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THE NOBTHEEH STAB, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, IS52.
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p EXTUAL CO-OPERATIVE AGENCY \ J Instituted under Trust , to counteract the system of Adulteration and Fraud now prevailing in Trjde , and to promote the principle of Co-ojwranve Associations . Trustees-Edward Yansittart Jfeale . Esq ., ( founder of the Institution ); and Thomas Hughes , Esq ., ( one of the contributors ) Commercial Firm—Lechevaiier , Woodin , Jone 3 , and Co Central Establishment- ^ Charlotte-street , Fitzrov-square Xibndoa . ^ . ' Branch Establishments-35 , Great Marylebone-street , Portlandplaco , London : and 13 . Swan-street , Manchester . The Agency intends hereafter to undertake the execution of all orders for any Idcd of articles or prduce , thtir operations for the present are restricted to Groceries , Italian Articles , French Wines and Brandies . A Catalogue has just been published , containing a detailed lta of all artitfes with the retaU prices affixed , with remarks on adulteration , l ' nce 6 d \ , or sent liree by port for ten stamps . Also a wholesale price list for Co-operative Stores gratis , or by post fur one stamp .
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Jast Published by K 9 < i : iIAKD * 0 N \ ND SOX **« PiicE se snniixGs .-sEST bv . post fob sixpence esiba . THE DUBLIN REVIEW Xo . 63 ,. ? ebruary 1852 . * MEW CAT HTL I G WORKS •« Just Published by RiaucDses asd sow Meditations ou the Mysteries of our Holy Faith leather with a treatise on Mental Prayer , By the Vcn Fjtheh x . oi-3 de Poste S . J . Translated from » he Spanish bvHeighTm Tcwhsdi are added Uie Rev . F . C . Bobc ' s MeditatiL ouTthe " Sacred Heart Translated from the Italian . Dedicated to J £ ?«? ^ vT ^ - f V rice 3 s - TfeeWorkcom Plete «» * £ TOis . l : ^ ( VoLlL in the Press . ) Sent by post for M . estra .
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Oa ? Con espondents will oblige u * greatly by attending to the fol-T > win& general instructions :-Che earlier we can receive their communication ! in the . week , ihe more certain they are of being inserted . This is th « case especially with letters npon general subjects intended for the columns set apart for'Free Correspondence . ' Reports of proceedings of Chartist Bodies , Trades , and Co operative Societies , &c , should be forwarded immediately after their occur rence . By this mean * a glut of matter is avoided at the latter end of the week , and consequent curtailment or non-insertion . Reports should consist of a plain statement of facts . All communications intended for publication " should be written on one « id « oi the paper only , and addressed to the Editor . R . J 0 SE 3 , Leeds , and Vf . H . Cottle , London . —We are compelled , through press of matter , to postpone your communications till next week . We have received 3 s . 8 d . in postage stamps in a Wank envelops . Will the remitter have tho kindness to forward his name . J . Besxley , Chickenlev , bas our thanks for bis information .
The Nobtheeh Stab, Saturday, February 7, Is52.
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WINDING- UP OF THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . It is with feelings of the deepest regret we call attention to the proceedings before the Master in Chancery relative to this Company . The continued persecutions , and the varied obstructions which Mr . O'Connor has had to . encounter in connexion with it , seem at length to have affected his mental powers , and rendered him incapable of giving the explanations required from him . This fact is so obvious , that we are surprised the Master permitted , the renewal of examinations , which , while they led
to no useful result , were of the most painful and humiliating character . If the proceedings were regulated by the strict forms of a Common Law Court ; there might be some excuse for this course , but as it is with the equity of the matter , and not strict legal formalities , the officials appointed to wind up the Company have to deal , we do not see why they should press Mr . O'Connor for information , which he is clearly not in a fit state of mind to give them , when that information may be got by another method of inquiry .
As far as we understand the position of the affair , it is briefly this : —The accountant has ascertained the exact sum of money paid by the subscribers to the Company , and wishes Mr . O'Connor , as the acting Director , by whom , or under whose directions , the whole of these funds were expended , to account for their application in detail . Up to a certain point these fund 9 are , we believe , accounted for , or at least admitted , and the principal inquiry is directed to a comparatively small balance , including the proceeds from the sale of several allotments since the passing of the Act for "Winding up its Affairs . It will be remembered that Mr . Grey , the accountant appointed
by the Select Committee of the House of Commons to examine the accounts , while he reported decidedly as to ihe honesty with which the funds had been managed , at the same time expressed a strong opinion as to the defective and irregular manner in which the books and accounts had been kept . Transactions so multifarious , minute , and extensive , would have taxed the skill of the most experienced accountant and a staff of professional clerks , to classify and keep with that precision and clearness which is necessary for the satisfaction of all parties . But the Company had not the services of Buch a professional staff . The accounts were
honestly but notprojessionally kept . All the materials for the production of a proper balance sheet were in existence , bat they were not arranged in the methodical and business-like form which conduces so much to the orderly dispatch of business , and a clear understanding on all matters of detail . If that was the case in 1048 , when the Company was in the receipt of large fuuds , and its machinery still in working order , what must it be now , when funds have lou <* ceased to flow into its Exchequer , when its officers have been disbanded , and its books , documents , vouchers , and papers , dispersed in various quarters ? Clearly , the equity of the case demands that the
respondents to the queries of the Master in Chancery should have the same kind of professional asssistance as that which enables him to put those questious ; we believe that the members at large would not object to the expense coming out of the estates . But if this cannot be , that the services of auefficientaccountantshould be obtained by some other means . We must say that we are surprised , the solicitor of the Company , who during its operations received so much of its money , should have suffered the inquiry to proceed without engaging connsel to watch over and elicit , aa counsel alone can do , the case of Mr . Q'Coxkob , and the Directors . If this had been done at first , all
parties would have been spared the lamentable exhibitions in the Vice Chancellor ' s Court this week , exhibitions which can only tend to heap needless odium upon this unfortunate Company , and , we believe , unmerited obloquy upon those who had the management of its affairs . Even had the funds come out of his own pocket in the first instance , we believe the Solicitor would have gained by such a course in the end . As it is , it is not yet too late to adopt proper steps for a business-like and impartial inquiry , and the production of accounts of expenditure verified by such vouchers as will satisfy the Master . We are informed by those who have the best opportunity of the fact
knowing , that ample materials for this purpose are in existence , that masses of them were lying on the table before Mr . O'Connor at the very moment he so repeatedly declared he knew nothing about them ,-and that if these materials were put into the hands of a practised accountant , the result would be not only honourable to the personal character of Mr . O'Connor , but beneficial to his pecuniary interests , by showing the Company to be in his debt to a considerable extent . At present , so clumsily , has the inquiry been conducted , that it almost seems as if he had appropriated thefuudstohis own use , and refuses to account for them . What is to be done under such circumstances ? This is an important matter . It is
one which pecuniarily affect 3 tens of thousands of subscribers , and a large body of allottees . It is more than . that ; it is one which , to a very considerable extent , affects the character of the working classes , and their claims to participation in the government of this country . They are bound to show the other classes of society that , however they might have been mistaken in their speculations and expectations as to the results of the plans of the Company , that at all events its affairs were con ducted honestly and honourably . However great the loss may be ' to individual subscribers , the collective affairs of the Company should be fairly and clearly wound up , and the blame or guilt , if any there be , distinctly ascertained and laid upon the right shoulders .
For this purpose we venture to suggest the propriety of a subscription being immediately entered into , to retain the Eervices of a professional ac-Scountant and a barrister to conduct the case of the Company , before the Master—an application for the necessary time to produce a properly authenticated balance sheet , would no doubt be immediately acceded to . The expense could not be very great . In any ca $ e , it will be much less than the present deplorable and unsatisfactory inquiry now going on , the cost of which will all have to be taken out of the estates , before the Shareholders can receive one farthing . To protract such an inquiry , therefore , is not only gratuitous cruelty to a man whose mind has
'broken down under an accumulation of the most grievous disappointments and reverses , but at tho same time to swallow up in law expenses the whole of the available assets , and probably , as a conclusion , to leave the entire affair in as unsettled a condition as it is at present ; to perpetuate unfounded obloquy on the character of those who took part in it and to lay another stumbling block in the path of all those who may in future attempt the great and god-like task of endeavouring to improve the condition of the industrial millions
We have nerer had , directly or indirectly , tho ahghtest connexion with the Company . WehaVeno pecuniary interest whatever involved in the matter * ™ ! ! singly , < m the grounds we have stated , ' thatjit is important it should be terminated in an open straightforward , and honourable manner , whatever maybe the pecuniary loss to individuals ™ 1 ¦ WE * " ? . > ve thro ™ meets the ap proval of those directl y interested , we shall be happy to receive ^ bsenptaons and to place ourselves S communication with the friends of Mr . O'Connor and the Company , for the purposes we have named . ;
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All subscriptions will be'duly acknowledged j but , to be effective , they iriust be forwarded promptly . Delay will ruin all . :
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CONSPIRACY OF CAPITAL AGAINST . ...,. . ' LABOUR , A few facts in connexion with the continued strike of the Master'Engineers require to be noticed , in order that we may keep up with this important struggle . It appears that the employers are not satisfied with the power of combining themselves , but are resolved to prevent by law the power of their ' hands ' to combine in future . They deprecate any interference , either legal or otherwise , with their establishments ; but the same immunity is by no means to be enjoyed by the workmen . Finding that they are playing a losing game , and that the men are too
firmly united , too well supported , to be forced into the speedy and abject surrender which was anticipated , they have applied to the Homo Secretary to help them to subdue their refractory slaves by force of law . ' Let alone' is excellent gospel so long as the profits and the interests of the masters are concerned , but it is the height of impudence on the part of the men to imagine that it applies to them . The capitalists have adopted , in their dealings with the opera * fives , the principle embodied in the proposal of an ingenious gambler upon a small scale : ' heads I win , tails you lose . The law of supply and demand , of
which we hear so much , as the great motive power and regulator of society , is not sound political economy , when it operates in favour of the workman . The buyer of labour , the dealer in any kind of merchandise may justly and legitimately take advantage of surplus hands , to reduce wages , or to raise prices . The additional gain is all fair according to trade ; but the operative , who is obliged to accept low wages when work is scarce and labour too plentiful , must not do the same when an extraordinary demaufd occurs for the kind of skill he has to sell . We see that the organs of the
profitmongers have raised a howl of indignation , because the gunmakers have naturally availed themselves of the opportunity for raising their prices , presented by large Government orders to be executed in a short time . It is admitted that , for years they have been in an exceedingly depressed condition ; but that , of course , was the natural result ' of slack trade . Now , however , that brisk trade has come , they are denounced for trying to get a share of its benefits . Greedy , selfish , unreasonable people that they are Why should they attempt to ' make hay while the sun shines V It is only the Masters , who understand
the gospel , according to the Political Economists , who have a right to do that . Political Economy was not invented for niggers or workmen , but for their betters , and so , by way of teaching them their proper station , and how to demean themselves in future , it is understood that Sidney Smith ' s liberal friends and proteges have been endeavouring to persuade Sir Geouge Grey to bring in a cunningly contrived Bill , by which industrial independence and free action will be crushed as effectually in this country as the Press is in France . Of course it would not do to proclaim the real object of tho bill in so many words . Not at all . The devil must put on tho disguise of an angel of
light . So in the plenitude of their benevolent anxiety for the welfare of the working people , a measure will , it is said , be introduced for the ostensiblo purpose of placing their investments in safety and security . Nothing more . Is it not delightful to see such philanthropic and disinterested exertions on the part of these rich Capitalists , and this over-worked Whig Cabinet to protect the savings , and promote the interests of tho working classes ! True ; it is opposed to the fundamental dogma of their economical creed , but they aro so devoured by their new born zeal that they will , in this case , even give up laissez faire for so good a purpose . '
But how are the investments to be protected ? Why , simply by compelling every society of working men to send a copy of their rules and objects for certification to Mr . Tidd Pratt . Such official censor will , of course , carefull y strike out everythin g that refers to support in case of disputes with Employers ; confine the objects ; and the application of the funds Strictly to sick and burial purposes , and set in motion such machinery as will place the whole of the investments under the power of the Capitalists and Government functionaries , with power to confiscate the funds if ever the owners should dream of revolting against those who manifest such an amiable desire to manage their affairs for them .
Is it not a very pretty scheme ? Is it not the more remarkable that such a plot against tbo liberties of the working classes should have been hatched at Whitehall , in tho Home Office , when a few days previously the President of the Board ' of Trade repudiated to another deputation all industrial legislation at present on account of the Strikes . What made the difference ? Why Mr . Vansittart Neale , Mr . Hughes , and other gentlemen composing that deputation , went to plead for protection to the hard-worked ballast-heavers , for such protection as would prevent them from being utterly crushed by thn merciless competition to which they are exposed . To all such
innovations upon orthodox Political Economy , of course Ministers turn a deaf ear—when the Masters come—ah , that is quite a different matter ! But we do not believe that if Sidney Smith and the rest of the gentlemen who say they and every British subject , have a right to do w ' hat they like with their own , have the unblushing impudence and brazen hardihood to propose such a measure , or any other
for depriving the working classes of their present extremely limited privileges , that they will succeed . Though Thomas Duncombe ' s health is too much impaired to enable him to fight the battle of lnbour as he did on the Masters' and Servants' Bill a few years ago , there are yet one or two members left in the House of Commons who would denounce and expose the character of such an infamous measure . Exposure and defeat , in such a case , would be synoin'mous
terms . In other respects the Strike presents the same features as at the commencement ; the men , calm , peaceable , orderly , but determined ; the Masters , hurried on by a consciousness that they are in the wrong , from one false step , and one violent and extreme measure to another . Take the following as a sample of their moderation and humanity . A large firm in Liverpool has posted on the foundry gates the conditions on which they will reopen the works to their men . These conditions are , that the men are not to belong to , nor support , directly or indirectly ,
any iraae society , or in any way whatever to meddle with the question of hours of labour or wages . They are further prohibited from assisting , directly or indirectly , those who may belong to such societies , or who are thrown on strike , though , by a stretch of extraordinary humanity , this last restriction does not extend in all its severity to a father , brother , or other relative . These parties may receive an ' occasional meal' from their sons , brothers , uncles , or cousins , without violating the laws by which their Masters prescribe the expenditure of the wages they have toiled for , earned , and , up to this time , believed their
were own ! But then , mark , it must be only an occasional meal . ' There is to be no assistance in money . . Nay , not even two consecutive dinner ? . That kind ot assistance would bo too systematic for the English slaveholders , who have as little respect for the natural feelings of those who toil to make them wealthy , as the American slaveowners for their chattel slaves . Is it not horrible to think that Mammon should so completely dehumanize these men as to K ^ asjtessf ^ «
Ihe longer the struggle co ntinues , the more glaringly will it show the utter incompatahility of th , > present system of producing and ditribu n wealth ' with the true interests of the nation , and of all a es riS hee / dtt fh 7 ? 1 * *? ** » ste * W ricfl , heed not though all around goes to ruin Thw S&fflRt * "" * J * rali ° " « " » ' 3 S ^ p ^ XS ^ Z **" mmm instincts without h ? P , l , ^ u P > tllc ( lt ) niP 8 ti « andstamtilr S ° hmti <>< " ^ charge Should that day ever co , n « , « , « ]) h ym
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. write , . upon their establishments ' Ichabod . ' .. That which made and makes them / sources . of wealth , will have departed for ever ; and their capital , unvivified by labour , become a mass of rusty iron and mouldering , bricks . .
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LEGAL PROTECTION FOR THE POOR MAN'S CAPITAL . ,., ' . / .: Class Legislation gives us * one law for the rich and another for the poor . ' It gives to him that hath much , and from him that hath little it taketh away that which he hath . ' The poor find the poet ' s line to be literally true : — The world is not their friend , nor the world ' s law . Not content with the possession of the , laud , the mines , the fisheries , the machinery , and the capital of society—not content with all the raw material and all the mechanical and scientific appliances by vy hich it can be wrought up into articles of consumptionthe landlord , the moueylord , the mill-lord , arid the merchant claim and exercise the power of making
laws in their own favour , and directly , intended to keep the labouring classes in . poverty and disunion . They strengthen the strong , and . try . to make the weak weaker . Every attempt oftue toiling and truly enslaved masses to break through their bondage , is foiled by the subtle and all-pervading influence of class-made laws .:. ' They find themselves fenced in and hedged round on all sides , by enactments . ' which prevent them ' from taking a single step in advance if that step must be taken in conjunction with others of . their own class . Or , if they are not actually prevented by specific laws , they must-carry on any Cooperative enterprise in which they may embark , without the protection and . security which the . law affords to the enterprises of tho wealthy classes . .. . . .
To the individual workman , who aims at bettering his own position by becoming an employer and living upon tho profits of other men ' s labour , the law . extends protection , and adds power in proportion as lie succeeds in his object . Individual aggrandisement , not collective well-being , is fostered by pur Legislative code . The case of the National Land Company is a striking illustration of this fact . The plans of that Company may have been defective , and the means by . which it was proposed to attain its objects utterly inadequate for the purpose , but , on tho face of the matter , it is plain that one great cause of its
failure was the want of legal powers to compel all parties to fulfil their engagements as Shareholders , legal facilities for acquiring property in a corporate capacity , ' aud legal security and protection for the property so acquired . . Any miscalculations as to the amount of subscription requisite to the realisation of the general plan could have been easily rectified by experience , and any defects of the administrative machinery gradually remedied as they become evident in the working ; but the foundation of the whole
was unsound . It had no standing whatever in law ; and though Us promoters expended thousands , ot pounds in the endeavour to give it a legal status , they failed in accomplishing their object . ' . As a consequence of that failure , Members violated their engagements to the Company . The operations in which the Directors had embarked , on the faith that these engagements would be kept , and the funds regularly supplied , were suddenly brought to a stand still , and tlie consequence was , the failure of the whole plan .
At the present time , when Co-operative Societies , both for productive and distributive purposes , ' are so rapidly increasing in every' part of the country , it is peculiarly desirable that some practical and businesslike steps should be taken to procure such an alteration of the law , as would place these societies on a sound foundation . The question is sufficientl y ripe for a practical settlement . Within the last two or three years it has received a considerable amount of public attention ; and the evidence taken b y a Select Committee in two succesivo sessions , has accumulated a mass of valuable information ; , both as to the evils resulting from the present state of the law and the benefits that would accrue to all classes from a
new law , based upon equitable principles ,. and appli cable to the exigencies of the times . Even the purely mercantile classes are convinced that the law , at present , tends greatly to limit enterprise , to prevent the profitable application of-capital , and retard improvements . The advocates of tho Co-operative Movement , would , therefore , in any tffort they make for this purpose , find themselves supported by a class which possesses great political influence .
But , in matters of this kind , somebody must assume the initiative , and put it in such a shape as is likely to secure the assent and support of the Legislature . What is everybody ' s business is well-known to be nobody ' s business ; and if the Co-operative Societies wish to obtain so indispensable a security and protection for their future operations as that wo have pointed out , they must « take their own affairs into their own hands . ' The object is not to be obtained b y mere talking . Indeed , the less mere talk there is about it the better . The people who manage to get « bills' passed through the Legislature don ' t
waste much of their time or means in empty discussions or loud-tongued complaints . Having made up their minds as to what they want , they frame a bill' by which they think it can be attained ; they send an intelligent , practical deputation to London to wait upon Ministers and Members , daily canvass both , and when the measure is to come before the House , they take care to ' whip' all the friends and supporters who h ave been gained by their representations . This is , perhaps , not quite so stimulating to personal vanity as the applause which greets an orator , whose eloquence on a public platform kindles
the sympathies , and carries with him the passions of his audience . But it is better for all practical purposes . Loud cheers' die away into silence , excited passions grow cool again , and the world turns round in the old way . Not so with work done in a workman-like spirit , and in a workman-like way . An act of Parliament passed by such quiet , but effective , agencies as those we have indicated , placing the combined investments of the poor man on the same footing with the thousands of the rich , would be worth a million of ' strong resolutions' and eloquent speeches , ' set to the music of ' enthusiastic and long continued applause . '
There is no time to be lost . The Session has already commenced ; and those who have had experience in these matters who know how difficult and tedious a process it i s to bring members up to the voting point , need not be told that every day is of the utmost value . We venture to suggest that the provincial Co-operative bodies should select two or threo practical aud earnest men to represent them ; and that these delegates , in conjunction with tho Central
agency in London , and the Council of the Society for Promoting Working Men ' s Associations , should forthwith prepare the draft of a bill for the object in view . They would also have the support of an influential Association , which is in process of formation , but to which wo cannot further allude at present than to say it includes Lord Godbuich , and several other gentlemen , whoso position in society cannot fail to givo weight to any representations they may vnakc to the Government and Members of the Legislature .
If tho work be taken up in this practical manner , ami prosecuted with due perseverance and earnestness , the groat probability is , that before the end of the present Session a substantial and a satisfactory settlement would be secured . If the various Societies take tho same view of the primary importance and in-K hS V ? IdUlg UP ° SHUd i WG ™» t & ™ to ia ) their foundations on a rock .
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THE WHIG ALLIANCE WITH 00 NTINENTAL DESPOTISM . oiOto ° A ltion ° f po 0 ^* rulera is uow com - FiWf " ! ' ° ' In B P irit and inteution our Govern . Autvi ! ' ! '^ "P ?; - | " «> o Autocrats of Russia and t In . 1 c l 0 " g lookGd for Material explana-13 L ° J % 8 t u ight ° f thc Ses 8 ion sealed the astounding fact , that the Whi g Cabinet approved liiiTu ^ atrociou s , and traitorous course pursued b y M Bohapabtk , aud of the summary confiscation of the lires and liberties of a whole people , whenever either of them interfered with his I designs or his interests . This approval was not con-
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fined to Lord Palmbrston , who was oateB ^ r ^ , ' / missed for manifesting it in an informal man ^ \ ' k but , was , we are told by the Prim e f' . W ^ participated in by himself , the President if & * ^' Council , the Colonial Minister , the Chai n * if ^ ' ^ * the Exchequer , and , in fact , by the Cabin ! r tftW whole . In Lord John Russeli ' s opinion mVs * Mif paute ' s coii ^ d ' efatwill conduce tottae ' wJip ^ lHl the people over whom he rules ! In his opini 0 d ° f llli tho press of this country has acted very w ° ' *\ pfP because' it has called things b y their - > Pp names . If his Lordship could put j t , ri 8 bt | | P aa Louis Bonaparte has crushed aud sil " ' illl the press of France ,. no doubt he would h ^ IISI There would be great danger , howe ' ve 8 ?* IIP any attempt of that kind , and , therefore hi ^ ^ W $$ 'lordship' contemptuously tells the Press that - f j ^ MM not represent tho opinions and feelings of eitli ' f ^ pl Government or the people of this country . Jr ^" $ flij down on his knees to the successful wholesale ° ^ ° ¦ ¦ fill derer and plundererand bees that he will 1 ni mMi i cittuu biictlie
, >^ - www auu ^ iuuucj , uugD u Hill lint * *»* M the mistake of supposing the Press of Enehnd "'^ f $ M for the People of England . No such thing . He a ??* M pack of family imbecilities he has gathered around k ^ l are the true voice of the nation , and they respect * M ' Sl ^ assure the Dictator that they quite approve fu ^ fll perjury ,. his murders , his transportations , and v J ® A confiscation of . property ! There is a looiCa ] 1 flit nexion between all these things and the trc ' as ^ 3 § ti the Constitution by which they were heralded \\\ ° 8 fef M . Bonaparte resolved to set aside all law b ' utf ®^ $ own will , all the other crimes followed as an inevit n ^ sequence . Hie position is in itself a crime < . « , SI
the laws of God and man , which can onl y be ° , ' ' pp tained by the commission of other crimes , va , ^ ' Ife last the iiideous burden becomes intolerable , and tf W '' nation , by one simultaneous and convulsive eff \ 0 ' shakes it off for ever . Lord John must accept ii P the consequences of the policy as well as the poll Pfi itself . Sad , indeed , is it for this country that U \ n f III ters of State should dare to utter suoh sentiments W ^ sadder still that the assembled senators ^ ' ^ sentatives of the nation should applaud them . e " S ] But what is it to lead to ? In Austria and BeVium ¦ @
newspapers have already been suppressed became > . $ & they Live written the reverse of complimentary to \ L 10 Dictator . Lord Granvillk , the new Foreign Minister ^ H has sent messengers fi'om the Foreign Office to seize W $ on private correspondence from France , which it \ vaj || supposed might tell too much truth to be palatable t 0 1 the tyrant . Is the next measure to be a censorshi p ^ at his instigation in this country ? The thin end Of ' Mm
the wedj ^ e has already been inserted by the Lori Hi : Chamberlain ' s rigorous excision of' all political r 1 | u < jj | sions in the pantomimes of this season . Despotism | tl like the cholera , spreads fast . Downing Street has mi been attacked by the disease , and in their paroxysm Wi they assail that mighty power , which has been justly t 0 $ called the palladium of liberty , and which , with all ip ? its defects , is the strongest guarantee' and safeguard ; ; f ^ of' the freedom and the progress of this England of -M ¦ ¦
our ? . , 0 . Besides this question , all the others mooted on tho ^ opening of the session sink into insignificance . Tlie &P personal difference between Lord John and the late ; || Foreign Minister as to ministerial etiquette in the $ B preparation of despatches is a mere piece of red- ItSrtapism not worth the momentary notice of any sen- fM sible man , save that the setting up of such a paltry $$ ( pretext for the dismissal of so important a member of if * the Cabinet , provesjit is not the real cause of that dis- tfe missal . When Russell and Palmerston both agreed i ©
that Louis Bonaparte had done rightly in abolishing | ^ the Constitution he had sworn to maintain ; that lie f had done ri ghtly in seizing in the dead of nisht the M ' ' members of the National Assembly , huddling them- if U without oven the formality of inquiry—into filthv ||| prisons , and pulling down the Hall in which they ! 3 f met ; that ho did right in butchering the unarmed ^ and helpless multitudes on the Boulevards , and ia - ; B expatriating every man of note , intelligence , or inilc . : $ i ence from tho ' country : when these two ' noWa -M
lords ' agreed on these points , surely there was no Wi cause for their parting on the ground that one had 1 preceded the other in conveying the intelligence to tho M triumphant Usurper . But nobod y is deceived bv * 0 v this flimsy excuse . The Continental influences by i which the expulsion of Palmeuston was brought ^ S about , are pretty well known . The real offence was i& his reception of the Kossuth deputations ; aud ho v ' § fell in consequence of a court intrigue against him , M headed by one who up to this time has wisely kept ¦ - $ himself
aloof from such interference . It will be wise | for him to continue that abstinence in future . The 1 Court will maintain all the more pleasant relations Ji both with the Parliament and the People , if it refrains . | from mixing itself up with the political or the personal 0 policy of forei gn powers . The Prince Consort -f will speedil y discover that all tho popularity he has jf gained b y other means will vanish if he ' abuses ! $ the influence of his position , or makes it sub- || serve interests alien to those of a free country . In |? tho meantime , the political horizon looks gloomy , i Such avowals as those we have alluded to , are signs "' % of the tendencies of our rulers and legislators not to ) . be neglected . Forewarned is Forearmed . :
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNITED TRADES . T . S . Dukcombk , Esq ., M . P ., President . ; " HAT JUST 1 TIA . " ' m ™! A were , p 0 S 3 ible for the working classes , bv combinte : w ? £ ? U » i > ' .. - Mise > m kee P U P the G * eraI tali ° nSni " ee d hardly be said that this would ben thing not to Iw pvinit . nea , but to be welcomed and rejoiced at . "—Stuart Mm .
The further legal and other proceedings for the costs of the late prosecutions , alluded to last week , have since been pursued with all necessary vigour . On the 30 fch ult ., Mr . Sergeant Allen obtained a rob absolute for « Writs of attachment against Mesa . ' - ' Peel , Green , Duffield , Woodnorth , and Gauut , ' fir ¦ their contempt in not paying the sums of £ 332 3 a Cd ., and £ 205 Is . 7 d . ( together £ 53 ? 6 s . Id . ) , being the amount ot the taxed costs in the above-nameu prose- ii rationsAnd
. upon the same day rules nisi \ rereob- \ tamed against the same defendants and Charles i fyart , and their bail ( eighteen in number ) to slioff { cause , on the first day of next term , why the rccog- \ nisauces entered into , on removing the indictments into the Court of Queen ' s Bench , should not be estreated into the Court of Exchequer for non-payment ; ot the above sums , amounting to £ 53 . 7 5 s . Id ., and ' ¦ we suppose Buch additional costs accruing from the J above named proceedings . : i
Inaddition to this , we find the Messrs . Terry de- ;; termmed not , if they can help it , to be any losers , by : wluvt they call their patriotic efforts to maintain the : righto of capital , < to do what it likes with its o « i . . . ; Ihe following paragraph , taken from an obscure and low-priced local newspaper , will sufficiently pro *> the length , breadth , and substance of the Perry * patriotism . When wo announcedsome time backtho f * ctot *
, , public subscri ption by tho manufacturers of Stftfl ^ ' / shire in aid of the late prosecution , it wasimpmW , denied b y Wynne , who , now , in a paper of vW I he _ is the acknowled ged editor , proclaims tho tilC " which he previously denied , The advertisement & •; terred to , expressly states the subscription is oi ) e » ea ; to reimburse the Perrys for their expenses in the Pr 0 J . secution of the agents of the National Association ' ; Uuited Trades . ¦
It will be seen from our advertising columns that an appWPf t . ( mark ol gratitude to tUe Messrs . l ' evrv , of this town , for *«« L ; vices to tlie interests of the industrial community in the * & ;* . secution and conviction of ihe agents of a formidable scfji , gaged u \ exciting and fostering ill will and mutual injury beW * capitalists and labourers , is projected . , „ ,, * We understand that among tlie foremost names already < % i subscription list are those of Earl Granville , her Alajisty ' s F' « f becretary of State for Foreign Affairs , who is a large »™ llI&l B-uiny labour in this and neighbouring counties ; the p " . ^ farms , „ she Potteries , Messrs , Thorncycroftand Co ., SpsnJ "< K aill otter eminent firms of this immediate neighbourhood , and ccr extensive house * in tho hardware trade in London . , ... A rm .. 7— *" "" unureirauB 111 uuuuuu . amUi ? at is
II as it should be : for the Messrs . Perry have deserve * ^ of all who tire interested in the maintainancc of peace , h » f " r . aud mutual service between the possessors of capital »»* % » Had the useful ciample they have afforded been confined to' „ , steady and successful resistance of the Strike among theirnutf workmen , stimulated by the emissaries of an Association '" ^ ously bent in requiring a footing and influence in Wolrerha ^ WHICH must Otherwise hsvve extended He operations to all the L ,, wpal manufacturers of the town and neighbourhood , tlicy ^' V have been held sufficiently recompensed in tho flattering "" "pi ttuentially -signer ) address which was presented to { Mr . *** e i erry at the commencement of tho past year . But when »'' , w eii m mind that they hesitated not , after their own ends n »» ^ answered by the return of their workmen , to institute »» T , . proceedings , regardless of cost , for the common benefit ot ! " •> roils interested in trade and liable to similar evils , it m " ,,. ^ mitted that anything short of the more general and suu- « jt wark of appreciation now announced , would have evinced a ¦> degreee of public ingratitude . Now-we strongly [ suspect that Earl Granvilk "
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THE NORTHERN STAR . February 7 , \^ \
Just Published, Liino. Cloth, Price 4s.-Bj Fost,4s. 6-J. Rphe Eights Asd "Duties Of Projl Pertt.
Just Published , liino . Cloth , Price 4 s .-bj Fost , 4 s . 6-J . rPHE EIGHTS ASD "DUTIES OF PROJL PERTT .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 7, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1664/page/4/
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