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    • THE NORTHERN STAB SAXUUDAV, JUNE V, I85l
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      3 > TJ BARRY'S HEALTH * f ™ S FOOD THE REVALESTA ARABIOA . r < ATJTlON .-The most ^ s ^ ano ^ n V jurious compounds neing swo ^ d j ^^ ! AtorS npouthecreduliryof U ^^|[ EVAljENTA ^ tion ofthe n * neof ^ " ^ f being similar to that de-BICAFOOD , or wtA « P « to . f ™ la ^ , ConrtipalidoM anainvalnaWereffl ^? £ ^ pf ^ MeKrs . DU tion . Nervous . BiIions . aw « , —jngt these harefeced . BARRYand <^ «^ ° ^ is ^ ? ing in the whole attempts at ^ P »^^ ^ timatelybecaUedsnnL 4 ato ^^ S ££ and Co . on tow estates alone , andfor the pre-} £ ^ oTsai pulverisation of which theu 1 own ratent iSiryalone ^ adap ted , let Com Chaadlersjelltheir «« rheaos lentil , and other meals un 3 ertileir proper ¦ SSi andnot trifle with the health 0 ? Invalids and In-£ ?' to £ m > U & W' S REYALES 1 A AHABICA ^ S ^ Co .. l 27 , KewBon ^ treet , Ionaon . _ . toe

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      Ihavefonnd it to be a simple , though very efficacious and pleasant food , doing Rood in my own and other functional disorders . ( Uev . ) Chahles Keer , Winslow , Bucks , Jan . 22 nd , 1848 . Gentlemen , —lam happy to be awe to inform you , that the person for whom the former quantity was procured , has derived very great benefit from its use ; distressing symptoms of long standing have been removed , and a feeling of restored health induced . Haring witnessed the beneficial effects in the above-mentioned case , I can with confidence recommend it , and shall have much pleasure in so doing whenever an opportunity offers , & c . I am , gentlemen , ver y truly yours , James Shoriand , late Surgeon 90 tw Regt , 3 , Sydney-terrace , Reading , Berks , December 3 rd , 1847 . . t Some time has now elapsed sinca the lady ( who had been an invalidfor thirteen years tor want of digestion , accompanied with cough and general prostration of Strength ) for whom 1 procured your Arabica Food , has been using it daily as directed , and 1 am happy to say that it has produced a most salutary change in her system .-- James Porteb , Athol-street , l ' erth , Hay 2 nd , 1848 . Dear Sir , —Your excellent Arabica Food has completely restored my stomach , nerves , and liver , which has been disordered for nearly twenty years past , and my health is now everything ! could wish , and has been so these three months past , & c . Anoeew Fbazeb , Haddington , East Lothian , March 3 rd , 1849 . k ¦• ¦*» „ i . (!^ . a «_ l »« l *»__ a « Afihit aIiama < inri mnnn

      The Northern Star. Jum 7, 1851.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . Jum 7 , 1851 .

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      - GICKAT AND IMPORTAN T Bim Eg * T » TO Alili UtABHES . rpHE UNITED PATRIOTS' NATIONAL fcENlFIT SOCIETY , AND J . BRITISH EKPIB ^ FREEHoLu IiaaiAJrDBTjn . BllSG ^ OCIETY . TJnitedin action . Enrolled And Empowered by Act of Parliament to extend oyer the United Kingdom . i ' ^ r 9 * romBEDTOF 0 B « ' l 0 CABTlESINAU . rABTS 0 FOKEATBBlTAI . Vi Bai *« w ,-. ThVfSercial Bank of London ( Branch ) 6 , Henrie t ta S t re et , Covent Garden . Society ' s Office . —No . 13 , Tottenham Court , Aetu Road , St . Pancrqs , London . - Basvel Wiuiah Kufft , Founder , Manager , and Secretary . —Ma . John SjflTa , Treasurer ; Socim ' s Meeting House .-. ' Lamb and . Flttg , ' Rose Street , New Street , Covent 6 arden . _ Meeting 8 every Tuesdav evening at Eight o ' clock , BENEFITS ASSURED IS THIS SOCIETr . The Member being Free to Half the Benefits in Six Months frem his date of entering . lneJtt 6 lstDiv . 2 nd . Div . 8 rd . Div . 4 th . Div . 5 th . Dir . 6 tll Dlv £ 8 . d . £ 8 . d . £ 8 . d . £ s . d . £ s . d . & - g , u ' Ip Sicknessn ? r Week 0 18 0 .... 015 0 .... 011 0 .... 0 90 .... 070 ., 07 0 BeathofMember 20 0 0 .... 16 0 0 .... 12 0 0 .... 10 0 0 .... 6 0 0 .. 2 10 0 Death of Member ' s Wife or Kominee 10 0 0 .... 80 0 .... 6 0 0 .... 5 0 0 .... 300 ., LossbyFire .. .. From £ -5 to 20 0 0 £ 5 to 20 0 0 £ 5 tol 5 0 OiotolO 0 0 £ 5 tol 0 0 0 .. 5 0 0 SuperaHnuation . perWeek .. .. 0 6 0 .... 0 6 0 .... 04 0 .... 0 " 4 0 .... 040 .. — For Medicine , Gift , "Widow and Orphan , Benefits , & e „ see and read the rules .

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      ADVANTAGES IN LAND AND BUILDING SECTION . OBJECTS . First—To enable Members to build dwelling-houses . Second To afford the means of purchasing both Freehold and Leasehold Houses or Land . Third . —To advance mortgages on property held by Mpniriprfi Fourth . —To enable mortgagees , being Members , to redeem their properly . Fifth . —To give to Depositing Members a hi g her rat e I of interest than is yielded by ordinary modes of investment . . Sixth . —To enable parents to make endowments for their children , or hatbands for their wives , or for marriage settlements . « Seventh . —To purchase apiece of freehold land of sufficient value to give a legal title to a county vote for Members of Parliament . ¦ Repayments for a Loan of £ 100 , with interest . Surveyor for examination of Property , and Expenses of Solicitor for executing Deed of Mortgage , paid by the Society . Term of Years . Monthly . Quarterly . ' I £ s . d . £ s . d . ' 5 Years . 2 4 2 6 12 4 10 „ 14 8 3 13 10 13 „ 10 8 3 0 11 1 G " I 0 18 2 2 14 4

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      EilHCKA TIOIV . rHfi BRITISH EMPIRE PERMANENT EMIGRATION AND COLONISATION SOCIETY .. To secure to each Member a Farm of not less than Twenty-Five Acres of Land in America , by small Weekly or Monthly Contributions . Losoo-V Office : —13 , Tottsiham-court , New-road , St , Pancras . —D . W . Bcfff , Secretary .

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      TOOTHACHE PRETESTED . Price Is . per packet ; pest-free , Is . Id . BRA NDE'S ENAM EL , for FILLING DECAYIXG TEETH , and RENDERING THEM SOUND AND PAINLESS , has , from its unquestionable excellence , obtained great popularity at home and abroad . Its curative agency is based upon a TRUE THEORY of the cause of Tooth-ache , and hence its great success . By most other remedies it is sought to kill the nerve , and so stop tlie pain . But to destroy the nerve is itself a very painful operation , and often leads to very sad consequences , for the tooth then becomes a dead sub . stance in the living jaw , and produces the same amount of inflammation and pain as would result from" any other foreign body embodied in a living organ . BRANBE'S ENAMEL does not destroy tAenerw , but by RESTORING THE SHELL OF THE TOOTH , completely protects the nerve from cold , heat , or chemical or other agency , by which pain is caused . By following the directions , INSTANT EASE is obtained , and a LASTING CURE Mows , Full instructions accompany every packet .

      The Durham Advertiser States That The Potato Dis

      The Durham Advertiser states that the potato dis

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      Folne of Shares , and Payments for Investors . Payment . Per Week . Per Month . ? ullShare £ 120 2 s . fid 10 s . 6 d . IalfShare £ GO Is . 2 Jd 5 s . 3 d . Juarter Share .. £ 30 0 s . 7 Jd 2 s . 8 Jd . Entrance Fee , including Certificate , Rule ; , & c , 4 s . per share , and 2 s . 6 d . for any part of share . No back sub-• criptions to pay . Persons can enter and be dated from the first Wednesday iu each month , In seven years the Benefit Society has paid te Us Members benefits in sickness , superannuation , los s by fire , and deaths , the sum of £ U , ' . l ' At In . Ild .: and has a capital at the present time , of from < £ 3 , 000 to C 4 t 00 f > . The surplus capital of the Benefit Section is invested in the Land and Building Section . N . B . —Persons can become Members of tbe Benefit and Provident Section , without being Members of the Land and Building Section , and vice versa . Meetings for the admission . of Members every Tuesday evening ; in the month , at eight o ' clock . Persons can enrol their names by paying the entrance money , any day , at , any time , at the Society ' s House or at the Office . Blank forms and information for the admission of Country Members , for appointing agents , & e ., can be obtained by'letter , prepaid , enclosing three postage stamps ; copy of Rules , of either Society twelve postage stamps , to 1 > . W . RUFFY , General Secretary . 13 , Tottenham Court , New Road , St . 1 ' ancras , London .

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      DO YOU WAST LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR , "WHISKERS , & c . ? THE immense public patronage bestowed upon Miss Ellen Graham ' s NIOUKRENE is sufficient evidence of its amazing properties In reproducing tfe human hair , whether lost by disease or natural decay , preventing the hair falling off , strengthening weak hair , and checking grejness . Itis guaranteed to produce Whiskers , Moustacuios , & c , in three weeks , without fail . Itis elegantly scented , and sufficient for three months' uae , will ^ irnlr fr , ec ' on rceeipt of 2 i P ° S stamps , by Mis s ELLEN GRAHAM , 6 . Ampton-strcet , Gray's-inn-road , London . Unlike all other preparations for the hair , it is free from artificial colouring and filthy greasiness , well known to be so iui urious to it .

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      R UPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED ¦ " > WITHOUT A TRUSS ! Dr . Alfeeo BABKEBbegs to inform the readers of the Nomhebn Stab that a Volume of Upwards of One Thousand Testimonials will shortly be published , BEAD THE FOLLOWING ' . — In ihe five cases I wrote to you about , the remedy has perfectly succeeded ; send me another for a caseof Scro . tal Hernia . '—John Armstrong , Navy Surgeon . ; ¦ " ' nu ave , vltues 6 cd t , l (; cure of three eases of Rupture . by Dr . Bahkek's treatment , which confirm the-remarks we made some time since on the utility of this discovery to those suffering from Hernia . ' -Medical Journal " . , \ ° r remedy has cured my Rupture after everything else had failed . I have used violent exertion since , but there is no sign of its coming down . ' -Miss Symmonds , Bajswater . J . '

      Dbeadful Bad Lecs Cored Bv Hollowav's. Ointment

      Dbeadful Bad Lecs cored bv Hollowav ' s . Ointment

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      ajio , —x < x . u <> . au :, uuuu aastman 'Eiso Merchant at Buenos Ayres , dated January 3 rd 1850 *" ' To Professor Hollowa;—My dear Sir . your Phis and Ointment are in very great repute here , and man y wonderful cu r es have been performed , by their' use ; one in particular I will relate . A Portuguese farmer , who had b > en confined to t h e hous e wi t h sore le g s f or more th anfive y ear s which rendered him quite incapable of following any work is now so p erf e c t l y cured by the use of your Pilh and Ointment that he can follow the plough and attend personally to the most laborious farming oaeupations . ' Tab local papers describe the weaving trade at Paisley to be ia a very gloomy state . , .. ; :

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      SOCIALISM IN THE ROYAL FAMILY OF ENGLAND . DOBE RT OWEN'S JOURNAL of ri thfl 15 th of June wiU ' contain a speech in favour of Wr Owen ' s elans made by His Royal Highness the Duke ^ fvZZt ¦ . - ¦ - " " ¦ innaii of . a meetly at K'bich a of K 8 » t IB iBl !/ , as uu . ' - , -Z '> n „ Ii !^ - Ota ' s committee ft , ' carrying ^ Jr 7 ^ S && formed / ofwhich committee tnelr aoval Wa nnesses Mb Dnkes ' oj Kent and Sussex . were memuers ; wun other information oii Aft same ' subject . r . , ' , - ¦ Mr Owen ' s discourse addressed to the delegates of the Human-Race'who attend the World ' s Fair , which he will deliver at the Institution , John Street , Fitzbov Sojube , " StMDAT . the 8 th inst , at seven p . m ., will be given in the number of the Journal for the 21 st . Published by Watson , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row . '

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      . No w Read y , Part I ., of « m H ¦ - E HOME . " \ , EDITED OT RICHARD 0 ASTLER . ' Price Sixpence . There can be no better medium for Advertising than ' The Home , 'it being extensively circulated among and read by numerous sections ofthe Clergy , Nobility , Gentry , and Working Men . London - —A . M . TAraAsr , 2 , York-street , Catherine street , . , Stran j 1851 .

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      PUBLISHING EVERY SATURDAY , NOTES TO THE PEOPLE . A new Periodical , to reflect the advanced mind ofthe age and prepare the people for the advent of popular pow , by ERNEST JONES , Of the Middle Temple , Barrister at Law . Containin g forty columns of close print ( besides wrapper )

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      Just Published , IN NOS . AT ONE PENNY EACH , THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO THE GOLDEN LAND fl A L I F O R N I A VJ ITS PAST HISTORY ; ITS PRESENT POSITION ; ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS-, Wrrfl A MI . VDTE AND AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOLD RE G ION , AND THE SUBSEQUENT IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS .

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      Shortly will be Published in Nos , at One Penny each , Splendidly Illustrated , k HISTORY OF TUB DIFFERENT EXPEDITIONS ENGAGED IN

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      NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Office , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand , r iUIE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ¦*• hereby announce tho following meetings : — On Sundaj next , at three o ' clock ia the afternoon , the Lambeth locality will meet at the South London Hall , and Mr . Pa tt inson , the sub-secretary , will be in attendance to enrol members . On Sunday evening next at the Crown and Anchor . Cheshire-street , Waterloo Town . On the same evening , at the Bricklayers'Arms , Tonbridge-street , New-road , a lecture will be delivered . On the same eveaiiig at the Vfoodin » n Tavern , Vfhite . stree t , Waterloo Town ; at six o ' clock the members of the locality will meet ; and at eight o ' c l ock a lec t ure will be delivered . On the samo evening at the Albemarle Coffee-house , Albemarle-strect , Clerkenwell , a meeting will be held . .

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      To The Enitor Of The Nortdebn Star.-Dear...

      TO THE EniTOR OF THE NORTDEBN STAR .-DEAR SlR , -1 am repeatedly receiving letters from various parts of the country to pay them a visit as a lecturer . I beg through you , to inform all my friends that I am so engaged on the week days that it is impossible for me . to pay any visits . cxcept on Sundays , and . then only to such a distance that I can come homo the same night ; but toi wards the close of , next month I shall take a fortnight ' s holiday from labour , when X shall be happy to employ fl portion of that limo in lecturing in any locality that need my serviees .-Yours , Thos ; Dickesson , 50 , Woodstreet , Dolefield , Manchester . —Manchester , June 3 rd Mr . D . Brown , Landerneau , France . —Yes , he paid the amount . , ' - ' ., " ¦ . J . S ., Chippenham . —It is discontinued .

      The Northern Stab Saxuudav, June V, I85l

      THE NORTHERN STAB SAXUUDAV , JUNE V , I 85 l

      Government And Chartist.Banking.'-. ' , ...

      GOVERNMENT AND CHARTIST . BANKING . ' -. ' , A statement of the facts relating to the defalcations in . the Rochdale Savings Bank , has beeii sent to : the members ' of the Legislature , preparatory to ; the" question being brought before Government and Parliament . <¦; Perhaps , there , never were two paseswhich more strikingly illustrated the truth of the old adage , that ^ one man may steal a horse

      with impunity , while another will get hanged forlookiiig . overthe hedge , " than-the Rochdale Savings ; Bank and the National- Land Company . . Let us briefly contrast the facts . : Savings Banks were . established under the sanction of special Acts-of Parliament , and the ; government exercised a direct control oxer the monies paid into them , by prohibiting the deposits ft : om being invested in other than Crdvernment funds . . : - ; These two . facts were enough to produce aa -apparently ; well-founded !& M general

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      belief that Government was directly responsible to the depositors . But , as if nothing should be wanting to confirm it . tha miau ¦ •¦ - - f . « ww " » e *« -w £ ft £ S * 2 nodical financial returns to J ' ;? " < v ? the i *" ' ctie Uotnuus"loners » r- -vuuetion of the National Debt ; who were , by the Act of Parliament , imperatively and distinctly required to lake measures which would protect the depositors in case of any defalcation . At the commencement-, of these banks the trustees were specifically responsible for the deposits ; but by an act passed in 1844 they were relieved from this liability . It is probable that not one in ten thousand of the

      depositors knew of the alteration , or if they did , they could hardly have supposed that the Government , by the change , meant to weaken the guarantees they previously possessed for the security of their small savings . Iu fact , there can be no dispute that the general impression under which monies were invested in these banks was , that they were as secure as if placed in the three per cents ., without being liable to the fluctuation in value caused by the speculative jobbers in stocks .

      Under these circumstances , it was discovered that tbe Actuary of the Rochdale Savings Bank was a defaulter to tho amount of nearly three-fourths of the whole sum placed in the bank . Out of deposits to the extent of 100 , 403 ? ., only 26 , 898 / . had been placed in the Government funds ; whereas , had the Commissioners done their duty , the proportion should at least have been reversed . This twenty-six thousand pounds , with about seventeen hundred more in the hands of tho local treasurer , constituted the whole of the cash in hand at the time the

      discovery of the actuary ' s defalcations was made . In all , some twenty-nine thousand pounds to meet liabilities to the extent of one hundred thousand pounds . ' To give a clearer idea of the culpable negligence—if not worse—which characterised the Government supervision of this bank , it may be added , that the money deposited by it in 1839 with the Government was 24 > 20 U . ; and yet , iu 1842—ten years after—notwithstanding interest to the amount of 1 0 , 000 ? ., had accrued , the cash standing to the credit of the bank in the Government

      books was only 26 , 8981 . 5 Such a state of things could not have taken place without the cognisance of the Government officers , who were directl y responsible , by Act of Parliament , and bound , by specific enactments , to give publicity to the disastrous condition of the bank , and thus have prevented further deposits from being made and additional loss incurred thereby .

      But when , in accordance with the general belief as to the legal responsibility of the Government , a claim was made for the deficit , the Chancellor of the Exchequer repudiated that responsibility . By a series of quibbles , more worthy of an Old Bailey Barrister than the Finance Minister of a great country , he established the fact , that in law the depositors had no claim against the' Treasury , but the moral and equitable responsibility could not be so easily got rid of .

      Other Savings Banks had failed about the same time , and the circumstances under which one of them—the CuuVstreet Bank iu Dublin —had failed , were so flagrantl y disgraceful to the government officials that Sir Charles Wood , while denying his legal liability as the representative ofthe Government , actually proposed to Parliament a grant which would make good about one half the losses of

      the depositors , and urged the wealthy classes of Dublin to subscribe , for the purpose of making up the other . Besides this , a bill was brought in—which , like many other "Whig bills , has never been passed —for the purpose oi giving a bona fide direct legal security to depositors—all of them acts acknowledging the Government to be a party immediately implicated in these transactions .

      The affairs of the Rochdale Bank have now been brought into a position which will enable them to be submitted to Parliament . In addition to the twenty-nine thousand pounds in hand at the time the defalcations were discovered , the sale of the Actuary ' s property has realised 16 , 000 ? ., the trustees and others have subscribed 17 , 480 ? ., making in all G 2 . 11 G / .,

      towards the original sum of 100 , 403 ? ., and leaving still a loss to the depositors of 38 , 287 ^ . The depositors think they have a right to call upon the Government and the Legislature to make up this loss to them , an opinion in which we entirely concur . To refuse the claim will reflect discredit on both . We hoar much of the preservation of the national faith , and the maintenance of the national

      credit ; u ever there was a case in which both are distinctly involved it is tbat ofthe Savings Banks . The Government authorised their establishment , provided , tho machinery , undertook the superintendence , monopolized the use of the investments in these banks , and fixed tho rate of interest to be paid upon them . Yet the parties who have thus induced the poor and prudent depositors in Savings Banks to entrust their scanty and hard-earned savings to their care , have no hesitation in

      availing themselves of technical loop-holes , in order to creep out of the responsibilities so openly incurred , and generally believed to exist . Nobody calls their characters in question—no one assails them with vituperation and abuse—" They are all honourable " --aye , even " right honourable men . ' ' Very different indeed is the view which the candid , honest , truth-loving critics of Mr . O'CONNOR take of the National Land Company and the Bank established in connexion with that Company . Though it was proved by the unimpeachable testimony of

      Government accountants , that not only every farthino of the money subscribed by the shareholders of the Company had been invested in the manner proposed by the rules , but that Mr . O'CONNOR ' S own monies had been liberall y lent to forward . the . object in view ; he has been too frequently . represented by a hostile and venal press , as having traded on popular credulity , andreaped personal pecuniary advantage from the establishment of the Company . The direct contrary lias been the case . To him it has been one long series of toil , anxiety , trouble , and loss . The object of the Government has been to shuffle out of the

      liabilities , which were universally believed to attach to it in the matter of the Savings Banks . Theobject of Mr . O'Connor has been throughout to obtain , both for the Land Company and tho Bank , the sanction and the security ofthe law , in order that distinct and direct responsibility might- be created . Iu this attempt much delay and expense was incurred , and at last , thwarted at every step by tho

      obstructions thrown in tho way , the plan "itself failed and now the enemies of Mr . O'Conkor seek to saddle him with , the responsibility of having produced results which he strove to the utmost of his power to prevent . Whatever may have ^ been the reasons which induced the . committee on the Bill for Winding up the Land-Company ' s affairs to report to theHouse of Commons against including the Bank in the preamble and dauses of tbatBill there cav we are sure , be but . one . ' ™ t a V ° : - * £ ° ri ^ u of the Bank and the objects for which t was called into existence Ifc was nvr iwetUv n »» n ^ A i . „ " J * ¦ . e l

      fclegate . ^ the machinery by which the plan of the Comknew beforehand in what Way their money was to be applied , . and that the real securitj for their investments- would be the estates purchased by the Company / When in the c ° Ur * e of time it was found that the connexion ot . the Bank with the Company was urged a * an obj ection to the . legalisation of the hitter underthe Joint Stock Companies Act , Mr . U Connor , with that zeal and disregard for personal interests , which distinguished the '

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      whole of his conduct towards tho fW ~~ ^ ^ ed forward , and ^ 1 otlie ° vSS this difficulty , by undertaking to carry nrf the Bank in his own name . But does an one imagine that he would ever have becom a banker save for the purpose of assisting tht Company 1 : We believe he would as « I have dreamt of . flying to the moon , Re ° cepted the position , the risks , and the «*« £ ?' sibilities it involved , simply and solely H * h a lf , and for the benefit of the Company . , „ l tno

      as claims of all parties under the W » Z up Act , must be decided upon enuit , S as . well as legal grounds , we trust that 2 ° expenses he has been put to in carrying on establishment , thus originated and th ,, B tended , will meet with afairand £ ? T consideration , and be settled with ,. J al to the broad facts , and the PsUceof the ^ It ought above all never to be w ?' that from the very < m am ££ T & Land Movement the most strenuous exP •> £ were made by Mr . 0 ' ConKO « tL & rences , and the Directors , to legalise the 5 * ceedings ofthe Company . The ol \ £ JZ wheh it was established were disS ! ° forth . There was no deception „„ V I whatever . The monies subsTr £ C £ ? with those advanced by Mr . O'GoVvn ™ Gr openly and duly applied to the ^ ZJ ine

      poses or company . That gentlf-m ™ a voted himself unsparingly , ni glK ^ to its service ; and , when at length the counttm obstructions that beset the progress of the Company terminated in a stoppage , with an equal amount of zeal and earnestness he un . dertook the onerous duty of making the loss as light as possible to every individual shareholder . Instead of meeting with the return which such

      disinterested conduct ought to have ensured , lie has not only been calumniated and reviled by his opponents , but deserted by those who were as much responsible for the affair as himself , and made—most unjustl ythe scapegoat for the errors of others . Had he not been thus abandoned by those who ought to have made common cause with him we believe that the affairs of the Land

      Company mig ht , at the very last , have been placed in such a . position as to have realised , to a large extent , the objects for which it was formed ; and , certainly in a short time io have paid to every shareholder the money ho had actually contributed to its funds . But no man can perform impossibilities , Opposed by a powerful Government , calumniated by an unscrupulous press , and deserted by those who had embarked iu the s amo ent erprise , the Land Plan has failed , In the enumeration of these causes tho last

      was perhaps the most deeply injurious . Had the shareholders been firmly united , and honestly determined to carry their object , all might have ended satisfactorily . As it is they ought not to blame Mr . O'Connor for the consequences of their own want of steadfastness and integrity . Whatever may bo the ultimate loss , they must share it as partuers in tho same venture , with the additional responsibility of having caused that loss by their shameful , violation of the en gagements they were under as individual

      shareholders . Of the seventy thousand con . tributors to tho Land Company , had one . half but imitated the zeal , energy , perseverence and generosity of Mr . O'Connor , we should not this day have had to deplore the state in which its affairs now are ; and , as for Mr . O'Connor , success would have silenced detraction . As it is , he can proudly point to a career unstained by personal dishonesty , and to the last he will not shrink from any personal responsibilit y that can b e justly attached to him . " .

      In the meantime , let us sum up the con - trast between tho Rochdale Savings Bank and the National Land and Labour Bank . The actuary of the former , ou t of 100 , 0001 ., appropriated nearly tfiree-fourths of it to his own private business , and lost it . The nominal owner of the latter , instead of taking a farthing of the sums deposited with him , took between five and six thousand pounds fr om

      his own establishment , and applied it for the purposes of-the Company . The Government , after inducing the public to invest monies under the belief that it was legally responsible , turn round and deny the liability . Mr . O'CoNnor , who was denied legalisation , proclaims his determination to meet every just demand upon him to the utmost . We leave the two cases to speakfor themselves .

      Orthodox Riots. Physical Force And Chart...

      ORTHODOX RIOTS . Physical Force and Chartism are very genevally associated in the minds of those who draw their political information from the journals of the privileged classes . The mention of the one has heen so invariably followed by the other , that at last the connexion between tho two has been assumed to bo as inseparable as between flowers and springripe corn-fields and autumn . Wonderful is the power of reiteration , By its means the veriest falsehood can be made to take the p lac e of truth ' .

      Physical Force , however , is not always ropvcheuaible , in the opinion of the journals which exorcise the greatest influence upon opinion among tlieupper and middleclasses . Its wickedness and folly , or both , are only denouueed when it is turned against the ruling classes , by the people whom they combine to plunder and oppress . When they como to share the spoil , ' and happen to quarrel about it , there is not the slightest objection to Physical force . In any dispute between the people and their rulers they demand that the former shall be cool .

      dispassionate , aud argumentative . They are expected to personify all the virtues needful to elevate saints to places in the calendar , no matter how great may have been the picvocations to . an g er , ' nor how grievous aud bitter tlie wrongs , sufferings , and contumely heaped upon them . The natural expressions of indignation are called " sedition , " and a stray ebullition of angry feeling entitled "insurrection or " rebellion . " Words do ah" ' thmffsso much in tlie estimation of the world Very different indeed is the conduct aud

      bearing expected from the rich , powerful , educated , and enfranchised classes when they quarrel . _ They may be as abusive « s they please—it is only a sign of high spirit , and they are encouraged to pitch into each other , by applauding bystanders on both sides ; aud as . for- a downright riot in such cases , so far from there being any objection to it , the rioters" are patted on the bacJr , and praised for their patriotism by the faction in whose cause they break the law , at tho Barne time they break heads and windows ,

      Had a body of Chartists been guilty of the outrages on persons and property , perpetrated by a Free Trade mob last week at Tatnwortb , one can fancy the simultaneous outburst ol execration elicited from the Times , Daily ^ > arid . Morning Chronicle . The aid oi the local and . general authorities would have been invoked to maintain order , and assert the dignity of the . law ; and the rioters themselves stigmatised'and denounced in the choicest

      Billingsgate . ' But the Haw and order" ° j our contemporaries is derived not from broad and permanent principles of political and social justice , but rests on the law w & pr $ of the selfish parties , to which they act as mouthpieces . Hence , instead of denunciation or reprehension being launched at tbe Tanwrorth rioters , they were positively lauded for having performed a most meritorious service in ' sraash ' ing the windows of the . Town'Ilall . and tbo principal Hotel , tearing up . the pavements of

      the Btreets , and inflicting severe wounds ' *" the missiles tn ' ence obtained ' ; ' and , ' lastly * for throwing the giga and other conveyances ot the farmers into the river . These , it appeal are quite ! legitimate and praiseworthy proceed-

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 7, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_07061851/page/4/