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IHE NORTHERN STAR SATUBDAY, OCTOBER 16,1847.
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THE PKunfc'i VICrORlES AT THE RECENT PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS.
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HOUSE OF LORDS . — TnESPAT , Oct . 12 . —The Xosi > Chakcellok and other Peers assembled in the Honse of Lords at twa o'clock , in pursuance of the proro . gati--n of lie 2 lst September last , for the purpose of Btfil farther proroguing Parliament until the 11 th of Novemfcer next , as announced in tbe royal Proclamation which appeared in the Gazette of the 8 th inst . There were between twenty and thirty ladies sitting oc the benches in the bodj of the Uouse , and some eii or seven gentltmeD . On the right eft he throne a scaffolding was erected , en which the srtis's are carrying on the fresco painting fcj Maclise , ani ! which wonld appear , from the glimpses we canght of it , to be in a forward state . So mnch of it as could be seen was mnch admired . There were also scaffoldings at the ether end of the chamber , over the reporters' gallery , in which also the decorators of the Honse were carrying on their labour * .
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THE PRESS AND THE PEOPLE . A sure sign of the progress making by the popular cause is , the increasing venom of the Press . It is the thermometer by which you can measure the success of the People . When the democratic sun shines , up goes the •' mercury " to fever heat ; then the factionist and his hired journalists are burning with rage , and they spit their venom at the Charter and Land movement . In the present instance , the time for their attack was well chosen—when
Mr O'Connor—the principal object of their mean , lying onslaught—was on the Continent —a circumstance of which they must have been aware , by its announcement in the papers . We promise our readers , however , a rich treat in next week ' s Star , when Mr O'Connor has promised to devote six columns in reply to the wonderful discoveries of the immaculate arithmeticians , and honourable men , who have attacked the cause he
represents . We are obliged to them for their attacktruth benefits by being assailed—their venal , truckling praise might throw doubt on any scheme that received it ; their censure and their virulence imply that they fear us , and their fear proves that we are in the right . But let our readers mark the features of their attack , and out of these judge of our progress . At first they affected silently to ignore the existence of the Chartist body , and their movements ; when that was vain—when misery spoke iron-tongued across those
counters where they were selling lies at so much a line , ' they changed their policy , and commenced abuse of our principles . Thus it was with the Charter—thus it was with the Land . But now that the Principles have passed victoriously through the ordeal , now that nobody ventures to deny the soundness of the Charter , or the desirability of the People obtaining the Land—now that they are beaten , from the higher ground , they fall back , in the course of their defeat , upon this second line of defence—personal attacks—and cavilling at the details of the plans , the general justice
of which they are forced to concede . They are either the advocates of monopoly—and , their bread depending on its support , are forced to oppose every symptom of advance—or , they make their stock in trade of some little bit of liberalism , which , they think , cannot do much good or harm , but which serves to keep up the circulation of their venal papers . When , how ever , they find the working classes begin to think for themselves , and that they will , no longer take what " the Dispatch , or the Manchester Examiner , or the Nottingham Mercury
and others of that ilk writen for gospel , —when they find such reforms advocated as would at once sweep away all monopolies , and thus break up their little stock-in-trade of cant , then they get the valour of desperation , and launch their pigmy arrows against those reforms , thusprovingmerely the weakness of their arm ? , and the strength of the popular armour . Thus , one of their batteries opens after another , till at last , they will be all in full playbut , alas ! for them , their balls , innocuous to us , will but rebound on their own heads . What shall we say to the men who perform
the office of hired spy , to pry into the private affairs of other men , and then come back with lies , simply for the reason because the object of their attack is endeavouring to do good to the people ? Why do they not attack the great stock-jobbing companies , banking speculations , mercantile bubbles , building societies , or railways ? Why do they not condole with , the shareholders of the North Western , whose shares have fallen from 280 to 149 ? Or , with those of the Great Western ,
whose half-shares have fallen from 80 to 55 ? Why do they not inveigh against the monied speculators , who are now breaking for hundreds of thousands of pounds , and offering their creditors seven or nine shillings in the pound ? Why do they not , with their wonderfid championship of the popular cause , expose the fallacies of the building societies , whose horses we cannot see—whose houses are nowhere ? Why , just i ttack the Land Plan , and that only ? No doubt , it is a terrible sore jin
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¦ ' * their eyes , that a body ^ of working men have '' twenty-three horses" of their own . No doubt , they would have preferred their haying to hire the horses at an exorbitant cost;—no doubt , they would prefer the people being dependent on the philapthropy-mongeringmoney-jobbing of others , instead of achieving independence for themselves , —or else , why let all the bubbles of the day go by unscathed , and single out this "Speculation of the People ?" The Land Plan and their attack will , as we have already intimated , be fully dealt with
next week by Mr O'Connor— -while we are happy to learn , that the base calumnies which have been launched against him will be met in a court of law , where , we feel sure , they will obtain a fitting response . But to what lamentable straights the enemies of the People must be reduced , when they are forced at last from general principles into sectional detail , and from argument into reckless assertion . When they tell us ' ' to the public Press and to public fame Chartism has for some years been dead ; " true , the " public Press'' have burked it—but it ° has been alive
in the hearts of millions ! If dead—we ask the Dispatch , why make such a clamour about a | dead thing ? When they tell us that " Chartists took the pay of Buckingham . " Poor fellow ! they ' ve broken him then ! That was a likely man to take a party in his pay ! Buckingham a nd the landlords , forsooth ! When the Chartists have couched the lance against Land Monopoly , and strike at the root of aristocratic privilege , in advocating the repeal of the laws of Primogeniture / Settlement , and Entail ! When the Dispatch is reduced to fill
two columns with abuse , without one single proo f or argument in support of its assertions . Admits that there never was so great , wonderful , or well-organised a movement as the Charter—yet , in the next breath , abuses the men who organised it ! Finds fault with the violent direction the Charter once assumed yet PUTS THE BLAME ON THE WRONG SHOULDERS—and now , in the same breath , find 3 fault with the peaceable direction it is taking . Eschews the " insane acts of useless violence , " yet equally objects to the " spade and the trowel . "
What , then , would please them ? Abject submission and inert slavery ? Why does the Dispatch not point out the right way , if others are wrong ? What plan of reform has it ever propounded ? How has it ever shown itself the friend of the people ? Has it not , on the contrary , done its best to vitiate the public taste , and deprave the public character , by treating its readers to records of bloody murders , or beastly obscenities . , But popular education is progressing with giant strides , and turns to those papers which record and advocate the progression of man
, instead of gloating over his vices . The public mind requires proof , and not assertion . It will not do to say of a plan , < that it will min all connected with it , we have no doubt . " Men require to be told WHY it will ruin them . Nay ! lies cannot , even be shrouded amon * legal obscurity ! No doubt the Dispatch , the Manchetter Examiner , and others , relied upon the ignorance of the people as to the laws of the country , when they hazarded their reckless assertions as to the legal ri ght of the Land
Company ' s allottees . They forgot , however , that their false constructions could be refuted —and that the true state of the law would be explained . They have overshot their mark , and their decreasing circulation explains their venom , while it punishes their baseness . But , since the Dispatch is so careful fof the public funds , since it is such a protector of the poor , we would ask it to give critical and arithmetical accounts of the profits of the divers public companies now swarming around them . We would ask it to inform us how the funds are
spent , and of what is given to the shareholders —not to the ATTORNIES . And if it is so lamentably ignorant of t he state of Chartism as' to suppose' it dead ; or of . the feelingof the Chartists as to talk of the "Wind stupidity of its tag-rag-and-bob-tail , " or to consider them a " mere blackguard , un reasonable rabble "—we would request this " organ of public enlightenment" to look up from its melo-dramatic horrors into the regions of political progression , and to ask the unseated
ministers , to ask the discomfited Whig candidates , where Chartism island what it is about . We would further bid then not to show . their ignorance , by insidiously saying that the " Land movement had superseded the Charter . " Itis but the wall of e AkTH , that , like the Roman legions , the Chartists have thrown round their camp . We would also bid them see first into the truth of an assertion , before they venture its publication , and we wish them a " good appetite" for our next week ' s number .
If , however , the reader should require , or wish to [ know , the real cause of the venom of the Dispatch , let him inquire of its lachrymose agents , and their groaning counters , bending under the weight of the rejected addresses of Sydney Smith , will answer the querist .
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PARLIAMENTARY PROSPECTS .
We have reached . the time of the year when rumours of Ministerial " intentions , " and indications of Parliamentary policy in the next Session , begin to make their appearance , and the meeting of a Cabinet Council this week . for the first time since the election of the new Parliament , gives sign that the Government are begining to prepare for the next campaign . The rumours at present afloat as to their intention * show that , so far as they are concerned , the lhumes will not be set on fire next year . The measures said to be in contemplation are of a secondary description , though not without a
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certain degree of importance . But the great causes which lie at the root of the sufferings ' endured by the industrious classes , will not be touchedbytheWhigs .. TheyJiavea 8 instinctive a dread of" organic changes / ' as a dog labour inguhder hydrophobia hasof water ; they are " retail" politicians , and their policy never rises above the small peddling of the huckster ' s shop . The specific measures pointed out by rumour as being likely to be introduced , are the abolition of the Navigation Laws , and the creation of certain new offices , including one at the
head of the Issue Department of the Bank of England . These , with a Sanitary Bill , will constitute the programme for this country . For Ireland , it is said that the abolition of the Poor Law , that weakly spawn of their last year ' s wisdom , and of the Tithe Act , is to suffice . The two classes at present professedly provided for by these acts —• parsons and paupers—to be in future supported by a sort of Income Tax on land . As to Foreign policy , Lord Palmerston is opposed to foreign intervention in the affairs of Switzerland , as well as in Italy . Such is all that has as yet oozed out
through the various channels which may be supposed to be more or less employed by Ministers in sounding the public mind , or to be used for the purpose of fore-shadowing their course . It is meagre enough to satisfy the mosr inveterate supporters of homcepathic legislation , and infinitessimal doses . It will depend on the new members of the House of Commons whether we are to stop at the point indicated by our Whig rulers , or whether the changes they propose , shall be decided to be in themselves desirable or pressing at the present time .
The repeal of the Navigation Laws , almost the only vestige left of the ancient and venerable system of protection , under which , somehow or other , England did fight its way up to the position of one of the first powers in the world , might have been naturally expected to follow the abolition of the Corn Laws , the cornerstone , as it were , of that fabric . The advocates of Free Trade , as they call their nostrum , were certain to press the destruction of any impediment which appeared to stand between them arid their great object , that of unfettered and unlimited exchanges with foreign
countries . We have no intention of debating the propriety or policy of the Navigation Laws at present , or saying more of them than that they date virtually from the period when the Com ' monjvealth and Cromwell redeemed England from the disgrace of being driven from the narrow seas by the naval armaments of foreign countries , and after sweeping these armaments from our own shores , established the-maritime supremacy which has ever since been England ' s proudest boast . A system which
incontroyertibly did produce such results , which now maintains the working shipwrights of Great Britain in the enjoyment of wages considerably higher than are given to the trades who Have to depend on foreign markets , and enter into competition with foreign operatives , should not , in our opinion , be lightly tampered with , or changed to suit the views of mere self-seeking merchants or crotchetty theorists . Before proceeding further with our Free Trade policy , it would be only prudent to wait and see how what we have done works in future . So far we have received but
little encouragement to go on in the same direction . To the argument that we have not yet had a " fair trial" of these measures , we are content to reply : " admitted—take your fair trial , but don ' t ask us to do more in the same way until that trial has conclusively proved that we should do so . " With reference to the abolition of the Irish Poor Law , and the substitution of some other mode of relieving the destitute population of that unhappy and deeply afflicted land , it is impossible to give any opinion , unless some details of the new plan were before us . A
worse or more delusive and defective measure than that passed last session , it is scarcely possible to conceive , when looked at in the light of a practical provision for the pauperism of Ireland . But it at least did one thing . It affirmed the principle that the land of Ireland ought to support the people of Ireland ; that above all , and before all claims on the soil , there was that of the inhabitants to a subsistence upon it . The landlords struggled hard against the establishment of that great and important principle ; they have since thrown
every impediment they could in the way of its practical operation in Ireland , and we fear that the proposition , thus speedily to throw overboard an act passed only last session , is not dictated by any regard for the welfare of the poor . The Whigs have a peculiar facility in giving way to the pressure of influential classes , and ; an equally great aptitude for forgetting the claims and interests of the weak and defenceless . " Forewarned is forearmed . " We shall watch whether the people are again to be sacrificed to the landlords of Ireland .
The new Parliament , however , must occupy itself with very different business than such matters as Navigation Laws , or Poor Laws . The time has come when the means must be discovered and applied . by which the labouring classes of this rich and powerful country may enjoy a fair share of the wealth they create . AH legislature must be tried by this test , and if found wantiugj scouted as a mockery . The political economists , landlords , and free-traders , have madeEngland a commercial hell , in which every princi ple of justice is
subverted . Right and wrong have changed places . The idler revels in wealth , the industrious producers , in the best of times , receive a bare subsistence—in seasons of artificially created distress—created by the classes , who , by means of money legislation and machinery , keep them permanently in the bonds of a real and terrible slavery—the working classes starve by thousands , while the idlers are subject , at the worst , to a temporary inconvenience , so slight as to scarcely diminish their luxuries to any appreciable extent .
This state of things must not-cannot—shall not—continue . It is a standing libel upon the Christianity we profess as a nation . It is an infraction of the principles of national justice , a violation of the canons of morality , which nothing but long habit could induce the existence and toleration of . These habits are rapidly disappearing ; industry has been learning its rights ; it has been thinking upon the subject . The day is coming when it will have learned its lesson thoroughly , and ^ it will then speak in a voice which no legislature will dare to disobey .
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MISCELLANEOUS G abribl wishes Mr O'Connor to use his influence in parliiunent to aid the putting down of prize-fighting . 'Gabriel' says , 'I commend an individual who stands up manfully in self-defence , but at regards the wretches , who , for the sake ef a few pieces of sordid gold , meet , and tender each other , with heartless hypocrisy , the hand of friendship , then to attack each other like tigers , their conduct is , to me , so foul a sin that I am inclined to ask myself , whether i am really in civilised England ! Ofwhitt class are the men composed ! Why notoriously of prigs , sharps , lazy ' gents , ' blackguards , the dissolute and depraved . At the fight which took place between Caunt and Bendigo , there was not a liubhc-house in the route of these ruffians but was laid under contribution , nor a person met but was quickly turned ' topsiturvy' and every farthing skilfully « -
wactea from their pockets . Now , sir . I think that you have a glorious opportunity of showing the true character of Chartism , that its tendency iis to uplift the human mind from all that is debasing , servile ; and cruel , and is utterly oppose ! to the inhuman anddis . gusung practice I have condemned , and which I think all good men will join me in denouncing as degrading to our age and country . ' Patents . —A correspondent asks , can you inform me if there is a society for enabling working men to obtain patents for their inventions ? NoTTiNOHAJt Election Fund . —J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums , with thanks .-Man . Chester , per G . . Townsley , 4 s ad ; do per J . Howarth , Is 3 d : do in small sums , 3 s 7 d ; from Bl andford , 6 s 9 d . 8 LEAFOBDMDRDEBCASE . -fromE . H . L ., 6 d ; Mr Miiltby , 6 d . Petition CoNviNTioN .-Per Mr Liggot , Is lid ; Collected at the Eagle , 3 s 7 d . T . Gilroy . —Receivad .
Robert Side . —For two reasons we decline to publish your letter , —1 st , its publication in its present form would be impossible , without making you a laughing stock , and we cannot afford time to re-write lengthy correspondence ; 2 nd , the Star columns can be much better filled , than with the side-winded attacks upon the directors of the land Company . J . Nisbett , Newcastle . —Your letter was charged to us ¦ twopence for OYer . weight . F . Pole . —Jn our judgment , the 'Citizen ' s' trash is not worthy ot notice ; we have , however , sent your letter , with the enclosure to the Directors . Lr » t home , two boys , on the 3 rd " of July last . The oldost , Samuel lurton , aged eleven ye ars , had on a blue cloth cap , small brown plaid fustian « oat , brown striped trousers , and had with him a small square basket . The youngest , John Turtou . aged nine voars . had on a blue
cap , and a dark corded suit of clothes . Any person who cau give information on this distressin ; ca « e , to Isaac Turton , No . 15 , Exeter-street , Derby , will greatly oblige the bereaved father . To the Chartists op LoNDON .-Sonie time ago Mr T . Clark , of the Land Company , when lecturing in Aberdeen , obtained the loan of several flags and banners , among which were a valuable silk tri-colouwd flag , a splendid full leBgth portrait of T . S . Dumcombi ' , Esq ., M . P ., a banner with the motto— 'United we stand s divided we fall , ' surrounded by a garland , and another banner with the motto— 'Siay the golden , crowns of Europe be melted into types to print ' the rights of man' throughout the Universe , ' &c As we have already written to Mr Clark , and have got no answer , I have now to request , that if any . or all , of these flags , &c , are in the possession of any individual , that they
bo immediately sent to Mr Thomas Clark , Land Company ' s Office . The silk tricolour belongs to the comb makers of Aberdocn , who have always done their duty to the cau 6 e , and tho whole are now required , for the forthcoming demonstration in November . They were lent to be used iH a procession to the House of Commons , I trust they will be returned— D . Wrigiit , Corresponding Secretary , Aberdei-n . Dundk . —Alenghtyreportofone ofMrKydd ' s lectures must stand over till our next . The Men of Kent ' s Catechism in our next . Juman Habnet acknowledges the following sums :-iromAlloa forthe Election Fund , £ 1 ; for the Sleafordcase . 10 s ; from Kidderminster , for the Election V und , 4 s 6 d ; for the Holytown miners ! ls ; from S . M'B ., _ . for the Election Fund , 3 d . J . EMs . ut .-Your offer was sent too late . Such a report
should have been forwarded last week . P . J . O'Brien , Exeter . -Impossible this week . 1 ro 1 atria , Aberdeen . —Under consideration . Hie Poets must ' remember Job the patient man . ' CAKLisLB .-The' Address'in our next . Yictim Committee—We are requested to state that all monies tor the General Victim Fund must be sent to to ? I , ™ SimPson secretary to the Aged Patriot !' , widows' and Orphans ' , and Yictim Couimittee , Elm Oottage , Wuterloo-stroot , Cumbenvell . Mr Simpson acknowledges is 6 d , from Mrs Tanner , Totuess . hie land Company . -A mass of communications containing inquiries respecting matters in connexion with the Land Company , we have forwarded to the Directors . AH j » ch communications should be addressed to
the Company ' s Office , l 4 i , High Holuorn , London . Tins village oi ? Alva has been thrown into a state oj excitement for this tew weeks past , by one of the blue bottle gentry perambulating the street , » nd entering the houses , to the annoyance of the peaceable inhabitants , and demanding four shillings from some , and two from others , on acfouut of what he calls Statute Labour Money , or , if the same is not paid on a certain given dny , legal steps are to be taken to force the same . This is done by the order of one John M'Learn , » farmer , who calls himself collector , and as tho inhabitants are unacquainted with the Statute Labour Act , you will much oblige a number of your readers in AW" . if you will let them know how the law stands in refer * emcc to the above . —D . H ., Alva ., October 8 th 181 " .
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LENCE , - " CHARGES OP EXcpS OF DUTY , " -or of actual CRIMES ! . 2 MISDEMEANOURS ^ perpetrated hvT POLICE . - , > r - ' -- y " * These charges the police are able to desnis * inasmuch as each policemari , when accused W plenty of witnesses to produce in the g W of—other policemen!—and if found guiltv punishment of a FEW SHILLINGS is suffi . cient atonement for crushing the skull of a with their truncheons
man , beating a woman till her life is in danger , striking a young girl over the loins , that she may become diseased for life in consequence , and almost crippling a child , all of whom were innocent o any outrage , crime , or misdemeanour of any description , — and who were thua treated without any excuse , such as could be furnished by a disturbance going on around them . No personal redress was afforded to the sufferers , no " punishment beyond a fine of a few shillings to the guilty .
Thus a body of ruffians are let loose on the public . Their persons are sacred . They may insult defenceless women in the streets ( see police reports ) , they may get up false charges , they may rob , they may get drunk and brutally beat inoffensive passers by ; they may use abusive and insolent language , they may take whomsoever they like into custody , without any sufficient reason ; and there is no redress They are a privileged class . The ordinary laws of the country touch them not . The British constitution is suspended with reference to them . The arrows of justice glance off from the invincible armour of their blue
coats and metal buttons ! We ask our readers to look through our Police Report for this week . IVe ask them to look at the police in * telligence afforded by the daily papers—for exemplification of every one of the allegations we have made . Let them read the case of Mrs Perryan—let them read that of Mr N . Maillard , at Guildhall , who , when quietly going to the station-house with the policeman , was violently struck , throttled till he foamed at the mouth , and subsequently brutally maltreated at the station-house , WHENCE DREADFUL SCREAMS WERE HEARD
TO ISSUE . And this gentleman , it appears , had not been guilty of anything , jbut accidentally tearing a person ' s coat « skirt with his stick ! Let them remember the slaughter of W . Dodson at Sleaford , and , indeed , we do hope the country will assist in bringing the brutal policeman , Sharpe , to justice . As yet , we regret to say , but little has been done . It is , indeed , painful to think of the brutality to which the poor are subjected in the streets by these " guardians of the peace . " How they are driven like dogs from pillar to post , ban * died about like so much lumber . We have seen
them driven from the shelter of a wall or a tree in the pitiless storm , abused and shoved about for looking poor , and daring thus to make a mute appeal to charity , and annoy wealth and magnificence with their aspect . We read daily of men being taken up by the Police on some charge which cannot be substantiated—kept , in some cases , thirty-six hours in prison , and then discharged WITHOUT REPARATION . Such is the present kw , that a man ' s liberty may be infringed at the caprice of a Policeman . Is a man to be subjected to annoyance and imprisonment—his family to anxiety—his business to derangement—Iris health to injury—because a Policeman may owe him a grudge , or be out of
humour , and wish to vent his spite ? Is this the ' Rights of Englishmen , " " THE LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT . " It is high time that we had the CHARTER , to abolish such laws , and enable us to legislate for ourselves . The Police ought not to be a branch of centralised power ; those who pay for the support of the Police ought to have their appointment . It is the ratepayers and not the Government who ought to a ppoint , control , and regulate the "FORCE . "—Then , and not till then , can we expect to find in them real guardians of the peace , instead . of HIRED RUFFIANS let loose as a pest upon society , rarely to be found when w anted ; insulting to the poor , and servile to the great .
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THE COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY PANIC . The pressure on the money market and the stagnation in the manufacturing districts , has provoked an outburst of authorship and oratory quite astounding . Everybody who can wield a pen , and everybody who has " got the gift of the gab , " in the slightest degree , are now writing and talking about the " Currency question . " The terms "monetary crisis , " " legal tenders / ' " unconvertible and convertible currency / ' " fixed price of gold , " " paper money , "—and so forth , are heard on all sides . Never was there known so sudden a creation
of currency philosophers . If practical experience were as plentiful as blackberries in the season , there might be some hope of " safety " from this- " multitude of counsellors / ' But we very much fear that this is not the case . We bave somewhat carefully read the explanations given by various parties of the causes of the existing unparalleled and alarming state of the money , manufacturing , and mercantile markets ; and are sorry to confess with
very little of either profit or instruction . From the almost unintelligible jargon repeated by the advocates of opposing monetary systems , it is almost impossible to extract a single clear or definite idea ; a fact which we suspect proves one thing at least ; that the writers have no very distinct or specific notions of the subject themselves , and consequently cannot be fairly expected to instruct others . It is very doubtful whether one in a hundred of those who
presume to write oh tlie question , have the slightest notion of the first principles involved in it . One of the results of the crisis has been the establishment of a new association entitled the " Anti-Gold Law League , " the object of which , as we understand it , is to deprive gold of its legal tender capacity , abolish its fixed mint price of £ 3 17 s . iO | d . an ounce , and place it on the footing of all other commodities , thus leaving the pound of gold to find its natural
price in the same way as a pound of iron , of indigo , or cotton . Instead of this metallic money , which is so palpably insufficient a representative of the wealth and exchanges of the country , and which , like the bed o ? Pro crustes , cuts everything down to its own measure : the League propose to issue Government money of f L and upwards t ft amount of the annual taxation of the country . Such money to be issued on the security of the taxation power of the country , o be receivable in payment of taxes , and to b alegal'tender al nfinnni ? t :
m ^ ,, ... _ ... ^ twn rt , pecuniary transactions within the empire . They say ; that this domestic , money , as it may be termed , being fixed in amount for each year , would not vary n value , that , t would always be convertible into taxes ; that i ; would allow the producing classes to add to the price of the raw material and labour contained in their productions , the enhanced price caused b y taxation , and would thus be an equitable representative of wealth
and ' exchanges among ourselves . It would , in short , possess all the functions and fulfil all the ' uses of money . Foreign exchanges would be conducted as they now are by currency , meaning thereby bills of exchange , and the various other descriptions of mercantile paper which now represent commercial transactions . In cases where the foreign merchant or shipowner wanted gold , he would get it in the market at the natural price , and thus equity would also be restored in our foreign trade .
Such is a very brief outline of the leading features of the new League . We do not propose to pronounce any opinion on these propositions , until we have given them more careful consideration ; The subject itself is an important and a vital one , and cannot be too much studied and canvassed . But in the meantime , we may say that the propositions of the Anti-Gold Law League have a method and a reasonableness on their surface , which demand , at all events from those who oppose them , a temperate and a fair discussion .
.. From some portions of the Press they have received that kind of treatment ; but the Magnu Apollo—the great Thunderer—the organ of the ' gold owners , ' whose voice is most potential ' on 'Change , " has attacked the League with all its usual virulence and abuse , and indulged in all its usual violent misrepresentation when it has a weak and comparatively unknown opponent to grapple with . If the Anti-Gold L a * League possesses the seeds of vitality in it , and its prineiples be correct , it willouclfve the vituperation of the Times , and the " leading journal , " when it finds that it cannot put down the new association will , as in the case of the defunct Anti-Corn-Law League , discover that it is a " great
fact , " and devote the same columns to its support , that are now filled with its abuse . The Times evidently trembles for its masters —the gold owners . It has recourse to the most absurd and ridiculous statements to account for the present state of affairs . Potato rot , defective harvests , and the railway mania , are the , trinity of causes to which it ascribes the overwhelming panic which has seized upon the commercial world , and broken down some of the oldest-established and most wealthy houses of this proud mercantile empire , whose boast has hitherto been that its merchants are princes .
The fallacy of these excuses must be apparent to all who give the subject the slightt > t consideration . Grant all that can be asked , as to the extent of the loss caused by the failure of the potato crop and the harvest , and still it will not account for the " panic , " and the active loss under the existing crisis , suppose that we state the loss from defective crops as high as £ 20 . 000 , 000 , ( and we have never seen any statement that exceeded that
amount , £ 16 , 000 , 000 being the usual estimate , ) that would be the measure of our loss . But the loss of £ 20 , 000 , 000 worth of potatoes or breadstuffs will not account for a depreciation in the Government Securities within three weeks , equivalent to a loss of at least £ 90 , 000 , 000 to the holders of that description of property . It will not account for a depreciation iu the value of Railway Property to the extent of at least £ 30 , 000 , 000 more . It Swill not account
for the failures in the Corn Trade and in the general Mercantile Circles , to the extent of many additional millions ; and which , taken in connexion with the losses in the Manufacturing Districts , must amount , in the aggregate , to a loss of upwards of £ 200 , 000 , 000 in such a comparatively short time . We repeat , the loss of £ 20 , 000 , 000 worth of provisions will not account for this astounding depreciation of property . Its cause must be found somewhere else .
As to the Railways having caused the panic or added to the loss , it is difficult to imagine how any one pretending to common sense can gravely put forth such absurdity . In making a railway , we do not make it either of bank notes , piles of sovereigns , or of bars of gold . Every thousand pounds that has been spent iu the construction of railways has been spent in the country , and must have encouraged domestic trade . The engineers , the surveyors , the contractors , sub-contractors , " navvies , " iron-masters and workmen , carpenters , brick layers—all , in short , whose industry has been
put in motion by these works , have been customers to our farmers , manufacturers , grocers , hat-makers , shoe-makers , and other domestic tradesmen . The money they received in payment was not sunk in the sea , or locked up from circulation . It was paid at once to the retail tradesmen with whom they dealt , and found its way back to the wholesale merchant , miller , and farmer , from whom it again passed into the hands of the banker , to be re-distributed , and run it s quickening and fertilising course through the country . If we had not had such a mode of employing domestic industry , our difficulties and sufferings would have been increased ten-fold . The
fine premises of the great things that Free Trade and foreign markets were to do for us , have , so far , utterly failed . Manufacturing Lancashire stands still , because these foreign markets have no demand for its products . When they do trade with us , they take away the gold , not the calicoes , of England . That metal which we have absurdly created the measure of all other wealth , which we have artificially made all other kinds jof wealth to rest upon , is the kind of commodity mo 3 t coveted by our foreign customers , and for want of the representative , we instantly starve , amidst an abundance of the thine represented !
There is not , in reality , a pound ' worth less of real wealth in the country at the present moment , than previous to the panic which has created such a commercial crash , and such frightful depreciation in the value of property of all kinds . The real wealth of the country consists in its lands , its houses , its ships , its machinery , its roads , its harbours , and its labour . These all exist as before , and are as capable as ever of supplying food , clothing , and shelter to the population . They would be so if every ounce of gold in the country were thrown into the middle of the Atlantic ; and an act passed prohibiting for ever the export of another ounce from abroad .
There is no real loss . The cause of our sufferings is a false measure of value—an improper representative of the wealth and exchanges of the country . A sound and an equitable currency should possess the following qualities : — 1 st . It should increase as the wealth it represents increases . 2 nd . Itshoulddiminishasthe wealth it represents diminishes . And ' 3 rd . It should always itself be unchangeable m value . °
Gold does not possess one of these qualities . Its adoption as a legal tender , and as the measure of the value of all other commodities has been one of the greatest curses inflicted on the industrious classes of England . It has prevented the develo pement of its industrial energies , and compelled the disposal of the commodities it did produce at a price which aid not fairl y remunerate the artisan for his toil .
Next to a defective and corrupt system of larliamentary representation , a corrupt and defective monetary system is the monster evil with which industry must grapple . "
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POLICE LAW . There is no branch of the executive machinery more dangerous to public liberty , if not well managed , than the police . They have , from time immmeorial , been subtle agents in the hands of Government ; they are made a body of legalised spies , constantly on the watch , placed at the very key-hole of jour house-door—main taining a secret correspondence down your area-steps-and hanging in perpetual terror over tbe poor of the streets , who strive to earn a precarious livelihood in sight of the glittering shops of the more fortunate capitalists . When the police force were first instituted in England , they acted with caution , and something of
forbearance . Graduall y the few good qualities attached to the system have died away , leaving but the harsher and injurious features of this unconstitutional and continental system . Their " efficacy" has been gradually and insidiously increased—till not content with having this vast , organised body of home mercenaries at their disposal , Government have still further & ^ % Y , ^ r s : frth e strength of this body became consolidated—as soon as it appeared firml y grounded as one of the sacred institutions of our country /'—the mask was thrown aside , the cloyen foot became apparent , and now the daily press teems with accounts of " ACTS OF BRUTAL YIO-
Ihe Northern Star Satubday, October 16,1847.
IHE NORTHERN STAR SATUBDAY , OCTOBER 16 , 1847 .
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4 THE NORTHERN STAR , Octobkr 16 , 1847 .
The Pkunfc'i Vicrorles At The Recent Parliamentary Elections.
THE PKunfc'i VICrORlES AT THE RECENT PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 16, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1440/page/4/
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