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THE STAR OF FBEEBOE SATURDAY, JVIiY 3, S853.
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THE FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE. A few comDle'.e sets of the Fsiesd of the People of 1852,
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slitched in a wrapper , are on sale . Trice One Stilling and Sixpence each set . Odd numbers to complete sets to be had of the publisher . TUB KED REPUBLICAN ASD ' FIUEXD OF THE PEOrLE . ( First Series . ) A verj few sets of the Red REroBLtCAS and Fbiend of the I eoh . e , 1 S 51 . neatly buuad in cloth , one vol ., price Cs . Gd ., may be had ot the publisher . , I-oudon : James Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternosterrow .
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KOI . D ! GOLD ' . GOI .. D ! NATIONAL GIFT SOCIETY FOR EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA , Office , 13 , Tottenham-court ( thirteen doors from Toltaibam-court . roid ) , Xew-road , St . l ' ancras , London . The late gold diFoveries in Australia , and the great want o * labour experienced in both 1 he agricultural and commarcial aytricts consequent on that fact , calling loudly for an extension of the means of emigration to that country , it is proposed that a number of working men should associate together , and by the gifts of ONE SHILLING EACn , A cettain number should be enabled without espease to themselves to receive a FREE PASSAGE TO AUSTRALIA ! It is proposed the Society shall be divided into sections , and immediately on the completion of a Section of C , 000 at ls . each , a Free Passage shall be given to a certain number of the members , to be deeded liy a Public Ballot at some public place of Meeting , the holders of the numbers declared gifts to be entitled to » Free Passage as above state . ! . TRANSFERABLE AT THE OPTION OF THE RECEIVER , In no case will the Receiver be allowed money in lieu of a passage . The whole of the money received will be expended in procuri ' g passages at the current charge , with the exception of a deduction of £ 15 per cent , on the gross amount received , for the payment of expenses of Managemstit , Advertising , &c . Auditors will be appointed at th ^ Public Meeting and the books will be open for general inspection at the weekly meetings e .-ery Monday evening from eieht till ten o ' clock , at Htl . COLLES'S , ' WHITE HORSE TAVERN , ' 100 , HIGH IIOLBORN . All communications , enclosing fourteen postage stamps for Re . turn Ticket , to be addressed to Mr . Ruffy , at the Office , 13 , Tottenham court ,-St . Pancras , London . Money Orders to be mnde payable at Totteaham-court-road . FEMALES AND CHILDREN ARE ELIGIBLE . On the completion of each Section the Ballot will be advertised in ' Reynolds' Weekly Newspaper , ' 'Star of Freedom , ' TheTimes , ' or ' Morning Advertiser , ' one week previous . S . B . —The names aud residences of the parties who obtain the Gift will be given on application at the Office . Pergoas in any part of the country art eligible . r
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TO THE ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER . Gentlemen , HAVING been assured that yon are not prepared to allow your political rights to 1 e disposed of , r . s by private contrac , I pledse myself th it you shall have an opportunity of re . cordinsr your votes in favour of aa independenteandidnte . As time is precious . I proceed at once to lay before you a brief statement of my political opinions . A Radical Reformer on the broad principles of religious , civil and commercial freedom , I contend that the people is the only legitimate source of power , and that , as all wealth is toe produce ' of labour , the workman should partake of the fruit of his o * n indu ' t'y . In Parliament I shall tote for Ifariliood Suffrage , the Ballot , Annual Elections . Equal Electoral Iistsicts , and the Abolition of Absurd Prrperty Qualifications . A Free Trader iu the fullest rcceptution of the term , I h peti see a truly liberal policy adopted in our rela ions wih foreign wintries : for in the close and intimate alliance of the pe pies will be found the surest bond of universal peace . I am , gentlemen , your obedient servant , llcform Clul ) , June 22 . William Co . ninghaji .
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... , 2 To &omfl } i 0 trti ( itt& H 5- All communications for the Edilor must be . addressed to No . i , Brunswick-row , Queen ' 6- « quare , Bloomsbury , Londen . ^ - Orders , applications for placards , &c , &c , must be addressed to John Bezer , ' Star of Freedom Office , 183 , Fleet-street , London . AU money orders to be made payable to John Eezer , at the Money Order Office , Strand . _ . „ . „ . . ,,, News-agents and friends desirous of exhibiting Bills of Contents will have them sent post-free on forwarding their address to the publisher . t ^ r We are compelled to postpone a number of notices to correspondents until next week-Monies Receivid for the Refugees , and which have been handed to the Committee : —W . Blackwell , Is . ; A Friend , near Blandford , Dorset , 2 s . ; Edinburgh , per Mr . M'Keehnie , £ 1 ; Newcastle-on Tyne , per Angus M'Leol , £ 1 11 s . 2 d , ( Names next week . ) J . Colpas , Halifax , —Press of matter compels the postponement of your letter .
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" LETTERS FOR WORKING MEN . No . ill . —The Road to TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR OF . FREEDOM . Sib , — "When the Roman General { I omit his name , that I may not be thought personal . It is well to be particular after the acquittal of Dr . Achilli . He was a rascally swindler t' o ) . was made Emperor by his guards , ho * . vas good enough to require au approving vote from the Roman citizens . They voted under cover of the ballot ( overlooked ) by the ' legions and I know not how many millions confirmed his theft of the Empire . The number does not matter : there was , any way , so great a majority , that history speaks of hi 3 election as the choice of the nation . Speaks rightly too .: for this Roman was not destiny . t oTrrvr-rso 1 ? i \ Ti Wti fi ' tZ TVCl MVV
Sordid he Avork without tools . Those tools were first those who activel y helped him , whether by their counsels ^ their swords , or their votes , and next those ¦ who passively helped him , —whose apathy or cowardice * preferred a sleeping partnership in villany to . say , martyrdom . ' Af . er a while he sat comfortably , tolerably secure . - The people , the lower orders , the artizans , &e ., found themselves none the worse , and at last became contented with his rule . This is all matter of incontrovertible history . Well , what have we to do with the conduct of these Romans' ? I will tell you . These Romans became slaves becausa they were without heroism , without faith , without common honesty : because they cared
for any personal gain or comfort , rather than for honour ; because they thought mere princi ples were just grand * sounding words / not by any mean ' s so much worth toiling , and perhaps suffering for , as the material advantages of good wages and increase of victuals . They were indifferent to virtue , and so became the beastliest slaves of all recorded time . I speak of this because I see the sama indifferentism eating out hearts here in England . I speak of this because that same indifferentism which led them to ignominy is leading us where else but to ignominy ?
If we have no Louis Napoleon here ( there must be a lowest deep somewhere ) we have a Prince President ' s private friend— ' intimate personal friend '—to conduct our foreign affairs , with a Prince President approver ( Liberal Lord Palmerston ) by way of antithesis , if Malinesbury should go out ; and the friends of Malmesbury and Palmerston to conduct our home affairs , with the murderer of the Bandieras as future leader of Her Majesty's Opposition . The last phrase is quite Constitutional . I ha . va the utmost respect for what General Tom Thumb calls ' Gracious Majesty ; ' specially when her palace guest is a Prince
of ^ Naples , and her honour so condescendingl y brought down to the level of that butcher Rosas . It is true out Government does not confiscate the domains of Princes ; but is that a reason why one hundred thou-Eands persons daily in London should have no means of living , except beggary or crimed—is that a reason for being content with the daily confiscation of the hon ° st earnings of labour by our law-protected Free Traders , landlords , lawyers , and the like ? It is true we are not dragooned to the polling-booth to vote for a detestable government , or else to risk our lives , our fortunes , and our families in opposition to its decrees ; but are we not—six out of seven of us—dragooned away from the polling-booth , forbidden even the
pretence of opinion as to what our government shall be ? However despicable its nature , however tyrannical its acts—that is only a question of degree . " Six out of seven of as are as completely under the thumb as ever France can be . We too are kept down b y a garrison ; and when cur Liberals talk of enlarging the garrison ' extending the franchise ; that is to say—the freedoms they will be able to take with the unenfranchised , if g only the English Constitutional form of doing the same thing which the French President does , —viz ., disposing of the p eople against their will ? , and without taring a ruah whether they have any wills at all . Louis Jsapoleon would be as glad as Mr . Cobden to increase ; his « garrison / for the safety of present institutions . ' '
m plain English , whatever difference there may be in the degree of slavery here and in France , it is only difference of degree ; and the cause in both countries is precisely the same—the atheistical , unprincipled cowardly indifference of the mass of the people to any question from which they cannot reckon on an immediate gaic . Do not tell me of some occasional exceptions , such as the enthusiasm in 1839 for the People ' s Charter . I know of more admirable exceptions , too , iu France . But they do not in either country alter the fact , that at this present moment the masses are kept down , not so much by the power of aristocracy or despotism , as by their own miserable mertaess and indifference to principle . There is
not a hard word ( and uot the hardest unjust ) that I have here thrown at Frenchmen but what I wish through them to reach at English hearts . Step by step we are descending to an ignominy deep as that of France . We need not pride ourselves against her . Actually within the last few months the only lessons of morality -which have been uttered by our public teachers have been some odd expressions of the tyrannous old Tories , and an occasional good word from the ruffianly « T imes . ' Our liberals teach us anarch y and cowardice , setting us examples of dishonesty ; duty is altogether a word « that nasaeth
ail understanding' of either priest or politician . Manchester has its highechool of unadulterated AtheiEm—the only unadulteratjon it can boast of . Even 5 § ffi ^ t constitutioualisfc j a . gxan 9 ? ^ 16 % & <>? £ integrity like Professor Newman , will telfts only that « we ought not to be too timid' ; that « at least we should speak truth '; and if compelled to war for truth 'be careful not to attack neutrals , ' ' nor volunteer to extend the war beyond its most inevitable geographical limits . ' Everywhere is the Bame cowardly doubt of Right , which always walks—no , crawls—between , what Milton calls , a precipice of misclnefon either side ; and starting at every false alarm , we do not know which wav to set a foot
forward with manly confidence and Christian resolution , through the confased ringing in our ears of panic scruples and amazements . ' And among the people —the classes who toil and suffer—the slave classes—( there are none worse under Louis Bonaparte )—the teaching is the same . Even anguish and resentment fail to rouse them . Eat , drink , grumble , dispute about words , ( political or theological ) as a sort of poor and cheap amusement , doubt each other , despair of justice or progress , disbelieve in God , dip deeper , if ifc be possible , in the'Slough of Despond , 'and then die in your misery : this is the philosophy of the hour—its rascally , disastrous doctrinesagainst which
, it behoves every true man to set his face , his hand , his firmest life . Now , what elso but cowardliest , beastliest apathy can prevent the working classes of this country from protesting ( as I have proposed , or in some such manner—I do not stickle for my owd plan , if any one else will produce a better ) against toe misrule to which they are subject ? What great difficulty , what great trouble , what great self-denial , wftat great cost , to poll in every locality , not for this or that little known , or too well-known candidate , but against euch and sueli candidates , one and all , as refuse to recognise and help the vindication of our principle of the right of every man to
noliuc < u nwwmj What should hinder so easy a protest ? Where are the two millions who signed their names before ? Let them hold up their hands again , where they can be seen and tested , in their own towns , at their own doors . Is that little extra work too much for our English patriots ? For shame's sake , then , let us cease to reproach the slaves on the other side of the water . At worst , we are not quite tongue-tied ; we can meet openly , and say as openly to this and the other ruler : you rule by force , not in virtue of our choice . Here shall our public protest be 33 the first stone
cast agaiust you : the solemn condemnation of your pretence at representing us , the sentence which our bauds shall make good . One such condemnaiii ? Gener * l Election would reinforce that ^; i « ift ntfd wea P ° n-the people ' s right of petition ; fri »! ? h ? lbnnd « -tmrst , tmjast privilege from it 3 seat ; 2 ffi « - « pedieDey-mongersand the tricksters into the « d finS * i ° I lght ^ hether they woul d like it or not ); rfJL- ^ S together , as with a tromnet snmmnns . the real 11
ple- afre ^ oJr ^ * . l the broa < i foundations of a peoiion 8 o 7 e ° , wi 'f freedom of the whole people-the nahonoar and o ^^ f of health , of just and noble life , of Orha 8 thepiag ^ of ^ ages ; Are we capable of this ? that Bothirfg g £ wu « ^ t ? 8111 " ° eaten iato our ^ arts fnlly shall be scoar-ed to 3 * T % ? ? , w ° & ofieers ? Ka ; l £ as ^ tv -. IbK ^ '
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French or English , hdifferentissn bear 3 the 6 ame fruit ; the selfish denial of duty is a curse , and all curses , as the proverb hath it , ever return home to roost . ' Let us scare this one away from England ! SpAHTACDS . ~ ! Z ~ ~ ~ T ~ . i
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. DECLINE OF CONSTITUTIONALISM . CANDIDATES FOR THE NEW PARLIAMENT . Our respected contemporary , the ' Leader , ' of last Saturday , contains some rather doleful lamentations , in its leading 'Editorial , ' on the Decline of Constitutionalism . Ifc urges that , ' Those who are anxious for the maintenance of Constitutionalism in Europe —who are anxious for its bare ea ; w < ence--should exert ^ themselves to maintain ifc while there is yet time . ' Now , considering that to Constitutionalism , at least to ita regal representative , William llf ., of ' pious , glorious , and immortal memory , who saved us from Popery , brass farthings , # nd wooden shoes , ' considering , we say , that we owe to this champion
of Constitutionalism the National Debt and the Funding System , not to speak of kindred blessings conferred by his and successive Constitutional Governments , wo by no means share the anxiety of the Leader , for the preservation of this precious ism ' s bare existence . We believe Constitutionalism to be an arrant humbug , and shall exult over its extinction . With the ' Leader , ' we do not believe that despotism can permanently sustain itself . We look for the not distant triumph of the opposite extreme . Be that as it may , we think with our contemporary there is already assured to some Blackstone . De Louie , or Gibbon , the materials for a History of the Decline and Fall of
anxea go vernments and Constitutional Monarch y . One of the ' signs of the times' that seem to indicate the rottenness of Constitutionalism , even in this , the land of its native growth , is the character of the administrations that have recentl y held the reins of power . ^ Notwithstanding the intellectual superiority of' Sir E , Peel ' s Government , it was essentiall y a Government of expediency , and not of principle , Lord ' John Russell ' s was the mere shadow and palo imitation of its predecessor . As to the present Administration , it is without parallel as a government of compromise , tricky evasion , and embodied falsehood .
But , as remarked in another article , Ministers are but the reflex of Parliament . The feebleness of the late , combined with the falsehood of the present Administration , very faithfully represented the leading characteristics of that House of Commons which has just been extinguished . Will the next Parliament be any improvement 1 We doubt it . We are rather inclined > think that , should some half dozen candidates be rejected , the new Parliament will exhibit the very dotage of Constitutionalism . What then ? What must follow ? Death . Perhaps , as ' Lord' Haidstone predicts " , ' the Delvge I' . A few words . as to a very few of the Candidates worth notice . First , the long tr ied friend of the People ,
T . S . DUNCOMBE
FOR FINSBURY . A man who has never faltered in his devotion to the popular cause , and whoso onl y needs have been health and adequate popular support . Comparatively silent during two or three sessions ; the cause thereof was bodily incapacity , not want of will . Happily his health is now much amended , and if the people desire to move , they will find in Duncombe no unwilling leader . During the Ia 8 t fifteen years his name has been linked , and usually his voice associated , with every measure tending to promote , popular welfare . His bold avowal of Chartist principles in the House , in answer to the taunts of the people's enemies , his untiring advocacy of national Parliament ™ Reform . hi
s philanthropic pleadings for the miners , the factory workers , the frame-work knitters , the victims of the truck system , and other sections of suffering humanity ; and , last not least , bis unmasking of the traitor Graham , and vindication of the honour of England from the damning stigma of Post-Office espionage , and the murder of the Bandiera , claa for him not merely the votes of Finsbury , but the suffrages of the country at large . Men of Finsbury , it is your duty to elect Duncombe by Universal Suffrage at the hustings , and in the subsequent contest it will be your duty to place him at the head of tl « poll J We much regret the retirement of Mr . Wakley but we will speak of that gentleman ' s services when we know his successor .
WILLIAM NEWTON FOR THE TOWER HAMLETS is unmistakeably the people ' s choice . With a large number , we trust a majority , of the electors pledged to vote for him , he has that which no other candidate in the borough can boast of , the unanimous support of the Non-Electors . The return of William Newton will he in this election the noblest triumph for the working classes , and therefore should every working man in the Hamlets , not heart and soul a slave , labour in this cause until the close of the struggle — labour unweariedly day and night—to obtain by every legitimate means the
rotes of the electors for labour ' s candidate . To the electors we would say the people ' s choice , if he receives your votes , will be the pledge of reconciliation between you and the unrepresented . The disunion of the middle aud working class has often been deplored by middle class reformers . You have it in your power to show that you desire union , by giving one vote to AEWtou , voting for whoever else you may please . As regards the other candidates , the rejection of Clay the Whig , and Butler the choice of ' publicans and sinners , ' is earnestl y to be desired . Of the remaining two , George Thompson would be the best selection ; but whoever may be No . 2 , let every nerve be strained to carry Newton triumphantly into the House of Commons .
CONINGHAM . ron WESTMINSTER , should be the cry of every elector , who desires to restore tho ancient city of the Minster ' s reputation for patriotism ; aud of every non-elector who desires his emancipation from political and social thraldom . Coningham is no half-and-half man , babbling about ' extension ' and « wide extension , ' of the Franchiie , He will vote for Manhood Suffrage , aud nothing less . What is at least as important he will vote for , and advocate social justice for the wealth producers . Coningham is at once a true Reformer and a Con servative of the best kind , for he would give the people real Reform , and thereby conserve society from
convulsion and dissolution . Let every true friend to progress exert himself to rall y the electors of Westminster to thejupport of the people ' s candidate and aud substitute for sham and ahoy-hoy , Coningham as the Radical member for Westminster , We have not space to notice the other metropolitan candidates , except to observe that the City will prove its unchangeable rottennesa andjworship of the golden calf . The late representatives for Marylebone will be again elected without opposition . In Lambeth the ' resident candidate ( dear , delightful boshl ) hating withdrawn from the contest Mr W Will - T ? wt ™ M , \ D ' E * NC 0 VRi-au irreclaimable / Whig will be re-eleoted . In Southwark Apslet Pellatt promises to take the place and improve upon Alderman Humphrey , Of the candidates i naiaaws
country we can onlv «» v tw . ™ ^ Vw uuum . «« we can only say that wo hope Sturgeon will be returned for Nottingham . It is true we know not much of him , nothing beyond n de £ ? T <» f Pr awplw . but they appeir to be ultra-Radical . Of the other candidates ! Walter , Gibbosnb , and Strutt we know too much , and vhwheTer may be elected Nottingham will be miere-
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~**~ ' ' ¦ - ¦ -- ' ' * - ^ MBWWMi presented at least to the extent of one rote in the now " Parliament . GODERiCH FOK HULL ! Is the enthusiastic cry of the Radical Peformers of that great Seaport . His fellow-candidate , Mr . Clay , will be , as he has been , an able representative of the existing constituency . But 'Viscount' Godeiucii will represent tho non-electors as well ag the electors . Our ultra-Democratic convictions lead us naturally to doubt mere professors of pati ijiism and ' aristocratic ' adventurers , who occasionally raasquarade iu the character of loud-talking demagogues ; aud , therefore , we have been slow to welcome this future member of ^_____ i . j _ l » ii _ i . t ,- - _ i , I ~
the ' Upper House . ' But his generous support of the engineers , and his chivalrous readiness to engage in every struggle calculated to advance tho welfare of the people at largo , have satisfied us that no better patriot is , at this moment , iu presence of the British people . Young , enthusiastic , and ardent in the pursuit of truth , he is precisely the man to face aud fight the supporters of injustice and the enemies of right . But for bribery , the lory candidates would not have the shadow of a shade of chance . Watch the corruptionists , men of Hull , aud vanquish them with the weapons of honesty and truth . England will hail with joy your victory , if you carry Godcrich to the seal of Andrew Marvel .
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BATTLES OF THE CHURCHES . In boyhood we have often pondered over the recital of the bloody feuds of past ages , and have grieved that the most cruel and relentless of these sanguinary struggles should have had their origin in the disputes of rival Churches and jealous sects . It is , indeed , painful to contemplate these hol y' wars to see men ' s passions so inflamed that they Were ready to butcher their brethren for some difference in theological opinion ; too often but in consequence of a puerile and absurdjquarrel about a mere nameor the
, significance of a word . We deplored the ignorance and brutal ferocity of those times of the past , and joyed that we lived in a time when higher and holier sentiments had taken possession of the minds of men—when fcho spread of knowledge , and the growth of intellect had effectually , and for ever , ended those irrational combats , and taught men to recognise the right of all their fellow creatures to worship their creator in conformity with the dictates of their conscience ; not to accord them this in toloranee , but from a- respect for the opinions of others , how different soever they might'be from their own
But , alas , for the ' march of intellect ! ' the events of the past week have shown but too clearl y how far we had erred—how far from tho recognition of the justice of freedom of opinion is the mass of the people . The disgraceful conflicts at Stockport are indicative of the deep darkness that rests on the miuds of multitudes , and of the brutal and degrading passions that ignorance creates and developes in the minds of men . There is much subject matter for thought in these occurrences . Can the Ministers of the Christian religion—the priests of every one of tho numerous
sects into which Christendom is split , or any one of them—have done their duty , and really endeavoured to infuao the Christian spirit into their flocks ? If they have endeavoured to do so , they certainly have not succeeded . Those among them who are most zealous in defence of the dogmas of their various Churches , are also the most intolerant of all others , aud most unsympathising with their nou'conforming brethren . ° There must be something wrong in the manner of procedure of all the teachers . Undoubtedl y many of them are conscientious earnest men ; but it may be they have not gone the right way to work . They have sought faith rather than intelli gence—they have sought to inspire respect for words and svmbols and
unintelligible formulas , rather thau to awaken the reasoning powers of their followers , and to build up knowledge , whereb y their doctrines mi ght be applied They have thus tried to engraft the dogmas of their Churches upon the sterile minds of the ignorant with what result the Stockport riots show . ' Principles alone can save the world , dogmas never can . _ What a great and glorious opportunity the Ministers of religion have had for the moral and intellectual elevation of the human race—have had and lost ! Had they had any desire to do so , they have had in their hands the power to reall y educate the people , to disclose to them all tho treasures of the book of knowledge , and by thus developing their mental powers , make them capable of feeling real religious sentiments—sentiments worthy of the religion of Christ .
But the so-called Christian priesthood have never done so . Instead of endeavouring to educate the people , and to raise them from their degradation and ignorance , they have been the most determined opponents of all progress , the unvarying foes of intelligence and freedom , and the aiders of every tyranny . They have long since forgotten or concealed the religion of Jesus of Nazareth , the pure and holy religion of Liberty and Equality , and have raised in its place an unrighteous system of corruntion and
falsehood , a priestly conspiracy against the mental and physical freedom of humanity . They are not the servants of Christ , for their ' every word and deed belies the very principles of Christianity . Are they Christians who oppress unhappy Rome , and keep down the suffering peoples with the bayonets of the brutalized slaves of their unprincipled allies ? Are they Christians who pour their benedictions upon the blood-stained and perjured bandit who has robbed the French people of their liberties and of their property — numbers of them of their
lives ? Are they Christians who are now making so many exertions to awaken a civil war in the Swiss Confederation , and to destroy the republican liberties of the Swiss people ? Are they Christians who , in our own country , incessantly pray for the welfare and prosperity of those whose welfare and prosperity is the misery and wretchedness of the toiling millions—who live luxuriously while thousands of their fellow creatures are without a crust of bread ? No ! none of these time-serving priests are priests of Christianity , which is the religion of humanity . It is because they are not so that their teachings have had the effect of raising in the minds of those they addressed only brutal ferocity and intolerance , and not a single aspiration for freedom and happiness for the human familv .
_ True religion should inspire the people with & desire to become nobler and better , and determine them to labour for the liberty and enlightenment of their tellow-men . We believe that no such desire existed yu the mind of even one of the actors in the affray at Stockport on Tuesday night . Only the basest and touleBt passions had a place in their bosoms , and , naturall y , their actions were base and foul as the ST * D by , Which th ° y were actuate < J - Had these K ? £ ^ testant fanatics had education , know-™ f : * t they might have seen their own slavery KllS ^ 5 ° ' energies which have been fiS ^ Jn ™ Vvu a CaU 8 e might ha ™ be ° a enough to have acqmred liberty for themselves and for others . as it is these , ignorant and d- *«\> n . A * A m « n whn
E «? . ? -u ° 4 f aIous hatred towards another class of ov «? fi ^ l J mBelT «« . ™* ld not stir a finger to Z \ t 2 f annical enemies of the human race , and to ensure the triumph of human freedom . fimfhi „ nSomu 8 fc Je wrought before Democracy can ; 2 ! f ' - Ignorant faction-fighters and the Sr Z 11 ? if 7- . intole ™ nce must give place to IZ « Lt 'hf llgMm , Hmnwit j , and aofiim of the oause of the people .
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been advised to employ morp I-. K ^^ r 5 S := ; 5 > . H their efforts arf ffl ^ , ^ ^^^^ ^ ^ & %# XJ& $ » £ * i& ThiS U L n 7 th , Ieast ens ?™ '"> < 3 lhls is no figure of speech , for it : f to every observer of the operation of «\ ? New and vet the Commission , iitHu 111 u" f ° C
of this law , in the rural districts n T , " '( li "n ciaed over the labourer ' s wa ' e \ n ( l Tf is ** $ Pnetow , to keep down rat eMJrtt ??^ stroy every cottage upon their e " Z" « . ( k workpeople are forced to reside a cola "' ** crowded vi la , eS , and in still n ^ ^ " ! L' ' , ^ « » n . l , n pestilential places producing ? S ? n ^ leva and typhus , at . in expense eTE ' i ! rh «> Southwood Smith of £ 7 744 Kq e 8 lin \» tol liv ]) f ' u , tileJsSttfl ^ CS ; t ! fQ tropoh . . Combined win tl , i , K' i ¦ . " * "' bond fact that this ^ into B ' le ™ " " . «• t aw .. ^* ,. ^!^^ The clearance system , adopted bv tho 1-mi answers the purpose of the t ? ader 7 d , ^>> S ^ ^^ «* Wealthy "I ! ft i / tu
' « um itjuuua me price of wases thrnnivh . ' petition for employment thus ! r ugS ^ when disabled , or no longer useful for \ hZ ? ' ai " Profit , an f brt is then Ldot * * £ & $ ? the landlords to maintain . Out of this-ui ' •• f tion almost endless , and both adopt the ' inS "P " lwwble means to frustrate present , J ^ Z future , settlcmouts . aluia The plea of incapacity may , but the plea of s rauce will not , serve tho department , fortlwv ' f within these few years had tho advantage of , cial commission , with Mr . Gilbert A'Beel-. i ?" principal , to inquire into tins particular br « S the law , and yet no effort has been made to i ? to parliament a remedy for so momentous anevi ! The plea of incapacity will hardly roscuo „ ' from the difficulty , for they have had submitSl ! propositions to remedy the disease from " ™ ' , whoso only object has been to miti gate au cviUW i * frightful beyond exaggeration . l ls
Among the candidates for parliamentary «««„„ tion , two appear to have paid some atteutiou to £ subject and it forms part of their addres-. 0 seeks the representation of the eastern i > art of H „ metropolis , and the other is a candidate for Wv combe ; of tho two , the latter appears to best coin , prebend the mode of treating the matter , for he 2 < I hold it as a sacred principle , that tho poverty o f the nation should be relieved b y tho property „ th nation without reference to districts , excep t h h management . ' ii ' uino
Time and circumstances are most favourable for tl » Wfi . ° / J f ding a mncd >' t 0 correct ^ mischief that this law propagates . The dissolution of parliament seuds present members to the hiutin * and the constituencies have tho opportunity of in Btmcting their candidates that their scats Mill bctho « e of thorns uutiHWs law is obliterated from the Statute liook . — . Correspondent . Tr » , ? CU TI 0 N FOR PROMOTING TIIE REPEAL L 0
h /^ 7 * ° UNTimi f ' ~ In a feff d ^ ys y our suffrases will tS y , " t !" tind 0 ? your candidates pledges for Free Trade and Parliamentary Rrforra , do not forget tint ( be Palladium of Liberty is the Freedom of the Press , mid that Me stamp is to the newspaper what the bra :. d is to the Remember that despotism throughout Europe issvstematio in loading this safety-valve of nations with pmitus , nneB . and restrictions .
In tho debate on the Taxes on Knowledge , the Tory government dared not defend the stamp by argument the Whig Attoi-ney-General voted for its repeal ; Lord John Kussoll and Sir James Graham stayed away : and no metropohtan member voted for its retention , while eleven voted for its abolition . Tho division on the newspaper stamp gives ( including
, . F ° R T&E REPEAL AGAINST . Votes 106 202 . We most earnestly urgo all friends of freedom , order , and progress , to vote for no candidate who will not pledga himself to the immediate abolition of the newspaper stamp , and of the advertisement duty . Signed , by order of the Committee , and on their behalf , Frascis Place , Treasurer , Temple Lodge , Hammersmith . J . Alfred Novkllo , Sub-Treasurer , C 9 , Dea& street , Soho .
Richard Mooke , . Chairman , 25 , Hart-street , Blooimbury , C . Dobson Collet , Secretary , 20 , Groat Juno !" Coram-street , Brunswick-souare .
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THE O'CONNOR FUND . A Welshman ( Newbridge , Glamorganshire ) 2 s . 61 .
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A Snip on Fire . —Southampton , June 30 .-A f singular circumstance has recently taken place at this port . The hark Pollux , Captain Everson , having arrived last week from Buenos Ayres , consigned to Messrs . Twynham and Co ., went up to Redbridgeto discharge her freight , which consisted of equal portions of calcined bones and animal guano , the former composing the lower tier of the cargo . On Thursday I last the hatches were opened , and it was at once ascertained that the ship and cargo were on fire , spontaneous combustion having taken place just about the centre of the vessel . ' How lung the h * had been in progress it was impossible to ascertain . Application was at once made to Mr . StebbinR , tli » agent for Phillip ' s fire annihilator , who proceeded to experiment upon the burning mass . After repe ated applications of this invention , the fire was entirely extinguished by Monday , but not before considerable damage was done to the vessel , the be ams athwart ship being destroyed , &c . Not more tlw n ten to fifteeen tons of the cargo have been dai" « g ' and the expense of the aunihilators used in auWaiag the conflagration , or rather the smouldering of tM cargo , is estimated at not more than £ 12 > £ 1 "; The neighbourhood of Redbridge was much annop by the highl y offensive and noxious eifluvin . arising from the burning of the animal subBtauces continue in the vessel . It may not bfi generally known that large importations of calcined bones and animal gu < j from Buenos Ayres are taking place in SouthatnpW " for sale as manure . The guano is made iu thc V ? « of Buenos Ayres from the carcases of cuttle of » kinds , wirier , after skinning , are burnt , the bones o the animals being used ass fuel , both tho ^ "j bones and burnt carcases being afterwards shipi ' considerable quantities to Europe as manure .
A Ship Sunk at Sea by a Wualb .-A coritf pondent furnishes us with the following narrat ive a very extraordinary occurrence : — " On TuesQ J the English brig Crusader arrived at Cows from » j Jago de Cuba , and landed the captain and cre » tjie French brig Pauline , Le Chevalier m « 8 ter ' 6 appears from the statement of the captain that oj » 17 th of last month , whilst on their pa ssage from r » Rico , in longitude 40 . 10 W . of Paris , and latitude 30 N ., with a cargo of sugar , bound to Havre , eleven o ' clock a . m ., whilst under easy sail , the ve » anew ship of 400 tons , well built and found , w struck by a monstrous whale on the bow , a » ° damage wasao great that the ship filled also" »»* diately . Finding that nothing could be done w » . her , the captain and crew , consisting of ten men a passenger , hoisted out a boat , in which , a ft 9 r B theT Ing away a bag of biscuit and a little water , embarked , and in about fifteen minutes after vessel was struck she suuk . For three ; and nights they were tossing about , not u ^ able to reach any ship , but on t ^ Cr 0 . day they were providentially seen by tue fl > sader , and rescued from their perilous "JJ "^ . The captain fl peaks iu the highest terms of tw ^ ness and liberality with which they were trew" , all on board the Crusader . None of thoM JJ » of have preserved anything , and so they are < w % 5 a ,, necessaries . The French consul , W . Stuart Vty . ift has shown , his usual kindness and prompt " providing for their necessities . ^ eBioi ^ l Excursion to Eppinq FoR « sr .-Tbe great ^ f '^ M first excursion to Epping Foreat , on Sunday , ^ ° , : to tion . * J induced the committee of the Jotn-street »« ft feei » give another on Sunday next , July l » b » " *' m our advertising columns .
The Star Of Fbeeboe Saturday, Jviiy 3, S853.
THE STAR OF FBEEBOE SATURDAY , JVIiY 3 , S 853 .
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THE GENERAL ELECTION . TV , * V t ? LAW REFORM . .. fp ^ or Law , Amendment Act , when introduced lalSiTT ^ Government of the day , was Sfj , e House of Peers . Lord Broughamthen Ohancellor-u on his knees implored the House to pass the measure ; and in this he was supported by the ± 5 ishop of London , according to whose dictum it was to have been a second Reformation . Eighteen years have passed away , and it is not easy to discover the practical good that has emanated kom the establishment of the Poor Law Commission ; although , during that period , the department has cost the country about two millions of money . J . ne real grievance at that date was to be found in Si 7 i , / » 8 h Settlement—it remains there ?! S' T ? mi ) remind > » ' * y ' 8 Mr > Dlst&elU that while the owners ant ' occupiers of land have
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I4 THE STAR OF FREEDOM . ™ ~~ ' ... ~ " ¦ - - " - — - "I * " !* " !' " ' »~« i « uMt » . ^ * - * . lS ? i < i
The Friend Of The People. A Few Comdle'.E Sets Of The Fsiesd Of The People Of 1852,
THE FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE . A few comDle' . e sets of the Fsiesd of the People of 1852 ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 3, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1685/page/4/
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