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      BAirasTArLE , Devon . —The Chartists of this smnll town sent £ V Is . for the cost of Macnamura ' s action last week , and they earnestly call upon the Chartists of other places to subscribe for the above object . They justly state that tfceir number Is small , butthatiferery town paid in proportion to its members , as they have done , the just claims of tlie Chartist body would nut only soon be liquidated , but a good sum would remain in hand for a future cam-] Kii ^ n . Nottingham;—J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the fullowing sums , sent herewith , viz .: —For Maonamaua ' s Actio . v .-A Friend , Is ; Mr . Wild , I'd ; A Friend , £ 1 ; Mr . : > . Hudson , 3 d ; A Friend , Id ; Mr . Uurgin , ( id ; A Friend , ( id ; Mr . l ' eter AUVey , 3 d ; Jlv . Chipinuah ! , Bd ; Mr . Elson , Cd ; Mr . Mellors , « d ; From . Jiulwell , 5 s ; From Cairington , Os id . Less Sd . for Post-Office Order .

      J . Skeiuiitt , Nottingham , begs to acknowledge the following sums , sent herewith , viz . : — Foil Mac . namara ' s Action . —Seven-Stars Locality , £ 1 ins ( id ; Victoria Tavern Locality , New Lcnton , Ds ; Collected at Council Meeting , ditto , 2 s Gd ; A Few Friends at Xew Itadford , 12 s ; Collected by Messrs . Hall and Moisou , 8 s S ^ d ; Culuiiel Hutdiinson Locality , £ 1 11 s "Id . TlM FuaveiinaL Democrats Julian Ilnrney lias received , fur . the Fraternal Democrats , u donation of one found from 'S . I ' ., ailed Republican ; ' also Is . lid . from Mr . Whitniore , Greenwich , and Is . from Mr . Mann , Greenwich , for the ' Fraternal Fund' of the same society . Mr . IIakknks , Edinburgh . —Next week . Mr . Gehald Masset . —A letter for you is in the hands ot G . Julian Haniey . LoLT . inioKovon . —Sir . Skevington acknowledges the receipt ,

      for . Macnamara ' s action , of the following sums , sent herewith : —Mr . Hudson Is . ; Berry Is . ; Skevington Is . ; Taylor 'M . ; Chamberlaiu 6 d . ; Harris fid . ; Woodward ad . ; Wright Gd . j Coulson Gd . ; Bishop Gd . ; llutes Gd . ; Gilbert Gd . ; Clarke Gd . ; Dexter Gd ., Arnutt Gd . ; Harding Gd . ; l ' ratt 3 d . ; Wcldon 3 d . ; Btslt ., 11 3 d . ; Sundries ¦ lid . ; Collected by J . Jackson 2 s . Gd . —Total 13 s . 4 i < l . Expenses 4 Id . —13 s . G . li ., Leeds . —In answer to your first—Cannon Hall . Wortley , near Sheffield . M . J , 1 ! ., Durham . —Send forty-eight postage-stamps . TiitiMAs Wmxock , Bradford The late Whig members were unseated for bribery . J . Dibh , Hull . —The lines are defective—moreover , they give prominency to men who are not worthy of that honour .

      Tin : Animal and the Vegetable . —A correspondent puts tin * following query : — "Does a man enjoy animal and vegetable life at the same time ? " Answer : ' Yes—irhcn he eals bacon and greens . James Twaites , Lynn . —We know nothing of the 5 s . sent for tlii ; jirinter ' s bill . Was it sent in cash , stamps , or l'osi-oilice order—or to whom was it addressed ? It lias been frequently announced in this journal , that all monies should be sent to Mr . Rider . BiKMiNCiiAM . —We know nothing of the thirty-nine postage stamps . We have forwarded your note to Mr . RiynoluVs office .

      The 10btheb1 Stab. !Sa'jmj«©Ay, Buojembuk «Ii, Is49.

      THE 10 BTHEB 1 STAB . ! SA'JMJ «© AY , BUOJEMBUK « ii , IS 49 .

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      "UP GUARDS , ASD .. AT THEM !" " BREAKERS A-1 IEAD ! LOOK OUT—" "ALL HANDS TO THE TUMP , THE SHIf IS SINKING !" To surfeit , have we repeated that tlie industrial classes of this country , upon whose labour and industry the luxury of all other classes h based , can entertain no hope of any , the

      slightest , improvement in their condition , save through a thorough union of thoir order . When catering for power , the Whigs have invariably excited the people to madness ; and when power has been achieved through popular fury , the Whigs have been the first to enact the most bloody and tyrannical laws , upon the maxim that what the people have done the people can undo .

      Upon this principle the people of this country have ever been governed , but more especially since the passing of the Reform Bill , from which so much was promised and so much was expected . We are to presume that the leading organ of any movement is to be looked upon as a fair index of the mind of that movement ; and if such is the case we beg to call the critical an ! jealous attention of our readers to an article extracted from tho Dail y Ncvs of Tuesday last , and from that article tho reader will « rain wisdom .

      However unwilling we were to offer any , the slightest opposition to any movement , that was calculated in any , the slightest , degree , to serve tho cause of the working classes , we , nevertheless , assured their order in the outset that we would remain upon tho watch-tower , ready to give the signal when we anticipated deception fraud , or desertion . '

      During tho recess , large and influential meetings of this new association have been held , and at not one of those meetings has a working man , although finr . l y attached to the principlesof Chartism , offered any , the slightest opposition ; a fact which irrefutabl y proves the desire of tho working class to improve their condition , by moral rather than by physical force . ;

      Now , however , we find that this chirruping bird is to have its wiugs cli pped—that some modification in the Bate-Paying Clauses or the adoption of ANY ONE ARTICLE in Mr . Hume ' s programme , in the Session of 1850 , will be received as a boon by the working classes . If the Chartists had given their unconditional adhesion to this movement , allowing its oriinators to construct

      g so the machinery as they thought best , they may have received the intimation of their prospects for 18 o 0 with complacency and satisfaction but their new allies appear to have forgotten that » far from the Chartists having abandon da single particle of their own principles thov have compelled their new allies mo Si 3 odefino their definition of the Suffrage and ^ 3 Mf ™« « i S

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      Dou-aing-street , intimating to trie . minister the concessions upon which the Whigs may base their continuance in office . It comes just in time to allow of deliberation before . Parliament opens ; and , no doubt , the . reader will gather from the article to which we refer , the fact which ve havo more than once stated , that dread of a majority of Protectionist members , consequent upon an election , would induce the Whigs and the middle classes to join in any plan or policy which may uphold the

      power of the one and the monopoly of the other ; but then comes the question , whether the people , who have constituted the body and nerves of this new movement , will be satisfied ? To the organ of the party we attribute no blame , inasmuch as a newspaper , which represents a party , if the policy of its managers is based upon Free Trade , must be the index of the mind of that party ; and taking this view , we entirely agree with the following passage , selected from the article which we are now

      commenting upon : — But in the division of the country into two camp ?) many a man hastens blindly to the standard which is not its own . Now , although the "Daily News'" has , no doubt , blindly hastened to that standard which is not its own , we are not going as blindly to rally around that standard which is not our own . Our standard is the CHARTER and NO SURRENDER ; and while we were resolved not to sully our banners by offering an opposition , based upon vanity or ambition , to any project which , if FAITHFULLY CARRIED OUT , was sure to improve the condition of the working classes , we will not allow them to be deceived when no such hope can

      be anticipated . Again , the " Daily Nous saya : — That such an appeal will be more than usually solemn , serious , and critical in Us results , no one can doubt . And if ministers have a due sense of their position and of the danger of the country , they will render that appeal more solemn and effectual by calling to the hustings and admitting to the franchise tho large , but not enormous , body of ratepayers in every locality . In faith , we havo no doubt that the appeal will " be more than usually solemn , serious , and critical ; " but we are much mistaken , if the working classes will allow their new

      associates to administer a tonic composed of milk and water to strengthen the nerves of Whiggery . But what does the writer mean by the term " large , but NOT ENORMOUS , body of ratepayers ? " Are we to understand that there is now to bo a retrograde movement , and that—as by the parent Reform Bill of yore—the people are to be again juggled by this new-fangled bantling ? We have more than once predicted that all parties would find themselves in a fix in the next session of Parliament , and we have also

      statedand we repeat it , that any , the slightest , surrender of any portion of those principles to the support of which the Chartists have given their hearty and generous co-operation , will be the signal for total separation between the New Reform Association and the Chartists . But , lot us ask if Sir Joshua Walmsley , or George Thompson , can acquiesce in the following pithy and understandable sentence , and expect for a moment to hold that power which they have so justly achieved . The Daily News savs : —

      " AND EVEN ONE OF THESE REFORMS , HOWEVER INCOMPLETE , WITHOUT THE REST , SHOULD BE WELCOMED . " Now , what will a Chartist say to this melting down of the REFORM FAT ? Let us analyse this , and criticall y . Would they welcome the ballot with tho present suffrage , for that is one of the proposed reforms ? Would they welcome triennial parliaments with the present suffrage , for that is another of the proposed measures ? Would they welcome the deiiial of the franchise to the

      ENORMOUS BODY OF RATEPAYERS who were to be admitted within the sanctuary ? And would they welcome the NO PROPERTY QUALIFICATION , with the present franchise ? With regard to Ireland and the present franchise , wo have too often analysed- tho subject to justify repetition . Again , tho Daily Neios says : — Nor is it merely the great questions of protection and free trade , which demand that the country at laifse should participate in them by their representatives—there is the question of finance' bound up with themand of expenditure

      , bound up with finance . If through any dexterous , and party handling of the cry of protection , the landlord class should once more get possession of the government of the country , and of a working majority in a parliament , wo must be prepared to submit to a large increase of indirect taxation . Property will not pay , and industry must . And whilst property is not made to pay the holders of property , however nominal , and of the government together , will scout economy , and continue to the utmost the present lavish expenditure ; nay perhaps we shall see this expenditure increase in order to support the despots of Europe , their tyranny and their reaction .

      Now , iu point of fact , does not the above resolve itself into the old dodge ? Keep out tho Protectionists by keeping in the Whigs , and that you can only do by a largo modification of your demands . In faith it matters but little what party is in power , so long as the people are excluded from a participation . We have so often defined the above probability , as to the restoration of the Protectionists to power—and our readers

      are so familiar with the facts—that we shall not trouble them with their repetition ; while may state , that a Parliament of employers , we bused upon the modicum of Reform pourtrayed by the Dail y News as likely to be satisfactory to the people , would be as unlikely to relieve the people from any one of their sufferings , as would a Protectionist Parliament . \\ e agree that property never will be made to wr \ ir gitimate share of taxation , and that 'ESS ?™ 1 " MUSTund more tiU «» PEOPLE'S CHARTER becomes the law of tho land .

      "Livehorse and you'll get grass . " We are now—upon theeve of the meeting of Parliament , and . after more than six months continuous agitation-told b y the organ of the active Reformers , that we must be satisfied with any change , however slow it may be and we are to be satisfied if the Government wiUflmg itself into EVER SO PARTIAL AN EXTENSION OF REFORM And wfntf- « °° k ^ F , reeh 0 ld Land Societies ; while in the next day ' s number of the Daily News we are assured , that it will require 200 / . capital , at least , for a man to wk 2 n i ° land > N ™ ' ~ dd * p 3 £ fht S Yp r " de ( 1 than that ° p ™ uc-Z n- ' ! ame ? t « ry and Financial Reform may , ultima ey arise from the Freehold Lari Sr L l G p ° tteeS \ ° have P aid » ° lent for five half years , cultivating fertile land and occupying commodious houses , are pitied and commisserated when asked to pay a halfjarW ? And , as we have more than once stated , any increase of the franchise consequent upon the extension of Freehold Land Societies , would be used by the trustees , the solicitors , the patrons , the guardians , or the mortgagees of those allotments , whereas , by Mr 0 Connor ' s plan the allottees would be independent voters .

      thus : L C 0 ntemp 0 ra 17 concludes its comment The carrying of even one article of \ w rc ,, m ¦ ^ p = SiftrS Sfi >^™«^* i *^ $ ^ « g * « ^ artists , if you are satisfied with this foreshadowing of tho antici pated result , from your co-operation with the new ParliSX form Association , say so ? Attach no * suspciouto Sir Joshua Walmsley , or George lHOMPSON-offer no opposition to their p ™ gress until you extract from them-upon the platform-that the doleful foreboding in he Daily New reflects their opinions . But now » he time In little more than a month the show box " will open-the several juggler ! j ^ affssrflftjfe J ^ rauabS

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      it cannot now be demolished , except by the enfranchisement of the whole people , by the adoption of the PEOPLE'S CHARTER ,

      NAME AND ALL . The reader must understand that wo ascribe no blackslidiug or surrender of principles to Lord Nugent , Lord Dudley Stuart , Mr . Hume , Sir Joshua Walmsley , George Thompson , Mr . Lushington , Mr . Hall , Mr . Atkinson , and others who have taken a prominent part in this new Parliamentary Reform movement ; while it becomes the imperative duty of the people , to ascertain from them , whether or not the sentiments expressed in the Daily News reflect their opinions , and whether it is their intention to contend for , or rest satisfied with the alterations foreshadowed by the Daily News , should they , or any of them , be propounded by the Government .

      This understanding is of the utmost necessity , inasmuch as the working classes—when deceived by leaders in whom they have reposed implicit confidence—are sure to be driven to madness and fury , which ever results in persecution and oppression , while , upon the other hand , we now feel convinced that the union of the people will accomplish everything from tho antagonism and disunion of their oppressorsand , to the people , therefore we say , "BE

      STEADY , BE WATCHFUL , BE RESOLUTE , AND PREPARED . " Give up a bristle , and the Animal will be skinned , The people can hope for no amendment in their condition , except through a full , free , and fair representation of their order , and that they can only achieve by a THOROUGH

      REFORM . READ , MARK , LEARN , and INWARDLY DIGEST the following : — ( From the Daily News , Tuesday , Dec . 18 . ) The present moment is one , which strikes us as imperatively requiring that all men visited with fiscal burdens should be called to partake in the final decision of how they are to be borne . On this subject there exists the greatest diversity of opinion ; of opinion not merely theoretically entertained , but deeply , passionately , interestedly disputed . The country has avowedly eomo to this pass , that its most wealthy classes declare their inability or reluctance to bear their share of the burdens of the state , unless they are protected , or in other words helped to do so . This is the case with the landed aristocracy of the country , not

      indeed with its more intelligent members , or those most versed in the practical science of politics and finance , but still with a majority of that class . To get that protection , or to shake off the analogous shares of burden , is but too certainly the aim of this powqrful interest . On the other hand , with the continuance or restoration of the old dearness of corn , all that capital which derives its profit from the production of manufactures must become profitless and idle , and the hands which live upon it destitute . The interest of the commom mass of consumers is identical with this ; and so indeed is the interest of the farmer and the labourer , could those dependent classes rightly understand it . But in the division of the country into two camps , many a man hastens blindly to the standard whicli

      is not his own . In this war of opinion , and amidst the desperate efforts of the party , against which judgment went , to reverse it , a ministry or any band of officials is comparatively powerless ; and political party , in its presont fractionary state , is equally without the authority or power duly to resist , or permanently to decide . . There must come the necessity of an appeal to tho country at no very distant day . That such an appeal will be more than usually solemn , serious , and critical in its results , no one can doubt . And if ministers havo a due sense of their

      position and of the danger of tho country , they will render that appeal more solemn and effectunl by calling to the hustings and admitting to the franchise the liirgo but not enormous body of ratepayers in every locality . Could there in each locality be secured to all an indupendentvote by means of the . ballot , and to each interest its fair influence in representation proportioned to its wealth and population ; then , indeed , a decision of parliament mi g ht bo considered so authoritive and final , as to stifle the very murmur of discontent . It is impossible , however , to hope for all reforms en masse . And even one of these reforms , however incomplete without the rest , should be welcomed .

      Of these reforms , the extension of the franchise to all ratepayers is most to be pressed , because it is that which even the Whigs must contemplate . There are none ef them , indeed , who must not see that to leave the Irish with their present limited franchise and dwindled electoral body , is neither more nor less than to give up that country and its parliamentary influence to malcontent and frantic landlordism . There is but the one remedy , tho one safeguard , tho extension of the franchise to which

      ratepayers , , however , imperative and indispensable , would still be impossible to adopt as a principle in Ireland , without extending it to England likewise . Ministers , we are convincod , cannot meet parliament- without a large measure dealing with the Irish franchise , and how they are to do this without enlarging the English electoral bodv at the same time , we are at a loss to conceive Nor is it merely the great questions of protection and free trade , which demand that the country at large should participate in thorn by their rer , re 5 Pnfn

      tiyes-there is the question of finance bound up with them , and of expenditure bound up with finance . If through any dexterous and party handling of the cry of protection , the landlord class should once more g et possession of the gov ernment of the country and of a working majority in parliament , we must be prepared to submit to a large in crease of indirect taxation . Property will not pay- ' nnd industry must . And whilst property is not made to pay , the holders of proper ty however nominal and of the government together , will scout economy , and continue to tho utmost he present lavish expenditure ; nay , perhaps we shall see this expenditure increase in order to support the despots of Europe , their tyranny and their reaction P

      However the fears of such dancer may be exa <" gorated , they are still not to be slightedf And Sr confidence is as mucti to be deprecated as extn K f 71 Sn ° } danger ' a 11 th 0 PoSfi party can do is to be done by slow degrees , by those nornf lar associations for electoral and financial reform which have spread their ramifications throughout the country , and the freehold land societies wh ^ ch tt >? -T ° ° . ' \ , dcPendent franchise the poor "It ! il {? l francIliso wil 1 not stoop to Z }\ \ ^ ' 1 ? owever - bo a gn » t advancement to all the patriots engaged in effortsTeces sarily so tedwus , if the goveVnW of the day were compel ed by its necessities to fling itself into wer so partial an extension of reform The carrying of even one article of Mr Hume's programme would be a great aohiflvZLt S 2 ' ot

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      fraud , and when that is commuted ,. tho plundered depositors have no legal remedy or redress ; the whole scheme is a heartless aiid impudent juggle by whicli . the few shilling that ; by chance escape the other modes of extracting money from the pockets of the labourer may be grasped b y the capitalist . The parties who combine to perpetrate the juggle are the Government and the " respectable classes . " The-mode pursued is ingenious . An Act of Parliament is passed ,

      giving a Government Commission the direct superintendence of these Banks , and requiring that , as fuuds are deposited , a certain proportiou must be deposited in the safe keeping of the Government ; that is , invested -with the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt . Then the rector , vicar , magistrates , and " respectable people" of a town or district , start a bank for the benefit of the poor in their respective localities , and their names appear as Presidents , Vice Presidents ,

      Trustees , Managers , and Treasurers , on the faith and security of which the prudent and thrifty sons and daughters of toil are induced to deposit their savings . The Actuary of the bank is merely the paid servant of these managerial bodies . On his own responsibility the investers of small savings would not deposit a single shilling . They expect that the managers , to whom they really entrust their money , will look after him , and see that he does hie duty honestly . They believe that these

      trustees and managers are really responsible to them , and that , besides this , the Government are bound by an Act of Parliament to keep a sharp eye upon their proceedings , and give warning if anything is going wrong . The whole is a delusion . There is no actual responsibility anywhere . Sir Charles Wood ' s doctrine and conduct , last Session , entirely divested the Government of « any responsibility . It is now proved that the trustees and managers cunningly contrivo to evade all liability except for monies actually

      paid into their own hands , and as they take oare that shall be very little , the security they give to the depositors is as hollow as that of the Government . The specious and attractive checks , by which it is pretended that fraud can be effectually prevented , are mere shams . They afford no protection whatever ; either because they are in themselves worthless , or because the ostensible managers merely lend the use of their names , and never trouble themselves about the performance of their nominal duties .

      Thirty Millions of sterling money have been invested on this rotten basis . The industrious and thrifty workmen—the hardworked domestic servant—the village Club and town Benefit Societ y—have poured their accumulated savings into the coffers of these banks , under the belief that they were guaranteed against loss , both by the Government and tlo trustees . It now turns out . that there is

      not the slightest real responsibility anywhere . That they are at the mercy of any rogue who is clever enough to throw dust in the eyes of Lizy " respectables" who may choose to aspire to the honour of being trustees and managers ? For at least ten years , Mr . Hawohtii . the Rochdale Actuary , has been carrying on his gigantic frauds ; and though ho had

      abstracted the vast sum of nearly 80 , 000 ? ., the managers had not the slightest suspicion that anything was wrong . It was only after his sudden decease that it was found there was a " screw loose , " and the investigations were set on foot , which havo resulted in the announcement of so appallin g a loss to the poorer classes of Rochdale and its vicinity .

      The late Actuary was "a very respectable man . " He was a Quaker , and kept up the appearance of great wealth . He embarked largely m speculations of all kinds , and with the money of which the poor wore plundered , made a show of affluence which deceived his victims . Who among the depositors could suspect a man who was a cotton spinner and manufacturer , as well as steward for several influential families ? The besetting sin of the English people is to worshi p Mammon . They ill themselves in the

      wprostrate dust before any man who possesses the reputation of being rich . While George Hudson was carrying on his gigantic frauds , dukes and duchesses , earls and countesses , lords and lordlin ^ s" respectable people , " of all degrees—crowded his parties . He was a vulgar , bullying , purseproud man : but his ignorance and his coarseness did not repel the polished fashionable of May-fair . He was beslavered all over with adulation , and worshipped almost as if he had been a Deity . Gold covered all defeats . The

      discovery of his " cooked accounts "—his curious mode of " making things pleasant " -we verily believe would not have dispersed the sycophants who fawned upon him , had they iT ? t , at the same time the toss of the wealth he had so nefariousl y heaped together . That was a blow their attachment could not STi i ? i - T ? that which alone instituted him their idol .

      We imprison and transport miserable , iefew _ Inline undcr t ^ infllience of t « destitution ; but our respectable criminalsfrTe 1 < OrS BPOB * krge Scale -S ° scot The frequent recurrence of such frightful robberies in these Savings Banks , 2 t to nuo ^ inl P < J ft U T reC 0 D 8 id « ' «^ E * Y / f mand ^ ther that they shall tW ^ 6 ona ^ 1 SCCUI % given to them , or their money back again . Wo wonder if there was a general run upon Saving Bank SSfff w ' h WMfflMdlfc ontb ?? i- f , ° SOme "" easy suspicions busSL ? ' T d fan ° y that a special act , Sfu payments ' would speedily make its appearance .

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      exhibits in nt'Z aVer y hard case , and S&wSW'tt ! tdff& ^ te ^ = ^ £ JS « au ^^ S ^ assi ^^ SSPr ^ i

      Sa % ^« J ""* * e depositors in longer submU tob ? fn % Wl 8 e ' * % would not deg fadatio ^ - the / wo S ? to their own the means of pe 2 tS T ** ? "W ^ - P"rpose of XIbS ;^ ' the difect verish them . The th £ ^ and im P " g ^" to boi tei i w s ra ! lllons . theyhavo "Ssel y direc ted , would bp SyS B \ T < * aad ema nci pation fromZl 8 l f cient for their that sum lay the fon ^ 7 * The y might with of society , Vnd 31 T a ^ tter system their own condition ^ l ^^ improving a h eritage of freedom ^ , ^ posterity ^ "d ^ S ^ A ftnty , instead &

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      B , nvT T the Rochdalo Saving HO OOOJ . of the small savings of the \ 2 i to Ins own purposes . The Jobbery ZJZ for tnaxjy years ; and such was tne carelesT if not dishonest management of the £ 5 £ and managers , that it was not until the death of the actuary , this enormous defalcation was discovered . Every one of these banks ' s con ducted on a somewhat similar system , which apparently offers no effectual protection aguinat

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 22, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1553/page/4/