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      TOTHILL FIELDS CHARTIST PRISONERS . The following letter , addressed to Mrs . -Eusseli , has been placed in our hands iJW ^ asirawaarfti And remain your husband , w Chris t an * ^ K ^ S . ^ od Westminster Bridewell , Dec . 19 , 1849 . TOlHaL _ FIELDS CHAltTlSI HK . TSlYNlK . R . ! " !

      At this hour—late on Thursday evening—• we have no opportunity of seeing Mr . O'Cox-KOE . Consulting air . Bidek , he declines to advance money without Mr . O'Coraon ' s sanction . It appears that that gentleman hasi alread y expended between 70 / . and 80 ? . « f his own money , over and above subscriptions received , to relieve the sufferers from eakum picking . Mrs . Fussell believes , that it th

      e money is not paid in the course of a day or two , her husband and the other prisoners will be forced to pick oakum , or otherwise he punished b y solitary confinement , deficient diet , &c . Mr . Fdsseli ' s letter ^ ffi ^ sjfor jtedf . We trust that the people vail fortinntb . speak through their good deeds , by at once contributing the necessary means to save the imprisoned sufferers from the fate Of their martyred brethren .

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      FOR COSTS OF MACNAMJARA ' S ACTION . Received by W . Hideb . _ J . Cooke , Sbincliffe Colliery , * & . ; Wheatley , near Halifiix , per C . Applejard , 5 s . 3 d . - j Bntterworth , Sandbach , Is . ; Kalph Stringer , Sandba ' eh * Is . ; J . L ., a working man , Exeter , 2 s . Cd . ; G . W . Kcynolds Esq ., Won , 2 L 2 s . ; Mr . Smith , per Mr . Mathieis , 2 s . ttuxwv&rd , per J . Gray 4 s . ; I'ilkington , per J . EashVood , & > . ; Half Acre , from a few friends , per J . Briggs , 2 s . Gd . 5 f ? l ? ^ V ? 2 ? 1 fe ; St ak port Chartists , per W . Benfold , 2 L 2 s . 61 ; Yarmouth , per W . C . Sa « jer , 10 s . ; A . Jiddes . Aberdeen , Is . ; John Murray , London , Cd . ¦ P M'Ainsh Criefij GdL ; a fewFriends , Oribrd , perK . Waiter 4 s . ; W , B ., Oxford , Is . ; V . & , Oxford , 1 . ; Nottingham , per J . Skerrctt , « . 13 s . Cd . ; J . Wilson and & Widdou Kddingham . Is . ; T . Wakey , Skiney-vow , County Durham , 2 s South Shields , per H . Ilaines , U . ; J . Tavlor , Sfc-ur Provost ' Is . ; J . lewis , Lantwit Yarder , Is . ; Tiverton , per W . Kib

      bey , Ms . ; A . and J . Charles , junr ., Miles Watting . 2 s . fcottingliam . per J . Sweet . IL 15 s . 7 d . ; J . Scott and J . ickerson , Lynn , Is . ; J . Buttenvorth , Joiln-row , Rochdale per R . Gill , Ss . 3 d . ; two Young Guards , Rochdale , per K . GUI , 1 L ls . Cd .-E . Mitchell , Rochdale , per R . Gill , Sd . _ Female Chartists , Kochdale , per K . GilL lls . —W . Baker's Book , per R . Gill , - ! s . Sd . —Chartists Association , Rochdale peril . Gill . 4 s . 7 i ] . —T . BougIitou . ifcunptoa . Is T . A ; C Gd . —B . S . C , 60 . —Old Guanls . Bamber-bridge , near Presl ton , per VT . lAddle , Cs . Id . —a few Friends , Coventry , per C . Tristram , 7 s . —G . Shawe Leeds . —ISs . 3 d . —C . Rajner , Leeds , Is . —T . Broker , Leeds , Is . —W . Wilkinson , Leeds , T . Braitlroaite , Leeds , Is . —E . Owen , Leeds , Is J . Rowel ,

      Leeds , Gd . —D . Dodgson , Leeds , 2 s . —Bristol , per C . Clark , 10 s . —J . Dumaiii , ilinuinghain , Is . 2 &—J . Howe , Uiniiin--ham , lC'd . —1 ) . Grantham , Binninshain , Gd . —J . D ., Iluddersfield , 2 s . Gd . —J . Ukdhill , HuddereMd , 2 s . —J . Oldfield , Huddersfield , 2 s . —Sumbutts , near Todmorden , per J . Howarth , 5 s . —Ship Inn , Birmingham , per J . Newliouse , lls . —Three Friends , West Bromwkh , Is . Cd . —Loughborough , per J . Skeviuttfuu , 13 s . —W . Suteliffe and Frieuds , Barnsley , Ss . —a few Friends , London , j > er G . l ' ercy , 4 s . Thomas Paris , 2 s . Cd . Reeevtd by T . Claml—Uigliaiu F « rrars , Is . Cd . —Mrs . Austin , 4 s . —Xuneaton , 11 . —Tower Hamlets , per Fidge , Is . —A . Fandnld , Is . —Slr . M'Lean , Is . —a few Cigar makers , !) s . —Received by Jons Aksott —Mr . llilliard , per B . Xewbcy , Gd . —a Friend , per B . Sewbey , 3 d . —Total , £ * $ Us . 2 d .

      FOR THE AGITATION OF THE CHARTER . Received by W . Ridec—Bristol , per C . Clark , 2 s . Recaned by T . Clabk . —A few Cigar makers , 5 s . tid . EXECUTIVE FUND . Received by \ Y . Uhjeb Todmorden , per W . Robinson , 4 s . 3 d . TO EXEMPT PRISONER'S FROM OAKUM PICKING . Received by W . Rioeb .-E . Todd , West Auckland , Gd . ; J . Lewis , Lantwit Varder , Is . FOR WIDOWS OF THE LATE MESSRS . WILLIAMS AND SHARP . Received by W . Rjdeb . —Leicester , per J . White , Sd . ; AFiddes , Aberdeen , Cd . ; T . Boughtou , Bramton , Is . Ud . M ' DOUALL ' S TESTIMONIAL . " Received by W . Ridek . —A . FMdcs , Aberdeen , Gd . ; E . Todd , West Auckland , Gd . ; South Shields , per If . Ilaines , 5 s . FOR MRS . JONESReceived by John Absoit . —IL B ., per B . Xewby , Cd .

      FO 3 WIVES AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . Received by W . ItpEB . —Boot and Shoe makers , Har monic meeting , at King and Queen , Foley-street , Maryleboue . per Messrs . Waters and Dickenson , 12 s . ; Yarmouth , per W . C . Sawyer , 10 s . ; W . C . Sawyer , Yarmoutli , 2 s . ; South . ihields , per IL Ilaiues ,-5 s . NATIONAL VICTIM FUND . Received by Johm Aksott , Secretary . —Whittington and Gat , per Benjamin . Xtwley , 5 s . ; G . W ., Gd . ; Mr . Rider , as per Star , £ 13 s .

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      NATIONAL LAND AND LABOUR BAXK . CHEIST 3 IAS HOLIDAYS . NOTICE . This Bank will be closed to the public from Saturday , the 22 ud instant , two p . m ., until ten a . m ., on Wednesday , the 26 th . All letters reaching the Bank on the Monday and Christmas Day , will be answered on the folloiviug Wednesday . T . Price , Manager . 493 , Oxford-street , London , December 13 tb , 1849 .

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      THE PRINTER'S BILL . Baisley , Dec . 14 th , 1349 . Sib , —I am desired by the committee of the late hartist Association in * Paisley , to inform you , that they have instructed their secretary to forward to you the sum of £ 2 , to assist in defraying the debt owing to you by the late ^ National ConTention and Assembly . The committee have to state that the Chartists of Renfrewshire paid their fair proportion of the debts contracted during the sittings of these bodies , and their now consenting to pay the above-aamed sum , is because they are desirous to have your just debt satisfied ; the ' non-payment of which they believe Calculated to injure the reputation of the whole Chartist body .

      Hoping that the Chartists over this country will not allow you—who have confided in their integrity to sufier , but will lend a helping hand to have the debt speedily paid , I am , Sir , yours truly , Mr . M'Gowan . Robebi Cochrase .

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      Ltbebatiox of Chaetisi Prisoners pboji Horsemoxger-lase Gaol — On Wednesday afternoon three of the Chartist prisoners , convicted at the Old Bailey , in 1 S 48 , were liberated by order of the Secretary of State for the Home Department , from Horsemon « rer-lane Gaol , were they have been incarcerated Ifourteen months . Their names are ¦ William Poole , Thomas Irons , and Thomas Herbert . They were apprehended in a publichouse in Vebber-streit , Blackfnare-road , and were tried at the Old Bailey Sessions in October , 1848 , and sentenced to eighteen m ^ th . .. P ^ - ment in Horsemonger-lane Goal , and at the expira-S of thatieriodlo find good bailfor their future conductduruigfiveyearB . The Secretary of State wmmuted their sentence to *»*« "J ^** 2 £ prisonment , which expired on Wednesday : andthe Squired sureties being approved of by tte > Secre-Urv for the Home Department , they were brought totheSouttovarkpolice court by Mr . Keene the governor of the gaol ; and the necessary formalitiea fenV gone throug h before the magistrate , they wer ! immediately Ubera ^ , and . were joined by their families and a number of naxious friends . PKN ? ProcH . -Everybody should read this facetio « rabStion , its price comes within the means S nereis the fiiSt volume , handsomely bound for five f ilings , with first-rate illustrationsi by KemTy Meadowl , Henning , Hamerton and other MBular artists . The literary matter is full of point ind humour , so that young Faneh must number some of the ablest contributors of the day , though as is customary with publications of this class , their names ^ Bot given . We cordially wish the Penny ifcncft all uucces * .

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      THE FRENCn EXILE S OP THE " I ^ tii ftp JUXE , " AT PRESENT RESIDIVCx I \ ? ox DON , TO THE FRATE RNAL WXinon iT « OF ENGLAND A *^> Aii UhMOCRATS ME FltESCn EXILES ^ F ? UE i . » ,,, „„ 1 TTVP " AT T > T > r » C ! E < xim .. — . r "" lOTlI U *

      Friends and Bro thers , — * i ^ b ° ttom ° f oai > ue ^ ts we thank you for the noble manifestation of sympathy contained in your addresses to our mi-S 2 L ° P atnot \ *« their families and mends , and to ourselves . r » S >' m P atuy is » glorious proof of the rapid progress of the ideas for which we are suffering You have truly said that the religion or Fraternity is arising from the ruins of false systems . True also it is that our enemies are yours ; for our cause is the cause of me oppressed of even / land .

      For the moment victory is to Falsehood and lreason . It i 3 Falsehood which has delivered up France to the sham Republicans . It was under the influence of falsehood that a French army was led to attack Rome . It was Falsehood that disarmed the heroes of Hungary . Treason is everywhere . It forced our brethren , the soldiers of France , although raging with despair and shame , to destroy a free people whom they loved . Treason has subjugated the llhme and the Danube , opened the gates of Milan , Rome , Vienna , Rastadt , Venice , and Comoro . Treason is extending , and scaffolds are the monuments of its triumphs .

      YV e repeat , victory for the moment ! The Democrats of Europe struggle for Truth , for Right ; and Truth cannot perish , and against Right even majorities are powerless . Liberty ! Equality ! Fraternit y ! Immortal principles that move the -world . Those of your defenders who hare not suffered death we consigned to dungeons , reduced to silence , or driven into exile . But the love of manfind—the hope of triump h—the faith of the martyr , remain to them , and their sufferings are mitigated , while they press the hands offered to them b y their brethren of all countries .

      Thanks to you , English democrats , for your words of encouragement and affection . Be assured we shall remain firm to the good cause , and believe that you will soon hear resound from all parts of France the rall ying cry , Vive la Republique Democratique et Sociale ! ( Signed ) Ledru Koixin , Landolpiie , F . Pardigon , Rattier , B . Duyerdier , ch . rlbeyrolles , ehenne Abago , Martin Bernard , Songeon , E . Madier de Montjau , jun . London _ December , 1819 .

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      LETTERS TO THE WORKING CLASSES . LXXI . " Words are things , and a small drop of ink Falhnjf-like dew—upon a thought , produces That . which makes thousands , perhaps millions think . " £ rao ! JTHE FRATERNITY OF NATIONS . Brothfr Proletarians ,

      The response of the French Exiles ( which precedes this Letter ) to the addresses of the Fraternal Democrats , will excite the most pleasurable emotions in the breast of every true English Democrat . For the first time , we find men whose names are famous in the struggles which our French brethren have engaged in against Tyranny and Inequality , addressing themselves to the Democrats of England , and , thereby , testifying their devotion to that glorious principle of Fraternity which is so closely entwined with the name of Revolutionary France .

      . It is not to mingle in our politics—which would be as injudicious as unnecessary—that Ledru Rolun , Etienne Arago , Martin Bernard , Landolphe , and their comrades in misfortune , present themselves before the British public . Their work is simply to thank their English Friends for the expression of that sympathy which was given utterance to atthe Farringdon Hall meeting—sympathy which , not confined to that or any other local gathering , animates the hearts of all the good and true , from the Orkneys to the Land ' s End .

      The words of brotherhood which have passed between the Fraternal "Democrats and the French Exiles , must not be 1-egarded as a mere interchange of civilities . Those words carry with them a deeper and far more important meaning . In the days of old , Englishmen' and Frenchmen gloried * in mutual slaughter ; and while the one side vaunted of Agincourt , the other exultingly proclaimed the name of Fontenoy . But we have progressed , and are progressing . The valiant feats of thieves in mail , and brigands in buff jerkins , have lost their charm ; and not even

      the lay of the minstrel , or the song of the troubadour , could retkindle enthusiasm for the cut-throat heroes of the past . To speak of events within our own time , no one of the people of England boasts of Waterloo , or affects to pay the slightest homage to the Iron Duke . Marengo and Austerlitz were not very long ago , names to conjure with , and Vive VEmpereur was a cry which inspired tens of thousands to march with an air of triumph to a bloody grave . But now Frenchmen reflect on the passage of the Beressina , and call

      to mind the hecatombs of corpses piled on every battle-plain in Europe , only to build up the power of one being , who , if he was above the common order of men in capacity , was far below them as regards those kindly sympathies which , more than the mightiest genius , constitute the glory of true manhood . Frenchmen reflect , too , on the shameful deeds of Buonaparte the Second , and remembering the assassination of the Roman Republic , turn with loathing from the false , blood-besmeared " glory '' associated with the name of

      Xapo-LEON . It is the policy of the enemies of Democracy to cast ridicule and contempt upon the disciples of Fraternity ; and it must be admitted that dissensions and jealousies—individual and national—which yet occasionally disfigure our good cause , do afford to those enemies the means of wounding us . Nevertheless , the holy principle of Fraternity is no fiction , no mere fool ' s vision , or coinage of a schemer ' s brain ; but is , on the contrary , a great factone of the greatest facts of this time . If our enemies point the finger of scorn in the

      direction of Borne , the answer is easy . The destruction of the Roman Republic was not £ Ee work of the French people , but of those -who had deceived that people , and who , from the hour of their election have conspired against the liberties of their own and every ether country . In the case of Rome , too , let it be remembered , to the redemption of the French name , that Frenchmen died on the walls of Rome , fighting in

      defence of that Republic against that arch-fratricide Oudinot . Let it be remembered , too , that the men whose names appear above this letter sacrificed station , political honours , and all the endearments of family , home , and fatherland ; defied persecution , and risked their lives in the attempt—unfortunateJjnt not the less noble—to save the live *; ^^^| e 3 .. of their Roman brethren from ^^ aestroying blows of the agents of Royalism , Priestcraft , and Privilege .

      Others still more unfortunate am languishing in the Royalist dungeons . Not merely those who confronted the tyrants on the 13 th of June , but those also who preceded them in the path of affliction . Babbes , Raspail and Blanqui , sacrificed themselves for Poland , as the patriots of tha 13 th of June did for Rome . So also the unfamed soldiers of Democracy , the mute , unknown , and nameless defenders of Equality , proscribed , and assassinated , from the commencementof the Reaction to the present time—all , all , struggled , suffered , and felLnot for personal advantage ! , but for the

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      common good ; not to exalt France only but to raise tho world . Let it never be forgotten , that on the 14 th of June , the Proletarians of Lyons rushed against the bayonets and cannon of the Royalists , to the cry of " Long live Italy ! " "Long live the Roman Republic !" Devoted martyrs ! Your memories shall be cherished through the stormy present , and your wrongs be remembered in the great day of the Future ! COmnUin . COOfl ? Tint , tn nvnlf . 1 ? nnnn ~ 1 _ 1 ... 1 .

      In Germany , Italy , Hungary , Poland , — wherever freedom's flag has been unfurled , it has had inscribed thereon : — » For our freedom and yours ; " and in fraternity ' s cause , the heroes and martyrs of those lands have poured out their blood for the regeneration of the human race , without distinction of nation or name . Sublime proof that " the Religion of Fraternity w arising from the ruins of false systems , " and is superseding the delusions of false teachers .

      ^ o one who is aware of the progress of the good cause in France can doubt that erelong the exiles will be recalled to their Fatherland . When that day arrives they will take from tnese shores the assurance , that the British people desire the welfare , and glory , and happiness of France , and to that end the triumphant establishment of the ( rue Rkpublique —Democratique et Sociale . L'AMI DU PEUPLE . December 20 tb , 1849 .

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      NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OP UXITED TRADES . Established 1815 . " Is it not time that the millions made an effort—united and detcrmined-to save themselves fromTsinW to the level of Irish wretchedness ? By heavens ! the pat ence « f *^« r £ s The energetic and eloquent correspondent of the Star , from whom we have barrowedthe above most appropriate quotation to this article , may well give utterance to his astonishment and grief , at the infatuation of the working classes , who so quiescently and unresistingly offer their necks to tfie yoke 2 their unscrupulous taskmasters . It is , indeed , passing strange , and pitiful—wonderouslv Ditiful "

      urac a class possessing such enormous means a tneir disposal , wherewith to wrestle with tho manifold oppressions-political and socml-they are subject to , should present to the world such a dreadful spectacle of unresisting , abject slavery . The le ° al right of association is , thank God ! still left to the working classes of Great Mimn , ml it k to Jrove to them the enormous power which this rWt properly and judiciously exercised , would five them to emancipate themselves from the thraldom of capital , that is , essentially , the mission , and a elorious one it is , of the National Association of United li' . ides . From the first Conference , in 1845 , to the present time , the principles and objects of this Association have been most grievously misunderstood . The majority of the trades who haveioined . and h ^ vo since seceded

      , appear to have had " no more exalted idea of the great purpose il was designed and destiued to accomplish for labour , than as a stiiikk MAcniSE upon a gigantic scale-and the question is still frequently put to us , "Will the National Association , at the expiration of our six months' prot ° V » PpOrt u U 3 b a , stlikc-a right and just strike ? or in other words , " When we have paid into your Association , atthe rate of two pence per week , the enormous sum of four shillings and four-E /' f ™" , wU 1 youg , ranfc ™ . ^ zn indefinite number of weeks , or months , twelve shilling and sixpence per week , for any number of men we inay find it convenient to place upon your funds ? It so , we shall have no hesitation in joining so nolle an institution . " We have told such parties priva ely and we here tell the working classes publicly , thai the JSational Association is established for hMicr and nobler purposes than of perpetuating hv r . n ™« .

      ,, ing a system which has done more to ' impoverish and disunite the working classes than all the encroachments of capitalists upon their wa « -es Tho money winch has been uselessly and mischievously squandered through strikes , within the last fiftv years , would have amply provided for one million of the superabundant labourers of Great Britain in comfort and independence . Such being the case it is full time that such a ruinous and ineffective system was done away with , and some other plan more m accordance with reason and common sense substituted ; and it is only , therefore , until such improved substitute can be brought into operation , that this old and favourite weapon , of the workin * classes can he m any case sanctioned by the Central tommittee ; and mno case , until even other mode of dealing with disputes have been , tried and proved

      lue cause of reduction in wagea , and all other attacks upon the rights of labour , is traceable to the competition engendered and fostered by that selfish spirit of disunion , which is the besettin" sin of the masses . The remedy must strike evorV man who does not wilfully shut his eyes to the truth . You must provide employment for the unemployed of your order , and you must usite , to give you the means and the power to effect this . It is the unemployed men , in all trades , who reduce wa « es . ind introduce every mischievous innovation , and not employers . This latter class but act in the spiiit of their vocation-to " i « . / their labour in the cheapest market , and the working classes in their ignorance , always take care that the market of

      labour shall be cheap . There is no other class that has the slightest interest in regulating the supply of labour to the demand but the wording classes ; and they , by their apathy and selfishness , nclcct to use the vast means they possess , and thus entail upon themselves wrongs and oppressions , which are fasJt bringing them down to " Irish wretchedness . " The payment to the National Association by those members whose wages average twenty shillings weekly , is , in round numbers , about ten shillings per annum . This small sum—about twopence fiivtmng per week—from one million men , would yield an income of half a million a year ; every fraction of which could be applied to tho redemption of the unemployed , who now , without any fault of their own

      are the active agents in the hands of the capitalists , to beat down the wages of labour to the starvation point . Iherc are many trades that we are acquainted with who are constantly paying a self-inflicted tax of from sixpence to one shilling per week , with the vain nope of preserving themselves from the inevitable consequences of an overgorged labour market . We know one department of industry that has thus appropriated no less a sum than £ 30 , 000 within the last twelve months . We know of another large interest in Sheffield , who have paid this voluntary poor rate to the tune of £ 1 G , OOO , in a period of about eighteen months ; in fact , the sums of inonev thus applied annually by a large number of the mos ' t important and influential trades is enormous . But

      has the money so paid answered the end—or rather the chief end—intended ; has it arrested the downward tendency of wages in almost all these trades ? Assuredly not . The came which occasions reductions remains untouched ; a-id the effect continues in full operation . "Is it not time then that the wot king classes made an effort—united and determined "—to extricate themselves from this wretched position ? We call again upon those men who have power and influence over the masses to arouse themselves to a full sense of theiv danger , and no longer to remain contented to waste their talents and energy in a peddling , fruitless contest with the gigantic power of capital , which can only be effectually grappled with by the united efforts of an

      extensive and thoroughly organised confederation . Land , Labour , and Capital arc the three elements of production . These elements of wealth arc most unquestionably as available to an association of " Labour Capitalists" as of "Money Cajritalists . " The power of either differs but in degree . Whatever a joint-stock company of capitalists , with £ 1 , 000 , 000 sterling , could accomplish in one yenr , our Association , of one million working men , subscribing ten shillings per year , could accomplish in two years . If the one could render the now worthless bogs of Ireland a source of fruitful employment , and eventually a mine of wealth , as rich and productive as the sands of the Sacramento—well , so could the other . We contend , broadly and boldly ,

      that £ 500 , 000 would go very far at the end of the first year appropriated to its collection—to remove , effectually , the surplus labour from the first trades , who , to the number of one million , united their pence and their energies to work out their redemption . We apprehend that half a million a-year , which would give £ 00 each to ten thousand individuals , would j at least , place them in a position , by the economical appliance of associative labour , to make themselves perfectly independent , with very little further assistance . We are perfectly sure that land may be obtained in the United Kingdom upon long leases , and at excessively low rents , in sufficient quantity for colonising all the unemnloved of the industrious classes . And that £ 50 per

      head would be an ample fund for the commencement of such an undertaking . But we content ourselves now , with simply enunciating the perfect practicability of the Trades of Great Britain , thus relieving themselves of the incubus which is dragging them down to perdition . The idea may appear extravagant to such as have not given the subject consideration . But we think Us grave importance , to the interest of our order , should , and will , ensureforit , the calmest and most unprejudiced investigation . One of the first effects which would be felt many trade , who suceeeded in producing an equilibrium between the demand and supply of labour in that particular trade , would be an advance in the wages of those who remained in it , thus com-

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      nP ? nnh ! i >;' ITit 4 h -P robabI >' il ™ T lai- « e a < M"km , tho I Irl , - , COnJ ; l'lbutions which l . ad been thus ap-£ ll ?? l A . ^ toWea would thus become effectu-Sl 2 \ u u ltrikes ' a " their accompanying evils would be for ever abolished—tho sure remedy lor low wages would have been discovercd-the power ot union could then be acknowledged and apprccia ed ; and tho now despised serfs of labour , constantly increasing in power and intelligence , would soon force a recognition of their social and po-I'tical importance Dec . 12 th , 1849 . William Pell , Sec . nnncntiV . _ :, . ..

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      Ship L \ h , Birmingham . —At the usual weekly mee Of membera , at the Ship Inn , on Sunday evrang last the following resolutions were unani-™»? t P awed :-. « T hatwe , the members of tho T ,, omPany , having heard Mr . O ' Connor ' s Mr . tl ? ; ' ? ? ' Sherrington ' s letters read from the w , T ? n * al 3 O i ¥ L ters roceived fil ° * Lowbands , Ifi tt ' 9 harte"il ! e , are perfectly satisfied m lor tfn r nerfl managem e"t of the Company , S ± J * L i 2 * ° !! of Mr ' P'Ponnor , frj the totlle Present £

      STtoffi'f *«™ . "Vdo * e . ZL ™> - V ur most sincerc thanl « for tho noble exertions he has made for alleviating the We wofd ^ fr PprCSSe - - "lions Tt ^ olvlvy . i < fSin B ** h 0 Munetime-unles 8 the Company mend hL T ^ durin = the ncxt term-recomwind thl ?! J 8 P to ^ ro * for powera to wins up tho afiairs of the Company , as the best mZSS ^ -V L hose dishonest ^ d ™ JX ! tul members who have beeen located by the combined contributions of the whole of the member Sled upon Y ? S 010 H' ° *«« » a ^ X cillea upon to do ; and also that tho nn ,, inioin * is

      oi tnose ocated , as to the cultivation of theh- b Slrf ^ W llpon enfcire ' y ifSilciu most of the allotments were cultivated far beyond the expectations of most of the members newsp ° X ? K ° 7 f t 0 take '" « Sw ££ newspaper for the use of the members " Similar resolutions to the above have also betfn Sington ! LouShborouSh . Huddewfield , and

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      MANCHESTER , A public meeting of tho members of Feargus O'Connor ' s Land Company , in this locality , was held on Wednesday week , at the Golden Lion , Church-street , "to consider the propriety of winding up the affairs of the Compnay . " Thomeetmowas called for half-past seven p . m ., but at that time not more than twelve persons were in the room . At about half-past eight o ' clock , Mr . Wir . IIull was called to the chair . The Chairman opened the business of the

      meeting by requesting that every one should bo allowed a fair hearing . Mr . Feargus O'Connor in the last Star , had wished the opinion of the members on tlie prospects of the Company , and on the proceedings of the Directors , and for that purpose the meeting had bsen called . Those who condemned Mr . O'Connor regarding the ejectments , would have an opportunity of doing so . He should call on Mr . Armstead to read the letter of Mr . W . A . How , of Lowbands , from a Manchester paper of . Saturday last . :

      Mr . AnjiSTEAD read tho letter alluded to together with Mr . O'Connor ' s reply , from last Saturday ' s Star , after which , Mr . Jamks Smith , an allottee at Lowbands , being called upon , proceeded to state that Mr . O'Connor's letter contained a deal of false statements , to tho prejudice of those unfortunate occupiers of tho society's land . He took possession of three acres of land at Lowbands , in August ; but in place of finding his allotment in a high state of cultivation , and for tho most part cropped , as described by Mr . O'Connor , he had only half an acre cropped . He had one acre andi half sown with turnips , which were put into the ground too late to bo good . He cut a . drain but could not got tiles to lay it ;

      although Mr . O'Connor stated that " tiles woro given gratis to those who wished to drain more , lie likewise stated that there had been more manure put unon his iarm in that year than had been put upon it during the last twenty years . If ho had put a spoonful on , so far as he could learn , it would have been more than had been put on during tho last twenty years , for the land had not been manured for a groat length of time . With regard to the rent , it was too high . He had made inquiries and found that no land in that neighbourhood let for move than 20 s . per acre , while Mr . O'Connor charged £ 5 per acre , It was a moral impossibility for any man to pay such an exhorbitant rent . And Mr . O'Connor over-estimates the cost of the houses

      , &c . The cost of the houses is put down at £ 130 each , and better houses could be built for £ 80 . Mr . Cunningham had contracted to erect a number of the same description at a cost of £ 70 or £ 80 , although tho same gentleman , before a committee of the Itouso of Commons , said they could not bo built under £ 200 . He ( Mr . O'Connor ) stated that they had firing for sixmonths , but his did not last three months . True , they had a double row of apple trees , but they were of no use to starving men ; for it would be sever . il years before they produced any fruit . With regard to the aid money , he got it ; but it was six months before all was paid . Jlr . O'Connor says he had put in distress for only half a year ' s

      rent ; but tlwt is untrue , for on all at Lowbands ho had distressed for two years' rent . Mr . Smith then rave a description of tho land , and stated that all the three years' crops would not make an average one . Ho did not think that Mr . O'Connor wa 3 using the occupiers justly , after drawing them from their homes and occupations . For himself , he had never suffered such distress . He had been weeks and months without ever tasting animal food or butter . He concluded a most pitiful description amidst the murmurs of the meeting . Mr . Emmkhson did hope that the man might not

      be put down by clamour ; let them have the truth , which could only be got at by reasoning with one another . They all knew that . the Land Company had not met the expectation of the members . But let them know the worst , and not fall out one with another . ( Cheers . ) After great confusion , several persons wanting to speak all at the same time , and the meeting refusins to hear them , order was restored , and Mi \ A . Armstead moved , " That it is the opinion of this locality that the occupiers of the Company ' s land should have twelve months to pay their rent . " Mr . Emmehsox seconded the motion .

      Mr . William Yates believed that if they had to give them forty years to pay their rent , at the expiration of that lime they would not pay any . Mr . Smith , after his first Christmas , had wrote a Jetter to his friends , stating that lie had killed a « ooil fat pig , and regretted that all his friends were not located on the land . But he sang a different song now , for the occupiers thought to live like gentlemen out of the society ; and with regard to his sufferings , they could not have been much more acute , for he had had 8 s . per week to live upon from the first that ho went dpon the land until the last . He would move , as an amendment , "That Mr . O'Connor and the directors are justified in making the distresses , and proceeding to ejectment , if the occupiers of tho Company ' s estate do not pay rent . ' Mr . W . Parkixson seconded the amendment .

      Mr . Georoe ftonTOx moved another amendment : — " That the affairs of the Company should be wound up ; " which was seconded by Thomas Driver . This caused the utmost confusion , and the unfortunate Smith was severely rated for returning . On order being restored , Smith ' s brother said that the directors had no occasion to proceed to ejectment for out of forty-four allottees at Lowbands ouly fourteen remained . Tho Chairman then put the amendments : —For Norton's—to wind up the affairs of tho Company ; 23 : for Yates ' s—justifying the directors , 2 G ; for Armstead's motion , 9 . Many declined voting . The meeting then broke up , at half-past eleven , in much confusion .

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      THE NATIONAL LAND SCHEME . ( From the Daily News , Wednesday December 19 th . ) Wo are not among those who believe that the possession of land in small quantities cannot be made the means of improving the condition of our working classes . On the contrary , we have little doubt that not a few of our artisans and mechanics , and some of the working men of the rural district ? , may improve their circumstances by tho possession of land . But the extent of such must be no more than the possessor can well manage ; and it ought to belong to him absolutely . We can conceive nothing more calculated to elevate working men than to be impelled by the wish to acquire a plot of freehold land whereon to erect their own dwellings , or to employ their spare time in its cultivation . The extent of land which a working man can manage is limited by the amount of his capital , usually

      consisting of only a few shillings per week saved from his wages , and the small surplus of labour he has at hi 3 own disposal . "From one eigth to one quarter of an acre is the utmost quantity of land any prudent working man will undertake to cultivate . Above all , lot him beware of being seduced into bccomiti " a cottage farmer , of three , four , or five acres , unless he has accumulated a considerable capital . We do not say that a . decent subsistence might not be earned from four or five acres of land by a man who posesse 3 from £ 100 to £ 200 , but , otherwise , his lot will be a life of hard and unrequited labour . The present condition of Mr . O'Connor ' s allotment holders , at Herringsgate , near llickmansworth , in Hertfordshire , is full of instruction on the prospects of small occup iers without capital , or with inadequate capital . The general character of the land scheme is now pretty well known . For au >

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      scnptions amounting to £ 2 12 s ., £ 3 18 s ., Or £ 5 Is ., the members of "Hie National Land Company " were to obtain allotments of two , three , or four acres of land , with a cottage , and the adyar . ee of *« 10 s . pw acre , as capital for cultivation . We pass by all the jugglery by which this was to bo brought about , simply stating that it was in efiect a i find lottery , the allotments and cottaics provided being obtained by lot by a few fortunate prizeholders at the expense of a much larger number of members , whose chances of eottaire farms wero

      somewhat indefinitely postponed . Most of-the members Of the Land Company were likely to have remained expectant ruaiics only to the end of their natural lives , had not the investigations of tho committee of last year blown up the bubble altogether . But the practical result of the scheme ha 3 been to establish on allotments of two , three , and four acres of land , a number of hard-working and industrious men , but who possessed little other capital than their industry and the small sum per acre advanced to them by the Land Company .

      1 he earliest of such establishments wn 3 that at ITernngsgate , where , in the spring of 1 S-47 , thirty iillottces woro located , in full reliance that they could live and thrive on the produce of their allotments . On eacli allotment is a cottage , and besides the original advance of £ 7 10 s . per acre , each allottee had a further allowance of £ 10 towards tho erection of out-buildings . They were to have freehold grants of their allotments , ' subject to the reservation of perpetual rents , equivalent to £ 5 per cent , per annum on the prime cost of their land and their cottages , and the amount of the advances made te him . This , in the instance of tho Hertfordshire allotments , would have exceeded £ 5 per acre , though the land—which varies in quality—is not worth at the most more than from los . to 25 *

      per acre . Having regarded this as an experiment of some interest , we visited llemiijisgatu in the summer of 1817 , again in May , 1 S 48 * and a third time on the 10 th of July . On the two former occasions we found the allottees in high hopes , several of them having come in by purchase from the original prizeholders , and brought with them a little money ; but the wet season of 1848 afforded them an insight into the uphill nature of their undertaking . Hitherto no leases have been granted and no rents have been paid , and , looking at the present prospects of the allottees , there can be small difficulty in predicting that no rents ever will be paid upon the actual system . The first man we talked with had been a turnpike-gate keeper in Worcestershire .

      He was the holder of four acres , and had been one of the first settlers , lie had brought no capital with him , but , on the contrary , had been obliged to expend a portion of the £ 30 advanced by . the company in taking his family to the location . * This man is a pattern of patient and enduring industry amongst incredible hardships . He is still hopeful , but upon the mos , insufficient grounds . He has at present some « oata , winch he keeps tied up in a shed , and feeds them with weeds collected by his children from his own allottment and elsewhere ; and he has a boar , which ho hopes to be able to fat and kill for his own use , and a breeding sow , on the produce of which no little part of his hope deponds . Last year he had an aero of wheat which produced only eleven bushels , and he has at present about the same quantity sown , which is not likely to yield more than twenty bushels . There is some

      barley no better than the wheat ; some be . ins more promising , and a fair crop of potatoes . Mangold wurzel plants had been raised for transplantation , but which tho dry weather has hitherto prevented . The whole produce of / the four acres will not bo likely to do much more than provide food for the family during the ensuing year . That he can pay rent is out of the question , he said that if he had been employed for the last three years at weekly wages of 12 s ., and had lived as hardly as he had been compelled to do on his allotment , he would have been well off . It is his intention to have two of his four acres ploughed ncxt autumn , in order to sow grain , and also to lay down half an aero to grass , being convinced that an acre and a half is quite as much as lie can attempt to cultivate himself . He says that ho works from four in the morning till nine at nisrlir .

      There was a man from Wigan in Lancashire who had boon a cotton spinner , who lias a two acre allotment , and his family consists of himself , his wife , and three grown up sons . Their land shows the power of labour , for he had good crops of potatoes and wheat , and he hoped , if the potatoes remained free from disease , to bo able from the produce of this year ' s crop , to buy a cow . This jman and his wife seem shrewd and industrious . They had orectpd some useful out-houpes with lime and flints , and had both flowers itnd fruits in tho front of their cottage . Their neighbours said they had improved their circumstances since their location . The man had for fifteen years been subject to a cough , which generally prevented him from factory work fov two

      or three months in the winter , so that his original condition was probably low enough ; but since ho had settled on his allotment he had entirely lost his cough , and looked hale and happy . -He ' thought that if he could get a cow lie might Ic able to pay rent . One or more of his sons return occasionally t » tlier original busincs , when trade is brisk ; and this , perhaps / has' helped tho family . At all events , the labour of four adult men on two acres of land represents a considerable capital , and on the whole the condition of this family seems to have been improved by the change . How they will meet the vent of £ 7 ., £ 8 ., or £ 10 . a year , when demanded , may be a question . It was obvious that one of the allottees seriously believes that they will be called upon for

      rent . There is a man who bought the interest of an original allottee to four acres for £ 70 , and has since expended upon his land near or quite £ 200 . This man has a breeding sow , and ton or a dozen hand-• some store pigs . His crops are very good , and it is probable that he may bo able to pay rent when demanded . ] Jut he says he wishes he had hived a small farm , instead of buying the allotment- ; and though originally engaged in trade near London , and quite unacquainted with husbandry , he has taken to the culture of the land with so much good sense and industry , that he would Drobably have succeeded . There is a man from Northampton who , being a cripple , is obliged to hire labour for the cultivation of his two acre allotment ; but being possessed of a cow and some pigs , which his wife manages well , and working also at his trade as a shoemaker , he is reputed to be the most prosperous man in the settlement .

      With the above exception , if they arc exceptions , we may say that the condition of the allottees appeared most hopeless . Several of the allotments are for sale , and one appeared to be totally abandoned . Tho emps generally are not better than those on the neighbouring farms , and full one-half of them arc nofhearly so good . The great hope of all is in their potatoes ; but with or without potatoes we do not see how , with theiv present system of cultivation , more than two or three allottees can hope to pay any rent . What , then , is to be the end of this scheme ? No more subscriptions are coming in , and discontented members are suing Mr . O'Connor for the recovery of their subscriptions , and with success . There seems no doubt but that the land must and will be speedily sold off ; and what then is to become of the allottees ? "Will they be first made partially secure by a leasu ? If perpetual leases be granted to them

      as at first proposed , nobody will give anything for tho land , for it is clear the rents can never be paid with regularity . From the avidity with which this scheme was taken by the working-men of the towns it is plain that there exists amongst them an ardent desire to possess a portion of land , and by its failure they may learn three things ; first , not to leave their actual employments and stake everything on a plot of land , hut to endeavour to acquire a bit of land as a secondary moans of subsistence or for enjoyment ; secondly , to be content with a small and manageable piece ; and , thirdly , to acquire the absolute ownership . Keeping these things in view , let our shrewd artisans practice frugality and self-denial that they may become landowners and county voters . Tho following statement of the present condition of another of these locations , that at Dolford , near Malvern , is from a local journal . This , we believe , is a recently established

      settlement : — Dodford is about two miles and a half from the town of Bromsgi'orc , lving to the left of the Kidderminster road . Here , about two years ago , Mr . O'Connor bought a freehold estate , containing alout 300 acres , whii'h is approached by some of those pieturesquo lauos which only England knows , and from the top of the hill of which it forms a part , you get one uf those enchanting scenes only liiHjlish lirndseiiyi ! can alVurd ; you have an open view of miles ot Worcestershire ' s fertile fluids till they fade away into silvery indistinctness beneath the Malvern Hills , whiiih biiimd the . horizon with their beautiful outline .

      Upon it , according to the first promises , seventy subscribers were to be located—the funds , we suppose , not being handy the seventy has been reduced to forty-one . The far r .-honsu has been left standim ; , and this with eighteen acres of tho land was sold the oilier day to a gentleman who is now in possession—the purchase money being , as we are told , £ 2 , 1 ) 1 ) 0 . To each of the forty-one houses four acres of laud are attached , and the 100 acres and upwards which are thus left undisposed of are , we believe , to he resold . One out of tho forty-one allotments is at present occupied by a retired tradesman from Oklham , in Lancashire , wlio has now been there six months , having paid a bonus equal to about £ 55 per aero upon the land , and a very considerable sum for the house . His plot was in a high state of cultivation , and was triumphantly pointed to by the ' chiefs' of the party as proof of what might be done

      with the land . They did not say , however , what is the fact , that the occupier lias spent £ 20 per acre upon the land during the six months he had been there , and thut it was only by such means that he managed to get it into Us present condition . The land , for the most part , is very poor , composed of marl and sand , and will require not only much hard work but much manure t * make it at all productive . Three-fourths of each allotment are already planted with peas , beans , potatoes , and cabbage , but the lentil crops looked particularly wretched , and there was quite as much S £ naj > i « aiw . sii iu njpny parts as anything else . A neighbouring farmer says , that if he had a present tindo to him of all the crops on the estate he would not be u \ the trouble of harvesting them and taking them to market . The land in the bottom may , with eonsideraable outlay , good crops , but alas ! for those allottees who

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      jmvgoMhe viol * upon the top of the -hill , where it is so Weak and cold tlwt Ho wire or pains can over ensure : i fair velum for the labour expended . The houses at Dodfori are built of bricks , after the plan of those « t Snig ' s J-Infl , lieing a considi-ViiJile improvement on the Lowbaml lmli"' ™?; ll"'y consist of three roome on the ground floor , tie im . ldlo one bcinjr tiled ami the two side ones boardea . Uie > are htteilI up with grates , cupboards , Ac . At the back aie tl . ico omhouscs , without iloorin ' , ' of any sort , to b » Yrii ? . 1 '" ^ ll 011 - ° ' T ll 0 USu - *«¦ ¦ "Mi nca ^ aryana vSn ¦ yi U ' ' li ! lllotnu'"tsare llli ( 1 ° « tin the same manner as on the other csiates , without any lu-d-cs Tw . hrecii them . There » „„ schoolhouse at Dodford ; the moral training of the families located on tliesl estates , , vludi cut so important a figure in the oiightti prospectus ot the Land &thenie , has buen altogether left Air . O'Connor does not appear amongst his allottees , and the whoso scheme appears to be rapidlr drawing to a close .

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      Bn \ i ) KORD . —On Sunday last , two lectures were delivered in the Democratic School-room , Croftstreet , by Mr . It . G . Gamage , of Xortliamppi , the first , " On the condition of the people , past an 4 present ; and the necessity of political freedom , a » a means of improving their social condition . " The second was , " The past Democratic movementscause oftheir failure—and advice to the people aB to future operations . " Tho lecturer gave general satisfaction . RocuDALE . —A lecture was delivered in the Chartists' room on Sunday last , by Mr . J . Leach , of Manchester . Mr . L . took an- examination of the various Emigration Schemes ai > present agitating chc country , for the purpose ( iu his opinion ) « deluding the people ; and concluded by reading a letter from a friend of his who had been sent by the

      Potters' Emigration Society , fully showing that it was a complete delusion . The lecturer was wanrihr applauded during the delivery of his lecture , and the meeting sopar . Ucd hiirhly satisfied . Bandury . —A meeting of shareholders was held at tho Btttchers ' -iirms Inn , on Monday night , whenihe following resolution was proposed by Wm . Penn , and seconded by James llosc : — " Thai this branch is of opinion that Mr . O'Connor is justified in enforcing the allottees to pay the rents ; at the same time they would recommend they should , if possible ,, rcceivo such a receipt as would give them the right

      to vote lor a Member of Parliament , that being tht original intention atthe formation of the Company If this cannot be done , we wish the directors immediately take steps—if not completely registereft —to wind up the affairs of the Company as early a » possible . " Carried unanimonsly . Criitleoate Locality . —At a meeting held la * week a memorial to the Queen was adopted , praying for the liberation of Messrs . Shaw , Bezer , and a 3 other political prisoners . After tho memorial has received the signatures of tho inhabitants it is tote presented by Alderman Challis , the Alderman of the Ward .

      AKWCASTI . E . —Atthe weekly meeting on Snndiy evening—Mr . John Hudson in the chair—the repoit of the Chartist Conference was read from the Stat 9 and appeared to give general satisfaction . The fol-? ming r 03 oIutio « ™» s propoaed , and carried : — That a full meeting of the Chartists of this bramfc be called for Sunday evening . December 23 rd , A seven o'clock , in the long room at the Cock Inn . Head of the Side , for the purpose of adopting the new plan of organisation , proposed by tho Conference . "

      Greenwich . —At a meeting held on Sunday ovening , at the Walter ' s-arms , Church-street , ]) eptfora ; Mr Morgan in the chair ; tho letter of Mr . Blights read from the Star Mr . llobinson being present stated his willingness to meet Mr . JJligh any evenmg . Mr . Floyd moved , ar . d Mr . Paris seconded : — " That the meeting take place at the above house , on Sunday evening , at seven o ' clock ; " to whioTi Air . ltobinson assnutcd . MONUMKNT TO THE MkMORYOF WlLUAMS AN » Shariv—At a meeting of the Cripplegate locality df Chartists , held at 28 , Golden-lane , on Wednesday

      evening . — Mr . Slocome in the chair-it was unanimously resolved- " That all persons holding cards tor monument purposes , be requested to makeanimmediate return to the secretary ( Mr . T . Brown ) in order that the sculptor may complete the work . "That the best thanks of this meeting are do ^ , and hereby given to Mr , James Harris ( late editor df the Chartist Circular ) for pist and present labDW rendered gratuitously in engrossing memorials * m behalf of the political victims . " After the transaction ot some business connected with the torthcomiinj 1 ' raternal Festival , to be held at John-street , Institution , on New Tear ' s Eve , the meeting terminated .

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      - ARISTOCRACY alias PROTECTION . TO THE EDITOR , OF THE NORTHliRN STAU . Sir , —It appears that the Aristocracy , under the leadership of that essence of ideality , Benjamin Disraeli , M . P ., have commenced an agitation for the restoration of the principle of sectional protection , wWch means a power taken by the minority jo legislating , for the purpose of elevating the Batfl mii . ority at . the expense of the great hulk offlas community ; we have plundering principles in opperation , the character of which is not distinctly aeea by the people , or they could not possibly be perpetuated for a single day . But for DUraeli to imagine that he can restore protection on the principle be advocates , is to suppose that the

      people are as ignorant as he calculates . He wifl find that he is relying upon a broken reed . The aristocracy may do what they will , the laws ot nature against which they have hitherto acted ate retributive in their character , and will manifest thk retribution by speedily destroying them as a clan . The protection of the aris ocracy me 8 ns the adoption of certain laws by which they may be enabled to protect themselves from the reduction of rents , which must take place under the adoption of the principles of Free Trade . Let any reasonable man refl- 'nt for a moment on this subject , is it right , is it iust ? Can the idea for one moment 1 ) 2 toleratedthat a class of men v > ho scorne imlusttv , who look

      upon the producing classes as an inferior raceoT biings , who consider themselves " God 3 , " . and the rest of the community created merely / or the purpose of ministering to their licentious and unholy passions , and though they have had the power , and been placed in positions which has enabled them to ner ase their resources infinitely , yet with all these advantages . a-jcordmg to their mouth-piece , ( Disraeli ^ their extravagance has involved their estates in mortgage debts , in England alone , to the amount nf £ 400 , 000 , 000—take the united kingdnn , and the mortgages will be found to amount to JEGOO . OOO . OOfi ? This class of individuals have had the government in th .-ir hands for ages , and their capabilities of

      government are only manifested by a National Debt uf £ 800 , 000 , 000 . and a personal debt on their own property of £ 000 , 000 , 000 . The interest of wnich has been , up to the adoption of Free Trade principles , extracted from the producers , and now , when they discover that the . interest or their mortgages will have to be paid by themselves , they are endeavouring t 9 raise a " dust'' for tbt rfstoralion of protection . " Don't they wish ihey may get it . " Surely the gullibility of the farmers is not such as to bs led blindfold by Disraeli . They may ri-ly upon it that he is gammoning them—hia sympathifts are in favour of the aristocratic class He sees that their position is sure to be sacrificed

      and , in order to prevent this result , he appeals to the prejudices of the farmers , and professes to he their friend , working for their special benefit . Lift tha farmers test the sincerity of Disraeli , by calling upon him to agitate tor the reduction of taxation , reduction of rents , and the reduction of usury , which is especially protected by the currency law of Sir Robert Peel ; i { he will consent to do this , then the farmers will have some tangible proof of ho sincerity on their behalf . His project for equalisinj the land tax , and thus , raise & sinking fund to be devoted to the purchasing of consols—which be sa 5 B would advance them to pir , and thus enable the farmers to borrow money at a lower rate of

      interest—is not only unjust itself , but delusive in its promised results . Mr . Disraeli must know flu * the rate of interest depends upon the quantity of money in the nation ; and unless he can show that his taxation scheme will augment the general stock of money , a lowering of interest i 3 impracticable The scheme w one resulting in { Annrter ; suppost that consols were at par from the investments of the funds derived from his adjustment of the land taxit would give the present fundholdera the power to rob the nation of several millions . The price of consols at present being 92 $ , as one per cent , is equal

      to an advance in the value of consols to the extent nf eight miUions , it is evident that to drive them up to par , would be an advance of H , which is eqni > valent to giving the holders of these consols sixty millions sterling . The people must be wide awake to the various projects which will result from the severe pressure upon them , and augmenting iroa year to year ; they must" prove all things , hold fist that which is good . " Objects to be achieved mvA be of a universal character to be of any advantage to the masses . If the projects , of professed reformers have not this characteristic , tta rnulU vill lead to disipnointrfft it .

      Your * truly , John Cowan , Jaw Halifax .

      ©Ijartist Totttntgencr.

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      ™ RECEIPTS OF THE NATIOHAL LAND COMPANY . For the Week Exdisg Thdhsdat December 20 , 1849 . SHARES . Duadersfield .. SU O H . Mathews .. O %% Ikottiagham .. 1 18 9 Edinburgh .. 100 £ 515 9 TOTALS . ^^ 5 15 9 Expense ditto 0 2 3 loan ditto ... ... # > # 0 10 Bents from Allottees " . " H i o JE 17 0 0 W . Dncos , C . Dotie , "" ~~~~~ T . Clark , Cor . Sec . P . M'Grath , Pin . Sec .

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      1 PECEMBEtt 2 a ' 1 S 49- THE NORTHERN STAR ' > , ^^ ¦ " - * -= ~ 'JL . _ j ^^— . la 3 j l —^¦^ .. _^_ 5 i ¦— .. ¦¦ - —¦ . "" —« ' ' - «—— . rtniniin . ' , ; . « - . 7 niii l . jl i-. iii r-mni .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 22, 1849, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1553/page/5/