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    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, IS5O.
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      Oa Saturday * tlie 2 nd of Uovember , will be published the First Number of ROBERT OWEN'S JOURNAL A Weekly Periodical explanatory of the means to well-place , well-employ , and well-educat © , the whole population . Price Om Penny ; by post , Twopence . Published by Clayton and Son , 265 , Strand , London MR , 0 WEH's"i 0 ENT WORKS , THE REVOLUTION IN MIND AlfD PRACTICE . 1 * XBTTEBS TO THB HUMAN iy ^ -. JSj . pir ld CATECHISM OP THE RATIONAL SYSIJia . in . FAREWELL ADDRESS . Id . . Are published by Effingliam Wilson , Watson , and Tickers . London .

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      ALL TAXATION ABOLISHED !! Kow reaaj , price One Penny . T AND — COMMON PROPERTY . Li Oriainall v-at Present-HencefonYard-shovring also Bbw nolan fea Landowner-How the iand may be He-«) Tered-and How all Taxation will be Abolished . By London ? James "Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-pas 3 age , Paternoster-rovr . !

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      Jleatly on Tuesday n » xt for Satordav , tlie 2 nd of Sovember , the First Number of a "Weekly Periodical , Prico One Fenny , entitled tlic CHRISTIAN SOCIALIST : A JOURNAL OF ASSOCIATION . To te conducted hv several of the promoters of the London "Working Men ' s Association . London : Published by James Watson , 3 . Queen ' s HeadmEsage , Patemoster-ro w ; and by order of all news agents .

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      rpHE LONDON CO-OPERATIVE A STORES are now opened at 76 , Chablotte Street , Fetzbot Squabe , In connexion \ rith . the Society for Promoting Working Men ' s Associations . 1 . —Object of the Stokes . 1 o enable members of the above-named Association , and other persons who ma ? desire it , to obtain articles , of daily use perfectly free from adulteration , of the best quality , and the lowest charge , after defraying the necessary expense of management , distribution , and providing for a reserve fund . Co-operative stores have been established with , much success in different parts of the kingdom . The benefit to the subscribers may be judged of from the fact that the subscribers to the Pioneer Store in Bochdale , divided in tbe lan year £ S 00 afterpayment of all expenses , although , the goods were charged considerably Below the ordinary mice . 2 , Opesitioss of the Stobes . TSTiererer practicable , orders milJbe taken at the houses of customers , and goods Trill in all cases be promptly and carefully delivered . .

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      TO TAILORS . JBy approbation of Her Majesty , Queen Victoria , and K ' R . U . Prince Albert .

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      ¦ pEAUTIFUL HAIR , WHISKERS , X ) EYEBROWS , &c ., may be , with certainty , obtained , by using a very small portion of ROSALIE COUPELLE'S PARISIAN POMADE , every morning , instead of any oil or Other preparations . A fortnight ' s use will , in most instances , show its surprising properties in producing and curling Whiskers , Ilair , &c , at any age , from whatever cause deficient ; as also ehe : kinggreyness , &c , Sent free by post , with instructions , and &c , on receipt of twenty-four postage stamps , by Miss COUPPELLe , 35 , Ely-place , Holborn , . London ; irho may be consulted , on these matters daily , from two till five .

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      Tbite , but Thee . — ' The excesses of our youth are drafts upoa our old age , payable about twenty years after date . ' Many , whoso bill has become due , who in their search after pleasure , lost sight of its main ingredient , innocence , and -who are now endarisg , in all their complicated horrors , the pains and penalties of former indiscretion , can heartily respond to lhe above adage—yet we think it hard that these ( and < Iouotles 3 there are man ;/ such ) who have :-r , ned i » ignorance of the awful consequences of their f s-r . should t > n that account endure a life of tormentand j ., ; -i . | v . iiatf i' isfor the consolation of this class of sufiiV .-rs " hi particular , that we call attention to a medicine , tilt insit-Sw <» f which we have tested , viz ., Djj . j ) E Boos * Oo'ipon » Eksal 1 ' ill 3 , a medicine which we feel assured fthcu"b we a-J not rccoainiend Patent Medicines generaMvfas it becomes more known , will tend greatly towards ihXniitfcation of' the thousand ills that flesh is heir to . ££ UMlfro m tic London Media * Journal . Sti AdurtUt « LSn -in BJWtSsr ^ rt of our paper .

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      ^ 1 limr ^^^[^ Mmions , THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED , uo . xxn . o ? " TfiE NATIONAL ^ KSTRUCTOB . " PRICE ONE PENNY . The object of the Proprietor , FbarcujsO ' Cohnob , ' Esq ., M . P ., 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 LARGE OCTAVO PAGES , Price One Penny . CONTENTS OF No . XXIH . Combinations as developed in Assurance . Charles Fourier . A Biography . All have got their work to do , Life and Adventures of Feargus O Connor . ! The Temple Knight . Gleanings- Sow Ready , THESIXTH MONTHLY PART , Stitched into a Wrapper . Price Fourpence . C 0 NTENTS .. 0 F PAST 71 . W 2 The Maniac . The British Newspaper Press . Life and Adventures of Feargus O Connor , Esq ., M . P . [ Continued . ) The Secret . ( Continued . ) Science and History for the People : Astronomy . Gleanings . ¦ Working-class Co-operative Sooieties . Parental Education . Field Lane . —Criminal Manufactories . Co-Operative Workshops in London . The Lyonnese Insurrection of 1831 . Combination as developed in Assurance . Charles Fourier . A Biography . All have got their work to do . The Temple Knight , SIXTY-FOUR LARGE PACES , PRICE 4 PENCE . Orders and Advertisements to be sent addressed , to the office of the Northern Star , London ; or to A . ( Hey wood , Manchester ; W . Love , and G . Adamsi , Glasgow ; Robinson and Co ., Edinburgh ; J . Sweet , Nottingham ; J . Guest , Birmingham . The "National Instbuciob " ' will be supplied bj i all the London Booksellers and Newsagents . j

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      The readers of the " Northern Star , " and the Democratic party generally , are informed , that there is now a re-issue of the various Steel engravings lately distributed with the " Northern Star . " They consist of Kossuth , Meaghek , Louis Blanc , Mitchel , Ernest Jonks , Sjoth O'Bkie . y , -Richabd Oastieb , John Frost . These Engravings have excited the admiration of every one who has seen them . They are faithful portraits , and are executed in the most brilliant style . Price Pourpence each .

      There has also been a reprint of the undermentioned portraits , which have been given away at different times with the " Northern Star , " and which are striking likenesses , and executed in the most brilliant manner—Andrew Mabvel , "William Cobbeii , ARTHtm O ' COJHTOE , HENHX \ tJXT , Patrick O ' Higgixs , F . O'Cossor , BbOSTERHE O'BBIEX , W . P . ROBEJlia . J . R . Stephens , There is also a re-issue of the two large prints , " THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF 1839 . " " THE PRESENTATION OF THE NATIONAL PETITION , by Me . DUNCOMBE , in 1842 . " To be had of J . Pavet , Holy well-street .

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      THE PORTRAIT 0 ? SIR ROBERT PEEL , And the Magnificent Historical Engraving , of the PORTRAITS OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS , Are now ready . If any of our subscribers have not received them , application should be made to the agent who supplies them with the paper . Agents are requested , when ordering Prints , to state by what means they are to be forwarded .

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      J . J . C—Received on the 24 th inst . Mr . W . Lwdset , Aberdeen . —You must charge something more than Gd to subscribers . to cover the expense of carriage . They cannot object to it . We pay the chaise made for enclosures . Mr . J . Sweet , Nottingham , will find the sum Of 13 s acknow ledged on the 19 fli inst , in the proper place . In the 'Notices to Correspondents' the compositor omitted the 2 s Gd from Mr . Lygo , making the sum total only 10 s 6 d . Mr . BEBWICK , Abbey-street , St . Andrews . —How shall wo send them ! We hare not got the portrait of Bern . The cost of the portraits will be 5 s 3 d . The postage will amoant to 2 s 6 d extra . . Notiisghah . —J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums , viz : —Fob Refugee Fund , —Mr , Lygo , sent up last week but not acknowledged , 2 s Gd—Newton ' s Head , per Mr . Roper , sentherewith , 2 s 5 d—Mrs . Perkins , Id . Foe Wmdkg-bp Fdsd . —Mr . Roper , 6 d . Mrs . Heath begs to acknowledge ( with thanks ) the receipt of 6 s 9 d from the Emmett ' s Brigade , for the Wat Tyler Brigade , Greenwich . Thomas Souip , Oakham . —Send 2 s Cd worth of postage

      stamps and the work will be forwarded to you . C . J . Robissok . —The parts of the Instbuctoh are 4 d each , if you want it forwarded by post , send six stamps for postage 5 otherwise , order it of some bookseller in your neighbourhood , who will procure it through Ills London agent . The Lacey Fund . —Sums received since the publication of the balance sheet : —Emmett Brigade , 4 s Gd—C . Young , Folkstons , 4 < L—H . Wilks , Secretary . Polish Refugee Foso . — John-street Institution , Mr . Thomas Cooper's Lecture , acknowledged last week as 2 s 3 d , instead of £ 2 9 s-Jim Crack , 6 a—Sundry contributions , per Mr . Feargus O'Connor , £ 3 3 s—Part proceeds of Concert at the Two Chairmen , Wardour-street , per 6 . Hitchins , £ 1—National Beform league , Sheffield , per G . ¦ VThittaker , 10 s—Mr . Feargus O'Connor ' s iecture at Cowpar-street , £ 5 13 s lOd—Bonner ' n-fields , per Mr . Stokes , £ 1 Is Id-Mr . Miller ' s Book , Is Id-Calendaryard , per Mr : Miller , 8 s—South London locality , per Jlr . Egerton , 5 s—Mr . Jones , per T . Brown , Is—Given , by friends , atllr . King's , City-road , pei ; Mr . Currie , 2 s Gd-Mr . Cuttings , 2 s , placed in Cowper-street Collection . — T . Ferguson , Secretary .

      The Northern Star Saturday, October 26, Is5o.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , OCTOBER 26 , IS 5 O .

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      THE OEIME , PLAGUE , AND QU A CK DOCTORS . England , at the present time , approaches tolerably near the millennium of the commercial mind . Exports and imports are largemoney is plentiful—stocks are high—trado healthy—the working classes are frequently ¦ well employed at wages as good as they have been for some years past , while , at the same time , provisions are lower in price . Superficial observers would , at first sight , bo led to tho same conclusion as M . Lahartine . Dazzled by the surface , they seek to penetrate no

      lower . There must , according to the popular creed , always bo some suffering in the world ; and , seeing that England is so busy , so " prosperous , " so wealthy , it is but fair to presume , that her misery , at least , is reduced to the minimum amount . We have roached the apex of civilisation through the instrumentality of Free Trade . Henceforth , we have nothing moro to do than maintain our position . Not so fast . " There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy , '' Messeurs Political Economists . There are social and moral faculties , as well as physical and bargaining propensities , in

      man , and the Government that ignores the existence of these faculties is certain to have the fact forced upon their notice in a very unwelcome and disagreeable way . The production and distribution of wealth is not the whole of the science of Society . It is but a part—an important , but still subordinate part of that science , and those who , in their ignorance , treat it as if it comprised the whole , are certain to be rudely undeceived . " Supp l yaud-demand , " says Thomas Carlylb , in his own quaint and forcible style , " is not the one Law of Nature ; . Cash payment is not the sole means of-man with man , —how far from it . Deep , far deeper than $ uj > ply-and

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      Demarid are laws , Obligations sacred as Man's Life itself ; these , also , if you will continue to work , you shall know , . learn , and obey . He that will learn them , behold Nature is on his side ; he shall yet work and prosper with noble rewards . He that will not learn them , Nature is against him } he shall not be able to do work in Nature ' s empire—not in hers . Perpetual mutiny , contention , hatred , isolation , execration , ^ shall wait upon his footsteps till all men discern that the thing which he attains , however golden it look , or be , is not success , but the want of success , " , m m rid are laws . Obligations sacred

      Pregnant words , most cogently and sadly illustrated by passing events ! Murder and burglary are the order of the day . Scarcely has the public recovered from tho first ehock of one appalling tragedy , than another follows close upon its heels . The country emulates the town in criminality . Life and property in the midst of all our boasted securities , all our elaborate and complicated machinery for protecting both , seem practically defenceless . Pistols , halters , and arsenic arein full demand . By means of the last deadl y agent , lives are put an end to from the most trivial motives , with as little compunction as rats are poisoned by the same coarse method . Murder stalks flbroad with impunity . Crimes , accompanied

      with violence to the person , multiply w ith unheard of rapidity and audacity . The lonely highway or footpath of the country parish , is not more frequently the arena of these murderous exploits than tho most crowded streets in the centre of the metropolis , hong Acre , with its gas-lights , its policemen and passengers , was the theatre of a newly-invented attempt to strangle and plunder , which was executed with as much coolness as if tthe acene had been the most deserted dark lane or bye-way in the most thinly-peopled district in the country . Truly the thing we have attained , " however golden it looks , is not sue cess" in the higher objects of human government , " but the want of success . " ,

      The paBsion for money-making and bargainmaking having absorbed all the available time and faculties of those who are by the Constitution entrusted with political and administrative power , there has been a corresponding neglect of the classes whose position excludes them from the legitimate marts of trade . They have forgotten that all trade is in its essence gambling . The man who hands me a yard of cloth at the East-end of London , has not in the slightest degree added to its intrinsic value ; that remains tJie same as when it came from the hands of the producer . He i

      has a right to be paid for the trouble ifc may have cost him to receive it from the produeer , and to hand it over to me , but beyond that none . "When he makes the yard of cloth a piece of loaded dice , wherewith he extracts from me , in the game ef trade , more than a fair remuneration for his actual labour , he robs me ( legitimately of course ) quite as much as the more open gambler , who ( illegitimately ) with ivory dice , plunders me in the fashionable hells which stud the purlieus of Leicester-square . Still more shameless and immoral is the gambling

      in stocks , shares , public securities , and staple commodoties , which constitutes the occupation of so large a proportion of our " respectable " citizens . They are gamblers in the strictest sense of the term ; and the splendour of their houses , the costly nature of their entertainments , the abundant command of wealth which they enjoy , with all its concomitant power , influence , and pleasures , are not calculated to spread among the less lucky classes any very sincere respect for justice and morality , hi the abstract . The dishonest spirit percolates through the upper down to the

      lower strata of society , until the whole ia thoroughly soaked and sodden with the pollution . Extremes meet ; the " lower" classes re-produce the crimes of the " upper , " more coarse in their language and accessories ; but the same in themselves . In a world where it is believed * that life is merely a scramble , in which the strong and the cunning are sure to succeed best , and where there is no amenability to any eternal or ever-acting law of justice and retribution , what is there to restrain the unlicensed thieves from plying their vocation ? Only the fear of a more powerful , more cunning , and better-equipped physical force , against which they have no chance of

      successfully contending . The temptation is perpetual , but the fear is intermittent , in the best of cases . The heaped up plate chests of the wealthy citizen , the glittering jewels of " my Lady" are accessible at times when policemen " are absent . Policemen , indeed , are not ubiquetous . " They cannot , " as Sir Boyle Eoach said , " bo in two places at once , unless they were birds , ' * and we all know that at present they are not " birds of that feather . ' ' When the plate chest is emptied , and the jewel case is cleared of its precious contents , you set the " detectives" on the trail . But there again the retributory principle meets and beats you . The constant stretch of the faculties of the keen

      witted and accomplished thief to obtain plunder , enables him to devise equally clever methods of escaping with his booty . It is a battle of acute and practised intellects , in its way deeply interesting , but leaving no very satisfactory conclusion on the mind as to the efficacy of the " detectives , " be they ever so numerous , or quick and cunning . Ere they have mastered and defeated t he last patent new invention of thiefdom , its restless genius , spurred on by necessity , has discovered and

      put in practice another . Some people boast of the immunity of the present ago from daring crimes in the days when highwaymen and footpads swarmed upon heaths and hi g h roads , and in the darkunlamped streets of our towns . There is in reality no change ; our " dangerous classes , " have merely accommodated themselves to the changed circumstances by which they are surrounded . The fashion has altered , the thing remains intact , if not rendered moro dangerous by the increase of wealth , and the facilities for plunder .

      What with Frimloy murders , Doddinghurst murders , Liverpool plate robberies , Birmingham burglaries , Strand burglaries , and such like , our daily papers seem transformed into veritable Newgate Calendars . A fresh horror is served up each morning with tho muffins and buttered toast , to the comfortable classes . Great is the consternation in May Fair—terrible tho fright in Clapham and Camberwell , and forthwith the organs of tho landocracy , tho moneyocracy , and the profitocracy , rush into print with crude schemes for catching and skinning alive , the plunderers who have not tho law on their side , for this good reason , that they and theirs had no hand in making it . Some of

      these plans are simple enough , but awfully despotic . The Recorder of Birmingham has a summary process of disposing of the difficulty ; the police are to apprehend all suspected persons , and upon suspicion , the magistrates are to bo empowered summaril y to prevent them from roaming abroad in future . Bather a costly , as well as a despotic method , in oui opinion . Introduce it once for persons " suspected" of " offences against property , " and how soon would it be perverted and applied to political offenders ? Lettres de Cachete and tho Bastile were not more handy to Louis Quatroze , than such a system would be to the Homo Secretary , who wished to put obnoxious political agitators out of tho way .

      No ! If anything , we have * too much " police already . " From time to time tbo curtain is raised , and gives us glimpses into its morale , which are frightful to contemplate . Perjury by wholesale , is not the least that ia suspected of the force , whenever it suits their pecuniary or their professional interests . The light in which they look upon the working classes may be jud ged o f , by tho deliberate

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      Miss Martineat ; has , upon more than one occasion , " done the State some service , " by her boldness in stating unpopular truths . It seems strange that truth should ever be unpopular . It is always so when first promulgated , and it takes a long uphill fight to get it listened to , still longer to get it acted upon . The interval between the declaration , recognition , and application of new social principles is ,

      however , considerably diminished , when some oce , who has previously gained the werld ' s ear and confidence , has the moral courage to proclaim their belief in it . The common herd bow to authority , and take their opinions at second hand ; when they see those they have been accuBtomed to hear quoted eminent in any particular walk of life taking up with new doctrines , they infer that " there must , after all , be something in them ; " and are brought so far as to listen , whether they comprehend

      or not . _ ' Upon no one question has the dicta of the Political Economists , and Free Traders been more decidedly pronounced than upon the evils of Small Farming , and the impossibility of certain " quantities of food being reared from manual labour from a limited area . Mr . Haven , tho Poor Law Commissioner , solemnly and repeatedly assured the Select Committee on the National Land Company , that it was utterly impossible any man could support himself and family , by their united labour , on a farm of three or four acres . Even if they paid neither rent nor taxes , he asserted they must inevitably become paupers in the course of two or three , or four years at most . It was in vain that Mr . John Siklett detailed the successful

      and astonishing results of his own farming on two acres . It was equally useless to point out what had been done upon small p lots of land by other persons in this country , and to the large amount of agr icultural produce raised under the Small Farm System of Guernsey , Jersey , and Belg ium . The Chairman and the Government witnesses knew a great deal better than all that . They believed in tho croaking of the Eaven , rather than in the statements of those who opened up a way out of our

      difficulties by the simple and immediately available plan o . f applying more labour to our own soil . Miss Martineau , formerly a high authority with the Political Economy School , has , with that candour , and superiority to personal considerations , which has frequently marked her useful life , come forward to state tho results of her own experiment in Small Farming . Her first letter appeared two Of three months since in the Star ; her second will be found iu another column of tho present

      number . It is scarcely possible to imagine a more complete and triumphant demonstration of the solid and permanent advantages to bo dorived from the Small Farm Syscom , than is embodied in theso two adrnirablo letters . The wholo progress of the experiment , from its commencement to tho present time , the cost incurred , the mode of cuttivation adopted , and the results , are all . perspicuously and lucidly stated , in a manner that cannot fail to carry conviction to every dispassionate mind . Let us briefly enumerate the facts . By tho labour of one man and his wife—who would

      otherwise have been chargeable on the ratestwo cows were in a great measure maintained , and the house supplied with vegetables in the first year of tho oxperimont , from loss than an acre and a quarter of ground . Of this , three quarters of an acre , or three » fifths of the whole , were grass , tho most expensive and unprofitablo kind of food for oattlo . Though not liking to loso the view of a greensward from

      the windows , Miss Martineau ultimately allowed her faithful and zealous labourer to add to his cultivated area half an aero more , in tho ea rly part of this year , making one acre in all . Tho condition and situation of this additional land was as bad as can be well imagined . Ifc was overgrown with obstinate . weeds ; a g reat slice of it injured by thogrowth of arow of ash trees , and , from its relative position to other-properties , prevented from being proporly drained . The landlord , tatong all these

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      " drawb acks into accOunt , only asked " the low rent" of lh I ** a year , or 3 Z . 10 s . an acre < We wonder what the allottees at Minster Lovel , who have paid no rent , would say to such a demand f or a p iece of foul undrainable ground Miss Marti ^ u would have purchased it eladlv but , as the landlord would not Bell , sue was happy to get a lease of it for ten years , at that rent . " And now , " says she , " there it is before my eyes , with six tons of cow food upon it , besides a goodly asparagus bed , some grass , and a portion where we mean to try a growth of lucerne . " Another year , when tho ill ii ii 1 " ! In into account , only asked " the tow V ™* , lgg or 8 / i iOa . au acre !

      ground is mellowed and loosened , the expectation is , that ten tons of food will be grown on the new half acre , in spite of the ash trees . The Minster allottees had no timber to fight with , abstracting the manure that should have fed their crops , and occupying with its roots the ground that should have been more profitably filled . From the entire acre now under cultivation , Miss Martineau is abundantly supplied ' with food for the two cows until next spring , and the house has also , and will continue to have , an ample supply of every kind of vegetable for the table . The cows

      yield , upon an average , twenty-five quarts of milk a day ; and Mias Martineau , who was driven to Small Farming , in the first instance , by the impossibility of procuring milk , butter , and eggs , now speaks of manufacturing butter , and feeding pigs upon " skim milk , " better than the scanty supply she got for " new " formerly . Butter and bacon—home-fed especially—are , according to Lord Stanley , very profitable articles in the market ;

      so . that it would appear , Miss Mabiineai ; is likely to find her acre quite a little California in its way . Besides an abundant supply of milk , butter , eggs , poultry , ham , bacon , and vegetables ; for her own house , she will have some to export , the sale of which will increase the amount in favour of the little farm . All this , be it remarked , is done by hired labour at a profit , and the labour- is paid with no niggard hand . " Eoberx" receives 12 s . a week the

      year round , besides a cottage rent free ; and his wife , who also makes herself useful , is equally well paid . The cottage in which dwell theso two people , who would otherwise have been paupers , is a scene of plenty and happiness . " They are now so well and merry , that it is delightful to gee them , Robert has been sending money to his old father—a large sum for a working man . He could not possibly be more industrious , but he is in stronger health .

      and in glorious spirits . His pretty porch is grown over with roses , and there are climbing plants about his walls , and balsams , and geraniums in his windows I" Charming picture let , how easily found the materials of which it is composed ! Merely an acre of land , formerly all hut waste ; two paupers willing to work , allowed to do so by a benevolent , but , at the same time , thrifty lady . Ah ! if our great statesmen were not so great , and would sometimes condescend to take lessons as

      those furnished by " men of low estate , what a deal of trouble they might save themselves , what a glorious old England they might make ! Why should the nation not do upon a large scale what Miss Martineau has done upon a small ? Why should millions he spent annually in maintaining paupers in unwilling idleness , and millions of acres sterile , when their union would so largely increase the national wealth , g ive honest and cheerful employment to contented and happy hundreds of thousands , and replace the hateful workhouse with thousands of cottages ? Their

      pretty porches grown over with roses , with climbing plants about their walls , balsams and geraniums in their windows , and the light hearted song of the independent and contented industry-making sweet music at the homely , but happy fireside ! But our rulei' 3 are far too learned , too profoundly versed in political economy , to do that . It would violate the canons of that orthodox science , economy . They believe in the assertions of the Raven , rather than the facts and figures of Martineau ,

      Sillett , and O'Connor . The land is cursed with barrenness , discontent , poverty , and crime , becausoitsrulers areblinded bycrotchetB , opposed to facts , to common sense , to common justice . What then ? Why , that as the rulers are blind the people should help themselves , and do so by adopting plans which have thus been demonstrated as amply sufficient for all the purposes they have in view . The founder of the Land Company will yet see a glorious triumph over all tho foes of the great and healing measure he has so long advocated .

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      but that in due course we riiflJKee the ^ pT 'of the flimsy cobwebs which they atf en ^ X in weaving , blown to the winds by aa u p 3 ? of the veritable people . They W ^ might ; they know also how to useTf , " ? we know that they do not lack the will J ?** the proper time arrives . Let ' us th ^ * watch with hope the progress of eUataJS the channel . . lB wrosa I ' lO Now has assumed an . extraordi ,, authority , and parcelled out the realm of ft ^ Britain into a series of dioceses , 'over which ? has appointed a Cardinal Archbishop J ^ Bishops , with specific designations , just a , . , Queen Victoria , and the Protestant Church and State , by law established , was a merep ic ture , and had no existence except in imagfL ' tiou . Of course , the supporters of the said Church and State are very angry at thig j m but that in due course we Ai&tf * tk ^ ' of the flimsv cobweb ^ W ^ tw ^ -JfH

      pudent assumption on the part of " Hig Horr ness , " and visions of the restoration of Ro " manism flit before more fancies than the zeal ' ous and credulous Catholics who believe j « Cardinal Wiseman . It ia a hallucination ? together . We are perfectly safe in Eng ] an ( j from Jesuit censorships , and Jesuitically en ¦ forced ignorance . But the danger is that this audacious violation of the oath , which declare ! that " no foreign prince or potentate shall hav 9 anyspiritualor temporal jurisdiction within this realm , " together with the open declaration nf

      the zealous llomanist party , that they mean to . reclaim England to the fold of the trim Church , will have the effect of provoking a re . action , in which many of the religious liberti es which have been slowly conquered b y Roman Catholics , will be swept away . . We sho uld deepl y regret to see this ; though we think (» by no means unlikel y that such will be tha practical issue of the course the Pope h ^ taken in the matter . It shows that , humbled as tho Papacy is at its centre , it is still aggres . sive in its essence , and it may lead its opp 0 .

      that otherwise would never have been though ' of . The Times snggests that , &st the Pope h a 3 chosen to interfere with England ^ -L ord Pai merston should give him some work at home by en couraging the Italian patriots . We trust that , however anxious they may be' for the emancipation of their beautiful country from political and spiritual thraldom , they will never become the cat ' s-paw of an oligarchical Minister , who stood coldly aloof in the hour of their need , and mocked them with barren words of sympathy . Better to wait until they are able to fight the battle of freedom on their own ground , without the necessity for such hollow , selfish , and treacherous support .

      The pre&sure on our columns this- week pre . vents us from doing more than to call- attention to the important meeting of the United Trades ' Association , held at Wolverliamptoa ,- on Tues . day . The circumstances attending : appear to mark the advent of a new era in th © history of such movements .

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      „ MONIES RECEIVED Fob the Week Ending Thursdat , October 24 th , 1850 . TOR THB wiiotc-up of m urn emm Received by W . Rideb . —Two Members , Clifford , a « t Tadcastcr Is—Nottingham , per J . Sweet Gd . Received at Land Office . —Atherstone 10 a THE HONESTY TUO . Received by W . Bideb .-HuII , per G . Barnettls 7 d . AGITATION FOR THE CHARTER . Received by John Aesott . —Holmfirth , per J . Hir « tlO » —Lynn , per J . Twaits 5 s—Hastings , per E . Mose 6 s 3 d . FOR THE HUNGARIAN AND POLISH REFUGEES . Received by W . Rider —W . Smith and D . Camon , Mil . borne Port Cd—J . Mayman , Ramsgate 2 s-J . Parker , Lan . caster 7 d—Holmfirth Chartists , per J . Hirst 5 s—Rochdale , per R . Gill 5 a 4 d—Mr . Carter , Birmingham Cd—Mr Fussell , Birmingham Gd—Manchester , collected in the Peopie ' s institute ( less order . and po 6 tage ) per T . Orraesher £ 1 6 s 2 d—From Higham , Derbyshire—C . Tinier ls-J , Bryan 6 d—A . Milner 6 d—Nottingham , per J . Sweet 2 s Cd-NewCoundon , per T . Dolphin 5 s Gd Received by Jobs Aenott . —Part proceeds of Concert , held at the Two Chair . men , 'Wardour-streGt , Soho , per George Hitohins £ l-. Vntional Reform League , Sheffield , per Mr , Whitaker 10 s—Part proceeds of second Concert , held at the Rock , lissongrove ( Emmet ' s Brigade , ) per J . Blake 10 s . Received at Land Office . —6 . TV . Is . THE CASE OF THOMAS JONES . Received by "W . Rideb . —Mr . Carter , Birmingham Cd-Mr . Fussell , Birmingham Cd—Sutton-in-Ashfield , pet W . Felkin Is Cd . —Received by John Aknott . —F . L . Is . FOR DR . M ' DOUALL . Received byW . Rider . —Hbughton , near Bradford , perl , Drake 10 s—Sutton-in-Ashfield , per TV . Felkin 10 s . ' TRACT FUND . Received by John Absott . —Mr . Banister , Burnham Is .

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      ' " NATIONAL CHARTER LEAGUE .

      The council of this body met on Sunday last for the transaction of general business . The chair was occupied by the President , Mr . M'Grath . The secretary , Mr . T Clark , submitted correspondence from the country , approbatory of the proposition of Mr . O'Connor , for holding a Conference at Manchester , for the purpose of constructing a National Asso * ciation on the basis of the People ' s Charter , but unconnected with any other theory or opinion , and also urging upon the Lecigue , the propriety of promoting Mr . O'Connor ' s intention . A resolution was unanimously adopted .

      instructing the secretary to write to the council of the Manchester Chartist Association , expressing the confidence of the League iu tho integrity and patriotism of the Manchester friends , and respectfully requesting them to assume the initiative in convening the in * tended Conference , and also that they should take the arrangement of it under their judicious management . It was announced by Mr . M'Grath , that a comfortable and eom « modious room for the future meetings of the League , had been secured at a respectaWa Temperance Hotel in Farringdon-street , Tvhero the council would meet on the following Sunday evening , at seven o ' clock .

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      Louis Napoleon has obtained fifty MOTT i < xi from England , for the park of St . Cloud . ^ The long vacation terminated on Thtf 3 ""^ * J the affairs of the several law courts have itson business , preparatory to the ensuing Mi cfla « Hw » Term commencing this day ( Saturday } weeKi

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      NATIONAL REFORM LEAGUE . At a full meeting of the Council of this tody , held on Monday , the 21 st insta , nt , the follow * ing resolutions were adopted with unanimity ' — " That , earnestly desirous of seeing established a real union of all shades of Dcnw « cratic and Social Reformers , and believing that Universal Suffrage , with the necessary guarantees for its due exercise , as laid dovro iB the People ' s Charter , is the only pra ctical basis of such union—this Couucil cannot hut regret the vote recently come to by the Cob * ferenco of Delegates , representing this aua

      other societies at the John-street sittings whereby the expediency is affirmed of mixing up with tho great question of Universal Suffrage certain Beform measures of detail , -which , however good aud necessary in their proper time and place , cannot he mado tho object of a national movement , without causing dissension and divisions in the popular ranks , aud thereby retarding the success of our common causo . This Council is , therefore , oftlioopi * nion of our delegates , that their further attendance at the aforesaid Conference is useless and unnecessary . " P . W . JIWeill , Sec

      Sheffield ,. —At tho usual weekly meet « $ of the National Reform League , held on ™? 20 th inst ., tho following resolution was « n ' mously agreed to : — " That vre highly &Wf * of tho object contemplated ' by the London Conference of Political and Social BeforintfJ and we trust that they will be su ccessful i » uniting in ono body the whole Demo cracj the country : we also think the said Conf&jj ™ in in the best position to judgo of the » „ and place for holding a National Conference- ,

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      FOREIGN POLITICS .

      The rustication of Ministers has this week been interrupted by the Schleswig-Holstein war . On Wednesday the first Cabinet Council on actual business since the recess , was held Jn London , and was fully attended . Tho semiofficial Times tells us that it was summoned to consider the request of Russia and France , that England should join them in a peremptory demand , that Prussia shall withdraw the support it now gives the Schleswig-Holstein party , against Denmark . Greatly to the

      mortification of- the Times , as we have no doubt it will be to that of its congenial friends and allies , Nicholas of Russia , and the absolutist party , and speculators in France ; the British Government have refused to be their cat ' s-paw , or to ^ risk a probable war , iu which England would be found fighting the battle of the autocrat for European supremacy . Whatever may be the nature of the quarrel beetween Denmark and the Duchies , it is surely , by far , too remote for us to meddle with it ; and it is , indeed , strange , to contrast the bloodthirsty eagerness with which , the Times would hound on Ministers to

      interference , with their earnest protests against any help being given to Italy , Hungary , Naples , or Rome , when the gallant patriots in these countries were struggling for freedom . Non-intervention was as sturdily preached up then as the true policy of Great Britain , as the contrary is now . It is no secret which way the sympathies of the " Thunderer '' of the puddle-dock have run during

      tho whole of the events of tho last two years . It lias lied , and threatened , and cajoled by turns , to promote tho interests of despots and money-mongers , and wo can scarcely lay down a safer rule for the people of this country , iu foreign politics , than to believe just exactl y tho opposite of what the Times tells them , and to act precisely contrary to its recommendations .

      In France the schemers and conspirators against the Constitution aro as busy as ever . Plot and counterplot , bargain and salo among the various pretenders to power , aro iu full operation . To read tho accounts of the various cliques who have their head quarters in Paris , it would appear that nothing is so easy as to set up Franco , and knock it down to any Imperial or Kingly bidder , who may hanker after the bargain . We suspocfc these shameleas and unprincipled political hucksters reckon without their host . When 1852 does come , there may be found in operation elements which they did not take into account , and

      which will seriously derange their calculations , if not defeat their elaborate plans for the violation and ultimate overthrow of the nominal Republic under which they plot , and scheme , and lie , and commit acts of despotism worse than any that ever disgraced either the reign of Charles X ., ov Louis Philippe . Isittobebehevodthatthenoble people who senttheir two discrowned monarchs on thoir &S 1 ? - ' - f ° arCl 1 Of a s ^ lter where hey m , ght diem strange lands , will long continue to tolerate tho tyranny of a set of political adventurers and pedlars , such as have the temporary ascendancy in France at tho present day ? The supposition is tooridiculous to be seriously stated , We cannot doubt

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      i i i n ... i way which a sergeant the metropolitan way in which a sergeant of the metropohtai force , assisted by another policeman , delibe rately assaulted , and under cover of their an thority , killed . & poor inoffensive , hardworkinj tailor named Gbany , who had the misfortuni to expose the malpractices of their " higl mightinesses . " Stealing plate and jewell erfrom those who have them may he very pro voking—the murder of two or three clergy , men and tradesmen , while defending then property , is sincerely to be deplore d j but then are minor evUs , after all , compared witl handinover the whole people of England to

      g the tendermercies and espionage of an ignorant , officious , army of policemen , commanded by a S al like ^ M . W . IBH , and anxious to merit his approval by hunting down alwho might be suspected of being opposed to the policy of the Government for the time being . That would be a certain evil . The good is much more pr oblematical , or rather altogether improbable . While the present systems continues to prevent tens of hundreds of thousands from obtaining either education , or

      industrial training , or honest employment : while a low and sordid spirit of avarice , seTr fishness , and trade-gambling pervades society , the stationing of a policeman at every ten doors in every street , and at the gate of every farm-house , grange , or " hall" in the country , will not prevent outrage and pillage . The magnitude and difficulty of the obstacles placed in the way of the commission of crime , will merely stimulate the criminal population to have recourse to more ingenious devices to accomplish their ends .

      The system of physical repression and phy sical punishment is not less costly than inefficient . Society breeds these vermin , and they , in tarn , fatten upon the corruption out of which they are generated . If the system which gives them birth is to be perpetuated , notwithstanding these evident and powerful warnings of its hostility to the laws of nature , and of our common humanity , those who prop it up must , at the same time , make up their minds to endure the unerring and inevitable retribution which ever follows the violation of these laws , Not all the police and detectives in the world can save them from that . They may add to , but not diminish the evil .

      There is a simple , straightforward , cheap , and effectual way of dealing with this question —nay , of settling it satisfactorily for ever ; but that is so " Utopian , " in an age when men look carefully to their shutters , back doors , cellar doors , and . under their beds , before going to bed , that we * dare hardly mention it . At the risk , however , of raising a shout of laughter at our visionary , if not

      revolutionary ideas , we venture to hint what it is —the political enfranchisement of the whole people , by the enactment of the People ' s Charter ; the establishment of a people ' s government , by the people ; and the congequent introduction of measures that would enable every child to be industriously trained to earn his own honest living , on soil belonging to the nation , and so educated as to think that the most honourable position he could

      occupy m society . "Impracticable , " you say ? Well , your " practical men " must take your own -way . We candidly confess we do not think very highly of your handiwork . It is a miserable botch , which proves you know very little indeed of tho way of governing society . Having foresworn allegiance to nature , your footsteps are , as Carlyle says , waited upon by "Perpetual mutiny , contention , hatred , isolation , execration . ' From that Pandemonium there is no escape , until the service of mammon is renounced . No '' police " can help you !

      THE WAY TO HEALTH , WEALTH , AND HAPPINESS .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 26, 1850, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1597/page/4/