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      snAKEsVo , « eacl T ^ KuSen » PP ^ e ^ "S 5 Sffl « £ 5 S ^?*^ Brid * ei tagj « ' « , HoWWifl "'" ' .

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      mkL tlHD COMPAKff . nr , CTP «? RRTiRIES OF THE VARIOUS "«W ^^ sa « aBS raS »^^ r Sfflr 4 ? s ? rs'ss « - ° s « TriUfaftratlwo wh » ttheir ^ ortioii « iU . nount to , m *¦ ^ O « A « ar dUtriet secreUry . 8 , Koah Ark Cowt , SUngate , Larobath .

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      ¦ . XOTICE . „„ _ I HE CHARTIST MEMBESS OF THE wertmlniter * r » nch , and the n » emb « B lately meet ne * t 83 . Dun Street , Soho , wiUmeet « i 4 ke Partheneum Jo&e Honse , gtMwtia ' s Lane , oa Sunday ( to-morrowj srening . at seven o ' clock , to decide upon some smtoWe ) lacfforlutureme « ft : g » , » ad otaer t » - -wrofiiBporiance . ¦ -

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      ¦ ~ '; TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her Majesty Qoeea TictorU , end H . R . H . Prince Albert . KOWBEAOT , THE LONDON AND PABIS WINTER FASHIOHSfor 1848 . 19 . by Messrs Beojamm BEAD tad Co- l 8 , Eartstreet , Bloomibniy-Bqnaie , London ; and by ft . B « 4 «« , HolywelUtreet , Strand ; a very splendid PE 1 ST . wpirblv cf loured , accompanied with theimost fisUonable , novel , and extw-fittiBg Riding Dress , Huat-[ ng ana Froct-Coat Patterns ; the Albert Paletot . Dress and 2 omins Waiitcoats , both ( ingle and doable-breasted , iiso , the theory of Cntttng Cloaks of every description follv explained , with diagrams , asd every thing respwtiftiswleandfaihion iUsstrated . The method olin-« ea $ : n ; and diminishing all die patterns , or any others sardcalarly explained . Price 10 s . KEAD RudCo-beg to inform thoEe who consider it not right to jay the fall price for the new system of Cutthat

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      DRM'DOUALL . W « h * T 8 rewired * message fromDr M'Danall , throngh Mn M'Doaall , who hu reoently sees him ( it thefirst time these three months , relative to tha titsiosl of Iectorers employed by tha Land Company . He states tnatwiien in Londoa ( aa eridence t * CleaTo ' a case ) , ¦ bout the time toe society wai dosed , he saw Mr O'Connor ia the Adelphi , and mentioned his reluciasoa to be continued as * lecturer , became he could so longer add either to the numbers , or the capital of the society . The Ibotoi eays that he had mtny discoseioca npoa the subject , in different parti ef the country , which may be re-Etabered , as he spoke freely upon eich occasion , aai looked npon it u an imposition to hold an office that had do duties , and which duties were retain-

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      m . THE CHOLERA . On Saturday last , the following cases were reported to the Board of Health : —Hackney Road , 1 , fatal ; Gamberwell , 1 . fatal j Southwark , 3 , 2 fatal . total ia London only five cases . At Sundetland 1 and at Barking one fatal caseoccurred . Edinburgh 10 , 3 fatal ; Leitb , 4 ; Libberton ( from 1 st Novem ^ ter , 58 . 6 fatal ; Iaveresk from 1 st NoY « al ) er , 2 Cramond from 1 st Noveraner , 8 ; Lisswide , Loan ^ head , from 1 st November , 34 .

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      CoavtttKm mn raK ExcuxLiw .-AtflMeonnt , SS * ' •*> + Bocfe » t « . , on Kwday , to Hwn S ^ f ? " ^ *^ " -wftSo wE ttal . b a tons * punter » nd grower of hop * , did brt ^ ew ^ l ^* ' ' ' " * Ui ° * NoTemt eT « 7 Ki 5 iI ; adihisrea nol having bee * Mia before X " 5 miB to AoMa ** «» £ of do ? »«« Jw ? ' * " 1 * n 4 told . «¦ «» poiseteloa fee ^ Iofw 2- Aa order for pijmtnt wM aua * . . 'I tm * n t « itt «« , ufa , ( J iBtuk 0 Biab 9 f 0 rtilcobIbgin a

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      , Mpw . ready .... .-. -w . ^ ,-. ¦ ¦ ¦ PORTRAIT OF GEORGE BRIDGEMpLLlNS JT Ths above portrait taken bj his co-patriot ^ WilliaH Dowliug . Price 64 . A'few on superior tinted paper , li . Order * reeelvedrtyMrDixon , 114 , HighHolborn .

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      " IMPORTANT TO BREWERS . —Bapiil fortunes -L ¦ - - are being mode by those Brewers who use the Concentrated ItinglasB and Sugar Finings in tha copper . They prevent acidity and all subsequent trouble , asttbo artjcle 4 ecomes * rlght immediately after fermentation . Seat-to ^ ny Address , in twepound caniiten , with directions / or nee , at Ss . per pound . 20 Jbs , npwardi . ifl . 6 d . byA « DiEW-WcoDaadCo ., 105 , St John Street , Bmlth . field , iionaon . "Tennf . caBh .

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      rp © BE S 6 LD , TWO FOUR-ACRE PAID-UP i . SHARES in the National Land Company , ipply , nretpaid , to Mr 6 . Smith , Bookteller , Greengato , Salford .

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      T 7 « 3 f PTIAN DROPS , a Certain and Speedy Cure JlU for STONE and GRA . TEL , sent Free to allTer . ioire , * T encloiing Seves Stamps , to Thomas Wuehwon , Land Aeent ffainsboMttgh , lincolnslure .

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      / no BE © ISPOSED OF , a PAID-UP BGSJRX ACRS 8 HA . BE in the Land Company , with aU espenietpaidforithe present year . A-, uiicauon . £ tobemadetoS . Sin > HiKi , < Three House Shoet / UerttnrrTydvU .

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      ' No . 24 , OF " THE LABOURER , " \ Contatshig a variety of Important and interesting matter , will be ready en December lit . Just Fsblished , prka Is . 6 d ., t ' onning a Beat volume , EVIDENCE TAKEN BIT THE SELECT COMMITTEE Appointed to inquire-into Thk Namoku , Lisd Goiimsx ; with a review of the lame , and an Oatline ef the Prepositions fer amending the Con . Station of the Company , bom tooomply w , ith . the ProTuiona of the Lav . :

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      PORTRAITJBF CUFFEY . The * bove portrait , taken by his feUow-anffeter , r 7 m . Dowling , ia new ready . - Price < 5 d . Orders reeeired by Mr Dixon , Ui , High Holborn . ^ *

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      THE MAN OF ALL WORK . « William GoodenoughHayter , Liberal M . P . fprWell 3 , son of J . Hayter , Esq ., married a daughter of W . Pulsford , Esq ., brother-in-law of R . Palsford , Esq ., M . P ., Director of the Great-Western Railway ; South WalesJRailway ; Oxford , Worcester , and Wolverhampton Railway , 1845 ; "WiltSj S omerset , and Wej r - mouth Eailway ; Waterford and Dublin Railway j Sambre andMeuse Railway > West Flanders Railway ; and Gloucbster and Dean-Fowsst Railway , 1845 ; Promoter Life Assurance ; a Queen ' s Counsel ; Judge . Advocate General ; Chairman of the Land Committee , and Bencher of Lincoln ' s Inn . "

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      THE YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE VICTIMSOn Monday , the 11 th of December , Mr O'Connor will be at Dewsbury , and on Tuesday , the 12 th , at Liverpool , and at both places he would wish to meet delegates from the neighbouring districts ; both upon the Land Question and the Charter after the public meeting ; and for that purpose he hopes nis friends will engage a large room , as the delegates will , no doubt , be numerous , and he has to express a hope that

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      LABOUR'S WARNING VOICE TO PAMPERED IDLERS . The soktion of the Labour Question , as a means of creating peace , contentment , and happiness , has been the subject of our life ' s thought .. We have watched the shuttle and the loom , the hammer that Btrikes the anvih the plough , tbespade , and the hoe—the scythe the sickle , and the flaU—the trowel , the shovel ' and the plane , and we have estimated the pro ^ fit that the worker has made for the employer ;

      We have passed through wildernesses , deserts , uncultivated wastes , and half-cultivated lands—we have heard the charge of idleness preferred against the adveaturous Irish , who seek the li on ' s share of labour , gratified with the hope of preserving a miserable existence through a life of misery ; we hare seen them paring the streets , carrying ' the hod to the coping-stone of the loftiest mansion , quarrying the Btone , and undertaking every description of druggery , satisfied even by wages measured by the destitution of their fellow sufferers .

      We have shown , a theusand times over , that there is no wealth save in the produce of Labour , while there is no law 6 ave for the . protection of the capitalist , whose profits , when trade is bad , are made up of reductions in wages ; and hence , the maker of his fortune is dragooaed and bullied into submission while starving , while his employer has realised sufficient in prosperity to "bide his time"for adding more to his store .

      When the Economist La s boasted of thehieh wages earned by manufacturing operatives in prosperous times , as compared with the scantv amount earned by the agricultural serf , we

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      « - Sir ? . J- i f . * v-y . TIT" ' ~ if JfTT . ~ * ,,, ^ 1 ^ M ^^ B ^ MM'l I ¦ J I ¦>¦¦! I . ^—^ M ^^ g ^^^^ pM ^ have- shpwn , ; premature ^ ld . age ^ sickness , ; incapacity for other work , and « rambling * un « settled life , as a set off against these boasted advantages ; We have « fco \? irth ' at the average life of the much p itied Doraftsjiirtf labburerjs fifty ^ three years , while tliat of' the artificial slave is but twenty-eight years ; and we have established the fact upen 4 > he clearest laws of right and justice , that , if-the manufacturing slave runs his sweating race in a ' comparatively short period , when fee actives at the gaolwhich is incapacity through bremature old ace .

      —that he should have earned wherewithal t » live upon , not in comfort ,-but in affluence for the rest of his life , fcaving-devoted its prime te the aggrandisement < jf tbe individual speculator , and the support of rational institutions , instead of being separated from his wife and family , and handed over to the tender mercies of a pampered official , separated from those who arexdear to him , and looked upon as a burden to society , which fee alone has contributed to sustain / Would not the emaciated peer , theffbuty

      prelate , or the ncketty , aapbegotten aristocrat—paralysed from dissipation—cheerfully change places with the health y peasant cracking stones by the wayside ? thus establishing the fact that ' wealth can never compensate for the loss of health ; while , wjien tie poor man loses ! his health in the service of the . capitalist and the State , he is handed over- to martyrdom . Not so with our soldiers , with our sailors , and policemen ; not so with retiring officials , who are superannuated at the age of twenty-eight , or whose services may be . no longer required ;

      they receive compensation in the shape of a retiring pension , being overpaid when they perform but little , and as drones become plunderers . of Labour ' s hive . , . What is the dearest thought of the barrister who pours over musty volumes by a flickering lamp—of the merchant , the banker , the manufacturer , the shopkeeper , the pawnbroker , and publican—what ' ia their inducement to labour till the dead of night ? Ib it not the hope of ; an early ; retirement from the fatigues of office , with means furnished by the

      sweat of the producer , whose holiday never comes ? Wbileith ' e Economists have been boasting of the superior condition of the manufacturing operative . have they ever taken the questions of health and comfort in old age into account ; or have ? . they ever seen that the artificial slave represents the race-horse , who has runhis sweating race through life , while young , and is old at five . ; while the Dorchester labourer represents the agricultural horse , not worked too young—not pushed beyond his powers—not suffocated in an unhealthy stable , and young at twenty .

      How we have laboured to convince the working classes . of the injustice of that artificial state in which millions are kept for the benefit of the few 1 And how often have we warned their rulers , that a dissatisfied people may be progressively won to contentment , if they could recognise in the acts of their rulers any desire to better their condition , however slow the process of reclamation . While , upon the other hand , a people stung to misery by

      long suffering and neglect—securing the upper hand by a combination of force—would reject with scorn what before . th , ey would have accepted with thanks ; and if what isrefused to justice is conceded to fear—the change , so far from being a blessing , is a curse—as men who would cheerfully labour in the one case , would look upon labour as a degradation in the other , and contend for a confiscation of the property of the rich as the sustenance of the poor .

      Will our rulers never take warning , or will they still vainly hope to produce a full Exchequer from unemployed Labour ? Do they imagine that because they can feed class upon clasp , and curb the vengeance of the one by the satisfaction and enthusiasm of the other , that they can as easily wage war against the dissatisfied of all classes ? ' Ireland has been admitted to be England ' s greatest difficulty when the Catholic peasantry alone were dissatisfied ; but has not that difficult y increased ten-fold , now that every class

      m Ireland has become disheartened , dissatisfied , and disgusted ? But do our rulers hope that the sympathy expressed for those landlords , whose tenants have absconded without paying rents , will be a set off against those scenes of Irish misery with which the eye is again every day met ? When we read of 14 lbs . of oatmeal being allowed to a famil y of nine for a week ' s subsistence , ; or two pounds a day , or little more than three ounces for each individual ; when we again read of the stench

      emitted from the loathsome cabin , caused by putrid bodies that have died of starvation ; when we again , read of the rats having devoured portions of those lifeless bodies , what sympathy can we feel for those who , though deprived of rights , never perish ef hunger ? It is a subject which makes the hair stand on end , and would make the pen run riot in spite even of the Gagging Bffl , if we thought . eur bitterest words would rouse the labour sufferers to a sense » f their duty .

      " Oh , " says the puling minister , " We gave you eight millions of our money ; we are not chargeable with your improvidence and idleness . " But , we ask , if children grow up idle , dissipated ,. reckless , and improvident , is not the fault chargeable upon the parent , and do not the rulers of a country stand in the same relation to its people that a parent does to his children , and are they not chargeable with all national crimes consequent upon bad

      government , as the parent , is chargeable with the crimes of his children consequent upon bad . training : and management ? It makes the heart sick and the blood run cold , to read the maudlin sympathy expressed fer tyrant landlords by hired scribes ; while the most adventu ; reus and industrious people upon the face of the earth are charged with all the sufferings consequent upon tyranny , oppression , and misrule . .:

      We dare not sing the Whig poet ' s Irish war-whoop , who was free before he was fettered with a pension , and thus appealed to his oppressed country : — ,, " Theaonwird the grwn banner rearlBg , Go flaih every sword to the hilt , " Oq ooriWeii virtue and E tin , ; On tkelti Is Ike Saxon and guilt . " This was the qualification of the Irish poet ( lommy Moore , ) for Whig - patronage ; while were we to urge its following / we should be ' consigned to the conyict-shi p , in chains . But we love human life too well—we respect J ust pnncipestoo , much , to invite an exciteabla

      peopie to reliance upon such false hope : while we would warn their rulew , who should etand in the relation or parents , that in spite of the aw ' s terror , the cannon ' s roar the sabra h unger wiUbreak ^ roughstonVia ^ S stervuig people wll , lose all command Sven over their own actions . . ^ The'Wbi gs promised every thine fa * Fw * gland and Ireland , while bo 4 ^ "S ^ £ ^ sasiSraapaS

      mg empioyea in profitable reproductive laand to believe , that national « nff * . ! fc V ' duce national unity i aSatS ^ - ^" stead of . eeing ^ WtSjaTSi * the flank company of the Whim . iLi , S with to . « V tii £% U * -K ment loans , and the rest of such rnhfiI shall see them boldly , standing ft lonahty , having discovered that they Sot be worse governed than thev ar e hvfu V """" mm ruler ! ¦» £ U ^ Xtv SK the people in Ireland has effected but little da mage to the country , compared with the disunion of her representatives in ParWnt . And when that disunion ceases ft ™ fh « Prime Minister willl yield to fftrffW S refused to justice . ' **""

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      Sngland—impoverished at home by misrule , will find it' " ' ^^^^^^© " ^^^^^^'' ' ^ ' ^ ' ^; ascendancy , by . ' the strength ! of . her purse . ,., i ' . The great " poet has said , —'' If England , cannot keep the dog from her own door , lei her be worried . " England cannot now keepthe dog from her own door . Her last card is p layed . The league of Kings have long maintained their despotism against the league of People , until , at length , the league of People has become too powerful for the league of Kings . No longer can treachery or artifice convince a starving people of the value of a system which denies the mere ; right of complaint ; no longer can Economists convince their dupes that " it Ss wise to reject the ordinances of the Creator

      , and in lieu thereof , to accept the dogmas of gambling speculators ; " no longer will a people—whose Christianity and love of religion is boasted by the Prime . Minister of England , and the representative of the UniverfiityofOxford-j-believe that famine , starvation , and death , is the dispensation of God , while the means of life are monopolised by the idle . And yet , notwithstanding a thorough knowledge of English : suffering , of English grievances , and of English ( opinion ; and not . withstanding a thorough knowledge of Irish want , Irish starvation and death , our rulers would now hope to perpetuate these anomalies by forming a solemn league and covenant with King Constable .

      But even should he be elected to the office of President , he may have enough to do at home , without interfering in British politics . However we may doubt—and therefore dispute—the fitneRS of Prince Louis Napoleon to fill the office of President of the French Republie , we must take his manifesto as a trap baited to suitthe taste of the majority of the French people , and then let us see whether it realises the truth of another of our old proverbs , " That the folly < of to-day is the wisdom of to-morrow . " Trance is already mainl y an agricultural

      country , 'and yet to the improvement of agri culture ini France and Algeria the Prince can : didate looks for the realisation and true deyelopement of the French Republic . Is not this , some consolation for the continuous abuse we have received for advocating the better cultivation of the soil , as a means of producing national happiness , contentment , and peace ? Again , the Prince relies upon peace as a means of developing the national resources , and securing national aggrandisement through individual contentment . Hear oar words upon this subject .

      "Waris to fade what tie hotbed f § to the plant . It torceBit but strength *** It not in its growth , while peace la as the pure air of heaven ,, which forces it notfhut strengthens it till it arrives at a wholesome nutorlty . " Again , by the improvement of agriculture , thePrince , not precisel y in our words but in their literal acceptation , tells the citizens of France how the poor may be made rich , and the rich richer , without trenching upon individual rights or property . But that which is the greatest confirmation of one of our oft-repeated assertions is , that the Prince tells the people " THAT THEY CAN DO MUCH MORE FOR THEMSELVES THAN ANY GOVERNMENT CAN DO FOR THEM . "

      As to the army and the relaxation Of the sy 8 . tem of conscription , if we could see the future man in the present manifesto , we might be inclined to pass it over as a mere electioneering clap-trap to catch the military electors ; but we find a bit of bait suiting to the several classes , from the highest to the lowest—suiting the palate of officers of the highest rank , subalterns , non-commissioned officers , and pri » vates , men of property , and men of no property , manufacturers , shopkeepers , traders , mechanics , artificers , artisans , and labourers , while , ingeniously enough , there is no confession of social principles , but evidently ,

      language sufficientl y delusive , if not to catch , at least to neutralise that party ; and wound up with a captivating peroration , that , of all things , governmental economy is indispensable . We differ with King Constable onl y upon the question of the army . We are not only , not for the diminution of the army , but we are for a considerable increase in ^ the ar my ; not , however , by conscription or enlistment , but by voluntary service ; not for an army that commits cold-blooded murder in acts of aggression according to law , but a national army , which wages no aggressive war , and which only marches to battle as an aggregate of individual feeling , under the

      motto—EACH FOR ALL , AND ALL FOR EACH , to defend the rights of all and each . We are aware of the value of a good electioneering squib , whether issued by a candidate for the Town Council , a Member of Parliament , or a President ; and attaching to them a real and not fictitious ; value , upon ' the part of the English and the Iris people , we unhesitatingly give it as our opinion , that the election of the English Special Constable of the 10 th of April to the

      Presidency of the French Republic , will be the greatest blow ever struck at liberty in this country . As we stated last week , if Cavaignac , or any other Dictator , is elected as President , those who made can unmake ; but if King Constable is elected , he will rule b y the sword , hoping to follow in the ^ foQtsteps of his Uncle , and Fra nce becomes a military despotism , at the disposal of the English Minister , to suppress British discontent , with a view of insuring British co opera turn to effect a similar result in France .

      How ever , the address of Prince Louis Napoleon establishes , the fact , that its able writer considered that the very best basis of his claim , was the acceptance and avowal of those very principles which would be likely to be moat acceptable to the enlightened French people , and for the advocacy of which we have long and tamely borne the opprobrium of that very Press which , when accepted by its tool , lauds them as generous , extensive , and just . Ihen , is not "the folly of to-day the wisdom of to-morrow ? " and may we not live in hope of seeing those principles , now scoffed at , one day universally accepted . ;

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      band of ' . ' pattereWiii . S double sense , willer « e " iv b the art of "keeping the word ofprom * e gfij and breaking it to the hope . " If Mr ; R ^ i « brought forward , of C 3 « r 6 e he will noHS it ihghteit chance of being returned , and tha'Tv * ? ft "" I walkia between theBofid ufi ^ d . date 8 . Under any cironoutaDcei ffe « houE C ? n ' th . ttheretarn of Mr DeniuonigprettyS "'» « « things stand it i . better that it shoiddM « It U much preferable to have an oper , -hwSfJ i ¦ trRigatforward opponent , than one who fiffi- ft * dwk , and whom you never know whwe to catch it the ireatesl industrial constituency in tbT-iLf ownot continue to send an enlightened and , ?« . friend of the " rights of UbGur " to P « £ 7 ? 5 at least advisable that it should an vmSfit St ? ' borineH , and a York . hireman . ineteadof , fflj * and a tnokster . of whom the only taine mJS ? 1 ^ that hei . a religions bigot , who , for Smm * « turn in those rights ; to which all have iTX

      Claim , no matter what their creed may be There ia something in the way in which tM . religious gentleman has been foisted on the cnm . ii tuenoj , whiolr ii eminently eha ^ terinio J £ double-dealing and disregard of true morality wu * dutinguiehes the party of whom he is the wnwSS tive . and especially of the prafeasors of cant ; T& pwty hunttd Mr Fitzwilliam from the field , becauS he wm not capable of giving snch explicit , nZ to the questions pnt to him , aa were satisfactory t « the people . That youthful icion of the atittoerath hoaBoofFitrwillianj . had . at all events , the " 1 sense and honesty to retire from the contest tha moment the peop ' e of Leeds pronounced so umn ,, ;

      jrocaiiy bb they did ; and of bis brief canvass it aw be said , nothing became him to well as its elose . Buk harm * secured his seoession , the Free Trade m » senteraaoemtohwebaen determined to imP « e their geleoted candidate upon the Riding , at an biardi . and in despite of the popnlar will . Henoe the fact that tne candidature of this most pioas and . liberal Baronet commenced with a lie Mr Carbatt grossly and deliberately misstated the result of the ibowof hands in the Cloth Hall Yard , and seems to hate done so on several occasions « ince . We observa that tlieeo-oalled"Liberal" Morning Papers hate ODened mouth in support ef Sir Culling Eardley . What " conBideratum" may have been offered for that support we know not , but we have a strong recollection that tho « e very ad rocatea were , not lone

      ago , tne mast violent opponents of tke eavntlj Baronet , when he stood for Edinburgh , and waa defeated . The West Riding will surely not putnn with the rejected of " Auld Reekie . " If his pun . tauwm waa tooetronR for the stomacbB ef th ^ inha . hitAntsoftbat somewhat extra-pious city , it will surely never go down with the rturdy , liberal-minded men of Yorkshire . ----- ^ ---

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      ( V We are sorry to announce that w « eannot publish any' forthcoming meetings' &c . in future , unless paid ' for as advertisements . We are compelled to adopt this ceurw , la order to avoid the heavy daty we have lately paid on such announcements . The publication of balUts , raffles , &c , ar « illegal . JctiiN Habmet has received from Mr Phillips the ( u < s of 9 s . fid . to be divided between Mrs Jones and Mm M'Douall . J . H . has forwarded the money . W . Hyatt , Bristol . —No reflections were cast upon any of the lecturers by the Conference . H . WiixuMB . —L'Ami 0 ° u PeupU is happy you are so well pleased . Amongst the best works advocating the political and social lights of the Proletarian , mu 6 t . be included Paint ' t Political Works , Cobbelfs Works ( parti , cularly his Legacy to Labourers ) , Bray ' s Labour ' s Wrongs « nd Labour ' s Remedy . Louis Blanc ' s Organises tion of Labour , Buonarotti ' s History of Bubceufs

      Conspiracy for Equality , Rousseau ' s Social Contract , and many others' too numerous to mentiein . ' J . Swiet acknowledges the receipt of the following earns ( sent herewith ) for the Yictim Fund , Ti « .:- £ >• d . Mrs Joynes .. 0 0 6 Mr Gee .. 0 0 6 Mr Shepherd .. 0 0 8 Mr T . Hoimts .. e C 0 Mr F . Holmes 0 0 6 Mr Brown „ 0 0 8 A Friend „ 0 0 6 Mr Chipindale , o 1 9 Mr Sann .. 0 0 6 Tsom Ripley .. 6 10 FromArnald 0 5 0 Mr Smith M « 9 t Vtwton ' iHead 0 2 0 J ^ SffcsT acknowledges the receipt of the following sums for Conference expenses ;— £ . b . i . Sutton-in-Ashfield m m h 0 1 4 UftntfiSld .- ~ ~ - .. 080 BiiitiKOBiu . —Messrs Wills and Goodwin beg to « c knowledge the receipt of the following sums . — FOB UBS JOHN waiKU . & I . d . Ceuncillor J . Baldwin .. ., 110

      . DKFJSNCB AMD VICTIM FUND . Councilor J . Baldwin .. J . .. .. . 0 10 s Councillor U . Holland .. .. .. 0 2 5 Councillor J . Hawkes .. .. .. ' 0 2 8 Councillor T . Pbolton .. .. .. 0 3 0 Alderman Weston .. .. .. o i 6 Councillor T . C . Perry ., .. .. 0 2 6 AFriend . J . W .. .. v . O 2 Charles Goodrick .. .. .. 0 2 6 "William Blaxland .. - .. .. 0 18 Mr Thomas Field .. .. .. 0 1 « Mr T . Store .. .. .. .. 0 l 0 Sundry sums by members .. .. 0 6 0 Mrs M . 'Uocau .. —Mr Roberts , Manchester , ha « receiT « 4 from a few friends at Oldham / . Ts 6 d .

      vie cm fuhd . . E . ScaoiET begs to acknowledge the following tarns ¦ — S , Avukl&nd ,, 0 1 0 E , Schoky H 0 0 5 T , War 4 „ 0 6 0 J . Ihompim « 0 9 6 G . Boffe .. 006 J . Johnson „ . ' 8 0 W . "Carter ^ 0 0 6 W . Taylor .. 0 0 8 Ems B * kir , late of Crowland , will oblige E . SckoWy , of Peterborough , by coinnunicatingltobim . his ( E . ; B ' s . ) address . Receivedifor Executive , by John Amow :-Mr Robert Jervli , Snlg ' s End ¦ .. ,, « 1 0 - THE HANCaitm TICT 1 HB . Thomas Obmishh has receWtd the Mowing sums :- *• Preston , per J . Brown . 13 6 Faaiham . perB . Doigeo * ., „ 0 18 6 VyitchesteM » fG . $ itar e «« ., ., o 2 6 Crewe psrW . Crufcton .. .. .. b 9 0 London , per E . Stallwood . .. .. 0 18 3

      i ?? r L ^ « received a collectton ,-A * Hudd « stteli .. . .. . , ' . .. olO 6 John Woodhowe .. o 15 0 JobnGladhiU .. .. o 1 » Joteph GUbettssn o 8 6 Elian 1 Land Members ., .. ., olO 0 All other monies will be announjsd ' next veek , A Constant Bbadbb . — © . j . Holyoske . Watson . Qneen Head-pMsagfl , P ^ temorter . row . « ¦} " £ . * CBnn 8 t » n § wer your question . Mr S . Ktddinforms MrSide . / uniw , thathe will ottendas the South London Hall any night next wesk a ' h , "' bopei he will inform him immedfatef y , whatTn ' « ht V » »» most convenient ; - .. * .. ** R mSS !^ n ^ m ' 'JSMn 9 KandaU » "" Mon-in-AshfleldJ Williatn Kibbey Tlrertui ; and G . OavllI , Sheffield .-Julian Harney b « s handed tbe Fost Office Orde « to Mr

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      !„ :. ! . -:: M ; KING CONSTABLE . ? i ^ . ' - ¦ f , v & ¦ ¦ ¦ " ' ¦ . ¦; . ' . ' E ^ . 'i-W ' > : vW- ' '' v ' ' •¦ : ~^ - ' , •'¦ - '¦ : ¦ " ' *• '"" Hie followii ^ j ^ r | Cii ^ ' / Con 6 thble | s appeal , ' upon which is . 'based Lis pretensio ' nffi to fill the office , of President o £ the French Repdblic :- ~ ,- ' ;¦ , ¦'¦ : : !';' r = ' ' '¦¦¦ : y" ' "'¦ ¦" " , "To recall me from exlli you -named me representstke oftthe people . On the eveof ithe e ' ectUn of the nrBtxaa . gittrite . of the republic , my same presents itself to yoa ^ as * symbol « f order and seootHy . These testimonies of so honourable a . confidenoe -are rendered , I am aware , rather to my name than to me , who have as yet done notiling tor my country ; bnttbe more the memory of the icmperor affords me its ma-tronai ( e , and lnspir « c «« nr

      suffrages , the voredo I feel ( bound to declare my « entlmtnti and my principles . Ilwr « mn « t be po miacenepp'tion between us . I an not via ambitious man , who sometimes dream of th « application of subversive tbeerigi . Educated In free countries In the school of misfortune , I shall always remain falthfal to the duties which your iuffraftes shall impose on me , and t » e will of the Assembly . If I am named president , I will not retreat before ¦ anj danger , before any sacrifice , to defend society so audaciously attacked . I will devote myself wholly , with-• out mental reservation , te consolidating a republic wise in Us laws ; honest in Us intentions , great and powerful by itsacti . I shall engage my honour to leave , at the end * t four years , power consolidated , liberty untouched , And a real progreBg accomplish ^; ' Whatever may be the

      re-« ulUftbec ! ection , I shall bow before the will oftb * people ; and my . cqncurrenc * Is given by Antici pation to anyjtst and firm government which re estRblishi's , moral as well as payslcal rder , which effectually protects religion , family , and property , the eternal bases of all epeiety , ¦ which takes the initiative in all reasonable reforms , ealms animosities , reconciles parties , and thus allows th « disturbed country to r « ly on the morrow . To re-establish order , is to restore confidence , to provide , by eita . blisiRR credit , for the . temporary insufficiency of re ' sources , —U restore financial prosperity . To protect fellgien amd family , "is to aisure the liberty « f worihip and the liberty of lastructkm . To protect property , is to maintain the inviolability of the produce ef labour , " is to xuanntee tbe independence and security of possession , —

      lndispansakle foundaticm of civil liberty . A « to the reforms that mny be effected , tne following uppear to me the most urgent : —To adopt such HtM economy as , without injury to tlie public servicei will allow a dim i nution of tbe most onerous burdens of the people ; to encourage etitetprises , which , by developing the riches of agricutture , may in France and Algeria afford employment to unemplqjtd artisans ; to provide for old age of the ope . rttire claaseg by suitable instlfutions ; to introduce into our industrial laws the ameliorations which tend not to ruin tbe rich for the advantage of the poor , but to found the welfare of each on the . prosperity of nil ; to restrain within just limits thei number or employes dependent on the state , and which oft « n make a free people a people of mcudloants . To avoid that dangerous tendency which

      induces the state to execute itself what Drlvata parties could do as well er better than it . The centralisation of iMtereits and enterprises is a kind of despotism ; The principle of a republic is opposed to monopoly . Anil lastly , to preserve the press from the two excesses which always compromise It-arbitrary interference , and its own litence . WHk w » r , there could be no cure fpr our ills . Peace , then , would' be the' most ' intense of tny wishes . France , at the first revolution , was warlike , because she was ctmpelled to be se > . To invasion she responded by conquest ; Now she is not provoked to it , she may con secrateherreaourctB . to pacific ameliorations , without renouncing nnhoncit and resolute policy . A great natUn should hold Its peace , or never speak in vain . To care for the national dignity , < s to care for the army , whose patriotism , so noble and id « iiintcreated , hes been often mistaken ; In maintaining the fundamental laws w-ich are the strength of our military organisation , the load of

      the conscription sb « uld be lightened , and not aggravated . Not only the officers , but the subalterns andsgldier * who have so long served under tbe banwrs of the country , must have a certain provision made tor them : There , public must be generous , and place faith in i t * future . I , who have { known exile and captivity , Uok forward with the most ardent hopes to the day . when the country nay , without danger , abolish all proscriptions , and effucetho last trace * of our civil dtscords . Such are , ray dear fellow-citizens , the Ideas that I shall carry to the exercise ofpower . ifyoueleetme to the presidency of therepublic . The tack is difficult—the mission most important I am aware ; but I do not despair of discharging it , In calling to its accomplishment , without distinction of i ctrtits , the men whose bigh intelligence and probity mom . mend them in public opinioi . Moreover , when plactd ut the head of the French people , tberiis an infallible means ofeiTectlne eood-thnt is , to detire it .

      If words were a mirror , in which we could see the writer or the speaker faithfully , represented , we would reject the objectionable portion of the above address , and accept the major part of it , as constituting King Constable ' s ample qualification to fill the office to which he aspires ; but as great men , great poets , statesmen , philosophers and warriors , invent , stereo * type and perpetuate 4 heir proverbs , we , of the little fry , may be permitted humbly to follow in their footsteps , and our proverb—which is strongly illustrative , of v King Constable ' s position , as it is , and as it will be if electedis , THAT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEN SEEKING FOR POWER , AND EXERCISING POWER . . ' * Words are bat wind , actions speak the mind ;" and , as one of the most wily diplomatists of ancient or modern times has truly said , " Words are given to men to conceal , not to express .

      tkellf oi > Won « , " we attach but slight importance to the index of King Constable ' s future career . The composition is good ; the points are well selected and ably , because briefly , sustained , and , as a whole , it is a perfect masterpiece of policy ; but , then , the King Constable did not write it ; and the very fact of his net . writing it is evident proof that in his canvass , as in his office , he is a tool in the hands of some clever mechanic . And if wewere called upon for an opinion as to his fitness to fill the high office for which he is now a candidate , and were we in total

      ignorance of his character , his incapacity , and vain ambition , we should unhesitatingly declare , that the very fact of a large portion of the English Press playing their "SPECIAL" of the 10 th OF APRIL against his rivals , is , of itself , sufficient proof of his incapacity , and establishes the conviction , in our mind at least , that already their exists some secret conspiracy between English diplomatists and the French-English "Special . " Although all time antecedent to the passing of the Reform Bill , may , of chronological right , belong to the OLD ALMANAC , as far as mere English questions are cdncerned , nevertheless we cannot banish from our minds

      the fact , that , both previously and subsequent to the passing of that measure , the policy of England has been operated upon , and sometimes wholly governed , by foreign events . Hence / the revolution of 1793 led to England ' s necessity for creating the Irish rebellion , for the purpose of establishing the Irish Union ; and had it not been for the treachery and perfidy of Dumouriez , all the promises held out by the affrighted English Minister to the Irish people , would have been realised ; while the treachery of that English tool emboldened the British Minister , and changed the promise of amelioration and emancipation into increased stringency and violence .

      Our National Debt was not wholly incurred for our foreign " wars , fought upon the battle field . ; Np ; a large , if hot the major portion of it , was distributed as Secret Service Money to the traitors of foreign nations . Again , the Revolution of 1830 — the . three glorious days in Paris—and not English agitation , secured the Reform Bill ; while the dread occasioned- by the French Revolution in February , would have ' secured a vast extension " of rights for the English people , had not its real objects been frustrated by traitors abroad and traitors at home . As long as Frenc liberty was in the scale , English , opinion was balanced ; but the moment that the Provisional

      Government of France- ' -with a poet at its head—was tickled by the English Press , and perhaps somethingmore substantial , the results promised in February vanished in April , and the English Government became more than ever tyrannical . Not only was the law perverted , but the Constitution was suspended . And if there was not a tyrannical law directed against the liberty of the . Press , it was presumed that the definition given , by Lords Brougham and Campbell , of theGagging Act would have equally secured itsproatration . ; It takes some time to , chance the customs

      of an old family ; they cannot all at once relinquish those social habits . upon which depends their social position ; to give up the hounds creates alarm ; to put down a few carriages excites suspicion j to dismiss a large portion of the , household bespeaks poverty ; and the inability te meet tradesmen ' s bills entails expense , ^ ad but too often contumely j and hence the weak and vain man will go on plodding in theioijd to ruin , while courage and economy migbj ;! j $ ye bayed him from the gulf . If all these / anijr ^ c ^^ nges , when made , proceed by slow degr ^ yfto ' vflmuch longer time does it require to ehforM those PRUDENT AND

      NECESSARY CONCESSIONS from a Go vcrnment that'lives upon existing dissipation and abuse > Hdwpyw ; as the day of reckoning is sure to come upon ^ he individual , so is it sure to overtake thei Qdvernmen t , and the protec tion of Engliahifien against those former connivances by which England was enabled to hold its sway , will now be found in the fact , that

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      THE WEST RIDING ELECTION . la whichever w » t the . pending eieotioa for tke Weat Riding of Yorkshire n » j end , the cause of the people will gam nothing by it . The faottoni lure minaged to iei « e on the ground , and willeffectn * lly keep oat of it » ny man who could be really aieful to the country . Wheo the Mobmiko Post made the announcement in a leading article respecting the possible candidature of Mr Richard Onstler , it inspired for the moment a hepe that the Tor ; party Were beginning to awaken to a tenwof their

      real position , ind to see that the only thing that can lave the landlords from being swallowed np b . v the moneyocraoy , and the cottonocracy , wm to join the people , and struggle ftr tbe ascendancy of win . ciples which will enable men to lira ia th « lr na five land by means of honest industry , instead of oontertinR society into one v »* t gaming house , and ruining every thing wally valuable in a nation , bs making the maxlm ~ " Boy in the bheapest : sell in the dearest matket "—the sole religion , conscience , morali , and buiioeBs of mankind . It teem ? , howeTer , that they ate not yet aware of their true poiitios , or of the ruin which impends over all the great interests of the Nation , in oonsequenoe of the blind and anicidal policy which now predominatM ia the National Gouucila . The We » t ^ ' ^ J ? »? 4 wadto . tto altetnatWe « tberof leot

      , . , « ing a iteadfwt supporter of things as tbey > re ~ i friend to all existing abates in Church and State S £ . "W ^ 5 wh ^? JwWbi i * Kberality- * ague hoDghthey-be-. it is evident not the slightestT re . sSoLnff Wf ' T efi « tP « Wioa Pplainoeof to iSS I " 1167 ! ^ dB ' V « rsufficient inH ^ . ^ Macte ' with tke brand of insiacerity » nd equlvooation , and amply justified the descriD ^? n ^« o ««» applied to him by the good SffS Sn&n « Mfi , CanniDB ?*» SmilU . " The mSSfc £ ft j ° narro ; ed his B' * t « m 8 ntt with Biw nn » : ? i the ® aff a r-a » ho waspteiiedby succet . "syw ™ ' u one ^ the ri ° he 8 t « p ««««« of tlS ^ SL J n »? w « -eMmiDation , and at the same m \ ° ?? Rarest exhibitions of innate Tory . mfn f tuTh « me » ber . Sir OulliDg , if « enttoP » tlia-» en t . will be eyery ^ chRWbig . Fow , tf any , of that

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      MR CHARLES BULLER . The sudden death of this gentlaman in the very prime of life , is a sad blow to the part ; at present ia office . There can be no doubt that , taking him all in all , he was theolevereBtman among them ;| and apart ftota Ms undoubted talents , possessed the ait of concilia * '• ion in a remarkable degree . His hnmorous Bpeeches , and good hearted macner , made him popular alika with all parties . His recent appointment as President of the recon . ititoied Poor Law Board gave promise to the conn » try of a more humane and satisfactory administration of a law which has from the moment of its enactment been universally and deservedly unpopular . During the short period he held the office , the complaints

      respecting i a banbneis , cruelty , and inhumanityforreerly > o frequent—greatly diminished ; and though he was prevented b ; the preiiure of other business from attending to the question—a prominent one in Parliament—yet be gave indications of a caretul tutf thorough study of the Bub&ect , with a ykiw to intro * duce practical awi beneficial alterations in the law * alterations not suggested by a fanatical code of poli . tical eoonomy . but by theaotualcirctrmstnnces ot both rate p »; era and rate-receiveru . Jaat at the oleso of the senion ae introduced a batch of bills of a ip-newna ' t temporary and transitional nature , on Which the impess of his own pecuUarl&&ank and busioeM-like oharaoter was ocmi » t 3 jfeably itumped , and it wm curious cnoueh to waffltf . iho

      sddreis , and the impurUble good humour with , which he managed to carry all parties with him ai far as he went . There can bt no doubt that , had ha not been thus suddenly cat off , we ehoald have had some Tety beneficial alterations and amendment ! made in the law during the enuiirg Session . By his death another man of much influence has been removed from the Lower House . It opens a wide Geld o ipeculation as U tbe effect , which the death of two such men as Lord G . Beotinok snd Mr C Bailer , will hare on the psliticsl deetiny of their respective par . tie ) , The Whigs were too weak , both in talent , intel . licence , and personal popularity to spare a singla man ; and the lota of one who possessed all these qualities in a pre-eminent degree cannot fail to bo a

      tenons and damaging blow to them . On the other hand , the " ruck" of th « Protectioniate-no longer withheld by the sturdy honesty of Lord G . Bentinok from fraternising with the abler Feel section of the Conservative *—are not at nil unlikely to join them , for the purpose of driving the present Ministry from effica . We observe that the war between the Proteotioniot and Peel organs , to which wa referred a few weeks ago , is still carried on ; but , in the case of the latter , with a boWnessmnd determination that indicates its labours are telling upon the parties it addresses . If a fusion of these two sections is once

      effected , the lease of Whig offioe-holding will have run out—a consummation most devoutly to ba wished for—and we will add our most fervent hope that , g » when they may , they may never again be allowed to insult , deceive , and oppress the people of England . Some rumours of a reconstruction of the Cabinet , caused by the contemplated retirement of Lord J . Russell , Bcera to be entirely without foundation , and to be merely the common f&bricatio&a of the Press about this time of the year , whioh appear as regularly ae the accounts of the " eea . serpent , " and other periodical wonders , in the imaginative columns of our contemporaries .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 2, 1848, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1499/page/4/