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THE HOBTHEBN STAR. SATWKDAY, MAY 18, 1S50.
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— - - - ,- — - ^ ^ ^——^——i——TTNITED PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCBS' BENEFIT SOCIETY KJ Enrolled pursuant to 10 Geo . IT , c 56 , 4 & 5 ] TilLlV . c . « , & 9 A io Vic , c . 27 . -Instituted 7 th Feb 1843 Potroni .-T . aDdkcomb ^ Eso .. M . P . JC Wimr , E « Q ., iLP . B . CabbSKp - ' " ' - .: re-:-. _ --1 ' : :. ¦ :: ¦ ; - . . 'f . ' 0 'Conk <>» , 29 * , M . P . LcteJiHun AKsuu > Es « ~ ' : The Sodetyis divided into ax section * to meetthe necessities « nd requirements of an ' classes of mechaiibs ana aar « stws » ra ^* WK ^ iaffi aaSg ^ g » MOB . K-fiL BuimO , M » Sfl . niniial . oii » Os . M . the , >« . ItJ 5 R-1 SX 7 isSjii T ^ S ^ ¦ * ' **^!^ SS ^!^ SSStlf ^ . ?^^" « S »« tta , ana lWn ~ loaerc . il * ri = i 2 *~ " Tr ~ : rr ~ * -w-= * 'W ^ ** iw "" 40 45 "" 11 2 "" 1 n 9 " S , 2 2 —• 0 88 ... ; 0 8 2 .... over . - — 4 u —« .... x i j .... i o . 2 .... 019 8 n lo 9 n ir 2 ' twenty sears ;* sf | r- * w ^ rr JnSff ^ STrSafJ ? S * " I CO SecoBdditto ..:. 16 0 0 .... 8 0 0 , 1 K ^ ttn q S 4 ° Thirdditto ..... 12 0 0 .... 6 . 0 0 IS ^ 7 ;^ 7 2 —••• ¦ * ° Fonrthditto . ; .. 10 0 0 .... 5 0 0 . . ** £ 4 * £ I 4 0 Fifthditto ., .... 6 0 0 .... 300 01 X 11101110 ' 0 none # Sixthditto 2 10 0 .... none LOSS BY FffiE . —In all the Divisions ( with ^ the exception of the Sixth ) JEW . ' , ' . . _ . „ . Monthly contributions to ensure the above benefits . ¦ ^ .-Itv . V ? 3030 ?^ ^ ^ . Under 40 . . Under 45 . FiratDivisura .. 33 . 7 ^ 4 3 s . 10 | d ,. 4 s . 3 Jd . : : Second ditto .... 3 0 GeneralExoenses 3 2 i ) Insurance in caseof fire , 3 7 i& , a montk for Thirdditto .... 2 4 including 2 6 I can be raised to 151 ., 2 10 .. Medical-Fourth ditto .. 2 0 " Postage , &c , 2 2 f l } d . a month extra , 2 5 i " Attendance and Fifthditto .... 1 8 Md . Monthly . 1 10 or 201 . 3 d . a month . 2 1 Medicine . ' Sixth ditto .... 13 J * J Youthful , Gift , Widow and Orphans'Funds extra , for which , see the rules . Agencies are established in many of the principal Towns throughout the Kingdom , and agents are required in all parte , to whom a liberal allowance is made . Every information can be obtained , by application to the Secretary at the Office of the Society , 13 , Tottenham-coiirfj Kew-road ( thirteen doors from the top ofTotteimam . court-road ) St Pancras , London . ' ... ,. i _ , ' Persons in the Country applying for Rules can have them forwarded , hy enclosing twelve postage stamps , and if for form ; of application , or information , three stamps must be enclosed . ......... - .-. . . DasielWuliih Boot , General Secretary
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THE MNER 5 ' COXFEREKCS . ^ TO THE MINERS OE GREAT •* - BRITAIN . Fellow 3 faf , —The long and continued depression in the wages of the mmer , and the fearful and excessive compeafcon which produced these results , have ' once more aromed the brave spirits of the leading mining counties , and from a correspondence which has been going on for some tune , Between Lancashire , Staffordshire , Northumberland and Durham , and several-places in Scotland , it lias been determined to hold a Conference on the * 20 tli of May , at w % an , m Lancashire ; -when it is expected all miners who feel a desire to remove the fern of slavery from their class , and who feel it a hardship to live upon die scanty pittance of wages which they receive , will send a Delegate to such Conference , and thus lend a hand to lay the foundation of a system of union and organisation , whose lasting benefits mil call down the blessings of ages upon the names of its founders . The Conference will be held at the Horse and Jockey Scholes , ffigan , Lancashire . IIastlv Jode .
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• The skin , though lovely fair , May quickly fade for want oi needful care . ' f THE PRIMARY CAUSE of the X numerous DISEASES and Affections of the Skin is an impaired condition of the health , arising from a disordered state of the stomach , liver , and bowels . From these causes the blood becomes corrupt digestion impaired , the liver inactive , and the bowels constipated . Hence arise blotches and eruptions of the skin , bilious affections , heartfcurn , sick headache , irritability , spasms , flatulency , pain after eating , nervous debility , &e . To correct all the crudities of the vital fluids , strengthen the stomach , remove ^ digestion and liver complaints , relieve the bowels , in"vigorale the system , and tranquilise the nerves , DR . SCOTTS FAMILY APERIENT TABLETS will be found an unfiuHng remedy . Itis a medicine of pleasant flavour , and possesses extraordinary wtues from its peculiar preparation . With children , also , its effects are most astoaishing ; it speedily and effectually removes worms . Sold in boxes at 2 s . 9 d . Agents , Kuddand Co ., 151 , Strand . Hay he had ( free-by pest ) , and ofall dealers in patent me-^ lyqnpj *
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BALDNESS , WEAK OR GREY HAIR WHISKERS , EYEBROWS , &c ., &c . I KOSALIE COUPELLE'S celebrated PARISIAN POMADE is universally acknowledged at the only efficient preparation extant for the production of Hair , 'Whiskers , Eye-brows , &c ., in six or eight weeks , from whatever cause the deficiency may arise ; as also checking greyness , weak hair , curing baldness , Ac ., at any ag « . It has never been known to fail , and will be forwarded ( free ) with full instructions , &c , on receipt of 24 Postage stamps . AUTHENTIC TESTDJOWALS AKD OKMOXS . 3 fiss Young , Truro , writes : — "It has quite restored my nair , which I had lost for years , notwithstanding I had ined the many ludicrously styled messes of the day . " Mr . Bull , Brill , says : — "lamhappvr tosav , after everything else foiled , yours hashad the desired effect , the greyesss is quite checked j j
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EMIGRATION TO NORTH AMERICA . W TAPSCOTT AND CO ., SHIPPING a . J ^ Emigratien Agents , Liverpool , continue to despatch First Class Ships—To NEW YORK-every Five Days . To NEW 0 RLEAXS-4 very Ten Days . To BOSTON and PHILADELPHIA-every Fifteen Days . And occasionally to BALTIMORE , CHARLESTON , SAVANNAH , QUEBEC , ana oi . JOJIAS . tSffSt J& ^ st ^ T' onJfcwTwk 'P ^« Fo ^ Sle'S pr ' 8011530 " SentfrCe ' ^^ reCeipt 0 f &-. About twenty-eight thousand persons saUedfor the Sew World , in Tapscott ' s linp of American Packets , in 1849 .
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EMIGRATION TO GEORGIA , IBWIN COUNTY , UNITED STATES . . ' COTTON ! COTTON !! COTTON !!! Independence ! -Self Government in Factories ' -with Fixity of Working Hours ! ' The attention of Manufacturers and Operatives in Cotton Of . mall capital is called to an extract from tte ^ New York Correspondent of the Time , , dated 17 th Jn ^ lffl ^ S says , relative to the State of Georgia- ' AaTantaeehai been taken . fits extensive water pdwVr to esteffcotto " mannfactoneH A feet not only true , but also that there . ^! . ma -fe n P ° n Ae capital invested in those factories Present time
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thb cHE * PEsr ; tomoi » ' B ¥ ji rtrafisHib ;;! it ' ¦ price ls , dd ., ' ;_ ; " : ' Aaw tndd « TO iefflto , ' rtai Stert ^ te ' of f te . ¦¦ . -, " '¦ , ¦¦ Author , of ; li -.. ¦ ¦ : . ¦ ; .. i- ¦ : 'PAIHE ' jS- MiTOMORKS , --Mb . O'CpNfrOR ^ WORK tfN SHALL FARMfS . Sold . byJ . Watson , Queen's ' Head Passage , Paternoster row , London ; A . Heywbod , Oldham-atreet , Manchester , ^ nd Love and Co ., 5 , Nelson-street , Glasgow . ¦ 'And bv all'Booksellers in Towh and Country .
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rp . HE VOICE . OF -THE PEOPLE •*• ; ; ;¦ ¦ ¦ Price One Penny .: ¦¦¦ ; . v ¦ : ;'• ¦ . 1 ' « . ^\ , f " ^ tne Bird ' s-Eye ParUament . ; Baits for the People ; California-and-Back for a Penny Free Thinki ^; Experience . of Uncle , Isaac ., Here ' s oSr ' Good ffealUi ! proposed by Act of Parhament ;' , OuV Right to beEducated ; &c , &c ; ¦ ¦ •• =- ¦ - ¦ '' ¦??? . ¦ . }? 0 . Yickebb , iHolywell-street , Londok 5 and all Bookelleri . . v , . ¦ , ¦ ¦ ¦ .- . .. . . . .
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NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . OFFICES , M , SOUTHAMPTON STREET , STRAND .
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jVTATIONAL CHARTER , LEAGUE . 1 * The Council of the League announces to the Friends of progress , and to the Public generally / that they have taken * THE DRUID'S HALL , FARUINGDON STREET , for the purposes of the body , and that the .: FIRST PUBLIC LECTURE will ba delivered there on ., ' :, Sdndat Eveninq , May 2 Sth , 1850 . Chair to be taken at Seven o'CIock . Admission . —Members of the League , osb penst , an I non-Members , twopence each . May lGth 1850 . Thomas Clabk , S
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THE WORKING SHOEMAKERS ASSOCIATION . , APPEAL TO ' THE PUBMC . The ahove Association has commenced business on the Co-opebative principle ,, with a stock of superior Boots and Shoes , all made on the premises , in well-arranged work-$ hops , which may be inspected by any persin who take any interest in this movement . One trial will prove the superiority ot ^ he work of Co-operative Labour over that of ttarved , Conipetttwe Labour . And now for a word on the price of our articles : —It is a well-known fact that the cheapest in the world are dear at a gift ; we say , that to be really cheap they must be really good ; to prove that ours are so , it must be clearly understood that they are all warranted not to . rip ; and should a Boot or Shoe happen to rip , the customer will please to bring it back , and it will Va immediately repaired without any charge ., . , ; : :
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nEAFNESS . — Important Notice . — Mr . iJ FRANCIS , the eminent aurist , who has devoted his attention solely to DISEASES of the EAR , continues to effect the most astonishing cures'in all those inveterate cases which have long been considered hopeless , and of thirty or forty years standing , enabling tho patient to hear a whisper , withont pain or operation , effectually removing deafness , noises in th « head , and all diseases of the aural canal . Mr . F . attends daily from 10 until 6 , at his consuiting rooms , fi , Beaufort-buildings , Strand , London . Persons at a distance can state their case by letter . Advice to the poor , Monday , Wednesday , and Friday , from G till 8 in the evening .
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BROTHER CHARTISTS BEWARE !! RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS !! T ) R . DE-ROOS still continues to supply fJ theafflicted with his celebrated cure for sincle hr ?» o « l' <• °° , We 11 kn ° wn to need comment . It is « crfectly free from danger , causes no pain , confinement or in convenience , and will with full instructions , Ac . / renderins failure impossible , be sent free on receipt of 7 s in cash or by Post Office order , payable at the Holborn office , ' A great number of Trusses have been left behind by per . r £ n 3 prf CUrei 1 ' - , ^ of the imincnse access onWs ssstSRasrS ^ iven to any ° ° ^ . letters of in quiry should contain two rcrtStniro ct « mno
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&aas 55 arMnK »^« saasaaartafs ^ STr ? ^ sS =, s-rHSSS prices : _ Bestplain truss , 5 s .: Ody's « SwdrStJW ass ? aasuti ^? saaMi rtg a Ual fam to « « SSASS
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9 . tot ) RTANT DELEGATE MEETING . , a :- ¥ OKKSHIRE-AND- i / ANOASHIRE £ L' / RELEGATE . MEETING willrbe 'held at HEBDEN BRIIWEion'SoMbAr . ' the 2 Gth of May ; 1860 , at Ten O'Cmck in the FoBENoowy when ( he following questions will be submitted for consideration : — . ,..,,., l . ~ Tpconsider , andnh ' ally ' settl e . 'the'bestinode of appointing an Executive head to . the Chartist movement . " 2 . i-To discuss theKevr Plan of Organisation , as ; put forthby the London Conference . ' ' . ' ' ' . ' ' . / , ' ..,,. ; , 3 . — To consider tho best mbde ' of bringing the Chartist mind ^ of the . ' two counties , ! iand the ' conntrygeherallyi to bear upon tiie political questions of the day . .: ••' : ' ' ' ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ Mri 6 . W . M . RKiNOLDS , . of London , will attend on ber half of the Provisional Committee .: -. ' ,.- ¦ . . .. ''' Aircbmniunieationg to be addressed to Jlxm Wuxiams , 7 , Buke-street Back , SaBdy-brow . 'Stockport , Cheihire .. , „
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Education fortKe Millions . ^ ON '' , WJSDNE ^ Ar-NJBXT ' . WiLL . iE - PUBMSHEb , THE FIRST NUMBER •"' . . . . . „ . ¦ . ., . - . ^¦ „ <¦ £ ¦ : ¦;¦ ¦••'• • • : • ¦ •¦'¦ ' ; ; ¦ . NEW CHEAP UNSTAMPED WEEKLY PEBIODICAL , ' ' ' ' TO BE GALLED . [¦ : ' : ¦ ¦ -I-: !' .-
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The first number of « ' The National Instructor " will be published next Wednesday , and inreply to Agents , who have written to ascertain how the numbers can be furnished , we beg to say that they must receive their supply through their London Booksellers and Newsvendors .
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' «» fltoirtrafta of- . flatrfotfc Tho readers of the ' 'Northern Star , " and the Democratic party generally , are , informed , that there is now a re-issue of the various Steel engravings which have beea lately distributed with the "Northern Star . " They consist of
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MAGNIFICENT . ENGRAVING . ; A splendid Steel Engraving—being a Portrait of each American President , from General Washington to the present . . President , Zachary Taylor—is now preparing for our subscribers , and will be ready for delivery to agents about the " end of the present month . To prevent disappointment , and to ensure early impressions , orders should be forwarded immediately .
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Sothngham . —J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums , senl ' . herewith . yiz :: '—Fob Victim Fond . —MK W . Lees , Is . — : —Fob Mas . M'Do&au ,. — Mr . H . Lowe , 6 d . . ; . . : ; ::. ; HoNESTr Fund . — . Nottingham . — J . Skerritt hegs to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums , viz .: — Mr . Etche'sBoek , 2 s 7 d ( Mr . King ' s Book , Is ; A Friend , Is 2 d ; Mr . Mason ' s Book , Is 2 d ; Mr . Howe's Book , New Radford , 3 s 3 d ; Seven Stars Locality , £ l ds 8 d ; From Skeiitt's Shoe Club , 4 s 3 d ; ¦ > - The above only amounts to the sum ofJBl 14 s Id . I have received an order for £ 2 . , W . Rider . Mr . J . Ckooke , Stockport . — The portrait has not been issued . ' ' ¦ : '¦'¦'¦ ¦ ¦ ¦"¦¦ . ¦ ¦¦ ¦• • \
Mr . J . Morgan ; Wallace-town , Ayr . —Sir Robert Peel was 1 born February 4 th , 1788 , ¦> ' ¦ - . A Constant Reader , . Cragg , near Halifax . —None of the . children have died . .. The last horn is the seventh . Tub Victims . —( To Mr . William Kider . )—Sib , —I enclose you a Post-office order for 51 . Mrs . M'Douall , Mrs . Jones , , Mrs . Fu 3 scll , Mrs Sharp , arid Mrs . Williams are to get II . each . ' The Committee wish also that you should state mjhe Star , that they have given 11 . to the widow of James Gow—a man . who took an active part in the good caust in this locality . The money is the surplus of
the Saturday night ' s convivial meetings . —Yours , James Graham , 17 , Tait ' s-lane , Ilawkhill , Dundee , May 13 th . Mr . William Kent ; Brighton , is informed that had he expressed a wish that his letter should have been handed to the Star , John Arnott would have had much pleasure in complying therewith . Communications' for the Star shouldlje sent to the Star office . - Mr . C . Clabk , Bristol . —Yes , you and all other agents must procure the National Instructor through the London boskscllers . ' ' . Mr . O'Connob presented the petition of the Miners of H » nley immediately after he received it .
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STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES . . Mr . W . P . Roberts will be in : Hanley on Thursday , next , the 23 rd of May .
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THE STRUGGLE IN FRANCE . The re-action approaches its climax in France . Beaten by the people in the peaceable and orderly exercise of their constitutional rights , the perjured conspirators in power eeek to destroy the Constitution itself . There is not one of the traitors , from the " Special Constable" who tenants the ElysSe , down to the meanest scoundrel of the majority in the Assembly , who has not sworn solemn . allegiance to the Constitution . It was upon that ground alono that tho ouo was invested with Executive , and othors with administrative and legislative powers . Tho oivoumstanccs under . which a rovision of tho Oonsti
tution can take phico—tho parties , by whom that revision is to bo mtulo , mul thq YWiod at which it can bo logalllv dpnor ^ avei all clearly ami unequivocally him down iu tho Constitution itself . Louis Nai'ousqn awlhia advisers have no such power . Tho traitorous and unprincipled majority have uosuchpoweiv In proposing , theroforo , a sweeping confiscation of Universal Suffrago , they are guilty of treason against thfesovoroiga people and the Constitution of the country- They place themselves within tho penal operation of the law , and are equitably and morally—if not yei legally- —araenabh to > all the pains and penalties imposed by the Constitution for the violation of its principles and enactments .
The double victory achieved in Paris by the calm and intelligent exeroise of the franchise hasdrivpn the reactionary party to desperaV tion . . Hopeless / of subverting the Republic hv means ; of trickery , evasion , and intimidation , the command of a rkh 0 — ^ ^ ^
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- ^——^—^—» scrupulous party , they have resolved to throw ddwiTthe ^ M means ' ofatyrantand i pefjuredmajirity-i-the very people who' made them -what , they-are ; and * gave them for the time being the power of legislating for France . After much deliber * ; tiori , a . Committee , corisisting of the most inveterate supporters of all the despotisms' and abuses which have cursed the country daring the last thirty years , : concocted > a scheme of wholesale disfranchisement . They proposed , what they called with a grim facetiousness , an f Electoral Reform Bill ; " the leading
principle of which ; is , that ln ' order to ; have thepower of v 6 ting in future , itfl persons' must , have resided . three years intone . ; domicilelVthe proof of domicile to be' founded on ah inscription in the assessment ef personal taxes . B y other portions' of this . most infamous p ? o-; ppsal ~ seryants , ' workmen , and . the younger jmemDers of families are placed entirely at . the mercy of their employers ; and if the infernally contrived machinery of the ' measure can be brought into play , it will , undoubtedly , place the franchises , of the working classes , in all thelarge / townsjinthe power of the capitalists , manufacturers ,, and profit-mongers . Mayors and municipal councils—who are
invariabl composed ,. ofthese , classes—have almost un ^ mited pow . er 3 given tothem , to concoct fraudulent and coiourable electoral , lists , to suit the purposes of the party to which they may belong , and , in fact , ' essentiallyto deprive tho people' of the ' franchise , under ' . ' a nominal Republic . ' That , in fact , is its direct bbjectrthe purpose for . which it has been constructed ¦—although with a hypocrisy which is even more' detestable than their villariy , the con ^ cbctors now pretend that they have no such object in view , and that the measure—which Was , according to their own organs , the direct result of the Paris elections—did not . so originate , and that they are sincerely attached to the Constitution ; * •• . * .-.
• If the measure ^ carried , it will be even a more flagrant v iolation of allnatural political rights ,, then the Reform Bill of "Finality John . '' Oneyeafs residence and payment of ratesj entitled to a ' vote under that act , and the tenant is not deprived of the . franchise by removal from one place to another . AH that he has to . do is to prove continuous occupation in the borough or county for which he claims to vote ; ¦'¦ ' . ' ¦ ¦ ¦' ' ¦ : ¦• ¦ :
It is evidenttb . at . orie great object of the rebels against the Constitution is , to . provoke the people , if possible ,, into a , physical-force contest , while these traitora still have the command of the army , and the resources of the country . . Theyra&w very well , that if they are foiled id this bhject , the inevitable result of the peaceful and legal operation of the Constitution will be , ' at the next election , to give to France a Chief Magistrate arid-an Assembly really representing the . people , and prepared to act in accordance with the natiohalfeeling . Accordingly ; with acoolf calculating and bloodthirsty fiendishness which , we verily believe has
no parallel in history , they have taken every opportunity of committing acts of outrage , and of exercising the most arbitrary and irritating repressive force . pver ^ the ; popular Press and popular feeling . Their open and avowed design . has been to goad the people into resistance and retaliation ; in order that they might have a pretext ] under the name of Peace , Law , and Order , of mercilessly '' urging a war of extermination , and of making the streets of all the great cities run with the blood of those who are riot disposed to submit to their domination . Their most earnest desire is , that some excuse may be afforded to them . to
• Cry havoc , and let slip the dogs of war . ' Even " the bloody old Times "—as Cobbett used to call it—which every one will allow has few qualms of conscience , when the object is to put down political liberty , either at home or abroad— -pales for the moment , before the bolder and more ferocious tigers on the other side of the English channel . It fears that , in their eagerness for blood , they have lost all the
cunning which is the characteristic of the dominant class , who everywhere live by the plunder and oppression of mankind . They have cast off tho usual disguises ; and , by the confession of the absolutest mouthpiece of all the tyrants of Europe , they stand before the world self-proclaimed , self-convicted enemies of "Peace , Law , and Order , " except these are based on the continuance of their own ascendancy : ; ¦ ¦¦''
Pathetically . does the Times warn its worthy confreres that they have changed places with rebels , traitors , insurgents , and enemies of public well : being— -that ' they are the assailants , and the " common people" —the . defenders of constitutional institutions , and of all the great interests of society . So far as these are connected with the maintenance of tranquillity and the steady deyelopement of industrial resources , these remonstrances have produced no effect . The reqetionnaires have madly rushed from one extreme to another ; and , at the present moment—in anticipation of the success . of their hellishly-devised scheme—Paris is . swarming with troops , ready to slaughter the people the moment they can be roused into desperation and resistance .
In the midst of all , these incitements to violence and . to . just retribution , the people and their leaders have maintained an attitude which reflects the highest honour and dignity upon Democracy and ^ Democratic principles . Individual and repeated violations of the law , have not provoked them intohasty impatience . Wholesale tampering with the Constitution , and obstruction of the exercise of popular rights , havebeen met by a noble and manly exercise of Constitutional rights when the right timecame , and a ieliance upon their own moral power and discipline , which constitutes , in our estimation , one of the brightest , and at the same time , one of the most marvellous pages of history .
The people are quiet , not because they are quiescent , or prepared to submit to the tyranny which a set of scoundrelly adventurers wish to impose upon them , but because they are well organised and disciplined , and guided by leaders who are determined , that if a blow is to bo struck it shall not be until the right moment has come ; and that if no such time offers fijr successful physical resistance , they will , make the Constitution the . instrument by which they will peacefully and legally achieve that predominance , in tli 9 Legislature , and the administration of which the majority ought by right to possess .
It is with tho most hearttelt pleasure that we have noted the masterly and intelligent manner in which the Democratic party have hitherto comprehended the use , and applied the Constitutional weapons placed in their hands by the Revolution of 1848 . " The political education of the whole people has proceeded in the most satisfactory and successful j manner . If they persevere in the same cautious ; but firm and enlightened policy ,, no power on earthy can . prevent their ultimate triumph : ; and . they Yvijl triumph too with the hearty sympath y , sincere admiration , and respectful esteenv of the good and enlightened men in every part of the world .
Tbevery means adopted by the conspirators for their purposes , will ultimately recoil upon themselves , and tend most effectually to provent their fulfillment France will become utterly disgusted and antagonistic . The dullest , and the least informed portions of the community , will ' be forced to comprehend that . they are the enemies of the country and its interests ; and at the next eleotion—even should ] they succeed in . their infamous violation of the Constitutidn ~ we have not the slightest doubt that the national voioe would proolaini as naturally and - unanimously for their exclusion from power , as it did in this ^ country for the downfall of the Whigs _ in ; 1841 , . after their ten years of misrule , nepptiaw , and " treachery-tp the people , tor whom they werejplaced in office ,
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^^ of ^ op ^ m icSl ^ momenwVl » lacedm the hands bf thnn \ , %% whonow ieadthe Democratic pt ^ t ? All eyes art ? anxiously turned tnil a T ^ movement . Itis a situation of vast il S lable , responsibility .-a crisis of thL % mentous character ¦ iBitsi influenceZ 11110 wholeciviliaed world . One fals ^ haS % will glVe to the wolves , ; , bloodho 2 y 8 teP tigers , who arereadytofly at th fl th ' ** the people , ^ oppitunit ^ of Cfe ° l Revolution in a sea of blood . PaZn tll « command , brganisation , and iSS ! ' klU within the limits of the ConstituC ! > he contrary , secure , at no distant LI ' ^
" p . wm t ml 1 be as permanent as i Y-iir glonous , because it will neither . be he " 2 ^ offeree nor fraud , but be based on theS ^ ^ mpatMes and inteUi gence ^ t ^ If our humble voice lma an » « « i ^ ^ ~ A ! X 5 { fj * with all earnestness-let their v ™ t 7 ? » "The Constitution . " «• pTa Ce t VOrds >• Order . " " Non resistance fc ^ J % « t the , noral and intellectual supre ™ ? 5 whole people !" . ou ^ einacy of thij
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i ANTI-SOCIALISM AND CL A ^ ! LEGISLATION AlSS ^ / i ! reasons wehave most repeaM , urged for the adoption of the PeopS S " teris , that it would give Labour a chan ?^ being represented in the Legislate and ° ? havmg its interests cared for A ?^ - ? every interest but Labour is represented S ' Bouse of Commons : and the conspiT with the wants , wishes , or ^ tTM working classes . No . more conclu " ZLifW this fact could be offered than Z , « : £ ? ° J Lord Robert Gzmmo ^ ZXX he ^ case , of the Journeymen Bakers Jlti
Metropolis toa Select Committee . Thefacf . respecting the . situation and the hardship endured by this hard-working body of men have been so frequently placed before o ur readers , that it is unnecessary for us to detail them here . It will be remembered , ho wever that on former ; occasions ; their applicatioa tor the extension of the principle of legally regulated labour to their body has been ti
tused , on the ground that Parliament was not in possessionbf sufficient information toenabla it to legislate . In order to put that informationat its command ,- the Bakers proposed a-Select Committee of Inquiry . ; whereupon , tha Government declined to interfere at all , and 'Friend Briqht delivered himself of a speech redolent of the ignorance , arrogance , andselhshness of the "Manchester School . " Ac
cording so this dictatorial , oracular , and infal . hble authority , the proposal * to prevent tha Journeymen Bakers from being treated worsa than the slaves on a cotton or sugar plantation —for ensuring something like regular even if long , hours of labour—and for providing them with places to pursue their toil , fit at least foe beasts to breathe in—is Socialism . Lord Robebt Grosvenor—who repudiates
Communism—is a Socialist for making that pro . poBal ; and the Journeymen Bakers have an organ in which the cotton-lord detects Socialism as rank as that of Robert Owen , or Louis Blanc . Well , admitting all that to be true—what then ? Mr . ' Bright ' s " ergo' is that the motion should be resisted .- Tha Journeymen Bakers are Socialists ; they are adults—they are more than adults—they ara Scotchmen , Therefore , there ought to ben < j inquiry into their alleged grievances . Q . E . D
, Now , we mustsay , that this appears a very summary mode of dispo sing of practical questions ; and , if we respectfullyventure to differ from sa great a luminary , and so infallible a political philosopher as the Member fo r Manchester , we trust he will beav a little with our ignoranca arid imperfections—even should these also sa . vourof that most detestable of all detested heresies , Socialism . We have , indeed , a suspicion that the frequency with which the
"Manchester School' ' apply that epithet to everything that savours of humanity , and o ? equal justice betweeu man and man , will not serve the object they have in view . Instead of defaming such measures , it will have the effect of connecting Socialism in the public mind with all that tends to alleviate misery—to teach the ignorant—liberate the enslaved—i and to elevate those whom the present system oppresses . "
The custom of laissezfctire is , however , not yet so firmly established , or so generally inwoven into our institutions as to justify its advocates in thisjofty and supercilious treatment of an opposite social policy . In a thousand directions , we see proofs that the philosophy of the miilocracy and the profitmougera is of the shallowest description . The varied , and conflicting interests of the people , the complicated structure of modern society , present questions which are not to be solved by
the empirical collection of crotchets and selfish dogmas they have dignified by the name of science . An overruling necessity compels our Gfovernnient to act upon principles widely opposed in their character and tendency to the " every man for himself and devil take tho hindmost , " gospel believed in by JohK Bright and Co . Hence we have laws for tha relief of the poor laws for regulating labour in mines ; laws for regulating the labour and treatment of sailors on board of
ship ; laws prescribing the conduct to bo observed by owners of emigrant ships to those who take their passage in them , besides hosts of similar enactments , in all of which , tha principle , that the legislature is bound to interfere between the strong and the weak for the protection of the latter , is distinctly embodied and acted upon . It may , however , ha 8 aid , by the political economists , that there aro so many instances of mistaken legislation , andso far from making out a case for including tho journeymen bakers , that the whole of these regulating enactments are nuisances which interfero with the free developement of capital
and labour , which is the alpha and omega of their so called science . To this , tho only reply is ) ; these laws were necessitated by tha heartlessness , the misery , the vice , and tha degradation , which the unchecked and unregulated operation of your principles produced . Civilization consists in securing to all classes an equitable participation in the products which accumulated capital , improved skill , and advanced scientific and mechanical discoveries have placed at the disposal of society . These advantages are not to be monopolized by anyonecla 8 s , but their benefits ought ta be fairly distributed among all classes , by tha medium of such law * and institutions as will
. 1 neither give encouragement to idleness on thd one hand , nor allow a powerful few to maka slaves ef the toiling many on the other , _ K such is not to be- the result of increasing powers of producing wealth , and of accumulated means for . diffusing competence , iutel " ligeace and leisure throughout the conium * nity , civilization itself is a sham—a miserabla I mockery—wMch places the- mass of mank ind in , an infinitely worse position than if they wera allowed to remain in a state of primitivo baribarism . There at least , thoir rights over tn 8 I common bounties of nature—the fishing
streamr-the hunting ground—the blessings of free air and light—would be equal to tbosa of their fellow savages , and it would dopeno solely upon peculiar skill or superior strength to whatextent these advantages could be appr ° * priated by each . But the child of tho labourer , who comes into life in the midst of a society whero every inch of ground is already app «* priated—where wealthy classes have already monopolised not only all the land and tua money , but all the implements of labour , ana ¦ who , will neither give him food or work , » tools to do it with-iexoept on theirown term " l ^ ; tW % iwtM most lielpiess 8 lft « "I
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 18, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1574/page/4/
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