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THE NORTHERN STAR , BATUBDAY, NOVEMBER 11, IE48.
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FOR THE WORKING MILLIONS. A HOHfi FOB BVEST INDUSTRIOUS HAN AND HIS FAMILY.
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ALSO , FOR THE WORKING MILLIONS IN CONNEXION WITH THE ABOVE , : THE UNITED PATRIOTS * AND PATRIARCHS' BENEFIT SOCIETIES . Earoilti parsnact to Act of Parliament . Thus securiBg to its memoirs the protection of th » law for their : nnd 9 and property . Legalised to extend over the United Kingdom , with the privilege 01 appointing Heaicsl Attendants , Agents , 4 c . An opportunity is now . ffmU 10 healthy pc » onr , up te Forty i Tears of Age , of joining these flourishing Institution ! in town or country . LoxD-is Ornos . —13 , Tottenbam Cenrt , Ntw Road , St Pancras , ( thirteenth house eastward from Tottenham Court Rsad ) . — Diiror . Wuixui Rorrr , Secretary . Patron * . —1 . 8 . Boscombb , Bsft .. M . P . T . Wkiky , Esq ., M . P . B . B Giiiiu , Bs « . M . P . F . O'Connor , Esq ., M . P . L J . H * bb * id , Esq . In tfie shert space of four years these societies hare paid the following benefits to their members . SDJQUBT OF CLAIMS . Sickness and Superannuation ... ... .. £ 2671 1 8 j Acconchmeots ... ... ... ... ... 930 15 0 Funerals ... ... - ... ... ... 711 18 1 Loss by Fire ... ... ... ... ... SI 13 0 £ 4331 7 9 | Present Capital funded in the Bank of England ... £ 1789 12 2 Th * se Societies are in six divisions or sections , fer the Members to receive the following Benefits according frhJUU 1
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Just Published , price Threepence . THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER : — Averbatim report of a lecture by Sakuel Ktdd , in the Milton Street Tneatre , July 19 th , 1848 . Every Chartist shoaid po sess himself of this valuable pamphlet . It is tbe most able and eloquent exposition of the principles of Chartism we have seen . Those whose lot it was to bear it mttered , will not soon forget the event , and we are glad to find bo masterly aprodactioa bis bean published for the benefit of others less fortuaatelj situated . .. London : E . Dipple , BVywell Street ; Heywood , Manchester ; Lore , Glasgow ; Bofeinson , Edinburgh ; and at al ! Chartist lecture rooms , and locality meetings .
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TO TAILORS . By approbation ef Her Majesty Quean Victoria , aad H . B . H . Prince Albert . : NOW HADT , rpHE LONDON AND PARIS WINTER J- FASHIONS for 1818-49 , by Messrs Benjamin READ inl Co . ' l 2 , Eart-stre « t , BIooiinbury . square Iiondoii ; and by e . Besses , Holywell-street , Strand ; » Tery splendid PRIST , superbly crloared , accompanied with the most ashlonable , noTd , and extra-fitfiag Riding Dress , HuntnjandFrock-Coat Patterns ; the Albert Paletot , Dress ant Morning Waistcoats , both single and double-breasted . Also , the theory of Cutting Cloaks ef every description folly explained , with diagrams , aad every thing respecting style and fashioa illustrated . The method of increasing and diminishing all the patterns , or any others farticularly explained . PrkelGs . BEAD and Co . beg to inform thoEe wko consider it not right to pay the full price for the new system of Cutting , having recently purchased ihe old one , that any persons having done so wit ' aln the last year , will be charged only half price for the nholo ; or any parts of he new system , pob'ished 1848 , which will supersede CTHjlhing of the kind bafora conceived . Particulars and terms sent , post free . Patent Measures , with Ml explanation , Ss . the set . Patent Indicator , 7 s post-free . EegisUrcd patterns to measur « , Is , each post-free . 8 old by Keib and Co ., 12 . Hart-street , Bloomsbory-sqnare , London ; and all Booksellers . PoaU > mce orders , ani Post Stamps , takea as Cash . Habits performed for the Trade . Busts tor fitting ( teats on ; Soys ' figures . Fore—ju provided . — Instroctions in cutting complete , far all kinds of Style and Fashioa , which cat be accomplished in an incredibly short time .
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DO YOU SUrTSR TOOTHACHE ?—If so , me BiAHDE " a EsuEL for filling the decayed spots , rendering defective teeth sound and painless . Price One Shilling only , similar to that sold at Two Shillings and Sixpence . Sold by chemists everywhere . Testimonials . — ' It bas givea me the use of oae side of » ay meuth , which luxury I had not enjoyed for abgnt two years . * —E . 3 . Macdohald , Belford , Northumberland . 'It is the most effrctive and painless cure for toothache I hava ever found . Ibave no hesitation in recommending it to all sufferers . '—Captain Thomis Wbioht , 12 , Newington-crescent , London . 'I have filled two teeth , and find I can use them as well as ever I did in my life . I have not had the toothaehe since . ' — Amahah Colliss , North-brook-place , Bradford , Yorkshire . See numerous other testimonials in various newspapers , every one of which is strictly authentic . If any difficulty in obtaining it occurs send One Shilling and a Stamp to J . Willis , 4 , BeU ' e-buildingf , Salisbury-square , London , and you will ensure it by return of pest . —Agents granted .
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THRESHOLD LAND and COTTAGES , the J- property of a private Gentleman , with immediate possession , 2 J miles froa O'Coanorville , may be bought ftObS to coafer VOTES for tbe County of Buckingham or will be let on leases for any number of years—S 99 , & required . Bent for a two-reamed cottage and garden , 18 s . 6 d . per quarter ; with one acre of land , in addition 16 s . per quarter . Persons having a small income , or who can manufacture articles for London employers , will do well to attend to this immediately . Twelve families of weavers , shoemakers , tailors , &c , &c , were located on this estate through one single advertisement . Applicants who Could not then be accommodated should renew their applications , as they may now wnt , or purchase , from one ^ ighth of an acre to twenty acres of rich corn , growing , or building land ; the Freeholder csatractiBg in all cases to teke upon hiaself the whole of the law expenses . For full particulars , apply ( if by letter , post-paid , and enclosing a stamp ) to Mr J . Hukbt , model lodging house , George Street . Bloomsbury , London- ( and not to Mr Brook , stationer , who was referred to last week by . Bistake )—who will be at home from eight till nine in the norning , November 18 th to tbe 25 th , DecemberJndto the 9 tb , and every alternate week through the winter .
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SIGHT OP LOCATION . . WO BE DISPOSED OF ( together or separate ) , X THREE FOBR-ACRE SHAKES , drawn in the Koveniber ballot , by a family whose engagements render it impossible fur them to take possession . As the aoove prizes were drawn in the second unlocated ballot , the purchaser will be entitled tu am early location . Price £ 60 for the whole , or £ 20 each . Applications to be made to Mr T . Clark , 144 , High -Bolborp , London .
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FOR SALE , A THREE-ACRE PAID-OP SHARE in the National Land Company , with all dun clear on the Compaxi }'* book . Price £ 2 iw . DteecUoHearj Hoase , O'Connortilto , ngapHickmaai . wortk , Sertr .
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EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA AND THE M 2 A CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . —Thtfiplendid following ship' will be despat -bed as under : — For ALGOA BAT , November 25 th , the PERSEVERANCE . 400 tons , F . THOMPSON , Master ; loading in the London Dock * . For the CAPE of GOOD HOPE , December 1 , the JULIANA , 599 tons , F . BOWLES , Master ; loading in StKatberine Docks . For PORT PEILIP and SYDNEY , November 25 tb . tho BEULAH , S 7 S tons , J . H . M . STRU 30 S , Master ; loadnif in the London Docks . The above fast-sailing ships are commanded by efficient officers , and are fitted with special attention to the comfort and convenience of every class of passengers . They have most spacious 'tween decks , well ventilated , are fitted with lifeboats , carry experienced surgeons , asd are provisioned on the most liberal scale . Fatsilies can bare their berths so arranged that they can be entirely to themselves , and not mix with the other passengers . These ships will be found most eligible , as they combine comfort and economy , while they take only a limited number . For freight or passage apply to W . O . Young , 1 , Royal Exchange Buildings ; or to W . S . IindBay , 11 , Abchurch Lane , London .
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METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE , Annuity , Loan , and Investment SOCIETY . ( Incorporated pursuant to the 7 th and 5 th Vic , cap . 110 . ) Temporary Offices , 39 , Regentstreet , Wattrloo-place , London . TRUSTEES . Richard Spooner , Esq ., Spencer Horatio Walpole , M . P . Esq .. M . P . Edward Vansittart Neals , Henry Peter Fuller , Esq . Esq . DIRECTORS . Robert Chalmers , . Esq ., Edward Lomax , Esq ., St " Thurlow-square , Bromp- John ' s Wood . ton . Samuel Miller , Esq ., Lin <* muelDrwer , Esq ., White- coin ' s Inn . « T h * 11 * „ „ „ Sir < rhomas NewleyReeve < ienry Peter Fuller , Esq ., Richmond . Piccadilly . Edward Vansittart Neali Palk Griffith , Esq ., Esq ., South Audley-stree Ironmonger-lane , Cheap- William A . S Weetob ! dde- Esq ., Hyde Park-place . &r : > : 7 ?? . s . ilenryPeachBackler , Esq ., I HenryGrant , Esq ., Shenle BasinghaU-street . | House , Brighton . MEDICAL ADVISERS . William Henry Smith , Esq ., RobertKeate , Esa ., Serjeat F . R . C . S ., 2 , FonthUl- Surgeun to the Queen , 1 ! place , Clapham-rise . Hertford - street , Ma . W . Fuller , M . D . 45 , Fair . Half-mooB-street , Piccadilly . BANKERS . —The Union Bank of London , 4 , Pall Mai East . SOLICITORS . W . W . Fisher , Esq ., 3 , King-1 W . Chapman , Esq ., Rlcl street , Cheapsii . | mond , Surrey . SURVEYORS . Vincent John Collier , E-q ., I Richard A . Withall , Esq . / 3 , Morgau-street . | ParliamenUtreet . ACTUARY . —Alexander Jamieson , Esq ., LL . D . MANAGER , —F . Fearguson Camroux , Esq . The objects of this Society are : — To grant Assurances upon Lives , vrithor withoutpa tieipationin profits : also Immediate and Deferred Al nuities and Endowments . By combining the advantages of Life Assurance wit tin business of weU-regalated Building Societies ( finder a Life Policy an available and economical meai of acquiring freehold , leasehold , or other property , by ai raaces repayable by periodical Instalments , thus : A perseu desirous of purchasing hiBlease , or otherwii acqniug property , will not only obtain a loan near equal to its value , but on his death will leave the pn perty discharged from such loan , in addition to the sui assured to be paid at his death . kree-fourths ef the profits will be divided every fii years amongst tbe assured intitled to participate , and tt remaining one-fourth will be added to the profits of tl shareholders . Prospectuses with tables , and every information , nu ba obtained at the Society ' s Temporary Offices , 3 Regentstreet , Waterloa-place , or of any of its Agents i the couKtry .
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FOR SALE . A PAID-UP FOUR-ACRE SHARE .-Prioe ^ lOs . a . Inquire of P . F , Providence Cottage , Hall Park , Paddington , London . All letters to be pre-paid .
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Phothebed ih a Cow Tabd . —By Mr W . Baker , at the David and Harp , Narrow Street , Limehouse , cm'he body of Mr Jamrs Watson , aged fifty-four , an extansive cowkeeper in Fora Street , in that neighboarho-. d . Tho deceased was last seen alive on the Wsdnsaday tvening previous . lie was some time afterwardsheardtogoout , and the next that was seen of him was ab > ut six o ' c ! o 3 k on Thursday morning , wh « n one of his men in passing by tbe cows' lair , ebterxed the body of a nun embedded in a quantity of manure , his head and shoulders completely covered , and on his baing got cut it was found to ba deceased . A Medical gentleman wu sent for , and on his arrival h- fowl the deoeased quite dead . There being no evi Jeucv . as to how tho deceased got there , the jnry r ~ ur < ied % verdict of ' Found suffocated in eowmuare /
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FUNERALS . MR JOHN SHAW , Undertaker , 24 , Gloucester Street , Commercial Road Bast , begs to apprise his Friends and the public generally , that , notwithstanding his present unjust confinement in Newgate , for what in law Ii entitled' sedition , ' his business is still carried on by Mrs Shaw , by whom all orders will be executed with dispatch uid propriety . Every description of Funeral undertaken in any part of London or its neighbourhood . J . 3 . guarantees the most efficient attendance , and the very best dresses for mourners , and other funeral fittings , on the most reasonable terms .
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Row Beady , a New Edi tion of VIR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS THE CHKAPI 8 T SDITIOJI EVBR P » BLI 9 HID . Price Is . 64 ., A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate « f be . Author , of PAINE'S POUTJCAL WORKS . Just published , price 3 d ., THE EVIDENCE GlYEN BY JOHN SILLETT , In his Examination before the Committee ot the National Land Company . This important body of evidsnee forms sixteen clcwelv priced pages , and o inclusively proves what may be done , to explaining what John Sillctt hat done , with Two Acres . Nc . 23 , OF "THE LABOURER " CONTAWS TWO ABTIOLKS BT US . BBSKBT JOKBS , COHTE-TS : — 1 . TheSyatcm of Land Tenure and Agriculture In Guernsey . 2 Tbe Murdered Trooper . 3 . Rational literature . i . The Bts of 8 c . John , Just Published , price Is . Sd ., icrming a neat volume , EVIDENCE TAKEN BY THE 8 ELEGT COMMITTEE Appointed to inquire into Thb NaiionA Land Company ; with a review of tke race , and an Outline of the Propositions for amending the Condtitution of the Company , bo as to comply with the Provisions of the Law . Watson , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoater-row , London : A Hey wood , Manchester : and all Boukaellers in Town and Country .
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P 8 RTRAITJH GUFFEY . The above portrait , taken by his fellow-snfferer , Wm . Dowling , is now ready . Price 6 d . Orders re . ceived by Mr Dixon , Ui , High Holborn . PORTRAIT OF MITCHEL . Our agents in Lincoln , Bornoastle , and Market Raisen , will obtain the portrait , through Mr Boshby , bookseller . Grantham . Many of our agents have sot yet instructed us how we shall forward their parcels . Some few have sent too lato to be enclosed in their book parcel * this week .
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PORTRAIT OF SMITH O ' BRIEN , M . P . Next week , specimens of a Portrait of Smith O'Brien , taken by a most eminent artist , and engraved in the most superior style , will be in the hands of our Agents . This Portrait we unhesitatingly assert , is as perfect a likeness as Art could supply , and is a superior thing to any ever given with a Newspaper . The friends of the original , who have seen it , declare that it is the ori ginal to the life , and to this we subscribe our own testimony . None but subscribers need apply . In about five weeks the Portrait will be ready for circulation .
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« o » THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE "NORTHERN STAR . " Next Saturday will be the Twelfth Anniversary of the "Northern Star , " and its Birthday will be commemorated by a review of its past history .
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w t A FULL REPORT OF THE TRIALS OF THE SCOTTISH CHARTISTS Will be given in the " Northern Star " of Saturday next , November 18 th , 1848 . ^> In consequence of the great demand upon our space this week , we are compelled to omit the Land , Victim , and other Receipts , which will appear , as usual , in our next .
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TUB VICTIMS OF WHIliGERT . THE CHARTIST FLAG AGAIN UNFURLED Last Saturday ' s Northern Stab , contained an account of ihe conclusion of the trial of Mdllins , the last —( may we say the last ?) of the viotims »' MeBBrs Swell . Powell , Grey , Davis , Jervig , a :. d Baldwicson . Gaorge Mailing , surgeon , aged twentytwo , was arraigned on the 26 th nit ., in the court o ! the Old Bailey , on the charge of having " wickedly , and feloniously compired with William Lace ; . Thomas Fay , and William Cuffej , and divers other eTil-dUpoBed persons , to levy war and iniarreotion
• gainst her Majeijty , &c ., &o . " The misoreant Powell was the first witneaa examined . His evidence was similar to that given on the former trial s ; and en his cross-examination he again repeated the oon ' eg ion of his infamous career , and the vilainous means he employed te entrap his viotims . He was followed by the equally illustrious Davis , who swore ' that be wag present at a meeting of Chartists , at the George , in the Old Bailey , on the day that Ernest Jones was tried , at which meeting Mull ™ was present , who said " it tias a . sbame that the prisoners should go to prisin without some attempt bsing made to rescue them ; and that he ( Muilin ?) added that the van
, would go through Cow-cross on its way to CeMbath . fields , and tbat it would ba a good place to atta k it , and that he , ( Mullins ) , aaid he knew a friend , who he understood to be a man named Daly , who would lead out the Irish living in the neighbourhood fo . that purpose . " Thii is a repetition of the evidence Kiyen on former trials Oar readers may remember a letter from Mr Dal y , which appeared in thie journal subsequent to those trials , in which Mr Daly stated that at the time of Jones ' s trial ae was nom London having left England for France five week , before Mr Jonea was arraigned . Can any one doubt that the speech asonbed to Mulling by Davis is 8 _ groBs invention of tbat " resDentabl « »»«« . «•
-uavis , it appears , recommended the GraenWinh Chartist .. toprovideilbwim with half-inchoSh to run into the bowels of the police ! No wonder the Attorney General was particularly nmnHTf hi - W&m *** riJF ^ S& , ** & repeated that , when he joined the Chartists he intended to act as a spy , and added , he was not mt al . whmed of what he had done ! He excluded b admitting that he was now receiving ¦ £ 2 Ter weeh from the government , and that he £ n « & « , » 7 h « remunerated by the government , eventffi ' for hi semoes . Barrett , Baldwins , * , and a nimtor o conscientious policemen , completed the evEe fi * ! «? sa s ? s
JiS £ ¦ aocottnt 8 "wished to the oublio doubtless this question would be answered ^ KSK ^ KSiSa rascality to be TRANSPORTED FofibS W are told ma certain book that the tenderawoies ot the wicked are oruel . If those whs nit m . ! . ' . j . mentseatshouldthemselves bejuSedaocort netothe mere , they show to political . victiSJ H 8 K . « ° S ^ £ ttt **^** B "
The conduct of Mr Justice Made was , to sav the east , very extraordinary , and not at aU calKd to inoievepopnin mpen for . ft * funct on 5 i offii Hu . tepeated interference with the o » nn " l tothe d ^ 'ecce , when cross-examining the in nirnMsV prcdawd % painful impress ^ JVmnIB o-art . Wheats Judge a ^ u ^ XJS , of !
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partisan , men may continue to bow to the foret of the law , but assuredly they will cease to havefaitain Hi justice . The fate of poor Mullins—doomed in the bloom of hiB youth to life-loni < misery , must command the sympathy of all feeling hearts . His doom will be a warning f > the people to beware of the vile agents of the viler Whigs ; and , we trust , will also stimulate that popular- hostility to Whiggery , whioh will , ere longt seal , the eternal downhll of that false and cruel fao'ion . Early next month the winter assizes will commence , and it is to be feared tbat their termination will sea a new list of victims consigned to prison torture . That phrasf-, •' prisoa-torture , " is by no mean < i an exaggeration—witness the treatment of
Dr M'Dmnl , who has had bis bair cut close , l clothed in the prison dress , suffers solitary onr . fa ' ne m = nt , and is only permitted t > leave his cell to take oper «« r exeroiae one hour out of the twenty-four . His food need not ta decaribed , suffice it to iay , it is , we believe , not worse than that on which the victims of our Poor Law system are sustained . Wher . taking exercise , Dr . M'Douall u placed in the midst of agaug of felons and transports . Suob , at least , was the treatment the Dotor experienced day by day , immediately atbr his conviction , and we have not heard of any change for the better . He is to bf allowed to write or receive a letter only met in thret month , and the sight of his wife and children will be limited to the same degree of indulgence .
Ernest Jones , Vernon , and their fellow-prisoner , were permitted , during the first three months el their oapivity , to correspond with their families onc < a fortnight . That peor privilege h&a been withdrawn , * nd all correspondence out off between thi vie icoa and their families . The trials of the Scottish Chartists have com menoed . . On Tuesday last Jambs Cdmuino wa > arraigned before the High Court of Justiciary , in Edinburgh , oh a charge of '' contravening" the "Ac lately passed for the better security of the Crowi and Government . " There are minor charges o
" conspiracy » and '' sedition . " The Crown lawyer uave taken care to make their net so wide , that i chancs of complete escape from their mesheiis hardl ; to be if-ped for . Toe prinoipal charge is preferret under the recently-enaoted " Gagging Bill , " and it convicted on that charge we fear it will go bard will the defendant . Mr Ccumiro is a roan highly res peoted by bis order , and he well deserves tbat res peot . Some legal objections taken to the indioto > en ' »« the oomreencement of the trial , occasioned at adjournment of the oase for forty-eight noun . A full Report of this and the other Soottish trials will be ftiven in next Saturdays Star .
We remember to have seen amongst the mottoes en Chartist banners" The more the oruel tyrants bind ui , The more united the ; shall Sal us " Now is the time to exhibit the sincerity of those who have bo often gathered under that motto . Freshwater Bailors and feather-bed soldiers are not mere eontemptib ' e than are those politicians who , when the storm of persecution sweeps over the land , basely cower before the blast , and , intent only on their own safety , abandon the advocacy of the principles the ; heretofore professed . The sunshine patriots bav ? , ot course , deserted the Chartist colours , since it nss become dangerous to be known as a Chartist . But there are some men—many , we are happy tolsay—who are made of sterner stuff , and those men are rallying round the old standard .
We direct the attention of our readers to a report of a most important-meeting held a few days ago a ! Birmingham , for the purpose of considering the present position of the Chartist party , and the means tc be adopted for the resuaoitation of the movement . We have not spaoe now to diiones all that was saic and done at that meeting , but we shall return to the subject , most likely in next Saturday ' * Stab . For the present , we confine ourselves to an expre * sion of uur enreme gratification at finding a spirit of fraternal zeal like that exhibited at the meeting in question , yet auimatiag men who , in virtue of their talents , and because of their long tried acrvioes , poses a wide popularity and well-deserved influence over the working classes . We have faith that our patriotic triends will succeed in once again organising the Ghartiit party , and we do not despair of Boeing even a better organisation than has any time existed since the Charter firet saw the light .
Chartism is not dead ; our enemies may make up their minds to believe that " great . fact . " Proofs ol the vitality and reviving energies of Chartism might be enumerated at aome leDgth , bnt we will limit ourselves to two facts . At the GlaBgow municipal eleotions , which have just taken place , Mr James Moir entered the lists against Whig wealth , power , and influence , and he triumphed . His triumph , too , has been no common viotory . He was returna * at the h « ad of the poll , leaving his defeated rival , Alexander Hastie , Lord Provost and MP . for thi City of Glasgow (!!!) in the unenviable position of ' last on the list . " This is aigreat triumpb | for th-Glasgow Chartists and a mortifying defeat for the Whi $ s . At Sheffield skvbk Chartism hay * bbbh fiiroBNXD to tbb TOWfl-oQDNon ! Glory to the good saen and true of that old garrison of democracy I Up then , ChartiBU of Ecgland—up and rally to the cry of your trusted friends and leaders : 11 THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER !'
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THE NEW QUACK AGKATION . A lachrymose lamentation over the mischief oaused by " perverted agitation , " and a laudatory notioe of a " salutary agitation , " appears in the Tihbb of Thursday . It commences by stating that the pooulisr iaolatian of classes whioh characterises English society , deprives the vast bulk of the population of these advantages whioh a leas restricted in . tercourae between diffdreat grades would ensure ; an 4 assert " , as a consequence of the deprivation of these advantage ? , that the multitude , left to the " silent ponderings of uninBtracted ignorance , or the blind impulses of reokle . » s passion , offers a ready instrument of credulous confidence to the presuaiptuoas Socialist , or the deaigninz knave . " The
people , therefore , " attaoh themselvej to the vain proaulgatora of idle crotohets , or the interested di g fleminatora of hireling quackeries . " The Timbs adds that "the mise ' aief already great , bids fair tobeoomu more formidable , " unless the eduoated ola ^ seB will ioterpoie t \ e mediation of their sound judgment . That there may be no mistake as to the nature of the"idlecrotohtts and hireling quackeries" which are condemned , the questions most generally moated and discussed in the manufacturing towns and populous distriota of the country , are shovelled together in a depreciatory paragraph , couched in that peculiar style of elegance whioh places the Tmss at the bead of the Billingsgate press . A more equitable system of Laud Tenure , and such an apportionment of the
wil and labour of the country , as would ensure constant remunerative labour , and a large inorease of food and raw material upon whioh te support and employ other labour ; a sound and wholesome Currency , based upon the real wealth which it ought to represent , and capable of expansion in proportion as that wealth increased , and of contraction as it diminished ; a change is the law of Primogeniture and Entail , by which the land would be released from the artificial fetters which now look it , up from the people , and be brought into the market in the same manner as any other cemmoditiy ; the abolition of class privileges and class legislation , in order that all the inhabitants of the country may be placed in that equitable political position , whioh the constitution
abstraotedly guarantees These and similar importsnt inrlnt least r ^ onibly debateable measures , ire dooried by the Puddledock Thunderer , in its most approved style . They are " the wildest theories of social change , the strangest nostrums of ( optical regeneration . "— 'fluent olaptrap , " whioh sadly imposes on the ignorant and credulous dupeB who lintsn to their expounders . . The Tons , however , is lncby . ani the people if England more lucky still . Puddle Dock has found an agitation and agitators altogether according to its t » n heart . We are now able , on this high anthorltr « to assure our traders thst the cage of Great Britain in not entirely hopeless ; there is yet a chance of eur salvation from utter perdition by means of a really
intelligent , praotical , and salutary agitation , whioh enjoys the distinguished patronage of the Times . These agitators are the Colonisation Society , and the objeot for whioh they carry on their agitation is simply to promote the wholesale expatriation of the people from England to Australia and other British colonies . This it is which is to change the aspeot of British coolety , aB with a magio wand , and to stand as a substitute for all the ipeial , politioil , and financial reforms whioh are considered neceeiary by those who have most carefully examined the working of eur internal arrangements , and most profoundly studied the loieace of sooiety ! Truly the Turn ia almost sublime in its audaoity . It is difficult to toll
whioh to be most surprised at , the measures it condftnimn its . own fluent slang , or that it recommends with suoh exaggerated panegyrics . We ha 7 e one consolation—namely , that it is so notoriously an unsafe and vacillating political guide , that nobody posBesBing the least amount of common sense ia likely to pay the Blightett attention to its recommendations . " It is everything by turns , and nothing long ; " and we Bbould net be at all surprised , before the moon ohangea into the next quarter , to find that it had oast off and utterly repudiated its new pet and protegee . If a more likely candidate for popular favour was to start up in the interim , the transfer of the patronage of Puddle Dock would be easilv effeoted . v J
With . all deference to the sages of that olassio region , however we beg to demur as to its twofold argument on this occasion . We do not agree with its summ&Vy and flippant ' condemnation of many crave and vital social a * d politioal questions , to which pub ) io attention has been more or less directed of late 7 Mti ; aor do w « think tat " aiiUtioa" it likely
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co be directed into more " ealutaiy" ohaanels b ; "the educated datse ! , " if the agitations patronised by the Timhb . are to betaken as samples . We al ) renemb » r how it snubbed the Anti-Corn Law Agitation , until one morning it awoke'o the perception that the League was a " great faot , " aod commenced an advocacy of its principles and objeots , whioh speedily distanced all competitors . That agitation succeeded . We may now , without presumption , ask— " Has it turned out to have b ? en the agitation of ' men of intelligence and station , ' who wereoapable of taking a praotieal view of the causes which produce national distress and difficulties , and applying a commensurate remedy ? " or , has it not provad to be , indeed , the "hollow quackery-fluent olap-trap , " and "idle crotohet , " whioh the Times stigmatises ? " ,
If Free Trade had realised the promises wbioh the fiMEB and its supporters said it would , there would now have been no necea > ity for their starting another " agitation ; " It has completely broken down ; and now , the very party who so lately deluded the people into the adoption of "dap-trap , " and "quackery , " come forward , and with superlative impudence offer another dose equally delusive , because founded opon tbe same falsehood . We have before snd , and oannot too frequently repeat , that the Repeal of the Corn La « s , and Foreign Emigration , both rest upon the same assumption : that is , that Great Britain and Ireland are overpopulated , and incapable of supplying food to all their inhabitants from the cultivable surface of both islaads . Therefore , said the League and the Time * , let ns bring food from abroad to supply tbe deficiency .
That has teen tried and found wanting , and cow the Times and the Colonisation Sooiety , still assuming the same point—say , let us transport the ' * ur-] u < people , " to provide food for themselves abroad . We have just one reply to . all the humbig that may be spouted or written on this subject . Tbe lirBt proposition , on which all the others are based , is not true . Great Britain and Ireland are capable of supporting a population at least fourfold greater than lo ia at present . The only way to terminate inconvenient agitations , is for the Legislature to initiate measures which will permit this to be gradually * nd naturally done . The true way to perpetuate them , is to favour false , unsound , short-sighted I jhemes , which leaving the oauses of sonisl evil still aatoiichtd , must ' aecessarily tail , and at the same time in a thousand ways add to the ' jniiery they are or " t ' essedly brought forward to cure .
When next the Timbs talks of " hireling quack-• rieB , " let it remember the gigantic and easily ma eainery by whioh the League carried out its a laqkery , and deluded the people and tbe legislature I lto the adoption of a measure , which it wbb hoped would not only give wealth more rapidly to the cianufaoturing interests , bat , in the words of Join Bright , vest the government of England in Lanoa . ¦ hire aid Yorkshire . They pretended , indeed , as such quacks always do , that it was not their own banefit ( hey sought , bnt that of the on ntry , though they could not deny that they expected to be primarily and immediately rewarded for their services by the innr ^ ased demand for manufactures whioh they anticipated . Short-sighted selfishness has been disappointed , as
usual , m their case . Is it likely to be otherwise in that whioh tbe Timbs has now taken up ? It admiti that the quacks , who ate now running about the country crying up Australian Emigration , nave an interest in promoting it . That very admission ought to make the poor people ot this oountry cautious and scrutinising . Heaven knows we have no Uok of selfish patriots of this class ; and , above all iu conclusion , we do not see that the conversion of two or three hundred thousand emigrant ! into shepherds in Australia , iB to prove a panacea for all the grievances of the peeple of this country , or to re move tbo burdens from their shoulders , whioh are now felt by millions to be unendurable . The Timbb aas merely "founda mare ' s nest . "
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A JUDAS . On Wednesday , we received the following le ter through the post : — 8 ootlandTari , WhiUhaU . 4 , Bridge Street , Westminettir . November 7 th , 1818 . S »—IthBBJuBt struck me that Mr Feargai O'Connor must be wrocg , wben ho stated ( with reipsot to Mr Ernest Jones , wbea eloeted one of the Chartist Exroutivn , and holdiBg a situation oa the Stai at one and the B « iae time , ) that it was impossible for a man to serve
t * o maiterB , and Ernest Jones became the dismissed editor . My ebjeoc la writing this is to show that the Great 0 * is wrong , for I hare served him « nd the Government well at one and the name time for months . Trailing tbat the Great 0 ' will , for the future , have the fear of God before bis eyei , and a better respeot for the law . I am , yours , dec , Tfiur ' Dismissed Reporter , ' ( notMrSiallwood , ) Or otherwise , an Agent 'for the better preservation of Peace , Law , end Order . ' In the original the writer has drawn his pen through the words" Scotland Tard , Whitehall ;" the second place ef address appears to have been an alter , thought . We suppose the letter to have been written — as professed —by our "dismissed reporter , " one Mr Reading . Indeed the handwriting leaves no room for doubt aa to the author . It will be Been that thia fellow bsasts tbat he was for months in the pay of the government , at the . very time that he was receiving Mr O'Connor ' s money as a reporter for the Stab .
We can now understand how ii happened , that not a week passed during the time of Mr Reading ' s " services" that we had not to cancel one-half or two * thirds of bis reports , inconsequence of the outrageous sedition they contained . There oannot be a doubt entertained , that this fellow was employed to entrap us into the publication of " seditious" — and , if possible , " treasonable matter ; " employed too , as he siyi , BY THE GOVERNMENT ! Thank God , he now belongs to the government altogether . We wish Lord John Russill and Sir George Gbbt joy of their bargain .
Bnt a word of caution to Lird Jobh Rdbsklii . We know from the best authority that his friend Mister Rbadiko tried to incite men to assassinate his lordship , fiy way of a stimulant he was in the habit of adding , that" but for the faot ot having a wife and children , he himselt ( Reading ) would blow out the b—y briim of Lird John Rwsskm ,. " We have a variety of such anecdotes , whioh can be well authenticated , at his lordship ' s service . The above letter is about as cool a piece of barefaced impudence aB ever was perpetrated even by a Whig spy . Really " the Government agents for the better preservation of Peace , Law , and Order" are a choice lot . Oh that Ib ever ; honest hand wart placed a whip , To lash tha rasoals nakert through the world . "
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1 \ jr . Watson , Paisley . —I have nothing tt do with It ; it was rectived by J . M'Crae . W . Ridke . Isaac Jonbs , Merthyr Tydvil . — We are not informed of the intended number of parts . Each part la . Jav . es Mmedith , Monmouthshire . —We have no room . Joseph Saint , Blackhlll . —Tes . Address to Clarke and Co ., 278 , Strand , Lendon . Ht Matbr , Hanley . —The charge depends on the length . The lowest i » fid . MrW . BAiK , Kirkland , Fife . —Say how many , and . how we shall tend them ; VIr Radeobd , Nottingham . — Send us the full address . Call at the Fest Office for the paper * . Portraits nest week : London Tbadss Delksatjss . — W » are sorry that press of matter compel ! the exclusion of the address till our next number . T . Fiost . —The letter shall appear in our next . Tiveiton . —Julian Barney has received ten shillings for Mrs Jones , from a friend , Westeze Ward , Tiverton , 0 . J . Ciabk , Bristol , must commuiicate with the branches by letter . Z . Y ., Accnngton . — All the money received by the National Land Company , together with several thousand pounds of Mr O'Connor ' s own money , has been in .
vested in land and building for tbe Company !; it Is therefore , quite impossible for the directors to return any sum paid by members . It is strange with Tthe rul « s of the Company in their possession , that members sbould ask the directors to refund any part of the capital of the Company . As well might the shareholders of the Great Western Railway , ask the directors of their company to pay b » ck the capital which is sunk in that line of rail . The National Land Company is no exception to Joint Stock Companies , no such bodies being able to set as Z . Y . requires the directors of the National Land Company to act . _ , THOHAS & . AH . several communications are unavoidably postponed till next week , The Yictih Fond . - Swatwell , per Robert Gardner , 14 s Sd , sent by Martin Judo . J . Gbaibby . B . ScHOKr , Peterborough , begs to acknowledge the following suns for the Victim Fund , which have beon forwarded to Mr J . Merriman : — —« Mr Haddock .. .. .. ' o f "" o - Ward o « a rJJ ? $ ald » o A Friend ., 0 019 £ 0 iT j - —— ^ Bfcfci
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TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . ( Ctotitrwftf frvn » ur Erst pft J Mr O'Connor replied , that the fact of his allotment not having been cultivated since Adam was a little boy , would add considerabl y to its value , as old sward was the most valua . ble ground , as he had frequently stated . That , as for the flood , it was a romance . He had superintended the making of a road through that very ground during the wet months of November and December , and it was never flooded ; and as to the roots , he begged to tell the Conference , that in that district , so high was the price of coals , that he could have got and well
every root grubbed , grubbed , upon the condition that the labourer should have them for his trouble , Mr Doyle was the person who superintended that work , and he would be best able to reply to that portion of the question ; but , so far from nothing being done to the allotment , it was every bit pared , but not burned , as the season would net permit , and for the most simple of all reasons : two deputations of the London member ? , who had been balloted for Minster , . waited upon me and pressed the necessity of being located earl y in March , Well , now , it appears that that was not th « fit season . I foolishly yielded to their application , or otherwise the whole of that land would have been burnt . And now , Mr Doyle shall speak for himself .
^ Doyle . — " Why , Gentlemen , there never was anything so unfair as Mr Beattie ' s charges . There was a thorn tree here and there in Mr Beattie ' s allotment ; the stumps were every one grubbed , but I had not horse power at the time sufficient to remove them and it was an understood thing with him and others that they should have them for removingHhem to behind their cottages . " After Mr Doyle had concluded , a man , of the name of Hall , one of the carters at Minster Lovel , reminded Mr Doyle that he ( Hall ) had removed with horses all the roots behind Beattie ' s house . And now I come to Mr Beattie ' s second onslaught .
Mr Beattie rose again on Thursday evening , and after a repetition of his melancholy tale , inquired when he was to receive the 31 . IS ; additional Aid Money , for the performance of labour upon his allotment ? Mr O'Connor replied , that every day new light was beaming upon him , and he now begged to ask Mr Beattie a few questions . The first was—he begged to know whether it
was true , or not , that Mr Beattie had produced carrots as large as his leg , and as long as his leg , in this Adam ' s Paradise that ? would grow nothing— -and had sent them all over the kingdom as samples ? Mr Beattie . —It is quite true . Mr O'Connor . —Well , iny next question is , whether Mr Beattie , has let any portion of his allotment , and how much , and at how much rent ?
Mr Beattie . —Yes , I have let three acres . Mr O'Connor . —At what rent ? Mr Beattie .-13 / . a-year . ( Shouts of " Oh . " ) Mr O ' Connor . —Now , then , 1 am enabled to show to the Conference this man ' s solemn position , as Powell , the spy , said . This man , who has told us such a pathetic tale , is now in possession of a most splendid cottage , of one acre of prime land , a profit rent of 3 l . a-year , for his rent will not be more than 10 / . He has had 30 / . of the Company ' s money , and he wants 3 J . 15 s . more . Need I say another word ? ( Cries of " Shame , shame . ")
Mr Beattie . —But there are rates and taxes . Mr O'Connor . —Rubbish , sir : 3 / . a-year , a house , an acre of ground , and the loan of 30 ? . to pay rates and taxes upon three acres of land without a house . Gentlemen , will not the fact of this rent at once establish for you the value of this Plan ? The estate at Minster cost 30 / . an acre . Those three acres that he has let will be struck at an average of about 28 / ., so tbat three times 28 / . are 84 / . ; therefore for the 84 / , expended—for the man has no house—the tenant pays 13 / . a-year rent , or nearly sixteen per cent ., upon the outlay ;
and i warrant he got none of the roots—that his complaint of the flood will not be listened to , and that he will never be a day behind with' his rent . I have received an Address , which was published in the " Northern Star , ' signed , I think , by over sixty of the eighty allottees , expressing , as you are aware , the strongest possible faith in the Plan , thankful , but not complaining , while now the stability and practicability of the Plan is to be judged by the exhibition you have just seen . ( Hear , hear , ) [ I might have added—but I was not aware of it at the time—that this Mr Beattie ia
a pensioner , receiving 18 / . 5 s . a-year from the Government , and I was told b y one of his neighbouring allottees , on Saturday morning , that , for every day ' s work Beattie did , he did six , and that he spent most of his money upon SOMETHING more gratifying than labour . It would be impossible to describe the sensation that Mr Beattie ' s confession created in the Conference . !
And now let us see the actual position of this much injured man , juggled by Feargus O'Connor and the Land Company . He has a cottage good enough for any man in Europe to live in—an acre of good ground—received 30 / . capital—h » s three pounds a-year , profit rentand 18 / . 5 s . a-year income . How many honest , industrious men , I think I hear earnestly exclaiming , " I wish I had the much-injured Mr Beattie ' s complaint . " '
I now come to a consideration of tbe general charges preferred by Mr Edwa > ds , the member for Devonshire . He opened his interrogatoriesjby stating that he was compelled to do so by the express desire of his constituentsthat he did so with great reluctance ; but at the charges had been extensively circulated throughout the whole of Devonshire , by a person who worked at Snig ' s End ; and who , if he was employed for the purpose , could not have done more injury to the Land Plan , as he was a holder of sixteen shares in the Company ; and further , his evidence was corroborated by another person now located upon that estate , tte begged to say that he did not believe one of those charges , while at the same time he was bound to his constituents to bring them
forward : — ° "The first was , that the shareholders who worked at Snig ' s End , had seen a ploughman for an hour and a half resting upon the beam of his plough , and doing no work . ' « The second was , that the carters , while engaged in drawing stones and other things , stopped at the Feathers public-house , and there got drunk , in company with Mr Cul . lingnam , the overseer .
" The third was that Mr Lawrence received 30 s . a week for superintending his own men , who were engaged in laying . ihe foundations . The fourth was , that there had been great waste of the Company ' s property . "The fifth was , that Mr Taylor , painter , thi son-in-law of Mr Cullingham , received 3 / . a week as his wages . . And he would now add , his disappointment at not seeing counsel pre * sent at the Conference , as promised by Mr O'Connor , to aid them in their deliberations .
His instructions , as regarded the re-election of Directors , was to vote for the whole body except Mr O'Connor ; and he was prepared with an estimate , from a builder in Devonshire , to build the cottages at a much lower rate , " Another charge was , that when the cottages were finished , and before the occupants took possession of them , tradesmen and labourers were put in , and were allowed to burn the timber and roots that ought to have been preserved for the occupants .
Mr O'Connor in reply said , " I will answt f those several charges seriatim . "Firstly . —Withregardto the man resting on his plough , it was a mere fabrication . " £ ec < m < % . —Asregards the carters skulking their work and getting drunk at the Feathers , it was an impossibility . » that they could have done so without coming : to his ears , and that they could not have discharged their allotted day ' s work . And as togettingdrunk with Mr Cul '
The Northern Star , Batubday, November 11, Ie48.
THE NORTHERN STAR , BATUBDAY , NOVEMBER 11 , IE 48 .
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NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . At the Conference last week , it wbb resolved tbat the expanses of the Members of tbat body Bhould be paid by the whole Company ; and that a levy of one penny Bhould be levied upon each Member for that tw T J ^ P'WtaM tanfe , therefore , to request Sn « hSfh Mem f ' " the different diatriota , will forthwith pay into the hand * of the several branoh fceeretanes , the small sum required to defray the ex . pennesof their Representative ! .: . It will not be necessary to urge upon the Members the propriety of immediate compliance with this de . msnd , n its jmtioenjniV bo apparent to all concerned . bt order o the Directors , Thomu Cubs , Cormpooding SwretMy .
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4 IME fORTHERN STAR NovBMBiB ii ;~ I 848 .
For The Working Millions. A Hohfi Fob Bvest Industrious Han And His Family.
FOR THE WORKING MILLIONS . A HOHfi FOB BVEST INDUSTRIOUS HAN AND HIS FAMILY .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 11, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1496/page/4/
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