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      Leigh Host , - it is said , tempted by the ' success of Dickens and other authors in periodical literature iajibput to resume his UridonJouma'V ¦ ^ .: ; :

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      _ , | , - - I Mil " POLAND AND HUNGARY J TiVEABGrTJS O'CONNOR * ESQ ., M . P ., JJ will deliver a Lecture at the BRITISH INSTITUTION , COWPER-STREET , CITY-ROAD , On Monda ? Evenino Next , October . 21 st , For the Benefit of the ' POLISH AND HUNGARIAN RlfPUGEES Who are now seeking a home in , this country , having been driven froin their native . land through fighting .. for , the glorious cause . Liberty ; . fifty , of ' whom will be present . In the course of the evening the songs of . their country will be sung , commencing with . the Marseillaise Hymn ; the chorus by the . whole company ; : followed by "Now pray , we for our country , " Italian JfarBeiUaise ; ' Barcorala , " Let us live happy together ; "' Polish version of "J / ouni ; pour la Patrie ' ; " the English , version will bo sung by some Working-Men ; ohprus by the company . - Chair taken at Eight o ' clock . Admission , OnePenpy ; Platform , Threepence .

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      On . Saturday , the 2 nd of November , will ' be ' ' ¦' ' ¦ ' published the First Number of ' ROBERT OWEN'S JOPKAL A Weekly Periodical explanatory of the know-¦ ledge most essential to the happiness of all . : Price One Penny ; . by post , Twopence . Published by Clayton and Son , 265 , Strand , London MR . OWEN's " rEQENT WORKS , THE REVOLUTION IN MIND AND PRACTICE . LETTERS TO THE . HUMAN RACE . CATECHISM . And FAREWELL ADDRESS , Are published by EfBngham Wilson , Watson , and Viekers , London .

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      . Education for the Millions , - . THIS BAY IS PUBLISHED , No . XXII . op ' " THE : NATIONAL ^ INSTEUCTOE . " PRICE ONE PENNY . The object of the Proprietor , Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., MiP . i is to place within the reach of the poorest classes that Political and Social Information of which they are at . present deprived by the Government " Taxes on Knowledge . " SIXTEEN LAKGE ~ 0 CTAY 0 PAGES , Price One Penny . CONTENTS ' OF No . XXII . Co-Operative Workshops in London . The Lyonriese Insurrection of 1851 . Life and Adventures of Feargus O'Connor . The Secret . Science and History for the People : Astronomy . . Now Ready , THE FIFTH MONTHLY PART , Stitched into a Wrapper . Price Pourpence . \ CONTENTS OF PART V . The French Newspaper Press . Who'll be a Soldier ? The Secret . ( Continued . ) Life and Adventures of Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., M . P . ( Continued . ) Tho Revolution in Yienna , and the Death of Robert Blum . , Gleanings . The Heroism of Humble Life . ' The Bridge of Westminster . Rambles in Schleswig Holstein . A Gossip with Longfellow , the American Poet ¦ The British Newspaper Press . Population and Employment . The Two Wishes . The Lord Mayor ' s Dinner . The Truo Romance . Science and History for the People : Astronomy . SIXTY-FOUR LARGE PAGES , PRICE 4 PENCE . Orders and Advertisements to be sent addressed to the office of the Northern Star , London ; or to A . Heywood , Manchester ; W Love , and 6 . Adams , Glasgow ; Robinson and Co ., Edinburgh ; J . Sweet , Nottingham ; J . Guest , Birmingham . The " Natioxal Instructor" will be supplied bj all the London Booksellers and Xaws-agcnts .

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      Just Published , Price One Penny , ASPIRATIONS OF MANHOOD ; XI Intended to indicate the solution of the great problems of the age . Br JOSEPH MORGAN . The following are some of the subjects elucidated in the fora of answers to questions : — What is Politics ? What are the fundamental principles ! The benefits accuring from the enactment of the principlas . ¦ . ' The Laws of Primogeniture considered . The cause of the overthrow of governments . Who are the middle classes ? Who are tho soldiers ? What is civilisation ? &c , &c . Published by J . Pattie , Shoe-lane ; J . Morgan , 39 , Butcher-row ^ Deptford ; and all booksellers .

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      On Saturday , November 2 nd , will be published , Number I of a weekly periodical , price One Penny , entitled , THE CHRISTIAN SOCIALIST ; A JOURNAL OF ASSOCIATION . To be conducted by several of the promoters of the London Working Men ' s Associations . . . London : James Watson , 3 Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row , i . . .

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      NOTICE . A WEST RIDING DELEGATE ft . HEETINa will be held on Sunday , October 20 th , at Mr . Hartley ' s , Temperance Hotel , Manchester-road , Bradford , at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon , for the purpose of electing a secretary and treasurer . Also , to take into consideration the suggestion of Mr . O'Connor , on the propriety of holding a Conference in Manchester on an early day ; * and , also , to discuss the plan of organisation which is brought forward in London by the Social League , National Charter Association , ' and the Fraternal Democrats , for die purpose of an amalgamation of all grades of reformers into one bond of union . - Tlie following places are requested to send delegates : — Bradford , Leeds , ' Pu'dsey , ' Birstal , Dewsbury , Holmfifth , Honley , ' Berry Brow , Huddersfield , Halifax , Sowerby , Sowerby-bridge , Warley , Lower Warley , Wnkefield , Bradshaw-lane , Queen ' s Head , Wilsden , Bingley , Keighley , Haworth , andany other place in the Riding . By order , Thomas Wilcock , West Riding Secretary , To whom all communications must be addressed , to the care of Thomas Umpleby , News Agent , Mauehester-roai , Bradferd , Yorkshire , . .

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      ~ ; NATIONAL CHARTER LEAGUE . On , Sunday last , a meeting of the Council of the above bo&j , was held at 144 , High Holborn—Mr . M'Grath in the chair . The present position of the Democratic movement was most carefully and anxiously canvassed , when tho following resolution was unanimously adopted : — " That this Council most cordially accepts the proposition of Mr . O'Connor , for the holding of a Conferonco at Manchester ,. for the revival of a veritablo national movement in favour of tho Legislative adoption of the People ' s Charter , pure and simple . An address to the Chartists of England was also agreed to , whereupon the Council adjourned till ' Sunday , October 20 th , at three o ' clock in the afternoon .

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      Portsba . — -The Working Men ' s Association in this town has . for many years maintained the oven tenor of its way , dping . no little amount of good in tho immediatenoighbourhood , outworking noiselessly , and being seldom heard of beyond the immediate sphere of its usefulness . Its membera are not numerous , but they are men of sterling worth , whose faithfulness to principle has . been maintained through much trial and difficulty . It has a pretty extensive and well-assorted library , containing the works of most of tho best authors who have written upon political and social questions , The membershare been accustomed to hold weekly meetings for conversation and discussion , and a fraternal spirit has been thus kept aliva . Some weeks sinco the committee entered into arrangements with Mr

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      ¦ ggggr : — THE . ' ... POBtfRAIT OF SIR ROBERT PEEL , And the Magnificent Historical Engraviog , ¦ . ' . ¦ ¦ " ¦ of the PORTRAITS OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS , Are now ready ; If » ny of our subscribers have not received them , application should be made to the agent who supplies them with the paper . Agents arc requested , when ordering Prints , to state by what _ means they are to be forwarded . . ..

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      US-All communicationstfespectingPublic , Trades , ot-other meetings , to be sent to Thomas M . Wheeler , 3 G ; Kenton . NoSoHA ^ jTs \* " eTbeg 8 to acknowledge the receipt of Uw following sums ( sent herewith ) viz .:- ?»* the Ue-, FDGEB Fum-From New . Radfordfls ; Mr . Taylor . Cd j From ' the Lord Holland 5 s . Mr . T . Haboitt , York . —We cannot say why Mr . Roberts riffcnt declines furnishing him with , the portraits . We have not got . tho half length , or yet full length portraits you mention . * ' . . « . « . • . Mr . J . C . INOBAM , Abergavenny . —The omission of the Is . from Wallace Ingram , n the l ist of monies announced for the Hungarian Refugees , ou the 5 th inst ., | was an nwrsiirht ' of the comnositbr , as I find on comparingmy

      ' ¦ list ' with the . amount given in the Star . 1 received 12 s 3 d yet only lls 3 d appears in the published account . . ; . ; ' .. . - . ' . ¦¦ -.. ¦ ' '"¦ '• " W . KlDEE . ABiaoAVESNr . —Mr . T . C . Ingrain acknowledges la from , Thomas Lewis , Ragland , for the Refugees . The PoitTBAiTS for Mr . Traverse , Pre . soot , and Mr . Russell , Chester , are sent to Mr . ¦ Heywood , Manchester . ' ! Mr . Walker ' s , Hamilton , ¦ : and Mr . Crawford Sterratt's , Dairy , are sent to' Mi-. Adams , 2 i . Nelson-street , Glasgow : ' ' ' Mr . Douglas's , Ilaswell-lane , to Mr . Turnbull , Side , New . castle . . Mr MotherweJl's , Paisley , to Mr . Love , Glasgow . Mr . . Tonilinson ' s . Sutton-in-Ashneldl to Mr . Plumb . Mr . Sotverby ' s , Dalston , Mr . Whitridge , Carlisle , has no enclosures from Simpkins ' . ; Mr . M'Pherson ' sPerthand Mr . D . Morrison ' s ,

      Galla-, , town , Kircaldy , to Messrs . * Robinson , Edinburgh . Mr . Saunders , Newark , to Mr . Sweet , Nottingham . Mr . Lindsey ' s Aberdeen i to Mr . Russell . Polish Refugee Fund . — [ The secretary requests that the : ¦ acknowledgment of all monies be left to him , as he will . hot otherwise be responsible . ]—Henry Gale Is—Mr . Roe Is—A few sympathisers at Bridgewater 5 s—Residue , Kentish Town Concert 14 s—Emmett Brigade ICs—Per Julian- Harney J 8 s 3 d—D . Wenlock 4 d—Mr . Miller ' s Book 2 s-vBonner ' fl . fields , per Mr . Stokes 10 s 9 J 4-A . Friend , per Mr . Stolces 2 Ad—John liillier , per Mr , Stokes Gd—Mr . Gale , Cooper s Arms 5 s ii—Mr . Blake Is

      -Calendar-yard , per T . Brown 3 s Cd—Mr . Fox , per . T . BrownCd—Collected at Mr . Woods' rope manufactory from work toys , per Miss Morrell 10 s—John-street Institution—2 s 9 d . _ Thomas Feucdson , Secretary , 3 Gaj ' g . buildings . lElizabeth-street , Hackneyrroad . W . Harry . — W . P . Roberts , Esq ., solicitor , Princessstreet , Manchester . In answer ' to your second question , write either to Mr . Watson , Queen ' a Head-passage , Paternoster-row , or to Effinghani -Wilson , Corn ' Exchange . ¦ : ¦; . " ' ' L ( H . Kevseb , New York , will perceive that the purport ofhis communication was noticed in the Star of the 12 th inst . We return" him thanks , and hope to hear from him again . ' ' . , ,

      The Nobihem Stafi Satukday, October.19, Is5o.

      THE NOBIHEM STAfi SATUKDAY , OCTOBER . 19 , IS 5 O .

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      WINTER CAMPAIGN OP THE " LITTLE" CHARTISTS . ~ As the days get shorter sign ' political activity begin to make their appearance . The middle-class Parliamentary Reformers haye broken ground for their winter campaign and promise a series of meetings in the provinces during the winter . How far they may succeed in " getting the steam up'' we cannot pretend to guess , but at the commencement , in the London Tavern on Monday , we thought the temperature , like their " little Charter , " exceedingly moderate .

      Our position , with reference to the National Eeform Association , is weir known . It has not been lightly taken up , and will not be abandoned except upon good and sufficient cause . Anything short of the Charter will fail to do justice to the people . A franchise based upon any other foundation than that of manhood alone , must ever be ( extend it a 3 you may ) a class franchise . It must exclude front

      participation in political right some portions of the body politic , and by virtue of that exclusion , hold them in slavery to the rest of the community . We are opposed to slavery of every description , and therefore hold by the Charter as the only means of putting an end to political bondage , and of giving to the whole people the right and the power of managing their own affairs , instead of entrusting that duty to any number of privileged classes .

      But while thus devotedly and inseparably attached to Chartism , that is no reason wh y we should obstruct the path of those Reformers who , either from want of logical power , or from motives of expediency , are unable to go that length , and content themselves with the advocacy of a more limited reform of our representative * institutions . As far as their efforts are honest and sincere , they must work for us . Every new addition to popular power necessarily becomes a weapon with which to achieve fresh victories for the masses .

      Whether they like it or not , whether they mean it or not , the middle class Reformers are fighting for the Charter as much as we are . If . the suffrage they advocate waB attained , and the electoral body swelled from some eight hundred thousand to three or four millions , the remaining portion of the adult population would speedily find a path opened to them within the pale of the Constitution . The only practical difference between us is , whether political emancipation shall be achieved by one decisive and effectual blow , or by two .,: They prefer the latter ; for as sure as Household Suffrage was carried , would Universal Suffrage follow in its wake , and that at no distant period .

      There is , under such circumstances , no rea son whatever in the nature of the two parties why they should oppose each other . In this country , at least , let us frankly recognise and act upon the right of every man to think for himself , and to act upon his convictions , either individually or collectively . Because we differ from the conclusions to which others . have come , we are not entitled , therefore , to impugn the motivesby which they are actuated . They may be as pure and as disinterested as our own ; and , at allevents , it is the very essence

      of tyranny and intolerance , to quarrel with , and denounce them , because . they do not see matters precisely as we : do . That is tho evil spirit which has , heretofore , immured its victims in the dungeons of the Inquisition ,, the Bastile , or Her Majestts Prisons , under the tender caro of Sir Geokge Grey . Those possessed by the demon are but ill-fitted for the exercise of political freedom . 'They have yet to emancipate themselves from the worst of all tyrannies—that which prompts thcni to be tyrannical and intolerant to others . .: ..: •"

      Another reason—powerful , though based on expediency—why Reformers' should riot quarrel with each other , is to be found in the palp able fact that their doing ' so strengthens the common enemy . As long as the professed friends of Parliamentary Reform , whether by the " Little'' or the " Great '' Charter , waste their energies in disputing witheach otheiy . the fabric of corruption is safe . Those , who profit by the present system know full well that the disunion and divisions of the people constitute their real strength : Those ' who promote and foster such divisions , however well-intentioned

      they may be , play the game of the privileged oligarchyj which monopblises power and patronage and legislative influence in England ., i Here , therefore , are good and substantial reasons for union among professing reformers of all degress ; reasons which should induce them to seek for points of agreement rather than difference , and to . travel cordially together , as far as their respective paths lie together . There is' no reason why : those wh 0 propose the longest journey should stop short of their destination ^ neither is there any why they should refuse compajay , . assistance , and seourity . on a part of the journey , o

      But these considerations apply to both parties . . The middle cla ? s reformers must not expect an " Irisfrreci procity ' on , / their owri ' side . If they feel , as they ; say . they do ^ that the aid of the working 614 sseB is indispensable to the

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      success of their movement , they must , m order to obtain that aid , act frankly and cordially towardB the working classes , an ^ . * ^ leaders in whom they have confidence . What we saw , and heard at the London Tavern on Monday last made us doubt whether they are prepared to do this . Tho reception of Mr , O'ConNQitwas not whattie ' had ' fai right to expect in such a

      meeting . . He attended . it to perform a duty which argued equal moral courage , generosity , and j disinterestedness on his part . It is no secret that ' a section of the Chartist body look with su ' spiciori , if not absolute hostility , upon the "Little Charter" movement ; and at the risk of his motives being misconstrued , and his influence weakened among the party he has created ; Mr . O'Connor attended to declare

      that he would offer no opposition to the middle , class movement , and was anxious as themselves for union . But , m justice to his own character and intentions , he was bound to declare , at the same time ; that he did not , therefore , bind himself to stop when they stopped , and also to show what he hoped to obtain as -a result of Representative Reform . Mr . O'Connor had surely as much right to state his views upon that point , as Mr . Fox , or Mr . Hume , or Sir Joshua Walmsley . If Mr . Fox placed great Stress upou Education , and Mr . Hume upon

      reduced taxation , why should Mr . O'Connor not have directed attention to that greatest of all reforms which would place men upon the land , and enable them , by independent labour , to supply their own wants without paying the far heavier taxation wrung from -Labour by the profitmongers ? Yet it was while doing this that some middle-class reformer cried " question ; " and when Mr . O'Connor proceeded to Bhow by' the example o £ Guernsey and Jersey how poor rates could be abolished ,

      and five times the number of our present population be maintained in pomfort in Great Britain , the indignation of these middle-class gentry and philosophers could only find vent in the appropriate goose-like libellations which greeted such heterodox statements . The Chairman , so far from rebuking such unmannerly interruption , took part with those who gave it , and several others who are always preaching about union , by their conduct did their best to promote separation .

      We advise Sir Joshua and his colleagues to consider , this subject seriously . They have repeatedly . avowed their conviction , that without a cordial union between the middle and working classes they cannot succeed in the great and ard ' uous struggle in which they are engaged . If they , really mean to promote that union , let them remomber that concession is not all to come from one side . If the speakers connected with the middle classes are allowed to expatiate uninterruptedly upon the results they anticipate from the consummation of Parliamentary Eeform , the same measure ought to be meted to those whose sympathies and exertions are more especially concentrated upon the labouring classes .

      Such occurrences as those of Monday last show the urgent necessity of both parties cultivating a spirit of genuine conciliation and forbearance , if they mean the union to be a substantial and fruitful one . If this is not done it will meet the fate of all shams , and the sooner it does so the better .

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      the National Land Company ' ; and , while thn lawremains in its present state , will prove we fear , the rain of every co-operative atteffinf to elevate the industrious classes . -It is , p « haps , scarcely possible to adduce any ' niom signal example of the hostile animus which per vades th ' e whole of our legislation , whenever the rights or interests of these classes arc con cerned , than this ; Everything seems to be

      most cunningly and deliberately contrived for the express purpose of keeping them in wages ' slavery , and preventing them from emerging as a class , ' from helpless dependence upon the capitalist class . Why should not these industrial combinations be entitled to the protection which the law affords to other kinds of commercial enterprise ? Are they not at least as legitimate in themselves—more monstrous in

      their ultimate objects ? Is it not a disgrace to the mercantile code of any civilised country that it should refuse to provide any security for the rights , or any redress for the wrongs incident to such associations ? The evidence on which tho Committee founded their report has since been issued , and forms a most interesting and instructive official document . By its aid let us endeavour to show the working of the law somewhat in detail , as exhibited in tho actual organisation of a co-operative workshop : —Suppose a bod y of twenty

      tailors , possessing an aggregate capital of £ 500 , made up of individual subscriptions ranging from £ 20 to £ 40 . Suppose them starting into business on the money thus clubbed together , buying and working up their own materials on their own premises , paying themselves a fixed rate of wages out of the common stock , arid dividing their profits in defined and mutually agreed proportions . Under the present partnership law of this country , such a bod y has , in fact , no power either of enforcing their mutual contract , or of protecting their common property—for the

      only court which would take cognizance of the ri ghts created by such an agreement is the Court of Chancery . Any one member of the body may indefinitely pledge the credit , violate the rules , and oven appropriate the property of the co-partnery , and his comrades will be totally without the means of procuring redress . Such a state of things has also this injurious result , that it prevents wealthy and benevolent persons , friendly to such undertakings , from assisting them at the outset with loans . They can only do so at the immi « nentrisk of losing their money ; for these industrial societies cannot offer to others a

      security they do not themselves possess . In such cases , the only guarantee which the lenders hare is the personal responsibility of a manager . " Even a bill of sale , " said one of the witnesses , " is no security under the circumstances ; '' you must " trust implicitly to the men who are managing the concern . " Such is the ordinary law and its consequences . The Joint Stock Companies' Act is available where tho partners exceed twentyrfive ; but how far its protection is attainable by the working classes , may be judged of by Mr . Neale ' s discription of the expense of registration ;

      1 know a body of tailors who have taken a house in Oxford-street ; those men ( there are 99 of thorn , I ^ believe ) . are going to raise their capital entirely by shares among themselves , and they have had a communication with a solicitor , to a $ & him what would be tho expanse of getting their deed registered / and they found that , independently of the solicitor ' s charges for preparing the deed , there would be £ 14 to bo paid for registering it , and tho whole cost would como to £ 60 or stCCO . Novr the whole Capital which those men would raise , and which would be sufficient to start that work , would be from £ 200 to £ 300 ; and if £ 50 of that is to be paid for getting leave to carry on their werk safely , that ' would be a serious difficulty . "

      It will bo remGinbGred , that the cost of preparing the partly completed registration deed of the Land Company amounted to nearly ^ 3 , 000 ; every penny of which was Io 3 t by the refusal of the Registrar to perform a merely ministerial duty . But even if we put out of sight that pecuniary difficulty and hardship , the machinery of the Joint Stock Companies' Act is quite unfitted for these Industrial . Associations . That actprovides for a definite capital , divided into a fixed number of transferable shares . The Co-operative Societies on the contrary ,

      are based on the principles of a gradual accumulation of capital ,, by the small and irregular contributions . ofiridividuals , and , as one of the witnesses suggests , " The very essence of these associations is , that the shares shall remain untransferable , " because otherwise , " any person who is interested in the destruction of the association might buy up the whole of the property . " Thus , in which ever way these working class combinations are looked at , we find they are virtually outlawed . The moral and social consequences of such a state of things is forcibl y described by another witness : —

      Tho law will not prevent men from forming their associations ; they will go on working them , and if they prosper nothing more will be heard of it , but if they get into difficulty , there will bo endles 3 trouble—there will . bo a great wrong and no remedy . " . - '' If they prosper ! " Trul y « ' there is much virtue in your If !' . » The odds are fearfully against such societies prospering . It is only extremely enthusiastic and fervent advocates of co-operation , who resolutely shut their eyes upon the hazards they expose themselves to . that will venture upon industrial combinations , in the present disgraceful and infamous state of the law .

      It is the custom of tho Press in the interest of the money-lenders and profit-mongers to cry down , as visionary- and ridiculous , all attempts on the part of the industrious classes to elevate themselves by such means . They tell them , with a lofty assumption of serene and transcendant wisdoria , that it is only a dense—or , as Lord , Brougham would say , a " crass "—ignorance of the sublime science of

      Political Economy , which leads them to take up with such Utopian notions . Well , perhaps they may be right , but at all events it is an extremely modest and moderate proposal , that the small , joint-stock capital of the working men , and the large joint-stock capital of the profit-monger , should find equal protection and security under the law . One of the most enlightened and advanced Political Economists of the dav — Mr . J . Stuaut Mill

      trul y said , in his evidence before the Committee , that when tho working classes thus had fair play , " if the experiment failed , they would see that it failed from some defect either in tho principle , or in then ; qualifications for carrying out the experiment . >? In the one case ,, it : would be an advantage to know that all hopes of improvement from this quarter were essentially fallacious ; in the other , they would set about procuring persons with the ¦

      requisite qualifications . :. ' ¦ In , any case , they wouldnothavetho power of throwing upon an obstructive Government , I and a hostile law , the blame of failure , and the odium of having deliberately and selfishly conspired to keep the labouring classes in hopeless dependance and destitution ... That is the accusation which , in their name , we now solemuly and openly prefer agjiihst the Paiiiainont , aud the Government of Great Britain .

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      INDUSTRIAL PARTNERSHIPS .

      Various indications are perceptible of a growing desire on the part of the working classes to have recourse to associative efforts for the improvement of their condition . The recent Co-operative Conference , held in Manchester , brought out the fact , that at the present moment there are a considerable numbel of Societies in the provinces , based upon the Associative ; Principle ; and the New Central Co-operative Office and Stores just opened in Charlotte-street , Fitzroy-square , may , if judiciously and spiritedly managed , collect these scattered Societies into one powerful and wellorcrariised Association .

      While yet upon the threshold of such a movement , it will be well for its promoters to understand their real position as recognised by law , and the probably fatal difficulties they will have to encounter , unless the law with reference to such bodies , is amended . Looking back for the last twenty years , we can recollect the deplorable failure of several distinct movements of a similar kind , at least , as extensive , popular , and well provided with the

      material meanS i Of success as this can be . To whatever . other causes their melancholy termination mi ght be attributable the defective state of tho law constituted a prominent element of the combination ; and it is therefore to be hoped that the . leaders ; of the new movement will be induced ; by the experience . of their predecessors to make vigorous efforts for a ; just and equal law of partnership , as a primary and indispensable preliminary to success .

      For many yearn we have urged the importance of such a law . The want of it caused the destruction of the Labour Exchange Bazaars of Robebt Owen , and was a powerful cause of the failure of the Hampshire experiment , made by the same gentleman and his disciples some ten or twelve years later . The Socialist ' effort show how the people could be placed on the land , and render themselves independent by their onto labour ; itwas followed by that of the National Land Company , which essayed to realise the same object , though in a different way . It also failed , as we have frequently stated , because its Directors had

      neither the power to enforce the obligations entered into by shareholders , nor to protect themselves against being plundered by the selfish and dishonest portion of the members . Mr . O'Conuok attempted in vain , and at an immense expense , to comply with the cumbrous and cpstly provisions of the Joint Stock Companies' Act , ; Having failed in securing legal protection for the Company and himself , ho is now exposed to be robbed by every ruffian who is conscienceless enough to drag him into a County Court ; , in which Judges may set who legislate under the guidance of their prejudices rather , than the dictates of : calm and dispassionate equity . ¦ : :

      ; We noticed the Report of Mr . Slaney ' s Committee on Investments for Savings , at the time of . its appearance , and . hailed with ' pleasure it ' s distinct aoid emphatic recommendation that the . law should be forthwith amended in this . particular . No part ' of that report is more interesting , iri ; itself , or more strikingly illustrative of the defects of ouvlaws of Partnership ,, than that which relates to such Cooperative . Societies as we luwe alluded to . We have already quoted . the passage in which the Committee'describe the nature and object of these associations , aud , tho ' difficulties uuder which ; they labour ; but it is so important and suggestive that we re-produce it , in order that the working classes may have the subject forced upon their , attention in all its

      significance : — r . , In some cases several industrious men work together , under regulations of their own , with a small capital ; they are directed by managers whom they chooso , ; tho goods produced are sold for their common benefit ; and tho profits nro divided among the contributors of capital and labour , in ' certain proportions agreed to . At present , the law affords no effectual remedy against the fraud of any qiiedishonest contributor or ' partnet , and no

      summary moae oj enjorang the rules agreed to for mutual government . Tour committed an of opinion , that the difficulties which affect the law of partnership operate with increased-severity in proportion to the smallnm of the sums subscribed , and the number of parsons included in , tte -association , Thoy think that anv cllpSf - ' ^^ f : ^^ . ° , ^^ vvuh S .: Tho ^ assagesr we have itaUcisedJare atruthtul and emphatic explanation of the failure of

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      P ROTECTIONIST PROSPECTS .

      At the few Protectionist meetings which have as yet , b , een held , unequivocal manifestations h ave been , given of their being internal disunion in the camp . The Castle Hedingham meetiug , which last year was honoured by being made tho occasion for developing Mr . Disraeli ' s policy for the ensuing session , va 3 this year not favoured by his presence . Pwtection was loft tp the championship of a lew fifth and sixth rate members of theparty , avIio make up in obstinacy for their lack of tow " ;

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      THE NORTHKKM STAR . Octobeb 19 , 1850 .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 19, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1596/page/4/