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THE NORTHERN STAR, SA.TUHDAY, JANUARY 15, 1848.
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So* ready, in ^J^^Z^tk^ THEE POLITICAL \T0RKa OF ™0JA I tow first collected WK et1.«r. •»* to ~% flwA : an. fl,. a i >per,d:r, containing ths Trud 0/ J GailduU; with a portrait of the iuthar.
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COMMERCIAL AND MANUFACTURING PROSPECTS .
The news from the manufacturing districts is gradually becoming more cheerfuV . nVs tone , and week by week , thPiramber of mills which resume . frA whie ' Us increased . After theprot'racted period of depression and stagnation through which we have passed , it is hut natural to expect that the old stocks are by this time nearly cleared off , and that the spring and summer trade will cause , at least , a temporary" revival of what is accepted under our present system for prosperity . # is also to be in
The money market reported a more healthy condition . Discounts are more easily obtained , and at a much lower percentage * than they were a few weeks ago . The stock of bullion in the , Bank—that great thermometer by which , under our present monetary arrangements , the market rises or falls , — is steadily augmenting , and the tide of gold still sets steadily into this country . We do not mean here to comment upon the tremendous and unparalleled sacrifices , the wholesale destruction of property of all descriptions , and the total prostration of our domestic trade , which has been made to ensure this result , but merely to note the fact , as another of the indications which show that we are at the
commencement of what is termed " a season or prosperity . " It is well , however , that we should not be deceived as to the real character of this , so called , prosperity or its probable duration , and we propose , therefore , to offer a few remarks on these points , the result of long and careful observation of the working- and tendencies of our present manufacturing and monetary arrangements . _ _ _ r the restoration of
From the moment that peace gave to other nations time to recruit their energies , and the opportunity of becoming possessors of the machinery which England had during the war almost entirely monopolised , the manufacturing supremacy of this Gjiiptrv . was virtually destroY £ 3 ; ,-, Xr'H&' ar ?< | W / Tt «* o--i » - « . «/« -CTv « i «; . , iiViAO « 2 u-nntr to Create , rlfld the peculiar advantages arising from its insular position , and its iron and coal mines , were sufficient to protract the time at which it could be overtaken by any rival , or be thrust into a secondary position . The Political
Economists were , however , fired with the ambition that Britain should be the u workshop of the world . " Some of them , in the height of their enthusiasm , declared that it would be a blessing if its whole surface was incrusted with a coat of lava , and it never grew a blade of grass or an ear of com in future . We had , in our mines and manufactories , the means of supplying all other nations at such a rate that the rarest and richest products of nature would he sent in return to us most abundantly , and at a far cheaper rate than we oould produce them ourselves . The theory was an exceedingly simple one ; if not very true . AVe were
designed by nature to be a manufacturing nation , while other countries were designed by the same power to he purel y agricultural . "Ne sutor ultra crepidam , " therefore , said the Political Economists— 'let every one stick to his own last . " We can make hardware , broadcloths , and calicoes cheaper than anybody else . Let us confine ourselves to that alone , and take our corn , wine , and oil , from those who have richer soils and brighter suns than ours . Theories and systems are very beautiful things in the eyes of their projectors , and look nicely upon paper ; hut unfortunatel y for them , very frequently there exist obstructions and elements in nature not at all taken into account
by the system maker , and when collision ensues , the system gets shivered to pieces , and not the natural and indestructible obstacles 'vith which it comes in contact . So it has happened in this case . It was presumed that the people and government of every other country would be satisfied to let us continue in undisturbed and exclusive possession of the new powers which modern science had brought toaid production . The reverse , asmight have been expected by any but a mere theorist ,
has proved the fact . It is natural and proper for every nation to develope to the utmost the industry of its population , and its territorial capabilities . Commerce and manufactures are ns necessary and natural phases or stages of society as the pastoral , hunting , and agricultural stages which precede them . In expecting that for our profit and benefit this law of nations would he suspended , we were guilty of a mistake which could only have been made by the most consummate egotism , and the grossest selfishness .
Continental nations generally endeavoured to supply themselves with manufactured goods by means of their native capital and labour . Notwithstanding our superiority at the outset , they have succeeded in doing so ; and , in some instances , in doing more—manufacturing goods which compete successfully with us in neutral markets . Every country which was enabled to supply itself with the goods we formerly sold , lessened the effective and profitable demand for these goods ; and it was only b y convulsive and ruinous efforts to produce cheaper and cheaper still , that we could for a few years longer
maintain a precarious footing in markets from which we were in the end certain to be driven out . If the table of exports to the densely peopled countries of Europe—our nearest markets—be looked at , this fact will be seen by the . most cursory observer . Year by year have our exports diminished . "We hayej tried to change the current by reductionsjn the duties levied upon their goods , in hopes that they would reciprocate the compliment . In vain . Each successive reduction in our tariff has been met by the imposition of " additional duties upon our British manufactures . Nobody is now silly enough to talk of our supremacy in continental
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markets , or to l « jk to them for the c ustomers who are to make this " the workshop of the world . " The United States of North America , however , for many years prevented the mistake from being found out . They sent us their raw cotton , and took back our textile fabrics in return . They were our best a' . id largest customers . But with thegrowtn of population and capital , came again the natural desire to employ a portion of their own industry in manufacturing pursuits . Tj ; occurred to them that it was at the best bu ' i a round-abound way of doing business , to ? , end the cotton which grew at their own dpous , two or three thousand _ we m . t « ln , ktnthem '' for the ciatomeiT
miles away to be spun and woven , bleached and dyed , and then sent back again for them to wear , and so they resolved tohave miUs . of their own ; and forthwith up sprung Lowell « nd other manufacturing towns . The whiz of revolving spindles 'o gan to be heard , beside " melodious waterfalls / ' all over the country . In these they fo \ ind an almost inexhaustible supply of natuval and cheap motive power . Geolog ical arid mining' explorations were made in every direction , which were richly rewarded by the discovery of all the raw material necessary for an almost illimitable manufacturing business . What is the consequence ? The
States , instead of being our customer , has become our rival . In " domestics / ' as they are termed — cotton cloths in which quantity is more a matter of consideration than quality —they have for many years been a-head of us , and the rapid improvement which is taking place in their machinery , the greater economy in their various processes , and increased skill in every department , which constant practice and enlarged experience is sure to give , must , in a very short time , place them on an equality
with us as to the production , of all the finer description of goods . As soon as this is the case , and the States are prepared to supply other markets to any great extent , they will , in consequence of their natural and indestructilbe advantages , inevitably drive us out of them . That this state of things is rapidly approaching , and distinctly aimed at , as well as clearly toreseen in America , the following extract , from a remarkable article in the New York Herald . forcibly proves : —
We hold within our limits the greatest and me ' important elements of wealth in the if" ! . ' ; Oar cotton and corn wilt at at' . tiutVuommand the precious metal ? of . E' » . * jie , which will flow in from the eaBt ; and while * 8 hold pewesnton of the mineB of Mexico , the precious metals will flow in from tho weRt , in one steady , mi * broktn current . The effect of this addition to our currency of fold itnd silver , must be of the most favouratdcbarici . r . It will gWe us , in the first place , a more ralaabl : currency thaa wo now have , it will give us . in exchange f » r our products , the only recognised evident * of wealth in all parts of the world ; it will finally give at tha power of regulating the prices of our ei ports . both at lio'iie and abroad , and . give us n position in the
eouiiuerclil world nerer before enjoyed . Wo have , heretofore , ulmoU entirely depended upon foretell c » un tries for iiuy miteriil increase to the nationul wealth . Prici-s for our pr incipal exporting staple in our own markets hire beui regulated entirely by foreign capitalist * . We have been in their power so much , that they hare been able nt any time to depreciate the value of our cotton crop millions of dollars . Prices of breadstuff ' s have even been controlled by them , and we have suffered something by being so dependent . Thu tim « s huve experienced a . wonderful change . Wo now consume more than one-fourth of our entire cotton cr « p . The do . mestic consumption of breadstuff * is so-large , that a very ell ^ nc foreign demand puts up prices rapidly-, and
foreign c mstmers have to pay a high price for our products . The increased consumption of cotton within our own Hiniu places thu minufictures of Europe in a position where they will be less nble to co . iipete with ub in manufactured goods , and our mnrkets will be supplied to a great txttnt with our own fabrics . It operates with tn-oful . i effect upon foreign mar . uf ; ietim » , as it reduces their supply in times of scarcity , and cuts otf markets for their goo ' s . The manufacturing inttrests of the United States wtre never in a more prosper , ous , promising condition , und the increase in tfcc iiuilber is moro rapid than many have any id' -a of . In every section of tne country , mills are springing up as if by magic . The eastern states no longer monopulise this business ; in the south , and at the west , the consumption of cetton is already large , but we have no
official returns showing its extent . The consumption officially reported is of the section of country north an- ! east of Virginia . Now , that is a very small section of the country , aud . if the consumptlen in it reaches six hundrtd thousand bulec , the consumption of the re . maiii'ler of the country cannot he less thr . n two hundred thousand bales , making on aggregate of eight hundrtd thousund bale * . As extraordinary as thin may 6 « m , it will bo realised in 1848 . We lire , approaching Great 3 ritftin in cotton . manuf * ct < jrirnr much ^ rxsr ? « i-.. l « U . « - •¦ ¦ ' -- " - ¦ " Years ago , we foretold this result , and this statement of the actual and prospective position of the United States , fully confirms « ur anticipations . But the picture would not be complete if we did not give the description of Great Britain by the same hand : —
The recuperative energies of Great Britain are no . thing compared to those of this countrr , and they ore by nj means sufficient to raise her to the position ah « hss fallen from . Whtn our revulsion uume upon us we had no public . defct ; it is true the states were lieavi ' y indebted , but that had nothing to do with the general government . England ha » n debt of more than eipht hundred millions sterling :, upon tbc interest uf which thousands depend for their daily brc « d . Whatever affects the revenue of the Government , endangers the income of this large eluss , and the failure to pay the interest promptly would ruin thousands . The famine
in Ireland , the increased number of operatives out of employment in the manufacturing districts , almost in h starving cendition , are sufficient to create the most alarming apprehensions relative to the prrservati-in of peace aBd good order . . The seeds of political revolution are generating among a stor » ing peopla ; they take root and acquire strength , where everything else is droop , ing ard dying . We cannot eoneeivu a more terrible stata of things tbaa what exists at this moment in-Great . Britain , and we look upon any attempt to Improve them as weak and a b ortive , compared with the depth and extent of the evils experienced .
Such , then , is the position in which we stand with reference to Europe and the United States . What are our prospects of finding large , constant , and remunerating markets elsewhere ? There are India and China open to us , and at one time the mercantile world went into extacies of joy at the bare idea of their beii ? g so . We remember when Mr Silk Buckingham went about lecturing- on the great benefits that would result
from destroying the monopoly of the East India Company , and throwing the great Eastern market open to all traders . The golden stream of Pactolus , according to him , would henceforth flow through the ' whole land and enrich every household . We have abolished the monopoly—where is the Utopia it was to produce ? Then , again , the heads of merchants , manufacturers , and traders , were completely turned two or three years since by the opening of the Chinese markets , effected bv Sir II .
Pottinger . Banquets , pieces of plate , and honours , were showered upon him , and he Has eulogised as a national benefactor , whom it was impossible to thank too warmly , or to reward too highly . _ Disappointment has again followed . The high-wrought expectations of those who expected that in that quarter would be found the means for employing our manufacturing capital and industry , have melted into thin air . The Chinese market , which looked so tempting at a distance , has crumbled , like Dead Sea fruits , into ashes at the touch .
Vet the Free Traders and Political Economists are not satisfied . Repeated failures and disappointments , instead of causing them to doubt the correctness of their theory , and to examine it afresh with a view to the discovery of the truth , and the means for wisely and profitably directing the national resources , only excites them to renewed attempts of the same kind as those which have heretofore so lamentably and wretchedl y failed . In the forthcoming ^ ession of Parliament , the
same insane policy will be urged by them with as much confidence as if all the predictions which they formerly made had been realised , instead of being falsified in every instance . China having failed us so far , we should not wonder to hear suggestions as to forcing it into more extensive dealings with us , though why the Chinese , if they make their own clothes , and are content to do so , should not be permitted to supply themselves , we cannot imagine . Japan has been looked at with a greed y eye by these speculators . The millions of people it contains , the numerous markets
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S 5 T 35 nTeopened up in it " ^ J » ^? s SSftil'lA'Sf . cS fe : t ; &s ^ ss = of Manchester __ ^ nnigM be " ^ . "P . " /' S-a ^ B has -,
. , , . _ . .. * , Ot jyiancnesier . . , .. > But supposing this were done , what then . Could weW- the exclusive P ° , f "V / these markets , allowing them to be worth powder and shot ? Would not our great ma ! - voung . fresh , and unincumbered , with all its g ^ antic energies-enter the market along with us ? If it did , would it not inevitably beat „ ,, , and how , upon the fashionable Free Irade poScy of the day , could it be prevented from Soing so ? There is evidently as little hope in his direction as in any other . The manufacturing system of Great Britain h ^ culmma ted . be of
Henceforth its ascendancy must spoken as a thing of the past . The new circumstances which have grown up around us within the last twenty-five years have totally altered our mercantile and manufacturing relations to other countries . It will be impossible in future , by means of our present arrangements , to ensure work and wages to the operatives m the manufacturing districts , Mtful and brier o-lances may now and then illuminate the darkness ; but—and we say it advisedly—the time has come for statesmen and legislators , for capitalists and operatives , to look this state of things fairly in the face , and alter the industrial arrangements of the country in accordance
with it . , For our own part we look forward to the decline and ultimate extinction of our manufacturing system without dismay . Ihe pulse of the nation has beaten feverishly during the whole of its existence . The delirium of a paroxysm , or the feebleness of a collapse , have followed each other in succession , and the sooner the country is saved from wi _ # » . Va nations the better .
The million « i " , o now depend upon that jys&Bi tor subsistence must , however , be provided for in time by some other means . Wise and prudent statesmen will not imitate the mere merchants , whose views are bounded by the walls of theirgcounting-houses . 1 hey will take into consideration all the circumstances which bear upon the case—present and prospective ,-and gradually introduce . mto operation those new elements , which may be requisite to meet exigencies actual or foreseen . While the misapplication of the enormous
productive powers of modern machinery has generated excessive toil , and spread destitution among the masses , it has , at the same time , by stimulating the individual trader and manufacturer to greater exertions , and to fresh improvements , put in ' o the hands of society the means by which , under a rational and intelligent system of national policy , all the be
great objects of human association may , ' with certainty , constantly secured to every individual . The phase through which we have passed , was , perhaps , necessary to enable uk to understand clearly the proper use and application of these powers . We have thoroaghly mastered one department of political economythat of ^ Production . We have now to begin the gtudv of a not less important one—Distri
bution . In view of the important facts to which we have cursorily adverted , we earnestl y hope that both Government and people will with all earnestness apply themselves to the studyof this department . If so . we have every faith in the soil , industry , ekill , and machinery of England . She was great long before a self-acting machine was constructed . She will be greater than ever after the false direction of her large resources , and the fallacious policy of her rulers , shall have been superseded by arrangements to provide natural and just channels for the distribution of wealth , and give the whole people an equitable interest in the joint production of the labour , skill , and capital of the country .
To do this we must reverse our past policy , and instead of looking to foreign markets for sustmhTng ' a goonliujjilrii ^^ ifii'r ^ " - an ^
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DEATH FROM STARVATION . Fearful words are those of our prefix . Fearful under any circumstances , but doubly soj when realised in a land of wealth , and in those % rho are unwilling idlers 1 Yet Deaths from Starvation are not onl y occurring , hut 0 / frequent occurrence , in a nation that has concentrated more wealth than any other—that boasts ( boasts ?) of the enormous amount of its Poor Laws , and the extent and splendour of its " Charitable Institutions . " Nor are these lamentable prsofs of miseovernment confined
to some out-of-the-way corner of our Island , where the arm of legislation and the watchfulness of the most paternal Government mi ght only reach with a weakened effect—no ! this occurs at the very fountain head of power , at the very seat of Government—beneath the walls of the Palace—beneath the shadow of the Cathedral—within earshot of Downing street So faulty is the distribution of wraith , that starvation and luxury walk side by side that a pane of glass separates famine from repletion . ' There is no point of view from which such discrepancies can he excused in a social .
moral , or rel'gious sense ; and there is hut one in which it might be pardoned in a political sense—namely , if the resources of the countrv were inadequate for the employment and support of its inhabitants . In a well -organised social state , the superfluity of the one ought to supply the necessity of the other . If the one ha ' s no land , he who has too much should surrender part of his ; if the one has niore produce than he requires , he should satisfy the want of him who has none , always provided the lacklander and the destitute were not landlest and foodlessthrough their own faults . Indeed ,
even where there should be no supeifluity < m the one hand , we are prepared to assert , and common-sense will easily verify the assertion that it would be better it the rich were even deprived of a camfoyt , than that the poor should be exposed to actual suffering—it would be better that all should be placed on half rations , than that some should have their full meal while others had fscarcely a crust . Bat we are not driven to this extremity , for the resources of the country are adequate
( and notoriously so . ; to the comfortable maintenance of all its inhabitants , and more too ; therefore the unpardonable fault of government—thence the broad distinction that turns misfortune into murder . The able-bodied and unwilling idler dies of hunger , while his waning eyes rest on half-cultivated fields , or the waste lands of narks , preserves , and commons ; or the lavish expenditure of pro duce in frivolous , ephemeral , but constantly recurring luxuries . While he hears the tramp ofthehiuuer and the racer , or listens to the
bay of the pampered pack—while he r eflects that in the keep of horses and hounds < -, lone sufficient food is wasted to support many millions of his fellow-beings . And the excuse —the frivolous excuse that is urged in extenuation of such muvdevaus extrav agances ! It will be said , these studs , these kennels , find employment for many trades—for many men . The sadler , the harness-maker , the farrier , the labourer , the groom , the coachman , the carriage builder , and all the various category of trades and services led in
empoy connexion with equipage and stud . But the argument though plausible , is untenable . In a thickly populated country , the resources r , f which are confessedly yet far from developed , every man takenf from productive emplo yment and turned into a consumer is an " injury to the community Thus the grooms , footmen , &c . above alluded to , are but consumers , while , they might have been producer , and live upon the general 8 tock ; instead of In . tfng added
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to it . tt , e ' wme with sto ( 1 ff ™ u I by con'uWion and taxation adds to theburdL . witVmt ministering to the re »«* the £ oJ $ . The same with the catdr that like ; horseskorm no article of our food . It may be i the&nd employment to the agnculturist in theVrowth of oat ? , grass , &c . » o S fdo-buVthey consume the food produced to tL detriment if man , the producer-who wanders about «« rvii > g , while the * ^ -coated horses of the ricli are pampered with the food of the poor . The trades , too , employed in relation to the luxuries of the idle , would be as well , nay ! more full y emp loyed in ministering to the wants of the indiistnous- * -nay their profits would be more rapid andj more = ^ by conation and taxation add s £ *« . ;" :.
When , therefore , we findjmen in count lew numbers ( in Ireland a million !) dying of starvation in a fertile land , with such luxuries' ^ giificonce . and waste , piled around the . r n ferable graves , we no longer accuse an inevi-3 e necessity ,- dare not »« mur gatnjj Providence—but we arraign an unwise and totive Government , tb » t may ; ju-U ^ be said to crow fat upon the misery it cictes , andte arraignthe apathy and serv . ht , J of a people , that can see the laws of God and na tare frustrated by privileged robbers , whom t ev make great , whom they make jrtronffbuFwhie artificial strength might be cut o « like the waters of a canal , when its supp lies diverted to another channel . ?
are ___ We this week record melancholy instances of death and destitution . We may refer to that of a poor man named Nichols fifty years < . a . re who for a long series of years had worked for a public Company , and lost three fingers in their service . When turned out of the hospital , what was his reward for nearly forty years lahour-one shilling and one loaf of bread per week from the parish , and no other means of subsistence .
Why , a young sprig of the aristocracy , a young scion of the counter , who had received a scratch in the " service of his country , woult l he honoured , loaded , , arid ^ xned with a large pension . Sut this man , who has really served Ais country during nearly forty years of active labour—this man « was frequently seen wandering about the streets in quest of employment in a deplorable state of distress , and often , when he received the parish loaf , was in so famished a condition as to devour it at one meal . " On one occasion a charituble individual gave
him a night's lodging , and took him next morning to the Guardian . He sunk down on the threshold—his face was seen to change—he was a dead man , and the jury ' s epitaph was , " Died from starvation" Did they not feel in their hearts he had been murdered , and slowly —cruelly ? For it was cruelty to give the loaf and the shilling that served no other purpose than to protract his suffering-. Yes . '—it served another end—it screened the murderers—for it
made the victim " Die so slowly , none dare call it murder . " But we will brand it by its right name . It was murder to let him wander in quest of employment , and not receive it , while millions of acres were lying waste in England . It was murder to give him the slow death of their mock-charity , while his privileged tyrants were feasting in his sight . It teas murder to let him die in the streets , while a palace was building
for the over-housed 1 And then , men dare talk of our "Charitable Institutions , " of which most are vile cheats on the credulity of the people , and the intentions of the founders . It is not long since some of these were exposed , in which the revenues had risen from a few pounds to many thousands per annum ; the poor still got the few pounds , but the many thousands—the improvement monies—were pocketed by the managers . Charitable institutions 1 say ( with very few exceptions . ) blinds for } robbery , where a few servile panders of the great are housed , when past the age for doing their dirty work . So demoralising—so vile is our social system , that crime is treated better than industrythat the gaol is butter than the the workhouse , and that the destitute commit some offence against the laws , as ensuring tliem a lighter doom than "going in quest of employment , " and earning " death from star art ion . " In this week ' s Star we record an instance '" * r ' "V- ' i '~* — : ** , ""* . of countless numberswith which we might weekly mi „ ,,.. columns . When will the men of England put an end to such a system ? ¦ '
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JIISCELLAHIOUS . 0 'Connoryiu . e . —I dtiiire to return rny sincere thanks to the fik-nds and members of the L ; md Company of C : irrinj- ! on , near Nottingham , for the benevolent mid hanusmnu present oS ' a hundred and eleven fruit tree ? , eoMsi-stinj ; of apples , gooseberries , euir . ints , and rasjjberry trees , besitks u choice selection of eariy 6 ged potatoes , consisting of five different sorts . ClJAi-. tES TAWES . J . Gilbebtsok suggests thatinevery locality the shareholders of the Lund Company should form themselves into co-operative localities , to purchase and retail out every article of provision , clothing , furniture , con sumed fcy themselves , and which others would pur chase from them . The pvofits arising therefrom to be employed for the paying up the sliares of those who are not already paid up . Tituve who have paid up , to place their profits either in the deposit or redemption department of the Land and Labour UanU . Air Cf . adds 1
1 nm , lnyst'lt ; a member of a eo operative establishment , which has ex-sted sixtem veins : , and -s doinr well , yielding upwards ot ' £ t ) per annum to each share holder . There aro seven localities in this town all of \ v . > ich are doing equally well . It is not necessary for 1110 to enter iuto the juivantiges of co-operation as I wculd expect they are sufficiently known , and soclcarlr demonstrated by the working of the National Laud Company . Hoping that this hint will be sufficient to arouse you to a consideration of the advantages to be derived fiom keeping your own profits to your < elf and applying them to effect your complete emanciin ' ton , and that the shareholders in each locality will tet abuut { ovuung sucli rules as they consider would best carry out the principle , 1 remain , veur obedient servant , John Gubbrtbon .-Broad Guards , Carlisle Mr J . Oarteb . Bowbridge .-No . ' MrC . Spuinoah , Norwich .-Keceiyed . It shall be furwarded along with our other papers to New York
A Mabhied Man who has read the ceveral questions in tho last week ' s Dif patch , be « s to ask oue simpk «« return—n ho is clit Sodomite ? Mr SiDAW . vj .-If Mr Siduway considers himself fully capable of shoeing horses , I . shall find work for him at tsmgs End , but otherwise not and I beg o-ice more to state , that no person , whether shareholder or otherwise , will receive employment from me , if not fullv capab . e of ihscliargini ; his duty ; and that I will notauv longer continue tho practice o : giving or lending mon .-y to those who are recommended to me for employment to bear their expenses back again . And I also big to statethat
, m every locality that I go to I find a superabundance of labour of all sorts , and that I hold it to be au uijusiko to the Company , and injustice to the applicant , and dishonest to me , to ke «|> continually sendin : men tor employment . I " . O'Connor . Tub Metbcfoutan Chartist Hah . — In answer to several applications , Mr O'Connor b . RS fo fay , that not only is he favourable to the project of th > . Metropolitan Chartist Hull , but that he views it with great pleasure « nd purposes being a large shareholder nini&elf . Ut M .. Smith , AUotf Tho papers wer * posted last week , when your order arrived . Send early in the
week . Sitebal Communications are unavoidabl y withheld thruugb press of matter , Accuterardeii . —Julian Harney has received from Air O'Connor the folloivjmj- sums Bint from Auch . terarder ; For tho def . nco of Mr O'Connor ' s Beat Ss for the National Cnarter Association , 5 *; for the Trades' Union , 6 s ; fer the Fraternal Democrats , 5 s . Our Auchurardvr friends' wishesshull be atteuded to ' Ma Bomeshee , Manchester . —Next wetk . ' J . Skikritt—Sertweek . THE ' WEtUY Express . ' -Wo had Intends have given evcral extract * from the last numbtr of this paper but we are prevented by pr « B of matter . We are Ulad to see that the Chartists nnd land members < f Edinburgh aro working manfully ta establish the Express . We observe also that the ^ C&urtlita of a * . T * raltn iisl » loenlitfes htiTe rctolved to support the ElPKESB . Glakj w . —Julian Hamey has received 5 b , for tho Fraternal Democrats , from Mr Daniel Paul . The doen .
sent by Mr Paul , shall have our attention next week , LEGAL . NOTICE As I have a considerable numbtr of oases ou hand , rtq'iiriiiij ulterior proceedings , I mu » t , in order to ennble me to do justice to my clients , decline r » ccir ng until further notice any more 1 . gal correapoudence { t . vcept ttteh at relates to cents in hand ) , whether far the Star or otherwise .
ALL LETTERS CONTAINING NEW CASES WILL REMAIN UNNOTICED IJ ^ T- LETTWr . B TO BE ADBRE 88 ED 1 H FCTU&E TO ME at 1 G , Ghkat Windmill . msEt , Hasmabbit , Evca should fresh cases be accompanied by fees ! they will not be attended to . _— ; - Lonpok , Bbotbt Jones . **
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POSTPONEMENT OF THE BALLOT . ' " In consequence of many of the branch secretaries not having made a return of the members who wi . J ] to have their ' names placed upon Family Tickets , the Ballot is postponed until Tuesday , the 25 th inst . , and it is specially requested , that all such returns may be sent to this office oh or before Thursday 20 th , so as to afford time to compare the balloting tickets with the returns , such course being absolutely necessary to secure correctness in the Ballot . '" vZrpmmL ^^ miZhilT ^ conseauence of inany of the branch secretaries
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RECEIPTS OF THE NATIONAL LAND COK £ F-& . 2 ? V , FOR THE WEEK E . VDIXG JANUARY 13 , 1818 . PER MR O'CONNOR . BABEi . £ 8 . ( 1 , P « wtcr Platter .. S 1 G 6 Worsborough Cotc-Bej-mondney .. 0 16 9 uion .. 1 < « Be ' . p'T . Lee .. 31 19 0 Bm-nstaple « 3 18 0 Ditto , Gregory .. 3 0 0 Eiettr .. 9 » » Chebea .. 119 Dartmouth .. 1 0 0 I ' ershore .. 3 0 0 Tlirapstone .. - » 6 liutteriey „ 20 2 0 Hells , Smith .. 1 13 6 Girran .. 8 1 S 0 Aluuick - 4 19 0 HasliHgden ,. 6 18 0 Fulertill .. ° i « » Mnrkhinch .. 15 0 Congleton .. " J
J Hritrhtliijgaea .. 23 3 0 Edinburgh » 16 10 0 Sheffield .. 33 5 0 Ljnu , Seott .. 8 Kouen .. 12 12 8 Boulogne » 1- » Ga-Rtown .. 4 0 0 Alexandria » 9 * " M « vple - 9 " 10 Dulston « * % ' ; liusliy ~ 1 12 0 Hollingwood .. l l » F » l kirk .. 2 13 G Llmehouse , Gloucester M 5 4 0 Squires .. W -J » Dudley .. 19 8 0 Gosyort « 6 4 0 Sittinabourne .. 5 18 0 Cambenvell « » f » li 5 6
Eust Dereliam .. 13 19 0 High Wycoicba L .. n ftuekby .. 5 0 0 Kingston .. 2 116 LichAeld .. 2 12 0 Clitheroa .. 3 10 Selby .. 110 Silsden .. s I' 0 Marylebone „ 3 B 6 Malton .. 1-J 1 ^ b March .. 0 U 0 Chorley .. 0 » « Shrewsbury , Banbury .. 24 0 0 batho .. 1 2 G Duukinhela » . - » ' * Bath .. 9 12 o Jlitnchester .. iG 5 J Littleton Pannell 5 S 0 Merthjr , Towel , 0 : 5 a Truro .. 5 6 0 Leamington .. 12 8 0
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. .. Monkton , Lcvcrel 4 IS 4 Barnsley , Lowe 4 18 6 G ' Min ., gin Sowerby , Helm . B 11 ) !> Globu & Friends 12 6 9 Birmingham Witham „ 4 15 0 ( Ship ) „ 12 18 3 "h am M 0 0 0 Maidstune .. 10 33 0 Lambeth , W . Dun . Uutterley M O 18 6 can .. 0 4 0 Huddeistield „ 9 11 2 Westminster .. 12 2 2 Clayton , West .. i 12 10 Denny „ 1 16 0 Ashtou-uiidcr-Longtun .. 6 S 0 Li lie .. 10 9 10 Colluupton ., 4 0 U South . \ folton .. 0 12 & Crippleicute .. 29 II 0 L dbury „ 3 18 0 Purtsou .. 10 O 0 lterun ^ iurt -. 13 3 iOBirminghiun , Fal- Nuwportl'agnal 9 12 l > luwv .. t U 0 ATorthtvich , Iiowe o 14 d Stow-on-tlie-Wold 10 0 0 Kidderminster .. 4 0 0
Stourbridpe „ 1 C 0 JJurrStEdmundS 10 0 O VYelliMiiboruugh 2 13 4 Hull ,. 41 17 0 Driftivld .. 5 3 0 TunbridgeWells 6 lft (» Mansfield , Walker 119 Isham .. 5 6 0-Bridlit ^ ton Quay 27 1 0 Oxfo rd .. 34 17 6 Carlisle .. S lu 0 Old Babford .. 10 15 4 . Halifax .. 13 15 6 Armley .. 9 0 0 Stoiify Strstford 25 16 9 Kexby .. 0 110 Dro . vli .-dwi .. 19 0 0 Brightm ( Arti-KcauiiiK .. 15 0 0 choke ) .. 2 3 N ' uwuiistle-under- Preston , Brown 17 ! 0 £ J-3 W „ 446 Purkuead ., 8 1 a \\ ootton-under- Dorking „ 10 0 U cli 2 5 6 Northampton , Uptun-on . Serern 0 15 0 1 ' iess „ 5 U 0 Tei . nmouth .. 15 0 0 Northampton , Aberdeen .. 7 19 1 Munday .. 44 10 0-Kotlierham .. 4 15 0 Hauiek ., 1 10 10 inwurth . „ 2 12 0 Limehouse . Tolunlconl „ 5 3 0 teer .. fl 10 ft
Roche * tor „ 4 9 0 Corbridge „ 1 10 2 Tfvm n " S ^ w , as ? le . upon . MacdesneM .. 28 0 0 Rochdalo " 9 9 J itroudwatur .. 5 12 0 George Alar ' . in .. fl 5 0-Birmingham , 8 W Beran „ 0 10 eri-y „ 13 0 0 Joseph Went .. 4 19 ( V Somcrs Sown .. 7 11 5 Wm Keed « 0 10 1 reston , Liddel 46 0 2 W C Reed .. 0 0 6 Horwiutlo .. 2 H 0 James Graen . liarnoldswick .. 0 8 0 wood .. 2 18 9 Lincoln , Build .. 30 0 0 H C Burner .. S 3 9 ot ™ f . " £ 0 ° ° SGuiliford „ 0 2 9 hJltWtid .. 27 0 0 T Kerv „ 064 Marl-etltasen .. 12 0 3 A Castle .. 2 la 0 iaunton „ 19 3 0 Thomas Pen-Colue , No . 1 . „ 8 12 6 diick „ 4 0 0 Wttkehtld m 17 S A Gcorgo Broum .. 0 6 0 Darlington „ 20 4 5 W C Hewitt M 0 1 0 1-ershore „ 1 10 0 Georgo Gi lam ., 9 2 0 Stockton „ S tl S A lt > # . il <;< mmnn / 1 c fl *} It stoeKton so S Alfred SmmundB 2 V
„ . ; « Devices „ 14 17 6 William Bivson 0 2 G Stalybridge .. 22 0 0 John Page M 0 2 0 Liverpool „ 2 i 6 « 6 W Phillips .. « 5 0 Wolverhanipton 23 0 6 James Ueyuolds 2 " 13 0 Ilolbeck .. 1 8 3 J U Clarko M 0 1 6 Crayfurd „ 16 0 Robert Angel n 0 2 6 Leicester , Q oody 7 7 0 Isabella Hood „ 3 14 0 Oalstou .. 0 3 0 Timoth y Roach 0 3 3 Cheltenham ., 6 0 6 George Ford .. 6 2 0 Uebden Bridge .. S 0 J B Benjamin . „ 62 a Mount Sorrel „ 1 7 0 John Scott .. 0 3 0 Stattord „ S 10 2 M Benjamin .. 0 1 6 Slimey tow „ 0 14 C Th . > mu Smith . 4 7 4 asr « -r "" was ? « o-r * :. u : 8 ar £ , : ikJlllELii
The Northern Star, Sa.Tuhday, January 15, 1848.
THE NORTHERN STAR , SA . TUHDAY , JANUARY 15 , 1848 .
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! , THE BALANCE SHEET . The balance sh eet ot the last quarter , had been delayed beyond the usual tirae . in consequence firstly , ; of the adoption of a different system of arranging ' the accounts , which necessarily consumed much 1 time ; and secondly , because of its great magnitude 1 as compared with former sheets . It is now , how . , ever , ready , and copies will be immediately for . ' warded to the different branches .
Co Suafceis & Comsjumtieii Is.
Co suafceis & Comsjumtieii is .
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KEW LAND COMPANY . A great desire having been expressed , in comma , nications received from all parts of the country , that the National Laud Company should continue open , in order to afford to persons who have only recently become acquainted witli its principles an opportunity of joining it ; and the Directors not wishing to violate the resolution of the late Conference for dosing the Company hut at the same time being most anNious to make the morement for the Land really Naitgial , they have resolved to Open Another Com . panyM tiiat nochertc may be given to the growing feeling attoug the labouring classes for the
possession 01 the ^ anu . The principal of this Second Company will be si . milar to the presint powerful confederacy ; some alteration will be male in the price of shores , but the principles of both ' cinipanies will be alike . Price of shares and other particulars will be published in the Northern Star ofSaturday next . The money of the Sew Company will be entrus t ed to the keeping of Mi& ! Cenn , o-r ' no will be the Trea-r . ' o * . " . » ir O'Connor ' s acceptance of that office is a sufficient guarantee for its security and rightful appropriation . By order of the Directors , Thomas Ci . ark , ^ Corres . See . ) Office , 144 , High Holborn , London .
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T B A | : . . \ teuAHY 15 , 1848 . 1 THE NOR Hj ^^ jj ; ^—r ==== s === s == that 4 —— ' - ' — * ;— I , I , ¦ ,,-.. M ¦ in 111 in
So* Ready, In ^J^^Z^Tk^ Thee Political \T0rka Of ™0ja I Tow First Collected Wk Et1.«R. •»* To ~% Flwa : An. Fl,. A I ≫Per,D:R, Containing Ths Trud 0/ J Gailduu; With A Portrait Of The Iuthar.
So * ready , in ^ J ^^ Z ^ tk ^ THEE POLITICAL \ T 0 RKa OF ™ 0 JA I tow first collected WK et 1 . « r . •»* ~ % flwA : an . fl ,. i > per , d : r , containing ths Trud 0 / J GailduU ; with a portrait of the iuthar .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 15, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1453/page/4/
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