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THE ISOBTHEBH STAR. SATURDAY, MATT 3, 1851,
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Jutt fuhlithed. Just fublithid , IN NO5. AT ONE PENNY EACH, THE EttWTS GUIDE TO THE GOLOEN UND fj A -L I P O R N I A V ITS PAST m«T0RT ; ITS PRESENT POSITION ; ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS-.
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WITH A JUSUTE JXD ACTBEMTIC ACCOUNT OF THE DKCOTERT OF THE GOLD REGION , THE SUBSEQUENT IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS
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Toe Publication Office of the Works of ERNEST JOSES Is ' Removed to S . Patet's , 47 , Holjwell-street , Strand , London , to whom all orders muit be addressed . POEMS and NOTES to the PEOPLE , X KOW PUBLISHLVff , In WeeHy Numbers of Twenty-four Paces ( double columns } . Price * . Twopence each . .. . Jfol . ( this day ) . Contests j—The New Woeid , a democratic poem . Sons to the Peotie—Why will the Exhibition injure the Shopkeepers *—A Hot Detected . —Money Notes . Tbb HisTocr of a Democbatic Movement , compiled from the Journal of a Democrat , the Confession of a Demagogue , and the Minutes of a Spy .
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Ho . XVin . of tho ISew Series <> or ' . THE NAHflSAl INSTEUCTOH " Js mow ready . - Contents of A ' « . XVIII . 1 . The Snow Storm . 2 . Deal and its Boatmen . 3 . National Evils : their Causes and Remedies . Money—the Currency Question . i . Topics of the Day . . 5 . Legal Obstructions to Co-operation . 6 . 2 few Boots ;—The Emperor of Austria daring it 3 Revolutionary Crisis . 7 . Record of Social Progress . The Numbere and Parts of the First Series of the National Instructor that were out of print , hare now "keen reprinted , and may be had oa application .
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SATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Office , U , Southampton-stree ^ Strand . W HE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE X hereby announce the following meetings — On aundaj , May 4 th : at three o ' clock in the afternoon , tte Lambeft locahQr will meet . at the South London HaU toSmS ^ the 8 ab " SCCreta ^' Tsaiteinattenaa ^ e ^' * 8 ??^? ? 61 * 1 ^ «« xt at the Princes 3 Royal Circus' ^ WarWebone-Bricklayers'Ams , Toubrid 7 e-str Toira . ~^ ° Wn ana AncUor > CheshKe-stree ^ Waterloo ti ^ 5 f Sain i eeTeninsat tte m ^ S Sun , Calender-yard , ^ ff ^^^^^^ a ^ ered . And the Memberi requested to meet for —• - —
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TO TAILORS ASD . OTHERS . BsmmrioN , i 85 i . " My Approbation of Her Majesty Queen Tietoria , and JLR . U . FrinceMben . THE LONDON and EARIS SPRING and SUMMER FASHIONS for 1851 , bv Mes = r = BESJAMIS HEAD & Co ., 12 , Hart-street . ' BlLnS square , London ; and sold bj G . BERGEU , Ho 5 vweU s ?^ t j !> tana > ' ? be ready early in March . The View of the Grand Suilding in Hyde-park for the ensuin » Exhibition , is esrcuted Tiith estraordinary skJl ! , and will be superior toanjfliins of the land ever published , proaucinE an excellent and l » aulifullyeelouredPBL \ T , represent ing Costume ? of
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Is a memoir -which ha 3 just beeu published of an American clergyman , the author , who is the nephew of the late Dr . Caanning , narrates an amusing incident T ? meb took place on boord a steamer . One of the passengers , -who hadannojed his companions by bjs theological peculiarities , suddenly addressed a Canadian gentleman , named B - saying , " Pray , Mr . B , who do yon think wrote the Xew Testament V Sir . B- — , totally unsuspicious of any trick , and too much of a merchant toappear ignorant , answercdpromptl y , "Doubtless bit , it was Peter . " "And did Peter , think yon , Mr . B , write Paul ' s Epistles ? " The Canadian
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¦ NrnTTnw TA csTTr > ar « -DTT > UD «! NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS . A Magnificent Steel Engraving of the ISTEMOX OF THE CRtStAl PALACE ^ Measuring twenty-eight' by twelve inches , showing the whole length of the Transept and body of the Building , for the Great International Exhibition , will be ready to deliver to the Subscribers of the " Northern Star " on Saturday , May 3 rd .
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NorriNonm . —Mr . J . Sweet begs to acknowledge tha receipt of the following same , viz .: —Fob Wwnwa-n * Fo . « D Charles Saxton Cd —Ellen Ilaughton fid-George Bullock Gd—Thomas Jennings 6 d —Georeo Barrow Is . T . Bmws's List . —Mr . Dawsoti Is—Crockett 3 d—Noble 4 d —Mr . J . Bull Is 6 d—Welchman 6 d—Britten Is—Godfrey Gd—Gomeraall la-Smith ' s Workmen 5 s 7 d—Mr . lemon City Boot Makers 3 s 2 § d—Mr . Mackmain Is—Type Founders , Sbarwood ' s —Per Mr . King , sixth collection 4 s 8 d-Mr . Philips 28-Wheelhouse Bfllpen-Friend , at Pontifex ' s Shoe-lane , per Murray isGd-G . W . ls-M . Levick Seville
Is—Mr . , City Tradesof Boot Makers Ss 7 Jd -Mr . Heath . Greenwich -Collections 8 s 3 d -Mr . Araott I 4 < s-Mr . J . Hamey 4 s- Magee 6 d . Thos . Babkeb . —Declined with tbanks . % , D 0 SDEE .-The points of personal character and capability referred to by our correspondent , are not suitable mat ters for newspaper columns . The remedy must be left in the hands of the local committee . . J . BirtCT . —We must decline inserting the letter Ewn ifits great length wan not an insuperable objection the facttnatitre-opens old sores would be sufficient to ex dude it . Let us devote all our energies to the promotaonofthe good cause . Its pretended friends and real enemies will , by and bye , be found out , without any effortof ours . J
Cho . tenham .-A Friend to Progress complains of the apathy of the old Chartists in this town . " Three months ago a locality was forme * by a few active Chartists , an ? a room was taken at 21 , Kegent street , for the accommonation of tha members . We trust the veritable Cfaartirti ef Cheltenham will rally once more and become the friends of progress .
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MA . Y-DA . Y . May-day was a high festival with our simple ancestors . The tall Maypole -was then garlanded with fresh flowers . The lads and lasses footed it merrily on the village green . X ) ut door games and sports supplied a safe and healthful outlet for the superabundant energy of manhood , and formed part of a hardy and manly education , - while the elders looked on
enjoyed the dance and the sports , and seasoned all with the sober gaiety , and pleasant retrospection of age . Such was the cheerful and hearty mode of celebrating the commencement of the merry month of May , in times when there -were more holidays in the year than we dare now attempt to reckon , and when people had not forgotten that they laboured to live , and learned that very different lesson that they live to labour .
But the age of utilitarianism succeeded . Political Economy philosophically disclosed the national sinfulness of wasting hours that should be devoted to the creation of wealth , and the augmentation of commerce . Puritanic moralists frowned atthe idea of such light hearted merry-making by miserable sinners ; and fashion became too dainty and dandified for such simple and natural relaxations . Then steam and machinery came professedly to multiply products , abridge labonr , and increase the wealth and enjoyment of society ; but , lomehow or other , they have hitherto woefully diminished the leisure and the power to enjoy it , of the great mass of the people . Holidays to the struggling and toiliDg millions , have become-.
" Like anpels' visits , few and far between . " May-day was at last abandoned to the chimney-sweep , and to less re putable parties , carefull y watched by the new police . It seemed as if Mammon had utterl y crushed the holiday spirit within us as a nation . ISot so , however . The instincts of our nature which prompt to relaxation—which make us to feel that"A thin * of beauty is ajoy for ever , " .
though thwarted and auppressed cannot be eradicated . The poetical and the sensuous is as much" a part of humanity as the rational and the practical , and they will find or make for themselves channels in any form of civilisation whatever . The phase alone is newthe motive power is ever the same .. Thus it is , that even from the very depths of our hard matter of fact , pounds , shillings and pence Bystem , there has been evoked a new description of holidays . The ancient fairs to
which the slow caravans and solitary pilgrims turned their fac « 3 in the olden times , were their prototypes ; hat the World ' s Fair in Hyde Park has expanded the idea , anil made it appropriate to the age . If any one principlo has gained groundmore than another of late years , it is that " all men are brethren ; " and the collection of men of all nations , and from every quarter of the globe with their handy works at one view , under one roof , is calculated powerfully to make that principle tangible . :
We do not pretend to see so much in the way of direct benefit from the Great Exhibition which was inaugarated on May-day hy Royalty , as our contemporaries . ^ But reflectively and reactiyely , we can descry in its opening a powerful impetus to this Beutiment of the fraternity of nations . In this aspect the conception of such an Exhibition was magnificent , and grandly has it been carried into effect . . .-. ¦¦
A ever , perhaps , in history , did a May-day sun shine upon ouch a glorious and overwhelming spectacle as that of Thursday . London and the Provinces had poured out their myriads—other nations contributed their tributaries to the mi ghty tide of humanity which flowed towards the Crystal Palace . All classes were united by one common sentiment and sympathy . The pomp and pageantry of Royal show heightened the rich and glowing display of precious and multiform productions , gathered from all lands and climes , beneath the transparent roof of an edifice itself the
realisation of a fairytale ; Solemn and jubilant music swelled through the long and symmetrical arcades , decorated b y the richest , rarest , and most tasteful production s of human skill and art . The fountains flashed merrily in the sunbeams , and the pale green . <> f the young leaves glistened under the li ght and graceful canopy of crystal , which overspanned the old elms . Amidst such , sights and sounds the " World ' Fair ;* ' was right royally inaugurated , and one bright . May-day , at least , rescued from the dull and plodding prose of modern civilisation .
Butwhy rest satisfied withone ? Whyshould it not be the precursor of brighter , happier May Festivities in future , in which nations may learn more of eacb . otb . er , and the intimacy , now begun , to . ripen into friendshi p and mutual co-operatien , beseeming brothers ? The old trusting , loving impulses—the old desire for mutual good will , and for convivial relaxation , which blended squire , pastor , yeoman , and peasant together on the village green , and imparted depth and meaning to their simple sports and games—are in us . If our horison has expanded , our means , of
creating wealth , and producing rare and beautif ul things , have increased—our deeds ought " " "' with the enlarged field of action , to correspou- ., ; "" ¦ which are at our and the augmented" mesa- __ ' *'¦**>* command . Let us learn to make jaw * , healthful and attractive , by surrounding it with the graces and the enjoyments , as well as the reality of life ; and , above all , endeavour to hasten the day when the universal recognition of Human Brotherhood will put an end to the evil passions , and the waste of human labour , which mar our brightest holidays at present .
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THE GOOD TIME GOMlNa . > .: M As we anticipated , the "small fry"' of the Press havefollowed the Triton ; in commenting upon the new phase of Chartism , and it is rather amusing to see how some of them treat the subject . The Morning Post , for instance speaks with contemptuous but dignified condescension of the want of logic , whic h its hypcr critical , acumen has discovered in the Programme ; and , as a general conclusion , sees no danger whatever in " the ludicrous production , " or indeed any worse result than that TWR fjnnTl TTMTC / inuivn . .
" some among the numerous forei gners who are now flocking to our shores , will be rather chagrined at learning that Englishmen , of average calibre of mind , can find something better to do than casting . in . their lot with Ledbu RoixiNand Mazzini . " From all which it appears , that the fashionable and ultra Tory Post has not the slightest fear of the Chartists arid their projects , but , on the contrary entertains a very thorough and decided contempt for what it styles , "the quantum of intellect and wisdom that is engaged just now on projects for revolutionising our institutions . " ¦
As we have no desire to disturb the lofty and well-bred serenity of Punch ' s " Jenkins " we shall not attempt to show that his word catching and verbal criticism , by no means SO effectually settles the questions at issue , as he imagines . If , indeed , Chartism , depended for its success upon the classical' and logical acquirements of its advocates ) we candidl y confeBs that they would have little chance with those who have graduated at the Universities or mastered Whately and Mm , But ! fortunatel y for the world , pedants and pedagogues are not its - rulers . Things are more
powerful than words , and though the Chartists , as a body , may not possess the literary polish and mastery of dialectics acquired by those who have undergone a classical training , they have the " essentially more valuable power 6 f practically understanding the merits of the subject ; and we back common sense , and a strong feeling of injustice and suffering , against elegant verbiage and dilletante criticism , any day of the year , In fact , however , the logic of the Post is as worthless as its political morality . Take a specimen : — .
' On glancing : over this queer production , one cannot but be struck with the extraordinary confusion of ideas that is discernible in ifc . Thus wo find that the first measure to be takeu in . band , is the « Nationalisation of the land , " which means , it seems , that the State is to take possession of all the land in the country . The reasonableness and justice of this act of appropriation is deduced in a summary manner from the general proposition that " the land is the naturalinheritance of all mankind . " If this be 8 o » it does uot seem a very necessary and palpable consequence , that the State , or any other body , should take-possession of the said land , to the exclusion of mankind at large ; the rightful heirs thereof . • ' ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦¦ . ¦ .
" The only' extraordinary confusion of ideas discernible'' here , is in the critic himself , and not the programme . ' To . us it appears a logical and practical conclusion from the premises—that as the land is the natural inheritance of mankind ; the land belonging to each separate nation should be held by the State , as the representative and trustee of the whole community . - ; .: : : .: Equally notable is the next " mare ' s nest " discovered by the acute optics of the Postthat imposing the future taxation of England " on land and accumulated property wi ll be something liko the imme nsestakesfor which Mr . Dick- Swivelleb was wont to play at cribbage—with himself ! " because the " land
itself will already belong to the State . Here again is " a confusion of ideas , " 6 n the part of the critic , who confounds the fee-simple with the usufruct of the soil , and the payment of such a portion of the annual product as may be necessary to maintain political and social order . It would , ; perhaps , be better to call such payments " rent" than "taxation ; " inasmuch as private ownership being abolished by the "Nationalisation of the Land , " the State , as trustee for . the community , would receive the only annual imposts upon it , for the gene- ' ral purposes of the nation , whether these have reference to the civil , military , and naval expenditure , or the cost of the education of the people , and the relief of the poor .
While the Post thus sneers at the " scheme propounded by some dozen and a-h ' alf of nameless demagogues , " the Daily News , on the contrary , does not think the ' Times , warranted in painting the Chartists so black . " Their programme is rather a mild infusion of Socialism . ., ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ '•'• ' ¦ ¦¦ ¦¦¦\ '¦' - '" ¦ ' ¦ ¦ •¦ Even that " mild infusion , " according , to the organ of the Manchester School , " will damage them . " There are no two principles so firmly rooted in the English mind as those of family and property . ; and : if we have any fears on the subject they arc merely for thefate . of the preacher or the party that would impugn them . ¦ . .. . . . ¦ ' ..,.,
The misrepresentation . and calumny in this sentence ^ very adroitly insinuated . Chartism , in its new aspect , is assumed to be hostile to the two principles of family and property ; when the fact is , that its whole and sole object is to , universaiiae the possession and enjoyment of both ; these blessings . By establishing just , relations , among mankind , the Chartists confidently : anticipate ; that :. the anarchy and the misery , which necessarily-result from our present incongruous , unjust ; and imperfect system , will be put an end to . Instead of having a few rich , and many poor , they aim at increasing the sum total of national wealth , by well devised and scientifically combined ' arrangements ; aud next
, they propose to distribute that wealth equitably and beneficially among the . people . ¦ jThey wish to give every man a home , a family and property , instead of dooming large masses to a constant struggle with poverty and wretchedness , and depriving hundreds of thousands of outcasts of even . a place wherein : to lay their heads , or the knowledge , when they rise in the morning , where they are to find a single meal during the day . . We retort ; the -accusation levelled against us . it is hot the Chartists , or the Socialists , who are opposed to the princi . pies of family and property ,. but the combined brigands , who have monopolised the land and the realised wealth of the country , and who hold . ih veritable slavery the rest of the
commuuity ; because the man who comes into existence in a land where "the soil , the machinery , the implements of production , the raw material and the . representative of wealth are all held by individuals , must necessarily become the bond slave of their possessors . His labour cannot be Bet in motion except by their permission ; He ihust labour at such remuneration as they think fit to award . ' He must stop labouring when it ceases to beprofitable to them , and go into the workhouse , tobesubjectedto worse than penaldiet and discipline or if goaded into rebellion against the accursed system which thus enslaves and degradesi him he violates the laws made by his tyrants for the express purpose of maintaining their supremacy and his subjection—the prison the
nuiKs ,. tiie penal colony , or the scaffold , are ready to punish his temerity . ' . ; . ' ^ Gentlemenof the " Manchester School !" the masses are sick of , a system which , under the names of Keligion , Morality ,-and Social Order , produces such . monstrous results- as these ; arid neitheryou ' r sneers nor your ca « lumnies will prevent them from trying " To mould a world . of other stuff . " . ¦ : But the Daily Neios professes to see no dan-*«^ - "« ££ 2 K 5 oursecunty , our peace , -- « . * . ^ '"* " j it or by the " class which geuerateit , .. . . ^ a class of society at quite the other extreme . ' -
It is the lords of . the land ( says : the Aews ) that are conspiring against the stability of things and of ideas amongst us . They it is who are conspiring , socially as well as politically . And were it possible for them to suecced is grasping the power .
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and mersuifir the polioy of the country , and limiting wo . Wly of the people ' s food , as well ai of paralysing-the capabilities for giving employment whioh cheap food gives to capital and industry then , indeed , one might fear the rise of anti-social and subversive ddctViues ; 'Then ,-indeed , a theory or a ; religion very like . Communism ' might . arise not merely in the lower , but in the middle and better rankst of the commercial classes , which would ask by what right a class inimical to them was allowed to monopolise logislatUe power , and to convert it to the swelling of their poor fortunes . _ -,., _ -,-, _ * . - r-., ., ;
"We thank thee , Jew , for teaching US these words . " By what ri ght , we repeat , in the name of the industrialmillions of this country , have the landed , the manufacturing , and the monied classes , all of them "inimical " to labour , because all of them are interested in buying it at the cheapest price , been " allowed to monopolise legislative power , and convert it to the swelling of their private fortunes ?" . Have you , gentlemen of the Manchester School , shown any earnest or consistent
desire to do away with that cardinal injustice , and to enfranchise the millions , from whose toil , landlords , milllords , moneylords , and commercial classes all grow rich ? You know you have not ; and while that is the case , you shall not be allowed to do as the Daily News tries to do , namely , to make use of the labouring , classes , as bugbears to frighten the landlords and farmers . The day has gone b y when the people of this country could be used as the blind and insensate tools of either faction .
Though tho Post may sneer at the logic , and the Daily Neios defame . the principle , a new philosophy of Man and Society has taken deep root among the thinking and toiling masses of Great Britain—a philosophy adverse to the domination of either landlord or cotton lord . If these two adverse ' factions like to wage war upon each other , let them do so ; but they shall have no help from us . On the contrary , we should- like to see them realise thestoryof the Kilkenny Cats ; and devour each other , " tails and all . "
The Daily News quite mistakes the causes which produce Socialism , and is as far wrong when it imagines , that anything either the squires or the manufacturers may . do , with the view of propping up the present unjust system , will prevent it from spreading in connexion with , the demand for political rights . We may observe , that on the question of the suffrage the organ of the Cottonocracy is as unsatisfactory , as it is upon social questions . E n the Whig Globe has clearer perceptions ot the real poiata at issue , which it puts in the following vigorous and unmi 8 takeable manner ;— . .
-, mere , is » pgood in concealing thafc , rightly or wrongly exclusion from the franchise is looked upon as a wrong and an injustice in a totally different sense from that attached to the non-possession of property , tho liability to endure taxation , or any Ollim- hardship that presses with peculiar severity & k ! ^ f er . Xt * " */* $ be a reasonable feeling but of its existence we have no more doubt than of our own . . It ig a grievance in much * ne same sense- as the exclusion of Jews from Parliament is a grievance . Baton RottwctoW , no doubt already exercises a direct weight in . European poli ' twa , to whioh » seat ; ; in Parliament can bring very slight addition . But it has been made a point of honour to deny him this trifling distinction , and no
one can be surprised at the tenacity with which he and his co-religionists cling to their demand for it We-, may add tbat . no small alterations , no chipping and choppingof household suffrage , can be looked on as anything but : temporary ; and that tho period may not be far distant wtien our wisest politicians will hold'the same language on the suffrage whioh Lord John Russell held on . the corn laws , and de . termine to get rid of the question once for all by makiug up their minds to . concede everything . This is so excellent , and . so hopeful , that we cannot do better than allow it to conclude for the present our selections from the critism on Chartism , and the late Chartist Convention . Onwabd and . We Conquer ' .. •• ¦
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ally , In . the name of re » t . It is only by the intrbdtictib £ of a totall y different tenure of the soil that p ermanent security and a fair and ; just . return for the toil of the cultivator can be ensured . ; .. _ , / . . . . . That such objects' ' htiye never entered the contemplation of the landlord class , is evident enough , from the whole tone ' of the speeches on Tuesday laBt . The question was treated as one exclusively between the manufacturers and the landlords , for the mention occasionally of the farmers , artizans , and labourers , ' was merely ad captandmn . The ,, „
Duke of Eichjiond , who presided , distinctl y pointed out the enemy they were prepared to fight against , whenheaaid , " permit me to say to the first cotton spinners of the land , that at the head of the tenant farmers of England , with their hearty and honest labourers following in their wake , I care' not for a conflict with one hundred thousand of our opponents . ( Loud cheers . ) " The tone of other speakers was equall y warlike , . and proved that the speakers would not hesitate to shed . blood to . recover their lost supremacy . But when the Duke of Richmond assumes that
the "honest labourers , " and " the respectable operatives in the manufacturing districts , " would fight with him for the restoration of the Corn Laws , for the benefit of his . class , he is quite mistaken . Dislike of the pestilent and grinding " economy" of " the Manchester School , " by no means implies love of Protection . The labouring classes have had sufficient experience of both kinds of taskmasters to know that they are used merel y as instruments for creating wealth for both . Their rights , their interests , their enjoyments , ate the last things that enter into the contemplation of
either . Both are . equally hostile to the political eafranohiaementv of : the . masses , which would make them , a veritable power in the State , enable them to protect themselves , and to take a share in the management of their own affairs . At the Drury-lane Meeting the enactment of the People ' s Charter was alluded to as even a worse calamity than Free Trade , which , it was alleged , had robbed the agricultural interest of £ 90 , 000 , 000 sterling in the course of one year . The usual cant about a revolutionary spirit and revolutionary excesses was indulged in , by men who , at the same time , " appealed to the worst passions of their hearers , and who would not hesitate to shed
blood wholesale , in order to restore the unjust and nationally injurious predominance of ai territorial aristocracy . The Earl of , Win-CHElsea . called upon every man who possessed the Parliamentary franchise to exercise it by returning men to Parliament who were in favour of Protection ; while the Chairman and other speakers said the labourers wore and operatives in favour of Protection . If so , why refuse them the franchise ? Is "Protection " " revolutionary ? " If not , the " most noble and ri ght hon . " patronsof the Morning Post aro as illogical as it alleges the Chartists are ; for , certainly in this respect , there is no coherence between premise and conclusion . .
We see , without alarm , the impending collision between the agricultural and the manufacturing monopolists ! When rogues fall out—you know . the rest . : What we earnestly advise . the people is to take part withneither . If their assistance is implored let it be granted upon one condition only—Manhood SuFPRAGE . with such provisions for the exercise of the franchise as may make the representation , of the people a reality , and not a mockery . The party which refuses to concede , or which offers active opposition to that demand , may protest and profess what they please ; but they are not prepared to do justice to the industrial classes of Great Britain and Ireland , and ought , therefore , to receive no support from them .
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CALiNDKnERS' Strike isGusaow . -Some inconvemenco has been experienced by merchants and manufacturers this week , by the strike which has taken place amongst the operative calender ™ and appers , who , to the number of about 8001 hX been out ; since Thursday week TW T ¦ i i as&iti rK ^^^ SSI
g ^ fcs s ^ rte ^ neSv ^ ! V v , -the deniand nladc . lfutge-? £ / l - the f ? ellnS ° * th * masters is quite hostile to the movement both in its spirit and intention . air . fcisitGBAST . Shkk is cousin > Cav . dinal "Wiseman and his confidential agent lor matters concerning the Roman church in Ireland . As the . acoredited representative of the " Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster , " he sat in the Synod of Thuriea , where uo otuer layman was admitted .
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TIIK LABOUR QUESTION . Mr . Kydd gave his second locf „ , „ resting question oh Monday ev £ ^ * % , ^ hon , Cowper-s treet , & « «» Brifi , menced by demonstrating the aLlf . con i- "buy in the cheapest and « n . ^ of tIle % ma I nmket £ . Showing ; fali ^ JLj *• oQ yet thrilling nature , that it S ? n ° ' . *<> st lo » io % ness in production , and to an a (> l "• ersal C C A m the hands of a few mlS ^ T ^ $ the working man was but another 1 ' £ P ness to degradation . Such a thin ? « hJ ffl ^ ^ * 3 ' ' Radical sense of the word ^ was £ St ™ & * I ned . out . All the relations of Sbf ^ , ^^ were mutually dependent upon eS l Ural * ™ ' i it was m the moral , social 83 iJv > , and « - This mutual dependence couId SwS ^ ? orl - I carried out where the interests of Si W (> be ? efi (! la lly 1 together , and mutually proteS T e b ? 4 * then wentintoa consiirSSe « fefe « 1 of home , and foreign trade . 0 » Mupi 3 Sl , « ^ ? j only an ev . l , from the manner in '" uE th , ffS | ' fom and distribution of wea fh JS tl ° he-Every working man Wou , d wCl ^ LSftS . i two ls
^ u raw , pair ot shoes , and renf C ' instead of one , if his means allowedf&Pff ? then , was the overproduction ? Why « L X ' misery , vice , . and degradation endured * tt because the laws neofssary for the rceu-Jn ply f abour were either misunderstood , cvSn ° 2 tarted . Labow was the source of wfi tK was no -peculiar connexion between labour kS capital , no link that bound them together sL a won one of necessity . The labourTthe' SS men was their private property tSvShW" * man . They only rented it out ? . It Vs K ^ same as any other descriptioA of properly Tf Si ™ * 2 !* ' W theV & y
. ^ ooived compensation , but if la our ^ was sWe ZZ vp ^ xxs ^ ^ zconsulted , instead of individual interest ThaH ot many He denied the truth of this . It was an iin S ' tSS' Md aniram <>^ lassertion . . ? h ! IZ told that this wa » a settled question . iri ? JJ they the working men , had no voice in its S ment , and it nmst and should bo re-opened Sm labour was msklv rairiiiafoH -d-iu .- y , v " ?
junousto the welfare of society . IfthU doctri ™ wu 8 correct why . did thGy nbtrestrict S t 2 muhmery when it pressed upon tho intereataof fi wpr W men . John Stuart Mill , a great authorto with the economists , asserted that machinery hS lightened the toil of a . single human bein * S might say that h ' is doctrine ° would lead to a » iS liT I : ? , - ; ? ? " 0 objeotion to inter . tantt
ZrfST v \ T ^ n their surplus productions , but he denied that they should send away the productions of the labour of th ? Ed whilst its artisans were destitute from need ~ t ? h r 1 Cle 8 < Free J rade , M no * Jried out " ' " ¦ w'J wan should cheat his fellow man-B wa , iJSJ- ° by > ? bbery of ea ' ott . M wa » , in fact , one universal scramble . No man , no tradesman , could afford to be houest-they vfere perhaps as honest as the syatem allow ! tU to
* ^; rV Y ° rklng , . en were the « nselves dishonest ; fnf li > l tt wrke ? : " ° b «• he could , well-know ing , at the same time , that the more they worked be Jess work was . thm-e for their nefeXoS and thus they saenflced themselves to' fanfied nresent Oobdea and Bright refused protection to the il _ th 6 r , < > of PP ^ 'Ml . economy . The / likewi ^
nfhrf 7 > l \\ Tr P «» teot ««» the bakers , every other trade would boappb / ianfet Binilwprotecttim Of course they would ; and Parliament was useless unless it could afford protection to every c ] a , s in the celebrated William Pitt , showing that unless SSSST ' f f K ° - afford tl'afc FotecSon' to the for ed uno ° tho ^ T ! ' * V ultimatel >' m f « f h P tnom , Parliament was useless , and K > hV ? ? - ed by asy « em that could give them that protection . He saw in Free Trade no-SSSJSSfT " ^ - nii 3 ery : and ' thereSve , h . TdS i ^ in favo ^ of a system ofV n £ n ? M- ° rfi / t ? en ; e / rs hehad bec » «« « PPO ' nont of this Bystem of free action , and every suefai ° l aaSe 8 rnT nOfc as ni ;) n ^ ' MMiM » favour of Free Trade , when mtmtriv Prni , ; ,, n , # «
2 ; au V ? ded a system ft ^ vSaw S « f ? ! r lnternn « onally . Many persons irera wi fdwellm S « P n the future prospects of the working men of this country . lie , too , tod his tC ih » "a uP , ° n t !»« ^ ject . He had no doubt ¦ SSa ^ j u Ou ! d « Ulmate | y attai » universal sat-I Ppn ,, u d h e ally believed » tbat ^ tl 10 firs * ««* of ? f 7 ' Parliament would be to abolish the Msely caiw Free Trade system , and substitute a system founded upon the harmony and regulation to be found m all the results of creation . lie then gave a most elaborate resume of the subject matter of the two lectures , dwelt in terms of thrilling eloquence upon tho Gveat Exhibition as the climax or the Free Trade system , and concluded amid sueli a tumultuous degree of applause as is seldom seen at meetings of this . description .
_ Mr . jukuforce was then called to the chair , and Mr . A . Campbell and others , moved a series of resolutions deprecatory of the system of Free Trado ana unlimited competition ; also' a resolution proposing the formation of a League for the protection ol labour . : .
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MunDE . nkarTruro . -A frightful murder was committed on Saturday last . at . Silverwell , near the Chiverton Arms , on the road between Truro and St . Agnes , ami about five miles from the former place . The murdered man , William Kenda I oc-Kfe -T nT' and' «^ d in - lhc »> oi . sc with his wife alono . 1 his was his second wife , to whom he had boon married about four years j Her former CT ^ i ^^ d ^^ a : 8 oAbyh «! St husband ,, called- Elijah -league , and now about seventeen yean of age ¦ This son lived with l 5 went toffl M ^ KenttaUjata JanuaryS , wtobe ^ "J *? , ^ ^ . neighbouring house with Henry m « * «? S 9 r " n , ; t . > was about seventy-two ZTr £ 3 ? - £ * fathe ™ -l ™ had on Saturday m > h * i * a Chaoewater , and the young man was SSL ** , T ^ the farm , employed in -. threshing and boimsr ^ nrnina- iv , J t .. * L .: inj < , 9
was jev er rapre see ^ £ ^ £ ^ ' ^ oSYnfK " " " , 5 d ? alin . h 0 U 8 « . «« ing ia a ohaip . in the parlour . There was a large wound over the centre ot hig fotliead , of ah irregular ovalfigure . the , bones were broken in , and tlo surgeon who ' thJ ^ " wt odhM finger on the right side to . he . depth of nearl y an inch . Sixtv-one pieces of bone were extracted , and the fissures were driven a . ! i J ? d a garter below the surface of tho SMjH . A-namraer was found on the garden hedge , ; and this hammer fitted into the wound in the man sforehead . A white hair was found attached to tim end of the bammer , and theauvgeon , on a microscopical examination , believes it to be a human hair , and that in . ill nrnhnhilitv if . wns torn
irom the deceased ' s eyebrow . An inquest haa been held on the body , before Mr . John Carlyon , county coroner : The inquiry commenced on Monday , at eleven o ' clock , was continued on Tuesday , ^ . l » , not knrinate until kte on Tuesday night . The result wa 8 , that a verdict of " Wilful murder was returned against deceased ' s son-inlaw , Llijah Teague , who was apprehended uader the coroner s warrant , and has been committed to tho county gaol at Bodmin ' to take bis trial at the next assizes . There does not r in the evidence
appea anytlung to show a motive' for the committ al « Uie act , but it is stilted in the neighbourhood i ^ there were frequent disagreements between the deceased and his son-in-law " Two of the leading newspapers in the British . West Indies-the Morning Journal , in Jamaica , \ r . T' ? l ' ° " ' Bnrbadooa-are owned and edited by gentleman ot colour . The proprietors and editors ot these journals aro , moreover , dwtutgwshed members of the Legislatures of their respective colonies . ¦
, KM * 1800 to 1850 the sum of £ 14 , 500 , 000 has been subscnWd towards the funds of ttw variOttl owswnary societies in this country .
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THE BULL FR 0 & CONCERT AT , - DRURY LANE . Amoricah travellers tell us , with great gusto , of-the very singular enjoyment they derive from the croaking of large ' numbers of frogs , in . svvtimps at certain hours of tho night . V They are called , we believe , « 'buUfrog concerts . '' London has just liad one of these ' ooncerts on a large scale . Tho theatre being , ' however , not a , swamp ; but the old house in Drury Lane . " On Tuesday last itsca-• pacious ' . dimensious were tilled to bvernowing Dy . what CoBBETTused to call "bull-frogs " —jolly looking , big burley farmers—who came
to play chorus to the landlord' croakers , who filled the stage ,, and took up the solos of the concert . Even Drury Lane was not large enough . A . supplemental assemblage filled St . Martin ' s Hall , where the same pieces were performed by a different , but sympathising company of croakers . Certainly we must say that fora set of ruined and desperate men we never saw a heartier , jollier , or more comfortable . looking ¦ ¦ lot of " miserable sinners , " aiid judging from the ring of their stentorian cheers , . we should say they were as yet exceedingly , sound , both in mind and limb However , even bears can consume all their accumulated fat in ; tho course of time ; aad if the farmers find that they have been eilgaged m that digestive process for . the last two or
inree years , we do not wonder that they should lookforwardwith alarm to the approachine exhaustion ; of the supply . \ The queation is , whether they are right as to the cause of their present and prospective position , and whether the remedy they , clamour for would give them the relief they , anticipate ? . With respect to the first question , there can be no doubt but the removal of protection
necessarily exposed them loan open competition with the corn growers of other countries , the inevitable effect of which was tff reduce prices It is also certain , ; tlut as . long asthatcompe . tition exists , the prices of agricultural produce will be permanentl y depressed . - ; But , Free Trade ; , is . not the only . cause of agricultural distress , norisit unattended by compensating ^ p sultS i even to the owners arid occupiers of land . During themost palmy davs of
Protection , British agriculture made periodical complaints of general distress and impending ruin . ParViamentary Committees and Commissioners wereappointed to exainiue into and report on these allegations , and numerous blue books were compiled on the suoject . Now the distress was attributed to one cauBe , anon to another ; bufthe fact is certain , that agriculture under : Protection ' was ' , subject to great fluctuation and severe pressure ; and the
inference logically deducible from that fact is that if Protection was restored it would not prevent such fluctuation and distress in'future The agricultural interest , > e . conclude , therefore , have mistaken bo th the . realcause , and the effective remedy : for the evils of which they coniplahi . . ¦ . ¦ ¦ •• ¦ •; . ¦ -: ¦ > : It is , of , the utmost importance that they should he speedily set right upon both points , because it cannot be for the benefit of any class f the communit
o y , that so large and- so important a section of the people should remain in a distressed or discontented condition . There is a way out of ; their difficulties , ' but it is not that they are now pursuing .. They must cast in their lot with the nation , instead of arraying themselves as a separate and exclu . ; sive , clas 8 . That policy may suit the arjstotocratic , " owners of land , " but most certainly can never ! benefit the ^" occupiers . " Their interests are identified with those of the
modifcers of . wealth in , all departments . The system which leaves them the largest amount of tlie products of their own labour ; skill , and capital , must be the best for them ,. no matter under what form of Government , or by what name it maybecuUed .. The so-called " agriculturalinterest" ap-^> nrs to have yet to learn , this lesson ^ and at prtseii ^^ e common eausowith tlielandloras , whose " essent ial interest , as a class , ; is to use tliem aB ' spongeB , out of which they may squeeze the greatest amount of wealth annu-
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• • DUMJSSTIO . Parliament has settled to its work grudgiDgl y since , the holidays . M embers have not . yet got into harness again , and the disposition to play truant has naturally been fostered by the holiday aspect of affairs out of doors .. A brief and bootless debate on the second reading of the Income Tax Bill , was the sole fruit of the first setting . The se . cond was limited to the reception of a bill for supplying the metropolis with water , on which we shall have to say a few words by and bye but . was counted out onMr . Ewart ' s motion
for abolishing the hangman , at an early hour . V > n Wednesday the princi pal business was the issuing of a proclamation and reward for the apprehension of the absconded witnesses in the . St . Alban ' s case , and the hypocritical bill for suppressing . Sunday trading . The opponents of that measure succeeded in staving off the committee for another fortnight—symptomatic we hope of its final rejection . Sorel y , grumbling members were compelled , to attend on Thursday night on thaV worn out and threadbare topic , the admission of Jews intoPavlitvment ; and that , up to the moment of writing , constitutes the doings of the week ,. so , far as Parliament is concerned , for the Lords merely met pro forma for a few minutes on Thuradav .
As to other news , the Great Exhibition has so absorbed public attention , that all interest for the present is merged . in that subject , and the gossip of the newspapers has reference to scarcely anything else . Tho Protectionist demonstration we have noticed separately . In Ireland a great demonstration of Roman Catholics was held in the Rotunda , Dublin , for the purpose of protesting against the bill respecting Ecclesiastical Titles" and Religi ous Houses , at which . a very strong' feeling ' of hostility to the Ministry was exhibited . The return of Sergeant Murphy , . for Cork / with his very modified opinions on these questions , however indicate that Ministers may be able by careful steering , to carry , their small mea ' suve , , ¦ , ¦ ,
: ij ! \ . . FOREIGN . / The Foreign news contain no salient points tor comment . . In France , au . exciting proclumation lias beenjssued ' ostensibly by a " Committep of Resistance , " calling . upon the people toriseinarms ,: : ana ; extenninate by . force of arms thereactiouary factions . The belief is , thatthedocviment'isthe production of Bvo-. NAPAHTISTS , who want , above , all ' thing ' s , ' to hurry the defenders of the Republic , into . in illegal position . Inthia . we trust the ; . consp irators , will be disappointed— -that the Republicans will keep their present'vantage igrouhd ;' and force their opponents to ' strike the first blow . : " '
• Alattera are not materially different in .. any of the Austrian , Germanic , or Italian States and from the Colonies we have no news of importance . -: ¦ - ¦ . "•• ¦ •• ¦
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t v 4 THE NORTHERN STAR . Ma ¦ NrnTTnw TA csTTr > ar « -DTT > UD «! ^ ¦ ¦¦ ? " - ~ ~ " ¦ ^ — - ^ a-l »^ *' NOTICE
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 3, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1624/page/4/
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