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      THE CHEAKST EBUIOS KVtt tC « LIBHK » . PrkeliSd ., A . nw » aaele « ateaiaon . vrithSteelKftt « » f fte Author , of PAIHE'S POLITICAL WORKS . How Eeaij , a Ken Edition * t Mr . O'eOHHOB'S WORK OS SMALL FARMS SoW by J . Watson , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternoster row , Lon 3 on ; A . Heywood , Oldliam-street , Manchester , and Love and Co ., 5 , Kelson-street . Glasgow . Anil fre fill -Rnnilrukllora in Tmb < md Hnnnfrr .

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      Wfll it Published , on the 1 st of August , COMING E V E N T- S , AN ADDRESS TO THE WORKING MEN OF ENGLAND . Bj the Author of the " Curse Removed . " FXICE TWOIBSCE . Puolisbetl by tne Author , and sold by-G « orge Tickers , Holjrrell-rtrect , Strand , London , and aU Sooteellers . GIVE Tors 02 KES E 1 XIT !

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      TO THE PUBLISHING TRADE . THE RED REPUBLICAN , 1 Edited by G . 3 ULIAS HAUSEY , Is now ready for aHivery to the Trade every Monday at twelve o'clock at noon . , . .. . „ .-,. - Contents of So . 1 , for Safurday , Aogust the 3 rd :-l . ^ ahnerston ' s policy . 2 . Middle Class dodges and Proletarian 6 uUibiIity , inlS-50 . a Boyal Paupers and Plunderers . 4 . She Italian Struggle . 3 . LedruBolhn ' s " Decline of England . " 6 . Associated Labour—England and America . 7 . Poetry : Sacred Hymns , by Ernest Jones , So . 3 , written dnrinKhis incarceration in Tothul-fields Prison , & c , & c Ko 8 , for Saturday , August 10 th , will contain L'Ami du Peuple's defence of Hed Kepublicanism , in answer to the Xondon correspondent of the Xew York Tribune ; also articles on the Foreign Folicy of the British Government"Bringing Boyalty into contempt "—the War for Italian Independence—Institutions and Laws of Republican America—Reviews—Poetry : " The Hymn ofthe Milanese , " & c . Published Weekly . Price One Penny . London : a T . Collins , 112 , Fleet-street . To be had ( on order ) of all booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland .

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      Owingto the incompleteness ofthe arrangements , the publication of the first number of the Kew Series of « ffHE IEI 8 HMAF J- Is postponed till Saturday , 10 th August . Tbe Irishman will be conducted with thesame efficiency , and on the same principles as before , and will continue to prove itself the fearless and uncompromising advocate of the rights ofthe Irish people . Subscription ( hi all cases payable in advance)—Yearly , £ 1 Is . SO . ; Ealf-rcariy , 10 s . Md . ; Quarterly , 5 s . 3 d . ; Single Paper , 3 d . Subscribers to the former Series will received tbe paper SIS usual Ail communications to be addressed to WniUHDusBAB . at the Office ofthe irtsliaiH , Uo . 4 , Anglesea-street ( near Danie-street ) , Dublin . Agents for London . —3 Ir . G . Borrdeo , 9 , Beech-street , Barbican ; Mr . L . T . Clancy , 30 , Chiswell-street , Finsbnry ; Mr . "W . Scales , Shoreuiteh ; Mr . J . Porter , 3 , Marjlebonelane , Oxford-street ; Mr . J . O'Brien , 6 , Bunstan ' s-conrt , Pleet-street .

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      CTJEES FOR THE TJXCUltED ! HOLLOWAT'S OINTMENT An Extraordinary Cureof Scrofula , or Sing ' s

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      OLD PAX 3 GATHEBIXG DERBa .

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      Education for the Millions . THIS BAY IS PUBLISHED , ; Ko . XI . 6 ? " THE IfAMII IlSfSTEOCm " PRICE ONE PENNY . The object ofthe Proprietor , Famous O'Couvoh , Es < j ., M . P ., is to place vrithiu the reach of tbe poorest classes that Political and Social Information of which they are at present deprived by the Government" Taxes on Knowledge . " In addition to a serial history of the " Life and Adventures of Famous O ' Connor from his Boyhood , " it will contain Essays by the best writers on all threading Questions ofthe day , written in an earnest , honest , arid impartial spirit ; Tales and Sketches , illustrative of tbe working of our present Social and Political System ; Reviews and abstracts of New Books of a useful and instructive character , and Miscellaneous Informatiou ,- « uited alike for the I amusement and instruction of tbe fireside . As " THE NATIONAL INSTRUCTOR" ia designed to improve and elevate the Political and Social Condition , of the Working Classes , its columns will fee opened for fair and temperate discussion upon all the questions affecting their welfare , and it will thus become a truthful and living exponent of public opinion . . SIXTEEN LAEGE OCTAVO PAGES , ' Price One Penny . CONTENTS OF No . XI . Social and Educational Condition of the Labouring Classes on the Continent . The Secret . Life and Adventures of Feargus 0 ' Connor . A Day in the Highlands . The Venetian Republic of 1818 . Gleanings . Now Ready , THE SECOND MONTHLY PART , Stitched into a Wrapper . Prico Fourpence . CONTENTS OF PART HI . Antagonism of Machinery and Manual Labour . The Secret . ( Continued . ) Life and Adventures of Feargus 0 ' Connor , Esq ., M . P . ( Continued . ) Louis Kossuth . A Biography , Thoughts for . Time . - Gleanings . . The Labour Movement in the United States . Louis Blanc . A Biography . Adolpbe Boyer . Physical Force Revolutions . The Round Towers of Ireland . Social and ' Educational Condition of tbe labouring Classes on the Continent . Continental Peasant Proprietors . A Dav in the Highlands . The Venetian Rephblic of 184 S . SIXTY-FOUR LARGE PAGES , PRICE 4 PENCE . Orders and Advertisements to be sent addressed to the office of the Northern Star , London ; or to A . Hey wood , Manchester ; W . Love , and G . Adams , Glasgow ; Robinson and Co ., Edinburgh ; J . Sweet , Nottingham ; J . Guest , Birmingham . The "National Instructor" will be supplied bj all the London Booksellers and News-agents . '

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      TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her Majesty Qmen Victoria , and H . R . H , Prince Albert .

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      NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . ' Office , li , Southampton-street , Strand . Ihe Executive Committee hereby announce the following meetings : On Sunday afternoon , August 4 th , at three o ' clock , the Metropolitan Delegate Council will meet for the despatch of business , at 26 , Golden lane . On Sunday evening ( same date ) , Mr . ' Bezer will lecture on' What the Charter will obtain , ' at the King and Queen , Foley-street . On the same evening a lecture will be delivered at the Bricklayer ' s Arms , Tonbridge-street . On the same evening Messrs . Lenn and Finlen will attend from the Democratic Propagandists , at the Whittington and Cat , Church-row , Bethnal-green .

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      EMIGRATION TO NORTH AMERICA . W TAPSCOTT AND CO ., SHIPPING and Emigration Agents , Liverpool , continue to despatch First Class Ships—To NEW YORK-every Five Days . To NEW ORLEANS-cvery Ten Days . To BOSTON aud PIIILADELPHU .-e . ver 5 Fifteeu Days . And occasimally to BALTIMORE , CHARLESTON , SAVANNAH , QUEBEC , andSt JOHNS . Drafts for any amount , at sight , on New York , payable ia any part of the United States . Tapscott ' s "Emigrant's Guide" sent free , on receipt of Four Postage Stamps . . tiW About twenty-eight thousand persons sailed for the New World , inTapseott'sliw of America * Packets . in 1849 .

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      AMONG THE MANY DISCOVERIES XX tbat characterise the present age , none have contributed so much to tbe comfort and ease of . the community , nor conferred such a boon upon suffering humanity , as the important discovery of Blaie ' s Goto and Rheumatic Pills , tbe efficacy of which has been tested by tlfe approval aud recommendation of many of the greatest men of our day . They are effective for gout and rheumatism in all its various forms , including sciatica , lumbago , pains in the bead and face , frequently treated as toothache , & b , They require neither confinement nor attention of any kind , and invariably prevent the disease attacking the stomach , brain , or other vital part In' testimony of which Mr . Blake , Kingscliffe , Northamptonshire , writes—

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      Brother Chartists Beware ! . " of Wolves in Sheeps ' Clothing . " RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS !! THE CRUEL IMPOSITIONS nptm tbe unwary i > y a gang of youthful self-styled doctors , some of whom for obvious reasons assume foreign names , and others the names of eminent Enplish practitioners , forge testimonials , and have recourse to other practices equally base , from Journals that never existed . Such for instance , as professing to produce Whiskers , Hair , & c , in a few weeks , and advertising under the name of females to give the character of persons from their writing , should induce those afflicted with Rupture to use great judgment twhom

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      . WORKS' BLPREPARiTION , ' By ERNEST JOHE ^ ; : ' Of the Mddle Temple , BarrUter-at-Iaw , To bi published , uniform with , the Magarines , Oft the ls » of September , ,. <'"' " ¦ ("•¦' TH Ei N E TV WORLD , A Political Poem , dedicated to the people of THE UNITED QUEENDOM , " . AND OP ; , ' . . ;' . ' . " . ¦¦ . ¦! : - THE UNITED STATES , . ' . . . . ; i- . , With copious notes , addressed especially to tb . 8 Working Classes . ' On the 1 st of October , ' - . B ELD AG ON CHURCH , A Religious Poem , dedicated to ' THE PEOPLE OF HALIFAX . AND .... - ' "WESTMINSTER PRISON , Dedicated to the Exiles and Prisoners of 1848 .

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      On Monday and Tuesdaj I shall be engaged in making out a list of defaulters , with amount of debts due , and am authorised to , hand ; over thesame , instanter , to W . P . Roberts , Esq ., Also , after this datej I shall discontiiiue ' tlie paper to all who are in arrears ;' . •' . '"' <• * ' . " ' . ' . ' : , W . Rider . '¦ ..-THE PORTRAITS . V ' : : We have run out of some of the Portraits , but have ordered a further supply , on receiving -which , all orders will be attended ; toi Several w-ho have sent their orders will , thus know the cause of delay .: . ; : '

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      NorriNCHAH . —Mr . J . Sweet begs to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums ( sent herewith ) vi » .: — For Winding-up Fond : —Mr . Stafford , Is ; J ' . ' Bradford , 3 d ; S . Bradford , 3 d ;; J . Mills ,-84 ; J . Allkini ' Sd ; Mr . Marshall , Is ; Mr . Beat , Is ; T . Roberts , Ga ; WV Hall , 6 d ; Mr ; Wardley . Gd ; J . Towle , Cd ; W . ; Parker ,, la ; J . Parr , Is : K . Koberts , Is ; J . Broxholme , sen ,,, la ; J , Br « xholme , jun ., 6 d . WciDiSQ-np Fosn . —Babsstame . —The undersigned mem . berg of this branch have agreed to pay the sum of 3 d per share towards defraying the above expenses . The names are as follows : —> V . Clement , sixteen shares , 4 s ; J . Bowden , four ditto , Is ; J . Bow den , four ditto , Is ; T . Flood , six ditto , Is 6 d ; R . Cure , four ditto , Is ; J . . Gun , Is ; Mr . Stoyle , three ditto . 9 d ; F . 'Ess ' cry , three

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      - = ' . rCHE HOME MARKET . V- \ . Numerous indications load to the inference that , at no very distant date , we shall have a Protectionist Ministry , in powen . Tha , Whig reign is-fast drawing to its natural , / . close ,. amidst the general disgust and contempt which their unprincipled , inconsistent , - reactionary ; and peddling policy alway ' s ' exciteB . The'Whigs " and something more" do not yet possesssufficient Parliamentary cohesion—or the ; courage to walk alone- —which are requisite to their taking office ; For a brief period , therefore ; we agree with Mr . Roebuck -in thinking we may look forward to a Protectionist Ministry . We have already stated that , politically , we

      see nothing to fear from such an event ; but , on the contrary , everything to hope . So long as the Whigs areallowed , under the name of " Liberals , " to play at Tories , all hopeofrepresentativereform and political progressmay be abandoned . " Finality" is Lord John ' s practice , if he abjures the profession in words ; and his retention of office , by dividing the so-called Liberal party , prevents that vigorous and determined effort for the reformation of existing abuses , and the removal of acknowledged inequalities , which would otherwise be made . But there is another aspect in which the advent of the Protectionist party to power may be looked at . What influence would it have upon the material and social condition of the labouring classes ? Their leading orators

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      especially af ^ rights of . 'iiabouTi ., Their i great theme , ^ upon airbccaaioiis ; is protection ' for "iiative . iniiustry , " and they allegethat theyarel reused into active opposition to Free Traded mainly , because df . the ruinousarid , deteriorating effect which it has upon the condition of > the labour- . ing ' ciassefl (" ¦ . ¦ ¦' ¦¦ - : ' ' ' •' '" ; .: NoonewillsuppoBethat-wehare the slig htest sympathy witha i parfy which , ; howeter ;] iberal in its professions on this point ,, is notoriously seeking the promotion of its own , interests . The re-imposition of duties * on the food of the lefor the advantage of any particular

      peop , class of the community , would , m itself ,, he a political crime . The attempt , we sincerely believe , would be so dangerous . to . any party whatever , that it will scarcely be . Bcnously attempted ; ' and , if ; the attempt be made , . have no doubt Whatever , that it will fail . . Ihe Protectionists must accept the 'free importation bf provisions as un fait accompli—>' a great fact" in ouv social machinery , to which they must learn to , reconcile themselves ,-and to which it will be true statemanship to adapt all the other portions of the machineiy of the

      State as early and as effectually as possible . : But it . is quite ' possible for the landlord class , while seeking . their own interests , to do so by means which will at the same time promote thoie ofthe country at large ; and should any portion of them have the good sense ancl the foresight to take Jsuch a course , the , genuine reformer will not he stupid enough to raise the bigotted and prejudiced cry— " Can any good come out of Nazareth ?"; or refuse to 'discuss measures merely becaose they , are piopbunded by landlords .

      Wo have repeatedly urged , that the - great rock a-head , to which all our statesmen ought steadily and specially to direct their attention , is the impossibility of finding profitable : work , and comfortable subsistence under our present commercial and ' nianufacturing systemr It is , in the ^ eryessence of that system , to stimulate increased production of ¦ 'textile fabrics hy means which- at the same time , diminish . ' . ' the ' consuming powers of the masses who depend upon manual labour for existence . This system is fast spreading in every densely

      populated country—open and neutral markets iri consequence grow yearly more scarce the competition / grows annually , ' more . fierce and more fatal to the chance of obtaining either remunerative profits , or living wages . The failure of the cotton crop in the United States , this year , will be all but certain to throw the manufacturing districts into a state of extreme distress , -while it . will as inevitably , tend to giy . e the factory owners va . America an -: immense advantage over us , " which it will not be easy to overcome when a plentiful crop again

      occurs . '; , : ti . . . . ... . ^ . Under these circumstances , any plan which purposes . ' tb " ' ! find reproductive and profitable employment for ^' nativeindustry" at home , which is likel y to render our fields more productive ,, and the nation more self-su ' stainirig , deserves attention ^ no matter who may ; propoiirid it , or what may be ; the . .. motives . by which they are actuated . ¦ : . . - ¦¦• ; : . ¦ ¦¦ . ¦ ¦ ; Mr ., Bpsfieid 'Fbbrand has projected a scheme of this kind called'" The Wool and

      Flax League . " With his ; motives ; m" originating it we have , no sympathy whatever , any morethaniwe have with the coarse , violent , and . ¦ infuriated ' -invectives , and the grossly ex aggerated statements , with which he is in the habit of enforcing his yieSvar' We do hot forget that Mr . FerrandJ in 1848 , was onei'df the most zealous perBecutors of the Chartists , ; in his own locality , and that too under circumstances which rendered : his ; conduct much less excusable than that of others placed in his position . ' Mr ! '; Febrand ; had done what very few , ' ?' . ^ Justices ' , of the Peace "j in . > the , Riding had done . He had stood on the same platforms with the Chartists , had mixed

      famiJiariy . with them in- Committee and in public meetingSjfor the furtherance of an ; oh-, ject . common to ^ ihemhoth— -the Ten , Hours Bill . . Misapprehensions or exaggerated fears might exist in the minds '; of magistrates who had : not enjoyed the same opportunities of closely , observing and aiccurately ascertaining the gehuinejentiwents of the working classes On' ! Social ; and / . ' Political questions .. Mr . Ferrand could offer no excuse on this ground , and : this exuberant loyalty , which ; We may almost' say degenerated into , brutality , was , therefore , all the more offensive' and unpardonable . Even now his speeches are ] evidently pervaded more by , a desire to strike down the manufacturers ' ' and their -. " . blood-stained

      cotton , " than from the far higher ' and nohler motive of diffusing ; , general prosperity among all classes ! of , the community byU ^ . right application of the land , labour , skill and < capital at the ! disposal ; of the nation . ¦¦ - .: ¦ -. -. While we deemitour duty to'disclaim , ' both upon personal and general grounds , any sympathy with Mr . Ferrakd , or with ' his special motives for the course he is persuing , \ v 6 : feel bound , at the same time , most unhesitatingly to stated that the principle and policy involved in the . ' , Farmers' Wool and Flax Association , proves , ihat the Protectiohist party- —as a party —have a far more accurate idea ; of the real nature ' of the disease which afflicts the . body politic' than their , antagonists— " the Manchester School ' ' of Political Economists . Work

      arid-wages , more real wealth' produced from our own soil by our o \ yn industry ; such is the onlyradicalcure ,, accompanied , of course ,, by improved and . equitable distributive arrangements . ; With ' -respect to the-first point , we shall let Mr . FERRAND ' speak for himself , . as he is reported in the SiiffolkCHrowle to have spoken at a , great Protectionist gathering at Stowrharket last week " . — ' . ¦ : ' > : ; What do I propose to you , this evening , for the purpose ofavrestiriK—I will use theAVOrd arresting—the mild word , arresting— this fearful , this , mad ,, this , revolutionary ; system ? i'hat you should join , with mp ,. and therestof the people of this country , in . forming a Favmevs' Wool and

      Flax Association . ' { Loud cheers . ) Why , how else can . we bring these men to coinm'bn sense , to pause for one -instant ' and consider , what an awful state they are bringing the country to by trusting toslaves in America for the vawmatcrial of their trade ! . Andjpu shall hear from me , and I would ask these Lancashire cotton spinners to listen also to what I say , and to what you also coincide iu , and to see if they themselves are not pursuing a mad , , a wild , a sui . cidal ^ arcer , iri the policy which they have adopted in ' demanding that Manchester Free . Trade should be carried out ? Now , we pay , £ 40 , 000 , 000 a year , at this present time , for the raw material of ouv manufacture . And to whom , ? To foreignersV ; ( Hear , hear . ) £ -10 , 000 , 000 a year to . foreiRners , and ^ we cou ld produce the whole Of that £ 40 . 000 . 000

      worth ofpropertynporiourownsoil . -We pay £ 20 , 000 , 000 a , year .-for . the' blood-stained' slave . grown jcotton , mid £ 20 , 000 , 000 foe . flax , '' hemp , ' linseed , ' -. oil enke , and'vvool , every atom of . which we could , produce ourselves . -, In the year 1817 the farmers of Great : Britain . and Ireland were possessed of 41 , 000 , 000 sheep . They produced , to the manufacturers ofthlscountry 730 , 000 bales 6 f wool . Tho 'foreigners and the colonies'produced 298 , 000 bales . Tito wool used- by manufacturers in -this : country amounted to 1028 000 bales . , The slave-grown cottonjbales used in the Home Market amount to 1 , 000 , 009 bales . Now , then , I propose'to' supersede this 1 , 000 , 000 bales of , blood-stained slave-afown cotton by the wool ofthe farmers of England . ( Hearbearand cheer s . ) . Hear , how you shall do it . You

      , , shall supersede 600 , 000 bales of cotton by producing 300 , 000 bales of wool , wool lasting twice as long as cotton . ( Hear , hear- ) I say twiee . ' as long , to be witWn the mark , but I fearlessly assert that it lasts lour times as long as their ¦ Manchester devil dust cotton . Now you shall produce 200 , 000 bales of flax to supersede the remaining' 400 , 000 bales of cotton . Dy so doing you drive out of this country the . 1 , 000 , 000 . blood-stained slave-grown bales or . cotton , which we now consume in the Home Market . Then , to produce tho wsol : Listen how , easily , this may be done . Ponder well upon it , and you , can , place the Lancashire cotton spinners as easily' at your ft-et as yioii can count your sheen to-rnoriw taorning . ( Ltuighter and cheers . ) If you have onlv the will to perform the deed it is all that is

      required . To produce thewool ndd ' 12 J per cent .-lambs to jour usual reserve stock for two years , and each year grow 100 , 000 acres of flax . ; Thus you . make Great Britain independent of the blood-stained sIave gro wn cotton , as far as the garments of this people are concerned , and in six years you will supersede the whole 2 , 500 , 000 bales bf cotton now consumed , 1 , 600 , 000 being the consumption of these Lnncashire cotton sp inners for carrying on their export trade . Therefore , in six years from this time \ yo would not only make ourselves entirely independent of foreigners for the supply of the raw material , for the clothing we use , but , we add , the British soil would provide these blustering , bullying cotton spinners ivitli lioen sufficient to provide the whole of their export trade . ( Loud cheers . )

      Now , certainly there is nothing in the plan proposed by Mr . Ferrand that is either impracticable or impossible . The additional per centage of lambs could certainl y be added to the usual reserve stock , and the 100 , 000 acres of flax could he grown . There is land enough and capital enough to do both ; and everybody

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      who ia not crazed byi the sophistrier - pf "Polrf tical Economy " must See the employment q . capital and labourori our own soil , to , produce £ 4 O , OiW , OO 0 worth of real wealth erer year more than we do now , must bo an , advantage to the country at large . ¦ ¦' ¦ No doubt we shall be told that our imports have to be paid for by British industry , in some way . or other ; that if we import forty millions Iworth of foreign raw mater ial we pay for it by exports of articles-on which " native industry" has been employed . To a certain extent that is true , though we believe that a careful examination ofthe nature of . these imports would show the , amount > of , manual latheir to be vastl

      bour required for production y over estimated ) But whatever may he' its amount is a matter ' of . little ; importance , compared with the establishment of a new market for labour , and a new home trade , so vast as that which would necessarily follow the practical adoption ofthe Wooland Flax League . Mr . Warnes , of Norfolk , has , by a series of carefully conducted , experiments , upon' a somewhat extensive scale , demonstrated that flax may be made in this country one of the most profitable crops grown by the farmer , while , at the same time , its peculiar nature , and the numerous processes it has to pass through before being ready for the manufacturer , would absorb a large and diversified amount of labour and skill . Ab to

      the amount of capital , that would be readily supplied , if Mr . Ferrand , and the promoters of the league , would advocate it as a healing and a national measure , instead of a vehicle for working out a wild and infuriated vengeance upon the millowners for having deprived them of protection . There is no necessity for the Lancashire cotton spinners being cast down at . the feet ofthe farmers , or being —as Mr . Ferrand threatens—made bankrupt in a twelvemonth hencey unless' they give up "theblood-stained slave-grown cotton . " After all it is not by mutual divisions , and by the alienation of one portion' of the industrial

      classes from another , that national safety and prosperity can be produced ; Let Mr . Ferrand and his friends do right , and leave the wrong to its own inevitable termination and punishment . The . cotton , manufacture- ia altogether of so artificial and fictitious a nature , that its end , as a basis for the . permanent industrial supremacy , or the general wellbeing of this country , cannot be far distant . Let those who own and ' cultivato land—those who possess capital , bestir themselves in time , to replace that system by one , which will bring into full and beneficial operation , the latent powers of our soil , and . the energies of our in . dustrious and enterprising people . : '

      Disgraceful Conduct Of A Minister,/ . , ...

      DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF A MINISTER , / . , ' , ' . On Thursday night Mr . O'CONNOR put the following ; question to Groodenough Hayterj one '; of the Secretaries of the Treasury , and who / was Chairman of the Land Committee ; ¦ He said— " That a man of the name of Somerville , but better known by the name of the 'Whistler ;' at the Plough , ' and who had been , dismissed from the army , and convicted of several atrocious acts of fraud , had recently issued a circular to the . Manchester School , stating , the enormous expense "; and

      inconvenience to which he had been subjected for abusing the National Land Company ; he stated ; that . the Manchester Examiner not only invited his . falsehoods , but remunerated him handsomely tor the matter : that Mr . Grreg , one of the Manchester Scholars , had re : cently , supplied him with ten pounds , no doubt for Ms antagonism . to the Land Company . '; but the important part of his ( Mr . O'Connor ' s ) question had peculiar reference to the right hon . ' secretary for the Treasury . The 'Whistler' stated that he had given the hon . Chairman , of the Land Committee secret

      information upon the , subject ^ and that ( the Chairman ) was the only party from -whom he received remuneration for his valuable services . . And the question which he ( Mr . O'Connor ) would put to the , right hon ; gentleman was . this—whether the . remuneration came out of his own pocket , or out ofthe secret service fund ? " : .. Mr . Hayter , itfreply , "after eulogising the character of this hypocritical rascal , stated , that he j ? aid the money oat of iris . own POCKET . *

      Now , what will the reader say to a member of the Government , ; ' appointed as the Chairman . of a Committee by the' Government , and whose office was of great importance- —what will the reader , say to this . Ministerial officer paying money , out of his own pocket , for secret information , in the hope of damning the character of a gentleman , who , like him , * has not been a juggler' in English , Belgian , and Flemish Railways ? . Wont the ' ¦ people say that they are honestly , represented ? And wont they- say that the - juggler was well christened' by the riame : of . " Gooderiough Hayter ? " which would have been better had it been . "Gopdenbugh Cheater . ! '

      A Sham Franchise. , " • A Compromise ' O...

      A SHAM FRANCHISE . , " A compromise ' of the dispute between the two ; Houses , as to the Irish Franchise , has been ' offered by the Government ; - They propose £ 12 instead of £ 15 , a ' s ' the qualification ,-thus throwing overboard : their own proposal of £ 8 , and they restore ; the clauses which provide for a self-acting register . of the ^ votes . Considering . the large and ^ decided ' , majorities by which the pleasure passed the Commons , the urgent need . for . at least such an increase

      ottheelectoral body . aswas . proposed , and the fact that the Representative House was ? dealing with a . question' peculiarly its . own , we thmkLord : John iwould . not have exhibited any V yefy extraordinary intrepidity- and : courage ^ Jn insisting . upon .. the ¦? ' whole Bill . " The Irish members were decidedly of . this opinion , and those who did . vote in favour of the compromise did so most reluctantly , and with ah open warning that the question would be re-ppened next , session , ; But of what use will that be ? The Premier has gotten rid of " a difficulty . " ; He will look upon the

      Compromise as a final , settlement ; and without the aid of the Treasury bohch , there is no chance of thelrishmembers carrying any further extension of the , Suffrage ; in the present Parliament . ¦ The matter may ,- therefore , be taken as -virtually settled for the present . And what a settlement ! If the "Whigs had not long since lost the capacity of blushing ; for their-. political sins , the whole of the Treasury bench would have coloured up to the ears at Sir W . Somerviixs' ' allusion' to" the late election for Mayo , and-his emphatic assertion that , low as were the

      estimates of the existing county constituencies he had not the slightest hesitation in saying the actual numbers were not . ohe-half ! If Mayo ' is to be taken as an illustration , " certainly that assertion falls short of the truth . The ^ estimated number was between five and six hundred , for a count y with upwards of three hundred thousand inhabitants . The number actually polled , with great difficulty , was only two hundred and thirty-three votes J To say that this is a flagrant and most monstrous mockery of a representative system , is t

      o say the least of it . , The existence of such a sham in the midst of us keeps other shams in countenance , and demoralises public opinion and public men , by accustoming them to practical falsehoods , made current , and sanctioned by tho law as solemn truths tbatdaveto face daylight . Such is the terror of the territorial feudalists at the idea of the people having any share in governing themselves , thatthey wouldgladly reduce the conBtituencv even below two hundred voters for three hundred thousand inhabitants . Nothing is so frightful to these gentlemen , * $ * J ^ §

      A Sham Franchise. , " • A Compromise ' O...

      ; extension of ^ the ; Democratic element . They denounce it as certain . to be followed by the disruption of all social ties , ' the aabyergibn of every institutions the countryi' and the » npreniacy of mob'laflr . / . ^ p these calumnious and unfounded asseptions Mr / . MooKE replied by a strikinfe illustration , of the social consequeiaces of the preflent / narroW' and restricted suffrage .. ' Two freeholders , who had voted for him , were attacked , in their houses' during the night , and their ears cropped ^ for the offence I "In fact , ' ? said he , " the fewvoters living ia an extensive district , where all others are shut

      lout from the exercise ; of'the franchise , might [ as well be placed in . the midst of a pack of wolves , " Ah extension pf the franchise , so far from leading to ' . ' mob law , '' ie necessary to protect the constituency from it ; and as to the " social ties , " and the "institutions " which such a measure would " subvert , " we presume that ear-cropping and lawless violence , only to be paralleled by the attack of a pack of wolves oh the defenceless traveller , are not meant by these terms . If so , the sooner such " ties" are severed , and such institutions subverted , the better .

      The Irish Franchise Bill was the only measure which had a shadow of a claim to the credit of being calculated to produce general benefits ; though falling far , very far , short of the justice of the case , it was yet a very great improvement upon the * existing state of things * The Lords have emasculated it , and in its mutilated and shattered condition we think it would have been better to have left the whole question over to another session . The

      miserable apology which the Irish members accepted for an enfranchising measure , will , we very much fear , prove an insurmountable obstacle to a bona fide measure for some years to come—tbat is , unless the said members and the English members , who call themselves " Liberals , " . do not ; resolve to leave tha Ministry to fight their own battles ^ and determine tbat they will no longer be dragged through the mire , to maintain in office a reacnary Tory Government .

      Parliamentary Eeview. Tbe Jew Question—A...

      PARLIAMENTARY EEVIEW . TBE JEW QUESTION—ANOTHER v 7 HICf JOB , -THE SABBATARIANS AGAIN . .. A large portion of the time' of . the Lower House has been occupied this week With the Jew question , which stands over for further consideration until next ? week . Every step hitherto taken by the House and the Government has teen' from one blunder to another , until at length they seem to be helplessly and ludicrously involved in the meshes of a web of their own manufacture , from which it will be difficult to extricate themselves . They were

      quite unprepared for so bold and decided a course on the part of the citizens of London , and in the trepidation caused by the unexpected- manner in which the question was urged upon them , they lost their self-possession ) and with it their cunning . The only result of their shifts and dodges at the present moment is , that Baron Rothschild is , undoubtedly , two-thirds a member , and , if the land-2 Victoria is strictly construed , he is fully entitled to . his , seat , having taken all the oaths in the manner proscribed by that statute . . It is curious that the

      provision of thatact'by which , it . is directed that oaths , shall be ' administered " on all occasions whatsoever , " in that form which the party to besworn shall declare to be " the most binding upon his conscience , '' should be so little known . : The first , and , as far as we know , the only ease vk wnich the benefit of that provision was claimed = and-acted upon , was in Leeds , in the year 1840 , upon the occasion when ^ the New Moral World , an unstamped publication , was- prosecuted by the stampoffice , for publishing parliamentary intelligence . The defence to that prosecution was , that , astheorgan'ofthe Socialists ; it had not published " general intelligence , " but had

      only ^ extracted from the parliamentary debate ' s ; that portion which referred to the body it represented , arising out of the attack of the Bishop of Exeter .- Robert Owen , the venerable father of English Socialism , was examined , upon the trial before the magistrates , and on the oath being . tendered to him , requested , to give his evidence on affirmation . Hewasaskedwhetherhe was a & uaker , Separatist ; * or'Moravian , these being the only parties in whose favour a special statutory exemption has been made . He replied in the negative , but handed up the provision of the statute of Victoria as that . upon which he based his claim ; -The magistrates retired , to consult

      upon a point which was evidentl y new to them , the act having just passed , and on ' theirreturn allowed the claim , and Mr . Owen ' s evidence , given on - . affirmation , was . mainly the means of defeating the Stamp Office . The first information having failed , the others : Were withdrawn . - ¦ •' . ¦ ¦;¦ . Mr . "Wood has fished up this statute , and argues that it applies to oaths , on the taking of all offices whatsoever , in as well as out of Parliament ; while Sir R . Inglis : and the bigots - contend , ' ; on the other hand , that its operation is limited to offices and places not in

      Parliament , , Now there is no such limitation in the clause , and the mere fact that there has , as yet , been no precedent , is no reason why the manner in which Baron Rothschild took the oath should not constitute a precedent for the future . The opponents of the admission ofthe Jews . take advantage of every verbal and technical point in their favour , even when they know thaty according to the spirit of the law , they have no locus standi ; and we see no reason wh y the Member for the City , and hia friends , should be more scrupulous in availing themselves of every facility M'ithin their reach in this respect .

      ' ¦ It would , undoubtedly , have been far more honourable and straightforward if the Government and the Legislature had decided , by an open and deliberate act , ' . that , tin ' s last relic and vestige of an intolerant and bigotted systern should be abolished ; butj as the Iukewarmness ofthe one , and the bigotry of the other , have combined , for three years , to partially disfranchise the city of London , WO are happy that they have been coerced into the consideration of the matter / and we earnestly trust it willend in tho triumph of the great principle of civil and religious equality . *

      ¦ ¦ Forseeing the approach of a crisis , and the dissolution . of the Ministry , Lord John is diUgently employed in making political capital tor a future flay . We chronicled and . commented upon one job to please the Court , last week . The extravagant dotation to the young Duke of Camrridge , and the other members of that family , has this week been followed up by another , evident job in favour of the Prince of Wales . By inheritance , the oldest son of the Sovereign is entitled to the revenues of tho . Duchy of Cornwall , which ar 6 > believed to be amply sufficient' for hia maintenance , without rendering him

      burdensome tp tne people . At all events , the accumulation of . the revenues during his minority ought to produce a very fine capital to start the world with on his coming of age ; which , as a scion of Royalty ,- ho will do three vears sooner than ordinary mortals . Endowed with an ample revenue at nine years of aee we mig htharesupposed that the heir-apparent would give us no trouble for some vears to Kv th 6 TRfIER ' ^ hCfaCing & £ h ^ i atiDg : ^ rosity , which Qistmgui 8 hes him lhas : contrived to manufac S o ° \ - Clah J U ? ° Courfc faTOur « O ' u-IS ^ ° l beU 3 g , deaPised and deserted by the People , it would appear as though the Whir /

      pauy contemplate j a future to depend on bac ] ^ stairs influence , and corrupting bribes at the ralace . Marlborough House , the residence ot the late Queen Dowager , reverted with , her enormous pension of ^ 100 , 000-auothec

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 3, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_03081850/page/4/