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TEE NORTHERN STAR., SATURDAY, JANUARY '10 . 1840.
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EXTRAORDINARY ECONOMY TO TEA DRINKERS . .-,: THE DESIRE OF ENGLAND . —The PIQUA PLAST , now sold at 3 s . 6 d . perlb ., is three tim ^ s the strength of tea , and is also equal in flavour , more delicate in taste , nfinitely more healthy , as is proved by physicians and chemists of high standing , also by persons in great num . bers with the most delicate lungs and stomachs ; It i most pleasant and invigorating , and is recommended to the debilitated for its invaluable qualities , to advanced age for its strengthening properties , and to the public generally for its moderate price and intrinsic excellence . Ths Test . —The proof of the efficacy and healthful effect of the plant in preference to tea or coffee : —Let a nervous or dyspeptic patient use ttro or three cups of strong tea upon retiring to rest , and the effect will be nightmare , disturbed sleep , and other violent symptoms of indigestions , &c .
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WISE SAWS AND MODERN INSTANCES . . ( Two Vols , 15 s . ) " "A series of , Crabbe-like sketches , in prose . They are manifest portraits , and admonish us of the author ' s skill in taking the literal likeness . "— . itfientetnn . "We hare read some of these stories with deep interest , and few , we are persuaded , will rise from their perusal but with feelings all the warmer for what they have read . They can scarcely fail to be popular with 'the masses ; ' and , upon the whole , we think they deserve to be so . "—Atlas .
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COALS . PROVIDE FOR WINTER . - DltOVIDENT FAMILIES , subscribing is , per week to J- the Metropolitan Coal Company ' s Shining Club , can obtain four half tons annuall y , without further charce hncs , ( fce . ' . The Company ' s price current is , Best Screened Walls end , 2 . 5 s . per full ton ; « won . \« , 2 ls ., -W s . anu 23 s ; C ola-1 / S . ( id . ' Office , 279 , High Unborn .
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COLOSSEUM . -NOTICE .-PRIGEOF ADMIS-I - SION DURING THE HOLIDAYS !! Bay Exhibition .. 2 s . Evening Do . 2 s . 6 d . Children under Twelve Is . Stalactite Caverns . ¦ ... ... Is . extra . THE DAY EXHIBITION consists of the Museum of Sculpture , Grand Picture of London , Alhambra Conservatories , Gorgeous Gothic Aviary , Classic Ruins , Swiss Cottage and Mont Blanc , with Mountain Torrent , &c &c . Open from Ten till Four o'Clock . EVENIKG . —The new and extraordinary Panorama of Iosdos bi Night , Museum of Sculpture , Conservatories , ¦ and Gorgeous Gothic Aviary , &c ., Tjrpliantly illuminated ; Swiss Cottage , Mont Blanc , and Mountain Torrent represented by Moonlight . Open from Seven till a QuarterpastTeno'CIocfe . '
A gsasd OncHEsm Organ , on which the most admired 0 vestcxes , ic , are played , from Two to Four and from Eight fill Half-past Ten o'Clock . The whole projected and designed by Mr . William BradweH .
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DAGUERREOTYPE AND CALOTYPE . FpHE APPARATUS , LESS , CHEMICALS , PLATES , A . CASES , and every other article used in making and mounting the above can be had ef J . Egerton , No . 1 , Temple-street , Whitefriars , London . - Descriptive Catalogues gratis . 1 EREB 0 URS celebrated ACHROMATIC TRIPLET LESSES for the MICROSCOPE , sent to any part of the country at the following price : —Deep Power , 60 s ., Low Power , 25 s . Every article warranted .
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, TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria and His Bo yalHighn ^ ss Prime Albert . TpHE LONDOX and PARIS FASHIONS for Winter , JL lSi 5 ondl ? ' « , by READ and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury-square , London ; Bcrger , Holywell-street , Strand , Loadon , and may he had of all Book , sellers wheresoever residing ; a very superb Print , representing the most splendid exhibition in Europe , an . Interior Tiew of the Colosseum Hegentfs-park , Londen . This exquisitely executed and beaurtfullv coloured Print wffl'be accompanied with full size Dress , Frock , and Biding Coat Patterns ; also , Patterns
of the New Fashionable Polka-Frock , and Locomotive Hiding Coats , asd an ertra fitting Fashionable Waistcoat Pattern , with every part complete , and a full explanation ef the manner of cutting and making them up ; also 9 extra plates , including 3 sectors , 4 forcuttmg fancy coats , for waistcoats , the other for cutting Coat Collar Patterns , in proportion , for all sizes , so that any person may complete the whole in the most correct manner , without a previous knowledge of any system of catting -whatever . Price ( as usual ) the whole , 10 s ., or post free , toanypart of England . Ireland , Scotland , and Wales , Us . System of Cutting , 25 s ; Patent Measnres , 8 s the set . Patterns , post free , Is each ; to be had of all booksellers .
For particulars , see " Townsend ' sParisian Costumes , " "Gazette of Fashion , " "London and Paris Magazine of Fashion , " the "London and Country Press , " &c .
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HONOUR TO LABOUR'S CHAMPION . A PUBLIC SOIREE will be tad at the CROWN and J \ ANCHOR Tavern , Strand , in hononr of T . S . DUNCOMBE , Esq ., M . P _ , who will be present , on Wednesday evening , January 21 st , the night previous to the opening of Parliament . The following gentlemen are expected to be . present on the occasion : —Captain Pechcll , R . N ., JLP . ; J . T . Leader , M . P . ; J . Fiddan , M . P . ; W . D . Christie , M . P . ; W . Williams , M . P . ; R . Blewitt , M . P . ; T . Wakley , M-P . ; Admiral D . Dundas , M . P . ; E . G . Barnard , M . P . ; . H . Elphinstone , M . P . ; A . Aglionbj , M . P . ; and W . P . Roberts . Also the following eminent literary men : —Eugene Sue , Charles Dickens , Douglas Jerroia , J . Mazzini , and Thomas Cooper . Tea on table at half-past fire for six o ' clock precisely . Several othtr veil known advocates of the People ' s Rights will attend .
Tickets 2 s . each , can be obtained at the following places : —Mr . T . Barratt , secretary to the National United Associated Trades' for the Protection of Indnstry , Trades ' Office , SO , Hyde-street , Bloomsbury ; Mr . James Harris , secretary to the National tmitea Trades' Association for the Employment of Labour , 30 , Hyde-street , Bloomsbary . Mr . George Hogget , secretary of the Westminster Reform and Registration Society , Esses-street , Strand . Mr . T . Powell , secretary to the Venezuelan Transit Company , Holywell-street , Strand . Mr . T . M . Wheeler , secretary to the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , 7 , Crown-court , Dean-street , Oxfordstreet . Mr . « T . Bush , secretary to the London Union of Carpenters , 1 , York-street , York-road , Lambeth . Mr . W . Clark , secretary to the Shoemakers' Society , 27 , Rupert-street , Haymarket . Mr . W . J . Young , president of the Running Horse Society of Carpenters , 33 , Park-street , Dorset-straare .
Mr . James ( City Boot and Shoemaker ) , 3 , Fleur-de-liscourt , Gray's Inn-lane . Mr : S&elton , Cecil-court , St . Martin ' s-lane . Mr . Storey , 3 , Ogle-square , Ogle-street , St-Marylcbone . Mr . Rohson , 14 , Richard-place , Haggerstone-bridge , Hoxton . Mr . Gimblett , 3 , Howick-terrace , Yanxhall-bridge-road . Mr . J . Caughlin , Teetotal Society of Carpenters , 96 , Great Suffolk-street , Southwarx . Mr . Wartnaby , Fanny Wilson Society of Carpenters , Marylebone-street Mr . Allen , Tin Plate-workers , 88 , Cannon-street , City . Mr . Green , Morocco Leather Finisher , 37 , Theobaldstreet , New Kent-road Mr . Williams , Gieen Man , -Berwick-street , Oxfordstreet . Mr . Hutchins , gold beater , 105 , Shoe-lane .
Mr . Arch , silk hatter , 24 , Granby-street , Waterlooroad . Mr . Firth , plasterer , Bridge-phee , Lower-road , Deptferd . Mr . Dunning , bookbinder , Magnet Coffee-house , Drurylane . Mr . Macnamara , boiler maker , Star and Garter , Arboursquare . Commercial-Toad . Mr . j . Dale , block printer , Yictory Inn , Merton . Mr . Cuftay , Maiden-lane , Covent-sarden . Mr . Milne , Union-street , May-fair . Mr . J . W , Parker , secretary to Tailors Protection Society , Adoocate office , Fetter-lane . Mr . R . Thompson , printer , 1 , Little James-street , Gray ' s-inn-lane . Mr . Gammon , secretary to cork cutters . 30 , Northumberland-street MarvleboHe .
Mr . Janus Syme , secretary to Duncombe Testimonial Committee , 1 , Bishop ' s-terrace , Walcot-square , Lambeth . Messrs . F . ani W . Salmon , 24 , Dcau-street , Fetterlane . Mr . D . Gover , junior , Marquis-court , Drury-lane . Mr . W . Dear , 22 , Fleet-lane , Farringdon-street . Mr . Orerton , Tabernacle-walk , Finsbury-square . Hr . J . Wvatt . 2 ( B , Hoxton Old Town . Hr . Parkes , 33 , Little Windmill-street , Golden-s ^ uaTe . Mr . Souter , 31 , LittieWindmill-str < et . Mr . Markall , Qaeen-strset , Dsan-street , Soho . - __ Mr . Kaighr , South London Chartist Hall . 115 , Black-Jrihr * o-road .
Mr . MojyPagefs-place , Waterloo-roaa . Mr . Dron , dyer , Oakley-street . Mr . B . Rogers , tooper , Lambeth-walk . - Mr . Edwards , jdweller , New Weston-street , Bermondsey . Kr . Vincent Pakes , S 3 , Devonshire-street , Lisson-grove . Mr . Pattenden , shoemaker , Dorset-place , Dorsetsquare . Mr . 'A . Packer , news-agent , Harrow-road . Mr . W . Clark , Charter Coffee-house , 114 , Etlgewareroad . Mr . Hornhy , Northam's-buildings , Somers Town . Mr . J . Arnutt , shoemaker , Middlesex-place , Somers Town . Mr . J . Simpson , Elm-cottage , Waterloo-street , CamberwelL
Mt . J-Sewell , iiphoUterer , 2 « ew Kent-road . Mr . Cnrnmings , JTewington . Mr . G . T . Floyd , baker , 9 , Church-street , Deptford ., Mr . J . Morgan , butcher-row , Deptferd . Mr . S . Brewertou , Greenwich . Kr . M'Gregor , Carpenters' Arms , Lewisham . Mr . Abbott , 3 « , Hanever-street , Lewisham . Mr . Thomas Bouffler , shoemaker , 2 , Blewitfs-bulldings , Fetter-lane . Mr . J . Shaw , 24 , Gloucester-street , Commercial-road . Mr . Drake , Standard of Liberty ,. Brick . lane . Mr . T . Mills , New Inn Yard , Shoreditch . Mr . P . M'Grath , Chamber-court , Chambers-street , Minories . Mr . J . Gathard , tailor , Pages-walk , Bermondsey .
Mr . Pearcsy , machinist , Church-street , Rothcrhithe . Mr . Matthias , Rotherhithe . Mr . W . Balls , bleaching-manufacturer , Coppice-row . Mr , Cameron , ClerkenwelL Kr . Fuzzon , milkman , Margaret-street , Wilnungionsquare . Mr . Mason , printer , Clerkenwell-green . Mr . Rowland , Mark-street , Paul-street , Finsburysquare . Mr . Dunn , batter , Chiswell-street . Mr . J . Sturgc , Yeoman ' s-row , Brouipton . Mr . 3 . Voiding , George-street , Chelsea . Mr . J . Grapby , carpenter , near Astley ' s Amphitheatre , Lambeth . Mr . W . S . Hanson , hair-dresser , High-street , Kensington .
Mr . U . Richardson , cutler , near the Church , Kensington . Mr . W . Whiteuorn , tailor , 1 , Newland-street , Kensington . Mr . J . Newell , boot and shoemaker , 5 , Providenceplace , Brook Green-lane , Hammersmith . Mr . Cullingham , builder , King-street , Hammersmith . Mr . Henry Ross , Edith Villas , ' Sorth-end , Falham . Mr . Edward Staliwooa . S , Little Vale ^ place , Hammersmith-road . Olive ' s Coffte House , Little Pultenty-street , Wardourstreet , Soho . Mr . Palmer , 72 , St . Martin ' s-lane . Mr . H . lietherington , publisher , Ho ' . ywell-street , Strand . Mr . Charles Westerton , librarian , Park-side , Knightsbridge .
Celliver ' s Coffee House , opposite the Angel Inn , St . Clements . Strand , and at the bar of the Crown and Anclior Tavrni , Strand . At eight o ' clock the public will " fce j jfimuiMl . AdiuUsiou , threepence each . T , Bajbatt , Secretary .
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im PRESS OF IRELAND . . . ., Waux such restraints are laid oh the press that the people are held in ignorance , and from that ignorance know neither their own duty as members of the State , nor yet the duty of those who are set over them , or , to speak more properly , those who have set themselves over them , it may be fairly concluded that the country where such restraint prevails is fast rorging to vassalage . When a man knows what his
duty is , he-would be more apt to perform it than if that knowledge be withheld from him . But knowledge of it is a duty , and ignorance , of coureo , becomes a crime . Those therefore ; wlio , check the communication of knowledge make themselves accessories in the guilt of him that sing from ignorance , or sins without a due and distinct knowledge of his duty ; and even with the principle on which ii was founded . It was better , both in a moral and political sense , that men should act properly with a knowledge and a sense of duty , than not err by accident , or even act right , not knowing what to do . In
the one there is a virtue , in the other none , or at best a virtue of the negative kind ; i virtue from which no praise flows , and for the practice of which , no reward follows : there ' having been no motive to the action , no known" PRINCIPLE to , guide or govern it . On a ' truth so evident ' it is . unnecessary to enlarge : we shall therefore , proceed to its application , and by trying it as it affects Ireland at present , endeavour to show that an immediate and radical reform 'of' the restrictions ( laid on the Irish press becomes absolutely necessary to the existence of the
country as a free and independent state . We have observed that to insure the right of obedience of the people , they should be made acquainted with the principle on which their duty is founded . This , however , as parties are now constituted in Ireland , it may not always be safe to do ; for it has sometimes happened that those who exercise a power over the press , having no principle of their own , are very little anxious what the principles are that are promulgated through the press , provided the present convenience be answered . .
When Governments become completely wicked their first object is to screen their crimes , and , as with governments ,-so witk individuals ; tile exposure of those crimes would tend to shake their power and precipitate their downfall . Thus in all despotic states , the press , where it has found a footing , has ever been an engine of terror formidable to the tyrants . But if vice be the bane of every state , that which tends to enlighten the human mind and make men honest , instead of being checked-should be protected and freed from restramt . By laws states are preserved ; that , therefore , which promulgates and
preserves the laws should not be restrained . The will of government is promulgated by the press , but the will of the people , from whom all governments proceed , and to whom they must return , shall not be promulgated or made known lest the power of the source may become too strong for the stream that flows from it and becomes corrupted . Hence , to publish the slow murders of a landlord class ; the extortions of privileged patriots whose dark deeds are cautiously withheld from public notice—the injustice of a judge , orthe folly of a Whig-made police knight , is a wicked scandal , as we learn from modern interpretation , tor the greater the truth the greatei
offence in letting that truth be known ; lest if truth be divulged and rendered familiar to the ignorant , the corrupt may fall into . contempt and lose their authority ; which means , that . it . were better that mankind should be governed by church tyranny , confederated with blood and rapine and a sufficient amount of toleration to those who denounced the system but dare not shake , it , than that Honest men should question the integrity or even the motives of those who would discipline them out of their feelings and persuade them they had none . The errors aught to a mob are less formidable to liberty than the toleration of the prejudices of their rulers or their leaders , upheld by a venal and corrupt press .
What demolished at a bldwthe throne of France , and erected on its ruins the most formidable government that ever " perploxed monavchs ? " Not the sudden fury of a mob , but the commanding power of the press , before whose voice thoBjtstile fell like the walls of Jericho at the . sound of the trumpet . Let those , who , by restraining the press , would keep the multitude in ignorance , and then abuse them for their want of . knowledge , say that the people of , Fiance had neither virtue nor understanding when they hurled ; despotism from its throne , and proclaimed the people ' s rightful ownership in the land . Let the conductors of the Irish press cast their eyes on their own unworthiness , and confess how limited is THEIR virtue , , ho \ v humbled THEIIt pride of
talents , and wisdom to govern , while they are contending ior what they . insolently term self-govern , ment and by which we are to understand the licentious rule of its licentious conductors . The press alone made France what she was , it made her free , it made her . great , while the despots of ignorance trembled at ^^ ' varning of its voice , and stooped in their littleu . T io " its awful authority . It was not Prance that terrified the " nations of Europe , it was her press , whose sound went forth into all lands , and shook the thrones of darkness . No wonder that corruption stands appalled ^ and would stifle the expression ot truth when the detection of guilt would lead to knowledge and denude hirelings of their impositions .
If men bo honest and pure of offeuce what have they to dread ? Well , indeed , may the wicked tremble , for though they are seldom assayed oftueir crimes , they yet have cause to deprecate the publication of their guilt . Louis , the fourteenth tyrant of the name , used to say he more dreaded the Amsterdam Gazette than the armies of England . For these reasons tyrants have always endeavoured to destroy the press , and arc sure to put it down whilo they are prepwnug some new tyranny for the slaves of their rule . But if the press be the herald of public virtue and the record rf illustrious actions , then is the silencing of itavoUathoimmlwof freedom and glory : if it be the champion of innocenco and the guardian ot genius , its destruction is tho abettor of crimo-tho
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nutis | , of ! nigy - ! » n « f ignorance .- One maxira 7 ; wiil | e found jiniyeraaiiy true , that if the law * be good ; and the people happy under them , no excesses of thffpfess can maice either the ohe ' bad , or'the other discontented ; but it is observable , that , as the Irishpeople are most unhappy under a vicious government , the Irish press becomes more licentious , but not more formidable to the tyranny—its licentiousness is but that aidvrhich the crafty require from the innocence of ignorance . . Having said . so much upon the general topic , now turn we to the more immediate consideration of the
present state of the Irish press . Of latter years Mr . O'Connell has | been alternately denouncing and flattering Whiggery and Toryism . He has defied and crouched , he has resisted and yielded , as it served his purpose ; but never has he used his strength , which is the nation ' s voice , for diminishing the lewd power of either the one orthe other . In his own personal conflicts . with ; those who would check Ms progress he used the press as a tool , but never as a national engine to achieve national greatness . He lias whispered and lisped the wrongs of Ireland in the narrow sphere of personal \ ambition , but his soul , that cowers before , democracy , has ever shrunk from the destruction of the abettors of wrong . He has denounced the Whigs , while he has aided them with
his might in their every act of oppression , and shielded them from the only power which could destroy them . That power , however , although withheld from the knowledge of the Ir ish people by the corrupt and slavish press of the country , has overthrown silence , stripped mystery of its magic , and exposed the villany , the corruption , and trickery of those who loolud upon the ignorance of a people as theirown best title to' power . The man who would use the press to achieve , the triumph of Saxon law should close his mouth against all Saxon abuses . The man who would make a criminal of him who fearlessly exposes ercoc should stand at the bar of justice as the assassin of . truth , the destroyer of virtue , the murderer of his country ' s liberty .
' What butthe press could have placed jugglery in the ascendant over principle , fand © specially , in such si liberty-loving country as Ireland ? and what but the press can hurl the monster from its throne ? Had it not been for the virtue of the Irish press , at the close of the last century—that pres 3 , to pr rve whose purity one patriot has , endured nearly half a century of exile—Ireland would now be in a state of even worse bondage than she is . The vigour , the courage , the power , and the purity of that press , taught tyrants that Ireland would one day be a nation , and only required a free press to make her so . That
press dreaded not the promulgation of landlord tyranny , of . the law ' s oppression and the tyrant ' s rapine ; that press did not sanction the principle of aiding Saxon law by inviting the Irish people to become approvers and informers , ; that press was virtuous , and its founder became a victim ; the press is now licentious , and its abettor may one day share the same / ate , but not the same laurels . The one has lived honoured , and will die regretted ; the other has lived fraudulently , and will die unmasked . The historian should be able to note a . country ' s
improvement in the increase of its people ' s virtue '; and what , we should be glad to know , would be the feelings of a Saarsfieij ) , a Harvey , a ' Fitzgerald , ; or an Emmexx , if the sanctity of tb , civ honoured . toml » were disturbed by the whisper , that Irish patriotism was measured by Irish- subserviency , and that the surest road to popular favour was turning APPROVER to the Saxon government . Thank God . ^ th ose departed heroes sleep secure from the infamy of that press which dares to co mmemorate the greatness of their times , but shudders at the mention of their
names . -- .. .-Who fears to talk of' 08 ! Who dares to lisp Lord Edward ' s name % Who dares to utter Emmett ' s slaughter i Who dares to mention Harvej ' s fame ? Who dares to talk of Curran ' s daughter ? Out upon you , you base , degenerate vermin—you foul destroyers of your country ' s liberty !—you ' prostitutes , you bastard Irishmen , you things that write for hire , and fear the very [ sight of the impress of your Irish feelings ; if such by chance should find a place in your breasts , you must smother them
Are you . not hirelings ? . Poor priceless slaves , with measured conscience , bated breath , and fettered hand ? You profess to loose the chains that bind your " country , while you tighten every rivet and forge such bondage as freemen blush at . You have hoped , by your silence , to procure the downfall of the man whose bravery you should have honoured , in whose intellect you should have ' taken pride , in whose veins Tan , the pure , stream of liberty , and whose triumph will but mark your impotence . Ion . will live but as speculators in the laws of forbearance , ' while O'lhoGiNs will triumph over the foul coercion to which you hoped to have consigned him . TOU ARE A SEX OF SERVILE SLAVES !
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behold a conquered country Witt scarcely a foot of ground for her own ^ people'te rest upon ; who can witness the supremacy of jugglery and the prostration of common sense in that country , without being irresistibly ' ' led to the conclusion that the mind requires something solid to rally round ? In England there . is . a ; kind " of safety-valve for labour in its capricious employment and in its own noble struggles for its share in its own productions ? In England the absurd law of primogeniture is only tolerated by the several outlets that are at the command of the aristocracy ? Were it not for church patronage , army patronage , . and all the patronage at
the disposal of Government , and the great safetyvalve of an extensive commerce , added to the new respectability assigned to trade , the junior branches of each aristocratic hous « would long since have waged war against their elder brothers and their parents ; as , like Ireland , a country without trade , and cursed by the law of primogeniture , would have led to an ECONOMICAL surplus population—that is a population of young idlers who are , fortunately for the peace of the country , reconciled to their disinheritance from'the land , so long as they can speculate in trade , or be quartered as State pensioners , or worse than useless lumber upon the taxes paid by
the industrious . In reflecting upon the state of Ireland , to which nature and a longing for her liberty not unfrequently compels us , we are forcibly struck by the iact , that all the power of the national will , so concentrated , harmonious , and brave , has never once been applied to the destruction of that monster vil—an evil , the destruction of which is how but seldom hinted at , because , if destroyed , it would have a prejudicia l effect upon the monopolies , of labour . Through life ,
it has been our darling object to create a class of husbandmen who should be masters of their own time , and whole , and sole , and unrestricted possses * sow of the produce of their own industry , but in our way to this holy consummation , the law of primogeniture stands prominently foremost . The working classes of this country , require but the chance of transforming themselves from hired slaves to inde * pendent labourers . That chance , by the rules of the Astrtaiiation , we can offer sectionally , while destructiori ' 6 f the law of primogeniture would accomplish it nationally .
The free traders , like the Irish juggler , were wont to mention this monster in their catalogue of grier ., aneea , but the strict reading of the grammar of political economy has taught them that trade , with a blighting restriction imposed upon it by protection , is preferable to the opening of & free kbour mavket ; and , like O'Cosxell , who to-morrow would refuse the Repeal with a free House of Commons , the free traders , if they had the option , would spurn from them the long wished-for measure , if it was to be accompanied by tuc destruction of the law of
primogeniture , of settlement , and entail . To this land plan of ours we attach surpassing importance , the more especially from the confidence that all now seem to repose in its good working ; and , we trust , before many weeks are over our head , to see such a staff of free labour advocates agitating the several rural districts as . . will teach the especial objects of free trade protection , the clodpoles , the difference between free labour expended for themselves , and labour expended either for the monopolists or anti * monopolists .
The question of free trade , and cspacially the ability of its advocates to raise a quarter of a million of money in the midst of threatened famine , and without the danger of diminished luxury , has , in truth , resolved the question into its proper' dimensions—namely , the position that Labour should hold in the present struggle . That question is now argued in England with surpassing truth and eloquence , and , however long-suffering may be paraded by the advocates of the labouring class in the columns of the press , we hold it to be an utter impossibility for- that press and the League united , longer
to make the question of labour a mere stalking-horse for their own party purposes . And the labourer cannot disassociate the question of labour and capital-, the consideration of monopolist andantimonopolistwithout taking into account the material ingredient , MACHINERY , which is equally xwed andencouraged by both parties-by the one that they may SELL CHEAP , and by the other that they may BUY CHEAP . This is the great SALESMAN that regulates the price of wages—this is the awful competitor which makes its slavish attendant more
obedient to its will than even to the terror of the bludgeon , the sword , or the law . It is this monster that creates strife amongst men who ought to be united . It is this disturber that destroys the peace of families , and that prematurely relaxes filial duty and parental authority : . and neither monopolist nor anti-monopolist will lend their aid in its destruction , nor would we wish to destroy it if it could be made MAN'S HOLIDAY instead of MAN'S CURSE ; but it must be destroyed , or its injustice and ine equality must be curbed by the possession of THE LAND .
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However childish it may appear to threaten to resign my office , as Deputy Treasurer , I now tell the sub-secretaries that I will not longer be made a fool ot for their pleasure . It matters not whether the orders ar 0 < transmitted to Mr . Wheeler or to me . wV * t T * T \ " •* niade wable to W . P . Roberts , and at Charing-cross Post-office . Itwa * i « y mtention to have balanced the whole account up to the end of the year , by placing all the monies Z ceivedsmcel furnished my last balance-sheet into the bauk to the accouut of the treasurer , and it will scarcely be believed , after the frequent notices
given , that posUffice orders have come payable at the General Post > office , at Charing-cross , the Strand , Oxford-street , Old Cavendish-street , and Piccadilly and that my nephew has been nearly the whole of this week engaged in getting them cashed , and on . presenting £ H 0 in orders at the General Post-office yesterday £ 40 was refused , £ 20 being made payable to Ihomas Martin , principally from Bacup , and £ 20 not advised . Now these have to go back to the country , whereas observance of the simple rule would h saved all this
ave trouble . My nephew , roysecre tary , and myself are employed a large portion of every day in transacting your affair gratuitously , but I will not longer undertake the labour of correct -ng blunders that need not be made . I havenowa large , sum of money which I wish to be placed to the treasurer ' s account , and the simple rule of Which I request future observance is this—all post-office orders to be made payable to W . P . Roberts and the name of the person procuring the order to be legibly signed in the letter containing it .
vr T * i , ; , " Fearous O'Connor . ¦ ' J . B , I thank those persons who have sent ma noto o estates to be sold , and I wish them fan ™ districts to contmue sending such information aswe ^ specdUy bein asituation to makTaTaS ' F . O'C .
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THE LAND . . The Rules of the Chartist Co-operative Land Association are now perfected and ready for enrolment , with the opinion of counsel , that they are , in every way , conformable to the statute , and we hope , by next week , to communicate the glaiUiuingstiiat we have achieved , for all the members , that amount of protection which will secure their funds against ; theDISHONESTY OF THEIR OFFICERS ; and ^ thus silence the wily and disarm the suspicious . ¦ Thegreat value which " all the movement parties in ¦ the state are now either directly or indirectly compiled to . attach to the land , not only at home but , ' abroad , should induce every man ( and the very poorest has the means under the Chartist Co-operative Association ) to . secure for himself as ranch of the ' soil of the country as will make him independent of the capricious wages ofthe casual employer and the starvation wages of the permanent slave-owner . IWrthe advocates of free trade and protection may attempt to colour the question of free trade those , lor whose benefit tho measure is contemplated are beginning to see the question of labour , nay of existence , ln the grotesque group presented by ' thi various artists . It matters but little to the Lve who ; tons through the week / whether he is governed by protectionists or anti-monopolists , provided each placean equal burden upon hie back , and the only ques ion with the toiling millions should be , how , at one bound , and at the same time , they could rid themselves of the incubus of landlords and the nightmare of cotton-lords . How they can destroy ° the usurped privileges of the one class without becoming subjected to the new and more tyrannical dominion ot their successors . We have more than once used the
past as a caution for ' the future . We havo shown how , from' the proclamation of American Independence to the Revolution of France , the popular voice became smothered in the craft and wiles of faction . France gained more by her revolution than America by her independence ; for America , with a twenty years' start of France , is only now struggling for what France has already partially achieved-the sub-division of her land And however lewd tyranny may have been undcv the restoration , and however the scions of the house
of the murdered Bourbon may have been anxious to take vengeance on a people who limited monarchy , and stripped the crown of some of its Most valued prerogatives , yet neither they , nor the king of the barricades , whoso desire for reassumption is ° as great as that of his predecessors , yet have not one or all been able to retake a single acre of that broad domain , which constituted the only triumph of the Revolution . Upon the other hand , it would either appear that land for want of population was useless when America declared her independence , or that the
voice of Americau knowledge was lost in the exultation of her triumph , inasmuch as it is only now that the people ot that country are beginning to turn their attention from the shadow to the substance from the protection of others to THE F , AND FOR THEMSELVES ., In every instaawe of which history makes mention , the people ' s slxrae in every change where tho possession of the lan . < i \ has not followed , has been a tight , cuing of thcis-chaias , Who can turn to Ireland , w \ d
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nor ^ £ ~ HBW YMa' *~ Neitherthe Executive nor Mr O'Connor were pledged to attend the meeting m btepUenson ' s-squure , on New yoar , y „ | ixecufve attended the meeting , they must have re ! mamed trom tho 23 vd of December , tUe ni ght whea the couventum closed , till Friday , the 2 nd of January , ia Manchester and its neighbourhood , instead of attend , nig , as they have done , to the enrolment of the rules which are now completed , and « a this day admitted * by counsel to TW , t Pratt for enrolment , and of S there is not now the slightest doubt . The ExecutS remaining in Manchester would have entailed an : S gwen ra X » nAl sat . skaction T . Mr . O'Counor Jit ^ ^^ ZS ^ ; « « - : / ¦ : » » = ho conference nnd thefconvention , and was obliged to post to W nmngton on Monday night after tho contarenco , merely to gain five hours at his daily work , iNow \ hc pi-oplu should clearl y understand , that Tues ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 10, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1349/page/4/
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