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      NOW READY with the MAGAZINES rosSEPIEMBER So . IV . of THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW Of BRITISH and FOREIGN POLITICS , HISTORY and LITERATURE . Edited by G . JULIAN HARNEY . CONTESTS : 1 . The Editor ' s Letter to the Working Classes on the New Reform Movement 2 . Letter from Paris . 3 . Our Inheritance : The Land common Property . Letter If . * J i . Social Reform : Louis Blanc on Competition . 5 . The Queen ' s Visit to Ireland . 6 . Democratic Progress . 7 . The Hungarian Struggle . Part II 8 . Places of Note in Hungary . 9 . Will of the Tsar Peter , Emperor of Russia . 10 . American Poetry . 1 L Literature . 12 . The late Henry netherington . 13 . Political Postcript

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      DEATH OF A CHARTIST PRISONER AND MARTYR , Silvio Pellico ' s affecting narrative of his sufferings in the dungeons of Austria , has made tens of thousands acquainted with the punishments which despotism awards to aspirations after political freedom in that country . Few have not shuddered at , tlm ranita .

      of the fiend-like atrocities perpetrated b y the " familiars" of the Holy Inquisition upon the unhappy Victims of its crusade against free thought and speech . It is but the other day that daylight was lot in at Rome upon its dungeons , its chains , and instruments of toi-tute , and men rejoiced in the belief that all chance of the restoration of such an infamous and horrible tribunal was destroyed for ever . It was reserved for the arms of Republican France to destroy the illusion , and to restore Rome to the priestly domination under which it had . so long groaned , and from which it had so nobly emancipated itself . *

      It is not unusual for the Pharisees at home to congratulate themselves , that , in this respect , at least , we are superior to other nations . They " thank God that we are not as other men , " or even as these Austvians . In the heat of their imagination they draw glowing pictures of the freedom of writing , speech , and action which exists in this happy land , and look down with , an air of lofty superiority , from their assumed elevation , on all the rest of tho world .

      What will such eulogists of our " glorious institutions" say to the legal murder which occurred last week in the Tothill Fields Prison ? The crime for which tho victim was condemned to imprisoament , prison diet , regulations , and discipline , was simply his discontent with these institutions , and his advocacy of others which he thought better fitted to promote the general well-being . However much the Crown lawyers might , bythe aid of legal phraseology , monster indictments for « sedition , " &c ., and factitious exaggeration of all kinds , magnify tho assumed offence of Joseph Williams , that was \ n reality ' aUd fl nt his

      No i ? J" ^ ' ° ° f offcBdi » SFor this offence the whole machinery of a State prosecution was set in motion against him and others , at atiino when themero accusation of being a Chartist was sufficient to ensure a verdict of « Guilty" from middle-class jurors , too panic-stricken and terrified to be able either to anal yse evidence , or coolly exa mine its veracity and value . As might be expected , verdicts were in every case given for tho Crown ; and our honest opinio n is , that if Sir John Jervis had chosen to try tho sub serviency of juries so far as to indict a Chartist for sedition against Prester John or the Gkeat Mogul , they would have convicted him of the offence .

      The Judges were nothing loth to second the efforts of jurors , lightened Ollt ofth ^ . bytho " iwliead and blood y bones " stories of the alarmist Press . They had their cue and in every instance awarded sentences y , rc ' posterously severe , compared with tho alleged offences . But . then theywevojustified in < W so , rtwassaid-by tho necessity for nutti £ dowathe tented W * m ^ Crn ^

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      1 U * »• ^^ ges ^ = ""which existed in the country , and protecting our " g lorious institutions" from any violent and uncalled-for innovations . Let us trace the story of one of these victims of judicial attachment to our constitution , as recorded in the report of the inquest given in another column . Joseph Williams was a poor man , because he was a journeyman baker ; one of the hardest-worked , worst-used , and badly-paid trades in London . Condemned to ceaseless and ill-remunerated labour , at the same time

      that he was excluded from the possession of ail political rights , he naturally became dissatisfied with institutions which pressed so heavily upon him and his class . Ho believed that there was , or that there might easily bo created , enough of ^ vealth for all , by means of more just and equitable political and social institutions , The iron of slavery had entered his soul , and he gave utterance to his agony . He demanded liberation for himself and his fellow-toilers—that the British Constitution should become in practice what it was in theory , and that taxation and representation should be co-equal .

      For this he was—after a trial which admitted of no doubt as to its termination—sentenced to imprisonment as a first class prisoner—that is , without specially being condemned to hard labour . Confinement Avas therefore all that was strictly and legally included in the sentence of the Judge . But there is an imperium in imperio in these matters . The county magistrates can overrule the superior courts . They make all the regulations , for the internal management of the prison ; and once under their rule , the prisoners pass from the jurisdiction of English Law into that of Justices of the Peace , who are , within the gaol , supreme lords .

      Thus , in the case of Williams and his fellow martyrs for political liberty , who were consigned to TothUl-fields ; their sentence did not include labour , but the prison rules offered them the option either of performing the same degrading species of labour as the criminal occupants of the gaol—namely , picking oakum , or the payment of five shillings weekly to purchase exemption from the loathsome task . How was a poor man—whose weekly wages when in work were little more than five shillings—to find the means for buying this exemption ? Clearly , only by the kindness of his friends ; and thus the supporters of the Constitution had the double satisfaction of

      imprisoning Chartists , and taxing others at tho rate of £ 13 per annum , per head , for each prisoner who thus escaped oakum picking . For some time this tax was paid . At length the money was not forthcoming , and then commenced a series of cold-blooded acts of legalised cruelty , to which we only refrain from attaching their proper designation , because our readers will do so for themselves , and more forcibly than any words of ours .

      For his contumacy in refusing to pick oakum , he was sentenced to six days' solitary confinement , and bread and water diet . The solitary confinement , and its accompanying diet , commenced on the 26 th of August . On the 28 th—under its influence—he was seized with bowel complaint ; and this , be it remembered , in the very height of an alarming aud terrible pestilence , of which the premonitory symptom aud fatal consummation is disease in the bowels . The day after the complaint was made , the doctor ordered some

      gruel and medicine , and being " a healthy and robust man , " the complaint immediately yielded to these simple remedies . But so far from taking warning by the attack , and releasing the victim from the influences that induced it , the moment it was over he was again placed in solitary confinement , and upon the same diet , until the six days had expired . On the third day after his release from " three meals of six ounces of bread daily , and as much water as he could drink , " he was again attacked by bowel complaint , placed in the

      Infirmary , and died the next day . Mr . Lavies , the prison surgeon , says "Asiatic cholera " was the cause of death . Mr . Williams himself said to his father , who visited him before his death " That it was no such thing . Ixttas STARVATION AND COLD , and NOT CUOLERA . " Who is to be believed—the medical man , whose obvious interest it is to whitewash the establishment under his care , or a man of sound intellect and healthy mind , who on his death-bed deliberately points out the means by which he has been "done to death ? " We have no hesitation in saying that we believe

      the murdered man . When " starvation and cold" produced the " Tooting pestilence , " it was attempted to show that the wholesale slaughter was owing to Asiatic cholera ; but the decree failed , and the Coroner ' s Jury branded the contractor with Manslaughter . Even in the case of poor Williams—Chartist as he was—the Jury—while they introduce "Asiatic cholera" into their verdict on the assurance of the surgeon—put in their own convictions as to the cause of death in the second clause— "and the Jury recommend that the change of diet to bread and water FOR so LONG A period thould be discontinued . "

      On the strength of this verdict we say Joseph Williams was clearl y brought to an untimely end by the prison discipline and diet of Tothill Fields House of Correction . He was sentenced to imprisonment , and because he would not work at a degrading and disagreeable occupation he was placed in such circumstances that his life was sacrificed . He has fallen , in tho prime of life , one more martyr in tho cause of Freedom —one more witness against tho iniquities and anomalies of our present system . "How long , 0 Lord !"

      One question to the Chartists of the Empire The cessation of the five shillings weekly which procured their departed brother exemption from oakum picking , was the proximate cause of thesohtary confinement , and bread and water diet , which led to his death . There are other noble martyrs in that and other prisons who are now givingtestimony of theirpureand noble devotion to the cause of Chartism ave any of them to die , because their unimprisoned brethren will not suppl y the means to prevent degradation and bodil y suffering from beine added to the privation of liberty , home , and friends ? ' '

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      appreciate the Martyrs who fall in the cause of Liberty . ¦

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      < i > * , * i ^ im - — .- *»««» THE COST OF A STATE CHURCH . Unity of relig ious belief—conformity to a certain profession of faith—and obediences to ecclesiastical discipline , are the ostensible objects of a State Church . In early times when the laws which regulate the formationof opinion were altogether unknown—or , if partially knownentirely unrecognised , it is not

      , to be wondered at that our ancestors ^ should have attempted t o realise an idea in itself essentially impracticable . That nations should have persisted in the attempt , throug h so many ages of downright and utter failure , and in despite of the accumulated evidence which proved its folly , can only be accounted for by the fact , that the majority of men do not think for themselves , but , like sheep , blindly follow the bell-wethers of the flock .

      Even under the purely theocratical government of the Jews , the nation was divided into two great sects . The history of the Church of Rome is one long narrative of struggles against "heresy ; " and its offshoot , the Church of England , has long since abandoned even the semblance of supreme authority over religious opinion . It is content to share a divided rule with organised bodies of Dissenters , whose existence and religious privileges , as religious corporations , are as fully recognised by the State as its own .

      The State Church has , therefore , failed to secure the essential object for which it was instituted . It never has succeeded in producing that unity of faith and discipline which it was intended to establish ; and looking at the numerous agencies now at work for the expansion of the human intellect , we may safely predict that it never will . Further , we may add , that it is not necessary or desirable that it ever should . Individually , every man

      is called upon to examine all things , and hold fast by that which appears good to him after such examination . Collectively there can be no doubt , that the nations which have been unburdened by Church Establishments have progressed most rapidly in civilisation . Thought and action have , in their case , been unfettered and , in the instance of the North American States , less than a century has produced a nation and empire , which a thousand years of old despotism could not equal .

      For the officers and employe ' s of such an establishment to continue in the receipt of public money , under such circumstances , is a public fraud . They are not National , but Sectarian teachers , and ought to be paid by those who desire and enjoy the benefit of their services . My neighbour who goes to church while I go to chapel—or nowhere as the caso may be—has no more right to call upon me

      to assist in defraying his parsons' bill than his grocer's or his butcher's . All that any man can be justly asked to do is to pay his own score , either for sermons or sugar , Tituals or rump-steaks , In these days of Malthusian philosophy and Political Economy , tho preachers and professors of every modification of doctrine should be taught to " rely upon their own resources aB well as the "

      independent labourers' '—to whom that cardinal principle has been so long and zealously propounded . The revenues now annually misappropriated by the Bishops and Clergy of an Ecclesiastical Corporation—whicbhas no claim to them , eitheron abstractorpractical groundsought to revert to the nation , and be applied to national purposes—that is , to purposes in the benefits of which all sects and parties could participate . That these revenues are public property , of which the state—in other words the nation—is the real proprietor , is a proposition , in support of which high parliamentary

      authority might be adduced , apart from the practical admission of the fact by the heads of the Church themselves , whenever they have occasion to apply to the Legislature for authority to make any new appropriation of the property they are entrusted with . The union of Church and State is purel y a financial one . The former pays money on condition that the latter will submit to its control . The State exacts submission on account of its bestowal of public funds ; and the Church in return becomes a political machine instead of a purely religious organization . Financial aid therefore constitutes the real bond of Union

      between them . A separation of Church and State implies that the application of public funds to ecclesiastical purposes should be discontinued , and that these funds should no longer be alienated from the objects to which they ought to have been restricted .

      It is a matter of great importance to ascertain the extent to which these national resources have been thus alienated , and by the aid of some recent publications on the subject , we propose to throw some li ghton the question ; believing that the popular demand for tho restoration of Church revenues to secular uses , will be strengthened by the disclosure of the enormous amount of these revenues . The national advantages which would result from

      their judicious management and equitable distribution , are almost incalculable . Though Mr . O'Connor has on several occasions given glimpses of their nature and extent—and we believe that if the people at largo were awakened to a perception of tho vast and immediate benefits that would ensue—statesmen and priests would speedil y be compelled to desist from making religion a stalking-horse foi their selfish purposes .

      It is , however , difficult to ascertain with exactness , what the actual annual amount of these revenues is . One cause of this difficulty is the variety of the sources from whence they are derived ; another from the exemption of church property from any effective public supervision , and the faulty , if not false and fraudulent , returns , which have been made to the legislature when such returns were supposed to impl y any retrenchment or interference

      . ^ f ^ ^^ 2 ^* daikness and complexit y , which appear to justvfy the widel y differing estimates of the totaamouuU-vary ing from the three or four milhons of Churchmen themselves , to the r £ lli \ i ! fl , illions of othei > P ^ s . Through ^ these difficulties we must grope our way and at the end of the investigation ^ if we do not arrive at the precis aTmmntfa tolerable distinctness of outline may be Wned . The

      sources of the income of the State Church may be thus enumerated : Tithet-5 ££ »» £ i £ ggagMsarssa-M Tithes constitute the largest proportion of thS ? T " , 5 tll 0 y are « le tentli part o the annual produce of land , of « , « ™ K ;!

      Sr ^ -ssasaSg SS ^ -Tptt s- r it to the same extent , in consequence of their commutation into money , by ^ n act passed Previous to the passing of that act , various computation s of the amount yielded hy Xe had been made b y staticians . wire the SSSJ ?^ land * be «~ w 2 S tuc lithe , which bears a fixed proDortion to i , canreadil y bo detevmineu . ^ TuSkS of Sio 2 w -fifte <* th aud one-Sel pt the whole ; for two-thirds of tha ««*!««^ i ! eenth is to

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      Porter , our two standard authorities on these subjects , estimate the total annnal valuo of agricultural produce at 132 , 500 , 000 * ., of which the Clergy must receive , according to this cal culation , from 6 , 000 , 000 / . to 8 , 000 , 0 00 ? This estimate is borne out in ano ther mW There are upwards of 30 , 000 , 000 of acr under cultivation , of which 20 , 000 , 000 arjj subject to clerical tithe . From answers to enquiries instituted by the Agricultural Bo ard it appears that the average Tithe per acre wag ' in 1790 , 4 j ; in 1803 , 5-3 £ ; and in I 813 7-94 . Agriculture has very considerabl y im ' . -= ^—

      proved since then , as is demonstrated by the increase of rents , and the increased produce sent to market , to supply the wants of a considerably-augmented manufacturing and commercial population . There can , therefore bo no injustice in taking the rate of Titho at l east as low as it was in 1813 , viz . 7-9 £ ; -w-lii cli calculated upon a basis of 20 , 000 , 000 acres would give a total of 7 , 037 , 500 J . Both these methods , therefore , give an approximation to the cost the country pays from this source for the services of the Parochial Clergy , which fully justify us in setting it down at upw ards of six millions sterling .

      These computations were , however , always decried by the clergy and their friends as much too high , and in order to ascertain what the amount really was , as well as to furnish the data for some proposed internal improve , ments , the clergy were required in 1834-5 to make returns of their incomes and of other matters connected with their parishes . These returns were made accordingly , and from them it appeared that the total gross incomes of benefices in England and Wales amounted only to 3 , 251 , 1592 ., and the net incomes to 3 , 055 , 451 Z . On the faith of those returns , the Church party and its organs lustily abused

      the opponents of a State Church , for being guilty of the m 6 st shameful exaggerations and falsehoods , as to the weight of tho burdeu it imposed on the country . And , even now , these returns are by the same party generally made the basis of any financial calculations , as far as they are not glaringly contradicted by facts which have subsequently transpired . The public , at large , were very much surprise d at finding the Church they had considered so extremely rich had such a moderate income , and some even went the length of suggesting that , as it was in such impoverished condition , the legislature should give it liberal aid .

      It is well , however , to look at the motives under which these returns were made . It was supposed that the intention of the Government in asking for them , was to found a measure on the data thereby afforded , which , in some way or other , would trench upon the exclusive clerical possession of Church property . It was , therefore , felt , the sooner they got ri d ofthepopolar impression , that the Church was very wealthy , the better for the present holders . Even conscientious men were im .

      pressed with the opinion , that the dishonesty of false returns was a trivial error , compared with the preservation of the property of the Church . Besides this , the Commission to which these inquiries was intrusted , did not procure a very searching investigation . It included the Archbishops of Canterbury aud York , and the Bishops of London , Lincoln , and Gloucester . The Lord Chancellor ,

      SirR . Reel , as First Lord of the Treasury , and several other laymen , were included , but they were all required to sign a declaration that they were members of the Established Church , and that their duty was to " consider the state of the several dioceses in England and Wales , with reference to the amount 0 ? their revenues , and the more equal distribution of Episcopal duties ; " not the more equal distribution of income ibr the duties performed .

      From a Commission so constituted minuto and searching inquiries could not be expected . It may be judicious to " sot a thief to catch a thief , " when their interests are opposed , or where tho thief-catcher can gain by serving the law ; but in this instance the interests of the questioners and the respondents ran on all fours , and it was , of course , well understood by them that over-minuteness in such delicata matters would not be required in the returns . The consequence was , that although verified by a body of men who ought to be patterns of veracity , they were very generally disbelieved . It was not long before their falsehood was demonstrated . The Tithe Commutation Bill

      passed into law in 1838 . The frequent squabbles between the clergy and their parishioners as to the amount of tithe really payable , compelled the legislature to interfere for the purpose of preventing the parsons from appearinginthe character of " shearers , " not ; ' shepherds" of their flocks . Not that it was intended to reduce the amount of wool actually taken off the backs of the latter . By no means : the clergy would rather have continued their collisions with the tithe payers to the end of time . The object was to collect the tithin

      e quietness , and to do this a change was proposed in the nature of the property . Tithes were converted from a tax into a rent charge , and payments in kind exchanged for payments in money . This alteration compelled the parsons to reconsider their average incomes . But they did so under opposite mo-Voo ^ t 0 *} * ) whicathey were actuated in iu . 34 . I hen it was their interest to make them as low as possible , and the y did so , as we have seen . Now , however , " the cat jumped the other way ; " and the y showed themselves equally prepared to iump with it . Never

      in the history of the world was there an example of property so rapidly increasing in value as Church property in these four years ! The incomes of these truthful , pious men had , in fact , more than doubled in that short time ! The rent-charge now amounts to yearly four millions , or nearl y a million mere than the total income of the Church returned in 1834 , though little more than onehalf of tho titho has yet been commuted ! Every return and report , since the property was placed on this secure basis bytho Act of ivm , exhibits demonstrative proof of tho

      falsehood and fraud practised by the clergy in their ormer returns , and stamp upon them as a body a character which renders them unfit to be tho moral teachers of the people , however well adapted they may be for spiritual instruction . We cannot bettor substantiate this strong statemeutthauby quoting the following S v s P ecimen s , selected from an innumerable host of similar examples by a writer who nas carefull y analysed the returns of the two different periods . They will suffice to show now the parsons play fast aud loose with hgures when it suits their interest :

      Benefice . County Ket Income Re- 1 ' rescnt _ turned in lS 34 jRent-chge . Stow-cum . Quy Cambrid « 77 £ 52 ' *™ S »™ Gloucester .... 9 I £ $ g Mars Urn Hereford 05 211 Gladdesden .. Hertford , 220 7 ™ Melgravo . ' ... Leicester uc if Northorpe .... Lincoln 45 7 ? Kmgsbury .... Middlesex .... 4 G t «| Tottenham .. Middlesex .... 309 sftn Llamynog .... Montgemery . . 47 t > ft j ^^ gtpn .. NoUi » glmm .. 49 50 } St

      oZV ^ 13611 ^ ™ -cum-Quya nd the other beneficiares m this list , must have consciences more elastic than India rubber , and wo hope thoy are satisfied with the bargains they have made under thenew law . CertS an increase from fifty-two to five hundred and thrty pounds a-year , is an astoundTng oneT bJS hT / f ^ T ^^^^ tanfesofiho and K dS ? hOOd exhibited * y the Clergy and their supporters on the suwJ nf n w %

      Xn ^ T W Iftei mntin G actual « l amount of tithe . tffJ } am P allowance for all kinds of deductions , we believe that it may be fairly Sv « M a t > > ' . sterling / This will ftoiKK 1 ^ ° \ l th ° > beaefices of th 0 i j Stabhshed Church , an average incomo of VvitL fi that . incott «> is of course actually greatei totho recipients , because , thoughplura-Uhea are forn ^ uy ^ flOmjuaUy fjrb& ^ n ,

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      The Mathou Estate . —In reply to T . S ., of Ecclesliall , I beg to state that the Mathon Estate is within eight miles of Worcester , three of Great Malvern , and within less than five of Lcdbury . That the money must be paid at once at the rate of 311 . per acre , of which 11 . per acre willbe returned when the growing timber is disposed of , and when the materials are sold ; and that the purchasers will be located as soon as the timber is felled , the old outbuildings taken down , the fences levelled , aud the allot ments surveyed ; audlalsobegtostate , thatthose anxious to purchase must pay their monies within the present

      month . F . O'C . Mr . J . Sweet begs to acknowledges the receipt of the following ; sums , sent herewith : —Debt due to Mr . M'Cowan . —Mr . W . Lees , 6 d , Victim Fund . —Mr . W . Lees , 6 « L ; Victoria Tavern , New Lenton , 2 s . fid . Chartist Executive . —Mr . W . Lees , Is . Conference Expesses . —Sutton-in-Ashfield , 2 s . For the Hungarians . — G . Julian Harney has receired from a " Chartist Prisoner , " Is . W . Gerhard , Ipswich There are not content bills . Your other question is forwarded , to the proper quavter , Mr . W . M'KmETT , Dumfries . —At 4 d . each . How could they be sent ? Mr . A . JonxsTOXE , Galashields , — We could send what you

      require either to Mr . Robinson , Edinbureh , or to Mr . Love , Glasgow . Mr . J . Hopps , Crook—Tour remittance pays to the end of this month . To your second question—Tidd Pratt , Esq ., National Debt Office , Old Jewry , London . Mr . P . Ssaith , Darlington . —They are sent through Mv , Wilson , Stockton . The Kiiikdale Prisoners . —Thomas Ormesher has received from Robert Howarth , Highes-lane , Pilkington , 10 s . II . Foster , Corbridge , had better apply to the Secretary , Jlr . Staimvoop , 2 , Little Vale-place , Hammersmith Road . J . Lehmoh , J . Dcscas , W . Wabium , and J . Colpan . Received .

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      The Hobtherh Star. Saturday, September 15, 1&19. !

      THE HOBTHERH STAR . SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 15 , 1 & 19 . !

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      \ UiIe in tho act of closing the preceding observations a communication has been put into our hands , from which we learn that it is intended to give this Chartist Martyr a Publ c Funeral on Sunday next , ( to-morrow ) . The processum will start at two o ' clock in the afternoon , from 28 , Golden Lane Barbie ™ and will proceed through Chi swell-street , Sunstreet , Bishopsgate-street , Church- street and Bothnal Green , to the place of interment . An address will bo delivered at the grave bv a sterling democrat ; and wo cannot doubt but tha duo honour will be done by the Charts oitne

      mecropous , to one , who while living fearlessly advocated their principles , and who sealed his faith in them with his life ? u tho note accompanying the intimation of the intention to honour tho deceased by a public funeral , it , s stated "The Corpse is as fr ? sh as the day ho died , and not in any degree discoloured , so that ho could not have died of Siiwh ? , hlS 1 S . corrob ° ™ t ™ of thefac ? whicl the evufcuco gmn at fti 6 Inquest clearly cstabhshed m our own minds , and which evidentl y induced tho Jury to append the qualifying sentence to tl 4 veSl wlSi

      T r" £ 1 ? oted - Whatever may be tho legal dUficulty of substantiating such a pS t . on , there can bo no doubt in the mind of

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      Seftembeb 15 , 1819 . - THE nhrtttttrN STAR- —"""" "

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 15, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1539/page/4/