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National Laxd Company . —Any person wishing to purchase a paid-up four-acre share in tUa Land Company , bj applying to the Directors or to Mi- . Sutcliffe throug h Mr . Boonham at the office , will receive all necessary information , IIcsGAin . —To the Editor ot the Noktuekn Stab . --Demi Sib , —I observe that throughout England the friends of non-resistance are at much trouble to prove their consistency in holding peace principles , and supporting the Hungarians . I would recommend them to bury the word consistency , and substitute the word right . The Hungarian movement is so just that its influence is irrepressible : then why be sodelicutc ? Say , at once , "Death to the Cossacks , and ' suecesstoKossuthand Bern , " and , above all , strive to make England do her duty . I also observe that the absolutist journalshave published a semi-official
reply to Lord Palmerston ' s speech , in which they put tlle question on its true merit—to wit , are Austria and Hungary to be divided ? Let England , through her Home Secretary . answer in favour of Hungarian independence , then her government will be defacto , what , her people recognise dejure . As the question now stands , Hungary is guaranteed to Austria by treaty , to which England and Russia were parties , Break the treaty ; the step is a bold but a necessary one . As for that bugbear—the " balance of power "—it is high time that it bo rc-acljusted . It has been a balance on the wrong side for upwards of thirty years , and cannot be too soon put to rights . —faithfully yours , S . Kydd . —Carlisle . The Testimonial to the fluKGAitrAvs—The following appeal was recently laid before the workmen in the Locomotive Carriage * and Waggon Department , South-Eastern Railway , Bricklayers' Arms station , Old Kentroad : —
" All men are brethren . " Englishmen ; Englishmen , Englishmen , Arouse from your slumbers ! Piftv-five Hungarian . soldiers , who some months ago joined the Italian patriots , and turned their arms against the Austrian tyrant , have been by the reverses of war , cast upon the shores of this country , refugees from tke vengeance of fiadetski , the fitting instrument of a bloodstained despotism . Those brave Hungarians arrived here penniless , friendless , and worn down with hunger , sickness , fatigue , and wounds . Their position made known to the public through the press has already elicited considerable evidences of British sympathy , but further pecuniary aid is required to furnish those gallant
patriots with the means of repairing to thcirnntive country , whether they desire to return to give the aid of their good swords to Kossuth and his gallant confederates , who at present are nobly struggling to save their fatherland from the sanguinary and brutalising sway of the Russian and Austrian tyrants . To testify your sympathy for the heroic but unfortunate men cast upon the bounty of England , and to thereby express your admiration of the holy cause , in defence of which their chivalrous countrymen are , at this moment , contending against barbarian force . We , therefore , earnestly implore you to contribute your subscriptions , and to do lor these men as you would wish to be done for , under the like circumstances .
The following sums , amounting to £ 1 2 s . 9 d ., were rereceived by Mr . Osmond Martin , and by him paid over to 31 r . Julian Harney : —Osmond Martin , Is ; A Lover of Liberty , Is ; W . Chapman , Gd ; George Heather , Cd ; T . Drake , 3 d ; John Hughes , Cd ; J . Burton , ( id ; W . Whitehead , Gd ; T . Star , lid ; W . Mitchell , 3 d ; Henry Burrows , 3 d ; A . Heith , 3 d ; John l ' earce , 3 d ; C . Fish , !) d ; C . Harrison , 3 d ; E . Sherrington , Sd ; C . Often , 3 d ; R . Stebbings , Cd ; J . Henness , 3 d ; W . Staples , ( id ; W . Fraukum , Is ; Henry Feltham , ( id ; G . Frear , 3 d ; C . Uarnett , 3 d : G . Martin , 3 d ; W . Yeninjr , 3 d ; T . Soles , 3 d ; W . Holly , 3 d ; J . Welch , Gd ; J . i ' eltham , 3 d ; Z . TVilkings , 3 d : Mr . R . Lee , Ud ; Mr . J . Martin , Is ; 11 . Searle , 3 d ; E . Dcddridge , 3 d ; J . Heading , 3 d ; W . Soans , 3 d ; L . Casev , 3 d ; It . Bu . rrows . 3 d ; J . Morris , 6 d ; G . Kelly , 3 d ; C . Barnes , Cd ; Thomas Lcncham , Cd ; 11 . Swinerton , ( id ; James Kiddle , Cd ; J . Ohilds , Cd ; J . Xicol , Cd ; 6 . Gray , 3 d ; Mr . G . Duimner , Cd ; W . Uarnett , 3 d ; J . Ward , ( id ; J . Young , 3 d ; Mr . Nobbs , Gd ;
W . Dickenson , 3 d ; Henry Knell , 3 d ; E . Coxon , 3 d ; \ V . Feltham , 3 d ; E . Denby , 3 d . $ & The account of £ 1 is yd was paid over to the Sun newspaper by Air . Harney on the 11 th ot August , and was ' acknowledged in that paper . HoNGAity . — Julian Jlarney acknowledges the following sums in aid of the Hungarian cause : —Collected at a Public Meeting at Berry-Edge , per Mark Dent , 13 s . ; James Vowell , Monmoutti , Is . ; " ^ YaUace , " 4 d . J . Swebt acknowledges the receipt of Is 3 d from Ketford fur Conference expanses . —For Dr . M'Douall , . Mr . Smith , Cd . —For Macnaniara ' s Action , New li . idfbrd , per W . Smalley , 3 s Gd . KiBKOALG 1 'KisoxEits . —Thomas Ormesher acknowledges the following sums : —Failsworth , per James Taylor , ( is ; Bury , a Friend , per Mr . Jones , Us ; Bury , Victim-box , per Air . Jones , us . Did . Mr . Hemni has received , for the Kirkdule Prisoners , from radiham , per Hubert Dodson , Cs ; also from llebdeu
Bridge the sum oi ' us . To the Editor of the Nojitiiern Star . —Dear Sir , —I am requested , by the Colonel Hutehinson locality , to call your attention to an article in the Nottingham Review entitled , " Work for the Recess . " They will ba glad if you will lind room in the Star for it , also the following resolution : — "This meeting is highly gratified with the aforesaid article , it being a noble vindication of the rights of the working man , and a just expose at the tyranny of 'the ruling class , and a noble call on Englishmen to arise and demand their just rights , and that we feel grateful for such noble conduct . "—Yours fraternally , J . Wall . We are unavoidably compelled to postpone the publication sent by the National Association of Trades , and a visit to Gharterrille , through press of matter . '
6 . Mooues . —We must persist in our refusal to give publicity to an irritating and useless discussion . J . Wuigley . —You cannot reasonably expect us to publish a comment on an unpublished communication . Mr . Nixox , Lecturer , of Manchester , is requested to communicate with Mr . Enoch Sykes , ID , Lucas-yard , Xewtotvn , JlndersfielJ . Mu . . N ' iswro . v , Leeds , has only sent the cost for one insertion of the advertisement . The duty is chargeable on each separate insertion . Ma . Andrews , Tcrrington , St . Clements . —You should have remitted 8 s . for the advertisements . E . Hemlap . —Declined . W . Mcnday . —Received . H . Brook , Hudderslield . —The letter shall appear next week .
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THE "DISPATCH" AND MR . O'CONNOR . While it is an admitted fact that the ceusurc of slaves is adulation , it is equally true that the fair criticism of commentators is not only just , but should be courted , and we freely grant to the "Dispatch "—not only the privilege , but the right , to criticise iiud scan severely tho acts of every public man , and more especially the acts of him who lms been so extensively gifted with the confidence of a large and independent class . "W ith this view , and unwilling to snatch more sentences from the article upon which we are about to commeut , we give in another part of tho paper that article full and entire , and to its perusal we invite the strictest attention of our numerous lwirlfii's .
Our object has ever been the exposure and not the suppression of public opinion , however its growth or change may militate against our popularity by the exposure of our iguorance ; as nothing can bo more essential to the developement of the improving mind , than a knowledge of its results , from a proper direction . The " Dispatch " has criticised Mr . 0 'Coxyon in his political , and in his social character . In its political review he is placed in the same category with Oastlkr and Stephens , with whom he was never politically associated , but the fallacy of whose political principles he has
always exposed ; while he is made responsible for every act committed b y those professing Chartism , whose acts , however , in many instances , were based upon sordid and selfish motives . But if wo desired a perfect proof , and the strongest illustration of the value of that mind which Mr . O ' Connor has iudustriously created , could we instance a stronger , a more irrefutable , or more conclusive one , than the foot that tho strong party now seeking for political ascendancy is compelled to court that mind , as tho only power and means by which its object can be accomplished . But fwc required still stronger proof , it will be
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-. iiMW . Tnr'V "' " j- " < uiiiii ' 1 nw ii '" i' " "'" ' — "" te' ^ nith ^^^ ^™ - sontativos of that party , am their 1 ross , althousrh confident of their inability to carry out their object without the co-operation otthe Chartist mind , are , nevertheless , anxious to o-cfc rid of him who created that mmd ; _ a circumstance most calculated to inspire the belief that the intention is to pervert it to a class instead of a national purpose . The " Dispatch" tells us : — That we have seen the end if not of the Charter at least of Chartism ., It has had a strange and eventtul lustoij . J ( ^ ^ JTW » tt-W- **' l Mt ^^* ^^^^^ "" Trim „ ... — ,.. _ ~ . — . _ ,. , .
We confess our inability to solve tho meanino- or to arrive at any solution of the above sentence-other than that Chartism , however violent , it may have been in consequ ence ot the tyranny of all opposed to it , is now about to accomplish its purpose , namely , the OUAit-TER ; the only object of Chartism . Further on we are told : — The Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association has now directed the zeal of the misguided into a less tortuous channel , and made the torrent of Chartism to flow in a steadier , and therefore stronger current . Well , then , in tho two foregoing sentences have we not the strongest laudation of CHATi-T 1 SM as the moans , and tho CHARTER as the end . Not that tho Chartists have
abandoned Chartism , but that tho Keform Association has all but accepted it ; and what , loi us ask , has been tho great difficulty that l ? as haunted Mr . O'Connor in his varied but conlsistent political career ? Has it not been the repudiation of tho sayings , and doings , and declarations , and principles of those who have taken advantage of the hour of excitement and enthusiasm , consequent upon bad trade , to urge the Chartists on to physical force , iu the hope of making profit by madness ? - And what now would be the strength and the power of the Reform Association , if Chartism , the master quill , was plucked from its wing ? And if they have been so weakened by deception and deceit , why this laudation at their union
with those to whom they were formerly placed in antagonism ? But if wo required stronger proof of the justice of the Chartist cause , will it not be found in the fact , that every speaker at the great Metropolitan meeting in Drury Lane Theatre , not only confessed their preference of , but actually contended tor , four of the principles of the PEOPLE'S CHARTER whole and entire , namely : Vote by Ballot , Equal Electoral Districts , Universal Suffrage , and no . Property Qualification . So that we may justly turn upon our former opponents and say , " Thank God you have gained wisdom from the past , and have now adopted those principles , the advocates of which , not long since , you not only desp ised and repudiated , but persecuted as employers and jurors . "
Has tho " Dispatch" ever reflected upon the rugged path through which Chartism has had to pass ? Has tho writer forgotten that Church and State , the Queen , the Lords , the Commons , bishops , parsons , officers , soldiers , policemen , detectives , spies , informers ^ landlords , money-lords , placemen , pensioners , bankers , merchants , manufacturers , shopkeepers , perfumed Athenaeum tradesmen , judges , barristers , lawyers , jurymen , satisfied labourers , special constables , and , though last not least , the Press , and every class that lived
luxuriously upon the unrepresented and unprotected industry of the poor , were , one and all , placed in the most dire hostilit y to those principles , whose solo and only object was to make the labourer " the first partaker of the fruits of his own industry ; " and when those facts are borne in mind , can a greater tribute of praise be offered to any man than to him , who , in defiance of these repugnant and opposingolemeiits , has so created and organised the reviled party as to make them the terror of oneclass and worthy thecourtshipandfrateruisation of the other ? And however the Chartist
meeting of Kcnnington-common may do now reviled , it was the greatest triumph over achieved by Chartism , and the greatest blow ever struck at tyranny : and we would ask what Mv .-0 'CosNOJi ' s position would have boon , and how loud the " 0 bo joyful ' of his enemies would have been on the 10 th of April , if , instead of sitting in the front ranks of the Chartist troops , and passing through thousands and tens of thousands of policemen , special constables , and soldiers , with the Iron Duke at their head , and the Treasury at their hack , he had skulked out of danger and allowed his
companions to be sacrificed to the tyranny of the Government , and . the vengeance of their myrmidons , anxious and ready to exhibit English loyalty as a lesson to then revolutionised Europe ? or what would have boon the criticism of the Press upon the folly , the madness , and the cowardice of Mr . O'Coejcou , if ho had brought an unarmed multitutlw into deadly conflict with armed ruffians panting for their blood ? It is our triumph and not our defeat , upon the glorious 10 th of April , that our rulers and their supporters lament and writhe under .
We arc glad to find that it was the RABBLE , and not the PEOPLE , who combined with the aristocracy to crush the Anti-Corn-Law League , and we would remind tho " Bisp . itch" of tho " Groat Fact , " that the Chartists' opposition to the League was that it did not go far enough , inasmuch as the Chartists contended that , without Free Trade in representation , the industrious poor , who were tributary to the rich , could derive no benefit from Free Trade in food , as their wages would ho correspondingly reduced ; and tho truth of which is fully established by the fact , that
those who then contended for more Free Trade in food are now recruiting the Chartist force to contend for Free Trade in representation , as the only means by which the anomalous power of monopoly , of patronage , and the feudal system can be utterly broken down . And has the " Dispatch" forgotten that although Chartists were expelled from Free Trade meetings , and treated brutally by Free Trade professors , that the Manchester Chartists , at one of the
largest gatherings over collected in that hive , passed a resolution iu favour of Free Trade the year before it became law , upon the just and honest principle , that if withhold in consequence of their opposition , it would enable the League to create hostility between the starving Irish , and impoverished English , and tho Chartist hotly , upon the pretext , that but for their resistance they would have had food for nothing . The " Dispatch" says : —
It may be conceded to Mr . O'Connor that he had the merit of organisms tin ; power of the labouring classes , and concentrating their strength more effectually and formidably than tiiey had ever lieeu before - , and whatever may lie ofir opinion of the total want of sense anil discretion which characterised his guidance of these elements ofpolitieal elVeetualit . v , we cannot withhold our admiration from tlie unslmVcn fidelity and trustfulness which has been exhibited by bis followers , or the eiiergy and combining skill which , in his hands , might have better served a better
cause . The above is rather a censure upon the knowledge and discrimination of the working classes , than upon Mr . O'Connor ; hut when the working classes still preserve that confidence , as they do , it is a proof that ho has not laboured in their cause in vain , for they , over faithful , grateful , and confiding , will cast their eye upon the p ? , st aud exclaim , "But for the leadership of this unwearying , this disinterested , reviled , and persecuted man , would the day of auction have ever come when our power , our strength , and our resolution , was worthy the strongest competition of all parties who now fiud that without us they are powerless , with us they are powerful ? " '
Before Mr . O'Cojraon undertook the leadership of the industrious miud , it was capable of being sectionall y catered for for tho mero individual purposes of an interested person ; it was scattered like wild heather over the surface of the earth , but b y his influence it is now amalgamated as the national mental strength , which no man or set of men , can or shall scatter or break up . And those who vainly imagine , or hope to destroy that mind for the purpose of directing 5 t to some class purpose , will find their mistake .
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Tho " Dispatch'' iTocccds thus ;—IIuIkis , p . s he now ir . isirms us , taken his leave rf nubi ' ic life—not until , iu our candid apprehension , it lias taki-n . leave of him . His iulli ' icuuc was great—has been abused , and has been lost . No . Never ! audif ' , paralysed by ingratitude , grey-headed , and bowed down Avith old ago , the very rejoicings of'iiis enemies at his departure from public life , has invigorated him , as if by magic , and taught him the wholesome lesson , that to his abandonment of the cause his enemies attach hope of its frustration . He will show thorn , before Parliament meets , whether he has abandoned , public life , and notwithstanding the hostility and the rancour of the Press , there is not a large town in England , Scotland , and Wales , in which he will not develope the mind of the people , and test and prove its adhesion to the present move-== - „ ,, ( i ,-.. ,., ,..,.,, _ ,.,,, i .. i ,., „ .
ment , as neither insult , rancour , nor vituperation , - shall ever make him an instrument to arrest the onward progress of freedom . Here we conclude our political . comment upon the article in tho " Dispatch ; " and now turn we to the consideration of Mr . O'Connok ' s much reviled Land Plan . And we think that the following passage upon this Scheme will be as strong a justification for his social priucipfo , as the" Dispatch" has furnished of his political consistency . The writer says : —
Yet there is not a king dom in Europe in winch so small a proportion of the whole nuinber of the people derive any « mnort from the tillinff of the earth as m tins realm ; the my « UlulTcmiloUn » « s ricult « r « l jmrsmts in Great Britai being not quite one-sixth of tlw whole male adnl nonunion of the king dom . Cottages have been pulled doFui whenever the peasantry have been wheedled into the unio-i or hounded out of the parish by sham Game-Law liroseCUtlollS . Tho Irish landlords have helped their Clearance system by conspiring with steam-boat propr . etor o earrv over the Hibernian bog-trotters to Liverpool or Glasgow - at nominal fares , and to charge txorb , ant
rates foi ° the passage back to Ireland again . Small terms have been run into lav ^ e ones—the rural districts have been desolated and depopulated . The masses ot the people DnVC been driven into the largo towns , and confined to the pursuit of manufacturing aud handicraft industry ; while the few who have been left in the country to cultivate lmperfectlv the soil , have been reduced to a minimum ot wages inadequate to the supply of mere food , and totally incompetent to the acquisition of clothing and other . secondary necessaries . TUcse circumstances have resulted m the destruction of a home trade . The equilibrium of occupation between nscriculture and manufactures has been
altucether disturbeil . Five-sixths of the population nave ueen made producers of clothing and other manufactures . Only one-sixth have been left to be their customers m exchange for food—and the impoverished condition ol that onc-smli is so croat , that they are all but profitless consumers of the produce of the towns ; insomuch that thousands of the peasantry go without any new purchases of clothinc for many years . Now the object of this Land Scheme is to restore this equilibrium . It proposes to create a large new class of rural freeholders , who , by the acquisition of county qualifications , shall acquire tbatstaVe in the country , which is the best guarantee for order , and attain an amount of political power which may transfer the representation of the country from the peers to the people . It designs to transpose a large proportion ot Ihemdustry ol tho country from the pursuit of manufactures , in which there is too mnch competition ami too little consumption ,
to agriculture , iu which there is too little labour employed , and too few consumers of manufactures luft . It expects , bv drafting off the surplus labour of the towns , to raise \ vaces there , and by malting these drafted corps freeholders ; to promote the fertility of tho soil , and increase the number of the poor who are their own employers , andmailu independent of wages . No end can be bettor than this . i \«> scheme for the regeneration of society promises more usehil results . Xo failure has been more complete—no means less adapted to the olg « ct . ' When , indeed , we bear its projector from Dnivy-lnne promising to every working man 40 s . a day , or £ 730 a jear , we arc at uo loss to know where the source of the abortion is to be found ; and earnestly would wo advise bis followers to hold him to his word , tit retiring into private life , or once more going to law and calling himself to the bar , to which he has been too often brought up already . "
Letusnow ,-without ostentation , ask our humble readers how often they have read , though , perhaps in different language , every idea developed in the above passage ? Have we not shown that while the earth is ready to yield forth its abundance , that there is no country in Europe iu which , there is so muck idle kud » idle labour , and idle money ; and have we not shown that the system is upheld for the mere purpose of driving the agricultural labourer in to the manufacturing town , for the purpose of reducing wages by competition ? Have we not , over and over again , shown that Ireland ' s great difficulty commenced with knocking small farms into large ones , when forty-shilling freeholds were abolished ? Have wo not shown to
the English working people that one of their greatest difficulties was that of being obliged to contend against tho influx of Irish paupers , disinherited jmd driven from the land of their birth by the tyranny of their taskmasters ? And did wo not in 1810 , in reply to an absurd anti-Irish , tirade published in the "Dispatch , " show that this Irish clearance system had depreciated the wages of English operatives by at least thirty millions a year ? And have we not shown that Belgium , with a population , according to extent of territory , exceeding that of England by from twenty to thirty per cent ., is enabled
to live and semi us immense exports or food , by tho small farm system , bused upon" * a rotation of crops , and where rent is four times as high as in England or Ireland 1 And have wo not shown , over and over again , thatthe surplus population which now constitutes tho competitive power for mincing wages , 'if placed upon the land , would become bettor customers to our manufacturers and operatives than if consigned as paupers to the poor law bastile , and better producers of food for those who would then be bettor customers than any other foreign nation or all other foreign nations put together . And have we not shown that theredoesexist an
identity of interest between agriculture and manufactures which must one day be recognised and carried into practice by laws made by all ? Ifavc we not contended for a Minister of Agriculture ? And have we not repeated to surfeit every word contained inthe above passage , until oui' folly has become the wisdom of others , an'l now Mr . O'Oonxok , the pvopoundor , is tho only man that's not capable of carrying the Plan out successfully . Does not this remind our readers of his inability to carry out Chartism ? And will " they not come to the conclusion , that the dread of him consists in tho confidence of the working classes , to establish the political means and the social end which he has so long and so successfullv developed .
It is marvellous how newspaper writers , who cuter for tho morbid mind of a class , will base their opposition to a plan of which they highly approve , upon their hatred , or rather their dread , of him who professes to carry it out faithfully . The writer in tho " Dispatch" would prove Mr . O'Connor ' s inability to carry out this Land Scheme success-Cully , upon the mere grounds that he promised that its developement would give 20 s ., 80 s ., or iOs . n day to every labouring man , whereas what Mr . O'Connou did say—or , what ho must have meant to say , was , that the fair developement of the Labour Question would < nve
20 s ., 305 ., or 40 s ., A WEEK—and not a day—to every industrious man , and this is sufficiently proved by tho context , as Mr . O'Connor compared it with the Us . and Gs . a week now paid to labourers , every man perfectly understanding that iis . and 6 s . A DAY is not NOYV earned b y labourers . But the commentator , not prepared to take an average or to measure tho aggregate amount by the standard of piety , has forgotten the Fourth Commandment , and that man does not work upon the Sabbath , and is not paid for it , while ho has taken tho amount of wages at the highest , and made him work 3 G 5 days in the yoar , as twice 3 G 5 is 730 .
# There is something very ludicrous in the notion th at the agricuHuraUabourer , like tho poet , la born , not made . When Adam di-lveil ami Eve span , \\ ho was then the husbandman ? Wo have paraphrased the line , substituting "husbandman" for " gentleman . " But we would ask the commentator whether it is more easy to teach a man to make a watch , to make a clock , tomakeastoam engine , tomake a table , chair , or sofa , to make a , candlestick , a musket , or a razor , or to dig the ground ? jN ' ow it mav bo true , and is true , that
1 octa naseitur , non fit" a poet is born , not made ; ' so , in a great measure , is the musician and tho mathematiciau--their organs develope a natural taste for those sciences ; but will the commentator—if he is a phrenolog ist—have the goodness to point out the organ that developes
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the tasto for g iuimaki : i « -, watchmaking , ehairmakmg , and Cinidiesfwkuiijking ? Why there is not a man with common habits of industry who will not become a gojd practical , agricultural labourer in three months , while he ^ onld find it difficult to make a watch , or become a mechanic in seven years . And as to tho tailor not being taught to grow cabbage all at once , CABBAGE is the first thing that the tailor learns . His cabbage grows out of another man ' s coat , , . , . ^ . *' , „ | ., stn ior ffiuimaiciii" ; , Avaicli 2 r . ; ii-: mer ,
bnt he would find it more agreeable and profitable to grow it out of his own Innd , Surely , Mr . O'CosfNOU has told his readers , over and over again , that house-feeding and soiling constituted one of the main features of his Land Plan ; but here , as with his politics , we have the free admission that both are right ; the one if placed under the guardianship of Free Traders , and the other if consigned to the tender mercies of KINGHUDSON and a hoard of IIOKEST
DIRECTORS . If they held under such trustees of iindoubtcd responsibility , who would soon swallow up the funds in expensive management , instead of placing between 6 , 000 / . and 7 . 000 Z . of their own money in that fund ; then the advertisements in newspapers — no small itsm in the gobbled-up fund—would insure the countenance and laudation of the Press : and if failure , through robbery , was the result , there would bo too many black sheep to cull the real delinquent ; its very dovolopoment , though unsuccessful in its infancy , would have been the foreshadowing of England ' s greatness , and
though all were lost , the mere trial would have been a national benefit , and the jugglers would have been handed down to posterity , as the philanthropists of their day and the regencrators of their country . But as the CHARTIST DEVIL has done it , ami as not a penny has been paid for advertising , even in the " Northern W « r ; " as there is no such item as " sundries , " " miscellaneous estimates , " or even " travelling expenses , " the thing is a juggle , and the propounder is tlie only living man incapable of carrying it out . And yet the subscribers are exhorted to exempt the fund from embezzlement or dilapi dation .
We hero reprint the concluding passage from the " Dispatch ' . "We entreat the snhscrihers to the Land Scheme not to lose heart . Let them continue their subscriptions , taking proper precautions to secure the fund agains ! amlozzleineut anil dilapidation . While it accumulates : unl Ivars interest , it must he the object of the labouring elapses and their friends to bring rirnetieal knowledge and business habits to bear upon the proper development of a plan which we are convinced , if properly worked out ht'ars within it the seeds of the regt-niTution of the peasantry , nufi , through their elevatir . n , ofihe relief of the t'jilinff millions , and of the enfranchisement of the voiUiiie classes
through the rapid extension of 40 s . freeholder ? . It shall be our object to prove by the most incouti-onrtiblc evidence , that small holdings are capable of maii ! t : iinii ! £ millions iu comfort , aud entire independence upon the caprice of masters , or the precarious tenure of inadequate weekly wages . Although we admire the wise dread which the public entertain of projectors and "provincial Chancellors of Exchequer . " we . shall not shrink from also showing how tlie scheme of conferring farms of . all sizes upon vuiious classes of agriculturists , may be carried , into practical effect—and in the meantime we have but to counsel Ihe supporters of the Land Solieme to be cautious , bnt . not desponding . There is hope for them yet . which prudence and ability may convert into certainty and success .
"We have shown that tho object of the political article upon which we have commented , is to take Chartism out of the hands of Mr . O'Connor , and we could not give a stronger proof than is furnished in the above passage , of the ultimate hope and expectation of grasping the Land Plan , which he has bfion the lirsfc to propound and honourably carry out , in the hope of making it a stock-jobbing concern for newspapers , money-mongers , and speculators . But with the political means and the social end Jir . O'G'ONJfOH will still Iceep pace , outstepping his opponents in the race , but not urged to
opposition to the cause of Keform as propounded by the "Walmslev association—by insolence , denunciation , or slander . Is o . All the writers in England -will not only find it difficult , but impossible , to turn him from his course or hurl him from tho watch tower . Tho ingratitude of those whom lie has honestly served may wound him ; while threat , denunciation , or slander but increases his energy , nmkes his associates dearer , and confirms his resolve to die in tho cause of the people rather than abandon tlieii principles , or allow others to scatter that mental force which all acknowledge he has created , but tho legitimate and faithful direction of which ALITDREAD .
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AN OLD FOE WITH A NEW FACE . In tho earnestness and sincerity of its desire to promote political and financial reforms of a sound and genuine character , tho " "i'imes " has continued its criticisms on the united movement of the middle and working classes , and their great demonstration tit Drury-lan ' c Theatre . It is reall y very affecting to witness
the anxious solicitude exhibited b y this consistent , unswerving , and trustworthy organ oi lioform , lest the movement should * fail Tn consequence of having fallen into bad hands , or because of the difference of opinion upon particular topics , that nuiy happen to exist among some of those engaged in promoting the general objects set ' forth in the pro - ( y mmmo .
Most plaintivel y and most emphatically it repeats its lamentation ? , that " by the insincerity of purpose notoriously evinced in suck proceedings ( as those in Dairy Lane ) , what is good in tho cause of the Association is so greatly damaged ; " and it proceeds , after the fashion of the precocious urchin who taught his grandmother how to suclcoggs—to instruct Mr , CoPiDKN how fiuaucml reforms ought to bo sot about . It admits " we are now spending too much money ; that , " it adds , "is admitted on all sides . " ' Precisely tho reason , we presume , tlmt the " Times'" ' is so oxtraordimirily candid nu <\ explicit in the admission . But , then , " the question is , how to oiloct the largest and most judicious savino- ? " ! Uid tin *
reply of the " Times ' to that query is , in cnoet—not by having recourse to Universal Suilrage . Tho Ministerial journal lets the cat outof the bag . The ruling ' factions would nor hesitate to give up two or throe millions a year , if sore pressed by tho middle classes—much though the sacrifice would grieve them—but they arc mortally afraid of Universal Suffrage , and the formation of a House of Commons really representing tho whole adult population of tho country . They see clearly that such a change must ' inevitably take place at no distant period , if the middle and working _ classes continue united , and hence every engine at their command will be set to work for the purpose of severing that union .
¦ The " Times" insidiously asks Mr . Cobden and his friends , Does " Financial Rchvm depend upon Universal Suffrage ? or do the men of Manchester really think that such a condition of the franchise would promote tlie monetary prosperity of the country , «« Hjidfersiood by themselves ? Hare none of Mr . Coede . n- ' s colleagues in agitation ever found themselves opposed to ' the masses' whose alliance they now accept ? " and then the worth y
Mentor of Printing-house-square proceeds to assure his pupils that ' tho electoral constituencies are infinitely more amenable to their peculiar influence as they are at present composed . When they are indefinitely extended , no demagogic impulse can pervade the vast extent of opuionj and sentiments more natural and instructive than that ( query , < those ') of political economy , are soon / oiuuUo supersede and absorb the teaching of plutform agitators . "
Ino last sentence should bo hung up in every Chartist Lccturo-room , as the most empnatic exposition that has ever been given of the justice and the desirableness of Chartism . The great " Thunderer , " itself , proclaims that a complete enfranchisement of the people would emancipate them from " demagogic impulses , ' ' that " sentiments more natural ar , d instructive" than those of political economy , as
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NOTTINGHAM AND SHEFFIELD . Mr . O'Connor , will be in . Nottingham on Monday , and iu Sheffield on Tuesday next .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 25, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1536/page/4/
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