means that the same man may vote in a district not his own . Indeed , he says bo .. Was ever such nonsense penned by " practical man . " One would really suppose that Universal Suffrage was tho only principle iu politics to which details could not be " practically " applied .

      Now , what would IJan think of the following short clause : — " And be it enacted , that on the twentieth day of July in each year , every person entitled to vote for a Member of Parliament , shall receive from the parish officer of hie parish , who , together with three resident magistrates , shall attend for that purp o se , at the Registration Hall , ( blank ) number of voting plates , and that each applicant , if required , shall give proof of his age , and such other qualifications as are required by the National Charter . " Now , suppose three or more candidates in the

      field , and suppose the " match-book , " aa sporting men say , to close for entrance for the members ' plate upon tho First of July , and suppose the colours , black , white , and green to represent the three candidates , and suppose the Government medalists or mechanics ordered , within the twenty days , to strike about the required number , taking care to have enough ; and suppose the distribution to take place on the 20 th , and the election upon the following day , and tho plate to bear the inscription of the locality thus : — " Bradford Parliamentary electoral district . " Now we should bo glad to learn where the fraud could be . A Bradford voter could not vote in any other district ; nor could any

      voter vote out of his own district , and if forgery of the die was found to be attempted , which it could scarcely bo , these medals could be cast for a farthing each , or less . Let them be so cast ; each year , with a varied mark , and they could not be counterfeited from the 20 th to the 21 st . Herei then , we at once stop the migration of the masses from one locality to another in quest of more representatives . Iu fact , this paragraph of Dan ' s would puzzle any man , or body of men , save aud except the " practical" members of the Royal Loyal Repeal Association of Ireland , who , long accustomed to Dan ' s tropes , figures , metaphors , and conundrums , would not understand anything without a smack of the juggle . Dan is a man in truth .

      Who for rhetoric cannot ope His mouih , but out there fiies a trope . " Before we take leave of the question of Household Suffrage for the present , we may just poiat to the countenances of twelve Whig worthies , and twelve Tory gentlemen , Jooking out of tho windows of their landlady ' s lod ffing-hotue , while the voters were going to tho poll , or at four Radical sons of full age looking at a Whig or Tory father going to vote out of the house they all lived in ; what blessed domestic harmony would reign for evermore in the cottage circle , and how delighted would be the httUlers , the " without-GoD-and-without-hopecommuniiy , " to learn from the " reasonably deemed " that they had done the job nicely in the dark ! No

      no— " One fool makes many But the old fool is worst of any . " But , if the peoplo are caught this time , it shall be with their eyes wide open , for they shall not be surprised for lack of honest watching , and a fearless seutiuel to announce the approach of every enemy to the national cause . Here we take leavo of the Suffrage question for tho present ; and now turn we to another point in tho new extravaganza , —

      Triennial Parliaments . Before we give the " practical" man's " practicability" upon this subject , just a word generally . Triennial Parliaments are approved of for their definitiveness ; that is , in common language , to let us know the worst at once . Now , we object to Triennial Parliaments for that very reason of all others . We object to them because they virtually constitute a three years' tenure , with a four years' actual dominion . Let us be plainly and distinctly understood . Suppose then sin election for a Triennial Parliament to take

      place in July , 1840 , its legal and virtual tenure would ba till July , 1843 , having sat through three sessions , but inasmuch as laws seldom take effect till after tho close of a session , the actual dominion of the Parliament would last till July , 1844 , being the earliest period at which any vice of its predecessors could be cured by the new body . Let us take the evils against which we contend as au example . The present Parliament waa elected in July , 1837 ; we and the nation were heartily sick of it before the address was passed , and yet hare we been for now three years and a half" pestered with this generation of vipers ;" and no act of its successor , if good , could

      give much relief till the close of next session . The beginning and middle of a session is allotted to getting leave to bring in , and in manufacturing , laws ; the end is the time for their promulgation , aad demand of obedience . Thus , then , Triennial Parliaments constitute a four years' legislative tenure ; and , observe , since December , 1832 , till now , eight years , we have had three Parliaments , and we must have another very Bhortly—that will be four in eight years , or Biennial Parliamentsaud we have found the tenure ample for mischief . But we come to the science of politics , and we hold that the whole machine xj eheuld harmonise ; that none of the parts should bo out of joint , or jar upon the L'ingea . To this effect ,

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      then , as corresponding with the present state of improvement and progression , Triennial Parliaments are an age , nay , a political eternity , as compared to Septennial Parliaments , as applicable to the slow coach , clod-pole , stand-still , old-fashioned , good old times . These were , we are told , all for the land ; be it bo . There were fourteen important periods during the seven years—fourteen rent days ; while in the four years of our time there are twelve hundred work days , liable to be affected by some

      sudden electrical improvement , whereby a whole industrious population may be left " without God and without hope . " We , therefore , object to Triennial Parliaments , because it is a backward step in the march of progression . But the practical mail says that Annual Parliaments would lead to carelessness . Fudgo 1 We give Dan ' s whole paragraph upon Triennial Parliaments . We have read it one hundred times before ; but perhaps our readers have not . He says : —

      " We heartily concur with you in the absolute necessity of shortening the duration of Parliaments . We deem Triennial Parliaments of Jited duration preferable to any other term . If made to last longer it would tend to increase the independence of the member on the wishes and opinions of his constituents . If made shorter it would mute a carelessness aud apathy relative to elections which , by being too frequent , would be considered trivial and of little importance . I think a three-years' term steers a very reasonable course between too lengthened and too short a duration . Besides , if any inconvenience were felt from the langth of a Triennial Parliament , the people would have the power at the close of the three years to elect men who -would insist on diminishing the duration of each Parliament "

      Now all the fun of this is in the last three lines , wherein a gentleman , who for forty years has been looking for moonshine , and tells us he cannot get it , yet assures ua that , having Triennial Parliaments , once uothiug would be more easy than to get the time shortened if the people pleased . Funny Dan , just as easy as you will find it to get your s ^ ptenniab to vote for cutting off four-sevenths of their existence . One time Dan tells us of the great difficulty in getting any thing ; while the next , he says . " Ah ! uow sure its only ask , and have I" funny Dan . Foregad Dan , we are only now beginning to

      see the reasons why the Tory papers report you ; it is all for fun . You ' re a funny sowl , and we have a great notion of giving a column of you weekly , under the h « ad " practical" drolleriet Just a word as to the polite literaturo of Dan ' s letter . The suckling , the evroct tougued Dan , calls Col . Thompson " uncouth ! ' Ahem ! Dan ' s rough organ has b « en smoothed by the Downing-street furbieher . " Uuncouth ; " " an ounce of civet good apothecary . " And Dan calls Thompson " ungainly . " We" thank thee Jew for that word ; " there could not be a better applied by a render of peltics to a man who would not condescend to hire his conscience .

      We now conclude by objecting to Household Suffrage , because it would unite the whole class of capitalists into one body of rich oppressors , and divide the people into four rival classes-Dependent Household Voters , Independent Hutsters , Lodgers , and " without-God-and-without-Hope-Class "—because it would destroy the tenure of houses in England , as the landed franchise has destroyed the tenure of land in Ireland ; because one man may build a franchise to any amount , aud thereby frustrate the ends of justice ; because if the house is tho noddle , it should vote black or white at once ,

      and not black and white alternately , according to the owner ' s colour ; because one man's property never can be a fair representation of another man ' s colour ; and , above all , because it is advocated by a set of old delinquents , who mean it as a new juggle . We object to Triennial Parliaments , because if a Parliament , at the end of the second year , proved notoriously corrupt , the time of its expiration being thought so near at hand , would lead to CARELESSNESS as to its instant dissolution , and because new franchises being a cquired each year , in order to represent the whole public opinion , new

      representatives should be elected , or the old ones re-elected . We object to the Ballot with any limited Suffrage . A thousand times have we said that the Ballot , with the present Suffrage , would be an individual shield against a general right of scrutiny into the disposal of a trust ; while the Ballot , with Universal Suffrage , would be a general protec ion against individual interference with the disposal of a right . As long as men act as trustees , they must act openly for the investigation and -satisfaction of those for whom they hold the trust . When every man is his own trustee , then let him answer to himself alone

      We therefore consider every man who is for the Ballot under existing circumstances , a dark lauthern assassin , a masked , hired ruffian . Even with Household Suffrage have the Ballot , and while the overseers and men are eating and gotting drunk in Fox Marshall ' s slaughter-house , aud iu the other slaughter houses , with a bonus of five shillings ahead for staying away , the masters of the slaughter houses would be very comfortably balloting away at the election for tho next year's contract for human fleeh . A man's person is his title-deed , aud our motto is Universal Suffrage and no Surrender .

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      ^ TO THE " HOORES" OF ENGLAND . The fairest and loveliest portions of creation are most potent iu their influence . Tho intellect , the judgment , and the passions , of mankind are most ful ly swayed by that which excites their admiration and interests their affections ; hence the influence of women over the destinies and character of menjand hence our appeal , on this occasion , to tho "hoores " of England—the virtuous , patriotic wives and

      sisters of the working men , the noblest works of God , to come forward to our aid in rousing all the dormant and in quickening all the stirringenergies of operative . Englishmen throughout the land ; that the traducer of our country women , the betrayer of our brethren , the flesh-merchant who has sold our children , should ho dare to show his hideous form of foul depravity in Yorkshire , may yet be taught to blush , or , at least , made to crouch , before the front and dignity of an insulted people .

      On the 26 th of this month , the National Committee of flesh-merchants Meet , to weigh the blood , the sinews , and the flesh , of you and of your husbands , your lovers , your fathers , and your brothers , for the jobbers in human kind . On the 20 th and 21 st , five days before the sale , a t-lavo show is advertised to take place in one of Marshall ' s slaughter-houses , at Leeds . We are

      anxious that the slave class should respond fully to the summons of their drivers ; that they should , one and all , show themselves , and prove themselves to be a valuable cargo , sound wind and limb , able for work , and ready for action . Let them not forget that they are to be then and there mustered by their masters for sale , and that the price bid for them will depend entirely upon the exhibition of their powers .

      We have heard of a general who , in olden times * being asked to eell his country , threw his 8 word into the scale , as a counterpoise to the mass of gold bid for it as a price . We would to God that every working man could now do likewise . But though the men of Britain may have now no Bwords to throw into the scale of national justice , they have that which can alone make swords powerful—the stern evidence of honest judgment , and collective will . We implore them , then , to hasten to tho market . Their eouls and liberties are surely worthy of their own price ; and , if they but bid freely , competition will be powerless againitt

      them-We have appealed already to the men ; we hare tried to place before them the importance and necessity of bestirring them , and we are sot devoid of faith in their patriotism . But , that assurance may be doubly sure , we tnrn to you—their better halves and dearer selves , the idols of their hearts ' affections , who , while your bosoms throb with generosity and pant for freedom , are forced , by the oppressor ' s laws , to give birth to slaves ; to you , who are formed by nature to assuage tho grosser passions , and to stir the deep affections of the heart to great resolves ; to you , whose constancy , endurance ,

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      and forbearance , sets to man the bright example of Buffering patiently the- evils which Almighty Pro . videuce makes unavoidable , but whose same virtues show him also how manfulfr to battle with afflictionto you * whose form , whose grace , whose kindness ' and whose generous feelings temper the rough mould of man , and bind him to a cool and steady purpose ^ whose gentle admonitions , and whose wise advice do ever best mature his projects , because always given with disinterested friendship ; to you , whose peculiar province it is to watch over the household , the home-stead , and the cottage circle—whose mind , whose word , whose smile should glad the father ' s mind , and make the mirthful brow look joyous , bat

      whose tender hands were never made to weave the winding-sheet of liberty ; to you , we now appeal ,-. illustrious of Our race—choice subjects of the artist , the poet , and the sculptor , when Nature ' s gems are to be set most rarely , and her sweet refine * ment faithfully portrayed ; you , we now invoke , who never yet have failed ua ! Aided by you * promptings , we have come " thus far into the bowels of the laud . " Cheered by your smiles , your sons , your husbands , brothers , loverg , friends , have bravely gona through all our previous skirmishes of a whole winter ' s furious campaign . They have carried all before them ; , till of Chartism we may say , as C * sar said , "I came , I saw , I conquered . "

      But skirmishes servo not to try our strength effectually- The enemy have pitched their tents ; they have dared us to the issue of a set fight ; 'tkey have mustered all their mercenary forces , and beaten up all their allies , even though of such questionable characiev aa compel them , upon their own showing , to watch them at the work ; and with the aid of God , the consciousness of our good cause , aud your encouragement , we will not baulk them .

      If under' your banners we can show three hundred thousand free-born Englishmen , the tidoof matters will be turned at once , and you will become subjects of grave consideration and importance , even ui the opening speech of the rich man ' s Queen ; for , be assured , wives and mothors , tkat the show oh the 20 th will- decide the sale on the 26 th . Bear well in mind that this is no ordinary occasion ; the proceedings upon St . Englishwoman's day will furnish matter of comment and observation not merely for a countv , a province , or a nation , but for the world 1

      Our existence as a party , a distinct and powerful party , has been denied : ou the 20 th we prove it . We owe this to the brave men of Norwich , Glasgow , Hull , Brighton , Ayr , Suffolk , Durham , Manchester , and other places where our brave friends have boldly met and nobly beaten the oppressor onhiso . wn threshold ; to them we owe this good return . They deserve it from us . Shall they have it , or shall Yorkshire lag behind in freedom's race !

      The press , the wealth , the hired strength , the book-learned , idle demagogue , the well-paid missionary , the profligate of all sorts , from the popularity-hunter to the mouey-seeker , from the master to the overseer , will be upon one side . The Star , the people , and liberty upon the other . Who shall win ? On the , 20 th , every martyr worth having will bo

      in Leeds . Till that day , we hope the Committees will postpone the publio entry of Richardson , Burriiitw . ORTH , Doyle , Smith , and the last batch of Whig Victims . We hope Williams and Binns will ' represent Durham , after their Whig feast in the skilly-shop . Scotland has already done its duty to the first lot of victims , it would not be fair to press them for delegates . They must Bend us M'Douall for the platform .

      Such a position is not just the place we covet ; nor have we , upon slight occasions , made a practice of being personally prominent . We have tired patience by refusing invitation after invitation ; but wo shall not now shrink' from any service which the cause requires . Wo give our pledge for one man ' s share of work Lot tho country do its duty ; we will do ours , and the enemy shall tremble . Three hundred thousand blistered hauds , and no fewer , must be that day lifted to haul down the flag of craft and tyranny , and hoist the glorious motto of the Charter- " EQUAL RIGHTS . "

      Let none fear to come . We defy the myrmidons of law . All will be rightly and constitutionally ordered . Let all come ; and , if any cannot , let them send their mite to furnish out the sinews of " this just and necessary war . " The receipts and disbursements shall be all published . Let every town iu the United Empire , at once , send us their opinions upon the subject , that we may lay them in form before the Leeds anti-Humbug Committee , for their guidance . Every town within eighty miles must send a delegate , and / every man , woman , and boy , within six and thirty miles , must come to the show .

      We are upon the eve of another muster of the incurables and incorrigiblec , from whom nothing can be had , save from their ft « ars , and whose fears can be affected only by a coaitmplation of the people's power . Women cf England ! then , do now your duty . Virtuous wives and anxious mothers ! look to your .-ons and husbands ; Bisters Mead your brothers ; cheer all by your own presence at the Bhow , and let the vile traducer of womanhood , and slave-merchant of infancy , with the whole gang of foxos , bear , as best thoy may , the withering glances of the " hoores" of England , with their sweethearts , Bons , and husbands .

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      f . RICHARD OASTLER . The Mercurg in his low-lifed spleen , would , as far as the creature cither dare or could , still whisper away the *" character of the son of his patron . How prone nature is to make us hate the man who serves us . We should not have noticed the side-wind blow of the frothy journal but for the attempt to make Oastler Thornhill ' s debtor without the means of re-payment . . One word will set this matter at rest . Let the Mercury then state this fact to its

      spellers—Oastler wu Thornhill s debtor with Thornhill s full knowledge and consent , and even to a greater amount than that for which the good and faithful steward is now in his grey hairs lodged in prison by the virtuous « porting Thornhill . -Yes , Oastleb , as appears from * Thoknhill ' s own showing , was his debtor With consent of Thornhill ; aud farther ; Oastleb ' was half-yearly liquidating tho debt * However , as friend Mercury has , as is his custom , fallen short of the truth , let him take this view of the case . The debt to Thornhill was

      contracted by Oastler's battles for Thobnhill against the Church , and in the frail endeavour to procure a good name for the head of the family ; and Thornhill , knowing this , consented to receive Oastler as a debtor , and promised to be a mild creditor ; but as soon as Oastler turned all his thoughts to the advocacy of the poor ' s rights , aud denunciation of aristocratic wrong , then did Thobhhill , for the'first time , transfer the account from the vanity-6 ide to the vengearice-side of the ledger . It is acknowledged that no estate in Yorkshire was better managed than Mr . Thornhill's , while

      under Richard Oastleb ; he was steward for nearij nineteen years , aud , without a family , left Fixby a beggar . But the foul-mouthed Mercury says , that high anticipations of sympathy and a large subscription induced Oastleh to surrender hii engagement for tho chance . Oastler was no such fool : he had too many instances of public ingratitude before his eyes to prompt him to the vain hope ; for , when have the people ever yet remunerated the friend who has sacrificed most in their ouse ! No , we regret to say , that , in this particular , the multitude

      very much resembles the Church , which is exer recipient , and never donative . Let the Mercury bluster as he may , we tell him that Oastxkb in the Fleet is more respectable , and will be thought so by all those " reasonably deemed " qualified to judge , than our friend at large . Wehavesaidso much at present , and hope to lay before our readers , next Saturday , an eaBy method of performing the grateful task of releasing the father of the factory infant , the husband of the factory widow , and the friend of the factory adult , the philanthropic , the consistent , th , e honest Oastler , from the hands of his oppr&ssor .

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      qi-- THE NORTHERN STAB .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 2, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1090/page/4/